AN: Well this is going to be a really short chapter. I mean only 1000 worlds long or so. Just to give you guys something to read. I'm sorry if Tai seems OOC here.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON OR THEIR CHARACTERS.

Nothingness, that was all Tai felt he floated in the darkness around him. In the eternal abyss that was the doorway to death. Only time will tell if he would crossover into that plane of existence.

'Get up...' a voice resounded in the former goggle wearing boy's head. Tai did nothing. 'Get up...' Tai slowly twitched a finger. 'Get up!' This time, Tai groaned in pain. "Get up!"

"Five more minutes mom," Tai mumbled.

"TAI KAMIYA GET YOUR LAZY ASS UP!" The bushy haired teen eyes flew up open and saw that he was standing in some crystal room, and in the center was a crystal pedestal with a floating orb.

"What the? Where am I?" Tai asked.

'Standing before god...er...the god of this world at least?' the voice told him. 'Really, some people..." the voice sounded so, exasperated. 'Seriously, I was hoping that the person who was to success me was a bit smarter than I was.'

"Hey! I'm not that stupid! Also, show yourself!" Tai shouted. "It's hard to talk to someone you can't see you know!" From the orb in the middle a small flash occurred and a ghostly figure walked out. It was a teen boy, who was wearing a whit shirt tunic and grey pants, but what surprised Tai was the person's face. He looked just like Tai.

"Hello Tai Kamiya it is nice to meet you. My name is Taichi Yagami," the ghost introduced himself. Yagami looked at Tai's face and saw the complete horror on his face.

"H-How is this possible! I heard that you were dead!" Tai hollered as he fell to the crystal floor and scooted away from the ghost. The ghost smiled and sighed. Walking towards Tai he spoke.

"I am dead yes. You are talking to me because you are dead too," Yagami explained as he walked closer.

"W-What?"

"You heard me you died. Can't you remember what happened before you 'fell asleep?'" the ghostly boy asked using air quotes on the words fell asleep. Tai racked his brain, trying to remember what happened.

"I was at the festival with Agumon. W-We were having fun and tried to get gifts for the kids back at Lan's place. Then we bumped into Sora and Kari...no, Princess Sora and Princess Hikari. We had more fun then..." Tai stopped, his eyes widening in realization. "The Dark Saiba army attacked. I told Sora and Hikari to go then Metalphantomon hit me with his attack." Tai snapped his head up and stared at Yagami who was looking at him with sorrowful eyes. "Am I really dead?"

"Well...not really," Yagami sighed. "You're in limbo at the moment. Lord Yggdrasil, the god of the world my world: the one you were currently living in, has still need of you."

"Need of me?"

"Yeah." Yagami looked to the side, his eyes glazing over. "War is going to erupt soon. Life as most people no it will be plagued in darkness. Dark Saiba will rise up and try to take over the world again."

"What does that have to do with me?" Yagami turned his head towards Tai and sighed.

"You are my successor. The one who would save this world from what is about to befall it."

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait up, you want me to go fight in a war, to stop an army of digimon and humans?" Tai asked. His ghostly counterpart nodded. "This is madness! I don't think I'm cut out to be in a war!"

"Yet you don't question that you need to save the world," Yagami rolled his eyes. Crossing his arms over his chest Yagami as he kept speaking. "Tai the thing that you're really scared of doing is killing someone isn't it. I know if you can fight, I've seen you fighting for the past few years as well as in the digital world. You can go into the war and come out victorious. I know killing will be hard for you though, it was for me."

Tai looked down to the floor and his eyes were cast down. "How can I ever kill someone? People's lives are precious, even if they are evil. I d-don't think I can do it."

"Then think about this. Those people are aiming to kill you and your friends. If you can't somehow incapacitate them, they will succeed in doing that."

"You are telling me to take a person's life!"

"I'm telling you to save the world. Not to kill anyone. Yes, in war there is death. Yes, you may have to kill someone, but that is not always the case! You can capture them and lock them away, but at some point you will be forced to take someone's life. Whether you like it or not you will have to do it," Yagami told Tai. Flames were lit in his eyes as he spoke. "I lost several friends while we were fighting in the war. People took their lives, but I also took the lives of my enemies. Those were not my greatest moments Tai Kamiya! When I was alive, each time I went to sleep I saw the faces of the people I killed. The flip side is that I woke up, I saw Hikari's smiling face and those of my friends who were still alive. They were happy to be alive and so was I. I knew then that while killing people was wrong, it helped to know that those I care for were still alive."

When Yagami finished his speech, Tai was looking at him. Sadness, confusion, anger, disgust were all there but something else was there. It was resignation. "I know, I know, I know!" Tai shouted. "I know the feeling of wanting to kill someone! That's how I felt when Sora was taken by Datamon. That's how I felt when Matt betrayed us. That was just anger coursing through me I know. I thought about it sometimes too. We deleted digimon because we knew that they would be reborn in the village. Then I saw that some of the digimon that were reborn, they weren't the same. They were different from their past life, as if they were new people. The ones we knew died. It's almost the same for us humans. When they die, they are lost forever. So I thought about if I did actually go with my feelings of Matt's betrayals and if I did go with me killing him. I would be devastated knowing that I have the blood of my friend on my hand."

Both Tai's were silent for a few minutes. Both contemplating what the other had said. "I will take up your sword," Tai spoke up. "Even if I don't want to fight in some war I will. I just won't kill, or at least try not to." Yagami looked at Tai with a small smile.

"You won't try to change who you are? Not if even means changing the world?" Yagami asked.

"No." Yagami's smile widened as Tai answered. Yagami turned back towards Yggdrasil and there was a flash of orange light. A small beam hit Tai on the chest and threw him back. Landing on his back, the living wild haired teen groaned in pain. "What just hit me?"

"Power," Yagami answered. "The power to fight. Look at whats in your hand." Tai did as what the boy instructed. In it was something that looked like a pocket watch. It was gold all around, but the middle showed circuitry and a blank screen directly in the middle. Instead of numbers on it, there were blackened symbols at all around the screen. Ten in all. However the top one was glowing in orange. The shape surprised Tai: it was the crest of courage.

"What's this?" Tai asked astonished.

"Well, because you lost your digivice Lord Yggdrasil decided to help you out. That is your new digivice as well as your weapon to help in your fight."

"How can I fight with just a medallion like digivice?" This cause Yagami to chuckle.

"It's missing its other half: my sword. Though it may be a bit rusty after two years of disuse."

"What are the other blackened symbols?" Tai asked confused.

"You'll find out as you go along in your journey to stop Dark Saiba." The crystal world began to crack as their conversation ended. "Seems like Yggdrasil thinks its time for you to go back. Beware out there Tai Kamiya, but just so you know I'll be watching you." Tai nodded his head towards Yagami. As the crystal world broke Tai looked directly at Yagami and Yggdrasil next to him.

"I'll try not to do what you told me. I won't try to kill anyone, but I will save this world."

"It's all we ask." With a great shaking, the world was destroyed.

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AN: Told you it was a short chapter. It's just to give you some perspective here. I don't know when this will get updated again, college starts monday and well yeah, another fucking semester of school. Leave a review