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Gallantmon CM baced himself. But the attasck went wide.
"Huh vos es condita is securus. Royal Saber!
Gallantmon CM began spining his lance round. Then he drove it towards Imperialdramon.


(in Rei and Gigimon's mind)
"What does he mean we all did something we weren't proud of?"
"I dunno? I'm not pround of helping a stanger."
"What? Wait a min...hey!
"Just kidding Rei."
Rei then felt a sharp jab in his mind. like a spear. It was red. A small tentical of blue digisoul then came and healed it up.
"What the hell...?"

(Inside Rei's mind)
"Garghhhhh!"
Thousands of the Red spears where pentertrating Rei's miind now. The digisoul came up to meet it and counter it, but they were evenly matched.
"What's going on! what are these things!"
One of the spears went straight ino him. He saw a vision of when he was younger, Jai and him were playing together... A whip of digisoul sntched the image away from him.
"My past, how..."
Another went into him. This showed th time when Jai shoved him off and bullyed him. It too was taken away my his digisoul. He then got hit by a strand of digisoul.
He saw himself and digisoul wrapped around him. He was angry, confused, paranoid. Kinda like he felt on the outside. Then he saw a plain him. Eyes red, then purple, then blue and then it was the him he saw covered in digisoul.
"My digisoul is... harming me? Then this red stuff must be my body fighting back..."




((Gallantmon CM))
"Damn Damn Damn! Rei! come back it's hard controling this by myself!"
Gallantmon CM was flying all over the place. With Rei stuck in internal conflict, it was up to Gigimon to control The Gallantmon body.
As if on que, Rei's mind returned. It was not much better.
A massive burst of Blue digisoul burst out Gallantmon CM's right side and a giant red aura out the left.
I Can't Control My Self. Raghhhhhh!"
Gallantmon CM burst forward. Sword out stretched he aimed it at the Tamer Kazu's heart.

[Marcus and company enter from Drive City]

The trio of digimon and human moved across the desert lands, steadily approaching the mountainous landscapes titled "File Mountain." Memories of all that had happened here came flooding back to Marcus as he remembered when he and his early team came here to vanquish the tyrannous Airdramon of the Wind Guardians. His mind then raced to when he was first re-united with Chris during the War of the Memories. All these instances had to do with battling digimon. This fact made him wonder if there would be another fight to come that would involve Chris...

The boy in a white and gold, sleeveless coat and khaki colored jeans trailed behind a purple and gray Lillymon and a Pandamon. He was silent as he walked, thinking over his life and how it was finally going to come to an end. He looked back in the direction of Drive City, wondering if Chris and the others were dead yet. It didn't matter as he was soon to cease existing. "So... how far are we?"

"Not that far," the lillymon would reply. "We're just going to go through the mountains to the Underworld and then go through there to Spiral Castle." She chuckle at the thought and would look up at the bright blue sky with white clouds that seemed to circle File Mountain.

"I see..." Marcus continued to walk towards his doom. The closer he got to the mountain, the more he wanted to turn away, but he knew that it was fate that was forcing him forward and that turning away, or at least trying would only put more people in danger.

He would ask as they were now climbing the mountain, taking a paved path that was heading towards a lift that would take them down to their next destination. Marcus would be silent and then have a question to ease his troubled mind "So how does this work?"

"Hmm? How does what work?" Lillymon would look back at Marcus as she flew above him with gray wings that looked like withered leaves.

"The eviction process?" The pandamon would tilt his head back towards Marcus. "Who knows, you're the first human to have this done to you." Pandamon shrugs off the question as there is no real answer. "I do have a question for you though. Why are you so calm about it? I mean, I expected a bit of a fight from you, but you gave in so easily."

The three reached the lift and took it down to down to the city beneath the mountain. Marcus thought as they traveled down, all light starting to vanish and then be replaced by artificial lanterns. "Guess you could say that I know what's going to happen to me and that no matter whether I fight or not, the results will be the same."

"Hmph... sounds like you've given up."
"No, I've just come to the conclusion that this is me. Where I'm heading is all my fault and cannot be changed. Any further attempts to delay the inevitable will only end in hurting others over and over again." Marcus would clench his fist and watch as a flicker of orange digisoul would ignite. "The day my soul was tainted with the orangish red color of wrath, my fate was sealed to walk this path."

"Wow... you've put some thought into this." Lillymon would feel a slight blush overcoming her brown skin. "You're even cooler than I thought!"

"Hmph... whatever." Ocelot looks away and towards the stone walls that now surround them. "Won't be too long before you come to see this so called fate of yours head on. Hope you're prepared for it."

Marcus looked up at the small hole above where light seemed to pierce through but not travel, as if afraid to come any closer. The boy reaches his hand up as if trying to grab it and clenches his fist shut to block the light. "I am prepared."

[Marcus, Lillymon, and Pandamon exit to The Underworld]

[Chris and his digimon enter from Drive City]

Chris sighed as he stared into the horizon, they were reaching File Mountain, but it did little to comfort the tamer. He sat atop his birdramon, Skylar, with his two other digimon a gabumon named Dante, and a gatomon named Artemis. His three digimon were just as on edge as Chris, they knew that they were heading for what was likely to be their graves, but the three digimon also all knew Marcus and what he meant to Chris and they were ready to go to hell and back, literally, for him. All four of them were deep in thought thinking about their lives, their future, and what was to come.

Skylar watched as he flew toward the mountain. He was Chris's first digimon and had known both Chris and Marcus the longest. He knew the connection between the two of them was very strong, it was the closest to a pure love that Skylar had ever seen. He knew that it was likely they wouldn't make it out of where they were going alive, but he was okay with that he had learned from the two of them that you have to do everything you can to protect the people you love. Now that he thought about it he felt he had lived a good life and dying didn't seem that bad of a price for the life he had. The two of them had been through everything together, to Skylar even though they were two different beings they were brothers. To him Marcus was family and he couldn't just leave family perish. He still remembered the day he and Chris met, it seemed like the best day of his life. He smiled as they grew ever closer he was ready for what ever would happen.

Dante was laying on his back on Skylar, he stared into the vast sky thinking. He had been Chris's second partner, he knew of how Chris obtained him, he owed both his life and his friendship with Chris to Marcus. He still remembered the day his egg hatched Marcus had been right there with Chris. He knew the two tamers deserved to be together and he would fight to his last breath for the two of them. All his power was thanks to the two of them, he remembered when they obtained the power to digiviolve him to Dorugreymon. He had achieved that power in order to aide the two tamers in their journey. As he stared at the sky he saw a cloud that changed to appear to look like a digimon, one he was very familiar with. He smiled and laughed a little, Chris wasn't the only one who had come to find love, he had fallen for Marcus's partner Destin. He owed the two of them for that as well. He remembered how much the digimon had changed. He would save him and Marcus. He knew that if they were going to perish, then this is how he wanted it to happen. He wanted to fall trying to save those he loved. It was a heroes death, he had learned that from Hiro. He had learned so much from all of them. He smiled thinking back to happier times really made him feel better.

Artemis was Chris's final digimon he had out. He had the least connection to Marcus, but still he owed Chris for everything. He had to admit if you had told him a year ago he would die fighting against evil digimon he would've laughed and called you crazy. When Chris had found him Artemis was working for virus digimon. At the time he had no problem killing and fighting for the dark side. However, Chris came to him and gave him a second chance. He had swore to himself that day that he would dedicate his life to protecting and helping Chris. If Marcus meant as much to Chris that he was willing to throw everything away for him then Artemis was going to be right there with him the whole way. It was funny he always thought when he neared death he'd find it a lot more frightening, but the thought of going down fighting for a good cause made him feel warm inside. He smiled Marcus was lucky to have someone to chase after him, and Chris was lucky to have someone he was willing to risk his life for.

Finally was Chris he was so worried about Marcus he felt like he had a million thoughts, worries, fears, memories all running through his head all at once. He remembered their life before they had come to the digital world. They had been friends then, it seemed like that was so long ago almost like another life. When he came to the digital world he was confused and scared, that was when he met Skylar. Back then he couldn't imagine the possability of all the adventures he had taken part in. It wasn't long until he ran into Marcus, who would've thought they'd run into each other in the digital world. He owed a lot to Marcus, he had saved his life what seemed like a million times and more. If it wasn't for him Chris knew his life wouldn't have been a fraction of how good it had been. Now that he thought about it he had so many chances to tell Marcus how he really felt, but he was always so scared. Now he felt like he'd give anything to have one last chance to tell Marcus how he really felt. His heart ached at the thought of losing him, he had lost him once and he never wanted to again. Every adventure he had been on he had managed to cross paths with Marcus, he seemed to be like his guardian angel, it seemed ironic that now Chris was trying to save him. He looked ahead and what seemed like a million memories of Marcus seemed to pass in front of his eyes, running into one another, going after the digimon families and facing them, getting Dante, training with Hiro, going after the digimemories, even the chaos organization. Right now he wished his last words to Marcus had been what he had always wanted to tell him. "...Marcus please be alright" He said. No matter how much Marcus had changed he knew that deep down it was still the Marcus he remembered. "...I'm coming to save you, like I should have done in the first place" He said. He looked at his digimon and then his digivice and saw the digimemory of light and smiled a bit "Marcus, I will bring the light back to you" He said. He then pressed a button releasing the digimemory back to the vaccine tower, if he lived he would one day reclaim it, if not then he hoped they would understand what he fell for. He remembered Marcus had worked for them at one time. "Marcus I know you can't hear me, but I hope you don't give up hope, I hope you know I'm coming" He said. He felt a tear roll down his face. "You know Chris we're not scared" Skylar said to him his other digimon nodded in agreement. Chris smiled and nodded himself before they landed and Skylar returned to his rookie form as they stepped on the platform and began lowering. "...I'm coming to save you" He whispered.

[enter the underworld]

One of the light tendril's latched onto Galllantmons leg. He felt himself being tugged and then he vanished.

Rei awoke with Gigimon on a strange island. He seemed to be back to normal but his eye's were mismatched, red and blue.
He joined the Black Swords because Gigimon was a virus. His journey in the future had begun...

In an empty location of the File Mountains a flurry of wind began to pick up. At first it was just a pleasant breeze but it quickly got violent. For a moment if anyone were to be nearby they'd notice the wind blew like it was collapsing into itself until there was a sphere that formed from the wind that grew and shrank until feathers exploded from it and soon after that digimon slowly appeared from it; a biyomon, a gabumon, a gatomon, and a magna angemon. They glowed slightly when they appeared before the glow faded and they slowly recovered from being disoriented. At first they reacted like they thought they had died before realizing they survived somehow. The four digimon then realized their tamer was nowhere to be found. Their tamer, Chris hadn't been sent to where they had he currently was floating in subspace with the digimon who had teleported them. His digimon spent hours searching for him, but none of them had any luck after a while they questioned his death or his return to the real world, however they could still feel Chris's digisoul running through them. Deciding on no better alternative his four digimon separated going their own ways hoping to eventually find him, hoping for his return. However, they also remembered the events of the tower and sought to prepare for the future, to prepare for Lucemon and Marcus.

Meanwhile, Chris remained to float in subspace while Wisemon watched and examined him, the digimon had always found humans fascinating. Unlike his leader Lucemon who found them trivial. True to his nature he was a digimon who had a twisted sense of balance. He was truly chaotic, however he never considered himself evil more so neutral he did what he found personally appealing. It was one of the reasons he hadn't just left Chris to drift in subspace. He could sense the chaos of his inner emotions, the chaos in his mind, and even the chaos in his soul. To the digimon this was quite interesting. He held his hands next to Chris's head and traveled into his mind.

His mind was just as chaotic as the digimon expected. However, before he could even get a chance to look around he herd sobbing. The digimon followed the sound and soon came upon a child. The digimon knelt next to the boy and tilted his head slightly "Why do you cry?" He asked. The boy paused for a moment and looked at the digimon. He sniffled before speaking "Because I'm scared and lost and confused" He said rather quickly. The digimon couldn't really say he was surprised the state of his mind he was sure he would even be lost. "Do you know where you need to go?" He asked. The boy shook his head no which was to be expected in the mind people rarely knew much. The digimon sighed "Why don't we look together" He said as he decided to use this as a chance to get to know more about him. The boy thought for a moment before nodding "Okay...but don't leave me alone okay" he then took the digimons hand and began walking. They passed many things as they walked, the boy was oblivious to most of it. After a while he looked at the boy "So how did you get lost" He asked. The boy seemed to think for a bit and frowned "I don't remember..." He looked a bit disappointed that he couldn't remember "I was looking for someone I thought I was going the right way, but when I got there I was alone" He said sounding like he was about to cry "Its my fault I couldn't find him, I should've known better than to get lost" He said tears forming. The digimon stopped walking and smiled at him "Don't feel so bad, people get lost all the time, and sometimes they don't even know it" He said. He wasn't sure why he was being so nice to the kid, but in a way he felt for him, perhaps it was pity. It was then that he felt a jolt and when he looked around the kid and everything else was gone he knew it meant Chris was waking up. He quickly left Chris's mind and returned to subspace.

Back in subspace the wisemon blinked as he was brought from Chris's thoughts. He knew he had to act fast to keep Chris unknowing about the subspace or his connection to Lucemon. With a few motions Chris and Wisemon were brought to the digital world on the file mountains. Wisemon then glowed as he turned into his wizardmon form. It was about that point that Chris began to awake. Apparently calmed down, the digimon couldn't help but wonder if he had caused him to calm down. Chris blinked for a few moments before taking in the world around him. It took him a moment to catch up to reality and seeing the wizardmon standing over him "Woah, where am I?" He asked. The last thing he remembered was he and his digimon about to die. The digimon put a hand on his shoulder "are you alright, you are in the file mountains I found you here unconcious" He asked. It took Chris a second to nod "Yeah, I think I'll be fine" He said. He stood for a moment before realizing his digimon weren't around. He quickly pulled out his digivice and went through it and realized his digimon weren't there. "Have you seen a biyomon? gabumon? gatomon? Magna angemon?" He asked the wizard in a state of panic. The digimon shook his head no "Sorry, you are the only one I've seen, I honestly thought you might be in a coma" He said. Chris frowned and nodded still taking things in, for now he could only assume his digimon had been digitalized, or worse. He looked at the digimon who gave him a warm look and rubbed his shoulder "don't worry I'll help you out, besides it's not safe for a tamer to travel around here without a digimon" He said. Chris was comforted by his words and headed out of the mountains with him. As they walked the wizardmon smirked darkly things were going pretty smoothly. He made a motion using a spell to send a card to Lucemon letting him know he was keeping an eye on the tamer.

[Chris and Wizardmon exit to unknown]

"If we head for the future..."

Kazu Matsumoto

"...Then we can be forgiven for the past."

Kazu and Veemon came to a halt, they had been walking for a few hours and had come to the conclusion that they were, in fact, back in their own time. "So what the hell happened to us?" Veemon shrugged, "Seems so..." Kazu sighed, he still didn't understand the whole event. Launched through time then wrenched back to the present. What did it mean? "Oi Pointy Eyes!" Kazu spun on his heels to see a feminine Digimon land nearby, he pointed at himself innocently. He recognised the figure as a Rosemon. "Of course you! Who else has those stupid glasses!" Kazu's eyebrow dropped, "Hey! I love these glasses!" The Rosemon scoffed and flung an arm out, pointing to the burnt sides of the cliffs. "You're little entrance burnt my home to a crisp! And me aswell!" Kazu rubbed tha back of his head. "Ohh, sorry about that... I just--- EURGH!"

"Kazu!" Rosemon's hand had lashed out, her whip wrapping around Kazu's neck. Veemon sprinted forwards. "Back off! That cave was my only home!" Rosemon aimed a solid kick into Veemon's chest sending him flying backwards, down the hole that Kazu's fall had created. "Vee...Mon..." The thorns in the whip began to dig into his neck, small trickles of blood began to roll down his neck. "You stupid! Stupid! Stupid boy! Everything! My whole world was there!" Kazu tried to splutter out some apology but the whip was tightening, air was becoming difficult to come by. His vision began to blur, shouts from Veemon only brushed his ears as his conciousness slipped. "Let...Me...Go?"

Kazu's body went limp. The Rosemon's heaving breath slowed and tears were streaming down her cheeks. "Damn it... I just... Why!?" The whip continued to tighten despite Kazu not reacting. "My whole life!!!" Rosemon threw Kazu's body to the ground and uncurled a long thorn-like sword. "I've never done anything wrong..." she sobbed. She drew the weapon back and thrust it towards Kazu's chest. In a burst of green flame Kazu's arm lashed out and grabbed the Thorn-Blade. "Sorry babe, I'm pretty picky about injuries to my chest..." A bright light shone from Kazu's Digivice, consuming him entirely. "Kazu Matsumoto! Hybrid Digivolve to: Kumamon!" The light faded, revealing a short, white bear. Green armour adjorned his head torso and feet. His hand still gripped the Thorn-Blade tightly, Kazu got to his feet and a cold mist rose from his fist. "Sorry to give you the cold shoulder babe, but I don't feel lik being killed a third time." The mist spread as Rosemon's Thorn-Blade began to freeze. "What!? What're you doing!?" Kazu smirked, he liked this new form. "Like I said, I'm sorry for trashing your house, but that doesn't really justify trying to kill me does it?" Rosemon gritted her teeth as the ice crept up her arm. "You wouldn't understand my loss. My whole world..."
Kazu shook his head, "If only that was true..." Rosemon shot him a fierce look, she wrenched her arm backwards, shattering the ice and freeing herself.

"What would you know!? Rarh!" In a frenzy, Rosemon pulled back her whip arm and slammed it down towards Kazu, in a reactionay move he leaped to the side, hitting the ground in a combat roll and returning to a crouched position, he flung out his right hand and a swirling od ice and mist surrounded it, his eyes widened and a cheeky grin appeared as the ice and mist solidified into what looked like a rocket launcher. "Snow Bomber!" Kazu took aim and unleashed a volley of high velocity snowballs at Rosemon, she grimiced and raised her whip, spinning it wildly. The roating weapon brushed aside most of the shots, the ones that got through missed her by inches, as the volley stopped she leaped forwards pulling her Thorn-Blade out infront for a clean slash.. Kazu tutted and pointed his new weapon at the floor and squeezed the trigger. Another volley of snowballs pelted the ground but this time they had the effect of pushing Kazu backwards, Rosemon's sword slashed through the air and, as she touched the ground she slipped on the snow and ice that the attack had created, as she fell backwards Kazu flipped in the air, landed and pushed himself towards her at speed, "Tsurara Punch!" he pulled up his left fist, surrounded by ice, and landed a blow square in Rosemon's stomach. She let out a groan as the force of the punch began to throw her backwards, "Crystal Freeze!" Kazu gave her no time to react, he'd already jumped into the air and had his cannon pointed it square at her. "Frozen Tundra!" The rocket launcher shook as the attack was launched, a furious rain of ice, snow and hail pelted Rosemon into the ground, as the move subsided Kazu landed and took some heavy breaths. Rosemon had been totally covered in snow and ice and was now hidden from vision. "Give up?"

From the mound of snow a cracking sound could be heard, Rosemon's arm punched into the air, shards of ice going flying along with it. The flower maiden lurched to her feet, snow falling from her shoulders and head. She looked furiously at Kazu, "How dare you!" Kazu rolled his eyes and yelled back at her "How dare I what!? Defend myself from attack? I told you I apologise." Rosemon shook her head and lunged at him again with her Thorn-Blade, "Tsk!" Kazu leaped into the air, the blade crashing into the ground beneath him, no matter what way he spun it Rosemon was still a Mega and he had no idea how powerful this bear form was. Rosemon spun around and lashed out with he whip, Kazu raised his arms to block and was launched backwards by the force of the whips impact, slamming into the floor and coming to a stop near the top of his crater. "Kazu!? Is that you? What happened?" Kazu held his head with his paw and groaned. Even he didn't know and he was the one it had happened to. "Dunno buddy but it's pretty handy." He got back to his feet and looked down the hole at Veemon, he gave a cheeky smirk and gave his friend a thumbs up, "No worries buddy, I got this!"

Kazu turned back to face his opponent, he knew that he couldn't beat her one on one like this. He didn't seem to have enough strength to fight a mega, esecially since his attacks seemed to have only annoyed her. "Ok so plan B..." Rosemon was walking towards Kazu now, her whip and Thorn-Blade at the ready, Kazu was ready as he could be. "Rosemon... Could you listen to me?" he threw his rocket launcher to the ground and raised both hands to show he meant no further harm. She seemed taken aback and stopped walking towards him. "You've kept saying your whole world was in that cave. But why? Such a beautiful Digimon living like a hermit all the way out here. It doesn't seem right. Someone's whole world should be defined by the places they have been and the things they've seen. So why have you closed it all down here?" Kazu's words clearly made an impact, Rosemon had lowered her weapons now and was listening. "I guess... It's because I... Never found anyone. No one ever wanted to be my friend. I was born a Rosemon, a mega, mature and looking like this when everyone else my age was in-training or a rookie." A tear ran down her cheek. "They shunned me, taunted me and pushed me away. I fled my little village and came here. I stayed in that cave an made my life there everything. But I don't want that..." Kazu nodded and took some tentative steps towards her, "I understand, I used to be picked on for being different too. But you can't let it get to you, I vowed to go out and see the sights across the world and expand my horizens and find people like me. If you'd like---" as Kazu reached Rosemon he shone with light, seemingly morphing out of the Kumamon form and back into his spikeyglassed self "---You could travel with us?" As he spoke he reached out a hand to the Digimon. A few silent seconds passed before Rosemon looked up at his hand. "I could... You'd take me? Even after all this?" She put away her weapons, her Thorn-Blade retracting and the thorny whip wrapping around her arm. Kazu smiled at her and held out his green D-Arc "Of course, jump in here and meet everyone, in some way or another we're all different. Besides I think Mermaimon and Sakuyamon would be grateful for the female company." Laughing Rosemon placed her hand on Kazu's Digivice. "Thank you... Oh my... I never got your name!" Kazu grinend back at her as she was encompassed by light, "The name's Kazu. Kazu Matsumoto." with Rosemon broke down into orbs of light and was pulled into the Digivice.

An hour or so later Kazu and Veemon were sat on a rock and watching the sun setting over the File Mountains. "That was mental..." Kazu rubbed his neck, the pinpricks from Rosemon's whip had gon but there was still an ache where the injuries had been. "You're not wrong. What happened with that Kumamon thing? You turned into a Digimon without me!" Kazu scratched his head, he didn't know what had happened but Veemon was right, he had become a Digimon without Bio-Merging and had no idea how. All that remained was a symbol of a snowflake on his Digivice screen that he daren't press yet. He sighed and looked into the distance. "Looks like this leauge of heros won't be happening for some time now... All we can do is wait for a sign. Marcus still roams free and the guy who turned Lief is still wandering around. I say that as we look for a sign on what to do next, we look for them." Veemon shrugged, seemingly impartial to the idea. "Whatever buddy, you know I'll follow you in whatever choice you make. Stupid eyeware or not." grinnign widely Veemon got up and ran from Kazu, "My glasses are COOL!" Kazu got up and sprinted after his partner heading out from the File Mountains.

The swirling clouds of red code and black smoke hovered. "And yet again he avoids death. And this time he even turned his attacker onside." The second cloud seemed to sigh "The boy's charisma is a dangerous asset. We must be wary... Especially now he is seeking us out." The other cloud made an agreeing grunt and swirled away. The other figure sighed again "If we allow him to grow much more... Then there is no hope of us raising our lord..."