Summary time!

What would happen if Tai had put down the wrong card when trying to open the Gate to follow Myotismon? What if the whole Digiworld thing was a set-up and a trap. What happens when it was all for theatrics? There really was no threat and it was all for the viewing pleasure of a sick mind in another dimension?

Everybody gets freaked out when they figure out Tai put down the wrong care and they are now trapped in a parallel dimension. What happens to the 8th Child. That couldn't have been a set too could it have? Is there really an 8th Child?

"What are you doing with Kari! Let her go!" Tai runs forward to the wire mesh surrounding his sister and gets zapped.

"Tai!"

Pairings:

Tai/Matt

Sora/Izzy

I came up with this idea a long long long time ago. At first it started out as a "What if..." story where Tai and Kari's and Matt and T.K.'s roles got switched in the series. Like how Matt and T.K. are half-brothers in the series and they don't live together, I was going to do an AU version of the story where Tai and Kari are half-siblings and instead of Kari home sick like she is in the series, it's T.K. who stays home sick. And Matt and T.K. are full blood siblings like Tai and Kari are in the series. That would make T.K the 8th DigiDestined. But those are the only roles that get switched, so Kari would have Patamon and Gatomon would still be Myotismon's slave. Yeah, kinda different I know, but I was going to fix that messed up bit of it too.

But later it just kind of evolved into this. After reading so much digimon fanfiction here and on Quizilla it just kind of came to me, but to get it right, I had to rewatch the series and it just evolved form there.

So read and enjoy and I hope I didn't bore you with the above stuff...

Chapter 1: And so it begins...

A brown haired girl rushed into the main room of a castle that was sitting in the lush vegetation of a jungle. "Where?" you ask. Somewhere not of this world. "They're here!" she shouted repetitively.

"Here you say?" questioned a teal haired girl with the temper of red-head. She had red eyes to compensate. "That's impossible! They can't be here yet!"

"I think what my sister means is the DigiDestined are in the Digital World in they're universe, not this one," said the other girl who was drawing out detailed plans of the DigiDestineds' capture while looking through a deck of cards the sisters brought with them to camp.

"Why aren't you watching them?! They have to constantly be watched to make sure everything goes as planned!" shouted the teal haired girl. Her red eyes flashed evilly. "Remember to feed Parallelmon and send him to the other side when the time is right," she said dismissively.

"What ever you say, Ryuusei," said Tiara. The girl normally wasn't so compliant but she knew better than to get on Ryuu's bad side. That girl could turn hostile in a second. Tiara left the room and went back to the TV room to watch what was going on. The video was live stream sent from a Buzzmon, a wireless camera digimon.

"You must forgive her, Ryuu. She's a little careless with things but at least she remembered the cards. These are very important to our quest for conquest," Teara said, defending her sister.

Tiara walked through the door to Parallelmon's complex. The digimon gets a complex, but whenever we need to stay here over night, we have to sleep in the dungeons. It's almost like the digimon is a mon of royalty, Tiara thought bitterly as she eyed the glass chandelier hanging from the ceiling. "Parallelmon, now's your time!" Tiara shouted up the winding staircase. "Go to the other side and warn Kuwagamon that the DigiDestined have arrived." She paused. "And I'll feed you when you return."

The girl heard nothing but the whooshing sound of wings and then all was silent.

"What in this world do you feed a Parallelmon?" Tiara whispered to herself.

Tai was in a tree scoping out his surroundings.

"What do you see, Tai?" asked Koromon.

"A giant beetle and it's head right for us!" he shouted. He and Koromon had no time to do anything so right as the beetle flew at them to behead them. Koromon hung by his ears(?) and Tai hung by his legs right when the beetle flew over them.

"What is that thing?!" shouted Izzy.

"It's Kuwagamon," confirmed Motimon. "He's an insectoid digimon. Vicious and ruthless with teeth like knives and scissor hands that can chop through anything."

Kuwagamon flew back toward Tai and Koromon. "Who needs a gardener!" Tai shouted nervously.

Koromon jumped at Kuwagamon and attacked him with an attack that looked like a pink bubble. Koromon bounced off of the beetle's head and he collided into the tree Tai was sitting in, knocking him out of it. When he hit the ground, he picked up Koromon and followed Motimon to a hollowed out tree to hide.

After the whole group got together, Kuwagamon attacked again. After running to the edge of a cliff, all the digimon attacked Kuwagamon and still didn't do much damage. But with the help of their partners, the digimon digivolved.

"Whoa!" breathed Tai.

"Let's attack together," commanded Agumon, an orange dinosaur-like digimon. After all the rookies attacked together Kuwagamon caught on fire and fell, face down, cutting off the cliff from the rest of the surroundings causing everyone to plummet toward the rushing waters below.

Parallelmon flew back into his chambers where Tiara was waiting for him. She had a fish in hand and she tossed it to him. He took it and chewed on it and then he spit it out.

"What do you eat?" she asked it.

"Human food," it replied like it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"Oh," she said dully.

Back at the base Ryuusei wasn't taking their defeat too lightly.

"He lost! How could he lose!?" She threw things, messed up the deck of cards that Teara had been going through, sorting out all of the cards they would need.

"Chill would you? Think about it. If Kuwagamon defeated them on the first round we wouldn't have the fun of destroying them ourselves."

Ryuusei chilled a little but that didn't make her any less angry.

"Besides, it was only round one. Of course it was bound to be easy. Don't forget, there's still Shellmon and Seadramon the have to contend with. And Myotismon, Devimon, Lady Devimon, Demidevimon, and, of course, Myotismon. If they can't defeat those simpletons, they have no chance of beating us. But we want to them to at least be able to get us so we can kill them ourselves."

Ryuu huffed. "Maybe you're right," she admitted grudgingly. "But I just wanted to see them get squished so much!"

Next chapter should be up tomorrow.