I don't own Digimon or any other names, characters, etc. used in this story.

If you haven't read my side chapter, you should, because this chapter makes references to it. Thank you and enjoy.

Digimon World Wars

Chapter 34 - Part One Finale

(A Week Later)

Things around the base were slowly going back to normal. The Doc had kept Duo in the hospital for a couple more days to replace his stitches and make sure he was alright, before finally letting him out of the hospital so he could focus on the people who were even more injured, but not before threatening him to take it easy and rest. Sanji, Musica, Yumichika, Toshiro, and their partners now filled up the medical room and The Doc wasn't letting them out anytime soon.

"HELLO, EVERYONE!" Jerry suddenly burst into the medical room pushing a large cart of food. Sitting on his shoulder was Patamon who had spent the last couple days either sleeping, or in the cafeteria eating, trying to regain his strength.

"Hey Jerry!" Coronamon greeted the man cheerfully as the smell of food hit his nose.

"Hello sweetie!" Jerry started passing food to everyone, starting with Wormmon and Musica. Toshiro grunted in annoyance as Jerry promised him dessert if he finished all his food, as though he were a little kid. Gabumon, Falcomon, and Coronamon started to dig in as fast as Jerry handed them the food.

After handing a plate of food to Yumichika, he reached Sanji, "And here's something for my favorite sous chef!"

Sanji twitched, "Damn it, I'm not your sous chef!" Sanji tried to reach his leg out of bed to kick Jerry, only to fall flat on his back as his ribs made a loud cracking noise.

"Now don't act like that, don't forget I was the one helping you back into battle," Jerry lifted his sunglasses and winked at Sanji.

Sanji shivered, 'Why, why did I have to be carried out by him! Why couldn't one of the lovely nurses have helped me!' Sanji turned to the side as a river of tears rolled down his cheeks.

The doors opened again and Sonoko and Kazuha walked in, "Hey Jerry, hey Patamon, how are you feeling?"

"I'm alright, I just took too much damage and used up too much energy," explained Patamon, "I'm gonna have to stay like this for a while before I can return to being Angemon again."

"I'm just glad we managed to get to you in time," said Musica, remembering how they had managed to stop SkullSatamon as he tried to rip off Patamon's wings.

"Yes, thank you all for that," said Patamon motioning to all of them, "I hate to see all of you injured like this..."

"Don't worry about us, Doc says we'll all make a full recovery," said Toshiro. Toshiro looked down to his plate to see the rest of his food suddenly gone, and Gabumon next to him with a mouthful of food and a grin, "GABUMON!"

"He's right though, our injuries all could have been much worse than they are," Yumichika slapped away Falcomon's hand as he tried to steal his partner's food like Gabumon.

Falcomon grumbled, "I bet you're just happy your face didn't get cut up in all that glass, right Yumichika?"

Yumichika brushed his hair behind his ear as Jerry handed another plate of food to Falcomon and Toshiro, "Well my face is a huge part of my life."

Sanji and Musica groaned in annoyance, "Whatever pretty boy..."

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Throughout most of the base, there had been a bit of a depressed atmosphere. Andromon had planned a memorial for Starmon, Deputymon, and the Guardromon who had been killed by SkullSatamon, everyone was going to meet in one of the hangars later tonight.

Before the memorial, the remaining Guardromon got to work on repairing the damaged city above, making it look like a cakewalk with how fast and organized they were and Andromon and Datamon had gotten to work on recreating Datamon's device, modifiying the design into a smaller easier to carry version for Shurimon.

Rex, Kiru, Strabimon, and Flamon walked through the empty halls of the base. They had just left Datamon's new work shop, and saw that the little robot had managed to get Andromon to give him an entire hangar to work in. Datamon had already painted a very detailed image of his face on the wall of the hangar as well.

"So I never asked you guys, aside from you know..." Rex trailed off not wanting to bring up the battle a week ago, "Did I miss anything else around here?"

Kiru thought about it, while he tied his hair back into a ponytail with a new hairtie he had just gotten ahold of, "Well, you missed me, Haru, Strabimon, and Dorumon getting chased around this place by Sonoko."

Rex chuckled, "Jeez, what did you guys do?"

"Long story..." Kiru and Strabimon shook their heads at the annoying memory of running around the base like idiots.

"You also missed what this idiot did to me!" Kiru froze and turned around as Nagisa's foot suddenly slammed into his rear end, sending him toppling forward.

"Woah!" Strabimon yelped as Kiru fell on top of him, pinning him against the floor.

"Finally, I feel better now!" Nagisa smiled and turned around, making her way back down the hall.

"Kiru?" Strabimon laid underneath Kiru, looking extremely annoyed.

"Yeah?" Kiru was equally annoyed.

"Why did we have to bring this violent girl back to the base with us?"

"Beats me..."

Flamon and Rex were in hysterics as Kiru and Strabimon slowly climbed to their feet.

"Not funny dude!"

"Sorry, it could have been worse though, at least she's not as violent as Setsuna," Rex caught his breath, grinning at Kiru who seemed focused on something behind Rex.

"I'm sorry, who's violent? Kazinawa!" Rex felt a shiver run up his spine. Flamon moved to the side with Kiru and Strabimon as Rex turned his head to see Setsuna glaring at him, her sword already in her hand.

"Shit... not again!" Rex took off as fast as he could, quickly followed by Setsuna.

Setsuna, "COME BACK HERE KAZINAWA, I'M GOING TO CUT THAT STUPID DYED STREAK OF HAIR OFF YOUR HEAD!"

Rex, "WHAT DO YOU MEAN DYED, THIS IS MY NATURAL HAIR COLOR!"

Setsuna, "THAT ONLY MAKES IT STUPIDER!"

Rex, "WELL EXCUSE ME!"

Now Kiru and Strabimon were laughing, "Poor Rex, I don't think he's gonna survive this time." Flamon watched his partner disappear around a corner, once again wishing him luck.

Rex ran past Uryu, Kankuro, Monodramon, and Tentomon as he flew around a corner.

Kankuro sweatdropped as Setsuna ran past them after him, "Jeez again..."

Tentomon, "Why does she keep chasing him around?"

"I don't know, but perhaps it's like they say, people who fight, secretly like each other..." Kankuro stopped and thought about it, "But it's probably just because he's an idiot."

Uryu, "Sounds about right."

Monodramon grinned, "Makes more sense to me."

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Above the base in the city, Palmon and Hinata were delivering a present to the Guardromon who had been with them on the Omega Continent.

"Here you go Guardromon," Hinata tied a red ribbon around his arm.

"That way we'll be able to tell you apart from the others," Palmon smiled at the robot.

"Um, thank you, but I think you got the wrong Guardromon..."

Hinata and Palmon's smiles faded, "Huh!"

"Hey I'm over here!" Palmon and Hinata turned around to see their Guardromon running up to them, carrying a cinder block on his shoulder, next to him was Shurimon who had volunteered to help with the reconstruction to pass time. Guardromon handed the ribbon back to Hinata so they could give it to its intended recipient.

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Down in one of the training rooms, Asuma sparred against, Lavi, Shikamaru, Kanda, and Renji. It was odd to see some of them so focused and working as a team. Lavi usually preferred to goof around, Shikamaru usually preferred to lay around, and Kanda usually preferred simply to be alone.

Asuma flared his digisoul, as they all came at him at once. Asuma smirked as he caught Renji and Lavi's fist flipping both of them over his head, before spinning around and kicking both Kanda and Shikamaru off their feet.

"Come on, I know you all got more in you than this!" All four of them jumped back to their feet. They all had one thing on their minds, to catch up to their friends and allies who had become stronger than them.

'We will not be left behind!'

In the corner of the room sat Guilmon, Commandramon, and the two Agumons, each holding an iced fruit drink with bendy straws, cheering for their partners.

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"I can't believe what I'm seeing..." Ling stood in another 'former' training room just down the hall from Lavi's group.

"I know, isn't this awesome!" Gomamon jumped forward, splashing Ling with a bunch of water.

"How? When?" Ling stared at the giant pool in front of him, he did promise Gomamon he would ask Andromon if he could build one for them, but with everything that happened it had seemed inappropriate to ask him.

Gomamon wasn't the only one having the time of his life, Elie, Terriermon, and Dorumon swam through the water passing a beach ball. Elie wore a pink bikini, and her hair was tied back in a knot. Terriermon kept jumping from Elie's shoulder to Dorumon's head, to get the ball before they could. Gomamon suddenly shot out of the water and smacked the beach ball before Terriermon got it again. Haru and Shuhei sat in a corner trying to relax, and Impmon floated around on the water in a little inflatable chair.

"Hey Haru, Shuhei, either of you know how this got here?" Shuhei and Haru simply shrugged.

Gomamon's head popped back out of the water, "Guardromon said he messaged Andromon back when we first got to the Omega Continent, telling him we wanted a pool."

"Okay, but how did he build this so fast!"

Elie laughed at Ling, "Are you kidding? Andromon put this together in just a couple of hours, you should have seen him go, he was a machine," Elie stopped and giggled, "no pun intended." Haru watched Elie as she continued to laugh and play with Terriermon, Dorumon, and Gomamon. He couldn't help but notice that every once in a while when she thought no one was looking, her face became sad, but would quickly change back when someone called her name.

Haru sighed, realizing that she was probably thinking about the memorial coming up and the digimon that they had recently lost. Haru watched as Elie passed the ball again. Dorumon and Terriermon both reached for it only to have it knocked away by Gomamon who shot out of the water again. The beach ball flew through the air, hitting Impmon in the head and knocking him off his chair.

Impmon's head popped back out of the water and he spewed water out of his mouth like a fountain before turning to Gomamon, "Why you!"

"Neh heh!" Gomamon laughed and swam away as Impmon chased after him.

"Come back here!" Impmon had absolutely no chance of catching Gomamon who was swimming circles around him.

Haru laughed at their antics, 'I guess we all need a moment to relax and have a little fun after everything that happened.'

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Negi and Kotaro were sitting in Datamon's new workshop, watching the little machine as he fussed over every little thing in the room, "No that needs to go over there!" Gaomon and Veedramon glared at the robot before moving his work table into the corner where he wanted it.

"Are we done yet?" Veedramon complained as his stomach started to growl.

"Fine, you're done," Datamon shook his head, "I'll just finish it myself."

"You know, you could at least tell them thank you," Kotaro was starting to become irritated with Datamon's attitude. Not to mention the giant picture of Datamon's face on the wall was creeping him out a bit.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever thanks," Datamon moved to his work table, setting out the blueprints for the new digital jammer he and Andromon were working on.

"You mind me asking how your device works?" Asked Negi curiously.

Datamon stared at Negi, "Yes I do." Negi sweatdropped as Datamon turned back to his table.

"Um Negi?" Negi and Kotaro turned around as Nodoka and Lunamon suddenly walked into the hangar.

"Hey Nodoka," Kotaro cheerfully greeted the girl as she walked in. Nodoka nodded to Kotaro as she walked up to Negi.

"Um, I just wanted to say thank you..."

Negi started to turn red as he thought about what he had said when he first attacked SkullSatamon, "Oh, you...you're welcome." Both Negi and Nodoka's face's became bright red, before Nodoka said goodbye and left the room. Lunamon smiled at her partner as she followed her out of the hangar.

"Wow Negi, smooth bro," Kotaro started laughing hysterically at his friend.

"Shut up Kotaro!"

"Look at your face man," Kotaro pointed at Negi, holding his ribs. After about five minutes Kotaro finally quieted down, "Heh, sorry Negi, come on let's go, it's almost time for the memorial." Kotaro, Negi, Gaomon, and Veedramon left the hangar.

"Pfft, humans..." Datamon shook his head at the nonsense that had just taken place in front of him.

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Duo stood in the bathroom of his room, standing shirtless in front of the mirror and drying his long hair with a towel. He stared at his scarred chest, which had one long scar running from just below his right shoulder to his left hip. There was also a smaller scar near his left hip where Striker had stabbed him with a knife. Not to mention the scar on his left shoulder where he had been shot by Striker, during their first encounter. He looked at his hand which had the cut marks from gripping Hawkeye's sword, it was now in even worse shape after he had focused so much of his digisoul into it and punched SkullSatamon's orb.

Duo thought about that moment, the moment when his anger towards SkullSatamon, and his desire to protect his friends had brought out an even higher form of his digisoul. He wasn't sure how me managed to control so much of the power at once and focus it into just his hand. He had been so desperate to save everyone, that his mind and body seemed to react on instinct. Duo touched his hand to his chest and grunted as pain shot through him at the light touch.

"You alright Duo?" Veemon sat on his bed as Duo walked out of the shower, clutching his bare chest.

"I'm alright," Duo threw a shirt over his chest and laid down on his bed trying to relax.

"Duo, Doc said you need to keep those wounds bandaged up!" Veemon jumped off his bed and landed next to Duo, grabbing fresh bandages off the table next to the bed.

"Jeez, alright nurse Veemon," said Duo sarcastically. Duo grumbled and pulled his shirt off as Veemon handed him the bandages and punched him in the side of the head for calling him a nurse. After Duo replaced his bandages and threw his shirt back on, he looked at the clock to see that it was almost time for the memorial. Duo quickly braided and tied his hair back into its normal style.

Duo sighed, "Come on Veemon, let's go." Veemon and Duo stood up and marched out of the room, slowly making their way for the hangar where everyone was supposed to meet in.

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Andromon stood in the middle of the hangar, gathering his thoughts before everyone gathered together to pay their respects. Asuramon stood in the corner of the room leaning back against the wall, patiently waiting for everyone to arrive.

Andromon sighed as he thought about the number of Guardromon they had lost. If only he hadn't fallen for SkullSatamon's trick he would have been here to protect his subordinates.

"You know, blaming yourself isn't going to bring them back," said Asuramon gruffly.

Andromon sighed again, "You don't understand, they all look up to me, and I wasn't here to help them when they needed me." In less than a month Andromon had lost eleven of his faithful Guardromon, and no matter how he thought about it, if he had been there he could have saved them.

"They all knew what might happen when they decided to work under you, and they knew what they were getting into when they followed Wizardmon into battle," explained Asuramon calmly.

Andromon didn't say anything, the android stared into the distance as he thought about what Asuramon said.

Asuramon moved over and patted Andromon on the shoulder, "Don't blame yourself for things that you can't control. Fate was just against us, and you need to remember the main reason we're here. It's our job to aid the destined and help them on the path to finding peace between the two worlds." Andromon nodded in agreement and Asuramon gave him another pat on the shoulder before returning to his corner of the room.

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Duo and Veemon walked into the hangar several minutes later. At the front of the room Duo saw Andromon, Asuramon, Patamon, and Asuma patiently waiting for everyone. The hangar was already starting to fill up, Jerry, Kazuha, Sonoko, and the Doc had wheeled Sanji, Toshiro, Musica (Wormmon sat on his shoulder), and Yumichika into the hangar and the two Gatomon stood next to Gabumon, Coronamon, and Falcomon to keep an eye on them. Half the remaining Guardromon had already come back down from their construction and were standing throughout the room. Renji, Kanda, Shikamaru, and Lavi all sat in various spots next to their partners. Duo noticed that Lavi and Kanda both had swollen cheeks, like someone had punched them in the face right before they got here. Kiru, Strabimon, and Flamon stood at the back of the room and waved Duo over when they saw him and Veemon walk in.

Duo and Veemon walked to the back of the room and stood next to Kiru as they waited for everyone else to gather. Soon Kotaro, Negi, Veedramon, and Gaomon walked in and took a seat in the middle of the hangar. Nodoka and Lunamon walked in next and quietly sat next to Sonoko and Kazuha. Haru, Shuhei, Ling, Elie, and their partners walked in followed by Uryu, Kankuro, Monodramon, and Tentomon. Haru and Dorumon walked over and joined Duo and Kiru while the rest of them took seats. Hinata and Palmon soon walked into the room followed by another Guardromon, Duo noticed that the Guardromon had a red ribbon tied around his arm. Soon Shurimon, Wizardmon, Renamon, and the remaining Guardromon filed into the room and took the remaining seats.

Duo looked around the room to see who was missing, "Wait a second, where's Rex and Setsuna?"

"Rex is probably crying for his-" Kiru stopped as Rex ran into the room, his hair still intact, "he's still alive, I don't believe it." Rex quickly ran over and joined his partner and friends. Rex leaned over and started to catch his breath as Setsuna walked in behind him and put her sword away. She gave Rex one last glare before sitting next to Renamon.

"What did you do this time?" Asked Duo curiously. Rex merely shrugged, to tired from running another marathon to talk at the moment. Duo remembered hearing about Rex being chased around the base by Setsuna before and had fallen over laughing when he got Rex to tell him what had happened.

Duo looked over at the entrance as Nagisa walked in followed by Sayo, Leon, and the family. Duo noticed that Kiru took a step back when Nagisa walked into the room. Duo looked back over as Nagisa, Sayo, and Leon took seats, and noticed that the father was making his way over to them after his wife and daughter had sat down.

"I'm sorry," the man scratched the back of his red hair uncomfortably as he offered his hand to the four of them, "I never thanked all of you for saving me and my family, my name is Allen." Duo took the man's hand and shook it.

"I'm Duo, and this short blue guy next to me is Veemon."

Veemon, "Hey!"

Kiru, Strabimon, Haru, Dorumon, Rex, and Flamon introduced themselves to the man as well, "I can't thank the eight of you enough for what you did."

"You don't have to thank us, as long as you stay alive and with your family, that's enough," said Haru.

"I will," said Allen proudly, "I'd introduce you to them, but it looks like it's time for us to sit down," Duo looked up and noticed that Andromon was about ready to start, "My wife's name is Sara and my daughter's name is Jenny." Allen shook Duo's hand again before walking over and sitting next to his family.

Duo turned to Andromon as he began to speak about the digimon they had lost. He talked about Starmon and Deputymon, he talked about the Guardromon they had lost and how they hadn't died in vain, how they had fought bravely for peace. Duo's hearing went in and out as Andromon's speech continued, he was more focused on the people throughout the room. Most of the Guardromon looked like they were about to cry, and Duo began to wonder if they could. Duo noticed that Nodoka, Lunamon, Hinata, Palmon, and Elie had a few silent tears spilling down their cheeks and that everyone else had a quiet, depressed look on their faces.

Andromon finished speaking after requesting a few moments of silence to pay their respects. Duo closed his eyes and silently wished their fallen comrades peace, but Duo knew that they wouldn't find peace. They had been absorbed by SkullSatamon and had become apart of the insane skeleton that had nearly destroyed them all. Duo felt the anger inside him rise, SkullSatamon may have been defeated but as long as DATS and Daemon were still out there, his friends and comrades lives would always be at risk. If DATS succeeded in its plans the entire digital world could very well be destroyed or worse. If Daemon made his way into the real world, his home and all the innocent people in it would be at risk, including the person he had left behind in the real world. Duo opened his eyes and looked down at his partner whose eyes were still closed, and then over to Rex, Kiru, and Haru.

'I will stop DATS and I will destroy Daemon!' Duo closed his eyes once again, 'I will give my life to create a world where all my friends, where everyone in this room, and... she, can live in peace.'

'This is my purpose!'

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(Back in the Real World)

Hawkeye walked up to a sliding door and stepped into the next room as it slid out of his way, "Venom how are they coming along?"

"Slow," the old man looked at the purple robot in front of him, "It's going to be a few months before everything is ready."

"That's better than I hoped," Hawkeye took a look at the purple robot, it had a single lens on its round body as an eye, and two wing like appendages hanging off the side of its round body.

"When the army is ready, we'll be heading into an all out war," Venom turned towards Hawkeye as he made his way back for the exit, "I suggest you make sure that you, Violet, Frost, and Lust are all ready when that time comes."

~Part One End~

Why aren't you trying to escape? You say you need a great purpose
I say you need to see what's coming...

Kill. Kill. Kill your demons.
Face. Face. Face your fears.
Fight. Fight. With no discretion.
Die. Die. Die alone...

I hope you see your own life flash before your eyes.
And find that point, in your life when you realize.
That there's something that you've lost.
And something went terribly wrong.
With your last breath, until your lungs collapse.

Relapse Collapse by In Fear and Faith

I thank all of you who read all of Part one of my fanfic, and I hope you'll keep an eye out for when Part two is finally started. I am going to try to take a bit of a break before I begin and I might get a couple of chapters together before I start posting. I hope you enjoyed what you've read and will wait patiently for part two. Thank you again and please review.

Notes:

The finale took me longer to get up than I thought it would, I kept getting hit with a bit of writer's block... oh and I was distracted by football, work, and partying with my buds. lol

I decided to go ahead and name the family before I ended part one. The father's name is Allen McGee he and his family are all americans. He is 32, has red hair, a few freckles on his face, and is a fairly large man. His wife Sara, is a slim woman, with long waist length dark brown hair, blue eyes and is 30 years old. And the daughter Jenny, is 5 years old, has her father's red hair but not his freckles, and her mother's blue eyes, her hair is shoulder length and she usually carries a teddy bear around with her.

At the start of the series, there were a total of 27 Guardromon working under Andromon. After SkullSatamon's attacks only 16 are left.