Miroku was taken to the palace and given medicinal herbs to treat his poisoning. He was starting to awaken, he felt very weary.

“San… go…” he peeped softly.

“Are you alright?” asked Sango.

“We thought you were a goner!” cried Shippo.

Miroku tried to turn his head and look out the big window. “The aura… it is… gone?”

Sango and Shippo only just saw it themselves. “The others must’ve beaten Naraku’s demons.” said Shippo.

Miroku drowsed happily, but then he suddenly looked at his arms and realized they were pinned down by manacles to his futon. “What is this?!” he groaned, almost sounding normal again.

Sango turned to look at him sneakily, “Just a little precaution to ensure you behave yourself.”

Miroku felt like a fool, especially since Sango’s rear end was only a few feet away from his hand and he couldn’t reach.

Shippo looked outside with Kirara, “I wonder what’s happening way out there.”

Kirara purred.

Back in the fields, Nobunaga was still hanging around-- forgetting his regulations of not to interfere or interact with mortals.

“Princess Tsuyu,” he said in a trembling voice “You… you know of my feelings?”

Tsuyu nodded “You were in love with me. That is why you feel ill, that is why the darkness took you-- isn’t it?”

Nobunaga didn’t know which was worse; the fact the princess knew about his feelings for her, or having to remember all those painful memories of misery and ridicule he had faced after he had saved her husband.

“Though my heroisms were noted, I was mainly regarded as an Idjat and fool. Many would laugh at me, and I was subjected to ridicule. No other girl in our village thought highly of me, not even for my heroics in saving countless lives.

Even if it were not the case-- had they revealed any hidden feelings for me and wished to have me, I wished no other and reconciled myself to a fate that I would die alone.

Then on that night, I was overwhelmed by my own sadness, the darkness swallowed my soul, and I became what I am now.”

Tsuyu held her hand over her mouth in shock, and tears streaming down her face.

Lord Kimo hated the looks of this, but since he was unable to see or hear Nobunaga, he couldn’t tell if he truly upsetting his wife.

Kikyo could see Nobunaga, and gawked at him with pity as she thought, “I have never felt spiritual force such as this. His misery goes far beyond that of any individual, and yet he wishes no harm to anyone.”

Kagome worried about Nobunaga, and felt he was feeling upset, while Inuyasha barely showed any sympathy at all for this “Drivel” as he put it.

Kagome then approached Tsuyu, and spoke out to the empty space before her. “Nobunaga, I know you can hear me, and I know you’re feeling hurt right now.”

Nobunaga looked up at Kagome with a crushed expression, though she couldn’t see him.

“There’s something I need to tell you.”

She explained to him about her world, and how sometime in the future, he and his fellow Dark Angels would ravage it, and all other dimensions beyond.

Nobunaga found this all to be rather perplexing and more astonishing now that he knew Kagome was from the future-- which explained why she was so strange to him.

“Nobunaga,” said Tsuyu “I realize the pain you are in, but can you not speak with your master and your friends, and get them to spare the world of destruction?”

Nobunaga honestly did not know how to answer.

Then, all of a sudden, another dark portal appeared as a dark angel sentry emerged from the Dark Zone.

While everyone could see the portal, only Kikyo was able to see this Dark Sentry, and she could sense his darkness was far greater than Nobunaga’s-- thousands of years old even!

The sentry hissed angrily to Nobunaga in their eerie language.

“You are to return with me at once!”

Nobunaga could feel he was in trouble, but was willing to go back.

“Nobunaga!” cried Tsuyu.

He stopped and turned to look back at her, “Farewell, Princess…”

The two spirits headed into the portal, but Kagome was not willing to give up on her world, her family, and all she knew and loved! She wouldn’t let them be destroyed!

She then dashed for the portal herself.

“Kagome!” shouted Inuyasha, and he jumped after her, into the portal himself! Then it closed and was gone.

“Nobunaga…!” sobbed Tsuyu and she fell to her knees and wept softly.

“Princess…” Kimo sighed sadly as he embraced his wife. Neither he nor Tsuyu could begin to imagine the horrors their friends had just stepped into.

As for Kikyo, she did not risk going to the Dark Zone, unsure if it would sustain her own ailing spirit, and also to stay with the royal couple.

“Come…” she said kindly “I will escort you home.”

In the Digital World, Gennai had appeared before the lead Digi Destined, after reviewing Izzy’s message.

“I honestly don’t know where you kids get these ideas from.” he said with a low tone. “However, the guardians have agreed-- it just may work.”

The team’s eyes lit up with hope.

“So, you’ll let us do it?” asked Yolei.

“More than that.” said Gennai, and he then held out a glowing orb that shined lights at TK and Kari, and produced their D3s and D-Terminals into their hands, complete with their crests. Even Gatomon and Patamon were glowing along with their respected partners.

Everyone watched in astonishment, as the lights faded.

Kari and TK looked at their items, and then up at Gennai who was barely smiling at them, but it was there. “The guardians have agreed that we need your help especially, and this will part of your probation.

If you can successfully prevent the Digital World from collapsing, then you may have your status as Digi Destined restored.”

“Awesome!” cried Tai.

“All right!” added Matt

The others all expressed their joy and glee for the couple, and Gennai’s smile grew a little bit. He was really hoping he wouldn’t be regretting this later.

“All right, we have work to do-- Let’s get going!”

The team agreed, and it was time to Digivolve any Digimon that could fly and carry many people.

Then finally, Gatomon and Patamon Digi-volved for the first time in a while!

Magna-Angemon clenched his fists, and spread his wings “Oh, it feels so good to be back!”

“Tell me about,” agreed Angewomon.

Kari and TK gazed tearfully at their Digimon-- feeling they never would have seen them again.

“It’s like the whole team’s back together again.” said TK.

“Not really the whole team.” Kari said, and she looked a little down.

Everyone felt her woe knowing that Davis and Ex-Veemon, and it brought on more shame and pain that Davis was behind part of this to begin with.

Ken especially hated this, “We’re going to have to fight him if we run into him, aren’t we?”

Everyone fell silent and still at the very thought, only to be snapped out of it by another tremor that rocked the campsite.

“We can worry about that later,” cried Izzy “Let’s get going!”

With that, the team mounted their Digimon-- some carried other teammates with them-- and they all went their own separate ways towards the areas of the seven Destiny Stones.

Soon, the groups, had all arrived at the respective locations where the Destiny Stone lay, but TK and Kari were told to fly out to the exact center of the Digital World itself-- in the very center of the ring of stones all around them throughout the regions.

The groups were as followed...

Tai and Wargreymon went solo.

Sora dropped Matt and Metal-Garurumon off in the desert, and then she and Mimi both flew off to the next stone.

Izzy and Joe stuck together flying on Mega-Kabuterimon with Gomamon.

Yolei and Ken went their own separate ways to cover one stone each.

Cody and Sumbarimon were dropped off and were deep under the ocean where their stone was buried at the seabed.

Izzy kept open contact with everyone via his laptop. “Is everyone in position?”

“All set, Izzy.” replied Tai, and the others all replied as well.

“Remember,” Izzy said “As soon as all of you channel energy from your Digi Vices into the Destiny Stone, TK and Kari will activate their D3s and channel the energy you collect, which should grant us power to get back to our world and face the Dark Angels.”

“Yes,” said Ken “But don’t forget… we still need to get power from the Dark Ocean as well.”

“We’ll worry about that later.” said Yolei “Right now; let’s focus on one thing at a time.”

Everyone stood ready and got out their Digi-Vices and aimed them straight at the stone. Once Izzy gave the single, everyone cast rays of light into the stones, making them all glow brightly, and they all began to absorb the powers of light and hope from within them.

“Kari, TK… Get ready!” hollered Izzy.

Kari and TK nodded at one another and held their D3s high up.

“Now!” cried Izzy.

TK and Kari activated their D3s, and at the same time Izzy and the rest of the gang aimed their own Digi-Vices in the correct direction, sending the power off, far, far away, and absorbing it into TK and Kari’s D3s.

The couple glowed brightly, and they sent the power back to all their friends, but brighter and stronger than before.

When all the glowing had stopped, the Digi-Vices were all glowing brightly; pulsating with power far greater than anything they ever had before.

Even all their Digimon began to feel tingly and funny inside.

“Submarimon, are you okay?” asked Cody.

“Gosh, I feel great!” his partner answered “I feel like I could swim all around the world in just one day.”

Mimi gazed at her Digi-vice. “Wow, how pretty.”

“Mine too.” added Sora.

Palemon and Garudamon both felt their strengths vastly increasing.

“Wow! I haven’t even Digi-Volved yet.” said Palemon.

“Speak for yourself.” said Garudamon “I feel like I could take on an entire army.”

All the Digimon felt the same way, stronger swifter. Many of them even felt they could hold their Digi-volved forms for a really long time without running low on power.

However, the Digital World still trembled with more quakes. The people in the camps fell all over themselves while others took shelter.

Gennai felt the tremors worsening, and he felt deeply concerned. “I hope they hurry,” he said to himself, “We can’t hold out like this for much longer.”

Izzy calculated the tremor on his computer, “We better move fast, or soon we won’t get a chance to try anything at all.”

Now it was onto the next step… Kari, TK, Ken, and Yolei would head to the Dark Ocean, since they had all been touched by it before, and use their new powers to absorb loads of dark power to help in their quest.

All four of them shuddered at the thought of heading back to the Dark Ocean, especially the two angels. “And I thought I’d never have to go back there.” groaned Magna-Angemon.

“Come on, we better suck it up.” said Angewomon.

TK and Kari agreed, and mounted their Digimon and headed off.

Ken and Yolei were already on their way too.

The friends all grouped together and continued on their way until they were back in the Dark Ocean once again.

Ken already felt frightened deep down and was trembling softly. Yolei saw him and was worried for him.

TK and Kari felt nervous too to be back in the Dark Ocean, but at least they were still in contact with their friends.

“This place really doesn’t do us good.” said Stingmon

“I feel my feathers ruffling,” added Aquilamon “But that could just be from the breeze.”

Izzy explained to the team, “All of you spread out, and cover a wide area over the waters.”

Everyone did as they were told and flew out over the eerie waves, stopping at each point forming the points of a large square.

“Now what?” asked Yolei.

“Hold out your D3s,” replied Izzy “The new power from the destiny stones will allow you to absorb vast amounts of dark power.”

Ken shuddered softly, “Ah, man… why does it always have to be this way?”

Nevertheless, he and the others did as they were told and prepared to absorb the power… when suddenly…! POW!! From out of the water sprang a huge and angry looking creature!

“It’s Dragomon!” cried Angemon.

The others all felt nervous at how angry he looked.

“What are you all doing here?!” Dragomon thundered “I thought I made it clear that humans weren’t allowed anywhere over my ocean!”

“Wait!” cried Kari “We don’t mean to intrude, but we need help from you all. We need to absorb power from the ocean to save our worlds.”

“A likely story!” sneered Dragonmon, and then he roared loudly, “THOUSAND WHIPS!” sending numerous tentacles fly out at everyone and forcing them to scatter.

“This guy really means business!” cried Yolei. “We’ve got to try and stop him.”

“But how-- He’s an Ulitmate Digimon!” said Aquilamon.

Normally, that would be the case, and only Angewomon and Magna-Angemon would have a chance against the ugly brute, TK had an idea. “Remember, we got new powers from the destiny stones. Let’s try them out.”

The others all realized this, and agreed, and just in time as the tentacles grabbed their Digimon, with their respective riders.

“Got’cha!” Dragomon shouted, but then, right before his eyes, the team actually broke free from his grasp so easily. “What the…!”

The Digimon, and their riders were all stunned by their improved strengths.

“We really did that.” said Ken.

“…We did it only using a small bit of our strengths too.” added Stingmon.

Dragonmon couldn’t understand, but he lunged towards Yolei and Aquilamon, “You’re mine!”

“Oh, yeah?!” thundered Aquilamon, and he and Yolei charged straight at him, ramming him hard in the face… BAM!! Dragomon was knocked back hard and sent crashing into the water!

“Whoa!” cried Yolei “I can’t believe we did that!”

Izzy had seen the whole thing on his monitor, “Prodigus! They’re stronger than ever.”

All the rest of the team saw it, and gawked at their Digivices and their Digimon, realizing now how much stronger they were now.

As for Dragonmon, all his courage had completely left him. While he couldn’t understand how the team was creaming him, “Don’t hurt me anymore!” he whimpered “Just take what you want and leave me alone!” and he dove back beneath the waves and was gone, leaving the gang amazed and joyful, but another digital tremor snapped them back to their senses,

“Let’s get the power and get out here!” cried Angewomon.

“Right!” agreed Kari “Come on, guys!”

The others agreed, and once again held out their D3s and began to absorb the energy from the ocean. This time, however, thanks to their destiny powers, the strain didn’t seem to have much of an effect on any of them like before, not even Ken felt any stress nor did he have to struggle to hold on.

Not only that, but because of the destiny power combined with the kids’ connections to the Dark Ocean, they were able to absorb loads and loads of energy. All this combined with their new destiny powers would be the final key in their quest to confronting the dark angels.

Izzy continued to monitor the levels of energy being absorbed. “Perfect, that should do it, guys. You can come back now.”

Gomamon didn’t seem too impressed with the simple measured levels of power. “How can we be sure that’s enough?” he asked.

Izzy explained to him “We don’t need to take the whole ocean. With our new destiny powers we’ll have plenty of power to spare.”

Joe agreed, “Besides, we don’t want to use too much at once, or we may overload the Digital World when we try to escape from her. We could destroy it instantly and ourselves along with it.”

“Gee… talk about a great risk.” muttered Mega-Kabuterimon

With all said and done, Izzy told everyone to rendezvous back at the main refuge camp. They now all they need to put their plan into action…

…But what they didn’t realize was that of the other groups were preparing their own little stunts.

In Raven’s mind, Terra felt much better thanks to Raven healing her, of course there was still the problem of Baby Garfield, or “Gar” as everyone called him for short.

He was dressed now, and well fed-- since the team was in Raven’s mind, she was able to actually think up things and materialize them, like baby formula, fuzzy pajamas, and even a buggy for Terra to wear on her back to carry Gar.

“”If you can do all this, why could never wish up a million bucks?” asked Cyborg.

“Because it doesn’t work that way, that’s why.” answered Raven “It’s not a wishing machine, it’s my mind.”

“Shh!” Terra said and motioned to the sleeping baby in her arms.

“There’s still a problem,” whispered Robin “We all have to go out there, but what about the kid?”

Starfire agreed, “However can we bring an innocent new born into battle? Surely it will be too vulnerable.”

“No, he won’t.” said Raven “Leave that to me, I thought of everything that I could. Right now, I need you all to line up in a row.”

Rather than ask why, the Titans did as they were told, even Terra.

Raven then used her powers to levitate the buggy onto Terra’s back, strapped it in good, and then moved Gar softly into it without waking him up.

Then Raven concentrated hard, and began to murmur an ancient spell, in a strange language that the others couldn’t understand.

Suddenly, Raven began to glow with white aura, rather than her usual darkness, and blasted each of her friends softly making them glow too.

Then, after a huge and bright flash of light, all was quiet.

The Titans looked themselves over, but nothing seemed to have changed about them.

“What gives?” asked Cyborg, and Raven answered “I’ve copied some of my powers and given them to all of you, so this way you’ll have a better chance aginast the danger we’re about to face.”

The Titans exchanged looked at one another, and then Robin raised his hand which began to glow with dark aura, and the more he focussed and concentrated, the stronger the aura became. He calmed down instantly, remembering how sensitive to emotion these powers were.

Starfire raised her hand, and created a starbolt glowing in her hand, which was shrouded in the aura, making it twice as strong as ever. “Goodness me!” she cried.

All the titans had their power and skills enhanced thanks to Raven’s power. “You also have bits of the power I took from Beast Boy.” she explained “So if we run into the dark angels, we should be able to put up a fight, especially if we can absorb some more of their powers in need be.

…and believe me, we’re going to need to when we confront Erebus.”

“I think I get your idea now.” said Robin “We confront Erebus, and make psychic contact with his memories, and we’ll be able to find where the other Creator Gods were hidden.”

Raven nodded.

“Man, talk about a huge risk.” said Cyborg.

Terra then looked behind her and noticed Gar was shrouded in a small black barrier. She could see through it and saw he was still sleeping like the baby he was.

“Don’t worry about that.” said Raven “He’s kept in a barrier of tranquility. He can’t hear us no matter how loud we shout, and he won’t feel anything, not even if you shake him.

…Go ahead, try.”

Much as Terra felt this was bad to shake a baby, she wiggled her back a little, and then really shook herself, but Gar just kept sleeping without a care! “Wow! That’s pretty neat.”

It was a big relief to know her son would be fine, but now it was really time to go.

“This is going to be the biggest and most dangerous challenge we’ve ever faced.” Robin said to the others “No matter what happens, promise me this: that’ll you’ll never give up.”

The others all nodded in agreement never to give up no matter how bad the odds.

In Discord’s world, all the ponies had lined up in a row, and Discord lined up with them, but he was trembling worse than Fluttershy was.

All the ponies were feeling rather nervous at what was going to happen, even Twilight was, but she stood ready to cast a spell to infuse everyone with the dark powder, which as was explained, would enhance everyone with powers of the Dark Zone.

“Is every-pony ready?” Twilight asked.

All the ponies nodded, and Discord said “I’m not a pony, but sure… I guess.”

“Proceed, Twilight Sparkle.” said Celestia

Twilight nodded, and then concentrated deeply as her horn started to glow, and the powder resonated, converting into aura.

Twilight’s eyes began to glow as she made the aura swirl in a soft twister, and absorb into all her friends, and herself. Their bodies were all enveloped in a dark glow, and eerie winds!

Then all was silent, and the gang all looked at each other, and then looked themselves over from heads to tails.

“Um… I don’t feel or look any different than before.” said Rainbow.

Pinkie bounced up and all over, “I still feel like me-- Better even”

Then, suddenly, she bounced super high, and landed on her feet… emitting a small wave of darkness, much to everyone’s astonishment.

Pinkie bounced again, and made another small wave, and then she constantly bounced and made more waves cheering “Hey, look at what I can do!”

Rarity concentrated deeply, and her magical aura was now much darker than before. “Astonishing.” she muttered.

Applejack put her hooves close together and focussed, and she actually created a marble-sized ball of dark aura “Well, I’ll be a son of a prairie-chicken.”

Discord snapped his fingers several times, “Okay, I admit, we’re all still fine. It’ll just take some getting used to, is all.”

Fluttershy was almost too nervous to try anything, and yet her trembling made her body glow with dark aura, and shroud her like a barrier.

“Fascinating.” said Luna “It appears these new powers are very sensitive to our emotions as well as our concentrations.”

She tested her enhanced powers-- concentrating hard, and unleashing a wave of darkness in the room, turning everything black as night.

“Hey!” whined Discord “I just had a new paintjob done.”

Starlight was most impressed “This is incredible, Twilight, but don’t forget this is only the first step.”

Twilight agreed, “Now the really hard part comes.”

Cadance agreed, “We must venture forth into the darkness and confront Erebus, as you said. The fate of all worlds and the returns of our loved ones depend on it.”

Twilight and all the others agreed, and Discord stood by dressed in knight’s armor “All for one… and good for nothing.” he joked.

The others all gawked at him, and he changed out of his suit in a snap, “I’m trying.” he said bashfully.

They were all ready to go, and Discord was ready to warp them all back to Equestria, or rather what was left of it.

He took a moment to look around his house one last time. “Farewell thee well, home-sweet-home. I fear we shall never see each other again.”

Fluttershy put her hoof up against his side and smiled bravely at him, and it actually helped him find more courage; much to Celestia’s delight which made her proud.

This was it…

The lead Digi Destined, with their mixed powers of light from the destinty stones and the darkness of the ocean all mixed together, and all their Digimon Digivoled to their highest forms, they were ready to venture forth.

“Now, remember,” Tai cautioned everyone “We’re venturing forth to inspect our world first, and once we get there we’ll be able to test to see if our powers can reverse the damage done.”

“I’m with you all the way, Tai.” said Wargreymon.

The other Digimon all agreed with their fellow partners.

Gennai stepped forth, “Never have I ever known such a venture to be so dangerous and risky. For the first time ever, I wish you all the best of luck, because you’re going to need every bit of it.”

The others all agreed, and many of them felt rather nervous of their success, but they were still willing to go if it meant they’d be able to restore their world, and get all their loved ones back.

“Do you still have the left over power we gave you?” asked Matt.

Gennai nodded and held up a large glowing orb that contained the combined powers of the destiny-light, and the dark power. “You’ve all taken as much as you need. I will distribute more power to all the other Digi Destined.

If you transport back to your own world, and you run into danger, we’ll be ready to send our army in at any time, and this could also help us settle the imbalance in the Digital World.”

Another tremor struck, but it did not feel as strong as the last ones did, proving Gennai’s theory already. Izzy even did the calculations “The balance is easing off already.”

“That’s a relief,” said Sora “It means the Digital World won’t fall apart anymore.”

With enough said already, the team prepared to exit the Digital World.

Since there were no more computers with stable exits in their world, the only option was for them to use their new powers to make their own exit, like how Ken tore temporary fabrics between the Dark Ocean and the Real World.

This time the portal would be stable and wouldn’t cause much damage or stress.

Izzy had already counted the trajectory, and Gennai and wild Digimon helping him made sure all the refugees stayed well back where it was safer.

“Okay, everyone, take out your Digivice.” said Tai, and everyone complied. Then they activated their powers, firing strong beams of light energy with dark waves spiraling round, to form the actual portal rift between the two worlds.

At the same time, The Titans all stood together, and Raven was ready to transport them all out of her mind.

“Ready?” she asked, and then others all gave her a thumb up, and Terra checked behind her to see that Gar was still asleep in his blackout barrier.

Raven then activated her power, and recited her unusual words, and teleported them out.

As for the ponies, Discord was ready to transport them all back to what was left of Equestria.

“Here we go!” and with a snap of his fingers, he and the ponies all teleported away.

The simultaneous transports within the separate realms actually caused a strain in the dimensional space warps.

The Dark Angels felt the realms quivering.

“What’s happening?” cried Davis.

Nobunaga began to tremble “It can’t be!”

Beast Boy and Spike, in their own areas felt the tremors too, and all this shaking went right back to Erebus. He could tell by the way the darkness was shifting that someone, not of his kind, was penetrating the realms. “How can this be?” he wondered “Every world was ravaged. There should be none left!”

Spike was sitting on his throne in his domain. “What’s going on?” he cried out.

Soon the trembling stopped, and one Dark Angel came to Spike, calling out to him in their eerie language.

“Sir, me and my patrol were flying about, and I saw it with my own eyes…”

“Saw what?” Spike asked in normal English, and his spy waved his arms creating the magical waves that showed him…!

Spike and all the angels and drone females froze on the spot.

“Twilight…?!” Spike cried softly, but it was her, and most of the gang, still alive and entering his realm.

As the same Time, Beast Boy saw himself the Titans emerging from a portal.

“No way! They survived?!!” he cried is disbelief.

Davis, too-- he saw the Digi Destined and their Digimon emerge from the rift that led from, the Digital World.

“Kari… TK… and the rest of them… STILL ALIVE?!!!” he shouted.

Nobunaga didn’t have any one emerge from his world, but he was told of the situation, and like his friends, he was non-too-thrilled.

Suddenly, every Dark Angel could feel Erebus using his powers to reach out and communicate with them from afar. Every angel in every dimension could silently hear him speaking in the eerie language.

“I never thought this would be possible, but now here it stands. There is no alternative, my Dark Angels…

…Prepare for battle!”


The Dark Angels couldn’t agree more, especially Davis, Beast Boy, and Spike. They wanted to have great honors in smashing the mortals to bits… special ones particularly

The Digi Destined stepped out of the rift with their Digimon, and the rift sealed. Their first impressions of the world around them were just devastating.

Their once proud and beautiful hometown was in ruin, with damaged and toppled buildings all about. Now trees or a single blade of grass was anywhere.

“Whoa…!” said Tai.

“Ah, man…!” cried Matt.

Sora and Mimi had tears in their eyes, and Izzy nearly dropped his laptop as he shook with sadness and fright.

Kari looked sadly down at the dark grounds and softly scoped up a handful of the cold and dark sands.

All the Digimon were speechless.

“My goodness!” cried Wargreymon.

“I don’t think goodness has anything to do with this.” said Metal-Garurumon.

TK clenched his fists angrily-- his anger and hate for the Dark Angels was rising once more. “They’ll pay for this, each every one of them!”

The Titans’ reactions were no better.

“Would you look at that!” cried Robin.

All the destruction and remains of their world, and all the sights and cities the Dark Angels had created was so much to bear all at once.

“I cannot believe it!” cried Starfire.

“Man, they really did it bad!” said Cyborg.

Terra said nothing. She never felt so upset… with herself. Seeing all this destruction and knowing Beast Boy was behind a good deal of it brought on all those bad memories of how she drove him to his death.

Then again, even if she hadn’t, what was to say that none of this would have happened at all?

Still, all the titans had to keep their heads, especially with all the dark angels roaming around.

“Get down!” cried Robin, and the team ducked behind some rocks as a swarm of angels came marching along, and others flew overhead.

“Remember,” Raven whispered, “Try not to let your emotions get too wild. You’ll give us away!”

“Indeed!” agreed Starfire “Remember friends… Peace… Quiet… Tranquility.”

The team managed to keep it together, but there were still more dark angels everywhere.

“We can’t stay here like this.” whispered Cyborg.

Raven agreed, “Everyone, concentrate hard and think light thoughts.”

Not bothering to question, the others did as they were told, and their dark powers began to shroud them in aura.

“Okay, now we can move.” said Raven.

“I don’t get it. What’s happened?” asked Terra.

“We’re invisible.” Raven answered “This spell blends us in with the darkness around us so we can’t be seen or heard.”

The others thought this was amazing, but Raven suggested they levitate so as not to leave any footprints in the sand, and so, they all flew high up above.

At the same time, the ponies and Discord appeared in what remained of Equestria.

“Oh…!” cried Twilight.

“Oh, my…!” sobbed Rarity and she buried her face in her limb, unable to look.

The others all looked around at all the desolation and darkness. “Every area’s been totally wiped out!” said Starlight. She had never seen such destruction before, not even in her nightmares, or even in her own time jumps when she tried to take over.

Discord hung his head low, but he was doing all he could to keep himself from saying “I told you this would happen, but you didn’t listen!”

Then again, the ponies were already well aware of this face, especially Twilight for foolishly leaving the mirror portal active-- despite it being an accident; she never should have tried to interfere to begin with.

Fluttershy whimpered, “I can’t believe this is all that’s left of our beloved Equestria.”

Pinkie Pie couldn’t even try to think of anything positive out of this situation. Two tears fell from her eyes.

Applejack softly comforted her, but she herself could barely speak as she kept picturing all the empty and barren lands as how they once were-- lush and green with plant life and grass, birds singing, and she and her family would be skipping through the fields and hauling apples.

She wasn’t the only one to miss her family; Cadance was upset as well, remembering how Spike killed them right before her eyes. It gave her such a mixture of emotions-- heartbreak, rage, determination to avenge them, and yet she still felt a tiny bit of upset for Spike. His anger was not unjustified, but his attitude and his actions were barely excusable.

Avenging her family was her main priority. “Where do we go from here?” she asked.

Princess Luna could see many rifts opening in the skies and dark angels emerging and passing through them as they leapt between dimensions. “Perhaps if we should use our own magic to leap between worlds, and we just may find Erebus.”

The others all agreed, “Um… how are we supposed to do that?” asked Rainbow.

The others all gawked back and forth at one another. Not even Twilight, Discord, or the royal sisters knew how to tap into that much of their new powers.

“Well, I guess there is only one way,” said Twilight “We can try and follow the dark angels to Erebus.”

The others all gawked at her with shocked expressions, “What? That’s all I can think of.”

Discord sighed, “This risk is just getting riskier, isn’t it?”

Seeing there was no alternative, the team agreed, and decided to head off.

Luna cloaked everyone in a shadow spell, combined with her new dark magic, and Discord used his powers to help keep everyone blended in with the darkness so the angels would never suspect.

The flyers then began to flutter up high, while Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie used their newly acquired powers to levitate themselves into the air. They didn’t do so well at first and wobbled a lot due to the inexperience, so Twilight and the others had to help steady them.

“I guess we should’ve practiced a bit first before we left.” said Applejack.

Ignoring her, everyone floated up high, passing over the many sights and cities the dark angels had created.

“Amazing.” said Celestia “They’ve actually established whole empires for themselves.”

Suddenly, a large portal appeared up ahead, and dark angels came flying out. They seemingly didn’t notice the ponies due to their invisibility.

“Could that be the way to Erebus?” asked Rarity.

“Well, there’s only way to try.” Fluttershy whimpered

The others all agreed and headed into the portal before it closed, but alas the portal did not take them to Erebus’ domain, but rather to the sight of the Digi Destined.

“Hey, look there…” cried Twilight.

Starlight and Fluttershy recognized the team immediately, and their Digimon.

“What kind of creatures are those?” asked Discord, but before could answer him, another portal had opened… right where they were, frightening them all.

This portal was created by the Titans, trying to seek their own way to Erebus.

As the Titans filed out, they collided into the group of ponies, resulting in a collision of dark powers and other magic, causing them all to stumble and fall about as they pulmeted from the skies and their invisibility wore off.

Yolei looked up at the sky, “What’s that?”

“Whatever it is, it’s heading this way!” cried Aquilamon.

The Digi Destined all backed away as the enormous mass crashed just a few feet away from them, and the Titans and the Equestrians all lay scattered about and dizzy-eyed.

“You all!” cried Kari, and each and every group was astonished to see one another.

All three groups stood together eyeing back and forth at one another, surprised to see each group had survived the ravage, but just the same no one said a thing to each other.

Ever since their first ever all meeting together in the Dark Zone-- when the truth was revealed-- how each group was largely responsible for the deaths of their former dark angel friends, even revealing some true colors of selfishness, disrespect, neglect, and so on!

Discord, the only one never involved with any of the groups felt this to be rather awkward, yet astonishing at the same time seeing all the groups together in one place…

… Until suddenly, he turned round, and gasped softly “Um… sorry to break the awkwardness, but… we’ve got company!”

Everyone looked up, and saw loads of dark angels standing in formations and lines, all with their arms crossed, and though they lacked facial features, it was easily to tell they were furious!

“Mortals!” sneered a sentry “What are you doing here? How is it you are even alive?”

The groups’ expressions turned hard. They didn’t say anything, and didn’t have to.

Then suddenly, Erebus appeared, but only in a holo-image.

“So, it’s true-- you have survived.” he hissed “You mortals are more troublesome than I thought.”

“EREBUS!!!” shouted TK as he stomped forth.

“TK!” cried Kari.

TK went into totally-fury mode instantly, “You mother (bleeping) piece of shit! You’ll pay for what you’ve done!!”

The sentry looked ready to blast him into dust, “You dare speak that way to the mighty Erebus!”

Erebus raised his arm, silencing him, and then spoke severely to TK, “I would refrain from blaming me for your own actions.

You all disturbed us…

You all tried to interfere…

…and then look what you did!” and he used his power to show images of the past-- TK trying to use Ken’s D3 to punch a hole into the Dark Zone to confront the dark angels, believing they were evil beings.

Raven stealing some of Beast Boy’s power, and falling into the Dark Zone, after she and the other groups were explicitly warned never to enter again!

Then there was Twilight Sparkle! The worst of them all! She and her attempts to purify the Dark zone and actually save the Dark Angels, after she had been told many times that it was impossible, and that all would do is make things worse than they already were!

Thanks to that mirror portal of hers going berserk, it radiated from the other two groups’ dimensional distortions causing the Dark Zone to become horrible shifted and damaged, and harming the angels.

So the Dark Angels reacted just as anyone would in such circumstances, and they took back what they were robbed off-- their home worlds, their possessions, and destroying all mortals-- vaporizing them all into dark dust that blew across the wastes of the realms.

The Titans and the Digi Destined all gawked at Twilight with shock, but then again they themselves were no more innocent-- not even if it was all an accident or not.

“And now…!” snapped Erebus “You have sealed your fates by coming here! Prepare yourselves for a battle in which you cannot win!”

“I don’t think so pal!” snapped Tai “We’ve got some new tricks to show you!”

The other Digi Destined nodded and held out their Digivices, much to the angels and the other groups’ confusion.

“What are you doing?” snapped Raven.

The Digi Team held their Digivices high, and they began to glow with an unusual energy.

“What is this?!” sneered Erebus and the dark angels shielded their eyes and groaned as the light shone brighter, and brighter.

“I think it’s working!” cried Sora.

The team really thought this was it-- that the darkness was about to be fully lifted and their world restored…

…But the real Erebus just sat in his domain and didn’t seem the least bit concerned.

With a simple snap of his fingers, the energy stopped and was sucked back into the Digivices.

“Oh, no! It didn’t work!!” cried Mimi.

All the teams were shuddering nervously, and the image of Erebus scoffed “Do you really think you can defy a Creator God with such simple trickery?!

You forget… we have been absorbing darkness from all worlds for eons. The powers you hold can never hope to work on us!”

The teams all huddled together, all fretting with fear, as the dark angles came in closer.

Discord finally let it out, “I hate to say I told you so, but… I TOLD YOU SO!”