Yamaki looked down at Takato's tear stained face. Takato just simply stared at the ground, not answering. "Lee...is dead" murmured Renamon. Yamaki hung his head. He knew it. Children merging with the digimon had been a bad idea from the start. Yamaki leaned down and put his hands on Takato's shoulders. "Sorry Takato, really I am. I really hoped that things would turn out different then they have now. Its war, Takato. Us, the weak humans, and them, the D-reaper. They got Lee. I don't want them getting you to"

Yamaki turned Takato towards a door and led him over, heaving a sigh of sadness as Takato left the room . Turning around, he saw the monster makers looking hopefully in his direction. Everyone was there except...Janyu. "So what happened?" Dolphin asked. "Did they do anything to hurt the D-reaper?"

"Lee...was killed" Yamaki murmured, loathing the fact that he had to say it. The monster makers look of hopefulness soon turned into a look of shock. "Poor Janyu" murmured Daisy, hanging her head.

"Hes gonna be heartbroken" said Shibumi. "Did the kids discover any weaknesses?"

Yamaki explained what had happened when they attacked it. "When they hit it with their attacks, the D-reaper turned itself into a shell that can't be broken. When they tried to rip a hole through it, it grew spikes so they couldn't touch it. It is our worst nightmare come true. It evolves quick enough to adapt itself to anything in our environment that it can't take"

"So..." murmured Dolphin. "Your saying that when it took us two billion years to evolve...the D-reaper does it instantly?"

"Thats right" was the reply.

All of them looked down. "How can we fight something like this? Its near invincible!" Daisy shouted.

Shibumi thought for a moment. "Think about it you guys. How do we get rid of a virus in a computer? We delete it. But sometimes those viruses change, and they get stronger, and harder to find, until its near impossible to get rid of it. What we do is we find the host and make them stop modifying it"

"I get it!" shouted Daisy. "We need to set it up so that its own evolution kills itself!"

"Yeah!" murmured Dolphin. "But how do we do that? Mankind has not been stopped, even when evolutionary dead ends have appeared in front of us, we still kept on going. The D-reaper is far quicker then man. How do we kill it?"

Shibumi nodded, then turned back to the monster makers. "I think that if we give it some kind of virus, it will evolve itself to co-exist with that disease! Then, if we can make a cure for the virus, it will affect the D-reaper to! Remember way back in the college days, there was that weird Agou Anti Crosoft virus? I have a program called 'End it All' that will delete any virus you target. If we turn the D-reaper into a virus, then use to program on it..."

"It will kill the D-reaper!" said Miya, jumping up.

"Right" replied Shibumi, turning to Yamaki. "Do the kids know how to use computers?"

"Definitely" replied Yamaki. "Lets give them some time. They just lost their best friend. Actually, I'd like to go down to D-reaper myself and check it out. I might be able to discover a weakness of some sort" he flicked the lighter in his hand up and down some more, then pulled a cigaret out of his pocket and lit it, breathing in. "If I'm not back in three hours, then see if you can find me"

Then he walked out of the room, tossing his cigaret into the trash can.

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His polished boots scraped across the hard cement. Yamaki was used to the carpeting of the building, and such made it hard for him to walk on this ground. Trotting into the tunnel that Takato had taken to get to the D-reaper once, he noticed that the D-reaper had stopped growing and spreading, but was instead trickling parts of itself through cracks and growing like pond water.

He walked over a small stream of it, then continued on his way, careful not to step in any of the red mass. Heat radiated from it, so that it felt like fire when he got close enough. He walked for perhaps twenty minutes, looking around for new activity or some sort of hole.

He was startled when a loud clicking noise sounded through the tunnel. A second clicking noise followed as he pressed the safety off of his magnum, holding it up. If he fired, he would alert every D-reaper within a mile around, but he might be able to run back in time before they got him.

"Get out. Get out. You can't be in here" whispered a strange, mechanical like voice. "Your not allowed to be here. Stay out, stay out"

"Be quiet!" shouted Yamaki.

"You humans act so strange" said a strange, humming voice. Yamaki whirled around and pointed his gun at a strange, girl like creature. It actually looked a lot like Jeri. A Jeri with wings, if you will. "Every new invention you have created has been used to destroy" she said, indicating the gun in his hand. In the blink of an eye, she slapped the gun out of his hand and kicked it away, sending it flying into a puddle.

Yamaki glared at the agent. "Who are you?"

"I am J-reaper, the savior of this world" she said proudly, like she was a queen.

"Why do you wish to kill us?" Yamaki asked.

J-reaper flew in a circle around Yamaki, staring at him with her moon shaped, yellow eyes. Yamaki did not even attempt to follow her. He was concentrating on trying to get the gun. "You humans have done such horrors to this world, you should not be allowed to live. Your evolution should not have happened, as it has only made this world weaker. You will all be deleted!" she held her arms out like she was giving a speech. "Mankind has endangered everything, even itself. Even though they are so weak and frail, their vast numbers and superior intellect have given them the edge over everything else"

Yamaki frowned. What the agent had said was probably true. "And yet, our downfall has been our ignorance"

J-reaper nodded. That was pretty funny, seeing the D-reaper agreeing with a human. "Mankind believed itself the greatest of all creation, that they were the strongest of all. But now look how small they are compared to us"

"But you want to destroy this world?" Yamaki asked.

"We do not wish for the destruction of this world, but merely the cleansing of it" J-reaper cocked her head towards the other side of the tunnel. A high pitched scream was coming from it. "Jeri!" shouted Yamaki. "The being known as Jeri is giving her life in order to keep this world alive! Ah, she is very useful and thus one of the humans who is worthy for our quest"

Yamaki stared at her. "You are sacrificing a little girl to kill everything? Your insane!"

"You of mankind cannot understand this. You are too thickheaded and punctual. Man thinks nothing of his mistakes or wrongs, only of his rights and accomplishments. Even the digimon must be deleted, for they are a creation of man"

"And you think this is beneficial? That the D-reaper will not suffer as well?!" Yamaki shouted. "What is wrong with you?"

"What a noble task lies before us! The moons and the digital world are so clean and sterile! We must work hard to be like them! Glorious, is our quest! Mankind shall be deleted!" she rushed forward and slammed her first into Yamaki's back, sending him flying into the wall and lying still in a puddle. J-reaper turned around and flew back through the tunnel at light speed, disappearing into the red mass that was slowly inching its way down the tunnel.

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"Takato..." murmured Kazu. "Lee's dead. There's no changing that. We mourn them and move on through life. Think of Jeri. Would she want you to be like this now"

"No..." Takato murmured, his cheeks stained with tears. "I just want to kill the D-reaper. It didn't just kill a citizen or a soldier, it killed LEE, Kazu! Lee! I want to make it pay! I want to see it writhe in agony on the ground!" Takato clenched his fist.

Standing up, a red rage began building inside Takato. "I need Jeri here, Kazu. I need Jeri. I'm going to go and get her"

"Hold it!" shouted Shibumi. "I need one of you to use this! Kenta, you know the most about computers. I need you to upload this program into the D-reaper"

Kenta looked at him, taking the computer. "What will it do?"

"First, I want you to upload this virus. When thats done, I want you to upload the End It All program into it. Be very careful. It will change color and become stronger when the virus is uploaded. Opening the second program should kill it" Shibumi explained. Kenta nodded, taking mental notes.

"Good!" said Takato, holding up his fist. "I can't wait to see that thing die!" he turned around to run out of the room, followed by a whining Guilmon.

Takato reached the gates of the building, pushing them open and holding up his digivice. "Biomerge!" he shouted, holding up his digivice. It began beeping rapidly, fizzling in an excited motion.

Nothing happend.

Takato stared at his digivice with fear. Why couldn't he biomerge? He held it out again. "Biomerge!" he said louder. It began vibrating in his hand, but still, nothing happened. Takato stared at it with an empty expression. "No! Not now! Please, work just this once!" he held it up for a third time. "BIOMERGE!" he shouted.

The digivice went dead. Its sparks, colors, and sounds fizzed into nothing. The screen changed into a strange looking static, made of small white and black particles. Takato looked at it with disbelief. What was wrong with it?

"Takato, whats wrong?" asked Guilmon. Takato stared aimlessly forward. "Nothing....Guilmon. Nothing"

The digivice fell from his hand, clattering off of his shoe and onto the ground. When it hit the concrete, it shattered into several pieces. Data shined through it for a moment, then all traces of life were lost from it as the pieces stopped their static.