Five years had passed since the battle between The Elemental Four and Helamon. A brown haired 16 year old girl stood on a sandy beach in Japan. She had long brown hair that went all the way down her back, and a pair of goggles on her head. She was wearing an aquamarine colored tank top, and denim short shorts. On her feet were green shoes and ankle high socks. The teenage girl took her aquamarine colored tank top off, revealing a pink clamshell bra that covered her breasts. She tossed the tanktop onto the sand to her right. Then she pulled down her shorts, revealing a small light blue skirt with dark blue stripes. She tossed the shorts off to the side. The girl then noticed that she had forgotten something. "Whoops! I was in such a hurry that I forgot to take my shoes off before my shorts!" She reached down and took those off. Then she began running towards the ocean. When she got far enough, she put the goggles over her eyes and then transformed her legs into a mermaid tail. The sixteen year old mermaid swam off towards Plankton City. "My name is Taylor Glovion. I'm just your average girl living in an average world. Well, besides the fact that I'm one four Digidestined who is partnered with the most powerful Digimon of all time, I'm a descendent of Poseidon, and my singing voice makes every heterosexual male within ear shot fall madly in love with me, I'm average. A decade after learning that they were not alone in the universe, humanity learned that there isn't even one universe. There are many, some with people who are exact replicas of one another. Many of these worlds share a close link with another world; the world of Digimon; the Digital World. It's been five years since my friends and I saved all of reality from a powerful Digimon called Helamon. And it's been five years since we last saw our little Digimon friends. Sometimes I go by our old hangouts and a sense of sadness comes over me. I think about Sharkmon all the time. But I haven't been sad this whole time, I've been happy most of the time. It's just…every now and then, something will remind me of him." the teenage mermaid said.
Then she heard a voice say from off to the side, "Who are you talking to?" Taylor stopped in her tracks, having been startled from the sudden sound of someone's voice. It was a familiar voice. She turned to her right to see a blonde mermaid with an orange tail, and a blue clamshell bra, leaning back up against a rock with her arms folded. Taylor blushed and waved her arms back and forth. "Brittany!? I uh…nothing, I was just…oh….I was pretending my life was a movie or anime or something and I was narrating the epilogue." Taylor said. She was so embarrassed. Brittany chuckled. "You're such a dork." She said. Then came another familiar voice, "I know, right?" Taylor turned to look behind her. It was Drusilla. She was in a high tech diving suit that looked like the armor of a certain Marvel super hero. Taylor's face turned even more red. "Oh! How embarrassing!" Taylor said in exasperation.
Brittany wrapped her arm around Taylor and brought her in for a noogie. "Well, if this were a finale, I would add that Taylor and I have become good friends over the past few years. I kept my promise the day I was almost killed in that tsunami to be nicer to her." Brittanny stopped messing up Taylor's hair and decided to continue. "But I'm still jealous of her. Not of her family life, because Evander and Jessica convinced them to get counseling. They were inspired by the fact that two childhood sweethearts could keep a relationship together that started at age 11. The counseling worked and now they no longer yell at each other. No, what I'm jealous of is the fact that when Taylor hit puberty, her boobs became bigger than mine! I mean, that seashell bra has to be C cups!" Brittany explained. Drusilla giggled for a moment and said. "So they're *C* shells!" Her Dad jokes were getting worse. But of course, Zai kept laughing at them, so she kept making them. Taylor put her hand up to her chin and giggled. "Oh Brittany." Then she looked up to the water's surface and continued, "I should also narrate that due to the hostility between humans and Digimon that Crusaders Against Digimon had created, a guy named Tameron decided to become an ambassador for the Digital World along with his sister, Rei. According to my Mom and Dad, they used to know these two back in the day, but then they completely lost touch with them. Relations between this world and the Digital World have significantly improved. People and Digimon don't resent each other as much, but there's still work to be done."
Sometime later, Taylor and Drusilla were perched on a rock near the beach, but surrounded by ocean water. Taylor's goggles were now sitting on top of her head. Taylor kicked her mermaid tail up and down a little bit. "So, school is starting tomorrow. Guess this will be the last day we'll get to go into the ocean every day." Brittany said. Taylor sighed. "Yep." Then they both looked off to the side as they saw a bikini clad Drusilla using her batlike wings to fly over the surface of the water in their direction. She was carrying a large tray of hot dogs and french fries. "I'm back with lunch." Drusilla said. Drusilla sat the plate of hot dogs in Taylor's and Brittany's lap. Taylor unwrapped her hot dog and looked at it. Suddenly, a wave of sadness came over her. Why did she have to order this? She should have gotten something else. Brittany looked at Taylor and frowned. "Still can't look at them without thinking of him, huh?" She asked. Taylor shook her head. "Nuh uh." Taylor said in a sad tone.
Drusilla sank into the water below and propped herself up on a rock that was poking out of the water that was slightly adjacent to the big rock that the blonde and brunette mermaids were sitting on. "It's hard to believe it's been five years." Drusilla said. Suddenly, a blonde teenage boy popped his head out of the water, giving Drusilla quite the startle. She jerked and looked to her right. The boy had snorkeling gear on. He took the pipe out of his mouth. He had been swimming just below the surface, but Drusilla didn't see him coming, hence the startled jerk reaction. "Emmett! Babe! You scared the crap out of me!" Drusilla exclaimed. The blonde boy chuckled and rubbed the back of his head with his eyes closed. "Oh, sorry about that, Drusilla. It was an accident." He said. Drusilla put her hand over her heart and took a deep breath. "It's fine, Emmett. It's fine." But then, a black haired teen girl clad in a pink bikini popped out of the water, startling Drusilla a second time. "Hiyah!" She said. Drusilla looked annoyed. "Haruka! Between you and your brother, I'm going to have a heart attack!" Drusilla fussed. Taylor giggled. Emmett wrapped his arms around Drusilla and gave her a few kisses on the cheek. "Aw, come on now. Forgive me. You forgive me, right babe?" Emmett said as he showered the bat winged teen with affection. Drusilla was scowling with her arms folded as Emmett pecked her with multiple kisses. Then her scowl turned into a smile. She gave him a kiss and said, "Aahhh, I can't stay mad at you."
Elsewhere in the multiverse, Harmonymon and Wernicus sat on a rock in a field somewhere. Harmonymon had a hot dog in her hand and was about to take a bite out of it. "Umm…Harmonymon?" Wernicus said before she could take a bite. Harmonymon looked over in his direction with a confused look on her face. "What is it, Wernicus?" She asked. "I've been thinking, over the past 5 months, we've traveled throughout the multiverse and haven't found anymore spacial tears. Not one. I can't help but think we've repaired them all." Wernicus responded.
Wernicus had accompanied Harmonymon as he was used to interdimensional travel and knew his way around. All Draconians did, for the Draconians lived on a planet outside of all universes. Besides, Wernicus figured Harmonymon would get lonely traveling around all alone. Harmonymon looked a little sad. "You….think so?" She said. "Well, I can't be 100% certain, but it certainly seems that way." Harmonymon let out a sad sigh. Wernicus tilted his head in confusion. "That's a good thing, you know." He said. Harmonymon nodded. "I know." She said. "It means you can go back to those children. They're probably bigger now after all this time." Wernicus said. "That makes me happy. But…I've grown so close to you over these past few years too. Going back to them means saying goodbye to you. My heart is torn." Harmonymon replied. "Who told you that?" Wernicus asked. "Well, aren't you going back to Draconia to live among your own kind?"
Wernicus laughed and scratched his chin. Wernicus appeared to be a draconic humanoid. He could become a full blown dragon like the kind depicted in medieval paintings. But his kind only took that form when they either had to travel throughout the mother universe or when they had to go into battle. The dragonman was their default form. "I could, but Mario's world is so much more interesting. I'd rather go back with you." Wernicus answered. Harmonymon then wrapped her arms around Wernicus and laughed gleefully. "You will!? That's awesome! What are we waiting for!? Let's go!"
Back in their universe, Taylor and Brittany continued chilling in their mermaid forms on the big rock. Drusilla, Haruka, and Emmett floated in the water below. They heard a sound that sounded like electricity crackling, maybe with a hint of tin foil crinkling up. They all looked up and saw a portal in space open up. Harmonymon and Wernicus came through it and landed in front of them. Taylor, Drusilla, and Emmett looked in shock. Was this really happening or was this just a dream? This is Harmonymon. Is she really back? A couple of tears started to stream down Taylor's cheeks. "H-Harmonymon?" Harmonymon smiled. "Taylor. You've grown." Harmonymon said. She then looked down at Drusilla and Emmett. "You've all grown." Taylor used her mermaid tail to spring herself off of the rock so that her body would lunge forward. She landed in Harmonymon's arms and began weeping tears of joy. "You're back! You're back! Are you back!? Is this real?" Taylor exclaimed. Harmonymon chuckled. She lowered Taylor down into the water and said, "It's real, alright." Wernicus then informed them that, "We're pretty sure every universe affected when Helamon's Digital Hazard symbols flashed are healed now. Because of that, there's no reason for Harmonymon to be away from you." Drusilla and Emmett began cheering, being quite loud. Brittany smiled and closed her eyes. "I'm happy for you, guys." She said.
15 minutes, a 16 year old Martin was in front of Nakano Matsugaoka Park, the park with a small playground within a minutes walk from his, Taylor's, and Drusilla's house. Martin sighed. "Tomorrow will be the anniversary of the day I met Naturemon. I hope she's doing well." Martin said. "She's doing more than well." Martin's eyes widened and he took a deep breath. He recognized that voice. He turned around and saw Harmonymon standing there with Taylor, Drusilla, Emmett, Haruka, and Brittany. Taylor was back to wearing her tanktop and shorts, and Drusilla was dressed in a Gothic Lolita style fashion. She had a tiny top hat on the side of her dress, and her dress was black, and very Victorian looking with red fringes. Drusilla had on red lipstick, white gloves, and black heels with fishnets that went up a few inches above the ankle. Martin had a single tear go down his cheek. "You're….back!?" He exclaimed. Harmonymon nodded. "I am." She replied. Taylor took her D-eco out of her satchel and held it up in front of Harmonymon's face. "I kept it on me always. The digivice is the link between a Digimon and their partner. By keeping this with me…I always had a piece of you with me." She said before looking down, more tears of joy coming out. Martin, Drusilla, and Emmett also took their D-Eco Digivices out of their pockets. Like Taylor, they likewise kept their D-Eco Digivices on their persons at all time. And like Taylor, the happiness was making some waterworks in them all. The tears fell onto their D-Ecos. When this happened, the D-Ecos began glowing. Light shot out of their digivices and hit Harmonymon. In a matter of seconds, Harmonymon split into her four Rookie forms; Sharkmon, Naturemon, Coalmon, and Dovemon, to the childrens' amazement. "We're….back to our Rookie forms?" Sharkmon observed. "Seems like it." Dovemon said.
Sharkmon jumped into Taylor's arms, laughing with joy. "Taylor, I've missed you so much! I can't believe how much bigger you've gotten!" Naturemon ran up to Martin and looked up at him. She embraced him. "You're taller than me now, Marty Hearty." She said. Martin embraced her and put her hand on her vine-like hair which grew out of her head.
Drusilla picked Coalmon up and nuzzled her. "Coalmon!" She exclaimed cheerfully. Dovemon perched herself on Emmett's shoulders. "It's good to be back." She said. Emmett nodded. "Indeed!"
The four partner Digimon went back to living with their human partners and their families. Evander Glovion managed to go back to only doing cyber crimes, working only for the Kuremi Detective Agency so he wouldn't be overworked, and he'd have more time to spend with his family. Emily Liberty having gotten over her past guilt of being the Digimon Ruler, now helped Haruka overcome her own guilt of having been a tool of destruction at Morty Shin's command. Haruka, however, seemed to heal a lot faster than Emily did. She adored her adopted brother, Emmett. They did everything together, and Emmett had made her feel like family since the day she arrived. Snakemon helped Emily out around the house as much as possible. She felt that although, as she had put it, "her roles had changed", she would help Emily do as much mothering as possible. Although it was very difficult with no arms or legs to do any sort of house chores. And digivolving to AreoSnakemon just made a mess because she had massive wings that had a tendency to knock things over. After the reunion, Emmett and Haruka started spending time with each other and their Digimon as a quartet, rather than as a trio. Well, when Emmett wasn't dating his girlfriend, Drusilla. Speaking of which, Emily decided to get an office job in Tokyo because she wanted to move to be closer to her old friends…those friends who extended a hand of forgiveness to her all those years ago. This helped Drusilla's and Emmett's relationship as they were now within driving distance (or flying distance in Drusilla's case) from each other. Sometimes, they'd go on double dates with Taylor and Martin.
Wernicus got an apartment in Tokyo and would sometimes drop by to say hello to his Digimon goddess friend (who was now four distinct Digimon again) and maybe shoot the breeze. He and Mario also enjoyed playing board games together, although Mario always seemed to lose to Wernicus no matter what board game it was. It wasn't hard for a dragonman to fit into this society. Planet Earth in this universe was well accustomed to all kinds of species by now.
SorcererSuprememon's DigiEgg had hatched. She eventually reached the Rookie level, Magemon. Although, sadly, she had lost her memories of everything. She even had to learn magic over from the beginning. The Council Of Wizards elected Allicomon to be the next Sorcerer Supreme in her place. Allicomon visited the Academy every chance she got to help Magemon learn magic. Aki herself lived in Witchelny. She actually became a bit of a sorceress herself over the years.
Flora continued to run her flower shop with Palmon and Gatomon. Martin occasionally brought Naturemon in to enjoy the floral beauty. Naturemon didn't shower with Martin with affection publicly as much anymore, but privately was another matter. After receiving so much help from the physical and Digital worlds, Witchelny opened their borders and didn't make it nearly impossible for outsiders to enter. Martin and Naturemon occasionally went and visited with the other Naturemons and Chlorismons they had befriended 5 years prior. Although, they had all digivolved into MotherNaturemons by that time. Floryn the MotherNaturemon did find a child to raise, fulfilling that innate instinct that all MotherNaturemons have. She raised Magemon; her former queen. Aki, Magemon's partner, gladly assisted, but stepped back to an extent as she wanted Magemon to be Floryn's child. Floryn and Magemon adored each other, and when Magemon; the former Sorcerer Supreme, wasn't attending Boarwarts Academy, she lived with her adopted mother in the forests south of Boarwarts.
One day, Taylor was in her mermaid form with Sharkmon. They were racing. Sharkmon had made it from their starting point to the finish line. Sharkmon lifted his little front claws in the air and excitedly shouted, "I did it! I finally beat you!" Taylor giggled. "It took you long enough, but you finally succeeded." Taylor said. Sharkmon swam into the teenage mermaid's arms and she embraced him. Both of them laughed with happiness. "Oh, Sharkmon. We'll always be together….forever."
And thus comes the end of a story; a story of monsters, mermaids, multiverses, and other things that start with M. A story that began long ago, back when humans thought Digimon was only a game and aliens, a work of science fiction. A story that began with a hot headed boy and ended with a bubbly, intelligent girl. A story that began and ended with magical red stones. A story that began and ended…with Digimon.