Author: Okay, this didn't end up quite the way I liked it, it's quite confusing even for me.


08

"Opening the Door"

"Tai," Alice's voice sounded concerned for the boy that is just sitting down on his couch looking at his hands. "It's been a week since the Apocalymon battle. Just calm down."

"I'm trying Alice," Tai impatiently answers. "I'm trying. I've just got too much to think about." Tai stands up and slowly walks towards the window of his room. "I don't know what happened to my world since I was gone, all I know is that Nightmare Myotismon is still there and that something happened to my friends." Tai's head turns down to face his hands. "Also, my power. Apocalymon was just working for Nightmare Myotismon, taking him down took us to our limit. What will it take to defeat Nightmare Myotismon?"

"Everyone," Alice answered and Tai looked back towards her. "The Tamers and your friends. That's how you defeated all your enemies before. I'm certain that your friends are still fighting, no matter what happened in your world. And I know that the power we hold is dangerous, but I also know that we can't give up because of that. We have to keep fighting, get stronger, for everyone you care about. What do you think will happen if everyone sees the Digidestined of Courage quitting?"

Tai stares at her for a short while, thinking about what she just said. He turns to the window and looks at the sky. "You're right, I'm worrying too much. I know my friends better then anyone, they'll never give up the fight even without me. And this power, we won't be strong enough to defeat Nightmare Myotismon on our own. But with everyone…" Tai turns his head back to the blond ghost, smiling. "Thanks again Alice."

Alice just nods and smiles.

At that moment, his digivice started beeping. It was his Digiphone add-on.

"Hello?"

"Tai," the man's voice came through the digivice, sounding pleased. "It's me."

"What is it, Yamaki?"

"I've got some good news for you," the man continued with his happy tone. "The monster makers have been able to close the gate from anyone that might come from your world uninvited. But they have been able to find a way to return you to your world. I've already contacted the Tamers, so get over here."

"Will do," Tai smiled as he disconnected. "Come on Alice!"


"What took you so long?" Rika sounded annoyed.

"Fangirls," Tai answered with a smile. "It doesn't help that I'm your 'Taichi Yagami' from another world. It's gonna be really chaotic once I bring in the other Digidestined." Tai notices the monster makers, the Tamers, Impmon and Yamaki gathered around a computer monitor. "What's happening?"

"Glad you made it," Yamaki spoke to Tai as he walked over. "Right now we're looking into your world by moving the small rip we opened. We may be able to target a specific landing point this way too."

"You're looking into my world?" Tai asked enthusiastically. "Let me see!"

"Tai," Yamaki slowed his voice down. "Are you sure about this?"

"I'm going back to my world and help my friends fight NightmareMyotismon anyway," Tai spoke determinedly.

Yamaki moved out of the way and Tai walked slowly towards the monitor. What he saw shocked him.

His city, his home, covered in darkness. There were very little people to be spotted, but there were many damaged buildings and even some completely destroyed ones. It was like a huge battle had occurred in the city, one the Digidestined lost. Tai asked the monster makers to move the view around to certain spots of the city, all of which where his friends lived. Each place received the most damage, his own apartment building getting the worst of it.

As they were scouring through scouring through the city, Tai notices something showing on a big screen on the side of a building. It looked like MetalEtemon.

"That TV!" Tai pointed to the screen on the screen. "Do you think we can get reception of what its showing?"

"If it's being broadcast by satellite," Janyu started thinking. "Then we may be able to catch the satellite waves through the dimensional rip."
Yamaki puts a hand on his ear, "Riley!"

"I'm on it sir!" Riley began typing ferociously. "I've got it! I'm sending you the picture!"

On the monitor they were staring at, a new window opened to play the show that was airing. MetalEtemon was holding a microphone and looking straight at the camera.

"Hello everybody and welcome back, uh huh huh!" MetalEtemon was enjoying being the center of attention. "This is the very last episode of 'Digidestined Downfall!' As you can see we're right in front of a building where that last of the digidestined has been spotted."

Tai widened his eyes, "What? The last?"

"But before we finish the show, let's do a little re-cap baby!" MetalEtemon signaled someone off camera. "Hit it!"

The screen went black for a second before a digital world background showed up. Then a mock Nightmare Myotismon appeared, then mock digidestined.

"Now long before this show started Nightmare Myotismon had already killed one of the Digidestined."

The mock Tai moved forward and the mock Myotismon posed to look like he was attacking. The mock Tai was electrocuted and knocked off the stage. The other mock digidestined quickly ran off the stage with the mock Myotismon chasing them.

"The Sovereigns of the digital world all tried to stop Nightmare Myotismon but none of them stood a chance, even all together. The remaining digidestined tried to fight back every now and then, but they lost every single time, uh huh huh."

The background of the 'play' changed to a city, the home of the digidestined.

"After permanently driving out the digidestined from the digital world, Nightmare Myotismon also ripped a gate into the Dark Ocean world, where he freed Daemon and absorbed all of the Dark Ocean's dark powers. Using these powers Nightmare Myotismon re-created us to do battle with the digidestined in their home world, uh huh. That includes Piedmon, Machinedramon, MetalSeadramon, Puppetmon, Apocalymon and last but not least, ME! MetalEtemon baby! Uh huh huh!"

The mock digidestined reappeared and huddled together. Mock Dark Masters appeared to confront them.

"It didn't take us long to find the digidestined trying to plan out their attack. We attacked them first, two of them stayed behind to let the others get away."

The mock Sora, Kari, Biyomon and Gatomon stayed while the rest of the mock digidestined left the stage. The mock Dark Masters quickly tied them up and hang them up on a building.

"At this time, the digidestined tried to rescue the both of them, but failed."

The mock digidestined reappeared, except for the mock TK and Patamon. All of them were quickly beaten up by the mock Dark Masters and tied up with Sora and Kari.

"That leads us up to here. Where we found the location of the final digidestined and his downfall will be LIVE! Uh huh huh!"

"Will you just shut up and do your job!" a dark, booming voice echoed.

"Wha- Daemon!" MetalEtemon pointed at the great demon. "What are you doing here? This is MY live broadcast of the end of the resistance!"

"Hmph," The evil digimon didn't sound pleased. "I'm here to make sure you do your job."

"Then just stay here and watch!" MetalEtemon started running towards the building but stopped and motioned for the camera mon to follow. "Come on!"


"I need to be there!" Tai yelled frantically. "Am I able to use the gate now?"

"We haven't tested it," Janyu told him. "But if our calculations are correct, which they are almost always are, then there will be no problem."

"Okay," Tai calmed down at the news. "Then how do I open the gate?"

Janyu opened his hand, "First we'll need your digivice."

Janyu and the other monster makers got to work, uploading a program onto Tai's digivice. "There are some things you should know about the gate. One, at the moment, until we can stabilize the gate, only you can open the gate Tai."

"I was intending to."

"Two, only Takato, Rika, Henry, Ryo, Guilmon, Renamon, Terriermon, Cyberdramon and Impmon can travel through the gate with you."

"Wha-" Takato sounded really confused.

"What do you mean by that, dad?" Henry asked his father.

Yamaki stepped forward to answer. "Because of the hastily built gate we created, only those that are from Tai's world can get through the portal."

"I'm still not getting it," Takato scratched his head.

"With the exception of Impmon, all of you absorbed Apocalymon's data while you were biomerged," Yamaki flicked his lighter. "That means each one of you has a bit of Apocalymon's data inside you. And that data is what will let you through the portal until we can stabilize the gate further to allow unrestricted access."

"You mean Apcalymon's inside me?" Takato was frantically touching himself.

"There's no need to worry," Yamaki reassured him. "It will all disappear in time, but while it's still there you'd better put it to good use."

"Will do sir!" Takato saluted Yamaki, who smiled.

Janyu began his explanation again. "And three, as a safety precaution, you can only open the gate in this room."

"So if there's any problems there won't be as much damage?" Tai asked.

"Yes," Yamaki answered.

"Done!" Janyu cried out and handed Tai his digivice. "Here."

"How do I use it?" Tai asked as he looked at the device.

"I don't know," the scientist told him. "Only you can figure it out."

"And how do we get back here?" Tai asked him.

"According to our data," Janyu started thinking. "All you have to do is open the gate again and it'll bring you back here."

"Thanks."

An awkward silence fills the room, Tai stares at this digivice, thinking about what to do with it. At least until a voice from the computer snapped him out of it.

"Run TK!" MagnaAngemon cried out.

"Run all you want baby!" MetalEtemon taunted. "After I'm done with angel boy I'm coming after you! Uh huh huh!"

"TK!" Tai called out. He quickly takes a look at the Tamers in the room, all of them nodded, knowing that they're ready. "Here goes…" Tai slowly raised his digivice up into the air. "Dimensional Gate OPEN!"

Tai's digivice shot out a white beam of light into the air and created a white disc. Tai dropped his hand and Alice took a hold of Tai's digivice, activating his power in preparation for anything. Tai and the Tamers slowly floated upwards for a few seconds, then they were quickly sucked into the white light. When they all vanished the light flashed brightly and disappeared.


"Run TK!" MagnaAngemon cried out.

"Run all you want baby!" MetalEtemon taunted. "After I'm done with angel boy I'm coming after you! Uh huh huh!" MetalEtemon charged towards the ultimate angel.

TK climbed up the stairwell as fast as he could when he heard a wall get destroyed from below. MangaAngemon was barely holding his own against the metal monkey.

"MangaAngemon!" the boy cried out.

"Just go!" the angel called out as he pushes the metal head away. "I'll hold him off!"

TK clenched his fists and closed his eyes as he continued running. There was nothing he could do now but run. Matt made sure that if they failed to save Kari and Sora, they would still have one more chance to fight back. TK isn't going to let that chance go to waste. As he hears the fighting noises below, he can't help but wonder how all the other digidestined are doing.


"TK," Mat silently spoke out. All of the digidestined were trapped in a cage somewhere around the city with the Dark Masters guarding them. Machinedramon had a giant TV installed nearby so that they will be able to watch the last of the digidestined fail.

Sora walked over to Matt, "Don't worry Matt. I'm sure TK will be able to get through some how."

"TK won't quit so easily Matt," a little pink bird told him.

"I know," Matt struggled for words. "It's just that, I can't bear just standing here and watching."

"But until we get out of this cage," Gabumon said. "We can't do a thing."

"Believe in him Matt," a soothing voice spoke out from behind.

Matt turned around to see Kari, she was holding her hands together. Sora could see that she was trying her best to keep herself from trembling. Kari had already lost Tai, if she lost TK as well…

"Kari…" Gatomon looks at her with a worried look.

"Argh!" Davis let out a scream.

"Davis," Ken tried to calm down the other boy.

"Come on TK!" he yelled out. "I know you can do this! Don't let that monkey beat you!"

Kari dropped onto her knees as MetalEtemon beat up more on MagnaAngemon. Knocking him upwards, higher and higher, closer and closer to TK. Sora, Mimi and Yolei quickly went over to her to try and comfort her.

Matt clenched his teeth as he turned his attention back at the screen.


TK opened the door to the rooftop. He quickly ran to the center and tried to look for a way out of his situation. There was no way off the rooftop but the door that lead him here in the first place. Panicked, he tried to return the way he came, only to have the door explode before he was even halfway there.

MetalEtemon stood triumphantly at where the door once was. He was holding a beat up Patamon in one arm.

"Patamon!" the boy cried.

"You want him?" MetelEtemon smiled. "Then catch!"

The monkey through the little digimon high into the air. TK had to run back a little in order to catch him.

"Patamon," TK was worried about his partner's condition.

Patamon weakly opened his eyes, "I'm sorry TK. I did my best."

"I know you did," TK was almost crying. "It'll be okay know."

"That's what you think baby!" MetalEtemon spoke out and TK turned around. "Hey, how do I look?" The metal monkey posed in front of the camera. "This is the last of the digidestined so I want to make sure I look perfect before finishing this, uh huh huh."

"What's taking you so long?!" a dark, booming voice echoed through the area.

MetalEtemon turned around to see Daemon float up to their level. "Daemon! I thought I told you to just sit back and watch."

"I don't sit," Daemon sounded annoyed. "And I don't like to wait." Daemon gathers fire into his arms. "Evil-"

Daemon stopped his attack when a bright white light filled the sky. TK, Daemon, MetalEtemon and the camera mon all looked up at the sky.

"WHOOOAAAA!"

CRASH!

A big pile of digimon and kids fell through and landed a little in front of TK.

"Takato," a red digimon spoke. "Can you please get off of me?"

"I'm sorry boy, but Rika's pinning me down."

"Are you calling me fat?"

"Would all of you please get off of ME?" it came a familiar voice from the bottom of the pile, one that TK knew himself.

The mess of people and digimon slowly arranged themselves and the last one to stand gave TK a great shock.

"TAI!?"

Tai turned around to see the younger boy and his expression, Tai put on a smile. "That's right TK, I'm back."


Author: About darn time too. Now that Tai has returned to his home world and brought the Tamers with him, along with his power, their first task is to deal with MetalEtemon and Daemon. Also, we find out that Myotismon has gained even greater power by absorbing the Dark Ocean world. What's going to happen next?

As a side note, TK is my second favorite character of the first two seasons, Tai being number one, so expect him to get some special treatment too. Just not the same thing that Tai has got, there's only one ghost girl after all.