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[Signs]
(Thoughts)
Summary: Abandoned by the others, after he made Greymon digivolve into SkullGreymon, Tai seeks a meaning to his new life. Not as a Digi destined, but as a Digimon. Myotismon has gotten his hands on Tai, and is now ready to make him into loyal servant. Everyone pack up, we're going back to the real world.
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Twist of fate
Part V
Back To Earth
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Huddling in a corner, Tai tried to remain invisible to the other two digimons in the room. Only, things didn't go as he had hoped. Looking up from where she was lying on the ground, Gatomon stared at him with those emotionless eyes he had gotten to know rather well. They were there whenever she was around other digimon or when she was taking charge as commander. They also showed up when ever he had gotten another lesson from Myotismon, and the virus digimon followed up on his promise to hurt Gatomon as well.
A drop of water falling onto his ear made him flinch as the object protested against it. Every single movement hurt. Breathing in air made his ribs protest, and the burns on his arms and was still throbbing with pain. Pushing back the tears, Tai slowly stood up and faced the white digimon standing above him. "Thank you."
Gatomon shook her head and sat down on the ground with a stern look on her face. "Why don't you stop annoying him?" Her tone held the voice of a beaten spirit, one that had given in to the darkness around her, and yet, one could still see the faint glimmer of hope in her eyes, the belief that things would become better. "It would be easier."
Tai fought his way up to sit and stared down at the white digimon before him. "No, I know things will be better. I refuse to give into him." Eyes burning with determination, Tai fought his way up to his feet. "I won't give up, I didn't come this far for nothing."
Gatomon eyes burned with anger and her gloved paw lashed out and sent the digimon before her flying down onto the ground. "Stop it." Her paws shaking with anger, she jumped up and landed on the chest of Tai. "Don't you see, you can't beat him, he's an ultimate, and strong." Her words stopped as she closed her eyes. "Too strong. Too strong for…"
Tai glared up at the white feline digimon before him and felt a pang of sadness and pity. Closing his eyes, Tai recalled every single movement the large ultimate had lashed out at him, and then at his friend Gatomon. An image of Wizardmon's sorrow filled eyes when he healed Gatomon, and the way he regarded him whenever Gatomon didn't look at them. (I hurt her, whenever I refuse, upset or insult Myotismon; she gets to suffer for what I did as well.) Hands closing in defeat, Tai lifted his head and gave a single nod. "I won't… I won't defy him anymore."
Gatomon looked down on the champion before her and then jumped off him. "See that you don't." Her tail moved in a slow wave as she looked back at the feline humanoid digimon sitting on the floor. "For if you do, I will kill myself."
Tai backed off as he saw the hard glint in those normally indifferent blue eyes. Pushing down the feeling of fear, Tai nodded and grinned. "Yes, from now on, I won't let you down."
The sound of the door into the room slamming open broke them out of their conversation and had them turn all their attention on the looming shadow standing in the doorway. "Lord Myotismon" Gatomon greeted while she bowed, startled, Tai quickly followed, remembering his promise.
Rising an eyebrow, Myotismon stared as the newest member of her personal servants showed him respect. "Well my little pets, Are we fully healed this morning?"
Tai nodded and continued to stare into the ground. "Yes Lord Myotismon." Next to him, Gatomon pulled up her glove to hide the marks from the beating they had gotten and gave her affirmative.
Myotismon nodded and turned around. "That's good. I won't have any weakling serving me, understand." It wasn't a question, but more an order, an order wrapped in the promise of more pain if he didn't live up to it. As both cat type digimons meekly nodded and bowed before him, he allowed a small smile to cross his face. "That's good. Now, go look after the work on the gate." Both cat like digimons bowed as they got their orders. Then they stormed out of the room to carry it out.
Back in the room, Myotismon turned around and looked out the window. Maybe it was time he got in contact with the other dark powers in this world. Smirking at the memory of the four fools who had defeat the digital guardians, he felt like grinning. It would be so simple to sneak in and kill them while they were recovering. But pretending to serve them had their advantage. Like getting a hold of the crest of light, with this, he could removed the one thing in his way of supremacy and by the time he got back, the four fools would fall before his might.
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Gennai stared down at the crest and broken digivice before him. All his work and searching pointed to the same thing. Myotismon had found and captured Tai. But, the virus digimon had no idea just what he gotten a hold off. Clenching his hand around the digivice, Gennai turned around to face the computer screen. It was time to make plans.
Behind him, a large humanoid lion flexed his hands and looked down at the small human working before him. "Gennai, tell me. That brave child with the brown mop of hair, is a digimon now?"
Gennai nodded as he put down the crest and digivice on the table next to him. "Yes, and I fear that time is running out for him." Turning around in his chair, he looked up at the champion before him. "And now Leomon, we need your help." Pointing at the crest he gained a sad look. "This thing is barely reacting to the boys data anymore."
Leomon cursed as he smack his hands together. "Dammit, what'd we do Gennai?"
Gennai rubbed his chin as he looked down at his feet. "I don't know, as it is things are looking grim." Fingering the broken digivice, he finally looked up at the champion before him. "I did some studying on the crests and talked with Azulongmon and Baihumon about them." Turning around and pushing a couple of buttons on his keyboard, Gennai called up a large file window in front of them. "Remember the legends of the five legendary digi destined who saved the digital world in the long forgotten past?"
Leomon blinked and grinned in an embarrassed way as he rubbed his head. "Well, it doesn't really spring to mind."
Before him, Gennai sighed as he looked up at the large digimon. "Of course not, it was back when you were Elecmon." Giving a harsh look at the digimon who was shrinking back before him, he continued. "And as I recall, you were more interested in defeating your rival Goblinmon, sleeping and eating then learning your lessons to become the guardian of File Island."
Leomon waved a hand at Gennai as a huge sweat drop formed behind his head. "Well yes, but I did learn most of my lessons, but how was I to know that those old and moldy things would become useful later on?"
Gennai felt a small vain pop on his forehead as the champion babbled on like a little child who had his hand down the cookie jar when his mom walked in. "Oh yeah, you really learned them I see. Why, you spend your time guarding File Island, sleeping, eating and trying to pound your old Rival Goblinmon, now Orgemon." Leaning back in his chair, Gennai gave the grown up look at the still embarrassed Leomon before him. "But that's not for now."
Leomon gave a loud sigh of relief as Gennai turned around. (Dammit, I though he had forgotten about that.) Slowly, his eyes slid down to the table besides them and eyed the large steaming pile of freshly baked buns standing on the table. (Say, those do look rather good; I think I'll just grab one or two. Gennai won't miss them)
The man in question stared at the digivice and crest lying on the desk. "What should I do, the guardians can't help us. The only digi destined whom I know where is, is Taichi and he's working for one of the most vile and evil digimon's ever." Rolling the crest around, he blinked and then stood up with a sigh. "Leomon, I wonder, should we put our trust and hope in the one digi destined who is yet to be revealed. Can she handle the power of two digivices and crests at the same time."
Leomon gulped down the bun in his mouth and turned around and stared at Gennai. "You're going to recreate the legend." Closing his eyes, he shook his head. "I may not remember that much about the legends Gennai, but everyone knows of the first five from the human world, and the power they had."
Gennai nodded as he sat back and looked up at the ceiling of the room they were in. "I may be the only hope left. Someone has found a way to alter fate, the path things taking is leading to nothing but darkness if something is not done." Gennai turned around in the chair and looked at the screen with closed eyes. "Courage and Light, Friendship and Hope. Love, Knowledge, Sincerity and reliability." An image appeared showing each of the crests before them. "Courage and light was joined and held by one, the first to lead the war to protect the world. And also Friendship and Hope were joined and held by one person. Aided by the remaining virtues they faced and won over the fist great evil to threaten our world."
Leomon nodded and stood up from where he was sitting. "Gennai, you know as well as I do that the crest were separated for a reason, the power was almost to much for one person, only by depending on the others strength were those two chosen digimons held in check."
Gennai nodded. "We will have to send a warning with the crests, I don't want a repeat of that battle my self, but this might be the only way out." Holding the crest and digivice in his hand, Gennai walked through the room and towards the hidden part of his lab. "It will drain the lab of all its power and prevent me from contacting the digi destined for a long time. But this is the only way out." Looking at leomon, he looked down at the ground. "Leomon, I want you to return to File Island and prepare the digimons there for the coming of the darkness."
Leomon nodded and turned around to leave, only to stop and look back over his shoulder at Gennai. "What about the remaining six children, shouldn't we go looking for them?" Clenching his fist, he remembered the human children who had saved him Devimon's control and freed File Island from the Viral Champion's reign of evil.
Gennai looked up at Leomon and gave a short smile. "I will be waiting for the moment that Myotismon opens the gateway, it should give the computer enough power to send both the digivice and crest to the eight child."
Leomon growled at the prospect of abandoning the champions who had helped him and all the digimons on File Island, but Gennai was right. Things were getting out of hand, and the rumors he had heard on his way across the desert zone weren't good. "Great Azulongmon, please look over in this hour of need."
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At the same time as Gennai and Leomon conversed, Matt was grinning loudly. Below him a Group of Gazimon's were working on building the one thing that the next phase of his plan depended on. "Etemon, for all your faults, you sure knew how to keep tabs on everyone else." Swinging his new cape through the air, Matt turned around and ran a hand down over his new clothes. A deep blue cape ran around his neck and fell down over his left shoulder; under it he wore a matching general's uniform with white gloves and black boots to complete it. "Soon, everything will fall into place. It pins me that I have to leave that which will be mine someday, but this Myotismon could become a threat, and I won't tolerate threats."
Turning around, Matt smiled as he spotted Sora and TK standing before him. Panting loudly, Biyomon had dropped down and was lying next to her partner's feet after the long trip they had been on. And hiding in TK's hands, Patamon glared around at the Gazimon's with hate in his eyes, it was clear that he hadn't forgotten the evil rookies who had hurt him in the past. But to Matt, all that mattered was the single thing held in the hands of Sora. "You got it." Reaching out a hand, Matt ribbed the object out of the girl's hand. "With this, I can complete the first part of phase I."
Sora nodded and turned around, and cast a look of indifference onto her digimon partner. "Yes Matt, soon, it will all be yours."
Looking away from prized and new possession, Matt looked at the young boy standing before him. "TK, my brother, I hope your proud of what I have done, soon, it will all be ready, and then, no one will ever hurt or separate us again." Grinning as he looked into the emotionless eyes of the young boy, he reached out a hand and pushed back a lose strand of hair. "No on will ever separate us again, for if they do!!" Slowly, a single tear ran down TK's right cheek as Matt spun around to hide his emotions from him. To the controlled young human, the reason for the teardrop was unknown and it didn't take long to remove it.
Looking down at a Gazimon stepping away from the rest of the group with an armload of left over materials Matt narrowed his eyes. "You there, yes you." The Gazimon whimpered and covered back towards the group as it realized that the one who had in-slaved him was yelling at him. Smirking with satisfaction at having gained such a reputation in that short a time span, Matt lifted his hand pointed at TK. "Take my little brother p to his room and stand guard outside it until I tell you otherwise."
The Gazimon nodded in a show of fear and ran up to escort the young boy back to the private rooms of the former ultimate digimon, Etemon's pyramid while thanking the digital guardians for spearing his life. Behind them, Matt turned around and looked down at the working Gazimon's with a sick look of joy on his face.
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Myotismon looked up from his desk and repressed a laugh, it had taken him a long time, but at last he had done it. He had solved the mystery of the cards. Looking down at the seemingly innocent nine cards, he picked up one and stared harder at it. To think that something as simple as this could provide him with the advantage he needed over his former leaders. But there was no time to waste, gathering the remaining eight cards into his hand, Myotismon stood up and walked over to the door and opened it. Outside, Demidevimon was flapping around in the air and keeping guard outside his room. "Demidevimon, I've solved the mystery of the cards, prepare my army to go through the gate as soon as I have completed the spell.
The rookie virus saluted him as he finished speaking, and babbled out something as he always did whenever an order was issued. Ignoring the rodent, Myotismon stepped back into his room and went straight to the secret doorway. As it opened, a lone Bakemon showed up and bowed to him. Pushing the inferior digimon aside, he took the first step down the winding stairs towards his prize. "Is everything ready."
"Yes, but the cave hasn't been dug out to the size you ordered."
Turning around, Myotismon glared at the shivering Bakamon with narrowed eyes. "And why not? I gave an order and I expect it to be followed to the letter." Reaching out a hand to end the fool's life, Myotismon stopped as he looked up at the scared eyes of the Bakemon. "No, I won't kill you." The Bakemon relaxed and felt a small speak of relief at the words of the Ultimate. Then he screamed as a red flow of power ripped into him. "Instead I'll hurt you until you can't move."
As the cries of pain from the Bakemon died down, the ultimate virus digimon stood up and left the dying Bakemon behind. Stepping into the newly made basement beneath his castle, Myotismon looked around the room. Working like crazy, Bakemon's were busy expanding the size of the room until it met the demands made by their master. "Phantomon."
A few seconds later, the ultimate ghost digimon floated down from the shadows. "I trust that everything is in working order."
Nodding, Phantomon moved his scythe until it pointed directly at the large metal door filling the entire back wall of the room. "The gate was completely uncovered a few hours ago." Moving the scythe further into the room, the cold and dark voice and phantomon filled the room again. "The card device was found yesterday." Pulling the scythe back, the ultimate ghost digimon turned to face his master. "Except for the size of the room, everything is ready."
Myotismon nodded and lifted a hand to wave the digimon away. "Prepare the room, in one hour we leave for the human world."
The room buzzed with whispers as the entire army of Myotismon gathered in the room. Standing before the gate. Myotismon lifted his hand and called out for the digimon's to quiet down. Looking from one of the digimons to the other, his blues lingered for a few moments on the lone digimon standing in the front row; the multicolored hair gave away who it was on the spot. "My servants and warriors, today we invade the human world. Our mission is to find and kill the child of light, and to lure the digi destined to earth in possible." Turning around, Myotismon lifted up a hand of cards and spoke up loud and clear. "Observe now, this is the cards that will open the gate to Earth."
Tai felt his blood rush faster as the virus digimon placed each card on the small table before the gate. This was it, he was going back to Earth again, If only his friends could have been here to see this, but they were out there somewhere. Closing his eyes, Tai hoped that they were okay, and that they would find out what Myotismon was up to. A low rumble made him return his attention to the gate; a bright white light filled the room as the gigantic metal door slid off to the side.
Staring into the light beyond the door, Tai barely noticed the white form landing on the ground next to him, but he did see the white tail with purple stripes and a golden ring on the end. Turning around, he stared into the serious eyes of Gatomon. "Chimon… Do your best okay, and try to keep your promise."
Tai nodded and turned his head back to stare as Myotismon stepped through the gate with Demidevimon, Phantomon and a few bakemons, one of which was holding a parasol over Myotismon's head. Blinking his a single time, Tai grinned and stepped close to the gate. "Hey Gatomon, see you on the other side." Then he stepped into the light.
In the instance he stepped into the gate, Tai felt the ground vanish under his feet, and then the fall started. Giving a loud scream, he reached out to grab something as he felt the air rush past him. Below him, the light parted and gave way to what looked like a giant wave with rainbow colored light swirling around inside it. Then his vision blacked out.
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The light inside the command chamber wasn't what one would call bright. In fact, it was shrouded in shadows and only lit by a few monitors lining the room. Standing in the center of the room, Matt fingered his new cape with a look of boredom on his face. Looking over his shoulder, he spotted the red haired boy working on the ever-present laptop. "Is this going to take much longer?"
Izzy looked up with the same type of dead eyes that the other chosen children had most of the time. Shaking his head, he stood up and walked over to the glass tank and looked into it. "A few more minutes, I need to make sure that nothing goes wrong with the merge of your..." Izzy stopped talking as an alarm blared loud and clear through the room. "Something's happing at the edge of the dark network."
Matt glared at the alarm as he cursed. This was no doubt going to delay his little project again, then his eyes widen as a sudden dizziness creped up his spine, turning away from the glass tank he looked up at the ceiling as he tried to find out why he had felt that way. Around him, some of the machines stopped working for a short time. Then they started up again. "Izzy, did you feel that?" His eyes returned to stare down on the red head sitting in front of the computers. "It felt like, something was lost just now."
Izzy looked up and frowned, before quickly punching in a couple of numbers on the computer. "Well, there was a strong energy signature from the forests region west of here." Pushing in a few more buttons, the image of a tall cliff appeared on the main screen of the room. "From the information I gathered from our prisoners, there is a powerful digimon living in that part of the digital world."
Matt eyes narrowed as a storm of memories rushed through his mind. The image of a tall digimon with neatly combed blond hair and blues eyes greeted him. An air of power emanated from the digimon and had him feel a spark of fear. "Myotismon, the dark one." Matt's eyes returned to their normal cold look. "Can you find out what he did?"
Izzy grinned as the chair he sat in swirled around and nodded. "I already know. Etemon's computers were filled with information about every digimon that Monkey has ever met." Pushing a quick row of buttons, a strange image of a metal door appeared on the screen. "From what I gathered from this file, Myotismon has a gateway to other worlds."
Matt's eyes opened wide as the full scale of this new development showed itself. "And what I felt was this gate opening."
Izzy nodded and returned to what he had been working on. "Most likely, seems the ultimate didn't want to stick around."
Rubbing his chin as he leaned back in the extra large chair, Matt's eyes turned to the constantly darkened corner of the room. A small movement could be seen inside the shadows. "By the way, did the experiment work?"
Izzy's smirk grew wider as he punched up a picture. "Datamon was a most helpful digimon, without his knowledge of digimons, I couldn't have fixed the last problems." Pushing a small button near the edge of the table, Izzy waved his free hand in a wide arch as a large window popped up in the center of the room. "As you can see, it was more then a success."
Matt's eyes grew slim as he pressed his fingers together. "Very well. Now that part of the plan has been finished, we can turn our eyes towards the second part of the plan." Leaning back and swirling his chair around, Matt looked up at the ceiling of the command room. "Soon, soon everything will be finished." A harsh laughter erupted as Matt's eyes turned into a crimson color.
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The air swirled around and filled with a bright white light. The snow flew in every direction as the wind ripped out and sent it on a short trip. Then the wind and light died down and left behind a large group of digimons standing in the sun filled city. Well except for the leader of this invasion who was standing under a large parasol.
Tai gasped loudly and almost didn't believe his own eyes. As far as he could see buildings rose into the air, white clouds moved across the sky and cast the street below them into shadows. "Earth."
"Yes." Stepping past Tai, Myotismon swept his eyes across the towering buildings and busy streets. "And soon it will all be mine. But first, the child of light has to die." Looking down, Myotismon smirked and lashed out with a harsh kick, sending Tai flying down onto the ground. "Now, pay attention my little pet, or should we have a another training session right here?"
Backing away from the edge of the roof, and the ultimate, Tai bowed his head in defeat. "No Lord Myotismon." While he was giving the role of loyal servant to the virus, Tai was shaking with anger on the inside. He hated this life, every minute of it was nothing more then a lesson in how twist and cruel the digimon before him was. "I will do what you command Lord Myotismon." (Until I find a way to defeat you.)
Myotismon smirked from where he stood protected from the rays of sunlight. "Yes, Earth." Motioning to all his servants, the virus digimon turned around and began to walk towards the building they were hiding in. "Gatomon, Devidemimon. Send out our troops, I want everyone to look for the eight child." Both of the digimons bowed at the command. Then they turned to face the other digimons in front of them.
In the back, Tai ears picked up as he heard that. If they were going to be searching through the Odaiba district, then he could find Kari again. He had to find her. He couldn't let he remain alone out there with Myotismon. As soon as this meeting was over and they were going out to look, he was going home to warn her.
TBC: Going back home. Is Kari the eight child?
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AN: Yes, I've put in some authors notes for you to read. Before you start reviewing me comments about the poor writing in the center of this part, I have a little something for you out there to hear. I'm taking a month's brake from this story, yes I won't be writing anything for this in one month. The reason, I getting ay behind on one of my Ranma1/2 stories and I need to get around and finish the promise chapter for that story. I also want to write up one of the special chapters I promised two to three months ago to one of my other digimon stories.
As for the poor writing in this chapter, I hated writing the bit with the gate. I just wanted this bit to be over with, and I'm afraid that it showed in the poor writing or it. I can't promise anything, but now that I'm no longer forced to follow the original episodes, I'll try to get back to my old style and find a way to make it more interesting for me.
Also, I welcome any kind of fan art for this story, so bring on the fan art. Please.
Dak.
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