It was our 1st year anniversary...the 1st year Rena and I had been together, I had never been so happy yet so dismayed in my life. Every time I would think of that day Rena and I had started dating...I couldn't help remembering them fading away from our lives forever on that same day...It bothered me...but I was determined to not let it get in the way of this special day. It seemed that I had been thinking of them particularly lately...they seemed to drift in and out of my thoughts, but that day I remember going to Rena's house that day. It was stormy...very glum. Everything seemed to be gray and I stilled seemed to be convinced that something different was about to happen. Like the day I could feel Omnimon surging towards us with his blade in his hands...getting ready to strike us all down when we thought it was over. All I could do was think about what happened during those moments...everyone seemed so concerned with Magnadramon...maybe they just weren't paying attention...I had managed to save two lives...but even still I still can't bring myself to be positive about that since it was also myself who left Kari and TK die, I knew it was the right thing to do, but I always felt nobody else did except me...and that bothered me a lot. By the time I snapped out of my daze I was in front of Rena's quaint home...it was fairly large, a beautiful white picket fence in the front with a garden on the side of its 2 story structure...I had never been inside it before since Rena lived with her mother, so she usually came to my house since I lived by myself in an apartment since I moved back to America...Rena would come over almost every other day...of coarse I never let anything ever happen between us, it was innocent, but I enjoyed her company. We usually just talked and ate like all teenagers do.

When I was finally inside the gate, I reluctantly rang the doorbell...Rena told me that her mother would not be home...that she trusted her...but what if she was there...what if she would ask where and how we met...it would seem a little awkward to say Oh yeah, well I was instructed by a vindictive voice to kill her...so I tried but failed then we joined forces to save the digital world until our partners and everything we tried saving totally disappeared in a vortex that was created by my future self when we went back to the real world and me and your daughter hooked up after knowing each other for about 2 earth minutes. It made me feel very awkward if not guilty. I managed to bring it in myself to make my finger make contact with the doorbell when I leaned myself forward to knock on the door after no response. I tried knocking loudly...but it seemed hard with such a large bouquet of flowers I bought for her along with a huge teddy bear that smelled like some allergy tempting French perfume. I seemed to be leaning fully towards the door when all of the sudden it quickly opened, causing me to fall forward, crushing her flowers with my chin at the tip of Rena's long, black boots that she was wearing. Still on the ground I turned my head to find the teddy bear when I could feel its satin leg brushing against my arm. I stared at it and realized it was separate from the rest of it and yelled out embarrassed beyond belief NO! and Rena put her hand over mine and pulled me up. She had a huge grin on her face with her mascara covered eyes staring solemnly at him as she said humored, "Trouble?"

"Rena!!" J.C. said blushing uncontrollably while he began to frantically search for the rest of the bear when Rena showed it to him where it was in her other hand. "Rena...please I am so sorry, I really didn't mean to...you know what---maybe I will stop by Hallmark again and buy you another one, this one will be twice and big and sweet smelling---I promise--You know how clumsy I am sometimes---just please don't be-----

Rena put her index finger over his lips and signaled him to calm down, J.C. got up fully when Rena managed to tilt him roughly towards her where she locked her own sweet and moist lips on his. She then slowly released him and whispered to him quietly "No wonder I love you so such." she smiled slightly.

J.C. then suddenly snapped back into his panicked self and quickly said "Happy Anniversary! hehe." J.C. smiled with almost feigned cuteness and purity when he suddenly said in a more serious tone "I am an idiot aren't I. I'm sorry you got stuck with such a dud for a boyfriend...maybe I should just leave , I hope you like my flowers." he finished as he started walking to the door.

Rena quickly grabbed him by the shoulder when she could notice an aroma that smelled like brisk aftershave, she grinned to herself knowing that J.C. had never shaved in his life and quickly said "No! Wait up." she yelled pulling him towards her and kissing him even longer and passionate than before. J.C. released himself from her clover scented lips and chuckled mischievously.

"What!?" Rena said almost offended while her usually rosy cheeks started to become crimson. She paused for a moment and realized what he meant "Oh, you did that just to make me do that didn't you!" said Rena good-humoredly. "grrr you."

"Rena, I miss you." said J.C. going back into his oversensitive yet serious tone

"What do you mean...I am right in front of your eyes." she said starting to question his sentilmentalism.

"It seems so long since they have been gone and all day I have thought of nothing but you...you're everything to me because you are all I have left..." J.C. started to say almost teary eyed "...And I love you Rena." he said as he bent down and held her tightly, sensually kissing her neck very gently and slowly when he could see something just in a room with a computer in it. The door was open and he noticed something blue and golden next to her keyboard, he stopped the kissing and noticed that it was Rena's DTV, lying idol in the room as if it were a paper clip or a remote to her TV. He stared at her green eyes letting his expression say everything for him when he finally broke the silence with "Why is that by your computer."

Rena wiggled herself away from J.C.'s arms and saw her DTV and stated as if it meant nothing "Its my DTV...so what? You still have yours, right?"

"Its not about that! How can you just allow that thing to just sit there as if you would just pick it up on a moments notice and use it like we did back then!? Why do you act as if it is ever going to be used again! Why is it there!!?" J.C. raised his tone at Rena while tears formed around his eyes.

Rena looked at him with full compassion and shifted his face to see hers and said calmly "Jace, it isn't that big of a deal, I may never use it again but I like it around my house for a decoration...I like studying it to find out more about it now that I don't have hundreds of digimon trying to kill me in an unfamiliar digital plain , why are you so upset about it?"

J.C. stared at her in disgust as if she was supposed to know his pain with tears running down his face "Why!? Why!? Why am I so upset!!?" he roared loudly startling Rena a bit "You wanna know why I am so upset, do you! This is why!" he said as he reached for something in his inside coat pocket. It was his own DTV, as crimson and golden as it was the last time he used it, he clutched it angrily and hurled it into the room where Rena's was. "That's why I'm upset!" he yelled falling down to his knees, he then continued in a low and more settled down tone "No matter what I always think about them, I can't hear a voice without remembering them, I can't talk to my friends without them saying something that they would say! I can't eat food anymore because I always see their faces staring back at me and I cant not eat because it will remind of how I never ate while in the digital world. They are in my dreams all of the time...I feel as if I killed them! I feel like it is all because of me that they are gone now! If I would have just let him kill that horrid Satancybermon, I may have saved about 22 lives! Do you know how that makes me feel!? At all!? Do you know what its like to feel like you just want to die and then when you want to seek help you realize you can't because nobody will believe you!? It hurts Rena! I'm hurting! And by seeing that damn DTV just lying around there on a table...it just hurts!" J.C. finished with his eyes red and irritated and his knees damp from warm tears.

"J.C..." Rena said softly while trying to slowly get her hand to comfort J.C. with, who was still on the floor, her hand seemed to almost be near him when he turned around viciously and roared 'NO!' Rena pulled her hand away quickly when J.C. got back on to his feet and stomped his way into the computer room and picked up his DTV from the floor. He madly approached the wall in the computer room and hurled his DTV at it endlessly. He grabbed his crest, which was also tucked away in his pocket while Rena watched him in horror as he grinded the pointy crest into the screen of the DTV until he managed to break it open while sparks ate at the carpeted floor. Rena ran to help J.C. and get him away from them when a neon green light flashed from the crushed DTV that seemed to devour the features of Rena's home when a familiar face appeared on the obvious hologram before them.

Although the features of the holographic being were somewhat distortedly projected, it was obvious that it was Tai with his wonton hair growing abundantly over his head. Rena and J.C. seemed to have forgotten what had been going on before and their full attention went to the hologram.

The hologram Tai seemed to just stand motionless in front of them, he seemed to be chillingly observing their motions and features as if he was a real person with real vision and senses. He then spoke in a loud tone that seemed to be dominant over any sound Rena and J.C. could possibly make. His voice seemed much different than it normally was, deeper and more serious, his digimon, Agumon, could be seen nowhere near him. At first his words seemed to be in a language foreign to Rena's and J.C.'s when he progressively swayed into English.

" Hello Jason and Rena, if you are watching this I strongly assume that it has been exactly one year since the disappearance of your partner digimon and the beginning of your new and pathetic lives." he started off staring directly at J.C. and Rena

"How the heck did you get here!?" asked Rena in shock at the life size Tai, speaking to him as if he was alive.

"I programmed myself into a computer database and all of my thoughts...feelings...and emotions have been transferred into this hologram...and based on everything I gave the computer...it makes my answers for me."

"You can hear me!?" Rena yelled quite upset and disturbed while J.C. stared at Tai in a trance.

"Why yes of coarse Rena, why wouldn't I? We have had this conversation before." said Tai looking at her puzzled

"No we haven't!" she protested

"Yes we have." he shot back at her fiercely

"No we haven't!" she yelled back at him

"You are much too ignorant to understand what I mean so I will just ignore you at this point." he paused as he humouredly watched Rena snare at him "There are probably a lot of questions you may have after that long and tedious adventure, and my purpose here is to answer them for you."

"Okay!" Rena said approaching the hologram "Why don't we start off with why J.C. received that email and why did you sign DD as the sender."

Tai glared at her feistiness, yet resumed talking "I really don't want to explain the first part of the question, but DD was just a cheesy way to abbreviate Digidestined, but if you are going to have such an attitude and if your little friend is just going to stare off into space at me...I will just start everything from the beginning. I have been exactly where you are right now, being a digidestined that is, I know how it is to lose a digimon. For a few years my digimon friends were locked away in the digital world and it wasn't until the new set of twits, better known as the digidestined who betrayed us and that wretched sister of mine and Matt's brother TK joined forces and began saving the digital world just as we did. Suddenly the digital world was open again and I must give it to them...they did do a fair job of saving it, but it seemed that they were taking credit for everything we had started and that was very disturbing to me----

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"Get to the point!" yelled Rena

"I WILL WHEN I NEED TO!" he roared back at her, sending her psychically backwards...making her head forcefully hit the wall." J.C. did nothing and continued to stare at Tai blankly

"I was tired of them...what was the point of saving the digital world when other people can so easily come and take the glory that is rightfully yours! So I decided to help destroy it! Who, Who can you name that would be able to defeat an enemy who had tried to save the digital world so many times himself at one point----

"Us!" Rena growled defiantly as the holographic Tai lifted her up mentally and dropped her to the ground roughly.

"So I called upon the original 8 digidestined minus TK and Kari and persuaded them into the idea. We spent countless months devising a plan so perfect...so flawless that those new digidestined would not be able to touch us. We took home to the digital world...runaways...but back then the digital world's time was synchronized with our own time but ever since an international digidestined event happened, it seemed to have shifted back into its fast pace time once again, nevertheless we are still considered missing. You can't look on one news channel who never talks of the strange incident that happened to us. Look at it right now." he said as he made the computer screen to the side of him change into a TV screen that displayed a local news channel.

J.C. and Rena stared at the news station and looked in shock at the news report while the hologram Tai watched with them. The article could be heard:

This is Caroline Swartz talking live to you from a suburban section of Northern Tokyo. This is a rather disturbing news report and content may not be suitable for young children. I am here in front of the now infamous Takotuji High school where the bodies of 4 young men and 2 young women were found dead in the computer lab of this high school campus you see before you. It isn't exactly known what happened to this unlucky group of teenagers and police are still trying to figure out what exactly could have actually happened to them. The teen's bodies were lying on top of one another in front of a turned on computer ,located in the center of the schools main computer lab. The computer teacher at Takotuji ,states that the students would often come to the computer lab after school and he really would not mind leaving them by themselves sometimes late at night. The first names of these teens can now be released for naming purposes but the families refused to allow our news station to release their last names. All of these teens were students here and their names will be released as followed. TK, Ken, Kari, Cody , Yolei, and Davis...it seems awkward reporting merely their first names but they will become imperative for the chilling twist to this virtual never ending story. It is being taken into consideration that this tragic case may be related to the disturbing case of 6 missing teenagers who also attended this campus and because of complications with these conflicting cases we can only say that 2 of the missing teenagers from over 3 years ago were related to two of the dead teens found this morning and unlike this case, the children from a few years ago bodies...were never found. It is very shocking to come to reality that our lives are a privilege, not a right and tragically, like these mysterious cases, it can be taken away at any moment. We send our prayers to the families of these children, live from Tokyo, Caroline Swartz, ABC news.

Tai then immediately shut off the computer screen and the beautiful Tokyo scenery changed into the dusty computer monitor once again, Rena in shock and J.C. with the same, emotionless expression on his face.

The hologram started to swerve around and seemed to be slowly fading away and coming back again when Rena brought his attention back to her and asked "What happened to them! They died in the digital world so how is it possible that their bodies could be found here in the real world! ANSWER ME!" Rena said starting to lose control of herself.

"Or were they?" Tai said mockingly at Rena which made her even angrier than before "When one enters the digital world, it is similar to your dream cycles, it feels like you're there, yet you never have any proof that your body came along with you in the journey. I remember that computer TK and the others were in front of. That was their portal to the digital world, now normally, ones body usually goes with them to the digital world, but when they die there...their physical bodies go back to the place they were when they were flesh and bones and not data and digital body frames and since all of them died their bodies retreated back to where it last was, in front of the computer."

"That is sick! You are sick! All of you." said Rena narrowing her eyes at him while he just grinned at her

"Oh, did I say I was done!" he glared, forcing her head to maliciously hit the ceiling until he dropped her back onto the ground like a rag doll. "As I was saying...they needed to be destroyed and I found the perfect way to do it, Agumon and Gabumon had heard legends of the phoenix eye, a digital Loch Ness Monster if you know what I mean, but if it was real...the possibilities would be endless and I would be able to crush everything in my way...its just that there was a catch...the Phoenix eye takes about 70 years to form inside only he or she with the purest heart and the chosen one who would be destined to save the world and then I found out it was you Rena! I had to get you into my clutches before anyone else could, and for reasons unbeknownst to me, you just happened to become a digidestined, but that never really bothered me very much...I was an unbeknownst product at one point...so I needed to recruit someone who would serve on my side...do my bidding, an Anti-Rena if I dare say. By that time, it seemed like I changed dramatically, I used to be an uneducated jock with the attention span of a child...but the power changed me...lust for power can be a power of its own...I took back the strings of being leader that were rightfully mine in the first place...contrary to popular belief. But I digress...I recruited Jason, I mean, who wouldn't. He was a perpetual left over who has been rejected all of his life. His parents never cared for him...threw him out of their home into his uncles when he was very young...his uncle couldn't stand him so he got booted to a Japanese academy...full time, top of the line...but nobody could have been more unhappy about it than he was. I took him in to kill you because I knew he was incapable of it...I knew that he would join you and you two and your digimon would get close enough to be an easy target for me. I could have made Jason destroy you the second you had trust in him...I had the ability to anyway...I could control his emotions through that crest of his...the crest of rage...divined it myself, but for some reason that even I cannot explain...he somehow managed to change his crest and defy his destiny as my flunky...after that I really couldn't control him, but I could still keep a close eye on him through those digimon I purposely threw in your path. Gorgomon for example...I personally talked to him myself...staged the whole thing, I told him to tell you everything and to hint about Galaxor Island...of coarse I never explained to him that I would kill him in the end, but nevertheless. I needed you to go to Galaxor because it was a wild goose chase that I planned to lead you to flawlessly. Gekomon was also another pawn in my plan, notice how he gets mad when J.C. questions him excessively...I only gave him so many lines to say which made him angry and nervous about the authenticity of his accounts. I needed him to hint of the digital sovereigns, which I had personally met myself. I knew where they were exactly and if I let you there I guessed accurately that someone would speak of that forsaken catalyst that would ultimately be the rotted aftermath of a once powerful if not invincible digimon...when something happened that would totally change my plans...Darkrenamon became wise to my plans because she somehow could tap into my energies when I attacked Gorgomon and afterwards she knew about you Rena, and the Phoenix eye forming within you, she wanted to get to the Phoenix eye and destroy it before I could get a hold of it myself because she knew I would kill you if the Phoenix eye remained premature within you, so she aged you greatly and made it easier for me to remove without killing you. But, if I revealed my identity too soon it wouldn't have been nearly as fun to crush you when you weren't your best so I sent that future Jason to give you a pretty good picture of what was ahead and to attempt to get the Phoenix eye at the same time...but I will get to that later. Then----finally when you found out who we were, you slowly took out our team one by one...totally humiliated everything us second generation digidestined stood for. I wasn't about to let that happen...you were supposed to be at my mercy, so I decided to pull a stunt that myself and Matt had only managed to achieve once in our lifetime...merge our digimon into the unstoppable Omnimon. As Omnimon, we had powers far past anything that I had ever planned, yet you outsmarted us again and you two managed to merge together as well! After that poor Omnimon could not take it anymore and slowly started to go mad, he lost total control of his thoughts and I am sure he would have killed and destroyed everything in his path if he hadn't of in a time of desperation, released Satancybermon. He had lost all of his hope...he needed a solution, a quick one....he hadn't the mind to think of stealing the Phoenix eye back, so he destroyed it, which would be the thing that would ultimately lead to his demise...you ruined me Rena! And your mute boyfriend did as well! What do you have to say for yourself!"

"What the heck are you!" Yelled Rena at the hologram "If you are merely a carbon copy of Tai's mind, then how would you know about everything that happened up to your death! It is impossible and I demand to know who you are!"

The hologram then gave Rena a horrific look that sent chills down her spine...she could feel him trying to move her forward...she wanted to yell for J.C. to help, but she couldn't bring the words from her mouth. Would he be able to hear me anyway...what is wrong with him, I need to do something to snap him out of that daze! She thought when Tai once again opened his mouth.

"That is where this story takes a chillingly accurate twist Rena, watch this screen!" he urged her as he shifted her eyes forcefully to stare at a hologram projection that took up her whole wall, she could see two separate images that seemed not only blurry but somewhat distorted as the hologram of Tai was...she could see two bubbles when she could recognize one of the distorted figures as herself and the figure in the other bubble as J.C.. They seemed to be taking place in the chambers of Titancybermon's and Shamon's mind which seemed to make her uneasy. Although the pictures seemed to stretch horizontally every couple of seconds, the sound seemed to project unaffected by the poor projections of the image...she could then hear familiar voices and an even more chillingly familiar conversation...

"You don't understand though, that freak was me in the future and that evil fireball we just fought was Cybermon's future self. And if what they said was true, this will just happen all over again, except it will be me in the jar, and then the part that fought me will like-be another me, then he will turn evil, then another me will come along and---

"Don't worry about it!! All we need to do is alter the past, or--, well I don't know! Stop confusing me! Okay. J.C. it is not over until the fat lady sings, so we will destroy Satancybermon and---

"But that will kill me in the future!"

"FINE! I don't know, we will just have to wait and see, but I know there is someway around it. There has to be, we just can't kill Satancybermon, that way we will have some control of the matter."

"I agree, but how are we gonna keep some overgrown, fused, future me and Cybermon contained. Everything I can think of, he can think of a counter towards and then some... I just don't know how we can reverse this . It just seems---

"Now J.C., don't say it. Don't say impossible because it is not. It is the opposite. You just have to trust in Cybermon, Darkrenamon, me, and most importantly, yourself. We can't control the future, you're right about that, but I have a bulldog at home who I can't control , but that doesn't mean I can't send him to obedience school and try."

"You're right. You know what, you are so right. But its just that I don't want to end up in a jar and hurting you guys. I just don't. And it scares me that I don't have control over any of this. Destiny scares me. It's, just so, well... final."

"WHAT THE HECK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH ANYTHING!" Said Rena feeling violated of her privacy

"Because Jason was right, he is totally accurate about the correlation between him and his future self." said Tai almost anticipating her panic

"What...but J.C. changed his future! He was never meant to become a psychopath like you! HIS CREST EVEN REFLECTS THAT! Look at it...it says destiny!" Rena exclaimed, giving in to the emotions Tai wanted her to feel.

"That means nothing,." Tai grimaced "How do you think I am able to talk about things that happened up to the point of my death despite the fact that I am a hologram; Because all of this his happened before and will happen for eternity just as J.C. said" He replied happily and stealthily shut off the projection of Rena and J.C. "All of this has happened before endlessly and it is very foolish for you to assume that destiny will not prevail over anything and everything you try to change about it. Like death, fate has an inevitable design that falters to nothing and if you take a good look at your companion there you will realize that you never even came close to changing the inevitable."

Rena once again stood up and jerked herself out of Tai's telepathy when she pointed her finger erectly at him in total anger and fright, yelling "I don't know what you just said or meant----maybe I don't want to know, but as soon as J.C. snaps out of whatever shock he is in, we will crush you and will show you true power and true teamwork! You are just here to scare us, nothing you said is true...just something to freak us out! I know it, because I know you! Even that news report was made today, there is no way that what you said is true! NO WAY!"

"Then what if I told you that that News Report was taken from several years ago." he said calmly.

"You're lying to me." she said, approaching J.C. slowly, noticing his back was turned to her "He is never going to be one of you and never has!" She finally reached J.C. and shook him roughly "J.C., get up! I am sorry if I hurt your feelings, I feel the same way about the digimon as you do...just get up, you are making me uneasy." She received no response and resumed shaking him "J.C.!" She then completely turned him around and Tai restrained himself from laughing when Rena let out a piercing scream that filled the walls around her with horror. Tai stared at her in total amusement.

When she had turned him around, he was no longer the awkward boy who brought her flowers only moments ago...he seemed to have decayed, his flesh seemed quite bloated and his skin had a slight tinge of green on the surface, but even this had not caused Rena to scream. Perhaps it was is eyes that caused her to send that bloodcurdling bellow , they were no longer purple , but rather---evil. They instead were a neon green Iris, pupil and cornea that caused that scream...they seemed to be able to send , messages to anyone who stared into them, they seemed to promote every ounce of darkness within his heart and, yet Rena could not take her eyes off of them...she seemed frozen in her place, terrified about the realization that Tai opened her mind into. His face seemed to be corroding every second that passed by and he began to have sustained movement, closer and closer of Rena, and she could do nothing to stop him, she seemed paralyzed because of those eyes, what had happened to him in only a matter of minutes, she could suddenly hear Jason in her mind, what had he meant...the whole moment seemed to flash before her.

"How did I join the dark side after all? Well if I tell you everything, I might change my history but I will tell you that betrayal had a lot to do with it. Besides, what is the point of fighting 'evil' instead of causing it, destiny is inevitable and it will always catch up to you, but don't worry you will get yours...especially you Rena. But don't worry soon enough it will happen to you, J.C., and you will meet your younger self and it will repeat for eternity."

"What happened to Rena and Darkrenamon!?"

"Oh J.C., you should be ashamed. Where's the fun in knowing that? Be a sport Jace."

How could she be so oblivious to what Jason meant, she thought to herself,...and what was implied to her by everyone else...she knew her destiny and it could not be changed...she now knew exactly what was about to happen to her, she couldn't take this anymore, she snapped out of paralysis and moved quickly away from the approaching J.C..

Tai watched their ultimate game of hide and seek and grinned lustfully at what he knew was about to happen since he had probably seen it 100 times.

J.C. seemed to be a walking zombie and with saliva hanging a foot away from his chin, Rena grabbed anything she could and hurled them towards him, to slow everything down, yet he seemed to have backed her into a corner and continued to mumble something that seemed foreign to Rena, something very inhuman and evil. She seemed to have backed herself into the corner of the computer room and seemed to have run out of things to throw at him; she was terrified for her life, she was now, for the first time of her life, scared of her destiny.

Tai could hear her screaming for help, and for a moment, he seemed to almost want to come to her aid, change everything that was destined for her...but his eyes and expression remained bloodthirsty and he stood in the same spot as before.

Rena dig her fingernails completely into the rug beneath her and with full force, kicked J.C. away from her, yet this would be a mistake that would cost her dearly...he grabbed her thigh and maliciously dragged her until her face was directly beneath his own. He stared at her for a moment...deciphering the hidden message beneath those teary eyes, he began to have feelings for her again, he almost was able to have control of the urges that seemed to surge through her mind. He threw his hand towards her and pinned her down with it by the neck. He wanted her blood now, not her love...Tai seemed to be sending a hidden message to him with every word he would bellow until he found himself in this state. J.C. was no longer a mortal anymore, but something far worse and disgusting, although he had a frame of human features it was those eyes that seemed to render Rena motionless and the same eyes that made him seem more hideous than even Satancybermon. He took a final glance at her skin, the untouched, the innocence, and her eyes that seemed to totally contrast his now. But it seemed like J.C. had no thoughts anymore...no more humanity to use them with, Tai did something to him and it was working wonderfully.

He tightened his grip on Rena's throat and then did something to his face that was too indescribable for words. Rena tried to keep her eyes closed, but she could not escape it...she took a glance at pure evil itself and when she looked at what J.C. had done to his face and perfected in his eyes, she screeched sounds of mortal terror until she looked exactly like J.C. with her eyes green tinge to her skin, yet unlike J.C., she seemed to be frozen in the same position, with her mouth opened so wide that it seemed her jaw tore itself off of her skin and her eyes were completely white with red lines shooting through them like a checkerboard.

J.C. then put his teeth gently over her throat and then tore through them as if her skin were tissue. He devoured every part of her, her skin, her hair, and her bones that seemed to melt into an oatmeal type of liquid that ran down his cheeks. He drank at her blood, which caused a gush of it to spill onto the carpet and even Tai turned his head away very disturbed. Her clothes seemed to be completely obsolete and most likely down J.C.'s throat. He ate at her recklessly when he could see no trace of her any longer.

J.C. rose from the floor, with his long hair dampened with her blood and his fingernails stuffed with her flesh underneath them. He walked calmly up to Tai as if nothing had happened and stared him directly in the eye. Tai tried to look to the ground out of his own disgust and his disturbed silence, but he could not bring himself to look away from him...as if J.C. was sending messages through him now when quickly yet slickly he seemed to retreat back into his natural form and human design.

Tai stared directly into his eyes, which seemed to be more red than violet now, with a stunningly surprising awe and fear. He just seemed to keep looking at him now, he did not know what else to do, he could not bring himself to form words anymore when J.C. broke the silence in a deeper and harsher tone than he normally possessed and abruptly spoke to the hologram of Tai.

"Well, what next?" J.C. quickly glared

"What is that supposed to mean." Tai firmly responded back

"It means I did your dirty work and what is going to happen next before I kill you too." He said gritting his teeth impatiently

"I am a hologram, you can do nothing to me and I chose you to do what I wanted , not the other way around, you will obey me." he blurted out to him in egotistical rage.

J.C.'s eyes turned a neon green shade as they had before and Tai flinched uncontrollably when he could feel power surging from J.C. that seemed to be making it harder for Tai to function. "I have powers now beyond your most obscene fantasies, I can crush you and dominate the world right now...but we both seem to have something the other wants. You want a body and I want to see Cybermon once again and be able to get the ability to go back in time. I know you kept hair samples of all of us, someone of your caliber and experience often resorts to cloning, and I need to clone them in order to create a new Rena, and 2 Darkrenamon's and my original Cybermon back."

"Why do you need two Darkrenamon's?": asked Tai trying to make a parallel between his thinking and J.C.'s.

"I wish to have Cybermon have a final battle with Darkrenamon, and I believe if he is able to win, he will transform into an even powerful creature because tamed digimon tend to have special effects after they are killed...just like the other one. I need Cydramon to keep a consistent power advantage over Rena."

"You're not going to make a clone of yourself?" asked Tai still giving J.C. a very puzzled look of amazement and yet fear.

"Without him I will have nothing getting in my way to ruin my plans...this time around Rena will be solo and I know Darkrenamon will end up finding out of the Phoenix eye and making it an easy target to steal from her as it was before. I must get another Phoenix eye and use it for my own purposes." He paused for a second and quickly said as if it meant nothing to him, "...but of coarse the power of it shall be distributed evenly of coarse. I personally think the digital world is best destroyed, but there is too much possibility to have all of that land to rule. My plan is fool proof, but we need one another to completely pull it off."

"You must get me my body back however before any of this can even occur." Tai said, obviously hinting to J.C. rudely

"Of coarse." J.C. mumbled while he rested his palm over his holographic chest and said something with words Tai could not understand...he kept chanting something repeatedly when Tai could feel something unreal...too strange for him to enjoy...he could feel his heart beat again and his skin was not transparent any longer...he could feel J.C. now, he could breathe again...he loved this. J.C. continued to be unfinished with his chanting however and when everything seemed to be fading away from Tai again, J.C. sent a magnificent ray of lightning from himself into Tai...which seemed to shock the life back into him...permanently.

"Now it is time for you to hold up your end of the bargain." J.C. glared

"Don't worry." Tai grinned, apparently gaining his over confidence back now that he was alive again "I will."

Tai seemed to be able to transport he and J.C. into this black chamber that only he could access, a chamber which was very similar to the one J.C. had been inducted in, J.C. stared at the endless ceilings and borderless corners that almost gave him a sickening nostalgia.

"Here you will be able to do anything your mind can think of, your imagination is what paints the empty walls you see before you...all we need to do is clone who you specified and you will have the ability to give them whatever they need to get here, but what you must realize is that only you and I can see each other in this realm of seclusion and you will appear as only a voice to them, I have never used this place personally before, but I am sure it should suffice for your needs." Tai said noticing J.C. observation of his surroundings.

"It will do." he said, looking at Tai directly in the eyes, seeming to be thinking really hard when two tubes seemed to thrust themselves from beneath the ground.

Startled, Tai merely watched J.C., who seemed to know exactly what he was doing. He stared at the tubes evilly and slowly formed two figures inside of them within an olive green tinged liquid. Tai could make out the two figures as Rena and Darkrenamon, who J.C. seemed to have formed fairly fast for a beginner.

"Do you need me to assist you, I can help you return those two to the real world and bring back time as if they have been alive all along." Tai asked helpfully

"Away with you...go round up your sorry excuses for friends and tell them to do exactly what I say when I get a chance to meet them...I will have the Phoenix eye soon and they better not fight as poorly as when I fought them...same with you, I hope you aren't too rusty...otherwise you would be unsalvageable and worthless to this plan. Get to work." J.C. yelled firmly while he transported Rena and Darkrenamon back into where he planned them to be, absorbed in the plan he saw ahead of him.

Tai gave him a long look and walked away from him into what seemed to be a room only known to him. He seemed to have something planned himself, something that he didn't want J.C. to know about...he stared at the ground beneath himself and stared at it until another 2 pillars of glass formed out of the ground that seemed to be incubating something within them.

Tai carelessly mumbled to himself while the creatures within the tubes quickly developed.

If you think I believe anything about you sharing that Phoenix eye, you are wrong J.C., that Phoenix eye will be mine at all costs no matter what you think...and I will do something that I know will ruin all of the hopes you had of ever using it from previously owned intentions----my previously owned intentions, he angrily thought to himself.

He began to laugh, laugh at what an ignorant fool he was...he knew what would happen to him if he did what he planned to do...it seemed ironic...if not absolutely hilarious that he can still be so thoughtless even without those atrocious goggles around his head and especially after all of these years.

As he moved away from the front of the tubes, the beings inside of it could now be visible; it was another J.C. and an egg that looked exactly like the egg J.C. received with Cybermon in it .

Tai laughed manically at the uncanny resemblance and duplicate features that the presently corrupted J.C. once had...Tai knew what he was doing, and seemed to get a thrill from it, just as one sees a prequel to a popular movie...even though they know the overall outcome...Tai seemed to just get a thrill from just ignoring what he knew momentarily and get the same thrill of unknown at the same time. It seemed obvious what he would do with them next...

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J.C. felt almost complete with himself at that point...he seemed to have done almost everything he had wanted to do so far...Rena was sent back into the real world and Darkrenamon to the shine palace...he wanted everything to work like clockwork...just as it was before...although he knew overall what would become of them in the end...without another J.C. to come between him and his plans he had no fear whatsoever. But now he wanted to do what he had been waiting for the entire time he entered this mysterious realm. He held out of palms and wished what he wanted so bad when he could feel the ground rumble a final time.

He could see what he wanted, touch it...smell it...he could sense it forming outside of his mind now. His eyes remained closed, he needed to concentrate more...or else it wouldn't work... He could hear a footstep, a swift thump from a familiar being...he could smell the scent around him now...he opened his eyes and it seemed that everything was where he needed it; it was Cybermon, after all of that time...he was back...J.C. was able to do it.

As J.C. stared at the awkward Cybermon, part of him wanted to lunge into his grasp and tell him about everything that he had felt since his departure from him...he didn't know about Rena though....he didn't even know where they were at, but it was clear that neither cared...they were together once again and J.C. could hear Cybermon coming closer towards him. It didn't seem the same though...it was as if Cybermon knew what had happened, or at least that something was not right, he could smell the sweet blood on J.C., his guilt had a distinct odor to it...J.C. had a different aura to him and Cybermon approached with much caution. This frustrated J.C., but then Cybermon spoke as if he was in a dream that seemed would never come true.

"J.C.! I am back! Can you believe that...after all of that time...we are back! Can you believe that J.C.!" Cybermon squealed optimistically as he tried to put his arm around J.C. to hug him.

J.C. jerked his head ominously and with glowing eyes, sent Cybermon maliciously in the ground with his mind. Cybermon stared at J.C. in shock, not knowing what to say to him, but J.C. seemed to know exactly what to say and how to say it "It is not J.C. anymore Cybermon." he paused with his eyes glowingly menacingly "It is Jason."