“Welcome, mortals.” the lord’s dark, deep, yet soft echoing voice said to them, “You have entered a realm of limbo where no light can penetrate, and the despairing find their silence… known as The Dark Zone.”

“D-D-D-Dark… Zone!” whimpered Mimi.

“Yes,” replied the lord “I must congratulate you all. No mortal has ever set foot in our realm. For billions of years we have existed in silence and solitude. Your arrival here is a mere fluke.”

Everyone was still trembling softly, much to the annoyance of the quartet.

Even the lord realized, “Perhaps I am a bit too much for their mortal minds to handle.” And with that, his entire gargantuan body was enveloped in swirling dark smoke, frightening everyone but the angles to step back several paces. “This is getting freaky!” cried Rainbow.

When the smoke had cleared, there stood the lord, no longer humongous, but rather as tall as two men on top of one another. He too looked like the really dark angels, with black all over his skin, no face, glowing eyes. He had long black hair that reached way down his back side. He still had the deer antlers atop his head, and he wore an outfit of a black armored vest with faded black designs all over the front, and a black robe down his lower half, and long dark scarves fluttering from his wrists.

“I trust you will find me less overwhelming now.”

Everyone looked at him, more with awe.

“Who are you?” asked Shining Armor.

“My name is Erebus: Head Dark Angel. For billions of years I have served as Lord and Guardian of the Dark Zone, and for all those eons of living in darkness, I became the creature you just saw; my true form.

This that you see me as now is only the remains of what I used to look like.”

“Billions of years…?” asked Terra.

Erebus nodded, and he decided to explain…

His eyes glowed brightly as the darkness began to warp all around everyone, allowing him to show images of how it all began.

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“Before time began, before the worlds you knew came into existence, there was the great creation, by myself and The Creators: many spiritual gods and goddesses, each controlling many of the elements and forces needed to create everything anywhere.

From our creations, the dimensions and the multi-verse were born, and would flourish with more creation, more existence and more of anything that ever would be in the great eons to come.

We Creators, satisfied with our work, continued to watch over the realms. We could not ask for anything more, not even I myself… for I had her with me; my dear Kiran, a goddess of the light.

Even we Creators knew and understood love-- we created it after all.

My dear Kiran and I, we were so happy together, even the other Creators envied our love. Despite that we were two forces of difference, I being of Darkness and she of Light, it mattered not to us.

I almost felt I could love Kiran more than the verses we helped to create. Things were so perfect!

Unfortunately, just as good came from the worlds made, even we Creators were not beyond our errors and flaws.

The energy forces of the realms were starting to mix in ways that we were not prepared for. Fire mixing with water, darkness clashing with light, and wind and earth shattering!

From these created other worlds, more dastardly than ever; realms of limbo and afterlife so mysterious, one would never believe they could remain. Heaven… Hell… Purgatory… and all the types you can think of.

…And among all them all, The Dark Zone itself.

In all the chaos that was occurring, we Creators struggled to get it under control, and in the midst of things, Kiran was affected badly, and was severely weakened in a great blast known as The Big Bang.”

Once the chaos was stabilized and the realms were safe, Kiran had awoken but she had lost her memories of us all, even I. She did not know me, did not remember the love we shared. She didn’t even know she was a goddess who helped to create it all.

We tried to help restore her memories, but she was frightened by us all, and she wished to wander away to discover a way for herself to continue. Knowing this was not a safe move, we Creators continued to try and help restore her memories, only to further irritate her to the point where her powers simply erupted in a chaotic force.

The power of this force affected different worlds and realms, and cursed the creators-- sealing them all away to a random planet in an unknown dimension, but I myself was unfortunate to be sent here to the Dark Zone, and cursed with it as well, which changed me into a Dark Angel upon my reformation.”

The images faded away, and none of the mortal felt anything short of touched, hurt, and upset for him. “That’s… so sad.” cried Kagome.

“Damn…” said Inuyasha.

The Digi Destined and gang had never heard of anything so dark, hurtful and cursed before. Even Ken felt that his experience with Darkness was nothing now.

The Titans were speechless, and the ponies were stiff as boards.

“But that doesn’t explain why all the rest of you are here.” Cadance said, hinting at the other angels, and they all explained.

“The Dark Zone is a form of cursed afterlife” said Nobunaga “Lord Erebus explained how we Dark Angels came here after being cursed ourselves from birth.”

Erebus nodded, “Darkness is not just a form meaning lack of light, it also is, not interpreted, but in actuality a cursed force of deep emotion; a curse that can consume all and cause great and terrible chaos.

Whatever it was that Kiran’s outburst had done affected the realms in many ways. There are many different creatures, discoveries, and many effects other creations and discoveries.”

The groups began to feel astonished to learn this, of how and why they were all different in many ways.

Davis stepped forth, “The Darkness strikes like a bolt of lightning, without warning at any place, any time to any male.”

“Wait… “Any male?” asked Cyborg.

“That’s right.” replied Beast Boy “Every creature in the Dark Zone is a dude.”

Everyone looked round at any angel they could see, and surely enough there was not a female amongst them; not one.

“The darkness here isn’t like any other.” said Spike “Men are more vulnerable towards it than girls.

In any dimension, if a certain male creature, no matter what the species, suffers from extreme depression, bad luck, and a horrible life… enough to make you scream…” he didn’t have to go on, as everyone pictured what happened next…!

A bright flash, followed by the victim’s eyes going dark, and eventually their souls are drained away; sent to the Dark Zone.

Spike looked all around at the many humanoid Dark Angels around him “The longer they stay here, the longer they are consumed by more darkness, and they all take the same shape. That’s what I’ll look like someday myself.”

The sentry agreed, “When I first came here, many thousands of years ago, I was an ordinary lemur in the jungle, and now I have taken on this form.”

A dark angel flea over head on his way across the lands, “That one used to be a dinosaur who lived millions of years ago, until the darkness overwhelmed him in his life, and he came here.”

Kari glared at Erebus “You just pick some random guy and bring him here because he’s having bad luck?!”

“Silence!” growled the sentry “How dare you balk at the lord!”

Erebus held his hand up silencing the sentry. “Her emotions are healthy.” He then looked down at Kari “I had nothing to do with their coming here. This cursed darkness chooses for them.

Unfortunate as it is, every great while, there an individual male born with this curse of being susceptible to this darkness. They do not realize this, even WE ourselves do not realize they could become a dark angel… until it actually happens.

If their lives are truly dark, cursed, painful… here they come, and here they will stay.”

“Wait!” said Joe “That’s it? They have to come here just because they had bad luck and couldn’t change their lives?”

“That’s exactly it.” said Beast Boy “Our souls have been stuck here in this dark nightmare for so long, we’ve lost our bodies. We’re dead! Finished! Kaput! Done like dinner… and that’s all there is to it. We can’t even go back to the way we were even if we wanted to.”

Nobunaga nodded “As Dark angels, we are tasked with venturing into our respective worlds, and from there we collect a powerful energy known as Dark Aura, we use it to keep our realm stable, and to help our dark powers remain in check, and also… we do mortals unaffected by our darkness a favor.”

“And just what favor is that?” asked Raven.

Davis answered “The Darkness causes bad luck, curses and misfortune to mortal worlds. By absorbing this darkness, we can help living mortals not be affected by such bad luck.

What do you think grants you all the lucky breaks and stuff that make you come on top? It’s us… taking all the bad away. Then we just let it all loose here in the Dark Zone, we meditate a bit, and then go get more.”

The mortals all felt disgusted with such a style. “That’s all you ever do?” asked Inuyasha “You just sit on your butts, go get this dark energy to make other people happy, then do nothing until you go out and get more again?

…Pretty lame.”

“So what?” snapped Beast Boy “What else can we possibly do? We can’t be seen by most mortals when we go out there. We’re just intangible shadows. We can’t do much else.”

“Then how was Kari able to see you?” asked Sora.

“What about me too?” added Terra.

“…AND US TOO.” Luna and Raven said together.

Kagome even remembered Princess Tsuyu was able to see Nobunaga when no others could.

Erebus spoke, “I too wondered how this possible, and now I finally understand.

Only those who have some connection to any other form of dark aura, or those who were closely linked and largely responsible for the respective Dark Angel being sent here have the ability to communicate with us.

It is possible this is due to Kiran’s power that caused this.

Only here, in our dark domain can you all see and physically touch us. As was said before, in your worlds, the dark angels take on the form of intangible shadows. They cannot be seen, heard, or touched by any other… which is how they prefer it, as do I.”

The quartet agreed, explaining how they liked not being seen, caring much for the sakes of others, and rather just going about their business collecting the aura. Above all, they did not wish to interfere in mortals’ lives, which was why Erebus has restrained most of their powers.

All they could really do in the mortal realms was teleport and absorb aura. Everything else they did, like walking through walls, and flying just came naturally as they were shadows.

“Um…” Jun said as she raised her hand “Can I, like, ask a question?”

Erebus nodded.

“Why… did you bring us all here?”

Nobunaga glared at the ponies and replied, “Because of them.”

The ponies were shocked, “Us?” snapped Pinkie Pie.

“What did we do?” asked Twilight.

Spike decided to take this one, revealing they, the Dark Angels, had been aware of the ponies little dimensional warp. “Even though it wasn’t your fault, your actions in each of the other realms caused us a great deal of trouble.”

He then proceeded to point out the difficulties the ponies had caused, and the others had inadvertently helped them to cause.

First: The dimensional trans-warp from the malfunctioning mirror gate in Equestria began to shift the darkness within the dark zone, which could have led to unstable levels of dark power being thrown all about.

Then, as if it were bad enough that some of them could naturally see the Dark Angels through their connections, Princess Luna altered Nobunaga’s timeline from when she made his appear visible with her magic in the Feudal Era, which caused a little more instability for all the Dark Angels, now having had five hundred years of their memories revised due to the shift.

And to top it all off, the fact that each and every group used tricks and magic on the Dark Angels to make the visible with the intention of trying to talk and reason with them, this angered the quartet especially.

Erebus was also enraged deep down by this, but he did not let it show.

“So we brought the ponies here to get them all back to Equestria, where they belong.” said Nobunaga “The rest of you are only here because you were caught in the middle. It could not be helped.”

“Don’t worry,” said Davis “We’ll send you all back to your own worlds.”

“And you’re coming with us too!” his mom said.

“What?” snapped Davis.

“You’re coming too, Beast Boy.” said Robin.

“And you, Spike.” added Twilight.

Kagome and friends didn’t say anything about Nobunaga, but Erebus stepped forth and spoke severely to the mortals, “That is out of the question!”

“You got that right.” grumbled Beast Boy “We’re not going back and that’s final.”

Inuyasha was starting to lose his patience, “Look, we all sorry what happened to all of you, but we want to help.”

Kagome was most surprised, “Inuyasha?”

TK stepped forward just as serious as Inuyasha “I agree. You guys just can’t stay here like this and do nothing forever.”

“Yeah? Well it’s better than going back with any of you.” sneered Spike.

“You are not serious, are you?!” Starfire asked in shocked, and the quartet folded their arms and glared at the groups. “Eeyup, they’re serious alright.” said Applejack.

“You bet we are…” sneered Beast Boy “We already told you, we couldn’t go back even if we wanted too, especially not to live with all of you.”

Nobunaga agreed, “You are all responsible for sending us to this nightmare in the first place!” He didn’t specifically refer to Inuyasha and Kagome for his own problems, but he did make himself clear.

Twilight, Celestia and Luna felt livid.

“Just a minute!” growled Twilight, and she confronted Davis first, knowing only his story from Kari and the Digi Destined. “Kari told us everything that happened to you, and she’s really sorry for the way she acted.”

Kari looked over at Davis and nodded almost tearfully. Tai held his sister softly, “Davis, we’re all sorry for the way we treated you. It’s been bothering us ever since.”

The others all nodded.

Celestia confronted Beast Boy, “The Titans told me what happened with you too, and I realize how hard you had it, but don’t you think you can see it to at least try and reconcile?”

Rarity approached Spike, “Spike, it’s what good friends do. You above all should know that.”

The ponies all looked at him with loving care.

Terra approached Beast Boy, “Beast Boy, I’m pregnant with your baby.”

Beast Boy looked at her stomach, and seemingly realized this for the first time, and he remembered that day when they… did it!

Inuyasha and Kagome didn’t know much to say to Nobunaga. It wasn’t like he had much to return to since his era was well passed at this time.

“Nobunaga, what would you choose?” Kagome asked “Would you really want to stay here, and be bored for all eternity?”

Luna stepped beside her, “I know that you were a good man in your time, and despite your thinking, there would still be hope for you.” She paused and looked at the other angels “…For all of you.”

Twilight agreed, “Don’t you see? This is what real friendship can do. Good friends can always make up, and start anew.”

In spite of every heart filling thing that was said, the Dark Angels were completely unmoved. Davis even chuckled softly. “Good friends… DO NOT let other friends down in the first place, or treat them like non-real friends.”

Everyone felt confused.

Davis then confronted Twilight, “Friends can’t ALWAYS make up and start anew, especially if they’re not really your friends to begin with.

Trust me, kiddo; I know a lot more about friendship than you do.”

Twilight felt most insulted, as did the other ponies, and even Matt was livid “How can you say that?!” he snarled at him.

“Don’t bother!” said TK “He’s just being butthurt because he still can’t get over that Kari chose me over him.”

“TK!” Kari snapped.

The sentry was outraged, “Why you, I ought to…!” Davis held up his arm, “I can handle this.”

He looked up at Erebus, and he nodded down at him allowing him to proceed.

Davis walked straight up to Twilight, who stood next to Kari, “Kari told you about me, right?”

“That’s right.” replied. Twilight.

“We all were told,” added Starlight “She explained about your fallout, and that you wanted to be with her and it didn’t work out, and we were told how you got killed. We understand you’re upset at the loss of your Digimon, Ex-Veemon, but is all this suffering really worth it, just because you didn’t get to be with the girl.”

Davis shook his head in dismay and chuckled “You really think this is just about me and Kari? Well, it isn’t!”

He then glared at Kari dead in the eyes, “I heard you tell them what happened, but you didn’t tell them EVERYTHING! Like how you wouldn’t have gone out with me even if you weren’t dating TK, or any boy for that matter.”

“What?” snapped Shining Armor “Kari is that true?”

Kari stammered and twiddled her fingers, “I… may have said… something like that.”

Davis sighed, “I’ll show you exactly what she said.” and with a wave of his hand, he created a dark wave that revealed images of the past, exactly as it happened with no exaggerations at all.

Davis only sighed “It’s not just about Kari, okay. Sure it’s a little about it. Maybe if I had asked her out when I had the chance it could’ve been different.”

“No it wouldn’t.” said Kari “I wouldn’t gone out with you.”

Davis nearly froze dead on the spot, “What was that?”

“Davis, I wouldn’t have gone out with you even if I didn’t choose TK. You’re a great friend, but you’re just not my type.”

“That’s right… she did say that!” said Gatomon “I guess we all just forgot over the while.”

The ponies couldn’t believe what they saw, especially Cadance “You had no intention of giving a guy who liked you a chance, not even one?!”

Kari was shaking in guilt and fear.

“I… I can’t believe you.” said Fluttershy.

“Oh, believe it.” said Davis “I also notice that she didn’t explain to you, she claimed to see me as friend, but all she ever was tease me, think hardly much of me, and worse, she constantly flirted with TK using their friendship just to make me feel jealous.”

He showed more images, confirming his complaining, and one of which was Kari’s inner voice confessing to it.

“While those three were having fun at the beach, I was in New York with TK, partly to visit Mimi, and partly to make Davis jealous.”

The ponies were completely speechless, and Twilight was rather livid with Kari now. Real friends NEVER made fun of real friends like that!

“Oh, it gets better…” said Davis, and he glared at all the other Digi Destined, and his mother and sister. “The rest of you couldn’t respect my own wishes and privacy!”

He showed images of Davis declaring that if he couldn’t have Kari he was willing to try and let her go and let her be with TK, while he himself stayed alone with no girlfriend and wanted pursue life single!

His mother constantly interfered with his life by setting him up on blind dates with neighboring girls, and there girls at school whom Davis turned down, not just because he had no feelings for them, but because a lot of them were gold digger; just wanting to date him to boost their own images. They cared nothing for Davis, or even that he had feelings.

He told this to Kari, his mom, and the others many, many times, but all they ever did was scold him and call him out for being stubborn. Kari even set up that dating website which made more girls go after Davis, and he felt very harassed! He told everyone, repeatedly, to knock it off and let him be, and they didn’t listen, just continued to feel he should have a date!

More arguments followed, and Kari confessed her unwilling to see Davis as anything but a friend. That was how the fights broke out, Ex-Veemon was destroyed thanks to TK and Magna-Angemon, and Kari just punched Davis in the face.

Davis stopped the images, and everyone was speechless.

“You see!” Davis snarled “I came to the Dark Zone because of all of you, and especially YOU, Kari! You claimed you were my friend, but are so incredibly… SELFISH! It was all about what YOU wanted

You set up that dating sight because you WANTED me to date other girls.

Mom only wanted me to date because it would satisfy her own needs, not mine!

What kind of friends refuse to listen and understand? What kind of friends refuse to give just a little respect and try to see you in a new way? Most of all, what kind of friends act like complete AND TOTAL… HYPOCRITES?!!”

All the Digi Destined, and friends with them were total frozen with grief, fear, TK was growing extremely angry with Davis, despite what a lot of he said was true.

“That goes double for me!” Beast Boy sneered as he glared at the Titans. “Do you honestly think I’d want to come back even if I had the choice?”

He conjured up his own images of his past; the very story he had told Terra, but none of the other Titans, or the ponies heard.

How he was mutated after getting sick…

His folks dying in a flood because of unscrupulous dam buidlers…

His abusive life and his struggles to find acceptance, the Doom Patrol, and the Titans themselves…!

Sure, they did have a few good times, but just a few, all the rest were bad and harsh. All the Titans would give him a look, exclude him from their activities, and not want much to do with him most of the time, even if it was due to his ignorance and inability to understand complex things.

Sure, part of the reason was that he was being just a little annoying, but it didn’t excuse the other Titans’ behaviour, especially not Raven’s! She was the worst of them all…

Insulting him… talking down to him… and very often smacking him upside the head, even when he had a good idea, or just a suggestion; whether it was smart or dumb.

…and Raven WAS NOT on her period then, or the other times…!

“Any good chance we could replace Beast Boy with a robot too?”

“Beast Boy had a brain?”

“Blue is still my favorite color… And don't get used to this smile, 'cause you're still not funny.”

“I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but I wish Beast Boy were here”

All this and more was proof she truly did not think highly of him; that he could never be anything than an immature goofball.

Even on her birthday, all the Titans tried to help her celebrate, not knowing it meant she was cursed, and how did Raven handle it… by throwing a fit and destroying everything in a raging huff!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCdAlSFT8wI

Beast Boy glared every furiously at Raven liked he was ready to run her through, “You… Bitch…!! I should’ve killed you long ago!” he snarled.

Raven didn’t know whether to feel remorseful, or extremely pissed, but she just stood with her arms folding and the same “I don’t care” expression on her face…

…Which Celestia found extremely disturbing, now seeing Raven for whom she really was deep down-- a creepy, snarky freak! Despite her reasons for trying to stay neutral, her attitude was still highly inexcusable, and not at all friend-like! She could have handled things much better-- more GENTLE like!

“But we DID have good times!” Raven protested.

“Yes, we did!” Robin pointed out.

With that Beast Boy viewed the images, and while they all did have SOME good times, even himself cheering Raven up when her heart was broken hearted…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28gesnVafoA

“Like I said…” Beast Boy protested “You’ve done more bad to me than you’ve done nice. Those good things mean nothing to me now!”

All the Titans felt heart struck, in a bad way, and Beast Boy wasn’t through yet.

“As if that weren’t bad enough, how do you think it feels to be a hero-- when you give, and give, and give… and what’s your reward for it? Nobody knows you! Nobody appreciates you! They hardly even know you’re alive!”

He showed images of how he had hardly any fans in Jump City. The stores barely hand any Beast Boy merchandise to sell, whereas the stuff for the other Titans sold like hotcakes due to their popularity.

As Beast Boy walked down the streets of people, no one would look at him, say “hello” or even give him a smile… like he wasn’t even there.

It was like he was asking for people to bend over and kiss his ass like he was a god. All he wanted just a little respect and appreciation instead of being unsung!

Then there were the changes in the city, which cost Beast Boy all his favorite hangout places, and were all replaced with work buildings, and factories-- things he could not find any use for, and there were no replacements in the entire city-- no more video stores, candy shops. No more arcades, no theme parks or playgrounds, no skate parks-- It was as if the entire town was becoming one big workforce, and outlawing fun and games… it wasn’t really… but there was no reason to think different.

Terra gulped hard when Beast Boy glared at her, “Your turn…!”

He showed images of how they almost had a thing going on, every moment since when they first met, to their first date, to her betrayal to Slade, and turning against the Titans only to save the entire city form an underground volcano.

“You were the best friend… I ever had!”

She turned to stone.

And then… there it was, at her old school…

“You’re my friend! You’re a Teen Titan!”

“You’re wrong!”

“Things change, Beast Boy. The girl you want me to be is just a memory.”

She faked having amnesia and forgot about her past, only to be uncovered she was deliberately trying to forget her past, and brushed Beast Boy off entirely all so she could live a normal life. She just kicked him to the curb, just like that, not wanting anything to do with him, or even remember the good times they had, or that he was willing to forget all the bad things she did and give her love, a home, and loving family.

…But that was no good for her. “Just leave me alone!” was all she said.

And how did the Titans react to his well-understandable grieving…? But forcefully telling him to move on, and get over his troubles like that. Starfire even gave him false hopes telling him the old “Plenty of fish in the sea” dribble.

Socially, Beast Boy was completely washed up! Having a home with the titans meant nothing to him, neither was being a superhero if all he was going to get was pain, pushed over, disrespected, and worse: people who lied to him, like Terra!

She realized she loved him and still wanted to be with him, which lead to the conceiving of their baby growing inside her. They promised to try and take it steady, but Terra let her selfishness take over and took him to court on the charge of raping her, which he didn’t do; she willingly slept with him!

The Titans even knew Terra was lying, and committing deliberate perjury in court while under oath for the sake of not losing her normal life style, and yet, the Titans didn’t say a thing about it to the court. Though they had reasons to protect Terra, it didn’t help that Beast Boy was found guilty and sentenced to the insane asylum.

The rest of it was history.

“Some friends you are!” Beast Boy growled at the titans “All I ever did was give, and give. I tried to fit in, tried to make you all have a good laugh, and I made great sacrifices to help YOU and the people of the city, and you repaid me with selfishness and disrespect!”

Robin had taken enough, “So we give you a home… we give you food and shelter, and you can’t show respect for that?!”

“UGH!!” growled Beast Boy “You didn’t listen to a thing I said! You gave me THINGS… most of which was stuff I didn’t want! All I ever wanted was to be loved, respected, and treated like a decent guy. Instead, I always got the opposite. You were always telling me to suck it up and move on… TO WHAT?! How can I move on when I have nothing move on to? When the people I care about keep taking things from me and betraying me?”

Robin tried to argue, but he couldn’t think of anything to say that wouldn’t result in more anger and hatred, or even remotely try to resolve things.

Terra felt her anger and sadness creeping up on her. “Our baby… means nothing to you?”

“Not… a… Thing!” growled Beast Boy “What do I care about some baby you’re having? I’m dead, and frankly maybe your baby should die too, that way it won’t have YOU for a mother and be subjected to all the lies and pain you inflicted upon me!”

Terra felt really hurt and looked ready to burst out sobbing.

Everyone in all the other groups looked enraged! “NOW JUST A MOMENT!” shouted Cyborg “That’s going way too far!”

“SILENCE!!” shouted Erebus. The darkness rumbled and swirled all around everyone. He then calmed down “I believe the point has been quite clear. The Dark Angels have no intention to ever return to your worlds, and I share their spite.”

“What? You too?” asked Rainbow.

Erebus nodded “I was sent to this cursed zone by a freak accident; as if I was punished for a crime I hadn’t committed, but living in this realm for all these billions of years, I, too, have no reason to go back to how I once was.”

All four groups fell completely silent in shock, anger, outrage, and even a slight bit of concern.

“Now that is all we have to say to one-another.” said Nobunaga “Perhaps you all should leave this realm.”

Erebus agreed, “We will send you all back to your respective worlds, but know this: You are never again to interfere with us. We Dark Angels are what we are by choice. We wish to left to our devices, our own ways of going about.

I have spoken!”

The four groups felt a mix of anger and fear. Inuyasha was especially ticked “Look who’s all high and mighty.”

“Shh…!” snapped Kagome “Don’t make him any angrier than he already is!”

Even Celestia did not wish to argue with a god.

Erebus then turned and walked off into the darkness. “See them on their way…” he told the quartet.

The quartet agreed, and created portals for all the groups to head through to take them all back to their respective worlds.

The groups didn’t even bother to say good bye, or look at one another. After what they had all just seen and learned, what were they to think of one another? The ponies especially felt in different to the Titans and the Digi Destined, now seeing them for how selfish and cruel they really were.

True, the Dark Angels hadn’t acted any better, but then again it was hard to blame them. Some of the ponies felt they wouldn’t be able to hold it in either.

Then again, they, too, had their own little falling out.

Spike stood near the portal to Equestria, still glaring angrily at the ponies, not just for all the trouble and instability they caused the Dark Zone, but also for remembering their treating him poorly.

Rarity not willing to give him a chance at a date simply because he was a different species than she, and all his mishaps that caused accidents, and being blamed for other things he didn’t do, like making Flurry Heart cry, and leading the ponies to insult him behind his back.

“Spike…” Twilight said still trying to reconcile with him, but he just turned his back to her, “Don’t, bother. Just go!”

“Spike, please…!” Rarity pleaded, but even her tears did not move him like they used to “It’s not use, Rarity. I never want to see you again… any of you!”

All the ponies felt crushed to hear him say that, especially Rarity. With tears flooding in her eyes, she went through the portal first.

“Goodbye, Spike.” Twilight said as she walked through the portal, followed by the rest of the group. Even though Celestia and Luna had nothing to do with Spike’s troubles, they too were feeling crushed, but he wouldn’t even look at either of them either.

The ponies were gone.

Inuyasha, Kagome and Sota stood before Nobunaga and the portal that would take them all back to Kagome’s house. Nobunaga wasn’t very hostile with them, as still they were not completely to blame for his troubles. “Good luck.” he simply said to the trio.

Kagome wanted to try and reason with him again, but Inuyasha put his hand on her shoulder and shook his head, telling her it was best they left, especially for Sota. “I want to go home!” he cried softly.

So, the trio left and were gone.

Davis and Beast Boy had set up portals for the Titans and the Digi-Destined’s group. Neither of the boys seemed the least bit interested in talking to or even looking at any of the members.

“Beast Boy…” Terra cried.

“Davis, please…” Kari said.

“Come on, bro.” added Jun.

“Son.” said mom, but both boys turned and pointed angrily at the portals. “Get out!” Davis growled ever so softly, “…Now!” added Beast Boy.

Shaken with sadness and rage, all members of both groups walked through the portals.

Terra and Kari stopped one last time to look grimly at the two boys, but then they were gone, and the portals vanished.

The four angels then hung their heads low sighing in both relief, and slight remorse. Though they had all finally managed to scold and balk at those who had wronged them and were responsible for their fates in the Dark Zone, it still actually hurt just a little.

“I think perhaps we should mediate now.” said Nobunaga.

The other three agreed, and they all sat together on the sands, while their lord watched over them, still in his small form. “This is how it must be.” he said to himself “I just hope nothing else happens to worsen things.”

Kagome’s mom was returning home with a full bag of groceries, “Kagome, Sota… Inuyasha?”

All three of them were sitting on the deck of the house, Kagome and Inuyasha looked way down, while Sota seemed scared out of his wits. “What happened with all of you?”

“Mom!” cried Sota “We saw it! It was so horrible! I thought I was going to die, I… I…”

“Calm down, honey! What are you saying?”

Kagome and Inuyasha had no idea how to explain to her.

The Digi Destined and co made it back to their world, and it was deep at night.

“We… made it.” Wormon said softly.

“Yes… we did.” agreed Hawkmon, but the reason or his low toned voice was because he, just like all the others felt really down and disturbed.

Jun and her mother were very upset. They just stood where they were with tears rolling down their cheeks, but they didn’t move, didn’t make a sound, and they barely blinked their eyes.

Tai couldn’t blame them a bit, and as if that weren’t hard on him enough, as well as his own feelings, Kari looked equally as upset, and rather scared, but not because of the dark or the creepiness, but rather… at herself!

“Kari…” he said softly to her, though he didn’t need to ask “…Are you okay?”

“No…” she peeped softly “No, I’m not, Tai.”

Everyone felt just horrible for what they had seen.

“I… better back to the Digital World.” said Gennai.

Izzy hardly moved.

“I said… I need to get back to the Digital World.”

Izzy snapped out of it, “Oh… right…” and he booted up his computer, which was working again now that they were out of the Dark Zone, and the gateway was loaded.

Gennai looked at Gatomon trying to comfort Kari.

Now that it was rightly known that Kari was indirectly responsible for Davis’ death, that didn’t excuse her from the potential charges, but seeing how upset Kari and everyone else was—even he himself felt just as bad-- Gennai decided it best not to take Gatomon back with him now, and he would have to have a word with the four Digital Guardians about this.

Then he was gone.

TK was upset for everyone and extremely furious as well, “Damn you, Davis!” he growled under his breath “If you weren’t already dead, I’d kill you myself!” but he had to try and stop thinking that way and be brave for his friends, and for Kari.

The Titans made it back to the helipad on Titan’s tower. Starfire was on the verge of tears, Robin comforted her. Cyborg looked way down hearted over his former best friend just kicking him to the curb like that. Then again, he couldn’t blame him after all he saw.

Raven, she was so silent, so mixed with deep inner emotions, what could she possibly say, or feel?

But she finally spoke up when she noticed Terra seemed a little pale, and was breathing strangely. “Terra, what’s wrong?”

“I think… I’m gonna… paaaaa…” she was starting to faint, and Robin and Starfire quickly caught her. “She has passed out!” cried Starfire.

“She must be in a depressive state of shock.” agreed Robin. “Let’s get her to the hospital!” said Cyborg, and he dashed off to get the T-Car ready.

Poor Terra was grieving and speaking very softly in her sleep, “Beast Boy! Beast Boy!”

Author's Notes:

Ahhh... that's the stuff!!

And this how I PREFER things in fiction. Even if this WEREN'T a Friendship is Failure (Unless it's a fix fic) THIS is what I want the characters doing. Rather than reconciling, the abusers get a smack in the face for their ways, and the smackers, they get dealt with in their own ways for letting me down to begin with.

*To any and all characters I write about*

"When you're here in my "Revenge Fics" You're not here to be socially rehabilitated, or improve your lives.

Nope... when you come here... you go to be Punished."