Summary: After Metal Greymon defeated Etemon. Taichi was pulled into a dimensional hole and transported back to earth. But what if that wasn't what happened, what if the hole stranded him in a completely new world.

Altered Fate.
Part I.

Taichi Yagami here, last time I finally understood what courage really meant, and with that understanding, Agumon and I saved Sora and Piyomon from Nanomon.

Nanomon in turn did something to the dark network, causing Etemon's pyramid to collapsed and destroy his army, but Etemon was far to strong and survived, merging with the network to become even stronger.

But despite that, Neither Greymon nor me would back down, we were ready for the final battle with our enemy. As we walked forward to fight, my crest started to glow, causing Greymon to evolved the right way, and as Metal-Greymon he beat Etemon and his dark network causing it to turn into a black hole that swallowed up that mad monkey.

Unfortunately it also swallowed us up, and now we're in place called forest of Nightmares facing down this crazy bird man like digimon who just showed up and threaten to kill us.

How will we ever get out of this.

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Staring across the short distance with a confused look on his face, Taichi grabbed Koromon as the small Baby II digimon jumped up in an attempt to look threatening. "What do you mean, what did we ever do to you?"

"Do?" The bird man like digimon laughed a bit at the question before holding out on sword, using it to point at Taichi with as he began to advance. "You two are trespassing human, that's what's wrong."

Stopping less then a meter away from the messy haired boy, he grinned as he lifted up his second sword. "I'm Karatenmon, a perfect stage digimon, and this forest of nightmares belongs to me."

Ducking backwards as he saw the sword start to move, Taichi closed his eyes as he impacted the ground, the metal of the sword passing by with just a few centimeters distance between him and the blade. "You can't be serious, we just got here, how were we to know that you hate guests?"

"You just got here?" Karatenmon spoke softly as he lowered his sword, his beak opening lightly as a small laugh emerged from him. "Don't make me laugh, this moon is safe from the human trash that have destroyed the digital world." Eyes narrowing, he watched Taichi closely as the human stood up and tried to put some distance between them. "Besides, even if I did like guests, I'd kill you anyway, human."

"Great." Taichi mumbled out as he tensed up. "We barely beat Etemon, and now this KFC reject wants to kill us as well."

But even as he spoke, he couldn't help but think over what he had just be told. Humans had destroyed the digital world, what did he mean by that. Had some evil humans showed up. "As if evil digimons wasn't enough, there are evil humans around as well?"

Lowering part of his attention to Koromon, he watched the pink digimon glaring, a feeling of dread coming over him as he knew what would come out of this. "Don't say it Koromon, he's angry enough already."

Koromon growled as he didn't really want to do as Taichi said, because he knew everything this digimon had just said had to be a lie, all the humans he had ever met had done nothing but try to help them, seeking to defeat the evil digimons as well. "How can you blame humans, they've done nothing but help us, they beat Devimon, and Etemon! They've saved us from their evil desires!"

"Saved us you say?" The reply came from Karatenmon as he lowered both his swords, his wings partly folding up. "You must be joking you fool, haven't you seen it?" Lifting his head upwards, Karatenmon stared up through the hole in the clouds, observing the planet hovering far beyond it. "That world, our home is overrun by evil and darkness, all of it freed by the hands of a single human."

Lifting over sword, he pointed at the island in the centre of the planet. "From the legendary Mount Infinity, the evil swept across our world, conquering each land, and without the Four Holy Beasts to help us oppose them, they even destroyed the balance of light and darkness."

Taichi, frowning at the reply, didn't find much reason to object as at a second look, he could see what he hadn't before, that the world above appeared too darkened, much like someone covered it with a layer of dark glass. "The balance of light and darkness? And they came from File Island, but that can't be true, we destroyed Devimon before he could take over that place"

Karatenmon, returning his attention towards Taichi would have frowned if he could, as the boy really did sound like someone who had no idea of what he had done, or what the other humans had done. "Kid, what did you mean when you said you had just arrived? Don't you even know what you have done?"

Turning around to face Karatenmon again, Taichi opened his mouth to respond, when a loud thunder boom came from directly above them, the hole in the sky glowing as it began to increase in size. "Now what?"

Lifting his gaze, Karatenmon frowned as he watched it as well. "The tear is growing larger." The comment followed by a gasp of disbelief as several dark shapes came through the hole. "Damn it, they found it."

"Well, they'll that I don't like guests." Focusing on Taichi, he sighed as he waved a hand at him in a dismissive manner. "Human, this is not over, as soon as that tear in the shield is mended, I will return to destroy you."

Taichi simply nodded in response as Karatenmon tore off from the ground, his swords sheathed again as he made a direct line towards the cloudy sky. "What a strange digimon." Turning around to face the forest, he nodded once more before taking off in a run.

"Where we going Taichi, we have to stay here, I can take down that lousy digimon." Koromon mumbled out as they left the small clearing, moving past several pine trees in a steady pace. "Taichi?"

Easing up on his grip, the messy haired boy smiled as he ducked under a low hanging breach and took a sharp left. "I know you can beat him Koromon, but not right now, you're still not fully recovered from the fight with Etemon." Slowing down to catch his breath, he stopped as he heard a loud boom from above, the tree shaking as if hit by a strong wind. "Something's wrong."

Looking up, he blinked as he saw Karatenmon flew past overhead, the bird man like digimon doing his best to avoid a powerful blast of dark energy streaking through the air, seconds before someone Taichi had never expected to see again flew by as well, a chillingly familiar laugh ringing out.

"Devimon?" The question muttered out as several digimons he hadn't seen before follow after the fallen angel digimon in a perfect triangle formation, each of them looking like leg less dragons with giant red wings, and while he couldn't really make it out, they seemed to have a skull helmet covering their heads.

Gasping as he watched them fly by overhead Koromon momentarily forgot about Devimon, his eyes narrowing as he did his best to remember what he knew about the other digimons. "Taichi, that's Airdramons, a powerful adult stage digimon, its main attacks are God Tornado and Spinning Needle."

"There has to be at least ten of them." Taichi muttered out as he continued to follow them with his eyes, noting that the sounds of a heated battle had erupted again, Karatenmon had clearly decided to strike back at Devimon. "Come on, we have to see if we can help him."

Koromon giving a quick nod of agreement as both of them decided to ignore the warning and threat Karatenmon had given the less then fifth teen minutes ago.

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Beyond the shielded moon, several floating fish like ships hovered before the cracked cloud cover, several hundreds of flying digimons flanking each ship in perfect military positions.

The central ship, several sizes larger then the others, hovered at the front of the airborne armada closest to the crack shield; several Ninjamons standing on the deck of the ship as it continue to close in on the crack.

"So it is confirmed then, the shield has been broken at long last?" The question aimed at the digimons before him, his eyes half closed as he sat still on his throne. "Any explanation as to why it has happened, as all of your other attempts to crack it so far have failed."

The digimon closest to him filching at the last part, knowing full well that it was firmly aimed at him, the powerful digimon still intimidated by this mere human child, as well as two perfectly silent digimons flanking the throne, their eyes perfectly dead to the world as they kept staring straight ahead.

Slaves, that what was they were, nothing but slaves to this monster of a human, and to think, he had once thought he, Devimon and the other dark digimons had been the evil ones. "Sir, if I may explain."

"There was a surge of dark powers when we tried to use a direct attack with both digimons and weapons at the shield, somehow this power broke through the protective cloud layer."

Lifting up one hand and pointing out through the window, he smiled as he watched the flying digimons moving towards it through a wide window. "Devimon and the sixth Airdramon patrol have already entered through the crack."

Smiling coldly, the child slowly began to laugh as he stood up, sweeping his cape backwards and holding out one hand to point at the scene before him. "This crack is just the first step, I want a full breach of this cloud cover."

"So that I can finally claim what I want." Smirking as he stopped just before the window, he slowly slipped over into a full blown laugh as the digimons rushed to carry out his order

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Reaching another clearing, Taichi and Koromon slid to a halt at the border between the pine trees and the open space, their hearts skipping a beat as Karatenmon came crashing down violently in it's centre.

At first, he just lay there as he stared at the digimons above him, his wings bending up around him in an attempt to shield him from more harm as the handle of his right sword dropped to the ground next to him. "You, how could you, how could you willingly side with a human?"

The question not really aim at the Airdramons, but at Devimon who had begun to descend, the nightmare soldier hovering above the ground silently at first, then slowly smirked. "If I told you the true reason, you simply wouldn't believe it, but don't worry, you will soon be bowing before him just as willingly as so many other digimons already have."

Holding out a hand, he chuckled as he drew a small circle in the air with it. "Now then, back to business, this world holds something my human friend wants." Lowering his right arm, he placed its hand on Karatenmon chest, four of his clawed fingers digging down through the feathers and into Karatenmon's flesh,

Devimon's red colored finger lightly tapping the skin of the bird man digimon as he watched him recover his senses, along with his fighting spirit once he noticed just who it was who were standing over him.

"Now, now, lay still, or it will hurt even more." Not waiting for a respond, he lifted up his light hand, and sent it crashing right into Karatenmon's head, stunning him a bit. "Now then, where did that Gennai hide the cards?"

Karatenmon, recovering from the blow, turned his head and chuckled as he watched Devimon tsaring right at him. "How should I know, that fool looks to much like a human, and everyone knows that I hate humans, find someone else to question fool, you won't get anything out of me."

Narrowing his eyes at the disrespectful and downright rude response, Devimon let out a soft sigh, before digging his claws further into Karatenmon's chest with a smirk on his face; he did so enjoy it when his captive refused to talk. "Death Claw!"

The words followed by a glow from his right hand, and Karatenmon's scream as Devimon sent raw darkness right into the bird man like digimons body in just the right amount to get a scream out of him.

"Why do you refuse to answer me? Just tell me what I want to know, and it will all be over." Easing up on his hold, Devimon watched as Karatenmon spat out a drop of mixed saliva and blood, the substance hitting him on the arm. "Hmm, you want it the easy way then?"

Raising up his left arm, Devimon smirked as the Airdramon's seemingly stopped flying, loud hisses and cries breaking out as black gears erupted from each one, a small cloud of them forming as Devimon trusted his hand downwards, the gears obeying the motion as each one tore down as well.

Taichi turning his head and stepping back as he heard Karatenmon's cry of pain as each gear impacted him, digging into the bird man like digimons body, enslaving him slowly, but surely.

in his hands, Koromon barely breathed as he watched it, then blinked as he was carried away, Taichi slowly backing up before running away. "Taichi, what are you doing, we have to stop him, we have to do something."

"We can't." Taichi replied as he did his best to keep his voice steady, a feeling of failure and cowardice flowing through him, even as he knew that a retreat had been the best option. "I know you have gotten stronger Koromon, but that was a battle we couldn't possibly win."

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As the last gear merged with Karatenmon, Devimon lifted up his head as he spotted a movement, the backside of Taichi clear to him for just a few seconds, but that was all that was really needed. "A human child, on this moon of yours?" Tilting his head, he smirked as he snapped out one arm. "You there, bring him back to me unhurt, or as unhurt as you can make it?"

The enslaved Airdramon nodding as it took off, its wings created a strong wind as it broke up over the tree tops, before flying off in the direction Devimon pointed out for him.

Satisfied for the moment, Devimon lowered his attention to Karatenmon, the enslaved perfect stage digimon standing up with a completely black expression on his face. "Very well, as for you, I want you to tell me everything about the one who saved you all, Chronomon, the digimon who brought the few who hadn't been enslaved to this world."

Standing completely still, Karatenmon didn't respond at first as he seemed to have a struggle within, his eyes moving rapidly around, before stopping as they faced Devimon. "Chronomon? He saved me, gave me a shelter on this moon as the human trash destroyed my old forest, Told me, to watch over and protect, the forest of nightmares."

"So, he did make it here after all, or some of them did." Devimon mused as he regarded the forest around him, a faint look of deep thinking clear as he went over the facts he already knew about. "His power is as great as the legends spoke off, once he sealed this world, even the great four couldn't break through the shield."

Smirking as he began to levitate upwards, he chuckled as he watched the rest of the Airdramons and Karatenmon follow him loyally. "But now that the way is, he will fall to the human child as well, and darkness will rule this world for all time."

Breaking out into a full blown laugh, he rose upwards, moving towards the crack in the cloud cover. "My partner, will enjoy hearing about this."

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Breathing heavily, Taichi burst past a pine tree just in time to avoid getting hit by a powerful gust of wind as his pursuer once again attempted to reach down and grab him, but finding that the trees of the forest prevented it.

The messy haired boy sending up a small thank you to whoever had decided to drop him off inside the forest, then in the middle of a desert where he wouldn't have had any cover to hide under.

"Taichi!" The warning from Koromon coming a bit too late as both human and digimon had already cleared the tree line and were running across a small clearing, not unlike the one they had faced Karatenmon in, only this time, there was no chance of stopping the hostile digimon from attacking with words.

The Airdramon hunting them, while controlled by a black gear, still had enough free will to spot a chance when it saw one, took it and sent out the attack it had been holding back for about five minutes of the fifth teen minute long chase. "God Tornado!"

Sliding to a stop once more, Taichi growled as he watched the forest before him blow up, trees shattering as a powerful tornado like power beam tore across the ground, knocking down several rapidly burning trees to the sides, blocking any escape in those directions.

"Damn it, there's no other choice." Spinning around to watch the Airdramon flying towards them, he spat out a small curse as he noticed it lowering to do another attack. "Koromon, I hope you have enough recovered strength for this."

Pulling off his digivice from his belt, he grimaced as he watched the dragon like digimon increase it's speed acting almost as if it knew what he was going to do, the fires behind him adding an extra point of intimidation to the Airdramon as its body glinted in the light of the burning trees as it aimed to do a quick hit with another god tornado.

Within Taichi's arms, Koromon tensed up before he jumped clear of his human partner, light engulfing him even before he had gotten a few centimetres away. "Koromon Evolves to, Agumon!" The familiar orange colored mini rex like body emerging from the light as the child digimon touched the ground, his eyes narrowed as Airdramon finished gathering the power to attack. "Taichi!"

Ducking low, Taichi let out a scream as he jumped forward to avoid a falling tree, rolling across the ground rapidly, he passed by Agumon just as his digivice let out aloud whine, light flaring up from it as the Airdramon shot past overhead, both of them safe from an attack for at least another four to five seconds.

Pushing himself up, the messy haired boy snapped out his digivice as Agumon spun around and began to move forward, a bubble of light enveloping the small rex like digimon. "Agumon evolves to, Greymon." the small rex like digimon becoming a much larger rex like digimon as a skull mask forming to protect it's head, with twin horns on it's side, and a small one on the nose.

Above the battle ground, Airdramon finished its turn, and roared as it found a more powerful opponent facing it, it's black gear controlled mind reminding it that the boy should be captured alive, but that the Greymon were free prey to be deleted if it got in the way.

Which would explain why it snapped open it's mouth and went right into a steep dive, the air passing by it's feathered wings begin to spin rapidly as the dragon like digimon used another one of its attack abilities. "Spinning Needle!" Several wind spears firing off from his wings, as he broke of his downward charge and went into a rapid climb upwards.

On the ground, Greymon roared as well as he observed Airdramon attacking, his mouth flooding with fire as the wind guardian digimon left himself wide open. "Mega Flame!" The massive fire ball rushing upwards in time to avoid the wind spears that impacted not only Greymon, but also the surrounding fire and earth.

In mid climb, Airdramon roared once more, in pain as his lower body was hit head on by the fireball, the heat of the attack going right the scaly body and leaving behind several burn marks as the wind guardian broke out his climb and went into a second nose dive, a dark colored attack forming in his mouth as Greymon became clear, "God Tornado!"

Rushing forward to avoid the attack, Greymon hissed as he came too close to the forest fire for his liking, his massive body swing around in time to face the underside of Airdramon as he flew past overhead. "Mega Flame!" the chance of hitting him overpowering the pain from the heat as Greymon fired off another massive fire ball, scoring a hit on the tail end of his foe.

As Airdramon screamed from the pain, he did a quick rise upwards to escape the fire breathing digimon before he could attack again, His wings beating rapidly in an attempt to put some distance between himself and his foe.

Reaching a good enough height, he snarled as he began to turn around, a change of tactics forming as he once more returned to the battled ground, but just above the tree tops this time, his eyes gleaming as he spotted the a messy haired human clearly outlined against the light from the forest fire.

The human kid the perfect target, the pain of the previous attacks that had hit him was causing him to forget the order he had been given to return with the human child alive.

He was going to kill him, then the digimon, and nothing would stop him, they wouldn't be able to avoid his surprise attack, from within the treetops.

Pulling in his wings as he moved further downwards, he hissed as he felt the needles of the trees scraping against his bunt parts, the pain increasing his anger as he focused completely on his target, a dark tornado forming inside his mouth as he began to violently push the pine trees with his sheer size and speed as he went even lower. "God Tornado!"

On the ground, Taichi coughed as he move away from the fire, freezing as he felt the shaking in the tree and heard them shaking violently as the large serpentine body approached, his eyes growing wide as he saw the jaws opening and firing off that beam like attack, right at him.

"Taichi, get down!" Running forward, Greymon barely looked to see if his partner did as he had ordered, his head already lined up to use a more direct attack as he felt the skull helmet take the full impact of the god tornado, the bone construct fracturing as massive pain shot through his head from it.

Shaking his head as the attack stopped, Greymon barely had time to focus as watched the tree just before him violently part as Airdramon tore out form them, the wind guardian roaring as he continued his reckless dive right towards him.

"Mega Flame!" Firing off the attack as Airdramon hit him, Greymon took some satisfaction from the scream he earned as he was moved down, his body hitting the earth and rolling him along over it as the wind guardian attempted to fly upwards.

Reacting as fast he could, the dinosaur digimon grabbed the tail end of Airdramon as it passed, using it to pull himself up with at first, then as a means of holding onto his foe as the dragon like digimon roared again, the head turning to face him as he couldn't escape "Come on!"

Lowering his head as he released the tail, Greymon kept his head firmly as Airdramon as he shot down, that head wide open as power poured out from it. "You're mine, Great Antler!"

Hitting the wind guardian in the jaw, Greymon felt how each of his tree horns went right through the flesh, and cut through the skin as the digimon bucked to escape, knocking him down again and breaking his skull helmet completely.

Lying still at first as he landed, the dinosaur digimon could only watched as Airdramon went down, that serpentine body hitting the earth like a log, bouncing off it and tumbling right into his own forest fire, several burning tree snapping from it, "I won."

Behind him, Taichi stood completely still as a cloud of digital data erupted from the fire, the pixels spiralling upwards into the cloud covered sky above. "Yeah, you won." His lack of victory joy fuelled by what he had seen before.

And just knowing Devimon would have seen the smoke and fire by now, which meant that the nightmare soldier was on his way.

His concern getting a confirmation as several loud roars erupted from behind them, each one a bit closer then the last one. "Greymon, get up, we have to get out here, Devimon can show up at any minute."

Having heard the roars as well, Greymon didn't protest the order as he de-evolved into Agumon again, the small reptile digimon standing up in a hurry, concern on his face as he knew he couldn't face a whole horde of Airdramon, let alone a fallen angel digimon at his current level of energy. "I'm ready when you are Taichi."

Nodding in response, the messy haired boy faced the only direction they could really use, heading backwards in the direction they had come from at first. "This Way Agumon, we'll go around the fire and then towards the east."

As they left the battle ground, one of the damaged tree suddenly shook as a star shaped digimon jumped out from it. His feet hitting the ground as he first observed the direction that Agumon had gone in along with Taichi, then the place where Airdramon had been deleted. "There's a human child here on Refugia."

The star shaped digimon muttered out as he watched them leave, his red colored scarf blowing gently in the hot wind caused by the burning forest. "No doubt he's the cause for the shattered shield."

Standing up straight, the digimon turned to leave, his eyes taking in the damaged area once last time before leaving the forest. "I must inform the others of this event, if not, we could all end up as slaves to the human filth."

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Smirking darkly outside of the darkness of the cabin, the human child watched as the broken shield were slowly shattered even more above them, several digimons doing their best to increase the damage already done to it. "It won't be long now, and then I will have what I need."

Tilting his head to the side, he watched the two digimons besides him, taking in the vacant stare on each of their faces as they listened to him. "Leomon, Orgemon, prepare your forces, we invade this place within an hour!"

Facing back to the digimon in charge of breaking the shield, he snapped his fingers to gain his attention, grinned as the monkey man like digimon flinched. "Calm down Etemon, you won't die." Ignoring the relieved expression filling the digimons face, he smirked even wider. "In fact, I have a special task for you."

Losing some of his calm, Etemon did a quick bow to his knees as he watched the human child rise, a deep resentment within him cursing the fact that this child had reduced him, the king of digimons, to act as nothing more then a man servant to a lesser creature. "What is you wish, Master Yagami."

Yagami simply smirked from his position above Etemon. "I want you, to watch my little empire, while I oversee this small invasion." Walking past Etemon, he stopped before a Airdramon hovering next to the main ship, he chuckled as he held up a digivice for Etemon to see, a small black gear jammed into its top. "And don't try to get any ideas Etemon; the enslaved digimons obey only me, not you."

Giving a sharp order to the Airdramon, it took of flying, heading upwards towards the crack along with several of the flying ships and enslaved Devidramons, Airdramons and a literal army of Ninjamon's on the ship. "Today begins the final chapter of my quest."

"Leomon, Ogremon, follow me!" Yelling out the command as the lion man and ogre like digimons mounted an Airdramon and Devidramon respectively; Yagami simply pointed one hand forward, the whole army moving towards the cracked shield.

Left behind, Etemon's nervous smirk slowly faded away as he watched the army leave, his hands clenching up as he felt anger boiling just beneath his surface. "May your quest fail, you human brat!"

TBC: Things heat up as Taichi and Agumon leave the Forest of Nightmares to explore the rest of the sanctuary moon of Refugia.

Only to find themselves facing a choice between a trip through a city of metal, or a journey through a bad land region.

Either way, it won't be easy as every digimons seems to have it out for them, even one they were sure would be a friend.

But none of that can even come close to comparing itself to the surprise facing both Taichi and Agumon as they encounter something they had never expected.

AN:

Another chapter done, but I don't like the fight scene, it seems rushed to me, and lacking, or is it just me.

If anyone feels it lacks something too, let me know and I'll give it an extra look to see if I can make it better.

Anyway, what do you think of such short chapters, it's much easier for me to write them as I feel they don't demand as much from me, but even now I have the feeling that I'll end up with 8000 words or more in each chapter in the future.

The next chapter may be out a bit later as I need to write an epilogue for Spawn of the Vampire.

In the end, a small demand from me to all my readers, I want to see at least three reviews for this chapter.