Hey! Thanks for all of the great reviews! Now, on to answering questions and things from the reviews. First, Nick Johnson's questions...1. What is this fanfic to be about? Thanks for asking this question Nick; I completely forgot to put the summary in. Smacks self in the head. I apologize for this, and I will put it in now. Tempus Fugit is a fanfic about how T.K. and Kari's son, Toby, comes back from the future to warn his parents and the other digidestined about a great evil force that will come and literally wreck both worlds at once. In their current state, the digidestined are powerless to stop this evil, because for different reasons they messed different events that they had no idea would be critical in the end. Toby is sent back by the leader of the new team of digidestined, Orion, to help correct some of these events and make the future better for all of them. But during his mission, he accidentally does a bit more harm than good, and jeopardizes the futures of himself, and some of his friends. I don't want to give too many details away, but I will tell you that one of the things he came back to correct, was to keep the digidestined alive. Ok, now on to question 2. Just when will it take place? Well, it takes place right after that last battle with one of the digivolutions of Motismon (I have no idea what the heck his name is or how it is spelled, I think it's mallomyotismon, or mellomyotismon shrugs) anyways, the very last battle at the end of second season. It takes place about 5 or 6 months from then, before everyone in the world knows about digimon and gets a digimon of their own. 3. Where does it take place? In the past, when Toby is with the younger digidestined before they become the adults he knows, it mainly takes place in the real world in Japan. I doubt that the place will switch at all (I don't think it will right now) except for in the prologue. Yeah, I'm now writing the prologue after I've started the story. Oh well, that's just weird me. The prologue will take place in the future digital world, before Toby goes back to the past. 4. How old is everyone? Well, I'm not sure on the exact ages, but the same as they were in second season. Very little variation. Toby and the rest of the future digidestined are about the same ages as there parents are when he goes back to the past. 5. Look up to question 2 and I think that about sums it up. If anyone could tell me his name, I would love to know his real name. He's the evil digimon that all of the digidestined in the world defeated by shining their digivices at him. Wow, that was long...Oh, I almost forgot. Thanks to angewomonandme for telling me his surname is Kido. I had a feeling that it was something like that, but I wasn't sure, so I thought I'd give him a codename, it worked out pretty well with the story too, seeing as he was undercover. Ok, enough of my blabbing, and on with the fic!
Disclaimer: No, I don't own digimon, because if I did own digimon, they wouldn't be playing reruns of 4th season, they'd be playing new episodes of 5th season. But I don't, so you get this fanfic. I do however own Toby, Orion, the dark digidestined, and Sachi (my friend) owns herself. Enjoy!
Chapter 2- A Dark Future
Toby ran as fast as his legs could carry him. He breathed heavily, the sweat running from his forehead onto his hair. He ran the whole way back to the apartments, even taking the steps two at a time. He didn't even pause for a glance at the elevator. It would take more time. He felt the blood running down his left arm and winced just slightly. He got to the door and burst through it, knowing that it would be unlocked, then looked around, trying to catch his breath. He saw Sora, Tai, Joe and Gomamon just standing there and guessed that Joe must have already told them.
Joe grinned at Toby, "I was just about to tell them about the war." Toby nodded to Joe, not able to find the words to communicate properly, and sat down in a chair next to Gomamon, placing his backpack down by the side. Patamon jumped out of the backpack as Toby reached down into one of the many boxes and pulled out a jar of cookies. Gomamon and Patamon watched the cookies hungrily, following their exact movements with their eyes.
"Ok," Joe started, "it all started with Devidramon's attack, which judging by how tired Toby is, the tremors we felt, and the long gash down Toby's arm..." Sora and Tai looked over to Toby, not having seen the wound before. Joe continued, "...just happened a few minutes ago. Next, Izzy is supposed to receive an important message, a prophecy, from Gennai. In the future, things...messed up because Izzy accidentally deleted it."
At this, Toby started laughing, remembering how Izzy had told all of the younger digidestined about his little blunder. He managed to stop laughing and saw Gomamon and Patamon staring at the cookies. Joe glared a little at Toby, then continued, "The prophecy will tell you about the war and the dark digidestined." Patamon and Gomamon both began to drool at this point, saliva running slowly down the sides of their mouths. Joe glanced over at the nutty digimon and shook his head.
"What the heck are the dark digidestined?" asked Tai curiously.
Joe continued as if he had never stopped, "The dark digidestined are well...the simplest explanation I can think of is that they are the dark equivalents of us. Izzy and I still aren't exactly sure just what they are, but we do know this; they have almost everything that we have, except it's all in reverse. Dark d-terminals, dark digivices, they even have dark crests. We're pretty sure they're not human. Let's put it this way, the fight with them will start fairly soon, and pack in the future, we still haven't beaten them. They don't age, and they don't get scars. I'm not sure if any of us can really get rid of them. Just about everything we have tried hasn't worked."
At this point, Gomamon and Patamon added licking the saliva around their mouths occasionally to the endless staring. They watched as Toby ate one of them and began to whimper like little dogs. Joe looked over at them, clearly annoyed and shouted, "Will you two just stop that already! We get it, you're hungry, you want the cookies, just stop!" Patamon and Gomamon whipped their heads around when Joe had started shouting and then sat there quietly looking at him for a while. The only thing that they dared to do after that outburst was blink and breath slowly. Joe calmed down and laughed, "Sorry, too much stress lately."
Tai spoke up, "Ok, so we know this prophecy's coming, and we know about the dark digidestined, so I just have one question, what is Toby's role in all of this?"
Joe sighed and hit his head. He had known that question was bound to come. Toby sat up and said, "I'll tell them Joe." Joe looked to Toby and nodded slowly. Toby started, 'Well, in the future, some of the older digidestined, you guys, sort of..." he trails off, not really knowing how to put it lightly. "Some of you just can't fight anymore. So they're kids became the next generation of digidestined. I..." he trails off again, not knowing if he should reveal the next bit of information to them. He looks to Joe who shrugs.
"Tell them if you want to Toby. I don't think it will hurt anything, at least, I hope it doesn't," Joe said nervously.
Toby sighed and nodded, "Ok." He took a deep breath before saying simply, "I am Tobias Takaishi, the new carrier of the crest of hope and T.K. and Kari's son."
Tai and Sora stared at Toby for a few moments, wondering if it could all be true. After a few minutes, Tai finally stammered out, "Say wha...?"
Toby nodded and laughed, "Yeah. I figured you'd say that."
Sora looked from Tai, to Toby. Toby sat the cookie jar that he still held down on the table and Gomamon and Patamon seized the opportunity to attack and liberate the cookies. Toby jumped out of the way as the two ravenous digimon fought mercilessly over the cookies.
Tai stared at Toby a few seconds longer, then managed to croak out, "T.K...and Kari?!"
Toby looked at him, amused, but also at the same time bewildered. "What? I always thought that T.K. was the only guy you trusted around Kari."
Tai shook his head, "Oh no no, it's perfectly fine. It's way better than Davis at least." At this point, a muffled snicker can be heard coming from Patamon and Gomamon. Toby, Sora and Joe laugh too. Tai continued, "I guess I just never thought that they would actually tie the not."
Toby grinned and said, "Well, Davis does have kids of his own." At this, everyone had to hold their breath to choke down a laugh or two.
When everyone had recovered from the joke, Sora looked to Toby, deep in thought. Toby glanced at her, but quickly looked away. He knew exactly what questions she was asking herself in her head, and he didn't want to answer them. He knew that revealing all of this information could screw up everything they had worked for, but he had to take that risk. They knew the truth now, and they would be more willing to help. But he couldn't let them find out any information about their own futures at all. That would definitely screw things up.
He felt Joe's gaze upon him and knew what he was about to say, "Ok, I think that's enough information."
Toby looked at the floor, "Yeah, I probably shouldn't have said that much." He looked back up to Sora and Tai. "You have to keep what Joe, Gomamon and I have said here a secret. No one can know at the moment. And even after we tell them, I can't have anyone else know that I am Kari and T.K.'s son. If anyone else knows, it will slip out, even by accident."
Tai looked to Toby, "Why can't they know?"
Joe sighed, "They can't know because it could not only endanger them, but it could endanger everything. If they know that they will get married in the future, they could decide to make certain decisions, decisions that could affect not only this time, but our time as well. Everything that happens here, even Toby and myself being here, it wasn't supposed to happen. We are changing things by just standing here. If we mess up, your future, and ours, could fall apart in less than a nanosecond." He paused for dramatic effect and then continued matter-of-factly, "Not to mention that if we change too much, we could create a hole in the space time continuum."
Tai and Sora nodded, grasping the seriousness of the situation. "We won't let it slip."
"Good," Joe said. His d-terminal started beeping and her took it out of his pocket. He flipped up the vid-screen and said, "This is Joe, time traveling doctor, digidestined, and expert on the space time continuum. What's up?" Orion appeared on the vid-screen, but there was an additional person with him this time, a girl nearly the same age as he. She had dark blonde hair, dark brown eyes, and a beige complexion. She wore a blue polo shirt with no buttons, blue jeans and tennis shoes. Around her neck she wore a silver pendant on a silver chain.
The girl said, "Uh Joe, if you were planning on saving the prophecy, I would suggest that you guys get over there now and stop Izzy from deleting it."
Joe hit himself, "Oh crap, I completely forgot!" He looked down at his watch. "We have 5 minutes to get over there. Thanks Sachi." He hurriedly closed the d-terminal, shoving it in his pocket as he and everyone else ran out the door.
Izzy's House
Izzy sat at his computer, his eyes bloodshot and his eyelids drooping. He glanced at the clock on the corner of the screne. "5:57 pm," He said wearily, "I've been up for about 16 stinking hours now." On the monitor screen, there was a gauge showing a red bar that was slowly changing blue. Right above the bar, the text read 98 downloaded. He had been downloading a new file from Gennai and it had taken him a total of about 16 hours to do it. The screen had flashed 2:00 in the morning, waking him up. And it really didn't help his tiredness that he hadn't really gotten the best sleep even though he had been sleeping before he had been woken up. His eyes closed and his head started slipping from the palm of his hand. Then the computer flashed suddenly saying Download Complete, Do you wish to open this file? Izzy sighed and clicked the button to open it. A Microsoft word document opened up with many strange symbols instead of letters. Izzy realized that it was all in digi-script, indicating that this prophecy was very old indeed. He thought, 'I don't have time to translate this! I'm too tired. I'll just save it and work on it tomorrow.' He moved the mouse over to the save button, but he just couldn't focus and it dropped down to delete. A pop-up box came up saying Do you wish to delete this file? Izzy thought sarcastically, 'Well duh I want to save it, why do you think I clicked save?' He was just about to click the yes button when there came a loud, frantic pounding on his front door and a familiar voice said, "Izzy! Let us in! This is important!" Izzy shook his head out of the daze he had been in and wearily walked to the door to let Tai and the others in.
"Izzy, did you get it? Please don't tell me you deleted it!" Tai shouted.
Izzy blinked slowly at Tai, not comprehending one word he had just said, and looking as if he would fall over any second. He yawned suddenly, then murmured something about Tentomon chewing up his favorite pink sock, and fell over onto the couch. Literally, as soon as he hit the cushions, he was asleep.
Tai blinked in confusion, then shook his head. Joe and the others followed him into the house, to Izzy's room. Toby walked over to the computer and quickly saved the document to Izzy's computer and copied it onto a disk he had brought with him. "Well, that's good. This should help a great deal. Just have to decode it now. Izzy's the only one fluent in digiscript, so we'll just wait and let him translate it later." He grinned.
Sora grabbed a blanket and gently draped it over Izzy, then turned with the others and walked out, careful to lock the door before they shut it.
Back to Tai's
They all arrived back at Tai's at around 6:00 pm. Toby had mumbled something about meeting someone and ran off and Joe went back to his or her place to finish unpacking. Sora's mom had called her on her cell phone not too long afterwards, and she had to rush home. So Tai sat alone in his living room, slumped over the couch, listening to the new on TV. He stayed there, letting the blood flow to his head until he heard a special news bulletin. He glanced up at the screen and saw the picture of Devidramon, destroying the park. The reporter announced, "Earlier this afternoon, we shot this footage of a gigantic monster attacking the local park. Our cameraman was able to record most of the monster attack, and claims that it was as it if the monster was almost looking for some specific person." Tai got up as the reporter droned on about how it must be a sign of the end of the world. He grabbed the phone and dialed Matt's number. It rang a few times, and then finally he got the answering machine.
"Hey, this is Matt Ishida. I'm not in right now, but if you're Sora, press one and I promise to get back to you as soon as I'm in. If your Tai, hang up, don't even bother leaving a message. If you're anyone else, press two and I'll try and get back to you."
Tai hesitated. He couldn't believe Matt was still mad at him because Sora had dumped him. He pressed two anyways and waited for the beep.
"Matt, I know talking to me is the last thing you want to do right now, but we've got an emergency. And just incase your dad is listening to your messages, or June has broken into your house again, I won't say what. Just call me back as soon as you get this, or come over. And...I'm sorry..." With that, Tai hung up the phone, and then slumped back over the couch again with a huge sigh.
End Chap. 2
Well, how was it? Hopefully not that bad. I'm looking forward to lots of great reviews, and once again, flames will be welcomed. Why, I dunno, maybe cause I'm slightly insane. Oh well. Anyways, tell me how you guys liked it!