Hazards Ahead

It had been several years since the Parasimon incident and the defeat of the D-Reaper, and a now teenaged Takato was sitting alongside Guilmon who he brought back to the Real World, thinking on the change of fate.
"Takatomon alright?" Guilmon asked, looking at the concerned expression on his partner's face.
"Huh?" Takato asked, breaking from his thoughts, before replying. "Oh yeah. I am fine Guilmon. It's just...well things have changed so much over the years. I mean, Jeri is now dating Henry. Rika is dating Ryo..."
"Not anymore." A familiar female voice told them, causing Takato and Guilmon to turn around and see a teenaged Rika and her Digimon partner, Renamon behind them. "We broke up."
"Eh?" Takato asked, surprised to hear this.
"He was cheating on me with another girl." Rika said sitting next to Takato, before stating. "So I finally kicked him out."
"You're still as tough as I remember, Rika." Takato laughed nervously.
"What about you, Renamon? How's your date?" Guilmon asked the vixen Digimon.
"Not too well. Impmon's dating my sister, BlackRenamon and Cyberdramon dumped me for someone else." Renamon said, a bit sad and a bit cross, before stating. "You cannot trust anyone these days."
"Guilmon feels sorry for you and upset for your losses." Guilmon said, empathic towards his friend.
Hearing that caused Renamon to ask. "Guilmon, what do you mean?"
"Hey, Rika. Even if the world is now peaceful, I still feel somewhat strong about you." Takato then said, causing Rika to ask. "Strong? What do you mean?"
But before Takato could reply, an evil voice said from behind them.
"Long time no see, humans."
Takato, Rika, Guilmon and Renamon turned around in shock. The D-Reaper, something they thought they defeated and turned into a harmless mass of data in the past, had appeared before them, glowing with a dark aura and red eyes.
"The D-Reaper?! But how?!" Rika gasped. It was then Henry, Terriermon, Jeri, Calumon, Impmon and BlackRenamon showed up. Henry said, shocked too. "I was right. It was the D-Reaper!"
"But we sealed you away!" Jeri gasped.
"Not all of me." The D-Reaper replied, before it stated. "And I'm stronger than ever before."
"Yeah well guess what freak show, we beat you once; we can do it again!" Impmon shouted, getting ready to fight.
"That's what you think." A voice behind the D-Reaper told them. Specter and Kurata then appeared from behind the D-Reaper. "I'm afraid you're sadly mistaken. D-Reaper, erase them all from existence."
"That's not going to happen. You only brought back the D-Reaper in it's weak Reaper form. Nothing our Ultimate level Digimon can't handle." Takato replied.
Slashing their cards through their D-Powers Takato, Rika and Henry yelled out. "Digi-Modify! Matrix Digivolution activate!"
"Guilmon digivolve to...Growlmon!" Growlmon roared out, before continuing his Digivolution. "Growlmon Matrix Digivolve to...WarGrowlmon!"
"Renamon digivolve to...Kyubimon! Kyubimon Matrix Digivolve to...Taomon!"
"Terriermon digivolve to...Gargomon! Gargomon Matrix Digivolve to...Rapidmon!"
"Impmon warp digivolve to...Beelzemon!" Impmon exclaimed digivolving to a Mega Digimon, thanks to the power he had gained from Ai and Mako's friendship. He made sure they stayed away from the battle so they wouldn't be harmed.
"BlackRenamon digivolve to...BlackKyuubimon!" BlackKyuubimon exclaimed.
Upon seeing their Digivolved forms, the D-Reaper only cackled. "Even if I am in my Reaper form, you are no problem for me."
"Oh yeah we'll see! Take this! Rapid Fire!" Rapidmon called out, firing a barrage of missiles from his arm cannons.
"Talisman of Light!" Taomon said as she used her brush and painted mystical symbols into the air, which released beams of pure light energy.
"Atomic Blaster!" WarGrowlmon roared out, firing huge energy waves from his chest.
"Double Impact!" Beelzemon called out as he fired bullets from his twin shotguns, the Berenjena.
"Dragon Wheel!" BlackKyuubimon exclaimed, spinning around to make a fire wheel, which she fired at the D-Reaper.
With that, the attacks made contact, striking the D-Reaper. However, it showed no signs of damage.
"The D-Reaper is unharmed. How?" Beelzemon questioned in shock. 
"Is it my turn now?" The D-Reaper then asked.
"Indeed it is." Specter said, raising a black card and slashing through his dark copy of a D-Power. "Dark Digi-Modify! De-Digivolution activate!"
D-Reaper raised his arms and yelled. "Reaper's Sickle!"
Firing his hook-like arms.
The attack struck WarGrowlmon, Taomon, Rapidmon, Beelzemon and BlackKyuubimon and although they were unharmed, when the dust cleared, they were back in their Rookie forms.
"What?!" BlackRenamon gasped.
"How did he do that!?" Henry questioned.
But before they could question Specter or the D-Reaper and get answers from their enemies, Ryo and Cyberdramon appeared.
"The D-Reaper's back? What's going on?" Ryo asked only for Cyberdramon to roar out, ready to fight.
"A bit late are you?" Rika asked Ryo.
"Well then I suppose we can finish you off one by one, starting with those two!" Kurata exclaimed as he pointed to Rika and Renamon.
Takato and Guilmon were shocked to hear that. "N...No!"
"A Decay Shot!" The D-Reaper called out, firing two blasts, each aimed at Rika and Renamon.
"RIKA, WATCH OUT!"
"RENAMON!" 
Takato and Guilmon leapt in front of them and took the blows themselves sending them flying in the air and landing on the grass behind them, badly hurt and knocked out from the attacks. 
"OH NO! TAKATO!" Rika shouted.
"GUILMON, NO!" Renamon called out as she and Rika ran over to their friends. 
But to increase Rika and Renamon's horror, this was what Specter had planned.
He opened the portal and caused the unconscious Takato and Guilmon to fall within the void, just like the others before them.
"Takato! Guilmon!" Henry called out in concern as he watched their friends disappear.
"Too predictable. I knew those two fools would do that." Specter said, before stating. "They do have strong feelings for you two."
Rika and Renamon balled their fists in anger.
"YOU! What have you done to Takato!?" Rika snarled.
"GIVE GUILMON BACK!" Renamon shouted.
"I don't think so!" The D-Reaper replied, as he was about to use another Death Sickle when...
The hover bike appeared in front of the Tamers and GAgumon leapt out and yelled. "Pepper Sphere!"
The attack struck the D-Reaper's arms, causing him to stop the attack on the Tamers.
Thomas, Yoshi, how do you always follow me here?" Kurata asked in a mixture of annoyance and aggression.
"Kurata! Specter! This time you have gone too far!" Thomas stated.
"Are you alright?" Zoe asked the Digimon Tamers, confused at what was going on.
"Who...who are you guys? You appeared out of nowhere." Impmon questioned. Dorulumon replied. "It's okay. We're the good guys."
"Looks like we're too late to rescue Takato and Guilmon." Koji said, before the Legendary Warrior of Light stated. "But we can still stop you two now!"
"Humph. I'm afraid you're all too late." Specter said, opening the portal.
"I have all I need. Now all I have to do is control them and then the Digidestined's fate will end." He stated as he, Kurata and the D-Reaper entered the portal.
"HEY, STOP, COME BACK!" Rika shouted as she and Renamon tried to reach them, but the portal closed, leaving them a Digimon and a Tamer short.
"They...they got away!" Impmon snarled, clenching his fist from the fact that he had failed to protect his friend, the one who was always nice to him even when he was a selfish rebel.
"You guys have no idea what he plans to do with them." Tommy said sadly.
The Tamers looked at them, before Henry asked. "What do you mean by that?" 
"This." Spike said, handing them the scroll.
The Tamers looked in the scroll and were horrified by the image of a corrupted Gallantmon destroying the Digidestined.
"No...it cannot be!" Jeri gasped, horrified to see Takato and Guilmon acting so violently.
"That's the reason they kidnapped Takato and Guilmon?" Henry asked, before stating. "This is horrible!"
"And it gets worse. If we allow them to kill the Digidestined, everything will cease to exist." Koichi said.
"What do you mean?" Renamon asked.
"If they are defeated, everything goes with them, our worlds, your world, the people, the Digimon, everything. It will all be gone." Gaomon explained.
Rika and Renamon could only look in the scroll and were shocked and horrified by the evil Gallantmon.
They were not the Takato and Guilmon they knew. 
"But Takato and Guilmon are not responsible for this." Yoshi said and then stated. "Specter's using them. They are controlling them somehow."
As soon as they heard Takato and Guilmon were controlled, Rika turned to them and questioned. "Controlled? You mean they have no idea they were doing this?" 
GAgumon nodded, before saying. "Takato and Guilmon have no idea what they were doing. And it's not just them. They got Takuya as well. Marcus and Agumon. Even Mikey and Shoutmon fell under their evil."
"But I've been gathering heroes from other worlds to combat this evil." Spike said. "I've been sent to stop this. And we need your help. We can save Takato and Guilmon if we work together."
The Tamers looked in concern for a moment before they nodded in agreement.
"We'll help. This Specter has gone too far!" Henry exclaimed.
"Momentai! We'll make them and the D-Reaper pay!" Terriermon added.
"You can count us in too!" Impmon said, determined to get his friends back.
"Yeah. Rika and Renamon, we'll get Takato and Guilmon back!" Jeri shouted.
"Yeah, we will." Rika and Renamon replied, knowing that they had to rescue Takato and Guilmon, no matter what.
They sacrificed themselves to save them, and both knew the boys had strong feelings for them as Specter pointed out.
"But we need a plan. Specter's always two steps ahead of us." Jeremy said.
"Well, Specter will catch the Digidestined off guard." Ryo said, before thinking out loud. "So we need to know what they were doing before they attacked."
"That's it!" Spike said, running back to the bike and picking up the communicator. "Tagiru! Gumdramon! I managed to save the other heroes. But we've got to know. What were the Digidestined doing before they were attacked by Specter?" 
"So you can get there before they do? Of course." Gumdramon spoke through the communicator.
"Okay. Apparently, they're in their Digital World, having a picnic to celebrate their victory over MaloMyotismon. If you go now and tell them what would happen, we can save them and then they'll be ready." Tagiru told Spike and GAgumon.
"Okay!" Spike said as everyone gathered around the hover bike, thinking to himself as he knew the fate of their worlds would be decided in these last moments. "I just hope we're not too late!"