AN- Ah, its been a while, or least it feels like it. I would like to state now that updates might be a little, um, varied, for a while. Finals are coming up way too fast, so things are getting a little hectic. But don't worry, I can promise updates will come. I'll make a point of it. Just don't expect them by certain times. So, enough with that pointless dribble that you probably don't care about, and on with the story!

With Consequences

The first thing he noticed when he came to was that he was laying in his room, which meant something was wrong. He had been in the digital world, hadn't he? But, used to encountering strange situations through his life, he didn't panic.

'Okay, I was attacked by Mirimon,' Tai remembered. He made a mental note to get revenge on the stupid fairy. Her attack had made him pass out, and now he was here. But how did he end up here?

A knock on his door jarred him out of his thoughts and his mother walked in. She put her hand to his forehead before Tai could protest, and nodded approvingly.

"You're temperature has gone down," She told him. "You can go to school, then. You better get ready."

"School? What day is it?" Tai asked, confused.

"Monday, of course. You came down with a pretty bad fever on Saturday and have been asleep ever since. Thank goodness Sora was with you to bring you home," his mother explained while folding some clothes that had been lying on his dresser.

Tai got out of bed and started to change once his mom left to make breakfast. Tai started evaluating his situation again. Sora had obviously found him passed out and with Mimi had brought him home. The stupid attack had only laid him out for a day with a fever. Damn Mirimon.

Tai walked out of his room and noticed that maybe he hadn't figured things out after all. His living room was arranged differently, and then he realized that it was the same apartment that he had grown up in. Which they had moved out of over ten years ago.

"Hey Mom?" Tai called out, somehow keeping his voice calm.

"Yeah?"

"Where's Kari?" he asked, figuring his sister could shed some light on this.

His mom became solemn and shook her head. "She's in her room. Her cough is still bad. She won't be going to school again."

Again? Tai walked to the room that was Kari's growing up and walked in. A figure was propped up on some pillows, reading a novel, but Tai was not prepared to call it "Kari". She was a shade too pale to look healthy, and skinnier than normal. Her aura was sad, much different from his normal sister's happy demeanor.

She smiled weakly and said "Hi. How are you feeling?"

Tai walked up and sat on the edge of her bed, rustling her short hair. "I'm fine, what about you, though? Mom says you are a little under the weather."

Kari gave a short laugh, short because it turned into a cough. Tai narrowed his eyes in worry. Once the coughing subsided, Kari talked.

"When haven't I been under the weather, then? It's been like this for years," she countered.

"No, not since the..." Tai trailed off as realization hit him. He turned to Kari, needing to make sure his conclusion was right. "Kari, do you know Gatomon? And Agumon?"

Kari looked puzzled. "Are those characters from an anime or something?"

Tai just shook his head. "Never mind. I gotta go to school now. Want me to talk to TK and get your homework for you?"

Kari's puzzlement deepened. "TK?"

"Yeah, TK. TK?" Tai repeated as Kari still looked confused. "Takeru?"

Her face lit up in recognition. "Oh! Do you mean Takeru from my class? I don't know him real well...Just ask Davis, he'll do it."

Tai nodded. He got up to leave, but turned and extracted a piece of candy from his pocket, giving it to Kari. She laughed.

"I thought that you were going to forget. You've been doing this for years!"

Tai smiled sadly and left. The simple action had left him drained emotionally. Tai used to give his sister candy whenever she was sick, but her perpetual sickness had ended after the digital world, and he hadn't had to do since then. Till now.

And she didn't know TK. Her best friend and current boyfriend. She had known him for years, almost seven. What did this all mean?

"And you are going to learn that you should be careful about what you wish for..." Mirimon had whispered in his last moments. What had he wished for? His friends to come to the digital world and help him? Wait, no...

"Oh shit..." Tai whispered, running into the bathroom and locking it behind him. After splashing some water on his face, he let out some choice swear words. His mother knocked on the door asking him if he was alright, causing Tai to blush and say that he had accidentally stubbed his toe on the tub. Once he heard her walk away, Tai started pacing the bathroom while he thought this through.

'I told Agumon that sometimes I wished we had never gone to the digital world, and Mirimon overheard that, and she granted that wish. So, in this world, the digimon attack must have never happened when I was younger, meaning my parents never had a reason to move, so that's why we are in the same apartment. I knew Sora before the digital world, so that's why she would know me now, but not all of the other digidestined because...we were never digidestined...And Kari got better in the digital world, but we never went...'

Tai sunk to the floor and put his face in his hands. He hadn't meant that wish at all. To totally erase his relationships with his friends, the experiences that changed him for the better, his own digimon, Agumon...

Wait. This wasn't right. The digital world still had to be intact, since Mirimon wouldn't have erased herself. In fact, she only infected him with her dust, which couldn't possibly alter the entire course of history for everyone...

"This is just going on in my head..." Tai whispered in realization.

Suddenly, the phone rang out in the hall, and his dad called for Tai to get it. Tai came out of the bathroom and picked up the phone.

"Moshi-moshi. Yagami residence. How may I help you?" Tai asked.

"My, my. Aren't we formal? You sound pretty collected for everything that is happening," Mirimon's voice sounded over the phone.

Tai's eyes narrowed in anger. Looking around to make sure he was out of earshot of his parents, he whispered fiercely, "Shut the hell up! You stop this ridiculous wish right now! I never meant it!"

"But still, you said it. Why would you say it if you didn't mean it?" Mirimon asked, and when Tai didn't answer, she made a satisfied noise and continued. "Anyway, I can't do anything now, it's all up to you. Like I told the orange lizard, his wishes nor anyone else's can reverse your wish. But your lizard then wished that if you figured out that this world was only in your head, that I would have to tell you how to break it. So that is why I called."

Tai silently thanked his partner for thinking this up. At least now he could break it himself. "So, what is it?"

"You wished away a very important thing, your team. Get your former digidestined to think of themselves as a group or team again, and the dust will be rendered useless, allowing you to break out of this hallucination and things to go back to normal."

"Is that all?"

Mirimon laughed in a way that made Tai's spine tingle. "Easy? That's a good one! Anyway, good luck. You'll definitely be needing it."

Then the phone went dead.

Tai sighed and hung up the phone. Mirimon had unnerved him with her last statement. She had proved that her eerie statements had real conviction in them.

'But,' Tai thought as he slung his bag over his shoulder, 'they are still people I know like the back of my hand, right? How hard can it be to get them altogether again?'

Tai approached his school from his real life, judging from the identical uniforms that he went to it here too. On his way to school he had encountered several people he hadn't seen since childhood, who in real life moved away because of the "terrorist" attacks when they were kids. They thought he was a little odd, greeting them like he hadn't seen them in years.

Tai tried to steady himself as he walked into the building. He had to act calm and like this was his natural life. He didn't want stupid questions or statements to pop out at random, causing people to think he had gone crazy. He had a feeling people wouldn't respond right to the truth.

'Just get this over with, and things will be alright,' Tai coached himself mentally.

Tai waved to people as he entered, and they congratulated him on an excellent game of soccer the other day. Tai just smiled and nodded, figuring that since the regular soccer season was over, that he must play indoor soccer in the winter and spring here. Tai wandered around aimlessly, realizing that he had no clue where his locker would be here, when he spotted Matt.

He was leaning on a wall apart from the moving crowd of students. His hair was different, looking a lot like it had in the digital world. He had on the same uniform as Tai, but had undone his tie so that it was hanging messily around his neck. As Tai approached him, Matt stuck out his foot and tripped a passing girl, causing her to fly across the tiled floor.

She stood up and turned angrily to Matt. Tai recognized her as a girl from the grade below them who liked to gossip and giggle a lot. She snorted and glared at Matt.

"Yamato Ishida, you think you are sooooo cool, don't you?" she said scathingly and stalked off as Matt chuckled to himself.

Tai, a little confused by Matt's harsh action, walked up and placed a friendly hand on his shoulder.

"Having a bad day, are we?" Tai asked in good humor.

That's why it came as a shock when Matt's fist came flying out of no where, hitting him in the shoulder and pushing him back.

Tai steadied himself and turned to see Matt glaring at him coldly from behind blonde bangs. "Get your damn hands off of me, Yagami!" he snarled.

"What is your problem?" Tai asked.

"You are the one that started it, dickhead," Matt bit back.

Tai felt his temper rising for no reason. If he would have thought about it, he was just stressed out and really had no beef with Matt. But Tai had never been that good at thinking things through, so instead, he lunged at him.

People gathered around them as they fought, obviously thrilled since Matt didn't seem to be that popular. Tai was winning, since he had the advantage of the several fist fights he had with Matt over the years, while this new Matt obviously didn't have that same experience. He, however, gave a sudden kick out of no where, catching Tai of guard. Matt was about to punch Tai when he was hauled backward.

Tai looked to see Davis holding Matt in a headlock. This ceased when a blur of purple hair came whipping out of the crowd and slide kicked Davis, causing his legs to give out and both him and Matt to go toppling to the floor. After a short tuffle, Davis ended up next to Tai, panting, while Matt and, to Tai's surprise, Yolie, stood opposite them.

"You damn jocks just think you are everything, don't you?" Yolie spat heatedly.

"Ah, shut up, bitch..." Davis muttered.

Yolie glared harder as two figures emerged from the crowd behind her. TK and Cody stood there, Cody placing a calming hand on Yolie as TK did the same to Matt. Neither of them stopped glaring, but did shift out of fighting stances.

Tai didn't have time to wonder at these strange alliances as Sora and Izzy came through the crowd.

Sora looked around at the scene, and gasped. Turning to Tai, she said, "Taichi Yagami, do you want to get in trouble, fighting in school like this? We need to leave before a teacher finds out!" She and Izzy started ushering them away as the crowd complained that they wanted more fighting. Sora ignored them and turned to Matt and the others. "Yamato, Miyako, Iori, Takeru. I suggest you all leave too."

Cody and TK nodded, while Yolie reluctantly grunted yes, and Matt simply shook off TK's hand and sauntered off. TK started after his brother, but Cody shook his head in disapproval, so the three of them walked off in the other direction.

Tai allowed Sora to usher him into a different hallway as he tried to settle his thoughts. One seemed to stick out in particular, despite its obviousness and stupidity.

This was bad.

AN- You get to see the rest of the group next chapter. Ah, how I love messing with Tai's mental stability...

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