Ultmatum 1, chapters 13-21. Chatper titles are as follows:

 13. Gifts of the Gods
 14. Ultimanium Beckons
 15. Intermission - Preview Night
 16. The Gathering
 17. Final Battle - Round One
 18. Final Battle - Round Two
 19. Final Battle - Sudden Death
 20. Epilogue
 21. Preview of Deus Ex Conker (Ultimatum Saga, part 2)






 New York Skyline
 Day 4, 1:32 AM


 Vegeta stopped and looked down at the twilight city beneath him. It was his
 834th lap around New York that night, but while he tried to ignore the beauty of
 the metropolitian skyline at this time of night, it finally began starting to
 get to him.

 "The humans have certainly established a legacy on this planet. They appear to
 have converted their ways to reflect the planet's terraform." Vegeta said. He
 looked around for a bit, and started back to the hotel. It was a long night, and
 even though Vegeta could have gone another couple of laps, he decided to return
 and rest up for another day of training.

 Vegeta hovered in through the window of his room in the Madison Grande,
 expecting to see an unconscious Gohan on the bed across from him. No one was
 there.

 "Hmm.. I wonder where that do-nothing son of Kakarot could be?"

 He glanced around the room. Anything could be possible. He could just leap out
 of the closet and tackle Vegeta if he was up to it. A quick power level scan of
 the nearby area revealed nothing. Vegeta loosened up.

 "Where could that kid be at this time of night?" Vegeta mumbled to himself.
 "Well, I can go to bed when I want now, anyways."

 Vegeta grinned, in spite of himself.

 ********

 The taxi screeched to a halt.

 Ultimanium began beating his head against the horn. "Damn it! Vegeta!!"

 Ultimanium normally wouldn't be out this late, but the taxi broke down halfway
 to Mimi's and required some emergency mechanics profession to get started again.

 "No matter. So they've completed their challenges. No problem. Keep cool."
 Ultimanium said to himself. He started driving again.

 "Besides, it won't be a while until Zidane and Cloud find me, and..."

 Zidane sprinted out of nowhere and rolled over the taxi's hood.

 Ultimanium sighed.

 Zidane jumped to his feet and began limping to the taxi. It was clear that he
 had sprained something. "Ultimanium!!.. *huff* ... am I glad to see you! Are we
 done yet? Ah.. ow.."

 ".... fine. Hop in."

 Cloud ran up and hopped in the back seat of the taxi, alongside Zidane. As
 Ultimanium drove off, he could see the distressed girlfriends pick up their
 speed in the rear view mirror.

 "Zidane, you ass, get back here!!" Garnet yelled.

 "Cloud! I have a chocobo waiting! CLOUD!! COME BACK!!" Tifa shouted.

 "Hey, Zidane, do you know where my Buster Sword went?" Cloud asked.

 "Can't say so. Squall had it. Could you believe he attacked me with it? He's
 allied with one of the other teams. Some skids from out of town. One of them got
 hold of the Buster Sword and slashed me with it!"

 "Ouch. What were these kids like?"

 "Some high-school kids," Zidane explained. "I couldn't tell you they were past
 16. They had some freaky looking monsters helping them."

 "Well, if they're from another team, we have to do something about them."

 Ultimanium kept driving, smiling to himself. Perfect, he thought. Aggressions
 are already brewing between the teams. This should liven things up.

 ********

 Davis woke up. He looked at his watch. 1:58. What could wake him up on a night
 like this? Kari liked him! He could sit up all night and cheer himself on if he
 could!

 He sat silent for a couple minutes. The phone rang.

 Davis climbed out of his sleeping bag and went to answer the phone. "Hello?"

 "Davis."

 He recognized the voice. "Ultimanium?"

 "Bravo, Davis. I wasn't thinking you would ever get up the courage to take
 action against TK and Kari, but..."

 "Yeah, I know. I was awesome, huh?"

 "... you should be thanking Veemon, Davis. He put his relations with the group
 on the line to make you happy. You should be proud to have a friend as devoted
 as he is, to throw the opinons of everyone else out the window just to hear you
 out."

 Davis acted like he said nothing before. "Yeah, the guy's awesome, isn't he?"

 "Anyways, with TK out of the way, no love triangles remain. You've completed
 your objective. I want you to wake up Veemon and get him to come with you to
 this address to claim your prize."

 "Ugghhh... can't I go in the morning?"

 "No. Wake up Veemon and get moving. Here's the address.."

 ********

 Davis took the paper scrap with the address on it. He shook Veemon awake.

 "Yeah, Gato... right there.... yeeah.. I..   huh? Davis? What's going on?"

 "Ultimanium," Davis yawned. "We have to meet with Ultimanium to get our power."

 "Whatever." Veemon sighed. He jumped out of his sleeping bag and got moving.

 ********

 Duo pressed the B1 button on the elevator panel.

 He pressed it again.

 He pressed it again.

 He pressed it again.

 He pressed it again.

 Duo was about to reach for the button again when Heero's hand stopped him. "Just
 wait. Whatever Ultimanium has down there, he probably has it locked up anyways."

 Ultimanium hung up the payphone. "You guys are going to have to wait a little
 longer. Another team has finished their challenge."

 Zidane, leaning against a palm tree planted in the lobby, eyed the Gundam
 pilots. "They don't look so tough."

 "Their mobile suits are." Cloud said. He was sitting on the rim of the fountain
 in the center of the room.

 "You mean..."

 "Yeah, those were their mechs. I don't think they're too happy with us."

 "First thing I do when I get control of the Wing Zero is stepping on that
 spikyheaded fag's head." Heero scowled.

 "If I knew who's bright idea it was to park the Deathscythe in the middle of an
 intersection, I would be stomping them into jelly too." Duo said.

 Davis threw the door open, and leaned on it while catching his breath. Beside
 him was Raidramon.

 "WTF!! It's that damn skid!!" Zidane yelled. "I'm not done with you yet!!" he
 raised the Ultima Weapon.

 "Stop," Ultimanium said, casually. "You'll have plenty of time to carve him and
 Raidramon this Sunday."

 "Like hell I'm going to wait that long!!" Zidane said. With a battle cry, he
 shoved himself off the tree and charged at Davis.

 He stopped when Ultimanium drove a green flaming fist into Zidane's gut, sending
 him flying. Zidane crashed straight through the marble wall behind him.

 Duo stanced himself. "Holy ...!"

 Davis and Raidramon stood, shocked.

 Davis de-digivolved Raidramon back to Veemon. "I guess we can forget about
 fighting him."

 "Are we ready? I don't want to stand around here all day." Ultimanium walked
 into the elevator.

 Cloud, Davis, Veemon, Duo and Heero all followed him. The doors slid closed with
 a clank and the elevator began its descent.

 ********

 Kari sat up in her sleeping bag. Everything was getting so screwed up ever since
 she arrived in New York. They were being lead all over, then being thrown in one
 place to wait for Ultimanium to get his act together. Weird looking bald kids
 were staying over at the digidestineds' bunk. Moreover, she liked Davis.

 She shook her head. "Something is seriuosly wrong here."

 Kari looked over to Gatomon on the other side of the room. Gatomon, like
 everybody else in the room at some point, was going through a dream.

 "Oh... teehee.... Veemon... stop that.... if anybody sees..."

 Gatomon sighed and giggled to herself.

 "I have to figure out what's going on here. I can't stand this anymore!" Kari
 got up out of her bag and got dressed. She was going to have a stern talk with
 Davis, and...

 "Davis?" Davis' bag was empty.

 "Not now...!" Veemon's was empty, too.

 "I can't believe this!" She fell back on top of her bag. A potato chip on the
 ground caught her eye.

 "Huzzah... who brought potato chips? Anyone but... Davis!"

 She glanced out the door. A trail of p otato chips.

 ********

 Veemon bit into another potato chip. Everyone tried to ignore him.

 "Veemon?" Davis asked. "Where did you get those?"

 "Juf to tidef me ober." Veemon spoke, his mouth full. As he talked he spat
 crumbs on the ground.

 "I wouldn't mind potato chips right about now." Cloud sighed. Everyone was
 paranoid, with the exception of Veemon, happily munching away on Pringles. There
 was no telling what Ultimanium had planned for them once they reached the
 bottom.

 With a loud thud, the elevator stopped. The doors opened.

 Ultimanium gestured to everyone. Everyone stepped out.

 "I will soon bestow the gifts of your ultimate weapons, such as..."

 "A SCHOOL BUS!!" Duo yelped in glee. He pointed at the bright yellow bus parked
 in the corner.

 Ultimanium frowned at Duo. "Wait."

 Everyone realized where they were. They were in the parking facade of the
 building, several floors beneath the lobby. "What are we doing here?" Cloud
 questioned.

 "I'm giving the Gundam pilots their reward. Get back in the elevator and wait
 for me in the lobby. I will be with you right away."

 "You could've just told us to wait in the lobby in the first place." Davis said.

 "I didn't necessarily invite YOU down here, did I?"

 "Well... I.... oh well. C'mon, Veemon." Davis grunted. Veemon, Davis and Cloud
 stepped back into the elevator and Davis tapped the lobby button. The doors shut
 and the elevator made its way back up.

 "So what's our reward?" Duo asked.

 Ultramagnus stepped out from behind a pillar. "This way."

 Duo and Heero turned to a parked semi.

 "Thanks, but that doesn't look like it'll make it too far into space."

 Ultramagnus tossed Ultimanium a pair of keys. He caught them and walked around
 the back of the semi, unlocking the back doors. He pulled a door open and
 stepped back. With an enormous crash, a cart rolled back out of the semi and hit
 the concrete beneath it. Suspended on it was a massive mobile suit arm gun.

 "Gentlemen, your reward."

 Heero ran his hand along the surface of the cannon. "Wait... these are the same
 alogrithims on the Buster Rifle! Ultimanium, where did you get this?"

 "I and Ultramagnus present the Buster Rifle Mk.II."

 Indeed, the Buster Rifle Mk.II did look quite different from the original model.
 Heero scanned the addons attached to the massive gun. Where the fire control
 once stood on the original Buster Rifle, a hyperdrive motivator was linked into
 the circutry. Various energy amplifiers were locked onto the cannon in strategic
 places to improve the velocity and concentration of the beam.

 Heero turned. "Ultimanium, where did you..."

 No one was there.

 ********

 Ultimanium stepped out of the elevator.

 Davis got up off the bench. "So? How about us?"

 "Davis? Could I get you and Veemon to step out for a second?"

 Veemon stamped down. "Geez! Why are we always last?"

 "C'mon, Veemon. Let's go."

 Davis and Veemon walked out of the building for a moment.

 All that stood in the quiet lobby were Cloud and Ultimanium.

 "Er... okay, what do I get?" Cloud asked, suspiciously.

 Ultimanium extended his hand out to him. In it was the red crystal.

 "Materia!.." Cloud gasped as he scooped up the gem in his hands. He focused his
 will on the crystal, trying to analyze it. It was a summon Materia, but its
 effects could not be foretold.

 "This is the summon Materia Ark."

 Cloud looked up from the gleaming red jewel. "Ark isn't a summon Materia, it's
 an Eidoleon." Zidane had explained to him what he had discovered over his
 adventures, as did Squall. He knew his summoning.

 "Sorry, I just needed something synomonous with your adventures," Ultimanium
 said. "I chose to imbue Ark within a Materia."

 While Cloud had never seen Ark itself, he knew well of its apocalyptic
 destructive power. He grinned. "Thanks, man."

 "You can leave now. I suppose you're tired."

 "Yeah... I'll see all you guys this Sunday." He turned and pushed open the
 double doors.

 Davis and Veemon stepped back in.

 "Ah, yes, Davis. I have a power for you, as well."

 "This had better be worth staying up to 2:15 in the morning for." Davis groaned.

 Ultimanium handed the memory card to Davis.

 "What's this?..." Davis examined the plastic slip.

 "It contains some new digivolve information for your digivice," Ultimanium
 pointed. "A new Quadruple DNA Digivolve. Gennai normally wouldn't approve of me
 doing this, but he is involved none in this ordeal."

 Keyvan :  Quadruple DNA Digivolving is a registered trademark of Keyv...

 *Various Toei staff jump onstage and beat Keyvan down*

 *Keyvan gets up and stumbles away. He supports himself on a wall*

 Keyvan :  I can't get away with anything here.

 "A Quadruple DNA Digivolve?" Veemon questioned. "Who's it between?"

 "Come to think of it... I don't know myself. You should get the coding analyzed
 as quickly as possible. That would give you the most reliable information."

 Davis slid the card into a port on the side of his D-Terminal. It began
 installing itself automatically. "I'll get this onto my D3 after."

 Veemon waved. "Thanks again, mysterious-caped-emperor dude!"

 "Ultimanium."

 "That's it. See you!"

 ********

 Kari plodded down the sidewalk. The trail of potato chips lead around another
 corner. Gatomon trudged alongside her.

 "You wouldn't believe the dream I had before you woke me up..."

 "Something tells me I don't want to hear it," Kari moaned. As she walked by the
 entrance to the Madison Grande, a figure in a window high above watched her.

 ********

 Vegeta looked down from his window. He was ready to go to bed, but something...

 "It's that young girl from the airport... she's from the other team! What's she
 doing out at this time of night? It has to be something to do with Ultimanium!"

 He turned to find Goku sleepwalking down the hall. He strutted up to him and
 backhanded him across the face to wake him up. Goku retaliated with a punch
 across Vegeta's face.

 Goku woke up. "...huh? Vegeta? What are you doing up?"

 Vegeta rubbed his face. "It probably wouldn't interest you, being the lazy ass
 that you are, but I caught sight of a young girl on the other team walking
 alone. I feel it has something to do with Ultimanium."

 Goku stopped. "Small girl? Brown hair? Bangs?"

 Keyvan :  As in hair hanging-down-type bangs. Sick bastards.

 "Yes, why?"

 Goku smiled. "Oh! Hey, that's that Kari chick!"

 "Go back to your bed," Vegeta growled. "I'll check it out."

 Goku shrugged. "Whatever. Go to bed sometime, anyways."

 Vegeta hovered down onto the sidewalk below the windowsill. Ahead of him walked
 the unaware Kari and Gatomon.

 ********

 Veemon tossed the empty Pringles can over his shoulder, hitting the ground with
 a clang.

 "A Quadruple DNA Digivolve... what could that mean? I have to find the coding
 for the memory card and get it to Izzy." Davis grumbled.

 "I have the advantage of actually knowing how to use my prize." Cloud laughed.
 He reached over to snap the Ark Materia into his Buster Sword - but remembered
 he didn't have it. His head drooped as he slid the Materia into his pants
 pocket.

 Veemon threw his hands up. "Hello? Quadruple? As in four?"

 "There's a start." Cloud snickered.

 Davis, Cloud and Veemon turned the corner ahead of them - and plowed straight
 into Kari.

 "Kari?!" Davis said. "What are you doing out here at this time of night?"

 Gatomon stepped forward. "Alright, Davis. Let's get down to the point..."

 Davis rolled his eyes. "Mind letting Kari talk once in a while?"

 Kari picked up the conversation. "Something's going on with you and TK.
 Generally, this trip has been screwed over from day one. It's like you and TK
 switched personalities when you got here! I have a nasty feeling Ultimanium's
 behind all this."

 "Kari, do you have your D3 with you right now?" Veemon asked.

 Kari whipped the small beeper-like device out of her pocket. "Always."

 "We got a little present from Ultimanium. He gave me a phone call when you guys
 were asleep, telling me he had a little present for me. He gave me this." Davis
 tossed Kari the memory card.

 "What is this?"

 "Ultimanium told us it has the combination for another DNA Digivolve," Veemon
 explained. "We have to get this to Izzy to get it analyzed."

 Cloud stuck out his hand. "Hey, I'm Cloud Strife. I'm on one of the other
 teams."

 Kari shook with Cloud. "Other teams?"

 Davis leaned against the nearest wall. "Kari, we're not here to watch any
 large-scale battle. Ultimanium says we're here to do the actual fighting. That's
 why he gave me the code."

 "You're kidding...!" Gatomon gasped.

 "Each team is being given a gift like what you're looking at. He gave me this,"
 Cloud held out his Ark Materia. "a materia with summon magic."

 "Ultimanium is trying to even out the fight and make it look as flashy as
 possible." Davis said.

 Davis, Kari and Cloud kept explaining their sides of the Ultimanium issue. Off
 in the shadows...

 Vegeta stuck his head out from an alley. "Ultimanium? What are they talking
 about?"

 "I don't know the tasks for the other two teams. The mobile suit pilots already
 completed theirs, and.."

 Kari remembered. "Goku's team! What are they doing?"

 Cloud nodded off. "Beats me. I haven't heard from them yet."

 "A challenge..." Vegeta whispered. "What challenge? If Ultimanium wants a
 challenge accomplished, he should be talking to me!"

 Vegeta leaped out of the alley. "You! All of you! What do you know about
 Ultimanium?!"

 "Another guy from the airport..."

 "Shut up, boy! Tell me before I have to get my hands dirty!"

 "I imagine you heard everything," Cloud sighed. "All you need to know is that
 you have to fight us at some point."

 Vegeta froze. He righted himself and smiled. "Me... fight you?"

 "I'm taking it as that." Gatomon said.

 Vegeta smirked. "You make it sound like it's going to be an even fight. Listen
 here, humans, this is the only time I am going to say it! You are all going to
 be beaten by my hand this Sunday... I am the most powerful one of my race, a
 true Prince of Saiyans! I have been beaten by no one!"

 Veemon thought to himself. "Well... there was that deal with Goku.... and you
 got killed by Frieza, remember? And how about when you got creamed by Android
 18?"

 Vegeta was furious. He had been shot down. "How do you know?"

 Veemon reached behind him and pulled out a duotang. He handed it to Vegeta.

 "DBZ Stage Script, ...  urrgghh!! Where did you get this?!"

 Veemon crossed his feet. "I went around... made some concessions."

 Keyvan :  (grinning) I swear, these things are being sold Black Market.

 Vegeta grit his teeth. "I will spare killing you now. I need a target during
 Ultimanium's competition. I will see you then." He turned around and delved back
 into the dark alley.

 Davis grinned. "Oh, Kari. Just wondering, do we still have a date?"

 Kari sighed. "... I guess."

 "WOOHOO!! That's all I needed to hear. I'm perky now. C'mon, Veemon, let's go
 home and get some rest."

 Veemon trudged behind the happy-happy Davis.

 "I wouldn't mind something to perk ME up." Veemon mumbled. He stumbled forward,
 half-asleep.

 Gatomon rolled her eyes. "Geez, do YOU need a date?"

 Veemon grimaced. "Weell... now that you mention it..."

 Gatomon sighed. "... I guess."

 "WOOHOO!! That's all I needed to hear. I'm perky now. C'mon, Davis, let's go
 home and get some rest."

 Kari sat there, stunned. "Gatomon!! How can you go out with that freak,
 Veemon?!"

 "Kari!! How can you go out with that freak, Davis?!" Gatomon mocked.

 "You got me there. I suppose freaks are in open season." Kari said. Freaks were
 indeed the commodity.

 ********

 Gohan opened an eye.

 Keyvan :  Don't start.

 He fumbled across his sleeping bag surface for the zipper, when his hands came
 across something strange. He groped the headset.

 "A scouter?" A note was attached to it.

         Sorry, Gohan. I intended to make your little crusade a bit tougher, but a
 technicality make Vegeta forfeit the challenge. The scouter attached to this
 note is a Scouter Plus, a new model of Scouter that asides from scanning power
 levels absorbs some power from them. I trust you and your team will put this
 ability to good use.

                                                         -Ultimanium

 ********

 Zidane was totally beaten. He was bleeding in several places across his chest
 and face. Shards of marble stuck out of the various cuts around his body. He was
 going to get Ultimanium, whatever the cost. No one threw the Zidane around like
 that and got away with it, Zidane thought. And that Davis freak, too. I'm going
 to get you, you bastard. And when I'm done, no girl's gonna want to go out with
 a face like yours.

 END OF CHAPTER 13





 Madison Grande Hotel
 Day 6, 7:45 PM

 Keyvan : It was day number 6 of the Ultimanium ordeal. Everybody waited
 patiently for the day when they would step out of concealment and face
 Ultimanium, Ultramagnus and each other at Central Park. Just how are the teams
 going to handle it?

 Trunks collapsed onto his bed. It had been a long day training. Practicing
 alongside Vegeta had its perks, as his power level had grown more than Goku,
 Gohan and Krillin combined during the entire week.

 "Hey, Trunks. Sacking already?"

 Trunks turned to find Krillin in the doorway. Krillin had since returned from
 his sleepover, and seemed pretty glad to get out of a Truth or Dare session
 alive.

 Vegeta and Trunks had been told about the Scouter Plus by Gohan, who too had
 returned. He was out right now practicing with the Scouter's absorbing
 abilities.

 Trunks folded his arms behind his head. "Yeah, you know how extreme my father
 is."

 "I don't believe the crap that Ultimanium gave us!" Krillin complained. "A
 scouter? I have 47 at home! What's an "absorbing ability" going to do to help
 us?"

 "Krillin. Ultimanium provided us the scouter in exchange for a superhuman feat.
 There has to be some way that it can be applied to match up with the other
 teams."

 "Well, I guess.. but still, I wonder what the other teams got?"

 Goku stepped in wearing a bathrobe and holding a coffee mug. "G' morning, guys!"

 Krillin sweatdropped. "Deep sleeper? I think so."

 The room phone rang. "I'll get that." Trunks said. Don't be mom... don't be
 mom... don't be mom...

 Goku waited patiently. Don't be Chi Chi.... don't be Chi Chi... don't be Chi
 Chi....

 "Huh? Ultimanium? You're serious? Not another midnight run! Damn.. fine... we'll
 be there."

 "What was that about?" Krillin asked.

 "Ultimanium," Trunks announced. "Central Park, midnight."

 ********

 The Wing Zero stood tall in a field outside of New York. Heero dusted his hands
 off. It was complete... finally complete.

 The Buster Rifle Mk.II stuck out from where the original model stood. The
 coloring seemed out of place on the Wing Zero, but he could ignore that. At
 least until the end of the competition.

 "So what do we do with the original?" Duo questioned.

 Heero tossed him a wrench. "Put it on yours."

 "But the scyt..."

 "Secondary weapon," Heero sighed. "Secondary weapon."

 A loud bleep came from the interior of the Wing Zero.

 "The comm," Heero shouted. "I'll get that."

 Heero climbed up into the interior of the Wing Zero and sat at the control
 panel. Heero read the message plastered across the array.

 "Who's it from?"

 "Ultimanium," Heero announced. "Central Park, midnight."

 ********

 Cloud stepped over the shattered husk of the door. He quickly scanned the room
 in front of him. The recliners were there. The TV was there. Nothing was
 missing. It wasn't a thief.

 Cloud was about to fall into a recliner when a voice rang out from the kitchen.
 "Grub's ready!"

 Squall, wearing an apron, walked into the living room carrying 2 plates of
 french fries.

 Cloud smiled. "Heeey! Squall! What are you doing here?"

 "I came back here to grab the Lionheart." He turned to a gunblade hanging off
 the wall. The blade of the sword glowed with an eerie blue light.

 Cloud broke a beer off the six-pack besides the chair and opened it. "What's
 going on, did you hear from Ultimanium?"

 "Not yet. It can't be long, though."

 The phone rang. Cloud jumped for it. "Hello? Ultimanium? You're hosting it
 WHERE? Whatever. We'll be there."

 Cloud hung up the phone.

 "Ultimanium," Cloud announced. "Central Park, midnight."

 ********

 Davis lied still on his bed. Since Ken and Yolei decided to go shopping with the
 rest of the digidestined today, he had the first chance in the last 3 days to
 swoon over Kari. His double date with her, Veemon and Gatomon went extremely
 well. For some odd reason, everything he did was right.

 He spread his hands over the surface of the bed... and hit a wet spot.

 "UUGGHHH!! AAAHH!!" Davis screamed, trying madly to wipe the residue off his
 hands.

 Keyvan :  For lack of better wording.

 *Yolei kicks Keyvan in the groin. Keyvan drops to the ground and goes into the
 fetal position*

 Yolei :  Step in my personal life again and I'll keep doing it!

 Keyvan :  (whimpering) sorry.. sorry...

 Veemon put down the PS controller and turned the console off. "We moved into the
 other room for a reason."

 Davis didn't hear him. He was too busy watching the celing and dreaming. "Oh,
 Ka.."

 "Davis, do you think Ultimanium rigged the challenge? Like, as if he almost
 WANTED you to go out with Kari?"

 "I feel pretty safe," Davis sighed. "Everybody hates me and wants me to go to
 hell.. but Kari... oh, Kari..."

 Veemon hopped up beside Davis and kicked him in the head. Davis rolled off the
 bed and landed on the floor with a dull thud.

 "Oww!... Veemon! What the hell was that for?"

 "Davis, get it through your head! You're being used here!"

 Davis brushed himself off and pushed himself up. "Why are you complaining, you
 practically OWN Gatomon now!"

 "Right! And that's not right! No other digimon normally talk to me? Let's get
 this straight - I'm WEIRD!! No one would have anything to do with me, especially
 Gatomon! I'm in the same boat as you, Davis... no supposed friends, smudged up
 dating record, the whole works!"

 "But... Kari..." Davis moaned.

 Veemon shook his head. "Forget it. There's nothing that's going to get it
 through to you. Weird occurances are happening day in and day out. Like..."

 TK stumbled down the hall and collapsed, spilling his beer on the carpet.

 "...like that! Right there! Look at TK! Does he even drink? Where did he get
 beer? He's being a slob! He's almost.. .. "

 "...like me." Davis gasped.

 The phone rang. "I'll get it." Veemon groaned. He began to make his way to the
 phone.

 Patamon stood in his way. "What's this about you and Gatomon? I want answers,
 now!"

 Veemon slugged Patamon in the face and tossed him out of his way. He climbed up
 a kitchen chair and took the phone off the hook. "Hey, if you're looking for
 Mimi, she... Ultimanium? Yeah, Davis'll be there. I'll tell him right away.
 Thanx, bye!"

 Davis stepped on TK's back to get out of the room. "Hey, Veemon? Who was it?"

 "Ultimanium," Veemon announced. "Central Park, midnight."

 ********

 Izumi stared at the binary coding ahead of him, written on a napkin. He held up
 Cody's digivice and pressed a button. The information flowed from the D3 and
 imprinted itself on another Wordpad document in front of him.

 He glanced between the napkin and the laptop screen. "....interesting..."

 Cody gave Izumi a shove. "What did you figure out, Izzy?"

 Izumi reached for his celphone on the desk. He popped it open and tapped in a
 number.

 Veemon was ready to hop down from the counter when the phone rang again. Davis
 stepped inbetween the chair and the phone and took the receiver. "Hello, Mimi's
 out right now, but if..."

 "Davis? It's me, Izzy."

 "Heeey! Izzy! Wazzzaaaaaaap!!"

 Keyvan :  Sorry, I just had to stick that in somewhere. ;)

 "The sky, the occaisional satellite and the moon," Izumi replied. "Alright, I
 think I figured out what this coding means. What did you say that the memory
 card was labeled?"

 "Quadruple DNA Digivolve."

 Izumi snapped his fingers. "That's it. Well, I was comparing the code you gave
 me with some of the DNA Digivolve coding from Cody's D3, as well as some of the
 DNA Digivolve coding I copied from Yolei, Kari, TK and your D3s, and I found
 something."

 "What?"

 "I found some of Cody's DNA code encrypted in the binary. I also found traces of
 DNA coding from TK, Ken and your D3s. Theoretically, using all those digivices
 at once could result in one huge DNA Digivolve and it would create a new
 Digimon. I don't know where Ultimanium could have possibly got his hands on
 something like this, but whatever it is, it's authentic."

 "Hey, Izzy. Could I ask you a favor?"

 "What?"

 "I want you to go on the net and check the schedule of the airport in Tokyo. If
 there's a flight leaving within two ho.."

 Izumi shook his head. "No. No! I am NOT falling for that again! Davis, when I
 checked your account, there was nothing in it! I tried phoning you back but Mimi
 said you had already left! Knowing it was an emergency, I paid out of my pocket
 for it!"

 Davis sweatdropped. Maybe getting that PSone on the way here wasn't the
 brightest thing to do.

 "No, really! If we don't have Cody here, we can't start the Digivolve! Izzy,
 swear to God, I WILL pay you back the first chance I get! This is a REAL
 emergency!! C'mon, be a friend!"

 Izumi sighed. "... alright.. but remember.. if I don't get paid back in 2 weeks,
 I own everything in your room."

 "Yeah! Sure! Anything!"

 Davis hung up. "We have ourselves a DNA Digivolve."

 ********

 Ultimanium looked off of the stage into the crowd before him.

 I don't know what's with these people, he thought. They come here to watch
 alliances be torn apart... friends to turn against one another... mass
 destruction.... I wish I could just throw that out the window and concentrate on
 my true mission.

 Ultimanium had switched out of his psuedo-mysteriuos black outfit and was fitted
 in a massive suit of white, gleaming battle armor. The massive shoulder blades
 on the arms threatened to lop anyone's head off that got too close. Inch thick
 diamond-titanium carbide compound sheeted his entire body. While Ultimanium was
 never too excited about fights, he sure knew how to prepare for them.

 Ultramagnus stepped onstage. "Hey, Ultimanium. You got the invitations out yet?"

 "Sure did. They should be here in about half an hour."

 "Great. I'd sure like to pound someone. Or at least watch someone get pounded."

 Ultimanium looked back out to the audience. They had no idea what he was going
 through. But he couldn't let that stop him now. The greatest battle of his life
 stood before him, and he wasn't going to back down, ever.



 END OF CHAPTER 14






 Keyvan hits the Stop button again. Before anyone knows what has happened, he is
 back in his executive booth. A message plays over the intercom.

 "Alright people, get up and have a damn stretch already. Go and buy some snacks
 if you really want to. If you get food poisoning, sue the administrators of the
 facility, not me. Thank you, and the show will start again in 15 minutes."

 Keyvan trudged down the stairs and back into the showroom. Everybody had
 abandoned the facility, to get snacks and get food poisoning, or escaped having
 to watch the rest of the film. About a third of the audience had run away.

 Keyvan sighed. He had friends in high places, but not even that would save his
 production this time. He turned to see Davis and Flamedramon walk out of the
 theatre.

 "Hey, Keyvan! Wait up!" Davis shouted.

 "Er... Flamedramon?" Keyvan asked, sounding perplexed. "Why aren't you... you
 know... Veemon?"

 Flamedramon shrugged. "Hey, you said formal dress."

 "Formal, not as in costume ball."

 "Shut the hell up before I Fire Rocket you upside the head."

 Davis stepped between them. "Guys, guys! Flamedramon, you should be happy for
 the position you got in the production. I know I am."

 "You have ways to go before scoring with Kari." Keyvan sighed.

 "Yeah, still, I went out with Kari in the fic, and that was as real as I
 remember real being. You too, Flamedramon. You got Gatomon in a nice position
 there. Ask her out after the premiere."

 Flamedramon blushed. ".....never mind."

 Davis turned back to Keyvan and shook his hand. "Yeah, still, man, I owe you
 one! Call me back if you ever do a sequel!"

 "Sure will."

 With that, Flamedramon and Davis turned and headed for the lone popcorn stand at
 the end of the hall. Keyvan leaned against a nearby pillar, waiting for his next
 guest to come out.

 Cloud and Zidane walked out in tuxedos. "Man, Zidane! You should really carve
 that frigging pussy a new piehole by the end of the flick! If I were in that
 position, getting beat down by a wimp like him, I know I would."

 "I see you've come afoot of our friend Squall," Keyvan said. "Where is he,
 anyways?"

 "He got caught by Rinoa and he's on a fishing trip with her, Zell and Seifer."

 Keyvan grinned sheepishly. "Poor guy. How do you guys like the movie so far?"

 "It's okay," Zidane said. "You could use more Squall-killing though."

 "...yeah. I'll concentrate more on Squall-killing." Keyvan mumbled. Shitface.
 The ass wouldn't know good acting if it came up behind him and dropped a meteor
 on his head.

 "Okay! We'll be expecting that. C'mon, Cloud! M'n'Ms for only 89 cents!"

 "Woohoo!" Cloud yelped. "Lemme through!!"

 Keyvan kicked a loose pop can. He hated mixed reviews. He would rather be known
 as a total loser director than a mediocre one that gets ignored.

 "Damn you, Keyvan!!"

 Keyvan rolled his eyes. Here came the Gundam pilots.

 Duo shoved Keyvan back. "Hey, when we had no room to park our Gundams for 8
 miles and had to walk here, we were expecting a few more cameos than this!"

 "Sorry, can't talk to you, here come Vegeta and Goku."

 "See! Right there! You're ditching us already to concentrate on another team!
 What are we, filler?!"

 Let's put it this way, Keyvan thought. You'd be better off standing in the
 middle of a landfill.

 "Goku? How did you like the.." Keyvan stopped. Goku and Vegeta continued on, and
 walked right out the door.

 "HA!! How do you like that?" Duo pushed Keyvan again.

 In a blink of an eye, Keyvan whipped around and delivered a roundhouse kick to
 Duo's face.

 "Sorry, man, but you were asking for that." Heero sighed as he dragged the
 crippled Duo out of the hall lobby.

 Keyvan fell to sit against a pillar when Yolei walked by.

 "Yeah, it sucked." Keyvan moaned.

 "Well, I'm kind of happy I had a stunt double to defend against your sick
 imagination." Yolei said. She bent down and whispered into his ear. "But still,
 you should double in for Ken sometime.. so.. you know.."

 "YAAAUUGGHHH!!!" Keyvan screeched. "Alright people! Back in the theatre! On with
 the show! I don't want to stand out here and get any more opinions!"

 Keyvan pulled out his microphone and began speaking to what remained of the
 audience.

 Keyvan :  Whew... just had a reeeeeeeally bad image back there... but we're
 happy to return to the presentation 'The Ultimatum'! Now we begin the final
 battle that will decide the future and fates of the four teams! Let's cut to
 Ultimanium's Auditorium in Central Park, where the battle will take place!

 END OF CHAPTER 15





 Central Park, Ultimanium's Auditorium
 Day 6, 11:47 PM


 The crowd cheers on. A big fight is brewing.

 ********

 Cloud looks at the wall clock above the TV. "It's time."

 Heero double-checks his sensor array. The green digits in the corner blink.
 "It's time."

 Vegeta fits on his battle armor while Goku, Gohan, Krillin and Trunks all
 prepare in the background. "It's time."

 Kari pulls Davis' arm over, and looks at his watch. "It's time."

 Squall swung the Lionheart and leaned it on his shoulder. "The fight will
 begin."

 TK held up his digivice. "The fight will begin."

 Trunks stood tall in his armor. He wasn't sure what to make of the ordeal. "The
 fight will begin."

 Duo sheathed the energy scythe on the back of his mobile suit and held up the
 Buster Rifle. "The fight will begin."

 Tai stood in front of the group, with Agumon perched on his shoulder. "And we
 will win."

 Zidane equips the Gaia Gear and performs a quick kata with the Ultima Weapon.
 "And we will win."

 Goku stands stern as he lights up. The Super Saiyan came to life. "And we will
 win."

 Duo punches the coordinates of the auditorium into his computer. "And we will
 win."


 "NO MATTER THE COST!!"

 ********

 Both Gundams walked out into the center of the arena. As the crowd became
 silent, a booming voice overtook them.

 "Welcome - the first warriors of the Ultimatum." Ultimanium says.

 The crowd bursts into applause.

 "The Ultimatum.. ah, yes... a conflict of supernatural forces, cumulating in
 Central Park. Where would you find monsters duking it out with oversized mechs?
 With martial artists? Or medieval heroes wielding massive blades/bladed staves?
 Here, of course. Well, here comes our resident superheroes... Vegeta...Gohan...
 Krillin... Trunks... and the crowd favorite Goku!!"

 Goku walks out first, and gets buried in a shower of roses.

 "Thank you, girls.." Goku yells. "But I'm married!"

 Groans and boos echo around the crowd, all coming from women. All the male
 members of the audience cheer and begin to dance in the aisles.

 "And our third team.. current proud residents of New York, the Final Three!"

 Cloud and Squall dive out of the rafters, and land. Cloud has the Revolver
 gunblade while Squall uses the Lionheart. They swing their blades in varying
 arcs around themselves and bring their swords across their face.

 "Cloud's signature Buster Sword seems to be out of action today, folks."

 38 people who live and die to see really big swords get up and leave.

 Zidane plows out into the arena from a side entrance. Everybody oooohs.

 "Zidane? No!" Squall shouts.

 "Yeah, that's right, it's me, you fricking pussy! No grade-school kid is going
 to get you out of this one!"

 Everybody ooohs again.

 Even Ultimanium was shocked by the comment. "Well, friends, it looks like one of
 the Final Three has turned independant! What impact will his neutral allegiance
 have on the outcome of the match? We'll have to wait and see."

 ********

 Davis handed the memory card to Ken. "C'mon, Ken. Shoot it up."

 "What is this?" Ken asked as he turned the memory card around, looking at it.

 "Quadruple DNA Digivolve." Davis explained. He had already installed it on the
 people's digivices, including Cody, who had just shown up.

 "So how does this work?" Kari questioned.

 "I don't exactly know." Davis said. "We'll figure it out as we go along. When we
 need to, Exveemon and Stingmon will DNA Digivolve, as well as Angemon and
 Ankylomon. We'll go from there."

 As everybody went on their way out into the arena, Tai stopped and looked back
 at Davis. "What the... holy crap! Davis! Where did you get that? That looks
 awesome!"

 Davis hoisted the Buster Sword onto his shoulder. "A little present."

 "Are you sure you can handle that well? There's going to be some bloodthirsty
 types out there."

 "Is a little backup weapon not out of the question?" Veemon wailed.
 "Bloodthirsty types, you know." Veemon whipped out a katana and continued into
 the arena.

 "Er.. Veemon..."

 "IS A LITTLE BACKUP WEAPON NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION?!" Veemon yelled.

 ********

 The digidestined and their digimon finally made their way to the center of the
 arena.

 Ultimanium stood up and rubbed his hands together. "Well... I guess we can
 finally get on with it, huh?"

 Goku glanced over. "Hey!.. it's Kari! Kari! Hey!"

 Kari smiled and waved.

 "God, I can't stand that guy." Davis groaned.

 "He's starting to piss me off, too." TK scowled. "Hey, how about we double-team
 him and I'll forget about the Kari incident?"

 "Fine by me."

 "Urrgghh!!" Zidane yelped. "More skids!"

 Cloud looked over. His eyes grew wide. "What the fuck!! That guy has my sword!!"

 Squall sweatdropped. "Er... Cloud... there's been something I've been meaning to
 tell you..."

 "YOU!! You gave my sword to that kid? He'll probably wind up lopping his own
 head off when he swings the damn thing! I know better than to trust you... I'm
 going independant!"

 Ultimanium couldn't believe what was going on. His four teams had already
 fragmented into six.

 Ultramagnus walked onstage. He had foregone his battle armor in place of a dark
 green t-shirt and grey-white camoflague pants. "We ready to go?"

 Ultimanium turned to Ultramagnus and eyed him over. "Er.. man... that clashes
 like hell."

 "Yeah? Okay, don't keep the crowd waiting." Ultramagnus said, ignoring his
 comrade.

 "Okay, people!" Ultimanium yelled. "We have our teams, an.."

 Vegeta looked over. "What?! It's that blasted robot!"

 The Deathscythe turned its jointed head to the Saiyan beneath him.

 "What?" The comm yelled. "You mean YOU were the one who hijacked my Gundam?!"

 "No, it was me." Zidane laughed.

 "I defeated it." Vegeta announced.

 "Shut the hell up! I was the one who took it out of commission, you shithead!"

 "Do you DARE call me such abominations?! You're taking too much time shooting
 your mouth off to be of any threat to me!

 "I'm breaking off from this freak show!" Vegeta growled. "This fight is
 personal."

 Krillin rolled his eyes. "Aren't they all."

 7 teams. Ultimanium grinned. This is gonna be goooooood.

 "Hey, actually, now that you mention it, I think this would be a great training
 oppritunity. Gohan, I'm breaking off and fighting alongside the kids from the
 airport. You will engage that team only."

 Gohan froze. "...um... er.. okay."

 Mimi ran up from the arena exit, followed by Palmon. "Huff... glad I could...
 who are the... fighters... huh?"

 Mimi looked up at the towering Gundams ahead of her. They indeed struck a bell.

 She pointed at the Wing Zero. "Hey, aren't you that mobile suit that fought that
 other.."

 Heero sighed. He already knew what was going on here. His final battle against
 Xex had been mass broadcast across media all over the planet to make the
 colonies' push for peace offical. One target included the Jumbotron in Times
 Square. And, Mimi was one of the crowd to experience it.

 "Forget it, lady," the Wing Zero's comm sighed. "Get back to your team."

 Mimi looked over to see Squall standing alone. "Heeey!"

 Squall's expression was that of utter terror.

 "Did you get dumped by those other bums?" She giggled. "C'mon, Palmon! Let's
 join up with him."

 "I'm up for it!" Palmon wailed.

 Kari's jaw dropped. "Mimi...!"

 "This IS only a training exercise, isn't it? C'mon, it'll be fun."

 Ultimanium was totally lost at this point. "Alright, people! Shut up and get on
 with it already!"

 Everybody froze.

 Ultramagnus stepped forward. "I believe our lovely staff up in Technical have
 sorted out your teams and measured your individual power levels. They will be
 marked on our screen from the start to the end of the match.."

 A large display on the far side of the arena lit up.

 Keyvan :  And the readings are as follows...




 *** Digidestined + Goku ***

 Tai
 50 HP - 0 MP

 Davis
 40 HP - 15 MP

 TK
 45 HP - 0 MP

 Cody
 30 HP - 0 MP

 Sora
 40 HP - 0 MP

 Ken
 45 HP - 0 MP

 Kari
 35 HP - 0 MP

 Yolei
 40 HP - 0 MP

 Goku
 1000 HP - 200 MP

 Veemon grinned. "Oops. Someone mind digivolving us?"

 The team held up their digivices and D-Terminals, respectively.

 "Er.. Davis..." Kari mumbled.

 "What?"

 "Why do you have MP and we don't?" Tai asked.

 "Well, I..." Davis looked down at the Buster Sword in his hand. Two green jewels
 stood out.

 Davis grinned evilly. "Materia... I forgot."

 "Matei-what?" Yolei yelped.

 Exveemon
 250 HP - 80 MP

 Stingmon
 200 HP - 60 MP

 Wargreymon
 450 HP - 120 MP

 Pegasusmon
 300 HP - 250 MP

 Angewomon
 250 HP - 350 MP

 Digmon
 200 HP - 120 MP

 Shurimon
 250 HP - 50 MP

 (Author's note... I compounded all the stats in this section generally on how
 often these people get their asses kicked. So if I'm a bit inaccurate, hate mail
 would generally be in order, though I will try my hardest to bat it out of the
 sky. Thank you. Oh, and if you're wondering, no, Biyomon never showed up.)


 *** DBZ ***

 Trunks
 800 HP - 150 MP

 Gohan
 500 HP - 100 MP

 Krillin
 250 HP - 40 MP


 *** LPOS (Lone, Pissed Off Saiyans) ***

 Vegeta
 950 HP - 300 MP

 *** Gundam Duo ***

 "Gundam Duo?" Heero moaned.

 "Duo? Two? Hello, would Gundam Heero make anymore sense to you?" Duo shouted.

 Gundam Deathscythe
 1500 HP - 0 MP

 Gundam Wing Zero
 1800 HP - 0 MP

 *** Hopeless Guy and a Hopeful Lady ***

 "If that's what you're pointing at, you die now." Squall muttered.

 "Ooooh!! That's sounds so cool!" Mimi squealed. "I guess we ARE destined!!"

 Mimi holds up her digivice and the transformation begins..

 Squall
 500 HP - 0 MP

 Mimi
 45 HP - 0 MP

 Lillymon
 150 HP - 300 MP

 *** The Anti-Skid Squad ***

 "You damn skids!!" Zidane wails. "I'll beat all your asses!!!"

 Zidane
 700 HP - 500 MP

 *** Lost Greatswords Anomonyous ***

 "Give me the damn sword and I won't kill you. ... is crippling fine?" Cloud
 sighs.

 Cloud
 650 HP - 400 MP


 Ultramagnus flares yellow. "And just for fun..."


 *** The Enforcer ***

 Ultramagnus
 4500 HP - 1200 MP


 "No way!" Vegeta grunts. "The stupid computer made a mistake.. there is no
 person more powerful than a Saiyan!"

 Ultimanium rolled his eyes. "He IS a Saiyan. SSJ4, I believe."

 Everybody in the audience oooohs.

 "Blasphemy!!" Vegeta scowled. "I make sure of it that you are defeated!"

 Davis shuddered. "I don't like this..."

 Ultimanium's eyes turned a deep red. "Maybe I should join in and give you
 something to REALLY complain about."

 Ultimanium shot an arm toward the sky. "Cometh!! Mastermune!!"

 Keyvan :  Gotta love that Mastermune. ;)

 A small stave shot down through the roof of the arena at terminal velocity and
 imbedded itself in the ground in front of Ultimanium. With a flick of the wrist,
 the battlestaff was out of the ground and twirling in Ultimanium's hands.

 Serge :  (shaking head furiously)

 Keyvan :  What the hell do YOU want? Okay? This is MY Mastermune, I can call it
 a battlestaff if I want!

 Serge :  (stamps foot down)

 Kid :  Damn it, Keyvan! Oi! Call it a swallow, for bloody hell! Serge here is
 going to go into a fit!

 Keyvan :  Security! Disarm that bitch.

 *Several security members hop into mechs and chase Kid and Serge away*

 Kid :  Bugger! Don't think you've gotten away with this, eh?!

 Keyvan :  (sighs) Damn, I wanted them for a future fanfic too. Oh well. On with
 the show.

 "That looks suspiciously like a thief sword to me."

 "Shut up, Zidane," Ultimanium said. "We don't want another incident with the
 green flaming fist, do we?"

 That shut Zidane up. "....sorry."

 "Alright, then. Ultramagnus will be on hand to make sure no backstabbing goes
 on. Well, at least not anymore than what's going on right now. Screw up, and you
 answer to him."

 Ultramagnus grinned out to the teams. His punch landed against his free hand,
 making everyone jump back.

 "I'll be back to deal with you after," Vegeta shouted. "I have to take care of
 these weaklings first."

 Mimi looked up to Ultramagnus. "Omigosh! That outfit is just ATROCIOUS!! There's
 more clashing in that suit than Davis'!"

 Davis sighed.

 "SILENCE, MORTAL!! I SHALL DRESS HOW I PLEASE!!" Ultramagnus boomed.

 "Don't piss him off too much," Ultimanium said. "I want this to last more than 2
 minutes."

 Everybody leaped into their positions. This was it. It would start any second
 now.

 "Skid." Zidane grunted.

 "Freak." Davis muttered.

 "Tin can." Vegeta scowled.

 "Muscle-bound weirdo." Duo whispered.

 "Son." Goku announced.

 "I'll take you any day." Gohan whispered under his breath.

 "Dorks." Trunks said above them all.

 "Take that back!!" Yolei yelled.


 And with a full out battle cry, the seven groups charged inwards on each other.
 It ended here. Exveemon couldn't help to think how the digidestined would be
 shaped by this fight. Likewise with the other groups. All the groups were well
 trained.... and last man standing would be defending the earth from the
 aftermath that would follow.



 END OF CHAPTER 16






 The digidestined quickly backed off from the brawl in the center and arranged
 themselves in a line, aside their friends.

 "Goku!" Kari yelped. "Get out of there!"

 Goku sprinted through the chaos to Gohan, off in the far corner. Gohan was
 mesmerized by the massive conflict in front of him, and it was up to Goku to
 knock him back into his senses.

 Zidane stepped in front of him and delivered a lightning-fast hook to Goku's
 gut. "You're not going anywhere!!"

 Goku  -8 HP

 This stopped Goku. Zidane barreled forward with the Ultima Weapon and took a
 swipe at Goku. Goku leaped back and dove straight at Zidane, arms flailing. A
 rocket punch to Zidane's face sent him flying back.

 Zidane  -24 HP

 Goku strafed away from where he stood, in time to dodge the massive foot of the
 Deathscythe that crashed down. He shot forward to the distracted Gohan.

 Gohan glanced forward, to get nailed in the face with the flying boot of Goku.
 Gohan shot backward across the ground, leaving a trail crater in his wake. Gohan
 quickly leaped back into action with a somersault and dashed back to Goku.

 Gohan  -30 HP

 Goku and Gohan locked in a blazing-fast fistfight. All the others could see was
 a blur where they stood.

 Krillin poked his head out of the crowd. "Trunks! Where the hell di  *KRUNCH*

 Exveemon drove a fist into the side of Krillin's head, sending him rolling.
 Trunks dropped out behind Exveemon and dropkicked him, sending him down. Trunks
 trapped him beneath his legs and threw a volley of punches at the immoblie
 Exveemon.


 Krillin  -18 HP
 Exveemon  -41 HP


 Davis leapt forward. "Damn it, Vee! You're supposed to be back there!!"

 Trunks disembarked to dodge Davis' arcing Buster Sword. Davis, in a rage, swung
 the blade wildly in front of him. A massive slash followed.

 Trunks leapt back and stumbled. He fell to the ground and began to retreat,
 flipping back to escape the homicidal Davis. When he stopped, he began to feel
 the pain. A massive slash embraced his shoulder.

 "How the hell..? I should ... eh..ow... be more careful."


 Trunks  -24 HP


 Autocannon fire from the Wing Zero tore through the middle of the group,
 splitting it into two. There were some exceptions, though.

 Mimi hit the ground. "AAAhhhh.... damn it!!"

 Lillymon began to drag the incapacitated Mimi out of the mayhem. "What
 happened?" The digimon spotted the torn flesh on Mimi's side. "No way! You can't
 die! Getting clipped by bullets can't kill a person..."

 As fast as Lillymon started speaking, a light blue aura surrounded Mimi.
 Lillymon dropped her and reeled back. "What.."

 "Curaga!" Squall yelled.

 Mimi feeled where the bullet had hit. Nope, nothing there. She was healed.

 Squall was sacked by the affectionate, sobbing Mimi. "T-th-thank... you."

 Squall flipkicked Mimi off him. "I'm prolonging our team, and nothing more."

 Mimi rolled to a stop. "..ow."


 Mimi  -1 HP


 Another wave of autocannon fire sent everybody running. "Whahahahah!!"

 "Heero, you're having too much fun with this." Duo sighed.

 Duo went to speak again until a pissed-off Vegeta careened into the hull of the
 Deathscythe with a heavy kick, sending the mobile suit stumbling back.

 "Duo! You all right there?"

 Duo climbed back into his seat. "I.. I guess so. Some of the arrays were kind of
 jarred, though. I don't think I'm going to be getting 100% reliable readings for
 a while."

 The chest plate of the Deathscythe was starting to show damage. Another kick to
 the leg courtesy of Vegeta sent the mobile suit toppling to the ground.

 "Bucket of bolts!!" Vegeta screamed.

 KRAAASSSHHH


 Gundam Deathscythe  -243 HP


 The digimon lined up outside the brawl.

 "Are we ready?!"

 "Hit it!"

 "V-Laser!!"
 "Terra Force!!"
 "Star Shower!!"
 "Celestial Arrow!!"
 "Gold Rush!!"
 "Twin Blade!!"

 A flurry of projectiles bombarded the group in the mass brawl. Many of them
 stumbled away to continue the fight in their privacy.


 Krillin  -45 HP
 Trunks  -34 HP
 Zidane  -24 HP
 Davis  -9 HP


 Davis limped out of the wreckage. "Watch it!!"

 Exveemon sweatdropped. "Um... when were you a melee fighter?"

 Off in the distance, Goku and Gohan fought for control of a ki blast. Goku
 knocked it away and sent it flying into the Wing Zero, blowing off its arm.

 Heero fell over in his seat. "DAMN!!"


 Gundam Wing Zero  -333 HP


 The Deathscythe rose its arm up. The Buster Rifle started charging.

 "Hit the deck!!" Cloud screeched.

 The massive laser scorched over them, blasting apart a celing support.

 A piece of granite nailed Stingmon in the back. "Yaaahhh!!"


 Stingmon  -56 HP


 "We aren't going to last!!" Ken yelled. "We have to do something, and fast!!"

 Trunks backhanded Vegeta and sent him sprawling.


 Vegeta  -23 HP


 Davis lifed up the Buster Sword. "Materia... how do you work materia?"

 As Davis focused on realizing the Materia's properties, they began to glow.
 "Cure... and something else... so that's how you analyze materia? Just think
 about it?" Easy enough for me."

 As Kari fought through the wreckage ahead of her, a loose punch from Vegeta
 nailed her in the side and knocked her down.


 Kari  -32 HP


 "Kari!!" TK and Davis yelled.

 "Stand back, Davis, I'll help her." TK announced.

 "Shut the hell up, TZ, I'm the one with the Cure."

 Davis drilled TK in the face and began running to Kari.


 TK  -3 HP


 Gohan worked on dodging another swarm of assaults from his father while talking.
 "Why.. ar...e... we.... on .... opp....si...te.. tea....ms.."

 "Practice, Gohan. Practice." Goku laughed. That stopped when Gohan broke through
 and delivered a roundhouse punch to Goku's face, stunning him. Gohan started
 hammering on Goku's gut and kicked him in the face, sending him flying into the
 crowd.


 Goku  -84 HP


 "DNA DIGIVOLVE!! NOW!!" TK yelled.

 Exveemon and Stingmon ran at each other and merged. Where they once stood the
 super Digimon Paildramon emerged. They swung their autocannons in front of them
 and started firing.

 "Desperado Blaster!!" They yelled.

 The loose energy bolts from the attack chipped away at the Wing Zero. Pieces of
 shrapnel flew off and pelted the digidestined in the scrap below.

 "Ow!" Tai yelled. Another piece of metal bounced off his head. "Damn it! Watch
 it!"


 Tai  -5 HP
 Gundam Wing Zero  -114 HP


 "I have to figure out how this thing works!" Gohan yelled. While he could hold
 off Goku present tense, there was no way he could keep up the battle for long.
 He fiddled with the controls of the Scouter Plus. Then it hit him.

 Gohan grinned. He whipped around and scanned Ultimanium.

 Ultimanium clapped. "Glad you figured it out."

 Gohan instantly felt a surge of energy within him. The absorbing properties of
 the scouter had finally started to work. Ultimanium shipped a small pulse of
 power to Gohan.


 Gohan  +600 HP


 "DNA DIGIVOLVES, PEOPLE!! KEEP 'EM COMING!!"

 Digmon quickly de-digivolved, as did Pegasusmon. They, too, ran together and
 connected. With another flash, the mech-like Shakkuramon stood tall alongside
 the Gundams.

 "What the fuck is that?!" Duo shouted.

 Davis focused his energy on the small green orb within the Buster Sword.
 "ULTIMA!!"

 "Uh oh," Cloud moaned. "I was figuring I shouldnt've left that in there."

 A massive green explosion erupted in the middle of the arena, sending everyone
 back.


 Gundam Wing Zero  -450 HP
 Gundam Deathscythe  -344 HP
 Vegeta  -134 HP
 Trunks  -198 HP


 "Heero!!" Duo screamed. "Use the Buster Rifle! You aren't going to get another
 chance!!"


 Hooooooonnkkk


 The timer on the display went off.

 Ultimanium hovered down into the middle of the arena. "Time's up, guys. Round
 two begins in 10 minutes. Go back to the dressing rooms and have a rest."

 ********

 Keyvan :  Reporter Keyvan live at the Ultimatum! The standings are as follows:

 *** Digidestined + Goku ***

 Tai
 45 HP - 0 MP

 Davis
 31 HP - 2 MP

 TK
 42 HP - 0 MP

 Cody
 30 HP - 0 MP

 Sora
 40 HP - 0 MP

 Ken
 45 HP - 0 MP

 Kari
 3 HP - 0 MP

 Yolei
 40 HP - 0 MP

 Goku
 904 HP - 178 MP

 Paildramon
 393 HP - 50 MP

 Wargreymon
 450 HP - 86 MP

 Shakkuramon
 500 HP - 500 MP

 Shurimon
 250 HP - 34 MP


 *** DBZ ***

 Trunks
 544 HP - 112 MP

 Gohan
 1170 HP - 54 MP

 Krillin
 187 HP - 35 MP


 *** LPOS ***

 Vegeta
 793 HP - 272 MP


 *** Gundam Duo ***

 Gundam Deathscythe
 917 HP - 0 MP

 Gundam Wing Zero
 903 HP - 0 MP


 *** Hopeless Guy and a Hopeful Lady ***

 Squall
 500 HP - 0 MP

 Mimi
 44 HP - 0 MP

 Lillymon
 150 HP - 300 MP


 *** The Anti-Skid Squad ***

 Zidane
 652 HP - 500 MP


 *** Lost Greatswords Anomonyous ***

 Cloud
 650 HP - 400 MP


 *** The Enforcer ***

 Ultramagnus
 4500 HP - 1200 MP



 ********

 Kari stumbled down the hall, supported by an overzealous Davis.

 "C'mon. A little ways to the dressing room." Davis sighed.

 ".... I can't believe this." Kari mumbled. She would normally get up and walk
 away, but felt that she couldn't. While the punch from Vegeta left her fairly
 unharmed, the nasty landing she made did some damage to her left leg.

 Gatomon ran up. "Kari! Are you all right?"

 "Yeah.. I guess so..."

 Gatomon, curious, pushed inwards on Kari's knee.

 "YAAAAHHHH!! OOOOOwww...."

 "Oh man..." Ken moaned. "This isn't good. She's broken something, definately.
 Kari, I think it would be a good idea if you sat out for the remainder of the
 fight."

 "....Ken.... you're right."

 "But if you do step out..." Gatomon said, nervous. "Who'll digivolve me?"

 "Davis will."

 Davis nearly backed off from Kari, but couldn't let go and let her fall.
 "Whaa?!"

 With her free hand, Kari unclipped the D3 from her belt and handed it to Davis.
 "Here. Use this. Gatomon, can you listen to Davis for a while?"

 Gatomon woke up and nodded. "...sure... I guess.."

 "Does that mean we live together?" Veemon snickered. Gatomon slapped him in the
 back of the head.

 Davis reluctantly accepted the digivice. "But I thought you only could..."

 "Davis, .... I believe you can do this. Quite frankly, this entire trip has made
 me look at a side of you I've never seen before."

 Davis blushed. TK walked by and smacked Davis in the back of the head.

 The power level counter on the scoreboard went back into action.


 Davis -1 HP


 Tai walked out of the dressing room. "Actually, come to think of it, what are WE
 doing on the battlefield? There's not much we can do out there..."

 "Point being?" Cody asked.

 "I wouldn't mind a little reassurance out there, that's for sure." Armadillomon
 said.

 "If anyone else steps out there.. well... you see my sister... I'll be staying
 in here to take care of her. Agumon, can you Warp Digivolve when you're out in
 the arena?"

 Agumon nodded. "I'll see what I can do."

 Ken sulked. "....you're right. Wormmon?"

 "I'll try." Wormmon hummed.

 "I'm not going out there again if goggle-head drills his own team member like
 that again." TK complained.

 "Like you were going to do anything, TA!" Davis yelled.

 "It's settled," Sora said. "We'll wait in here and let our Digimon handle it."

 "Not us." Veemon said, standing proud.

 "... Davis? Why are you going out there? You could get killed!"

 "I'M the melee fighter of the group. I have a bigass sword and some magic on my
 side. If I have anything that'll tip the scales in favor of us, then I'll be
 seeing to it!" Davis shouted.

 "Are you sure?"

 "Definite."

 Tai looked around at the group. "If you're going out there..."

 Cody frowned. "And we're staying here..."

 A pile of digivices accumulated at Davis' feet.

 Davis sweatdropped. "...you're kidding..."

 Wormmon tugged at Davis. "We're all here for you, Davis."

 Gatomon punched out into open air. "We'll fight it out."

 Veemon smiled. "We're set then."

 ********

 Heero crept toward the downed Wing Zero, to get chased away again by a shower of
 sparks. It didn't look like the Wing Zero would hold together during the next
 round.

 Heero threw down his welding mask. "This is never going to work."

 Duo finished touching up the chestplate of the Deathscythe. While it still
 looked pretty banged up, Duo had managed to hammer out the surrounding metal
 plates to form a makeshift emblem on the front of the mobile suit.


 Gundam Deathscythe -50 HP


 "That's not helping the infrastructure of it any." Heero sighed.

 "If we have to go down, we're doing it in style," Duo laughed. "Alright. Next
 round, first thing, use the Buster Rifle. The rate you're taking heat, it may be
 your only chance to use it."

 Heero sat down and looked down the sides of the laid-down Gundams. One arm was
 losing power fast. The wires from it dangled down the side of the mobile suit
 and spat sparks at anyone foolhardy enough to get close. On the other side was
 the Buster Rifle Mk.II. Surprisingly, it hadn't taken a single hit during the
 previous match.

 "That's funny..." Heero said, eyeing the cannon suspiciously. "I swear that part
 got hit.."

 "Hey, we're not complaining."

 Duo drilled another screw into the leg and fastened a loose plate of steel onto
 it.

 "Ah, forget it," Duo groaned. "I have a better idea."

 Duo reached into his pocket and took out a small palm-sized remote. He pressed a
 button on it. Several large circular metal plates hovered out of a slot on the
 back of the Gundam and positioned themselves in the air. They crackled with
 energy and hummed to life.

 "Duo! Those aren't..."

 Duo grinned. "Spare Mobile Dol parts. The shielding should keep us going a
 little while longer. As long as you stay close to me, you won't have anything to
 worry about."

 "It's not that... when did you install them?"

 Keyvan :  No, I did, in the past 5 minutes.

 "Really?"

 Keyvan :  Yeah, your arm being blown off and all brought a tear to my eye.

 Heero sweatdropped. "...okay."

 ********

 Trunks collapsed onto a bench in the dressing room, as did Krillin and Gohan.

 "Hey, Krillin, are you going to be alright?" Gohan asked.

 Krillin supported the side of his head with a wet towel. A large bruise embraced
 the side of his cranium. "Yeah, I think I'm fine," he winced. "Just a flesh
 wound."

 "How about you, Trunks? Trunks?"

 Trunks frowned and looked up to Krillin and Gohan. "Something's wrong here."

 Gohan shrugged. "I don't know what's so wrong. Everybody's putting out a good
 fight."

 Trunks stood up and adjusted his armor. "Right. TOO good. Everybody here is
 putting out an abnormal amount of Ki. I think we're going into run into trouble
 if we keep going like this. We have to be tougher next round if we hope to live
 through this."

 Krillin rubbed the back of his head. "And we still have to worry about Goku and
 Vegeta."

 Trunks sat down again. "That's not much of a problem. It's just a power level
 issue we have to worry about there. But these other people.. we have to devise a
 new strategy to get rid of them."

 Goku placed his hand on Gohan's shoulder. "That was great out there."

 Gohan whipped around and stared up at his father. "Dad?"

 Goku smiled. "I just stopped by to congratulate you. You were doing great
 against me. Let's see if you can keep it up another round. Later."

 Goku turned and left.

 Gohan grit his teeth. Could he keep going against his Super Saiyan father and
 come out on top?

 ********

 Squall pushed Mimi away. Again.

 "Geez, what's the deal?" Mimi yelped. "I just want to..."

 "Yeah, whatever. You're not getting my drift here. I wasn't talking about that,
 it's just that we need a new plan of attack. Do you have any suggestions as to
 who we should be going after?"

 Mimi gave a flirtatious wink. "I know who I'M going after."

 Squall rolled his eyes.

 Lillymon pointed. "Hey, it's that funny-haired guy over there!"

 Vegeta sat at the far edge of the arena, throwing randomly placed punches and
 kicks into midair.

 Lillymon waved. "Hey, man! What's up, shadow boxing?"

 Vegeta stopped and slowly turned to the group. "I'm training. Stop bothering
 me."

 "Someone who trains while fighting," Squall sighed. "Can't say I've seen that
 before."

 ********

 In the last remaining dressing room in the facility, Cloud and Zidane sat in
 heated argument.

 "Shush."

 "Shut up."

 "Shut up, bitch."

 "Shut the hell up, bitch."

 "Why the hell are YOU so pissed off?" Cloud yelled. "You just toss up your
 X-Potion, and WHAZAM! You're back to your self! I lost my sword, and tossing an
 X-Potion up and shouting WHAZAM can't bring that back."

 Zidane pointed at Cloud. "You ass, getting slashed across the chest is a
 DISGRACE for someone like me! No true warrior suffers injury and admits it! I'll
 never retain my true self... while losing a sword is an accident!"

 Cloud dived at Zidane and they were ready to rip each other's heads off when the
 siren sounded in the arena. It was time.

 ********

 Davis trudged out into the arena, with Digimon lined up alongside him on both
 sides.

 *Keyvan pushes the Stop button, plays the scene in slow-mo and dubs in the
 Matrix theme*

 Keyvan : (Puts arms up behind his head) That's better.

 Davis :  Sweeeet...

 Veemon :  Booya!

 *Everyone else boos Keyvan*

 "Just wondering," Armadillomon sighed. "Do you even have a plan?"

 "Yeah, I do." Davis responded.

 Vegeta folded his arms. "It's about time. Well, child, are you ready to continue
 this?"

 The Gundams hummed to life and stepped forward. "Evasive manouvers, on my
 mark.." Heero growled.

 Trunks, Gohan and Krillin braced themselves.

 Zidane and Cloud stood ready. This time they were going to join in.

 A loud squeal followed by a deep hum filled the arena.

 "Heero?" Duo laughed. "That's kind of early, huh?"

 "He's using the arm cannon!" Trunks yelled.

 FIGHT!!



 END OF CHAPTER 17






 The DNA digivolves finished. Davis and the gang were ready to roll.

 "Davis!" Paildramon shouted. "What about the Quad DNA Digivolve?"

 "We'll use it if things get hairy!" Davis replied.

 With that, all the fighters piled unceremoniously in the center of the arena.

 Davis fumbled around his belt for the right digivices. "Er.. no.. this is
 Kari's... this is TK's... where is it..."

 "Get on with it!" Shakkuomon bellowed.

 Krillin, Goku, Gohan and Trunks broke off from the group and started what had to
 be the largest fight in DBZ history.

 Keyvan :  Check it out everybody! 4 people!

 *Everybody ooohs*

 Squall and Zidane broke off from what remained of the group in the center and
 banked towards the new conflict on the far side of the arena, with Mimi and
 Lillymon in hot pursuit.

 Zidane jumped to a skid-halt. "Hey, waitaminute, why the hell am I following
 you? Squall! You're going down you fricking pussy!!"

 Squall fired around in time to deflect an Ultima Weapon slash with the
 Lionheart.

 "Damn it!" Davis said. "I'll digivolve you guys now. I have business to take
 care of."

 "Ready when you are!" Paildramon shouted.


 Paildramon mega digivolve to...

 Ultimanium grinned. "Alriiiiight!"

 IMPERIALDRAMON!!


 *** Digidestined + Goku ***

 Davis
 31 HP - 2 MP

 Goku
 904 HP - 178 MP

 Shakkuomon
 500 HP - 500 MP

 Imperialdramon
 2500 HP - 0 MP

 Slyphmon
 550 HP - 250 MP

 Wargreymon
 450 HP - 86 MP


 Ultramagnus sweatdropped. "Er.."

 Imperialdramon - TRANSFORM TO FIGHTER MODE...

 Imperialdramon
 5000 HP - 0 MP

 Imperialdramon now stood at least 3 times higher than the Gundams beneath him.
 The giant mobile suit-like digimon hybrid bent down and picked up the Wing Zero
 by its head between its fingers.

 Imperialdramon threw back one of their enormous fists, ready to knock the mobile
 suit out of the match.. but.. well... you know these kinds of things don't work
 too well against the Gundams.

 "Fully charged!!" Heero screamed. "ROCK AND ROLL!!!"

 The Buster Rifle Mk.II fired.

 ********

 Tai looked through another locker. "Man, I'm bored. Maybe I shouldn'tve let
 Davis go out there by himself. He might get hurt."

 "Speaking of which," Ken questioned. "I wonder how he's doing?"

 The head of the devastated Imperialdramon crashed down through the celing and
 landed inbetween the group.

 Imperialdramon -4563 HP

 Tai sweatdropped. "... not too good."

 With a flash, Imperialdramon disappeared and the drowsy Veemon and Wormmon
 rematerialized in the dressing room.

 "N-no more ice cream," the delerious Wormmon sighed. "The truck's already full."

 Ken bent down and slapped Wormmon across the face. "Wormmon! Get a hold of
 yourself!"

 Wormmon woke up from his daze. "...K..Ken? Where's Davis?"

 Ken pointed through the wreckage that stretched out to the arena. "Out there.
 C'mon, they're all waiting for you. You too, Veemon."

 Veemon stumbled away alongside Wormmon.

 "I think we should be out there." Tai said.

 "No." Kari mumbled.

 "What?"

 Kari looked up. "...t... this is Davis' trial."

 Tai took Kari by the shoulders. "What? What do you mean by 'Davis' trial'?"

 "...Ultimanium told me... it was a dream.."

 Tai looked around at the confused group. As unanswering as Kari was, they all
 knew full well that Kari's dreams weren't to be taken lightly. It had gotten
 them into trouble many times before.

 "He's here to succeed at something... that's what Ultimanium told me."

 Yolei watched through the wreckage as the two Gundams stomped by, firing their
 autocannons. She grit her teeth. "He's not here to succeed at fighting, that's
 for sure."

 Tai looked around. "Has anyone been keeping an eye on Davis? What has he done in
 the past little while that he's never done before?"

 "We never saw him most of the time," Sora replied. "he was always in the spare
 bedroom. But he came out that night..."

 Tai froze.


 *flashback*

 "JESUS CHRIST, TAI!!! WHAT THE HELL IS TK DOING TO YOUR SISTER?!?"

 "Thanks, Veemon. TK! What the fuck is wrong with you?!"

 *end flashback*


 Tai turned to Kari. "What's going on with Davis?"

 "Well.. I did do some things out of the ordinary..."

 Everybody leaned in.

 "Well... I... I.... ... I ASKED HIM OUT!! THAT'S MY BUISNESS!!"

 Tai looked over to TK. TK sat there, minding his own business. "Er.. TK..."

 No response.

 "TK? Kari's frenching Davis."

 No response.

 Tai sulked. "He's being pacified somehow."

 ********

 Ultimanium stood up in his chair. "Damn it! They found out. I don't think I'll
 be able to keep him in his trance much longer."

 Ultramagnus frowned. "I guess this is the end of the Dakari?"

 "I can only hope Davis and Kari developed enough of a tie to last it out..."
 Ultimanium turned to the crowd. "Ultramagnus. Set the timer. In 5 minutes we
 enter sudden death."

 Ultramagnus grinned and rubbed his hands together. "THAT's more like it."

 ********

 "Flower Cannon!!"

 A bright burst of light impacted against the side of the Buster Rifle. The right
 arm of the Wing Zero in the Deathscythe's array turned a deep red.

 Gundam Wing Zero -212 HP

 "Heero! You've got some heavy damage on the Buster Rifle! Don't use it - it
 might malfunction!"

 Too late. The cannon shorted out.

 "Urrgghh!!" Duo groaned. "As long as the Wing Zero doesn't have the Buster Rifle
 going, it's helpless!"

 Vegeta whipped a light Ki blast at the base of the Deathscythe, making it
 stagger.

 Gundam Deathscythe -67 HP

 "Enough of this!!" Duo yelled.

 With a single swift motion, the Deathscythe whipped its arm behind it, and swung
 the powered-up energy scythe at the ground beneath him. However, it swung with a
 slight miscalculation - on Vegeta's behalf, that is.

 KRACK

 "Yaaahh!!" Vegeta wailed. Vegeta, brandished with the 2 foot-thick handle of the
 scythe, plummeted straight toward the ground.

 Vegeta -142 HP

 Somehow, Goku was managing to dodge flying fists and feet coming from Trunks,
 Gohan and Krillin all at the same time.

 Trunks attempted to speak. "Jus..t... out... of cur...iosity.... how....long....
 did you... get ...in... the .... Hyp....erb..olic..... Time.... Cham....ber?"

 "6 months, in Hyberbolic Time. Why?"

 In a split second, Trunks shot up into SSJ2 and railed Goku in the face with a
 perfectly placed elbow. Goku barreled across the ground behind him and flipped
 back into his fighting stance. Trunks, Gohan, and Krillin waited nervously where
 they were.

 Goku -187 HP

 Goku grinned. He knew how to make them flinch. And Gohan would know the way out
 of it...

 "Ka...me..."

 Krillin bowed. "Damn it! Let's get out of here!!"

 "Haaaa....meeeee..."

 Gohan flung himself forward at the charging Goku.

 "HHAAAAA!!!"

 As the beam of Ki charged straight at Gohan, he spun around and threw an elbow
 to his side, deflecting the blast of raw energy off at a 90 degree angle.
 Ultramagnus turned around in time to get blasted. He threw his arms across his
 face to shield himself from harm.

 Ultramagnus -220 HP

 "Is ... that what you call a Kamehameha?" Ultramagnus laughed.

 Everybody nodded.

 "Nowhere NEAR as handy as far as sheer destructive power goes as a
 Renzokamehameha!!"

 Cloud heard Ultramagnus off to the side. He turned to Squall. "Renzo... isn't
 that your...?"

 Squall shook his head. "No. Renzo is just a Japanese description."

 "For what?"

 "Repeatedly."

 Ultramagnus began charging. "I show you REAL power!! Kaaaa...meee...."

 "Everybody!! Move it! NOW!!" Trunks yelled.

 "Haaa...meee...."

 Veemon and Wormmon ran out into the arena.

 "Davis!! We need the Quad DNA Digivolve, now!!" Veemon cried.

 "HAAAA!!!"

 Ultramagnus threw his other arm across the origin of the blast to divide it.
 With the energy in both hands he spun quickly and threw his palms across
 himself. 8 seperate Kamehamehas blazed at Goku. With some dexterity, he was able
 to repel two of them. Gohan deflected one, and Trunks and Krillin both hit the
 dirt.

 "I'll be with you in a bit!" Davis yelled. "I'm having some trouble here! Whoa!"

 Davis dived and rolled in time to dodge another Ultima Weapon aimed at him.
 Zidane shouted and brought the twin blade down again, but Davis quickly
 countered with the Buster Sword and they met in a swordlock.

 "It is my sworn.. duty... to... beat down.. skids..." Zidane said, struggling
 against Davis.

 Davis winced. He couldn't hold him off for much longer. It would all be over
 soon. With the Ultima Weapon carving him into little bits, he would never see
 the finer things that were to come in life... a position on the Japanese team
 for the World Cup... a job running a noodle cart... Kari... all of his
 friends... ... Kari?

 "You bitch!! You want a fight?!" Davis bellowed. With an outburst, Davis let go
 of the Buster Sword and forced Zidane off of him with a loose hand. Zidane flew
 off and rolled to a stop. When he sprung up, he barely caught sight of Davis
 charging him with the Buster Sword. With a leaping slash, Davis brought down the
 sharp side of the blade and busted the Ultima Weapon's shaft.

 Zidane fumbled to grasp the dual blades. Enough of the shaft remained on both
 ends to function as a weapon. Zidane swung both blades behind him. "I fight with
 daggers too, you know."

 "Er.." Davis was stuck. It was his one blade versus his two now. Zidane rushed
 Davis and threw him to the ground.

 Davis -2 HP

 "Alright, you little skid!!" Zidane shouted. "No one slashes THE warrior across
 the chest and gets away with it! You wi

 FWADDOOOOOM

 Davis kept his eyes shut. Maybe it was all of the afterlife bearing down on him.
 .....
 Nothing happened. He opened an eye.

 Keyvan :  Urrgghhh...

 The decapitated body of Zidane crumpled to the ground ahead of him. Behind
 Zidane there were five gaping holes in the wall.

 Zidane -8934 HP

 Ultramagnus sweatdropped. ".................oops."

 *** The Anti-Skid Squad has been defeated ***

 "....eep." was Cloud's reply.

 "Forget it!!" He yelled. He grasped the red summon Materia in his hand and began
 focusing on it. It began to glow. "Summon ARK!!!"

 Gatomon ran up to Davis. "Do it! Now!!"

 Davis quickly unclipped the 4 digivices from his belt. He laid them down on the
 ground ahead of him and started tapping out buttons.

 Exveemon!
 Stingmon!
 DNA DIGIVOLVE TO....
 Paildramon!!

 Anyklomon!
 Angemon!
 DNA DIGIVOLVE TO...
 Shakkuomon!!



 "I hope this works." Davis murmured. He opened up all 4 D-Terminals and punched
 in the access codes for the D3s. He quickly hit Enter.

 PAILDRAMON!
 SHAKKUOMON!
 DNA DIGIVOLVE TO...

 Davis crossed his fingers. Work. Work! WORK!



 QUATERISIPALIMON!!!

 Keyvan :  Try saying THAT five times fast. I can. ;)

 Davis sweatdropped. "Er... okay...."

 Ahead of him stood what had to be the largest Digimon he himself had ever seen.
 It was slightly shorter than Imperialdramon Fighter, but it was bulked up in
 even heavier armor. Davis ran around the other side to get a better look at it.
 Six chainguns swung around the back of the digimon and positioned themselves on
 the sides. Dual 8-foot energy blades lined the hands of it. It was, explainably,
 a cross between Paildramon and Shakkuramon. The helm on the top of the beast
 slid up to reveal a green pair of menacing eyes.

 Quaterisipalimon looked at their hands. "Holy crap... you could take out a
 person's eyes with these..."

 "And their entire family's eyes." Davis gasped. "And their friends'. And their
 neighbors'. And... and..."

 Ultimanium looked at his watch. 2 minutes.

 *Digimon cards flash up*

 QUATERISIPALIMON - The Quadruple DNA Digivolve of Paildramon and Shakkuramon
 combines the best of both worlds - a lot of big guns and just a pinch of divine
 intervention! Its Culprit Vene attack flattens enemies while its Dead or Alive
 attack carves the opposition up straight before sending it to the firing range!

 Keyvan :  Holy shit, now THAT was lame. Oh well, it was an effort. If you look
 it up, Culprit Vene means nothing. It just sounds cool. :)

 Wargreymon held his claws up to his face. "Hoo boy... now THAT's big.."

 "Woohoo!" Slyphmon yelled. "That's it!!"

 *** Digidestined + Goku ***

 Davis
 29 HP - 2 MP

 Wargreymon
 450 HP - 86 MP

 Slyphmon
 550 HP - 250 MP

 Quaterisipalimon
 7500 HP - 500 MP

 "Forget about the rest of them... we have to worry about this... THING.." Duo
 gasped.

 Quaterisipalimon waved an arm at the awestruck Gundam. "Be with you in a minute.
 I have some fags on the ground to take care of."

 Squall quickly flipped through his mind to find a GF to use. Alexander. That'll
 work.

 Squall brought his hands up across his face and began concentrating. He and
 Cloud raced to summon first.

 Quaterisipalimon brought its enormous leg down against the ground, sending a
 shockwave across the floor in a large radius around him.

 Cloud looked up. "Damn it! Concentration check!!" He quickly abandoned the
 summon and braced himself.

 Squall rocked slightly. He was far enough away from Quaterisipalimon and was
 able to maintain a summon.

 "I suppose this is it," Duo sighed. He powered up the scythe again, fired the
 Deathscythe's thrusters, and lunged at the Digimon ahead of him.

 "Dead or Alive!!"

 Quaterisipalimon threw their chainguns in front of them with a clank, and fired
 off several rounds at the incoming Deathscythe. The bullets, as in a dimension
 of their own, slowed down from their velocity and plodded towards the mobile
 suit leaving a trail of ripples in their wake.

 The Deathscythe prepared to dodge the shells.

 Nothing happened.

 "Something's wrong..." Duo said. He looked down at his array. Nope, engines full
 power.

 The Deathscythe began to push itself to the rear to dodge the bullets. Slowly,
 but surely, the Deathscythe dodged to the side to dodge the wave of projectiles
 headed straight for it. All of a sudden, the bullets stopped and began flying
 backwards.

 "What in the hell?..." Duo shouted.

 With surprising grace, Quaterisipalimon dashed forward ahead of the immobilized
 bullets and hit the Deathscythe with a diving slash.

 Gundam Deathscythe -113 HP

 Quaterisipalimon brought the blades up, lopping the Buster Rifle off of its arm.

 Gundam Deathscythe -243 HP

 Quaterisipalimon, in its final moment of glory, leaped and knocked the Gundam
 some 300 feet in the air before landing at the opposite end of the arena.

 Gundam Deathscythe -300 HP

 The Deathscythe slowly rose to its feet. The fired rounds darted forward out of
 their trance and riddled the front plate with holes.

 Gundam Deathscythe -88 HP

 The Gundam returned to the ground again with a crash. A klaxon on the Gundam
 went off.

 WARNING! WARNING! Reactor damage critical. Detonation... imminent!

 Heero slapped his forehead. "Oh.. no...."

 The panicking Duo quickly threw the chest plate open on the ruined Gundam and
 starting running to the dressing room.

 "Yaaah!!" Davis yelled. "Quaterisipalimon! Get rid of the mobile suit! It's
 going to explode!!"

 Quaterisipalimon picked up the annihilated suit and tossed it out of the arena.
 With a loud explosion, garbage, debris and the occasional tree flew over the
 open roof of the arena.

 "Duo! Get out of here!!" Heero shouted.

 "Damn you, robot!! That was my kill!!" Vegeta screamed.

 "Culprit Vene!!"

 Quaterisipalimon's lower legs glowed with energy. It blurred for a second, but
 stayed where it was.

 Davis sighed. "That sure helped a lot."

 Ultimanium sweatdropped. "Um... Davis.."

 Ultimanium looked to both sides of the arena. Giant Quaterisipalimon-shaped
 holes in the wall stood behind and in front of the digimon. Vegeta lied on the
 ground, trampled.

 Vegeta -634 HP

 Krillin stopped, as did the rest of the DBZ group.

 While Goku stood in awe of the massive monster, Gohan took his time and threw
 the hardest punch he could. Goku sailed through a nearby wall and landed
 outside.

 Goku -234 HP

 Ultramagnus walked up to Ultimanium. "Do we have regulations as far as leaving
 the arena?"

 "Disqualification."

 The audience booed.

 Trunks backed up. "Maybe we shouldn'tve done that?"

 Wargreymon sat down. "Man, this round sucked. At least I was able to do
 something during last round. Hey, Slyphmon. Wanna go for coffee?"

 "No, I'm waiting for Veemon." Slyphmon replied.

 "What are you talking about?" Slyphmon said to herself.

 "Shut up, Hawkmon, I'll go when Veemon shows up." Slyphmon yelled.

 "What is with you and Veemon anyways?" Slyphmon shouted back.

 Slyphmon blushed.

 Wargreymon grinned. "Now THIS is funny. Schitzophrenia with different tastes."

 Slyphmon de-digivolved and Gatomon and Hawkmon began punching each other.

 "Still, isn't that the least bit out of the blue? No pun intended." Hawkmon
 laughed.

 Quaterisipalimon turned around. "No problem, Gato, I'll be out in a second."

 "Like hell you are," Quaterisipalimon squeaked. "That's our Gatomon you're
 messing with."

 "Please, people, please." Quaterisipalimon hummed.

 "I'm not part of this." Quaterisipalimon said.

 "Forget about it for now!" Davis yelled. "We have people to deal with here!"

 Ultimanium looked at his watch. 1 minute.

 Vegeta stumbled to his feet. Trunks ran up to him.

 "Father! You have to get out of here! I can't let you get yourse..."

 Vegeta swept Trunks away. "Get the hell out of my face. This is MY fight, I'll
 deal with it how I please!!"

 "Static Force!!"

 A purple ball of energy slammed into Vegeta and sent him flying.


 Vegeta -88 HP


 Vegeta laid on the ground across from Slyphmon, unconscious.

 *** LPOS has been defeated ***

 Squall's GF sprung into action...


 Meanwhile, on a nearby mountain range...


 The earth shook! Seagulls rioted in panic! Thunder roared! GREAT HORROR OF
 HORRORS, IT WAS THE HOLY MIGHT OF ALEXANDER!!

 Keyvan :  Can you make a weak-ass GF SOUND worth having? Apparently not. Well,
 the Junction abilities it had were nice, anyways.

 The mech-like Alexander

 Keyvan :  Now there's a mass production term.

 threw its stumplike arm ahead from it. "Who dost summon thee?" It boomed.

 Squall opened his eyes and pointed toward Quaterisipalimon.

 "Granted!" Alexander roared. "Holy Judgement!!"

 The compartments on the shoulders of the contraption slid open to reveal
 hundreds of micro-size laser cannons. They began charging.

 Ultimanium stood up. "30 seconds!"

 Squall threw his fist to the ground. Alexander started firing.

 "Whatever that dance that guy just did meant," Davis groaned. "I don't think
 it's going to help us much."

 Hundreds of lasers plunged out of the sky and peppered the ground around
 Quaterisipalimon with holy asskicking.

 Keyvan :  :)

 Davis shielded himself. "Is this what we get for giving you room?!"

 Squall grinned. He was finally hardcore. And he enjoyed it.

 Quaterisipalimon deflected several lasers aimed at it. However, in the act,
 several hit his poorly defended areas of his chest.

 "Yaaah... ow... geez... watch... oooowww... it..." Quaterisipalimon stuttered.

 Quaterisipalimon -1057 HP

 Lillymon hovered up to the cowering Quaterisipalimon. "Kinda gotcha beat there,
 don't we?"

 Breaking off his defensive stance, Quaterisipalimon threw a gigantic arm to
 their side and knocked Lillymon backwards out of the air. She skidded a good
 distance across the dirt arena floor before coming to a stop.

 Wargreymon looked down to the incapacitated digimon at his feet. "Heh.. ouch?"

 Lillymon -540 HP

 Lillymon degenerated to her rookie form and stumbled off into the digidestineds'
 dressing room.


 Hooooonnnnkkkkk

 The siren went off again.

 Ultimanium stepped forward. "Good job, guys. I see only a fraction of your teams
 were able to make it this far. So you can be told the truth."

 Cloud froze. "Truth?"

 "Survive a last match," Ultimanium announced. "And you will keep your powers and
 know this truth."

 Cloud shrugged. "Sounds easy. What's the catch?"

 Ultimanium grinned.

 *** The Enforcers ***

 Ultramagnus
 4280 HP - 934 MP

 Ultimanium
 50000 HP - 5000 MP



 END OF CHAPTER 18







 Trunks began to back away. "Bullshit!"

 "And don't think we'll be too supportive this time." Ultramagnus laughed.

 "Is that what you brought us here for?" Heero bellowed. "To destroy us?!"

 Ultramagnus stopped. "Hey, Ultimanium... was that what I was here fo.."

 Ultimanium shook his head. "No."

 "Damn it, Ultimanium, don't go into another of your philisophical rants again!
 I've had about enough of your reasoning!"

 Ultramagnus turned to the group. "All of you versus me!!"

 Davis fell to the ground laughing.

 "What's so damn funny?!"

 Davis pushed himself up and brushed himself off. "If you haven't noticed yet,
 Quaterisipalimon has more HP than you."

 "Neo Crusher!!" Ultramagnus yelled.

 Within the period of a milisecond, a beam of energy tore down from the sky and
 tore through Quaterisipalimon's right arm.

 Quaterisipalimon, being a robot and all, couldn't be crippled by pain, but loss
 of an arm didn't necessarily do wonders for its coordination.

 "Geez!" Quaterisipalimon shouted, as its other arm shook violently.

 Quaterisipalimon -2657 HP

 "Let's see if supergravity changes that!!" Ultramagnus laughed.

 "A supergravity field..." Trunks sighed.

 "Neo Crusher!!"

 The same beam blared down on Trunks. However, this time the damage wasn't all
 appalling.

 Trunks -3 HP

 Trunks grinned. "You care to know how much time I spend in gravity machines?"

 Ultramagnus froze. Being to stupid to think of a comeback, he yelled and charged
 at Trunks.

 Wargreymon plodded up to Davis. "Davis!"

 Davis turned and looked up. "What?"

 "We've got some people who are pissed off at our friend Ultimanium here."

 Behind him sat Quaterisipalimon, Slyphmon, Gohan, Krillin, the Wing Zero, Mimi,
 Tai and Squall.

 "Tai?" Davis asked. "What are you doing out here?"

 Tai grinned. "Your sword isn't so cool anymore," He held up the dual Ultima
 Weapon blades. "Mind if I join in? Like, revenge and all."

 Krillin clenched his fists. "We've been cheated and humilated in front of an
 audience! If I knew this was the true purpose of the Ultimatum, I wouldn'tve
 come!"

 Ultimanium shook his head furiously. "N..no! That's not the true purpose of the
 Ultimatum! You don't understand...!"

 "I'm up for some tag-teaming," Heero said down to the crowd. "Who's with me?"

 Trunks dodged another blow from Ultramagnus. Though Ultramagnus was much tougher
 than Trunks, Trunks was able to dodge attacks from him. He wouldn't be able to
 keep it up though, and he knew he would need some intervention on another team's
 part.

 Trunks and Ultramagnus nailed eachother in the face with fists at the same time.

 Ultramagnus -240 HP
 Trunks -234 HP

 Ultramagnus backflipped back to the foot of the stage, and wiped a trail of
 blood off of his face. "Ultimanium, you bitch! Get down here!!"

 Ultimanium stood at the end of the stage, looking out upon the crowd. While no
 one in the arena could get a good look at his face, it was clear to Ultramagnus.
 It was one of fear.

 "Just attack already!!" Ultramagnus barked.

 Ultimanium shook his head, trying to think clearly. No. I can't. That's not my
 purpose.

 "Forget it! I'll do it myself!! KAAAAAAAAMMMEEEEE......"

 "He's going for it again!" Gohan yelled. "Me and Krillin'll stop the attack, you
 guys work him!"

 Everybody nodded in agreement.

 "I think I'll be able to deflect an energy blast as well," Wargreymon said.
 "I'll stay back too."

 "HHAAAAAMMMEEEEE...."

 "Everybody ready then?" Davis shouted. "We're not going to get another chance at
 this!"

 "HAAAA!!"

 Again, 8 blasts surged out through Ultramagnus' hands and winded their way
 toward the group. The Wing Zero, Tai, Davis, Slyphmon and Quaterisipalimon
 banked off from the group and ran along the sides of the arena toward
 Ultramagnus. Gohan deflected two blasts, as did Trunks. Krillin got one.
 Wargreymon swung his shield in front of him and neutralized another.

 Ultramagnus threw his hands asides from him and redirected the remaining blasts.

 Tai and Davis were beginning to close on Ultramagnus from opposite sides.

 Tai heard the all-too-familiar scree and hum of the Renzokamehameha and whipped
 around to stare and energy blast screaming straight toward him.

 "No way!" Tai screamed. In an act of impulse, Tai swung the blades across his
 face and the deflected the Kamehamehas through the celing.

 Ultramagnus was stunned. "How...!"

 Davis dove and slashed at the preoccupied Ultramagnus, cutting a massive rift in
 the side of his torso.

 "Yaaauugghhhh!!!..."

 Ultramagnus -230 HP

 He turned and grabbed the collar of Davis' jacket. "Stupid little shit! You're
 going nowhere!!"

 Ultramagnus was ready to give Davis a beating when Tai lunged out of nowhere and
 cross-slashed him across the back with the Ultima Weapons. Davis dropped to the
 ground and backed off.

 Ultramagnus -330 HP

 "Dead or Alive!!"

 Another 10 chainguns flew up out of nowhere and started firing.

 "Where the hell did we get all these guns?" Quaterisipalimon yelled.

 The Wing Zero detatched the Buster Rifle Mk.II from its arm, the cannon hitting
 the ground with a smash. With its free hand, it rocketed forward and picked up
 the loose energy scythe from the Deathscythe that was still on the ground.

 Ultramagnus dodged to the side, narrowly missing being vaporized by
 Quaterisipalimon's energy blade coming down on him. "Ultimanium!! What are you
 waiting for?!"

 Ultimanium shivered. "I ... I thought I could handle it... but... "

 Gohan, Trunks and Krillin all shot out from their defensive positions and
 launched a flurry of punches at the already occupied Ultramagnus. While he was
 able to dodge most of them, the element of surprise finally got the better of
 him as a dozen quick blows to his head sent him flying back.

 Ultramagnus -534 HP

 "ULTIMANIUM!!"

 Ultimanium trembled. ".. they're.... not ... I won't... kill them..."

 A wave of shells flew out of subspace and clipped Ultramagnus' shoulders.

 Ultramagnus -134 HP

 "Terra Force!!"

 A massive fireball sailed out of the sky and landed on Ultramagnus' head.

 CHUKADADOOOMM

 Ultramagnus -456 HP

 Ultramagnus limped out of the crater Terra Force left behind. Everybody stood
 ready.

 "I don't believe this," Ultramagnus sighed. "How could he betray me like this?"

 Ultimanium stepped forward. "No, Ultramagnus. It's not supposed to be like this.
 This isn't the purpose! We're not here to fight! It's much more complicated than
 that.."

 "Can it!" Ultramagnus yelled. "This was a stupid plan from the start! I have no
 idea what the 'purpose' of bringing everyone here was! Especially the Dakari!
 That just FREAKS ME OUT!!"

 Everybody in the audience oooohed.

 Tai turned to Davis. "Hey, do you know what a Dakari is?"

 Davis shrugged. "Beats me. I heard Kari though."

 Tai slapped himself in the forehead.

 "You can do what you want with the survivors!!" Ultramagnus said. "Until then, I
 unveil my wrath!!"

 Ultramagnus lunged at Davis.

 Davis froze. "Why do I NOT like this..."

 "SPIRIT SURGE!!!"

 A massive blue beam of light tore straight forward and enveloped Ultramagnus.

 Ultramagnus -865 HP

 "SHADOW SURGE!!!"

 Another beam shot forward, even larger, black, and laced with purple lightning.

 Ultramagnus -900 HP

 "What's going on?!" Tai yelled.

 Everybody remained still as the dust ahead of the group cleared. Ahead of them
 stood a near-dead Ultramagnus. He didn't look ... well.. good.

 "Eeeewwww!!" Mimi winced. "His arm got blown off!!"

 Ultramagnus dropped to the ground. "I ... can't believe this! What did I do for
 this?!"

 Everybody looked up to the stage. Ultimanium's finger was outstretched and still
 crackling with energy. "Ultramagnus. You do not understand the tranquil struggle
 that is associated with my crusade. I'm afraid you're just not the right partner
 for me. Until you can learn to put aside your warrior ways and find your way to
 the Light - and fight only when truly necessary, you cannot pose a threat to me.
 You end here.

 "Now... my last attacks... unleashed when one side of equilibrium upsets the
 other... when they are perfectly equal... that will be the eliminator of
 anything upsetting either end of the scale."

 "...I don't think I'm going to like this." Cloud sighed.



 SHATTERED REALITY!!!

 Keyvan :  Now, we all know what happens when antimatter is mixed with matter...
 :)

 The lasers of the Spirit Surge and Shadow Surge coiled with each other and shot
 down at the incapacitated Ultramagnus.

 "Thank you, friends. You have fulfilled my mission. Without you, I'm not sure...
 it would be possible."

 The laser impacted.

 Ultramagnus was blinded.
 Davis and Tai were blinded.
 Everyone else in the arena was blinded.
 Everybody in Manhattan was blinded.
 Aw, damn it, everybody in a five-state radius was blinded.
 And at the epicentre...

 Ultramagnus -89934892 HP




 The flash consumed all.

 And when it cleared...


 END OF CHAPTER 19










 TK woke up. He gripped the handles next to his seat to get his bearings.

 "Whoa... that was a good sleep," TK yawned, stretching. He looked over, out the
 window. They were still over the ocean, glistening beneath them with the sun
 rising in the horizon.

 TK shook his head drowsily and looked at his watch.

 "6:43?" TK muttered. He looked down to Patamon, sleeping in the seat next to
 him.

 TK nudged Patamon. "Hey, Patamon. Wake up."

 Patamon slowly rose in his seat. "Yeah.. TK? What?"

 "Did something happen while I was asleep? You know, did like an engine burn out
 or something? It's already 6:43 in the morning and we aren't even at New York
 yet!"

 Patamon's eyes grew wide. "Um.. Tk.."

 "What?"

 "We were already in New York. This is the return flight."

 "What are you talking about, Patamon? Where's the others?"

 TK stood up and looked around the cabin. Him and Patamon were seated on one side
 of the plane, while everybody else remained on the other.

 "Ken... Tai... Sora... Yolei? Cody? These people weren't on the plane.. Davis?
 Kari?!"

 Ken, Tai, Sora, Yolei, and Cody were seated with their corresponding digimon,
 all in discussion. Davis and Kari sat several seats ahead, side by side. On his
 lap there was a strange looking sword with a red crystal embedded in the handle.
 One seat ahead Gatomon and Veemon were seated together.

 "Hey, Kari," Davis said. "I've been having trouble figuring out what this
 Materia is. I just noticed it a couple of minutes ago..."

 Kari placed her hands on the end of the sword and concentrated for a second.
 "Nope, can't say I know.."

 TK put his head in his hands. "Something's going on here."

 Patamon sighed. "You mean something WENT ON here."

 ********

 The shuttle docked at the Alpha space station. Bracers from multiple directions
 slid out and locked the pod in place.

 A computer display on the wall lit up. "Sir, the insubordinate you requested to
 see are here."

 The man placed down his cigar. "Excellent. Bring them to me."

 The door to the suite slid open and a handcuffed Duo Maxwell stumbled in.

 The officer picked his cigar up again and kept it inbetween his fingers. "Ah,
 yes. Duo Maxwell. You may not know me. I'm a new officer assigned here from a
 colony in deep space. My area of proficiency? DISCIPLINE. I have not and will
 not show any grief for soldiers that recklessly disobey military law and put
 peoples' lives in danger. As such as your little stunt you attempted to pull
 just a week ago, hijacking the Gundams from the Alpha Muesum of Warfare. The
 Gundams are NOT to be toyed with, Maxwell. I expect a legitimate excuse for your
 actions."

 Duo grinned. "Could I ask your name, sir?"

 "Shut up and answer the question."

 Duo winced. This was going to be harder than he thought.

 Duo took a deep breath, and tried to explain:

 "Alright. So it went like this. My friend Ted was running maintenance for the
 muesum that night and he asked me to take one of the Gundams for a test run to
 check its chemical and energy readings so I said what the hell and so I docked
 off from the station and the first thing WHAM I'm nailed in the side with a
 piece of space junk and I'm sent spiraling towards the planet below and I scream
 for mom and I fall into a wormhole and I get sent lightyears back to Jupiter and
 I tried to hitch on a freighter barge headed back to Earth but some really
 bigass automated defense springs up and I'm like 'what the hell' and it starts
 blowing me up and I try to escape somehow by docking with the ship when no one's
 looking and I ride along the barge for the next 5 days living off food crumbs in
 the hull of the ship when all of a sudden the damage done on the Deathscythe
 causes it to explode but I make it to an escape pod in time and I fly really
 fast and crap and all of a sudden this huge star destroyer thing hovers over me
 and I realize it's sucking me in with its tractor beam and it deposits me
 outside of Alpha and Heero's there and everybody's like 'damn, Duo, you ass, you
 blew the Gundam up' and now I'm sitting here."

 Duo began breathing again.

 "A Gundam was destroyed?!" The officer growled.

 Duo nodded nervously. He knew he was in for it.

 The officer was ready to bat Duo's head off, but then he fell back in his
 recliner. "You said space junk?"

 "Y..yes sir, space junk."

 The officer rolled his eyes. "Damn! Why didn't you say so? The space junk is so
 bad around Alpha... I mean, during the war, a good two thirds of the Mobile Dols
 manufactured here never got 30 feet away from the base without being hit by a
 used washer or a TV or something and exploding! I even got a fair-size dent in
 my shuttle the other day from a busted satellite. I know what it's like,
 soldier. You're excused."

 Duo sprung up and darted out of the suite before the officer could change his
 mind. Heero stepped in.

 "Heero, you're pardoned."

 Heero shrugged and departed.

 ********

 Cloud slumped into his chair. It had been another long, hard adventure saving
 the world, but somehow, it just didn't feel right.

 Squall drug a chest from another room and left it in front of Cloud. "I put all
 of mine, yours, and Zidane's weapons in here. I'm sure you can find something
 better than a Buster Sword if you look."

 "That was my SOLDIER sword," Cloud sighed. He sifted through the different
 swords, guns, spears, nunchakus, whips, staves, armored gloves, battlestars and
 megaphones that the three had accumulated on their adventures. "I don't think
 I've ever found anything that's lasted me so long."

 "C'mon, Cloud. Don't feel so bad about yourself. That wasn't your fault. And
 don't worry about the Ark thing either... it was from that lame ass 'Final
 Fantasy IX' adventure Zidane talks about, so it can't be that good."

 MAJOR FRICKING A/N - THAT WAS SQUALL TALKING THERE, NOT ME. PLEASE DON'T SEND
 BOMBS IN THE MAIL, FIREBOMB MY HOUSE, OR GIVE ME ANYTHING ASSOCIATED WITH A
 BOMB. THANK YOU. :P

 "Still," Cloud groaned. "It woulda been pretty cool to see what Ark is all
 about."

 "Nah, don't worry. Knights of The Round or Eden still probably look cooler and
 do more damage."

 "Knights of The Round? Where did I put that materia, anyways?"

 After 6 minutes of solid silence, Cloud threw his hands up in disgust and tossed
 an M60 to his side. "Sorry, man. There's nothing here that'll replace the
 Buster. I swear to Go..."

 A straight bladed thief sword caught his eye. Cloud picked it up and spun it in
 his palm. "Hey... Squall... what did Zidane call this one?"

 Squall examined a piece of masking tape wrapped around the handle of the stave.
 "... I think it's a Rune Tooth or something like that."

 Cloud quickly swung the Rune Tooth and dismembered the wall clock.

 He grinned. "I'll stick with this. Cloud's embodiment of asskicking - the Rune
 Tooth! We need a celebratory feast!!"

 "KD okay?"

 "Sure."

 ********

 Krillin flopped on the couch in the Kame house and immediately went to sleep.

 Gohan was ready to hit the floor and watch a well-deserved hour of TV when Goku
 tapped him on the shoulder.

 "Gohan...? When I last looked, we had unfinished business."

 Gohan looked up. "Aw, dad... we got enough training a couple of hours ago! Can't
 we just crash for a while?"

 "That was no training," Goku sighed. "I was just off track."

 A drowsy Vegeta plodded by. "Go ahead, Kakarot, let the boy have a break. It's
 not like he's going to influence the battle against Cell terribly."

 Bulma quickly walked by and left a red duotang in Vegeta's hands.

 "What's this... DBZ Stage Script... Urrghhh!! Where do you obtain these?!"

 At the table, Master Roshi looked up from his typewriter. "The only thing that
 keeps this island property going is sale of effective playwrighting! If you have
 a problem with my magnificent imagination, I suggest you leave! Like hell I'm
 going to give YOU board!"

 "Suit yourself, old man," Vegeta scowled. "I have training to do."

 Trunks watched as the screen door slammed. "Well, I guess that's my call. I'll
 see you around, Gohan."

 "Yeah, see ya."

 "That means we're going too," Goku said. "We still have a day in the Hyperbolic
 Time Chamber before we change shifts and we should use it to its greatest."

 Gohan rolled his eyes. "Aw.... fine. Wait up, I'll get my armor."

 Gohan pushed himself up and dragged himself to the next fight alongside his
 father.

 Krillin turned to the TV. His mind wasn't entirely on Cell. He was worrying
 about Ultimanium. And how someone like him would perform in the Cell Games.


 ********





 Ultimanium sat motionless with his feet up on the desk. He had struggled to
 accomplish his mission, against great temptation - especially that Zidane
 fellow. He had proven arrogant and dark on multiple occaisions in his presence,
 and it was the master, Ultimanium, that gave Davis, the digidestined, power to
 overcome Zidane, master thiefswordsman. Otherwise, Davis would have been shipped
 home in a bag.

 Ultimanium smiled, in spite of himself. Many people had suffered during this
 week. However, new and greater healing had begun. Each group was now working
 together greater than ever before and was happy with it.

 He had accomplished his goal.

 Still, there was the unnerving concept of alternate dimensions.

 Ultimanium swiveled his chair to the terminal in the wall. Embedded in the wall
 were monitors,        which had recorded the events during the Ultimatum in this
 dimension and 5 others.

 A backup plan. If he failed, and even omnipotent powers can do such a thing, he
 could always bail to another dimension to start over.

 But since he had succeeded on the first shot, that worried him. If any of the
 other 5 dimensions were to gain knowledge of what happened in his and changed it
 somehow, Ultimanium would cease to exist.

 He had to disrupt them somehow.

 Project J2 - Remodeler of temporal anolomies. Crosser of realities.

 A stout, mysterious man in heavy, gold emblazoned armor had shown up at
 Ultimanium's feet during the past hour. Identifying himself as Lord Raul, he
 agreed to help disrupt the alternate dimensions closest to the one Ultimanium
 and him were in, by taking total command of one using Project J2 and adjusting
 the events occuring in the Ultimatum to his own personal tastes. While
 Ultimanium would normally not approve of a plan like this, he had to do
 something fast to ensure his own safety.

 With a deafening crackle, Lord Raul, along with J2, tore through space-time and
 began their master plan.

 Ultimanium shielded his eyes.

 What really was Project J2? What implications would it have on the dimensions?
 Project J2 WILL be seen again... though whether in the most desirable places
 will be left up to fate in the end.




 This was the first recording of the events of the Ultimatum.



 END




 (A/N - The Ultimatum is tied in with every single other story I will write - up
 to and ending at the sequel to The Ultimatum. As you will see, Project J2 can
 stretch to some pretty far off places... BTW, Lord Raul's alternate reality is
 VERY real... the first sections of it, a rewrite of The Ultimatum, should be up
 on his fanfiction.net account soon, and I'm on the personal panel of reviewers.
 =) I'm telling you this now.. some of the content is VERY different...)


 Special thanks to Ultramagnus for guest starring and allowing me to waste him





 END OF CHAPTER 20








 Preview of Deus Ex Conker (Part 2 of the Ultimatum Saga)



 The J2's cart slid slowly out of the modified catscanner. Pringle glanced up at
 the linked monitor and rubbed his chin. "Hmm.. Eentresting... there's some
 veeery intricate machinery at vork here...still, how is it supposed it traverse
 dimensions is beyond me."

 The J2 rolled off the cart and hovered in place.

 "Vell then, we'll just have to put you away for another day, an.."

 As Pringle placed his hand on the J2, it began to emit a gentle green aura. The
 J2 tore through space-time fabric and began its journey. As fast as it had left,
 Pringle's chair wobbled above its laboratory floor once more. But... something
 was different.

 "Vha! Vhere did I get such atrocious attire?!" Pringle dropped a suitcase out of
 his hand that he had not known was even there!

 Pringle shook his head and smacked it a couple of times, then grabbed his lab
 coat off of the handle of his hoverchair and cloaked himself with it to cover
 his newly-acquired hawaiian t-shirt and red shorts. Then memories started
 hitting him. Hard.

 "Ooh, man... that hut on the beach.. I got some reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeally
 good drinks there.. I should take a vacation some time and... vhat is vrong with
 me?!" He glanced over to the J2. It was sitting on the cart.

 The J2 activiated itself and a voice hummed through it:

 "He *crackle* llo out there! Yo *zzzzt* u don't thin *eeeeeeeeeeeeee* k you got
 away with it *oooooooo* do you?"

 Pringle quickly shut off the J2 again. The voice was different this time. It was
 considerably deeper than the one he had heard before, and several similarly
 pitched voices reverberated in the background.

 "Oi.. methinks I need a rest..." Pringle sighed. He hovered slowly out of the
 mess of the laboratory and went to get a good book.

 The J2 had a vengenace.. and it wasn't going to let it go unheard.





 END OF CHAPTER 21