Well hello again to you all, my faithful fans! That is if I have any left after my absence as of late. Well, here it finally is, chapter four! And just a note, yes I did put my own little character in here. Why? Well, one reason is, because I can, and the other is simply for comic relief. I put my best friend Sachi in too. Anyways, I've delayed this far too long. On with chapter Four!

Tempus Fugit

Chapter Four, Chaotic Little School

Beep, beep, beep, beep. Toby's d-terminal vibrated in his pocket and beeped loudly. Toby opened his eyes slowly thinking, 'What in the…oh, it's just the d-terminal.' He yawned, then finally sat up and pulled his d-terminal out of his pocket. He flipped up the vid-screen and said groggily, "This is Toby."

A different girl appeared on the vid-screen this time. She had medium length dark blonde hair that had blonde highlights in it. She wore a blue tank top that had crisscross straps around the neckline and in the back. She wore a pair of blue goggles on her forehead like Orion had, but hers weren't covering her deep brown eyes. She said happily, "Morning Toby. It's just me checking in on you."

Toby blinked and then smiled lightly. "Oh hey Aniu. (AN: I am so evil. You'll see why later in the story perhaps.) Well, if you haven't noticed back there yet, we saved the prophecy." He grinned mischievously.

Aniu nodded, but the sad look still remained on her face. "You may have secured the prophecy, but nothings changed here. If it had I would expect communication would be impossible. Izzy said that things might not even start changing for a few days, or maybe even a week. He doesn't really know. Things might not even change at all." There was no mistaking the hint of sadness in her tone.

"Hey, they will. Everything will be different; it has to be. We can't have come all this way for nothing." Toby looked down at his shoes and sighed.

Aniu watched him sympathetically and then said tentatively. "It'll work. I know it will." She smiled and then added teasingly, "I hear Joe signed you up for school."

Toby rolled his eyes, "Yeah the only reason I agreed to it was because it will help us get in touch with the rest of the team."

Aniu shook her and laughed. "Well at least you get to talk to them. Oh! I almost forgot this is around the time when my dad and Michael moved to keep in touch with the rest of the team. He should be there soon, probably in a day or two."

Toby nodded. "I'll keep an eye out for him. Tell him I said hi back there."

"Will do. I'll give everyone else a heads up on what's going on too." Aniu hesitated before adding in an almost fearful tone, "Be careful Toby. Don't die on us. I don't know what…" She paused, trying to find exactly what she wanted to say. "I don't know what we would do if anything happened to you guys." She blushed slightly and then turned her head, attempting to hide her rosy face.

Toby's brow furrowed and then a smile sidled onto his face. "Don't worry, I'll be fine," he replied in a comforting tone and then smirked. "Since when do you worry so much about my well being anyways?"

Aniu turned back to the screen, her eyes narrowed. She said rather hotly, "The only reason I said that is because none of us want this mission to fail. If it does, it's your fault and if you get yourself killed then the mission fails and we're all back where we started." She huffed for several minutes.

Toby laughed had and said, "Yeah, that might be true, but that's not why you really said that." He grinned wolfishly and folded his arms, watching her quizzically.

Aniu watched him hatefully for a few moments before replying coldly, "I don't know what you're talking about."

Toby smirked and pointed at her neck where two chains dangled. The thicker held a bone shaped blue rabies tag that was scratched and faded from years of wear. The other slimmer chain's trinket however was obscured by Aniu's tank top. Aniu looked down at the rabies tag with amused curiosity, and then back up at Toby as if he was crazy.

"Under the rabies tag Aniu. You know exactly what I'm talking about."

Aniu sighed, forced to give up the game and pulled out the second necklace into view. On the slim, silver chain was a silver heart, encrusted with what appeared to be 5 tiny diamonds encrusted along the right side. She smiled up at Toby and shook her head.

"Just remember what I said, ok bonehead?"

Toby nodded, "I know, I'll watch myself."

Aniu grinned and waved to him before her image faded and gradually mixed with the blackness as the d-terminal shut itself off. Toby closed the screen and slid it back into his pocket, leaning back and placing his arms behind his head. 'So, Aniu's dad is moving here in a day or two. I should've remembered that sooner, but I guess it just slipped my mind. Why did Willis have to live in America for so long?' He sighed, then got up, got dressed quickly and poured himself a bowl of cocoa puffs.

Patamon woke up and yawned loudly. He looked around, making sure all was clear, before he got up, grabbing the candy bar from where he had been laying. He chucked, then unwrapped it and stuffed it unto his mouth, savoring its sweet taste. He then curled back up and soundlessly went back to sleep.

Toby looked over towards Patamon, seeing him sleep and thought, 'He deserves a good rest. Better just let him sleep.' He smiled, and then heard a knock at the door. He answered it, and was quite surprised to see it was Kari.

"Hey. Joe said to come and show you the way to school since you didn't know."

Toby nodded, "Yeah, ok. Sounds good." He smiled then picked up his backpack and headed out. They walked slowly, talking animatedly about their different interests. As they reached the school gate, Davis crept up behind them from some bushes nearby, covering his mouth to keep from laughing.

"Hiya Kari!"

Kari spun around to face Davis and her face reddened. "Davis! You scared me."

"Oh, come on Kari, you know I was just messing with you. Anyway, where's T.A? And who's this guy?" He looked Toby up and down, giving him an apprehensive glare.

"Oh, that's right you two haven't met yet. Davis, this is Toby. He moved in down the hall from Tai and me not too long ago. Toby, this is Davis, one of my more knuckle-headed friends." She grinned as the boys inspected each other and shook hands. "As for where T.K. is, I'm not really sure to tell you the truth."

Davis thought for a moment to himself before he answered. 'He sure does look familiar. Have I seen him before? No, that's impossible, he just moved here. But he does look an awful lot like T.J.' But Davis brightened with the perspective that T.K. would not be joining them. "That's pretty rude of him to not walk you to school. I suppose I'll just have to fill in for him. Nice to meet you by the way Toby."

Toby shook his head lightly, grinning to himself. 'Yep, that's Davis alright.' He smiled to him and nodded. "It's nice to meet you too Davis." In his head he rolled with laughter at the statement.

Davis gave Toby a funny look, wondering what was wrong with him to make him smile constantly, but in the end shrugged it off. 'Maybe he's just crazy.'

At this point Kari interjected with, "No thanks Davis, Toby's walking me."

Davis crumbled from this tiny statement and Toby just laughed aloud. "Why don't we all just walk together and save ourselves from the trouble of deciding who will walk with whom."

Davis recovered and nodded. "Yeah, I guess that sounds good too. So where are you from Toby?"

Toby paused uneasily thinking sarcastically to himself, 'Well Davis, I'm glad you asked that. I'm from an alternate reality set in a future where chaos reins supreme and the last defense against the evil forces from the digital world are forced to live in a bunker on one of the barren digital wastelands. Oh, and I almost forgot to mention that you and most of the original digi-destined were killed several years ago and now I'm the only chance that either team has of defeating the same evil force and if I fail all of those lives will have been for nothing…No, better slim that down some…' With yet another pause, he said plainly, "Out of town, not too far from here."

"Ah, cool. Well, I'll show you the ropes then." Davis grinned mischievously and gave him a light punch in the arm.

Toby nodded, hiding the thoughts he'd had before with a light grin. "Awesome. I've got two guides now." But the grin drained from both his and Davis' faces as his backpack started to squirm. Toby blinked and unzipped it, allowing the orange and white head of Patamon to pop out.

"Hi Toby and Kari!" Patamon gave a glance at Davis and said slowly, "Hi…um…other person!"

"Patamon! You were supposed to stay home and keep out of trouble," Toby sighed exasperatedly.

"Oops…"

"You…. you're…a digi-destined?" Davis blinked in confusion.

Toby grinned sheepishly. "Erm…yeah. Well, I guess the digimon's out of the bag…literally."

"Don't you mean cat?" Gatomon popped her head out of Kari's backpack now, looking at Patamon and then shrugging as she eyed Toby suspiciously. "Have we met?"

Toby shook his head, "No, I don't think we have." But in his mind he thought to himself in a singsong voice, 'Oh what a liar am I, oh what a liar am I…'

The bell rang suddenly and Davis said, "Well, I'd love to just stand here and talk all day long, I really would, but we're gonna be late."

Over the intercom the principal made an announcement about all late students cleaning the remainder of the jelly doughnuts out of the swimming pool in detention. With a grimace Toby, Davis, and Kari sprinted inside, the two digimon ducking back inside their respective backpacks.

Kari led Toby all around the building, giving him the grand tour of the school. By 4th period, he'd met the school nurse, who upon learning he was new proceeded to give him a complete physical and managed to drag his whole medical history (AN: History. Heh, that's irony. Just thought I'd point that out.) out of him, the many sports coaches, who fought over which fall sports team he would be playing on, the majority of his teachers who gave him at the very least 15 tests in total to determine what he'd already learned at school, and last but not least, the principal and vice principal, who decided that his locker had gone missing and assigned him a new one.

Just when he thought his day couldn't get any worse, Kari, Davis and he accidentally bumped into T.K. in the hallway. T.K. gave Toby a piercing glare and didn't even bother to look at the other two. He passed them without so much as a word, though the chill in his eyes was enough to send shivers down their spines. Toby sighed. He hated how all this was turning out. T.K. hated him, time was slowly slipping away from him, and by the end of the day he was likely to be either dead from exhaustion or a social outcast and it wasn't even lunchtime.

"Can this school get any weirder?"

Just as he uttered this, the voice of the principal was once more heard over the intercom.

"Attention students…" Everyone stopped instinctively in the middle of what they were doing. "…In light of the fact that rabid skunks have taken over the school cafeteria aided by alien technology, you will be receiving lunch outside in the courtyard today. Lunch will consist of pizza, your choice of soft drink and a snack because the skunks will not allow us to get to your well prepared, healthy and balanced scheduled meal. We would like to apologize and know you must be very distraught upon hearing this but we ask that you make the best of it outside on this marvelous sunny day."

The intercom clicked off and after a few minutes of amazement a cheer went up as everyone rushed to the nearest exits all around. Toby was pushed along with the crowd, losing Davis and Kari amidst them and muttered to himself, "I just had to ask." He was herded to the doors and eventually pushed out, down and then stepped on several times before a passing Yolei noticed he was in trouble and rescued him from the throng of hungry man-beasts.

"Thanks," Toby said appreciatively while dusting himself off. He glanced up as his savior, seeing the purple hair and immediately recognition set in. He had to bite his tongue to keep himself from saying her name aloud.

"Oh it's no problem. Around lunchtime the jock hall always turns savage and tries to run over anyone who happens to stand between them and their precious food. You'd think they had been invited to a five star restaurant, not our ruddy little cafeteria." Yolei grinned and said, "Oh, I almost forgot, my name's Yolei Inoue. What's yours?"

"I'm Toby Ta…" He stopped himself just before he revealed his true last name. "…Tokoyama. It's a pleasure to meet you Yolei." He smiled while inside he lectured himself about how he wasn't supposed to tell anyone his true name. Tai and Sora weren't even supposed to know, but they did now and he couldn't change that. Well, technically he could if he had Izzy's time machine, but he didn't so he was stuck with that little goof. He really had to be more careful.

Yolei smiled, and then noticed that suddenly Toby's backpack was moving. Toby looked around and said, "Oh great," as Patamon's head popped out of it.

Patamon gasped for air theatrically for a moment, pretending that he might have suffocated had he been in there longer, then looked around blinking and stared at Yolei. Her eyes widened in surprise and delight and she gestured to Toby as she quickly stuffed the digimon back inside.

"Come with me Toby. My friends and I are going to eat in the computer room today. I'm sure you must have met one of them by now, maybe Kari or Davis?" She winked at him and for a minute he feigned confusion until she unzipped her backpack to reveal a sleeping Poromon. He then nodded and they sprinted off down the halls and up the stairs, watching for people that happened to be in the way, though some got knocked down nevertheless.

Well, we're at the end of another chapter yet again. I'm sorry if any of you thought this one was slow, but I figured I needed to explain a few more things in this chapter. I do hope you liked that little spoiler from Toby's thoughts though.

Oh, and before I end up getting these questions in reviews, yes the jelly doughnuts in the swimming pool and the missing locker things did in fact come from episodes of digimon, 2nd season to be a little more precise. The jelly doughnut one came from the episode when Kari kept going to the other world that was between the light and the dark with the creepy lake. The principal made an announcement over the intercom saying, "Will the student who put the jelly doughnuts in the swimming pool please report to the office." And then later when T.K. goes to find Kari some kids run past in the background and one of them says, "So then I put the jelly doughnuts in the swimming pool." As for the thing about missing lockers, I don't know which episode that came from, but the principal did say, "Will the student who's locker is missing report to the office…your locker is missing."

So now you see the depths of my devotion and crazed fandom of digimon. (eye twitches) Tee hee. I'm working on typing the 5th chapter though so don't fret! It should be up a lot sooner than this one was in any case. Oh, and I'd like to get an opinion. I wrote a prologue for Tempus Fugit just after I finished the actual writing of this chapter and I wanted to know if you guys would like me to go ahead and post it on here. Please give me an answer to this in your reviews and if you wanted to see any certain pairings give me a shout too and I might consider them. Until next time!