Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or Dragonball Z storyline to the Bardock Special. However Taito, the other four original Digi-Destined in this fic, and Burizalor are copyrighted characters of me. Don't not use them without my full permission. So, ask before you use them!

Coral: Hey, everyone and welcome to another chapter of Taito's Destiny! We're only down to two chapters of this prologue mini-series. However, we will be delivering more mini-sagas along the way. That includes the Dimitri special. ^^

17: Well, it's March 14th. Where's SSJ4T?! I told you he wouldn't show up! That pussy is still in his grave where he should belong! ;)

Coral: I really thought he would show up. I guess you were right all along. I'm sorry guys, but he really isn't coming back.

17: I told you! I told everyone! You can't bring back what's already dead! Those messages were just freak acts of nature! Hey, SSJ4T! I hope you're hearing this in your grave! I hope you rot in that grave of yours, you stupid bastard!

Coral: Going a little too far there, buddy? -.-

17: No way, Coral! I'm just getting started! Looks like it's party time for m-

[Suddenly, several bells start to toll and thunder echoes in the background. The lights in the arena go out and the crowd is on their feet. 17 is livid and starts ripping away at his hair. Coral backs away whistling.]

Coral: You're on your own, buddy. ^^

17: Don't leave me!

[Metallica's From Whom the Bell Tolls plays. 17 watches as a dirt-covered casket is being rolled towards the center of the arena by a couple of druids.]

17: It- it can't be- That's the same casket I made for him! He's dead! He can't be fucking alive!

[The druids lift the lid of the casket and a smoke fog covers nearly the entire area. 17 flies out and is unable to pick up SSJ4T's ki. A hand emerges from the casket. 17 turns to find a dark, shapely figure emerging out from the casket with a purple aura surrounding him.]

17: NO!!!! O.O

Coral: Ok, this is going to get ugly. Let's get on with the fic and see how everything turns out for Taito. Will he finally get his hands on that traitor? Find out and enjoy the fic! I'm getting the hell out of here!

[17 is about to wet his pants as the figure walks out from the casket. It cuts towards the scene to the fic story.]

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[Digimon Adventure opening theme "Butterfly" plays]

Avenge your friends, Taito! Burizalor approaches the Digital World!

Planet Shiekh. 22:00 Hours

Cyrus took one final look at his three former friends and gazed upon their dead bodies. He simply turns away and chuckles deeply.

"Rest in peace, my former colleagues. Looks like I was destined to be the strongest after all. Taito, it's time to settle this once and for all."

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Miles from the site. 22:34 Hours

Taito had emerged from his space pod and walked out to search the entire area. He was unsuccessful to pick up any power readings from any of his colleagues. At first, he simply thought that the device was a defunct, but he realized that it was a newer model. It should have pinpointed any warrior's energy signal within a matter of seconds.

"That's strange. I should have been able to pick the level of ki from Sara and the gang. This is a newer model of our scouters. It couldn't be broken. I guess I'll have to go for the ol' search and find routine. It shouldn't be that difficult."

Taito takes flight and takes off across the distance. He looks across and takes a birds eye view of the entire planet. It was barren and desolate. The skies were purely crimson without a shade of blue. He checked his scouter and picked up no energy signals from his crew.

"Damn it. It's not responding. Maybe they are hiding their ki. Oh well. I'm pretty sure they'll sense me eventually. Now where could they be?"

As soon as Taito boosted his speed and flew across the landscape, a scene had immediately caught his attention. He looked down and found several unknown sources piled up in rows. He flew down to take a closer look and what he found was utterly beyond his expectations. In fact, it was beyond horror. Yes, he had taken a glimpse at the corpses of three members of his crew. Taito lands down and runs across towards the three bodies. One was the incapacitated body of Mimiru, who has a gaping hole in her chest. Her eyes were completely faded out and she was no longer full of activity. She no longer sported that frisky smile she would always put on.

(Play Final Fantasy VII Aeris' Death theme)

"Mimiru?!"

The teen turns and finds the crisped corpse of Leon. His body was literally burnt down to his bones. Taito kneels in front of him and clenches his fist.

"Leon?! How could have done this?!"

Suddenly, he heard slight whimpering and turned around to find Sara. She was near death as far as Taito could tell. He crawls over to her and grabs her right hand.

"Sara! Sara! Can you speak to me? Can you hear me?"

"Taiiiito… Taito…"

"Sara! Oh god, what the hell just happened here?"

"Taito… He did it… He really did it…"

"He, who? Where's Cyrus? Did he go off to stop the assailants? I can't even pick up his ki through my scouter."

"Cyrus… He… He… Traitor… He's… a… a… traitor… Becare…ful… Taito… He'll kill… you…"

"Cyrus?! He did this to you?! He betrayed us?!"

Suddenly, Taito looks back to the visions he saw while in his healing capsule. He visualized a mysterious figure standing over the bodies of Sara, Mimiru and Leon. There were no signs of Cyrus from the vision, not even a mention of him. Taito looks back and deeply gets a visual image of the assailant's face. It was that of a young man with ice blue eyes and blonde hair. It was Cyrus without a doubt.

Taito's anger was growing to all new heights and he held Sara tightly around his grasp. He held the girl and hugged her with tears coming down his eyes.

"Sara… Please, don't die…"

"Taito… I'll always remember you…"

"Sara…"

"I love you…"

With that said, Taito reached down for a final kiss to his long-time friend. However, all of that went to waste as an energy blast came shooting out of nowhere and penetrates through Sara's stomach. Taito's eyes widened in utter horror as he saw the corpse of Sara sailing across the landscape. He turned around to find the source of the energy blast and saw none other than Cyrus. The blonde-haired teen sported a malevolent grin and a psychotic look.

(End theme)

"Isn't this what you've always wanted, Taito? Didn't you want your final moments with Sara?"

"You…"

"What? You really thought that this war would end with a fairy tale happy ending? Did you really expect a 'happily ever after' bullshit? Eh, eh. Not on my watch. I did you a favor. I killed off what you call your most precious friend. Now you should be able to lose all of that sentimentality and fight like a true warrior."

"Sara…"

Cyrus noticed Taito standing up on his feet and facing him. Taito's eyes were fueling with bitter and pure rage, as if he were possessed by a hell demon.

"You…"

(Play Metallica's The Unforgiven theme)

"Oooo, what a scary look. That's more like it, Taito. That's the look of a true warrior. True warriors are meant to be ruthless and full of rage. I only killed Sara and everyone else to unleash that rage of yours. Don't go blaming me for this. If anything you should blame yourself. You chose to take the easy path. You chose sentimentality over power. You chose Sara over greatness. Wasn't your greatest desire to be the best? Look at you now. You are close to reaching that status of greatness. Unfortunately, you are face to face with greatness. I am your maker, Taito. If you can somehow knock me off my throne, then you will truly be strongest next to Burizalor. However, that simply is never going to a reality."

"Cyrus. You took the most important person in my life. You took three of our comrades. They aren't coming back. Their souls cannot even take refuge into the afterlife. They are stuck in limbo because they were murdered against their free will. You took away their right to die peacefully."

"Does he really care that much for those fools?! It really doesn't matter now. Your fate has been sealed, Taito. This is my time to shine."

Taito takes a fighting stance and does not take his eyes off from Cyrus. The turncoat quickly takes his own stance and faces off with Taito. There were bright auras surrounding them and the ground was trembling under their feet. Cyrus quickly felt a slight vibration from within the air and watched as Taito quickly phased out.

"What the hell?!"

Cyrus turns around and felt a presence from behind. He saw Taito throwing out a fist emblazed with ki. Cyrus puts his hands out and blocks the punch, however the energy from Taito's hand pushes Cyrus back. Taito lets out a way cry and executes a fist to Cyrus' face.

"Take that you rat bastard!!"

Taito flies up and powered up yet another aura. Cyrus looks up and finds a torpedo-like blast coming down at him. The traitor easily dodges it and catches his breath. He looks up to find no traces of Taito, until he felt a fist cave into his left cheek. The force sent Cyrus sailing through the ground. Taito reappears on top of a rock with his arms crossed.

(End theme)

"Give it up, Cyrus. You are not going to defeat me. You'll always be second best to me. I will avenge their deaths by ending your life. Say goodbye…"

"End… my life? I don't think… so… You will never kill greatness," Cyrus muttered. "The thought of you being number one makes me retch… I hate the fact that you are even breathing… Machinedramon should have eliminated you when he had the chance…"

"Machinedramon? No, don't tell me…"

"Heh. You're a fast one, Taito. You should have realized that I've aligned myself with Machinedramon…"

"You didn't…"

"I made the deal with the devil himself, my friend. Burizalor is the only true power in the digital universe. You would have made a perfect addition to his forces if you had dropped all of that sentimentality. Then again, he would have killed you anyway. Your power is growing after every battle. He asked me to kill our friends. They would eventually catch up to you, Taito. Burizalor does not want the legend to be born."

"Legend? What are you talking about?"

"The legend of the fused warrior. There was legend of a warrior who fused with a powerful digimon many millennia ago. According to stories, this great warrior nearly destroyed half of the northern digital galaxy. The warrior was never heard from again since that time. That was the last time the legend was ever summoned into existence. Burizalor will make sure that the legend is not reborn. He fears that one of you will rise and claim that legendary status."

"Which is why he wanted us dead, but why not you? Why hasn't he killed you off?"

"He sees potential and trusts in my capabilities. I will never turn my back on Burizalor! Besides, he has promised a new body for me. This human body is expendable and I can't fully muster my full power. So he will delete this body and reformat me into a digimon form. Yes, it will be glorious to live a new life. You refer to me Cyrus, Taito. I'm sorry but Cyrus died the moment he made allegiance to Lord Burizalor."

With that said, Cyrus busted into insane laughter, but it did not humor Taito. The heroic warrior stood his ground and was prepared for any trick the traitor has up his sleeve. Cyrus grins and snaps his fingers. Coming out from the ground were several Metal Etemon and Blue Meramon.

"That's not fair, Cyrus! You really need help from these weaklings in hopes of defeating me. That truly shows you have no backbone in your body. You've killed whatever honor you had left."

"That's some talk coming from a sentimental dreamer! These soldiers are here merely to test out your abilities. If you can trash them, then you have a good chance at wiping me out. Let's see you prove your worth, Taito! Attack men!"

(Play Inuyasha OST theme Sword of a Fang)

As soon as he said that, the fleet of Metal Etemon and Blue Meramon rushed down towards the battlefield. Taito quickly flares an aura and flies out towards the fleets. The pre-adult warriors shoot numerous ki blasts, which incinerate numerous Blue Meramon. Taito unsheathed claws from his gloves and they were made from pure chrome digizoid metal. All the Metal Etemon fleet could do now was retreat. Taito gave them no chance of escape and reappears in front of them. Taito hacks away through their armor and easily wastes each Metal Etemon.

"Is that the best you have, Cyrus? I'm seriously disappointed in you. Now get down here and fight me."

"I'm not through yet! Megadramon! Gigadramon! I summon you!"

Two enormous serpent-built dragons with robotic enhancements flew across the heavens. They cried out with echoes thundering across the landscape. Taito merely nodded his head.

"You are no longer a warrior in my eyes. You've stooped to become Burizalor's lowly stooge. How the mighty have fallen…"

"Kill him now! Go Megadramon! Go Gigadramon! Attack and destroy, Taito!"

By Cyrus' commands, the dramon duo flew down towards the battlefield and fired away numerous missile blasts from their arm cannons. Taito easily evades each missile blast and powers up a fist. The dramon duo stopped at their tracks and witnessed a backlash effect. Within a few seconds, Taito reappears behind the dramon team and watched gaping holes forming across their chests. Taito polishes them off with two massive ki blasts that caused the heavens to literally tremble.

Cyrus' mouth dropped and he was completely in shock of everything that had now just transpired. The fleet had been utterly wasted and Cyrus was left alone. Taito levitates down and turned to give Cyrus a hateful glare.

(End theme)

"Um, let's talk about this, Taito. No, seriously… I'm impressed with your tenacity. I really didn't expect your power to grow that much."

"Shove it, Cyrus. Cut this crap, because I'm not buying it. You're not getting away from this without a fucking beat down. You killed our team and betrayed the name of the Digital Knights. You spit in the face to everything Gennai represents. You take the side of a heartless monster for your own selfish pride. I won't allow scum like you to ever breath."

"That's right. Hate me. That's what is going to make you stronger in the end, Taito. Feed off of that anger and direct your hate towards me. I hope you realize that you've just prepared yourself for the arrival of another guest of honor."

"What? Who do you speak of?!"

"That would be me, dear Taito," a deep, cybernetic voice spoke.

The heroic teen turns around and is quickly met with a rapid, claw strike from the cybernetic titan. Taito goes sailing across the landscape and crashes through a hill. Stepping out from the shadows was the massive, robotic dragon with cannons on both shoulders. Cyrus chuckles and flies off towards the devastated site where Taito had fallen.

"Well, Taito. Like they say: Never take your eye off of the ball game. I'm not surprised you were not able to detect Machinedramon. After all, he is a machine who emits little ki. Your power may have grown but it still pales in comparison with Machinedramon."

"I'm surprised he's still alive after that sneak attack. That would kill any normal warrior."

"Believe me, he's far from normal. It's going to take more than just that to permanently out him out of commission."

"Lord Burizalor ordered us to kill him and what's exactly what we are going to do."

"Yeah, yeah. But allow me to have a little fun with him. I want to see him suffer before he dies."

Taito slowly rises from the rubble and grasps his right shoulder. He most likely has injured the shoulder, but he managed to overcome the threshold of pain. Cyrus steps out of hiding and chuckled at his adversary.

"Not looking so well, are we? Don't worry. We're going to ease that pain. I know that you're anxious to see Sara again. We'll be honored to send you to the after life with her. Do you like that idea, Taito?"

The courageous teen simply smirks and displays his index finger. Cyrus was taken by this offense gesture and shoots a ki blast. Taito takes the blast head on and stumbles backwards.

"Don't you ever display that act of barbarianism?! I thought I knew you better than that."

With that said, Cyrus throws out another ki blast. This time Taito dodges the blast and taunts the blonde. Cyrus continued shooting out numerous ki blasts. The injured warrior avoided each one.

"It's sad. You can't even kill off an injured man," Taito stated promptly. "You really have lost your honor. I can see your credibility going down the drain as we speak."

"How dare you… You mock me?!"

Taito stood his ground and prepared his own ki blast to fire at Cyrus. Suddenly, Taito was picking up another group of high power levels. He turned around and saw a sword flying straight for him. Taito managed to barely dodge it at the last second. However, a hammer came up from behind and bashes against Taito's spine. The warrior is sent crashing down through the dirt.

"Hey! What took you guys so long?!" Cyrus cries out.

"Patience my young friend," another voice calls out.

"No it couldn't be them!" Taito exclaimed in thought. "Not the Demon Corps!"

The warrior lifted his head up and found a group of five individuals standing next to Cyrus. They came into view through the shadows. There was a jester clown with a pair of swords scathed. This was Piedmon. Another one looked almost like a demented Pinocchio with a gigantic hammer. This digimon is Puppetmon. Another one looked like a red skeleton with gargoyle wings. This was Skull Satamon. Standing next to Skull Satanmon was a massive squid-like demon. This digimon is identified as Marine Devimon. Finally, the last one was the largest of the bunch. This formidable force is identified as Metal Tyrannomon. These five make up a group of highly skilled mercenaries known as the Demon Corps.

"It's you! I can't believe you would call these bastards!" Taito exclaimed. "You really can't defeat me on your own, Cyrus."

"I call them my insurance policy. They are here to protect me from you. You see if we would have gone all out, I would most likely killed you on the spot."

"Then why don't you kill me? I'm defenseless as we speak."

"No because I promised these guys a fresh kill before the day ends. So I called them over to finish the job. Piedmon, if you will…"

"Of course, Cyrus. Lord Burizalor will definitely make you his new commander," Piedmon said. "Don't you worry about this feeble human. He'll be dead before he even knows it."

(Play Final Fantasy VII Battle Theme)

Suddenly, the Demon Corps gasped in shock as Taito rose to his feet despite all injuries. Taito raises his fists and waved his hand over to them.

"Just bring it, fellas. Kill me. Let's get this over with. I'll even die a warrior's death…"

"Suite yourself, Taito. You brought this on yourself," replied Cyrus. "Say hello to that slut of yours for me in hell."

With that said, Cyrus starts walking away and leaves Taito for dead. The blonde turns and directs a lifeless glare towards him. He puts his thumb across his own throat as if he were an executioner.

"Kill him…"

The Demon Corps and Machinedramon began to fire away with everything in their arsenal. Taito took the fully charged blasts head on and was sent flying backwards. Along with him were the corpses of his dead comrades.

"I'm sorry you guys… I have failed… I couldn't avenge you…"

Taito was sailing across the skies and everything in his mind quickly faded to black. It was as if he had already arrived at death's doors and thus his fate was sealed. Or was it fully sealed?

(Theme ends)

Cyrus was satisfied at the dirty work and gave his approval to the Demon Corps. Machinedramon scanned the entire area and picked up no traces of ki. He nodded to his partners in crime.

"They have been eliminated, Cyrus. We can report this back to Lord Burizalor. Our job has been completed," Machinedramon stated.

"Such a shame that he wouldn't join our cause," Piedmon said. "He would have made a great soldier."

"Feh. It really doesn't matter now. Taito is finally dead and I am now free. I'm free to make choices and free to serve for a more compotent leader. All hail, Lord Burizalor!!"

"HAIL LORD BURIZALOR!!"

As soon as they cried out in unison of the tyrant's name, the group flew off into the distance and headed off to their spacecraft. From there, they would report back to Burizalor and inform him on everything that had just occurred. Cyrus had accomplished on what he had set out to do: eliminate Taito for good.

Unfortunately, their attacks did not finish off the warrior. Taito slowly opens his eyes and finds himself battered under a pile of rubble. Even he couldn't believe that he had survived such an ordeal. He rose out from the rubble and crawled over to the corpses of his best friends. His eyes were saddened with grief and sorrow.

(Play Inuyasha OST theme Beautiful Memories)

"Sara… Mimiru… Leon… I survived after all… I guess fate has decided to give me… another chance for me to avenge… your deaths… I will defeat Cyrus… and stop Burizalor…"

Taito lifted himself up from the dirt and he started digging up deep trenches. He did this in order to give his friends their proper burials. As soon as he finished digging up the first trench, he picks up Mimiru's corpse and places her into the deep mound. He walks over, lifts up Leon and lays him into the second mound. Finally, Taito picks up Sara with a single tear coming down his right cheek. He gives one final kiss on her cold lips and puts her body into the third mound.

"You guys. I will avenge you. If I can't avenge you, then someone will."

Taito looks down and finds a pair of flowers that had just sprouted from the ground. He kneels over and picks out the flowers. He walks over and drops two flowers for each grave. He gives them one final salute and starts to mound their graves with a patch full of dirt.

"Don't you guys worry. I will not let Cyrus' crimes go unpunished. I swear to avenge your deaths with any means necessary."

After mounting their graves with a pile of dirt, Taito kneeled in honor of his long time friends and comrades. He gave them a final prayer and sits up from the ground. Taito activates his scouter and picks up numerous power levels coming from within the regions of space. One of those powers belonged to the gutless turncoat known as Cyrus. He starts limping his way towards his space pod.

(Theme ends)

"Burizalor. You want us dead. Well, I'm not about to lie down for a gutless coward such as yourself. You turned Cyrus to your side and I won't rest until I see you two dead. Even if I die, I swear that someone else will eventually overthrow you. I swear on my partners' graves on that promise… If Burizalor does plan on destroying the Digital World, then I have to warn Gennai… I have to inform him on everything that will occur… I can't believe everything I'm envisioning is coming true… I have to at least prevent Burizalor from destroying the Digital World!"

Taito heads off to N-Digital World to warn Gennai about the upcoming assault. With Cyrus turning to the dark side, things are not looking bright for the Digital Knights' future. Will Taito stop Burizalor before judgment day arrives?

[Preview]

Tai: Hey, everyone! This is Tai here! We're coming down to the exciting conclusion to this mini-series. It's all up to Taito to warn Gennai about Burizalor's plan to destroy the Digital World.

Sora: With Cyrus on Burizalor's side, there's no telling how the future of N-Digital World will be determined. It could very well be the end of the Digital Knights.

Tai: However, there is hope. Gennai plans to escape to File Island in the eastern section of the digital galaxy with the eight digieggs and crests. If there's any last line of defense, these eggs will determine the outcome to the future of the digital universe.

Sora: The title to the final chapter to Taito's Destiny is…

Taito Battles on! The Eight Digi-Destined are the Last Hope?!

Tai: You don't want to miss this earth-shattering conclusion!

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Coral: I hope you enjoyed that rather short chapter. Now we're coming down to the return of SSJ4T! All right, 17. I hope you've brought everything you have! You're facing SSJ4T's dark side! Have fun! ^^

17: Feh, he doesn't scare…

[Out from the shadows comes a teen with a dark cloak with a black leather outfit. His boots match his outfit and his hair reaches down to his shoulders. The dark warrior forms a dark purple ki blast in one hand. 17 charges forth and goes for a fist. The dark warrior blocks it with ease and drives hi ki-powered fist into 17. 17 stumbles backwards with his eyes bulging out.]

17: Damn you! I can't believe how strong you've become! SSJ4T, you will pay!

SSJ4T: No, SSJ4T was merely my human identity. I would like to thank you. When you killed my human form, you've awakened the darkness from within. So in the end, you brought this on yourself. You can call Kanius. I'm a servant to the dark lord. Now prepare to meet your maker.

17: O.O

Kainus: Demon's Blaze!!

[With one hand swipe, a ki blast is sent to 17 and nails him head on. Kainus merely walks away as if he had completed his mission.]

Coral: Hey, aren't you going to give him a beating?

Kanius: Until the next chapter, besides that blast is more than enough to kill someone like 17. Take a look.

[As the smoke clears, 17 is laid out unconscious with massive bruises and wounds inflicted all over his body. Coral's mouth widens in utter surprise.]

17: X.x

Coral: Uh, wow… That was awesome… I don't think I should piss this guy off. Anyway, be sure to check back for more stories to be posted. Taito's Destiny is set to conclude with one final chapter! Until then, peace everyone!

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