2Author's note: This story acts in the premise set in my other story, "Digimon Adventure 02: The Alternate Destiny" series where Taichi was killed by Piemon and Ken became Agumon's partner towards the end and what if Taichi didn't appear in 02 but after Tri instead.
I have only read bits of spoilers when I wrote this. The events will be different from the movie.
Settings:
- In each and every dimensions, Taichi will die when his wish is granted except the one and only dimension where the Crest of Miracles exists but not the Crest of Darkness.
- This is a dimension that will change things.
- Menoa and Yamada were Chosen Children from Daigo and Maki's team
- Milleniumon had some influence in this dimension
Digimon is not mine. Reviews are always welcomed.
Digimon Adventure: The Alternate Destiny - Kizuna
Chosen Child was only summoned when they were needed to save the Digital World. Until then, there was no need for human partners. Digimon and human could not stay together during time of peace. It had been like this.
Human partners were never able to recall their adventure after separating from their Digimon after their mission. Their sadness had been recorded and saved in the server known as the Vault. Finally there came a group of Chosen Children which were allowed to retain their memories after their adventure. That just meant that child's wish had came true and he had appeared in this era. Only that particular one that had his wish truly came true was the one the Crest of Miracle would appear to.
This is a story told in a different dimension where the Chosen Children from the past or present got to retain their past memories of their adventures except those who died from their missions.
Side: Yamato
Ishida Yamato panted. He had finally reached Neverland. Ahead of him, there was another person. He watched as he extended his hand reaching out to the sky where the sun was. He was leaving them, no him again and Yamato was determined to stop him.
"Taichi, don't go! TAICHI!" Yamato approached the summit of the hill and attempted to reach out for him. He was not going to give up on Taichi without a fight. Taichi turned to him giving him a warm and peaceful smile as the bright light engulfed them.
"Aniki?" Yamato woke up. He covered his eyes with his arms.
"Aniki? Are you alright? You look as though you had a nightmare." Yamato attempted to wipe his tears with his sleeves before revealing himself to a worried looking Takeru.
It had been a week since the battle with Eosmon. Everything had resumed to what it used to be, it seems, except for Yamato and his friends. Their time with their Partner Digimon was up. Gabumon was gone, Agumon was gone and even Taichi… Yamato could not believe it. He fought alongside with Taichi.
"Takeru, what brought you here?" Yamato sat down on his bed. Patamon was peeking over his shoulder worriedly as well.
"I haven't hear from you from the messages I had sent, so I came over." Takeru responded as he stood up.
"Sorry, Takeru. I need some time to myself." Yamato admitted looking at his stretched palm. Takeru nodded in understanding. His brother had become a hero overnight having rescued the lost Chosen Children from "Neverland" from Eosmon.
"How is everybody?" Yamato asked getting ready to cook. He would make breakfast for the both of them. Their father had gone to work which left the two of them.
"I saw Hikari in lecture. Mimi-san was discharged. So is Jyou-san and Koushirou-san." Takeru started rattling on. "Sora-san is not captured so Aniki you need not worry about her."
"I haven't seen Daisuke and the rest. I wonder what were they up to?" Takeru wondered sitting at the dining table watching his brother who just cracked an egg on a sizzling pan.
"How is… Taichi doing?" Yamato wanted to ask but gave up. Why will he want to ask about him? "That's right. Takeru wouldn't know. " He would end up with more questions than answers.
"I'm wondering how Hikari is? She was staring at the whistle in a daze. It was something she found herself holding when she first woke up. I seen her staring at it in lecture too." Takeru continued. Yamato smiled.
That whistle was something he left for her. Yamato watched him whispering to Hikari who was unconscious.
"Live on. Live on my behalf."
*Flashback*
A week ago…
Mochizuki Meiko and Yamato ran hard. The battle had ended. Both Agumon and Gabumon was gone. Meiko was a pseudo partner of Agumon since Meicoomon left them. Agumon was very protective and willing to assist her. He had after all declared that he liked Meiko very much and wanted to stay by her side. Ichijouji Ken had been supportive and assist her to obtain the partnership with Agumon.
They had reached the hospital where the medical team was trying hard to resuscitate a patient with big brown hair. Yamato could never forget him as long as he lived. He is Yagami Taichi who perished in the Digital World eleven years ago. Yamato watched Meiko who watched the medical team working to restart his heart. As he suspected, she was more involved than they had thought.
"He confronted her and was shot." A male adult in suit informed Meiko when she first arrived in the hospital before the final battle with Eosmon. He wanted to stop her from continuing her quest to collect the Chosen Children's consciousness.
"Nishijima would not want to see her becoming the second Himekawa." It was one of the Chosen Children who was chosen with Nishijima Daigo and Himekawa Maki behind the scene.
"I should have stop her, I'm sorry." The man in his early 30s apologised to Meiko in the waiting area in the hospital. The surgery was still going on. The man found Taichi lying in a pool of blood applying pressure with his hand on his wound in despair at Koushirou's office. Koushirou was already unconscious before the scuffle happened.
"Hang on." The man cradled Taichi on his lap. His blood was seeping through his finger as he attempted to stop his bleeding from his wound.
"I couldn't… stop… her… I let Nishijima-san down…" Taichi tried to get his words out while coughing out blood.
Despite going through the surgery and the bullet was removed. Taichi was in critical condition being shot in his heart. His consciousness was taken by Eosmon as well.
"Taichi-san was a friend introduced by Nishijima from the Incorporated Administrative Agency and I'm to be his first friend when he woke up in this world." Meiko watched him through window of the in ICU where he laid and he was hooked up with a number of machine monitoring his condition. Meiko shuddered and slide down the wall breaking down in tears.
Meiko had read his profile before even getting to know him in person. Since Nishijima's death in the Digital World, he had left his petty inheritance to support the Chosen Children who was reconfigured from the reboot of the Digital World. As Dark Gennai had declared that Yggdrasil was using reboot to revive the evil Digimon who had perished against them, he would take this chance to retrieve the deleted Chosen Children and that was how Nishijima chanced upon Taichi who was experimented with by Himekawa and Professor Mochizuki was also involved.
Taichi woke up in the hospital not knowing who he was. All he knows was his name, Taichi and Nishijima Daigo whom he had never met would be his guardian. Taichi had been given a new identity Kamiya Taichi and to blend into the society as fast as he could.
Taichi had been travelling around the world in various school and got into university in five years. During this period Meiko had been in touch with him. In fact, Agumon was the one who had been talking to him over the phone when she was busy, knowing him by Kamiya. They got along really well. Agumon claimed that he would not mind if he became Meiko's boyfriend which Meiko denied in embarrassment.
"Without his consciousness, he won't be able to last much longer." Dr. Kido and her father analysed Taichi's worsening condition.
Meiko finally decided to tell Yamato and Agumon about Taichi before their planned attack in Neverland to deal with Eosmon so that they could help him. Agumon was especially shocked. To think Taichi was so close to them and Yamato simply couldn't convince himself that Taichi indeed was alive.
During one of the initial attack in the Digimon incident the group had been handling, Gabumon and Tailmon had saw a glimpse of memory data Eosmon had emitted when somehow the Digimon had went out of control failing to retrieve one of the dark seed children's consciousness. They had seen familiar memories they could not pinpoint on. Eosmon was acting by instinct attacking Yamato and Hikari. They didn't know better.
"Yamato-san, Agumon, please come back safely." Meiko prayed outside the barrier separating Neverland and the Real World. Transferring her partnership with Agumon to Taichi, she could only wait for their return.
Yamato found Taichi in Neverland all grown up. He was not that different from what he had remembered eleven years ago.
"End… the… battle, save the… world… Keep… everybody… safe… It's ok… if I leave… the rest… to you… right?" Yamato watched helplessly when Taichi's body was turned into data and faded away.
"Long time no see, Yamato." Taichi turned to smile at him before turning back looking across the lake separating the island with the sleeping Children who were looking younger than they should.
"You're Taichi." Yamato walked towards him with Agumon and Gabumon following closely behind. They were the final hope.
"Taichi!" Agumon jumped into his arm in happiness. He did not think he would ever see Taichi again since he failed to protect him, his very first partner. Taichi grinned at his best partner.
"I'm sorry I'm unable to get in touch with you earlier." Taichi apologised. He managed to recall everything when he woke up in Neverland. He could not believe he had lost six years walking up in 2005 after dying in the Digital World in 1999.
"Koushirou had considered this possibility after what Dark Gennai had told him in the Digital World" Yamato admitted. He had got Daisuke and his group to keep a look out. They would know when they saw Taichi having travelling through time as their secret ad-hoc mission which Daisuke had been carefully keeping the fact from him. There was another world Yagami Taichi was well and alive. Yamato was really glad when he overheard their conversation in 2003.
Yes, Daisuke and his group had managed to make contact with Taichi through their own means. They confirmed that Taichi did not have his memory despite still holding on to his Digivice which had been disabled. They decided not to interfere with his new life since he was progressing well on his own overseas.
"You're not going in alone." Yamato decided. He was wagering for a chance. Maybe he could finally bring Taichi home where he belonged along with his memories. Taichi's vague memories were first taken by Eosmon when it was first born from an experiment Professor Mochizuki and his team as well as one of Nishijima's comrade was involved in. His guardian who replaced the late Nishijima-san expanded the research after it was abandoned. She shot him in cold blood when he attempted to stop her.
"We're going together and we're going home together!" After all, miracles had happened thanks to the nasty reboot.
Taichi chuckled. That was an ideal situation he could dream of. Yes, in his dream. His physical body was dying in the Real World though but he did not want to disappoint Yamato.
They high-fived in agreement.
It was a hard battle. They were being attacked all over and they need to regroup.
Yamato look up to his back. Taichi had something he needed to do. He was holding on to Hikari's whistle he found here. He managed to find Hikari in the midst of the unconscious children. He brushed her hair gently. Hikari had grown so big. Taichi was really glad that she had grown up healthily she should have and she no longer need him.
"Hikari, tell dad and mum I'm sorry I haven't been a good son to them. Live on my behalf." Taichi placed the whistle in her palm. He turned to Yamato who was stunned by his words. Yamato shook his thought off. Taichi would go back with him. He would convince him.
"We may not be able to change our fate, but.. We can change our destiny!" A new evolution happened. It was not Omegamon Daisuke had spoke of, Yamato had envisioned as they headed in for a rematch.
As Eosmon was finally defeated, the timer on their Digivice had finished its countdown. Agumon and Gabumon was gone. The boys broke down in tears. They were aware of the risks but in order to save everyone, hard decisions had to be made. Both Agumon and Gabumon were prepared.
Taichi was the first to stand up after a period of silence. He heard something ticking. They watched as the children were fading one by one from Neverland back to the Real World.
"Taichi, you're coming back with me." Yamato remembered his objective. He was determined to be his friend he could rely on. Surely they could be friends again, right? Taichi heard him. He understood him. Perhaps he could go back and fight for his life?
Suddenly, Taichi's eyes widen. He spotted Eosmon's final attack emerging from its destruction. Neverland is collapsing faster than the children's consciousness could return. The data was deleting at a rate Taichi could not do anything about. His Digivice were disabled.
"This can't do." Taichi was afraid that the range of data deletion would reach Hikari and his friends and Yamato who was physically there. Realising what could happen, Taichi made his decision.
Taichi's body glowed. Yamato stared in horror as he got a bad feeling towards it.
"Taichi? Taichi, No!" Yamato stood up approaching him but was forced to stand a distance away due to the glaring light emitting from his fading body.
"I'm sorry Yamato. This is it. Even though it had been a short time, I'm happy to have gone to the Digital World with everyone. Thank you for being my friend." Taichi closed his eyes raising his hands to form a barrier blocking the incoming destruction. Being deleted from the Digital World before, he received some knowledge. He would use his data, his memory to protect his friends.
"Thank you for believing in me but I'm sorry I was so late. Taichi, you are my true friend! I won't let your friendship be in vain!" Yamato shook his head in denial.
"TAICHI!"
If there was a next life, he would like to go on another adventure with his friends again. With all his determination, Yamato and the rest were safely returned to the Real World.
*End Flashback*
No one would have known except for himself and Mochizuki. Until now he was unable to convince himself to forgive her for keeping the details of her involvement with Taichi and the Incorporated Administrative Agency .
Taichi had given up his life to protect them. He had attended his funeral. It was kept discreet. His existence and his death was covered up by Incorporated Administrative Agency and he could do nothing about. Not even the Yagami's family were aware of this. Taichi's involvement was never revealed and Yamato was named the hero along with Mochizuki Meiko among the Chosen Children community. Daisuke and his group knew. They kept up a great fight to protect the Real World and they were aware of Taichi's fate. To his horror, they knew Mochizuki way before they did and they were involved in Incorporated Administrative Agency missions winding up in the Vault. They were ultimately rescued by the late former Chosen Child, Nishijima Daigo who gave his life to save them.
Yamato was no longer the privileged Chosen Child now. Yamato stared up solemnly at the gloomy sky which rained heavily. An umbrella hovered above his head.
"You'll get a cold, Yamato-senpai." It was Daisuke. He handed him some stuff from another rebooted Chosen Child who was described to have tanned skin, sparkling white teeth, and pleasant smile, releasing the perfect aura and that he returned to this world he actually come from. Taichi had entrusted his stuff with him.
Yamato looked over the things Taichi left. There were photos and cut-out of newspapers from Digimon incidents including photos of their day-to-day lives using his privilege in Incorporated Administrative Agency. It was not just Koushirou and himself trying to find clues to his existence and to reach out to him. Taichi was doing the same. Unfortunately, he never had the courage until the day he came to Koushirou's office and met his fate.
Yamato lost it all in the battle, Gabumon, Taichi. Yamato finally broke down in tears and cried himself to sleep.
After that, Takeru came to his place and found him. Yamato placed the plate of eggs he fried on the table. Takeru was already salivating. Patamon had started sipping his coffee.
"Aniki, let's eat!" Takeru urged him to hurry. He was so hungry coming over the first thing in the morning.
Yamato found himself smiling all the sudden at his reaction. He was glad that Takeru and everyone was safe. Perhaps he was no longer one of the Chosen Children, the peace to be preserved is left up to them. He would support them from the back. After all, there were so many unknown happening behind their back and he would need to help them deal with them.
"This is what you will have wanted, right? Taichi? So that they can live their lives in happiness."
