And here's the conclusion of this large side story.

Thank you all for faveing and following and leaving reviews for the last chapter. You know, despite the film being longer that Our War Game, this story is shorter than what I wrote. Well, I did have a large wall of text at the end of that one, and there are a lot of pauses and still moments in this movie.

Anyways, let's finish this all up... so we can get back to the main threat that is growing back in the Digital World.

Part 2: The Golden Digimentals

Outside Livermore, Colorado, United States. August 20th, 2002. 1734 Hours.
P.O.V. – Iori Hida

Miyako and I arrived in Livermore a few minutes ago and were sitting near a covered bridge that went over a small creek.
"They're not coming…" Miyako believed.
"It is quite boring…" I soon saw something kicking up dust out in the field ahead of us. "Is that?"
"What is it?" Upamon cried as he kept bouncing.
"Daisuke-san! Ken-san!" I yelled out as I saw Lighdramon and Stingmon approaching the town.
"They made it!" Miyako cheered.
"Sorry for making you wait!" I heard Daisuke cry out as he approached.
"We just got held up in Wyoming!" Ken explained.

"They're taking an awful long time." Daisuke paced as we waited for Hikari and Takeru, of course, Daisuke didn't know about what happened to them yet.
"They're coming from New York." Wallace told him.
"Wallace doesn't make stops…" Gummymon balanced himself on the rock wall leading to the bridge.
"WHY ISN'T HIKARI-CHAN HERE!?" Daisuke screamed taking all of us aback and causing Gummymon to fall into the creek as he lost his balance.
"Daisuke is always like this, isn't he?" I teased.
"They sent a message that Chocomon tried to attack them in Ohio and separated them from their train. They're having to fly all the way here, but they say they might be in Fort Collins shortly before midnight." Miyako explained as V-mon was trying to help Gummymon up.
"Gah! That'll take too long!" Daisuke moaned.
"Daisuke, you're just gonna have to be patient with them." Ken said.

"There are others?" Wallace questioned.
"Wallace-san, please tell us. What kind of Digimon is Chocomon exactly?" I asked.
"It's about time you told us." Daisuke walked up to him.
"Where are Taichi-san and the others?" Miyako inquired.
"And how do we get them back?" Ken added. Wallace was silent before he started to walk away.
"Hey!" Daisuke chased after him.
"He's probably looking for people with the Digivice." Gummymon said. Daisuke stopped upon hearing that. "He wants to see Wallace."
"I don't understand, when we fought him earlier, he said Wallace wasn't Wallace." Ken recalled.
"He misses the younger Wallace." Ah… I guess that makes a bit more sense.
"But we still need to find Taichi-san and the others." Daisuke walked over to Wallace who was just staring off into the distance. "When are you going to tell us? What does that Digimon have to do with you?"

"I have to go to the flower field." He finally answered. "When I do, Chocomon will definitely go back to what he was… definitely." He started walking away again.
"Wallace…" Gummymon muttered.
"All right, we're all going!" Daisuke declared.
"First, it's a bit of a ways to walk, and secondly… I'd rather do this myself."
"Wallace, that isn't gonna happen." Ken explained. "The others are in danger… and trying to convince Daisuke not to follow you is just a losing battle."
"Time to go for another hike." I grabbed my things as the sun began to set.
"Hm… I haven't heard any more words from Hikari-kun or Takeru-kun." Miyako looked at her D-Terminal.

Wallace wasn't kidding about this place being far. We had to hitch a ride on an old pickup truck just to drive close to an area in the mountains where we would need to hike to a forest and field overlooking several ravines and a lake.
"Hey, Daisuke, weren't we supposed to do something?" V-mon asked.
"Hey, Wallace, did you call your mom?"
"I couldn't find a phone."

Colorado, United States. August 20th, 2002. 2323 Hours.
P.O.V. – Third Person

"Wallace! It hurts!" Wallace's memories rang out.
"Are you all right, Chocomon?" Wallace asked as he patched up Chocomon who was in his Baby-Level. Chocomon smiled as Gummymon looked on. His memories soon flashed to where the two of them were hanging onto a water pump like it was a see-saw.
"Where are you going?" Wallace's mother cried out.
"To play!" Wallace rode a scooter out to the flower field with both Chocomon and Gummymon hanging on.
"Wallace, not here…" Wallace came back to reality when he heard Gummymon's voice. He looked down to see that Gummymon was asleep. "Over there… I'm tired…" Gummymon leaned over and got closer with Wallace. He smiled before he bundled the Digimon up with his blanket and walked away towards the lake. From there, there would be a small hike up onto the ridge where the flower field was that overlooked the lake.

Wallace kept on walking through the forest until he realized he was being followed.
"Hold it." He heard Daisuke's voice call out, which made him turn and see both Daisuke, as well as Ken, had followed him.
"Apologies, Wallace, I tried to talk him out of following." Ken explained.
"It's fine…" Wallace said as he turned to look back at the lake. "What do you want?"
"Well, the truth mostly…" Daisuke got right to the point. "I was thinking… is Chocomon, is he… our Digimon?" There was a long silence. "It's true, isn't it?" Another length of silence.
"Wallace… it is true, isn't it? You can trust us, we just want to help." Ken stepped forward. Wallace sighed before he finally turned and looked at the two boys.
"Chocomon came from the same Digiegg as Gummymon did." He said. "They're twin Digimon."
"Twin Digimon?" Daisuke questioned.
"Didn't think that was possible…" Ken muttered to himself.

"I was shocked to see that I would have two Digimon and not just one…" Wallace's memories flashed back to the last time he had the both of them, in the flower field. "Momma always said that I was always with them, but three years ago while we were playing in the flower field, Chocomon just disappeared."
"Three years ago? That's around the same time when Taichi-san, Hikari-chan and the other older Chosen Children had their adventures in the Digital World." Daisuke remembered as he walked past Wallace and looked out to the lake.
"It's also the same time when us younger Chosen Children first saw them as well." added Ken.
"Chocomon hasn't forgotten about that time." Wallace explained. "He followed me all the way to New York." Daisuke turned his head to look at Wallace who walked up next to him. "I still don't know what happened to Chocomon, I just want to help him."
"Then we're fighting one of your own Digimon?" Daisuke's eyes widened. Both him and Ken seemed to have the same though running through their mind.
"Goodbye… Osamu… cha-" They both remembered Monodramon's last words.
"One of your most important friends!?"

The wind slowly began to pick up making the area slightly colder.
"This can't be easy for you…" Ken broke the silence. Daisuke still looked shocked and walked towards a tree and put his head against it.
"I wouldn't be able to do it." Daisuke said. "If V-mon wasn't the same V-mon, no matter what happened… I would never be able to destroy him…" Daisuke soon began having tears flowing down his cheeks.
"The same goes for me and Wormmon. I couldn't bring myself to ending him no matter what had happened to him." Ken somberly added.
"Daisuke…" Wallace looked over to Daisuke whose googles had fallen off his head now.
"So to save Taichi-san, we have to destroy your Chocomon…" concluded Daisuke as the tears began flowing ever harder. "If that's the case… what can we do?" Daisuke's sadness soon affected Ken who continued to remember Monodramon's fate. Although he wanted to cry, Ken couldn't find any tears.
"It's not your problem." Wallace walked over to Daisuke and picked up his goggles.

"But…" Daisuke turned around and wiped his arm across his face to try to get rid of many of the tears.
"There's a possibility, if we meet him one more time, at that flower field, Chocomon might go back to the Chocomon he used to be." Wallace believed. Daisuke put on a smile upon hearing that.
"Yeah." He grabbed his goggles and put them back on his head. "That's true. That's definitely true!"
"And then, if we fight him, we might save your friends!"
"Yeah, we can fight him!" Ken determined.
"Hey, how can your recover so fast?" Wallace rubbed his head as he saw Daisuke pumping his fists like he was ready for a boxing match.
"That's right, that's how I am." He flashed a winning smile. "Somehow I feel rejuvenated."
"Easy to please, aren't you."
"That's Daisuke for you, Wallace." Ken said.
"Just as long as you understand, it's good." smirked Daisuke.
"Is that a challenge?" Wallace raised his eyebrow.
"I didn't say I wanted to."
"Just a suggestion."

The boys were slowly walking back to the campsite where the others were while they were discussing what was to come in the morning.
"So, don't go out there alone, okay?" Daisuke sounded very serious. Wallace nodded.
"That's right. I'm going too, Wallace." Wallace's eyes widened as he turned to see Terriermon coming out from behind a tree.
"Gummymon."
"Don't try to be brave."
"But, he's not after you. I don't want you fighting him."
"Wallace…"
"It's true, isn't it?"
"I'm okay. I want to be with you, Wallace."

"What should you do?" Daisuke suggested.
"Whatever we do, it all depends on you." Ken informed.
"We'll go back." Wallace decided his choice and nodded. "Let's get back to camp. I want to see Miyako's face again." Both Daisuke and Ken's faces turned red as he said that.
"What!? What exactly are you trying to pull!?" Daisuke demanded an answer. Wallace walked past them and kneeled down in front of Terriermon and wrapped him in the blanket he was carrying once more.
"Let's get back, or you'll catch a cold, Gummymon."

In the unknown dimension, the other children were barely moving at this point as the sound of something hopping filled the air.
"Wallace, Wallace!"
"Who is that?" Taichi questioned.
"Wallace, Wallace!" Chocomon jumped towards them. He looked like this Baby-Level and had a strange aura around him that made him look sepia-tone. "Wallace, Wallace!" He hopped towards Taichi. He then turned to Yamato. "Wallace, Wallace! Wallace, Wallace!" He kept shouting before he had a sad look on his face. "They're all wrong. Even when they're smaller, they're not Wallace." He hopped away and vanished. "Wrong. They're all wrong!" Wendimon's voice roared.

Colorado, United States. August 21st, 2002. 0655 Hours.
P.O.V. – Daisuke Motomiya

It wasn't even morning when Wallace led us to the flower field. It was certainly a wonderful sight with the low fog and the sun slowly rising. I certainly hope this plan works… I don't want to kill my first Digimon today. Chimairamon doesn't count; it was an abomination that needed to be destroyed. We all agreed on that. We all stood out in the field while Wallace was slightly ahead of us as we waited for Chocomon. Soon, a massive footprint appeared in the ground.
"Here he comes…" I muttered.

Chocomon soon appeared before us and was looking down at Wallace.
"Chocomon."
"W-w-Wallace. Wallace."
"Chocomon, do you know me?"
"W-Wallace."
"We were always together."
"Together?" He took a step closer.
"That's right." Wallace stepped forward.
"So, let's go home! To that time…" Chocomon had a happy look on his face. "That's why you came." A different voice spoke out. "This place is warm. This place has no one else here." He tried to reach out and grab Wallace but Gummymon pushed Wallace back a few steps and got in a defensive posture.
"Don't do this, Chocomon." Gummymon begged.
"Don't interfere!" Chocomon shouted as he swatted Gummymon away, which caused Wallace to run after him. He got down to his knees and tried to help Gummymon up.
"Chocomon, why did you do that to Gummymon?"

"Go back, go back, go back…" Chocomon kept repeating as he swayed back and forth. The sky around us began to darken. Oh, this is not good…
"Stop it, Chocomon." Wallace stood up. "We can't go back to that time."
"I want to be here!"
"Chocomon… I can't let you."
"Nooooo!" screamed Chocomon as the whole area rocked in a wave of energy and the sky turned a very ominous looking black. Both Ken, myself and our Digimon ran up next to Wallace and Gummymon.
"Wallace." I said. Chocomon was soon engulfed in a ball of pink energy which exploded and revealed a new Digimon on the spot meaning that Chocomon had evolved. What now stood before us was this large bi-pedal rabbit with very long arms.
"Daisuke… Ken… Can you destroy him, guys?" Wallace asked us. "Together, can we destroy him?" For a second I hesitated before I nodded. I suppose he's too far gone now to be saved… we no longer have a choice. Gummymon soon stepped forward and he soon evolved back into that chain-gun wielding Digimon from yesterday.

Miyako and Iori ran over to us with their Digimon and we all stared down the dark Digimon.
"Let's go, V-mon. Digimental Up!"
"V-mon, Armor-Evolve! Burning Courage, FLADRAMON!"
"Wormmon, don't hold back."
"Wormmon, evolve! STINGMON!"
"Armadimon, do it. Digimental Up!"
"Armadimon, Armor-Evolve! Steel Knowledge, DIGMON!"
"Hawkmon, let's get him. Digimental up!"
"Hawkmon, Armor-Evolve! Wings of Love, HOLSMON!" Chocomon had slowly been rising to his full height before his eyes squinted in anger as our Digimon charged forward.

Fladramon was the first one to get close to him but as soon as he jumped up and began to dive down on Chocomon, the rabbit slightly moved his foot and the next second he was right in front of Fladramon where he swatted him away hard as he ended up violently crashing into the ravine walls behind them. Chocomon landed back down and turned his attention towards Digmon and Holsmon. Like with Fladramon, one moment Chocomon was there, the next, Holsmon and Digmon are thrown into each other before they're thrown into the ravine. Gummymon dives down from above and opens fire but Chocomon rapidly backflips to avoid the rain of bullets that riddle the ground. He keeps this up until he jumps off the cliff and into the ravine where he starts climbing onto the cliff sides. Gummymon jumps down and follows with more shots, hoping to lure him out to where Stingmon is waiting to ambush. However, Chocomon dodges a few shots and doubles back towards Gummymon before grabbing him by the head and throwing him into the air where he ends up colliding with Stingmon. The two of them ended up falling into the waters below.

"Hey, does Chocomon think we're playing?" I questioned as we ran to keep up with our Digimon. We looked down to see the Digimon all brushing off their wounds while Chocomon began hovering over the water. He stood there and did nothing as all the Digimon stared him down, using the brief respite to recover some of their strength. We all waited to see who would make the first move when Gummymon aimed his cannon and the others moved in closer.
"Playtime is over, Bunny-chan." Fladramon got his claws ready.
"That's the way, Fladramon!" I cheered.
"You're strong, but we won't give up!" Holsmon informed as he flew closer. Above Chocomon, Digmon had drilled a hole through the ravine wall and was now looking down at him.
"I'm still going, dagyaa!"
"Everyone's so cool!" Miyako was practically fangirling out.
"Digmon could have a bitter appearance." admitted Iori.
"He'll have his moments."
"We'll stop you, no matter what!" declared Stingmon.
"Don't underestimate him, Stingmon!" Ken warned.

Even as the other Digimon were slowly getting closer to him, Chocomon just continued to stand there above the water. A moment later, he sank down into it and just vanished. Everyone kept their guard up as we had no clue what he was doing or planning.
"Did he run away?" Miyako wondered.
"It can't be." Iori believed. It was almost a whole minute before something happened. The water splashed and all the droplets that flew upward turned to black as the entire ravine and sky lit up. The stones turned into a sort of pale white along with the flowers while the water changed to a very dark looking pink that matched the sky. As soon as that happened, Chocomon came out of the water but was now a very different looking bunny. His face had a twisted smile with sharp teeth sticking out, his ears looked all torn to shreds, and he had this sort of clown collar around his neck.
"This isn't good…" Ken whispered to himself.
"Is that Chocomon?" Wallace questioned.
"Now he's dangerous to the entire world…" I told him. "Now we have no choice." If we to kill a Digimon to save lives, we'll save lives. I quickly looked around and saw these black droplets around us.

"Black snow?" I asked.
"That Digimon seems to be giving off from its dark heart. He has a black heart…" Miyako theorized as one of those black balls just when through her hand like she didn't exist. The black balls soon began slowly rotating around Chocomon as our Digimon continued their standoff.
"Who are you?" Gummymon questioned as he now honestly believed that wasn't even Chocomon to begin with. Talk about déjà vu. Chocomon just roared and revealed a terrifying abyss in his mouth as those balls shot outwards. They struck all of our Digimon and caused them to revert all the way back to their Baby-Levels before shortly getting back to their Child-Forms, excluding Gummymon who only reverted to his Child-Level.
"I'm back to my original self…" Hawkmon spat up water.
"I can't do it…" Armadimon moaned as he tumbled on the rocks.
"He's… he's too much…" Wormmon worried as he climbed out of the water. V-mon tried to do something but just tired himself out and fell on his backside.
"I can't evolve to Fladramon."

"What are you trying to do?" Wallace demanded an answer as he yelled out. Chocomon merely raised his arm and a dark ball of energy formed in it before all of our Digimon were lifted up and sent flying towards it. Chocomon jumped up off of the water and spun around before the Digimon reached him. He then crushed them all in his hands before he fell back to hovering above the water and began to sway. He then opened up his palms and began to juggle our poor Digimon! "Stop it."
"I won't forgive you…" I called out. He just ignored us and kept going along with his sick game.
"Stop it… STOP IT NOW!" Wallace screamed at the top of his lungs. Chocomon listened and stopped juggling them… only to violently throw them against the ravine walls again. "Gummymon!" Chocomon looked satisfied before he sank into the water again. We heard a sinister laugh as we turned around and saw Chocomon hovering well over us.
"Wallace, be careful." I advised. Chocomon slowly began to get closer to us.
"Watch out!" Ken shouted as we both got in front of Wallace.

Chocomon stopped as a large green ball of energy grazed past his face. We all turned towards the direction of the attack and saw Gummymon covered in scrapes and bruises struggling forward.
"I'm still here." He said. "Even if Chocomon is not here anymore, I will protect Wallace!" He launched another attack but Chocomon just grabbed it in the palm of his hand.
"Gummymon." Wallace gently pushed us aside to step forward. Chocomon then blew out of those black balls as Gummymon tried to charge forward as he dodge that ball but ended up reverting back into this green blobish kind of Digimon before becoming Gummymon again. However, he refused to quit as he got back up again.
"That's why, that's why… I will protect Wallace!"
"I know what you mean, Gummymon." V-mon climbed back onto the ridge.
"V-mon!" I shouted as I ran over to him to help him up.

The others soon followed suit. Wormmon slowly crawled his way up behind before collapsing not too far away from V-mon and I.
"Wormmon!" Ken ran to him.
"I… I promised to protect you, Ken-chan." Hawkmon looked like he had an injured wing but he still tried to fly the way here.
"Hawkmon!" Miyako cried out.
"I want to protect the one important to me." He collapsed as Miyako grabbed him, causing her red beret to fly into the air.
"Hawkmon, hang on!" She held on him tight.
"Miyako-san, you're hurting me…" Armadimon tunneled his way up to the flower field and soon popped out of the ground right near Iori.
"Armadimon!"
"I'll protect you, too, dagyaa!"

"As will I." Wallace declared as he stood in front of Gummymon and looked up to Chocomon. "I just met Daisuke, Ken and the others. But you're not the same Chocomon anymore. No, Chocomon was never lonely before. Whatever happened to his heart, he is no longer here. I'll fight you, you'll be destroyed. Chocomon won't return unless I fight you!" Tears began to appear in his eyes. "I need power…" Gummymon walked up next to him.
"Wallace, I'm here for that. I'm Wallace's power!"
"Gummymon…"
"Wallace, this isn't your fault." Ken walked over to him. "You've always been looking for Chocomon's contentment. You didn't give up."
"We all have people we want to protect." Wormmon said.
"No matter how much power we have… if we have someone to protect, then we won't give this fight!" I took my place right by their side.

Chocomon moved forward as V-mon and Wormmon rammed him in the stomach while Gummymon shot him in the face. Hawkmon flew in while holding Armadimon who rolled himself into a ball and crashed into his face knocking him onto the ground.
"All right, that's it!" I cheered. Of course, I was way too premature as he just quickly got back up. He raised his hand and that dark energy ball formed in it again, causing the other Digimon to get pulled towards it and into his grip before he slammed into the ground.
"Ah!" We all exclaim. He opens his mouth and was moving them towards it where he clearly planned to devour them! However, before that could happen, two sharp beams of light cut right through his arms before revealing it was Angemon and Nefertimon! The other Digimon soared safely to the ground as Chocomon's arms fell.

"Daisuke-kun, Ken-kun!" Takeru called out as we saw him and Hikari running towards us.
"Takeru-san!" "Hikari-kun!" Iori and Miyako shouted.
"Daisuke-kun!" Hikari yelled. She said my name!
"Hikari-chan!" I waved at her as they approached us.
"This one's different." She said as the two of them ran up next to us. "You're not the crying Digimon." Come again, Hikari? Chocomon tried to swipe at Nefertimon as the cuts on his arms slowly began healing.
"Curse of the Queen!" Nefertimon cut right through his chest but he threw his own hand at her and caused her to fall lower to the ground. All those black balls that were floating around tried to swarm Angemon but he spun his rod around and destroyed all those coming for him. All of Chocomon's skin dissolved and soon became a swarm of black balls shaped like him that rained down on the area before he vanished and the whole world around us just turned black before a dark purple light somewhat illuminated the area.

"It's still not over, but where are we?" I took a step back and looked around.
"Is this the Digital World?" Iori questioned.
"No, Iori-kun… I think this is some other place entirely." Ken told him.
"It's cold." Miyako had chills.
"Chocomon is here…" Wallace informed us. "He's alone."
"No, this is still our world…" Hikari informed. "But it's the world where Chocomon wants it." Our Digimon had very nervous looks on their faces as they came back to us, though Hawkmon and Armadimon had reverted back to their Baby-Levels again.
"You're back to Upamon." Iori picked him up. "It had to come to this."

We looked forward and saw Chocomon rematerialized once more and looking like he had suffered no damage whatsoever.
"That Digimon has no feelings." observed Hikari. I ran forward and got in front of the whole group.
"Wallace, this is gonna be trouble…"
"Daisuke, what do you want us to do?" V-mon asked.
"Wallace, watch me protect you, for Chocomon!" Gummymon proudly declared.
"Poromon, stop it! This isn't for you!" Miyako tried to keep her Digimon in her arms as he was trying to fly forward. Angemon and Nefertimon moved closer to him as they were ready to go again.

"If we're going to fight, then let's get fighting!" I shouted out to the nightmarish Digimon.
"Daisuke?" Both Wallace and Ken said as they ran towards me.
"Daisuke, you're smaller…" Wallace said. I turned and my eyes quickly widened as both Wallace and Ken looked much younger, like five years younger.
"Wallace, Ken, what's with you?" I quickly realized something was off when I heard my voice and looked to see that the same effect had happened to me. "Ah, I'm a kid!" Well, at least a younger one than what I was.
"Me too…" "Same here…" Both Wallace and Ken looked at themselves.
"This is bad, at this rate, we'll all disappear!" Takeru worried as both he and Hikari were the only ones unaffected at the moment.

"Wallace… I've been thinking… that Chocomon we were fighting in Wyoming… that was his Adult-Level wasn't it?" Ken asked as Chocomon charged towards Angemon and Nefertimon.
"I think so…"
"So that means we're fighting an Ultimate now…"
"You mean…" I worried.
"None of us have the power to combat him…" Ken admitted as Angemon and Nefertimon were slowly beginning to be driven back by Chocomon's attacks.
"Wait… we do have one thing…" I quickly remembered our secret weapon and it seems Ken did too.
"Do you really think? I mean, that may have been a one-off thing, and Chimairamon was only a Perfect, and even then we barely beat him!"
"Do you have a better idea?" He paused.
"Not… not at the moment…"
"Then we need to believe… believe in miracles!" I yelled.

Our pockets lit up before two balls of light shot out and flew towards Chocomon as he swatted away Angemon and Nefertimon who devolved back to their normal forms and were picked up by Takeru and Hikari who were now younger. The lights merged and split once more into now three balls of light. Chocomon tried to get them but they avoided them until they went back to our hands. They shined in our palms before they reveal themselves as the Golden Digimentals. Ken and I had the same one when we defeated Chimairamon and ended the Kaiser's reign, meanwhile to our surprise, Wallace also received a Golden Digimental that looked different from ours.

"It's your Digimental!" Ken exclaimed to him.
"This is mine?" He questioned. We both nodded.
"Wallace, follow our lead!"
"Digimental Up!" Ken and I shouted.
"Digimental Up!" Wallace followed. All three of our Digimon were engulfed in a golden light before they reveal themselves in their golden forms. Magnamon, Kongoumon and Gummymon's armor form, which looked like a golden rabbit like Digimon, stared down the dark monster.

He quickly charged at them but they shot out of the way before they ended up behind him. Gummymon launched two missiles that collided with Chocomon's face and exploded while Kongoumon tosses his Vajras that detonate on contact with his body while Magnamon tore through him with a bright beam of light.
"Did we get him!?" I ask.
"I'm not sure." Wallace said. The dust soon cleared and Chocomon had huge holes in him that were expelling those black balls like it was his blood in a zero gravity sense.
"We got him!" Magnamon declared… until Chocomon's head appeared behind them and ate all three of them! Hikari loudly gasped as we all were shocked about what just happened.

"What a black heart…" Hikari muttered while the three of us were all taking the reaction differently as Chocomon regenerated.
"Chocomon, Gummymon… where did you go?" Wallace cried.
"Wormmon…" Ken fell to his knees similar to how he did when he found out Osamu was the Kaiser. My reaction was only to growl in anger. Iori dropped Upamon and ran over to him while Miyako was trying to patch up a wound that Poromon had.
"Let me go!" He was begging to fight.
"No! I don't want to let you go!" She cried.

"V-mon, wait! We'll save you!" I shouted as the three of us recovered and gained determination.
"Wormmon! We're stronger together!" Ken yelled.
"Gummymon, I was always worried about you." Wallace said.
"I never gave up, even when I was looking for Hikari." Tailmon walked forward. "I always believed that I would see her someday."
"You kept going, Tailmon. If it wasn't for you, we would have never met." Our Digimon gathered their strength and charged forward even if they were hopefully outmatched but they refused to give up, which all of us humans shared the same feelings.

P.O.V. – Third Person

"I can't see anything." Kongoumon said as they were now in the strange dimension that Cherubimon had sent them.
"I can't feel anything." Magnamon informed.
"I will protect Wallace." Rapidmon insisted. "Wallace is… who?" The effects of the dimension were affecting the Digimon. The determined words of their partners were soon ringing in the air.
"I hear someone's voice."
"It has a nice sound…"
"Daisuke…" "Ken-chan…" "Wallace…" The three Digimon quickly overcome the effects and are restored to full strength.

The dimension was soon filled with the sound of a loud moaning before Wendimon showed up before them. They then heard their partners calling for them again.
"Daisuke…" "Ken-chan…" "Wallace…" They glow even brighter before they look at Wendimon who points to himself. They realize that he's trying to say 'Destroy me.' Both Magnamon and Kongoumon look to Rapidmon.
"Gummymon, is this all right?" Magnamon asked.
"V-mon, Wormmon, please." Both Digimon nodded and all of them used their most powerful attacks on Wendimon who was disintegrated.

Back where the children were, Cherubimon suddenly stopped his attacks before he began writhing in pain and a pink mist was coming out of him. The others were confused what was happening until the dark colors of Cherubimon melted away and instead there was a more pleasant looking version of him that looked down to Wallace with a kind smile on his face as the world around the children restored to normal.
"Chocomon?" Wallace questioned. "Chocomon, it's you, isn't it?" Cherubimon slowly disintegrated which brought tears to Wallace's eyes.
"Wallace!" Terriermon's voice rang out. He looked up and saw Terriermon, V-mon, and Wormmon floating down using Terriermon's ears. "Chocomon had a lot of tears!" Terriermon had tears in his eyes too. "Chocomon… laughed."
"Gummymon…" Wallace smiled as he wiped away the tears.

Everyone had returned to normal and were just standing in flower field as Wallace just kept staring at the ground.
"Someday, someday…" Daisuke finally said something as he walked over to him. "Chocomon will surely return."
"Yeah…" Wallace nodded.
"Hey! Message from the others!" Miyako exclaimed. "Looks like they're all right! Ross-san and Mimi-san are waiting in New York for us!"
"Well, then, let's meet up with them!" Daisuke cheered.

New York City, New York, United States. August 21st, 2002. 1931 Hours.

The kids got to Denver fast and soon took a flight all the way back to New York where they met up with Ross and Mimi and were saying their goodbyes to Wallace on the Brooklyn Bridge at sunset.
"I'm all for recapturing my youth, but that was too much." Ross joked which made the others laugh.
"Sorry we caused so many problems." Mimi apologized.
"It's okay." Wallace said. "And hey, maybe someday I'll come to Japan to visit all of you!"
"Yeah." Daisuke nodded.
"But in the meantime, I've got a little something." He walked up and gave Hikari and Miyako a quick peck on the cheek before running off which caused Takeru, Ken, and Daisuke to blush even more than the girls. "I gotta get going!"
"Hey, what do you think you're doing?!" Daisuke yelled at him.
"I think someone's a little jealous." teased Miyako.
"I wonder if he'll really come to Japan." Iori said.
"I won't let him near Hikari-chan." Daisuke determined.
"And why not?" Ken gave a small smirk as he said that which Daisuke got embarrassed.

New York, United States. August 22nd, 2002. 1232 Hours.

"{Mom, I'm gonna go home very soon.}" Wallace said on a payphone on the side of the road in the New York stateside. "{No, I'm not telling you that I hate to be home, I miss you so much. Mom, you know that I love you…}"
"Wallace spends a lot of time on the phone…" Terriermon soon catches whiff of something before Wallace sees something in the creek and gasps in happiness.
"{I'll call you back, Mom!}" He hung up before he and Terriermon ran down to the creek… where they found a Digiegg floating down the creek towards them.

Okachimachi District, Taito Ward, Tokyo, Japan. Dec. 31st, 2016. 1025 Hours.
P.O.V. – Ross McGlathery

What should've been a peaceful vacation turned into quite the perilous adventure, but I guess that was par for the course for us. After our goodbye to Wallace, we enjoyed what's left of our vacation before we headed back to Japan. That whole deal wasn't the last Digimon crisis we had to deal with during that year of two-thousand and two.

Nor would it be the last time we saw Wallace…

So, I love Digimon: The Movie, but I will admit it was a chopjob that FoxKids rushed out the door, I don't think Jeff Nimoy and the others wanted to put all the stories together but the suits overruled them.

Anyways, this has come to an end, but you're gonna have to wait a while for the next chapter of Blood, Mud, and Armor as I've got tests I need to study over the weekend. Take care everyone.

"Push the button, Frank."