Destined Tamer

This story is cowriten by Drager and Demino. We do not own digimon.

Chapter 2

Tai walk up to the police box. "I'm looking for my father's family," Tai told the police. "You don't know where you live?" the police ask.

"My mother and father aren't married anymore," Tai said.

"Sorry," the police said, "What his family name?" "Kamiya," Tai said.

"Kamiya," the police said as he typed on the computer. "Sorry I don't have any report with the name

Kamiya. You know the building they live in may have a new address."

"Alright," Tai said before he ran off.

Slowing down, Tai gained a rather large blush as his stomach let out a loud growl, the whole thing followed by a sharp pain from his stomach. "Aw, I'm hungry." Glancing up, Tai simply stared right ahead as another growl came from his stomach. "Gotta have something to eat."

Reaching down for his wallet, Tai stopped as he felt Koromon move around in his bag again. "I, I spent all my money on the bag." Lowering his head in defeat, Tai slowly walked off, his eyes moving over to spot a shadow gazing down at him. "You again!"

Smirking as he landed on a lamppost again, Impmon chuckled as he kept staring down at Tai. "You think you got lucky with that punch right?" Hissing out the words, Impmon ran one claw down through the metal parts of the lamppost. "But let's see how you deal with this! Bada Boom!"

Letting lose a fireball, Impmon laughed as Tai scrambled out of the way, his duffel bag catching a part of the fireball and broke as the stitches burnt away, allowing Koromon to tumble out. "An In-training, you have to be kidding me, all the others have a rookie level digimon."

"You must be one lousy tamer kid." Face lighting up with glee, Impmon held out his hand again, fire forming in the center of it as he swung down to hang from the lamp post. "Bada boom!"

"Terrier Tornado." Tai watched as a lime green spinning object knocked Impmon of his feet. "I don't have time to deal with you," Impmon said as he got back to his feet.

Tai watch the long ear digimon ran to a blue hair boy about Tai's age. "I'm sorry," the digimons partner said, "He's a bully but harmless. I'm Henry." he reached his hand out.

"Tai," he said grabbing the hand.

"You really must be in to role playing," the long ear digimons said.

"Terriermon," Henry said.

"What do you mean by that?" Tai ask.

Shaking his head partly from disbelief, and partly from amusement, Henry stopped and fixed Tai with a curious stare. "You know, the digimon adventure season one anime series, you're dressed just Taichi Yagami, the leader of the show, you even have his goggles and the in training form of his partner digimon."

Mouth hanging open, Tai lifted up his digivice, annoyance welding up inside of him. "I am Tai, and I'm not from some anime show."

As he spat out the words, Tai clenched down hard around his digivice. "I am Taichi Yagami!"

Head moving to stare at the digivice Tai held, Henry didn't get much of a chance to reply as it sent out a loud wail, light glowing around it before his own sent out a wail too, light shooting out from both them to impact Koromon who were busy trying to escape Terrimon's questions and curious pokes.

"Koromon, evolves too!" "Glowing brightly as the two light beams hit him, Koromon floated upwards as the light formed into a sphere that covered his body completely. As it shattered, an orange colored warped mini version of a T-rex stood where Koromon had been before. "Agumon!"

"You are Tai," Henry said, "How did you end up in this world?"

"Are you saying that I'm not in my home world?" Tai asked.

"That's what I'm saying," Henry said.

"At least my family didn't move," Tai said, "I need to get some food."

"I'll buy," Henry said, "I wouldn't mind hearing about your adventures first hand."

"That sounds good," Tai said, "I wouldn't mind hearing about this world."

Walking next to Tai, Henry kept casting a look over at Tai. "So, are you the one Rika spoke of, the one who was fighting a Metal-Etemon?"

Lowering his head a bit, Tai bit his lower lib as he thought back on what had happened. "It wasn't on purpose, we had just beaten him back home, but then he was just plain old Etemon then, not a metallic version of him, I didn't even know you could go beyond the ultimate stage."

Henry, listing to the reply frowned as he stopped walking. "So, you never returned to earth, I mean, your earth, you never met up with Kari, brought the others back together or fought Myotismon?" Voice rising as he spoke, Henry stopped as he felt Terriermon poke him. "Ah, sorry about that."

Tai, having stopped as well, stared long and hard at the boy next to him, a rather calculating glare in his eyes as he felt Agumon standing next to him. "Myotismon, he's another evil digimon huh?"

Mouth twisting into a grin, Tai stepped closer as he could barely hold back a grin. "So, why don't you tell me more about this Myotismon, and what does Kari have to do with him? Is she a digi destined? Are the others in trouble with that digimon?"

Henry, moving back under the assault of questions, just knowing that no matter what had happened, he'd just caused a big problem for himself. "Um, you know, maybe we should head over to my friend, his parents own a bakery, and we can get a discount there."

I want to know about what you were talking about," Tai said.

"Its better I didn't tell you," Henry said.

"Come on," Tai said, "I should know all I can."

"No," Henry said, "I'm not changing the story."

"We know a little so we should know it all," Agumon said.

"I'm not telling you," Henry said, "I'm not changing the timeline."

"Yeah," Terriermon said, "Then you may not digivolve to the mega level."

"Mega Level?!" The twin outburst causing Henry to slap one hand onto his face as Terriermon let out a whoops sound. "You mean, we can become as powerful as Metal-Etemon?"

Agumon, grinning at the comment, puffed out his chest as he slapped one hand onto it. "As powerful? Of course I'll be stronger then him, no metal monkey can ever stand up to me."

Next to him, Henry, Tai and Terriermon had an embarrassed expression on their faces as Agumon allowed his ego to run wild.

"So, about this Myotismon guy?" Tai started up as he watched Henry shake his head and mumble something about digimons having too much self confidence.

"We're here," Henry said.

"Hey Henry," Takato said from the counter, "Is that the fan boy that Rika talked about?"

"Guess what he's no fan boy," Terriermon said, "He's the real deal."

"We saw him use this digivice to make his Agumon digivolve," Henry said, "He just beat Etemon so don't tell him anything else."

"I wouldn't mind something to eat," Tai said. "I'll see what I can do," Takato said.

"Could you tell me what is going on in this world?" Tai asked.

Takato gave a small humming sound as he dropped some bread into Tai's hand. "Well, we've been fighting against digimons too, especially this group of power digimons that's been entering our world."

"Yeah." Henry added in as he handed over some money to Takato. "We fought against one called Indramon earlier, but he left thanks to Hypnos."

Looking rather puzzled, Tai glanced from Takato over to Henry. "Hypnos? you mean those "men in black" look a likes?"

"They're a group that is trying to stop digimons by any mean,"

Takato said, "They try to delete our digimons."

"They also keep digimons from slipping into our world," Henry said.

"We need a place to stay," Tai said, "Then I'll need to find my way home."

"I have a place in the park where my partner lives," Takato said,"

Smiling at it, Tai grinned as he gave a small yam. "Nice, so, your partner, what kind of digimon is he?"

Takato grinning began to tell Tai everything about Guilmon, their adventures so far and the digimons they had fought against. "Rika's still a bit mad though, always trying to outdo me and Guilmon."

Behind them, Henry shook his head; he should have known that the two goggle wearing boys would become friends that fast.

"I'm not so worried about her; it's those digimons that's been coming over recently. They're getting stronger every single time."

"Then you're getting stronger," Tai said. They walk into the park to a stone building. "Here we are," Takato said.

"Takatomon," A large red dino yelled running from the building, "Did you bring bread?"

"Here boy," Takato said as he pulled out some bread from his bag. "Listen, these two." He points at Tai and Agumon." Will be staying with you?"

"Okay," Guilmon said.

Tai walk up and look into the building. "It's a lot better than the caves we been sleeping in but why do you keep Guilmon back home with you?"

Behind them, Takato blushed as he rubbed one hand through his hair nervously. "Yeah well, I didn't really have much choice in the matter, I couldn't hide him back home, and this was the only place where he wouldn't be found by Hypnos or anyone else."

Looking back over his shoulder, Tai felt like hitting himself for having sounded so arrogant and superior. "It's okay, it's fine, in fact, it'll be fun to sleep in a place that not likely to be attacked by an evil digimon." And how true that was, it may be a fun adventure and all, but sitting up and keeping watch had been a pain from time to time. "Come on Agumon, say hi to Guilmon."

"Hi," Agumon said, "We're going to be roommate."

"Hi," Guilmon said.

"Nice place you have here," Agumon said.

"I'll see what I can do to make you feel more comfortable," Henry said.

"Should we call the others?" Takato asked.

"We should call Rika," Henry said, "The others don't have partners."

"Who this Rika you talk about?" Agumon ask. Glancing over at him, Henry grinned a bit as he watched their expression.

"Actually, you two have already met her, remember the girl with the fox like digimon you talked about?"

"That's her?" Tai commented as he groaned at the memory, her attitude had reminded him of Matt on his worst days, and if she was like that normally, he wouldn't like to see her on a bad day. "Tell me she's usually in a better mood then her pissed off superior mode." Seeing the wide eyed stares cast over his back, Tai sighed as he knew what that meant. "She's behind me right?"

A growl answered him as he turned around to face the one behind him, the orange haired girl from earlier standing there with an angry look on her face, her eyes glaring right into his. "Look, about the whole pissed off mode, I was only kidding."

Rika, lifting up her hand simply chuckled as she cast one evil look across the short distance. "I wasn't in the mood for a fight, but you, have really made me angry, Renamon!" Yelling out the name of her digimon partner, Rika chuckled as she faded into view behind her. "Crush that Taichi Yagami's wannabe Agumon and load his data."

"If you want to fight, then fine by me, Agumon take that fox down," Tai said.

"Tai I want to see how high I can digivolve," Agumon said.

"Right," Tai said, "Digivolve." he pointed his digivice at Agumon. After a short time as Greymon, he became a Metal-Greymon.

"So you are the real Tai," Rika said, "I'm not in the mood to fight."

"He could be helpful," Renamon said. Looking over at Tai, Rika simply huffed as she turned away.

"Maybe, or maybe not, we do things our way Renamon, besides, he doesn't even have a D-arc."

Walking away the orange haired girl looked up at the night sky. "By the way, that Metal-Etemon, he wouldn't happen to be the one from the show, would he?"

Turning his head lightly to the side, Tai glanced down at Agumon, then back at Rika. "He is, somehow he became Metal-Etemon on the trip here." Stopping, Tai glanced down at the ground as he watched Rika turn to give him her full attention. "Oh yeah, thank you, for saving me and Agumon, if you hadn't shown up, Metal-Etemon would have killed us before vanishing."

"Whatever," Rika said, "We just came to fight the monkey."

"It's getting late," Takato said, "I need to get home."

"Me too," Henry said."

We'll talk later," Tai said as he walked into the building.

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The molten lava bubbled all around him as he walked carefully through the volcano region, all ready he had come close to falling into one of the pools, just as his Dark Network nearly had on his arrival back in the digital world.

"This heat aren't good for the king, gotta find me a pineapple Sunday or something." Jumping up over a large ring of solid lava rocks, Metal-Etemon grunted as he found himself facing the inner magma chamber of the volcano. "Some place you got here baby."

From behind him, a towering bunny like humanoid digimon didn't respond to the comment, but instead pushed him forward as he chose to stay put. "Master Zhuqiaomon is coming."

Turning back around, Metal-Etemon nearly screamed as the lava lake before him began to bubble and churn, the wings of a massive bird like digimon rising up over the ring of rocks in the center of the white hot stuff. "No way baby you guys were done for, I heard it myself, you were beaten!"

Lowering his head, Zhuqiaomon glared down at the metallic digimon before him, the molten rock surrounding his small island falling back to rest. "You are the one, the intruder from that other world?" Lowering his wings, the massive four winged bird like digimon simply loomed up over the smaller digimon. "You carry the taint, the taint of a dark digimon."

Turning his head forward and moving it closer to Metal-Etemon, Zhuqiaomon growled a bit as he spread out his wings again." I should delete you on the spot, yet, I know you didn't come here alone." As he spoke, the bird digimon had closed his four eyes. "Tell me of the human child who followed you, the one you wanted to destroy."

"That brats been a pain in my back side," Metal-Etemon said, "One moment I was about to crush him, then I got pulled into this wasteland."

"His smell is different," Zhuqiaomon said, "I'll force it out of you."

"Just try it feather duster," Metal-Etemon said as he ready himself for battle."

"Do you truly want to fight me?" Zhuqiaomon asked.

Flexing his muscles, Metal-Etemon grinned up at the bird digimon. "The king's willing to take on all challengers baby." As he spoke, a glowing sphere of green light had formed in his right hand. "So, what do you say, fight to the finish, winner takes all?"

Snapping all four wings down, Zhuqiaomon watched as Metal-Etemon went flying backwards, ramming into a rock a good deal back." You're powerful Metal-Etemon, but I am a sovereign digimon, you can't beat me on your own."

Lowering himself into his rocky place, Zhuqiaomon kept all four eyes on the metallic monkey as he picked himself up. "I want you out of my dimension and the kid as well."

As he spoke, the four winged bird had begun to prune his feathers, one eyes always trained on Metal-Etemon. "You want to kill the boy yes?"

"Of course do." Came the reply as Metal-Etemon finished brushing off the last of the dirt he had picked up from his landing, his sun glasses knocked halfway off his face. "The brat cost me my dark network, my pyramid base and my army."

Eyes blazing as he gave Metal-Etemon his full attention, Zhuqiaomon chuckled as he rose up again, one wing pointing right down at the metallic monkey. "Very well, my deva's are busy dealing with another problem for me right now, therefore, I'm willing to cut a deal with you."

Having the full attention of the monkey man like digimon, Zhuqiaomon grinned on the inside as he continued lying out the bargain. "Get the human to me, dead or alive doesn't matter, and in return, I'll send you back to your own dimension with enough power to regain everything you have lost, if not more then that."

Eyes narrowing, the four winged bird digimon smirked as he began to return to his private area.

"Well, do we have a deal, Metal-Etemon?"

"The king will return baby," Metal-Etemon said.

"Very well," Zhuqiaomon said.

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The morning sunlight beamed into his eyes, before Tai blocked it with his hand. He looked to see only Guilmon next to him.

Tai walk from the building to see Agumon walking up to him with berries in his arms. "Hey Tai," Agumon said, "I found something to eat. No one saw me."

"Alright," Tai said taken some of the berries, "I think eating is the only thing we can do while waiting for the others."

"You could also tell me more about this world of yours." Commented Renamon as she faded into sight slightly of to the side of them, her arms crossed over her chest as she walked closer to them. "I am interested in knowing more of how you came to this place, and why you were fighting with a mega digimon."

Stopping just outside the door, she looked around briefly, and then glanced over at Agumon. "And your friend there needs to work some more on his stealth."

Showing no scorn or insult, Renamon simply settled down and gazed at Tai with a more curious look on her face. "This Metal-Etemon, how long have the two of you fought one another, his speech and attitude tells me that it isn't the first time you two have clashed."

"We fought before," Tai said, "I trashed his base. Before that he hounded my and my friends. Can't you watch this on the show after all it is only my life they showing off."

"Thing may be different," Renamon said, "Beside I like first hand and I want to know my enemy."

"Metal-Etemon?" Tai asked, "Or me?"

Remaining silent as she stood up, Renamon cast a look over her shoulder. "Depends, Rika wasn't in the mood for a fight yesterday, but she might be today." Jumping up over Tai and Agumon, she landed on the top of Guilmon's hideout. "I'll be seeing you two."

Staring after her as she vanished, Tai shook his head and glanced over at Agumon. "Better be ready for her buddy, something tells me that this Rika girl isn't one to give up."

"Alright," Agumon said.

"I'm going for a walk," Tai said, "I'll be back in a little bit."

Tai rub his head as he started to walk away. A little away, He sat on a rock and said, "I hope the others are alright."

Tai watch as small white form skip from a bush. The digimon turn to Tai and cheerfully said, "Hi, I'm Calumon."

Looking a bit surprised at first, Tai grinned as he kneeled down to look closer at the small digimon. "Hi, my name's Tai."

Watching the small digimon as he looked Tai, he suddenly frowned and looked around, trying to see if there was another human around. "You're not a partner digimon are you?"

Sending back a confused expression, Calumon hovered upwards a bit, staring more closely at Tai. "Digimon partner, what's that?" Half closing his eyes, Calumon hovered silently for a few moments. "I don't think so, I'm just Calumon."

Opening his mouth to answer, Tai stopped as he noticed Calumon's ears growing longer and his eyes opening as he hovered a bit further up. "Hah, Calumon smells something."

Standing up, Tai stared after Calumon as he began to fly off, right towards an area covered in a thick layer of fog that hadn't been so before. "Calumon?"

"That's strange," Tai said as he looked at the fog. It just hovered there as if held back by an unseen force. He pushed his hand into the fog only to pull it out. "I better get Agumon," he said, "Something tells me that this has to do with digimons."

He came back to see Guilmon growling toward the fog.

"What's up?" Tai ask.

"He just started growling at the fog," Agumon said.

"Hey boy," Takato yelled running up to them. "Are you ready?"

Nodding, Guilmon took off running along with Takato, both of them heading back towards the strange fog covered area. "Tai, you should come too, you can help us!"

Nodding his head, Tai grinned as he looked down at a still sleepy Agumon. "That area gotta have something to do with the digital world." Grabbing Agumon and dragging him along, Tai grinned as he struggled to catch up to Takato. "Maybe there's a way home through it."

Turning around, Agumon snapped his eyes open as he tripped up Tai, the messy haired boy and dino like digimon went tumbling off into a bush.

Pushing himself out of it, Tai opened his mouth to spit out a complaint, when he noticed the ground having been cut open in a large X shape where he would been just a second ago if he had continue to run straight forward. "What, what happened?"

Pointing forward with one clawed hand, Agumon growled as a figure crashed into the ground right before them, a large green insect like body gazing down at them as it readied its sickle like arms.

"Snimon, that champion digimon can fire off a duel pink colored blade attack with his Shadow Sickle, he nearly killed us before Tai."

"Just get out of our way Goggle heads," Rika said, "We'll take care

of this one."

"Go ahead," Tai said, "I want to know my enemy."

"Snimon or us?" Renamon ask.

"Depends," Tai said.

"I'll show you,." Renamon growl, "I want to end this quick."

Pulling out her deck of cards, Rika cast a glare over at Tai and Agumon, smirking as she returned her attention to the Snimon. "Renamon, go!"

Wasting no time, Renamon took off running, her arms crossed in front of her as she closed in on the Snimon, the digimon having shook of the surprise of seeing more humans with digimons nearby. "Shadow Sickle!"

Moving in a perfect pattern, Renamon side stepped the twin pink blades, and jumped, her arms shooting out to the side as a small collection of diamond like gems formed before her. "Diamond Storm!"

Letting out a hiss of annoyance as the shards literally bounced off his thick insect hide, Snimon roared out loudly and hovered backwards, his sickles working overtime as he sent out a literal storm of glowing blades, each one cutting into the ground easily.

Of to the side, Rika growled as she noticed Tai sending an amused grin in her direction, his hand moving down towards his digivice. "Renamon, get ready!" Shouting out the command, Rika tore out the card she had added to her deck yesterday. "Card Slash, Dramon Killers!"

Arms glowing as the cards effect took hold, Renamon found her gloves replaced by a Wargreymon's gauntlets, three wicked looking dagger claws gleaming as she spun around to dive bomb Snimon who had stopped attacking at the change. "Haaaah!"

Landing, Renamon glanced up to see both of Snimon's arms slide off, exploding into digital data after getting cut through rather easily. "Power Paw!" Despite her hand still being covered in the gauntlet, it still lit up with ghostly blue as she punched right through Snimon's chest, burning him as well as stabbing him.

"I hope you learned enough about your enemy," Renamon said as she turn to Tai, "Then again I may just destroyed your enemy before you, now let me show you something the digimons here can do." Renamon turn to the stray data and slowly draw them into her. Renamon turned and walked away.

"You really got to Renamon," Takato said, "Rika's normally the one to act like that."

"She started it," Tai said.

"Most impressive." Speaking softly, yet still mockingly, a large figure slowly rose up from the inside of the fog, blue fire wrapped around his body builder like body, chains and a skull like mask covering his face, with the chains wrapped around his chest, upper arms and wrists. "You're just as powerful he told me you'd be."

Un-wrapping the chain around his left arm, the digimon began to swing it around above his head. "Nice to meet tamers, the names Skullmeramon, and I'm here to kill Taichi Yagami!" lashing out with the chain, he laughed as he knocked Renamon and Guilmon backwards.

"Renamon!"

"Guilmon!"

The yells had Tai glaring right over at the digimon as he begun to spin around his chain again. "Why are you after me, what did I ever do to you?"

Still swinging the chain, Skullmeramon laughed a bit as he began to advance towards Tai and Agumon. "It's nothing personal kid, just business." Cutting through a tree with his chain easily to show how strong he was, and frighten the messy haired kid, the burning digimon stopped as the tree crashed down to the side. "I've been hired to destroy you, and the pay's too good to refuse!"

Lashing out with his chain, he laughed as it lit up with the same blue fire as the one that covered most of his body. "Heat Chain!"