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"Well, this place has sure gone to the mon's….. well gang, let's look around and we'll meet in.. uh, that residental place. It's not too far from that huge honkin colluseum. Just a long walk. So gang, let's go with our digimon and search around. Does any of us have a watch?" Tai asked.
"Uh, heh heh, I got bored in my cell most of the time and took it apart. Sadly, Tentomon ate the batteries." Izzy said. Tai rolled his eyes.
"We'll make it anyways gang. Okay, Agumon and I will head to the parts to the east of the big colluseum. Izzy and Tentomon, you guys take it easy near the beach and don't go lookin for babes while we're at it. Matt and Gabumon, you guys look near where we're supposed to meet. K? let's split and meet about…. Uh, in an hour or so. It's getting dark out here." They looked towards the setting sun then quickly split up.
Izzy and Tentomon arrived at the beach in no time. The sun was a glowing red and it reflected off the waters. Izzy sighed as he sat down on the sand and looked out into the ocean. No one was here except for some digimon to the far coast talking about junk.
Izzy looked out at the ocean. The thought of losing his parents was horrifying… yet the fact that they never told him he was adopted was horrible. He knew it, sneaking for a chocolate bar at night, but upon hearing them talk he lost his appitete as a youngster. He had his knees huggin himself. Izzy laid his head on his knees. Tenrtomon had gone a bit into the old buildings and over the ocean for some view of anyone or any mon out there.
"Home… I've always had dreams that I'd escape and come back home as a warrior and save my parents. But I guess I don't know if there's even anyone out there to save but my friends." Izzy sadened. He tucked his head into his knees and started to cry.
Tentomon flew out over the sea and sighed sadly. When he was in the cell with Izzy, the boy told him of the wonders of Earth. Saying the many people who lived here, of boats, buildings, families, schools. Tentomon wanted to see it ever since, but it didn't look like what Izzy had told him.
Looking over the seas he saw boats and some sea digimon. The people/digimon driving the boat were rough and tough. The others in the back of the boat cowered in fear. Tentomon cringed at the sight and flew right over them.
"Sad things since 'lord' Devimon took over, still though, I've heard he's not the real big lord though… oh? What's this?" Tentomon shifted his head to a white little seal swimming in the ocean. Tentomon quickly flew back to his partner who was still crying.
"Izzy? Izzy, are you alright? Why are you crying?" Tentomon asked curiously. Izzy lifted his head to see his faithful pal's encouraging face. Izzy smiled through the blast of raging tears. His eyes were red and hurt. Tentomon patted Izzy's shoulder then looked over to the horizon and pointed.
"Izzy, I'm sure you'll be alright. If you miss your family, I understand… even though I don't have one." Tentomon cringed at the thought. "Anyways, we'll get through it pal. And Izzy, I looked around and I saw a Gomamon in the sea. So I was thinking that was the tall guy's digimon. I forgot his name." Izzy giggled and then put his arm around Tentomon and pulled him to his knees, nearly curshing his antenae.
"You're a great pal Tento, really… thanks…. And I think the tall guy's name was Kido, or something like that… joe! That's his name. Well, wherever that Gomamon is going, we should follow it then. Where did he go?" Tentomon scanned the area and saw it panting as it got out of the water.
"There!" Izzy wiped away the last tears and stood up. Cautiously, they followed a safe distance as they followed the seal digimon. Disappearing round the corner, they followed.

"Wow, man, that thing is big. Enormous. Tremendous. Looks incrediblly big, like it's invincible.. Well, I'm sure we can fight in there. I bet some big tornaments are held there." Tai said. Agumon took his position beside him after walked over the shards of glass, the wood, the stones, the weakly burning fires. Standing over a wreckage, everything looked horrible. Tai was standing still, like a memorable statue in the middle of nowhere. His eyes, his focus, his main concentration on the huge colluseum. What could possibly be in there that was twice the size of 2 football fields?
Many thoughts ran through his mind of crazy things. His friends and family locked in there attacked by vicous people eating digimon. But they quickly were replaced by the calls of his digimon. Agumon tugged at Tai's shorts. Tai pulled back giving a what-the-heck ? face.
"Well Tai, I think we should be searching for things… Tai?" Tai's attention quickly turned back to the awesome coluseum like structure. He'd love to go into there and see what was in it. But some things made that colluseum not so welcoming. The way the crow's scanned the top area and flew down, coming up often. But still guarding the area below.
"TAI!" Tai snapped back to reality. Looking down at his friend's concerned face, his body relaxed and sighed. Agumon looked so innocent and worried.
"Yeah pal?" Tai asked.
"I think maybe we should get back early, your real tired and zoomed out. Your not thinking of our main mission topic! What was it? Oh yeah, look around…. But Tai, you seriously need a rest. I think Matt and the others would agree with me. So what do you say? And HEY! Don't even THINK about that place just yet! We need to find the others!" Agumon said. Tai turned to Agumon a bit coldly.
"But what if the others ARE in there?" he asked. Agumon took a step back.
"Tai… I don't know."
"I'm sorry pal, I didn't mean to scare you. I guess I never really did act so coldly as a younger boy." Tai said. He looked back at the colluseum causing the orange rookie to growl. "I don't know, I guess I haven't been the same since… since that time… I can't remember it clearly. Heh, I guess I don't remember it very much at all." He said. Agumon smiled then slapped Tai's back and ran ahead of him. Tai shook his head and chased Agumon trying to get revenge.

Matt sat down, his back on the ruins of an old building. He was in a street, a row of grey homes. Badly, and horrible looking. Digimon were marching down the streets each second, looking to oppose any others who dared come out during this time of day. They protected the streets during the afternoon, about 6:30 now. Matt hid though each time they'd come around. Gabumon looked sadly at Matt, confused at the "Friendship" business.
"Matt, it simply gives you power. Hey! Come on! I know that even! What's there to think about?" Matt looked at Gabumon and stood up.
"What activated it?" Gabumon slapped his head.
"Don't you SEE? You showed friendship to what you supposed was an 'enemy'! Matt!" Gabumon pointed out into the streets. The guards had slapped and alerted each other. At the very end of each street was Tai, Agumon, Izzy, and Tentomon. Matt quickly started to follow them, Gabumon behind them.

"Aye, these streets be infested with people sir!" Agumon said imitating a pirate. Tai laughed. The streets were quite narrow. Dusty mini-tornaedo's hung near the end of the street making Izzy come through panting with Tentomon by his side. There was rows of homes, black, grey. Covered by the grey depressing clouds above. The sidewalk was practically no longer there.
"IT WENT IN THERE!…" Izzy panted. His finger pointing at the rough grey building in front of them. It's roof was in poor condition, one side of the roof was literally broken. The shingles were drab, like the whole house itself. The windows had either no glass, or broken glass. Concrete steps, worn and old lead to the door's entrance. It was a weak wooden door.
"Hey!" Matt and Gabumon halted beside Izzy and Tentomon. Tai smiled, but it quickly faded away.
"You know what? At least now I'm not the only one who has to deal with the jerk." Matt said. Tai turned around hearing Matt's insult.
"Hey!" Izzy and Matt laughed. Tai rolled his eyes then pointed to the house as Izzy finally got back his breath. Izzy pointed again and put his arms to his side along with Tai's.
"I saw a Gomamon diappear right into here, before you came and before I came even. Though we saw him disappear into this house. We saw it alright through the space inbetween the buildings from other streets." Izzy said. Tai looked at him and moved his hands around asking in a silent conversation "Uh-huh…"
"What? Can't you remember him?… oh yeah, you've got a case of amnesia." Matt said. Izzy elbowed Matt and then quickly followed behind Tai as he reached the top of the steps. Agumon quickly shoved through to be beside Tai. His partner knocked the door three times and waited. The blond put his ear to the door.
"Someone's coming! Brace yourselves!" Matt said. Tai took in a deep breath, did he just do something wrong? Who was him? Cree-eek. Tai blinked and looked to see a tall guy, about a whole head taller than him. His hair was black with hints of blue dye in it. He wore glasses and had a checkered shirt on with tan baggy pants.
"T-T-Tai? Izzy? Matt? Agumon? Gabumon? Tentomon? Okay, either I've gone delusional or these galsses have gotten broken somehow." As he was about to close the door Tai stopped him. Joe fixed his glasses and stared at the group. Joe couldn't believe this!
"Are you guys for real? If it's Bakemon, I'll"
"Look …. I can't remember you very good. But I'm Tai Kamiya, and this is my fine crew. Agumon here is my partner and the rest. I'm asuming you aren't a bad guy, yet you do know my name. I still can't put my finger on your name though… anyways, my friend Izzy was concerned about a Gomamon going into your house and this surprised him. So I was wondering… why the heck am I here?" Joe laughed.
"Well, hey Tai. Wait til Mimi sees you guys!" Joe said. Looking backwards he called into the house. "Mimi! Visitors!" he yelled. Tai took a look inside. Joe was right in front of a wall and it was a hallway, at the end was a table with flowers and chairs. There was more to the house that he couldn't see with the naked eye currently.
"Visitors? Okay, just a sec!" Matt grew excited hearing a female voice. Izzy's body got a chill down his back. That last girl beside him in jail…. Joe sighed. He put his hand on Tai's shoulder. Tai looked at it and then followed it back up to Joe's face.
"She always takes long, now watch this." Joe turned around again. "Mimi! I'm inviting them in without checking if they have dry equipment!" A clang, bang, and crash as a cowgirl in pink arrived at the door. Izzy and Matt started to sweat at the sight. Tai couldn't see what was good-looking about her. Was she using some male-attracting perfume? Tai thought.
"Hey! I…. Oh my gosh… Tai? Matt? Izzy? This is impossible!"
"And don't forget the digimon!" Agumon added in. Mimi was practically in tears.
"Come in, come in." Allowing to be let into the household, the boys walked in. Tai went over to the wall near the table and slumped back aginest it. He watched as Joe and Mimi greeted the others. Exhanging hugs. The digimon were quite excited and high-fived each other. Agumon was with them.
I remember them now, they're Joe and Mimi, those two tall kids. Wow. And they're digimon too! Gomamon, and Palmon. Gee, what have I been missing? Ah… memories. I can remember it all… but that incident… oh, I'll figure that out later.
Tai looked into the part of the house he couldn't see earlier. It was a place decorated with vines, and a flowers. Two doors were at the side. Tai looked at them with a little frown on his face. Was this what the world had been back before? Yes, yes it had. Tai blinked.
"Ah!" Tai turned around feeling something touch him. It was Mimi who's expression turned to a confused one. Tai crossed his arms and looked at her. "You scared me…" he said. Mimi smiled and tried to wrap her arms around Tai. But the boy quickly thrust out his arms to defend himself. The others looked over at the odd scene.
"Don't you want to hug?" Mimi asked.
"Uh… I-I..I'm sorry… No… I don't need to be hugged by right now. Sorry." Mimi nodded and walked away sadly into her room. The others shrugged and sat down at the table. Tai joined them.
"Want to eat something? I can get us some food, along with Gomamon's help." Gomamon saluted. Tai shrugged. Joe took it as a yes and got out of his seat, walking to his room. Izzy and Matt leaned in, careful not to knock over the flowers.
"Hey Tai, I think Joe's got it all for Mimi." Tai rose his eyebrows.
"Really?"

Joe came walking through the room. The boys drooled over th table at the sight of good delicious food. The white seal quickly came out behind Joe holding some napkins with cutlery in them. As Joe set down the meals in front of the hungry teens, Gomamon quickly gave the boys each a set of usable cutlery.
"Aw, Thanks Joe!" Matt said before digging in. The taste of food made his mouth tingle. He hadn't eaten for quite a while and had gone very hungry. Tai on the other hand was used to being skinny and thin, but he ate anyways. Izzy gobbled it up in no time. Gomamon laughed as the other DigiDestined ate even more sloppier than he did!
Agumon whined at the sight of steak and chicken pieces over the plate, with potatoes and rice. "Don't even ask how we got the food. We grew our food AND we had to buy some from the shop. Anyways, you little sucker shungry too?" Joe asked. Gomamon turned back to Joe and jumped into his arms. Joe stumbled back again.
"You CAN'T be hungry AGAIN!" Gomamon nodded.
"Oh sure I can!" Joe smiled and put him down.
"You know where the grub is, go to my room and eat your digimon food. If any of you eat what's in the fridge, you're in for it!" Joe said. Tentomon, Gomamon, and Gabumon saluted and rushed into Joe's room. Agumon stayed by Tai's side, he was loyal to his partner.
"Want some?" Tai asked Agumon. They both looked at each other and smiled. What a trustful buddy I have, Tai thought to himself as he gave Agumon some of the steak. Agumon garbbed it and woofed it down, no problem. Tai quickly went back to his messy eating habits.
After a couple minutes, the three males sat on the chairs, exhuasted and full. Tai patted his stomach and sighed. "That was dang good…. Oh man, I'm so full….". Izzy shook his head. They were startled when Joe banged the table with his fists. Everyone looked up and saw Joe with a demanding face. Behind him came Mimi and Palmon from the room with the three fat digimon.
"Well, I guess that signifies back to business huh?" Tai asked. He slumped back in his chair and loofed up at the poor roof. Turning to the others, he filled everyone who hadn't known what happened, happened. At least, what he could remember that is. In the end, Mimi and Joe were shocked.
"Tai, so you can't remember Sora?"Mimi asked.
"I can." Tai said. "Just not very much, it's hard to remmeber things right on command right now. Let alone, I can't remember what happened after I got hit from Leomon. At least Agumon says I was hit by Leomon to get knocked out before." Tai concluded. Silence took the room.
"Wow…. You two got by escaping through jail too huh?" Joe asked. Matt and Izzy nodded. Tai slammed the table with his fist, attracting everyone's attention.
"Okay, well, that got everyone. Now let's figure out what our next action is." Tai said seriously. Everyone looked at each other and sat down wherever they were. Tai looked at them and gave a confused look. They just obeyed him like he said an order that was to be carried out. But he shook his head and wiped away any further ideas and turned to the DigiDestined.
"Well, you know we're trying to gather up everyone again to save the Digiworld, aren't we?" Tai asked Agumon. The orange dinosaur nodded. Tai smiled and patted his head.
"So do you two have any clues? Joe and Mimi? Er, four actually including seal boy and plant thing?" Tai asked. Joe shooked his head and fixed his glasses.
"Nope, sorry Tai. I can't really answer that. We're restricted from going out onto the streets and past. We can only go to the backyard. Gomamon though, the sneaky critter he is, sneaks out a lot for information and some food we can't grow." Gomamon saluted. Joe nudged him. "Well, anyways, some digimon come by and tell us big stuff sometimes. But otherwise, ask jester Gomamon!" Joe said. Gomamon scampered through the room and jumped up onto Tai's lap. Tai's sudden jolt of surprise accidently made him kick Agumon. The rookie landed head first but only stood up and wiped the dust off.
"Well, anyways, I've heard of lots of things. And I've explored lots of things." Gomamon said grinnning. Tai rolled his eyes and waited. Gomamon gave a angry defeat fac, but then spoke. "I've heard of an old abandoned jail place down in the Junker's Yard. There's also a HUGE, let me say that again. HUGE colluseum down in the central part of Earth's old Japan. Only elites get to vist the best battles. Unless the lord wants us to see horrible deaths of foolish people, we aren't normally allowed in. And that's all the jails I know of." Gomamon said. Tai rose his hand to his chin.
"Okay, thanks Gomamon…. That's your name right? I just recalled it." Tai said. The white seal nodded and jumped off Tai's lap and into Joe's lap. Joe's arms went backwards from the impact. Izzy laughed and opened up his laptop. Tai smiled and stood up. He walked towards Izzy and bent down. He was furiously typing like a madman, the screen flashing.
"So are we pinpointing the locations then smart guy?" Tai asked. Izzy nodded. The laptop did a "ding!", causing Izzy to smile. Tai gave a confused face but shrugged and sat down. Izzy used his arms and waved them, calling everyone over.
"According to my high-tech laptop, I have found the pinpointed location of the two places. One is huge, as Gomamon told us. The other is located quite away from here. It has red patches around there, so I better search for some more details." Tai grew confused.
"Okay, two things Izz man. One, I think the laptop's battery would've ran out by now, and second of all, What's so wrong with red patches?" Tai asked. Izzy gave an annoyed look and turned to Tai.
"Tai, if you have listened in class before, you'd remember that red patches often signal a warning of high danger in the area! And to answer your other highly annoying question, I borrowed some batteries from Joe." Tai shrugged. Matt nudged Izzy and touched his brain. Izzy snapped his fingers, he had forgotten Tai had amnesia, but was he really that dumbfounded? He hoped not.
"Well, get cracking then. We'll take a look at the place for a while." Tai said. At that moment, everyone scattered into their own places, Izzy still on the floor in a cross-legged position. Tai looked over to see Agumon, Gabumon, and Gomamon try to figure out a puzzle Joe had set up for them.
Hmm, that Mimi girl seemed pretty sad when I announced I didn't want to be.. be hugged. The boy turned around and looked at the pink door with a wreath of pink flowers on it. He just stared and then started walking towards it. Many thoughts crossed his mind. This whole thing had started because of him wanting to venture into a fight to see the lord and make peace and everything else prevail…. And put apples on a cheaper price.
Knockning on the door siletly, he waited. Everyone was being strange towards him. Had Mimi loved him before? Tai shivered at the thought. That'd be scary. Lifting his head up, he sighed and then looked down at his hands. He reached for the door handle and turned it. Slowly, he opened it and saw a room he would have screamed at if he hadn't known pink was not his favorite colour.
In the corner, to his right, was a bed, green blanket and pink pillows. The window was draped and had glass on it. Theere was a closet, a desk that was slanted with several papers on it. Sitting on the bed though was Mimi herself. Tai looked at her and shrugged. The girl sighed and looked back down at her project.
"Close the door if you mind." Tai put one hand in his pocket and closed the door with the other. He walked over and sat down on the bed beside her and slumped forward for a couple seconds. Looking over at Mimi he looked at the weird thing as if she'd gone mad from too many "coffee's and danish's" for the morning.
"Hee, wondering what I'm doing huh?" Mimi asked. Tai looked at her and blinked.
"Yeah, I guess so." Mimi smiled which caused Tai to force a weak llittle smile. The brown haired girl then looked back at her creation and smiled. Tai shook his head.
"It's a paper weaving! Joe and I have this paper shredder you see, and once shred, I make weavings out of them. We end up making a nice, cozy, paper blanket that's even warmer than seventy seven degrees out on the beach….. Tai?" The daydreaming boy turned back to Mimi and gave thumbs up when he heard Izzy yell something. Standing up he held out his hand and helped Mimi out.
Walking out of the room they approached Izzy who was already surrounded by the others. Tai knelt down beside Izzy.
"Okay gang! This is IT!!! The red area is actually a home of old servants of the previous lord Devimon. And it's heavily guarded because they still have faith in lord Devimon…. Meaning we still have to try and get past those goons." Tai slapped Izzy in the back.
"OW!" Izzy rubbed it and looked at Tai who was shocked. "What?"
"Did you just say 'PREVIOUS' lord Devimon?" he asked. Izzy gulped.
"I'm afraid so, ther's someone stronger than him. Sucks doesn't it? Anyways Tai, we'd better be careful if we plan to venture there… Are we going there first? If we are, then… I don't know." Tai sighed.
"I guess so. Let's hit it gang!… Or would we like a little rest?… I hope not. So let's get packed up and head out to see if there's anyone to save." Tai said putting his hands on his hips. Looking at everyone, they gave a little smile, but inside they were somehow depressed at the thought. That is, only Matt and Mimi were.
As the others scattered to pack their belongings, Tai and Agumon went over to the blond guy sitting on the ledge of the wall's bottom which stuck out into the room. Sitting beside him, Tai smiled. Taking his oppurtunity, he slumped forward, hands on chin, exactly like Matt. Somewhere inside him, he heard that a good laugh cheered up folks now and then. Couldn't resist something that tickles them.
"Aw, your such a copycat Tai." Matt said. He shoved Tai and caused him to moved over a bit. He looked up to see if Matt had a smile on his face, but he didn't. Tai frowned and put his hand on Matt's shoulder. The two boys looked at each other.
"Look Matt, remember what I said earlier back in the Digital World? T.K is not dead, have faith. He'll be alive somewhere, someday. Who knows? It might be him we save. Don't worry pal… besides, you'll probably have more luck finding him then I'll be able to find my folks and Sora… and my sister..… But don't worry, we'll find them all man. I know it's not the effort that counts this time, but the teamwork that'll get us through. Evern if you are a jerk having difficulties going through puberty at THIS age, we'll find them." Tai said smiling. Matt smiled back and he slapped Tai's back.
"Thanks Tai, you're a true friend and idiot at the same time, you know that?" Matt said. Tai got up with Agumon beside him.
"Yeah, I know that…. Now don't you have to pack anything?" Tai asked. Agumon looked over at Matt and gave him claws up. Matt shrugged and walked up to go scan the area for food to pack. The path to the abandoned jail would be longer, longer than the way to the colleseum.
Tai leaned over on one leg and looked at Mimi who now had a happy smile on her face and laughed. Guess I'm not needed there, he thought. Feeling something tugging at his pants, he looked down. Agumon grinned. Tai bent down to Agumon's level and listened as Agumon talked to him.
"What did I say Tai? You make an awesome leader, your keeping everyone fulfilled and happy! Well… almost everyone… I hope you get to be as happy as them soon." Agumon said. Tai smiled and patted Agumon's shoulder.
"You're the best partner any Digidestiend could get, and don't forget that…." Agumon grinned.
"Thanks Tai." The boy bent his head down and smiled. Lifting it back up he stood up and called over everyone to check if they were ready. Agumon got all the digimon ready and satnding before Tai. He smiled and looked at the crew with backpacks and their digimon with them by their side.
Agumon stood at Tai's side, awaiting the next move. Even though Tai had nothing to carry, he didin't argue. Being leader was his job, and not anything else, unless needed.
Waving his arm towards the door, the DigiDestined quickly nodded and marched after Tai who was already at the door.
Peeking through the peek hole, he cautiously looked to the east side of the street. Only a little digimon with a white cap. To the left was no sign of any guards. Tai turned back to the others.
"Well, we're going to have to be careful. There's almost no digimon out there, but we're going to have to be careful still. So Izzy, did you get the map downloaded onto our digivices? Or at least one of ours?" Tai asked. Mimi shrieked causing the others to flinch.
"I forgot my digivice in the room! I KNEW I forgot something,…. Can I go get it?" Mimi asked. Tai sighed. Mimi took it as a yes, put her gym bag down, and rushed into her room in a big curfufel. After settling down a bit, it was back to the answer and question. Izzy looked at Tai and held out his own digivice.
"Actually, yes I did get to download it in the meantime and get some extra batteries incase these ones die out on me. But yes Tai, I downloaded the map onto my digivice. I spent many years coped up in a tiny cell, so I had LOTS of time to figure out all of this stuff. This being one of them. I also downloaded a roulette game onto it. Sadly, it doesn't work. But the screensaver does." Izzy commented. Joe peeked over along with Tai at the digivice to see a miniature version of the normal sized map of this part of Earth in a digital form. It was small enough, but too small to see the entire thing. A tiny red arrow at the top of the digivice indicated the way.
"Okay, well, hey, we'll figure it out." Tai pointed to the map on the digivice. "Go here, then turn right, right, right, right, oh, I've gotten dizzy… just kidding. But I remember the map clearly. This is a back-up I guess." Tai said. Izzy put away his digivice.
"So you can remember the map, but you can't remember T.K very clearly? I guess you hit your head hard somewhere." Izzy commented. Joe laughed and the two boys exchanged high-fives. Tai looked up and was in shock. Hitting head…. He shook it away as Mimi then came out of the room with her digivice on her cowgirl's belt.
"AH HA! I've got it! NOW I'm ready to go boys!" Mimi said putting her backpack on her back. Tai nodded and opened the door slowly. Turing his head from one side to the other, he checked for any digimon. None in sight. Stepping out of the house, he thought of the map and instantly knew to go to his right.
"Come on guys, let's go to thr right. Try not to make too much noise, and last out closes the door QUIETLY. Gomamon, I think you better get near front." Tai said adding in. Agumon came out of the hosue, followed by Izzy, Joe, Matt, Mimi, and their digimon. Last out was Palmon, who very slowly closed the door. Thankfully I oiled it last night, Joe thought.
With Tai in the lead, they small group made their way through the streets. It was dark out, the sun was nearly all the way down. But the DigiDestined were out on the streets. Tai looked ahead and squinted. It was two mon's talking near the docks. The docks, getting closer, Tai thought.
"Ah! Tai, my feet hurt!" he heard from behind. Tai sighed.
"We can't stop now! It's only been a simple walk from the streets and now the docks. Now please be quiet as we're advancing through. I don't want to get caught. Nor do I wish to get caught." Agumon looked up at his partner in a confused look.
"Aren't those two things you said have the same meaning?" Agumon asked. "Am I smart or what?" Tai smiled and his head went up and down.
"Sure you are buddy… sure you are… ha ha…"

Narrowly escaping the curious eyes of the digimon on the street, the ten digimon and human crew walked on. The night sky was eating the already cloudy invaded sky. Fierce wind shot out it's own missles at the teens, making Izzy clutch tighter to his clothing. Joe was under an umbrella and pulled Mimi to him closer, playfully. Matt quickly made the other digimon running around like lunatics to make sure they didn't get too cold.
Tai was in the front, head bent down, his hair getting soggy wet as the rain poured down in a sudden, very heavily. Agumon walked beside his partner, walking with him through thick and thin. He looked down the side of the path they were on. A long moutain trail.
Down below was the sharp peaks of the miniature mountaons below. A forest of deep thick trees below stood tall. Some digimon could be seen hidden in the trees. Behind them was Japan, going into the mountains and past to reach the infamous, dangerous, digimon guarded jail to free a friend… if there was any there that had to be saved immediately.
Feeling it was time to stop. Tai halted, everyone behind him also stopping in their tracks as well. Tai looked up into the night sky, squinting. The rain poured heavily and the moon was never going to be visible. It was nearly impossible to see a thing.
Walking a bit more into a little surrounded area on the mountain path.Really tall trees were able to be the wall for the area, as it protected them. But it wasn't too tall, because Joe could easily look out and beyond.
Tai threw down a little stick he was carrying onto the rough, sandy area. Turning back to the others with his eyes half-closed due to the rainfall, he opened his arms and spun around. "This will be our camp site… so this is where we're going to be staying, so let's set up the two greens tents Joe and Matt carried along." Tai said. The others cheered as they quickly helped Matt and Joe get off the heavy load.
Tai watched and sighed as the two boys collapsed onto the ground, soaked and shivering. Mimi had clutched tighter to Joe after getting the tents off. Izzy soon laid his back againest Matt's and was catching back his breath. The digimon were busy unrolling and unfolding the tents when Tai came over and put his hand on Tentomon's shoulder.
"Hey, if your really tired, I can do the job for you guys." Tai said pushing out a little smile. Tentomon sighed and looked at Izzy, then back to Tai. Gabumon shook his head.
"There's no way Tai! We're going to help you set it up, the least we can do I guess." Tai was taken back.
"Whoa whoa whoa! I barge into your place and you start saying you owe ME?" Tai asked. "Oh no wait, I saved you guys from the jail right? With Edigaromon?" Tai asked again. The digimon nodded. Agumon patted Tai's leg. Gabumon grabbed the green tent and gave it a shake as it was unfolded and ready to set up.
"Tai, you've brought all of us together so far, so let's help you set up the tents. Besides, if we sit here and argue all day…. Well, we wouldn't get far now would we?" Tai laughed and noogied Agumon.
Soon, Tai and the digigmon were setting up and done setting up two tents. Rain had gotten heavier, and the sky was nearly pitch black. The leader walked back over to the shivering DigiDestined and pointed at the tents. Matt stared at Tai like he was a psycho. How could he withstand the rain, and still be standing?
"Well, I got the tents up, so why don't you guys head on inside?"
"I AM NOT A GUY!" Everyone turned to Mimi. Her face was steaming red. Tai cocked one eyebrow and then shook his head. Pointing to the closer tent with his finger, he spoke.
"That tent will be the digimon's tent.. and", Tai shifted his finger to the other tent. The DigiDestined's heads followed as well. "That tent is the DigiDestined tent… so, yep.." Tai trailed off. "You guys go ahead first, I want to stay outside a bit." Tai said. They nodded and waved good-night as they headed off to bed in a dry, warn tent. Tai looked down and held out his digivice, put it back, then looked into the city.
Japan.. his home… had it looked better once?

"Ah… Fresh morning dew on the tiny blades of grass which tickled my nose and caused my to sneeze like crazy yesterday night. Stupid Joe… Huh? Hey! Morning Tai!" Izzy called out. Tai looked over at him, gave a weak smile, then he turned back to the little fire he sat in front of with Agumon. The sun was rising in the sky, the clouds were covering it well though.
But still, you could see some of it breaking through for a second if you looked. Izzy smiled and sat down on the ground across from Tai.
"Hey Tai… memory getting much better?" Izzy asked. Tai shrugged. Izzy slouched and looked at the fire. In it was some frog on a stick. Izzy flinched and stood up, going to Joe's emergency bag with unlimited access to unlimited food and emergency kits for any situation.
"Guess he doesn't like your cooking skills you picked up from WhiteGriffonmon eh?" Agumon asked. Tai shrugged and sighed as his food was getting burned on one side. Quickly he did a 180 degree turn with the stick in his hand. Agumon shrugged and went to wake up everyone else.
Tai watched as Agumon go in, then to Izzy, then back to the sun being devoured by the almighty clouds of the new Earth. The Future Earth. An Earth that wasn't what it was meant to be? Tai thought to himself. He tried to think up again of how he got here, and.. what happened that made him lose his memory in the first place….
"AH!!!!!!! IZZY!!!!!! WHAT IS TAI EATING?" Mimi yelled. Tai sighed.
"It's food Mimi." Tai said standing up.
"Well, everybody, once we're done, we're outta here! I hope that's clear, seems clear to me… and let's try not to leave evidence that we've been here." Tai said. Matt gave the heh-yeah-righ-stupid smirk. Tai glared at him and Matt shook his head.
"Ah ha, very funny jester boy with the hair gel." Tai said. Turning back to the others he shrugged. "After we're done, let's leave this place spotless and head out again. If we're lucky, we'll make it near the evening, just before dark comes… so dig in gang! Oh, and Gomamon, I heard you loved frog legs!" Tai said. Gomamon made a face. Everyone laughed their guts out as the scene.

After a fine meal of which had puking at certain points, they were otherwise full and ready to set out again. The sun had disappeared beyond the thick clouds once again, a fine time to go out and set foot on the trail again. Tai helped fold up the tents with Matt afterwards, and soon, everyone was ready to go.
Setting out again with Tai in the lead (Agumon closely following for various reasons), the DigiDestined were trudging through sand and some swamps in no time. While the others talked behind and laughed at silly, stupid jokes, Tai remained mostly quiet. He was practically a lone wolf, a true leader.
Agumon looked up at him, then back down. Tai wasn't smiling, nor frowning… the company and crew has gotten larger and there was not any time for talk. Looking up, the grey and black dead trees seemed horrible and out of shape (as well as bent). The leaves were so black and dreaded, doomly looking… if there was such a word, or was there?
Tai turned away and stared forward, then looked back up again. The clouds were the same, yet different. Catching Agumon's attention, he pointed up and they both stared in awe. "Wow Tai, I never knew clouds were so weird." Agumon said.
"It's like these ones have their own lives."Tai said blankly. It seems no one noticed. The grey clouds were swilring, swirling into the middle of one huge greyish cloud. As it edged to the middle, it turned nearly pitch black. Eerie black glows emitted from the clouds. Finally, Izzy looked up and gasped. Looking back at his digivice, he turned to Tai.
"We're in the area Tai. So I think we best be quiet." Tai looked at him oddly.
"Aren't I the leader?" A few giggles. Izzy shrugged. The leader felt a bump on his knee and looked at Agumon. Pointing ahead, Tai's eyes widened. Rushing there quietly, he stopped and squatted before a bush. Agumon waved his arms indicating that everyone should come over.
"Wow… prodigious!" Izzy exclaimed as he suqatted beside Tai. The digimon peered through along with their partners to get a glimpse.
It was a little grey, brick fort with metal bars rusting. A lone, sad, pennant swayed with the wind atop of the little jail. Inside were people that were moaning and crying. At each side was two DeviDramon. In the back was fo, it was hard to pick out, but there was a lot of Devidramon, all marching with perfect precision.
"Wow, so this is it huh?"Izzy asked again. Tai just stared out at the jail. Izzy looked at him sadly, he wasn't the Tai that he had known back at the beginning of the adventure, but then again, he hadn't seen all of the Tai there was to know.
"I guess so….." Tai said. Quickly turning back to the others, they looked at him and formed a mini circle around them. Gomamon didn't like the heat, but he didn't care. Tai told Agumon to stay at watch as he already knew the plans.
"Okay guys, let's bust some people free, but this will take VERY good timing. So firstly…"

"Raarrrr….."the low scratchy voice of the DeviDramon to the left of the grey jail. The goranings and moanings were all too familiar to him and had gotten to be a usual sound. His eyes were half-closed, too weary and tired. But he would not give up his post, nor would any other DeviDramon's.
SNAP! In an instant, the black digimon turned to see Joe and Gomamon with his digimon. Mimi hid behind Joe and Palmon was beside Gomamon. Joe waved his arms and whistled. In his mind, he thought 'I hope Tai is knowing what he's doing!…'
"Hey punchabelly!" The Devidramon grolwed. His partner unfornately had his eyes locked on Izzy and Tentomon. He licked his lips with hunger. Izzy gulped along with Tentomon.
As the two digimon pounced, the digivices went off.

"Gomamon! Digivolve to….. Ikkakumon!"
"Ikkakumon! Digivolve to…….Zudomon!"
"Palmon! Digivolve to ……. Togemon!"
"Tentomon! Digivolve to…… Tentomon!"

"Now THAT makes me want to pee my pants."Izzy muttered to himself. The Devidramon was moving in closer. Izzy moved out of the way and Tentomon flew up as the digimon's charge missed them by an inch. The two looked at each other and collapsed onto the ground to see another DeviDramon from the line coming up from behind. The previous dark digimon was coming closer as well. Izzy's sweat soon made it's own drop of water.
"Do something Tento!"Izzy cried. Tentomon flew up into the air as they charged, groling and leaping into the air. Their teeth shined against the light. The bug sighed as they were closing in. His partner looked up at him as he shielded himself.
Gotta save Izzy!

"Tentomon! Digivolve to…… Kabuterimon!"

"Electro Shocker!" A ball of burning electricity shot from Kabuterimon and struck the DeviDramon to the left. Before Izzy could say a thing, Kabuterimon was tackled down by the other digimon.
"Whoa! Smelly!" Kabuterimon commented. The Devidramon growled as he ripped at the blue bug's arm. SWAP! The dark digimon fell over after Kabuterimon punched hiim with his free arm. Getting up, he quickly attacked him with his Electro Shocker.
"WATCH OUT KABUTERI-… TERIMON! LOOK OUT!" Izzy yelled. Kabuterimon looked over to the fog to see a group of 5 Devidramon in a v-shape formation charging forward. The champion smiled and took flight causing the Devidramon to follow after.
The bug digimon flapped his insect wings and flew to the left, diving a bit through the air.
"Kaaaa…" the dark digimon leader hissed. It's tongue was pure black as it licked out to the air. It was hungry, and madly craving to eat after a long wait marching in the fog. Kabuterimon however was faring very well. He looked over his shoulder. They were catching up.
I hope this works, he thought. In a quick, swift motion that caught the five off guard, Kabuterimon twisted his body around and fired an 'Electro Shocker' at them.
"AHH!!!!!!" The leader was no dummy to fall for such a pitiful attack plan. Flapping his wings, he flew down and dodged the attack a couple seconds early. An explosion was left behind in the air, lots of data floating about in chunks of what looked like falling debris.
"Ah ha, one lone survivor huh? Electro Shocker!" the bug said releasing his attack. The Devidramon cleverly dodged it, letting the attack kill a fellow marching Devidramon in the fog.
"Ha, show off." The Devidramon spoke. Kabuterimon gulped, this was no sucker. "Think you've got it? We'll see how you fare against ME!!!!!Dark Drain!" A negative force from the Devidramon was being shone onto Kabuterimon.
"ARGH!" the bug yelled. It felt horrible, like a thousand needles being forced into your body and then exiting. All the while, the energy would go to the champion form until Kabuterimon dedigivolved to his rookie level.
"Hang on pal! You'll make it! I trust you!"Izzy yelled. Kabuterimon tried to move his head, but he was unable to. It was going to be the end this time.
"Vulcan's Hammer!" The dark digimon couldn't look in time to see what would kill him.
"Thanks Zudomon! Let's go and destory some more.. after I catch my breath." Kabuterimon said slumping in the air. The ultimate nodded and then took off with Togemon into the fog to go and destory some Devidramon. Izzy walked over and sat beside his partner. He sighed.
"You laugh like an aircraft carrier pal." Izzy said. Kabuterimon laughed.
That's when Izzy's digivice let off a glow, an orange glow to be exact. Quickly pulling it out of his pockets, the boy stared at it in surprise as it let off a blinding light. Once it died down, he read the screen.
"DigiDestined Thinker of Trust. Wow! Now I bet my digimon has enhanced abilities eh Kabu?" Izzy said nudging the big bug. He looked over and saw four quiet figures mvoing in towards the jail. Izzy got up. "Okay, time to kick some evil evil butt! Go Kabuterimon! Show it to em!" Izzy yelled.
Kabuterimon nodded and took off in an instant.
Tai, Matt, Gabumon, and Agumon inched closer to the jail, only a metre away from it now. Looking up overhead to see what the gust of wind was, Tai smiled. The plan was working, now they had to get someone out of there quick. Rushing over to the bars, Tai was hit back with a shock. Gabumon and Agumon caught his arms.
"Ow, that thing packs a whallop…" Tai got up and brushed himself off. The wind was getting swifter and awfully more acute. Tugging at Tai's pants, Agumon shivered. The three watched as Matt moved forward and only a couple inches from the bars.
"Ah…. See Tai? Maybe you should look before you le-HELP!" Tai instantly came to his side and saw the problem. Some shadows from inside were practically grabbing at his collar and choking him. Tai thought and then pushed against Matt, but with his hands slapping the ones who were choking Matt.
"Agh!" Matt choked. Tai slapped the last one pushing the boys onto the ground. Agumon looked at them as he helped Tai sit up.
"Violent" he said. Tai sighed and frowned. He was hoping to save someone really important to somebody else. Or somebody who was worth it at least. The people inside looked like zombies clawing fiercly at the bars of the small concrete jail. Their mouths oepn, drooling, and moaning. Tai peered inside and saw a little kid on the floor crying and a guy sitting the bench with his head in hands.
"AR!!!!" Tai jumped back and looked up. A Devidramon had found it's way past the others.

"Gabumon! Digivolve to….. Garurumon!"

"Howling Blaster!" In an instant, the attack hit and made the attacker dissolve. Garurumon grinned, he'd gotten stronger already.
Matt and Agumon looked at Tai. Tai nodded and started to search around frantically for a brick that stuck out. According to Izzy, it'd contain the keys. Soon, Agumon and Matt joined in as Garurumon attacked the offenders that got through.
"Ah ha!" Tai said with a triumphly voice. Bending down on his knees he put his hands on a lone brick that stuck out. Ignoring the battleing cries of war beyond the jail, Tai grabbed and secured his hands on the brick and pulled. It came out without much force and low and behold…. There was the key.
Tai smiled and grabbed for it. BOOM! The ground shook making the four fall. Tai looked up to see a large yellow explosion come from one of the jail's sides. Not exactly the side, but from beside it. From the smoke came Zudomon with Joe atop.
"Hurry up Tai! We've got them lost in smog!" Joe yelled. Zudomon thumped as he ran away into the forest. Geez, distractions can only last for so long can they? Tai thought.
"Hurry Tai! They're all running!" Agumon said to his friend. Tai quickly grabbed the keys and stood up. At the jail door he unlocked it and stepped back as dozens of bodies fell out onto the ground. Their heads bent back looking at them with horror and sad eyes. Moaning and groaning. Only the two that didn't come up earlier stayed in the back.
BOOM! Tai looked back at Matt and Garurumon with a serious face.
"You guys go on ahead! I'll grab just one person! I can't garuntee it's good or bad! But GO!" Tai yelled. The blinding light and another explosion. A chunk of the jail fell off. As Tai peered into the distance while shielding himself with his arms, he saw Togemon and Mimi escape with Izzy and Kabuterimon shortly after. Tai blinked and then turned back to see Matt and Garurumon had left. Agumon nodded and started running.
Tai quickly ran in avoiding the infinite hands that clawed and pulled at him. BOOM! Another hit, shaking the ground. Tai maintained his balance and grabbed the boy on the bench. Quickly running out, he was greeted by WarGreymon and jumped up onto him with the boy. A loud explosion was all they heard after leaving the area for their previous campsite.

"Alright! Score!!!" Tai yelled happily. He highfived the boy behind him who smiled and shrugged. Tai grinned. The first in a long time since I've smiled a real smile…. Or not. Tai soon frowned. Lot's of them were killed in the act. Innocent digimon…. Tai quickly shook it off before he could go to the guilt part.
"So…. I think your Tai aren't you?" the boy asked.
"Uh-huh, how'd you know my…. Say… You look familiar… what's your name again?"

"Geez? What's taking Tai so long? Drop by a fast food resterant very lately?" Matt asked pacing the ground back and forth. All digimon and Digidestined present had their arms resting on the rock and mountain 'wall' awaiting the arrival of their leader and friend.
In a couple minutes, Joe could see the little shape in the sky and pointed. Matt and Gabumon moed back as WarGreymon zoomed into view and landed smoothly…. Sort of. Dust and sadn flew up everywhere causing them to cough. Joe brushed as much as he could away seeing that he was still allergic to a lot of things.
In the dust, Tai and the boy jumped off letting the big mega dinosaur dedigivolve to something less violent. Once the sand and dust died down, everybody stared in awe at whom Tai had saved. Tai smiled faintly and shrugged putting his hands into his pockets. Silence… It was Matt who broke it with tears in his eyes.
"T.K!!!!!!" The two brothers ran to each other and hugged. Soon all the other digimon and human partners (but Tai and Agumon) went over to greet their long-lost friend.
"So Tai, why aren't YOU celebrating?" Agumon asked. Tai looked down at the rookie. Both their eyes met, locked in a glare of silence between both of them. Tai blinked and then looked at the others happily hugging and noogieing the tyke.
"Remember what I said? I don't wish to hug anybody until… them….." Tai said. He waited for about 5 minutes and then started off again with the others behind to go back into the city they once called home.

It took all day to get back into Japan's main city, the edge of it all. And getting tired and exhausted did not help at all near the end of the day. But Tai was a wide awake person and had gotten everyone back safely. After everyone settled down and went to sleep in Joe and Mimi's home, they nodded and saluted to Tai.
"See ya all tomorrow… huh? What's this?" Tai said picking up a letter. Unfolding it, he quickly read it out.
"Our guards are sick and do not wish to make you sick neither with our breath, so we've left you this letter. Theere is a big announcement! A huge tornament will be held tomorrow! Challengers are free to enter, but only if you can digivolve to mega and have a friend with you. The friend can be of any level, just one of you must be a mega form. Thank you. This will take place at the ultimate arena! Located not to far from you. Note, the two battles you must fight is aganst Devimon and the lord… come prepared… Alright guys… This is my fight now." Tai said stuffing the paper into his pocket.
"What! Tai! We're all friends! Not enemies!" Izzy cried out.
"But this is MY fight Izzy. I NEED this fight, it's my fight alone… you wouldn't understand why… but trust me on this one. We've been through a lot before, but this must be done by me and Agumon, right pal?" Tai asked nudging Agumon with his knee. Agumon nodded. Tai looked back at the DigiDestined's concerned faces. "Besides, Agumon's the only mon digivolving to WarGreymon now is he? Anyways, go grab a night's rest, see you all later in the morning to watch me show off my muscles!" Tai said sarcastically. He watched as the others went off except for Izzy and Tentomon and Matt who decided to follow him.
They walked down the street and stopped at the house closest to the arena, still far, but they could see a lot from there. The three boys and two digimon remained quiet until Izzy talked.
"Hey Tai, do you still remember Sora VERY fondly now that time's passed?" Izzy asked. Tai looked up into the sky where he could see some moonlight trying to break into the city of Japan. He smiled at the thought. Her picture, her image, so gasping and beautiful… before he could go back to the younger stages of him and her, Izzy interupted again.
"Well, okay, let me ask you this then…. do you remember what happened? Do you remember how it all began? How we got here? After Devimon sent Leomon to hurt you?" Izzy asked. Matt looked at Izzy who winked back. Matt gave thumbs up.
"Well… I guess I really don't.. why?" Tai asked.
"Think back Tai… think… ignore all distractions…" Izzy paused. "Like Matt's crude farting."
Tai grinned but it soon faded away as he stared up and sank back into his thoughts, his memories… slowly, he thank back… to before the tornament, before WhiteGriffonmon… before everything….
"I got it!" Tai said in a flash.

FLASHBACK

The pain, it hurted. I couldn't move.. my body was hurting… but I had to get up and… and… wait… I opened my eyes, practically forcing them to open and looked to my side to see a dinosaur like guy standing over me. Looking straight up were clouds… and a … a sun… a digital sun? To my other side lay nothing but sand.
"He's gone Tai, Leomon disappeared…" it said slowly. I sat up.
"Who are you? Leomon? Tai? I'm a Tai?" I asked.
"No no! Tai! Stop acting stupid!" it said again. I gave him a confused look. Or was it a she?
"I honestly have no clue of what your saying little man…. And who's this Tai character and Leomon character? What are you? You don't look like me… at least I don't THINK so.." I trailed off. We both turned our heads to the bushes behind and prepared for the worst. Out popped a White Griffon. It seems the little guy was happy and sighed collapsing on the beach.
"So, what do we have here?" the beast asked.
"A Tai or a Leomon."I said back.

FLASHBACK

"So… you were on the island still when you woke up and the White Griffon carried you off and trained you from there? Wow, we'd never learnt that in school with our principal."Matt commented. Tai shrugged.
"It's hard to remember things after I've had a memory loss… amnesia… whatever you wish to call it… I'm tired… you too Agumon?" Tai asked. The orange rookie nodded. The five all walked back in silence and crept back to the house of Joe and Mimi's to get some sleep before the final battles in the morning.

HHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhh…..HHHHHHHHHhhhhhhh……
Izzy reached for the side while trying to hide under his pillow. Mumbling and getting annoyed he couldn't find an alarm clock he bolted his upper body upwards to a sitting position. Izzy looked at the rom to see various bodies of digimon and humans spread about sleeping and snoring. One in particular was beside him who had his feet nearly in Izzy's mouth!
"Revenge is so sweet."Izzy said kicking him.
"YOW!… Heck, what'd you do that for Izzy? Oh man…" Tai said rubbing his ankle. Izzy laughed and sighed. The room was dark, but with the artificial sunlight pouring in through the windows, it seemed like a dark concrete room being filled with joy and happiness. I guess the digimon installed and got the artificial sunlight to work, Tai thought recalling the strange Christmas light like objects dangling from the roof.
"So, should we get the others up as well?" Izzy asked curiously after his 'attack of REVENGE'. Tai shrugged and slapped his googles on. Shoving Agumon who woke up very reluctantly, Tai made sure he didn't make too much noise. Izzy woke up his partner, without luck.
"AGH! IZZY! Is there an evil digimon? I'll protect you!" Tentomon shouted. Soon after Tentomon's ruckus went and spread through the room waking up everyone and everybody.
"Argh! Izzy! I only meant to wake me and Agumon! Oh well… I guess they'll have to come along too." Tai sighed. Grabbing a sandwhich from the fridge, Tai made his way through with Agumon to the door. Izzy and Matt quickly followed soon after.
Tai peeked out the door to check for any digimon guarding the streets. None. He smiled and grinned his infamous grin and opened the door. Walking out, he felt his feet touch the dirt and sand path. Tai smiled and walked along to the end of the street closer to the arena. As he turned the corner, Tai was totally un prepared. There was a huge line-up for this tornament.
The others weren't far behind and were behind Tai and gasped at the numbers around the stadium.
"Just wait til they see an international soccer championship!" a voice beside Tai said. Tai only patted his head. Good ol' Agumon, positive thinker even in the weirdest and wackiest situations.
"COM-In' through! Make WAY! I'm only here to check out some things. And the rules have changed!" said a snotty digimon making his way through the crowd. A gasp and then chattering and insults. Tai squinted as he came closer. That distinctive hat was a mark of the arena's.
"EH!" Tai was cuaght off by the little digimon as he poked Tai. He's a fast sucker, Tai thought.
"Me?" Tai asked pointing to himself. The young digimon poked him again.
"Yeah you bub. Did you hear or not earlier? There will only be two contestants fighting today. And they have to be certain people. So tell me, you look like Tai Kamiya and that Agumon sure looks like his digimon. Are you those people?" he asked. Matt nudged him.
"Could be a trick" Matt whispered.
"I'll be careful."Tai said back nudging him a little too hard.
"So google boy? What's gonna be ya answa?" he asked again. The digimon spit onto the ground beside Tai's shoe. Agumon glared at the digimon who gave a stupid smirk back.
"Yeah, that's me…." Tai said trailing off.
"Come with me then. 622! Open the gates!" Tai listened as the gates opened. Looking back at his friends for one last time, he smiled and then followed the Divermon. Agumon quickly joined his buddy.

"Ah… just a couple more minutes before the fight. AS you know, your fighting against our angered lords, seeing as you've caused them grief. And it's bad grief. Anyways, just wait, audience is being loaded. You'll only fight two battles today as you know, one against our previous lord Devimon and the other is against our almighty lord… his boss! Thy majesty!… Oh? I'll be back latr human and mon to retrieve you." The digimon said before running out.
Tai leaned back a breathed a sigh of relief. This was much bigger than the previous arena's resting area. The room was nearly made of pure gold! Well, the walls were at least. The room was decorated with vines that hung from the wall's roof. Couches of red, soft material (Tai nor Agumon knew what It was) were in all corners (but the main doorway) of the room. Lights were all around surrounding the room. A table to the middle and to the side was a place to put drinks and a tray for food. A small colour tv hung on the opposite wall of the door. It was fuzzy but would be replaced. Tai knew the reson this room was so great. The prisoners to be won…. They lived here. Probably so they wouldn't be tempted to leave, Tai thought.
"Ah… Tai, think your ready?" Agumon asked.
"For the fight?"
"Yep, of course!" Agumon asked. Tai nodded confidently.
"Tai, can you remember her really good? Your really old past with your parents?" Agumon asked. Tai looked at him sadly. He looked up, indicating he was thinking deeply. Rushing back through time inside his head was hard. Battle with Matt ate fire…. Asking WhiteGriffonmon to go to tornament… ah… Devimon and the lion slashing at him ….. home…. Playing…. With kids….. meeting someone his age… wait, too far….
"HEY! YOU!" a voice said startling Tai.
"Come again?"Agumon asked back for Tai. The digimon growled and then waved his hand and pointed to the main doors. Tai stood up and brushed himself off and gave a goofy grin. This was it… the final battles. Agumon grinned happily beside him as the digimon escort went to the front and opened the doors. Tai's happy grin was soon replaced by a face of annoyance. He shielded himself from the dust and sand coming at him.
"Wow…"Tai said again. The audience booths were full of peple cheering from the stands. Loudly and clearly. Tai looked behind to see the doors closing, and a little note falling from the roof as well as some people. Prisoners of evil, Tai thought as he faced the arena.
"Good luck" the digimon said and ran off to the sides. Tai took his digivice in his hands and breathed in and out. This was it, the final battles, the final challenges of his life. Or so he thought at least.
"Ah, welcome everyone and hush down. This will be the ultimate war between a lone traitor and warrior, pitted against our best lords whom he hates and loathes so much." Cheers and boos from the crowds. Tai snorted. "Anyways, he will be fighting out lords! First, let's see if he lasts our old lord. His boss overtook him. But here he comes, entering the ring in all glory!!!!!! VICE-LORD DEVIMON!!!!!!!!!!!!!" A huge cry of cheering. Tai closed his eyes and sighed. But upon hearing a small group yelling boo, he looked up and smiled, waving at his friends.
STOMP! The ground shook violently. Agumon almost lost his balance but kept steady and gave a long, mean glar at their foe. Tai turned to face Devimon coldly. The demon smiled and laughed like there was no tomorrow. Tai stepped forward causing the digimon to look at him and grin.
"Why dare challenge me boy? I'm afraid you nor that".. Devimon looked at Agumon and spit at his face. "Weakling can ever oppose me. Your both lame and stupid, just like at the other arena I owned. Now you'll pay. Your true powers aren't even enough to stop me nor my master!!!! Ha ha! Unarmed and ready to kill, ha ha!" Devimon shouted. Tai looked at Agumon, and Agumon looked at Tai.
"Let's do this buddy! Digivolve!" Tai yelled. His digivice let off an orange glow. He held it high into the sky letting everyone ooh and ahh it.

"Agumon! Digivolve to…….. Greymon!!!!"
"Greymon! Digivolve to……. Metal Greymon!!!!!"

"Oh? You think an ULTIMATE CAN BEAT ME? HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!" he yelled out. Tai turned to his partner.
"Now's your chance! Do it Metal Greymon!" Metal Greymon was about to charge when Devimon cuaght his eyesight back on the digimon. Metal Greymon stood still. Tai sighed and glared at the evil digimon. It was his fault, that stupid digimon's fault. He did this. He hurt many innocent people along the way…. Clear that Tai, no wait, anger enhacnes your attack strength, but your intelligence goes down due to stupidity… but I'm a leader, I don't need to worry about that….
"Tai, can you remember her really good? Your really old past with your parents?" Tai staggered backwards. He remembered!,.. he smiled. The thought, the memory, the images.
Pictures swirled in his mind, of him and her playing with toys from a toy box at her house… obviously seeing as he didn't recall having dress-up clothes in his toy box. The girl laughed playfully and pulled out some wedding clothes and forced Tai to relctently put the on… he smiled at how cute they looked together…. Wait… he must've had her. DEVIMON! He must have her trapped in that room!
Tai clenched his fist. "I'll do whatever it takes to get her back…" he said. He thought again, staring blankly at the sand on the ground, about his past…..

I can't dream anymore….
Since you left
I miss you singing me to sleep

The days when they'd pretend to be married and then have a wonderful honeymoon and fall into each other's arms acting so stupidly. Very young love-sturck kids.

I can't wake anymore…..
In your arms.
I miss you singing me to sleep

Then it'd all be ruined by Mrs.Takenouchi who'd come in and make silly jokes about Tai looking so fine and nice. Sora would blsuah and Tai would blush too, hiding his in his shirt. Argh, how he'd give to be in one of those moments right now… Tai looked back at Devimon and Metal Greymon. Grabbing a sword behind him on the ground, Tai took his fighting stance. It was time to get through with and over. No more pity from his friends after this, no more fights (unless they were personal), it'd become one easy going world.

Cheer up my friends all say……

At the time, Tai realized it. It struck him like an arrow. His memory! All of it came flooding back, the precious ones especially. Tai had one tear in his eye… flowing down his cheek soon enough. Leaders don't cry… do they? He questioned himself. Only then had he realized how important Sora and his family was to him.
Though he didn't notice the fact that he really matured and had gotten much colder than he was before….
"Hey! Are we going to battle or what wussy boy?" Devimon asked. Tai cracked a twig under his shoe. The dust flew into the air, but soon faded and died away into the wind.
"You've gone too far….. go Metal Greymon!" Tai shouted. Metal greymon gave thumbs up and flew into the sky, thunder boomed from above, but that didn't matter. Devimon grinned and raised his arms to the dinosaur, targeting, aiming… Tai watched as a black ball of energy was forming in his hands.
"Tai! Don't touch him! He can give you the Touch of Evil! So I wouldn't be going near him if I were you!" Metal Greymon warned. Tai looked up and gave thumbs up.
"Giga Blaster!" Metal Greymon sent two shark-headed missles towards the demon digimon. Devimon smiled and let it go in Tai's digimon's direction. Metal Greymon swiftly dodge it as it was much faster than his own attack. Devimon didn't move out of harm's way though. Tai blinked as it was coming towards him.
What an idiot!, Tai thought. He's getting himself killed! But then again knowing those evil digimon, he probably isn't…
"WATCH OUT TAI!!" boomed Metal Greymon's voice. Tai suddenly sprang back to the battlefield and eyed Devimon as he had one of his knees farrther back. His hands stretched out … blocking? No… he was cushioning the blow! Tai snapped his fingers in frustration.. But to his surprise, Devimon actually didn't get hit twith the attack. He was under much force and pressure as he turned towards Tai slowly. Tai came to realize it…
"DUCK!" Tai ducked as the reflected attack barely hit him!
Tai quickly stood up and dodged to the side as he barely missed Devimon's next energy attack. Looking at him, he smiled and waved. Devimon gave a confused look but readied another attack. WHAM!
"Alright! SCORE FOR THE BIG GUY!" Tai yelled to his partner. Devimon growled as he sent his Evil Attack at Metal Greymon who quickly flew through it! His speed inceased as he charged into Devimon who couldn't stop him in time.
"You idotic cheaters you!" he yelled.Metal Greymon would not give in, still ramming his head into Devimon, the evil digimon flinched. Tai quickly ran up from the side and slashed at his arm. "AGH!!!!!!!!!!" the virus yelled. He couldn't take it. The pain! With in instant reaction, he shoved Metal Greymon into the sky again with his free arm and then collapsed ontom the ground. His right arm had been cut off by the infamous Tai Kamiya… leader of the DigiDestined… impossible. Oh well, such an act won't stop me! He thought with confidence…. Ugh… but I feel horrible.
Tai looked at Devimon and then returned to his normal position. Was he defeated so easily and so swfitly?
"Are… are you okay?" Tai asked. Devimon laughed. He laughed! The audience were at the edge of their seat wondering what just happened in the past couple minutes that have gone by.
"NEVER! WILL I GIVE UP!!!!!!! EVIL TOUCH! Or no,, wait, THE TOUCH OF EVIL!" Deivmon's arm outstreched and had nearly made contact with Tai. The boy sprang jumped backwards and slashed at his fingers. Blood was falling and dripping everywhere in this arena. The look on Devimon's face hadn't change. It was still ane vil grin. Though now his whole body was shaking terribly… horribly…
"Shall I do a finishing move Tai?" asked his digimon. Tai held out his hadn in a "stop" action. Metal Greymon was taken back, but slowly landed on the ground beside his partner and waited silently.
"EVIL ATTACK!!!" Devimon cried out. Caught off guard, Tai stood there stricken with sudden horror. Metal Greymon quickly covered him int time as the attack deflected off his metal claws. The blackness turned to red fire spitting onto the ground in tiny sparks and embers. Devimon growled.
"Isolent fools… you'll…. You'll never beat lord…. Lord….. my lord…. My boss… my king… THE KING!…. EVIL ATTACK!" Devimon cried out. The dark ball of energy came flying from his hand, burning the sky. Metal Greymon sighed. Flicking his tail, Tai got the message to run.
"ARGH!!!!!" The impact of the attack nearly burned Metal Greymon's claws, instead it had left the poor ultimate in pain. Burning, BURNING! "ARGH!!!!" he shouted again, with burning anger. He wasn't going to let a fool of a champion get him again… not this time…
Metal Greymon swiped his right claw into the air.
"Giga Blaster!" Two missles aimed for their target and spun in the air. Devimon only shook his head so coldly with that evil grin on his face.
BOOM!…..
"NOW!" Tai shouted. The leader quickly ran and jumped up into the air with the sword in his hands. Metal greymon on the opposite side did the same, but with his right claw. Devimon looked up one last time as his eyes became a red, bloody blur…hazy…dying….
It all seemed to blast into slow motion. The two couragous man and mon crew had jumped into the air. "Mega Claw!" Metal Greymon's attack, and Tai's sword thrust into Devimon's back…..
In a cloud of dust, the two landed and opened their eyes to the horrific scene. The blood was disapearing, dissolving into what would become data… and Devimon was already flying away to his own heaven…
"YEAH!!!!!!!!! GO TAI!!" Izzy shouted. The whole audience was in shock, and cheering as loud as they could. Tai smiled, but then soon frowned. Metal Greymon dedigivolved to his rookie form and sighed. The two should've been happy, and they were…. But they just didn't show it.
"AND LOOK AT THAT FOLKS! TAI KAMIYA, LEADER OF THE cough… DigiDestined… cough.. BEAT DEVIMON!!!! It was about time that old joke kick the bucket!" Laughs from the crowd. Tai's eyes widened. They didn't care! They were HAPPY he died!…. Uh-oh…
"And now! Tai Kamiya and Agumon 742! Prepare for your ultimate battle of your lives! You can still give up right now! Do you Mr. Courage?" the announcer asked. Laughs. Pathetic laughs from the crowd! Tai stepped forward and held his sword.
"Never!" Oohh's and Ahh'ss… The announcer laughed ridiculously as if Tai had no chance at all.
"How about.. if you were…. Handicapped?" Tai raised an eyebrow in confusion. Feeling a tugging at his pants, Tai looked down to see Agumon pointing towards the main gate. The two looked over to see a Robogarusmon slowly walking along on the sand. In his robot fingers was a object that reflected the light from the spotlight (The spotlight shines during intervals).
When the robot digimon it came up to him and grabbed Tai's sword. Tai reached out for it, but was held back by the left fingers of the robot. Holding out it's right fingers, it revealed a knife…. A wee knife? Tai looked at the digimon… hope in his eyes… hope that Tai would win and cause this reckless world to end!
Tai nodded and sent off the little robot as he returned and awaited the next instructions. Agumon stood by his side. The two courage mon and man, wreckin' crew…
"And Tai Kamiya still doesn't give up! What a pathetic, and sad loser… anyways, you'll be fighting our current lord. The lord who will send you to the doors of death where it smells worse than anything in the world. The smell of loss and death from your worst foe! And here he is!"
BOOM! It was like lightining and thunder hit the arena. From the enemy's gate came a huge creature. Way bigger than Tai expected. He was about three heads taller than Tai, his power was practically unlimited. His face was mean looking, and Agumon could tell it was a virus type. His face was of a bull's, with a long snout. Two striped horns stood atop of his head. His eyes glared evil in all directions, both of his eyes. Indian like tear drop markings covered his face, his shoulder, his legs, and the part of the tail closer to the body. He stood on four massive legs that could cause an earthquake. His front legs were strong and had two cannons, one on each, attached onto each claw like paw. The digimon grunted, smoke came out of his nose.
Two, dark, shadowy cannons were just behind his shoulders… and a pair of wings at the back. They were the colour of an angels. How ironic of a virus type's. Wings about the size of Tai, with an additional head added to him of course. Behind the wings were two more deadly objects. One being a smaller set of cannonos facing the digimon's back and… the tail… A long, reptile tail… Towards 8/12 of the tails's end (or 2/3's).. the tail was split in two… and at the end of each two were white, shining, claw like stingers… Not like a bee's stinger… but what'd you call such a powerful intrument of terror?
It grunted again. Tai and Agumon stood still. "You dare challenge me… I am the lord of the Digital World and all of Earth… I am Dageroburumon… a virus type digimon… the first to reach the status of… the omega level." A whole shock and gasp from everyone. They haven't seen the lord himself, let alone being an omega level!
"Are your ready boy? Do you take the challenge?" Tai tightened his fist and smiled…
"I'm ready. Give me all you got.."
Dageroburumon grinned and snorted again. Agumon just stared at the ultimate fighting machine. He had cannons on both sides, wings, good strength, and probably speed, no wonder he was a mega! Agumon shook his head in dismay as the creature bent down. It jumped into the air leaving sand and dust in it's wake.
Tai stared up at him and so did Agumon who was ready to digivolve.
"The let's BEGIN!!!!!"

"Agumon! Warp-Digivolve to!……. WARGREYMON!!!!!"

The fight was on! As Dageroburumon dived through the air, slicing through the sky. WarGreymon flew at an equal speed, though just somewhat slower. The two scowled at each other as they collided. WarGreymon thrust forward his left claw, but Dageroburumon shifted his head to the left avoiding the attack. Before WarGreymon could react, Dageroburumon counter-attacked by headbutting WarGreymon in the face. WarGreymon's head jolted back fiercly, but he looked back to see Dageroburumon very faintly… his eyes and head grew dizzy.
"Keep focus Wargreymon! I'm coming!.. Or, I'm waiting down here actually! I can't fly!" Tai yelled to his partner. Dageroburumon headbutted WarGreymon again and laughed. WarGreymon shook his head and tried to get back his senses but was hit hard by Dageroburumon again. This time with the brutal force of his claws. Dageroburumon bared on each paw, 5 long, sharp claws….
WarGreymon couldn't take it and fell a bit through the air. Tai's heart beated faster as he grew more anxious to beat the crap out of Dageroburumon. He looked around and found nothing to use. Silently saying a little pray of hope, Tai looked up to see Dageroburumon dive through the air again towards WarGreymon. As he approached, he nailed him in the side causing WarGreymon to slide through the air again.
But this time, WarGreymon shook his head until his vision was pure again.
"So now that you've seen an omega's power… do you think you can beat me still?" Dageroburumon asked with his low voice. WarGreymon's eyes glowed orange and growled. A little flame lit inside his eyes.
"We will never give up! Courage never gives up hope in his dreams! We'll succeed!… And definitely, one thing's for sure… WE WON'T LET YOU STAND IN OUR WAY!!!!! NOVA FORCE!" A giant blast of fire was building in his raised arms. Dageroburumon pretended to be interested.
WarGreymon sent it flying through the air at Dageroburumon. It's found it's target… going in for the kill…. BOOM! Chunks of sand fell to the ground. WarGreymon looked at them, but saw no data.
"Up here WarGreymon." WarGreymon looked up to see Dageroburumon blocking his view of the clouds. The mega was shocked. This guy has some stuff!
"Think your impressive? I have an overwhelming five attacks in-training! Mega Shot, Doomray, Meteor Shower, and you'll see the other two soon enough… METEOR SHOWER!" the virus cried. WarGreymon stared at his wings as first, only the tips moveds up and down like a ripple in the sea. Next, it was his whole wing! After 5 continuous flaps, they halted in the sky… wings with holes…
Dageroburumon raised his head, closed his eyes and howled. From nowhere came big meteors! Big brown rocks falling.. WarGreymon shielded himself from disaster and waited for the storm to end.
Tai watched from below, and dodged the falling meteors… looking up, he saw Dageroburumon start up his wings again and started to dive towards the mega.
"WARGREYMON!!!! LOOK OUT!!!!!!!"Tai shouted. WarGreymon looked down at his partner, while shielding himself at the same time.
"Oof!!!" WarGreymon said as he fell through the sky. Dageroburumon smiled and opened his mouth with his wings spread wide open….
"DOOMRAY!!!!!!" A ray of black, with green and purple lines was going straight towards WarGreymon as he was already falling through the sky. The giant mega was falling too fast that he couldn't move very much or do any action at all… even breathing was difficult in this situation.
"ARGH!!!!". It pierced WarGreymon badly and made him fly faster. Dageroburumon smiled and laughed the evil laugh. BOOM!
Tai ran over to where WarGreymon crashed into the colluseum's great brick wall. Dust and evevrything else was falling to thr ground., thankfully not his data. Tai ran over and in an instant, his jaw dropped at the scene. WarGreymon was practically in the building! His body fit sung into the wall and didin't even make very many bumpy parts along the wall.
"WarGreymon! Are you okay?" Tai asked worriedly. Wargreymon opened one eye and reached out his right claw to Tai.. It was quivering, shaking, and horribly hurt… Trying to reach out more, WarGreymon fell out and onto the ground.
Not too far from Tai was where the Omega landed. He sighed at the scene and had his mouth opened. Hif wings outstretched and another ball of energy forming in his big mouth. Tai looked behind him and knew what to do. Running forward towards the evil digimon, he jumped and kicked the virus type in the chest causing him to lose concentration. The two fell over and the ball of energy that was there had shot out from his mouth and hit the wall.
"You human…. You shall die too Tai Kamiya, a worse fate than eating live livers.." Dageroburumon pushed Tai to the side and got up. Dageroburumon glared at Tai and had a serious expression pasted on his face. Tai jumped as his eyes changed to a red, eerie glow. The virus turned back to WarGreymon and like magic, the mega got up on his knees. He brushed himself off and stared at Dageroburumon.
Tai shook his head and ran to his buddy.
"Hey WarGreymon! Attack him if ya will!" Tai said. WarGreymon slowly turned his head towards Tai. The leader stopped in his tracks. Something was wrong with him.. his eyes… they were the same colour of Dageroburumon's!
"No… no… WarGreymon!" Tai said.. his forehead was full of sweat as he slowly walked backwards. His partner had been manipulated! Tai turned to see Dageroburumon wink at him and laugh outloud. Tai turned back to see WarGreymon coming towards him too. This must be one of his attacks… but how can I beat him?
Tai was breathing heavily. He couldn't hurt his pal.. he was under someone else's evil spell! And he'd regret hurting WarGreymon and have guilt for the rest of his life… if he'd live that long! BOOM! Tai's digimon partner kept on moving forward, inching closer. Tai stopped in his tracks and looked at WarGreymon.
"Buddy! How can you do this? Stop it! Snap out of his evil… evil sinister trick! He's manipulating you! WarGreymon!!!!" Tai shouted. WarGreymon grunted and stopped in front of his partner. He lifted his left claw up into the sky where it shined to all…

"I can't watch this!" Mimi said sobbing as she cried hiding in Joe's shirt. Joe patted her shoulder as the others were on the edge of their seats. Izzy wore binoculars from Joe's emergency bag he carried and sighed. Matt was trying to cover T.K's eyes. T.K tore them away each time.
"MATT! I CAN'T SEE!" T.K shouted.
"I think that's the point little bro." Matt said.
"But Matt…. Tai's my long lost friend! I don't want to miss any of this!… even… if it includes his death… but I have faith in Tai! He won't lose!" T.K shouted. Just then, T.K's digivice glowed white and blinded some nearby people for a moment. Everyone looked at the screen and smiled for T.K.
"DigiDestined youngster of Faith. Cool! I have faith in Tai and I get faith…. Too bad Patamon isn't here to share this with me…" T.K sighed. Izzy slapped T.K in the face.
"Quiet! I want to see this!" he said with his eyes looking through the binoculars.

"WarGreymon.. please…. Not again… don't make this déjà vu with my own digimon partner! WarGreymon! Look! Stop it! PLEASE!"Tai pleaded. WarGreymon struck. His claw slashed the ground in a fury of dust. But to his dismay, Tai rolled over to the side.
"WarGreymon! It's Tai! Your buddy! Remember!… Please…. Remember! I had to work my way to remember everything! And you helped me!…. look! Do you believe I have the courage? The guts to be standing up right now…" Tai stood up and continued. "To stand up and face my fears of be annihilated by my best friend? WarGreymon!" Tai shouted again. The dinosaur halted before moving on…..
"NO!!!!!" Dageroburumon shouted in frustration. WarGreymon's eyes returned to it's normal colour… his normal eyes that Tai knew. WarGreymon had tears in his eyes that soon were falling… the mega closed his eyes and fell to his side. Tai quickly ran over to his partner and gulped.
"WarGreymon?" Tai asked. The mega opened his friendly eyes and stared at Tai.
"T-t-t-t-tai……I'm s-s-ssorry…..Can you forgive me?" the war digimon asked. Tai sighed and shook his head as he hugged his digimon's neck.
"Of course I can buddy…. But for now…. You can take a rest.. I'll fight Dageroburumon." Tai responded. WarGreymon's eyes went wide.
"WHAT!?!?" he asked. Tai pointed to himself.
"That's right.." Tai said.
"But Tai! That guy is too strong for you to handle by yourself! At LEAST let me be your back-up, just in case! Heck, I'll be your.. uh, side-kick like in those stories Dangeroomon told us about before!" WarGreymon pleaded. Tai thought and then turned to Dageroburumon.
"Sure pal." Tai said.
"Thanks Tai." War Greymon said as he stood up on his feet. He just stood there, ready to fight. Saluting each other, the two waved and bid good luck as Tai turned to face the almighty powerful omega level digimon before him. Thunder boomed throughout the sky.
"Ready Kamiya?" Dageroburumon asked. Tai nodded.
"Heck yes." Tai said. The two glared at each other.
"AR!!!!" Dageroburumon shouted as he jumped into the air. Tai quickly dodged and slid under him as he landed. The omega tried to strike at him with his tail, but he failed. The leader quickly kicked and thrust forward out from under and dodged the omega's deadly tail attack.
Dageroburumon turned around and roared as he landed with a thud in front of Tai. The two engaged in combat as Tai punched Dageroburumon's face, causing him to stagger backwards a bit. The virus came back by charging forward and causing Tai to stagger back too. But he held on strongly.
The couragous leader gave a kick to the vrius, who dodged it but was hit by Tai's second kick. Dageroburumon shook his head and turned to face Tai but was kicked by again in the nose. Dageroburumo was furious! His eyes glowed red , but then calmed down.
Tai grinned and held back his right hand (with the knife) to strike again… but was interuppted. It almost felt like it was happening in slow motion.
Before Tai could strike, Dageroburumon went at a fast speed, his left claw rasied and then slashed it aross Tai's chest… in the exact same place where Leomon had struck before…
Tai staggereed backwards, his hand still held the knife though. Tai's motuh was open and his back was bent as he kept on staggering backwards.Tai grabbed his stomach with his hands.. the world was growing hazy to him.. slowly.. turning around… nothing seemed balanced, nor right anymore..
WarGreymon just stared, horror struck at his partner. He couldn't do a thing to help him but destory Dageroburumon.. but he couldn't bring himself to do it.. not when Tai was as badly wounded as this..
Everyone in the audience had grown very quiet all of a sudden. T.K was stunned along with his brother, Matt, and the others. This would be a horrible moment to be stuck in, T.K thought.
Dageroburumon stepped forward to where Tai stopped staggering and was leaning forward in pain. Dageroburumon smiled, he hadn't had this much fun for ages. "Having fun yet?… Little boy?" Dageroburumon asked while grinning evilly.
Tai didn't move much but coughed.. but in an instant, Tai slashed the knife upwards as the digimon was cuaght off guard. The evil digimon fell backwards and stared at Tai, who was now, trying to stand up straight for his victory.. then the digimon looked back at himself…
A single slash of a knife had killed him…. Dageroburumon may have been the best known fighter around… but his defense was so poor, an old man would literally kick his butt… and die soon afterwards though sadly if he didn't get away in time.
Dageroburumon stared at the victor and scowled at him. AGH!
He turned around to see his tail turning into black and white data… soaring through the sky. Dageroburumon turned around to see Tai standing up normally again, though he was still hurt by the slash that had nearly costed him his life 6 years ago. It was open again….
"I'll get you someday for this Kamiya…." Dageroburumon said as his face disappeared into the sky. Tai looked up and smiled. He coughed again and then shook his head.
"In your dreams Dageroburumon.. in your dreams…" Tai said.
The audience cheered like there was no tomorrow! He had won! This one named Tai Kamiya had saved them! Their lives! Everyone was happy to be free, almost.. unless Tai would be a horrible leader.. but they could tell he wasn't already by his heroic actions in battle… his couragous actions in battle…. And his brave, determined soul.
"YYYYYYEEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHH!!! GO TAI!!!!!!" Matt yelled from the stands. T.K punched the air happily and kept on yelling 'Yeah! Go Tai! You rule! Man you rule!'. Mimi was hugging Joe, and Joe hugged her back as they cheered. Izzy threw the $1000 binoculars to the ground, shattering it to pieces. He jumped into the air, landing on a couple stands and booths from where he was… he jumped again and again.. his friends quickly followed after Izzy via stairs and the same thing he did.
Down on the ground, WarGreymon smiled and gave thumbs up to Tai as he dedigivolved to Agumon. Tai smiled and opened his arms as Agumon ran into them. The two hugged each other… Agumon crying.
"Tai! I thought you were a goner!" Agumon yelled.
"Ah, but remember Agumon! Leaders never give up in a battle!" Tai said. "Especially me!" The two laughed as Agumon relaxed himself a bit. They were victorious! Just then, a happy announcer turned on his mike.
"Tai Kamiya won! I DON'T BELIEVE IT FOLKS! But both you and I saw it with our very eyes! YES! AND TAI! YOUR OUR NEW LEADER!!!!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!" Cheers again. Tai turned around to see his friends coming towards him, but then stopped just a couple feet away from him. Agumon quickly joined them and was attacked by a happy mob of DigiDestined and digimon.
"And so Tai Kamiya, all digimon have been let free! Your friends have come to greet you leader of the DigiDestined! WhiteGriffonmon, Edigaromon, Woofingmon, Dangeroomon, your other DigiDestined and their digimon friends.. and us!… And here's your prize! Turn to the contestant's main gate entrance!!!!!! This is Danger, signing off! A cool Syakomon! But just wait!…" Tai sighed and then turned towards the main gate..
It opened and out came running was his family. A lone digimon named Patamon flew to his long lost friend T.K. But Tai stayed and waited. And … he smiled… an actual smile! It stayed on his face. Tai just shook his head is if this was all imagination..
"Mom.." he whispered.. his mom let out a happy cry as Tai and his mom embraced in a long hug. Tai's mom cried as she and her son reunited after 6 long years…. Tai felt complete.. almost inside… it was like sudden blasts of happiness filled through him. He longed to be hugged, he longed to see his parents. He missed them so much…..
His mom let go as his dad hugged him, same reactions… except maybe less stronger than his want for his mom. Next was Kari… his little sister all grown up after 6 long years…. The two hugged each other for like what seemed to be an eternity… Tai shook his head…. His sister… he remembered how they got along so well,… and a vicious day where he felt like killing himself because of nearly killing his sister…. But that was the past… the far forgotten past that he didn't want to think of…
"Tai… I missed you so much big brother…" Kari said sobbing. Tai hugged her harder and let her rest her head on Tai's shoulder.. The tears flowed freely all over his shirt… it was never going to end…
"Kari…" his mom hissed. Kari let go of Tai and walked aside.
Tai gasped at the sight inside of himself. SHE walked out.. her…. Oh my gosh, Tai thought…. Get yourself together and stop drooling! She was just walking, her beautiful figure was so radiant…. Tai shook his head… Saving the world was worth it. As she approached him, something else happened. Tai looked up to see the sky's usual dark clouds disappearing into nothing, replaced by the joyful white clouds people could make and find so many shapes out of. The clear blue sky returned instead of eerie, black, grey, and purple clouds and sky things… And the sun… It shone so brightly on the legend… the hero Tai.
Tai knew it. Him and Agumon had become a famous legend, a VIP in history.. and he'd never be forgotten. Even when Dageroburumon used his deadly attack that had nearly killed him again, Deathtrap (which by the way, was the deadly claw swipes)… Tai will still be a legend. His legacy would be strong and proud.
Agumon watched the happy moment as everyone came down from the stands to greet the heroes and DigiDestined. Why not our happy hero? He had his own things to do let's say…
"And folks.. Danger's still here! Now I'm OFFICIALLY SIGNING OFF!! NO MORE OF THIS RADIO JUNK FOR ME! I'M OFF TO THE RAP CONTESTS TO SHOW-OFF! And to end this special occasion! A special song…. Sorry I didn't rewind it, I was listening to it yesterday night!" Danger said.
Tai turned to Sora as the music started up. The two didn't say a word as they hugged each other and kissed….. a moment to last forever…

Here's a toast…. To all those who hear me all too well……

Cheers from everybody as they cheered Tai and Sora on, the two lovers…

Here's to the night, we felt alive
Here's to the tears, you knew you'd cry
Here's to goodbye..
Tomorrow's gonna come too soon….
Too soon….
Here's to the NIGHT!!! We felt alive!
Here's to the tears, you knew you'd cry
Here's to goodbye…
Tomorrow's gonna come too soon…

Epilogue

The sun was scorching outside! A blazing 35 degrees practically in the being-rebuilt Japan. Tai and his wife Sora stood outside of their hosue looking up at Biyomon take flight. Agumon stared at her with confusion. After their victory, Tai and Sora talked and catched up on what's happened between them. It seems that Sora looked dead and so escaped to Earth earlier with fake i.d and everything. She figured Tai died and would have been reconfigured, except at home since, well, that was his home. But when she saw Earth was shattered, she was heart broken. At his house, she didn't find Tai, but his sister Kari. And so the two wen together in search of Tai. But they gave up 3 years later. Tai's parents unfornately were visitng Tai and Kari's sick grandparents out of town.. thank goodness they were okay! But eventrually, Devimon caught them all and tossed them into the main arena's jail.
But after the victory, Tai went out and was married to his loved one whom loved him back so much. The two were inseperable practically at first! Then Tai had to resume being a leader. He told everyone to repair Japan and make it a better home. Free Digiworld prisoners and whatsoever.
Edigaromon was on what was going to be the lawn for a while playing with Dangeroomon's little brother in his pouch.
Construction was happening to Tai and Sora's house. It was at the stage where they had to put the walls on, though in some areas it was already on. Wood was still on the second floor though. Builders from all over came to help build the new leader's home. It was so exciting.
Tai had his arm around Sora's shoulder, so he brought her closer. The two smiled at each other and kissed. Some digimon gave a gross face at the disgusting hman's habits. Tai and Sora turned to the concrete path to their house… it was so big and beautiful!
But then, Tai had an idea…
"Hey Sora.." Tai began. Sora turned to her loved one.
"Yeah Tai?" she asked. That voice… agh… drooling… Stop That! Tai said to himself mentally.
"How many kids did you intend on having?" Tai asked. Sora thought for a moment and brought her right hand to her chin. Tai let go of her and looked at her. Sora smiled and turned to Tai.
"7 kids would be fine." She said. Tai's eyes went wide and were open!
"Wha-wha-wha-WHAT?" Tai asked not believing what he just heard. Sora gave Tai a confused look.
"Oh you know what I said Tai! Ha ha! Anyways, I was thinking seven kids because there is seven digidestined, so I thought, Hey! Why not one kid for each DigiDestined? And I-" Tai let a groan.
"Uh-hhh…" Sora looked down at Tai who was falling unconcious (literally!). Sora nearly screamed.
"TAI!" Before he hit the ground, some arms grabbed his ensuring his safety. Sora looked at who helped him and smiled. "Mimi! What a surprise to see you here!"
Mimi grinned. "I know." She looked down at Tai. "My, he's heavy. Did he eat a champion's breakfast or what?" Mimi asked. The two laughed. Looking at the builders, they smiled and started to walk into the house. Mimi was helping push the unconcious Tai along as they went inside with Agumon trailing behind them…
The World's Future looks awesome… with everyone helping, being nice, and eventually, reaching an end later on…. Ah, the world's future was so bright and full of promises, unlike the previous world they lived in….
The sun shone on the house and everywhere, Japan, the digiworld….. leaving a happy ending……

The End

Yay! I'm done as of 10/06/01 typing "The World's Future". And boy, a month to get it out, I must be one of the laziest out there. Dragging it on and on… but it's done! I'm so proud of myself! Anyways, I'd like to say writing this story was awesome! I enjoyed all the reviews I got! Thanks for the support you guys! (And gals and mon's), Especially Chaos, Kaeera, Digi fan, Renz, Jinni, Nick, and Draco! Keep on writing! I will for sure!
Also, the two songs might have NOTHING to do with the story (and most likely don't) But I just added them in because 1) the ifrst song is one of my fav songs that kick butt, and 2) the second song was part of the fanfic. I do not own the two songs, their artists do. Dressed to Kill by New Found Glory and Here's to the Night by Eve 6.