Net-WorldFuture3 3

"AH!!!" the thing from the bush came out and landed on top of Tai, pushing him into the ground. Agumon quickly came running to his side then laughed. Tai looked and saw that it was no danger. It was only Edigaromon. Tai then joined in the laughter as Matt grunted and walked back to sit on the log.
"Aw, hey Tai, Agumon. I reckon you two have escaped well." Edigaromon said as he got off the boy with googles. Tai stood up and brushed himself off as Edigaromon went up to Matt. Givning a confused look, he poked Matt with his nose. Nothing. He poked him again. Matt turned around to take a glance at Eidgaromon and then turned around again. Just as Edigaromon was about to tap his shoulder, Tai quickly brought up a question.
"Hey Edigaromon, what brings you here anyway?" Edigaromon turned around and sat on his hunches.
"To cause trouble, that's what evil digimon always do." Edigaromon turned around and growled a deep low growl.
"Take that back! I'm not evil! At least, last time I checked I wasn't evil! Beides! I had my rabies shot!" Matt grunted a laugh and then brought out his harmonica. Before the dark wolf rookie could snap Matt's head, the dinosaur and Gabumon held back the enraged Edigaromon.
"Don't listen to him, he's probably undergoing puberty for the first time." Tai said.
"I hope your right Tai." Edigaromon said turning around. The two rookies let go and then nodded to each other. Edigaromon sighed and shook his head as Tai sat down cross-legged.
"So? As I asked earlier, what brings you here?" Edigaromon waved one paw in the air.
"Well, what's the use of staying there after all the trouble I caused? I could always get a punishment from Devimon and shorten my lifespan, OR, I could join you guys and help save the world!" Edigaromon said excitedly.
"Cough, Loser, cough". Tai, Agumon, Gabumon, and Edigaromon turned around to see Matt covering his mouth.
"Riiight…. Anyways Tai. I have some info that might come in more handy use. And this is no lie at all." Edigaromon said seriously. "So, I know your looking for all the DigiDestined, and from what I know of, there's 3 colluseums. Two located in the digiworld and one back on Earth.". Tai sighed.
"Earth….."
"Anyhows, I heard that one of those kids is being locked up there and with heavy punishment. From what I heard, I think it's another boy, like us guys. His digimon was some ladybug type I believe." Tai looked up and got into thinking mode. Ladybug digimon…. Ladybug….. aha! That's him! …. Lady-bug? No, wrong gender describtion.
"Okay! I got him pictured in my head!" Agumon came over and slapped Tai on the back.
"Great goin Tai! Keep on having a good memory and we'll save the world much easier!" Agumon said. A rustle. Everyone looked up to see Matt stretching, then went back and resumed the conversation.
"Okay, well, him and his partner are stuck in that joint, and I'm more than willing to help! Besides, I will make it up to you guys seeing as Devimon probably wouldn't. So, are we all in?" Edigaromon asked.
"All in favor, say I!" Tai said. Everyone shouted I, except for Matt.
"Matt?"
"No, Tai,don't you see it? It's probably another one of those evil digimon tricking us!" Matt said standing up. Tai stood up and walked over to Matt. Matt quickly turned around and punched Tai knocking him to the ground. Agumon and Gabumon helped him up as Edigaromon pounced on Matt, nearly falling into the fire. The boy sturggled to free himself of the dark wolf digimon.
"What's your problem? I'm not an evil digimon!" Edigaromon asked struggling to stay atop the fiercely punching Matt. Tai got up, brushed himself off and then told Edigaromon to get off. The dog obeyed letting Matt stand up. Only to knock Tai to the ground!
"Hey! Matt! What'd you do THAT for?" Tai asked.
"Tai! Can't you see that he works for evil? It's another one of his schemes!" Tai shook his head. Pushing Matt aside, he called over Agumon and Gabumon to restrain Matt. He looked at Matt and stared at him.
"Come on Matt, he helped save us! Just for once?" Tai asked. Matt thought and then sighed.
"Lemme go… fine. But if we end up having our guts splattered over the place, then I'll blame it on you." Matt said annoyed. Tai smiled and then quickly gathered everybody around the fire. Tai leaned in more, being the leader he had to have SOME sense of what the plans were. Edigaromon cleared his throat.
"So, the plans goes like dis…."

"Shhh…." The dark wolf digimon said hushing the group. Tai, Agumon, Gabumon, and Edigaromon watched from the bushes as Matt approached the front gates. Dressed in a brown worksuit and an old man's hat, he looked like he was 41! DING DONG! Whiel waiting, Matt adjusted his fake mustache and cleared his throat. The suitcase in his hand was moving rapidly.
The doors creaked open, sursring Matt a bit. A fierce Ex-Tyrannomon stood in front of Matt, glaring evilly at him. He only sweated more.
"What do you want?" he asked. Matt quickly brought up the suitcase and opened it, pulling out a fake i.d card. Ex-Tyrannomon nodded letting Matt in.
Tai turned to the others and nodded. Phase 1 complete. Standing up, they silently bent to half their normal height and started to trek through the mud and brush. Tai continued going through, a branch hitting his eye. He brushed it off and continued on. Turning to Edigaromon, whom was just behind him, he stopped for a moment.
"Don't waste anytime! It's straight ahead!" Tai only shook his head in confusion and then went back to trudging through the swamp-like enviroment.
Upon reaching a wall, the four emerged from the tough trekking through the brush. Agumon picked out some branches as well as Gabumon while Tai felt around the wall. Edigaromon came up and sat down beside the searching Tai, slapping his tail aginest the ground.
When Agumon and Gabumno were finished brushing the branches off, they heard a clanking and came over to where Tai and Edigaromon was. The boy turned around and smiled. Then lifting off the metal safety cover, they could all feel a rush of nice cool air.
"Well, who's going in first?" Tai asked againest the wind. Slowly, Agumon raised his claw. Tai nodded and then took one last look inside the vent. It was made of steel and seemed okay to crawl in. It wouldn't get him stuck in there… Edigaromon was skinny and thin, he'd be fine. Everybody would be okay going through.
The small dinosaur quickly jumped up and had his claws on the vent's edge. Trying to pull himself up, Tai helped him. Getting in the vent, Agumon turned around and waved. Turning back around, he inched forward, careful to create a huge ruckus.
"Okay, so who's next?" Tai asked. Edigaromon shook his head. Both turned to Gabumon who grew a bit nervous and instantly shook his head. Tai laughed. "Scared of small spaces Gabumon?" Tai asked. "You weren't like that before." Gabumon grunted and put his arms to his hips.
"Hey, I'm no couragous leader of the DigiDestined am I?" Gabumon asked. Tai shook his head.
"Guys! Hurry! We can't risk letting Matt get caught again!" the dog said. Tai then turned to his serious face and reached inside the vent. Pulling himself in, he could barely see what was up ahead. Blinking, it took his eyes a bit to adjust to the dark. Come on Tai, have courage! Your team mates SHOULD have faith in you! Tai had s smile inside of him, a glowing ember. Thinking back to reality, he cautiously crept forward, unknowing of what lied ahead.

"Hey guys! I think I found a ventway to get in! This place is like the jail back at the other colluseum!" Agumon said. Gabumon sent a chill down his back at the thought of being in prison.
"Alirght Agumon!" Edigaromon said. Agumon gulped. Oh great, Tai thought.
"I can't get past ot I'll fall in! And I can't open it! Unless I fall in!" Agumon said. Tai rolled his eyes.
"So there's two choices, fall in by crawling through and causing a ruckus, or you can Pepper Breath your way in… so? Which seems smarter Agumon?" Tai asked. Agumon shook his head at his partners comment. Pulling back his head, he formed a glowing fireball in his mouth.
"Pepper Breath!… pwa!" The vent crashed onto the floor creating a bunch of the prisoners to start up a conversation of what was going on. Agumon turned back and shrugged. Tai flicked his hand forward indicating to move on. Agumon looked down and then fell through. Turning in mid-air, he landed on his butt.
"Move aside Agumon! Annihilate any security cams in the area!" Tai said from above. Agumon nodded and got up. Flaming balls of fire was shot from his mouth, hitting little security cameras in the area. Blasts and explosions caused the prisoners to turn and watch in awe. Some crying to be released and freed.
Looking up, the mini t-rex gave thumbs up as Tai came down next, ladning on his feet. But then fell on his butt. Rolling aside, he let Gabumon drop down and Edigaromon. Tai and Agumon already got up and looked around to search for a red headed boy. Edigaromon sniffed the jail cells.
"Izzy!" called out Agumon. Izzy eh?, okay. Tai thought.
"Izzy!"
Edigaromon kicked Gabumon with his hind leg to make him stand up. After learning Gabumon's fear of getting caught and stuck in the space, he told him there was a friend in need. That did it. But Gabumon had second thoughts as they walked through. Beep, beep. Faint beeping. Edigaromon's nose was to the ground, but he turned his eyes to the ceiling to see a little secuirty camera. Lifting his head up, his ears stood up straight and pointy. A dark sphrere was forming in his mouth.
"Dark Hit!" the rookie's aim was right on target, sending the camera to smitherins. Gabumon jumped back in surprise. Edigaromon looked back at the shaking rookie who was staring at the spot where the cam was.
"Surprised I can pull off something like that or still think I'm 'EVIL', and don't go parodying that U.G.L.Y song to me." Eidgaromon said. Turning back around he bent his nose to the ground and continued sniffing. Gabumon quickly snapped back to reality and quickly caught up to the sniffing hound.
"We found him!" Agumon called. Tai bent down to Agumon's level. Izzy and Tentomon were slumped againest the bed, snoring. The laptop settled on Izzy's lap. Agumon and Tai both peered into the cell. Tai then had a flash of memory sweep by.
Izzy… having a problem with laptop….. me,…. Agumon,…. Trying to hit it….. hit each other?….
"Izzy?" Tai called into the prisoners' cell. Tentomon was the first to awken, he flew back and hit Izzy making him wake up. The laptop was falling off but Tentomon caught it in time. Izzy breathed a sigh of relief and looked over at the font of the cell. No, impossible….
"Gabumon? Agumon? TAI?… Okay, is this a dream?". Tai shook his head. Izzy's eyes widened.
"Wow! This is a first! I've never seen dead people!"
"We're not dead Izzy." Agumon said. Izzy scratched his head.
"Oh, well…. Heh, what are you guys doing here? Better be busting me out… and who's he?" Izzy asked pointing at Edigaromon. Gabumon hit Edigaromon who only kicked him back. In a couple of minutes, the two became good friends.
"That's Edigaromon, he's the one who told us you were being held here!…. Well, anyways Izzy, to make a long story short, I can't remember you too good, or you ladybugmon. Anyways, I had amnesia." Tai turned and saw Tentomon turning red. "I swear I saw a spark come out of him".
"WHO YA CALLIN LADYBUG? It's Tentomon Tai! IF YOU CAN'T REMEMBER, I'LL WHACK YOU A GOOD ONE!" he threatened. Everyone laughed. But tai quickly remembered the mission.
"Come on, Agumon, hit the bars. According to Edigaromon, these bars aren't invinible to a digimon's power. But only to very strong ones. So Agumon, digivolve!" Tai's digivice let off a glowing light.

"Agumon! Warp digivolve to……… WARGREYMON!!!!!!!!!"

"Wowzers! Tai? Did I just see a a…. a uh, Agumon warp digivolve? To a, uh, mega stage?" Izzy asked stammerig. Tai shrugged smiling.
"Terror Force!" A huge comet , flaming and blazing, plummetede towards the bars. The prisoners back into their cells as WarGreymon continuously hit the bars with full strength. Within 4 hits, Izzy and Tentomon were out of the cage. Though Izzy kept on toppling onto the ground.
"Izzy, come on, can't you stand up?" Tai asked going to his side. Izzy sighed.
"The cell's so crunched up and small, I've never moved much around there. So I end up having to walk around with hurting feet." He said. Tai nodded as WarGreymon lead the way. The parade of mon and humans quickly rushed through the halls, avoiding and destorying secuirty cameras.
Upon reaching the vent, WarGreymon shrugged.
"How'll we get up Tai?" Tai looked at the situation.
"You could start lifting us up and we'll go through. Then you'll be second last to go up…. Anyone here a real good jumper? Tentomon, I think you might want to skip this out." Tai said.
"Well, I'll go last." Everyone turned to Edigaromon, the leader nodded. WarGreymon grabbed Tai and lifted him up into the vent. Tai heaved himself in with WarGreymon's help this time and moved forward more swiftly than the last time because he knew the routes. Thud, Thud. The clanking of the vents were getting surprisingly loud.
"Hurry up! We can escape in time!" Tai said. Hasitly making his way through, he saw light at the end. Quickening the pace, Tai reached the end to be greeted by Matt. His phony wear on the sides. Tai reached the edge and pushed againest the vent's sides. PLOP! Getting out, he landed head first. Matt laughed.
"Hey Tai, scrambling up your brains again huh?.. Did you get him? I'd hate for this to be a total wreck and waste of my time." Matt said. Tai stood up and brushed himself off.
"Yeah, well, hey. So did you distract him good?"
"Uh-huh, though for a couple seconds we heard the VENTS for some odd reason and I left. So we better quicken up the act or we might get caught…. Geez, what's taking so long? I know Gabumon's scared of tight spots but he has to get his hind moving! We're in the middle of a huge mission!." Tai rolled his eyes.
"No doubt.". Seconds later, Gabumon's head popped through. He sniffed around.
"Come on! Let's get chubby, er, I mean, Gabumon out!" Tai said. Matt spat at the ground as they both pulled Gabumon out. The dog digimon fell on top of the dirt. Looking up at Matt, he saw Matt hold his hand out. The two laughed as he got Gabumon up. Tai only stood with his hands to his sides smiling. That looked familiar… images….. him and girl…… huh?
Tai shook it off and stood still as Matt and his digimon helped the red headed Izzy out. Tai gave a more concentrating look at him as Tentomon flew out of the vent. From his very faint memory, he remembered Izzy being very short. Now the guy was just about 5 inches shorter than him. Tai moved his head back in confusion.
"Hey! We're finally out I think Edigaromon!" a voice said from the vent. Tai quickly snapped out of his current thoughts and rushed over to help Agumon and Eidgaromon out. Everybody was finally out. Tai snpapped his fingers, everybody was still tired.
"Come on guys! Before we're caught! Let's bust some moves to get us out of here and fast!" Tai turned around to bump into something. Looking up he he closed his eyes and shook his head. The figure aboved grinned evilly.
"Well, intruders? I guess your going to the pits." The monster spat at the ground at Tai's shoes. Tai looked up at him. "Forever."
"No chance fat guy." Tai said punching him in the stomach. The monster groaned as it took a swipe at Tai who was running. Catching him in his claws, Tai reached out for help. Edigaromon sighed. He hated giving in.
"We'll gi-"
"NEVER! I WON"T LISTEN TO YOU! Even…. Even if Matt has bought a whole hair-gel company." Matt rolled his eyes. The monster bent his head and picked Tai up from the ground. Bringing him to his face level, Tai could smell his garlicy smell.
"Well…. Beg for mercy? We can not allow it here, though I shall destroy y-" SlAP! Tai hit the ground hard, landing with a thud beside him was the huge digimon. After the dust cleared, a small egg like digimon appeared. It appeared to be still in it's shell. Cracked open though allowing it to see and walk on two hind legs.
"It's Digitamamon! Goodness digital!!!!!!!! What are you doing Digitamamon? Are you freeing us?" The digimon cackled evilly. Tai back off towards his friends who only sat and watched. Shocked and frightened of it's hidden powers, they didn't move an inch.
"Well, I wouldn't count on that. I'll duel you. Being head owner of this arena, I'll battle you to the death! Survivor wins. What you say? I'll let two of you take me on, who'll it be? No wait, THREE of you! And I'm not Digitamamon. Give a guess?" Tai put his hand to his chin.
"Let me guess, an ultimate digimon?" Tai asked.
"I'm a MEGA! So bring it you losers! And the name's Lizaggmon!" it said. Tai gave a frightened face as the egg let out it's long green tail from behind. It was spiked all over and had a poisonous looking stinger at the end of it. Matt looked up at the sky. He hadn't sen it for so long, it didn't look like that last time he saw it.
"Oh man…. Fight you? Who's willing?" Tai asked. Edigaromon lifted his paw along with Agumon and Gabumon. Tentomon was about to when Tai pressed it down.
"Sorry Tentomon, you haven't been kicking any butt since 6 years ago I think." Tai said smling. He patted Tentomon's shoulder causing the bug to sigh. Turning back to the egg, Tai spat at him.
"Okay, to the inside we go!" Tai said following the evil egg.

"Ah, a duel to the death. Let's go over the rules shall we? Or not? Anyways, we need you to sign this contract first." Tai stared at the contract being held by a Kiwimon. Squinting he stared the paper up and down. Giving a oh well expression he signed it. The Kiwimon rolled it up and sat beside Matt who gave him a glare.
"And who are you?"
"I'm 2-0-0-1. And you?" Kiwimon asked.
"Matt." 2001 nodded and then turned his attention towards the arena. Tai stood up, digivice in hand and yelled out loud and clear.
"DIGIVOLVE!" Matt's digivice, and Tai's glowed.

"Agumon! Warp digivolve to….. WARGREYMON!"
"Gabumon digivolve to ……… Garurumon!"
"Edigaromon does not digivolve." Edigaromon said stubbornly.

The rookie, champion, and mega stood in the arena watching the egg laugh. WarGreymon took air as Eidgaromon dug underground. Garurumon stood facing Lizaggmon. The egg cruely charged at mach speed into Garurumon. The blink of an eye could cause you to miss the speed charge! Garurumon and egg hit the stone walls hard. Edigaromon dug up from underneath and jumped into the air doing summersaults.
"Identity Fog!" A misty fog brke up from the cracked hole in the surface. And soon, it covered the whole stadium. Lizaggmon turned around and looked around. He couldn't see anything or anyone! Neither could the others. Edigaromon's fg was powerful for a rookies. It sent a blast causing everyone to be blind to everyone else arund them, except for the attacker himself. He had excellent vision of everyone else. Smiling he landed and then backed up. WHOOSH! Charging, he jumped up and landed an attack at Lizaggmon's back.
"Dark Hit!" A black sphere pained the egg causing the mist's effects to wear off. Edigaromon smiled and leapt away. The egg slapped his tail a second to late. Looking at his opponent's, WarGreymon and Garurumon, he growled. Edigaromon shook his head back and forth then kicked dust towards him. Lizaggmon went fast and charged towards Edigaromon but was blocked by WarGreymon. Pushin still againest the hgue dinosaur, WarGreymon struggled to keep hold of the ground and prevent him from getting to the wolf like digimon.
"Howling Blaster!" Garurumon shouted. An icy ray shot from his mouth head on towards the egg. Lizaggmon saw it from a flash in the corner of his eyes, jumping up, he bounced off Wargreymon and landed on Garrurumon and slapped him brutally with his tail.
"Nova Force!" WarGreymon shouted. Releasing a powerful comet at Lizaggmon, he jumped out of the way in time. Garurumon was in pain. Upon seeing the comet, he rushed over to the side, hitting Lizaggmon by accident. Both fell to the side.
"TAKE THIS!" Lizaggmon whapped Garurumon hard, leaving a nasty red line across his fur. Garurumon whined as he got hit again. Edigaromon had a dark sphere forming as WarGreymon shot a Terror Force at the egg. Garurumon smiled as he held the egg in place.
"AHH!!!!!!!!!!! Mom did tell me never to grow up eating late night snacks!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Lizaggmon yelled. As the attack neared, Garurumon let go of the egg but too soon. The attack left a crater in the stadium. Lizaggmon growled evilly and then jumped into the air.
"Last Strike!!!!!!!!!" Jumping into the air, it turned to stone. WarGreymon looked up and gasped a second later. The egg hit him straight on.
"Man I will eat scrambled eggs when I get up!!!!!" Tai yelled. "Come on WarGreymon! Toast this loser!" WarGreymon had a hard impact as he fell and hit the ground. Dust flew wildly as the egg jumped off of WarGreymon. He snickered and then turned to see to to his left was Edigaromon and on his right was Garurumon.
"NO!!!! I hate you all!" Lizaggmon closed his eyes for the hit.
"Howling Blaster!" Garurumon yelled.
"Dark Hit!" The attacks struck Lizaggmon who instantly hit the ground with a thud. WarGreymon stood up, ready to kill him. Jumping into the air, he readied his claws for an attack. Tai sighed, I'm gonna regret this.
"STOP WARGREYMON!" WarGreymon looked at Tai surprsied. Lizaggmon was in shock too and turned to see what had made him change his mind.
Tai closed his eyes, thinking back to his thoughts. A leader. A leader was one to guide people, give forgiveness. A second chance. Not everyone was meant to be evil and wreck and cause chaos. It hurt him to see the egg hurt WarGreymon so bad, but maybe that was his decision. If Tai was going to be a leade, king one day, he was going to let his digimon kill off people without a second chance? A thief, a thief just might want to steal again or never want to do it again.
If Agumon said he'd make a good leader, he'd better live up to it by starting now.
"Just,… don't hurt him." Lizaggmon stood up weakly assited by Garurumon.
"What? Givng up? What a fool!" Tai sighed and looked at him sadly.
"It's not that… it's just a sudden decision I wanted to make…. I hope you guys understand." Tai said.
"What'll we do with him then Tai?" asked WarGreymon. Tai bent his head down and looked at the dirt under him, piled up on the sand. Lizaggmon might hurt him again, but to be on the safe side, maybe he should be in jail. But then that wouldn't be fair.
"Well….. let's ….. I don't know…." Tai said. "Throwing him in jail would be cruel-HEY!" Lizaggmon quickly got up and attacked Edigaromon.
"Throw me in the freakin jail cell for all I've done. I'm terribly sorry. But don't give me pity! Destory if you'd like, it'd prefer it more if you kill me now!!!!" Lizaggmon looked into the sky. "Give me no pity! Kill me!" it cried. WarGreymon turned to Tai and gave him a sad look.
Tai turned to the egg and cleared his throat.
"Well, …. Is that what you really want? Because if not, I'll… I'll just toss you into the jail for now, is that okay?" Tai asked. The egg slapped WarGreymon. Without hesitation, WarGreymon fired a Nova Force. Tai only sat down and watched as the rest of the battle played. Lizaggmon stood still then turned to Tai and Matt.
"READ THE FINE PRINT OF THE CONTRACT! GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!"
The comet landed onto the ground. A whole wave of sand carried along with the wind. Garurumon and Edigaromon cleared the area as the dust started to rise. Matt stood up and quickly turned so his back faced the dust. Tai turned around too and waited until the wind calmed and turned around. Silence.
WarGreymon flew down and dedigivolved to Agumon. Garurumon dedigivloved to Gabumon and looked at Agumon sadly, as if he was going to get punished. Agumon bowed his head Tai as Tai jumped down into the stadium. Gabumon quickly went over to Matt not wanting to see the events happening. Agumon gulped.
"Agumon….. I guess…. Nice shot….." Agumon looked up.
"Your not angry that I disobeyed you Tai?" Agumon asked sadly. Tai shook his head, then hesitated. Holding Agumon's shoulder, he looked up at the dreary grey sky. The clouds were covering each other, overlaping the sky thousands of times. Yet, the ground was still bright enough to see around.
"Nah, I guess if I was you I might've done that…. But, Agumon…. Remember what you said about me being a leader?… oh, never mind. Let's just get out of this place before we're caught and get annhilited by some digimon creeping up on us." Tai turned around to Matt and company. They jumped back in surprise as Tai turned to them. Gabumon sighed a relief.
"Well, let's get moving gang!" The others didn't even argue. Jumping off the blechers (audience booth's in the future's terms), the gang hurriedly ran across the desert like arena towards the broken wall where they got in. Tai went in first, brushing or breaking the branches that poked at him. Agumon burnt some of them making the path for the others way easier to get through.
Arriving at the open area of the mini forest maze, Tai waited for the others to get out. Looking up at the trees he saw the cracks in them. The leaves were brown and crisp, and it was Summer time. The bark started to peel off. Tai sighed and looked at another tree. It had something engraved in it. Tai squinted closer to inspect it. Engraved on the tree was a shape of a very badly made heart. Tai blinked and put his hands into his pockets.
The tree. It gave him memories, and the initials engraved inside the heart. Tai and Sora, Friends Forever. Tai blinked again and smiled. Memories and images flashed across in his mind. A movie it was like, an old home movie. A red headed girl and him just a couple days before …. Before some big event …. Camp? Tai blinked and then thought back to his main idea. The girl and him laughed and sat down on the grass and saw a tree. The younger Tai took a black marker from inside his pocket and drew a awful drawing of a heart. Putting his and her initials in it, they laughed. The girl had stood up then and using her pocketknife, she carved it better.
Tai only sighed. Young romance…. He missed her. The more he thought about his family, his friends, and her… it hurt him not to remember much until seeing something that they did together. Or something that reminded him of that somebody. Blinking again he saw the tree hadn't moved. Turning back around he saw Matt and Gabumon out already, helping Edigaromon out as his back foot got caught in the bush nearby.
Agumon quickly went back into the bush and untangled the plants preventing the wolf from getting out. As he plopped out, he had a sad and nervous face. Tai noticed it but couldn't focus on that. Turning back to the forest path up ahead he waved to the others as he started running already.
Instantly understanding Tai's command, the others quickly ran to somewhat keep up with the pace. Edigaromon looked behind them and then halted. Tai stopped and told them to move on. Walking back to the wolf, he looked at his eyes and saw them frozen. Looking ahead he gave a confused look. Slowly, he proceeded forward.
"No! Tai! Don't! Come on!" Edigaromon soon called after getting out of his trance. Tai turned back to the gang who stopped in their tracks and looked at the leader in shock. Tai raised an eyebrow. Realizing it was something behind him, Tai started to turn around when a huge force pushed him down to the ground and trapped him under it's powerful grip. Tai landed with a huge WHUMP! Dirt flew all over his face.
"Pah! What's the big idea? Ambushing us? Huh?" Tai coughed and psat out some of the dirt, wiping his mouth with his arms. Edigaromon started to march forward when the looming beast held out his other arm. The others slwoly walked forward until they were at a safe distance close enough to speak to Tai though.
"Do not speak unless I give thou permission." Everyone was silent. "I will not destory any of you or harm any just yet. But you have disobeyed my master's last words for a while as being reborn is now impossible in the digital world."
"Why is-"
"Did I ask for you to interupt me dog?" the beast asked. Gabumon shook his head nervously.
"Well, if you recall the contract mister, you would've rememberd the deal." Edigaromon sulked down. He knew what it had said. He knew his fate. Tai, though being him, didn't have a clue and struggled again trying to pry himself free.
"What? I read the whole thing!…… or almost." Tai said looking up going into his memories of the past couple minutes. Slowly behind the beast came Kiwimon with the contract. Lifting his head back, he jerked it forward again to show the contract Tai had signed.
Edigaromon sighed and closed his eyes. He felt ashamed of himself. Matt quickly went first to see what the contract read. "OW!" Matt did a Hee-hee-did-I-do-that grin. Tai threw sand at him. Then he went back to examining the shoe marks Matt made on his hand and growled.
Gabumon's nose touched the contract as his eyes met the tiny ink words on the paper. Gasping, he jumped back. Matt caught him and then loooked at the contract and he froze. Turning to Tai he kicked him in the chin. Tai rubbed his chin and yelled out in pain.
"Hey, I thought we were team mates Matt! Don't go evil and do that evil mechanical laugh!" Tai yelled.
"How could you Tai? Did you not read the fine print or what?" Matt asked angrily.
"Not really… I didn't see it. Why? What does it say that makes you act like puberty took over your whole body?" Tai asked curious. Matt pointed to the contract and read it outloud.
"Fine Print: Winners who delete and win the truthful master Lizaggmon of this colluseum must make a grave sacrifice and sacrifice one of their own men or women for killing our grand master. They shall be tossed into jail for a lifetime unless notified by one of our servants. Thanks for the appreciation jerks. Lizaggmon and his fine dandy crew of screwed up digimon beasts…. Tai…. One of us has to go. Er, stay I mean. They have to kept in a prison cell again! Til whenever." Matt said.
Silence had taken over. No one spoke. The only noise to be heard was the real rough breathing of the huge beast and Tai trying despratly to clear his mouth of dirt and sand. It was Agumon who broke the uttering silence.
"But who could we sacrifice? Why can't we ignore his orders?" Agumon asked. Kiwimon handed the Minotarumon and his super claws the contract as he stared at Agumon and walked over.
"Well, if you haven't heard of it, it's called a digimon's cycle. It's for showing your grief for the dead. And in thise case, it's shown by sacrificing one of you to show that you respect the fact he died. There's no way to avoid it if it's written in blood. You'll be hunted down more even if they found out you were part of the band of Digidestined." Tai's jaw dropped. "But I wouldn't tell. Just follow our master's orders and you'll be fine. So which of you will be with us? Eh Brutis?" The digimon growled.
"I loathe that name the human gave me." It said. Edigaromon from the group stepped forward.
"I'll go. I haven't been in a jail cell very long. Only a couple of minutes to be scolded by my mom and dad. Well, I'll do it. And there's no stopping me. Neither of you. I'll go.." Edigaromon turned away from his new friends and walked towards Kiwimon who pecked his head.
Eidgaromon looked up giving a sad, yet awkward face towards the bird.
"But that's no fair!" Matt shouted. This surprised Tai even that Matt wanted to save Edigaromon. Matt stood holding his fist to the champion dodobird. He spat on the ground, accidently hitting Tai's hand again who growled. Matt was ticked. A friend had to leave. This was unfair.
"Ah boy, but it's a natural tradition that's very current trhoughout the digiworld. Thy elders teach thy young ones about it. Of course, they arenn't thrown into jail but killed to. So boy, get out of the way. The wolf has spoken. You may leave." The heavy digimon let go of Tai who quickly got up and brushed himself off.
Watching the wolf go with the other digimon was hard. He had saved Matt and Matt had come to think after a while he wasn't too bad. But after all the time, and he just realized that it hit him he wasn't evil, he had to go. Great timing yet again, Matt thought.
"Hey! Edigaromon! I'm sorry for the mean things I've said! I thought we could still be friends maybe!." Edigaromon turned around and smiled.
"Don't worry. I know we would've been good friends. But Tai and company, you'll make it for sure! Please fulfil your quest and maybe when your leader this digimon tradition can be thrown off. This tradition is meant for evil and good to both die at the same time! But it didn't work! Go! Continue on! I'll see ya later!" he said as they disappeared into the shadows. Matt held back some tears, only one escaped which he wiped away in a second. Tai looked at Matt and sighed.
Just then, his digivice glowed, Matt held out his digivice and it let off a light. A blue light. Izzy and Tentomon shielded their eyes with the others except for Tai and Agumon whom already experienced the gain in power and their knowledge of who they were.
As the light died, Matt brought his digivice to him. Words flashed across the screen. "DigiDestined second of friendship". Matt sighed. Friendship, that was friendship he just showed. Tai patted Matt's arms. Izzy's mouth opened his eyes staring at the digivice.
"How could THAT have happened? Wait, what just DID happen?" Izzy asked astonished. Tai shook his head and looked forward to the path that lied ahead.
"Down the road we go. And according to Edigaromon, we should be at Earth now for the other tornament shouldn't we? Save the rest of our fine crew." Tai said. Looking down the leafless road, Izzy and Matt nodded. Agumon turned to the digimon who nodded too. Tai smiled and took his leader position and yelled only to them.
"Let's go crew!"

The six were back on the usual drab streets that Tai knew for a long time. Arriving at what they called "The End" of the Digiworld, it was huge! The black dirt often that was with the sand for ground was replaced by cement blocks of stones. It led a bit further down into what they call a "station". Held up by supporting pillars, this place seemed somewhat homely. A few benches on each side of the wall, and doors leading to supposed other "waiting areas". Upon entering through the two pillars, they stepped down some steps and came face to face with a girl in poor shape. She had a red uniform on and she looked real fatigued.
Tai clenched his fist. That'll change for the good once I'm done with spitting out Devimon.
The colours of the station was mere grey, brown, and black. Some people and some digimon sat around on the benches. It was tight, but they managed to fit all on the stone and wooden platform. A big long space was left right beside the doors. It seemed ike nothing was below, but below was digimon tech. Magnetic forces were used to drive the steady rails across to destinations.
"How many sir?" the uniformed girl asked. Matt's face went red, blushing. He turned away to avoid getting asked questions or seen with a face colour simular to a cherry's.
"We'll have 6 miss, thank you." Tai said. Izzy elbowed him. "Oh, uh, to the Digiworld, thanks." The girl nodded and gave Tai six tickets which he gave to his friends and kept one. Proceeding down the last couple steps, they reached the platform. Smoke filled the train's ways (no more rails) and had started to go to other stations. Looking for an empty bench, Matt pointed out the one closest to the right door. It seemed no one went there due to the loud noise the train can produce.

The train arrived within minutes coming to an eerie halt at the station. The bell rang and passangers quickly rushed to get ahead in the line. Chatter grew while they waited for the train door to open. Tai had fallen asleep already, but Agumon woke him up.
"Aren't we going?" Agumon asked.
"We'll go just before the last 3 get on the train." Tai muttered, still groggy from his five minute nap. Izzy had been typing on his laptop some notes about how they ran the place. Matt only sat still tapping his feet and looking at the various posters of bands and artists that hung on the wall. Tne digimon were now looking at the passangers and digimon anxious to get in.
WHOOSH! A gust of air was released as the onboarder (digimon term for people helping board people on the train) came out and nodded. People rushed in like there was no tomorrow. The group got out and went as the back of the line. Tai was last and Tentomon was first up ahead. Passing the digimon tickets, they went in.
It seemed like a normal subway train, but of course in a more circular, crowded, and smoking area. TV's hanged in the corners. Tai shrugged as the door closed behind him. The seats were full except for a couple near the plastic windows.Sitting down, the train jerked forward. Some people fell off their seats. BING!
Tai looked towards the front to see the seatbelt sign on, the familiar kind used on old airplanes. He got back up onto his seat and buckled himself as he felt the train shaking. Looking out through the semi-sphere windows, he saw a big green, glowing portal up ahead.
"Wow! Tai!… Can you help me with this?" Agumon asked holding his seatbelt. Tai quickly strapped him in as they approached the green portal. The train was being shot out of a gun into the portal! Everyone's hair has become a mess except for the hair-gel boys.
"Whew, I wouldn't have wanted to waste another can of hair gel." Matt said. Tai looked out the train again. They were moving at a reasonable pace.

Arriving at a station simular to the digiorld's, the passengers got off. Matt and Izzy quickly got out and up the stairs. Tai wondered why, when images of his family popped through his head again. Happy times having a picnic, the tree… wait, the tree was in the digiworld? Oh yeah, they transferred data and stuff before.
Joining his friends, he expected to see his family but his jaw dropped in shock like the others. The Earth… Japan… in ruins! The sky was redish brown and clouds sometimes covered it. The sun still shone but through the shades of the clouds. Buildings crushed and some hanging on a loose thread. The roads and streetlights were crushed, yet some digimon were foolishly playing around it. Sparks and flames were coming from buildings each second they blinked. Earth was ruined, Earth was shattered.
The digimon joined their partners and frowned. Their home was in worse condition than ever. The downtown district of Japan. The sea was polluted and had some sick digimon in it. Everyone was depressed. Had their families and loved ones lived?
Tai thought back to the family he had, his sister, everyone. It all had come back. His DigiiDestined friends. He could remember it clearly now…. Except how he got injured exactly and brought back. He couldn't remember anything of that sort. But the itching for his loved ones and friends grew strong. Gritting his teeth and clennching his fist tight, he looked at Matt and Izzy. Tears had come as they scanned the area. Tai looked up to no one in the sky, but the sky itself.
"I'll get your for this scum, I will….. I swear by it." Tai spat at the ground.

Okay, there's Chapter 3 out of 4. I've noticed MANY changes to fanfiction.net, and I'm deciding on either making my own fanfiction site or find another one maybe. But honestly, I think support services are great, but why pay for a picture profile? Anyways, last chapter to go! Yay! Anyways, go visit my website, as I mgiht upload my fanfics on it soon. Thanks for waiting! Also, thanks evryone for reviewing. Now Keep on Writing!

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