Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.

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.

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Altered Fate.
Part IV.
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Agumon here, it's been the strangest set of days yet with a female version of Taichi called Taiko showing up, as well as this insane human calling Taichi his brother, to further makes it hard on us, Devimon not only survived a direct hit by Metal-Greymon's Giga destroyer, worse still, he evolved to the perfect stage as well.

Still, not everything seems to be lost, as just as in the past, an angel digimon have shown up to fight him.

Can the past really repeat itself?

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Megadramon were at a complete loss, as part of him was screaming out in fear while another was crying out for him to destroy everything in sight. "You, you're not the one mentioned in the prophecy, you can't be!" Slamming open both hands, a stream of organic missiles shot out.

Lord Holy Angemon merely watching the attack didn't lose his frown as he went into action, Excalibur blazing with power as he swung it. "Heaven's Gate!" His sword cutting a perfect circle in the air, forming a gold covered gateway that opened op to reveal what looked like a water filled tunnel. "Let your evil vanish from this world once and for all."

The gateway responding as a powerful vacuum seemed to form around it, each of the organic missiles getting sucked into it, along with a large amount of dust, rocks and Ogremon as well, the knocked out digimon having no chance at all to protect himself from getting banished from this world.

Struggling against the pull as he watched his slave vanish, Megadramon slowly managed to pull away, his large bulk impacted the ground far to close to Taiko for her liking, the messy haired girl moving backwards to avoid him.

"You can't be the one, you can't be." Waving one arm around before him, Megadramon watched with pure fear as the gate closed at last, Lord Holy Angemon descending towards him. "You can't be, the youngest child died with the others!"

The angel digimon stopping his descend seemed to glow with anger as he extended his sword arm once more. "I am the one you fear in the night, monster." Spreading his wings out wide, he once more drew a perfect circle in the air, the heaven gate forming once more. "And it is through that, that you shall die today, Heaven's Gate!"

The gate opening once more, but rather then suck up Megadramon, a beam of light shot out of it, hamming into the downed Megadramon hard enough to push him into the earth, while burning his body.

"I will not lose." Pounding the ground with his wings, Megadramon moved out of the light beam, breathing heavily as pain ripped through him, his body wrecked by the damage he had suffered. "I did not change destiny just to die here!" Snapping open his hands, the dark dragon digimon laughed as he poured as much of his strength into this one attack as he could spare. "Genocide Attack!"

The organic missiles once again flying out toward Lord Holy Angemon, the arch angel merely facing them down, suddenly shot forward with far more speed then he should have had, diving right into the missiles, and past them as they exploded harmlessly behind him. "Excalibur!"

Megadramon eyes opening wide as the angel digimon charge right into him, the green energy sword aimed to cut right into him across the chest, if he hadn't slammed both his arms together into a protective move, but still, pure pain flared up as a powerful death scream tore it's way out of his mouth, his arms flying out to the side as blood sprayed out from them.

The scream matched by Hikaru as he watched the defeat of his partner, his arms opening wide as a Megadramon fell downwards, his body glowing brightly as he regressed not into Devimon, but a Pico Devimon, a small fur ball with bat wings and a clawed feet that fit perfectly into Hikaru's arm. "you!"

"This is not the end." Kicking his Devidramon, Hikaru watched them as he flew away, anger clearly seen on his face as he returned to the forest of nightmares. "We'll back to destroy you all, you can count on it, Chronomon's powers will become mine!"

His threats largely ignored by Taiko as she had already heard a least a dozen of them by now, her attention more focused on the arch angel digimon and her male counterpart. "Okay, now that he's gone, we can get back to finding out just why the hell you are!"

Eyes crossing, Taichi stared down at the finger jabbed right towards him, a similar thought running through his mind as he held only Koromon. "Frankly, I'd rather know who you are."

Both of them glaring right at each other as they clashed wills against each other.

"What you two want means nothing." The outside from comment cutting right through their staring contest, forcing them instead to focus on Lord Holy Angemon as he towered up over them, "For as you can see, you're surrounded and outnumbered."

Taichi cursing as he took in the large number of Starmons that had surrounded them, each of them glaring right at both him and Taiko as they slowly advanced. "Look, I'm not one of those humans who ruined your world, i just got here."

His comment matched by Taiko as she nodded her head in agreement. "Yeah, and so did I four days ago, ended up in the badlands of all places thanks to a jerk called Parallelmon attacking my friends and I."

Lord Holy Angemon merely moving his face from one of them to the other, barely having given their stories any attention, "You will have all the time you need to explain yourself later, after you've been brought into town." Lifting up one hand, he held it out towards them. "Now, hand over your digivice and other devices, and come along quietly."

Chancing a quick look around to check his chances of escape, Taichi sighed as he found them in the range of suicidal at the best, to outright insane at worst. "Fine, but I'm innocent, I had nothing to do with that jerk, or Devimon for that matter, hell, we defeated him back in my world."

"Yeah, so did my big brother and his friends back on my world." Taiko joined in as she handed over her Digivice and D-terminal, a sour expression on her face. "Better return those in perfect condition, cause if you don't."

The arch angel digimon ignoring her as he held the hand over to Taichi who simply stared death at it, he adventures telling him that handing over the only means of evolving Agumon would be stupid, "Your digivice and other things, before I have the Starmons search you, and trust me, they won't be gentle about it."

A low curse the only respond as the messy haired boy handed over his digivice, telescope. "There, that's all of it." His eyes narrowed as he faced down the digimon, fully intent of holding into his crest no matter what they might do to him, it had nearly meant their death to get it, so no way was he just going to hand it over.

"Very well, Starmons, bring them to the fortress." Taking flight, the angel digimon gazed across the ground, frowning as he faced the direction of the forest. "Karatenmon, did you get enslaved as well?"

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Still flying on his Devidramon, Hikaru Yagami snarled as he watched Pico Devimon before him, the round digimon whimpering as quietly as he could to avoid showing weakness. "You lost to him, but how could you lose to him?" Eyes narrowing, the young boy glared at the dark gear stabbed into his digivice. "I thought you were the most powerful digimon around, only Chronomon outclassing you."

"Oh be quiet." Pico Devimon spat out as he took a deep breath to calm down. "I am powerful, far more then so many of the other digimons, but still, many others exist that can easily defeat me." Eyes closing, he chuckled as he flapped his wings a bit to test them. "Which I way I learned to control the dark gears, they can enslave any digimon that I desire, regardless of their strength."

The small virus digimon laughing as he turned to face Hikaru. "Listen up kid, now that we're here, we should search this world for clues to Chronomon's location, Etemon's a fool, but he'll manage the fleet and army until we return."

Hikaru nodding in agreement as he clenched up his fists tight enough to draw blood from anticipitation. "And then we'll destroy my brother, once and for all."

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After a long and tiring walk, Taichi felt just about ready to go head to head with the entire world without the help of his digimon partner.

The reason, he was exhausted, hungry and tired of Starmons glaring death at him. Not to mention the fact that he was still pretty much freaked out over Taiko's presence. "She's too much like me, the same messy hair, same tan, same eyes, it's like being part of a horror movie."

"You don't exactly make me feel good either pal." Taiko bit right back as she shot a death glare at him. "And next time, keep your damn monologue inside your head."

Pushing down the urge to verbally insult her right back, the messy haired boy instead found another target for his annoyance, name Lord Holy Angemon, sending every last drop of his anger towards the angel digimon as he was currently the one leading the party by flying above them. "Jerk, so what's your story?"

His rapid change in mood and conversation had the messy haired girl lifting an eyebrow before shrugging her shoulders lightly. "As I said before, my friends and I got into a fight with this weird digimon Parralelmon." Eyes narrowing as she spoke, Taiko clenched her fists. "The jerk attacked us out of nowhere, and absorbed my friends, but just as Tailmon were about to attack him, he fired of this weird attack."

"You know the rest of it I guess, we woke up on this world, and hid out beneath the city." The last part spoken softly as she rubbed her forehead, "Though I wouldn't mind if someone would tell my why every single digimon here haters humans, it can't just be because of that idiot from before, speaking of which, what did he mean by brother, and how did you get here?."

Above them, Holy Angemon frowned as he listened in on the short explanations offer by each child to the other one, his head almost turning to face the second most disturbing sight he had seen on this day just to avoid dwelling on the possibility of their presence on Refugia, the hole in the cloud shield on the edge of his vision tempting him with each second. "By Chronomon, what is going on around here?"

It was as if every single problem were showing up at each, first these humans and digimons showed up, one of them looking to much like one he had seen before, add to that the failure of their only protection and the rumors of Karatemon's enslavement. "When will the war ever end, when will we find peace again? When will he revive?"

Snapping out of his depressing thoughts, the arch angel watched as the doors into the city opened, and the humans were lead into the streets, and to the loud angry voices of digimons coming out to see the source of their problems. Some of them even sinking down to a more savage level as fruit, dirt and rocks were tossed at them by a few digimons.

"Enough, take them to fortress!" His command cutting through the loud noises as he hovered above the crowd, impatience and anger in his voice as spoke. "Whatever their presence means, we must find out as fast as we can." Lifting off, he rapidly flew towards the fortress, hoping to put some distance between himself and the humans.

Why couldn't they have waited until the time of revival had come?

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Taking a simple look around the room, Taichi reached one easy conclusion as the cell door closed behind him. "This stinks, literally, and why put us in here if their leader wants to talk with us." His small rant ending with him pinching his nose shut, a rather bleak memory of a track through a sewer system coming to mind as he shot a look around them dimly lit room. "You know, I think I still have some apple gunk in my hair."

"Lucky you." Taiko responded as she settled down on the cleanest spot she could find, still mentally winching as she as felt something go squish below her. "Okay, the sewer system was far better then this place, far better." Her eyes narrowing as she turned to face Taichi. "And just so you know, I got some of that gunk running down my back."

Simply chuckling as he leaned up against a wall rather then sit down, the messy haired boy did a quick inspection of his hair with his fingers, frowning as he did indeed find some nicely smattered out apple in it. "Okay, so you're from another world, like me, still doesn't explain why you don't have an Agumon."

A small yawn his first answer as Taiko rubbed her hair absentmindly. "Actually it does, if you think about it makes perfect sense, my big brother has Agumon as his partner, and since I'm the little sister in my world." Her smile growing as she watched the rather thoughtful expression on her counterparts face. "I guess in your world, your little sister will be the partner of Tailmon."

"Anyway, I just got to know this; you and your friends just beat Etemon right?" Her attention solely on him as she stood up to avoid getting whatever it was she had sat on pressed through her clothes as she watched him a confirmation nod. "Well, I may have some juicy Intel for you then, after all, I'm kind of three years into the future in my world."

Her offer making Taichi smirk as he though about, and agreed to it, she was freaking him out, but knowing just how many digimons they still had to beat would come in handy when he got back home to the others.

"So, Etemon's not the last one right?" His eyes narrowing as he turned to face the door, several months of tracking through the digital world with evil digimons attacking them nearly daily kicking in as he picked up the sound of someone approaching the cell. "Great, what I wouldn't give for them to have put Agumon and Tailmon in here."

Taiko snorting as she crossed her arms, giving her a rather big tomboy look. "Please, Tailmon alone could take down this guy, besides, your partner is not even at his full strength yet."

"Hey, at least he did some damage to Devimon, your partner got her tail whipped in seconds." The rather insulting reply shot back at her as Taichi growled, his pride flaring up at her blatant downgrading of his partner, he kicked Etemon's behind after he had merged with the dark network damn it. "I still got my crest and Agumon can evolve without my digivice."

"Really?" Taiko responded with a unconvinced expression on her face as she watched him more closely. "I know my brothers Agumon could do it, but yours, I'll see that before I believe it."

"Why you."

"Yeah, me."

"Take it back; I know Agumon can kick Tailmon's behind any day of the week."

"Hah, bring it on."

"Fine, I'll wipe you and digimon partner into the mud, you tomboy."

"I'm not a tomboy you jerk!"

"Ack!"

The Starmon entering the cell merely stopping in confusion as he were facing two human children growling at each other as they lay on the cell floor, the female one being busy trying to straggle the male one with a headlock as he pulled roughly on her ponytail. "Okay break it off, Lord Holy Angemon wants to see you two."

A loud sigh coming from him as he stood still for two whole second as neither of the kids paid him any attention. "Chronomon preserve us." Muttering the words, the star shaped digimon marched over and grabbed the back of Taiko's T-shirt, easily lifting her off of Taichi. "Humans, how they could ever defeat us I will never know."

Left eye twitching as he stared standing up, Taichi let out a loud protesting cry as he was rather roughly grabbed by the Starmon as well, Taiko mirroring it as they were both tucked up under an arm and carried off. "Hey, what about Agumon, I want to know where he-."

The rest lost as the Starmon 'accidentally' hit his head with the cell door on the way out. "Just stay quiet humans, and you'll get to join the traitors soon enough, in time for your execution that is." His comment and following laughter falling on rather angry kids ears as both them silently agreed to kick this guys behind first, and then finish their argument.

"See, it pays to be silent and-" The rest of the sentence forgot as both Taichi and Taiko gave him several harsh pinches and punches as he walked off them with them. "Damn you, stop it, that hurts, damn it, I'll personally hang you both for this, you hear me."

"Ouch!"

Kicking open the right door as he finally reached it, Starmon dropped his human cargo rudely on the ground, one eye twitching as he were breathing heavily, a dark glare shot down at the prisoners as his hands flashing out to them, both kids sporting a large bump on the head as he turned to leave them. "And that's just the beginning you little brats, you hear me"

Closing the door behind him, the angry mutterings of the Starmon could still be heard clearly.

"Nice going idiot." Taichi muttering out the comment as he sat up, one hand touching his bump carefully. "Why did you have to hit him there anyway?"

Taiko glaring back at him as she too sat up, rubbing her own bump, "It was an easy target okay." the tomboy insult still stinging her as she stood up completely, brushing off some of the dirt from both the floor of the cell and the room they had gotten tossed into as well. "So, what is this place anyway?"

Her comment mentally agreed with as Taichi took a quick look around it, noting that it had a more temple like feel to it, rather then the interrogations rooms he had seen in the movies. "Hey, who's the bird man digimon?"

His attention turned to a large antromophic bird man like statue rising up over them several dozen meters or so, the large marble wings half closed to show off some kind of sun like symbol on them. "Maybe it's that Chronomon."

"That is lord Chronomon, our savior and protector against the evil humans." Lord holy Angemon supplied as he swooped down from above, landing on a small podium before the statue. ".Which includes you two."

Despite still wearing his helmet like headgear, it felt like he watched right through them as both Taichi and Taiko stepped backwards, trying to keep some distance between them.

Taiko frowned as she watched the arch angel more closely. "Just what do you mean human evil, what happened to this world anyway? And who was that Hikaru Yagami character anyway?"

A long silence filling the air as the arc angel digimon stared at each of them. "It all began a long time ago, back when the digital world was still in balance and peace ruled."

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The digital world had existed in peace for years upon years, a beautiful realm where we digimons lived and evolved as we saw fit, until one day, one day when the first humans entered our world and brought their evil with them.

One of them, saw digimons as a threat to the human race, and devised a plan to destroy us, using our own powers against us, that was the start of the war of the digimons fall, a war in which humans and digimons battled for control of this world, to bring about peace and harmony to everyone, despite those who wished otherwise and continue to wage a war of extermination.

it was a strange war, as there were humans who fought on our side despite our attacks on their world, just as there were digimons serving on the humans side in exchange for positions of power and control once the war would end.

Most strange of them all were the so called eight chosen, they fought digimons and humans a like and stood as the champions of order in the age of chaos, fighting against the dark masters, four human allied with powerful and evil digimons who defeated out for great protectors, Qinglongmon, Baihumon, Zhuqiaomon and Xuanwumon.

Despite our great loss, we still won against those who sought to enslave all digimons under the human fist of supremacy and terror, but at the height of the final battle, the wicked human unleashed his most destructive weapon, a monster born from all the data of the defeated digimons, Apocalymon.

The battle was long and hard, but the humans won at a great price, they died defeating him, but even in their moment of victory, we had already lost as the human had used Apocalymon and the dark masters to attack earth with, rising up anger and rage towards all digital life forms, and so, the war grew, as more humans then ever joined to destroy our world.

Apocalymon was deleted, but new digimons made by humans attack us, as did dark chosen, to defeat them, the closest digimon to the humans, decided to summoned eight new chosen, a noble yet futile plan, within the ones chosen were those who had been marked by an attack which had claimed the lives of those close to them, and so, they never sought to help us, but rather to escape our world.

Their team broke up, some of them leaving to find the way, others to help digimon and the last ones to help the humans, in the end, the war ended on it's own as Chronomon came, sealing the barrier between the worlds to stop the war, he soon learned that it wouldn't happen.

A weapon designed by the humans still remained, a weapon known as Gizmon, hundreds of them had been unleashed by the wicked humans as the gates was closed, each digimon ruthlessly cutting down anyone in their path.

To save us from them, Chronomon brought us all here, to this moon and turned it into our refuge, Refugia, using his last power to form the shield around us.

The digital world continue to suffer, its fragile balance failing as darkness took over little by little, still, the Gizmons vanished one day, but our trouble wasn't over, one of the last chosen had joined with an evil digimon wanting to control all, the two of them working towards conquering everything they desired.

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"Which brings us to this day." Holy Angemon concluded as he watched the two humans before him. "Humans have brought us nothing but suffering, despite the best efforts of a few, our world is on the brink of destruction." Snapping out a hand to point at each of them, he growled as he stepped forward. "Your presence alone brings us grief"

Taiko growled right back at him as she all but gave him the two finger salute. "You think I want to be here, I have a life back home, friends." Standing right before the arch angel digimon towering up over her, she narrowed her eyes. "As for your suffering, do something about it rather then hide here like a bunch of-."

The last word never spoken as her head whipped around, a read hand print of her right cheek as Lord Holy Angemon breathed out heavily, his whole body shaking with anger. "Shut up, the only reason you're still alive is because I want to know everything about this latest human plan."

"You." Taichi stared as he watched Taiko shimmer with anger, one hand clenching up while the other nursed her cheek. "You not an angel, you're a freaking demon." Feeling the familiar glow from his crest start up as he showed courage by standing up the digimon, he grinned. "I promise you, that as soon as I get my digivice back and find Agumon, you're going the same way as Etemon did."

Lord Holy Angemon merely faced down the human boy for a second, before his hand blurred out and hit him, the messy haired kid flying backward from the impact. "Starmons! Take them back to the cell!" At his call, the door to the room opened, four Starmons marching to grab Taichi and Taiko roughly." When we meet again humans, it will be a far different experience; don't expect me to show the same restraint in the future"

Turning back to face the statue of Chronomon, He didn't see Taiko give him the two finger salute, but he did hear her cry of pain as she was punished for it. "We're not cowards; this is merely a retreat for now, until we know how to destroy the human scum once and for all."

"The war is not over humans, not by a long shot."

His smile fading rapidly as a loud explosion rang out through the air, faint scream reaching him as more explosions filled the air. "No, now what's happening?"

Taking to the air on one fluid motion, he rapidly reached the entrance he had used, slipping through it to the outside of the fortress in time to see blood red energy arrows impact the city from above. "Is it that human again?"

"Treasure Sword!"

The answer to his question came in the form of a powerful pain ripping through him as he was flung forward in mid air, his wings beating heavily to restore his balance. "Who are you to strike from behind?"

Turning around as he spoke, he blinked as he spotted a lone centaur like digimon with a bulls head staring right at him, twin swords held out in a X formation. "Answer me, who are you?"

The digimon merely smirking as energy flared up around the swords. "Treasure Sword!"

Moving rapidly to one side, Hole Angemon felt the heat of the attack as it shot past him, his already high anger level rising as he held out his sword hand. "Excalibur!" the green colored blade emerging from his wrist as he flew forward. fully intending to cut off his opponents head. "Now die enemy of mine!"

"Fire Breath!"

The only thing saving him from getting completely burned to a crisp were a quick roll, still, his right wing were smoking heavily as burnt feathers fell to the ground below. "Who are you two?!" His anger dying down as confusion spread through him at the sight of a dragon like digimon of all things hovered above him. "Who sent you?"

The centaur like digimon stepping forward while he twirled both his swords around lazily, "Enough with your questions, just hand over the humans to us, or die along with everyone else."

Holy Angemon spinning around to face the dragon digimon as he roared and shot upwards towards the sky, his mouth opening as he turned around to face the city. "Treasure Arrow!"

"No!" The arch angel digimon uselessly held out hand as one red colored energy arrow after another fell from the sky, ripping through one building after another. "Heavens!"

The two swords held by the centaur digimon cutting off his yell as they slid into place around his neck. "Now then, where are the humans?"

Holy Angemon feeling fear flow through him as the swords cut into him lightly, as well as anguish with each explosions ripping through the city.

"Where are the humans?" The question spat at down at the angel digimon as each sword cut a bit into him.

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"Now listen very carefully to me Etemon." Makuramon spoke as he watched the other monkey man like digimon. "You will alter the network to summon up this digimon, and in return, we will deal with your human infestation."

Turning to face Refugia, Makuramon chuckled as he tossed his crystal ball up and down. "Vajiramon and Majiramon have already left to kill the ones on that world."

"Good." Etemon responded as he pointed one finger into the map of the digital world, grinning as he watched the simple outline of Server. "This area is where I was working on the digital network, it should still be buried among the ruins of the pyramid base."

TBC.

AN: And so ends the first arc, somewhat, Hikaru will return in the future, but for now the main treat will be the four devas and their team up with Etemon. Just what are their plans with the digital network, will this story make sense, will Taichi and Taiko get along long enough to save the world.

Will this be a Taichi X Taiko pair up story?

Ah, would that be considered incest or narcissism?

I know it not really tradition to leave a huge review for my stories, but I'd like to get some decent feedback for it, so if anyone could spare the time to tell me what they think about it, I'd be glad.