Justice Equals Power

Back in the Digital World…

"First Gallantmon has defected, now LoadKnightmon has changed sides as well." King Drasil remarked. "Apparently, I have underestimated these humans. But, we must not waver in our attack of the Human World. We have to destroy them to save ourselves."

"Then allow me to your mission for you, my liege." Leopardmon offered.

"Who approaches King Drasil?" Craniamon demanded.

"It is I, Leopardmon." Leopardmon revealed himself.

"I don't believe it." Craniamon remarked. "You've never volunteered for anything before."

"We've never faced a situation like this before." Leopardmon replied. "One that questions the very fabric of our existence."

"Brave and honorable." King Drasil noted. "Leopardmon, the task is yours."

"Thank you sire." Leopardmon replied. "I will make the entire human race bow down before the mighty power of King Drasil, the Royal Knights and all Digimon."

In the Human World…

"Boy since the evacuation, it's like a ghost town." Lalamon noted as Yoshi drove through streets.

"This whole thing is the worst." Yoshi replied. "The different DATS divisions have been dispatched all around the world, trying to fight off the Royal Knights, but they're barely fending them off."

"Me take them on right now." Keenan swore.

"I know exactly how you feel." Yoshi remarked. "But remember, we made a promise to Marcus. Out duty is to protect, no matter what. And we have to step it up too, now that Thomas is gone."

"What a mess." Falcomon added. "My, when will it all end?"

"Professor Crier and the others are searching for a method that might repair the dimensional barrier." Yoshi told the bird.

"I wonder if the day will come when this place is back to normal." Lalamon noted, looking out of the window.

"Yes, it will come." Keenan told her confidently.

"I wonder how EmperorGreymon is doing?" Yoshi asked out loud, curious how he was doing back in the Digital World.

"I wonder if the day will come when this place is back to normal." Lalamon noted, looking out of the window.

"Yes, it will come." Keenan told her confidently.

"It'd better. I hate to thin what will happen if the Royal Knights win." Yoshi remarked.

"Yoshi, what's that?" Falcomon suddenly asked.

"It's a tornado." Yoshi gasped. "Over by Marcus' house!"

Inside the Damon household…

"Mommy!" Kristy cried.

"Kristy!" Sarah took her daughter into her arms as the house shook.

That, out from the tornado, Piyomon fell out from the hurricane, along with the group of in-training Digimon with him.

"Look mum, there's something out there." Kristy remarked as she walked to the window.

"What?" Sarah blinked, sliding open the window.

"Oh my." She commented, seeing the group of Digimon in the yard.

"Are you guys okay?" Yoshi asked, the four running towards them.

"Yoshi?" Sarah blinked at the younger teen.

"One big pink one and a bunch of in-training baby Digimon." Yoshi noted, looking at the pile of Digimon in the yard. "That's Yokomon and Tokomon. I recognize Bukamon and Punimon. That one is Otamamon and Pabumon. The purring is Nyaromon. Of course Poromon and that last one is Yukimibotamon. They look like most of them just hatched from digieggs and fell from the sky."

"Piyomon?" Kristy gasped when the pink bird struggled to get up, recalling how she first met him till the moment he sacrificed himself to protect her from Merukimon.

"It is you!" Kristy beamed/

"Piyomon!" she ran to the pink bird.

"I knew you'd come back." She hugged the startled bird.

"Who are… you?" Piyomon was confused.

"Oh…" Sarah cooed as Tokomon suckled on its milk bottle. "There you go, little fellow." As Bukamon, Otamamon and Punimon looked on; Yokomon sat on a cushion as Nyaromon gnawed at the cushion's corner with Pabumon looking curiously.

"Drink up, there's plenty more." She smiled at the group of in-training digimon surrounding her. Piyomon sat on the sofa with Yukimibotamon on his lap.

"Piyomon." Kristy muttered sadly.

"Are you sure it's the same Piyomon?" Lalamon asked her.

"Yeah." Kristy replied. "I can tell."

"He doesn't remember us." Yoshi added.

"When he reverted to a digiegg, his memories were taken from him." Falcomon put in as Kristy remembered how Piyomon was returned back to a digiegg.

"Piyomon." The young girl looked at the pink bird. "Have you forgotten everything about me? Is it possible?"

"Sorry." Piyomon mumbled.

"Such a big appetite." Sarah beamed as Tokomon continued to feed.

"What you think?" Keenan turned to his partner. "He same Piyomon?"

Falcomon nodded, "He's the same one who hatched from the digiegg I came back for."

"That's right. You told me." Keenan remarked, recalling how Falcomon had appeared outside the Damon house, demanding the digiegg. "Merukimon sent you to Hu-mon World and that when the whole thing started."

"That's right." Falcomon agreed. "And soon after we met the Data Squad."

"Seems like long ago." Yoshi noted.

"Anyway Piyomon." She turned to the pink bird. "What are you guys doing here?"

"Well," Piyomon started, stroking the Yukimibotamon on his lap. "Let's see. I guess we were blown here?"

"You were blown here?" Yoshi echoed.

"Yeah." Piyomon added as Nyaromon played tag with Punimon, Yokomon sleeping soundly on the cushion. "The Digital World's been having big troubles lately. Ever since the Human World appeared in the sky, there've been tons of volcano eruptions and earthquakes. We even had big storms and tsunamis. It's been really scary. We were looking for some place to escape to when a giant tornado swept us up and tossed us into the sky. When we woke, we found ourselves here."

"I hope this doesn't make you like King Drasil and the others who want the Human World erased because of the damage caused by Kurata." Falcomon noted as Yoshi picked up Yokomon.

"Try to remember. We're all get things here." Yoshi reminded the group as Yokomon yawned.

"Yeah I guess." Piyomon added, Yokomon dozing in Yoshi's arms. "So, what's going to happen to us?"

"I'll tell you what. Come with me." Yoshi put in, shocking everyone with her next sentence. "I'll take care of you guys. I mean what choice do we have? We certainly can't send you back to all that destruction."

"But where are you going to keep the mall, Yoshi?" Lalamon asked.

"At my place of course." Yoshi replied.

"With all that trash on the floor?" Lalamon inquired, Yoshi making a disturbed face at the comment.

"I think it's great that you're doing this, Yoshi." Kristy remarked.

"You do?" Yoshi turned to the younger girl.

"Piyomon." Kristy looked at the bird. "Even if you don't remember me, I remember you. We promised each other that we'll always be together. Being with you again has to be more than just a strange coincidence."

"I'm so glad I get to cook for a large group again!" Sarah beamed as everyone else laughed.

"You're in the kitchen, Yoshi. You must be lost." Lalamon remarked, seeing her partner in the kitchen.

"Oh hush up." Yoshi growled. "I can cook too, you know."

"Yoshi!" Keenan came running into the kitchen as the two females prepared their next meal. "There's trouble!"

"Is it the enemy?" Yoshi turned away from the stove. "Where?"

"No, it's Falcomon!" Keena replied.

"Somebody, help!" Falcomon cried in the bathroom, entangled in the toilet roll paper which Yokomon had unraveled.

"What's wrong?" Yoshi came rushing into the scene.

"Help me!" Falcomon shouted in distress.

"Hurry, come quick! Somebody sound the alarm!" Piyomon shouted.

"What's doing on now?" Yoshi wondered outloud.

"This way, quick! Over here!" Piyomon rushed her to the shower where Bukamon and Otamamon were playing about in the bathtub.

"New rule." Yoshi remarked after she had turned off the tap and gathered all the baby Digimon. "From now on, we stay put."

Sighing, she opened the fridge and was startled to see Yukimibotamon in the freezer.

"You'd better not stay in there." She told the in-training Digimon humming happily. "Someone might mistake you for a frozen TV dinner."

"Let it go!" Keenan yelled, tugging at the other end of the cushion Punimon and Nyaromon had in their mouths.

"Stop that! Cut it out!" Yoshi fumed as Poromon flew across her back.

Sighing, she watched as the cushion tore into half, before screaming in horror when Keenan fell on his back and crashed into the vase on the counter, smashing it.

The two in-training digimon plainly ignored the chaos and continued tugging at the cloth in their mouths.

"It's like a Digimon pre-school!" Yoshi finally screamed.

"Well at least they got you to clean." Lalamon remarked as the humans cleared up the mess.

"Sorry Kristy. I know I said I would look after them. But I'm not doing a very good job." Yoshi told the younger girl who was vacuuming.

"It's fine." Kristy replied. "I'm having fun. With Marcus as a brother, you get used to chaos."

"I'm having fun too." Yoshi admitted. "Even though this is only slightly different from what I usually do."

"Huh?" Kristy blinked. "What do you mean?"

"Well, see." Yoshi replied. "Usually I'm assigned to babysit Marcus and Agumon, so I guess this job's no different."

"Actually, I think it's them that usually have to babysit you." Lalamon corrected.

"Come again!?" Yoshi growled at the floating plant Digimon.

"Please don't laugh at Lalamon's jokes." She told the chuckling Kristy. "It'll encourage her to tell more."

"Lunch!" Sarah sang. "Come and get it!"

"Thanks for the food." Everyone else chorused.

As Keenan and Falcomon dug in, Piyomon looked uncertainly at the rice bowl before him, the group of in-training Digimon blinking at the plates in front of them.

"Delish!" Yoshi sighed in happiness, after she downed her miso soup. "I never knew emergency rations could taste so good!"

"Eat as much as you like everyone." Sarah beamed.

"Me will." Keenan replied, gobbling down his food.

"Slow down Keenan, or you'll get a bellyache." Falcomon advised as he too wolfed down his food.

"You worry about your own belly. Me hungry." Keenan shot back.

"Here you go." Kristy placed a plate of fried egg rolls in front of Piyomon. "Eat it up while it's hot."

"Thanks a lot." Piyomon replied, taking a piece of egg and popping it into his mouth. Upon seeing Piyomon eat, the in-training Digimon dug in.

"So Sarah." Yoshi turned to Marcus' mother. "Why didn't you evacuate with the others?"

"It's simple." Sarah replied. "I want to be here when they come back. I have faith. I just know Marcus' going to bring his father home."

"He sure will." Yoshi remarked.

"I hope Marcus and Agumon are doing okay." Kristy voiced out.

Meanwhile in the Digital World…

"Please Boss." Agumon whined.

"What do you want?" Marcus inquired.

I'm so dehydrated." Agumon complained as the two leaned against each other.

"So am I." Marcus moaned. "Of all the times we could have come, we picked the dry season."

"All that lightning and not a single drop of rain." Agumon remarked as lightning crackled above them.

Then, he noticed a spark of light in the sky, "Hey, that was a strange light."

Gotsumon screamed he fell to the ground below, separating the two partners.

"What's that?" Agumon inquired.

"Gotsumon!" Marcus remarked after the rock Digimon pulled his head out.

"Oh no." Gotsumon turned to see the two behind him. "Not you two guys again. If it isn't Marcus Dofus and his little buddy Agu-dork."

"Who's a dofus!?" Marcus demanded.

"We're geniuses next to you!" Agumon retorted.

"How did you wind up falling from the sky anyway?" Marcus asked.

"Well, after we separated, I went cruising around the Digital World, trying to keep clear of all the turmoil." Gotsumon replied. "But then, a giant tornado gobbled me up."

"Now what?" Agumon turned to his partner.

"Well, looks like our tour guide's returned to take us back to King Drasil's tree again." Marcus remarked.

"Huh?" Gotsumon was confused.

Back in the Damon household…

"I am stuffed." Keenan sighed, flopping back on the bed.

"It's been so long since we had such a great meal." Falcomon agreed.

"Piyomon." Keenan told the pink bird. "You like this place?"

"I feel we're a bother." Piyomon replied.

"Not at all. They like you." Keenan assured him.

"That's right." Falcomon agreed.

"You sure it's okay for us to stay?" Piyomon asked.

"Me watch over you like a big brother." Keenan replied after recalling what Marcus had told him before.

"Big brother?" Piyomon echoed.

"Yeah. Me like Marcus." Keenan added. "That's why Agumon call him Boss because he watches over everyone."

"And protects them." Falcomon put in as Keenan nodded in agreement.

"Hi Boss." Bukamon greeted the pre-teen.

"Hi Boss." Nyaromon added.

"Hi Boss." The cat-like Digimon repeated when Keenan looked at the group of in-training Digimon on the floor, the others chorusing the same sentence.

"Okay, first thing Marcus would do." Keenan concluded. "Pillow fight!"

"You guys, keep it down!" Yoshi opened the door in the middle of the pillow fight before a pillow got her on the face.

"That is the last straw." She fumed. "If I hear one more pip out of this room, I'm going to turn you all back into digieggs!"

"I swear that wasn't us, Yoshi." Keenan told the older teen when the ground shook.

"I know." Yoshi replied.

"Take cover." She advised, peering out from the curtain.

Outside…

"You foolish and weak humans, you must accept King Drasil's decision." Leopardmon remarked.

"Sword of Annihilation!' he unscathed his weapon. "Extinction Wave!"

"The weak deserve to perish." He declared, his attack destroying a stretch of the city.

Back in the Damon household…

"Be careful." Sarah told Yoshi and Keenan.

"I will." Yoshi assured her.

"Does this mean we have to leave here too?" Piyomon asked.

"Don't you worry." Keenan told him. "It be okay."

"You just sit tight. We'll be right back after we take care of this." Falcomon added.

"As long as you stay safely inside the house, you guys will be well protected." Yoshi remarked.

"And stay out of trouble, you babies." Lalamon told the in-training Digimon.

After the van stopped…

"What's this?" Yoshi inquired, getting out of the van when she saw a stretch of digital code on the road.

"The city… it's disappearing." Keenan gasped.

"Oh no." Falcomon gaped.

"But, where's the enemy?" Lalamon asked.

"Up there!" Keenan exclaimed, the four turning to see Leopardmon in the sky.

"Looks like another Royal Knight." Yoshi noted. "Lalamon."

"Ready." Lalamon chirped.

"Let's go. Falcomon." Keenan told his partner.

"Right." Falcomon responded.

"D.N.A Charge, Overdrive!" the two humans chorused.

"Falcomon double warp digivolve to Ravemon!" Falcomon declared as he evolved.

"Lalamon double warp digivolve to Rosemon!" Lalamon announced as she evolved.

"Extinction Wave!" Leopardmon unleashed a high charged destructive shock wave from his rapier.

"Rose Spear!" Rosemon countered with her weapon.

"Spiral Raven Claw!" Ravemon added in his attack.

"We won't let you do anymore damage here." Rosemon and Yoshi declared in unison.

"Go back to the Digital World." Ravemon and Keenan chorused.

"You dare to challenge me?" Leopardmon scoffed, sending a shockwave from his blade at the two Mega Digimon.

"How ridiculous." He added before taking off. "You're not worth my efforts."

"That's what you think!" Yoshi retorted. "Get him Rosemon!"

"Go Ravemon!" Keenan instructed.

"Rose Spear!" Rosemon fired her attack at Leopardmon.

"Try my 'Blast Wing'!" Ravemon unleashed his attack simultaneously, only to have Leopardmon disappear when he dived at him.

"Try this." Leopardmon suddenly appeared behind the humanoid bird, releasing a wave of energy on his back, blowing both Mega Digimon away.

"Rosemon, hang tough!" Yoshi called out.

"Stay strong guys!" Keenan encouraged.

Digital World...

EmperorGreymon was escorting a group of In-Training level Digimon to safety when he detected the presence of a Royal Knight.

Once all the In-Training Digimon were safe, he headed straight towards the Human World.

In the Damon household…

"What's going on out there?" Kristy inquired. "Do you think they're okay?"

"We got to have faith, Kristy." Sarah told her daughter.

"I'm just going to take a peek." Kristy got up from the floor and slid open the window.

"Kristy!" Sarah called after her daughter.

"Oh no…" Kristy mumbled upon seeing the smoke in the horizon from the balcony. "Why does everyone have to fight with each other all the time?"

"Careful Kristy. It's dangerous out here." Piyomon advised.

"Piyomon?" Kristy turned to see the pink bird behind her.

Back in the battlefield…

"Rosemon." Yoshi hurried to her partner.

"Ravemon." Keenan rushed beside his partner.

"The Human World will be destroyed." Leopardmon informed them. "That is what King Drasil desires and therefore, I shall carry it out."

"Well, then you'd better get used to disappointment." Yoshi retorted.

"That's right. We will protect." Keenan agreed.

"Spiral Raven Claw!" Ravemon unleashed his attack, only to have Leopardmon slap him easily away.

"Rose Whipping!" Rosemon attacked from behind. However, Leopardmon dodged the attack easily. Appearing behind her, he knocked her off. Sliding his mask over his eyes, he revealed his rapier.

"Sword of Destruction: Black Aura Blast!" he charged up a dark aura around his rapier and lashed an energy blast towards the two Mega Digimon, sending them both crashing into a series of buildings.

Back on the balcony…

"It's heading our way!" Kristy gasped when the wave of destruction roared towards the house. "Oh no…"

"Are you Kristy Damon? It's apparent there are some lost Digimon inside your house. May I see them."

Back in the battlefield…

"Rosemon." Yoshi helped her partner up.

"Yoshi, he's getting too close to the house." Rosemon informed her.

"Kristy, Piyomon!" Yoshi called out to the two on the balcony.

"Do you know realize that it is useless to challenge me at your level?" Leopardmon commented.

"Please stop this." Yoshi begged.

"There are many defenseless baby Digimon staying only a few blocks from here, trying to stay safe from the battle." Keenan added.

"Well then, they too shall be destroyed along with this world." Leopardmon informed him.

"But why?" Keenan demanded. "King Drasil said you were destroying Hu-mon World in order to save Digimon, not hurt them."

"Saving the Digital World is justice and justice equals power." Leopardmon replied. "The small amount of Digimon data that I shall delete is acceptable."

"Me will protect them." Keenan growled. "We all protect them and hu-mons we love."

"Right!" The other three chorused, standing back up.

"Suit yourselves." Leopardmon announced, raising his rapier.

"Black Aura Blast!" he fired his attack.

"Forbidden Temptation!" Rosemon released her attack.

"Celestial Blade!" Ravemon added in his attack.

The three energies clashed into each other, as Rosemon and Ravemon shielded their partners from the shock wave.

"I've seen enough." EmperorGreymon joined the battle.

Back on the balcony…

Piyomon guarded Kristy from the aftershock, evolving into Garudamon in the process.

"Piyomon?" Kristy blinked.

"I will always protect you." Garudamon told her.

Back in the battlefield…

"Is Kristy okay?" Yoshi asked, looking back at the house when the smoke died down.

"Kristy, I will always protect you!" Garudamon declared, standing in front of the house.

"Piyomon?" Yoshi was surprised. "What happened to him?"

"I think he digivolved." Keenan replied.

"You really are a stubborn lot." Leopardmon commented. "I cannot toy with you any longer."

"Leopardmon!" He looked up as EmperorGreymon lunged towards him. The two then locked swords.

"Marcus is coming back home with his dad." Yoshi told the Royal Knight as she stood up, her D.N.A Charge flaring up. "And I'm going to make sure he has a home to come back to."

"He watch out for me, now I watch out for others." Keenan added, his D.N.A Charge skyrocketing. In response to his intense emotions, his Digivice evolved into the Digivice Burst and Keenan wasted no time in calling forth Ravemon's Bust Mode, "Charge, D.N.A Burst Mode!"

"Ravemon Burst Mode!" Ravemon declared as he went up another level.

"Charge, D.N.A Burst Mode!" Yoshi summoned Rosemon's next level.

"Rosemon Burst Mode!" Rosemon announced as she took on her more powerful form.

"I've heard of the Burst Mode, but I thought it was just legend." Leopardmon remarked.

"Well, it's not." Yoshi informed him.

"That's right." Keenan agreed.

"Burst Mode is real." The two chorused.

"Rosemon!" Yoshi told her partner.

"I'm on it!" Rosemon replied.

"Ravemon!" Keenan called out.

"Right." Ravemon responded, the two Burst Mode Digimon charging towards Leopardmon.

"Get out of the way, EmperorGreymon!" Ravemon Burst Mode shouted.

"What is it you always say?" Keenan questioned when Leopardmon's rapier slices missed the two Burst Mode Digimon.

"Justice equals power." Yoshi added.

"Morning Dance!" Ravemon took to the skies before diving straight down at Leopardmon. Dodging his sword slice, Ravemon continued his assault on the Royal Knight's back. Moving rapidly, the humanoid bird continued his attack all around Leopardmon.

"Kiss of Breath!" Rosemon blew a kiss at the Royal Knight, shooting hearts at him. The pink heart beams then converged on the falling Leopardmon.

"Humans, you will suffer for opposing King Drasil." Leopardmon told them, barely managing to block the last energy beam.

"You are wrong, Leopardmon." Alphamon informed his gravely injured subordinate after the attack died down.

"Alphamon?" Leopardmon turned to see his leader above him.

"Follow me, the Lady wishes to have an audience with you." Alphamon informed him.

"The Lady?" Leopardmon echoed.

"Ever since you've arrived in the Human World, I'm sure you have felt it too, Leopardmon." Alphamon told the Royal Knight strategist. "The overwhelming Cosmo that could very much rival King Drasil's. Come with me and you shall see that your sense of justice is misplaced."

"Oh right then." Leopardmon replied took off with Alphamon.

After the battle…

"But do you really have to go back to the Digital World?" Kristy complained.

"Royal Knights will keep coming if we don't change their mind." Keenan told her.

"And the fighting will never stop." Falcomon added.

"We have no other choice but to go back." Yoshi remarked. "It's the only way to protect Earth."

"And the Digital World." Lalamon cut in.

"Piyomon." Keenan told the pink bird. "I leave you in charge to protect everyone."

"I will." Piyomon nodded. "They'll all be safe here with me."

"Piyomon." Kristy smiled.

"So, it's agreed then." Thomas remarked before behind. "We're all going back."

"Thomas!" Yoshi turned to the blond. "Is everyone in your family safe?"

"Yeah." Thomas replied. "So, ready?"

"Yeah!" everyone else chorused.

"Take care of yourself!" Kristy waved goodbye to the Data Squad.

Upon arrival on Mount Fuji…

"Gallantmon? LoadKnightmon?" Leopardmon was surprised to find the two deflectors in the sky above Mount Fuji.

"Whose enormous Cosmo is this?" the mortally wounded Royal Knight wondered outloud when he sensed the tremendous Cosmo emitting from the top of the mountain. "This girl… who is she?"

"Leopardmon!" Gallantmon exclaimed when his wounded comrade fell heavily onto the top of the mountain.

"What's this warm, forgiving and gentle Cosmo?" Leopardmon gasped, sitting up as Lilith approached him.

Taking his hand into hers, Lilith smiled gently as she knelt beside him, "Next time you reincarnate, I hope you can fight for good and peace."

Leopardmon's expression softened, acknowledging her as the real Lilith. With that, he passed away in Lilith's hands, with the knowledge that his Goddess was still alive and not dead like King Drasil had told the Royal Knights.

"That lucky bastard…" LoadKnightmon snorted as Lilith transported Leopardmon's digiegg back to the Primary Village. "Gets to have Lady Lilith hold his hand until he dies."