Disclosure: I do NOT own Digimon or any of the characters in it! As I've said before, if I did own Digimon, I would have made it a Taiora instead of the Sorato they made it in season 2.
This is going to be an action/adventure/romance fic, which is going to be my second fic, and first series. I wasn't planning on ever writing a fic again, but after all the good reviews I got on my first fic, I decided to write a second one. Hopefully this will be better than my first, which I still think is terrible.
I'm using mostly English names for everybody, but if you're smart, you'll notice that I use the full names also. Basically, I'm pretending that the Japanese names are their full names, while the English ones are their nicknames. I'm surprised no one else thought of that! ~jk ;)
This fic takes place a little bit after Season 2, so you can kind of grasp the ages of the people. I'm also taking a few creative liberties with this fic, so don't flame if it doesn't exactly follow the TV show. In fact, don't flame at all!
Comment Please!
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"Tai, this has to be the greatest idea you have ever come up with," said a smiling TK.
"Ya Tai, this will be awesome. But TK, didn't you mean to say this is the only good idea Tai has ever come up with?" TK's older brother, Yamato (Matt) said jokingly.
"Can it, Matt. But seriously, do you think the girls will want to come. I know you just broke up with Sora Matt, and you want to go out with Mimi, but are you sure the girls will want to go camping in the digital world?" Tai asked seriously.
"Give it a rest Tai, they'll want to come. Kari will come to be with TK, and Mimi was talking about a break from her busy life in the States, so all we have to we have to worry about is Sora."
"All we have to worry about, Matt? I think you mean all Tai has to worry about," TK said with a wink.
"Very funny, TK. So the plans are for this weekend, ok. Just e-mail me or call me if you find out your 'respective' partners can come," Tai said.
"Gotcha," Matt and TK replied as they left for their homes.
*This will be great if Sora can come! A weekend in the digi-world will be the perfect time to confess my feelings to her,* Tai thought to himself. He turned around and skipped home with a grin on his face.
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"Hello, anybody home?" Tai asked as he opened the door to his apartment.
"Hi Tai," Kari said as she walked out of their bedroom. "TK just called and told me about your camping idea in the digital world. Won't it be fun! Just the six of us, away from everyone else, in a peaceful and happy digital world!"
"That's why I suggested it. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to call Sora and ask her to come with us."
"Sure Tai, the phone's in our room. I'm going over to TK's. C-ya later," Kari replied as she walked out of the apartment.
"Bye," Tai said. He walked into his room, collapsed on his bed, and grabbed the phone. He dialed and waited. One ring. Two rings. Tai's heart began to pound. He didn't know why he was getting so nervous over such a simple phone call, heck, he used to call her all the time. *But that was before she broke up with Matt* Tai thought nervously. Then halfway through the third ring, he heard the click of the phone being picked up.
"Hello?" said the sweet and innocent voice on the other end.
"Hi, Sora. This is Tai."
"Hi Tai! How are you? Haven't seen you in, what, two days" Sora said with a giggle.
Tai sighed. Those two days seemed like an eternity for him. He loved her so much, and now, with Matt and her not dating, he finally had his chance. He wouldn't make the same mistake of not asking her out again. "Ya, that's about right. Anyway, I was wondering if you'd like to go camping this weekend in the digi-world with Matt, Mimi, Kari, TK, and of course, you're hero, me," Tai said slyly.
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Sora bit her lip. Was Tai Kamiya actually asking her out on a date? No, of course he wasn't, since he was bringing along four other digi-destined. But then why had he asked her to come. Maybe Matt had made him do it. It wasn't as if she and Matt hated each other for breaking up, it was just that they decided that it wasn't the right thing to do, but they still wanted to remain friends. So that was it. Matt had made Tai ask Sora. But if that was true, why did…
"Sora?" Sora was woken up from her daydream as she realized Tai was still on the other end. "Sora, you there? I know how cool I am, but I really hoped you didn't go and faint on me."
"Shut up, Tai," Sora said while laughing at arrogance. "One sec, let me ask my mom."
A few minutes later, after talking with her mom, Sora returned to the phone call. "Sure I can come, Taichi. So c'ya on Saturday?"
"Sure thing Sora. Bye!"
Sora sighed as Tai hang up with him. She thought of what was going to happen this weekend, and decided now would be the perfect time to tell Tai what she felt about him. Then, realizing it was Thursday; she rushed out the door to the mall to get her "camping clothes."
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Tai hung the phone up with a smile. She had said yes! But why had she paused at the beginning of the phone call? Was she thinking of someone else? Matt, maybe? Tai decided to put it of his mind, and get fready for Friday.
When Saturday finally came around, the five friends met at Tai's house to go to the Digital World, after Tai set up a special web-video cam so they could talk to Mimi in America at the same time. . They all had their hiking packs on that had their clothes, and sleeping bag, etc., while Tai and Matt each carried a four person tent, one from the boys and one from the girls.
"Ok, everyone. Were going on a trip in the Digital World, as you know. Now I want no one to leave the group, or go adventuring somewhere else without the full consent of the rest of the group. Even if the digi-world is in peace now, I'm not taking any chances of getting anyone in this group hurt. Izzy, will be monitoring us the whole time via his laptop, so in case we do have any trouble, he'll know. Ok, everyone?" Tai said in usual energetic but leader like voice. Everyone agreed, so Tai turned back to the computer and said, "We'll meet you in the digi-world, Mimi. C'ya." Then he turned back to the main group and nodded at Kari.
Kari nodded back, then took out her Digivice and said, "Digi Portal, Open!" The familiar screen of the portal popped onto the monitor.
"Everyone ready?" Tai asked. Then he took out his digivice and was sucked into the portal. The rest of the group immediately followed him.
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Tai frowned as he felt himself being translated into Data. He had gone through the portal's all the time with the newer digi-destined, so he knew how it should have felt. But this time, going through, he felt… different. It felt almost like the first time they went to the digiworld. This wasn't normal. Then came the words piercing through him that made his decision final.
Digital Destined Accepted. Reformation Transfer Begin.
Password: Destiny. Authorization Code: Gennai. Scatter Data
Fragment 011010100 1010011 010110 1010101010…
The rest of it was numbers in the classic computer language of Base 2. Tai, although thoroughly, confused, thought he had some grasp on what was happening. As he felt his body being transferred into the Digital world, he kept listening to the piercing digital voice.
…01101 01010101 Unlock Digital Device Form Number:
1123122-492. Mega-DNA. Partner So12201-Ta23211. Ya33421-Mi93325.
Ta55838-Hi99583. Activate.
Tai couldn't understand any of the last part. He had heard something about DNA, and another about Mega, but that's all he could understand. What scared him most was that last word which was sent out in a chilling tone: Activate. He didn't think he even wanted to know. Then, as suddenly as it all began, Tai felt himself exit the transformation from flesh to digital, and enter the digital world. After a few seconds, the rest of the group appeared, followed by Mimi just a few more seconds after that. Tai didn't need to look at their faces to tell that they had experienced the same thing he had. But when he did look up, he saw Sora's face staring at him with a worried look.
"It'll be ok Sora, trust me. We'll find out what's happeni…" Tai was cut off as the now young Gennai appeared before them.
"Hello, digi-destined. You're probably wondering what's going on. Well, let me begin. I call you, the digimon call you, you call yourselves, digi-destined. The operative word there being destined. Now destined implies destiny, which of course means that you have a destiny to fulfill. That destiny is made by your future and you're past selves. Destiny exists in everything, from humans to Digimon, to other worlds and species. Recently, a digi-angel, something we call ourselves- don't ask, contacted us. He exists in the close future to us. He warned us of a group of digi-destined who would try to fight a dark and dangerous evil, but would loose and destroy both worlds. That group is you."
The digi-destined stood dumbstruck. Tai shuddered at the fact that he would have to fight a loosing battle, and destroy everything he held dear to him; weather or not he liked it, all because of the stupid thing called "fate" or "destiny." It was obvious that the rest of the group was thinking the same thing.
"So why'd you tell us, Gennai! I'd rather be surprised to die then have to know it was coming!" said a crying Mimi. Matt put an arm around her, and she curled up onto him crying.
"Call it destiny," Gennai replied, only making Mimi cry harder.
Then TK asked a serious question, "Who is this evil Digimon?"
"One that I know at least two of you will remember very well, although he has now digivolved to a mega level. Zurodatamon."
Sora and Tai instantly looked back at each other. Datamon, the digimon who'd nearly raped Sora, was the digimon Sora both hated and feared the most. Tai had been the one to save her by rushing into the chamber just in time. That was one of the proudest moments of his life, and consequently, the most embarrassing. He could still remember running in to the chamber to see her strapped naked to a table, her young body just blooming into adult hood, with nothing covering her whatsoever. He blushed as he remembered the event. Turning back to Sora, Tai gently hugged her and stroked her hair, trying to make her feel better, without letting her think he liked her. He wasn't ready to tell her just yet.
"I know we can't change destiny, and I know you'll all try to defeat him, even if you know you can't win, so you became new digi-destined. I don't know why you'd want to even try to fight in such an obviously lost cause, but I won't stop you. Just remember, you can't win, so don't get your hopes up," with those final words, he disappeared.
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"Oh, that was encouraging," Kari said with an exasperated look. The rest of the group was sitting down and thinking about the dreadful news that they had just heard. Suddenly, Tai got up and started walking away.
"I thought he told us not to leave the group," Matt sighed.
Sora got up and said, "I'll talk to him guys." She waited till they had nodded, then walked after Tai. She caught up with him about fifty feet away from the others. "Tai, what's wrong?" she asked kindly.
"Everything!" Tai exclaimed in a sudden show of emotion. "I tried so hard to be a good leader, and do the right thing, and protect everyone, and for what!? This? Just so both of the worlds could be destroyed? I didn't help anyone."
"You helped me. Tai, this isn't you. I don't care what Gennai says! We can still win. If destiny gets in our way, we'll get rid of destiny. If an datamon gets in our way, we'll kill him. If anyone gets in our way, we'll destroy them just so peace can be restored!"
"That's it!" Tai jumped up and down as if he had just discovered the answer to a question he had been pondering for years. "Shit, I need to talk to Izzy and I don't know how to. Guess I forgot to include tha…"
A bright white light enveloped the area as all of the digi-destined felt energy and life flow through them. After a few seconds, the energy disappeared, butnot before leaving a trace of it on each person's forehead. Attached to the right ear of each destinded was a sort of earpiece, which was attached to a small microphone type of speaker that traveled down to the persons cheek. It was a lot headset phones, or the communicators from Star Trek, except for the fact that it only connected to the right ear. Each person felt it pierce through him or her like their digivice, connecting to them in a way that was indescribable.
Tai decided to test it out. "Hello?" he said. Nothing. Sora stared at him as he decided to try again. "Hello, anyone there?" he asked. Still nothing. Then he had an idea. Visualizing Sora in his head, he spoke for a third time. "Hello," he said as he watched Sora jump as his voice obviously was picked up in her headset. So that's how they worked. Then he had another idea. This time he visualized everybody in the group and said, "Hi guys! To talk just think of the person you're want to talk to then just speak." Instantly, his earpiece picked up many sounds from his friends talking to each other.
"Hello?"
"Wow, this is cool!"
"I wonder how long the range on these things is."
"Sweet!"
"Interesting…"
Sora and Tai headed back to the others. As they were walking, Sora asked, "What's it Tai?"
"Huh?" was his reply.
"After I finished talking, you did some sort of Irish Jig, then said 'That's it!' What did you mean?"
"Oh," Tai said laughing. "I think I just may have found the solution to our problem."
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"Ok, everyone. Let's not get discouraged about what Gennai told us. We've faced impossible challenges before and won, and we can do it again," said Tai with the usual vigor in his voice.
"But Tai, now were facing something that we've already lost in the future. I mean, our future selves already have had this exact same conversation, down to the last heartbeat, and they still lost. You can't change time. The future, the present, and the past are all ways the same, they can't be changed. So what's the point of even trying if we've already lost?" asked the depressed yet thoughtful TK.
Tai stared at everyone icily before answering. He took a breath, then nearly yelled, "To hell with Destiny! Screw it! I don't care what happened to our future selves, it's the present for us! And we can fucking control our own lives, whether or not destiny exists!" That shut them all up in quite a hurry. Tai waited till he had calmed down, then continued. "Besides, I have a plan. And I don't care if my future self tried this and failed, because at least he tried. And I will to. Now, if anyone doesn't want to help me, say it now. I won't hate you for it, I won't believe you're any weaker for not helping, but it will matter. I need all of you to help, because this is going to be the biggest battle of our lives. Were all digi-destined, and if you ask me we're the best of them, but don't tell anyone else I said that. I don't think the digi-portals will work anymore, so that's another reason why I need you guys. There's no one else. So if you believe you can't help, say so now, or forever hold your peace."
Tai sat back down and looked at the expressions of his friends. Kari and TK were looking at each other with strange facial expressions that Tai couldn't understand. Mimi and Matt looked determined and were holding hands while Sora sat motionless but with one eyebrow raised as if she was amused by something. After a couple of moments, Kari stood up with a smile, then said, "Tai, I think I speak for all of us when I say that after such an emotional but un-thought out speech like yours we'd have to be idiots not to help. So what should we do?"
Tai smiled as he visibly relaxed knowing his friends weren't going to abandon him. "Thanks, guys. I'm going to see if these walkie-talkie things attached to our faces can communicate across worlds. Basically, I'm going to try to talk to Izzy. I'll leave Matt in charge for now. Again, thanks you guys."
Tai walked over to a tree stump and sat down while he prepared to try to reach Izzy. Matt immediately stood up and started to organize everyone. "Guys, it'll soon be night, so here's what I suggest we do. Kari, Mimi, and Sora, you girls go and gather as much food as you can and try to find our Digimon. TK and I will start a fire then set up the two tents. Any, questions?"
Mean while, Tai started to try to communicate with Izzy. After visualizing the brown haired boy's face, he spoke out loud. "Izzy, you there?"
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Izzy nearly fell out of his seat when his computer started talking to him in Tai's voice. "Huh, who are you?" Izzy asked nervously. He just hoped this wasn't some kind of virus.
"It's me, Tai. I thought you were supposed to be watching us!"
"Umm… That's really not important at the present moment Tai. So, how the hell are you talking to me?" Izzy asked while quitting out of his computer game.
"Don't get me started on the 'present time'. Anyway, all six of us got rigged with some sort of walkie-talkie type thing that seems to be a new accessory for us. Try to get a lock on my digi-device, then see if you can analyze it."
"Sure thing, Tai. One moment… Got it! Let's see, it's called a Digital Communicator, or D-Com for short. It allows the user to 'directly interface' with another person who has one, or someone who has a computer, like what you're doing with me. It has infinite range, but can only access people in the real world and Digital world, so it won't work in the other universes."
"Cool. Wish we had these when we were here the first time. Anyway Izzy, we've got a situation. Here goes…"
After Tai had explained to Izzy what Gennai had told them, and all the other things they had learned, Tai continued to ask Izzy questions. "Izz, first of all, I need to know if anyone can come through to the digital world. Second, I need to know how Datamon survived. And finally, I want the coordinates of something called 'Converging Point'."
"I'm on it." After a few minutes, Izzy turned back to his computer and said, "Ok, there's no way to get to the digital world. It seems that Datamon has managed to lock all the portals and openings shut. Although I can't figure out how he survived that encounter with Etamon, if we had been paying attention we would have realized it a long time ago. Remember back when Myotismon was searching for the eigth child? He used a bunch of fake crests to try to find her. And who's the only digimon capable of making fake crests? Datamon."
"So the whole time he was just working for Myotismon. Damn," Tai whistled.
"You said it. Right now, I'm sending the coordinates for Converging Point to your digivice. I also looked up a little bit about it. It's the place in the digi-world where the entire link to the other worlds is the strongest, kind of like the center of balance for the connections to all the other universes. Where on Earth did you hear about it?"
"Well, it wasn't on 'Earth' that I heard about it, but that's another story that I don't have time for right now. I gotta go now, so this time make sure you actually monitor us. Bye."
"Bye," Izzy muttered before Tai closed the link. Izzy just hoped Tai could pull off whatever he had in mind, since after all, if he ever wanted to see his CPU again, Tai would need to succeed. He sighed, then started e-mailing the other destined to notify them of the situation.
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After Tai had finished talking, he stood up and walked over to the rest of the group, who were sitting by the fire and talking to their Digimon. Before he could get all the way there, though, a little orange lizard like thing tackled him to the ground.
"Tai!" it yelled.
"Agumon!" Tai responded before scooping up the lizard into a bear hug. "We'll have to talk later, Agumon. Right now, I have to talk to everybody." Tai finally reached the campfire, sat down on a log, then explained his plan to his friends.
"Guys, here's the situation. We're cut off from the real world, meaning we can't leave and no one can get in, thanks to Datamon. But we can communicate with them using these d-com's, which I'll tell you about later. Now for my plan. Izzy gave me the coordinates of an area in the digital world called Converging Point. It's basically where all the the worlds are the closest together. Sure, you can access any world from anywhere, but at that point, the link between all the worlds is the strongest. At Converging Point there's a digi-egg. It's the digi-egg of destiny. It is destiny. It controll's the past, present, the future, even the Time and Space Continuum. I say we go to Converging Point and do something that may solve our biggest problem. Our biggest problem, of course, is that since time is constant, and since our future selves have already lost to Datamon, we will too."
"What do you plan to do, Tai?" asked Mimi, in her now more accented American voice.
Tai looked at them all, then at Agumon, and finally at Sora. His eyes showed only determination, as if he was positive he could accomplish whatever he wanted.
"I'm going to destroy Destiny."
To be continued…
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A/N:
All right, so there wasn't that much action, ok, there wasn't any action, but there will be I future chapters. Also, I really hate cliffhangers, but I just felt like this was the right place to stop. This is my first series ever, and my second fic, so please don't flame. I would really love some comments, though, and would also appreciate any input on where I should take this. I will not be changing any of the couples though, so don't even ask. I don't know when I'll have the next part of this up, but I'm going to try to get it out as soon as possible. Once again, I know it probably sucked, but I really could use any comments, questions, or suggestions you have. Thanks!