King Drasil's Fatal Decision

"Oh no." BanchoLeomon gasped in horror.

"The barrier has been destroyed." ShineGreymon realized.

"Kurata! What a pain! He was a pest right up to the very end." Marcus fumed.

"This time is the worst of the worst." Yoshi added.

"The Digital World falling from the sky." Keenan remarked, before a shockwave overtook them.

"What now?" Marcus demanded.

"It's physically impossible for two worlds to exist in one dimension." Thomas explained. "I'm trying to calculate it, but if things keep up like this, our two worlds will…"

"They will disappear." He finished his sentence.

"Disappear?" Marcus echoed in shock.

"Ophanimon." Lilith looked at the Celestial Digimon.

"My Lady?" Ophanimon asked.

"It is time." Lilith told her.

"I understand." Ophanimon nodded. Placing Lilith on her shoulder, the Celestial Digimon took off towards Mount Fuji where the replica of the Server Tree stood.

Back in the Digital World…

"King Drasil. It is I, Craniamon." Craniamon reported. "I have come as you commanded. Ever since time began, the Royal Knights have sworn to protect you, My King. I will be loyal to you, always. What is your bidding?"

"I have made a decision, Royal Knight." King Drasil told him.

"Please, grant me the honor of hearing your wisdom." Craniamon knelt before him.

"Right now, the Human and Digital Worlds are at a fitful situation. Both worlds cannot exist in the same dimension." King Drasil replied. "If they collide, it will mean total destruction."

"Is there any way we may be able to avoid this collision, My King?" Craniamon inquired.

"There is only one way." King Drasil replied.

"How my liege?" Craniamon asked. "How?"

"Before the two worlds clash into each other, we must totally eliminate the Human World first." King Drasil told him.

"What?" Craniamon was shocked.

"We will prevent the collision. If only one world exists, there will be nothing for us to collide with." King Drasil reasoned.

"But sir, I…" Craniamon protested.

"It's our only chance of survival, Craniamon." King Drasil stopped his protest. "Why should we perish when we don't have to?"

"But… what will become of the humans who live there?" Craniamon inquired.

"They will also be eliminated." King Drasil replied. "They have continued to make terrible decisions without seeing the error of their ways."

"Are you saying that they deserve to be destroyed?" Craniamon asked.

"Their existence has never been beneficial to Digimon." King Drasil reasoned. "They have caused so much harm."

"But you're talking about millions of lives being extinguished." Craniamon objected. "Are you really sure about this decision? There must be something worth saving about the Human race, King Drasil."

"You're wrong." King Drasil corrected. "Their history proves that they are unworthy. All they understand is violence and destruction. It all begun when the humans first discovered our Digital World; a world they were never meant to come in contact with. But their natural curiosity would not let them leave well enough alone. They tried to use brute force to unite the two worlds. But by doing that, they had invited disaster."

Insert flashback to the infant Keenan being taken into the Digital World.

"They opened up Digital Gates ands started losing people through the dimensional barrier." King Drasil added. "They only made matters worse when they came looking for them and began to cold-heartedly slaughter Digimon without any just cause.

Insert flashback to Kurata firing his gun at Saberleomon.

"What's wrong with you, Kurata? Put your weapon away right now!" Spencer hollered to his assistant as he, Yushima and Sampson rushed towards the frightened Kurata.

"On top of everything, they disturbed the tender balance between our worlds by uncaringly placing more value on their lives than on ours." King Drasil added.

Insert flashback to the expedition team running away from Saberleomon in the Infinity Ice Ridge.

"Oh no, it's still coming!" Kurata gasped in horror as Saberleomon continued to chase them.

"What's that?" Spencer asked when Kurata took out a mechanical sphere.

"It's the 'Space Isolation Device'." Kurata explained. "We never should have come to this horrible world, but we can use this to open a Digi-Gate and leave while we still can."

"We can't! It hasn't been tested out yet! It's still too dangerous to try!" Spencer objected.

"We have to use the device. It's the only chance we have of survival!" Kurata retorted, activating the orb.

"They truly are selfish beings." King Drasil concluded.

"But King Drasil is it really necessary to go so far as to exterminate them?" Craniamon inquired.

"Have you forgotten the worst day the Digital World has ever known?" King Drasil reminded him. "Remember how the humans caused the darkest day in Digital World history?"

Insert flashback Kurata's second trip to the Digital World where he ruthlessly begun his massacre.

"It's show time gentlemen!" Kurata instructed.

At his command, his men began torching the forest, forcing the in-training Digimon to flee.

Just then, a troop of Gizmons appeared before Frigimon and Gotsumon and Gotsumon fled off in fright.

"Frigimon!" Keenan called out to his adoptive mother.

"Frigimon!" the boy ran towards her.

"Keenan no! Get away from here!" Frigimon warned.

"No!" she screamed as the Gizmon's beam hit her.

"Frigimon!" Keenan gasped when his adoptive mother fell to the ground. "No!"

"These truly heinous acts have made me aware of the human's evil nature." King Drasil told Craniamon. "I've made up my mind, the only way to save us is to destroy them."

Back in the Human World…

Everyone was looking up in shock as the Digital World continued to sink above them. Panic arose from the public as lightning struck down.

"Remain calm and head for shelter!" Yoshi told the panicking crowd flooding the roads.

ShineGreymon hurried over to a falling building that was about to collapse on the crowd below as Miragegaogamon slashed through a boulder that had fallen off the building before it could crash a young girl.

"Oh man! It just doesn't stop!" Marcus hissed at the destruction around him, before gasping when the lightning hit the tail of an airplane.

"Mayday, mayday, this is LC-1701! We're going down! Repeat, we're going down!" the pilot informed the airport control.

"Look!" his co-pilot exclaimed as ShineGreymon and Miragegaogamon took both ends of the plane and brought it to safety.

"Is there any way we can stop our two worlds from colliding?" Yoshi asked.

"There isn't." Thomas replied. "Once the space continuum has been disrupted, it's impossible to reverse again. They're crashing."

"Maybe we should move everybody to the other side of the planet then." Marcus suggested.

"Thinking in terms of three dimensions won't work in this case." Thomas retorted. "That's the problem, the dimensional wall is dissolving and it's happening at a rate too fast to stop."

Back in the Digital World…

"The humans have brought this on themselves by destroying the barrier between our two worlds and now we're at the blink of destruction." King Drasil reasoned. "The more the humans tinkered with their Digital Gates, the more unstable the Digital Wall became. That when Digimon started falling into the Human World. The Digimon became confused in this new world and they began to go berserk as human desires started to take over their own emotions. A small group of humans captured some of our lost Digimon and brainwashed them into thinking they should fight together as a team. They forced them in to battles against their own kind, all for the benefit of their amusement; the humans. The more contact these brainwashed Digimon had with human emotions, the more under the humans' trance they fell and the more human they began to act. Occasionally they turn some back into digieggs and returned them where they belonged. However, these acts of relative kindness were overshadowed by those slaughter of Digimon that came later."

Insert flashback to Kurata's Gizumon destroying Saberleomon.

"The evil humans have not end there." King Drasil added. "

Insert flashback to the final showdown with Merukimon.

"Look at what hatred can do, Keenan." Merukimon told the child, as the trio looked at Lilith's towering Cosmo. "Do you really want it to take over your whole life?"

"Merukimon, don't!" Keenan tried to stop Merukimon to entering the battle.

"Keenan, protect the 'Light of Hope', she is the only salvation for both worlds." Merukimon added. "And goodbye. Live as you're supposed to, as a human with a heart of a Digimon."

With that, he leapt to attack Gizmon XT just as the man-made Digimon was about to fire it's eye beam at Lilith. Changing its target, Gizmon XT fired its charged up beam at the gravely wounded Merukimon. The attack hit right onto Merukimon but not before the Mega level Digimon punched its head off.

"Merukimon!' Marcus ran towards the injured Digimon when Gizmon XT's attack disintegrated his arm. "Why did you help us?"

"I wanted to believe once again in mankind, like I used to when I knew your father. Like him, I too want to believe that it would come a time when humans and Digimon can live together peacefully." Merukimon told him.

Turning to the horrified Lilith, he added, "It is also the duty of the Olympus Twelve to guard Lady Lilith."

Kurata growled at the proclaim as Gizmon XT got to its feet and fired its chest laser at Merukimon.

"Peace and harmony between us?" Kurata mocked. "That will never happen!"

"Keenan, be strong…" Merukimon choked.

"No!" EmperorGreymon yelled.

"Merukimon!" Keenan screamed as Merukimon's data disintegrated.

"And that isn't the worst of it." King Drasil added. "They actually found ways to create even more evil. Such repulsive things as fusing humans and Digimon together in order to gain power."

Insert flashback to the first appearance of the three Bio-Hybrids.

"Bio-Hybrid D.N.A Charge!" Kouki revealed his Digivice. "Bio-Hybrid digivolve to BioThunderbirdmon!"

"Bio-Hybrid D.N.A Charge!" Nanami revealed her Digivice. "Bio-Hybrid digivolve to BioQuetzalmon!"

"Bio-Hybrid D.N.A Charge!" Ivan revealed his Digivice. "Bio-Hybrid digivolve to BioStegomon!"

"They even attacked our Sacred City and stole ElDradimon's life force energy." King Drasil commented.

Insert flashback after Kurata transported ElDradimon to the Human World.

"Now, drop the 'Gizumon Javelin'." Kurata instructed.

At his command, the said weapon glowed pink as it descended upon ElDradimon.

Miragegaogamon and Rosemon headed back to ElDradimon to save Tailmon and Ami before grabbing their partners as Gwappamon carried Yushima on his back as the rest of the Digimon fled as the 'Gizumon Javelin' fell onto ElDradimon.

As the pink spear pierced through ElDradimon, the large turtle let out an anguish cry as he was destroyed.

The scientist was laughing at his success as everyone else watched in horror.

"And worst of all," King Drasil added. "They revived Belphemon who many years ago, along with six other deadly Digimon had almost brought down the entire Digital World."

Insert flashback to Kurata nurturing Belphemon's digiegg.

"This way, I'll be King of both Worlds! And if I get tired of those dirty little Digimon, I can always destroy the Digital World whenever I want to; especially after I've gotten my hands on that crystal that blasted Lilith girl has, I can revive the Digital World with that power and destroy it again whenever I please!" Kurata declared.

Insert another flashback to Belphemon destroying the city at Kurata's command. Belphemon Sleep Mode released a powerful wave of infernal flames of his chains, destroying everything in his path and yawned before releasing a powerful wave of destruction.

"If I can't control Belphemon from a safe distance, then I'll just have to control him dangerously from within." Kurata remarked after Thomas destroyed his controller, inputting his programs. Stepping into his Digital Chamber, he turned himself into data before infusing himself into Belphemon.

"What's that?" Yoshi inquired after Kurata fused himself with Belphemon and the alarm clock kept within the Demon Lord's chains started ringing. Then, the chains snapped as Belphemon Sleep Mode turned into his more vicious Belphemon Rage Mode.

Awakened now, Belphemon Rage Mode unleashed its wrath on the combatants on the ground.

"In the end, it is they who have trapped both our worlds to this path of destruction." King Drasil concluded.

Insert flashback to the battle against Belphemon.

"I am getting so sick of the Damon family sticking their nose where it doesn't belong! If it hadn't been for the two of you, both father and son, then I would have already been the ruler of the Human World and the Digital World by now!" Kurata retorted from Belphemon' body.

"Damon!" he hollered as Belphemon released his chains onto the group. One chain came between the three fourteen-year-olds, knocking Marcus off his feet as Thomas dived to shield Ami.

"Charge, D.N.A Burst Mode!" Marcus called forth his new power.

"ShineGreymon Burst Mode!" ShineGreymon declared as he evolved up another level.

"Keep him away!" Kurata screamed as ShineGreymon Burst Mode charged at him.

ShineGreymon Burst Mode blocked the incoming chain with his fiery shield, breaking the chain apart after he knocked it off. Then, he crossed his two fire blades, slicing through the pair of chains coming at him and sinking the swords into Belphemon.

"Do something Belphemon quickly!" Kurata told the Demon Lord who charged up his energy blast, firing it at ShineGreymon Burst Mode who then blocked it with his crossed energy blades. Digging both his blades on either side, ShineGreymon Burst Mode released two trails of flames along Belphemon.

"Stay away from me!" Kurata was now frightened as ShineGreymon Burst Mode approached him. "No!"

"You're finished Kurata!" ShineGreymon told the defeated scientist as he leapt to end this war.

"Kurata!" he hollered, landing his fist on Kurata's face just as ShineGreymon Burst Mode did the same with Belphemon.

Everyone else beamed at their seeming victory.

"This isn't over." Belphemon growled, now separated from Kurata.

"Can't anything kill this guy?" ShineGreymon Burst Mode was stunned as Marcus looked on in shock.

"It is time." Ami remarked suddenly as Lilith took over.

"What?" Belphemon was shocked with he saw that the light on his chains was fading rapidly. "This power!?"

"Lady Lilith?" ShineGreymon Burst Mode blinked at the 'Light of Hope' who was now standing before Belphemon.

"Belphemon, you have lost." Lilith declared.

Belphemon let out a small smirk before his eyes widened at the object in Lilith's hands. This is!?

"Your actions are unbefitting of you." Lilith added. "Therefore, you have no right to call yourself God."

Raising the Sacred Flask in her hands, she continued, "I will seal you and your ambition once more within this flask."

At that, the cap opened as streams of golden holy light emerged from the flask.

"Until you realize your own shortcomings." Lilith added.

"Shut up! I won't listen to a girl like you!" Belphemon hollered.

"You should sleep forever!" he declared, raising one of his remaining chains as a whip. "Take that!"

Lilith's Cosmo remained unwaveringly strong as the chain came at her, its power dispelling when it came into contact with her aura.

"Now you understand Lilith." Belphemon remarked. "Since ancient times, you and I have been enemies. And now, many years have passed. The time is now upon us to decide… which one of us shall be the victor."

At that, he unleashed another chain at her, Lilith yelped as the energy lashed out on her. Not giving her any respite, Belphemon continued his relentless assault.

"Lady Lilith!" ShineGreymon Burst Mode gaped.

"Lilith-sama!" Ophanimon called out as Belphemon continued his attack on her.

"How is it, Lilith?" Belphemon mocked. "Little wonder, you who have always hated using weapons, have no fighting abilities now."

"Belphemon." Lilith replied as she regained her stature, her left hand holding onto the Sacred Flask. "I'm afraid you have forgotten one very important thing."

"What?" Belphemon hissed.

"I've always won my battles without any weapons." Lilith told him.

"Shut up!" Belphemon hollered, firing another of his chains at her.

Lilith's Cosmo grew stronger as she took the attack head-on, the powered-up chains having no effect on her.

"Even you are a God." She added, Belphemon's next attack hardly fazing her at all. "Having nothing but evil within your heart, you'll never win against us."

"Awaken to your senses, Belphemon." She declared. "You have completely lost."

"Shut up!" Belphemon shouted. "I will now in the name of the Seven Great Demon Lords, release all of my power against you!"

"Take this!" he yelled, unleashed a horde of his powered-up chains at her.

"Lilith, your end is near!" Belphemon informed her as his chains closed in on Lilith.

"What?" he was shocked when his attack was returned back to him. "This Cosmo that reflected my power."

"Lilith!" he growled at the girl. "Not only that, it clearly overrides even my power!"

Belphemon barely had time to scream when the holy light from the Sacred Flask shone on him, its rainbow-colored ripples of energy encasing him, assaulting his very being.

The Demon Lord then let out an anguish yell as his spirit was being drawn into the Sacred Flask.

Lilith raised the Flask with her hands, as she drew Belphemon's spirit into the vessel. With Belphemon's spirit in the Flask, the cap then shut on its own.

"You still haven't won, Marcus." Kurata told the teen on ShineGreymon Burst Mode's palm after Lilith placed her seal on the Sacred Flask. "All my dreams, all my plans, even when Belphemon sealed off, they're not over yet!"

With that, he pressed a button on his remote control, activating the last remaining 'Space Isolation Device'.

"What was that explosion?" Yoshi asked as the final detonation rocked the ground.

"No…" Thomas gasped in realization. "It can't be!"

"Not this…" Kurata was stunned at the unexpected result, the massive Digital Gate opening above him. "Please no. this wasn't what I was trying to do!"

"Ravemon!" Keenan shouted.

"Right." Ravemon replied.

"NO!" Kurata's scream stopped him. "Help me. Please!" before he was drawn into the Digital Gate in a burst of white light, never to be seen again.

ShineGreymon Burst Mode, Lilith and Marcus shielded their eyes from the intense light.

"That's what I call just desserts." Lilith noted, realizing what had happened.

"I'm sorry I doubted you, King Drasil." Craniamon apologized. "I now see that humans are not worth saving. If it is your will to destroy them, then I, Craniamon, along with the other Royal Knights will obey you."

"Don't let me down." King Drasil told him.

Back in the Human World…

"Look at that." Marcus remarked as the two worlds continued their paths of collision. "Are you sure there isn't anything we can do?"

"No." Thomas shook his head.

"Marcus!" Keenan suddenly called out. "Look there!"

"What is that?" Marcus asked, seeing an orange burst of light rising from the mountain, preventing the Digital World from colliding into the Human World.

On Mount Fuji…

BanchoLeomon was expanding his D.N.A Charge to prevent the two worlds from colliding.

The four teens then flew off on their partners towards Mount Fuji.

"Unbelievable!" Marcus gasped. "It's BanchoLeomon!"

Miragegaogamon added. "He's holding up the entire Digital World!"

"How's even that possible?" Thomas inquired.

"I've been forced to unleash my essential D.N.A Charge. In a few moments, it will become a stone foundation which will be a temporary support for the Digital World." BanchoLeomon explained.

"What about you?" Marcus asked.

"Marcus, listen!" BanchoLeomon told him. "You must go see King Drasil. Do it before my life force energy runs out!"

"King Drasil?" Marcus echoed. "You mean that Digimon ruler guy that Merukimon told my dad to go look for?"

"It won't be easy." BanchoLeomon added. "But I'll try to hold up the Digital World for as long as I can! Go see King Drasil quickly! You're the only one who can save your world. As the son of Spencer Damon, it is your destiny!"

Everyone watched in stunned shock as BanchoLeomon's D.N.A Charge started to solidify.

"Marcus." The golden lion added. "It's all up to you."

As the Digital World sank onto his hands, BanchoLeomon let out a loud roar, his D.N.A Charge coagulated to form a solid foundation to hold up the Digital World.

"It's holding." Thomas gaped in awe after the intense light.

"Maybe I can prevent both worlds from colliding." Lilith put in.

"How can you?" Thomas inquired, not really liking what she was implying.

"Boss!" ShineGreymon called out to his partner who had leapt off his shoulder.

However, Marcus was stopped by Lilith's sudden Cosmo flare.

"By using my prayer to prevent both worlds from colliding." Lilith answered Thomas' question.

"Everyone." She told the rest of the DATS team. "You mustn't lose. Humanity's hope for peace is riding on all of your shoulders. All of you have braved through all of the obstacles from before. I believe in all of your strength."

After that declaration and with her golden staff in hand, she spread her arms and expanded her Cosmo. The ripples of her golden aura flooded the boundaries of both worlds, the Digital World moving upwards very slowly.

"We understand." Marcus nodded and got back on ShineGreymon. "Let's go, ShineGreymon. We got a King to find."

"Hold it!" Yoshi voiced out. "How are you going to get there?"

"We'll just fly up into it." Marcus replied. "I mean the Digital World is up there, we can practically touch it."

"No!" I'm sorry Marcus, but it's too dangerous." Thomas protested. "We don't know what will happen to the barrier if we cross."

"BanchoLeomon and Lilith are laying their lives on the line for the Digital World, the Human World and for us. And, I'm not letting them down because you think it's too dangerous because newsflash, it's all dangerous." Marcus retorted.

"Yeah, Marcus right." Keenan agreed. "We all go too!"

"I agree sir." Miragegaogamon told his partner.

"What do you say guys? I'm up for a little more danger." Rosemon added.

"All right." Thomas relented.

"I guess it's better than waiting around here for the sky to fall." Yoshi added.

"It's settled then." Marcus chuckled. "Let's go!"

"Yeah!" everyone chorused.

Ophanimon. Lilith sent a mental message to the Celestial Digimon. Take the Sacred Flask to the Digital World and return it to where I once sealed Belphemon's digiegg.

I understand, Lilith-sama. Ophanimon replied and flew off to retrieve the Sacred Flask.