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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 III.
Taichi here, last time Agumon went off to a metallic city to explore it while I set up camp in a badland region. Strangely enough, Leomon and Ogremon showed up and attacked me, none of them even showing any signs of knowing who I am, but luckily, Agumon showed up to save me, along with a female version of me and to top it all of, this kid showed along with Devimon, calling me brother, and saying that I should be dead.
Just what the hell is going on around here?
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"Join me Yagami." Dark mist flowed through the area, hiding everything but Devimon, the fallen angel digimon towering up over him, his red eyes drilling right into his soul. "Join me, become my chosen partner, our powers combined will make us invincible, we will be the superior ones, I am the one most suited to be your warrior."
The cries of his true digimon partner meant nothing in that moment, all that mattered was the offer, a chance to show them all, to make them see that he was better then his brother. "He'll see, they all will." Standing up, he chuckled as he felt the digimon besides him pull on his leg. "Get away from him; you're nothing but a weakling, completely unsuitable to be his digimon partner."
Reaching out to Devimon, he laughed as he watched the fallen angel digimon lift up his digivice, a small black gear held in the other hand were quickly pushed it, several dark sparks flying out at the contact. "The pact has been made; our goal is the same, to become the absolute masters of all."
His first digimon partner crying out in pain as the bond they had always shared were ripped apart, the very reason for it to live fading away, as it did, its body shattering into a cloud of digital data. "You will pay Taichi; you will pay for always stealing their attention."
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Pushing Taichi aside before he got a chance to reply, Taiko glared up at the boy, frowning as all he could see of him were a strange outfit consisting of long yellow pants and sleeveless shirt, with long, straight light brown hair. "You, you're the jerk who caused all that destruction aren't you?" Her voice deadly cold as she spoke, her hand slowly pulling out a strange device from her belt, the device carrying the sign of courage. "If you are, I won't let you hurt anyone else."
Moving his attention over to her, the boy frowned before snapping back to face Taichi. "Found another one to help you to stop me brother?" Smirking coldly as he took a step back, he chuckled darkly as he snapped his fingers. "Well, she can die along with you, just as the others did."
"Others?" Taichi spat out as he took a step forward. "What do you mean by that?" Lowering his attention to the advancing Leomon, he gave a small grunt as he snapped his attention back to face Greymon behind him. "Okay, do it now Greymon, knock him out so I can close enough to remove the black gear."
Taiko raising an eyebrow at the comment, instantly smirked as she faced down Ogremon along with Tailmon. "This guy's no pushover Tailmon, We'd better give you a better edge." Snapping open the device in her hand, she laughed as a digi egg like object formed, only with a silver and gold as its only colors, the egg outfitted with what looked like feet on it's bottom and a small head like design on the front top. "Go!"
Nodding, Tailmon started running forward, doing a quick jump up into the air. "Tailmon armor evolve too," the small cat body growing lager as a female Sphinx like metal mask formed over her head, shoulder guards and chest armor, with more ornament gloves around her front legs, and finally a pair of white feather wings from her upper back. "Nefertimon!"
Pulling back on his club, Ogremon went right into for a close up battle, caring little for his own safety as his enslaved mind simply followed the orders given to him. "Bone Rod!" His bone club smacking right into Nefertimon's head and sending the digimon back a bit before she resumed her attack, "Bone."
"Curse of Queen!" The head gear on the feline digimon firing of a red colored beam that sent him backward, smacking across the ground as Taiko jumped up onto her back. "Hang on Taiko; we'll have this bad boy deleted in a second."
Jumping up, Ogremon showed no sign of feeling distracted by his opponent's change of battle field, and instead went in for the kill, several supreme kings' fist attacks firing off in rapid succession as he did his best to take down the armor digimon.
For her part, Nefertimon simply smirked as she kept avoiding each attack, instead focusing on finding the right moment to strike once more, each move of her body to avoid an attack merely like a play to her. "This guy is a novice compared to me; he wouldn't stand a chance against me even as Tailmon."
Diving downward, she laughed as she merely battered away Ogremon club as he tossed it like a boomerang while jumping upwards from one of the rocks, his dive leaving himself wide open to her as she simply knocked him out of the air, and right into the rocks below. "And for the finish, Nile Jewelry!"
The nightmare soldier having no chance to defend himself as several explosive projectiles impacted him as he slid to the ground, his body shaking violently before he passed out to Nefertimon's cry of triumph above.
Facing down Leomon, Taichi grunted as he watched the lion man digimon go into a running charge, his sword out and glistering in the air. "Greymon, now!" Ducking down, he felt his partner charge past him, engaging Leomon in a one on one fight. "Great, take him down without hurting him too much,"
Turning his attention away, he slowly touched his digivice, while keeping a close eye on Devimon and the human boy, a strong desire to make his partner evolve to his perfect stage overpowered by the knowledge that he may not have enough power to take down both Leomon and Devimon at the same time. "We need his help, and to get that."
Returning to the fight, Taichi nodded as he shot forward, ducking around the rapidly moving tail of Greymon, and aimed fight for Leomon, his digivice starting up and he dived forward, right into danger, as Leomon noticed as his sword rose up into the air. "Come on, work!"
Yelling our the command as his device went off, Taichi wasn't really prepared for the massive light blast hitting the still attack digimon, nor for the pain filled roar as his stumbled backward and fell over, the black gear tearing out and shattering less then a second later. "Alright, it worked like a charm."
Moving around to face Devimon, Taichi faintly noticed that the female version of him had successfully taken down Ogremon, and were also staring down the fallen angel digimon. "Give up will you; you can't beat us, not now." Standing up, he barely paid any attention to Leomon as he rose up as well, the anger burning in the digimons eyes aimed at Devimon, and not him this time. "We're stronger then when we first faced you."
Devimon merely responding by narrowing his eyes, a dark aura forming around him as he lifted both arms, "Do you want to bet about it child." Shifting lightly, he slammed out both of his hands, the palms aiming right for Greymon and Nefertimon as they began to advance on him, then he suddenly seemed to hug himself as he pulled his arms in close. "Razor Wing!"
The attack name followed by him rapidly flapping his wings as twin beams of wing shaped energy hammered into Greymon, the dinosaur digimon stumbling back with a roar of pain, "I am no pushover either boy." Slamming out his right hand as Nefertimon came into range, he grinned as its palm glowed with a dark purple light. "Hell Contract!"
Nefertimon forced to do a quick change of movement to avoid the cloud of kanji fired off at her, the negative energy , making her fur stand up and sending a shiver down her spine. "Such power, was the one they faced just as powerful?"
"Taichi, be careful, he's not the same as the one you know." Taiko's warning coming too late as she moved to stand next to him, her own digivice glowing as she faced him down. "He's someone else entirely."
The fallen angel digimon chuckling as he rose upwards, his arms growing as he faced them down. "Listen to the female child, boy, my pact with darkness have given me the strength of a perfect stage digimon."
"Doesn't change the fact that you're a monster," Leomon moving into the conversation added in as he swung his sword around in front of him. "You may have beaten me once, but this time it will be different."
Smirking next to Leomon, Taichi stared down the fallen angel as he lifted up his digivice, a dark grin forming on his face as a glow began to form around it. "Then let's see you take down a perfect stage digimon!"
"As if I'd give you the chance to evolve again!" Yelling out the response, Devimon lashed out with his left hand, he laughed a dark power roared up around it. "Death Claw!"
The sudden Extension and enlarging of the hand causing the messy haired boy to lose his concentration and the power of courage he had been about to send Greymon as he stumbled back.
His rescue coming in the form of Leomon as he was pushed out of danger by the digimon, the lion man like digimon taking the attack instead as the massive hand closed up around his upper body easily.
"Idiot." The word spoken with pure contempt as Devimon faced down the nature guardian while pressing out all the air from his lungs. "If you had left him alone, you would have lived longer!" Clenching up his hand, he smirked as several bones could be heard braking, each one drawing out a weak cry of pain. "Now you can just become a part of me!"
Snapping his eyes wide open at the comment, Taichi didn't have any way to describe the sudden look of fear and pain he saw in Leomon as dark power tore through him, his digital data getting loaded by Devimon as the fallen angel digimon deleted him by ramming one of his hands right through his stomach. "You see, no digimon or human can beat me."
"Weaklings like these two have no place serving us." Lowering his attention to Ogremon, the fallen angel digimon allowed another cold smile to grace his face as he snapped out his arms, aiming to first delete and then load the nightmare soldiers data.
Eyes growing hard with anger, Taichi snapped his head around and stared right up at Greymon who shared the same glare as his partner.
And through that silent agreement, Greymon wasted no time in rushing forward, fire already swelling up in his mouth as he earned Devimon attention. "Mega Flame!"
The fallen angel digimon staring rather surprised at them before laughing, his hands slashing the fire ball attack apart before it had the chance to even hit him, "Fools, staying put would have given you a longer life." Spreading his wings wide, he took flight, hovering up above the battleground. "Master Yagami, please let me crush them."
The name caused both Taichi and Taiko to freeze, the girl version of the holder of courage stopping in the middle of issuing out an order to Nefertimon. "What did you say?" Her voice cutting through everything as she focused on the boy fully, "Who are you?"
Yagami merely smirking as he offered her his attention for a short second, before returning all his focus on Taichi, one hand uncurling as he lifted it up to push back a lose lock of hair from his face, a sneer growing fourth. "Don't tell me you have forgotten me, after all dear brother; I killed you mere months ago!"
"I'm Hikaru Yagami, the greatest Yagami to ever live." Eyes gleaming with insanity as he spoke, he took a step forward, barely showing any interest in Taiko at all. "I proved that months ago when you died by my own two hands."
Throwing his head back and laughing wildly, Hikaru ended it by lifting his left hand out in a roman salute, pointing one finger directly at Taichi. "I don't know how you came back, or how you succeed in finding another fan girl to help you stand up to me, but it won't help you."
"Devimon, kill the girl and the two digimons." Spitting out the order as he stepped back, Hikaru gave one last venom filled glare down at Taichi. "And bring me his broken body, so I can kill him again."
"You." Taichi nearly spat out the word as he lifted his head up, having lowered it doing Hikaru's rant, his eyes nearly blazing with anger as he tore his digivice lose from his belt. "I have no idea what you're talking about, or why you think I'm your brother."
Lifting the digivice up, Taichi smirked as he felt his anger fading away, Piccolomon's training coming back to him, helping to focus more on his courage, then on his anger. "But if you want to fight, I'll give you a fight, Greymon!"
Roaring out in agreement, Greymon stood up straight as light flared out from him, drowning out everything as he felt the familiar blast of power from the crest of courage enter him. "Greymon Evolves to Metal-Greymon."
Off to the side, Taiko took one step back at the sudden lightshow, feeling a sudden chill in her stomach. "He's like me, but he has big brother's digimon and crest." Turning back in time to see the cybernetic digimon emerged from the evolution process, the same metallic arm and chest plate and partly mechanic head she remembered so clearly. "It's really him, a perfect stage digimon."
"Perfect level." Devimon hissed it out as he moved into amore defensive position, his head turning lightly to the side to see Hikaru sneering even wider at the sight. "Lord Yagami?" His voice still harsh and firm, he growled as he got no response from the human boy. "Feh, whatever, you're still no match for me, the king of darkness, Death Claw."
Above, Nefertimon grinned as she went into a steep dive, certain victory clearly within their grasp as she powered up her most powerful attack that she knew off. "Alright, we'll take him down with one blow, Rosetta Stone!"
Devimon having focused entirely on metal-Greymon, looked up just in time to getting hit right in chest rather then his head by Nefertimon's attack, the pink beam having crated a thick stone slab with hieroglyphs all over it that were plowing him into the ground. "You stupid."
Tossing it off, he roared loudly as he shot upwards to return the favors, both hands opened wide with his clawed fingers primed to tear into the armor digimon. "Death."
"Now!" Taichi commanded as he saw Devimon leaving himself wide open for an attack.
An opening Greymon was more then willing to exploit as he had already gotten ready to attack. "Giga Destroyer!"
The cry making his freeze and turn to face Metal-Greymon as the massive cyborg digimon opened his chest compartment, twin organic missiles ready for firing. "No."
"Bye bye!" The fallen angel digimon cursing loudly as he watched Nefertimon laughing above him as she was still flying away from him.
Then the world became pain as fire engulfed him along with the whole area, a shockwave ripping out from the blast point powerful enough to rattle the rocks below.
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A good deal away, a lone Starmon standing guard, barely had any chance to prepare himself as he witnessed the explosion, as well as heard it, his crude guard spear falling down as he turned and rushed off to warn his superior. "My lord, they're attacking us, the humans are attacking."
Several surrounding digimons getting gripped by the panic as well, started to run around much the same way, screaming in fear and anger as loud and different opinions became known as both cowards and the cautious digimons wanted to flee, while the brave and reckless ones wanted to fight.
And through it all, he just stood silently at the center of it all, their leader, Lord Holy Angemon, his eyes hidden behind his white facemask, but his mouth showed his grim feelings as he already heard the explosion, as well as the reports of a digimon allied with a human running amok in he city. "Starmon platoon one, line up and move out, we must stop them at once!"
His command while soft spoken were still enough to cause some ranks to form, as Starmons began to move out, Holy Angemon following them as he used his large, two white feather wings to fly with across the digimons below. "The rest of you, prepare the city and castle for battle."
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As the dust settled, Metal-Greymon glowed brightly as he felt the last of energy leave him, his body regressing all the way back to his Koromon stage once more. "Did I get him?"
Taiko answering as she coughed lightly from the dust. "I think so, but how could you evolve, didn't you give up that to free-" Her question interrupted by a laugh from above, Hikaru's sneer having transformed into a smirk as he calmly stepped forward. "What? Wasn't that enough? You need another ass kicking?"
"Hardly." Hikaru simply replied as he faced down both Taiko and Taichi. "Impressive display of power brother, a digimon like that really fits in with your overblown ego." Still smirking, he lifted up his own digivice, staring at it shortly before facing them again. "His attack was not nothing compared to the might of Devimon."
His remark followed by Devimon's laughter as he emerged from the ground, his body damaged and one wing clearly bent out of shape, but besides that, he seemed perfectly fine. "Is that all you had? I would have expected more from the oh-so-great Taichi Yagami."
Clenching up one hand, Devimon laughed as he moved up behind Hikaru, placing his free hand on the boy's shoulder. "You couldn't beat me in the past, what makes you think you could now."
"See, my partner is better then yours, just as I am better then you." Hikaru nearly yelled as he clenched his digivice harshly. "But mom and dad never saw that, they only saw you, the soccer genius, the loud mouth, the healthy one."
As the rant started up, Devimon placed his second arm on Hikaru's other shoulder. "Relax; I told you before, you are the best." Stepping forward past him, Devimon lifted up one hand as dark powers flowed into it. "Now watch as I destroyer his partner once more, it will make you feel better."
Towering up over them, Devimon smirked as he crossed his arms across his chest, keeping a careful eye on Nefertimon who had begun to move closer again. "Now then, let me show you, a true perfect stage digimon." Uncrossing his arms, darkness erupted up around him a sickly light flowed out from Hikaru's digivice. "Devimon evolves too."
His humanoid body fading away as though brown colored reptile skin formed across his arms and chest and head, his legs melting together to form a long tail like section with a brighter underside, his hands and lower arms reforming into massive square metallic gauntlet like attachments, each one sporting three metallic claws, one on each side except for the bottom.
The wings on his back shattered and reformed into large purple feather ones as a metallic mask formed over his new dragon like heard, yellow eyes rather then red ones staring down at the two chosen children as his size increased to at least surpass metal-Greymon's easily. "Megadramon!"
As the evolution ended, Taichi stared up at the large dramon digimon with a sudden overflow of fear as he took one step backwards. "Great, since when can the bad guys evolve as well?"
"Oh they can." Taiko responded as she took began to move backwards. "And Megadramon is one of the worst evolutions he could have had, for us."
Hikaru breaking into the conversation could barely hold back his laughter as he made a dramatic sweep with his right arm, once again performing a roman salute. "Megadramon is known as a genocider among digimons, his organic missiles are unrivaled, not to mention his booster claw which can cut through even these rocks with ease."
"All in all, he will have no trouble destroying you losers." Hikaru's laughter ringing out through the area as he watched both of them stepped backwards. "Now die!"
Grabbing Koromon in one move, Taichi wasted no time in putting distance between Megadramon and himself, the massive roar let out telling him that he was going to fail. "Taiko, pull back, we can't beat him like this." The command yelled out as he felt the massive shadow of Megadramon cover him. "Great, this is not how I want to die!"
"Die?" Came the mocking question as Megadramon overtook him, lashing out with his hands, each central claw shimmering before becoming a scythe like appendage that cut into the ground before the human boy. "I won't kill you yet; first I will drag out every bit of fear and despair you have in you."
Spinning around in time to face Nefertimon, the dark dragon roared out as each of his hand snapped open, a missile chamber built into each one. "Genocide Attack!"
Doing her best, Nefertimon dived left and right, hoping against all hope that she could avoid the dozen or so organic missiles that Megadramon had launched at her. "Taiko, listen to him, we have to get out of here, he." The rest was lost as several high powered explosions went off overhead, shockwaves hammering into her mercilessly, driving her downwards. "Run Taiko!"
"Ultimate Slicer!" Twin quick moves of his arms followed his yell, each of his claws cutting into Nefertimon ruthlessly, blood flying through the air as the angel of light's armor failed. "Mvahahaha, die like the loser you are!" The badly hurt Nefertimon getting no chance to do anything as she was mowed down by his tail a split second later, her armor evolution shattering as a white and purple colored feline digimon emerged from the rubble. "As for you partner, she will make a fine first victim for your foolish return!"
Spinning around to attack, Megadramon laughed as his right and left hand central claws transformed into scythes once more, "Brace yourself girl, your death, will be painful!" Rushing forward, he roared as aimed to cut the girl messy haired girl into three parts. "Mega Death Scythe!"
"Meteor Squall!"
The sudden attack cry from above was followed by several meteorites hammering into Megadramon, throwing him off course and right into the rock formation. "Who would dare to?" Spitting out the words as he spun around, he focused rapidly on the Starmons staring down at him, each of them ready for battle. "More victims, very well."
Shooting upwards, he reformed his hands as he felt more of the space born rocks pelting him. "Face the result of your foolish actions you annoying mutant digimons, Genocide Attack!"
The Starmons screaming in fear as their formation broke apart in no time, each organic missiles ripping into the rock face tearing apart either a Starmon or removing the ground beneath one sending it to be destroyed by a landslide rather then getting blown up.
Taichi simply watching it with pure horror on his face, a sick feeling in his stomach as he spun around to face Hikaru sitting calmly on a dragon like digimon he hadn't seen before, when did he get that, something quickly forgotten as his anger rose again. "You, how could you do that to them?"
His words back up by Taiko as she threw a rock after the Dark Dragon digimon. "What the hell is wrong with you, how can you let your partner slaughter digimons like that?"
"Because only strength and power matters in either world," Laughing madly, Hikaru barley battered an eye as a rock got tossed his way. "Really, I thought you learned that years ago brother."
"Remember, your friends, Sora, Yamato, Juni, Koushiro, Michi and little Takeru?" With a voice as cold as ice as he spoke about them, Hikaru barely paid any attention to Megadramon as he continued his attack on the Starmons, their death cries meaning nothing to him. "You were the leader of them, always getting your way when I was clearly better then you."
Snapping out one hand and pointing a finger right at him, the young boy snarled out the next part as his practically glared death at them. "You always got the better things, all the attention, all the praise, but not anymore, your friends learned that when I killed you along with Sora, Koushiro and Takeru."
Eyes narrowing at that little revelation, Taichi felt something inside of him snap, his eyes narrowing as he turned to face Hikaru straight on. "You, you kill them!" Clenching up his hand, he roared as he grabbed a lose rock and sent it flying, aiming right for the younger boy who laughed at his attempt. "Who the hell are you?"
"Idiot!" the reply came as Hikaru faced down Taichi. "I'm your little brother, remember, the sickly one, the one you always treated as a weakling, even when we came to this world you treated me like a little baby."
Snapping his head around, the younger boy stared right at Megadramon as the last of the Starmons fell. "Kill them now; I don't want to look at him for another minute."
Megadramon not responding as he started upwards instead, his wings fluttering nervously as they took in the sight above them, true fear showing in his voice. "We have another problem to deal with right now."
Turning his head to stare up as well, Hikaru let out a loud, dark curse as he watched the angel digimons, hovering above them, its white feathered wings seemingly giving of light as they were held out wide. "What about him? Just delete him so you can kill my worthless brother."
Lifting up his left arm, Lord Holy Angemon stared down at them all with a unreadable expression, his fist clenching up as he took in the sight of the three hurt digimons, the two messy haired humans holding onto two of the digimons, and then finally onto Hikaru and Megadramon. "Your actions, are unforgivable, this day will mark the end of your darkness!"
"Excalibur!" Roaring out the name of his attack, his left wrist glowed as a green energy sword formed, its glow illuminating his face, and the frown he had gained. TBC: Recovery, Lord Holy Angemon.
TBC: Recovery, Lord Holy Angemon.
AN: The beginning of the end to one of the first story arc is here, as Hikaru Yagami has revealed himself at last, claiming to have become more then Taichi ever could be, as he alone rule the digital world with his partner digimon, Megadramon destroying all who stand in his way to claim the ultimate price, Chornomon.