Ok, well, as the title pretty much tells you, this is the end for this story. More on that at the end note, for now, on with the Epilogue!

Disclaimer: I do not own digimon! For serious!

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Epilogue

Tai

All of us stood surrounding one of the television sets which would bring us back to our world, the human world. We were all smiling, about as happy as the twelve of us could be at this point. We'd finally stopped Piedmon, and after months spent in the digital world, we were finally getting back home.

Of course, not all of us were in mint condition, since several of us had been hurt in the final battle, but it wasn't anything time couldn't heal.

After the battle with ChaosPiedmon, Joe had insisted on all of us returning to Gennai's house so we get patched up. He insisted that if we did anything else, we would injure ourselves even more, and all the normal stuff he says to try and scare us into listening to him.

So we all listened to him, after all we hadn't wanted Joe to freak out too much, and he was probably right. At Gennai's we were able to see how the evil that had started to spread back into the digital world was now starting to recede. All of Piedmon's armies were still rampaging around the digital world, but the actual corruption was actually disappearing.

We also showed Gennai the Digimental, which he said could be used to release the Harmonious Ones without needing to give up all of our Crest's power. Needless to say, all of us were more than a little excited for that fact, so we went ahead with that plan. In addition the cleanup would go a lot faster with the Harmonious Ones around to shut people up.

So we travelled to each of the Temples of the Crests, with the Digimental in tow, and left a bit of its power there. (Don't ask me how, Gennai did some weird stuff, and then said we were good to go, I didn't really want to ask that many questions about it.)

Soon afterwards the Harmonious Ones returned, and with us helping them in a few of the battles they were able to stop all of Piedmon's armies, and restore Primary Village so that all of the digimon who had been destroyed by Piedmon could be returned to life.

"So we're sure this thing is going to work now, right?" Davis asked, poking the TV with his foot.

"Yes Davis, Gennai said that the gate was back to being open." Izzy replied with a sigh, shaking his head at the goggle wearing teen. "In fact, the Gate is more 'open' than it's ever been before."

"What does that mean Izzy?" I asked, looking over at him. I knew that the Harmonious Ones had said that things weren't going to be quite the same as they had been before, but this sounded pretty major.

"Well, Gennai said that the only way to undue Piedmon's damage, was the make a whole new gate." Izzy replied, looking down at the TV. "This one is even accessible to digimon who have a partner in the real world."

"Well, that sounds great." Sora said from where she was standing next to me. "Now all of our partners can come and go between the worlds without any need for us to open the portals!"

"Well, yes, but that's not all it means." Izzy said, looking around the forest we were standing in. "Any digimon with a human partner can travel to the real world, even ones who haven't found their partners yet."

That caused all of us to pause and look over at Izzy.

"So there's going to be hundreds of digimon that can come to the real world looking for their partners?" Cody asked.

"More like thousands, or even millions." Izzy replied, shaking his head.

"That's great! There will be that many people who have the chance to actually find their partners now!" T.K. exclaimed, a smile on his face. I thought that it would be a good thing, but there was a negative side to that.

"Imagine all those digimon coming into the real world…" Ken said after a minute of silence.

"The government is going to have its hands full if that many digimon come through!" I exclaim with a laugh. That would have to be a complex and horrible job in the government one day soon.

"But it'll hopefully do more good for everyone." Kari said, and everyone nodded, knowing exactly how much better our lives had gotten after meeting our partners.

"So, if all of our partners can open the portal now, why are we waiting on them?" Davis asked, looking at all of us. "I mean, why don't we go ahead and meet up with them later?"

"Well, for one, they're supposed to meet us here." I replied, shaking my head at Davis. Sometimes he really needed to turn his brain all the way on.

"And another, they're our partners you jerk!" Yolei shouted, and I sighed. Every time with those two.

"Who are you calling a jerk?" Davis replied, standing up.

"Who do you think, jerk?" Yolei replied, also standing up. Ken and T.K. moved over to the two of them, hoping to stop them before they actually started a fist fight, again.

"Hey, I hear Davis and Yolei!" A voice called through the woods, and a second later all of our partners came running out of the forest.

"Tai!" Agumon shouted as he run up to me.

"Agumon!" I replied, holding out a hand for a high five. The Harmonious Ones had needed to talk to our partners before we returned to the human world, so we'd gone ahead of them.

Everyone spent a few seconds talking with their partners, and then almost as one we all quieted down.

"Well, I guess that means that it's time to get going." Matt said, looking around at everyone, and I nodded at him.

"Yep." I said, and turned towards the portal. "Let's go home."

"Digiport, OPEN!"

~Chapter End~

~Story End~

Well, that's the end for How Far We've Come, and well, it's been a good time writing. I'd like to thank everyone who has taken the time to read this story, especially everyone who has reviewed.

Anywho, there is a sequel planned for this story, but it's not going to be coming out for a while. I've been working on this series for over a year now, and I feel the need to let it lie for a bit, and for other stories to have some attention. So the sequel probably won't come out for quite a few months.

Anyways, thanks again to everyone, later.

-arandomguy227