Digimon Xros Wars: Armored Warriors

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Hello, and welcome to my new Digimon fanfic, and this time, it will involve the Xros Heart team leader, Taiki Kido, who is going to play a VERY lead role, and this setting will be...different. Different from the anime he starred on, and his portrayal here will be sort of similar to the first arc of the anime, in which you might find it as a stark contrast to the role he is known for.

This new fic is set about four years after the finale of the third chapter, The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time, in which Taiki is now portrayed as a college student, and the first batch of the Xros Heart members are also be first year university students which means that Yuu Amano and Tagiru Akishi are in their final year as high school students, so their appearance may be random at times since this fic will focus solely on Taiki being in university.

Moreover, other prominent characters, such as Nene Amano, Akari Hinomoto, Zenjirou Tsurugi, Kiriha Aonuma, Ryouma Mogami, Airu Suzaki, and Ren Tobari will be there for support, and play a role in this new adventure, though their roles are going to be different and surprises are abound as you will get to see them in a role you'd never expected.

Also, since this is a new fic, this means that there will be new villains. While Digimons are there, a NEW BREED will be the main antagonists here, and most of all, some of the Xros Heart members' partner Digimons won't be around for most of the chapters, as you'll soon see why once you read the story below. It may be a stark contrast to the Digimon anime series, but I find it challenging so I'll see how the story comes depending on reader reaction.

And lastly, as the title suggests, this fic will be similar to the first arc of Digimon Xros Wars, which means that there will be RIVAL FACTIONS that would cause conflicts among themselves in the midst of their struggles against this unknown threat, and allies would turn into rivals, so expect most of the chapters in this story to get sometimes DARK.

Well, That's the summary I can tell you right now, but you'll soon see where this would lead to, so here is the first chapter, so read and enjoy!

Ch. 1: Unmei no Yokan

A few years ago...

The scene shows that the place you are seeing appeared to be that of the Digimon World, and the scene zooms a bit where you can see a girl, a teenage girl,standing by at the top of a hill, looking far away and she seem to be looking at something which you can't see where or what she is looking at, and she seemed to be rather concerned at what events would took place and what fate awaits someone, as if she seemed to know what is about to take place sometime soon.

The teenage girl was dressed in white, and she visually resembled Akari Hinomoto, though the difference is that she has blond hair and that her right eye is glowing red. As the wind blew, her hair was flapping and she is again looking at an empty space, but soon you get to see what she has on her mind as the events started to play out and there the "one who is fated" was slowly revealed.

~x~

The events she has on her mind shows the scene where a seventh-grade boy named Taiki Kudou dreaming of commanding a Digimon army. The next day, harassed by his childhood friend Akari Hinomoto over standing her up to help the basketball team and his rival Zenjirou Tsurugi demanding a kendo rematch, Taiki spots a dying red creature flickering in static. Wanting save the creature, Taiki hears a mysterious voice which presents him with a Xros-Loader, which absorbs the creature to heal him within the item as Taiki grabs it against his friends' pleas.

After he and his friends then sucked into a portal to the Digital World, Taiki finds himself and the others surrounded by Mad-Leomon and his troops. The group is rescued by Ballistamon, Starmon and the Pickmons before the red creature emerges from the Xros-Loader and introduces himself as Shoutmon while stating his intent to become the "king of the Digital World".

After Shoutmon and his companions fight back against his troops, Mad-Leomon absorbs his remaining forces to become "Armed Mad-Leomon". Intent to help his new friends out, Mikey uses his Xros-Loader to Xros-Fuse Shoutmon and Ballistamon into an incomplete "Shoutmon ×3". After injuring Armed Mad-Leomon prior to reverting to his usual self, Shoutmon uses the Xros-Fused Starmon and Pickmon, in the form of the Sun Sword, to defeat Mad-Leomon while forcing him back to his original form.

A portal then appears, with Mad-Leomon and his minions recalled by their master Tacticmon, who is seen conversing with other evil Digimon over the new turn of events. As Taiki and his friends learn they are trapped in the Digital World, the former agreeing to help out Shoutmon and his friends, they are watched from afar by two other groups

The "mysterious girl" blinked as the event disappeared, and then a new one flashed and she started to "watch it".

~x~

Then the next event that the "mysterious girl" foresee was Taiki and others comes to Sword Zone, where all Digimon in this zone have a goal to become the real swordsman but Grademon arrives and attack them, causing Xros Heart to fight against him. Shoutmon ×4 who managed to defeat Grademon but Taiki's wishes of hoping all the enemy to become a kind Digimon turns Grademon back to itself original form with the Code Crown's power. Grademon later leaves the place.

By then, Kiriha appears in front of Taiki and reveals the war for the Digital World is about to commence. Tactimon soon appears and overwhelms Shoutmon ×5 and DeckerGreymon with his Jatetsufūjinmaru and collect the Code Crowns from Taiki's and Kiriha's Xros Loaders to be presented to Bagramon. When Tactimon about to demolish Taiki, Grademon returns and take over his place and lastly sacrifice himself by destroy Tactimon's tower, unlocking and allowing Beelzebumon to enter the Zone. Shoutmon ×5B is then forms to send Tactimon off the Zone with the help of Greymon and other Xros Heart's Digimon.

However, Bagramon then appears, absorbing all of the Code Crowns and sending Taiki, Zenjirō, Akari back to the human world together with Shoutmon. Furthermore, now the ruler of the Digital World, Bagramon is revealed to be DarkKnightmon's elder brother as they plan on making big changes.

Ending up back in their world, Taiki, Akari and Zenjirō learn that their time in the Digital World was about half a day in human world time and both of Taiki and Akari's family members have no faith on their words. Taiki later hears the voice who had granted him the Xros Loader, though is unable to find it.

The next day, Taiki meet up with Akari and Zenjirō, telling them his intention to go back to the Digital World and save their friends over there. The voice eventually respond to his words leading them to it, revealed to be the DigiMemory of Omegamon. After fully materialising Shoutmon and explaining the origin of the DigiMemories, Omegamon reveals he has the power to return Taiki to the Digital World, but Akari and Zenjirō must stay behind.

Just then, Tactimon, who was trapped in the real world and attacking the city, uses the electricity to give himself form and chase over Taiki. After Taiki fail to use his DigiMemory in the battle, Tactimon captures Akari and Zenjirō, demanding Taiki to hand over the Xros Loader. However, Akari and Zenjirō's passionate emotions give Taiki's Xros Loader a new power, allowing Shoutmon to digivolve into OmegaShoutmon who manages to destroy Tactimon. Taiki returns to the Digital World with Shoutmon, where his presence is noticed by Nene's brother, Yuu, who is seen with DarkKnightmon and says that he wants to battle against Taiki.

~x~

By then the "mysterious girl" began to shift to another event, this time foreseeing Taiki and his friends getting embroiled with the "Death Generals", and there she can see the events involving
Taiki and Shoutmon returning to the Digital World and land in Dragon Land, knowing that through Lilymon (Shoutmon's old village mate) that there are no longer Zones as the Digital World has been reformated into one floating island where Bagramon reigns from, with seven surrounding Lands, each ruled by DarkKnightmon's Death Generals.

Taiki and Shoutmon encounter Dracomon, saving him from a mob of dinosaur and dragon Digimon led by Devidramon (who are members of the Fire Fury army led by Dorbickmon). Meanwhile, Kiriha arrives and launches an attack at the Bagra Army's Dragon Land branch while calling out the first Death General, Dorbickmon.

Answering Kiriha's challenge, having taking out the bulk of Blue Flare with a pit trap, Dorbickmon arrives in his Darkness Mode and uses his Darkness Loader to Forced DigiXros his Flarerizamon into a flaming sword to easily defeat DeckerGreymon. With some help from Lilymon and Dracomon, Taiki manages to get Kiriha away from Dorbickmon's attack.

Realizing Xros Heart's team has returned, Dorbickmon Xros Opens to have Fanglongmon aid the Salamandermon, in destroying Taiki and the rest with their magma. Soon, Dracomon's brave attitude to sacrifice himself in order to save Taiki and the others, causes Shoutmon to digivolve to OmegaShoutmon and defeat the army before Dorbickmon arrives, springing his trap as OmegaShoutmon is buried alive

Subsequent events soon showed that Taiki and his friends are nearing their climatic battle with Bagramon and the "mysterious girl" watches on as the events showed that after DarkKnightmon absorbed his brother Bagramon in a DigiXros, he reveals that he unsealed the Darkness Loader and used the Amano siblings in order to eventually overthrow Bagramon and become the new ruler of the Digital World.

Meanwhile, Taiki managed to rescue Yuu from the enlarged Tyutyumon, who was devoured by Bastemon. Taiki then rejoin the rest and brings Yuu back to Nene. DarkKnightmon's new form is then confronted by Shoutmon ×7. However, after metaphysically destroying DarkKnightmon, Bagramon takes control of his brother's body and reconfigures it into DarknessBagramon, who then deletes his surroundings and heads into the human world where everything is turned to stone.

In the process, he kills Shoutmon and sends the others into a void. Once being trapped there, Taiki and the others were saved by Akari and Zenjirō, who were transported by the power of two DigiMemories (WarGreymon and Examon) that come to life, proposing a way to bring Shoutmon back and save both worlds.

After some careful planning, Taiki and the rest are transported back to Earth by the DigiMemories of Examon and WarGreymon. Examon proceeds to reveal Bagramon's plan and the forming of DigiMemories. Soon, Yuu's Darkness Loader transformed into a yellow Xros Loader as Examon and WarGreymon's DigiMemories revive Omegamon's DigiMemory.

Soon, a decisive battle between Xros Heart United Army and the Bagra Army started. Meanwhile, Taiki, Akari and Cutemon enters into DarknessBagramon's body with intention to search for Shoutmon. As they encountering a metaphysical Bagramon with Taiki nearly killed, the Dark Stone purified into Code Crown and brings every digimon including Shoutmon back to life. The Code Crown then sends Taiki and his team members out of DarknessBagramon's body.

Guided by the Code Crown, the Xros Heart executes a DigiXros called Final Xros on Shoutmon with all Digimon to form Shoutmon ×7 Superior Mode. Finally, DarknessBagramon is destroyed for good and everything back to normal. Taiki and his friends said goodbye to Shoutmon and the Digimon as they return to the Digital World but has a feeling that his adventures are not over yet

~x~

Those were the events that showed Taiki having conquered obstacles that made him a "legend" within the Digimon World, but then fate has other plans as the next events that the "mysterious girl" foresee focuses on Taiki Kudō, Yū Amano, and new schoolmate Tagiru Akashi as they hunt Digimon that are causing havoc in between the human and Digital worlds.

The scene surrounding the "mysterious girl" flashes as the events began to play out and it showed that the events there revealed that a year since Taiki Kudō's adventure in the Digital World as he forms the "Xros Heart" basketball team together with Yū Amano, who became his junior at his school, and Tagiru Akashi. However, on his way home from the game, Taiki sees a monstrous shadow within a space fluctuation before being confronted by three children. The leader of the trio recognizes Taiki and his potential but tells him not to meddle in their affairs before leaving.

The next day after school, Tagiru hears a voice begging to be saved, and after seeing a spacial distortion, Tagiru gets dragged right into it and ends up in a Digital World like dimension called the DigiQuartz, where time flows differently to the real world. Tagiru sees the source of the voice, Gumdramon bring attacked by a MetalTyranomon until the three children arrive and fight it with their Digimon, but it escapes from them.

After being told they are Digimon Hunters, Tagiru wants to be one too as he is told to get a X Loader first. Teaming up with Gumdramon, Tagiru heads to the home of the Old Clock Store Owner and receives a crimson X Loader from him. Taiki and Yū find out about the rampaging Digimon and when they see Tagiru warping into the DigiQuartz, they decide to follow him. Tagiru and Gumdramon fight a losing battle with MetalTyranomon until Tagiru learns to Super Evolve Gumdramon into Arresterdramon and defeat it.

After capturing MetalTyranomon's data into his Xros Loader, Tagiru sees Taiki and Yū, who are branding their own X Loaders, much to his surprise, but before they start to talk about the situation, Shoutmon contacts Taiki through his Loader. Gumdramon shivers and hides behind Tagiru at hearing Shoutmon's name as he explains to Tagiru that it is none other than the Digimon King himself.

The events slowly "fast-forwarded" and soon the "mysterious girl" saw the "climax" which Quartzmon threatens to turn the Human World into his own, and that Taiki was "defeated" though he encouraged Tagiru to "surpass" him which the younger teen agreed, and with Arresterdramon's help, Quartzmon was finally defeated, and soon the Human World was restored to normal, freeing the captive humans in the process.

The "mysterious girl" then blinked her eyes as the scene reverts back to normal, where the surrounding shows that she is again standing on top of a hill within the Digimon World, and looking down below, she sees the ground, where another premonition hits her as she can forsee an "impending fate" which seemed to be bound to happen. As she looks on through the "premonition", she can "see" what the events are about to happen.

Through the "mysterious girl's" sightings, the scene shows that a "war" is about to take place, and on the east side, you can see what appeared to be a samurai-armored Digimon warrior sitting on top of a Horsemon, and he is leading an army of what appeared to be a new breed of unidentified Digimons, and on top of that, Shoutmon appeared to be leading the army. The Samurai-armored Digimon warrior is holding what appeared to be a bulky-looking samurai sword and is on standby as to when to lead the battle. his armor seemed to visually resembled parts of an orange fruit.

At the east side, another Samurai-armored Digimon warrior is on standby, with him is an army of unidentified Digimons, with, surprisingly, Astamon, leading the army and serving as the Samurai-armored Digimon warrior as his "right-hand", and is riding on top of a motorcycle, also waiting for the "right moment" when to strike, and he is eyeing at his opponent while holding a huge weapon resembling both a spear and a lance. His armor is red, silver with yellow ornaments, and visually resmbled a western knight, and has a motif of the banana fruit.

At the north side, two unidentified Samurai-armored Digimon warriors, one with a grren-violet combination whiose armore had a motif of a grape fruit, and the other a white-light green combination, his armor has a motif of a melon fruit, are looking on, observing the scene before them and bid their time to see what the results would be before making their move.

The "mysterious girl" watches on, and she seemed to be worried as to what the next moment would transpire, and slowly felt that this is the fate of those involved are bound to happen.

The world may dyed in your image...
Is that the glory you seek?
Is that burden one you can bear?

The scene shifts in an overview where the two factions, which are joined by another, are positioned, and it shows that each army has about more than a several dozen Digimons serving their respective leader, and after a few more moments of tense stand-off, the inevitable has happened, as the two Samurai-armored Digimon warriors began to go forward and the battle has commenced, with the Digimon army following and fired their respective attacks, where casualties began to mount, slowly reducing their numbers yet it did not deter them from their inevitable fates.

Know this.
The lives of men are not ours to control, not even our own.
We cannot defy the inexorable current of fate that carries us.

But what if fate itself were to call you...
...to change the world?

To turn the course of the future?
You cannot defy your fate.
But the fate of the world is in your hands!

Then the scene flashes and disappeared, and you can only see the "mysterious girl" standing there, and she now wondered if this is the fate it should happen, and if she thinks this isn't, she may have to see what she could do if the fate she had just seen should run its course or not, and then she walked down from the hill, heading to the ground, and walked towards an unspecified path, and after an unspecified time, you can see her heading towards an "enchanted forest", where it is surrounded by trees and fruits, and you can see its inhabitants, the "unidentified Digimons" eating fruits there as if they are forest animals living peacefully.

"If fate is what brings you...and if this is the course of the path you choose...then this must be fate..."

Those are the thoughts of the "mysterious girl" as she is thinking of someone, and you can see that she is thinking of Taiki himself, and perhaps he is the one she talking about the "fate" that is about to happen.

To Be Continued…

Hope you like this chapter even though it only showed a "mysterious girl" who resembled Akari, who seemed to be holding something on her mind that points out to Taiki, and this so-called "fate" he is about to get embroiled in, which would soon be apparent once the next chapters come in to play.

Moreover, while the events showed here are merely "flashbacks" of the three arcs of Digimon Xros Wars anime, they are important as this is what the "mysterious girl" points out as the factors of "fate" after seeing how Taiki started out by aiding Shoutmon in becoming the "king of the Digimon World" up to the point where he "steps down" to let Tagiru defeat the "ultimate evil Digimon".

Moreover, you already guess who the two Samurai-armored "Digimon warriors" are, as you saw Shoutmon and Astamon leading the Digimon armies who then went to battle, and what fate would befall them once the story comes in to play.

Preview:

The next chapter will shift to Kyoto as Taiki Kudo embarks his life as a university student and looks back at the years that passed by after the defeat of Quartzmon and the "adventures" he had before departing high school and seemingly "retired" from being a "hunter". Moreover, you'll be given a glimpse on who will be the new antagonists of this fic and how this would be tied to the story.