Digimon: Prelude To Drive
Disclaimer:
Digimon is owned by Toei Animation
Kamen Rider Drive is owned by Ishimori Production and Shotaro Ishimori
The various guest characters appearing in every arc are owned by their respective owners.
Hello, and welcome to my new Digimon fanfic, and this time I'll be using certain characters from the first Digimon anime, which I last used in "Road To Recovery". This fic is inspired from the current Initial D anime (Initial D Final Stage), and with the upcoming 2014 Tokusatsu show, Kamen Rider Drive set to premiere sometime in October, ideas flocked in my head and decided to try this out even though the actual show is not around yet though a series of "gadgets" appeared on the net.
While Taichi Yagami will be playing the lead, Takato Matsuda of Digimon Tamers will actually play the leading role, and this fic is sort of a prelude before the actual fic would appear, and this is sort of an AU though elements from Digimon Adventure and Digimon Tamers will be combined here as well as blending elements from Initial D.
Well, that's the summary I can tell you right now, but you'll soon see where this would lead to, so here is the first chapter, so read and enjoy!
ch. 1: Himitsu no Rēsā
The scene shifts to Odaiba, where the prefecture appeared to be normal, and so far there has been no reported disturbances of any sorts, and the next scene now shows that Odaiba has become a busy place full of people, and you can see a rather huge building in one of the busy thoroughfare, revealed to be the well-mentioned college - Odaiba University. You can see a lot of students coming in and out of the school, and that it was just three month after the school year started.
Later within the day, Taichi Yagami, a 19-year old university student, emerged from the university and is has finished starting his first day of classes in first year and would soon head out to a mountainous area within the prefecture where he is working as a part-time owner of a snack bar that specializes in vegetable soup, and is famous for their tofu specialty. Taichi would later revealed to be a very good cook, and this attracted most patrons plying the area, mostly truckers and travelers.
His skills earned the respect of fellow workers, and he sometimes hired assistants to take over the shop whenever he is not available.
He also set up a shop within the main city of Odaiba where it sells most delicious vegetable viands and soups that are shown in menus, and would later add various tofu brands which sold well to consumers passing by, making it a good alternative for buyers who want to buy them without going to the Odaiba Wet Market, and earned a lot of loyal customers, including housewives who began to grew fond of Taichi himself, admiring his "hard work" despite his schooling at the university.
"Thank you for your continued patronage…"
"Thank you…you're a lifesaver…I won't have to travel far just to buy your vegetables…"
"You know…you should get a girlfriend…you're quite a charmer…"
"Thanks for the compliment…"
"Taichi-kun…I want to buy your tofu!"
"I want one cucumber please!"
"One bag of spinach, Taichi!"
"Spinach…cucumber…tofu…coming right up!"
However, what most people close to Taichi didn't know is that he harbors a secret hobby, and that is street racing, in which he would participate in evening races, and it mostly consists of teenagers from both societies - rich and middle-class, and they all do it in secret and made sure they are not seen by prying eyes that would lead to alerting the police. At the mountain, Mt. Odaiba, Taichi had just arrived, and saw a lot of them parking their race cars, and there he saw several teenagers standing in front of their cars, and they bragging on who was the better driver in the prefecture.
"I'm the best!"
"Wrong! I'm the best driver around here!"
"Save it, assholes! They call me Speed Racer here!"
"My car's the fastest! You can't compete with me!"
"Say that again in my face, bastard!"
"I'm the biggest and fastest racer here! Lightning McQueen!"
"Dream off!"
"Let's race and see who is the king here!"
As Taichi glances at the bickering teens, one of the organizers of the secret racing approached Taichi and asked if he is ready to take on the next "best racer", which the 19-year old teen nodded and boarded his race car, and one of the rival racers boarded his car and they both started their engines and spectators flocked as the organizer raised a flag to give the signal to the drivers to commence driving, and both cars' engines roared as the vehicles leave to race the mountain slope.
the two teens began to transverse the mountain road while maintaining control of their cars so as not colliding with the barricade and fall off, and yet both are using speed to get ahead of the other, navigating and negotiating the curves while going downward the slopes, with Taichi maintaining the lead and the other driver struggling to get ahead of him, surprised that it is the first time that someone took the lead before him.
After a rather long driven minutes, they reached what appeared to be a U-turn slot and both drivers used their drift and made a U-turn while avoiding hitting each other yet Taichi managed to maintain the lead and got ahead, driving up towards the slot and the rival driver became panicked seeing that Taichi is ahead of him a little far, and tries to shift gears to get additional car power to catch up.
"What the…? How did he…? I'm not going to lose to him…!"
Taichi uses the drift skills and presence of mind to maintain control of the car as well as keeping his cool knowing that they are in a mountain slope, and since the route is now upward, one wrong move might lead to an untoward accident, yet things went well until Taichi reached the "finish line" and won, while his opponent arrived 45 seconds later, and he was in a state of disbelief that he lost for the first time, and he took out some money and handed it to Taichi, as it turn out that a bet is made, and Taichi took them as he won the race.
"Here…"
"Thank you…"
"Looks like you're the better racer here…"
"So are you…"
"Whoa you're not bragging…"
"No point on doing that…all you need to do is keep a presence of mind…and you'll arrive at your destination safely…"
"Uh…thanks…"
"Anytime."
Despite winning, Taichi is humble and encouraged his opponent to practice his skills and being careful, and even invited him to check his food stand and offered him a brochure where vegetable soups and tofu-related menus are there, which the loser driver, as well as others, were enticed to see if the food Taichi advertised is good, and then the race continued as Taichi leaves the scene to head for home.
-x-
Later, Taichi arrived home, where his parents greeted him and asked how school is, which he said that it is okay and that he adjusted well enough, while at the same time said that the shops are doing well and that he hired superb assistants so that he won't have to worry in supervising the shops while on leave to concentrate on his studies, and while resting on the couch, he turned on the TV and began watching a program where the Gran Prix is being shown, and Taichi began eating his dinner while watching the race cars competing against other racers.
To Be Continued…
Hope you like this chapter even though it only showed Taichi, being a university student, working on two vegetable snack shops, and a secret racer racing at Mt. Odaiba, making some "extra living". This chapter showed him to be a good racer though not explicitly on the level of Takumi Fujiwara.
Moreover, while the events showed here are merely "elements" from the Initial D series, I also drew some inspirations from other series, such as the Fast and the Furious series, though it did play a little here.
The secondary characters will soon appear, and this fic will be quite short in terms of chapter numbers since this is quite a "prelude" before the actual story.
Preview:
The next chapter will introduce another Digimon character whom Taichi finds interest in him after he saw some potential in him and is considering giving him some secret training while giving him some part-time work.
