History Recap / DigimonFrontierE29EscapeThePhantasmagoricSephirotmon

The kids watch Sephirotmon rise into the sky and wonder if he’s running away. Takuya is unable to get in contact with Kouji with his Digivice, and the group decides to go and look for him. Before they can, however, they’re interrupted by Sephirotmon returning, with all of his spheres glowing once again.

[=BeoWolfmon=] continues chasing Duskmon, wondering why Duskmon is running from him and who [[Recap/DigimonFrontierE27StuckInSakkakumonWithYou the boy who has Kouji’s face]] is. However, he soon loses sight of Duskmon.

Sephirotmon approaches the children, using their own Digimon attacks against them. Takuya double spirit evolves to Ardhamon while Izumi, Junpei, and Tomoki spirit evolve to Fairymon, Blitzmon, and Chakmon, and Sephirotmon reveals that [[BatmanGambit he’s become able to copy their Digimon abilities from their fighting within his spheres]]. In addition, he has the ability to CounterAttack all of their abilities in a much stronger form. Fairymon, Blitzmon, and Chakmon slide evolve, but Sephirotmon has data on their attacks as well. Ardhamon decides that the only thing to do is [[AllYourPowersCombined attack all at once]], but Sephirotmon only counters all of them.

The kids begin to lose hope, and Bolgmon says that running away may be the only option, but they’re trapped by Sephirotmon using his shape to surround them. When they break out and continue trying to run, Sephirotmon only follows them. He corners them at a cave wall and causes darkness to fill the cave, attacking from the shadows. Izumi, Junpei, and Tomoki have memories of their constant fear of the darkness even in the human world, and Fairymon, Blitzmon, and Chakmon fall into a panic despite Ardhamon’s attempts to get them to focus.

As they fall further into despair, the group begins to attack each other, but Ardhamon gets an idea when the resulting scuffle causes a bunch of attacks to mix with each other. Ardhamon tells the others to snap out of it and close their eyes, urging them to take advantages of the unique enhanced senses that Digimon have. Ardhamon tells them to combine their attacks, and they attack Sephirotmon with a mixture of attacks together. Sephirotmon is unable to come up with data for what Ardhamon deems a “brand new attack”. With Ardhamon resolving not to run away and saying that he’ll “see the light within the darkness”, the group manages to do some damage with various mixture combinations of their different attacks.

Ardhamon realizes that [[AttackItsWeakPoint Sephirotmon has always been covering up one of his spheres]] and hasn’t been attacking with it. With the others keeping Sephirotmon from moving, Ardhamon attacks the core, causing Sephirotmon to be defeated [[OneHitKO in one hit]] and allowing Ardhamon to scan him into a [=DigiEgg=]. Cherubimon, seeing Sephirotmon defeated, decides that it’s now time to “break the seal”...

The kids go back outside the cave, knowing that there’s still one more Legendary Warrior to defeat, as meanwhile [=BeoWolfmon=] continues on his search for Duskmon.

!!Tropes
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Takuya finished Sephirotmon off by hitting his central orb.
* CombinationAttack: How the heroes counter Sephirotmon's MegaManning ability.
* ContinuityNod: Takuya teaches the others how to feel their surroundings as Digimon like he had learned [[Recap/DigimonFrontierE23SockitTakuya six episodes ago]].
* EyeCatch: Takuya and Izumi’s variants are used for this episode.
* EyelessFace: Subverted. Sephirotmon has eyes everywhere except his face and central orb, but the Zero Unit symbol on his head sphere is used to make him more expressive.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: With all his warriors except Duskmon defeated, Cherubimon [[GodzillaThreshold decides]] it's time to "[[Recap/DigimonFrontierE30SoaringWarriorOfDarknessVelgmon break the seal]]".
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: Takuya does this snap everyone back to normal.
* MegaManning: Sephirotmon's attacks are all copied from the heroes.
* NotQuiteDead: Turns out that the Mercuremon Ardhamon had defeated wasn't the actual digimon. Sephirotmon had separated his human spirit from himself.
* SmugSnake: Sephirotmon could have easily won if he didn't let his sadistic tendencies get the better of him.
* TheReveal: The entire arc inside Sephirotmon was a BatmanGambit where he [[MegaManning recorded and copied every attack the heroes used]]. Even though his human spirit was defeated by Ardhamon, that still worked in his favor thanks to him being able to copy attacks that were even stronger than he expected.
* VillainousBreakdown: Sephirotmon once he stats getting hit with attacks he can't counter. Takuya [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome even taunts him about how after trying to scare the protagonists, they're not running or afraid anymore, he's the one whose afraid]].

[=BeoWolfmon=] continues chasing Duskmon, wondering why Duskmon is running from him and who [[Recap/DigimonFrontierE27DoubleSpiritMiracleBeoWolfmonIsBorn the boy who has Kouji’s face]] is. However, he soon loses sight of Duskmon.

* ContinuityNod: Takuya teaches the others how to feel their surroundings as Digimon like he had learned [[Recap/DigimonFrontierE23FeelThePowerOfDigimonTakuyasFullBodyStrategy six episodes ago]].

[=BeoWolfmon=] continues chasing Duskmon, wondering why Duskmon is running from him and who [[{{Recap/DigimonFrontierE27DoubleSpiritMiracleBeoWolfmonIsBorn}} the boy who has Kouji’s face]] is. However, he soon loses sight of Duskmon.

* ContinuityNod: Takuya teaches the others how to feel their surroundings as Digimon like he had learned [[Recap/DigimonFrontierS23FeelThePowerOfDigimonTakuyasFullBodyStrategy six episodes ago]].

* ContinuityNod: Takuya teaches the others how to feel their surroundings like he had learned [[Recap/DigimonFrontierS23FeelThePowerTakuyasFullBodyStrategy six episodes ago]].

* TheReveal: The entire arc inside Sephirotmon was a BatmanGambit where he [[MegaManning recorded and copied every attack the heroes used]]. Even though he was defeated by Ardhamon, that still worked in his favor thanks to him being able to copy attacks that were even stronger than he expected.

* VillainousBreakdown: Sephirotmon once he stats getting hit with attacks he can't counter. Takuya [[MomentOfAwesome even taunts him about how after trying to scare the protagonists, they're not running or afraid anymore, he's the one whose afraid]].

* TheReveal: The entire arc inside Sephirotmon was a BatmanGambit where he [[MegaManning record and copy every attack the heroes used]]. Even though he was defeated by Ardhamon, that still worked in his favor thanks him being able to copy attacks that were even stronger than he expected.

* TheReveal: The entire arc inside Sephirotmon was BatmanGambit where he [[MegaManning record and copy every attack the heroes used]]. Even though he was defeated by Ardhamon, that still worked in his favor thanks him being able to copy attacks that were even stronger than he expected.

Ardhamon realizes that [[AttackItsWeakPoint Sephirotmon has always been covering up one of his spheres]] and hasn’t been attacking with it. With the others keeping Sephirotmon from moving, Ardhamon attacks the core, causing Sephirotmon to be defeated [[ForMassiveDamage in one hit]] and allowing Ardhamon to scan him into a [=DigiEgg=]. Cherubimon, seeing Sephirotmon defeated, decides that it’s now time to “break the seal”...

* VillainousBreakdown: Sephirotmon once he stats getting hit with attacks he can't counter. Takuya [[MomentOfAwesome even taunts him about how after trying to scar the protagonists, they're not running or afraid anymore, he's the one whose afraid]].

* TheReveal: The entire arc inside Sephirotmon was BatmanGambit where he [[MegaManning record and copy every attack the heroes used]]. Even though he was defeated by Ardhamon, that still worked in his favor thanks him being able to copy attacks that even stronger than he expected.

* TheReveal: The entire arc inside Sephirotmon was BatmanGambit where he [[MegaManning record and copy every attack the heroes used]]. Even though he was defeated by Ardhamon, that still worked in his favor thanks hi being able to copy attacks that even stronger than he expected.

* SmugSanke: Sephirotmon could have easily won if he didn't let his sadistic tendencies get the better of him.

* EyeCatch: Takuya and Izumi’s variants are used for this episode.

Sephirotmon approaches the children, using their own Digimon attacks against them. Takuya double spirit evolves to Ardhamon while Izumi, Junpei, and Tomoki spirit evolve to Fairymon, Blitzmon, and Chakmon, and Sephirotmon reveals that [[BatmanGambit he’s become able to copy their Digimon abilities from their fighting within his spheres]]. In addition, he has the ability to CounterAttack all of their abilities in a much stronger form. Fairymon, Blitzmon, and Chakmon slide evolve, but Sephirotmon has data on their attacks as well. Ardhamon decides that the only thing to do is [[AllYourPowersCombine attack all at once]], but Sephirotmon only counters all of them.