Jayr POV - Real World, Earth, Japan, Tokyo - 2001

  Hearing Patamon singing that song in a mog tone, I flick his forehead and say, "Don't do that. In this particur universe, Leomon's death is the start of a series of events that very likely bring this universe oh of total destru. It isn't something funny."

  Patamon looks back at me and says, "e on, Jayr. It isn't like he is going to die now, we have already prevehat by helping Impmon make up with his Tamers..."

  In response, I sigh and expin, "If only it was that simple... while it is true that it is very likely that now Impmon won't kill Leomon, that doesn't mean that Leomon won't still be killed by animon or in some other way..."

  While I'm saying that, we all focus ba the water and watch as Juri is charmed by Leomon's heroic appearand wonders if he is her destined partner.

  Meanwhile, Leomon, deg himself to be a fighter against injustice, takes on Kumbhiramon and sends him flying.

  Juri immediately tches onto Leomon, who's rather put off by her rather abrupt assertion that she's his Tamer, and he isn't the only one as my Digimon Partners also ent while watg this se.

  "Is that a healthy behavior...?"

  "Run! Leomon! Run! Don't let her catch you!"

  "Maybe Leomon will actually off himself to escape that creepy girl..."

  As Juri gets progressively more and more gy, Leomon runs off to prevent the situatietting any more awkward, while Juri chases him.

  The chase gets to Guilmon's hideout, and when Culumon's about to point out to Juri where he is, Leomon pulls him in to keep him quiet.

  Soon after, Takato and Guilmon find him and assume that Leomon's attag Culumon and an exasperated Leomon decides he'll fight if he has to.

  Juri, however, quickly appears and tells Takato that Leomon is her partner.

  Leomon is pletely fused by this euation, not really uanding what a Tamer is and why Juri is tg onto him, and when Juri tio be ulingly gy he runs off again.

  At this point, Takato calls Jianliang for advice, and Jianliang suggests that it might be something different like love at first sight, but after an amusing discussioween Takato and Juri who is still chasing after the poor Leomon, Jianliang tells Takato he's ing over to check it out, and Takato calls Ruki to get her opinion on things.

  Ruki says that Juri 't be a Tamer if she doesn't have a Digivice, and also decides to e over to talk to Juri about it.

  In the middle of the chase, Kumbhiramon appears and begins a fight with Leomon, and Jianliang, arriving, identifies Kumbhiramon as a Deva.

  As the kids watch Leomon fight, Juri takes Takato's Digivid tries to perform a Card Ssh, but nothing happens.

  At this point, Juri is distraught at the realization that she's not Leomon's Tamer after all.

  Jianliang sends Terriermon in, evolving him to Galgomon via Option Card while the disguised Makurumon, watches the battle, sees Culumon's forehead glowing, and ughs while running off, while Renamon and Ruki arrive and Renamon chases after the boy.

  Galgomon and Leomon tio fight Kumbhiramon, and Leomon, seeing Juri miserable, decides to fight for her sake as well.

  Leomon and Galgomo Kumbhiramon, and Leomon takes his leave while Juri asks to be left alone and tinues g, while all of the others awkwardly leave.

  Suddenly, the se ier ges showing us the Hypnos Headquarters, where Dolphis Jiang-yu and shows him a picture he'd found, a picture of children pying with a D-Ark, which Jiang-yu identifies as simply Arks, implying that they also were the ones behind the basicepts of the D-Arks.

  But, while the Wild Bunostalgically checks out the picture, the ground begins to shake which isn't that strange sidering just how proo earthquakes Japan actually is, as it sits on top of four vergionic ptes that stantly grind together, but since Crateris' Retroition is showing us this, it only mean that it is some kind of sign that something bad is about to happen.

  The se ier ges yet again, and this time it shows Takato as he returns home aches some bread, ae his mom reminding him that he o study, he goes off to meet Guilmon knowing that it's more important.

  While he's on his way, however, a rge earthquake occurs, and as the news reports that the earthquake only hit Shinjuku, Jianliang decides to take Terriermon and go out, having to take him from Shaog in the process and causio cry.

  Terriermoes Jian for being so harsh on Shaog, and Jianliang suddenly catches sight of a store with a poster of the ese zodiaimals.

  There, they run into Ruki and her grandmother and Jianliang tells Ruki that he's going to meet Takato, and Ruki decides to tag along after getting permission from her grandmother.

  Just then, Ruki's mother calls and invites her to hang out with her, but Ruki turns it down and runs off with Jian.

  The se then ges showing Impmon, who is rec from the injuries, he received in his battle with Indaramon, uhe clumsy but heartwarming care of Makoto and Ai which makes a small tent smile appear on his face.

  Meanwhile, Takato and Guilmon hang out with Culumon, Hirokazu, aa, and Hirokazu expresses his wish to bee a Tamer.

  Takats up Leomon, saying that more Digimon like him could appear to be partoo, but Kenta reminds him that Leomo off without doing much else.

  Juri appears and shows the group her deck of Digimon cards, asking them to teach her how to py the card game.

  Seeing cards ihat they've always wanted, Hirokazu aa start badgerio trade with them at the same time, Ruki and Jianliang arrive, and Ruki decides to take Juri aside to teach her how to py.

  Juri wonders if Leomon will return, and Ruki tells her it's good to think that he might.

  After some time, Jianliang presents the others with the poster of the ese zodiaimals he got from the store and points out that the Devas they've seen so far resemble animals from the zodiac, meaning that the remaining ones are the rabbit, dragon, monkey, dog, and boar, leavia distressed as he learns that there's still five more Devas.

  As the day ends, the group finds the disguised Makuramon staring at them as it taunts them before running off, and Juri, wanting to see if they talk to it, chases after the Digimon.

  The se ier then moves to the Hypnos Headquarters where Reika detects another Wild One i Shinjuku.

  Hearing that, Yamaki wonders if it's reted to the earthquakes, and Reika and Megumi find the Wild Oo be the biggest ohey've ever seen, soon Yamaki gets a notice from his superior, telling him to hurry up and iigate it.

  Theer once again shows Juri who has no lu stopping Makuramon while the others follow her, meanwhile, Takato seems to realize that the "strange kid" has always been fog on Culumon.

  Soon, Guilmon and Terriermon notice a presence, and another earthquake starts.

  Makuramon takes advantage of the chaos to get away, while Impmoers his Tamers, Makoto and Ai, from a falling vase.

  At the same time, Yamaki finds Jiang-yu and demands analysis data from him.

  Jiang-yu tells Yamaki that it's not easy to find the base program data when the Digimon have evolved on their own, and Yamaki tells him to give whatever he has so far.

  After that, the images ier ge back to Guilmon and Terriermon, who go off to find the Digimon, with Terriermon and Renamon inf Jianliang, Takato, and Ruki of its presenbsp;

  The kids pick up the chase, eventually finding the Digimon materializing at a park.

  But before its figure could be revealed, the se moves back to the Hypnos Headquarters where Yamaki orders his girlfriend, one of the operators to execute Shaggai which makes V-mon groan as he pins, "Oh e on! I uand that Patamon said that it would be like watg an anime, but this is too much! The se keeps ging bad forth!"

  Hearing that, Wormmon looks at his brother and says, "e on, V-mon, it isn't that bad... at least we have a somewhat clear vision of the overall of events that happened in our absence."

  After saying that, we all focus ba the water ihe Crateris Cloth ahat the kids find the Digimon to be a rge boar, Vikaramon.

  Vikaramon is a giant, round bimon with thick fur, three-toed feet, and rge tusks with gold tips. It has three red horns on its forehead, bonji on its bre, and silver markings on its brow and behind its eyes.

  (Image Here . Vikaramon)

  Spoiler

  [colpse]

  Takato's Digivice identifies the Digimon as Vikaramon, and Vikaramon begins to rampage around, causiru everywhere.

  Takato, Jianliang, and Ruki send their Digimon in and evolve them via Card Ssh, with Takato having Hirokazu aa take care of Juri and Culumon.

  The self-defense forces and Growmon, Galgomon, and Kyuubimon attack Vikaramon, but nothing they do has any effect.

  Meanwhile, we see Impmon watg the news of Vikaramon's rampage oV with a scared Makoto and Ai telling them that his friends are going to defeat the big evil boar, but at the same time, he wonders if there is something he could do to help them, then he looks at his Tamers and says that he also has to go, but Makoto and Ai hugs Impmon stopping him while g out that they don't want to see him hurt again.

  After showing that, the se ges showing the two operators at Hypnos as they start up Shaggai, and Jiangy-u asks what it's doing.

  Yamaki expins that it's going to destroy all of the digital life forms in the real world making Jiang-yu distressed as that could also mean the destru of the kids' Digimon as well, but Yamaki reminds him that Jianliang has gotten involved in this whole mess and says that this is the only way to stop the destru.

  Back to the battle, Growmon, Galgomon, and Kyuubimon's only optio is to evolve to Perfect, and Takato, Jianliang, and Ruki remember their families are in danger as the town is beiroyed.

  They hold up Option Cards, which transform into blue cards whehree of them express their wishes to protect their families and town, and use them to matrix evolve Growmon, Galgomon, and Kyuubimon into Megalo Growmon, Rapidmon, and Taomon verge on Vikaramon.

  At the same time, however, Yamaki orders Shaggai to be executed despite Jiang-yu's protests.

  Meanwhile, the local gover calls for an evacuation of the Shinjuku ward, and Takato's parents decide to go out to look for their son.

  MegaloGrowmon, Rapidmon, and Taomon's attacks do little, and MegaloGrowmon is pinned down under an attack as Vikaramon begins to distort the sky, causing creatures to appear in a void above them.

  As this happens, the se moves back to Hypnos as they tihe execution of Shaggai, while Yamaki presses on, saying that humans shouldn't be creating life and that this destru is the result of Jiang-yu's work.

  Jianliang and Ruki, reasoning that their cards work mainly on belief and willpower, use power-up cards in order to give Rapidmon and Taomon boosts to cut through Vikaramon's dark attacks and nd hits on him.

  As they begin to gather fidence, however, Rapidmon begins to lose power as Shaggai materializes, and Taomon pulls him to a safe haven made with her power.

  Watg the situation, Jiang-yu leaves in disgust aly pushes aside the guards blog his way with some skilled Tai Chi move, and runs towards the se to find Jianliang.

  Takato meanwhile expresses his dismay over the fact their Digimon have gone from close friends to relentless fighting maes, but Jianliang and Ruki tell him that even if they evolve, their Digimoill their friends.

  Shaggai begins to delete Vikaramon, Rapidmon, and Taomon, and Culumon begins to say something that he "doesn't remember" and "doesn't know" as Jiang-yu appears, and the only thing he say is "I'm sorry".

  At Hypnos, Shaggai is suddenly stopped when something from the work's deepest yer begins to interfere, they receive a message in binary code, which Yamaki orders to be decoded.

  While this is happening, the disguised Makuramon approaches Juri and Culumon, saying that now that the Digimon have evolved, they will no longer obey humans as their god, g that humans are threatening their world, he decres that they have the right to destroy whatever gets in the way of their evolution, and as it says this Yamaki finds the message to say exactly what the Digimon is saying.

  After saying that, Makuramon ges into his true form, a monkey Digimon with a rge head that wears a purple hat that has a gold pte with bonji on the front and red cloth on the back, a silver cuirass with spaulders, tassets, and gold trim, silver vambraces with gold trim and bck gloves, a purple scarf, a purple belt with three gold buckles, tan baggy pants, and bck shoes.

  (Image Here - Makuramon)

  Spoiler

  [colpse]After revealing its true form, Makuramon jumps up and throws a crystal ball into the Shaggai hole, causing Shaggai to go berserk and the Hypnos facilities to colpse.

  Ihe building, a stist urges Yamaki to evacuate, telling him to sider if it really is an artificial intelligehey're dealing with before he escapes, Yamaki sees his girlfriend, Reika waiting and tells her to go as he remains deep in thought.

  Bapmon's situation, we see him hugging Makoto and Ai while telling them that he has to go not only to help his friends but also to keep them safe and ask them to believe in him and give him the strength needed, Makoto and Ai hold Impmon tighter before telling him that they will.

  Right at that moment, another Blue Card appears out of nowhere between Impmon, Makoto, and Ai, and seeing that, Makoto and Ai look at each other and nod before Makoto takes the card and starts to swipe it in the slot on its right-hand side of their D-Ark held in Ai's hands causing Impmon to Matrix Evolve into his Perfect Level form, Baalmon

  Baalmon is a tall humanoid Digimon, he wears bck boots and a matg bck leather jacket, a white full-body suit with "mouths" that be opened and closed with zippers just like his previous form, Wizarmon, a white mahat is covered in amulets, a dark blue turban with a small opening in his forehead are for his third eye, and a long white sleeve that covers his whht arm held together by dozen of belts and amulets.

  His face is obscured by his long dirty blonde hair and a bck face mask, only his three red eyes and blonde hair be seen, and he carries a red sword-whip in his left hand and a big red book tied with s on his back.

  (Image Here - Baalmon)

  Spoiler

  [colpse]After his evolution, Baalmon looks at his Tamers and promises them that he will surely return to them before he jumps out of the house and starts to run toward the locatiohe battle between Vikaramon and Megalo Growmon, Taomon, and Rapidmon is taking pbsp;

  Meanwhile, with Shaggai no longer active, Taomon and Rapidmain their fighting abilities, but Vikaramon is also able to tinue his destru.

  The kids run into Juri, Culumon, Hirokazu, aa, who tell them what has just happened with Makuramon.

  Jiang-yu urges them to run, but Takato, resolute that he has to help their Digimon friends, begins to scream at the mass of red energy restraining Megalo Growmon.

  Hearing Takato, Megalo Growmon breaks out of the restraint and begins to attack Vikaramon together with Taomon and Rapidmon, but still, it isn't enough to defeat the gigantic bimon who starts to spew tless wheels of light from its mouth all with different colors and effects to restrairio.

  But just as it seemed that the situation would tinue like this, suddenly Baalmon arrives and attacks Vikaramon by releasing a mighty, lightning-fast smite from the sword-whip he holds in its hand whiflicts especially rge damage on Vikaramon as it is a Holy-species Digimon.

  As Vikaramon roars in anguish, Takato, Jianliang, and Ruki take advantage of this opening and begin to yell, maing their energy and feelings through their Digimon, and Megalo Growmon, Rapidmon, and Taomon join forces in one mighty attad successfully defeat Vikaramon, causing the Jiang-yu to describes them as "the real Digital Monsters".

  The rejoig Hirokazu, Kenta, Juri, and Culumon run towards their friends, but Makuramon suddenly captures Culumon, deg that the Digimon need him in order to evolve, and flies into the sky.

  Leomon suddenly appears and tries to get Culumon back, but Makuramon escapes by spping away Leomon, at the same time, an immense isnd-sized bird-like shadoears within the hole in the sky which fires tless glowing needles from its body who Leomon making the doomed Digimon grunt out in pain as he falls on the ground.

  Seeing this se, Patamon 't help but ent, "Oh my! Is he already going to die? That's way too soon!"

  But while he is saying that, the water shows the se of Juri showing genuine over him which causes a D-Ark to appear in front of her, which Jiang-yu reizes as an "Ark".

  Then Juri uses the D-Ark to heal Leomon's injuries, while Makuramoreats into the sky making Wormmon ent, "No, it looks like he is safe... for now at least, but this is the proof that the Leomon species is truly very proo dying... I mean, the shadow that attacked him is clearly an Ultimate Level Digimon, isn't it? It is just pin good luck that he survived that..."

  Meanwhile, with the city destroyed and Culumon, the "key to evolution", goakato decides that the only thio do is for them to go to the Digital World a him back, and then as the self-defense forces fly over the city, Megalo Growmon, Rapidmon, and Taomoreat to hide away while Baalmourns back to his Tamers and Yamaki looks up at the sky.

  After that, the water shows us a few ses of the st few days, how Shinjuku attempts to recover from the destru caused by Vikaramon, and how Takato, Ruki, and Jianliang decide to tell their families about the Digimon and their pns to travel to another world, while in the meantime, Guilmon sehe presence of a portal to the Digital World and starts to search for it.

  How Jiang-yu asks to see Jianliang's Ark and says that he's bee able to see his dream of seeing childre to i with real Digimon owork, how he tells Jianliang that he's w with his friends all over the world to prevent more dangerous battles from taking pbsp;

  At that point, Jianliang is about to tell his father what he pns to do, but they're interrupted by Shaog and Jiang-yu, sensing that Jian wants to tell him something, and says to tell him once he's made up his mind.

  How Juri goes down to her parents' restaurant aches some juid on the way, she passes by her father and mother, the tter of whom doesn't seem to be the same mother in her baby picture.

  She sees her sleeping younger brother with her hand puppet and takes it, greeting Leomon outside with it and giving him the juice then she asks Leomon what the Digital World is like, excited at the prospect of going somewhere that nobody has gone before while Leomon is still trying to his mind around the idea that Juri is his Tamer, and Juri decides to ask Leomon a favor.

  How Ruki called Takato, with both of them looked for the portal to the Digital World, after that, Renamon appeared to Ruki and told her that since Vikaramon's influence was vanishing, they o find the portal quickly.

  Renamoells Ruki that she doesn't have to go and that the Digimon go by themselves but they're found by Ruki's grandmother, revealing that she'd known about Renamon for a while and had thought she was a Kitsune who roteg Ruki.

  Ruki then reveals that she is uhat she'll be able to vince her mother about what's going on, but her grandmother is sure that Renamon protect Ruki.

  How Takato goes to Guilmon's home the m and finds that he's been digging a deep tunnel, and Guilmon reveals that he's found a portal uhe area.

  While they take a look at it, Impmon is now spending his time with his Tamers and their parents as Makoto and Ai reveal his existeo them, and the parents, ohey learn that he was one of the Digimon who stopped the boar that caused so much destru and that protected them during Indramon's i, decided to wele him in the family.

  After that st se, the water within the Crateris Cloth returns to normal as it stops showing images of past events, which means that we have caught up with everything that happened during our absence.

  After watg all that, I realize that the time has e for me to quit my job as a Teacher as I have to follow the kids to the Digital World to eheir safety, and it is very likely that I won't return as the date for the Random Battle is drawing closer.

  ing to that clusion, I quickly start to write a formal resignatioer to submit to Principal Kurosawa.

  I keep the letter brief, clear, and professional, including my inte w day, offer to assist with the transition process, and express my appreciation for the opportunity to work at the school.

  I also include a list of readily avaible and petent substitutes and after writing, the letter, I don't waste any time and use a little bit of Restoration Magic to send it ba time to give Principal Kurosawa more time to fully prepare, after all, the school will reopen in a couple of days.

  Doh that, I spend these few days rexing with my Digimon Partners waiting for my st day as a school teacher to arrive and when it is time, I head to the Yodobashi Elementary School to gh the usual procedures, saying goodbyes to my colleagues and students, thanking them, inf my substitute of what the various css did until now and so on.

  At the same time, during one of my st csses where I introduced my substitute to the students, I sehat Takato was uo focus in css, and Nami told him to stay after css and write an essay.

  Suddenly, Juri, Hirokazu, aa stand up, g that they weren't paying attentioher and that they'll also stay after css and write essays with him f Nami who has them all stand out in the hallway, where they reflect that this could potentially be their st css.

  Later the day, after my st css, I head bae and make sure to up the house and everything while transfering the personal items of my Digimon Partners in their rooms in the mansion in my Soulbouory, and after that, I directily teleport to Guilmon's home and watch from the distance as the kids meet up.

  Jianliang advises Guilmon to stay away from the area for the night, while Hirokazu aa wonder what they're going to tell their parents, and when Ruki tells them that they should just stay home when they don't even have partners, they insist that they're going to find them in the Digital World.

  After that, they agree to meet up in the m the day, and Takato takes Guilmon home to meet his parents while the others also return back to their home and prepare for their journey.

  Through my ic Awareness, I percieve that Takato's method of introdug Guilmon to his parents is casually leading him into the bakery, whicites fear from Takato's mother.

  After that, Takato expins the situation about Guilmon, the imon, and Culumon's kidnapping, and tells his parents that he's pnning to leave the m.

  As result, Takato's mother is distressed, but Takato's father reizes that Takato is serious about this and decides to help him.

  Meanwhile, Jianliang tells Shaog that he's leaving on a trip with Terriermon, and Terriermon reveals himself to Shaog.

  Jianliang, sure that his father would refuse if he told him face-to-face, tells Terriermon that he's informed his parents of this via e-mail, while Shaog still seems to treat Terriermon with her usual fervor.

  Ruki, as awkard as she be, wanting to approach her mother about what they're doing, decides to put on the dress they'd put on her in the modeling studio, but when Ruki's mother tells her that it suits her, and Ruki apologizes before running off.

  After sensing all that, I let out sigh and tio calmly wait for the night to pass and m to arrive while thinking, 'With this the peaceful days are truly over, I have to make sure that all the kids will be able to return bae safe and sound...'

  Odyin