Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon.

Summery: AU, very AU and dark, with mentioning of torture, violence and blood drinking.

Taichi's been disowned by the master and barely escaped both his execution and the destruction of his castle as Jun and the Digimon Emperor battled for supremacy of that area. In the battle, the Emperor revealed his new great weapon, Kimeramon. And in the real world, Oikawa Ukyou approached the master with an offer of alliance or destruction.

Special note: 'Thoughts'

Smoke poured up from the ruined temple as the three digi destined stared in hopelessness at the shattered place. Around them, the signs of a short and brutal battle were clearly seen.

Walking closer to it, Davis sighed a bit as he saw the remains of a nearby hut crushed. "Well, they've been by here recently." He announced as he turned back to face them. "And they trashed the whole place just to get inside of it."

Nodding, Cody turned to face the other member of their small group. "I don't think we will learn anything more by staying here, don't you agree Yolie."

The purple haired girl blinked her eyes a bit and then quickly nodded. "Yes, yes." Picking up her d-terminal, she coughed a she flipped it open. "I'll E-mail Izzy and tell him we were to late, and there's no trace of them or their plans." Punching in the message as she spoke, she cast a quick look up into the sky, doubt flashing across her face for a moment.

"Well." Davis started as he turned back to them. "We'll get them next time Cody, all we have to do is to stay ready to head out and fight." Rubbing his head as he walked past them, he stopped and looked back at the two behidn him. "So, who's next in looking for Jun and her allies?"

Closing her D-terminal, Yolie coughed a bit. "I think its TK, Kari and Matt." Her eyes moving a bit to to the side on order to stare at a nearby building that had been ruined. "Thankfully there wasn't much of a village around this temple, but I still feel sorry for the digimons that died here."

Clenching his hand at the words from the older girl, Cody eyes flashed with anger as he thought about the destruction as well. "We will stop her, and those two digimon as well."

Giving a confirming nod at each other, the three kids turned and began to walk off. Heading towards the only TV in the area, and the way back to the real world.

Over looking this scene, a lone figure narrowed her eyes as she turned around and walked away. A slight limbering in her walk as she stopped to look an older woman in a red dress towering up over her. "I should have destroyed them, they were right there for the taking."

Chuckling lightly, the woman smirked as her body twisted into a spider like monster. "We have our orders, and the trap is nearly ready, all we need is to be patient, they will trapped in our web eventually." Looking down at the glowing orb in her hands, she smirked lightly. "Besides, we got our prize without any kind of trouble this time."

Still looking a bit angry, Jun suddenly smirked slightly as she rubbed her hands together. "You think they will object if I try to take the nerd and short stuff out?" Her hand resting on her whip lightly as her eyes darken with evil. "They wouldn't be a problem for me you know."

Smirking slightly, she watched two dark figures standing a bit off. "With these two digimons, they won't even have a chance to fight back." Eyes glinting with pure dark amusement, Jun slapped her whip against the palm of her hand. "Victory will be mine."

"Later." Arukenimon barked out as she turned to leave, "We will need to be completely sure of victory this time."

Shooting her partner a dark look, Jun sighed and followed after her, barely even brothering to noticed the jeep Mummymon had somehow gotten a hold of recently. "I don't like all this planning, I say we just take them all by surprise, hammer them with all we have."

Mummymon chuckled a bit at her complaint. "We all do, but we have our orders." Licking his lips a bit, he stepped on the speeder and grinned as he began to drive off. "Lighten up, only one temple left, then our work will be done, Oikawa gets to the digital world, and your master gets his revenge."

Chuckling as well, Arukenimon ran her fingers through her hair absently. "And we get to destroy the digi destined once and for all." Her voice nearly dripping with anticipation of destroying the brats who were removing her beloved control towers, she would make sure they all suffered for their crimes against her.

Almost chuckling as well, Jun settled for watching the desert around her, letting her thoughts drift back to the moment when she had agreed to join the Master in taking over this world, the creatures who lived in it, and for the power she had gotten out of it.

It hadn't been such a hard decision to make, spend her life as a normal kid, grow up, marry, give birth to a kid or two and then live her life as a house wife, or go out and get a job to help support the house. It had been what her future had been holding for her when she had just been Jun Motomiya.

A kid from an average family living an average life, and looking forward to an average future, who could blame her for taking the offer for power, a chance to prove that she wasn't just an average person. That she had what it took to be part of those in control.

A chance she wouldn't get just by being an average person, despite all the change her country had gone through, it was still a very traditional society, and as such, she was expected to live up to her family reputation and remain on the same social level as them.

And the thought of doing that sicken her, she wanted to live out her dreams, to prove that she was so much more then people thought of her. And the Master had given her that chance, all she had to do in return was follow him and she would be one of those at the top, she would be one who gave orders instead of receiving them.

Giggling slightly at the thought, she sat up straight in the jeep. A pity her brother had been there to see her agree to the Master's terms. Must have been hard on the kid to see his sister just throw away her own family and friendships for something as grand as power.

He would never understand it, no one would. Only one person had been given the same gift as her, and he had thrown it away like a fool, and for what, an average girl and an average life.

"He's such an idiot." Noting that Arukenimon and Mummymon turned to stare at her, she gave her best dark scrawl, followed by a smirk as she noticed a few rookie level digimons up ahead, clearly a few who had decided to cross the desert for some reason.

Too bad for them that they had to meet her on their little trip. "Pull over Mummymon, I could use a little snack." Voice ice cold, Jun held up her whip in front of her as she flashed her fangs at the last word.

At the sight of them, both Mummymon and Arukenimon shivered for some reason, the memory of the last time they had watched her eat dinner had been enough to make them lose their appetite.

Still she was their alley, and therefore they had to at least do a few things that she wanted. Hitting the brakes as they passed the rookie digimons, Mummymon turned his head away from them along with Arukenimon, the quick action sparing them from the sight of it, but still not saving them from the screams erupting as Jun attacked them with her whip.

--------------------

Slowly rubbing a hand over his still sleep crusted eyes, Tai cast a small look around the room. brain still trying to figure out where he was, when memory finally kicked in and reminded him that he was lying on the top bunk in the bedroom he shared with his sister.

Stumbling out of the bed and landing lightly on his feet, he yawned loudly while picking up the shirt and pants he had dropped on the floor after undressing the other day.

From the looks of it, his sister had already left the apartment for school since her bag was gone, and along with it her books and homework.

Finishing with his shirt, Tai grinned a bit as he marched over to the bedroom door, pulling it open as he suppressed another yawn, stepping out into the living room.

The only signs of life in the apartment coming from his mother as she was busy working on something in the kitchen, her back to him as he moved closer to the kitchen area of the apartment.

Sitting down at the table place near the center of the room, Tai cast a curious look at his mother as she turned around to face him, both of his parents were still a bit unsure of what had happened recently, but they looked a bit better about it then they had had yesterday. Well, at least his mother did.

Running a hand through his hair, Tai gave a small smile as he felt his mother walked closer to the table. "Hey mom, what are you going to be doing today?" His voice curious sounding while he tapped a finger on the table while waiting for an answer from her.

Sitting down with a cup of coffee in her hands, the elder woman smiled at him in return. "Not much yet, but I will meet with your father." Putting down the cup, her whole mood grew dead serious. "Tai, I need to know this, do you have any understanding of what your return means?"

Looking a bit unsure himself at that sentence, Tai lowered his head a bit. "I'm, not sure I'm following you mom." Voice faint at the end, he had a pretty good idea what they were talking about.

Standing up as she sighed, Tai mother faced the window and walked over to it. "You've been gone for years Taichi, both me and dad were broken when you died in that monster attack." Voice cracking a bit, she looked over her shoulder. "But we slowly learned to move on, never forgetting you."

Planting both hands on the kitchen counter, she closed her eyes as a feeling of sadness washed through her. "What I am saying Taichi, we are not up to handling something like this right now, we had a funeral for you, your dead to most of the world, but your also sitting at the table like nothing has happen to you."

Taking a deep breath, Tai looked up at his mother as he folded both hands in front of him. "I know, everything has changed since I last saw it, I feel strange when I walk around out there, like I don't belong." Pushing himself out of his chair, he grinned a bit. "But I can adapt, learn to feel like I'm home again."

"It is not just that." His mother voice cut through his head as she turned to face him, dead serious expression as her hands clenched up at her sides. "The government thinks your dead, the world thinks your dead, and even your aunt thinks so." Voice nearly cracking, she leaned back on the counter. "I don't know how I can convince them all that your not dead after all, not to mention how will you deal with the system, you hadn't graduated from elementary school yet when you were thought to be dead, and now you're old enough to be in high school."

Biting his lib in frustration, Tai looked away from her, hearing the same doubtful thoughts go through his head. How would he go about that? He hadn't cared about school in the last four years, only about securing the digital world and preparing it for his master's return.

Finally giving a short breath as he looked up, Tai shook his head. "I don't know how to do it mom, but I have to." Walking over to hug her, he watched as she froze for a second. "I just hope you and dad will support me through it all."

No answer came as he could barely feel the hug get returned from his mother, the fact nearly making him pull away and run out of the apartment. He should have known this would happen, they had moved on after his death, they hadn't expected him to ever return, no one had.

And that thought was enough to make him shiver, for how could he go about living in a world that had merely moved on after his death four years ago? Did it have any room in it for him at all?

Moving into the room he had started to share with his sister again, Tai closed the door and slid down to sit on the floor. He missed his sister, his missed Mimi, but most of all, he missed the one he could have always counted on to be there, his digimon partner. "Where are you Blackgatomon?"

Silence filled the room for several minutes after that question, a silence that lasted far to long for his liking. Feeling a bit more restless then ever, Tai stood up and cast a look around the room, it had mostly stuff belonging to his sister in it now, the only real trace of him left being the few pictures and a poster no one had removed yet.

Tracing a finger over the desk, Tai automatically drew his eyes towards the nearby computer, it was just standing there, waiting for him to turn it on and enter the digital world.

Hand slowly moving over to grasp his black and orange digivice, Tai dimly noticed his tongue moving across his lip, hitting his fangs in the process. While he no longer had a desire for blood anymore, he still had the fangs that his agreement with the master had gifted him with.

A reminder of his crimes, besides the dreams and memories of every digimon he had tormented, killed or drained until it died from his hunger. And the biggest reminder of all was his digivice, the one he had been given by the master when he had entered into his service.

Had it always looked this way, he could remember it as a small white square, not the sleek powerful looking D3 as Kari had called hers. Most likely it had been a result of his connection with darkness twisting it, but he still wondered how the master had gotten a hold of it, or how he had even managed to know it belonged to him.

Or this crest that Kari had said belonged to him, the small thing looking so fragile as he held it in his hand, eyes tracing the mark on its pink surface. "Courage." He had held it like this before, long ago, before he had even figure out what use it had, or how to activate it.

And if his remembered it correctly, there had been others as well, several of them, ten crests in total. They had been told by Gennai to hide them, to make sure no one would find them until their owners came to use them.

Snow flakes hit him roughly in the face as the wind picked up, next to him, he could feel another person fighting to get through the snow storm as well. "We have to get out of here, there's too many of them to fight." The words came from him as he turned to see several towering shapes moving towards them. "We can't let him get a hold of the crests, he will twist their powers to serve him."

Shaking his head at the memory, Tai placed the crest back onto the desk, only holding onto his digivice. "What was that?" Clenching it harder, Tai looked up at the computer with a new level of determination. "Whatever it was, it clear that only one person's got any answers to my questions, and I want them."

Pressing the turn on button for the computer, he silently watched it booted up, barely letting it finish before he held out his digivice to the screen. "Digi Port open!"

--------------------

Her room looked the same as the last time she had been here, but more then ever it felt liek a prison to her, the walls and doorway reminding her that she were still under tight supervision of her parents and grounded to boot.

Outside the doorway, she could hear her parents talking, almost arguing about her. And her absence lately, the fact that she hadn't bartered to come home as soon as she could, but rather had showed up a bit later then they had told her too.

They couldn't understand it, her life was important, but so was her duty as a digi destined. She had to protect the worlds even if it meant it interfering with her life, or making her parents worried. She couldn't just turn her back on it, she tried that years ago and danger still found her.

She had been shown that unless she fought for freedom and peace with her friends, others would suffer and die because of her refusal.

Looking over at her desk, her eyes closed as she found it as empty as she had expected it to be, since her computer had been removed after her return, and locked in with her father's in his home office.

But she had to be there to help them, give her support when it was needed. Plus someone had to look after Tai, the others couldn't see the pain and doubt in his eyes, only she could do that. He needed her help and support; he needed someone to be there when he needed it.

Pushing herself off her bed, she picked up her digivice. The small machine inactive since there wasn't anything for it to do at the moment. She shuddered to think of what her parents would say if she just up and left again. Would they be angry with her, mad at her refusal to remain their little girl, their princess?

Standing up, her hand reached in under her bed and pulled out a small bag. The thing stuffed with just the most need of things at the moment to her. She would go back and visit him, visit Taichi. He needed her help, just as she needed to see him again, to be there and feel his softer side, the one he had only shown when he had talked with her, both here in the real world, and back in the digital world.

But getting to a computer and seeing if a digital gate was open would be harder. She had to cross through the hallway and past her parents to do so. And she shuddered to think of what they would do if they thought she was trying to sneak out again.

Slowly and silently opening her door, she noted her mother and father still glaring at each other in the kitchen, both of them having a look of pain and deep anger in their eyes. A sight that had her bite her lip in the knowledge that she had caused this, no matter how little she had done in getting them to argue, it was still partly her fault.

Moving across the hallway, she entered into her father's home office and spotted the computer, thankful for the fact that it was still on and running. Now all she had to do was get the digital gate program running, and hope that the gate was open for her this time.

If not, she would just have to come up with an excuse to leave the apartment, cause there was no way now that she would stay behind and hear them when they started to argue, or be present when they simply went into a deep silence to avoid getting the other upset again.

Holding up her digivice, she held her breath as the digi gate popped up, signaling that it was currently locked, a sight that had her close her eyes in defeat, until a loud beeping signaled it switching over to open, followed by a shower of bright light as her digivice kicked in and opened the doorway to the digital world in response.

The sudden terrified yell from her parents barely reaching as she was pulled in, only a brief glance of her mother and father's shocked expression as they watched her leave again was all she saw.

--------------------

The light formed in the digital world as Taichi stepped out through a digital gate, a barren wasteland meeting him as his eyes opened up. He hadn't expected to end up here when he had travel through the gate, but now that he was here, he had no other option but to look around.

See if anyone had heard of a way to bring back non-digimons who were still made up of digital data.

Taking a step forward, he froze as another bright light formed behind him. A yelp telling him someone else had stepped into the digital world. Turning around to see who it was, he stopped as a familiar pink haired girl looked at him.

"Tai? Mimi? What are you doing here?" Their questions coming at the same time, one hand pointing at each other in unison as they spoke out loud.  

Shaking his head, Tai looked around the area as he tried to fight down the thoughts of him alone with Mimi in an unknown area. "I'm... I just needed to get away." Voice faltering s bit as he spoke, Tai turned to face something else but her question expression. "My mom, she, she told me something I just can't deal with right now, and this was the only place I thought I could get away from it all in."

Shouldering the bag she had brought with her, Mimi nodded a bit as she stepped forward as well. "Same here, except I needed to see you." Looking away as well, her eyes focused on the tall sand stone rocks towering up in the distance. "My parents, they're fighting a lot now, I just couldn't handle it anymore, it's like all they ever do lately is argue over whose to blame for me being a digi destined."

Getting a slightly confused expression, Tai scratched his head as he looked at her. "So, why are you here?" His voice showing just how much he was puzzled. "If they're fighting over your choice to be a digi destined, shouldn't you be there to voice your side of the story?"

Smile completely fading away at his words; Mimi snorted a bit as she moved to walk past him. "I said, they don't want me to be a digi destined, so no matter what I say, they won't listen to me." Her tone of voice turning more and more annoyed as she spoke. "So don't tell me to go back home again, I just want to get away form it all, even if it is for just a little while."

Looking a bit hesitant, Tai finally sighed as he followed after her. "I won't." Then he looked at the area around them with a grimace. "But if I wanted to get away, I wouldn't have chosen to come here."

Giving him a sarcastic glance, Mimi pressed both of her hands onto her hips. "What do you mean you wouldn't chose to come here? You're already here." Waving her hand through the air, she snorted a bit. "Bet it was you who caused the gate at my home to bring me here."

"No it wasn't, it was me." The voice cutting through the air with a thick silence after it, prompting both Tai and Mimi to turn around and see who it was that had spoken to them.

Sitting calmly on a small outcropping of a rock, a human like digimon dressed in a heavy dark red robe grinned at them as she waved a hand. "Hiya all, my names Witchmon, and if your wondering about it, it was on my master order that I brought you here so I can kill you Yagami, actually he wants me to kill you both." Smiling darkly as she spoke, she floated up into the air, a small black cat jumping onto her shoulder as a broom formed in her right hand. "And I will do anything that my Master asks me to do."

Flinging out her left arm, a glowing blue sphere of light quickly formed in it. "Baruruuna Gale!" The sphere exploding into a tornado like funnel of blue energy that went ripping across the ground towards the two shocked humans, the force of it sending rocks and dirt flying in every direction as it passed.

Jumping out of the way in the last minute, Tai and Mimi gave a cry of surprise and pain as they smacked into the hard rocky surface of the area.

Standing with a slightly disappointed expression, Witchmon covered it up with a quick giggled as another blue sphere of energy formed in her hands. "My you two are fast, but you're still only humans." The last having a bit of coldness to it as she smirked darkly at them. "And you can never hope to survive this little present, Baruruuna Gale!"

"Pepper Breath!" A small explosion followed the cry as an orange colored object intercepted the blue colored gale storm, barely a fraction of the power of Witchmon's attack getting halted by the explosion, but still getting delayed enough for Tai and Mimi to avoid getting ripped to shreds.

Turning to the source of the surprise attack, Witchmon clenched up her fists and growled a bit as she spotted the one who had dared to interfere. "Who are you?"

Facing the same direction, both Tai and Mimi blinked as they saw a small orange dinosaur like digimon standing proudly on the top of small rock. The sight of him making Tai frown as a memory of having seen a similar sight in the past came back, but just barely enough to make him fully grasp it other then the knowledge that, "I know him."

Smirking as he ran over to Tai, the small digimon took up a protective stance in front of him. "You sure do pal, I'm Agumon, your partner digimon, and do you know how long I've been looking for you?" Voice laced with a bitter feeling, the digimon powered up another fireball attack. "Heard a few strange rumors about you on my search, but other then that nothing really."

Coughing a bit in both embarrassment and sudden regret at knowing those rumors were likely true, Tai quickly shook his head and stared at the digimon. "Wait, you're my partner?"

Eyes narrowed slightly in anger, Witchmon held out both hands in front of her. "I don't care who or what you are you little pest, all I know is that my master want that boy dead and that is all that matters." Shooting forward, her hands spread out and began to glow with the same blue color as her attack, "Time to end this!"
 
Tearing his attention away from his partner and towards the attacking digimon, Agumon grinned as he fire off his attack, the small fireball hitting Witchmon, and doing absolutely nothing to her, other then make her even madder then before, "Um. This could be a problem"

Pushing himself up while Agumon had been speaking, Tai took a step forward in a reflex action, for some reason feeling a great deal of fear that this digimon could be hurt by the attack Witchmon. "Look out!" This action brought out a reaction form his D3, the black and orange object erupting into life as the black color on it faded away in a small cloud of digital data.

The light shooting out of it halted Witchmon in her tracks as her current target was impacted by it. "Now what?" Her question spoken out as if she expected someone to answer her, nut her answer came a split second later as the small light expanded into thick a pillar of light surrounding the small digimon, alight she had seen before, while the master had instructed her on their enemies and their powers. "No!"

Inside the light, Agumon's body glowed brightly as it felt the power needed to evolve to the next level enter it. "Agumon digivolve too," His body suddenly shooting up as it expended in all directions, with a brown bone like helmet forming on the top of his head, while his body took on a more dinosaur like appearance with several blue stripes forming on his back and legs. "Greymon!"

Cursing under her breath, Witchmon cast a slightly nervous stare up at the now towering digimon, she had not expected that the boy should have been able to digivolve any digimon. He had no partner digimon, she had died when he turned traitor to the master.
 
Frowning a bit, she jumped back to avoid getting stepped on, momentarily forgetting why she had been puzzled, but still a bit curious as to how she knew the boy had had a partner digimon before this one.

Then she fully gave her attention to the fight, the power she had stored burning to be released, and her fighting spirit roaring that she finish her job before her master became to angry and decided to hurt her. "Baruruuna Gale!" The attack shooting out with more force then before, this time not just tossing rocks away, but truly ripping the ground apart where it passed over it.

Roaring in response to the attack, Greymon's mouth flooded with fire he spat out a fireball several times larger then the ones he had created as Agumon. "Nova blast!" The attack impacting with Witchmon's attack several meter's away from him.

As they impacted, both attacks struggled as they tested their power in the need to overpower the other attack, resulting in a massive explosion dead center between them as no superior one was found, also resulting the ground getting ripped up as a crater formed.

Lifting up both her hands, Witchmon cast a hateful glare at the massive dinosaur digimon, it was the second time he had dared to interfere in her job, and nothing would get in the way of her job, nothing. She owned that much to her master after the gentle and kind way he had treated her for so many.

Shaking her head a bit, she powered up another one of her attacks, banishing the distracting thoughts into the back of her head, she would worry about the confusing thoughts later, now was the time for action, not thinking. "Aquari Pressure!"

Running forward as the digimon seemed to lose her focus, Greymon opened his mouth to deliver a final fire blast in her face, Then several blast of blue colored light shot from her hands with her hands as her yell, the blue light quickly forming together into a powerful water blast hammering into his face and mouth, killing the fireball he had been creating.

Taking the opening her attack had caused, Witchmon took off running, black cat nearly getting tossed off form its safe spot on her shoulder as she ripped her broom out and used it to pole-vault up onto Greymon's head. "There you are!" Her yell signaling that she had spotted both Tai and Mimi, both of who were watching the battle from a safe spot behind the big dinosaur like digimon.

Lifting their heads in shock, both Tai and Mimi grew pale as they spotted Witchmon flying down towards them, blue energy forming in both hands. Then Mimi felt herself getting shoved down as Tai tried to cover her with his body in an attempt to protect her from Witchmon's attack.

Ready to fire off her attack, Witchmon's smirk faded away rapidly as Tai turned his head over his shoulder to look at her, his eyes hitting hers right on, the sight of them causing the area to fade away and leave her on a desk inside a dark room, a small fire burning nearby as the same boy looked at her with a concerned expression, the same girl held in his arms as the one he had been protecting just before. "Tai?"

Snapping back into reality, Witchmon stared down at the boy, her whole body frozen as she hovered only a few centimeters away from him with an attack ready to be fire off. The powerful feelings of both respect and fondness struggling with the desire to carry her job in her head as she stumbled back away from him.

Focusing her eyes on him again, she hissed out the single question running through her at them time. "Who are you?" Then she released the power she had gathered back into her in a slow way, lifting off from the ground at the same time with her broom under her as transportation.

Casting a confused look after her, Tai shook his head a bit as he tried to figure out why he and Mimi weren't dead. The digimon had had a chance to blow them up at close range, but had only stared at him. Then he turned to see how Mimi was doing when a small orange body tackled him. "Hey!"

Hugging his partner, Agumon smiled widely as he felt the human boy under him. "I missed you so much, how many years have it been now?" Babbling on as he failed to noticed the very shocked expression on Tai's face. "I'm sorry I didn't find you sooner, but I had barely gotten to server after your returned before I somehow was distracted." His tone of voice a doubtful at the end of his sentence.

Smiling a bit at the sight of the messy haired boy lying on the ground with a digimon sitting on his chest, Mimi smile faltered a bit as she thought of something that had puzzled her. "Why didn't that digimon finish us off? Well, not that I wanted it too, but we wide open for crying out loud."

Turning his head to focus on Mimi as she ranted, Tai took a deep breath, something that was a bit hard with a digimon sitting on him, and exhaled as he sighed deeply. "I don't know, but for a moment, it looked like she recognized us as more then a target." Silent after that statement, Tai wondered as to why the strange digimon would have mumbled out his name the way she had, it hadn't been an angry kind of mumbling, but in a confused way.

Then he shook his head and faced Agumon who had remained silently doing that little explanation. "Agumon was it?" Seeing the digimon nod, Tai smiled a bit at him. "I'm sorry, but my memory about you is rather fuzzy, actually, I didn't think I had another digimon partner until someone told me."

Behind him, he could feel Mimi's puzzled expression, but ignored it as Agumon crawled down from him. "Anyway, I'm Taichi Yagami, Tai for short." Holding out a hand as he pushed himself up into a sitting position, he smiled a bit. "And sorry about forgetting about you."

Giving him a deeply confused look, Agumon held out a clawed hand to shake his. "It's okay Tai, but do you mind telling me what's going on." Voice slightly strained, he looked around the place. "I know you have a habit of getting into trouble Tai, but something tells me this is more serious then the war we fought with Babel."

"Who!" Mimi asked as she settled down, or rather kneeled down, thankful for the fact that she had opted to wear some khaki shorts that day instead of her normal white skirt, it looked great on her, but it wasn't really meant to be used for kneeling down like she did right now.

Next to her, Tai's eyes had narrowed with a look of anger quickly forming on his face as a memory came to life. "Why that filthy rotten dirty!" His outburst dragging the attention of the other two to him as his words rose in sound level, "I can't believe it, that bastard's Babel, when I find him again, I'll."

The rest was lost as he began to spit one curse after another, both Mimi and Agumon feeling that getting the full story for his sudden anger out of him would have to wait until he had cooled down enough not to yell and scream.

--------------------

Back on earth, the master shuddered a bit as a sudden cold wind blew through the air, as nice as the alliance with Oikawa was, he just couldn't stand the older man today, And that was why he was out here today, taking a small walk among the inferior humans and enjoying their worthless lives while his newly created warrior finished off the traitor for him.

How the humans struggled through each day thinking they made a difference to the world he would never know. But he did know how wrong they were, they did nothing but help move those in control towards their goals for the world, people like him, but he would do more then just change a world, he would change two, for when his revenge was complete, the earth itself would feel the same anger that the digital world would.

After all, the two worlds were linked together, and any drastic change in one would affect the other. Toying briefly with his homemade digivice, a faint smile crossed his lips. Maybe he shouldn't visit himself, after all it had been a long time since he had done that and it only served to make him angry enough to nearly forget his plans and seek revenge on his tools for their help in his loss.

Then he dismissed it, he needed a place to think, and only in that special place would he find it. Laughing as he turned to leave the intersection, he cast a hateful look at those that dared to look up at him, those who dared to question themselves who he was.

They knew who he was, he had been on every ones lips after all, he was their newest star, but now they didn't have the right to be a where of that, no, the world had lost that right years ago when they accepted that copy of him instead of seeing it as a fraud, a simple trick made by the digital world to take his rightful place.

Moving more rapidly towards his destination, his laughter turned silently as he watched the other humans go about their daily lives all around him.

How he hated them.

They were nothing like his partner digimon, the only one he had ever been able to trust in completely. Together they had set out to take over the digital world and show them all who they really were.

And then those bastards from the guardian order and the four sovereigns had shown up. And called on the only two who had been able to defeat him at the time. His partner had been lost in the battle before his eyes, and he had been judged unworthy to remain in the digital world and thrown out.

But he would never admit defeat. He would return, and Gennai, Azulongmon and the other sovereigns would pay, they would all pay for what he had to suffer. No longer able to even take up his own place in this world, since their replacement had taken that from him more then 6 years ago.

Turning around as he reached the end of a street, he stopped and looked up at the entrance to a graveyard, one of the few if not the only one in this area of Tokyo. Passing grave after grave, he stopped and stared down a specific one in front of him, a grim smile forming as he read the name on it.

"I knew you would come here sooner or later."

The sudden voice from behind making him spin around in alarm, eyes instantly locking onto the two persons standing before him. "My, my, if it isn't Gennai, and who's the girl, isn't she a bit young to be your girlfriend?" Voice lazed with venom as he spoke, the master walked forward until he stood at level to level with Gennai.

Eyes a bit cold as he watched him, Gennai gave a soft sigh. "I had hoped it wouldn't be you, but all of the signs were there, the vampire like virus, the sudden anger and darkness in the fully infected." Crossing his arms inside the sleeves of his robe, Gennai gave a small nod at the blond haired girl next to him. "Catherine, would you be so kind as to call the digi destined?"

Nodding in response, the French digi destined reached down and pulled out a D-terminal from her own robe, opening it and starting to write down a message on it.

Turning back to face the master, Gennai reached out a hand to touch the master, not even flinching as it was knocked away harshly. "You must come with me, I can help you."

Eyes blazing with anger, the master stepped back and half turned away from Gennai, one hand sneaking into his coat pocket and pressing a small device with in it. "I don't need nor want your help bastard." Voice still cold, he looked down at the grave. "I lost all respect for you and your masters when they made that mockery of me, and when you banished me after killing of my digimon partner, I died, but then I decided to come back and thrown you and your masters out like you did to me, we'll see how you like to live in a world where everyone doesn't believe who you say you are is true."

Looking down at the grave behind the master and reading the name, Gennai shook his head in a sad manner. "We didn't mean to do it, but at the time we made him, we were fully convinced you were dead, please, come with me, and I can help you become who you once were." Voice nearly pleading at the last part, Gennai suddenly stiffed as he felt Catherine moved up behind him in a warning manner. "I know Catherine, I can feel them too."

Eyes glinting with dark amusement, the Master snapped his fingers and grinned as two figures jumped out to land on the ground before him. "Ah, well now Gennai, meet my new friends and helpers." Pointing at each of them, he laughed a bit darkly. "This is Arukenimon, and the fellow with all the bandages is Mummymon."

Taking in a deep breath, Gennai stared at the two digimons with utter confusion. "That power around them, it can't be, how did two digimons like them come into life?" Eyes locked onto the Master, he slowly inched a hand towards his side. "No matter, I can see you have no desire to be helped, but I warn you, no matter what it takes, I will see to it that you won't be able to repeat the tragedy of the past."  

"Tragedy?" The word was whispered out as the Master took a step forward, hands tightly clenched up inside his coat. "The was no tragedy, It was a crime carried out by a bunch of self righteous bastards who thought they could just toy with me and my life!" Screaming out the last part, the master eyes glowing with pure hate. "Kill him, kill them both!!"

Smirking darkly, Arukenimon and Mummymon jumped forward; fully ready to attack when Gennai and Catherine glowed brightly before fading away in a burst of light. The two digimons were left to stare in utter confusion at where he had been just a minute ago. "What just happened here?" The question coming from Mummymon as he turned around to face the master. "When we got your signal we hurried over here, but you didn't say we'd be fighting ghosts."

Eyes still full of hate, the master walked past them. "Never mind about them anymore, they were just a bunch of annoyances from my past." Rubbing a hand through his hair, the master sighed as he looked up into the air. "I didn't lie to you Gennai, I died that day I learned what you had done to me over the years."

Facing the grave, his eyes narrowed to slits. "Osamu Ichijori is dead, all that left is Babel, The Master of the vampire virus program." Eyes glinting with evil, he laughed a bit as he walked away from the grave. "And I will have my revenge on everyone who ever dared to destroy my life."

--------------------

Silence filled the room as Tai stared slowly at the apartment door in front of him; he didn't even know why he had come here. Just that Mimi had asked him to follow her home after he had calmed down. And now he was standing outside the door that led into Mimi's apartment.

And while he wouldn't mind spending more time with her, he dreaded this moment more then anything else. How would they react to the fact that he was the one who kidnapped, hurt and turned their daughter into some kind of vampire creature?

He'd be lucky if he made it out of there without getting killed, heck, he would count it as a lucky thing if he could crawl away from it all when they were through with him.

Next to him, Mimi smiled a bit as she gave a small tug on his arm. "Come Tai, they're not that bad once you get to know them." Pushing open the door, Mimi walked out of the office room, smiling more brightly when she spotted her parents staring at the doorway with a look of hope in their eyes.

Pulling Tai out with her, she ignored the sudden shocked and confused expressions on their faces as they around a bit more in their chairs. "Mom, Dad, I want you to meet a special friend of mine, he's the one I told you about when I came home yesterday."

Giving a weak wave of his hand at them, Tai tried to come up with a good enough explanation as to why he was coming of Mr. Tachikawa's home office with his daughter. "Hi, I'm Taichi Yagami." Feeling even more scared, Taichi made a move to back up a bit as Mr. Tachikawa stood up in a sudden movement, nearly sending his chair crashing back.

"You?!" The words spat out as a mixture of a question and a curse, the elder man advance towards Tai, fingers halfway curled up. "You're the one who kidnapped my daughter." Reaching out, he pulled Tai in closer to his face. "I didn't think you would dare show your face in this part of the world boy, I should kill you for what you put my poor Mimi through you little."

Pulling back a bit more, Tai cast a frantic look up at the angry man's face. "I wasn't my fault, I was being controlled by a virus." Close to slipping into a rant to defend himself from the raging man holding him, Tai cast a pleading look over at Mimi for help.

Except help didn't come form her but from Mrs. Tachikawa as she placed a gentle hand on her husbands arm. "Now, let him free, I'm sure he has a very good explanation, and excuse." Facing Tai, her eyes turned ice cold as she placed both hands on her hips. "If not, I will be the one to hurt him for what he has done."

Behind them, Mimi sighed as she shook her head. Maybe she shouldn't have done this so soon, but it seemed like a good way to make her parents stop arguing for just one day, besides she hadn't expected them to react so violently.

Only now she had to hope that Tai would survive their question round, or at least answer them to a point that they would accept from him. Sitting down at the table, she sighed a bit as she watched Tai try and answer a different question from both her mother and father at the same time.

TBC: Dark Alliance: Part 4

AN: New more then one chapter character introduced, hope no one feels Witchmon to be a annying person, since she wills how up later on. And for the second time, I revealed the Master's true identity, and I hope everyone can live with the name and person I put behind the ID of the Master.