Bleh...this one took awhile. I'm kind of surprised by how many chapters this story has progressed through. I assumed that it would be done in 50 chapters or 55. But I was kind of wrong on that ^^; but with the climax rapidly approaching, it surely won't be much longer ^^ Bare with me everyone.


RainbowDragon- AKA RD- belongs to  rainbowdragon

Kiya belongs to  dragonsurfer

Digimon belongs to - Bandai

Max, Jesse and all other character's belong to me. DO NOT STEAL! Enjoy!! ^^

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Short on Time



Hilt flew alongside the other megas, as well as Jesse who was simply flying with makeshift wings. He took the time to speak to RD inside of him while they made their way to the last battlefield. "We were next to useless in that last round. I wonder if we'll be any more useful against BElphemon and Daemon."


RD winced inside Hilt, looking at their surroundings. "No idea, all I know is that took up precious time, better be careful or our Soul Cross will run out in mid-fight"


Hilt grunted at the comment "I have enough energy to keep us together for at least a few more hours. If we weren't pressed for time I'd look for something to eat. Maybe we'll take a bite out of Daemon."


"He's going to be mad we took out arkhadimon before they could go super-ultimate, I'm not sure we'd be able to fight him properly if that was the case" RD said remembering some special information about the digimon.


Hilt chuckled at that "He was planning to consume Arkhadimon I think..."


He was snapped back to attention as Megidramon smacked him with his barbed tail "Focus! Besides...you mumble a lot. Look!" He growled, gesturing to Belphemon who was quickly towering as high as most human skyscrapers


RD blinked "Let's use the prism shot, if worst comes to worst I'll materialize a magnifying glass to amplify our light power" RD said remembering a trick that amplified a light's power using a simply magnifying glass at exactly the right point


Hilt nodded, pointing his claws forward, making sure not to hit Max and Blade who were dancing around the demon lord "I wonder why Zeed or the others haven't joined in the fight..." As he was firing the shot, it slashed through Belphemon's shoulder, sending him staggering back.


RD blinked as he heard this then winced "Hilt, that shot, I think that shot used up some of the time we can stay fused, we should use that sparingly"


With a grunt, Megidramon paused "I cannot join you in this front." He hissed out, his eyes growing feral as his form started shaking.


Hilt nodded, cringing "I need food...and this isn't helping matters..." Turning his attention to Nova, he grumbled "What do you mean you can't join." With a hiss, Nova started de-digivolving to a rookie, levaing Hilt to catch both him and his tamer "Belphemon is producing an exedingly dark aura...Beings that aren't protected in the veil of light or aren't pure will easilly be influenced. I'm struggling just to keep from attacking you right now."


RD blinked "That's a seriously disturbing thought, hilt we need to take care of him, now. We can't put up a good fight when our teammates are trying not to turn against us"


Hilt growled a bit We also can't afford to disregard our ally."


Nova nodded "You said you need to eat, refuel by eating me. At the time, I'm only a hindrance in battle otherwise."


Hilt hesitated for a moment, watching the battle heating up, with a snarl, Kiya surged forward, as did Jesse who looked at Hilt and Nova "If you're low on reserves that might not be a bad idea. for now we'll tackle Belphemon. Join us once you're able."


RD nodded "I typically want to focus on the task at hand first but this will help" He admitted calmly.


Hilt nodded in agreement "I want too as well. But considering we're both at Mega level, and merged we're burning a lot of energy. Some food in our stomach will help us keep this form." He looked at Nova, before taking off his helmet and opening his jaws to start swallowing the Guilmon whole, as RD would realize, being merged to Hilt would let him taste whatever he was eating as well. it was a strange sensation to say the least.


RD blinked as he felt this, as he was slightly weirded out by this feeling but decided it was neccessary "Ok now that we're refueled we can join in right?"


Hilt sighed as the food entered his stomach, he couldn't help but let out a belch, then nodded, restraping his helmet back on "We can. Considering a Guilmon's size we should have plenty of energy to spare." Taking a deep breath, Hilt sprang forward as the group was attacking at Belphemon rather aggressively.


Now that there were a number of light wielders available, Belphemon was starting to have a bit of trouble maintaining his advantage, he let out a low growl. You flies certainly like to cause a buzz don't ya. This world is way too corrupt to keep going as it is."


RD eyerolled inside Hilt "I would have something to say about him being even more corrupt than the world he's claiming is corrupt. Oh and typically flies don't shoot lasers heh"


Hilt chuckled a bit "He's let his experiences define an entire world. It's something I can relate too, given I was like him not just a day ago."


Taking a deep breath, Max looked over to Jesse with grumble "We need to combine our powers to seal his darkness away!"


With a growl Belphemon retorted "You honestly believe I would let you have your way?"


Suddenly, Daemon stepped over, getting in Jesse's way, chuckling "It looks like I was right to come to your aid Belphemon. These insects are giving you trouble."


RD blinked "I was expecting him to be enraged" RD muttered inside hilt "What with us getting rid of Arkhadimon and all"


Hilt chuckled a bit "Would you like to give him that news? I think though we're using my body, our minds are connected. Would you like to take the reins?"


RD blinked "Gladly but I worry that giving him the news will cause him to fly into a rage, the thing that's worrying me is our defeat of the royal knights should've given him some pause, I mean with this world crumbling around us it should be obvious"


Hilt nodded "I think you deserve just as much to be a part of this battle. I'll give you the reins but don't mind the weight. Apparently Nova was a chubby Guilmon." HE chuckled "I think...Daemon might not be as smart as he thinks he is."


RD cringed "I'm not telling him that" RD took over. Yellow eyes turning brown, looking at Daemon "You seem awfully calm for someone who's lost one of his main advantages in arkhadimon and has his world disappearing from around him"


Daemon turned his attention to RD, before chuckling "I hadn't forseen Jesse coming into his powers so quickly. But it made no difference to me. At this point the keys to this world hold no signifigant part in our plans anymore." He motioned to Belphemon "This is only a fraction of the darkness. It selected him as it's vessal once it's broken free from it's prison. While I wasn't entirely pleased by being shoved aside. It is what it is. And in just mere minutes the old Darkness will return, to join with Belphemon's own darkness."


RD blinked, now realizing why Daemon was so calm, it was a bad situation, even if they did defeat Belphemon, Daemon could simply take over if necessary! They could easily take down Daemon or Belphemon by themselves but together it would be difficult.


Max and Jesse both cringed as they heard Daemon explain his side of things and knew it was true "We need some way to seperate them...Long enough for us to seal Belphemon's powers at least so Daemon can't get ahold of them!"


Just then, Hilt had an idea, and began giving RD a step by step idea of what he had planned. "I have a plan but I'm not sure of it working. Problem is...it will burn through a lot of our energy reserves so we might need to fill up on more than what we already have or risk being de-fused mid way."


RD blinked as he spoke internally with Hilt "Alright what's the plan"

As the pair conversed inside of themself, Max and Jesse leapt over Belphemon's form, trying to find a weakness to exploit, but whenever they found a blindspot in the demon lord, Daemon would send a sharpened claw, flying towards them in an attempt to seperate them. With a growl, Kiya jumped into the fray, firing bullets into Daemon's direction then turned to RD. "What's taking you? We could use a hand!"


RD nodded as he then proceeded to unload every single digimon into his gut "oof, that's more than usual but we need to do this" RD groaned, the gut of their soul cross now so distended that the armor didn't fit it as he concentrated "Ok here we go, prism prison" RD made the prison as big as he could, it was less a bubble and more like a dome, stretching to the ground and expanding all the way up to the sky as high as he could make it around Max, Jesse and Belphemon while at the same time shutting out daemon.


Everyone looked on, stunned as the prism prison encased the three. Whenever someone touched the outer wall, they simply bounced off. Daemon looked in RD's direction, a tremble in his voice, more of anger than it was fear. "You...! What is it that you just did!?"


Laughing to himself, as much as he was to Daemon, RD allowed himself a small smirk. "I just seperated you from your teammate...Now it's all of US versus YOU." Talking a deep breath, he started using the digimon within his gut to fuel the prism. "If this was a video game it'd be called what is known as a 'hold the line' mission...We sent information to Max and Scav's digivice, asking for a transferrance of all the digimon they were storing. And once they were in our digivice...we gave them the choice to help protect the new digital world, and help forge a new peace."


Daemon growled at the explaination, and was headed straight for RD, when Blade and Fang flew forward, creating a wall of sorts for the Wargreymon. "I don't think so Daemon!" Blade growled low, grabbing ahold of the pair of short swords that were strapped to his sides. The Victorygreymon now in full combat mode.


"We won't let you interrupt their battle within the prism. One demon lord we can handle now that the miasma that was trying to overpower us is now sealed within the prison." Fang let a small grin form on his muzzle, before his eyes started glowing. With a single step forward, his eyes met RD's with an air of importance. The ZeedGarurumon's appearance growing fierce. "You focus on the prism prison. We'll take care of Daemon."


RD nodded "I'm typically not focused at all, everytime an explosion happens my focus wants to shift to that but right now all that's keeping Belphemon from becoming the next vessel of darkness is us so we need to do this"


Chuckling, Hilt started to relax, his conciousness starting to fade, or rather...it was becoming one with RD's "We may not be the lead role but we're an important part. I'm giving everything I have to you. So give everything to the task at hand." For a moment, there was an intense feeling of invasion through RD's mind as Hilt's started to merge with his own. But eventually it subsided as he absorbed the Wargreymon into his own being. Of course, RD did not mind this, it was like their soul cross had progressed as far as it could, and with Hilt's discipline of control, he was able to better focus on the task at hand.



As he did so, Flare and Flaremon both started growing agitated "Dang it...we haven't been useful this entire time."


Flaremon raised an eyeridge "You'd prefer to fuel RD?"


That got a laugh out of Flare who shook his head "No but I also don't like sitting on the sidelines..." He took out his digivice, both his human and beast spirit digimon materializing infront of him before merging together "I plan to use the gift Max's grandfather gave me." With that Flare started digivolving, both his Agunimon and Burninggreymon forms combining into that of a mobilized fighter. If RD had been able to pull up his digivice, it would have came up as the legendary warrior of Aldamon.


RD was cringing, before smiling as he got a glimpse of Flare's new form. "If you could beat Daemon that would be excellent, getting rid of him would take the pressure off immensely"


Flare nodded, giving a thumbs up before blinking at the shining light to his side, then grumbled as Flaremon had digivolved into a fully digivolved Apollomon, who answered with a rumbling voice "We'll take care of Daemon. Now that we're not held back by Belphemon's influence we'll go all out..."


RD nodded smirking "That prison also blocked off his evil influence? Good to know"


Apollomon nodded "I believe the inner walls are coated in a veil of light...preventing his influence from permeating the outside walls. Long as you keep it that way...we'll eleminate Daemon. Only question will be should we fry or grill him." He said with a smirk.


"That might not work" RD pointed out "His special attack revolves around fire, I think the main thing to do is control the fire so it doesn't hit me"


Flare blinked, nodding in agreement "I'll be able to redirect his fire. I'm the warrior of flames afterall." Flare took out his digivice and started a timer "When I last used this form I could go for about thirty minutes. We'll try to end it by then."


Apollomon nodded, the sun glowing on his back, some of it's energy even flowing into RD, as if to aid in keeping him energized, but the flow was cut off a moment later as they jumped into the fray.


RD chuckled as he watched for a second but then focused his attention back on the prism prison "I don't like sitting on the sidelines either but when this is the only way to win ugh"


Inside of the Prism, Max and Jesse were leaping over what cover they had to work with. Thankfully, RD made the inside of the prison large enough for them to meanuver comfortably. But they also knew that RD didn't have an infinite supply of power to run with. IT made the time they had to settle the score even more precious. And with the Darkness ready to burst forth from the planet at any moment they didn't have any time to waste. That's when it hit Max. "Jesse...we're not going to be able to do this alone! We may be the only ones that can SEAL his power, but we don't have the means to stop him long enough to get into place."


"What is it you suggest then?!" Jesse asked, growling as he cut one of Belphemon's chains with his scythe, getting a feeling of satisfaction as the green glowing chains snapped under his attack.


Pulling up a shield of light, Max was able to avoid the second chain, then stretched out the shield to wrap around the glowing tendril before it turned to dust through purification. "Remember that time we were nearly mauled by that giant Ursaring?"


It took Jesse a few seconds to recall the memory. It was so long ago, and when it hit him he only gave a short nod in affirmation. "Same principle?"


"Same principle!" Max shot back, using a claw and pointing it under Jesse's cape. "you brought him with you right?"


Jesse nodded, smirking as he pulled out a pokeball from under the cape. "Comeon now...since when am I ever seperated from him?"


The two stopped just as a third chain landed smack between them. They turned to face Belphemon with new determination in their eyes. "This might be just a little bit more difficult than the bear." Max commented quietly.


There was a loud popping sound, as Jesse tossed the ball in the air. Nidoking came dropping to the ground, shaking it a good bit. When he caught wind of Belphemon, he looked at Max and Jesse, steam coming out of his nostrils as a wide grin spread across his face. "You kidding me? The Ursaring was more of a threat than this guy..."


"You..." Belphemon stared, dumbstruck by the newcomer that came into the prison, but even more so, surprised that he wasn't influenced by the darkness. "Why aren't you under MY command? With that kind of attitude you should be full of darkness!"


Snorting, Nidoking pointed a claw to Jesse behind him and roared. "Listen here! No darkness is going to keep me from sticking to my best friend and trainer! My loyalty and honor is just a biiiit more precious to me than that."


"So you can't be corrupted eh? Your devotion to your master won't allow it...Then let's see how you fare against me! There's no way in hell a pokemon is a match for a demon lord such as myself!" Daemon declared, shaking the interior a bit.


As a massive claw came flying at Nidoking, the ground type simply caught it in his paws, being pushed back a couple inches before he lifted the large sharp claw above his head, toothy grin and all. "I'm sorry...were you saying something? I could have SWORN you said I wasn't a match for you..."


Going wide eyed, Belphemon clenched his teeth as he pulled his claws away. "What...the hell are you? You can't be corrupted...you stopped my claws from piercing your flesh...You CAN'T be a pokemon."


With a short sniff, Nidoking started dusting off his paws, and rather than answer the demon's question, he looked at both Max and Jesse. "Are we doing this or not?"


While Nidoking had been debating with Belphemon, he was busy collecting energy from what was left of the planet around them. when Nidoking turned to face him, he had Soul crossed into his Wild beast mode, crouching low as if he were a feral tiger. "Let's finish this...So that we can all go back to our normal lives."


Jesse's cape transformed into a pair of wings on his back, his scythe's blade becoming a shimmering Black, with the sharp edge glowing a slight purple as if to emphasize the shadow energy added to it. His eyes turning to slits as he synced himself with Reapermon inside him. "So that we can create the tamers guild in a world of peace."


Nidoking nodded, smirking to both friends. He didn't stop to ask how they became they way they are, after all...he was only pleased they could work so well together again. And he'd ask all about their adventures once they finished the task at hand.


"Ready...GO!" Max roared out, as they all flew into seperate directions, save for Nidoking who charged headlong into Belphemon.


(To be continued)