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Spirits of Ages

Chapter 7

"You're all dead, each and every one of you!" Tai yelled. "You just don't know it yet!"

Tai was being subjected to the daily torture known as Gatomon. Right now she was tying a bow around his left ear. A freaking pink bow!

He couldn't wait till he was able to go mega again and go medieval on their asses, especially Gatomon. Then TK, then the rip-off. Maybe he'd let Kari live. She was his sister after all.

He was starting to understand why some digimon wanted to destroy the world. He figured that they too had been subjected to ribbons when they were his stage.

"Serious, this has to stop." Tai said to himself. "If only I could still digivolve." He had tried and tried again but he just couldn't find the energy to do so. Perhaps that was because he was somehow connected to his nephew, through he digivice.

"But where does that leave BlackAgumon?" The egg was somewhere in the kitchen, where they currently were. Probably on the shelf somewhere. He immediately knew who it contained and was rather annoyed by the fact that Gatomon wasn't acting very mothering towards it.

"Agumon is more like a brother to me." She had said.

And so Tai found himself being the only victim to Gatomon's torture.


It took him a few days but he finally gathered enough energy to digivolve. Unfortunate for him, his nephew was there.

'poof'

"What the hell!?" Taichi yelled out. His digimon just exploded!

The smoke quickly cleared, revealing a pissed off looking puppy with a black mane of hair.

"Finally!" It yelled. "Hey cool!" Taichi ran over to his bed and crouched down. He looked the pup in the eyes. "So you finally became something else then a fuzzball, have you?"

"Oh get lost pipsqueak." It said back to him. "Hey!" Taichi yelled out, hating anyone commenting on his size. "You're one to talk, you're barely thirty cm long." Perhaps if the pup stood on his hind legs he'd be able to reach that high. "Besides, aren't you supposed to be my partner digimon, so why the big mouth?"

"I'm not even supposed to be here, let alone be your partner digimon." The puppy jabbed a paw at him.

Taichi hmp'ed and glared at the pup. "Well like it or not, we're a team from now on." Taichi said. "What's your name anyway?"

"Get this damn bow off of me and I'll tell you." Tai said, trying to get the ribbon off of his ear. "And call your mom. Me and her have some things to discuss."

"Eh okay…" Taichi said. What on earth could he want to discuss with his mom? 'Perhaps he doesn't like her cooking.'

Taichi pulled the ribbon off. "So what's your name then?"

"They call me Tai."


"Tai is that really you?" Kari asked. After Taichi had picked his jaw from the floor he had called her in. "It's me all right." He smiled, showing small canine teeth.

"That does explain the assassination attempts on TK…" She mused.

Flashback

"Okay, who of you cut my breaks?"

End flashback

"I had nothing to do with that." Tai said, a halo appearing above his head as he spoke. "Sure you didn't." Kari laughed.

"Oh Tai." She engulfed the canine like digimon in a bone-crushing hug. "Do you know how much we missed you? We looked for years, but never found a trace of your digi-egg."

"That's what happens when you get deleted before Legionmon." He remembered clearly how he and BlackAgumon had collapsed before Legionmon did. "Buried under a monster created from thousands upon thousands of monsters isn't cool."

"Not that I remember much of it." He quickly added. He just assumed that was what had happened.

"Wait, what the hell is Legionmon and why are you called Tai? My uncle is called Tai, but you can't be him, can you?" Taichi was confused. His supposed digimon partner was also his uncle apparently. Life is weird.

"Yes I am and keep quiet would you? The grownups are talking right now." Tai said to his nephew, who started to fume. "You keep quiet! And who are you calling grownup? You don't even reach to my knee!"

"Whatever, I'm still seventeen, that's seven years older then you pipsqueak." Tai retorted as he jumped off of Kari's lap and proceeding to glare at his nephew. "Hey! I'm twelve!" Taichi yelled and glared back. He was to starting to prefer the time where all this digimon did was squeak. But then again, he could be insulting you and you'd never know it.

"Actually Tai, you're forty-two by now." Kari sweatdropped.

Tai deadpanned. "What?"

"Forty-two." Kari said sweetly. "You've been in that egg for twenty-five years."

Tai fell over onto his back, paws in the air, with one occasionally twitching. He knew a lot of time had passed. But twenty-five years? Perhaps fifteen he had thought. Or twenty. But twenty-five? That was a quarter of a century!

"Twenty-five years?" He asked, still not believing it. "So long…"

"Yeah." Kari said, picking the puppy-like digimon up again. She couldn't know what was going on within her brother's mind. She couldn't understand what it felt like.

"So…" Tai started. A million question filled his mind all of a sudden. "What happened while I was gone?"

"Not much." Kari said. "Only the fact that everything's more expensive and we're ruled by giant apes."

"Thought so, it was bad-" Tai's eyes shot open.

"Giant apes? My god, the guy from the movies was right!" Tai yelped.

"Nah, just kidding." Kari said, seeing the look on her brother's face.

"That's a relief." Tai said. "I'd rather not serve some monkey overlords." He laughed. Even after all this time his sister still got him, even if the jokes were rather obvious.

"So what else happened? Nuclear wars? Contact with aliens? Hovercars?" Tai asked. The future had so many possibilities.

"No nuclear wars, yet. They're currently preparing for peace negotiations to prevent that from happening." Kari said, a worried look on her face. But it cleared up rather quickly. "And no aliens yet. Though we have been able to put someone on Mars!"

"On Mars?" Tai asked. "Yeah, guess who's up there right now." Kari could barely contain her laughter.

"No clue." Tai said, though secretly hoping it was TK, preferably without any air.

"It's Matt." Kari laughed. "He was supposed to go to the moon but landed on Mars instead." Tai sweatdropped. Only Matt was able to do something like that.

"But uncle Matt's getting back soon." Taichi said. "It'll take him some time though."

"Oh Matt." Tai said as he shook his head. "Only you are able to pull something like this off." He said, voicing his earlier thoughts.

"And sorry but no, no hovercars yet." Kari smiled apologetically. "They're working on it though. It's Izzy's side project."

Tai laughed at that thought, Izzy flying around in a pimped-out hovercar.

"So what the hell have you people been doing since I was gone?" Tai demanded all of a sudden. he had been gone for twenty-five years. He expected some futuristic things but apparently they were working with the same old stuff as in his time.

"Well…" Kari bit her lip as she thought. She'd rather spare her brother of all the rotten stuff the world has been doing since he got deleted.

"Let's just say that the world is even more screwed up then when you were around." Kari said. "The main problem being that everyone is expecting war to come sooner or later." She sighed. She'd rather spare Tai's in-training form from this as it was more child-like then his champion form. But then he'd just complain about it later.

"So every country started some sort of arms race. Or they just enjoy creating more kinds of weapons." Kari said bitterly, ashamed of what her species was doing.

"Arms race?" Tai asked. "Indeed, that's what the peace negotiations are about." Kari answered. "It was rather foolish to make weapons and then talk."

"And so it backfired on us. Big time." Kari said gloomy. "Some idiots thought it was a good idea to work with bacterial warfare. They created a virus that could kill a human through stress alone."

"And off course, nearly everyone in the world has that problem, so enough daily stress and…" She let that sentence hang.

Tai was horrified by this.

"Those bastards were hung for it though, after the virus broke free. Luckily it was only a prototype!" Kari exclaimed, before berating herself for swearing in front of her son.

"That's just plain awful." Tai said, hoping that whatever that virus did wasn't too bad. It was just a prototype, right? "But enough about the future, okay? It's getting me down."

"Okay!" Kari smiled again. "Anything else you want to know?"

"Yeah, how's Mimi?" He was a bit nervous about asking about that. He figured that she had moved on with her life, just like his sister. His annoying cousin was proof of that.

"What a coincidence." Kari said. "I was just about to go see her. She's in the hospital again."

'Hospital?' He thought. 'Again?!'

"You coming Tai?"

"Yeah!" The two Tais yelled at the same time. "Hey she was talking to me!"

"No she wasn't!" Tai jumped off of Kari's lap and glared at his cousin again.

"Actually I was talking to the both of you." Kari interfered, picking Tai up by the scruff of his neck. "Besides, the tow of you will have to learn to get along. After all, you're partners now." Tai and Taichi looked at one another, before turning their backs to each other and letting out a 'hmpp' For Tai this was rather interesting to see as he was still being held up by his sister.

'Almost exactly the same.' Kari thought. 'If only Gatomon was here right now, that would be even better.' Too bad for her but Gatomon and Patamon were having some 'alone' time. And TK was off doing who knows what. That is, if he survived Tai's latest assassination attempt.

Meanwhile

"Oh come on, not again!" TK yelled as his car went rushing down the road.

And so did the two humans and former human go to the hospital, Tai still not knowing what to expect when he got there.

The other going along with them for his own reasons, having some questions for a certain doctor.


Meanwhile in the digital world.

Deep underground.

A black digi-egg was lying on the ground. Nothing around it but dust and the darkness with in the subterranean cave.

Evil washed off it in waves, corroding the earth around it slowly but surely as it waited in it's underground prison.

Soon it would reach the surface of the digital world once more.

A crack formed on it, purple light breaking through.

And then, in a flash that illuminated the entire cave. It broke apart.


OMG cliff-hanger!

Next chapter: Tai finds a nuclear device and installs it into TK's car! And Tai meets up with Mimi again.

I know it's a bit short but I wanted it out of the way.

Also, check out my profile for my all new author's rant! It has something to do with the fact that I can't seem to be able to write anything other then BH and SoA!

Reviews

Firehedgehog: sure, everyone has one, right? 'shows own kill-list'

Lord Pata: It's Agumon all right. Also, the two of them hitchhiked with Taichi.

Depthmon: I know, and sadly this one was no exception. See my profile for details.

Super garurumon: It would have been, with Joe going to the Naruto-world. Poor Joe. But I deleted it all ready because I can't continue it.

Martiny the one and only still: lol they ate Taichi! Now my fanfiction is doomed! Lol!

anime25: 'shoots tranquiliser dart at anime25' there you go, one update!

Vigatus: Poor Tai. He's going to get issues if this keeps up.

WolfSummoner93: Don't worry, explosions are coming soon

Fruitloop Trooper: don't worry about. But I thought I had send you a message about it… oh well

Rose: Yeah but i post-ponned it for a while.

Takari4ever3012: she is. 'runs and hides'

Beth: about your PM: I had it up for a few days but deleted it again. read on my profile why. Also, I am Flemish, from the north part of Belgium, so I barely speak any French at all. But I do know what Salut means.

A.YamiYugi: glad to have a new reader hope you enjoy this new chapter!

R&R people! It keeps me alive!