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Summary: After Metal Greymon defeated Etemon. Taichi was pulled into a dimensional hole and transported back to earth. But what if that wasn't what happened, what if the hole stranded him in a completely new world.
Altered Fate.
Part II.
Agumon here.
Last time we found ourselves in big trouble, the digital world have been overrun by darkness, And Devimon has returned to haunt us, worse still, he still has control over the black gears and a small army to back him up. To make matters worse he took control of Karatenmon, and sent an Airdrmon to delete us.
We won against Airdramon of course, but Taichi seems distressed by it.
Of course so am I, after all, we have to fight Devimon again.
And we still don't know where we are; just that it is called Refugia.
Just where are the other chosen children?
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Hovering silently in the air, Devimon observed the Forest of Nightmares, the new domain under his control. "Master, on my word, every digimon in this forest will be enslaved by nightfall." Lifting an arm as he spoke, he didn't need to watch to see the black gears flying in through the cracked shield. "I have also confirmed that Chronomon is here."
Hovering silently in the air, Yagami nodded, his own attention on the wide spread forest below, and the rather interesting news he had been told once he had arrived. "So, there a human here?" his smile growing wider as he nudged his Devidramon, making it fly closer to the ground. "I thought all of them had been defeated, so who is it, Yamato? Juni? Michi?"
Feeling a smirk growing fourth on his face, he chuckled as he waved a hand dismissively in front of him. "Never mind, who ever it is, won't be able to stop me," Chuckling as he did a small commanding gesture, he didn't really care as a lone Black Gear floated down to hover before him. "Our friends here will destroy them, just as they helped me destroy the others."
Breaking out into a full blown laugh, he signaled Leomon and Ogremon to precede forward, their orders to hunt down the human child still ringing through them as they moved towards the burning section of the forest. "When Chronomon is mine, I can do as I want, the past, present and future will be mine, all mine!"
Devimon merely grinning behind him as he hovered silently, looking forward to the day when darkness was absolute ruler of the worlds and all digimons of light had been destroyed.
And this boy had provided the best means to obtain that goal.
"Master Yagami, if I may, the digimon in charge of this place, Karatenmon, is ready for questioning." Snapping a finger as he spoke, Devimon observed as the bird man like digimon flew up from the forest, his eyes devoid of all emotion. "Maybe you can get more out of him then I can."
Yagami turning his head to stare at Karatenmon, then slowly smirked as he lifted up his digivice, dark powers flowing around it as he willed the black gears to force the digimon to speak, to give him all the information he would need to obtain his goal.
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Taichi breathed out deeply as the Forest of Nightmares parted before them, the pine trees giving way to a more open spaced landscape, or rather two of them as the typical digital design of the world stood clear before him. "Okay buddy, we got a choice now, the bad lands or the metal city?"
Agumon standing next to him gave a deep thoughtful sound from him as he watched the distant landscapes, a part of him wanting to explore the city, to see everything in it as he had never seen a place like that before, but he also had this feeling that the digimons there would be just as hateful towards his partner as Karatenmon were. "Taichi, the bad lands, they should be safer."
"Yeah, should be." Taichi muttered out as he found himself drawn to stare up at the cloud covered sky, now fully recognizing it for what it was, a shield meant to protect this world from the darkness. "We better hurry then."
Agumon lifted up one foot, only to fall over as aloud rumble erupted from his stomach, a soft sigh leaving him as he clutched it. "Taichi, I'm hungry."
The complaint from Agumon causing Taichi to grimace as he to were rather hungry himself now that he thought about it. "I know buddy, I know." Moving his attention to the city, he grunted as he saw only one way out of it. "The digimons here hate humans, because they destroyed the digital world, but they wouldn't hate."
Kneeling down to stare into Agumon's eyes, Taichi gave a firm nod at the reptile digimon as he looked back at him. "You can do it Agumon, you can enter the city and find what we need." Turning to face the badland, Taichi frowned as he stared across it. "Listen; see that large rock formation in the badland, I'll be waiting there, with a camp set up."
It went against everything he had done, but it had to be. "I'll do it Taichi." He would leave his partner to gather up supplies, he'd leave him to fend for himself in a world where humans where hated, it tore at him to think of it, it was just to find something to eat, not to leave forever.
Still, it hurt to walk away, to look over his shoulder to see the mop of brown hair heading away as Taichi walked downwards into the badland, while he went towards the metal city. "Please be careful, Taichi."
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"That brat." Etemon spat out as he gazed out over the world, a dark frown on his face as he watched the ever growing hole before the airborne fleet. "Invading our world, destroying everything we have spent so long to build in some foolish quest to complete his goal."
Clenching his hands, he growled as he watched the enslaved digimon running back and fourth in a daze to carry orders to invade this last sanctuary from the humans. "How I hate them."
"Which makes it five of us." The smooth and cold voice coming from behind the monkey man like digimon, sending a feeling of impending doom through him as he spun around to face whoever had spoken. "Do not be alarmed, like you; I have a deep hatred for humans and all they have done to this world."
Facing Etemon were a digimon beating the monkey digimon in height by a small amount of centimeters, its body shaped like a monkey's, but with a far larger head, and a strange outfit. "I am Makuramon, a member of the twelve devas, and I have come to this world to recruit you, lord Etemon."
As the deva spoke, Three other digimons flew into view, the first a large dragon digimon, with a moustache and purple vest, it's horns engraved with Japanese kanji signs, the second a strange snake like digimon holding a halberd in it's tail as it slid off from the dragon digimons back and down onto the ship.
The third one, a mixture of a centaur and ox, jumped onto one of the ships and started throwing around the enslaved digimons, quickly cleaning the deck for any pests. "Well, do you accept the deal?"
Moving his attention back to Makuramon, Etemon frowned as he went back over the short conversation. "And I should join you just because you hate humans, come on." Narrowing his eyes behind his sunglasses, he felt a dark anger flow through him as he remembered something even stranger. "How do I know you didn't just come from the humans' world to destroy us?"
The comment earning a grin from Makuramon as he shook his head, "Lord Etemon, you have something we want, and in return, we will give you what you want." Lifting his head, he glared right into the monkey man like digimons eyes with a glare that sent a shiver down Etemon's back. "I swear that the humans will all die, you have my word for that, as well as that of my fellow devas, Majiramon, Vajiramon and Santiramon"
"All we want in return,, is your digital Network to be brought to this location." As Makuramon spoke, Majiramon flew closer to them, landing on the ship as well, towering up over the others as he did so, his head turned to face Etemon head on along with the others. "You can refuse us, but then we will destroy you, and find the network on our own."
"The humans will die?" Etemon repeated as he smirked, the need for vengeance and a long times servitude and humiliation at Yagami's hands flowing through him. "And all you want is my digital network?" Smirking Etemon reached out his hand, watching as Makuramon grabbed in a firm handshake. "Your proposal have some merits, I think I'll like it."
The human menace would be driven out, and the digital world retaken.
Their world would be saved from the darkness threatening it with absolute destruction.
He could already see the humans when the gateway would open to their world, spelling the end of their threat to all digimons who still lived.
Saving their world had first priority, to destroy the humans of this one wouldn't mean anything to him, they would most likely die from the outcome of the plan anyway.
They would finally understand the nature of their crimes, before they died of course.
Everyone who had died by his hands would be avenged, if everything went according to plan, if not, it wouldn't matter.
Both Etemon and Makuramon smirked as they shook hands, but for a very different reason.
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It was different, far more different then anything else he had ever seen, Agumon thought as he entered through the gates to the city, barely showing any attention to the star shaped digimons standing guard at the large double doored entrance. "Wow, it's so big."
His comment earning him a snickering from a passing feline digimon, her tail held high as her jet black fur seemed to glimmer when she walked. "Another country mon eh?" Her eyes moving to stare at another feline digimon, this one with a mix fur color. "Kind of cute for an Agumon if a bit dumb looking, eh Mikemon."
Mikemon, the mixed colored feline digimon glanced over at Agumon before shrugging. "He smells funny, besides, he just a child digimon, you should have better taste then that Black-Tailmon." Giving a far sterner look at Agumon, she took a quick walk around him, poking him with her clawed gloves. "Listen up buddy, rumor has it that the shield has been broken, so all kinds of digimons are coming here to cower behind Holy Angemon and his assistants."
Sticking out her tongue as a respond to the jab at her taste, Black-Tailmon slowly grumbled as she felt Agumon glowing at Mikemon over the insult aimed at him. "Just forget her okay, she just don't want to admit she one of those cowering digimons."
Giving her a vary look, Agumon didn't really know how to respond to her concern, it had been a while since he had talked to a digimon without a human partner. "Ah yeah, I came from the-" His mind doing a quick recollection of places he knew off, then frowned as he could only really think of one place they would also know off. "-Forest of Nightmares."
Mikemon lifting one ear in curiosity at the comment from Agumon, "But I thought Karatenmon had chased everyone out of the forest." Her left paw tapping her chin as she gave a soft humming sound as she thought about, "He must have grown soft if he let you stay there, tch, we need him to be strong."
"Does it matter if he's gone soft? He's still one of the strongest on Refugia." Black-Tailmon continued as she waved her tail around in a more aggressive manner. "He along with Lord Holy-Angemon, Knightmon and Antiramon were the ones who helped protect us when Yagami attacked us."
"Yagami?" Agumon breathed out, a bit louder then he would have wanted as it drew in the attention of not only the two feline digimons, but also quite a few of the other digimons near the gate. "But Taichi's been with me the whole time, he couldn't have done it."
Black Tailmon and Mikemon stepping back a bit as they stared more concerned at him, Mikemon in particular hissed as she pointed one glowed paw at him. "You're with that human aren't you? The one who wants to enslave us all," Snapping her head around, she glared at the star shaped digimons who had been standing guard, but where now moving towards them. "Grab him Starmons; he's one of the traitor digimons."
Agumon, seeing that he were no longer welcome, didn't waste much time to running, moving beneath the Starmons as they tried to grab him, he smirked as he grabbed the bag of a Palmon that had been wandering out of the gate in the middle of the all the commotion, earning him a choice selection of curse words as he tossed it right into the nearest Starmon's face.
Dropping to the ground as he felt the first Starmon reach out to grab him before running under him, he grinned as it was followed by the sound of the second one falling over the first one. "Baby Flame!" A small fire attack causing a bigger panic as a small market stall he had manage to spot on the inside of the gateway were lit up with fire thanks to him. "Sorry, but I got to find something before I leave."
Rushing off into the crowd, Agumon chuckled as he heard the loud curse and screams breaking out as panic fully sat in, masking his escape as barely any digimon paid him any attention when he ducked down the first alleyway he spotted, using it hide in while thinking of a good way to get some food, without causing more trouble, or drawing any attention to himself.
"Get him!"
Agumon snapping his head around to see several digimons rushing past the mouth of the alley, each of them out to clobber him into a pile of data no doubt. "Aw man, I barely got here, and I'm already in trouble."
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The hunt had lasted several hours already, but it hadn't stopped them as both Leomon and Ogremon had long since left their flying digimons to better track their prey, both of them now standing at the edge of the forest, facing nearly the same dilemma as Taichi and Agumon had had.
It could be either the metal city or the badlands that they.
Leomon staring hard and long into the bad lands before grunting, using his right hand to signal Ogremon to follow him as he began to march towards the bad lands, his orders to capture the boy making him ignore Agumon's tracks, and instead follow the footsteps of the boy.
Ogremon swing his club experimentally as he followed after the lion man like digimon, his eyes narrowed as he deep down had wanted to crash the city, but still felt forced into following the other.
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Moving out of a different alley opening, Agumon let out a small breath as no panicking digimons were around, nor did anyone call for his death. "Okay, now to find some food." Taking a step forward, Agumon found himself stopping as several Starmons marched out of a nearby gate opening, each one heading towards his direction. "Now what?"
Diving back into the alley opening, he followed them as they walked past; nearly choking on the dust they kicked up; then frowned as he was finally in the clear to move out again. "Something tells me, it won't be so easy to leave." Taking care to avoid more surprises like that, the reptile digimon began walking.
His green eyes darting from side to side as he watched digimons moving back and fourth, talking and laughing among themselves, acting as if there was no trouble, that the world wasn't about to be destroyed by darkness.
Moving to find some food, Agumon felt a smile forming as he felt the wonderful smell of baked bread reaching him, his nose guiding him towards the food as he turned a corner to find himself face to face with the marker place, and far more digimons then he had ever seen before.
But most importantly, the different stalls and market booths had food among them, he could both smell and see the baked bread in that Palmon's booth, over there were fresh fruit and vegetables, and over there he could see someone selling grilled fish. "I'm in heaven."
Rushing forward, he slid to a stop as a very important thing came to mind, something that even Taichi hadn't though off.
"I don't have any cash!" His roar ringing out as he slapped his own head with his hands, the move drawing in several digimons attention, and with them, someone he had preferred not to see again.
"It's the traitor!" Mikemon yelled out as she charged out from the store selling grilled fish, Black-Tailmon hot on her trail as they charged across the market, suddenly very open and clear as the other digimons drew back. "This time you traitor, you're going down!"
The last of her comment yelled out as she went into a rather long dive, one gloved paw held out in a classic boxing move while the other was pulled back. "Meatball Punch!" Pure desire for the deletion of her target flashing out from her eyes as she descended on Agumon.
Agumon, reacting from pure instinct hone from all of his battles, did something that most likely saved him from a lot of pain, but wouldn't save him from getting known as a traitor in a few seconds time.
His mouth already opening before he was really aware of what he was doing, the fireball already primed right at the still airborne digimon as she took of in another jump. "Baby Flame!"
Mikemon barely getting a chance to even blink before she was tossed backwards, her fur smoking as the small fire ball smacked into her, her small trip ending as she collided with Black-Tailmon, both of them sliding back a bit before jumping back up onto their feet.
"You." Mikemon spitting out the word as she charged again, her eyes flashing as she got nearer to him. "Meatball Punch!!"
Black-Tailmon right next to her, a less subdued look in her eyes even as she in a smooth move went right as Mikemon went left, flowing straight into a perfect pinching attack, hoping to catch Agumon of guard. "Neko Punch!"
Once more using skills learned from running and fighting, Agumon went into action on pure instinct, rolling up into a small ball at first as he dived under the two feline digimons, doing his best to ignore the loud yelps as they hit each other instead.
The reptile digimon already back on his feet and moving to attack as he snapped open his mouth. "Baby Flame!" The fire ball hitting nothing as both of the feline digimons moved aside in time.
Mikemon hissing as she stood up, her eyes narrowing as she watched Agumon smirking back at her as he moved to gain some more room between them. "If I didn't already know you were a traitor, this would have convinced me." Smirking herself, she went into action, jumping upwards into the air, both front paws held out before her as she grinned loudly. "But you're still just a child level digimon; you can't beat us, Neko Claw!"
As the calico colored digimon yelled out her attack name, Agumon had already formed another fireball to knock her back with, only to be caught completely off guard as the claws on Mikemon's gloves shot out beams of ice, each beam cutting through his fireball and hitting him perfectly.
The force of the beams sending him crashing into the grilled fish stall with several patches of frost on his body, a cold feeling filling him as he watched the nature spirit rushing him again, this time followed once more by her partner Black-Tailmon. "That's it."
Standing up, Agumon watched as they spread out, clearly trying to lure him into focusing on just one of them while the other would attack from behind. "Great, think, what would Taichi do if he was in this situation, other then order me to attack them both, naw, I'd better think like Koushiro."
Lifting his head, Agumon grinned as he watched the clothe hanging above him, the improvised roof of the stall giving him a good idea as he sent a fireball right into it, lighting it up as he had done with other ones earlier, only this time, he headed right into it as it really lit up.
The burning stall making the feline digimons stop their reckless charge and stared right at him, then they began a slow advance, their eyes keeping track of both him and the fire. "Come and get me if you dare, or are you just two Chuumon's in disguise!"
Yelling out the comment while grabbing some fish, Agumon barely had time to blink before twin feline shapes bore down on him with angry howls, the only thing saving him from getting knocked silly, being a quick duck that sent his foes crashing into the grill plate instead, loud yowls greeting him as Mikemon and Black-Tailmon jumped back out, their paws smoking as they hit the ground. "Baby Flame!"
Followed up with a second attack right in their face that sent them crashing along the ground before they were hit with the fishes he had been holding as he tossed them.
"Oh yeah I win." Agumon giving a victory sign towards them even as he suddenly found himself facing down the other digimons in the market place, all of them yelling and screaming as they began to advance on him. "Hey, hey, one at a time, one at a time!"
Jumping back, Agumon froze as a burning lump of cloth landed next to him, the stall cracking as the fire ate up its support beams and sheltering. "Great, I'm going to die thanks to my own brilliant plan."
"Not yet!" The comment causing him to turn in time to see a patch of the ground shaking as a sewer opening were knocked away, a three clawed glove covered hand reaching out from the sewer grabbed him just in time to pull him away from the collapsing tent, his last view of the burning object being the roof hitting the opening of the sewer.
Then he was assaulted by a heavy smell of the kind you can only find in a sewer, and a curious face staring into his own face, but this one had a lot of white and purple color fur on it instead. "Who are you, and why did you save me?" His suspicion growing as he noticed that this digimon was a splitting image of Black Tailmon and Mikemon, just with a different color scheme.
Spinning around and moving down the sewer, the feline digimon glanced back over her shoulder and stared right into Agumon's eyes again. "Let's just say for now, that I don't share their view on humans." Offering no other answer, she continued to walk forward, tail held high. "Oh yeah, I'm Tailmon, and there's no relation to that Black Tailmon just so you know it."
Feeling a headache forming at the constant trouble, Agumon sighed before looking up. "When will all of this start making sense?"
Then reality reasserted itself as fire dropped down from above, forcing him to move as several angry voice followed the fire down. "Ah yes." Running as fast he could, he watched as the feline white colored digimon did several quick turns before running out into a much larger section of the sewer. "Wait, I have to find some food for my."
Freezing at what he saw, Agumon could barely moved as he watched the digimon stop running as soon as she entered the larger room of the sewer, her arms opening wide as they embraced a figure sitting next to several bags.
"A human child?" Agumon's comment dragging in the attention of the other two as they seemed to finally notice him again, two stared hitting him as he took a step backwards. "What going here?"
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At the foot of the rock formation in the Badlands, Taichi had long since finished his task, having found a nice little rest spot between the rocks with a small camp fire already burning merrily as he leaned up against the side of a rock, trying not to think of how much his stomach were grumbling for food. "I wonder if Agumon is okay."
Lifting his head upwards, he watched the darkening sky with a concerned expression as he couldn't really find any other way to describe his feelings. "I hope the others are okay as well." His thoughts turning to the other chosen children, and the digimons he had left behind after he got sucked through the dark hole. "We beat Etemon, but what if there are other evil digimons."
Feeling even more troubled, Taichi couldn't help but feel bad as his thoughts turned to someone else, someone he hadn't talked much about. "Hikari, please wait, I'll return." He hadn't thought much about her, with all the evil digimons and his friends to distract him.
But now that he was alone, it was hard not to think about it as he had nothing to distract him or anyone to talk to.
"No." Shaking his head in an attempt to drive away the dark thoughts, Taichi stood up from the wall and did a quick walk around his camp area. "Thinking like that won't help me, it's won't help anyone."
Nodding his head as he tried to focus on more important things, he stropped as a loud thump sounded out behind him, his head turning in what felt like slow motion as two large figures advanced on him.
A flash of recognition flashing through him as he recognized both of the digimons, fear welling up in him as each one lifted up a weapon. "Leomon? Ogremon?" His mind going into an overdrive as he thought back digging up what he remembered about them from his time on File Island and how they had been defeated before.
Ogremon had served Devimon willingly, while Leomon had been enslaved by a dark gear. But they had removed the dark gear from Leomon and beaten Ogremon along with Devimon.
"You're still." The comment dropped rapidly as he stepped back.
It made sense, if Devimon was still around; he would still have control over these two. Still, Ogremon looked a bit off, as if he too was under the control of a black gear. "Well, I know how to deal with them." Grabbing his digivice, he smirked as he started to move forward, only to get knocked back as a bone club and sword nearly hit him. "Okay, so it won't be easy."
Lifting up one arm and signaling with it, Leomon began to advance while Ogremon circled off to the left, both of them smirking as they waved their weapons around.
"Bone Club!" Taichi jumping forward just in time to avoid getting his skull bashed in as Ogremon charged first, the bone weapon creating a small crater as it hit the ground, before it was pulled up and tossed much like a boomerang at the messy haired boy.
Moving as fast as he could, Taichi let out a small eep sound as he slid under the bone club and skidded across the ground before bumping into Leomon's right leg. "Leomon, don't, come back to your sense." Lifting up his digivice as it began to react to the dark gear; Taichi felt his hope fade as he was hit on the hand by the returning bone club.
The impact not only stunning his fingers but knocking his digivice away from him, and over to the camp fire, leaving him defenseless and suffering from a mild pain as he tired to use his hand.
"Great." Mumbling out the words, Taichi did his best and rolled away as one massive hand struck out, claws dragging across the ground before nearly grabbing his left leg. "This is just great."
Jumping to his feet after a quick roll, Taichi practically took two steps before diving towards his digivice, his right hand reaching out to grab it. "Supreme King Fist!" Only to get pelted with fragments of the camp fire as Ogremon annihilated it completely.
Chuckling as he lifted up his sword, Leomon gazed down at the human boy cowering in pain before him, the mission burnt into his mind still going strong as he took careful aim. "Lion King Sword!" The blade flashing as it was swept down, beast powers flaring around it's tip as it dug into the ground harshly. "What?"
Turning his head, Leomon found the boy glaring at him as he stopped rolling once again. Anger flaring up in his as the kid stood up, a courage filled expression on his face. "Fist of the Beast King!" The powerful attack flaring up as he did a quick punch in his direction.
A move the boy had clearly been expecting as he dove to the side, and sent a rock flying back at him. A feeble attack that was easily dealt with as it simply bounced off his chest. "Fist of the."
The rest of the attack name lost as a white and purple blue shot right into his face, pounding one fist heavily into lion man digimons face before doing a flip and landing on Ogremon's club, a second punch sending him backwards as well. "Heh, face my wrath losers."
"Taichi, I'm back." Jumping forward, Agumon slid to a stop before his human partner, facing the recovered Leomon as the beast man digimon charged once more. "Let's do it!"
Nodding, Taichi didn't pay much attention to the digimon that had saved him, as he simply grinned and revealed his digivice, having succeeded in getting it despite nearly losing his hand to Ogremon. "Go for it Agumon, and don't hold back."
Glowing brightly as he starting moving, Agumon felt power flow through him again. "Agumon, evolves too Greymon!" The much larger orange colored dinosaur digimon plowing into Leomon before the enslaved digimon could attack him. "Mega Flame!"
Turning away from the fight, Taichi took in the appearance of the digimon that had saved him at last, frowning as he failed to recognize at all. "And who are you?" Turning back to face Greymon, he stopped again as he saw what he hadn't noticed before, as standing behind Greymon holding a digivice much like his own, were another human child.
The child grinning as soon as his attention was noticed, a more closer look from Taichi revealing that the kid were also wearing large brown kaki shorts, along with a sleeveless blue shirt, and a pink t-shirt, to complete it, there was even a head band with goggles running across her forehead.
"You dress almost like me." A true fact as Taichi frowned, as something else made itself far more known to him. Whoever this copy was had far to soft features. "But you're a girl?"
A smirk greeting him as the girl swept the messy ponytail off her shoulder, before planting one hand on her hip and doing a small macho like pose as she flipped a lose bang away from her eyes. "Yup, the name's Taiko Yagami, and you are?"
"Taichi." His name spoken almost on automatic as he were doing his best to deny what he had just heard, refusing to believe it even as the thought went though his head. "Taichi Yagami."
The girl losing her calm stance as he finished speaking, her raised hand dropping as she to began to feel somewhat faint over that little revelation, her mind finally comprehending it, as the familiarity of the messy haired boy's clothes to her own, his name and digimon, not to mention the crest hanging around his neck.
Taichi suffering from same as he too did his best to deny it, but failing as he couldn't help but reach one unwanted conclusion that left him wanting to face Devimon and Etemon at once rather then face this.
"You're me!" The comment spoken perfectly loud enough to halt the fight as everyone focused on her for a short second, then erupted back into battle.
"And you both annoy me, but you most of all, brother." The second comment turning all attention upwards, and right onto the boy staring down at them with a dark smirk on his face, Devimon standing next to him staring right at both Leomon and Ogremon, a dark glare on his face. "Well, finish them off you two, and stop wasting my time"
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TBC: Taichi, Taiko, just what is going on here, and who's the boy attacking the city, and what is Devimon up to with all those Black Gears, just what kind of a crazy world is this?
AN: So, how many saw this one coming?
Anyway, I am satisfied with this chapter, there were a few problems with some of the scenes, but I got the next batch of characters introduced at last. The Devas won't make an appereance until the Yagami arc is dealt with.