The massive double doors leading to the throne room opened. A group of five children and four Digimon came walking in, determination on their faces. As they slowly walked up to the middle of the enormous room, they saw the throne at the very end of the room.
The room was empty except for two marble pillars standing left and right from the throne. Pictures of demons and angels were scattered across the floor. To their left, there was a huge window through which they could see over the transformed Tokyo, imprisoned underneath the dome of Lucemon’s magic.
Lucemon was sitting tall and imposing on her throne, on top of some stairs, her black and white wings folded behind her back. She was looking down at the approaching Tamers with a mixture of superiority and disdain. Manami was standing beside her.
“You accomplished much,” she then said in a calm voice. “You defeated a multitude of overwhelming enemies, conquered my tower and even escaped from your confinement cells. “Normally, I would have commended you for your bravery and determination… but then, you did something unforgivable: You took my children from me!”
“Ah, give me a break!” Rika shouted as she took a step forward. “Those weren’t even your kids to begin with, neither were they actual children. They were transformed and brainwashed to fit into your twisted view of the world.”
“It is not twisted,” Lucemon said as she stood up. “It is a true paradise… but I won’t try to explain it to you again, as I now know you will never understand. Instead, you shall be sentenced and punished for the crimes you commited!”
“Ai…” Impmon calmly said as he stepped past Rika. “I’ll give you this one last chance to redeem yourself… for your mother… your brother and father… you friends… stop this… come back home with me and turn everything back to normal!” By now, Impmon wasn’t sure if ‘normal’ meant the world’s status before it was changed by the RPG Maker or before it was changed by Ai… either way, it was an improvement.
“You are still trying this, Impmon?” Lucemon asked coolly. “You were much better as my pet, when you didn’t question the truth behind my words… still, you haven’t realized yet that I can’t change back? I am the same Ai as before… I made those decisions by myself. I have become what I am through my own free will. Even though I have matured, physically and bodily, I am still Ai.”
“I know…” Impmon said with a sigh. “Still, I’m giving you this chance to stop this and come back home. No matter what you have become, what you have done, you are still my Tamer… and friend.”
For a moment, it really looked as if Lucemon was thinking about it. Then she smiled and shook her head. “No… this is the best that can happen to humans and Digimon. You have come to destroy my beautiful world… you took away my children… you shall be brought to justice!” And she leapt down the stairs and landed in front of them with her wings spread. She bore no weapon, but they all could feel the power readiating from her. “Face your sentence now, Hybrid Tamers!”
“Well… this is it…” Takato sighed. “We tried reasoning with her… I dunno if she can’t listen… or doesn’t want to… but I certainly don’t want to allow her to get along with it!”
“Yeah, we want a normal world, with our parents as the adults and us as the kids,” Jeri nodded.
“A world where everyone can do what he or she wants, not just because someone is making them behave that way,” Harmony added.
“Face it… the old world wasn’t perfect, but it sure was better than what she has in mind,” Ryo said.
“She is selfish and doesn’t realize it,” Gargomon shouted. “All she wants is to force everyone to act like she wants.”
“And that’s something we can’t allow her to do!” Guilmon said.
Renamon looked at her sister. “Rika… after this is over, everything might turn back to how it was… and no matter if we’ll be Digimon, humans or something entirely else, I want you to know: I will always be your sister. And I will go through this at your side!”
Rika looked at her and nodded. “Yes, me too… all of us together… as a team!”
She raised her D-Power up into the air. “Hybrid Tamers… DIGIVOLVE!”
“Everyone, good luck!” Henry shouted as the triangle on his forehead began gleaming and bathed them in a brilliant light.
“Rika Hybrid Warp Digivolution to… SORCERESSMON!”
“Takato Hybrid Warp Digivolution to… GIGANOTOMON!”
“Harmony Hybrid Warp Digivolution to… JACKALMON!”
“Jeri Hybrid Warp Digivolution to… SPHINXMON!”
“Ryo Hybrid Warp Digivolution to… EXCALIMON!”
“Renamon Hybrid Warp Digivolution to… AURA RENAMON!”
“Guilmon Hybrid Warp Digivolution to… FLARE GUILMON!”
“Terriermon Warp Digivolution to… RAPIDMON!”
“Ai…” Impmon said. “For yoor own sake… I’ll defeat you… you’re making a big mistake… and I’ll help you realize it!” And he, too, digivolved.
“Impmon Warp Digivolution to… BEELZEMON… BLAST MODE!”
Manami wanted to approach them to fight at her mistress’ side, but Lucemon stopped hr by raising her arm in front of the Succubimon. “No, Manami,” she said softly. “You’ve been my best friend… but this is something I need to do on my own!”
And without any warning, she dashed forth at Aura Renamon and knocked her up into the air. “PARADISE LOST PUNCH!” she shouted. Sorceressmon gasped, but she and the others couldn’t react in time as AureRenamon was pummeled with a multitude of punches.
AureRenamon grunted as she tried to fight back with a flurry of punshes of her own, but she was definitely too slow. And then, with one final blow, Lucemon slammed her back down, with a force powerful enough to make the ground beneath her crack.
“That’s it, I’ve got enough!” Sorceressmon shouted. “Everyone at once… attack! MANA FLAME!”
“MYSTIC RAY!”
“TUNDRA BREATH!”
“FLARE BULLETS!”
“1000 FEATHERS!”
“DRAGON LANCE!”
Lucemon raised her wings in front of her face. The attacks of the Ultimates stung her a little, but that was all. With a smug smirk, she brushed it off and spread her wings as she hovered above them. “Useless…” she whispered. “I am the most powerful of the Demon Lords, and even together, you could never hope to beat me… now, this will be your judgement…”
“Shut up!” Excalimon shouted as he jumped up to her, rising his lance. “Holy Slash!”
Lucemon parried the attack with her bare hands. Her smirk drove Ryo angry and they exchanged several blows. “Tell me where you have my partners, now!” the dragon knight shouted.
“They will play their part in this game… but you, you can die! ULTIMATE SACRIFICE!” She spread the fingers of her right hand, and a sphere of light mixed with darkness burst forth from it. Excalimon gasped in surprise when the energy surrounded his whole body, wrapping him in a sphere of light and darkness. He screamed as the energies were wrecking his body, even through his armor. With a groan, he sunk to the ground.
“Ryo!” Sorceressmon shouted.
Lucemon spread her arms and wings and now looked like her body was a big crucifix. “GRAND CROSS!” And ten spheres of light appeared around her, forming a giant cross. They felt the power flowing through Lucemon as she focussed all her powers into this massive attack…
“CORONA BLASTER!” Lucemon winced when an energy blast, fired from Beelzemon’s weapon, hit her in the middle of her chest, taking her by surprise and disrupting her channeling process. The light spheres around her vanished.
With a flap of his black wings, Beelzemon now hovered at the same level as she did. “Ai… I’m sorry it had to come to this… but this ends now!” And he pointed his gun directly at her face.
Lucemon smiled. “Ah yes, a Demon Lord’s powers… and you’re the only Mega Level Digimon among your group, right? You might be the only real danger here… but I must admit, a duel with you might be exciting.”
“Darkness Claw!” Beelzemon shouted and slashed across her cheek, with claws burning with dark energy. The attack came as a surprise for her and she backed off a bit as she wiped her cheek.
“You… will pay for that…” she said in a dangerously low voice. “ULTIMATE SACRIFICE!” And the same attack that hit Ryo now hit Beelzemon. The former Demon Lord cried in pain as he shook around. The force of the attack blew him backwards, until he hit the wall on the other side of the room. With a groan, he slid down to the ground, where he slowly began to shrink down until he was Impmon again.
“A… Ai…” he muttered before he lost consciousness.
“Well… now that this has been taken care of… back to your punishment…” Lucemon smiled.
“Not if I can do something about it!” Sphinxmon growled as she leapt at her. “Golden Rings!”
The rings wrapped themselves around Lucemon’s form… but with one firm motion of her arms, the fallen angel broke free.
“Mana Freeze!” Sorceressmon shouted and raised her staff. The air around Lucemon became freezing cold as she was encased in a massive block of ice.
“Shadow Pack!” Jackalmon as she summoned ten shadowy copies of herself. All in one, they leapt at the frozen form of Lucemon, tackled and tore into her again and again.
A sudden burst of light coming from Lucemon broke apart the ice and destroyed Jackalmon’s shadow copies. The shockwave brought them both down to the ground.
“My turn!” Giganotomon growled. The enormous dinosaur opened his muzzle. “Tundra Breath!”
Flare Guilmon leapt up his brothers back and did a huge jump from the top of his head into thei air, from where he fired his attack: “Flare Bullets!” The combination of heat and cold caught Lucemon in a massive explosion.
“Paradise Lost Punch!” Lucemon shouted as she came flying forth from the middle of the explosion, hitting FlareGuilmon in the middle of his armor, which flung him back against the muzzle of Giganotomon. Lucemon followed up with more punches, hitting both of them at the same time. Her last heavy blow caused FlareGuilmon to crash into one of the pillars and Giganotomon to tumble down to the ground.
“You have delayed the end for far too long…” Lucemon muttered as she flew in the middle of the room. “Now you will pay for taking away that was is dear to my… my pets… my darling children… you will SUFFER! GRAND CROSS!”
The ten gleaming spheres appeared around her again… but this time, there was nothing to stop her. All of the energy within the room came flowing towards her… she spread her arms and gestured down at the forms of the Hybrid Tamers. And the spheres followed her motion. The Tamers screamed in pain when they were engulfed in massive explosions of light, causing them more pain than they had ever felt.
Lucemon looked down at the results of her attack. She saw them lying there, bruised and battered, injured and twitching from the pain. “Intriguing… you’re still alive. But that doesn’t matter. You are in no position to fight anymore… if I use this attack one more time, you will be gone. And there will be nothing that hinders me from building my dream world… expanding it all over the world.
“N-no…” Sorceressmon grimaced as she tried moving, but to no avail.
“It is over,” Lucemon simply said as she raised her hands.
“You’re right… but it’s over for you!” a voice said.
Lucemon turned her head… and saw a boy with four wings standing in the window. She narrowed her eyes. “Brother…”
“Sister…” Twilimon said. “I am ready… I have trained for this moment… like you, I have the powers of light and darkness… I need to stop you. I don’t know if things can be the same between us anymore… but I need to stop you!”
She chuckled. “Even with training, how can you hope to stand up against me, a Demon Lord? Look how easily I beat Impmon… and even he was in his Mega form.”
“Try to attack me and we’ll see…” Twilimon said calmly.
“Mako… you idiot… what are you doing?” Sorceressmon shouted from where she was lying.
“Don’t do it, she’ll destroy you!” Sphinxmon added.
“Very well, you asked for it…” Lucemon said. “Farewell, brother..:” And she came dashing at him at full speed. “PARADISE LOST PUNCH!”
“Armor Form!” Twilimon shouted as his body transformed. His whole body was covered with a metal armor and his wings turned into appendages made of rocks and diamonds, which he used to cover his whole body in a hard shell. In there, he didn’t even feel the furious punches of his sister. When the attack was over, he uncurled and smirked at her. “Nice… now it’s my turn…Air Form!” His armor vanished as his wings turned back to normal. He sproted an additional pair below them and a sleek, aerodynamical helmet appeared on his face. Bird claws sprouted on his feet. “Aerial Bomber!” he shouted as he slammed into her side, faste than a speeding bullet. And then he did it again. And again and again. In the end, he grabbed her shoulders with his talons, twirled her around several times and threw her into a pillar, which got destroyed instantly.
Lucemon growled. “So you’ve learned a couple new tricks… that still didn’t hurt me very much. You didn’t even manage to evolve the way I did… it’s just a matter of time. Ultimate Sacrifice!” She shot her sphere of light and darkness at him.
Twilimon used his airborne speed to dodge it. “You’re too slow, sis!” he shouted. “Aqua Form!” And he took on the aquatic form he acquired during his training. “Water Cage!” A stream of water was fired from his hands. As it hit Lucemon, she found herself surrounded by a bubble of water. With a burst of light, she broke free. “How… many forms do you have?” she gasped.
“As many forms as I want, Ai,” Twilimon explained. “This body can adapt to any situation and I’ve learned to use it well. So, wanna give it another try? I’m ready for everything you shoot at me!”
“Well then… let’s see if that is true… prepare yourself, brother!” she shouted.
“Is that okay? Using Mako to avoid Lucemon’s attention from the heroes?” Eiko wondered.
“It’s the only way they can recover…” Kei muttered as she sat in front of the PC. “I never believed Lucemon’s Ultimate form to be this strong… they need to reach a higher level…”
“Kei…” HolyCalumon said in a warning tone of voice. “Beware of using another unexplained plot device.”
“I know, I know,” the Lillymon grimaced. “Wait… I think I have something…”
While Lucemon and Twilimon met each other in a clash of light and darkness, Henry came floating down next to the canine form of his sister.
“Harmony…” he said. “Are you okay?”
Jackalmon shook her head. “I’m fine… but I feel like I’ve been hit with a truck.”
“This is insane… we can’t go on like this,” Excalimon grumbled as he pushed his body up with his lance. “We need to evolve to the Mega level.”
“Yeah…” Giganotomon nodded as he lifted his heavy head up from underneath some rubble. “I don’t think I can take another hit of that cross attack…”
“Can’t Henry just make us evolve with his Calumon powers?” Sphinxmon asked.
Henry shook his head. “I’m afraid it doesn’t work that way, Jeri…”
“And if I try to digivolve in the normal way, to Gallantmon?” FlareGuilmon suggested.
“You sure three Megas are enough for Lucemon?” Rapidmon asked as he looked at FlareGuilmon and AuraRenamon.
“No… this is the way we need to go,” Sorceressmon sighed as she climbed to her feet. “We are Hybrids… and the protagonists of this story. The only way we can beat the final boss is by reaching the highest level of our Hybrid forms. That’s how it is in these games, right?”
“Wow… you’re starting to think like a real gamer, Rika,” Giganotomon chuckled. “Well, what do you suggest? I mean, you’re the leader…”
“Yeah, I think I am,” Rika nodded. “And I think I might have a solution…” And she pulled the Zodiac shield from underneath her robes.
“H-hey!” Jackalmon shouted. “That’s my sister’s weapon!”
“Yes, it is… and when we told her to leave, she slipped it into my inventory, with this note.” She took a piece of paper from the shield. “Use the power of the Deva, combined with the artificial source of Digivolution Energy to unlock your true powers.”
Everyone looked at the shield, then at Henry’s BioCalumon form.
“You think… this is a coincidence?” Excalimon blurted out.
“I think not,” AuraRenamon smirked. “Looks like our dear Game Master is doing her job.”
“Well then… let’s not disappoint her!” Sorceressmon shouted as she held the shield up into the air with both hands. “Ancient Deva… grant us your powers!”
Henry floated up until he was above the shield, which was now spinning freely in the air. He fired a triangular beam from his forehead at it and it began crackling with energy. And then bright rays shot out from the holy weapon, covering the group of heroes.
“SORCERESSMON DIGIVOLVE TO… NOGITSUNEMON!”
Rika’s robes were swept away from her body as she became a quadruped again. Her body was covered with night-black fur, except for the places where golden gleaming markings were covering her legs, similar to the markings on Renamon’s legs. The tips of her nine black tails were tipped with dark purple flames of foxfire, while her paws were surrounded with the same fire.
“AURARENAMON DIGIVOLVE TO… QIMON!”
Contrary to her sister, all animalistic characteristics vanished from Renamon’s form… except for a single fox tail and a pair of fox ears that were peeking through her flowing, white hair, which was bound in a long ponytail. She wore what looked like a white karate gi, a black belt and a red headband. Her feet were naked and her fists were crackling with ki energy.
“GIGANOTOMON DIGIVOLVE TO… ICEPALADINMON!”
The giant dinosaur shrunk down to human size. Takato found himself covered in a metal blue armor that covered him from head to toe. A light blue cape was hanging from his shoulders and in his hands appeared a massive, two-handed hammer that was surrounded by ice crystals. In his other hand, he carried a tall shield.
“FLAREGUILMON DIGIVOLVE TO… BLAZEPALADINMON!”
FlareGuilmon’s armor transformed until it looked nearly identical to that of IcePaladinmon. The only difference was that his cape was fire red instead of blue. With both of his hands, he lifted a broad bastard sword that was surrounded by a fiery aura. Of course, he also had a shield.
“SPHINXMON DIGIVOLVE TO… NEMEAMON!”
The majestic sphinx growled as she increased in size, yet lost her wings. Her golden fur turned into a brilliant white while her human-like face transformed into that of a proud lioness. Her head fur resembled the hair of Jeri’s human form, even though it was as white as her fur.
“JACKALMON DIGIVOLVE TO… INUGAMIMON!”
Harmony rose to her feet as she once again turned into an anthropomorphic dog creature. She wore a traditional hakama, colored white and red, and raised a sword that looked like a bokken, yet shone in a brilliant light. She had a bushy tail, paw-like feet and fur as white as snow, similar to that of Nemeamon.
“EXCALIMON DIGIVOLVE TO… NIDHOGGMON!”
The knight’s armor broke apart in a shower of shards as his hands and feet transformed into wicked talons and his body size increased. Shining bronze scales covered Ryo’s whole body. Giant, leathery wings erupted from his backside and a ridge of spikes ran along his backside and his long, whip-like tail. The mighty dragon spread his wings and let out a mighty roar.
Meanwhile, Rapidmon transformed into his own Mega form.
“RAPIDMON DIGIVOLVE TO… MEGAGARGOMON!”
At this moment, Lucemon managed to hit her brother with a powerful punch. Her fist was crackling with light and darkness and flung him back against the wall. Twilimon, back in his standard form, slowly got up to his feet and coughed. Lucemon lowered herself to the ground and slowly approached him.
“You disappoint me, brother… I offered you to share this new world with me, yet you turn me down… even more, you seek to destroy me with your feeble powers. You have become stronger through your training, but it won’t be enough to defeat me.”
“Well,” he smirked. “It certainly was enough to buy them some time.” And he pointed behind Lucemon. She turned around and saw the eight Mega forms of the Hybrid Tamers.
“Mako…” Nogitsunemon said in a calm voice. “Go and help Impmon… we’ll take care of her.”
Twilimon just nodded and left the battlefield to all-new, powerful Hybrids.
“This is how it always goes, isn’t it?” Lucemon said with a small chuckle. “The opponents fight until they discover their hidden strength within themselves so they can bring down the evil villain…”
“Yes,” Nogitsunemon nodded. “This is a game, I see it now… we are the protagonists, the heroes. And you… are the final boss we must defeat to win the game. Whatever happens after that… I do not know. But… we’ll find out soon enough!”
“You really believe that, do you?” Lucemon asked. “But what you fail to understand is that I am not the villain… you are! You seek to overthrow my beautiful kingdom and destroy my heavenly utopia. You defeated my pets and minions, took my children from me and dare to defy me within my very own throne room… clearly, you are the villains here!”
“That’s where you are wrong,” IcePaladinmon said. “Have you ever seen a game where one hero has to beat a team of eight bosses? Well, I can’t think of a single one.”
“I won’t listen to this nonsense anymore!” Lucemon shouted. “GRAND CROSS!” And once again, she brought up her giant cross of ten light spheres.
The Hybrid Tamers scattered. Qimon and Inugamimon leapt to the side. Nogitsunemon and Nemeamon jumped across Lucemon’s attack. The two Paladinmon raised their shields and ducked behind them. Nidhoggmon simply flew away to avoid it.
“Ai! We’re doing this for your sake… and the sake of the world! You are nothing but a selfish tyrant… and we will show you that it’s true!” Nogitsunemon yelled. “NOW!” She jumped up and hovered in mid-air, the golden marks on her legs began to glow even brighter as she spread her tails and surrounded her whole body with a wheel of purple fire. “Fox Inferno Wheel!” The spinning wheel of fire was launched at Lucemon.
“Hammer of Ice!” IcePaladinmon shouted as he stood up from behind his shield and threw his spinning weapon at Lucemon. It left a trail of cold air behind and created a multitude of sharp crystals and ice spears that all stung Lucemon as the weapon slammed into her side.
“Blade of Fire!” BlazePaladinmon added his own attack as he swung his two-handed sword around. The fire surrounding the weapon burned even brighter and hotter as a huge flame was shot from the blade as the knight swung it around.
“Gaia’s Roar!” Nemeamon growled as she jumped up into the air and landed back on the ground with a massive slam, shaking the earth and causing stalagmites to burst out of the floor underneath Lucemon.
“Vacuum Slash!” Inugamimon twirled her body around and swung her glowing sword, releasing sharp blades of air that were propelled in Lucemon’s direction, cutting her body several times.
“Ancient Flame!” Nidhoggmon roared as he opened his muzzle and breathed an enormous flame at Lucemon, hotter than any fire she had ever felt.
Qimon cupped her hands and focussed the ki flowing through her body in her palms. As she thrust her hands forward and shot a wave of pure ki energy at Lucemon, she cried out: “Qi Wave!”
“Gargo Missile!” Two giant missiles were fired from the shoulders of MegaGargomon. They flew at Lucemon and hit her with a giant explosion.
Lucemon was shocked, confused and to an extent, even frightened. She couldn’t comprehend the sudden increase of powers. Her body shook around as it was pummeled with attack after attack. “But… I am the most powerful…” she muttered weakly. “The ruler of Earth… the only one who knows what’s right and wrong… no, they cannot beat me like this… I must avenge my realm… I must punish them…”
“Face it, Lucemon!” Nogitsunemon snarled. “You can do nothing… even as the Lord of Demon Lords, you are just an Ultimate who’s faced with EIGHT Megas! You do the math!”
Lucemon stumbled backwards until she reached the throne. The Hybrid Tamers surrounded her from all sides.
“My lady Lucemon!” Manami shouted as she ran at her side. “I’ll fight for you!”
But Lucemon raised her hand. “No…” she breathed heavily. “If even I can’t beat them… you can’t do it either. But… do not give up yet… there is still something… we can do.”
“Face it, Ai! You’re finished!” IcePaladinmon shouted.
“Please, Ai…” Inugamimon said in a soft voice. “Don’t make us hurt you anymore…”
“Oh, you won’t…” Lucemon then said with a sudden snicker. “Because… you still can’t win. Even if you’re stronger… there is still something I can do.” And then she pressed a hidden button on the throne’s armrest. A squarish tile in front of the throne lit up and slowly, a cage containing two Digimon came rising from below.
Nidhoggmon gasped when he recognized the two Rookies. “Monodramon! Minidramon!”
The two twins smiled at him weakly. “Oh… hi, Ryo,” Monodramon said. “You’re… looking good.”
“Looks like the two of us messed up…” Minidramon sighed. “We let ourselves be captured…”
“You’re going to use them as hostages?” Nemeamon frowned with her leonine face. “I didn’t know you would sink to such a low… still, that won’t work forever.”
“Oh, I’m not using them as hostages,” Lucemon smiled as she slowly approached the cage. “I mean… one of them is the new form of Millenniummon… isn’t he?”
It took Ryo a couple of seconds to realize what she was talking about. “No…” he whispered. Then he roared: “NO! You can’t do that, Ai! Not even you would be stupid enough… to unleash such powers… that would be madness!”
“I see no problem…” Lucemon smiled. “After all, I am the ruler of the world… I know what is right and wrong… and I can never be out of control. Therefore, if this power is what I need to defeat you once and for all… I will gladly take it. Only problem is, which one of you is the original Millenniummon?” She looked at the nervous forms and Monodramon and Minidramon and smirked. “Oh, does it matter? I’ll just absorb you both…” And she raised her hands towards the cage.
“NO! Stop her!” Nidhoggmon shouted. “Ancient Flame!”
“Fox Inferno Wheel!”
“Qi Wave!”
And for a moment, it seemed as if the combined attacks of Nidhoggmon, Qimon and Nogitsunemon would be enough to push Lucemon away from the cage, assuring their victory… but in the last instant, Manami came running in front of her mistress… and took the full force of the attack!
“MANAMI!” Lucemon shouted with a voice filled with terror and sadness.
With a groan, the Succubimon sunk to the ground. As she slowly disintegrated into particles of data, she weakly smiled up at her mistress and friend. “Ai… this is my final gift to you… I always knew… you were right…” And then, she was gone.
Nogitsunemon looked at the empty spot where Manami had been lying seconds ago with horror. ‘Did we… did we really kill a little girl just now…’
By now, Lucemon’s face was devoid of any emotion. “So be it… you have just… sealed your fates…” And with a scream of fury, she fired a bright stream of energy at the cage containing the dragon twins. “NOW… I’LL HAVE THE POWER TO MAKE MY WISHES COME TRUE!”
But even though Monodramon and Minidramon were screaming in pain as their bodies were ripped apart into data and that data was flowing towards Lucemon and the Hybrid Tamers were too stunned to interfere… something entirely unpredictable happened.
A small, yellow shape came shooting through the ceiling and flew in-between Lucemon and the approaching ‘soul’ of Millenniummon. “THIS IS IT!” Kobomon shouted as she laughed maniacally. “THIS IS WHAT I’VE BEEN STRIVING FOR! Power… the ultimate POWER! Who needs the weak data still inside that game… I have Lucemon! I have the power of Millenniummon! Thus… THE GREMLIN WILL BE REBORN!”
“The Gremlin?” Nogitsunemon gasped, as did all of her friends and teammates. They all knew what this meant… the evil spirit of the RPG Maker, the Gremlin… the consciousness of BioCalumon… had survived within Kobomon… and was now trying to revive itself using the powers of Lucemon and Millenniummon.
And it looked like it was working…
Lucemon screamed as the data of Monodramon and Minidramon, along with the body of Koboman, was forced into her body. She made one last grimace… and then her body exploded outwards, in a wave of chaotic energy and destruction. The destruction ripped apart the walls of the throne room, the window, the pillars, the throne itself… and even the world outside the tower was darkened when the Hybrid Tamers found themselves in a dark void.
In front of them, a dark, formless shape was becoming bigger and bigger. A deep, groaning voice came from the creature… and when it stood in front of them at its full height, the giant creature took on its solid form. It was a massive behemoth, a dark dragon resembling both Millenniummon and Lucemon’s legendary Shadowlord Mode… on its forehead, a cracked version of BioCalumon’s inverted triangle was visible.
“I AM… MILLENNIUMLUCEMON!” the creature roared.
In front of the computer, Kei was slowly slumping down on the surface of her desk. “No… she whispered. She stared at the screen with disbelief. “No… he won… he really won… in the end… everything I did… was for nothing!” She pounded the desk with her fist in frustration, which caused the whole PC to shake.
“Kei…” Eiko softly touched her shoulder. “I… I dunno… what to say, but… you couldn’t know he had that plan…”
“I couldn’t?” Kei gritted her teeth. “I suspected Kobomon to be BioCalumon… yet I didn’t try to stop her in any way. “It’s just logical that he wouldn’t give up that easily… and the fact that both Lucemon and Millenniummon were in the story… I should have predicted this… maybe… I could have prevented it… but now… everything’s over…”
“Don’t give up yet, Kei!” HolyCalumon shouted. “There’s still hope! The Hybrid Tamers have reached their Mega level thanks to your great idea of using Suzie’s shield and Tika’s inventory… they can still win!”
“Don’t you understand?” Kei shouted. Tears were running down the Lillymon’s face. She pointed at the screen. “Millenniummon’s powers alone were almost impossible to beat… it was a miracle that I managed to pull that off when they were fighting it in the hive on Okinawa! And now… it has also the powers of BioCalumon and Lucemon… I can’t make them more powerful… that would… break the game… it’s not possible…”
“Kei, listen to me!” HolyCalumon said in a stern voice. “NOTHING is impossible! BioCalumon is still acting within the boundaries of the game… it’s the only thing he CAN do! And no matter how powerful his current body is, he is NOT omnipotent! He made an insanely powerful beast and turned it into the true final boss of the game. This is still a game, remember… and EVERY game can be beaten, somehow! And how they can do it… that’s up to you! You are… the Game Master!”
Kei stared at the little, white Digimon with the tiara and thought about what she said. She was right… this was still a game. And it was not over yet. She had a job to do… she was the Game Master!
A resolute expression appeared on her face as she took the mouse and the keyboard. She firmly looked at the screen, the image of MillenniumLucemon, its status, the scenery, the event manager, the possible options still available to her, the remaining Maker Points, everything.
“Right! First things first… let’s save their game!”
Eiko grinned as she saw how her friend was back in action. “You can do it, Kei…” she whispered.
“Do you want to save your game?” Henry suddenly asked the heroes.
Nogitsunemon looked up at him. “What the… are you CRAZY? Do you see this monster… there’s no way we… we can beat it…”
“The combined powers of Millenniummon and Lucemon… good luck trying to beat that…” Nidhoggmon muttered.
“Well, at least try it!” Henry shouted. “And if you don’t succeed… try again! And again and again! Until you win!”
Inugamimon looked up at her brother in surprise. “He’s right… the final battle in most RPGs is insanely hard. Normal players usually don’t win on the first try… but by doing it again and again, they learn how to deal with the enemy, how to deal with his attacks… and later, at some point… they can finally defeat it, no matter how difficult it is.”
“Yeah,” IcePaladinmon nodded. “And look at it that way: It’s the final boss, not a super secret hidden boss. If that was the case, he’d be even more difficult to beat. So that measn this guy can’t be THAT tough.” He grinned behind his helmet.
“Yes, but… we really should save first, shouldn’t we?” Qimon asked.
Nogitsunemon looked up at Henry and nodded. “Yes, please… save our game!”
Henry smiled as his triangle lit up one last time. “Okay then… your game is saved… good luck… in the final battle!”
“Well, he is the hint giver, the save point and the all-knowing advisor of the heroes… so he can’t be wrong,” Nogitsunemon smiled. “So, guys… let’s end this! Let’s beat this final boss!”
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