Yeah, Yeah, I know I haven't updated my phantoms story for a while but I got this idea whilst reading a brilliant fic called "Devil's advocate". The guy hasn't updated in a while but it was a brilliant story and whilst this is completely different to that one, it was still an inspiration.

I would like to say that all tamers except for Suzie are 16 and Suzie is 14, also all adventure 02 digidestined will be 16 and the older ones are 18.

Prologue – Acceptance and Abandonment

Takato stared at the digimon. At his digimon. It looked much stronger than ever before and despite the horror and revulsion of only moments before, he couldn't help but feel pride in both himself and the power he brought forth from inside the young innocent Guilmon.

Megidramon

Even the name brought shivers to his spine, a creature so powerful that, if his digivice was to be believed before its untimely destruction, was powerful enough that it took all four sovereigns and the majority of the royal knights to imprison. As he felt pride in Megidramon he felt a tug on… something inside of him, a place where he knew only minutes before his bond with Guilmon via the digivice had been.

He followed the tug curious as to what it was and felt the pure, unbridled anger that Megidramon felt towards Beelzemon and to his surprise he realised that despite the changes and the unholy power difference, the anger was all Guilmon's at the destruction of Leomon. This reassured him as he remembered Guilmon going into a viral state before when extremely emotional.

As he realised this, he grew to accept it and a dark light suddenly occupied the area between him and Megi… No between him and Guilmon. A digivice unlike any he had ever seen before floated in front of him. He reached out for it, not noticing the looks of horror on his friends' faces and accepted the strange digivice. At once the emotions he felt along the bond intensified to beyond even what he had felt the first time he digivolved Growlmon to WarGrowlmon. He felt everything that his partner felt, all the rage, all the power, all the hate. And it felt… Good.

He smirked slightly causing the Hazard sign on Megidramons chest to start shining at the same time; the same symbol appeared in the centre of his forehead blocked slightly from view by his goggles.

"What do you say we show this pathetic wannabe what a true demon can do" Takato laughed.

Megidramon laughed with him and stepped forward opening his mouth "Megiddo Flame" he bellowed and a burst of fire flew straight towards Beelzemon who only just threw himself out of the way in time.

Or so he thought. He screamed as one of his legs burst into data which was at once absorbed into the draconic digimon. A laugh echoed across the plain as a dog-like digimon appeared in the battlefield. He opened his mouth to taunt the fallen demon lord but never got the chance.

"Hell Howling" bellowed Megidramon and a powerful shockwave spread across the battlefield destroying Caturamon and removing both of Beelzemons arms at the same time. As even more data flew into the symbol on Megidramons chest, the great beast approached the downed demon lord and stood before him awaiting his tamer's instruction.

"Make it quick" pleaded Beelzemon as he knew his end had come. Takato agreed that too much time had been spent on him as it was and decided to try his new digivice out.

"DigiModify. VictoryGreymon" he roared and a large blade appeared in Megidramons claws. The dragon laughed as he lifted his new blade and spoke the words that would end Beelzemons life.

"Dramon Breaker" he roared and brought the sword down. The other tamers looked away at the execution but Takato looked on, he believed that if you were responsible for someone's death, the least you could do was watch as they faded into obscurity and history. As the last of the data was absorbed by Megidramon, he glowed white and shrank back down into the size of Guilmon, the only difference was his colour scheme had been reversed.

"He was tasty" BlackGuilmon said licking his lips. Takato chuckled and turned to the others.

"Let's go" he said and moved towards the bridge that would take them to the sovereign.

"No". Takato stopped and looked over his shoulder at Henry who had spoken. "We're not going on until you tell us what the hell that was all about" he yelled voice breaking at the end. The other tamers nodded but Rika who looked conflicted.

Rika was conflicted. On the one hand, she had just seen her supposedly docile teammate decimate a demon lord digimon and then order his execution, something which she felt horrified over. But didn't she used to do the same thing. Takato had saved her from that darkness and the least she could do was return the favour. Yeah right. Said a voice in her head and the fact that his show of power turned you on like nothing else ever has. She tried hard not to listen to that voice.

Takato was looking at the others in amusement. "I did what we always do, I eliminated a threat to us and our home" he explained and this time he caught the look of disgust flying over Kazu, Henry and Ryo's faces.

"That was murder" Henry yelled

"No" Takato yelled back "That was justice, murder was when he killed Leomon for no reason".

Henry snarled. "When you're ready to apologise for that, then we will help you against Zhuqiaomon" he said turning away and heading back to the flag a little way away, the others save Rika following him.

"You'll have a long wait then" Takato yelled after them, shocked and hurt by their betrayal. He looked at Rika. "Are you abandoning me too"?

He looked so sad and angry and vulnerable all at once that any hesitation Rika had had was gone. She shook her head; she would stay with him and try to help him, regardless of what they'd have to do. A smile broke out on his face and he gestured her to come with him as he walked away from the others. Rika caught up with him, as did Renamon who hadn't bat an eye at what had happened, she was after all the only one apart from Cyberdramon who had been born and bred in the southern quadrant of the digital world. Well, she supposed Guardromon had as well but he had lived a very sheltered life which had led to him becoming an idealist. "Where are we going"? Rika asked eventually after walking for a while.

"As much as I hate to admit it" Takato said "As we are right now, Zhuqiaomon would crush us. We need to train and recruit if we're going to take him down. Whilst we were separated I heard tell of a digital quadrant where, the sovereigns are currently sealed away and inactive" He flashed a dark smile over his shoulder that had Rika blushing. "It seems like an ideal place to start and, who knows, with Impmons data inside BlackGuilmon, it may be possible to resurrect him to fight for us".

That made sense to Rika. She had won the digimon card tournament 3 times over in recent years, so if their were two things that she definitely understood, it was strategy and digimon, though she admitted to herself that Takato had her beat in the last category hands down. As they crested a hill they saw a teenaged girl and a… brown bunny.

Takato recognised the girl as Suzie Wong, and the Brown Rabbit was Lopmon. If they were partners, then their group may have just expanded from 4 to 6, and he had played the card game enough that he knew what Lopmon could digivolved to.

"Hey Suzie" Takato called out and the girl looked up and smiled. She had always liked Takato. He was nice to her and didn't call her bothersome like Henry did. She didn't have a crush on him or anything but he was her friend. "We're going on a training trip for a while before coming back to kick that sovereigns Fiery behind. You in"? He said as they drew closer to her.

Suzie smiled brilliantly at him. "Of course I am" she said. "I just got a partner and we need to be strong enough to help you guys" she exclaimed. Takato smiled at her as he drew out his digivice. It was then that he got a good look at it. It seemed to be a more capable, easier to use version of his D-Arc which could only be good. As he stared at it he heard six low voices in his head and one that was muted and yet at the same time closer than the others. A name popped into his head and he smirked Darkvice, he thought and pulled out his card deck.

"DigiModify. Digivolution activate" he called and BlackGuilmon glowed white before changing shape

"BlackGuilmon digivolved to…" a black head with a white main appeared followed by a black torso and a large pair of legs with a tail behind. All in all it looked like a Black version of Growlmon. "… BlackGrowlmon" he roared. Takato jumped onto his back before drawing two last cards.

"Get on" he called and both girls and their partners did so. "Double-DigiModify. Aero wing and Hyper-Speed activate". A pair of large black leathery wings erupted from BlackGrowlmons back and they sped away unbelievably quickly until they came to a green pillar in the sky. "Head for that pillar BlackGrowlmon" Takato called and they vanished from the southern quadrant, not to be seen or heard from for 2 years.