Disclaimer: No I do not own digimon! Toei and those Bandai people own it.
This is purely for the reader's enjoyment.
Author's Notes: Couple of quick notes. First, read Desperate Slash before this to get a better understanding of the situation at hand. Second, Hey thanks for reading this hope you like it. Oh and it feels a bit rushed doesn't it? Just so you know it is only because I wan to quickly get the more exciting points I have planned.
"Corruption of Time"
Somewhere in the digital world.
"Yes I realize they will be in my way for the conquest of the digital world." a voice from the shadows boomed.
"Then you must realize that they are a force to be reckoned with, but then again they're not so tough," Said a meek low voice also covered by the shadows
"Ah, you are right because the digidestined will finally meet their maker!" heavy steps could be heard as a digimon unlike any other stepped out of the shadows.
"Because I am Millenniummon, the bringer of death to the digidestined!!!" Milleniummon then turned to the other digimon.
"Well boss, if you want to do it then Clockmon is by your side to the end along with my companions" behind Clockmon was an odd assortment of digimon ranging from rookie to ultimate.
"Very well Clockmon, rally the troops and attack a digimon village." he paused grinning demonically ". and kill all the inhabitants! That will catch the attention of those humans!"
"Yes sir!" Clockmon turned to his fellow digimon. "You heard the boss lets do it, but then again.."
***********
"What!" Izzy was now on the verge of insanity after being stuck at the same level for nearly an hour.
"Izzy I can't believe you! Here I am lending you a game to beat and WHAT?! You can't even beat the second level!" smirked Tai who had put the difficulty to extreme when Izzy was in the restroom.
"Whatever Tai" Izzy shut off the console and begin to turn his attention on the noises coming from his laptop.
"Huh, mail?" Tai said knowing the noise all to well.
Izzy went to the laptop and lifted the screen up. He went to his mailbox and opened the new piece of mail with no address.
"Tai, I think you should take a look at this." Izzy said solemnly.
"Whats up?" Tai said taking a look at the screen. It was terrible, to say the least, as countless tiny huts were on fire with tiny digimon running rampant. They watched as each of them broke up into data, their existence erased.
"Where is this happening.?" Tai said angrily.
"I got the coordinates. We might still make it in time!" Izzy said in frustration.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Tai then stood up with a fist balled up.
"Right Tai, lets get the others" Izzy said with a little more enthusiasm.
*******
At least 2 hours later at the school compurter lab. Tai and Izzy had fully reported the situation to the others.
"Alright, is everyone here?" Tai's voice boomed over the whole lab. Tai looked around the room only to find one person missing from the bunch..
But as usual some people are just lazy.
"Sorry I'm late!" Davis rushed into the room with his goggles over his eyes.
"I am really sorry I'm late. You know the girls just would not let me leave." Davis said scratching the back of his head.
"Sure Davis, I bet you were asleep." Yolei spoke up with a smirk.
"Hey guys chill out, this is not the time for this pointlessness. We got to go the digital world now!" Matt said trying to stop the childish bickering. They all nodded in agreement.
Kari, Yolei, Cody, Ken, and Davis stepped up in front of the computer screen.
"Digiport Open!!!" they said bringing their D-3 to the front of the screen and with a blast of light the group vanished.
*******
They appeared at the remains of the village looking around cautiously.
"Hey, is that." Sora looked in the direction of a small group of digimon heading towards the village.
"Gomamon!" Joe and the others ran towards their digimon.
"Hi Joe! It's nice to see you again buddy!" Gomamon smiled
"Save your hellos for later! I've got a bad feeling.." Kari said biting her lip and holding Gatomon in her arms.
An eerie silence broke across the field. Though all that could be heard was the hiss of the fires, still raging in the now night sky. Gatomon then hopped to the ground out of her digidestined arms now sensing something or rather someone.
"Your instincts serve you well, but then again they're not so great." A voice in the area bellowed.
"Who are you and what have you done to the villagers!" Davis said as he finally began to assume his role as a leader.
" The villagers? Well I'd figure the e-mail that was sent clearly showed the fate of the villagers, but then again maybe not." The voice spoke again but this time as if it was closer.
"You better show yourself or I'm coming after you" Tai said with a smirk of a person who had witnessed death far to many times.
All around in the forest glowing red eyes were made apparent by the thick darkness.
"Attack! Lay waste to the digidestined and their digimon alike!" with that an enormous force began to break through the trees, with in Clockmon leading the charge.
Tai stood froze freight for the briefest moment before turning to the others.
"Everyone digivolve now!" Tai said turning his back to the oncoming force and raising his digivice. The others did the same.
"Augumon Warp Digivolve to... WARGREYMON" "Gabumon Warp Digivolve to.... METALGARURUMON" "Tentomon Digivolve to... KABUTERIMON" "Biyomon Digivolve to..... BIRDRAMON" "Gomamon Digivolve to... IKKAKUMON" "Palmon Digivolve to.....TOGEMON" "Wormon Digivolve to.....STINGMON"
The rest of the digidestined yelled out "Digi-Armor.ENERGIZE"
"Veemon Armor Digivolve to.. FLAMEDRAMON" "Hawkmon Armor Digivolve to.. SHURIMON" "Armadillomon Armor Digivolve to.. DIGMON" "Gatomon Armor Digivolve to.. NEFERTIMON" "Patamon Armor Digivolve to.. PEGASUSMON"
With a bright flash of light they appeared staring at the oncoming threat.
"Guys, stay back!" Flamedramon said above the stampeading army. With that the digidestined fell back behind a hill small hill.
Mimi shut her eyes tight not wanting to see the bloodshed to come. Yolei stood beside her trying to console her as her emotions gave way to tears.
Wargreymon took flight and darted straight into the air with Metalgarurumon beside him. At a high enough distance they looked at each other and nodded.
"Terra Force!" Wargreymon lifted a huge ball of energy into the air and flung it at the army.
"Metal wolf claw!" All over Metalgarurumon compartments opened and spewed forth a slew of rockets at the army.
*******
A Megadramon was the first to notice the blasts as they came out of a group of clouds.
"Darkside Attack!" The Megadramon shot forth a volley of his own missiles to counter the ones incoming, but to no avail as the missiles broke through heading its way to the army with alarming speed.
The digimon below finally took notice and began to yell in panic.
The missiles touched down nailing digimon and the ground alike. Then a huge ball of raw energy emerged tailing the missiles
********
The blast was incredibly destroying at least half of the remaining force.
The digidestined digimon finally began to engage the enemy.
******** "Take this!" Kabuterimon closed his fists and began using a Rockmon as his punching bag. Nanimon jumped on his back wrapping his arms around Kabuterimon neck, choking the life out of him.
"Nghhh.!" was all Kabuterimon could make out as he took flight. He then took hold of Nanimon and flung him at Rockmon. The impact exploded Nanimon's huge head and cracking Rockmon's armor and they both broke up into data.
********
Togemon was coming fist to fist with an Apemon. Togemon was hit across the face as Apemon jumped up and jumped kicked her across the head, knocking her to the ground, unable to get up. Apemon snarled and brought up his bone club up for the kill. A huge ninja star appeared in Apemon's back blowing him up into atoms. Shurimon then landed next to Togemon.
"Having trouble?" Shurimon questioned as he appeared retracting the ninja star.
"You know me, I was never much of a fighter." Togemon said waving a fist angrily.
Shurimon helped her up the best he could and sprigged deeper into the battlefield.
********
Flamedramon was in a tight situation fighting off attacks by numerous opponents who just would not leave him alone.
A nearby Meramon drove a fist deep into Flamdramon's chest apparently cracking off a piece of the armor. Flamdramon's eyes bulged out as he fell to the ground clutching his stomach in apparent pain.
"Sub-Zero Ice Punch!" Frigimon drove his fist into Flamedramon's open stomach freezing him into an ice cube.
The ice began turning a shade of red as the ice burst, and Flamedramon took flight into the night sky.
"Fire Rocket!" Flamedramon's body erupted into flames and dove into the crowd of digimon below him breaking them up into atoms.
Flamedramon fell to the floor panting and held his stomach. He winced in pain for a second and continued walking deeper into the fray.
**********
Digmon shoved yet another drill into Minotarumon in attempt to stop him from his insane rage.
Minotarumon snarled and head butted Digmon impaling him with one of his horns below the neck.
"Ack!" Digmon cried out in pain as Minotarumon move his head deeper.
Stingmon arrived and kicked Minotarumon in the gut rocking him back in pain. Digmon hit the floor barely able to sustain the armor evolution.
Stingmon seeing Minotarumon's open wound took flight and landed behind him.
"Spiking Strike!" A blade of energy emerged from his wrist and he drove it into Minotarumon before he could react. Minotarumon turned around as if still able to fight, but then his eyes rolled into the back of his head and bursted into atoms.
Stingmon walked to his friend looking at him in a weaken state.
"Come on get up. You can make it." Stingmon pulled up Digmon who had recovered a bit from the attack.
Digmon stood up "Thanks Stingmon, I thought I was goner for sure." With his country hick accent as they walked into another battle.
**************
"Harpoon Torpedo!" Ikkakumon's horn shot out reveling a rocket as it headed to the battlefield as a sort of long-range support.
"Meteor Wing!" Birdramon shot out fire rockets from her wings at any enemy digimon close to the digidestined.
Ikkakumon and Birdramon had stayed a bit behind from the others to guard the digidestined. They watched as Pegasusmon and Nerfertimon both tied up a group of digimon with their golden noose attack.
********
Clockmon had been crafty and was hiding in a bush more like a coward then any thing.
"Ha! I'll just sneak up on the little digidestined and kill them then their digimon are useless, not even able to digivolve!" Clockmon continued to creep closer to the digidestined by the second.
*******
The guys were found surveying the battle peering above the hilltop, shouting all sorts of words of encouragement.
"Do it Flamedramon!" Davis shouted "Kick all their Asses!" Matt, Tai, and Joe shouted with much more enthusiasm.
Mimi began to sob, "I don't want Palmon to die!"
"Mimi, were worried about our digimon too, but you have to have faith that they'll make it out alive." Sora spoke patting Mimi on the back.
"Sora's right you know, it's hard to watch our friends fight while we constantly worry." Yolei said through clenched teeth a bit pissed at the whole situation.
Kari stood quietly sensing something in a nearby bush.
*********
Wargreymon had sensed something wrong, maybe from his strong bond with Tai or rather his own instincts. He took off in the direction of the digidestined just before a scream was heard all across the battlefield.
*********
Clockmon had shown himself from out of a bush with his hammer pulled out at least 100 feet away from the digidestined.
Kari was now stepping back as Tai and Davis stepped in front of her.
"Stay back!" Tai shouted rising up his sleeves as if ready to fight.
"Oh no, Digidestined, you must suffer for all the lives you have taken this night!" Clockmon took out his hammer.
"Tai, stay back!" Wargreymon was now rushing to their aid. "Terra Force!" The blast headed to Clockmon who was busy unleashing his own attack.
"Crono Breaker!" He swung his hammer at a clock that appeared out of nowhere.
The blasts collided causing an explosion to engulf the entire digital world.
******
Somewhere..
"What!" Tai was looking around on his back and saw he was in a room full of clocks. All the clocks were running backwards and beside him were his friends who were knocked out completely. He looked at the roof of the room and saw himself and the team defeating Piedmon. Tai wondered what the heck was going on and tried to get up to leave. He seemed unable to get up as if something was pulling him down. The scenes now moved faster and showed Tai when he was little with Kari. Then it showed something Tai had saw, but not like how it was shown. Gennai was in a fierce fight with Piedmon and he witnessed Gennai glow with power.
"What the heck is going on?" Tai said gawking and then he felt something tug him away from this reality.
**********
Davis finally awoke, he his eyes adjusted to the sudden brightness and than looked down
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Davis yelled as he found himself plummeting toward water. He put on his goggles quickly in the midst of the chaos.
The others were wide awake now finding that their digimon were still K.O.
"Huh what's that?" The others turned around to look in the direction to see something speeding towards them.
"Move out quick!" The digidestined grabbed their digimon and darted separate ways but it was to late.
"Argh!" A voice rang out from the speeding object as it turned sharp right crashing into some trees.
"PWOOOSH" the digidestined hit the water sinking deep into the abyss.
Yolei made it to the surface first now holding a conscious wet bird.
"Oh dear what happened here?" Hawkmon looked around from above the waters surface
"Hawkmon!" Yolei hugged Hawkmon tightly.
All around her heads began to surface gasping for breath.
*******
They had swam to shore with their now awakened digimon.
"We should find where that thing crashed." Ken said putting Wormon on his shoulders.
"Yeah, we should see if there all right, I mean, it might have been a plane!" Izzy stood up shaking wildly like a dog to get dry.
Tai took this into consideration and they decided to find the crash site.
******
"So that's what it was!" Joe said looking from a bush at the Mekinoirmon that crashed.
"Than that means we're in the digital world." Izzy connected the dots and proceeded to walk toward the Mekinoirmon.
"Hold on Izzy, let me take a look first." The others stood back as Tai and Agumon were now inches away from the Mekinoirmon.
"Ugh.." A moan was heard from within the steel beast. The cockpit opened in a rush of stem and haze.
Tai took a step back realizing who it was immediately.
"Gennai!" they all said gawking at the young form of their old mentor.
"Hello?" Gennai stumbled to the ground, looking at all the blinking eyes.
Quite unexpectedly, a rocket hit the middle of the small plain where they were, sending dirt all over the place.
The digimon, too weak from the previous battle could only dodge the blast. Gennai was standing up looking at the air with hate.
"Hahahahahahahah!" A figure appeared among the smoke followed by some digimon.
"No it can't be." Tentomon said with awe as the dust cloud revealed Piedmon.
"I'm honored to be known by absolute strangers how touching, so who might you be?" Piedmon looked at the children suddenly realizing their partner digimon moving in front of them.
"This is too rich! You must be the digidestined!" Piedmon laughed to himself. Gennai was now looking at the destined perplexed.
"Well than I guess I should begin the first act." Piedmon turned to the Mekanoirmon and nodded. The Mekanoirmon shot forth their missles at the crashed Mekanoirmon with no remorse.
Gennai dived to the ground as the Mekanoirmon behind him exploded, destroying the eggs, crests, and tags.
Already the damage had been done as their digimon began to break up into atoms. Tai knelt next to his partner who was disappearing rapidly. The digimon instantly knew what was happening and rather than whine they felt they owed their partners a proper farewell.
"Tai remember. I will always be with you even if I never existed" Agumon was now just a floating head his time was going fast.
"I know buddy I'll. never forget you" Tai looked at the ground not able to see his best friend die before his eyes. With that Agumon disappeared.
There were only tears that flowed from the destined eyes as everyone beside Tai just slumped to the floor not even able to speak to their partner as they were erased from history.
"How could you.." Davis held his D-3, which was now static.
"Simple, really, I just couldn't let those hazards run amok in my world. Now then lets finish this." Piedmon smirked evilly at the whimpering digidestined.
"No, stop, they have suffered enough. Let them go and take me instead!" Gennai spread his arms out appearing in front of the digidestined.
"Sounds interesting but I have other plans." Piedmon looked to a distant figure in the forest. "Machinedramon will you do the honors of slaying these pathetic humans?"
"With pleasure" Machindramon charged up his Giga Cannon.
"Run children!" Genndai turned his head facing them now.
They had barely heard the command through their sniffling.
"Come on get up and run!" Tai ran to Kari and swooped her onto his back and charged into the forest.
"Yes run along! I want to see how far you get before you disintegrate!" Piedmon clapped his hands together in a complete state of psychosis.
They followed but most of the girls followed in a halfhearted run as if they didn't have anything to live for. It was then that Mimi tripped over something in her run. She tumbled to the ground and was holding her shin in pain. She looked back just in time for the blast to impact..
***********
They had finally stopped running after coming onto a cave in a small mountain. Tai let down his sister next to a wall and sat down next to her. The rest sat around Tai and Kari as if expecting some sort of leadership. Tai pursed his lips to together and then turned to everyone.
"Are we missing anyone?" Tai looked across the tear-stained faces and flung his head back hard hitting it on the rock behind him. Blood was now trickling down to his forehead and he didn't care. "Mimi.." Tai ran his hand across the grass as if searching for her among their stalks. *********
Piedmon, still hovering, examined the destroyed area.
"Hm, I have a bad feeling." Piedmon turned to a two Mekanoirmon "Go search the area make sure their dead!"
The Mekanoirmons took off scaning and looking about.
********
The rain began to bear down on the destined that were huddled inside the confines of the cave. Words were not exchanged as they merely sat against the walls thinking of the lives that were lost. Kari had laid her head down on Tai's lap who was looking at the rain fall.
"I don't think I've ever seen it rain here." Sora had taken a seat next to the dazed Tai. He simply nodded and continued looking out, not wanting communication at all. Sora clenched her teeth and made her way back deeper into the cave.
"He's so stupid! Argh here I am trying to comfort both of us and the idiot just stares off into space!" she sits back next to Matt who had fallen asleep from the day's events. She gently brushed through his hair getting a grunt in reply.
"Why do I even bother." she than laid down next to Matt and began to sob. For Mimi, Biyomon, and everyone else.
********
Davis, Yolei, Joe, Izzy, and Cody were found a little ways deeper.
"Oh that Ken!" Yolei looked at the figure sitting at the very end of the cave rocking back and forth.
"Leave him alone, believe me I know how he feels exactly." Davis was recalling the times of DNA digivolution where they felt bonded.
Izzy had a slumped Cody on his shoulders asleep with tears coming out every now and then. Izzy continued to think of how this possibly occurred, sure they were sent to the past and yes their digimon are dead. It just doesn't seem real.
"Guys, don't lose hope. We got to do our best through this time of crisis." Joe pushed up his glasses and sat back against the wall. They nodded, not out of understanding but because without hope what else would they have.
*********
T.K. was standing out in the rain as it continued to downpour.
"PATAMON!" T.K. shouted.
"Come on out buddy!" T.K. was now bearing a strange smile.
"Are you going to make me look for you?" T.K. chuckled and looked up to the sky and collapsed to his knees and began to wail.
Tai watched unblinkingly as if asleep but then something caught his eye. Focusing through the haze of rain a glint a sparkle could be seen. Tai's eyes narrowed and he took off his shirt and coat. He bunched it into a pillow and laid Kari's head atop of it. He walked out now a few feet from the sniveling T.K.
"T.K. get inside." Tai talked above a whisper but enough to give T.K. a hint, and he stood up, wiping the tears replaced by raindrops. He looked at Tai who was transfixed on a distant object, saying no more T.K. rushed inside and gathered the others.
The Mekanoirmon landed with a thud on the grass and looked at the half naked boy in front of him. It began to scan to verify if this was a digidestined or not.
"You took my best friend!" Tai shouted
"You killed my mentor!" Tai clenched a fist
"And you killed MIMI!" the others appeared at the mouth of the cave watching Tai.
"I have nothing else to live for but protecting the friends I have left!" The Mekanoirmon concluded his scan.
Tai lifted up his fists in a futile attempt to drive back the steel beast and charged straight at the Mekanoirmon. Tai ducked under one of the clawed but the other was heading straight for his head.
Time stopped as a pillar of light exploded around Tai.
"What?" Tai looked around everything appeared black and white and he noticed he was the only one moving.
"Am I some sort of spirit of myself?" Tai thought out loud.
"Am I dead?" Tai looked at the claw outstretched at his body.
"Your not dead." A shadowy figure had appeared in a black robe.
"Who are you?" Tai said questioning the strange figure.
"Tai would you say dieing for your friends is just stupidity?" The figure disregarded Tai's question entirely.
"Never, my friends are everything to me!" Tai said raising a fist.
"But to leave you're little sister behind and your family. Wouldn't dieing then be in vain?" The shadowy figure patted Kari's concerned head.
"No, I would never leave my friends or my family! I'm not about to die just yet!" Tai was now in a fighting stance.
"Tai you indeed show true courage." Under the hood a smile could be seen and just like that it disappeared into the black and gray.
Tai stood there for a moment not understanding just what was going on.
Tai was knocked out of his thoughts by the vibration coming from his hip. Tai held his digivice in his hand and felt a gravitational pull it to point towards his body. Tai stood there gripping his digivice tightly and shut his eyes tight. The words had come to him from the depths of soul and somehow they reached his mouth with a defining roar.
"CRONO ARMOR...ENERGIZE!"
A beam of orange launched out of the digivice and pierced his body. Instantly, Tai was covered in armor with a sword that had an enlarged blade (buster sword. FF7). His helmet had horns protruding from the front of his helmet and the sides. The back of the helmet was not covered to compensate for Tai's gigantic hair. The Armor looked similar too Wargraymon's except it's shield was replaced with a red cape with the number 1 and it's gloves no longer had claws. Behind the cape was a noticeable sheath for the sword and imprinted on the chest of his armor, the courage symbol. A courage symbol appeared on the blade also and began to glow violently orange.
Tai was sucked back into his body as time continued again.
*********
"Tai please don't die!" Kari was yelling cautiously as Tai appeared decked out in armor.
"This is impossible, humans can't digivolve!" Izzy looked in awe as all the others did.
Two objects collided with each other as the pillar of light lifted. Tai was holding his sword between two of the claws holding back the deathblow. He hadn't grown as he noticed that the digimon was still taller then him. Regardless, Tai pushed forward with all his might and the sword went through the arm like butter. The Mekanoirmon staggered and righted himself just in time to unleash his twin beam attack at Tai. Tai took it in the chest knocking him back into a tree.
"I can't lift up this sword it's to heavy!" Tai said under fallen leaves.
The Mekanoirmon was thundering towards him. Tai got up with his sword dragging on the floor.
"You got to believe it's light as a feather." Joe yelled out from the mouth of the cave.
Light as a feather, light as a feather, light as a feather. He repeated it in his head with his eyes shut.
"LIGHT AS A FEATHER!" He raised the sword above over his head and brought it down on the charging Mekanoirmon. It instantly twitched and exploded. Tai put the sword in its sheath behind his cape and walked towards the destined, the storm had cleared up and a ray of sunlight could be seen.
"Alright Tai you did it!" The others cheered as Tai stood there with a grin appearing on his face for the first time in a while.
The armor disappeared and was sucked into the digivice. Tai stood there without a shirt and some dirty pants. They kept quiet as Tai sat down on the muddy floor with the others hovering over him. Whipping off the sweat over his face, he brought up a subject the others had neglected and feared.
"Where's Mimi?" Tai said staring into all their faces. He saw through their faces that they, indeed, were wondering the same thing.
Author's Notes: DONE! Well device and I can finally get to work on the second chapter. Well but you know I'm not feeling to encouraged to continue for awhile (Review my fic if you want quicker chapters, basically). Better review quick though once I start playing FFIV I may never crawl out of my hobbit hole. Oh I love the opening for Season 1 in Japanese you know "Butterfly" I can't get enough of it. I wrote so much and it really does feel rushed doesn't it? The reason for that is simple. I'm anxious to get into the meat of the story because the battles are a lot more intense. Thanks a bunch device for editing my fic xD. Remember any suggestions/complaints can be sent to me at plot@chaotix.zzn.com . http://personales.com/chile/santiago/kawaii/ this is a good site to get most of the Japanese songs I put down below.
Inspired Japanese music of this chapter: "rojiuranouchuushounen" (there might be a few spaces somewhere) Daiguard. Oh man is this song to get you pumped up! Makes me type a whole lot faster.
Inspired American music of this chapter: "In the End" Linkin Park. If you've heard the song you can surely see its influence.
Inspired anime of this chapter: Evangelion (FEEL THE ANGST BABY!)
Other anime that kick ass: Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO)
Author's Notes: Couple of quick notes. First, read Desperate Slash before this to get a better understanding of the situation at hand. Second, Hey thanks for reading this hope you like it. Oh and it feels a bit rushed doesn't it? Just so you know it is only because I wan to quickly get the more exciting points I have planned.
"Corruption of Time"
Somewhere in the digital world.
"Yes I realize they will be in my way for the conquest of the digital world." a voice from the shadows boomed.
"Then you must realize that they are a force to be reckoned with, but then again they're not so tough," Said a meek low voice also covered by the shadows
"Ah, you are right because the digidestined will finally meet their maker!" heavy steps could be heard as a digimon unlike any other stepped out of the shadows.
"Because I am Millenniummon, the bringer of death to the digidestined!!!" Milleniummon then turned to the other digimon.
"Well boss, if you want to do it then Clockmon is by your side to the end along with my companions" behind Clockmon was an odd assortment of digimon ranging from rookie to ultimate.
"Very well Clockmon, rally the troops and attack a digimon village." he paused grinning demonically ". and kill all the inhabitants! That will catch the attention of those humans!"
"Yes sir!" Clockmon turned to his fellow digimon. "You heard the boss lets do it, but then again.."
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"What!" Izzy was now on the verge of insanity after being stuck at the same level for nearly an hour.
"Izzy I can't believe you! Here I am lending you a game to beat and WHAT?! You can't even beat the second level!" smirked Tai who had put the difficulty to extreme when Izzy was in the restroom.
"Whatever Tai" Izzy shut off the console and begin to turn his attention on the noises coming from his laptop.
"Huh, mail?" Tai said knowing the noise all to well.
Izzy went to the laptop and lifted the screen up. He went to his mailbox and opened the new piece of mail with no address.
"Tai, I think you should take a look at this." Izzy said solemnly.
"Whats up?" Tai said taking a look at the screen. It was terrible, to say the least, as countless tiny huts were on fire with tiny digimon running rampant. They watched as each of them broke up into data, their existence erased.
"Where is this happening.?" Tai said angrily.
"I got the coordinates. We might still make it in time!" Izzy said in frustration.
"Well, what are you waiting for?" Tai then stood up with a fist balled up.
"Right Tai, lets get the others" Izzy said with a little more enthusiasm.
*******
At least 2 hours later at the school compurter lab. Tai and Izzy had fully reported the situation to the others.
"Alright, is everyone here?" Tai's voice boomed over the whole lab. Tai looked around the room only to find one person missing from the bunch..
But as usual some people are just lazy.
"Sorry I'm late!" Davis rushed into the room with his goggles over his eyes.
"I am really sorry I'm late. You know the girls just would not let me leave." Davis said scratching the back of his head.
"Sure Davis, I bet you were asleep." Yolei spoke up with a smirk.
"Hey guys chill out, this is not the time for this pointlessness. We got to go the digital world now!" Matt said trying to stop the childish bickering. They all nodded in agreement.
Kari, Yolei, Cody, Ken, and Davis stepped up in front of the computer screen.
"Digiport Open!!!" they said bringing their D-3 to the front of the screen and with a blast of light the group vanished.
*******
They appeared at the remains of the village looking around cautiously.
"Hey, is that." Sora looked in the direction of a small group of digimon heading towards the village.
"Gomamon!" Joe and the others ran towards their digimon.
"Hi Joe! It's nice to see you again buddy!" Gomamon smiled
"Save your hellos for later! I've got a bad feeling.." Kari said biting her lip and holding Gatomon in her arms.
An eerie silence broke across the field. Though all that could be heard was the hiss of the fires, still raging in the now night sky. Gatomon then hopped to the ground out of her digidestined arms now sensing something or rather someone.
"Your instincts serve you well, but then again they're not so great." A voice in the area bellowed.
"Who are you and what have you done to the villagers!" Davis said as he finally began to assume his role as a leader.
" The villagers? Well I'd figure the e-mail that was sent clearly showed the fate of the villagers, but then again maybe not." The voice spoke again but this time as if it was closer.
"You better show yourself or I'm coming after you" Tai said with a smirk of a person who had witnessed death far to many times.
All around in the forest glowing red eyes were made apparent by the thick darkness.
"Attack! Lay waste to the digidestined and their digimon alike!" with that an enormous force began to break through the trees, with in Clockmon leading the charge.
Tai stood froze freight for the briefest moment before turning to the others.
"Everyone digivolve now!" Tai said turning his back to the oncoming force and raising his digivice. The others did the same.
"Augumon Warp Digivolve to... WARGREYMON" "Gabumon Warp Digivolve to.... METALGARURUMON" "Tentomon Digivolve to... KABUTERIMON" "Biyomon Digivolve to..... BIRDRAMON" "Gomamon Digivolve to... IKKAKUMON" "Palmon Digivolve to.....TOGEMON" "Wormon Digivolve to.....STINGMON"
The rest of the digidestined yelled out "Digi-Armor.ENERGIZE"
"Veemon Armor Digivolve to.. FLAMEDRAMON" "Hawkmon Armor Digivolve to.. SHURIMON" "Armadillomon Armor Digivolve to.. DIGMON" "Gatomon Armor Digivolve to.. NEFERTIMON" "Patamon Armor Digivolve to.. PEGASUSMON"
With a bright flash of light they appeared staring at the oncoming threat.
"Guys, stay back!" Flamedramon said above the stampeading army. With that the digidestined fell back behind a hill small hill.
Mimi shut her eyes tight not wanting to see the bloodshed to come. Yolei stood beside her trying to console her as her emotions gave way to tears.
Wargreymon took flight and darted straight into the air with Metalgarurumon beside him. At a high enough distance they looked at each other and nodded.
"Terra Force!" Wargreymon lifted a huge ball of energy into the air and flung it at the army.
"Metal wolf claw!" All over Metalgarurumon compartments opened and spewed forth a slew of rockets at the army.
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A Megadramon was the first to notice the blasts as they came out of a group of clouds.
"Darkside Attack!" The Megadramon shot forth a volley of his own missiles to counter the ones incoming, but to no avail as the missiles broke through heading its way to the army with alarming speed.
The digimon below finally took notice and began to yell in panic.
The missiles touched down nailing digimon and the ground alike. Then a huge ball of raw energy emerged tailing the missiles
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The blast was incredibly destroying at least half of the remaining force.
The digidestined digimon finally began to engage the enemy.
******** "Take this!" Kabuterimon closed his fists and began using a Rockmon as his punching bag. Nanimon jumped on his back wrapping his arms around Kabuterimon neck, choking the life out of him.
"Nghhh.!" was all Kabuterimon could make out as he took flight. He then took hold of Nanimon and flung him at Rockmon. The impact exploded Nanimon's huge head and cracking Rockmon's armor and they both broke up into data.
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Togemon was coming fist to fist with an Apemon. Togemon was hit across the face as Apemon jumped up and jumped kicked her across the head, knocking her to the ground, unable to get up. Apemon snarled and brought up his bone club up for the kill. A huge ninja star appeared in Apemon's back blowing him up into atoms. Shurimon then landed next to Togemon.
"Having trouble?" Shurimon questioned as he appeared retracting the ninja star.
"You know me, I was never much of a fighter." Togemon said waving a fist angrily.
Shurimon helped her up the best he could and sprigged deeper into the battlefield.
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Flamedramon was in a tight situation fighting off attacks by numerous opponents who just would not leave him alone.
A nearby Meramon drove a fist deep into Flamdramon's chest apparently cracking off a piece of the armor. Flamdramon's eyes bulged out as he fell to the ground clutching his stomach in apparent pain.
"Sub-Zero Ice Punch!" Frigimon drove his fist into Flamedramon's open stomach freezing him into an ice cube.
The ice began turning a shade of red as the ice burst, and Flamedramon took flight into the night sky.
"Fire Rocket!" Flamedramon's body erupted into flames and dove into the crowd of digimon below him breaking them up into atoms.
Flamedramon fell to the floor panting and held his stomach. He winced in pain for a second and continued walking deeper into the fray.
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Digmon shoved yet another drill into Minotarumon in attempt to stop him from his insane rage.
Minotarumon snarled and head butted Digmon impaling him with one of his horns below the neck.
"Ack!" Digmon cried out in pain as Minotarumon move his head deeper.
Stingmon arrived and kicked Minotarumon in the gut rocking him back in pain. Digmon hit the floor barely able to sustain the armor evolution.
Stingmon seeing Minotarumon's open wound took flight and landed behind him.
"Spiking Strike!" A blade of energy emerged from his wrist and he drove it into Minotarumon before he could react. Minotarumon turned around as if still able to fight, but then his eyes rolled into the back of his head and bursted into atoms.
Stingmon walked to his friend looking at him in a weaken state.
"Come on get up. You can make it." Stingmon pulled up Digmon who had recovered a bit from the attack.
Digmon stood up "Thanks Stingmon, I thought I was goner for sure." With his country hick accent as they walked into another battle.
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"Harpoon Torpedo!" Ikkakumon's horn shot out reveling a rocket as it headed to the battlefield as a sort of long-range support.
"Meteor Wing!" Birdramon shot out fire rockets from her wings at any enemy digimon close to the digidestined.
Ikkakumon and Birdramon had stayed a bit behind from the others to guard the digidestined. They watched as Pegasusmon and Nerfertimon both tied up a group of digimon with their golden noose attack.
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Clockmon had been crafty and was hiding in a bush more like a coward then any thing.
"Ha! I'll just sneak up on the little digidestined and kill them then their digimon are useless, not even able to digivolve!" Clockmon continued to creep closer to the digidestined by the second.
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The guys were found surveying the battle peering above the hilltop, shouting all sorts of words of encouragement.
"Do it Flamedramon!" Davis shouted "Kick all their Asses!" Matt, Tai, and Joe shouted with much more enthusiasm.
Mimi began to sob, "I don't want Palmon to die!"
"Mimi, were worried about our digimon too, but you have to have faith that they'll make it out alive." Sora spoke patting Mimi on the back.
"Sora's right you know, it's hard to watch our friends fight while we constantly worry." Yolei said through clenched teeth a bit pissed at the whole situation.
Kari stood quietly sensing something in a nearby bush.
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Wargreymon had sensed something wrong, maybe from his strong bond with Tai or rather his own instincts. He took off in the direction of the digidestined just before a scream was heard all across the battlefield.
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Clockmon had shown himself from out of a bush with his hammer pulled out at least 100 feet away from the digidestined.
Kari was now stepping back as Tai and Davis stepped in front of her.
"Stay back!" Tai shouted rising up his sleeves as if ready to fight.
"Oh no, Digidestined, you must suffer for all the lives you have taken this night!" Clockmon took out his hammer.
"Tai, stay back!" Wargreymon was now rushing to their aid. "Terra Force!" The blast headed to Clockmon who was busy unleashing his own attack.
"Crono Breaker!" He swung his hammer at a clock that appeared out of nowhere.
The blasts collided causing an explosion to engulf the entire digital world.
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Somewhere..
"What!" Tai was looking around on his back and saw he was in a room full of clocks. All the clocks were running backwards and beside him were his friends who were knocked out completely. He looked at the roof of the room and saw himself and the team defeating Piedmon. Tai wondered what the heck was going on and tried to get up to leave. He seemed unable to get up as if something was pulling him down. The scenes now moved faster and showed Tai when he was little with Kari. Then it showed something Tai had saw, but not like how it was shown. Gennai was in a fierce fight with Piedmon and he witnessed Gennai glow with power.
"What the heck is going on?" Tai said gawking and then he felt something tug him away from this reality.
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Davis finally awoke, he his eyes adjusted to the sudden brightness and than looked down
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Davis yelled as he found himself plummeting toward water. He put on his goggles quickly in the midst of the chaos.
The others were wide awake now finding that their digimon were still K.O.
"Huh what's that?" The others turned around to look in the direction to see something speeding towards them.
"Move out quick!" The digidestined grabbed their digimon and darted separate ways but it was to late.
"Argh!" A voice rang out from the speeding object as it turned sharp right crashing into some trees.
"PWOOOSH" the digidestined hit the water sinking deep into the abyss.
Yolei made it to the surface first now holding a conscious wet bird.
"Oh dear what happened here?" Hawkmon looked around from above the waters surface
"Hawkmon!" Yolei hugged Hawkmon tightly.
All around her heads began to surface gasping for breath.
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They had swam to shore with their now awakened digimon.
"We should find where that thing crashed." Ken said putting Wormon on his shoulders.
"Yeah, we should see if there all right, I mean, it might have been a plane!" Izzy stood up shaking wildly like a dog to get dry.
Tai took this into consideration and they decided to find the crash site.
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"So that's what it was!" Joe said looking from a bush at the Mekinoirmon that crashed.
"Than that means we're in the digital world." Izzy connected the dots and proceeded to walk toward the Mekinoirmon.
"Hold on Izzy, let me take a look first." The others stood back as Tai and Agumon were now inches away from the Mekinoirmon.
"Ugh.." A moan was heard from within the steel beast. The cockpit opened in a rush of stem and haze.
Tai took a step back realizing who it was immediately.
"Gennai!" they all said gawking at the young form of their old mentor.
"Hello?" Gennai stumbled to the ground, looking at all the blinking eyes.
Quite unexpectedly, a rocket hit the middle of the small plain where they were, sending dirt all over the place.
The digimon, too weak from the previous battle could only dodge the blast. Gennai was standing up looking at the air with hate.
"Hahahahahahahah!" A figure appeared among the smoke followed by some digimon.
"No it can't be." Tentomon said with awe as the dust cloud revealed Piedmon.
"I'm honored to be known by absolute strangers how touching, so who might you be?" Piedmon looked at the children suddenly realizing their partner digimon moving in front of them.
"This is too rich! You must be the digidestined!" Piedmon laughed to himself. Gennai was now looking at the destined perplexed.
"Well than I guess I should begin the first act." Piedmon turned to the Mekanoirmon and nodded. The Mekanoirmon shot forth their missles at the crashed Mekanoirmon with no remorse.
Gennai dived to the ground as the Mekanoirmon behind him exploded, destroying the eggs, crests, and tags.
Already the damage had been done as their digimon began to break up into atoms. Tai knelt next to his partner who was disappearing rapidly. The digimon instantly knew what was happening and rather than whine they felt they owed their partners a proper farewell.
"Tai remember. I will always be with you even if I never existed" Agumon was now just a floating head his time was going fast.
"I know buddy I'll. never forget you" Tai looked at the ground not able to see his best friend die before his eyes. With that Agumon disappeared.
There were only tears that flowed from the destined eyes as everyone beside Tai just slumped to the floor not even able to speak to their partner as they were erased from history.
"How could you.." Davis held his D-3, which was now static.
"Simple, really, I just couldn't let those hazards run amok in my world. Now then lets finish this." Piedmon smirked evilly at the whimpering digidestined.
"No, stop, they have suffered enough. Let them go and take me instead!" Gennai spread his arms out appearing in front of the digidestined.
"Sounds interesting but I have other plans." Piedmon looked to a distant figure in the forest. "Machinedramon will you do the honors of slaying these pathetic humans?"
"With pleasure" Machindramon charged up his Giga Cannon.
"Run children!" Genndai turned his head facing them now.
They had barely heard the command through their sniffling.
"Come on get up and run!" Tai ran to Kari and swooped her onto his back and charged into the forest.
"Yes run along! I want to see how far you get before you disintegrate!" Piedmon clapped his hands together in a complete state of psychosis.
They followed but most of the girls followed in a halfhearted run as if they didn't have anything to live for. It was then that Mimi tripped over something in her run. She tumbled to the ground and was holding her shin in pain. She looked back just in time for the blast to impact..
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They had finally stopped running after coming onto a cave in a small mountain. Tai let down his sister next to a wall and sat down next to her. The rest sat around Tai and Kari as if expecting some sort of leadership. Tai pursed his lips to together and then turned to everyone.
"Are we missing anyone?" Tai looked across the tear-stained faces and flung his head back hard hitting it on the rock behind him. Blood was now trickling down to his forehead and he didn't care. "Mimi.." Tai ran his hand across the grass as if searching for her among their stalks. *********
Piedmon, still hovering, examined the destroyed area.
"Hm, I have a bad feeling." Piedmon turned to a two Mekanoirmon "Go search the area make sure their dead!"
The Mekanoirmons took off scaning and looking about.
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The rain began to bear down on the destined that were huddled inside the confines of the cave. Words were not exchanged as they merely sat against the walls thinking of the lives that were lost. Kari had laid her head down on Tai's lap who was looking at the rain fall.
"I don't think I've ever seen it rain here." Sora had taken a seat next to the dazed Tai. He simply nodded and continued looking out, not wanting communication at all. Sora clenched her teeth and made her way back deeper into the cave.
"He's so stupid! Argh here I am trying to comfort both of us and the idiot just stares off into space!" she sits back next to Matt who had fallen asleep from the day's events. She gently brushed through his hair getting a grunt in reply.
"Why do I even bother." she than laid down next to Matt and began to sob. For Mimi, Biyomon, and everyone else.
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Davis, Yolei, Joe, Izzy, and Cody were found a little ways deeper.
"Oh that Ken!" Yolei looked at the figure sitting at the very end of the cave rocking back and forth.
"Leave him alone, believe me I know how he feels exactly." Davis was recalling the times of DNA digivolution where they felt bonded.
Izzy had a slumped Cody on his shoulders asleep with tears coming out every now and then. Izzy continued to think of how this possibly occurred, sure they were sent to the past and yes their digimon are dead. It just doesn't seem real.
"Guys, don't lose hope. We got to do our best through this time of crisis." Joe pushed up his glasses and sat back against the wall. They nodded, not out of understanding but because without hope what else would they have.
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T.K. was standing out in the rain as it continued to downpour.
"PATAMON!" T.K. shouted.
"Come on out buddy!" T.K. was now bearing a strange smile.
"Are you going to make me look for you?" T.K. chuckled and looked up to the sky and collapsed to his knees and began to wail.
Tai watched unblinkingly as if asleep but then something caught his eye. Focusing through the haze of rain a glint a sparkle could be seen. Tai's eyes narrowed and he took off his shirt and coat. He bunched it into a pillow and laid Kari's head atop of it. He walked out now a few feet from the sniveling T.K.
"T.K. get inside." Tai talked above a whisper but enough to give T.K. a hint, and he stood up, wiping the tears replaced by raindrops. He looked at Tai who was transfixed on a distant object, saying no more T.K. rushed inside and gathered the others.
The Mekanoirmon landed with a thud on the grass and looked at the half naked boy in front of him. It began to scan to verify if this was a digidestined or not.
"You took my best friend!" Tai shouted
"You killed my mentor!" Tai clenched a fist
"And you killed MIMI!" the others appeared at the mouth of the cave watching Tai.
"I have nothing else to live for but protecting the friends I have left!" The Mekanoirmon concluded his scan.
Tai lifted up his fists in a futile attempt to drive back the steel beast and charged straight at the Mekanoirmon. Tai ducked under one of the clawed but the other was heading straight for his head.
Time stopped as a pillar of light exploded around Tai.
"What?" Tai looked around everything appeared black and white and he noticed he was the only one moving.
"Am I some sort of spirit of myself?" Tai thought out loud.
"Am I dead?" Tai looked at the claw outstretched at his body.
"Your not dead." A shadowy figure had appeared in a black robe.
"Who are you?" Tai said questioning the strange figure.
"Tai would you say dieing for your friends is just stupidity?" The figure disregarded Tai's question entirely.
"Never, my friends are everything to me!" Tai said raising a fist.
"But to leave you're little sister behind and your family. Wouldn't dieing then be in vain?" The shadowy figure patted Kari's concerned head.
"No, I would never leave my friends or my family! I'm not about to die just yet!" Tai was now in a fighting stance.
"Tai you indeed show true courage." Under the hood a smile could be seen and just like that it disappeared into the black and gray.
Tai stood there for a moment not understanding just what was going on.
Tai was knocked out of his thoughts by the vibration coming from his hip. Tai held his digivice in his hand and felt a gravitational pull it to point towards his body. Tai stood there gripping his digivice tightly and shut his eyes tight. The words had come to him from the depths of soul and somehow they reached his mouth with a defining roar.
"CRONO ARMOR...ENERGIZE!"
A beam of orange launched out of the digivice and pierced his body. Instantly, Tai was covered in armor with a sword that had an enlarged blade (buster sword. FF7). His helmet had horns protruding from the front of his helmet and the sides. The back of the helmet was not covered to compensate for Tai's gigantic hair. The Armor looked similar too Wargraymon's except it's shield was replaced with a red cape with the number 1 and it's gloves no longer had claws. Behind the cape was a noticeable sheath for the sword and imprinted on the chest of his armor, the courage symbol. A courage symbol appeared on the blade also and began to glow violently orange.
Tai was sucked back into his body as time continued again.
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"Tai please don't die!" Kari was yelling cautiously as Tai appeared decked out in armor.
"This is impossible, humans can't digivolve!" Izzy looked in awe as all the others did.
Two objects collided with each other as the pillar of light lifted. Tai was holding his sword between two of the claws holding back the deathblow. He hadn't grown as he noticed that the digimon was still taller then him. Regardless, Tai pushed forward with all his might and the sword went through the arm like butter. The Mekanoirmon staggered and righted himself just in time to unleash his twin beam attack at Tai. Tai took it in the chest knocking him back into a tree.
"I can't lift up this sword it's to heavy!" Tai said under fallen leaves.
The Mekanoirmon was thundering towards him. Tai got up with his sword dragging on the floor.
"You got to believe it's light as a feather." Joe yelled out from the mouth of the cave.
Light as a feather, light as a feather, light as a feather. He repeated it in his head with his eyes shut.
"LIGHT AS A FEATHER!" He raised the sword above over his head and brought it down on the charging Mekanoirmon. It instantly twitched and exploded. Tai put the sword in its sheath behind his cape and walked towards the destined, the storm had cleared up and a ray of sunlight could be seen.
"Alright Tai you did it!" The others cheered as Tai stood there with a grin appearing on his face for the first time in a while.
The armor disappeared and was sucked into the digivice. Tai stood there without a shirt and some dirty pants. They kept quiet as Tai sat down on the muddy floor with the others hovering over him. Whipping off the sweat over his face, he brought up a subject the others had neglected and feared.
"Where's Mimi?" Tai said staring into all their faces. He saw through their faces that they, indeed, were wondering the same thing.
Author's Notes: DONE! Well device and I can finally get to work on the second chapter. Well but you know I'm not feeling to encouraged to continue for awhile (Review my fic if you want quicker chapters, basically). Better review quick though once I start playing FFIV I may never crawl out of my hobbit hole. Oh I love the opening for Season 1 in Japanese you know "Butterfly" I can't get enough of it. I wrote so much and it really does feel rushed doesn't it? The reason for that is simple. I'm anxious to get into the meat of the story because the battles are a lot more intense. Thanks a bunch device for editing my fic xD. Remember any suggestions/complaints can be sent to me at plot@chaotix.zzn.com . http://personales.com/chile/santiago/kawaii/ this is a good site to get most of the Japanese songs I put down below.
Inspired Japanese music of this chapter: "rojiuranouchuushounen" (there might be a few spaces somewhere) Daiguard. Oh man is this song to get you pumped up! Makes me type a whole lot faster.
Inspired American music of this chapter: "In the End" Linkin Park. If you've heard the song you can surely see its influence.
Inspired anime of this chapter: Evangelion (FEEL THE ANGST BABY!)
Other anime that kick ass: Great Teacher Onizuka (GTO)