Hey anyone who's reading this. I know that I haven't posted any stories for a really long time, and that is because, A. I lost my idea, and B. I was working on this one. It's kinda funny because I right now, even though I am just now getting to type the first chapter, I have already written up to chapter 3! I guess I got a little carried away, but if I had stopped, I would have lost my inspiration. Anyways, I am really satisfied how this story has turned out so far, and even my best friend thinks it's pretty funny, so I hope you guys like it. Chapter 1 may not be as good as the others, but it does get better. Your flames are welcome. Anyways, on with the story! He he. Just another note, character's thoughts will be noted by ' and '.

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, and I never have. But if I did, I would continue the show with season five and try to make it just as good as season one. But I don't, so don't sue me, k. I only own Toby, Orion, and a few other characters that are not in the story right now.

Tempus Fugit (Time Flies, for those of you who don't take Latin.)

Chapter 1: Meet Toby

"Gees, Kari and T.K. have been at the park a long time," Tai announced as Sora came into the living room and sat down next to him.

"Well, you know them Tai, they always seem to find something else to do on their way back." She smiled and planted a kiss on his cheek. Ever since they had all defeated Metal Myotismon, Sora had started realizing her true feelings for Tai. They hung out more and more. Eventually, Tai had grabbed the opportunity to ask her out, and she had said yes. "We'd better help the new family unpack," she said.

"Alright, I'll be there in a second," Tai replied as Sora jumped out of her seat and walked out the door to the next apartment. A new family was moving in and Tai and Sora had offered to help settle them in and introduce them to their neighbors. So far, Tai had met and older man and a kid, about Kari's age. The man had said his name was Joseph Tokoyama. Tai had started talking to him when he saw the boy carrying a huge box. Tai had offered to help him with it, but the boy just replied, "No thanks, I got it," and threw it onto the couch with ease. After that, Tai's mom had called him in, complaining about his laundry. That was the only time he had gotten to talk to them so far. He yawned and stretched, then got up and ran out the door to catch up with Sora.

Tokoyama Apartment

"Yo, Joe, can I go to the park now? It's almost time," a teenage boy with short spiky blonde hair asked. He was wearing a blue shirt with a picture of a soccer ball on it and a pair of old faded blue jeans with white and blue tennis shoes.

"Sure, go ahead. But be back soon Toby, and don't mess anything up too much, you know why we are here," A man with dark blue hair replied. The man, called Joe Tokoyama was wearing a pair of worn out white tennis shoes, a pair of faded khaki pants, and a white t-shirt with a blue blazer over it. He also wore a pair of glasses that were about to fall off his nose. He adjusted them quickly, and resumed unpacking things from several large boxes scattered around them on the floor and furniture.

"Don't worry, I'm working on it." Toby grinned, his ice blue eyes shining, and he started for the door.

"Wait up Toby, you forgot your hat!" Joe shouted to him.

"I don't need it," Toby yelled back from the other side of the door. He ran down the stairs of the apartment building all the way down to the street. He looked both ways, then crossed and sprinted towards the park, turning his head this way and that periodically as if looking for someone or something. He kept looking then turned and got hit in the head with a flying Frisbee.

A girl with short brown hair and a pink and white outfit on and a camera hanging around her neck ran over to him and picked up the Frisbee. "Oh, I'm so sorry about that. Are you ok?"

Toby sat up, rubbing his head. "Yeah, I'm fine," he replied, not really getting a good look at her. He stood up, brushing himself off, and then looked up at her. He did a double take and then asked, "Hey, would you by any chance be Kari Kamiya?"

Kari gave him a weird look and said, "Yeah, that's me, but how did you know that."

Toby smiled and said, "I just moved in next door to you and your brother. I saw your picture on the table." He laughed and offered his hand, "I'm Toby Tokoyama."

"Oh! So you're the boy who is moving in next door. I was wondering when I was going to get to meet you." She smiled and then suddenly there was a weird electronic beeping noise coming from her pocket. "Oops, that's my cell. Could you hold on a minute?"

Toby nodded, "Sure, no problem." Kari smiled, and walked over to another blonde haired teenage boy with a hat on was leaning against a large tree. 'Hmm, I guess we got here just in time. When the control box got damaged, I thought we'd be too late.' Toby watched as both Kari and T.K. pulled out their digivices and d-terminals. 'Ok, now just got to warn them all before that whole mess starts up.' As soon as he thought that, his d-terminal in his pocket started beeping as well. He took it out puzzled and flipped up the vid-screen, a new addition that Izzy had added in his time. The vid-screen went from black, to a fuzzy picture of a boy about the same age as Toby. "Talk to me," Toby said, "How in the world were you able to call me here? And why did you call me anyways?" The boy on the vid-screen wore a pair of blue round goggles over his dark brown eyes. His hair was also dark brown and stood up on his head in every which way, seemingly untamed. He shook his head, water flying off his hair, and then removed the goggles. He looked remarkably like Tai, though there were several visible differences.

The boy spoke, "Hey, I'm not sure exactly why it works. You'd think it wouldn't, but amazingly, it does. Izzy swore that it wouldn't work, but I guess I just now proved him wrong. We can reach the other digidestined from the past too. I accidentally called Mimi." The boy looked sort of embarrassed after admitting this.

"You did what?" Toby nearly shouted. He looked up from the d-terminal and saw some people staring at him. He laughed nervously and then turned his attention back to the d-terminal after they went on with what they had been doing. "Well, that could make my job a lot harder. Oh well. So what else?"

The boy looked at Toby worriedly. "You know how we all were afraid you guys might not arrive in time? Well, we were right, guess who's on his way right now."

Toby blinked, his mouth falling open. "Oh no, not now." He groaned loudly, this time ignoring the people staring at him. His backpack started to squirm around and an orange ball popped its head out of the backpack.

Patamon looked around blinking and asked, "What's wrong Toby? Is it safe to come out now?" Patamon stopped looking around when his eyes fell on T.K. and Kari. "Look! It's T.K.!" Patamon struggled in Toby's arms and tried to jump out of them. Suddenly, another Patamon popped out of T.K.'s backpack.

Toby looked down at the Patamon in his arms, "Remember, we can't mess this up. You have to remember what I said on the way here." Patamon looked sadly up at Toby, then nodded and climbed back into the backpack. Toby sighed, then looked back to the d-terminal and said, "Thanks for the heads up Orion. I'll watch my back." The screen went black and he closed the d-terminal and put it in his pocket. He then looked towards T.K. and Kari and muttered, "Well, here goes nothing," and ran over to him.

Kari looked up and waved to Toby, smiling. "Hey! Toby, I'd like you to meet T.K. T.K., this is Toby."

Toby nodded to T.K. and shook his hand. "It's a pleasure to meet you, but we all really need to get out of here fast." They both looked at Toby like he was crazy and he sighed and said, "Look, I can't explain why just now, but we have to get out of here. Something's coming and…" Suddenly, the ground shook and a great boom resounded throughout the park. They all stumbled, trying to stay standing up as the shaking continued. "Crap, too late."

Back to the Toby's apartment

Tai carried the last box into the apartment and sighed, "Man, it's hot today. Would you like a glass of lemonade Mr. Tokoyama?" Joe Tokoyama looked up and said, "You can just call me Joe if you want. And no, that's ok, I…" He stopped as they all heard and felt the whole building rattling. Sora, trying to keep her balance, but ended up falling on Tai, causing him to fall onto the floor. Joe tripped on one of the boxes and fell flat on his face. The shaking stopped and the all started to get up slowly. Joe smoothed back his blue hair and straightened his glasses. There was a crashing sound from one of the boxes and out popped a white head with big ears, orange hair, and funny purple marking all over.

"Is it over Joe?" Gomamon asked, not knowing Tai and Sora were still there. He looked at them surprised and laughed nervously, "Oops, busted."

Joe hit his face. "Nice going Gomamon." He sighed, and then looked over at Tai and Sora who were both too confused to speak at the moment. He laughed nervously and said, "I suppose I couldn't just convince you it's a talking stuffed animal, could I?"

Tai shook his head out of the daze and shouted, "Ok, who are you and why did you take Gomamon away from Joe?"

Gomamon jumped out of the box in between Tai and Joe, his arms stretched out. "No Tai! Chill, this is Joe."

Tai looked down at Gomamon blinking, "What?"

Joe looked from Tai to Sora, laughing nervously. He then rounded on Gomamon, "They weren't supposed to find out yet you digit! They weren't even supposed to find out at all if we could have avoided it!"

Gomamon folded his arms and closed his eyes. "Well, we'll just have to deal now. Besides, I was about to suffocate in that stuffy, smelly box anyways." Gomamon opened his eyes to see Tai still staring at Joe bewilderedly.

"J-Joe? Is it really you? That can't be you…you're…taller. And I just saw you this morning, so how do you explain that?" Tai stammered.

Gomamon took a deep breath. "Oh brother, well, here goes nothing. Tai, Joe and I are from the future. The Joe you saw earlier was Joe, but the Joe that belongs in this time. We came back here to help you guys out." Sora and Tai just stood there blinking for a moment, not really taking in what Gomamon had said. Gomamon sighed, "Oh yeah, you'll want proof that we are who we say we are, hmm?" He jumped into the box he had been in earlier, rummaging around until he finally found what he was looking for. He boosted himself to the top of the box and held up an old rusty whistle. "This is the whistle that Kari gave Gatomon before you guys left the digital world after defeating Apocalimon." Gomamon dropped it to the floor and dove back in the box, rummaging around again. This time, he brought back and old, faded hat. It was worn in several places and even though the colors had all but disappeared, you could tell that it used to be lavender and light blue. Sora blinked in disbelief as Gomamon said, "This is Sora's old hat. The one you threw up in at her birthday party Tai." He giggled and added, "Joe told me about that one a while back." He dropped the hat on the floor and hopped out of the box. "I think that's all the proof you'll really need, but if you really wanna ask us questions, then ask away."

Joe smiled gently, "Uh I think they believe us now Gomamon."

Tai realized his mouth was open, so he closed it. "So, if you're from the future, does that mean that…"

Joe finished for Tai, "…that Toby if from the future as well? Yes, that is true. We came to warn you, everyone really, about the war, and possibly even stop it before it starts, if we can."

Tai looked at Joe puzzled, "What war?"

Back to the Park

A great black monster appeared in the park, its head looking around and around, until it finally spotted Toby, T.K. and Kari. T.K. stared up at the monster and before he could say it, Toby shouted, "It's Devidramon!" Toby shouted to T.K., "He's not important, just a lackey, but we have to get out of here now!" T.K. looked at Toby a little suspiciously, but then nodded as they all started to run out of the park. Devidramon growled watching them run and suddenly another monster appeared next to him. The new monster snarled angrily and Devidramon reached towards the group, trying to grab them. Toby saw Devidramon coming for them and also saw out of the corner of his eye the new monster charging up what looked like a huge cannon. "Look out!" He shouted and jumped, pushing T.K. and Kari into some bushes as the clawed hand of Devidramon just missed them. He turned his head to look back then got up hurriedly and ran, making sure that T.K. and Kari were plenty ahead of him.

When the cannon finally fired, a blinding white light spread throughout the park. For a few seconds, he could neither see, nor hear anything at all because of both the light and the deafening sound of the blast. Suddenly, he was pushed forward by the blast and felt a stabbing pain in his left arm. His sight and hearing returned just seconds after that in an explosion of colors and sounds. He looked around wildly, then got up and ran towards T.K. and Kari. He could tell that the effects of the cannon hadn't worn off of T.K. just yet, but Kari was fine. Toby opened up his backpack quickly and pulled out both Patamon and his digivice. "Patamon, you have to armor digivolve now!" He shouted. Patamon looked down at Toby and nodded and digivolved quickly in a flash of gold into Pegasusmon. T.K. finally came out of the daze of the cannon and Kari and Toby helped him onto Pegasusmon, and then got on themselves.

Devidramon growled in fury, and the other digimon charged up the cannon again as Pegasusmon flew off quickly. Toby sighed in relief, then pulled out of his pocket, a picture of himself a little kid and two adults standing next to him that looked a lot like T.K. and Kari, only older. The man who looked like T.K. was wearing a sleeveless shirt and had a long scar running down the full length of his left arm. Slowly the scar in the picture started to disappear, and Toby remembered the feeling of pain from when he had still been in the daze. He looked down at his left arm and saw a deep long gash. It wasn't quite the full length of his arm, but it was pretty long. He sighed thinking, 'Well doesn't that just figure.'

A little later, Pegasusmon landed a couple of blocks from Toby and Kari's apartment building. They all jumped off of Pegasusmon's back and he reverse digivolved back to Patamon. Toby turned to go, but Kari and T.K. stopped him.

"Ok, wait, how do you know about digimon, are you a digi-destined? And is that your Patamon?" T.K. asked him seriously.

Toby sighed and turned to face T.K. "Look, I can't tell you anything right now. All I can say is that I can explain most of this. But right now, I really need to get home and get my arm cleaned up and do a few other things. Can you guys both meet me back here at around 6:00 later on?"

T.K. looked at Kari and then nodded, "Sure, we'll meet you back here at 6:00." Toby nodded, and then motioned to Patamon and they both ran off down the street. The Patamon in T.K.'s backpack popped his head out as T.K. murmured, "Strange kid. How does he fit into all of this?"

End Chapter One

Well, how did you like it? Please be honest. Be brutally honest. If you have any corrections or questions, please don't be afraid to tell me. If you wish to e-mail me, my e-mail addy is: . I may be doing a prequel to this story telling what happened and how Toby and Joe got sent back to the past later, it just depends on what kind of mood I am in. Well, review, and I hope that you read the next chap when I get it up.