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Tai wakes up on the floor. He stretches and straightens his back due to his uncomfortable sleeping position. The group that now consists of 20 people including a digimon each, even more than one in Mikeys and Christophers case, couldn't find many beds or something similar in the school that they are staying at. The Digimon were offered to sleep within Mikeys xros loader which they gladly agreed to. The humans of the group were able to find a 6 beds in the small medical station of the school. Due to the few beds available everyone decided to let the younger members of the group sleep in the beds while the rest tried to make themselves comfortable on the ground.
Yesterday, they had defeated Chaosgallantmon, or rather Megidramon, and his army of Blackgrowlmon. They had also met Blackwargreymon again who was forced to digixros with Metalgarurumon to Form Omnimon Zwart. After Omnimon Zwart was freed from Chaosgallantmons control, Blackwargreymon joined Christophers army of digimon. Today the group hopes to find a rift that takes them to either Mikey's or Marcus' world as they told everyone that they have more allies in their worlds that could help against their common enemy. They would definitely need their fighting strength as even small generals like Chaosgallantmon already bring them to the limits of their fighting capabilities.
Mikey gets up from the floor and yawns. He then leaves the room and holds his xros loader up into the air.
"Reload: Agumon, Gabumon, Tentomon, Gomamon, Biyomon, Palmon, Patamon, Gatomon, V-mon, Wormmon, Armadillomon, Hawkmon, Guilmon, Terriermon, Renamon, Guardromon, MarineAngemon, Agumon and Shoutmon!"
All the Digimon come out of the xros loader at the same time and their combined weight, especially Guardromons, makes the floor crack.
Agumon yawns and says "is it morning already? Give me just a few more minutes..."
Marcus then walks out of the room, picks his partner up and shakes him rapidly which causes him to wake up properly.
After a few minutes everyone has gotten up as well and they decide to eat breakfast. Takato uses the time to call his parents who thought that he was missing for weeks now. Suddenly, another rift opens outside. Izzy runs outside to take a look at what is coming out but nothing. The rift just stays open with nothing coming out of it. Izzy watches the rift for a minute and after still nothing happened he calls the others outside. Mikey talks to Wisemon who he tasked with studying the rifts and their origin but he doesn't have an answer to the weird behavior of the rift either. Suddenly the rift begins to rotate inwards and sucks in the air around it.
[Agumon digivolve to... Greymon]
[Agumon digivilve to... Geogreymon]
[Guilmon digivolve to... Growlmon]
"Reload, Greymon!"
Greymon, Greymon, Geogreymon and Growlmon dig their claws into the ground. The others grab onto their legs and try to avoid getting sucked in by the rift but the suction power is too strong. The greymon and Growlmon lose their grip and get sucked in along with everyone else. On the other side they quickly regain their footing but the Agumon and Guilmon suddenly degenerate back into their rookie forms. They look around for the reason why quickly realize why. A large army of DarkTyrannomon, Skullsatamon, Mammothmon and even 2 Skullgreymon stands in front of them, lead by no other than Devimon. Multiple black towers stand behind them, apparently now at their full strength as they made the Greymon degenerate back.
Suddenly Mikey steps in front of everyone. "Don't worry, we got this."
[Shoutmon, Ballistamon, Dorulumon, Starmon, Pickmons, Beelzemon digixros to... ShoutmonX4B]
Christopher does the same.
[Greymon, MailBirdramon, Deckerdramon digixros to... Decker Greymon] "Reload: Blackwargreymon"
ShoutmonX4B, Blackwargreymon and DeckerGreymon attack the army of Digimon with full force. The rookie level Digimon behind them want to join in but they are being held back by their partners. All of the sudden, Davis, Yolei, Cody, TK, and Kari step to the front as well.
"We haven't used it in a while, but we still have armor digivolution!" TK exclaims.
[V-mon armor digivolve to... Flamedramon]
[Hawkmon armor digivolve to... Shurimon]
[Armadillomon armor digivolve to... Digmon]
[Patamon armor digivolve to... Pegasusmon]
Gatomon however, decides not to armor digivolve.
"The last time I needed to use armor digivolution I didn't have my holy ring, that's not a problem anymore."
Gatomon jumps into the mass and punches a few of the DarkTyrannomon in the face.
"What are we just gonna stand here and do nothing?" Marcus asks and storms up front but Tai and Matt hold him back.
"Hey, I know you like to punch Digimon but our partners can't digivolve now so that's maybe not the best idea."
Suddenly, Ken walks next to Davis and asks him something.
"You still have the egg of friendship unused right? Give me your digiterminal please I want to try something."
Wormmon looks at Ken in confusion but after a few seconds it realizes it's partners plan.
[Wormmon armor digivolve to... Togemogumon]
Worrmon digivolves into a blue hedgehog like Digimon with ice spikes and the crest of friendship on its body.
"How did you know that that would work?" Izzy asks in surprise.
"I did some research while we were in Takatos world" Ken replies "about armor digivolution to be exact. It tums out Wormmln also has the capability to armor digivolve with every armor egg. Some of your Digimon too, but the armor eggs for that are already In use."
Togemogumon jumps into the air and fires its spikes into the army. The battle now starts to become more extreme. ShoutmonX4B, Blackwargreymon and DeckerGreymon deal with the ultimate Digimon in the army while the armor Digimon and Gatomon deal with the weaker Digimon in the army.
The remaining digimon shoot a few attacks in the masses but can't do much. They slowly start to fall back along with their partners. Suddenly Guilmon bumps his back into something and turns around. About 20 Clockmon have gathered behind them. They use their combined power to create a large purple orb that engulfs everyone. ShoutmonX4B notices this and runs back to the others but he is too late. Tai, Takato and all the others who rely on normal digivolution are already engulfed in the orb and sent to another time...
Tai wakes up with a headache. He finds himself laying on a bunch of dirt. He sees a field next to him, however the crops growing there are nothing he has seen before, upon closer inspection the crops turn out to be some kind of meat?
"What the? Why is meat growing on plants?"
Suddenly, Tentomon flies up behind him.
"What are you talking about? That is completely normal in the digital world! Are you telling me meat doesn't grow on plants in the human world?"
Tai wants to answer but he decides to keep his mouth shut for obvious reasons. Slowly, everyone else wakes up and is equally confused.
"Wait, where are TK and the others?" Matt asks.
Izzy analyzes his sorrundings and the situation.
"It seems like the Clockmon sent us to a different time. But when? To the future or to the past? What we know for sure though is that, judging by our surroundings, this is the digital world. Depending on when we were sent to TK and the others already fought against Devimons army or they will fight it."
"Why don't we just ask whoever owns this field what time it is?" Gabumon says while pointing at a small wooden hut standing next to the field.
Everyone agrees and they walk up to the hut that is a lot larger than it seemed like from further away.
"It doesn't look like that hut was built for someone the size of a human. Somebody bigger must live there" Joe comments "the Digimon living there must be at least on the champion level, if not higher. We should be careful."
Tai nods but he slowly opens the door. The owner of the hut is eating a soup but when he sees Tai he chokes on the soup. The owner of the hut is a Wargreymon.
"T-Tai, is that you? You look so young!"
Tai is surprised that the Wargreymon recognizes him.
"How do you know my name? And what do you mean with I look young?"
The Wargreymon clears its throat. "Of course I know your name! We've been partners for over 80 years!"
Tai is surprised and confused at the same time. Could that Wargreymon be an old Agumon?
"Over 80 years? What year is it?"
Suddenly Wargreymons expression saddens.
"In human years it's the year 2269. The livespan of a digimon is a lot longer than that of a human, you have been dead for over 100 years now! I never thought I would see you again!"
Tai almost drops to the floor. In that moment Wargreymon realizes what he just said.
"Maybe I shouldn't have said that so openly. You know, you are the first human I had contact with ever since the incident..."
"What incident?" Tai asks shakingly.
Wargreymon looks concerned and thoughtful but he decides to speak.
"It all happened 75 years ago. Humans and Digimon lived in piece together but all of the sudden, the gate between the human and digital world, which has been open over 100 years by then, just closed. The humans that were in the digital world were isolated from the human world. Some decided to keep living here, others..." Wargreymon pauses and thinks about the heavy things he is about to say "others couldn't handle it and went insane, working with all kinds of mischievous Digimon to get back to the human world but none were able to return."
The others had only been listening from out of Wargreymons sight so far but Matt decides to finally show himself.
"What about you couldn't you find any solution or anything?"
"Matt, you are here too? In that case everyone else is probably here too? Why didn't you show yourself earlier? Come in!" Wargreymon says while smiling widely.
Everyone walks into Wargreymons hut which is a lot larger than it looks. Wargreymon greets everyone by their names and seems happier than before but at Takato he stops.
"Oh, the children from the other worlds are with you. That explains a lot, the Clockmon probably brought you here in that case. What was your name again? Tazuko, Takiki, no... sorry but my memory about that chapter of my life isn't the best anymore..."
"Takato, Takato Matsuki. And this is my partner Guilmon" Takato explains to the elderly Wargreymon "those are Henry Wong and Terriermon, Rika Nonaka and Renamon, Kazu Shioda and Guardromon, Kenta Kitagawa and Marine Angemon as well as Marcus Damon and Agumon."
Suddenly, Wargreymon looks confused.
"Where are Kari, TK and the other younger digidestined. I also remember there being a lot more of you, I think Marcus had some friends, then there were these people that could fuse their Digimon together, oh and then there were those children that could turn into digimon and I also remember a few whose Digimon were floating in chips for some reason..." right after Wargreymon closes his mouth he realizes the situation "oh, you probably haven't met most of these people yet haven't you? But what about TK and the others?"
Izzy ignores the mysterious things Wargreymon accidentally told them about their future allies but he keeps it at the back of his mind. He decides to explain the situation. "We had just defeated Chaosgallantmon. The day after, we were sucked into the digital world of our world by another rift where we were attacked by Devimon alongside a huge army. That normally wouldn't be a problem but they had tons of black towers in the area that prevented our partners from digivolving. Davis and the others used armor digivolution to hold the army back while Mikey and his friend Christopher used digixros as a replacement for digivolution. When we retreated slowly the Clockmon ambushed us and sent us here. When Ken was sent back in time it was only temporary but the amount of Clockmon might have sent us to the future Permanently. But wait, Agumon Is sitting right here, why don't you remember this day?"
"I'm an old Digimon now, my memory isnt the best anymore. Over the years I lived we fought countless other battles, too many to remember exactly. About the time travel thing though..." Wargreymon scratches his armored head "I know. I'll bring you to Granclockomon, the guardian of time. He lives in the capital."
"There's a capital? Is there also a digimon government in the future?"
"That is correct, Seraphimon and Ophamimon became our leaders after the gate to the human world was closed. And Imperialdramon and Grandiskuwagamon are the heads of the law enforcement"
"Seraphimon is Patamon and Imperialdramon and Grandiskuwagamon are Veemon and Wormmon, but who is Ophamimon?" Palmon. asks curiously.
"Gatomon. Gatomon is Ophanimon" Wargreymon replies "when she digivolved from Angewomon she digivolved to Ophanimon instead of Magnadramon as Ophanimon is a more practical from if you want to spend the rest of your live in it."
The Digimon stare at Wargreymon in amazement.
"What about me?" Gabumon asks.
"Us too!" Palmon, Gomamon and Tentomon demand "and Armadillomon and Hawkmon!"
Wargreymon let's out a slight laughter.
"Gabumon, or as I know you now, Metalgarurumon you became the leader of a tribe of Garurumon and Weregarurumon. Gomamon and Armadillomon did the same, as Vikemon they became the leaders of a clan of Ikkakumon and Zudomon. Rosemon lives in the city and Herkuleskabuterimon lives somewhere in the mountains as a researcher." he pauses for a moment "in a way its funny. Nearly all of the insect Digimon in the digital world are aggressive beings without higher cognitive ability so it's ironic that one of them became a captain of the royal guard and another became a researcher."
The young Digimon eyes glow in amazement of their future.
"What about me?" Guilmon suddenly asks.
Wargreymon laughs "I don't know about you, you are from a different world after all. Now on a more serious note, I will accompany you on your way to the city. Also you can stay here for the night as my guests."
The next day arrives quickly. Tai couldn't get a bit of sleep that night. He knew that he would eventually die and of course not live until the year 2269 but knowing that his partner was still around after his passing made him feel uncomfortable.
Everyone is woken up by a loud noise. Rika goes outside to see what's going on. Outside she can see a Kuwagamon and a Simon flying into the direction of the hut.
"Renamon!"
Renamon nods. It gets into combat position and prepares to attack.
"Wait!" Wargreymon suddenly appears in front of them "let me handle this, you can go back to sleep."
Wargreymon grabs the Kuwagamon by its scissor arms, and throws it into the Snimon. They both get up and fly away frightened.
"That happens sometimes. Stronger digimon think that small farmer huts are inhabited by weaker digimon but they don't expect a veteran like me" Wargreymon says casually while laughing and laying back down.
The next day
After the unexpected attack in the middle of the night the group decided to head to "Digital city". The capital of the digital world Wargreymon told them about. After what felt like an hour of walking they finally arrive at a large wall guarded by a black and a white digimon. Wargreymon wants to go inside but the digimon block the gate.
"You can't pass" they say.
"What? Rookchessmon, Bishophessmon, it's me, Wargreymon! You know me!"
The guards don't reply.
"I know you since the two of you were still Pawnchessmon. We need to speak to Seraphimon and Ophamimon, it's urgent."
Still no reply.
Wargreymon becomes suspicious when his eyes suddenly widen.
"RUN!" he shouts.
Just as he says that Imperialdramon and Grandiskuwagamon fly over the wall and attack them. They have control spirals on their arms. Rookchessmon and Bishopchessmon reveal that they are being contolled as well. Wargreymon begins to defend himself from Imperialdramons punches. Grandiskuwagamon attempts to join in but Marcurs jumps in the air and hits him in the back. His fist begins to glow.
"Agumon, he needs our help!"
He holds his hand on his digivice. He expects Agumon to digivolve into Shinegreymon but only a few sparks come flying out of his digivice.
"What? Is it broken?"
"Let me try" Henry says.
Terriermon jumps of Henry's shoulder. Henry holds his d-power into the air. However, Terriermon shows no reaction either.
Imperialdramon slams Wargreymon into a wall. Wargreymon punches Imperialdramon in the face and escapes from their grasp. When Wargreymon was thrown into the wall he made a hole. Izzy looks at the hole and realizes something black inside.
"There are black towers in the wall, we can't digivolve. We need to flee!" Izzy shouts.
However Tai stands still.
"You can do it Wargreymon, you can beat them!"
But it retreats alongside the others.
"Im sorry Tai, I could have probably defeated the Imperialdramon and Grandiskuwagamon of your time but the ones you see there are a lot stronger and have a lot more training. We need to run!"
Tai is stunned for a bit but he runs away with the others. However, Imperialdramon switches to Dragon Mode and begins to follow them with rapid speed. He charges his Canon and prepares to shoot but Wargreymon tornados into him.
"Find the others, it's your only chance! I will hold him back" he shouts.
Tai runs back but Agumon grabs him.
"Tai, we need to run! We need to use the time my future self gave us!"
Suprised by the sudden seriousness of his partner he begins to run away alongside the others again.
Authors notes: Sorry this chapter took so long. I just got Digimon Cyber Sleuth complete edition for switch and I was busy playing that. Just a quick info I will not be writing new chapters for a while. Instead I will rewrite Chapter 1 and 2 as they are pretty shitty and rushed compared to the rest of the story. Thanks for reading and please leave reviews. Every review is much needed Feedback.