"Wow it's nice to know I've been missed." Said Tai crossing his arms as Hiakri and Takeru ran towards them. Tiredly Salamon and Patmon jumped out of their respective partner's hands as the siblings went to greet each other.

"Oh Tai." Laughed Hikari crashing into her brother with a massive hug.

"You ok bro?" said Matt ruffling Takeru's hair playfully. "Were you good without me?"

Takeru gave an awkward lough as his eyes met Hikari's as she finally broke her hug. Only to be embraced by a nearly weeping Mimi.

"Where were you two?!" She nearly sobbed. "We were so worried you had been crushed under the pyramid!"

"I told them it was most improbable that that would happen." Added Izzy giving Takeru an encouraging smile.

"We would have found some remains." Added Joe.

"Really not helping." Said Sora shaking her head before hugging Takeru. "We are so glad you're safe."

"But what happened to you guys?" asked Tai looking at Salamon suspiciously.

"Well it's a bit of a long story." Sighed Hikari, her shoulders slightly drooping from exhaustion.

Takeru was about to add something when he felt someone tap his elbow, he turned to see the V2 Takeru standing behind him, smiling meekly. "Good to see you're still alive."

Takeru knelt down in front of the V2, smiling. "Back at you. But what is going on here?" he said looking at the V2 Digidestined as they stood their, awkwardly and surprisingly quiet, Takeru noticed how their digimon were absent.

"I think Azulongmon is here to tell us." Said Hikari looking up at the sovereign digimon as she absentmindedly walked to Takeru's side, their shoulders just touching.

"It is always a pleasure meeting you digidestined." Said Azulongmon as he twisted and turned in the air above them.

"Care to explain?" asked Tai gesturing to everything around them.

"That's why I'm here Tai." There was a lightness in Azulongmon's voice.

"The unbalance has been corrected."

"Care to elaborate?" asked Izzy.

"If people would stop interrupting me I would." Azulongmon cleared his throat. "Yes, like I was saying, the unbalance has been corrected when the Dark Hikari created by Piedmon was vanquished. You may not believe it but Piedmon's other creations had a balance of light and darkness, they were bad, just mislead. Whether this is what Piedmon had intended, I do not know. However his Hikari was purely darkness, that was why she could manipulate it to do her bidding. She could only be stopped by the purest of light and that was created when light let hope into her heart."

Of coarse Azulongmon chose that particular moment to create a dramatic pause. The digidestined burst into whispers as they all faced Takeru and Hikari. Hikari had chosen that moment to pet Salamon's head avoiding everyone's eyes although she was slightly blushing. Takeru suddenly found the multi-coloured air around them very interesting as he looked around also avoiding everyone's drilling gazes.

Tai and Matt silently sighed as they made a mental mote to give Sora and Mimi ten dollars for winning their bet while the two girls silently high fived on their accurate guesses concerning the two youngest digidestineds. Joe and Izzy continued to look up Azulongmon not revealing if they had understood what the sovereign digimon had hinted or not although they were smiling.

Azulongmon then cleared his throat again before continuing. "When the dark Hikari was vanquished I was allowed to intervene bringing you all here to this in-between dimension."

"To 'vanquish' us as well?" yelled out the V2 Tai, he didn't sound arrogant just tired, resigned to a fate he had no control over.

"Azulongmon no!" yelled Hikari, looking down at V2 Takeru . " There has to be another way!"

"If you had let me finish I would have explained how there is." Said Azulongmon calmly. "Another dimension needs a group of chosen children to save it from the darkness and who better then the digidestined?"

The V2 erupted into an excited chatter. " You mean a dimension where we can actually do some good?" called out V2 Takeru.

"Little one, in that dimension you are free to make your own choices, whether for better or worse."

"It will be for better, defiantly." said the V2 smiling up at Takeru

"Only time will tell." Said Azulongmon. Suddenly a white archway appeared behind the V2s. "In that light is a new life."

"My sister won't be there though, will she?" yelled up V2 Tai.

A bad feeling erupted in the pit of Hikari's stomach, and that was their fault.

"Who knows." Said Azulongmon, mysteriously. "You might find the Hikari Piedmot should have created."

The V2 Takeru beamed even more broadly until he was suddenly engulfed in a giant hug by the Hikari. "Oh be safe!" she chirped, almost crushing the boy. Both Takerus laughed as she continued to give advice, much of which was actually pretty sound.

The V2 Izzy tossed something at the real Izzy, who clumsily caught it- it was the crest of knowledge which the V2 had received not too long ago.

"It's yours." Said the V2 answering Izzy's unasked question.

"But it chose you!"

The V2 shrugged. "I won't need it where I'm going though you should learn how to play a decent game of chess!"

"Sora!." Sora turned to see V2 Sora running towards her and forcing the crest of love into her hands.

"I'm sorry for all the trouble I've… We've… caused." She said bowing apologetically.

"Don't worry about it." said Sora smiling at the V2, then she nudged her head in the direction of V2 Tai, who was talking enthusiastically with the real Tai, probably about soccer. "He's the one you wanted to protect , isn't he?"

"Was it that obvious?" Asked the V2, blushing.

"No, just a lucky guess, I remember having a small crush on him when I was your age.'

"Does that mean I'll grow up to like Matt, like you did?"

Sora shrugged. "Who knows, you'll go trough different things then we did, it's all up to you. Like Azulongmon had said, you choose."

The V2 quickly hugged Sora, thanked her and ran to V2 Tai's side, smiling. The V2s waved at the digidestened before turning to look at Azulongmon's portal.

Takeru sighed as he felt Hikari leaning against him, it felt nice, even though he noticed that the blazer he had lent her was no where to be seen. That was a problem for another time he was enjoying this time together even if he could still see his friends and brother steeling glances in their direction. They were never going to hear the end of this.

So that's it! Thank you so much for reading, especially if you have stuck with the Digidestined till the end! Thank you so much and, for the very last time, I must ask, please tell what you think, but I really hope you enjoyed the story J -LunaPendragon.