Soul Cleansed

Tai's group walked through the halls of the crystal castle. They felt like they were in a fun house, only with more mirrors... They saw reflections of themselves all around.
"This entire castle is made of crystal?! How the hell is it sturdy? Crystal would shatter immediately if struck." Scott stated.
"Obviously, it won't break if Milleniummon's power courses through it..." Ryo mused. "I just want to fight him and get it over with... I wonder how many creeps we gotta fight on our way..."
"Who knows?" Sora said. "I'm not too thrilled about the Devas, but the Dark DDs are no laughing matter either, even if we did just take out 2 of them..."
Little did they know that 2 DDD were watching them?
"So they took out Tsunami and Touji..." Konatsu said.
"I never did like those 2 anyway... Hey, this is our chance to leave!" Seiya stated. "We gotta talk to the DD. I just hope we can get them to trust us..."
The 2 boys were right behind a corner where the DD would arrive. They waited for them to come.
"You, know Tai..." Matt began. "I'd like to get payback on Konatsu for that humiliation from before..."
Tai thought. "I'd kind of like to get back at Seiya. Maybe we might be fighting them next. But, I hope there won't be any needless deaths like what happened with the other 2."
They began to near the corner that Seiya and Konatsu were near, as well as their Digimon.
WarGreymon turned to Tai. "It's odd. This castle almost seems deserted."
"Yeah, where is everyone?" Metal Garurumon wondered. "I thought we'd be attack from all sides..."
Suddenly they were about to turn the corner when BK Metal Garurumon and BK War Greymon stood in front. Seiya and Konatsu stepped forward and began to walk to the group.
The DD's Digimon were about to attack...
"STOP! We beg for mercy!" Seiya called out. All four of them had their hands up.
The DD and Tamers thought this was quite odd. They were expecting a full scale battle, but instead, 2 Dark DD were surrendering.
"At what price?" Tai asked. He noticed that Seiya had a dead serious look in his eye.
"No price. We would like to help you all. We used to be regular DD who fought for good and peace, just like you all. Moon=Milleniummon attacked us and infected us with his evil power. But Konatsu and I managed to keep a sense of mind. The Dark DD is falling apart gradually. Moon=Milleniummon is an absolute madman. He's planning to merge both the real world and Digital world together. He seems especially interested in Ryo and Scott, possibly because the both of them have fought and defeated him. He corrupted Calumon and used him to bring his palace to this world. Right now he possesses Zhuqiaomon, but I fear that soon he'll reach his most powerful form. He's using everyone to his advantage, even the Dark DD and the Devas..."
Tai and the others were shocked. Seiya was spilling all the info that he knew.
Konatsu came forward. "We've decided to leave his service. He's and unstable... We can take you to his chamber if you want. We will also join you."
Mimi's crest of Sincerity glowed brightly. The 2 were telling the truth.
WarGreymon looked at the 2 Digimon behind the Dark DD. "You agree with them?"
They both nodded. "We've lost faith in Moon=Milleniummon. He's a total barking nutcase." BK War Greymon admitted.
WarGreymon whispered to Tai. "They've got me convinced. They seem serious about it."
Tai nodded. "Okay. We'll spare you."
Seiya smiled. "Thank you. We promise we won't betray you.
From behind, Rath watched this with anger. "Those miserable traitors... How dare they turn their backs on Moon=Milleniummon... I'll teach them and make them regret they ever turned the other cheek." His clenched fist trembled with rage. He and Anubismon faded.
Meanwhile, outside Davis and the others waited. They kept an eye out for the JSDF, hoping that they didn't try anything drastic. So far, nothing yet.
"Good, they haven't arrived. Maybe Tai and the others can get this over before they show up..." Davis looked up and saw D-Reaper Agents flying around. He noticed that they had increased in numbers since his team was fighting them off.
Ants looked down the street, watching for any signs of the JSDF. "Maybe they're having a faint of heart. I would too, if I weren't a DD." He joked.
Back inside the palace, Tai's team had entered a huge room with huge gap in the middle of the floor.
"Odd... This wasn't here before..." Konatsu admitted.
Scott raised a hand to his head. "Ugh, I don't feel too well..." He swayed a bit.
Justimon suddenly got the same feeling. "What's going on? I feel light headed myself."
SlashAngemon got the exact same feeling. "Oh man... I feel like I'm about to zone out..."
Tai and Sora looked at their friends with concern. It turned to shock when the 3 disappeared right before their eyes.
"Where did they go?" ShineGreymon asked.
Justimon, Slash Angemon, and Scott found themselves in a strange arena like room. There was an odd symbol on the ground that looked like Moon=Milleniumon. They looked in front and came face to face with Akito and Faith, along with Silver Sakuyamon, and Grand Kuwagamon.
Akito walked towards them. "We're the ones who brought you hear away from the others. I want my soul back and to do that I must kill you."
Justimon scoffed. "This is ridiculous. There has to be another way to get the soul shards out of our bodies."
"I don't care right now. I'm killing you and taking them." Akito and GranKuwagamon both attacked Justimon.
Justimon charged up his Voltage Blade. On one hand he was battling back the pincers of GranKuwagamon and trying not to get crushed like a walnut. On the other hand he was trying to dodge Akito's deadly sword skills.
Akito hopped on to the top of Grand Kuwagamon and pointed his sword at Justimon. "Get ready to die..." They both charged.
Justimon swung his energy blade at the sword and pincers attacking him. GranKuwagamon snapped at him fiercely. Justimon shifted, ducked, bobbed and weaved from the giant insect's jaws.
Scott was back flipping away from Faith's high kicks and was ducking and weaving from them. "Damn she's fast..." He managed to duck and sweep kick faith to the ground.
Up in the air, Slash Angemon was shooting Golden Ripper slashes at Silver Sakuyamon, left and right. Silver Sakuyamon kept blocking them with her staff. She fought back with a Spirit Crusher attack. A wall of fox spirits flattened Slash Angemon, and caused him to fall to the ground. He got up grudgingly, and rolled away in time to avoid Sakuyamon's staff jab. Slash Angemon pounced upon his opponent and held his right blade to her neck.
Scott flip kicked Faith after she tried a high kick on him. She fell to the gorund and groaned. Scott stepped on her. "Why are you agreeing with killing us? Surely you know this is wrong!"
Faith looked away. "Akito is my love. I'd do anything for him. I'd even kill for him." She kicked Scott off.
At the same time, Silver Sakuyamon used her staff and smacked Slash Angemon off. He stopped in mid air and flew down at her with a swooping slash. CLANG! CLANG! CLANG! The sound of clashing metal echoed throughout the room as they battled.
Justimon was jumping around, trying to avoid Grand Kuwagamon's crushing jaws. He also had to avoid this really long sword form Akito, it was quick and deadly and he barely escaped it.
All three were getting tired of this battle.
'There must be some way to stop this.' Ryo thought within Justimon.
'I don't want anyone to die...' SlashAngemon thought.
'I won't let anyone die.' Scott thought. 'I'll find a way out of this for all of us!' The Crest of Determination began to glow and shine wildly.
Faith was blinded by the light and just ran forward and suddenly grabbed the crest.
"What are you doing!?" Scott yelled.
"I'm trying to get rid of this stupid crest!" Faith said and tried to tear it off Scott's neck. Her hand began to burn the moment she touched the crest. "AGH!"
Scott's crest suddenly shot a light at Justimon. An image of Ryo was produced from Justimon. Within Ryo and Scott each, was an image of some sort of crystal shard. Both began to shake and glow...
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHH!
Both shards blew out of both boys' chests. They banged and clashed against each other and circled through the air. Finally they aimed themselves at Akito and shot off like missiles.
Akito felt both shards pierce his chest, yet felt no pain. He was engulfed in white light as the shards manifested themselves in his body...
Faith watched as her love was surrounded in light. She shielded her eyes.
When the light died down Akito stood. He opened his eyes. They no longer had the soulless gaze form before. Now they had a soulful sparkle within them. They looked full of life, but with a mysterious look to them. He smiled to himself. "I have my soul back..."
Faith looked shocked. She stepped forward to her love. "A-Akito?"
"Faith... My soul has been returned..."
Faith began to cry tears of joy...
Suddenly both of them and their Digimon vanished from the room.
The giant chasm in the middle of the room that Tai and the others were in suddenly closed up. They found Akito and Faith in the middle. Akito had a differenty air about him. He seemed like a human being now. Tai's gang realized that he seemed different from before. He had his soul back. But... If his soul was back, did that mean Scott and Ryo were dead?
Faith looked at the DD, Tamers, and Digimon before settling her eyes on one goggle head. All of the DD and Tamer's Digimon were back in rookie form now so the Tamers could be seen. "Takato?"
Takato heard his name called and focused on one girl. She seemed vaguely familiar. "I've seen you somewhere... Faith?! Faith, is that you?!"
Rika looked puzzled. "Who's Faith, Takato?"
"My sister..."
Faith was shocked. "Takato... My little brother!"
"BIG SIS!" Takato ran out and hugged Faith, crying tears of joy. "I thought you were dead... Where have you been all this time...?"
Akito stepped forward. "I can answer that. You probably thought she died in a car crash, but she didn't. She was about 13 and you were 10. She was never found from the wreckage for she had fallen a meter away. I managed to come across her. I nursed her back to health, and we both fell in love. A year later we received Digivices and became Digidestined. But then, my soul was taken away by Milleniummon. We searched different Digiworld Dimensions searching for the 2 shards, until now. I have my soul back, and I'll show Milleniumon that I'm not on his side now."
Mimi came forward. "Where's Scott?!"
Ken looked around. "Where's Ryo?!"
Akito looked serious and concerned. "We were thrown out of the arena. I feel that they and their Digimon are now prisoners of Moon=Milleniummon...
Scott, Ryo, Kotemon, and Monodramon lay on the ground. They were in a different room. The Devas surrounded them, as did Chaos Gallantmon, Rath, Vincent, and their Digimon. Right in front stood Moon=Milleniumon, still in Zhuqiaomon's body.
Well, now. I finally caught up with you. You 4 have been thorns in my side for quite some time now. But now... I'll be able to finish you off personally...