Chapter 30: Into The Dark Area

Taylor, Martin, Drusilla, Emmett, and their partner Digimon went through a portal that Owarimon's snake had created. The portal closed up once they were all through. The portal had taken them to the outskirts of a town somewhere in the Digital World. The children had carried their Digimon partners in their arms when they went through the portal for they took so much damage from Owarimon Ultimate's "Thanatos Explosion" that they de-digivolved and lost consciousness. Taylor collapsed to her knees, still holding Sharkmon. She was shivering from head to toe. Martin saw her and was alarmed. "Taylor! Are you ok? Are you hurt?" He asked. Taylor stood up and turned to face him. "Y-y-y-yes. I-I-I'm ok." She replied. Taylor sat down. Her legs were shaking so badly, that it was causing her whole body to shake. "I-I'm just a little shaken, that's all. I thought we were goners! I thought we were going to die right there on that beach! But, I'll be ok." Taylor said. Taylor frowned.

Drusilla looked at their partners that they were all holding in their arms. They were in bad shape. "I can't believe we lost. We should have gone Mega from the very beginning." Drusilla said. She rubbed her hand over the top of Coalmon's head (which was also her body). "Poor Coalmon. She got hurt protecting me." Martin looked down at Naturemon. Of all the rookies, she was the heaviest. He never bothered to weigh her, but since Naturemon had the body build of the average 11 year old girl, he figured she weighed about 80, maybe 90 pounds. About as much as he himself weighed. Soon, their thoughts turned away from themselves and their partners towards Witchmon and Wizardmon. Emmett gritted his teeth. "Witchmon and Wizardmon died because they helped us." He said in an angry voice. Everyone was silent for a couple of minutes. Taylor set Sharkmon on the ground gently and stood up. She solemnly walked over to a pile of rocks that had crumbled from a much larger boulder. Maybe the boulder crumbled because two Digimon fought here at some point and damaged that area. Whatever the reason, she would make good use of it. Taylor squatted down and started piling rocks on top of each other.

The rest of the children watched her. "Taylor…what are you doing?" Emmett asked. Taylor didn't look back. She kept focusing on piling the rocks. "I'm making a memorial for Wizardmon and Witchmon. It's the right thing to do. Especially…" Taylor paused. "Especially since they won't be reborn." Martin said, finishing Taylor's thoughts. Taylor's shoulders dropped and she bowed her head a little. She was silent for a moment before saying, "Exactly." And then she resumed. Taylor then walked over to a fallen tree limb, grabbed it, and walked back over to the rock piles. She broke off pieces of the limb to make sticks. She took some string seaweed she had in her pocket and used it as a makeshift rope to tie the two sticks together. Then she used the seaweed and sticks to fashion crosses which she then proceeded to stick on top of the memorial mounds. Taylor looked at the two memorial mounds she had made. "Wizardmon….Witchmon….thank you." She said softly. Drusilla walked over to the memorial mounds as well. She placed her hand on Taylor's shoulder. "We won't let their deaths be in vain." Drusilla said.

"Guys, I think we ought to find some place to rest. Our Digimon are hurt and they need time to recover." Martin said.

"Why don't we just use our D-Ecos to teleport us back to World For Us All HQ?" Emmett asked.

Drusilla nodded. "Yeah, let's do that." She said. Then they all took out their D-Ecos and used the teleportation program Izzy had created to send themselves back to World For Us All HQ.

When the kids arrived, they ran down the halls towards the infirmary. They got their Digimon treated for their injuries, but the doctor wanted to examine the children as well. The nurses all prepared hospital beds for the Digimon and the children. Later, a man with blue hair and glasses entered the room. He had a doctor's uniform on; coat, stethoscope, etc. He walked over to Taylor and Sharkmon first. The man smiled at them and said, "Hi, I'm Doctor Joe Kido, and I'll be your physician." He said. A little Gomamon was right behind him. The Gomamon happily raised his paw and said, "And I'm Gomamon, Joe's Digimon partner!" Joe examined all of them, and administered the proper treatment to their Digimon; Ganvivormon plus advanced Aqualian technology. The Digimon were healed of their injuries in almost no time at all!

A day had passed, and the Digidestined returned to their apartments in World For Us All HQ. Mirei Mikagura mandated that they took the rest of the day to rest before going into battle again. Emmett and Dovemon were lying on his bed in the bedroom of their apartment. Emmett had one arm held up into the air and he was staring at his hand. He obviously had a lot on his mind. "Dovemon, do you….think my mother is ok?" He asked. Dovemon sighed sadly. "I have no idea, Emmett. But if Morty Shin needs her to make Red Stones, I doubt he'd do anything to hurt her." Dovemon replied. "But how do we know she's complying? Maybe she was defiant. Maybe she's dead right now! Maybe I'll never see her again!" The more Emmett spoke, the more upset he got. He was beginning to panic and was close to tears. But then, Dovemon pecked him in the head. "Stop that! You can't think like that."

The next day, The Elemental Four were standing in the garage of World For Us All HQ with their Digimon who were now fully healed. Kari was with them. "You need to get going. Save your parents." Kari said. The Digidestined and Digimon all nodded. "Right." Naturemon reached out and pulled Kommondomon's door opened and the group entered one by one in single file fashion. When everyone was seated inside, the Kommodomon barked. Kari pushed a button on a remote control looking device and the garage door opened to the grand Mother Universe outside. Kommondomon took off. Taylor looked at Sharkmon and then looked out the window. She could see lots of starry looking spheres for miles and miles, even lightyears and lightyears. Each sphere was its own universe, and most of them were attached to a secondary sphere. That secondary sphere was a version of the Digital World. But not every sphere had a Digital World attached to it. "So, we're finally doing this. We're going to save our parents." Taylor said. "And their Digimon." Sharkmon added.

Taylor leaned back and smiled. "Right. Boy, the grown up Digidestined have so many memories together and with their Digimon." She said aloud. Sharkmon plopped himself on her lap and looked up at her. "And we'll have lots of memories together too!" Sharkmon said happily, giving a big toothy grin while looking up at his partner. Taylor giggled. "Yep. We're gonna be friends for life. You'll be able to see me become a woman, and get married, and you'll be there when I get my Nobel Prize in Digimon Research." Taylor said. Sharkmon put a hand up to his mouth and looked intrigued. "If I had a Huma-vice, maybe I could digivolve you into Womon right now." Sharkmon joked. Taylor giggled. "Instant boobs! I'd finally get to wear clam shell bras." Taylor joked. "Wait, in your case, would it be a Humavice or a Mermavice?" Sharkmon asked. Taylor giggled.

The Kommondomon eventually made it to Universe 616. The Kommondomon was diving downwards towards the universe and when he got close enough, he let out a happy bark. Kommondomon phased through the spatial fabric of the universe. He ended up in Universe 616's Digital World. Emmett looked out the window and saw that there was nothing but barren wasteland all around them. Dry ground, dirt, but that wasn't all. There were also many rotting trees with skulls hanging from them. There were buildings here and there, but it looked like something out of an apocalyptic movie. It looked like a bomb had gone off. There were Digimon here and there fighting each other. There were, for example, two Devimon going at it. "Is this the dark area?" Emmett asked. "Looks pretty dark to me. All these Digimon look pretty evil." Dovemon said as she also gazed out the window.

Taylor raised her index finger. Drusilla rolled her eyes. Drusilla knew that when her nerdy mermaid friends raised that finger, a lecture was about to ensue. "The Dark Area is a graveyard of sorts full of deleted data of many Digimon. It's governed by Plutomon. Anubismon works here. Whenever a Digimon dies, its data is sent here and Anubismon determines whether to reform it into a DigiEgg or keep it held here. You could say that The Dark Area is like a Hell for Digimon. Although in my Digital World, the Anubismon is quite merciful. He erases the memories of the Digimon and allows them to start life over. One example is the Angewomon who is currently training to be one of the Three Great Angels at Holy Angel Castle. She actually turned into Ophanimon Falldown Mode and tried to end all life before my awesome mother fused with her Digimon to become MarineOmnimon and defeated her with their strongest attack; Poseidon's judgment. Emmett has become quite good friends with her, I've heard. Some have said that time in The Dark Area flows faster than in the Digital and Real Worlds. An hour here is like a minute there, so when Digimon turn back into DigiEggs, it appears instantaneous but it really isn't. That isn't quite accurate. It's actually just Anubismon's domain that runs at a faster temporal rate. No one knows why the Anubismon's 'workplace', so to speak, runs at a different rate than the rest of the Digital World, but researchers hypothesize that-" And with that, Drusilla's hand went back over Taylor's mouth. "That's enough for now, Professor." Drusilla said in a monotonous tone.

Taylor removed Drusilla's hand from her mouth and looked mildly upset. "But Drusilla, I was just getting to the really interesting part!" Taylor objected. Drusilla then smirked at her. "Maybe I'll let you finish if you SING the rest of it." She teased. Taylor turned beat red and then shook her head rapidly while waving her hands back and forth, sweating a little. "W-W-W-W-W-Well, it isn't THAT interesting." Taylor rapidly said in a panicked tone.

Meanwhile….

In another part of the Dark Area was a huge castle. The Demon Lord Lillithmon walked into her throne room and sat down on her throne. Zai and Syn were kept in a large cage adjacent to her throne. She fancied herself a queen of this area of the Dark Area, and many lower leveled evil Digimon did likewise. Lillithmon was beautiful, and thus, she captivated the lusts of many male Digimon. It wasn't difficult for Lillithmon to get what she wanted. Lillithmon folded her leg over in the throne and placed her finger right under her lip - the one with the golden metallic glove. She licked her lips as she thought about Morty's offer to grant her all the Deity Stones she wanted. Lust came in many forms, and while Lillithmon's appearance might make you think hers was sexual lust, in reality, she lusted for power. She wanted to become omnipotent. She wanted to become so powerful that she could crush all of her fellow demon Lords by just blinking. No matter how much she digivolved and no matter how many Digimon she absorbed into her own body to increase her stats, it was never enough. She always wanted more. She wouldn't stop until her power rivaled that of the Being the humans called God. The Red Stones would allow her to achieve that level of power. All she needed was to acquire enough of them. Just then, Lillithmon's thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door. "Come in." She said. The door opened, and a DemiDevimon walked in through the door. The Digimon had a round, dark blue body with two huge bat wings, and small gray legs and red talons. On the middle of his head was a skull symbol. "My beautiful queen! The Digidestined and their Digimon are here!" DemiDevimon said.

Zai and Syn peaked up. "My daughter." Zai said softly. Lillithmon quickly glanced over to the Devillian woman and the little BlackGatomon and then looked back at DemiDevimon. She smirked. "I see. Well, why don't we throw them a little welcoming party." Lillithmon said. DemiDevimon smiled. "Oh boy! A party! I'll go get the karaoke machine and the booze! Oh…wait, these are children. Ok, I'll get some apple juice instead!" DemiDevimon said cheerfully. Lillithmon rolled her eyes and scoffed. "Idiot. I didn't mean literally." Lillithmon said, sounding a bit irritated.

Just then, a humanoid Digimon phased through from up under the floor, startling the DemiDevimon. "Shall I do it, my queen?" He asked. This Digimon looked like an evil clown. "How many times have I gotta tell ya to stop doin' that!?" DemiDevimon fussed. Lillithmon spoke to the Digimon who looked like an evil clown, "Ah, Jokermon. I've heard you've been training awfully hard downstairs. You might just be strong enough to give these kids a challenge. Very well." Jokermon knelt down on one knee and bowed. "Thank you, my queen. I will not fail you." Jokermon said. Syn and Zai both looked worried. "Oh, Drusilla. Please be safe." Zai thought silently.

Back at the Kommondomon, the children and their Digimon were all standing outside. Martin pulled up a map on his D-Eco. It was a map pinpointing all 7 of the locations of The Demon Lords. He had put that program in their D-Ecos before they left. "There are 7 Demon Lords, and according to the intel we got from Ryo, each one has one of our parents. I think we ought to split up so we can cover more ground." Martin said before turning his digivice off and putting it back into his pocket. Taylor looked at Martin with a facial expression that conveyed both surprise and annoyance. "Have you lost your mind!? The Seven Demon Lords are some of the most powerful Digimon there are! They rival the power of The Royal Knights and even The Olympus Twelve! I know our Digimon are strong, but we'll need to combine our strength to take even one of them down!" Taylor protested. Martin shot a glare at Taylor. "And what if, while we're fighting one, the others catch wind of what we're doing and kill our parents? Do you want to risk that?" Martin asked in an angry tone. "Can you even do math? There are only four of us! Even if we all did split up, we couldn't take on all seven of them!" Taylor argued. Martin growled. "I wish other World For Us All Digidestined had come with us. They could help out." Martin said. "They have their own duties to do! Besides, there's no sense complaining about what could have been!" Taylor argued.

Naturemon then got in between the two, who were facing each other with really angry facial expressions. She looked worried that it might escalate and that they might start hitting each other or something. "Guys, please stop! You're supposed to be friends! More than friends, even!" Naturemon said, looking at Martin, then Taylor, and then Martin again.

Sharkmon put a claw up to his mouth and smiled. "Boy, this feels kind of tense. Maybe some hot dogs would make Taylor and Martin stop being angry." He said. "Not every conflict can be resolved with hot dogs." Dovemon said.

Taylor frowned. She calmed herself down quickly. She placed both hands on Martin's shoulder. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have lost my temper." Taylor said. Martin frowned. "No, I'm sorry. You're completely right. It's just…." He didn't need to finish. "I know." Taylor said softly. Then she reached over and gave Martin a kiss on the forehead. Martin looked disappointed. "The forehead?" He said. Taylor giggled. "We can do it on the lips if you think you can handle my dad's wrath." Taylor teased. Martin's eyes widened as he suddenly had an onset fantasy of Evander going into protective dad mode and hurling a jaw shattering punch in his direction. Martin shuddered. "Forehead kisses it is." He said. Taylor was actually more worried about Martin's overprotective mother. She also had a sudden onset fantasy of Flora getting down on all fours and lunging at him like a tiger, shouting "YOU CAN'T KISS HIM LIKE THAT! HE'S JUST A BABY!" Taylor shuddered as well.

The kids began walking to Lillithmon's castle. After they had gotten a certain amount of distance, Jokermon rose up from the ground. He had an evil smile on his face. "Hello, hello, kiddies. Come one, come all to Jokermon's big show!" He said as though he were doing the introduction to a circus act. He took his hat off and bowed before putting it back on. Naturemon smiled and clasped her hands together. "Oh goody! A show!" Naturemon said. "Naturemon, this is the Dark Area, remember? Every Digimon here is evil." Dovemon told her. Jokermon held his palms out and started jumping on one leg. "The bird is correct. The entertainment isn't intended for you. It's intended for me, and my queen Lillithmon too. Defeat me if you can, give it your all. You'll certainly die, but at least we'll have had a ball!" Jokermon said before laughing.

Jokermon then caused a big scythe to appear in his hands. He lunged at Naturemon and swung it. Fortunately, Naturemon jumped backwards just in time to avoid being cleaved in two! "Marty Hearty!" Naturemon shouted. The children took out their D-Ecos at the same time.

"DIGIVOLUTION"

"Naturemon digivolve to….MotherNaturemon!"

"MotherNaturemon digivolve to….Vineyardmon!"

"DIGIVOLUTION"

"Sharkmon digivolve to….Jawsmon!"

"Jawsmon digivolve to….WarJawsmon!"

"DIGIVOLUTION"

"Coalmon digivolve to….CoalGolemon!"

"CoalGolemon digivolve to….MagnetGolemon!"

"DIGIVOLUTION"

"Dovemon digivolve to…Harpymon!"

"Harpymon digivolve to….HolyHarpymon!"

The four Ultimate level Digimon went into the battle. "Let's get this over with quickly. We can't waste too much time on this guy!" Emmett said. "He's right! Attack him all at once!" Drusilla said.

"Marine Missile!" WarJawsmon shouted, firing the missile strapped to his back.

"Grape Grenades!" Vineyardmon shouted, firing the exploding grapes from the vines on the tree branches growing out of her back.

"Heaven's Charm!" HolyHarpymon shouted, making a T pose with her arm and sending out a cross shaped beam of energy from her body.

"Eruption!" MagnetGolemon shouted, blasting magma out of her arms at high pressure!

Jokermon screamed in pain at the attacks hit! The attacks caused a large smokescreen in the area in which they made contact. A few seconds passed and the smokescreen faded. Jokermon wasn't there. He was gone. Taylor smiled and threw her fist up into the air. "Way to go guys! That clown is outta town!" Taylor cheered. Just then, they heard Jokermon's voice from behind them! "You won't have the last laugh!" They turned around to see Jokermon standing there completely unharmed. They all looked shocked! "How is this possible! All of our post powerful attacks were direct hits!" HolyHarpymon exclaimed. Jokermon swung his scythe while shouting "Lunatic Slash!" Black energy came out of the scythe and hit WarJawsmon directly, knocking him back. "Lunatic Slash!" Jokermon shouted again while swinging his scythe two times and sending out energy blades. HolyHarpymon and Vineyardmon also got hit directly and got knocked back. Jokermon then jumped high up into the air and continued his attacks. "Lunatic Slash! Lunatic Slash! Lunatic Slash! Lunatic Slash!" All of the Digimon got hit with energy blades which came out of Jokermon's scythe when he swung them. The children made sure to get to a safe distance from this psycho clown. WarJawsmon aimed his gatling guns at the evil clown as he landed on the ground. "Great White Gatling!" Jokermon deflected all of the bullets by twirling his scythe rapidly. Jokermon was swinging his scythe SO quickly that it looked like an airplane propeller. WarJawsmon's eyes widened. "Incredible!" The bi-pedal shark Digimon explained. Jokermon let out a maniacal laugh. "Why thank you, my amphibian friend! It's good to see others notice the results of my training. Like my queen, I am filled with a lust for power. Very soon, I will become a Mega just like her." Jokermon said.

Back at Lillithmon's castle, Lillithmon was watching Jokermon on the screen of a Monitamon she had summoned. The Monitamon was sitting in front of Lillithmon's throne with Zai's and Syn's cage next to it. Zai and Syn were watching too. Zai saw Drusilla and MagnetGolemon. "You can do it." Zai said softly.

Back on the battlefield, Jokermon lunged at WarJawsmon and swung his scythe at him, but WarJawsmon parried his attack with one of his guns. WarJawsmon jumped back and then retaliated with a "Gun Whack!" Jokermon evaded the attack by jumping back. "If more sharks were as unthreatening as you, I would take up surfing!" Jokermon taunted. HolyHarpymon then flew right up to him, "Get ready to wipe out, dude!" She said before flapping her wings and making light arrows out of the feathers which fell off. "Marian Arrows!" HolyHarpymon shouted as the light arrows headed towards Jokermon. Jokermon deflected all of the arrows the same way he deflected WarJawsmon's bullets; by spinning his scythe. Jokermon started jumping on one leg again for some reason. "Oh my! Is that the best you can do? I think the worst thing you could do is give me bird flu." Jokermon taunted.

MagnetGolemon held her arms out towards Jokermon. "Eruption!" streams of magma blasted out of MagnetGolemon's arms at high speed. Jokermon phased through the ground again! "What!?" MagnetGolemon exclaimed in surprise. Before she could do anything else, Jokermon appeared behind her again. Drusilla gasped and pointed in MagnetGolemon's direction. "Behind you!" She exclaimed. But Drusilla's Digimon couldn't respond in time. "Lunatic Slash!" Jokermon shouted as he attacked. MagnetGolemon got hit, cried out, and fell over backwards.

Taylor growled. "We just can't land an attack on him. He either dodges, deflects it with his scythe, or phases through the ground! He's untouchable!" Taylor exclaimed. Something then occurred to Taylor. She quickly ran over to Drusilla and whispered something in her ear. Drusilla smiled. "That might work." Drusilla said. Drusilla then ran over to MagnetGolemon and whispered the plan in her ear. MagnetGolemon nodded. Taylor then walked over to Jokermon. She was blushing and sweating a little. She was about to be miles away from her comfort zone. Jokermon smirked. "Oh, so you're approaching me? Instead of running away, you're coming right to me?" He asked rhetorically. Taylor took a deep breath….and began singing a love song. Jokermon laid his scythe down and sat down on the ground. "So…beautiful." He said softly. Martin and the others were also impressed. Martin had hearts in his eyes with his hands clasped together. "She sounds like an angel!" He exclaimed. While Jokermon was enthralled in Taylor's siren singing, Drusilla was slowly sneaking up from behind him.

From Lillithmon's castle, Lillithmon leaned over closer to the Monitamon. "No! You fool! You're being tricked!" Lillithmon raged. Zai looked surprised. "Siren Singing. Taylor…can do it?" Zai muttered aloud. Taylor slowly walked up to Jokermon and wrapped her arms around him, continuing to sing. Jokermon also wrapped his arms around Taylor. Her tempo was slow, her voice was soothing, it was intoxicating to all who listened. Just then, Jokermon felt Drusilla grab his legs with both arms. Taylor turned around and ran in the other direction. "Sorry! Concert's over!" She shouted. It took every ounce of courage Taylor had to sing in front of everyone, and her face couldn't possibly be any redder. Drusilla looked back. "MagnetGolemon! Now!" Drusilla shouted. MagnetGolemon raised her arms in Jokermon's and Drusilla's direction. "Eruption!" MagnetGolemon shouted as she sprayed molten lava out of her hands at high pressure. Jokermon got hit with the attack…for real this time, and screamed in pain as the lava burned his body. Drusilla was hit by the attack too, but didn't feel a thing. She smirked as she grasped the evil clown's feet, preventing him from escaping. "IT BURNS! NOT UNLIKE THAT KIDNEY STONE I PASSED LAST WEEK!" Jokermon yelled.

Drusilla then stood up and ran over to the others, her clothes were badly burned, but fortunately, enough remained to cover all the important things. Jokermon laid there moaning in pain. He slowly sat up and looked over at the children. "Darn you…! Darn YOOOOUUU!!!!!" Jokermon screamed. He then began glowing! "What….is happening?" Drusilla asked. "Whatever it is, it isn't good." MagnetGolemon replied.

"Jokermon mega digivolve to….Piedmon!"

In Jokermon's place was now a Mega level clown Digimon. Piedmon stood up and smiled evilly. "Now you're finished." Piedmon reached behind him and unsheathed two swords from his upper back. Then he reached to his lower back and unsheathed two more swords. "Trump Sword!" Piedmon yelled as he threw the swords. The swords were flying at the partner Digimon about to impale them, but HolyHarpymon deflected them all with her "Marian Arrows!" attack. HolyHarpymon then flew around in a circle at lightning speed, creating a swirling tornado that was subsequently sent in the enemies direction. Piedmon got hit with the attack and swirled around in the vortex before being sent flying into a nearby boulder! Piedmon grunted in pain when he hit the boulder. He sat up and looked over in HolyHarpymon's direction. "That hurt." He said. He got up and ran towards HolyHarpymon. He brought out a handkerchief and shouted "Clown Trick!" HolyHarpymon flew back to dodge. He then brought out more handkerchiefs. These, he threw at the children. They grew to the size of blankets right before they landed on them. "Clown Trick!" Taylor, Drusilla, Emmett, and Martin were completely covered by the blanket-sized cloths. They struggled to get out of it, but then, the cloths fell completely to the ground. Flat, like nothing was under it. Except there was something under it. Piedmon reached over, grabbed the cloths and yanked them back, revealing that Taylor, Drusilla, Emmett, and Martin had been turned into keychains!

Piedmon picked the keychains up and held them out in front of the partner Digimon. He smirked evilly. "I've always heard that a Piedmon's Clown Trick attack can do many things, but my favorite is turning people and Digimon into keychains. Your friends should be happy to be the first members in what I can promise you will be a growing collection." Piedmon taunted. WarJawsmon growled in anger. "You turn Taylor back to normal, right now!" He demanded. "Yeah! My Marty Hearty is for snuggling, not for holding keys!" Vineyardmon said. Piedmon cackled. He threw more cloths, this time at the Digimon. "Clown Trick!" WarJawsmon and MagnetGolemon got covered this time, and like their partners, they were turned into keychains. "WarJawsmon! MagnetGolemon!" Vineyardmon exclaimed. "This isn't good! At this rate, we'll all be this psycho's collectables!" HolyHarpymon said. Piedmon retrieved the keychains of WarJawsmon and MagnetGolemon.

Piedmon proceeded to play with the keychains like a child playing with action figures. He moved the Taylor keychain, "Oh, WarJawsmon! You're so cool! You can beat anybody!" He said, making his voice to go high to impersonate a little girl. He then moved the WarJawsmon keychain and made his voice go ruff, "Well, almost anybody. I couldn't beat Piedmon because he's so superior to me." Piedmon then moved the Taylor keychain again. "Oh, that's right. Well, maybe Piedmon can be my partner Digimon instead of you, you big doofus."

HolyHarpymon growled and took a step back. She knew that she could turn them back to normal with her Saint Air attack. It healed all abnormal conditions, after all. And what could be more abnormal than being turned into a keychain? But if she fell, all was lost. She had to make sure that she was nowhere near those big blankets of his when he used his Clown Trick attack. HolyHarpymon flew up high into the sky. Her plan was long range combat, which meant she could only use Marian Arrows and Heaven's charm. Piedmon looked up at the harpy woman as she gained altitude. "What's the matter? Don't have the keys to success?" He taunted before laughing.

"Heaven's Charm!" HolyHarpymon shouted, making a T pose with her arms and sending out a cross shaped beam of energy from her body. Piedmon raised his hand. "Toy Wonderness!" He shouted, sending powerful gusts of wind from his hand. The wind not only deflected HolyHarpymon's attack, it hit her and sent falling to the ground! HolyHarpymon groaned as she lay there on the ground.

Vineyardmon bit her lower lip. She was thinking of a way she could take this guy down. Preferably, they should all digivolve to the Mega level they recently unlocked, but without her partner, that wasn't possible. All the beautiful dryad Digimon could think of was when they all nearly got annihilated by Owarimon Ultimate the day before, at 404 Island. She didn't want to lose another battle. So much was riding on it. But how could they win? Piedmon was so powerful! Vineyardmon's face fell dour. She began walking slowly over to Piedmon. Piedmon looked over to Vineyardmon. She looked like she was in despair, like she had given up hope. "Oh, the tree lady is coming to fight me now? What else are you going to do? Give me poison ivy? No, wait, that's Palmon's attack." Piedmon said. "I….I don't want to go on. Not without my Marty Hearty. Life's….not worth living." She said in a monotonous tone. HolyHarpymon sat up and looked at Vineyardmon in shock. "Vineyardmon, no! Don't throw your life away! We'll get him back! Get out of there!" HolyHarpymon shouted. Piedmon cackled. "Well, in that case…Clown Trick!" Piedmon threw a big white cloth over Vineyardmon.

Vineyardmon's look of despair quickly turned into a smirk. "You're not the only one with tricks." She said. Just then, every flower and piece of vegetation on her body glowed brightly. "NATURE BLAST!" Yellowish white energy shot out of Vineyardmon's body! It completely annihilated the white cloth that was about to cover her! And she was so close to Piedmon when she unleashed the burst of energy that he was unable to dodge. Piedmon's eyes widened with shock. He put his hand up in front of his face. "No! This is impossible! I can't lose!" He shouted. The energy blast completely enveloped him. Piedmon screamed as his body disintegrated into particles of data. Vineyardmon was breathing heavily. She fell to her knees, huffing and puffing. The flowers which made up her dress completely withered up and died. The grapes rotted and fell off of the vines. Vineyardmon fell into her face and stomach. Her once beautiful flowers and fresh grapes were now dead. The leaves on the trees growing out of her back also died. They fell off, leaving the trees bare like trees during winter. HolyHarpymon looked concerned, so she got up and flew over to Vineyardmon as fast as she could. She knelt down beside the kind hearted dryad and put one of her front talons on her shoulders. "Vineyardmon…your flowers! Your leaves!" HolyHarpymon's eyes scanned Vineyarmon's body from her feet to her head. She couldn't seem to find any vegetation growing out of her that wasn't dead and dried up. But if all of Vineyardmon's vegetation had died…., HolyHarpymon just asked bluntly, "Are you dying!?" Vineyardmon chuckled weakly. "Tough to say. I've….never….used that attack before. But….if I am…..I know Martin will…care for my DigiEgg….until I'm rebor…" Vineyardmon lost consciousness.

HolyHarpymon started shaking Vineyardmon violently, trying to wake her up. Tears could be seen streaming down her face. "Vineyardmon! No! We need you! All four of us are needed for Harmonymon to be reborn! Please!" HolyHarpymon pleaded. But then, HolyHarpymon heard snoring. It was Vineyardmon! She just fell asleep. HolyHarpymon took a sigh of relief. Vineyardmon de-digivolved into DemiNaturemon, her In-Training form. She placed her front talon on her chest and smiled. She started laughing. HolyHarpymon picked the sleeping Demi-Naturemon up and held her like the sleeping child she appeared to be.

HolyHarpymon then walked over to the keychains of her friends. Piedmon had dropped them when he was hit with Vineyardmon's ultimate attack. HolyHarpymon gently placed DemiNaturemon onto the ground and then she spread her wings out. "Saint Air!" She shouted. A holy aurora appeared and glowing particles rained down upon the keychains. In a matter of moments, the children, WarJawsmon, and MagnetGolemon returned to normal. Taylor had a surprised look on her face. She put her hand on her chest and sat up. "I had the weirdest dream. I had this insatiable urge to carry some keys!" She said.

Back at Lillithmon's castle, Lillithmon watched the end of the battle on her Monitamon. She looked mildly annoyed. "Well, it looks like that training didn't pay off after all. What a pity. Oh well, weaklings have no place in the world I will build as Goddess." Lillithmon said. Zai looked relieved. "Oh, my heart!" She said, smiling in relief, her hand up against her chest. Syn smiled and placed her paws on her hips. "Like mother, like daughter!" She said. Syn then pointed to Lillithmon. "And she's going to come kick your booty! And not just your booty, but your other body parts too!" Lillithmon chuckled. "Please." She said skeptically.