Just to avoid confusion, this fic takes place in series two. The new characters hardly appear in it except for Davis who doesn't show up at all. So this fic is basically 10% from the show and 90% from my own head. *^_^* Oh yeah, you have to read about halfway through it before things start to get interesting because of me having to build the plot up a little so please be patient! It's worth the wait.

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Angeteen

So far four years have come and gone, and this marked the fourth anniversary of the death and defeat of Myotismon. Getting a ride back here wasn't easy considering the fact that I had to wait until the gang defeated what ever kind of psycho that was running lose in the digiworld and then wait to for the gate to open. As soon as they came back (and, fortunately, defeated who ever it was) I made the cross back over, making sure I was out of their site. No use in having them to worry about weather that was me or not.

Now that I glance back on it I should have stayed in the real world for two reasons. I've never removed the clothing I brought back, even though I no longer need it, and two... I'm bored stiff. Looks like being an ultra strong Ultimate had it's draw backs, but at least I never had to look out for myself much. Glancing into the forest I listened for a moment, knowing he was there. "You can come out now Unimon" I called.

Unimon come out looking disappointed. "I never could sneak up on you could I?" "No" I said. "And you could never tell me who it was that the guys had to fight. I may be bored but I'm not bored enough to listen to what some kind of idiot thought he would make it easy by ruling everything. I already finished off one and the gang has defeated who ever it was, so now is a time for rest."

Glancing back up at the sky, I noticed something. "Black rings?" I muttered. "You're thinking of going gothic" Unimon said with a chuckle. "No" I said, pointing up. "Black rings." Looking up he saw what I meant. "What are they for?" I said baffled. Looks like I should have kept my mouth shout. They started to fly straight towards us!

As they did I leapt to my feet in a fighting stance, old instance coming back to me in a flash. One of them went near Unimon and attached itself to his front foreleg. The color of his eyes drained away being replaced by a glowing red. Turning his head towards me he lunged.

My body, now under complete auto polite, managed to dodge out of the way, missing the assault by inches. "What gives?!" I screamed at him. Looking at him, I didn't notice the black ring that had started to lower itself around my waist.
 
 

"New home, new school, but same old lumpy oatmeal" I said, poking at a pile of sludge that everyone laughingly called food. Need to get to school before I'm late. Running downstairs I pushed the button for the escalator to drop down to my floor. Inside were two people about my age. "Hi guys!" I shouted, waving at them. "My name is T.K.!" "Oh, hi." The girl with purple hair said. "I'm Yolie and this is Cody" she said, motioning to a light, black haired boy who came up to about my waist. "Good to meet both of you" I said. "Come on. We need to get to school."
 
 

Later that day during school, I met Kari. It turned out that she was in a couple of my classes and that was good news considering that we could now catch up on old times. We met again later today when we had to go to the supply area to pick up a few things.

As we were getting some stuff, Yolie ran in holding up a message in her right hand, and an expression on her face that suggested it was urgent. "Tai says he needs to meet you in the Digiworld, wherever that is." "If Tai sent this message" Kari began "then it must be serious." Running up to the computer room I turned one of the computers on.

"Wait up guys!" somebody said from behind us. Turning around I saw who it was. "Hi Izzy. Tai said he needs to meet us in the digiworld." "I know. I got one to" he said, moving over to the computer and began setting it up.

After a couple of minutes, Izzy fished setting up the program. "All right" I said, "let's go." Kari was the first to go. She held the digivise up to the screen, and as she did, the screen gave off a bright glow. Then, she started to shrink down in size, becoming smaller by the second. As she did so, she also became transparent until she finally disappeared. I held my digivise up to the screen and followed right behind her, all the time wondering what danger we will face once we get there.
 
 

I was by a cave with Gatomon, waiting for the guys to show up. So much has been happening lately, that everyone needs to be brought up to speed on it. The e-mail I sent them should have done the trick, so I just needed to wait around for awhile until they showed up.

Soon enough, I saw them not far away from where I was standing. Running over to them I hollered "over here guys!" They rushed over to me and after a few moments of greetings (and learning that Izzy couldn't join them for reasons unknown) I said "come on. There is something I need to tell you."
 
 

Inside the cave I told them what has happened. "This weird guy showed up one day, calling himself the Digimon Emperor. He's the one behind sending out these dark ring that are somehow controlling the digimon." "Yeah" Gatomon said, jumping in. "They do everything except get rid of fleas. On top of that, there is this new dark digivise that makes us unable to digivolve."

"Tell me about it. It even blocks tv reception" a new voice said. Turning around we saw a figure standing in front of the entrance wearing a trench coat, gloves, and a pair of sneakers. His face was wrapped up in bandages and a pair of glasses were over his eyes. "Looks like no matter where we go, you will always follow us" I said, smirking.

"Don't get to close to him Tai!" Gatomon yelled at me. "He's got a dark ring attached on him!" she said, pointing to his waist. And, indeed, he did have one. Weather he was once a friend or not no longer matters. He's our enemy and will remain that way until we get that dark ring off of him.

Then, leaping into the air, she tried to attack him. The man's hand moved faster than the eye could follow and caught her by the neck. "Fool" he said in a voice a teacher would probably use on an ill disciplined student. "You should know to never attack head on. It eliminates any chance of defense, and besides that, I'm immune to it." Making another movement with his arm, he threw her against the far wall of the cliff.

Gatomon rose up to try again but the man lifted up his hand, halting her. "As much as I love to play around with you, I'm not your enemy." The man removed his glasses and tossed them towards the ground. It wasn't easy to see much of his eyes. The cloth covered most of them, except for the pupil, and even that was hard to see.

Moving his right arm apart from his body, smoke started to appear from underneath his trench coat. The smoke then turned into a roaring fire with heat so great I could feel it even from here. Surprising, considering that I was a good 20 ft away from him. But what was even more surprising was the fact he wasn't even screaming in pain. Rather, he seemed to be enjoying it. As the flames died, I saw why. In the man's place was Shadowmon.

My mouth nearly hit the ground. "Surprised aren't you" he said. "Don't be. It takes more than that a mere explosion to get rid of me. But now I think is the time to tell you my little secret. My secret goes like this; you've known me even before the disappearances. Would you like me to reveal who I really am? You would be quite surprised with the results, let me reassure you" he said, in a way that made me causcious. "What are you talking about?" I asked. "I don't remember meeting you until after people started disappearing. "Let me show you" he said, we a strange smile on his face.

His body began to twist and turn. As it did, I began to make sense out of what he was turning into. When he finished, he was still made out of water and fire, but now a few things were changed. His face looked like a teen with neck length hair, but those weren't the only changes. The fire moved together resembling a shirt that was at least two sizes to big, and the water merged together forming a set of blue jeans. And, out of his back, protruded a pair of wings.

Staring in amazing I said "Angeteen?" "Alive and present" he said, smirking. "Myotismon came back remember? As long as he's around, I'm around. Though this time things are different. This time...only I'm alive." "What do you mean?" "Remember those papers I found. One of them was of me in my Champion form and the other was of him as a Mega. I didn't want you to find anything to soon so I had to...err...dispose of them, shall we say, after the fight.

I didn't need you to find me in my Champion form least you learn what my next stage would be and then morn over my death, and I didn't want you to learn this little secret: that when he assumes that form, if anyone is connected to his life force they will either digivolve, or take it after he dies. Fortunately for me I took over the later, rather than the sooner. It was a good thing that I still had enough for one more does.

"Enough of what?" Rolling his eyes he said "the potion of course. Before Wizardmon died, he gave me this potion that would make me digivolve. There was only enough left for two doses though, so I didn't want to waste it until necessary. Now then, we have got to do something about these dark rings. The first thing we need to do is...

He suddenly cut off and looked around, as if trying to detect something. Looking around a bit he glanced upwards at the ceiling and concentrated on it for a few moments. His face pulled back into a snarl as he took an offense stance. 'What could he be so causcious about' I wondered to myself. Unfortunately my question was soon answered.

The ceiling caved in as a digimon started to make it's way in. It jumped down towards us, it's eyes literally blazing red. It was a monocromon. A digimon that looked like some kind of four footed dinosaur that was the height of a man but with dark scales, a horn, and teeth that suggested it's diet didn't contain anything plant like. Worst of all, it's attack, Diamond Blast, sent out a fireball that would do more than singe your skin.

I caught sight of a dark ring around it's waist, and backed up. Knowing that the digimon couldn't digivolve, I made a run for the cave exit. It seemed that everyone else had the same idea and decided to follow suit. Well...nearly everyone that is. Shadowmon looked as if he would have rather stay and fight, but he went with us anyhow.

After running the length of the cave we managed to reach outside beneath the over hang of a cliff. Turning around, I saw Shadowmon had already stopped and was preparing for a fight. Monocromon opened his mouth and shot out a fire ball that was big enough to reduce a man to ash.

Seeing it, Shadowmon dodged to the side, letting it pass him on by. As soon as he was clear he circled back, preparing for an attack of his own. Lifting his hand high, he aimed it at the black ring around it's mid-section. From his hand, a fireball that was red on the outside but a deep blue on the inside, appeared in his hand. Pulling it back, he launched it straight at his opponent.

The attack hit him, shattering the dark ring, but before it did, the monocromon made another attack. Shadowmon dodged this one, to. Turning his attention back towards him, he saw him slinking off into the woods, no longer under the dark ring's control. That's when I heard it.

A sound, that sounded as if a cliff was about to collapse, came from above us. Looking up I saw that the monocromon's attack must have hit the cliff and it was about to collapse! Running out from underneath it I looked back, seeing if everyone had made it. They all made it out except for T.K.. He was standing there, petrified.

"Get out T.K.!" I yelled at him! "It's going to collapse any minute now!" He didn't even budge. He just kept standing there, to scared to even move. Suddenly Shadowmon appeared from beside him. Picking him up by the collar of his shirt, he threw him out of harms way and tried to escape the oncoming fall of rocks. He didn't make it. At least a ton of rocks came crashing down on him as he reached the edge of it.

It all happened so fast that it took me a couple of seconds to take it all in. Then when the impact of it all hit me, I rushed over, trying to remove some of the rocks. As I did the gang came over helping me. After about an hour of moving rocks out of the way, we finally managed to move enough to reveal him from the waist down. He wasn't in good shape. He looked weak at best.

Wrapping my arms around his waist I tried to pull him out...but they only fazed right through him as if he were nothing but air. "Quite fooling around and try to get him out!" T.K. yelled at me. "I can't" I hollered. My hands went right through him. Rolling his eyes T.K. said "yeah right. Let me try." Walking over to him he tried, but had no better luck then I did. Looking up at me he said "your right. He can't be moved. What can we do?"

"Maybe you should try willing him to move" Kari suggested. "Because last time when someone hand whet through him, it got scorched. Yours didn't so maybe if you try concentrating on him moving he might." Looking up at her I said "thanks Kari."

Bending back down I concentrated on him to become solid, to be able to gain substance enough so he can be moved. I reached out again and tried to move him, but still he remained, untouched. "It seems that concentrating isn't the only thing I need to do" I mumbled. "There needs to be something else done, but what could it be?"

Staring at his limp form I thought for a moment. I then began to notice that the fire and water that made him up seemed to be just one thing. They seemed to intertwine with each other, neither existing apart nor together, but as one.

Reaching down again, I gave it one more try. I concentrated not for him to become solid, but instead focused on the two elements. I tried to see them not as two, but as one and one alone. Willing them to combine with each other, to become as they should be. I wrapped my arms around his waist once more, and as I did, I felt something that could only be described as water given a human form.
 
 

We were inside of the computer room we had left earlier today. Shadowmon was stretched out on a table unmoving. I explained to Izzy what had happened while we were in the Digiworld and also about Shadowmon's brave deed.

Izzy walked over to him and picked up Shadowmon's wrist, feeling for a pulse. "It seems normal" he said. "The wounds from the rock fall are actually starting to look better, but it seems he's falling into an even deeper sleep. This is not good."

Walking over to his lap top he worked on it for a few minutes and then looked up. "It seems that I've found the problem" he announced. "It seems that he will recover naturally on his own but something is left undiscovered inside of him. Some...presence is upsetting the balance of his regular thinking. He's trying to find it but can't, so one of you will have to help him.

"How?" I asked. "It seems that our digivises" stated Izzy "have not only the ability to make our digimon digivolve, or release a controlled digimon, but also they can be used to enter someone's conciseness, given that they aren't resisting of course. A willing one is one thing, but I'm not sure about an unwilling one. Fortunately I don't think he would be protesting, so who's going to give it a shot?"

No one looked willing to go so I figured since I was usually their leader, then it was up to me. "I'll go" I said. "All right Tai" Izzy said. "But remember that while your in there, that whatever you do could have drastic affects. You could either help him or you could make it worse, so be careful. "Right" I said, removing my digivise. "And just as caution" he said "that their is always the possibility that you could die. Only your mind will go in leaving your body behind, so if your mind dies while in their, you body would live on but without the mind it would soon die anyhow, so be careful, you play a dangerous game and the stakes are high." Remembering the information given, I held out my digivise as it glowed.
 
 

I was standing in a narrow hall that lead to an iron steel door. I walked up to it and opened it. As I did, I saw an image appear before me. It didn't appear directly in front of me. Instead, it was as if I was really their myself. 'Must be playing inside of my head' I reasoned.

The scene was in a forest, nobody was their. Then I heard a rustling. Angeteen came running through the bushes, and in a quick hurry too. Out of the same bushes, Myotismon appeared. Angeteen was trying to run, but the path stopped at an out cropping of rock, their was no where left to run to. Realizing this, he spun around to face his opponent. It was comical at best. He clearly had no chance of surviving this encounter.

Myotismon stood in place, clearly waiting for him to attack. He wasn't to be disappointed. As he did, Myotismon swung out his arm, knocking him into the wall of rock. Advancing, he picked him up by the throat, squeezing it. Angeteen was having trouble breathing, and was even having me trouble trying to free himself. But it was no use. After a few minutes, he was thrown back to the ground, discarded like an old rag. He didn't even move. He was either dead or soon would be.

Soon Wizardmon appeared beside him. He made a magic gesture ending with his hand in a fist. Turning around he looked towards Myotismon's direction. Releasing his hand, a thin, small, band of light, hardly noticeable unless one was looking for it, appeared. It started from Angeteen and ended probably over at Myotismon. Soon it faded, but Angeteen started to breath even though he was still unconscious. Wizardmon made the same gesture, this time however, the band of light appeared between him and Angeteen, making his face regain a bit of color.

After that the scene faded, and Angeteen was sitting on the floor before me. "Do you think that if he had never showed up, then things would still have played out the same without me?" I was taken aback. It seemed that Shadowmon was having doubts that his part in this ordeal even mattered. Placing my hand on his shoulder I said "it may have, and it may have not, but either way we needed you. You were the only one who was knew where his hide out was and you were also the only one who knew the layout. If it weren't for you, then it probably wouldn't have gone so well."

Angeteen looked at me for a minute, and for a moment, I almost thought I saw him smile. I soon noticed that he was staring at my eyes. I looked back into his, and as I did, I felt for an instant that I knew everything there was needed to know about a person.

I saw that they were only mere entities that existed for awhile and then soon perished. But in that time they would have already gone through to much. They would have seen the development of new technologies and ideas, the birth and death of loved ones, and then there were the wars. Not just between two states but the small ones. Ones that were against both enemy and friend, loved and hated, they fought them all. Some ended by being resolved, others ended in tragedy. It was now clear why people weren't eternal. Just the life they possessed now was already to much. Then, that instant was over.

Looking up I saw that the scene had changed, but this time it was familiar. I was standing on top of the building where Angeteen had first digivolved and fought Myotismon. It replayed the entire thing right up to the explosion. This time though I saw how Angeteen survived. He also was hit but because he was the one generating the power, it's affect was lessened on him. Myotismon however took the full brunt of it and all that could have been seen was his mask floating towards the ground.

The scene faded and Angemon was standing there. He was as we had saw him from the first time; clad in armor with his hand hovering near his sword, ready for a fight if the need arises. Angemon looked at me and said "maybe... I should have accepted your help" he said, with regret in his voice. "At least that way, there was the chance he would have gone down instead of waiting for him to reappear."

I saw that this was another problem Shadowmon was trying to work out. Just maybe if he had worked with us instead of attacking him by himself, he would be gone. But then so would he...that wasn't a very comforting thought. At least this way he had a chance to survive without having Myotismon to lean on to to supply the life force. But then again was it right? He was suppose to be dead that very night when he met him for the first time. So maybe it was indeed for the best that he had accepted their help. But still...

"It was your battle, not ours" I said. "You had a matter to settle with him for what he had done so it was only your right. For that, there can be no guilt. It would have been wrong to take something as precious as your revenge away after you've trained yourself for that very fight."

He look at me, his eyes trying to encompass everything I said. He sighed and said "your right. And besides, even if I had died in the process of trying to kill him but failed, you would still be there to carry on the fight and would have won anyway."

Removing his sword from his saber he held it in his hands. The blade began to shimmer and shrank down in size. As it did so, it's shape also began to change. At first it was hard to tell but then it become more obvious. The main surface was reflective, with steel on the outside making a border, as if one were to hold it in his hands. The handle also shrunk in, making the sides seem less sharp and more able to grasp. Finally it finished. In his hand was mirror made of metal that was neither pretty nor ugly.

Turning to me Angemon said "take this. It is my sword but it's also a sword of another type. Look into it, and it will show you as you really are. Weather good or bad this mirror will show it. You will need this when you finally face him."

"Who is he?" I asked. "I do not now. All I now is that his power is currently limitless. There is a way to break him of it but I'm not sure as to how that should be done." "Where can I find him?" I'll take you part way there. A barrier has been set up to halt his advance but it is failing and soon will be broken. Once you reach it you will hear many voices, but only one of them is the true voice. Pick the wrong one and you die."

Gulping I said "well... might as well try." "Good. Close your eyes and relax. This should take only a moment." Closing my eyes, I waited for a moment. Suddenly I felt a light pressure on my head that must have been Angemon's hand, and in the next moment I felt a light tingle go through my body.

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