Odaiba Elementary

We find our hero walking around the school with a big grin on his face without a care in the world. After what happened yesterday and the dream he had that showed him some of the memories of Takuya Kanbara and Koichi Kimura during their adventure he felt different like he was older, stronger, and wiser. He felt like a completely new person. Heck he didn't even have any problems with answering questions when a teacher called on him.

As he neared the computer room he saw that everyone was there so he walked in quickly saying "Hey guys ready to go knock down some control spires and be awesome in general" never losing his big cheesy grin.

Tk was curious, Davis was always cheerful sure but today he was even more so than usual "Hey Davis, what's got you so chipper?" he asked the goggle head.

"No reason I just feel really good today, I feel like I can do anything!" he responds never losing his smile.

"Even beat Ken Ichijouji and his team? We heard yesterday that your next game is against them." Cody asked him remembering what they heard yesterday.

Still smiling "I feel like I can beat Mr. Boy genius and if not beat him score a goal on him."

"Wow and to think you didn't feel well yesterday, it looks like you made the right decision to go home early you seem like your feeling better than ever before." Kari said to him while giving him a warm smile.

Normally this would send Davis into a lovestruck fanboy state but today " Thanks Kari it must have been cause you encouraged me to get some rest and helped me not feel like I was letting the team down, I owe feeling better all to you." He said while smiling impossibly wider at her.

This caught Kari off guard. Sure Davis normally says stuff like that all the time even if it had nothing to do with her but this time she could feel the sincerity in what he said instead of the usual attempt at flirting. Hearing him say this with the biggest grin he can make and looking at her with eyes that showed he meant what he said as well as his boyish face, Kari started to get a warm blush on her face not understanding why.

Watching everything happen T.K. decided to get things back on track "So Izzy sent a message saying that a lot of control spires were made close together in an area near the Colosseum, he said that he wishes he could come and help today since it looks fishy that there are so many control spires in one area but couldn't because he had to help tutor someone he wants all of us to be really careful." after saying this everyone nodded their heads in agreement.

Davis walked up to the computer with his digivice in hand before saying "No worries T.K. as long as we have each other's backs we'll be fine" he raised the digivice to the screen "Digi-port Open" and just like that he and V were sucked into the computer on their way to the digital world.

Everyone else followed his lead no one even registering one little thing he had said out of the ordinary except for T.K. "Did he just get my name right?" unfortunately he spoke his thoughts to late since he was alone and everyone else had gone through already.

The Digital World:

The Desert Near The Colosseum

They were all together as they got ready to evolve their partners. T.K. wasn't paying attention to what Davis was saying about the plan to handle the spires. He was still reeling from the shock of the goggle head after weeks of purposefully or accidentally getting his name wrong he finally said it right.

"And that's the plan guys so let's get going" Davis said while still smiling like an idiot, with the others wondering if his face got stuck.

This broke T.K. out of his stupor as he readied his digivice and terminal along with everyone else.

Armor Digivolution

"Digi-Armor Energize!!"*Spoken all together.*

Davis, Yolei, Cody, Kari, and T.k. appeared transparent as their respective D-Terminal's connected to their digivices sending the armor digi-eggs to them V, Hawkmon, Armadillomon, Gatomon, and Patamon all spun in a circle with each having the crests of Courage, Love, Knowledge, Light and Hope above them and their respective armor digi-eggs across from them spinning in the opposite direction.

"Veemon"

"Hawkmon"

"Armadillomon"

"Gatomon"

"Patamon"

"Armor Digivolve to...!" as they all spun into their armor digi-eggs.

"Flamedramon the fire of courage!"

"Holsemon the wings of love!"

"Digmon the drill of Knowledge!"

"Nefertimon the angel of light!"

"Pegasusmon the flying hope!"

End of Digivolution Sequence

As the light faded revealing the digimons armor forms behind everyone started to walk close together. The digimon and their partners except Pegasusmon and T.K. gathered in two groups consisting of Flamedramon, Davis, Cody and Digmon in one while the second was Holsemon, Yolei, Kari and Nefertimon. T.K. and Pegasusmon stood still confused as to where to go.

Davis noticed their lack of movement "Hey everything ok T.K. and Pegasusmon your not getting into your group?" he asked them confused.

Flinching at the reminder that he hadn't been paying attention he chuckled nervously saying "Sorry my mind was elsewhere while the plan was being discussed, what are we doing?"

He expected Davis to start acting a little stuck up and cocky but again he threw him for a loop "No worries T.K. it happens no big deal, just make sure to pay attention this time." there was no mocking in his tone just genuine understanding, T.K. didn't know what was happening but it was freaking him out.

"The plan is kinda simple really one group is me and Cody and our partners focusing on short range to mid range combat on the ground taking out dark ring controlled digimon we can as well as any control spires that are in range of our attacks," Davis paused to point towards Kari and Yolei "the second group will be you, Kari, and Yolei focusing on long range attacks to take out as many control spires as possible while me and Cody watch your backs. "

He was right the plan was simple but would also be very effective so before T.K. could get lost in his thoughts again about what was happening he climbed onto Pegasusmon's back and had him walk over to their group. With everyone set the three flyers took off from the ground. They headed to the first control spires with the two on the ground following closely with their partners on their backs.

"What is going on with Davis today he seems so... different." T.K. said finally finding the ability to speak again.

"I know what you mean it feels like he has matured or something, maybe he got put on Ritalin and this is the result." Yolei said finishing with a snicker.

"Yolei!" Kari shouted at her "That's not funny even if it turns out to be true Davis is our friend it's not nice to say something mean like that behind his back." Kari said with a stern expression.

"She's right Yolei no matter how many times you and Davis have argued the two of you are friends and digidestined saying something that would upset him behind his back is wrong." Holsemon said from underneath his partner.

"Ugh sorry it was a little joke I didn't mean it you know" Yolei said with a groan.

T.K. came up next to Yolei chuckling "Don't worry Yolei I thought it was funny."

As the two of them grinned to themselves the digidestined of light glared at them from behind. Since she had to go to the hospital so much when she was younger it gave Kari a deep respect for those that have disabilities and those who have to take medication they have to go through life with a feeling of being different and mostly not in a good way. She remembers how when she was young she had to take different kinds of pills for a few months so that she could try to build up her immune system and with each kind of pill she would take would have its own form of side effects like drowsiness, less of an appetite, mood swings, and etc. Bottom line she hates comments like this if Davis really does have to take medication she would support him and do anything to help adjust.

One hour later

Davis' plan worked without any problems. At first T.K. wondered why Davis and Cody were still on their partners backs as they fought until he saw the both of them telling their partners about incoming attacks coming from their blind spots, the added knowledge of the attacks lowered the normal amount of hits they usually took. They had cleared the entire area of control spires but one, the Colosseum.

T.K. took a long look at the copy of the famous structure and shivered "Ugh just looking at this place is going to bring back old nightmares I can feel it."

They all looked at him in confusion except for Kari who knew the tale "Why do you say that what happened here?" Yolei asked him curiously.

"This is where we found out if we try to force our partners to digivolve past what they can handle and are ready for they can dark digivolve, I had to watch as Greymon turned into a mindless beast called Skull Greymon I didn't sleep well for a couple weeks after that. " T.K. explained with another shiver as more of the memories came back to him.

Nodding in sympathy they all walked into the Colosseum and saw that there were control spires everywhere. The good news was there was only one enemy inside. The bad news was that it was an ultimate. The worst news was it was a familiar ultimate that wasn't a good guy to start with.

"Yeeeeaaaaah all hail the Digimon Emperor uh huh uh huh you will all serve him by the time I'm finished with you" yelled an extremely familiar orange monkey wearing black sunglasses a toy Monzaemon on his hip and sounded like an Elvis Presley impersonator, it was Etemon.

For the new digidestined they didn't seem fazed by the theatrical monkey, for Kari she looked nervous for T.K "Please no, God no! We have to run we need to get back up a lot of back up" he was freaking out seeing the powerful ultimate that could knock around all the original digidestines partners champion forms minus Gatomon single handedly without breaking a sweat and took Agumon becoming Metal Greymon for the first time to beat him.

After being clued in on why their friend was having a panic attack they were all on guard. All the while Etemon thought he recognized T.K. but the dark ring around his neck clouded his memory. So with a mighty jump the ultimate flew at them at full speed.

"I don't know why I feel like I've seen one of you before but that don't matter cause I've got a job to do Dark Network!" and still flying at them he tossed a green orb with black energy inside of it at them.

At that moment their partners promptly grabbed them and jumped out of the way as the orb whizzed past where they use to be destroying a huge chunk of ground and Etemon landed in the large crater he had just made "Well any other ideas cause I think running isn't an option anymore" Flamedramon said staring at the enemy that nearly took them out with one attack and didn't look winded in the slightest.

"How about this Rock Cracking!" Digmon said while inserting his drills into the ground and making a fissure happen in the crater and Etemon falling.

"There that wasn't so hard now- UUUHHHG!" Digmon tried to boast but was instead sent flying into the wall on the other side of the colosseum by the orange monkey, as he fell from hole he made in the wall Digmon Dedigivolved back to Armadillomon and crumpled on the ground.

"Armadillomon!!" Cody yelled in distress and ran to his friend.

"That was a sneaky little trick but it still wasn't good enough to take down the great Etemon" he said while flexing in an obnoxious way before pulling a microphone out of nowhere and putting it in front of his face "now I'd like to tribute this little tune to my master it's called 'Destroying these pesky brats' Concert Crush!

The sound was deafening and reverberated through all of them and from the way the armor evolved digimon covered their ears and got on their knees it hurt them more than it hurt their human partners. T.k. had Pegasusmon look him in the eyes and gestured towards Etemon. Nodding to his partner he stopped his fruitless effort to cover his ears with the arms he had in this form and flew into the air.

"Star Shower!" he yelled aiming for the dark ring.

The attack worked for a second later Etemon stood scratching his head confused with the dark ring broken at his feet "What just happened? Why can't remember what happened to me?" before a new dark ring snapped around his neck from a nearby control spire.

"Guess that explains why there are so many control spires around." Yolei said aloud.

"I've got a crazy idea but you guys aren't going to like it?" Davis said while staring at the now mind controlled again ultimate.

"Well a crazy plan is better than no plan" Kari said.

"Then follow my lead."

"Hey banana breathe your singing sounds like a hammer in a blender!" Davis yelled while running passed him.

"Why you little pest how dare you mock my wonderful singing!" yelled the enraged ultimate.

Slackjawed and wide eyed Yolei stared at Davis "He was wrong that's not a crazy plan that's an insane plan".

An imaginary lightbulb turned on above Flamedramon's "No it's a brilliant plan" running past Etemon on the opposite side Davis had he yelled while running "No way your voice hurts my ears like nails on a chalk board." smirking the entire time.

"Grrr" growling and turning red Etemon looked about ready to pop "I'll show you!" gathering the negative energy again "Dark Network!" two orbs of negative energy shot towards Davis and Flamedramon.

As the others gasped the partners smirked and looked each other in the eyes and hid behind a control spire each and let the orbs of negative energy hit their hiding places "Wow tone deaf and a terrible shot such an unfortunate combo" Davis said in a teasing way before he finished the sentence with a sorrowful tone.

"I heard that Grekomon love to sing and that Shogun Gekomon is a real BLAST at parties maybe if you ask nicely they'll give you some lessons and then maybe you can sing backup for them" Flamedramon said with a cocky smirk on his face.

"Backup... BACKUP!!!!" Etemon screamed and let loose a barrage of Dark Network orbs.

The two of them dodged and weaved around the control spires and made the projectiles that were coming at them hit the spires and, Davis' soccer skills were really being put to the test and so was Flamedramon's flexibility and agility. They had no breathing room to stop till they saw the other digidestined were each standing in front of a control spire with their partner close by to get them away.

"Come on you Elvis ripoff just try and get me." T.K. said with a chuckle 'Always did want to say that' he thought.

"Come on banana breathe just try and hit me" Yolei said with a determined scowl.

"I'm not one for name calling but come on and try to hit me you backup singer!" Kari yelled.

So much steam was coming out of his ears Etemon looked like he could have been a locomotive in a previous life the Dark Network orbs doubled in mount but aimed at all the digidestined instead of just Davis and V. As each orb got close to a digidestined their partners would grab them at the last second and then move in front of another control spire. Soon there was only one control spire left with a still mad Etemon huffing and puffing.

"Now that he got that out of his system can you do the honors buddy?" Davis asked with a cocky smirk on his face.

With the same smirk on his face V replied "My pleasure" lighting one of his gauntlet fists on fire he ran straight at the last control spire "Fire Knuckle" slamming his fist into the spire making spider web cracks to form before it finally disintegrated.

With the last spire gone the dark ring around Etemon's neck "Uuuhhh my head what happened where am I? The last thing I remember is wondering into a colosseum then everything going black" after focusing his vision he spotted T.K. and saw him overlapped with his younger self "Hey now I recognize you your one of those digidestined brats who beat me all those years ago" and just like that the fight starts a new.

"Hehehe hi again no hard feelings about that right?" T.K. asked nervously.

His answer came in the form of multiple Dark Network orbs being shot at the group, taking cover behind a fallen control spire the group watched as the wall was being decimated "That answer your question?" Davis said sarcastically.

Stopping his assault Etemon stretched with a grin on his face "Mmmm After getting beaten twice by you digibrats I was reborn into a simple mon but after that dark ring clamped on me I feel like my old self and I think its time for me to start my comeback tour, YEAH!" he yelled.

"Fire Rocket!" Flamedramon yelled colliding into the ultimate.

While looking at the armor digimon that had pushed him back a couple feet Etemon grinned maliciously. Rocketing forward Etemon punched Flamedramon in the gut and launched him into the stands of the Colosseum making a giant crater. This caused the ultimate to laugh boisterously as Davis ran into the entranceway to get to the stands.

"Hahaha what did the digidestined wind up having to put their training wheels back on while I've been gone cause I sent that one into the stands so deep he might have gone through to the other side Haha?!" Etemon laughed while whipping an imaginary tear from his eye before looking at the entranceway Davis had ran through "Now to make sure that one doesn't try to come back and upstage my show" he said before launching a large Dark Network at the entrance making it collapse.

"No Davis!!!!" Kari screamed out watching helplessly as the orb made the tunnel collapse.

"I wouldn't be so worried about him right now missy" Etemon said while calmly walking towards the group "cause I'm about to get revenge on you punks starting with you sugar" ge smiled viciously.

Kari stared terrified as Etemon reeled his fist back. She had no time to run and hide or be able to defend herself. she thought she was going to die until suddenly she found her would be murderer being knocked into a wall by a wild haired blonde wearing red flame designed armor.

To be continued:

I know I know I haven't updated in months and the first thing I do is a cliffhanger dick move I know but this chapter was getting too long and I might do a short chapter next so I can get what happens next out quickly. But still I want to thank you all for being patient with me it's been rough during the quarantine and it's affected my writing abilities so this is the culmination of a few months of work and I want to thank everyone who has favorited and followed me it means a lot. I hope we see each other soon.

Also yes the spirits of light are going to Ken I figured the guy has suffered enough in the darkness maybe a little light will help him to grow even more than he did before.

Set Partner Spirits:

Davis: Fire, Darkness

Kari: Wind

Ken: Light

Non-Partnered Spirits Options so Far:

Ice: Tk 1, Cody 2,...tba

Thunder: Izzy 3,...tba

Earth: Matt 1, Tk 1,...tba

Water: Sora 1,...tba

Wood: Tai 1,Yolei 1(why I don't know Arbormon is a guy), Joe 1,...tba

Steel: Tai 3,...tba