Rage Against Time

Chapter 4: Confusion

By Warwolf

Author's notes: Here we go. New computer, new system, new everything!



Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon Tamers, nor anything from Marvel comics, DC comics, or World Wrestling Entertainment. Digimon Tamers is the property of Akiyoshi Hongo, Toei Animation, Bandai, and for the short time it has left on the network, Fox. The Marvel Universe and all characters and concepts are the property of Marvel Comics The DC Universe, along with all characters and concepts are the property of DC Comics and Warner Bros. World Wrestling Entertainment, it's logos, wrestlers, musics, etc. are the property of World Wrestling Entertainment, inc.

The usual Key applies:

Italics: emphasis
Bold Italics: Thoughts
------- : World Change (Also to open or close a fic. You will see both happen here.)
******* : Same world, but scene change.
+ + + : Change in time (Forward/backward, etc.)
Bold Underlined Italics: Extreme emphasis. Can be either thoughts, speech, or what have you. ^.^;;;

Underlined Italics: written/electronically produced comments.

Bold Underline: Sign language (Both human and otherwise)

New additions to the key!

Bold: Time/place/state/country/event

~~~~~~~~: Dreams

And now, ON WITH THE SHOW!!!!

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2003







Takato-- Spider-Man -- awoke to a pounding headache. The first thing he was aware of was a pair of warm, powerful, and yet somehow feminine arms wrapped about his neck, and in so doing, was squeezing considerably. Despite his enhanced strength, he felt he should say something to the person, whose face he had yet to see, before those arms got any tighter, as they were starting to hurt.

"QUIT STRANGLING ME!!"

That did the trick. The arms grew lax, and he finally saw the face that went with the arms, and behind his mask, his eyes went wide.
It was the woman from his dream.
Behind his mask, Spider-Man blinked rapidly, once, twice, three times.
"Hey, you okay, chumly?" Hirokazu asked. Spider-Man managed, after a moment of resistance from the woman in the armor, to stand on his own two feet. Again he blinked, tilting his head to one side.
"Who the slag are you? For that matter, where the shock am I?" He asked, his eyes scanning the immediate surrounding area. Sakuyamon, in a state of shock, could only stare at him. Terriermon on the other hand, chose to express himself rather succintly.
"I think we fucked up. That can't be him."
"Strange as his attire may now be, Terriermon," Qinglongmon replied calmly, though inwardly he was confused as well, "That IS your fellow Tamer."
"....Takato?" Juri timidly asked, which caused Spider-Man's head to snap in her direction.
".....Are you okay, Takato?" She asked, not sure how he might react. He seemed so different, in every way.
Spider-Man was covered in a black, skin-tight body suit which bore red markings on the chest, seemingly a cross between a spider and a stylized skull. Red lines extended outward from the top of that symbol to his shoulders, and arms which ended at the hands. Near his elbows, two fins extended at an angle, and his eyes were seemingly surrounded on almost all sides in red markings, the only markings on the mask. The web-like cape twitched a bit in the breeze. The young Tamer had become much more muscular. Not overly so, but it was a lean musculature. Hard, compact, and deceptive in the amount of power locked within them. The suit did little to hide that muscle tone either.
In short, he looked like something out of modern day Anime.
"How the glitch do you know my name?" He demanded. He was officially creeped out. Not only did some of the creatures standing around the humans look like something out of a holovid, but they knew his name. He had been very careful about maintaining his secret. He was obviously getting sloppy if complete strangers could identify him.
Spider-Man had fought with and against some of the most unusual creatures on Earth, and in 2099, that could be quite unusual. But this was out and out strange. He didn't know these people. He did the only sensible thing.
He leapt.
Upward, over twenty feet in a single shot, bounding over their head and into the treeline of the park. The swiftness and suddenness of the move startled everyone, including the Digimon Soverign. Sakuyamon moved into the air and shot off after Spider-Man. Normally, she would have caught up to anything human, but Spider-Man didn't entirely qualify in that area. Plus he'd had a head start. As she closed in on him, he made it into the crowds, and began running through the crowd, drawing surprised stares from those he passed, before vanishing around a building corner and leaping up again, this time clearing roughly twenty five feet, and clung to the wall, jumping again, upward, again and again.Then he jumped forward, out into spoace and with a fwizz! a strange gray substance shot out from his upper right arm, latching onto another building, and swinging over to it, jumping upward, before repeating the motions which became a multiple repition of it, as instead of clinging to buildings, he produced more and more of the substance, swinging between the buildings, releasing the substance, somersaulting in mid air, web-cape flaring out behind him and shooting off another stream of the substance. His speed was far greater than that of any normal human. In fact, he put even the fastest Olympic runners to shame. He was, perhaps, the fastest man in Tokyo and it's districts.
Sakuyamon was only a few moments behind, but for Spider-Man, that had been enough. By the time she had realized he was somehow no longer on the ground, he was already long gone. She frowned, flying back to the park, meeting the others who were just now coming to within fifteen feet of the park entrance. She turned to the Digimon Soverign and asked one simple question.
"What. The. Fuck. Was. That?"
Okay, maybe it wasn't so simple.

Spider-Man sat atop one of the tallest buildings in West Shinjuku. Crouched, actually. He was unsure of where he was. Nothing looked like her remembered it. This couldn't be New York. But just where in the Hel was he?

"My little boy..." Miie sobbed, being held by her husband. "Wh-why? Why would he run away from us? It was as if he didn't even know us.."
"I'm not sure he DID." Jenrya said, trying to run the events of the last few moments over in his mind. "He seemed to think we were a threat. Maybe he's just disoriented from being sent into the future and then being brought back...but somehow I'm not sure that's the case."
And when did Takato have the ability to leap around like that without being merged with Guilmon as Dukemon? And how did he manage to avoid Sakuyamon so totally? That shouldn't have been possible!
And so the plot thickened.

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TO BE CONTINUED......

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The Unenviable Author's post-notes!: Here's Chapter Four, kicking ass, taking names, and in general in your face. ^.^ More will be revealed about what happened to Takato, and how he became Spider-Man. Plus, next time on Rage Against Time, we get to see more of Sakuyamon's actions and reactions regarding the return of Takato to his original time, and Impmon has a confrontation with the webslinger himself! Next time, on Digimon Tamers: Rage Against Time!

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