Part 3
Okay guys, I need your help again. Can anyone tell me the Ultimate form of Veemon? And the evolved form of Hawkmon, Armadillomon, Wormmon, as well as Willace's Digimon. Thank you.
"Explain this to me again," Willace said, turning to Izzy, Tai and Matt.
Izzy sighed. As he got up from the bench that T.K. had been lying on moments before, he turned to Tai,"It seems people have a problem comprehending this. Okay, it goes like this, the 'new' Digidestined were fighting one of the former Digimon Emperor's creations, called Spacemon. He made a jump through time and took the Digidestined and our friend Leomon with him. We have to find them and tell them to stop Spacemon, fast, because his actions are causing the past to change, sending an energy wave across the Digital World and when it reaches here, Earth will be destroyed.
Willace nodded. "That's what I thought you said. How do we build a time machine?"
"I'm sure you two genius will think of something," Tai said.
"Thanks," they both said, getting to work.
Mimi and Michael just shook their heads. "So," she said,"How are things between you and Sora?"
Matt flinched as Tai sighed deeply. "She broke up with me, and hates me."
"What happened?" she asked.
Tai quickly recounted the fight he and Sora had earlier that evening. "I'm sure she'll come back," Michael said, reassuringly.
"No she won't," he said,"and I can't blame her. She spent nearly four years as my some-what girlfriend, then she became my girlfriend. That's nearly five years of her life that she wastes with me. She would have been so much happier if she never meet me."
"No she wouldn't of!" Mimi said,"Tai, she loves you! She doesn't just think of you as a friend, she wants you to be her husband!"
Tai didn't say anything, he just walked off. Mimi was going to go after him, when Matt stopped her. "He's been like that all night. I think he just needs to be alone."
"Yeah," Mimi said,"But I'm going to call Sora."
Five Years Ago....
Tai and Matt were seated at the bar of a local snack bar. They had finished watching the movie, and were now getting a after dinner snack, before they snuck back into camp.
".....So Matt," Tai said, turning to his friend,"Can I ask you a question?"
"Shoot," he said, taking a sip of his milkshake.
"Can you help me ask a girl out on a date?"
Matt regarded his friend strangly,"Tai, you're eleven years old!"
"I know! I know!" he said,"But...there's this girl..."
"I hope its a girl."
"Very funny," Tai said,"As I was saying.....there's this girl..."
"Who?"
Tai sighed,"Its....Its Sora."
"Sora?" he asked.
"What?"
"Nothing," Matt said,"Its just...yeah, I can see the two of you together, but I thought you were best friends."
"We are," he said,"You see, I've know her for a long time, and well, all of a sudden, I'm starting to see her differently, what should I do?"
"Well, all I can suggest is to ask her out quickly, before I get there!"
Tai smiled,"I'm glad we meet."
"You all ready told me that earlier."
"Hey," Tai said, turning back to his own milkshake,"I can't help it if it's true."
"So, do you have any idea what you want to be when you grow up?"
"Professional soccer player," he said.
Matt laughed,"You have to be pretty good. Do you have a second choice?"
Tai thought for a moment,"Maybe a soldier, or a police man."
"Really?" Matt asked, surprised.
"What?"
"Its just that I have a hard time thinking of you saying," To Serve and Protect!"
"Heroes aren't born, their made," he said.
"Come on," Matt said,"We've got to get back."
They turned around on the bar stools and started to leave, when they saw a group of kids their age picking on a younger boy.
One of the older boys with brown hair walked right over to him,"So, tell me, runt, how much money did you mother give you today, huh?"
"Le-leave me alone!" the young boy said, trying to sound brave.
"Not a chance," a blond haired boy said," you're just a sickly, nutso, bedridden, freak, who still talks to his imaginary friend, who sees monsters! HA!"
Tai clenched his fist as the bully's words brought images of his former friends talking about his sister like that. "Those jerks!" he said.
"Tai," Matt said,"We have to get back to the camp, or we're going to get in trouble."
"Sometimes you have to give of yourself, to do the right thing," he said, walking towards the bullies.
The blond boy reached to pick up the little boy, when Tai yelled at him,"Leave him alone!"
The blond dropped the little boy,"So, you want to defend this little weakling? Fine! Meet me outside!"
"Tai," Matt said,"We need to get back."
"It will only take me a minute to teach him a lesson," Tai said, following them outside.
Matt sighed, following his friend out.
Once they reached the street, the blond turned to Tai. "Let's get this over with, huh?"
"Fine," Tai said.
The blond rushed towards Tai, his fist out, but Tai ducked and slammed the blond in the stomach. He grabbed his wound and stumbled backwards for a moment before Tai slammed him in the face. The blond fell over.
Tai smiled and turned around, when he saw the brown haired boy charging towards him. He didn't have time to block himself. He was ready for the attack, when the brown haired kid suddenly fell to the right.
"Matt?" Tai asked when he saw his friend rubbing his hand.
"That kid had a touch cheek, that's for sure."
The brown haired boy stood back up,"Let's dance!" he yelled.
He charged at Matt and slammed him in the nose. Matt's head flew backwards, blood gushing from his nose.
Tai got up to defend his friend, but he wasn't needed. Matt quickly dropped to the ground, and kicked the brown haired kid in the stomach.
After the last bully fell, Matt turned to Tai. "Why is it, that I get the feeling we're going to be doing this a lot."
Tai laughed, then noticed Matt's nose. "You're bleeding."
"Its okay," Matt said, taking out a tissue,"I'll be fine. What was it that you told me, 'Sometimes you have to give of yourself..."
"...to do the right thing," Tai finished.
"A great motto my friend, I will right it on your tombstone!"
"You and Tai were in a fight at camp?" T.K. asked, amazed at what he just heard.
"Well, sort of," Matt told his brother,"Whenever I come here, I can't help but reflect upon the friendship Tai and I shared before we went to the Digiworld. Then things got worse until the end, when we became friends again."
"So," they heard Tai asked,"What is this thing going to do again?"
"Simply put," Willace said, holding up a helmet time device,"This will allow one of our 'sprits' if you well, to be sent back to the past to tell our friends to stop Spacemon quickly, or all of reality is going to end."
Tai nodded,"Great, but, who's going?"
"I volunteered," Michael said, stepping forward.
Tai looked at him strangely. "Hey," he said,"I never fought any 'Dark Masters' or traveled across giant deserts of Server, or fought a Digimon in the hills of Colorado. When someone asks me what Digidestined are you? I'll be able to say, I'm the one that saved reality!"
"Fair enough," Tai said. He turned to Izzy,"How are we supposed to find them anyway?"
"I'm hoping that the Digivice signal will be a beacon for Michael to find," Izzy said, typing on his laptop. Suddenly, he stopped and had a grim look on his face.
"What are you looking at?"
"The relay from stations in the Digiworld. Another section was destroyed by the wave."
Away from the others, Mimi was talking on her cell phone. "So, Sora," she said,"How are you?"
"I'm just fine," she said,"I haven't been better since I broke up with Tai."
"But Sora," Mimi said,"He's...I think he's thinking about committing suicide."
"Well fine!" she yelled into the phone,"If you're so worried about him, why don't you waste five years of your life with him! Then maybe you'd understand how I feel!"
Mimi heard a slam right before the line went dead.
"Okay," Willace said, placing the helmet on Micheal's head,"We are ready to transmit."
"Okay," Izzy said, typing a few commands into his laptop. He pressed the enter button,"Here we go."
to be continued....
part 4:
For those of you reading, "Time Wars" I haven't forgotten about it, I'll get the next part out soon.
And thanks to psychodigiman for the evolved forms of the Digimon I asked for. Now, does anyone know Willace's Digimon? and their evolved forms?
Now, on to the story!
The past...
The five Digidestined that were trapped in the past were enjoying a walk through the campsite.
"So," Yolei said,"This is where it all began, huh? Hard to believe that the kids that saved the world were pulled through in summer camp."
"It's a humble beginning, isn't it?" Ken asked.
"Huh?" Davis asked.
"Well," Ken said,"Its like this, those same kids saved the entire world, its sort of weird that they were pulled to the Digi World while they were at summer camp."
"No, no," Davis said,"What does, 'humble' mean?"
Just as Ken was about to explain it to him, the ground in front of them started to glow.
"What's happening?" Cody asked.
No one could answer him. The ground started to glow a bright red light and there was a small nova. When the light dimmed, they saw a transparent figure lying on the ground.
He moaned a bit, then stood up,"Wh-where am I?" He looked around and saw the Digidestined.
"Michael?" they all asked.
"No time to talk..." he said, as he transparent being started to flicker,"Listen to me! Spacemon is here! You have to find him and stop him! The Digiworld is being destroyed, because Spacemon has come back to change to past."
Micheal's figure started to disapear,"Hurry!" he called out,"You have to find Spacemon and stop him!"
the present....
Micheal felt his consciousness slam back into his body in the present. He moaned and opened his eyes and saw the Digidestined standing in front of him.
"Are you okay?" Mimi said, pushing through the others.
"Yeah," he said, taking the helmet off his head,"yeah, I'm...I'm fine."
"What happened?" Tai asked.
"Did you talk to the others?" T.K. asked,"Is Kari okay?"
"They're all fine," Micheal said,"I was drawn to them, just as Izzy said. I told them what was happening. Now its up to them."
Izzy was looking at the screen on his laptop,"Guys, that wave is heading towards File Island. And once it reaches there, it will travel through the portal. We'll be the first to go."
Tai sighed and nodded. "How long?"
"I'd say a little less than an hour," he said, resting his fingers on the keys,"I'm sorry."
Sora ran as quickly as she could towards the bus terminal. She couldn't believe herself earlier. Mimi told her Tai was going suicidal, and she didn't care. Now, she was trying to get to their old camp as fast as she could, hoping that she could stop him from destroying himself.
the past....
Tai was lying on a branch in a tree, trying to catch up on the sleep he and Matt missed last night from watching the movie. He was just starting to doze off, when he felt something land on his nose. He quickly sat up and scanned the area. "I don't believe this," he said,"Its snowing!"
He looked around and saw a bunch of other kids on the ground below him. Matt was there, with T.K., Sora too. And some kids he didn't know, only heard of. He was about to tell them that they should hurry up and get inside, when there was an explosion on the ground, throwing the seven kids in all directions.
"Woah!" Tai yelled, landing in a pile of newly fallen snow. He saw the world start to go blurry, when he heard Sora yell out his name. Tai shook his head and the world returned to normal.
He felt someone grab his hand and hoist him up. "Tai, are you okay?"
Tai placed a hand to his head,"Yeah," he said,"I..I think so. Matt, what's going on?"
"Tai!" Sora yelled, running over to him, "Are you okay?"
He smiled,"I am now."
"That is a state of being you will not be enjoying for much longer!"
The three friends turned to the sky and saw a figure floating amongst the falling snow. He wore a white cloak, had jet black hair litter with stars, but the most frightening thing about him was the streams of energy flowing from his clenched fists.
"Greetings!" he said,"I am called Spacemon! I have traveled far to reach this moment, Digidestined! Now, Taichi Kamiya, Sora Takenouchi, Yamato Ishida, and once I find the others, they as well, will become slaves for my master!"
The others, seeing what was happening, quickly got up and ran off.
The three were frozen in terror, when the sky started to light up. Spacemon turned for a moment, and looked,"What is this? It looks like a gate from the Digital World! What can this..."
He was cut off when a glowing hot item slammed him in the face, bounced off, and continued its descent towards earth. Spacemon was growling with anger as he saw six others shoot in every direction..
"No!" Spacemon yelled,"The original Digivices! I must infect Kamiya, Takenouchi, and Ishida quickly!"
He turned around, but there was no sign of his prey, all that was left were three sets of footprints. "No! They're gone!"
"What are these things?" Sora asked, holding up the strange electronical device that landed in her hands while she was running for her life.
"I wish I knew," Tai said, holding up his,"Matt's got one too!"
"What was that kid's name...Izzy?" Matt asked,"He probably would know. He had all those electronical things with him."
"Why are we even holding them?" Sora asked.
"When they came out of those weird lights in the sky, mine hit Spacemon in the face!" Tai said,"Did you see how much it hurt him? I think we can use them to stop him."
"I hope you're right," Matt said, turning a glance back at the sky. Those weird lights were still there, and others were now appearing. "Guys!" he yelled,"Its happening again!"
Tai and Sora stopped and turned around. They saw seven more lights shoot out of the sky, three of which were speeding towards them.
Tai yelled out when one of the lights hit him in the stomach and knocked him over. He closed his eyes for a moment, and when he opened them again, he saw a pink blob sitting on his chest. "Hi! I'm Koromon!"
the present...
"For what?" Mimi asked, resting her hands on Izzy's shoulders,"Its not your fault that the world is going to end."
Once again, Mimi spoke out bluntly, revealing the truth that everyone else there didn't want to accept. Their world was going to die.
Izzy just stared at the screen of his laptop. "Our world is going to die," he said, "How can this be? All that we've done is for naught. All that we've been through....I just built a time machine for..for pete's sake, and now I won't ever be able to use it."
"Izzy," Mimi said, walking over to him,"This is long overdue, but I just want to thank you."
"For what?" he asked.
"For saving me that time on File Island, remember?"
Izzy started to laugh,"Yeah, I remember."
Then Mimi walked over to Matt," and thak you for standing up for me all those times."
Then she walked over to Tai. She lightly kissed him on the cheek,"Just something to remember me by."
Tai started to turn red as Mimi walked away.
Matt stood next to Tai. "Tai, if this really is the end, I want to tell you something..thank you, actually. Thank you for being me friend. What were the words we shared five years ago?"
"I'm glad that I met you," Tai said,"And I truly mean it."
"Izzy," Willace said, walking towards him,"I..I know we haven't know each very long, but I want to tell you that...I'm glad that we shared those small talks in the chat rooms."
Izzy smiled,"I'm glad to have known you too."
"T.K.?" Matt asked, walking towards his younger brother,"you're being awfully quiet."
T.K. half smiled. "Sure, when the worlds going to end, I just like the be the life of the party."
Matt smiled,"You always were, little brother. What is going through your head right now?"
"Its just...I wish I could have seen dad one more time, and tell him how much I love him."
"He knows," Matt said,"He always knew. What about mom? Does she ever think about me?"
"Every signal day," T.K. said,"I wish I could say goodbye to her and dad. and...I wish I could have told Kari how I felt about her."
Mimi walked over to where she saw Micheal sitting on the ground, watching the skies. "Michael?" she asked,"Can we talk?"
He stood up.
"I..I know how you feel about me," she said.
"But you've given your heart to another, I know," he said.
She nodded. "Did you ever think about...maybe the two of us having a chance?"
He looked down at the ground,"Mimi, I..."
Tai looked at the ground on the bench he was sitting on. He saw that everyone had someone to talk to, Izzy and Willace, Mimi and Micheal, Matt and T.K., but he sat alone. He looked up at the sky,"Sora, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I wasted five years of your live, but...I wish you were here right now."
He then looked back at the ground, he thought about Kari, Agumon, Wizardmon and everyone else. He thought about the pain he caused everyone, and how it would have been a much better world without him.
But, as he now thought of it, he did something he hadn't done in years. It might have been for less then a minute, but Tai allowed himself to cry.
the past....
When the Digidestined, their Digimon, and Leomon reached the area, they couldn't believe it. Yolei was the first one to speak. "This can't be happening!"
Ken looked at her strangely, then he looked back at the sight. A younger Matt was riding a big blue wolf, jumping around in the snow. The wolf fired a blue beam from his mouth at the floating Spacemon in the sky. Spacemon blocked the attack, sending the beam in all directions. "This is happening!" Ken said.
"What she means is," Kari said,"this never happened! Tai told me about this day, the day the Digidestined first entered the Digiworld! I don't think it would have slipped my brother's mind to mention that he was first introduced to the Digimon while watching Matt and Garurumon tear up the summer camp in a fight with Spacemon, do you?"
"We've got to help, Kari!" Gatomon said.
"I agree!" Leomon said,"We have to stop Spacemon before the future is changed forever."
"If only I could figure out what program is motivating him," Ken said,"Then maybe I could end this."
Away from the battlefield, at an abandoned cabin, Sora turned her head. "Tai, did you hear that?"
"Yes," Tai said, pulling Sora and that weird creature at her legs inside,"I heard."
"How can you be so calm!" she said,"That girl that we saw the other day, just say she was your sister! But, how can that be?"
"In light of what's happening," he said,"I find their claims easy to accept." He turned to the strange radish at her feet,"What did you say your name was?"
"Yokomon!" she said.
"Okay, Yokomon, stay here and watch after Sora. I have to help Matt. Let's go, Koromon."
Tai turned to leave, when Sora grabbed his shoulder,"What are you talking about? You can't go!"
Tai turned back to her. "Sora, if anything should happen to me, promise me you'll look after Kari. Promise me you'll be her big sister."
"Tai," Sora began.
"Please?"
"Okay,"she said, "I Promise."
"Thank you," he said. Then he through her inside the cabin and locked the door, despite her pleas to open it.
Tai quickly ran to where the battle was taking place. "Okay, some of you can tell me what's going....on......"
He stared as he saw, without a doubt, his sister. "Kari?"
"Yeah," she said,"Its me."
"But...but my sister is only eight years old! You..you're at least eleven. This in incredible! Spacemon was telling the truth! You're all from the future!"
the present...
Sora looked out of the window of the bus. She was almost at the camp. She didn't know why she was in such a hurry, only that if she didn't tell Tai how much she really loved him, she'd never get the chance.
the past....
Matt and Garurumon jumped up and tried to attack Spacemon, but he fired an energy clamp at them, holding them in place. "I won't let you destroy me! I still have to finish my mission!"
"What mission?" Matt asked, struggling against the clamp.
"You see, I was created with the mission of turning the original Digidestined against the new ones. But, I couldn't do it in my time, your Digivices would stop any Dark Ring from being placed on you, but, I can do it now! You've just gotten your Digivices! They haven't bounded with you yet! Now, you will become my masters's slave, Digidestined!"
Tai reached towards his belt and pulled out the strange device. "This is a...Digivice? Just like the others?"
"What others?" Ken asked.
"I saw others, heading out in different directions of the camp," Tai said.
"That means the other Digidestined got their Digivices!" he said,"And the Digital Gate's still open in the sky! Spacemon must be causing interference! If we beat him, the original Digidestined were be pulled through, no matter where they are! And time will be set right!"
Tai turned to Koromon. "We can fight, right?"
Koromon nodded. "Koromon digivolve to Agumon!"
"Wow!" Tai said,"You've changed! Let's help Matt!"
"Digi-armor energize!"
"Veemon armor digivolve to Flamedramon!"
"Hawkmon armor digivolve to Holsemon!"
"Armidillomon digivolve to Digmon!"
"Wormmon digivolve to Stingmon!"
"Gatomon digivolve to Angewomon!"
"Agumon digivolve to Greymon!"
Tai couldn't believe what was happening, despite his presence there. This was like a dream. And as he watched Spacemon drop Matt and Garurumon, then blast the other Digimon, causing them to fall, he knew it was a nightmare. A nightmare he had enough of. He ran to the main cabin. He ran to the antique sword that was part of the seal of the man who started the camp. He quickly ran back out side to where his large partner was slowly getting up from the ground.
"Greymon!" he yelled,"You said you came to help me right? Then help!"
Greymon lowered his head, and Tai jumped on his head. "Get me close enough to Spacemon," he said,"I'm going to end this!"
Greymon got him close enough behind Spacemon, that he didn't notice him. "Spacemon!" Tai yelled,"You come here, ready to kill my friends, to destroy the future, and I won't allow it!"
Tai jumped off of Greymon's head, sword ready, and jabbed it deep down into Spacemon's back. Currents of electricity sweeped up the blade of the sword. Tai felt pain like he never had before, but he kept pressing the sword deeper and deeper in Spacemon's back. It was never a choice for him. A being came back to destroy the future, to hurt his friends, to kill innocent people, and he wouldn't take it.
Tai gave the sword one last push, and Spacemon exploded. Tai was sent flying backwards and slammed into a pile of snow.
"T-Tai?" Matt asked, stumbling over to his fallen friend,"Tai. Tai are you...Tai. No! NO! NO! Tai, you-you can't be....dead."
But there was no denying it as Matt held the lifeless body of his friend in his arms. The Digivice that Tai wore around his waist stopped beeping, and Greymon turned back to Agumon.
The Digidestined stared in horror. "Tai...Tai's dead." Cody said,"But..But he can't be dead! If he's dead in the past, what happens to the future?"
"The gate!" Ken said, pointing to the sky,"The gate's closing! Without Tai's Digivice, the gate can't be kept open! The Digidestined aren't going to the Digiworld! The future has been changed forever!"
"We won't be around to see it!" Yolei cried, as she and the other time-displaced warriors started to fade,"We're disappearing!"
They all vanished, all except for Leomon, his mind damaged by the explosion of Spacemon, returned, instead, through the Digital Gate seconds before it disappeared, the last survivor of a world gone forever.
Matt held Tai's lifeless body in his arms, certain of one thing, the world would never be the same again.
the present....
Sora had gotten off of the bus at the stop for the camp. She smiled slightly as she thought about what happened five years ago here, but she didn't have time. She had to get to Tai quickly.
Izzy looked up from his laptop,"Tai, its almost here."
Tai nodded, then looked at those that were assembled. He nodded and said,"I guess that as the leader, I should say something, so I will. Thank you. Thank you, for following the path that I laid out. Thank you for not fighting being Digidestined, you embraced it and faced your destines without fear. And most importantly, thank you, for letting me be your friend."
The sky above them started to glow. "Its here," Izzy said.
Sora had reached the hill and saw the others standing in the same place that they were first pulled in. "Tai!" she cried out, but she couldn't be sure if he ever heard him, for at that moment, what Genai called, 'the annihilation wave' exited the portal and entered Earth.
The wave swept over the campsite, and moving onto Tokyo, destroying everything in its wake. Leaving only death, and only the possibility of what might have been.
THE END
Okay guys, I need your help again. Can anyone tell me the Ultimate form of Veemon? And the evolved form of Hawkmon, Armadillomon, Wormmon, as well as Willace's Digimon. Thank you.
"Explain this to me again," Willace said, turning to Izzy, Tai and Matt.
Izzy sighed. As he got up from the bench that T.K. had been lying on moments before, he turned to Tai,"It seems people have a problem comprehending this. Okay, it goes like this, the 'new' Digidestined were fighting one of the former Digimon Emperor's creations, called Spacemon. He made a jump through time and took the Digidestined and our friend Leomon with him. We have to find them and tell them to stop Spacemon, fast, because his actions are causing the past to change, sending an energy wave across the Digital World and when it reaches here, Earth will be destroyed.
Willace nodded. "That's what I thought you said. How do we build a time machine?"
"I'm sure you two genius will think of something," Tai said.
"Thanks," they both said, getting to work.
Mimi and Michael just shook their heads. "So," she said,"How are things between you and Sora?"
Matt flinched as Tai sighed deeply. "She broke up with me, and hates me."
"What happened?" she asked.
Tai quickly recounted the fight he and Sora had earlier that evening. "I'm sure she'll come back," Michael said, reassuringly.
"No she won't," he said,"and I can't blame her. She spent nearly four years as my some-what girlfriend, then she became my girlfriend. That's nearly five years of her life that she wastes with me. She would have been so much happier if she never meet me."
"No she wouldn't of!" Mimi said,"Tai, she loves you! She doesn't just think of you as a friend, she wants you to be her husband!"
Tai didn't say anything, he just walked off. Mimi was going to go after him, when Matt stopped her. "He's been like that all night. I think he just needs to be alone."
"Yeah," Mimi said,"But I'm going to call Sora."
Five Years Ago....
Tai and Matt were seated at the bar of a local snack bar. They had finished watching the movie, and were now getting a after dinner snack, before they snuck back into camp.
".....So Matt," Tai said, turning to his friend,"Can I ask you a question?"
"Shoot," he said, taking a sip of his milkshake.
"Can you help me ask a girl out on a date?"
Matt regarded his friend strangly,"Tai, you're eleven years old!"
"I know! I know!" he said,"But...there's this girl..."
"I hope its a girl."
"Very funny," Tai said,"As I was saying.....there's this girl..."
"Who?"
Tai sighed,"Its....Its Sora."
"Sora?" he asked.
"What?"
"Nothing," Matt said,"Its just...yeah, I can see the two of you together, but I thought you were best friends."
"We are," he said,"You see, I've know her for a long time, and well, all of a sudden, I'm starting to see her differently, what should I do?"
"Well, all I can suggest is to ask her out quickly, before I get there!"
Tai smiled,"I'm glad we meet."
"You all ready told me that earlier."
"Hey," Tai said, turning back to his own milkshake,"I can't help it if it's true."
"So, do you have any idea what you want to be when you grow up?"
"Professional soccer player," he said.
Matt laughed,"You have to be pretty good. Do you have a second choice?"
Tai thought for a moment,"Maybe a soldier, or a police man."
"Really?" Matt asked, surprised.
"What?"
"Its just that I have a hard time thinking of you saying," To Serve and Protect!"
"Heroes aren't born, their made," he said.
"Come on," Matt said,"We've got to get back."
They turned around on the bar stools and started to leave, when they saw a group of kids their age picking on a younger boy.
One of the older boys with brown hair walked right over to him,"So, tell me, runt, how much money did you mother give you today, huh?"
"Le-leave me alone!" the young boy said, trying to sound brave.
"Not a chance," a blond haired boy said," you're just a sickly, nutso, bedridden, freak, who still talks to his imaginary friend, who sees monsters! HA!"
Tai clenched his fist as the bully's words brought images of his former friends talking about his sister like that. "Those jerks!" he said.
"Tai," Matt said,"We have to get back to the camp, or we're going to get in trouble."
"Sometimes you have to give of yourself, to do the right thing," he said, walking towards the bullies.
The blond boy reached to pick up the little boy, when Tai yelled at him,"Leave him alone!"
The blond dropped the little boy,"So, you want to defend this little weakling? Fine! Meet me outside!"
"Tai," Matt said,"We need to get back."
"It will only take me a minute to teach him a lesson," Tai said, following them outside.
Matt sighed, following his friend out.
Once they reached the street, the blond turned to Tai. "Let's get this over with, huh?"
"Fine," Tai said.
The blond rushed towards Tai, his fist out, but Tai ducked and slammed the blond in the stomach. He grabbed his wound and stumbled backwards for a moment before Tai slammed him in the face. The blond fell over.
Tai smiled and turned around, when he saw the brown haired boy charging towards him. He didn't have time to block himself. He was ready for the attack, when the brown haired kid suddenly fell to the right.
"Matt?" Tai asked when he saw his friend rubbing his hand.
"That kid had a touch cheek, that's for sure."
The brown haired boy stood back up,"Let's dance!" he yelled.
He charged at Matt and slammed him in the nose. Matt's head flew backwards, blood gushing from his nose.
Tai got up to defend his friend, but he wasn't needed. Matt quickly dropped to the ground, and kicked the brown haired kid in the stomach.
After the last bully fell, Matt turned to Tai. "Why is it, that I get the feeling we're going to be doing this a lot."
Tai laughed, then noticed Matt's nose. "You're bleeding."
"Its okay," Matt said, taking out a tissue,"I'll be fine. What was it that you told me, 'Sometimes you have to give of yourself..."
"...to do the right thing," Tai finished.
"A great motto my friend, I will right it on your tombstone!"
"You and Tai were in a fight at camp?" T.K. asked, amazed at what he just heard.
"Well, sort of," Matt told his brother,"Whenever I come here, I can't help but reflect upon the friendship Tai and I shared before we went to the Digiworld. Then things got worse until the end, when we became friends again."
"So," they heard Tai asked,"What is this thing going to do again?"
"Simply put," Willace said, holding up a helmet time device,"This will allow one of our 'sprits' if you well, to be sent back to the past to tell our friends to stop Spacemon quickly, or all of reality is going to end."
Tai nodded,"Great, but, who's going?"
"I volunteered," Michael said, stepping forward.
Tai looked at him strangely. "Hey," he said,"I never fought any 'Dark Masters' or traveled across giant deserts of Server, or fought a Digimon in the hills of Colorado. When someone asks me what Digidestined are you? I'll be able to say, I'm the one that saved reality!"
"Fair enough," Tai said. He turned to Izzy,"How are we supposed to find them anyway?"
"I'm hoping that the Digivice signal will be a beacon for Michael to find," Izzy said, typing on his laptop. Suddenly, he stopped and had a grim look on his face.
"What are you looking at?"
"The relay from stations in the Digiworld. Another section was destroyed by the wave."
Away from the others, Mimi was talking on her cell phone. "So, Sora," she said,"How are you?"
"I'm just fine," she said,"I haven't been better since I broke up with Tai."
"But Sora," Mimi said,"He's...I think he's thinking about committing suicide."
"Well fine!" she yelled into the phone,"If you're so worried about him, why don't you waste five years of your life with him! Then maybe you'd understand how I feel!"
Mimi heard a slam right before the line went dead.
"Okay," Willace said, placing the helmet on Micheal's head,"We are ready to transmit."
"Okay," Izzy said, typing a few commands into his laptop. He pressed the enter button,"Here we go."
to be continued....
part 4:
For those of you reading, "Time Wars" I haven't forgotten about it, I'll get the next part out soon.
And thanks to psychodigiman for the evolved forms of the Digimon I asked for. Now, does anyone know Willace's Digimon? and their evolved forms?
Now, on to the story!
The past...
The five Digidestined that were trapped in the past were enjoying a walk through the campsite.
"So," Yolei said,"This is where it all began, huh? Hard to believe that the kids that saved the world were pulled through in summer camp."
"It's a humble beginning, isn't it?" Ken asked.
"Huh?" Davis asked.
"Well," Ken said,"Its like this, those same kids saved the entire world, its sort of weird that they were pulled to the Digi World while they were at summer camp."
"No, no," Davis said,"What does, 'humble' mean?"
Just as Ken was about to explain it to him, the ground in front of them started to glow.
"What's happening?" Cody asked.
No one could answer him. The ground started to glow a bright red light and there was a small nova. When the light dimmed, they saw a transparent figure lying on the ground.
He moaned a bit, then stood up,"Wh-where am I?" He looked around and saw the Digidestined.
"Michael?" they all asked.
"No time to talk..." he said, as he transparent being started to flicker,"Listen to me! Spacemon is here! You have to find him and stop him! The Digiworld is being destroyed, because Spacemon has come back to change to past."
Micheal's figure started to disapear,"Hurry!" he called out,"You have to find Spacemon and stop him!"
the present....
Micheal felt his consciousness slam back into his body in the present. He moaned and opened his eyes and saw the Digidestined standing in front of him.
"Are you okay?" Mimi said, pushing through the others.
"Yeah," he said, taking the helmet off his head,"yeah, I'm...I'm fine."
"What happened?" Tai asked.
"Did you talk to the others?" T.K. asked,"Is Kari okay?"
"They're all fine," Micheal said,"I was drawn to them, just as Izzy said. I told them what was happening. Now its up to them."
Izzy was looking at the screen on his laptop,"Guys, that wave is heading towards File Island. And once it reaches there, it will travel through the portal. We'll be the first to go."
Tai sighed and nodded. "How long?"
"I'd say a little less than an hour," he said, resting his fingers on the keys,"I'm sorry."
Sora ran as quickly as she could towards the bus terminal. She couldn't believe herself earlier. Mimi told her Tai was going suicidal, and she didn't care. Now, she was trying to get to their old camp as fast as she could, hoping that she could stop him from destroying himself.
the past....
Tai was lying on a branch in a tree, trying to catch up on the sleep he and Matt missed last night from watching the movie. He was just starting to doze off, when he felt something land on his nose. He quickly sat up and scanned the area. "I don't believe this," he said,"Its snowing!"
He looked around and saw a bunch of other kids on the ground below him. Matt was there, with T.K., Sora too. And some kids he didn't know, only heard of. He was about to tell them that they should hurry up and get inside, when there was an explosion on the ground, throwing the seven kids in all directions.
"Woah!" Tai yelled, landing in a pile of newly fallen snow. He saw the world start to go blurry, when he heard Sora yell out his name. Tai shook his head and the world returned to normal.
He felt someone grab his hand and hoist him up. "Tai, are you okay?"
Tai placed a hand to his head,"Yeah," he said,"I..I think so. Matt, what's going on?"
"Tai!" Sora yelled, running over to him, "Are you okay?"
He smiled,"I am now."
"That is a state of being you will not be enjoying for much longer!"
The three friends turned to the sky and saw a figure floating amongst the falling snow. He wore a white cloak, had jet black hair litter with stars, but the most frightening thing about him was the streams of energy flowing from his clenched fists.
"Greetings!" he said,"I am called Spacemon! I have traveled far to reach this moment, Digidestined! Now, Taichi Kamiya, Sora Takenouchi, Yamato Ishida, and once I find the others, they as well, will become slaves for my master!"
The others, seeing what was happening, quickly got up and ran off.
The three were frozen in terror, when the sky started to light up. Spacemon turned for a moment, and looked,"What is this? It looks like a gate from the Digital World! What can this..."
He was cut off when a glowing hot item slammed him in the face, bounced off, and continued its descent towards earth. Spacemon was growling with anger as he saw six others shoot in every direction..
"No!" Spacemon yelled,"The original Digivices! I must infect Kamiya, Takenouchi, and Ishida quickly!"
He turned around, but there was no sign of his prey, all that was left were three sets of footprints. "No! They're gone!"
"What are these things?" Sora asked, holding up the strange electronical device that landed in her hands while she was running for her life.
"I wish I knew," Tai said, holding up his,"Matt's got one too!"
"What was that kid's name...Izzy?" Matt asked,"He probably would know. He had all those electronical things with him."
"Why are we even holding them?" Sora asked.
"When they came out of those weird lights in the sky, mine hit Spacemon in the face!" Tai said,"Did you see how much it hurt him? I think we can use them to stop him."
"I hope you're right," Matt said, turning a glance back at the sky. Those weird lights were still there, and others were now appearing. "Guys!" he yelled,"Its happening again!"
Tai and Sora stopped and turned around. They saw seven more lights shoot out of the sky, three of which were speeding towards them.
Tai yelled out when one of the lights hit him in the stomach and knocked him over. He closed his eyes for a moment, and when he opened them again, he saw a pink blob sitting on his chest. "Hi! I'm Koromon!"
the present...
"For what?" Mimi asked, resting her hands on Izzy's shoulders,"Its not your fault that the world is going to end."
Once again, Mimi spoke out bluntly, revealing the truth that everyone else there didn't want to accept. Their world was going to die.
Izzy just stared at the screen of his laptop. "Our world is going to die," he said, "How can this be? All that we've done is for naught. All that we've been through....I just built a time machine for..for pete's sake, and now I won't ever be able to use it."
"Izzy," Mimi said, walking over to him,"This is long overdue, but I just want to thank you."
"For what?" he asked.
"For saving me that time on File Island, remember?"
Izzy started to laugh,"Yeah, I remember."
Then Mimi walked over to Matt," and thak you for standing up for me all those times."
Then she walked over to Tai. She lightly kissed him on the cheek,"Just something to remember me by."
Tai started to turn red as Mimi walked away.
Matt stood next to Tai. "Tai, if this really is the end, I want to tell you something..thank you, actually. Thank you for being me friend. What were the words we shared five years ago?"
"I'm glad that I met you," Tai said,"And I truly mean it."
"Izzy," Willace said, walking towards him,"I..I know we haven't know each very long, but I want to tell you that...I'm glad that we shared those small talks in the chat rooms."
Izzy smiled,"I'm glad to have known you too."
"T.K.?" Matt asked, walking towards his younger brother,"you're being awfully quiet."
T.K. half smiled. "Sure, when the worlds going to end, I just like the be the life of the party."
Matt smiled,"You always were, little brother. What is going through your head right now?"
"Its just...I wish I could have seen dad one more time, and tell him how much I love him."
"He knows," Matt said,"He always knew. What about mom? Does she ever think about me?"
"Every signal day," T.K. said,"I wish I could say goodbye to her and dad. and...I wish I could have told Kari how I felt about her."
Mimi walked over to where she saw Micheal sitting on the ground, watching the skies. "Michael?" she asked,"Can we talk?"
He stood up.
"I..I know how you feel about me," she said.
"But you've given your heart to another, I know," he said.
She nodded. "Did you ever think about...maybe the two of us having a chance?"
He looked down at the ground,"Mimi, I..."
Tai looked at the ground on the bench he was sitting on. He saw that everyone had someone to talk to, Izzy and Willace, Mimi and Micheal, Matt and T.K., but he sat alone. He looked up at the sky,"Sora, I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I wasted five years of your live, but...I wish you were here right now."
He then looked back at the ground, he thought about Kari, Agumon, Wizardmon and everyone else. He thought about the pain he caused everyone, and how it would have been a much better world without him.
But, as he now thought of it, he did something he hadn't done in years. It might have been for less then a minute, but Tai allowed himself to cry.
the past....
When the Digidestined, their Digimon, and Leomon reached the area, they couldn't believe it. Yolei was the first one to speak. "This can't be happening!"
Ken looked at her strangely, then he looked back at the sight. A younger Matt was riding a big blue wolf, jumping around in the snow. The wolf fired a blue beam from his mouth at the floating Spacemon in the sky. Spacemon blocked the attack, sending the beam in all directions. "This is happening!" Ken said.
"What she means is," Kari said,"this never happened! Tai told me about this day, the day the Digidestined first entered the Digiworld! I don't think it would have slipped my brother's mind to mention that he was first introduced to the Digimon while watching Matt and Garurumon tear up the summer camp in a fight with Spacemon, do you?"
"We've got to help, Kari!" Gatomon said.
"I agree!" Leomon said,"We have to stop Spacemon before the future is changed forever."
"If only I could figure out what program is motivating him," Ken said,"Then maybe I could end this."
Away from the battlefield, at an abandoned cabin, Sora turned her head. "Tai, did you hear that?"
"Yes," Tai said, pulling Sora and that weird creature at her legs inside,"I heard."
"How can you be so calm!" she said,"That girl that we saw the other day, just say she was your sister! But, how can that be?"
"In light of what's happening," he said,"I find their claims easy to accept." He turned to the strange radish at her feet,"What did you say your name was?"
"Yokomon!" she said.
"Okay, Yokomon, stay here and watch after Sora. I have to help Matt. Let's go, Koromon."
Tai turned to leave, when Sora grabbed his shoulder,"What are you talking about? You can't go!"
Tai turned back to her. "Sora, if anything should happen to me, promise me you'll look after Kari. Promise me you'll be her big sister."
"Tai," Sora began.
"Please?"
"Okay,"she said, "I Promise."
"Thank you," he said. Then he through her inside the cabin and locked the door, despite her pleas to open it.
Tai quickly ran to where the battle was taking place. "Okay, some of you can tell me what's going....on......"
He stared as he saw, without a doubt, his sister. "Kari?"
"Yeah," she said,"Its me."
"But...but my sister is only eight years old! You..you're at least eleven. This in incredible! Spacemon was telling the truth! You're all from the future!"
the present...
Sora looked out of the window of the bus. She was almost at the camp. She didn't know why she was in such a hurry, only that if she didn't tell Tai how much she really loved him, she'd never get the chance.
the past....
Matt and Garurumon jumped up and tried to attack Spacemon, but he fired an energy clamp at them, holding them in place. "I won't let you destroy me! I still have to finish my mission!"
"What mission?" Matt asked, struggling against the clamp.
"You see, I was created with the mission of turning the original Digidestined against the new ones. But, I couldn't do it in my time, your Digivices would stop any Dark Ring from being placed on you, but, I can do it now! You've just gotten your Digivices! They haven't bounded with you yet! Now, you will become my masters's slave, Digidestined!"
Tai reached towards his belt and pulled out the strange device. "This is a...Digivice? Just like the others?"
"What others?" Ken asked.
"I saw others, heading out in different directions of the camp," Tai said.
"That means the other Digidestined got their Digivices!" he said,"And the Digital Gate's still open in the sky! Spacemon must be causing interference! If we beat him, the original Digidestined were be pulled through, no matter where they are! And time will be set right!"
Tai turned to Koromon. "We can fight, right?"
Koromon nodded. "Koromon digivolve to Agumon!"
"Wow!" Tai said,"You've changed! Let's help Matt!"
"Digi-armor energize!"
"Veemon armor digivolve to Flamedramon!"
"Hawkmon armor digivolve to Holsemon!"
"Armidillomon digivolve to Digmon!"
"Wormmon digivolve to Stingmon!"
"Gatomon digivolve to Angewomon!"
"Agumon digivolve to Greymon!"
Tai couldn't believe what was happening, despite his presence there. This was like a dream. And as he watched Spacemon drop Matt and Garurumon, then blast the other Digimon, causing them to fall, he knew it was a nightmare. A nightmare he had enough of. He ran to the main cabin. He ran to the antique sword that was part of the seal of the man who started the camp. He quickly ran back out side to where his large partner was slowly getting up from the ground.
"Greymon!" he yelled,"You said you came to help me right? Then help!"
Greymon lowered his head, and Tai jumped on his head. "Get me close enough to Spacemon," he said,"I'm going to end this!"
Greymon got him close enough behind Spacemon, that he didn't notice him. "Spacemon!" Tai yelled,"You come here, ready to kill my friends, to destroy the future, and I won't allow it!"
Tai jumped off of Greymon's head, sword ready, and jabbed it deep down into Spacemon's back. Currents of electricity sweeped up the blade of the sword. Tai felt pain like he never had before, but he kept pressing the sword deeper and deeper in Spacemon's back. It was never a choice for him. A being came back to destroy the future, to hurt his friends, to kill innocent people, and he wouldn't take it.
Tai gave the sword one last push, and Spacemon exploded. Tai was sent flying backwards and slammed into a pile of snow.
"T-Tai?" Matt asked, stumbling over to his fallen friend,"Tai. Tai are you...Tai. No! NO! NO! Tai, you-you can't be....dead."
But there was no denying it as Matt held the lifeless body of his friend in his arms. The Digivice that Tai wore around his waist stopped beeping, and Greymon turned back to Agumon.
The Digidestined stared in horror. "Tai...Tai's dead." Cody said,"But..But he can't be dead! If he's dead in the past, what happens to the future?"
"The gate!" Ken said, pointing to the sky,"The gate's closing! Without Tai's Digivice, the gate can't be kept open! The Digidestined aren't going to the Digiworld! The future has been changed forever!"
"We won't be around to see it!" Yolei cried, as she and the other time-displaced warriors started to fade,"We're disappearing!"
They all vanished, all except for Leomon, his mind damaged by the explosion of Spacemon, returned, instead, through the Digital Gate seconds before it disappeared, the last survivor of a world gone forever.
Matt held Tai's lifeless body in his arms, certain of one thing, the world would never be the same again.
the present....
Sora had gotten off of the bus at the stop for the camp. She smiled slightly as she thought about what happened five years ago here, but she didn't have time. She had to get to Tai quickly.
Izzy looked up from his laptop,"Tai, its almost here."
Tai nodded, then looked at those that were assembled. He nodded and said,"I guess that as the leader, I should say something, so I will. Thank you. Thank you, for following the path that I laid out. Thank you for not fighting being Digidestined, you embraced it and faced your destines without fear. And most importantly, thank you, for letting me be your friend."
The sky above them started to glow. "Its here," Izzy said.
Sora had reached the hill and saw the others standing in the same place that they were first pulled in. "Tai!" she cried out, but she couldn't be sure if he ever heard him, for at that moment, what Genai called, 'the annihilation wave' exited the portal and entered Earth.
The wave swept over the campsite, and moving onto Tokyo, destroying everything in its wake. Leaving only death, and only the possibility of what might have been.
THE END
