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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 V.

Tailmon here.

Last time was no picnic, sure, Devimon/Megadramon and Hikaru were defeated, but no by us, but this arch angel digimon, Lord Holy Angemon, a real human hating jerk digimon who ordered Taiko and me to be captured, oh yeah, those two from the other world were also thrown in jail.

They broke us apart and left me alone with Agumon, while Holy Angemon not only told Taiko and Taichi the history of this world, he also treated to hurt them if they didn't tell him about the new human plan against the digimons.

Kind of hard to do it, since none of us is from this world.

And just who are these new digimons attacking the city, are they member of Hikaru's army?

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Snapping her eyes wide open, Tailmon stood up as the first muffled explosion reached her, the walls of the cell shaking with distant rumble. "Hey you, Agumon!" Slapping the orange reptile digimon with her tail, the feline digimon stood up on her hind legs as another, far close explosion could be heard. "Get ready."

Blinking his eyes to chase away the sleep, Agumon stifled a yawn as he wasn't fully awake from his small nap yet, his legs and arm cramping as he stood up from the cold floor. "What is it?" His eyes locking onto the white and purple digimon as she hissed loudly at another explosion from the outside, this one close enough to rattle the cell violently. "Great, another battle."

Watching the door shake, Tailmon waste no time in diving forward, her front paw ready to deliver kitty justice to whoever would dare open the door. "Cat's Paw!" Sadly, she had neglected to take in the fact that the door opened inward, resulting in her not only knocking back the Starmon checking up on them, but also slamming the door shut loud enough to wake the dead.

Agumon shaking his head in disbelief as the door slowly swung open, before falling halfway of its hinges. "And they call me reckless." The small muttering still heard by his companion as she turned to glare at him. "Sorry."

"Humph, well hurry up; you want to rescue your partner right?" Tailmon yelled out as she jumped right into battle with the Starmon trying to stand up, several quick punches sending him backwards into the wall. "Heh, told her these guys wouldn't be a match for me."

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Fire and smoke lit up the sky as the digimons panicked once more, this time on a far greater scale as even the Starmon's acting as police and army were running away from the carnage of the burning city, each one trying to escape the dragon digimon raining down death and destruction.

All but one digimon heavily cloaked in brown garments, this one stood completely still as he watched the digimon overhead turn back towards the looming fortress in the distance, strangely enough, the tall medieval building hadn't been hit as much as they city. "How strange, I didn't foresee this event, puzzling."

Turning away, a small chuckle escape his mouth as he walked off, his eyes narrowed as he pulled his cloak in around him, the Starmons around him barely paying attention to the tall digimon talking to himself. "And those kids from the other world, their presence herald the time of Chronomon's awakening"

"No, the time is not yet right for the fires of purification." The statement spoken as the digimon shook it's head, a badly burnt hand reaching up to pull down on the cloak it wore, a dark chuckle briefly escape it's mouth. "But the time will come."

"For there shall be born a controller of a darkness beyond the darkest night, with the fires of destruction at its beg and call, the world shall be flooded by darkness, opposing this controller, shall be two stars born from another realm, around them shall spin four lights, before them, human and digimons blood shall spread, and when the time is right, the stars shall released an arrow that will split the heavens apart."

"So says Wisemon, the mad digimon." Laughing as he slipped into the shadows, Wisemon slowly faded from sight, the few digimons who had been level headed enough to pay attention had been standing around with a frozen heart, the few tales of the mad digimon able to see the future coming to mind as they awoke to the destruction around them again.

"The time of devastation is almost here at last."

"Beware the masters of chaos children."

"Your destinies."

"Lie here."

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A cold shiver were shared by both boy and girl as Taichi and Taiko found themselves tossed onto the ground, the Starmons escorting them losing all attention as a powerful red light ripped into the ground just beyond the fortress, fire and smoke rising into the sky outside along with a massive boom.

"We're under attack!"

The late and rather unneeded announcement came as more Starmons poured out into the hallway, each of them heading right towards the main door, sweeping up and dragging along the ones who had been escorting Taichi and Taiko despite their protest against it.
The messy haired boy smirking as he stepped out from his hiding spot inside a door opening, his grin lost as Taiko elbowed him in order to get out as well. "Hey, next time you can just ask me to move instead of breaking a rib or two."

"Your ribs are up higher, and would you have listen to me?" Taiko spat back as she turned to regard the direction they had just come from, or rather been dragged down. "Okay, let's get back my D-terminal and D3 so I can kick that angel jerks behind, you look around here, and I'll check downstairs." Taking off in a sprint, she didn't bother to see if Taichi were going to follow her order.

Not responding at first, Taichi still frowned as he noticed the girl version of him had apparently decided to just run off, leaving him to nurse a bruised stomach. "Great, why is it then when I finally start to learn that team work is the key to victory, everybody else wants to split up?"

Picking a quick direction to move in, Taichi grinned as he started running down the corridor, doing his best to stay on guard in case any of those Starmons would show up again, yet failing to notice the figure walking out of a door further up the corridor.

Reaching the end of the corridor, the messy haired boy frowned as he came face to face with a large double door he had seen before, a large doubtful look on his face as he reached out and pushed it open. "With any luck, there's no one on the other side, then again, with the way things are going, there'll be a whole army in there."

Glancing in through the smallest opening he could make, Taichi held back a cry of victory as it was empty, his head moving from side to side just to make himself completely sure as he slipped inside the room with the Chronomon statue. "Okay, this is where Holy Angemon was, so if I were him, I'd hide my digivice in here."

"Actually your digivice was down in the safe room." A voice responded from directly behind him as he felt a heavy hand land on his shoulder, rapidly turning him around to face a boy no older then him, long cinnamon colored hair hanging down to his mid back as well as almost completely covering his eyes. "Which brings to mind another important question Taichi, how can you still be alive?"

Not responding, the messy aired boy did his best to avoid screaming very loudly as he came face to face with yet another surprise he hadn't been prepared for.

And this one came close to beating the fact that Taiko, his own female version were running around somewhere in the fortress at the moment. "Who the heck are you?"

A bewildered look his only response as the door into the room was slammed open, Taiko rushing inside in time to avoid getting pounded by a Starmon carrying a club of all things.

Taiko giving off the most wicked grin he had ever seen, Taichi barely had time to protest was he found himself trust forward, facing down the Starmon walking towards them with the most cruel smile in history. "Perfect, you deal with him Taichi, you're the leader after all."

Responding at first with a dark glare, Taichi pushed the girl version of him backwards harshly. "I don't even have my partner digimon or my digivice, how do you want me to stop him?" Nearly spitting as he yelled at Taiko, he was knocked out of his anger as he felt the strange boy grabbing his shoulder. "What?"

His eyes narrowing at he took in the digivice held out towards him. "Eh, how did you get a hold of this?"

"Never mind that." Taiko spat out as she turned Taichi back to face her, both of her eyes narrowed to slits. "You tell me how you can just run off and then pick up another team mate while I have to run for my life?" her eyes doing a rapid set of blinks as she finally took a good look at the new member. "Hey, you're."

The long haired boy sighing loudly as he turned to face the still approaching Starmon, the digimon clapping the club up and down into his hand. "I really, didn't want to have to do this." Pulling out his own digivice, he ignored the sudden attention he had gained from Taichi and Taiko as they both stared at his digital device. "Tentomon, evolve!"

Both Taichi and Taiko feeling like slapping themselves as they both finally noticed the digimon standing near the door. "Okay, Tentomon Evolves to!" Jumping up, a bright light formed as the digimon shuddered before growing larger, gaining an extra set of arms, fingers and four wings along with a more insect like appearance. "Kabuterimon!"

The Lone Starmon barely getting a chance to respond before an oversized arm had knocked him back out the door, and into the corridor. "Beet Horn!" A massive ball of electricity following the digimon two seconds later, hitting the mutant digimon head on, knocking him further down the hallway.

"That's enough; we don't want to kill him." The long haired boy yelled out as he turned to regard them, stopping as he spotted the messy haired girl staring at him with a light blush. "What?"

"You, you're Michi!"

Whatever else might have been said was promptly forgotten as Taiko did an impressive tackle of the long haired boy, sending them both backwards while she planted a big one right on the shocked boys mouth.

"HEY!"

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"Well, have you decided yet?" The voice spoken calmly as Vajiramon kicked Holy Angemon forward, making the digimon fall face first before planting one massive hoof on his back to pin him down, aiming one sword right the back of his head. "Will you tell me where the child is, or should we destroy this place completely first?"

His threat backed up by Majiramon curled up above them, fire flowing out the mouth as smoke rose up to give him a the perfect malovent appearance. "Neither of us cares about this world, but to get what we want, we have to kill the kids."

Lifting his sword, Vajiramon barely had time to bring it down to do any damage before a loud explosion rocked the building, sending him backward as several sections of the roof caved in around him. "Majiramon, what the hell did you do? You should only attack the city, not the fortress you moron!"

The dragon digimon narrowing his eyes as the insult took effect, a powerful vortex of fire ripping out form his mouth and tearing through the source of the explosion, Starmons fleeing every single direction. "Maybe you should focus more on your own trouble, besides; these losers came for your target."

Charging down at the Starmons before they could attack again, several of them were knocked off the building, or bashed to deletion as Majiramon did a barrel roll, all the while keeping up his fire attack. "Why even bother to force out the kids, I could level this building in minutes."

"Do you have to prove how stupid you are?" Vajiramon counted as he found himself forced to duck a quick slash of Holy Angemon's Excalibur, the arch angel having used the chance his army had given him to get back into the fight. "If we merely levelled this place, there's a chance they could still survive and escape!"

Pounding the roof with both front legs, the bull faced centaur like digimon smirked as the angel digimon before him fell down a newly created hole in the roof, only to lose it as he came flying up a split second later. "This guy on the other hand, should have been deleted at once!"

Impaling both swords into the roof as Hole Angemon dived at him, Vajiramon laughed coldly as energy flared up around his sword blades. "Then again, it's not to late for such an action yet, Terra Blade." Releasing his attack as Holy Angemon was too close to avoid, the centaur like digimon chuckled as he turned and left, jumping right down into one of the holes while the arch angel were knocked back. "You deal with him, while I go hunting for a human."

Majiramon merely growled in response as he took to the skies again, turning around slowly to face down Holy Angemon with a dark glare on his face. "I can see the hatred for humans in you, if they mean so little to you, just hand them over so we can delete them."

A momentary look of conflicting emotions flowed across Holy Angemon's face as he hovered silently in the air. "No, even if they are the most evil creatures around, they still deserve a trail." The arch angel keeping his stone cold expression as he spoke, regardless of the fact that the trail would most likely just be a show before each kid's termination. "I shall be the one to punish them for their crimes against all digimons!"

Majiramon merely sighed as he wrote off any attempt at finding a peaceful solution regarding the humans with this digimon as completely pointless. "Suit yourself then, Veedaka Fire Breath!" Snapping open his jaws, a massive fire blast were launched, barely hitting Holy Angemon as he shot upwards fully intending to fight with all he had. "Such a boorish creature you are, fighting for someone you hate."

Increasing his speed, Majiramon kept going upwards, his tail whipping back and fourth as he suddenly did a quick 180 degree turn, red light glowing around him as laughed. "Should have given them up when you had the chance, Treasure Arrow!"

Cursing loudly as he had to do a roll before getting blown up, Holy Angemon barely had time to scream as the first arrow hit him, then the other before he was mercilessly ploughed into the roof of the fortress, then through it as each arrow ripping apart more and more of it.

The last thin he saw before pain overtook him, were the statue of Chronomon getting blown in half. "Why, why is all of this happening now, when we are not even ready yet?"

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"What is going on here?" Taichi wisely yelled out as he pulled Taiko of a shell shocked Michi, staring right at the girl as she shot him a death glare. "Why are you all over him? it not even the one you know anyway."

Responding as sweetly as she could, Taiko slammed one foot down over Taichi before pushing him back. "I know that moron, but in this world, he's my age and don't have a girl friend yet." Crossing her arms and tossing her head to the side in a defiant act, the messy haired girl looked a bit more then just annoyed with Taichi. "Just because you're a big brother, doesn't mean you can act like Ryo, got it?"

"Ryo, who the? Never mind" Shaking his head, Taichi decided he really didn't want to know anything else about her world, it was bad enough to see a female version of himself all over, well, most likely he was a male version of girl from his own world. "Let's just get out of here before-"

"Wait!"

Both of the messy haired kids turned to face Michi as he watched each of them closely. "Taichi? How did you survive? How, did you come back? And who is that?" Pointing at Taiko to emphasise his meaning, Michi had barely moved besides that, nor giving much thought to anything else. "I saw you die, as did Juni and Yamato, we couldn't prevent it."

Reaching out before neither Taichi nor Taiko could respond, Michi had pulled the messy haired boy into a deep hug, a few tears glistering near his eyes. "Why didn't you come looking for us? I know it was wrong to shun the digimons, but I was scared, I wanted to go back home to mum and dad, not to stay here and fight."

"Yamato and Juni, they're missing as well, we, we split up after we saw you die, to find Sora, Koushiro and Takako." Still babbling as he held onto Taichi, Michi froze as he suddenly felt someone glaring at him. "You, who are you anyway? You look like Taichi, but."

Pushing himself out of the hug, Taichi sighed as he hoped no one but Taiko had seen that. "Her names Taiko, she's from another world, just as I am." Seeing the confused expression Michi had, Taichi sighed as he started walking towards the door opening. "Come on, we'll fill you in on the way."

Taiko frowning as she watched Michi wring his hands nervously. "Hold on, where do you think we should go? And why should we trust you?" Her comments confidently overlooking the fact that she herself, were almost doing a French kiss with this boy less then four minutes ago. "Maybe he's working for that Hikaru jerk?"

"Hikaru? You've fought against him?" The puzzled question aimed at Taichi rather then Taiko as Michi rubbed his chin. "I only saw you guys when they brought you back to the fortress?"

"And why do you know that? Are you working with Holy Angemon or that jerk Hikaru?" Taiko continued as she leaned closer in, one finger right up into Michi's face. "If you are, I'll give the same beating I'm going to give him."

Taking a few steps back, Michi shot a begging look over at Taichi for help, silently urging him to do something about his female copy. "No, I don't work for anyone, I, I live beneath the city, with Tentomon, inside the ruins of."

"Ruins?" Taichi commented as he faced Michi with a bit more caution, after all, even if sounded like wild speculation on her behalf, Taiko might just have a point after all. "What kind of ruins?"

Looking much like a deer caught in a pair of headlight, Michi began to back up. "Look, I didn't mean to mention that, you have to understand, I was asked to keep it a secret, it's not time yet-"

The rest of his sentence lost as part of the roof started to cave in, following by a centaur like digimon with a bull like head. "I've found you human, now prepare to die!"

Coughing as the dust cleared, both Taichi and Taiko blinked as they found no trace of Michi, besides a hastily dropped set of digivices on the ground. "Okay, where did pretty boy go?" Taiko spat out as she grabbed one of the digivices. "And does he really believe I can use this, I need my D3 back, and the digi mental of light."

Taichi merely rolled his eyes as he grabbed a digivice as well. "Forget about that, we got a bigger problem now, namely that guy."

Vajiramon merely smirking as he stepped forward. "Correct humans, I am Vajiramon, the bull deva, now shut up and die!"

The sudden presence of a sword right before his nose were enough to convince Taichi that the time was right for a tactical retreat, using all of his strength and smarts, he would have to find a place to regroup and organise a successful counter attack against this evil digimon. "Run away you idiot, don't just stand there look at it!"

Or he could just do as his otherworldly female version said.

Which he did.

"Hey, stay here and die!" Vajiramon yelled out as he was met by the most commonly employed tactic by a two people facing one source of danger. "It's not fair of you to split up, there's only one of me." Taking a few seconds to decide, the deva growled as he finally set off after the boy, waving around his swords as he cut down anything in his path

None of them noticing the glowing light coming from the digivice as the messy haired boy did a sliding turn around a corner barely avoid the sword tossed at him. "Damn it, Agumon, where are you?"

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Running as fast they could, Agumon and Tailmon were silently cursing everything around them as they hadn't found anyone yet, not even an enemy in the hallways.

The lack of which could be explained by the attack currently taking place on the city. "You know, ever since we came here, it felt just like home." Agumon joked as he turned around the nearest corner. "We're also getting attack just about once a day there as well."

"Less talk, more running." Tailmon spat back as she was busy following her partner's scent, her tail waving back and fourth as she jumped off a wall to avoid hitting some rubble in the hallway. "Can't you feel it, the need of your partner."

He had been feeling it, Agumon silently agreed on, the instinctive urge to help Taichi had been flaring up for the last ten minutes, adding to his frustrations as all they had seen were these empty corridors. "Hang on Taichi, I'm coming."

Busting through a wrecked door, the reptile digimon slid to a stop as he had finally managed to run into the Starmon guardians, each of them turning to face him as Tailmon jumped into the room as well.

"Cat's Paw!" Punching the first Starmon while he was still distracted by Agumon arrival, her agility and speed letting her follow up her attack with a least two more hits before one of the others dived in to help the first Starmon. "Well, do something lug head."

Snapping out his shock, Agumon nodded as he did his best combat roar, sending out a small series of fireballs, each of them easily battered away by the third Starmon as he charged forward. "Aw man, where are you Taichi?"

Agumon cried out the words as he was kicked roughly, flying across the room and into another pile of rubble, feeling just how badly he had been hurt. "Taichi?"

"Ahhh!" Screaming loudly as he was flung into the room, the messy haired boy panted while holding one hand on the cut he had gotten on his upper arm, the wet, sticky warm feeling of blood greeting him as he stood up to face Vajiramon bearing down on him. "Damn it, I can't, I need to get back, Hikari."

The bull deva ignoring the digimons in the room merely laughed as he slowly lifted up one of his front legs, clearly intending to reduce Taichi to a bloody smear on the floor the most painful way he could think off. "Crying out for your friend? Don't worry, as soon as I find her, she'll join you in death."

Feeling his insides go cold, Agumon barely thought about it as he rushed forward, feeling power flow into him as a rush of adrenaline shot through him. "Taichi!"

The light flaring out as he reached the halfway, caused Vajiramon's attention to shift at last, the bull head losing all it's malice as it took in the glowing digimon. "He's evolving."

"Agumon evolves too Greymon!" The small reptile digimon once more growing larger as he evolved to his adult stage, barely fitting inside of the room as he stared down Vajiramon with flames licking out from his mouth, "Get away from him, Great antler!"

Doing his best to defend himself from the sudden attack, Vajiramon still found that it was less easily said then done as Greymon impacted him. "Get off me." The Adult digimon no real match for him in power, still had the height and mass advantage as he felt his feel slide backwards. "I said!"

"Cat's paw!"

"Mind Scan Hypnotizer!"

Screaming loudly as the attacks passed by him, Taichi barely made it to safety as Greymon succeeded in forcing Vajiramon out of the room and into the hallway. "Taichi, go now!" Releasing his push, Greymon tore around, battering the other digimon violently with his tail before charging out of the room, Tailmon and Starmons tagging behind him. "We need a better place to fight, I can barely move in here!"

A statement Vajiramon violently disagreed with as he ripped into the room again, screaming out one loud curse as he watched the small group fleeing. "I'll kill the lot of you!"

Kicking open a random door, Taiko smirked as she walked out into the open, one hand closed firmly around her D3 and D-terminal, snapping it open to check it for the presence of her trusted digi mental of light. "Okay, I found my stuff, and his, but where the hell is Tailmon?"

Her answer coming in the form of Taichi, Greymon and the rest of them charging out from around a corner, pretty much smashing everything in sight as they bore down on her. "Hey, stop, stay away!" Then her attention shifted to the centaur like digimon rushing after the others, his twin swords glinting as two Starmons were ruthlessly cut down.

"Oh forget this!" Turning about and running, she silently knew what she had to do in order to escape from this.

Stay at least ten steps ahead of the others.

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Pain erupted through him as all air was forced out of his lungs, Excalibur flickering weakly before dying out as he fell to his knees, his wings tattered and broken. "How can you do this, I'm a digimon like you."

Flying in closer, Majiramon merely gazed down at Holy Angemon; eyes narrowing as the question were spoken. "Why? It's simple, for survival." Opening his mouth as fire started to form; the dragon deva gave one last look of sympathy to the digimon before him, a faint regret at his actions screaming out far within his dark heart. "For my world to have a chance to survive, yours must face death."

Lifting his head with horror, and curiosity across it, Holy Angemon didn't respond at first, then a deep anger flowed through him. "Liar, you're lying!" Doing his best to rise up, he felt his legs give out, dropping him to the ground again, only this time on his back. "Everyone lies to me, he promised we would save this world, and then he, died, they promised we would stay together, and they left."

"Everyone lies to me, humans, digimons, even, myself." Laughing weakly as he lifted his sword, he gazed into Majiramon's face, looking for that small bit of fear and regret he knew had to be there. "Those two, the ones from the other world, they'll be your downfall."

A large amount of doubt hitting him even as he spoke, yet, he had to believe it, he hated humans, ever since his partner died, every since Sora had. "Those two, they're different, they can win this, they'll stop them all."

Majiramon didn't reply as he felt the fire reach maximum heat level. "Fire Breath!" The tornado erupting from him as the fire tore into the angel digimon below, burning through the feathers and robe within seconds, a horrified scream breaking through the howl of the inferno. "Foolish one, humans, are a burden on you, they can't save anyone, let alone themselves."

Ending his attack, he stared at the cloud of data drifting into the sky. "If you find yourself reformatting again, remember this lesson angel we are the only ones that can help ourselves."

Turning around to find Vajiramon, he froze as a loud humming started up, a blue grey light showing him as it rose up into the air. "That power, it can't be." Turning around, he stared as a crest mark formed briefly in the air before shooting off in the form of an arrow, charging into the courtyard below. "Vajiramon!"

TBC:

AN: Well, a long time since the last chapter was put out, and I blame it all on real life events, a minor depressive attack and my growing intrest in relearning how to draw again. I feel I've been letting those skills waste away.

I saw my little joke question in the last Authors notes about a Taichi Taiko pair up gained a big response from Fruitloop Trooper, the most faitful reviwer even if I fail to review most of his own chapters for his extremely well done digimon stories.

Anyway, you can all relax, I have no intention of pairing up Taichi with Taiko, well, beyond a brother sister type friendship that is.

Anyway, a new chapter is done and uploaded, and I hope it cleared up some questions, if not, well, I guess I just have to try again then.

The whole Wiseman forshadowing was done on a whim, most of the words were taken from Slayers Try and altered to better suit my story, as for Michi, I hadn't planned his appearence yet, I wanted to get the Deva arc well underway before I started that plot line.

Well, now he's been here, and left again.