Chapter 1: Usurping His Other Self

ZeedMillenniumon flew between digital worlds. It wasn't his first time and won't be his last. Every time he was there, he always felt so powerful. He knew a few who passed between dimensions, but none of them could see what he saw. None of them were gods, only he was. His power allowed him to see something between the different digital worlds that existed. It wasn't the data; every digimon could see them when they passed between worlds. What he only could see was what made it different. He was looking at it right now.

He saw around him something he named glyphs. Glyphs were made of binary code. He tried to understand the glyphs by reading the binary code, but the binary code was only gibberish. He couldn't comprehend the glyphs, but he was the only one who could see them. He knew it because he was a god, worthy of knowing the secrets.

"One day, I'll figure out what those glyphs mean. Once I found out, I might hold the secret of the universe and become even more powerful than I am now," ZeedMillenniumon said with a small smirk.

He realised he was reaching the digital world he was born.

"I'm returning home. The world I should have own and control with Ryo by my side!" He grunted furiously.

He stopped when he was near the digital world he named Digital World A. It was unimportant for him to give a name for a world that will fall under his control, eventually.

"It's going to be the first time I'm moving to another reality, but nothing's impossible for me," ZeedMillenniumon told to himself.

He raised his hands and grabbed the emptiness of the passage between worlds. He pushed his fang before creating a hole in the passage between worlds, tearing apart this reality to reach another one. He looked inside and smirked. He passed through and was in a spot where only nothingness was around him. He felt like there was nothing around him.

"I just need to go forward to reach the other reality, but first. I need to be at the right time for my plan to succeed. I need to change everything from the start," ZeedMillenniumon said.

He moved his hand forward and called his power to control the time. He didn't have any trouble moving himself in the past. Once it was done, he opened the path outside the place he was and entered in the alternate reality. Then, he entered in the alternate digital world at the spot he wanted to be.

He saw a palace currently flying in the sky. His enemies and those who served him called it a palace, but for him, it was a temple. He preferred the term temple because he was a god and only a temple was worthy of him. He looked at the red painting of the walls surrounding the temple.

"Red," he said quietly. He shook his head and looked again at the palace and noticed the color was wrong for the exterior walls. Last time he remembered, his temple was orange and not red. "This reality has some minor differences," he was expecting it. He knew other realities are always a little different.

He flew inside and looked around. He flew at the direction of the throne.

"My self of this dimension must be resting right now. In the time line, he already took care of all destined children except Agumon while Ryo is about to be called in the digital world, just like in my dimension," ZeedMillenniumon whispered.

As he observed the inside of the walls of the temple, he recognised the temple. He second-guessed why it was built it as a labyrinth. He ignored his inner question and flew for the place the Millenniumon of this reality was resting.

ZeedMillenniumon smirked when he was in front of the door before entering in the chamber. Once inside, he used his power to seal the room and made sure no digimon will get in his way, hear or found out what was about to happen.

He looked inside and recognised the gothic structure. The theme of the chamber was time and death. Something I will change since Ryo will be my partner this time. I know he isn't the kind who likes such theme. ZeedMillenniumon thought.

He saw on the roof a map of the digital world and everything put in black was a location under this Millenniumon control. It will soon be in my control.

ZeedMillenniumon looked at the bed and saw his target. Millenniumon was sleeping on the black sheet of the bed. ZeedMillenniumon watched it and knew it was the only moment where he was less threatening, but always had his guard up. He had four arms black like ashes coming from Chimairamon, his feet and his body were the same color but his belly was dark orange. His face was the face of Chimairamon but he didn't have exoskeleton over his face and head. On his back, there was a white-yellow form of Mugendramon with his face, body and arms. The cannon of Mugendramon were on his back.

It reminded ZeedMillenniumon what he looked like at first, it had been long since he had a body. He raised his claw and concentrated his energy when he noticed Millenniumon opening his eyes and attacked ZeedMillenniumon first. ZeedMillenniumon grunted in frustration and raised a shield around his body and looked at Millenniumon.

"Who are you?!" Millenniumon shouted furiously.

"I'm ZeedMillenniumon."

The other one glared at ZeedMillenniumon and attacked him again: "Good! I'll know who I'm going to kill then!"

ZeedMillenniumon maintained his shield and blocked the attack of his adversary without really forcing himself. He smiled at Millenniumon who slowly lost patience. His attack weren't effective and stopped after a while.

"You finally realised you are inferior to me," ZeedMillenniumon replied.

Millenniumon let out a primitive scream.

"It is time to die Millenniumon. Nothing personal. I just want something important," ZeedMillenniumon said.

Millenniumon grunted furiously, but a smile drew slowly on his face: "Something important. If you are talking about the digital world, I am its god! Only I am worthy to rule it."

"You won't live long enough to realise there's something more important than just ruling digital world," ZeedMillenniumon replied. He pointed his palm at Millenniumon and concentrated his energy to kill him in one shot.

"You are talking about my destined partner?" Millenniumon asked.

ZeedMillenniumon gasped surprised and the energy coming in his hand returned in his core: "How do you know that already?" ZeedMillenniumon was confused. This difference was a major one between his reality and this reality. It was only after he fought the first time to the death against Ryo and Agumon that he realised that this boy was his destined partner, not at the very beginning.

"I can feel his energy floating near the digital world. I feel the attraction of his opposite nature. His energy of light calling for my energy of darkness," Millenniumon said. He started to laugh quietly before his laugh resonated in the chamber.

"What's so funny?!" ZeedMillenniumon screamed enrage by his reaction.

Millenniumon continued laughing for a moment before he stopped: "What's funny is to accomplish my plan once I kill you? You might be able to resist me, but you aren't a god."

ZeedMillenniumon prevented himself to smile: "I am a higher god than you. Before I kill you, what would you do once I'm dead? You got me curious enough to deserve some last words before I consumed your existence," he was lying about it, but he needed to know his plot. Something told him he had to know it or his own plan will reach ruin.

"Higher? There is only one god and it's me!" Millenniumon replied. He charged his cannon on his back and pointed at ZeedMillenniumon who calmly crossed his arms. Millenniumon let out a low grunt by ZeedMillenniumon calm face: "You want to know my plan? Fine. You shall be the unlucky one."

"We'll see," ZeedMillenniumon replied.

"My plan is to conquer the digital world," Millenniumon started.

"Obviously," ZeedMillenniumon commented.

"That's when the fun begins," Millenniumon said with a smile ZeedMillenniumon never saw on his existence. ZeedMillenniumon couldn't describe the smile. It looked like a normal smile, but the aura behind it wasn't possible to describe. "While conquering the digital world, I'm going to capture Ryo, my toy."

ZeedMillenniumon forced himself not to reply when he heard the other calling his destined partner a toy. Now that he heard it, he needed to know everything even if his bloodlust rose in his core.

Millenniumon continued: "I shall have fun with him. I will create a cycle." Millenniumon smiled grew bigger and his glare was devoid of something ZeedMillenniumon couldn't believe: "A cycle of torment. As a god, I can do anything to him. My toy will be tormented with pain. I can already imagine him screaming as his blood will pass on my claw and my tongue, tasting his torment. I shall continue this until I am bored and sealed his soul forever, frozen in time, his face painted with pain and absolute terror."

ZeedMillenniumon looked in the eyes of Millenniumon and only saw insanity. This only made ZeedMillenniumon bloodlust exploding in him: "How dare you?!" He grabbed the throat of Millenniumon who fired at his face. ZeedMillenniumon blocked the attack with his shield. His claws pierced the throat of Millenniumon and trapped him against a wall. "Ryo isn't a toy! He's not someone to be used for such things! Anything else is fine, but not him! If you united with him, you become complete and even more powerful."

"You're core is weak and-," Millenniumon replied, but he was cut by pain. The claws of ZeedMillenniumon dug deeper in the throat of Millenniumon until he couldn't talk anymore. Millenniumon grabbed the arm of ZeedMillenniumon and tried to break it.

"You're words are devoid of intelligence. Your words are lower than beasts. You have no right to exist. I shall destroy your core and absorb the necessary data you have for my plan to be complete," ZeedMillenniumon concluded before putting his other hand on the chest of Millenniumon and focusing energy. "How does it feel to be inferior? If you are smart enough to realise it,"

Millenniumon put one of his claws in ZeedMillenniumon eyes one of the Chimairamon eyes and pierced it. Blood came out like tears under the eyes. The pain left ZeedMillenniumon unfazed. ZeedMillenniumon looked in his eyes and saw denial; denial of his inferiority.

"Just as I thought," ZeedMillenniumon said before his hand released his energy in the chest of Millenniumon and created a hole. ZeedMillenniumon tore the chest bones and grabbed the core of Millenniumon. He crushed the core with his hand and Millenniumon dispersed into data.

ZeedMillenniumon watched the data and felt disgusted by what he was about to do. He raised his hands and absorbed the data of Millenniumon. The process was slow. He heavily filtered the data and took out any data useless to him and anything related the Millenniumon consciousness was erased to nothingness. ZeedMillenniumon wanted him completely erased from existence. He absorbed in his body the power of Millenniumon, the life and the destiny.

Once the process was over, ZeedMillenniumon body shined with black light and once the light died down, he was back into his living form. He was back in his stable body coming from the life he absorbed. He looked at his hands and said: "Once again, I am Millenniumon."

He looked at the emptiness place where the Millenniumon once was. He was disturbed by the other's plot. He wondered if he thought of Ryo as a toy to torture and kill until he wanted Ryo as his partner or was it the Millenniumon of this reality who was that way only.

He suddenly felt disturbance in the digital world when energy of light came. It was only that, he felt his core calling for the source of disturbance. That interrupted his thought and made him smile: "Ryo. You are finally here."

With the power he absorbed from the other Millenniumon, he opened a hole through space and looked at the other side, revealing another location.

There, he saw Ryo in the exact same clothes than when they fought the first time for the sake of the digital world. He saw his brown shirt or sweater with the collar, a little paler than his short brown hairs, his green jeans covering his peach skin.

Millenniumon saw him unconscious on the green grass of a forest with Agumon near him.

"Agumon," Millenniumon grunted with hatred. "You were the one first one who stood against me and my partner. The first one who broke our destiny."

He looked once again at Ryo and his eyes widen when he saw something different between the reality he originated and this one.

As Ryo opened his brown eyes, Millenniumon was worried and enraged. He noticed Ryo face with bruises on it and a black eye.

"Impossible, he was never injured when he first came here. My spies confirmed it," Millenniumon said between his clenched fangs. He moved his claw near the image, near Ryo face. He saw as Agumon said something he couldn't hear while checking his partner face. "This reality is more different than I first thought," he watched once again Ryo face and imagined his body was also in bad shape: "Ryo...Who dare do this to you?" he moved his hand and the hole resorbed itself as Millenniumon walked out of his room, preparing everything he had for his destined partner and finding out how dare hurt his partner.

Author Comment (AC): Here's the end of the first chapter. I hope you appreciate it.

Next chapter: Crossing Path.