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Life of Knowledge
By: Izzi Izumi
Years ago, I've lost count by now; I started out as a genius kid. Around 10 I started noticing a fascination with computers. This was just after I had learned I was adopted. I can still remember the conversation my adoptive parents had that night…
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"We should tell him." My adoptive father said.
"I want to tell him, but I fear that it would be simply to crushing for him to know now." My adoptive mother said.
"He is smart, you realize."
"I know that."
"And I'm afraid he already knows… that he's adopted." My father said.
And that's when I tuned out. Tears filled my eyes. I was just standing there, 10 years old, looking upon whom I had taken as my parents for as long as I could remember through a door crack, and hearing that I was adopted.
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They were right, it was devastating. But I took an interest in computers, got absorbed into them, not the side effect anyone could have predicted. A few years later, when at summer camp with some kids I knew, most I didn't – those who I knew being Tai Kamiya and Sora Takenuchi, those who I didn't were TK Takashi, Matt Ishida, Joe Kido, and Mimi Takichiwa – I was sucked into the Digital World into the first adventure of my life. Surprisingly, it wasn't the biggest. That came later, much later in my twisted life. My digimon was named Tentomon, and insectoid digimon whose intelligence compared to mine.
During my time in the Digital World, I realized a lot about myself. A lot. I'm not going to go into it, seeing as how the list is to big to recall. But I can say one thing about my digital adventures. During the time Venommyotismon was attacking Tokyo, I confronted my parents. They told me the truth, about my parents, how they died.
Or at least I thought it was the truth. After all of the digital wars and adventures were over, that was when they told me the real truth. They told me the last thing I ever expected to hear. That my real parents were alien to this planet, this galaxy.
That I was alien to this planet, this galaxy.
My eyes could never be wider than they were at that moment. I was shocked. The world I had thought of all my life as my homeworld really was completely alien as to my origins. The entire galaxy I had thought of as my home was now alien to me.
They said I was from the planet Correllia, in another galaxy. My father was an officer in CorSec, or Correllian Security Force, and my fathers father was an officer in CorSec, also. They said he had always wanted me to follow his footsteps, up to the point where the Emperor started hunting Jedi and Force-sensitives out. While he was vaguely Force- sensitive, I was full of it, even though I had no idea of it.
My parents told me that they had a spaceship I could use, should I decide to travel back to my home. They would communicate with my real parents; tell them that I was coming home to them. I thought it over, decided that I would go. I couldn't bring myself about to tell Tentomon or the rest of the Digi-Destined. Had I, they would have been crushed, begged me to stay. I knew that if that happened, I would stay. I couldn't say no to my friends.
I would have taken Tentomon, but my parents told me that, strangely enough, there were no creatures like Tentomon in the galaxy I was heading for.
"What's that mean?" I had asked them.
My dad hesitated. "It means that you can't bring Tentomon. I'm sorry, Izzi. I truly am."
My eyes welled slightly with tears. "This… This means that I will nev... never s.. see t… Tentomon;" I took a deep breath. "Again?"
Dad pursed his lips. "Unless you come back for visits, but somehow I don't think that's going to happen."
I felt as if I was going to cry an ocean. "You're right. Tentomon is a thing of the past. I'm not going to see him again, and I couldn't stand saying goodbye to him again."
I'm pretty sure Dad was going to ask what I meant by 'again,' but then he most likely thought about the end of my first adventure in the digital world, after destroying Apoclamon. I thought that was the most dramatic moment of my life. HA! Fat chance. This moment, learning of my alien status, this was the most dramatic moment of my life.
Those were among my last moments on Earth. I never saw her again, except on short visits which earned me my position as second most wanted in the USA. I must admit that I do regret leaving my adoptive parents, and my friends, but some of my friends were, well, shall we say in a 'similar' position to mine.
I never did see Tentomon again. He's most likely dead by now, but I prefer not to get onto such a sad note.
When I arrived at Correllia, two people were waiting for me when I landed. Yes, I landed. The computer could and would have flown me, but I sliced into the computer's hard drive and allowed myself to test my hand on the stick. I was a natural, and I caught on quickly.
When the couple embraced me tightly as I came down the ramp, I knew they were my parents.
"Koushiro…" Mom breathed. Dad smiled and put his hand on my shoulder.
"Mom… Dad…" I said with tears in my eyes. "I've thought you were dead for years. But now, I know that you're alive."
You must understand that at this point in my life, I was about 23. It had been 13 years ago when I started learning the truth.
"Son…" Dad said. "You decided to… to come to us? Leave your life behind? Why??" He asked.
"Because I had to." I replied. "I had to. I always knew I didn't fit in. I always thought that there was some other life out here." I smiled as my short-lived belief that the black gears were aliens flashed through my head. "Now I know there is… My parents."
The cover up my parents had been using for my disappearance and reappearance was simple: I was their son, who at the age of 4 was kidnapped. CorSec had looked across the system – that being the Correllian system – turned it upside down, in fact. And now I was back. How? I had escaped, according to the story. I held it up, threw in some of the stranger things from my time in the Digital World, and CorSec accepted it. I eventually went through training – after about 4 months – and became a CorSec officer. I was partnered with my Dad. More than once did I run into Corran and Hal Horn. I always looked up to Corran, even though I was a few years older than Corran. The fact for this is that we lead similar lives, except after I left CorSec; our lives took completely different turns. But that comes in later in the story of my life.
When the Bounty Hunter Borrsk killed Corran's father, Corran hunted the bastard down and put him in jail. But then Kirtan Loor, our Imperial liaison officer, released Borrsk and sent him on his way. Corran was devastated. Poor kid. He should've shot Borrsk right there, and could've. Corran was good when it came to temptations. He wouldn't give in.
Dad had a druid. He had never activated it, not since they sent me to Earth. Good as new, it was, even if it was a little out of date. It was one of the older R2 units, much like R2-D2. But instead of blue, there was green. Not a big change, but a change nonetheless. Anyway, he had a droid. When I came home, Dad activated the R2 and gave it to me. I was shocked, partially because I had no idea what a droid was what and partially because I was pretty sure it was expensive. While I thought about a name to give my astromech I started thinking about Tentomon. Great little guy… I loved him… I still have my digivice, even now.
And then it hit me. The perfect name! I had a gut feeling that I would get deeply attached to this little droid, I don't know how, so I gave him the name of the only other being that had ever gotten as close as this droid would. Tento.
Tento helped me in a lot of my cases while I worked with CorSec. He looked over everything from the smallest piece of evidence to the biggest lie. He was there with every interrogation so I could run it again later, over and over. And when I found a lie, I would turn it over to my superiors. And, over time, I became attached to Tento, just as I predicted.
Also over time, Corran and I became good friends. We would laugh about a bluff a criminal would come up with just before either of us put him away, we invited each other to cantina's and bars. We were great friends.
Then it happened. Kirtan Loor thought I was a problem, so he tried to have me exterminated. It backfired.
"Lieutenant Izumi?" One of the Imperial stormtroopers asked.
"Yes?" I asked.
"Come with me."
"Why?"
"I've been ordered to bring you to Agent Loor."
"On whose orders?"
"Agent Loor's."
"Well, I outrank Agent Loor."
"No, sir, you don't. Agent Loor is an Imperial Agent, while you are only a local officer of a planet." The stormtrooper said.
"Really? Well, in that case, I guess I have no choice." I said, a plan already formed in my head.
"No, sir, you don't."
"Glad we… AGREE!" I sent my elbow driving into the trooper's neck, then drew my blaster and pushed it under the white armor the stormtrooper was wearing.
I pulled the trigger.
A muffled blast was heard. A burning hole quickly appeared on the back of the stormies armor. I put my blaster away and ran to my house.
"Tento! You know how I've been planning to go for a while? Well, I'm going now, and you're coming with!"
Tento whistled out a 'why?'
"We have no choice! I killed a stormie!"
Tento whistled his surprise, which anyone could have picked up, even if they didn't have a code set up with their droid.
"Who cares? We have to go now!" During all of this, I had been packing my things together. I threw the sack over my shoulder and ran to Tento. "Come on, come on." Tento whistled a question. "Yes, you're going to be in my X-wing. Just hurry!" I turned and waited at the door. As soon as the Imp's found out that I killed one of the stormies, they'd be all over the place.
Finally Tento came, and we were off to the hangar. There I saw Corran and Whistler also getting into their green and white X-wing. We talked for about a minute, and he told me that 4 stormtroopers had jumped him. He killed them all, got Whistler, and ran here. I told him my story and then we parted. We both never thought we'd see each other again.
Tento and I took off in our X-wing as Corran and Whistler did the same. We flew to the outer rim of the Correllian System, and then we said our final goodbyes. I actually hadn't left my Mom and Dad behind on Correllia. They were dead. Mom had been a CorSec officer too, and one day both of them were killed from misfire one of the stormtroopers shot. The trooper had been shot for his idiocy.
Well, that is the first part of my life story. I could have dragged this on and told you about my digital adventures, but you already know about them and that would bore you. While my time in CorSec was short- lived, seeing as how I was only 25 when I left, I feel that I made a world of difference in that time.
It seemed as if no planet wanted me. First Earth got rid of me by having my adoptive parents tell me the truth. I ran from Earth to Correllia, where my real parents ended up dying by the blaster of some smart-ass stormtrooper. Correllia got rid of me by having Kirtan Loor try to kill me.
I knew I would either have to go into hiding somewhere, or I would have to change my identity. While I didn't have someone like Gil Bastra to make me fake ID's, I was probably better than Bastra was at creating fake ID's.
I still have my Digivice. I don't know, but this may be what has kept me alive all these years. It's useless in this galaxy, of course, but I guess I just use it as a good-luck charm. In that area, it's a great good- luck charm. Kudos, Tentomon, wherever you are.
Life of Knowledge
By: Izzi Izumi
Years ago, I've lost count by now; I started out as a genius kid. Around 10 I started noticing a fascination with computers. This was just after I had learned I was adopted. I can still remember the conversation my adoptive parents had that night…
***************
"We should tell him." My adoptive father said.
"I want to tell him, but I fear that it would be simply to crushing for him to know now." My adoptive mother said.
"He is smart, you realize."
"I know that."
"And I'm afraid he already knows… that he's adopted." My father said.
And that's when I tuned out. Tears filled my eyes. I was just standing there, 10 years old, looking upon whom I had taken as my parents for as long as I could remember through a door crack, and hearing that I was adopted.
*******************
They were right, it was devastating. But I took an interest in computers, got absorbed into them, not the side effect anyone could have predicted. A few years later, when at summer camp with some kids I knew, most I didn't – those who I knew being Tai Kamiya and Sora Takenuchi, those who I didn't were TK Takashi, Matt Ishida, Joe Kido, and Mimi Takichiwa – I was sucked into the Digital World into the first adventure of my life. Surprisingly, it wasn't the biggest. That came later, much later in my twisted life. My digimon was named Tentomon, and insectoid digimon whose intelligence compared to mine.
During my time in the Digital World, I realized a lot about myself. A lot. I'm not going to go into it, seeing as how the list is to big to recall. But I can say one thing about my digital adventures. During the time Venommyotismon was attacking Tokyo, I confronted my parents. They told me the truth, about my parents, how they died.
Or at least I thought it was the truth. After all of the digital wars and adventures were over, that was when they told me the real truth. They told me the last thing I ever expected to hear. That my real parents were alien to this planet, this galaxy.
That I was alien to this planet, this galaxy.
My eyes could never be wider than they were at that moment. I was shocked. The world I had thought of all my life as my homeworld really was completely alien as to my origins. The entire galaxy I had thought of as my home was now alien to me.
They said I was from the planet Correllia, in another galaxy. My father was an officer in CorSec, or Correllian Security Force, and my fathers father was an officer in CorSec, also. They said he had always wanted me to follow his footsteps, up to the point where the Emperor started hunting Jedi and Force-sensitives out. While he was vaguely Force- sensitive, I was full of it, even though I had no idea of it.
My parents told me that they had a spaceship I could use, should I decide to travel back to my home. They would communicate with my real parents; tell them that I was coming home to them. I thought it over, decided that I would go. I couldn't bring myself about to tell Tentomon or the rest of the Digi-Destined. Had I, they would have been crushed, begged me to stay. I knew that if that happened, I would stay. I couldn't say no to my friends.
I would have taken Tentomon, but my parents told me that, strangely enough, there were no creatures like Tentomon in the galaxy I was heading for.
"What's that mean?" I had asked them.
My dad hesitated. "It means that you can't bring Tentomon. I'm sorry, Izzi. I truly am."
My eyes welled slightly with tears. "This… This means that I will nev... never s.. see t… Tentomon;" I took a deep breath. "Again?"
Dad pursed his lips. "Unless you come back for visits, but somehow I don't think that's going to happen."
I felt as if I was going to cry an ocean. "You're right. Tentomon is a thing of the past. I'm not going to see him again, and I couldn't stand saying goodbye to him again."
I'm pretty sure Dad was going to ask what I meant by 'again,' but then he most likely thought about the end of my first adventure in the digital world, after destroying Apoclamon. I thought that was the most dramatic moment of my life. HA! Fat chance. This moment, learning of my alien status, this was the most dramatic moment of my life.
Those were among my last moments on Earth. I never saw her again, except on short visits which earned me my position as second most wanted in the USA. I must admit that I do regret leaving my adoptive parents, and my friends, but some of my friends were, well, shall we say in a 'similar' position to mine.
I never did see Tentomon again. He's most likely dead by now, but I prefer not to get onto such a sad note.
When I arrived at Correllia, two people were waiting for me when I landed. Yes, I landed. The computer could and would have flown me, but I sliced into the computer's hard drive and allowed myself to test my hand on the stick. I was a natural, and I caught on quickly.
When the couple embraced me tightly as I came down the ramp, I knew they were my parents.
"Koushiro…" Mom breathed. Dad smiled and put his hand on my shoulder.
"Mom… Dad…" I said with tears in my eyes. "I've thought you were dead for years. But now, I know that you're alive."
You must understand that at this point in my life, I was about 23. It had been 13 years ago when I started learning the truth.
"Son…" Dad said. "You decided to… to come to us? Leave your life behind? Why??" He asked.
"Because I had to." I replied. "I had to. I always knew I didn't fit in. I always thought that there was some other life out here." I smiled as my short-lived belief that the black gears were aliens flashed through my head. "Now I know there is… My parents."
The cover up my parents had been using for my disappearance and reappearance was simple: I was their son, who at the age of 4 was kidnapped. CorSec had looked across the system – that being the Correllian system – turned it upside down, in fact. And now I was back. How? I had escaped, according to the story. I held it up, threw in some of the stranger things from my time in the Digital World, and CorSec accepted it. I eventually went through training – after about 4 months – and became a CorSec officer. I was partnered with my Dad. More than once did I run into Corran and Hal Horn. I always looked up to Corran, even though I was a few years older than Corran. The fact for this is that we lead similar lives, except after I left CorSec; our lives took completely different turns. But that comes in later in the story of my life.
When the Bounty Hunter Borrsk killed Corran's father, Corran hunted the bastard down and put him in jail. But then Kirtan Loor, our Imperial liaison officer, released Borrsk and sent him on his way. Corran was devastated. Poor kid. He should've shot Borrsk right there, and could've. Corran was good when it came to temptations. He wouldn't give in.
Dad had a druid. He had never activated it, not since they sent me to Earth. Good as new, it was, even if it was a little out of date. It was one of the older R2 units, much like R2-D2. But instead of blue, there was green. Not a big change, but a change nonetheless. Anyway, he had a droid. When I came home, Dad activated the R2 and gave it to me. I was shocked, partially because I had no idea what a droid was what and partially because I was pretty sure it was expensive. While I thought about a name to give my astromech I started thinking about Tentomon. Great little guy… I loved him… I still have my digivice, even now.
And then it hit me. The perfect name! I had a gut feeling that I would get deeply attached to this little droid, I don't know how, so I gave him the name of the only other being that had ever gotten as close as this droid would. Tento.
Tento helped me in a lot of my cases while I worked with CorSec. He looked over everything from the smallest piece of evidence to the biggest lie. He was there with every interrogation so I could run it again later, over and over. And when I found a lie, I would turn it over to my superiors. And, over time, I became attached to Tento, just as I predicted.
Also over time, Corran and I became good friends. We would laugh about a bluff a criminal would come up with just before either of us put him away, we invited each other to cantina's and bars. We were great friends.
Then it happened. Kirtan Loor thought I was a problem, so he tried to have me exterminated. It backfired.
"Lieutenant Izumi?" One of the Imperial stormtroopers asked.
"Yes?" I asked.
"Come with me."
"Why?"
"I've been ordered to bring you to Agent Loor."
"On whose orders?"
"Agent Loor's."
"Well, I outrank Agent Loor."
"No, sir, you don't. Agent Loor is an Imperial Agent, while you are only a local officer of a planet." The stormtrooper said.
"Really? Well, in that case, I guess I have no choice." I said, a plan already formed in my head.
"No, sir, you don't."
"Glad we… AGREE!" I sent my elbow driving into the trooper's neck, then drew my blaster and pushed it under the white armor the stormtrooper was wearing.
I pulled the trigger.
A muffled blast was heard. A burning hole quickly appeared on the back of the stormies armor. I put my blaster away and ran to my house.
"Tento! You know how I've been planning to go for a while? Well, I'm going now, and you're coming with!"
Tento whistled out a 'why?'
"We have no choice! I killed a stormie!"
Tento whistled his surprise, which anyone could have picked up, even if they didn't have a code set up with their droid.
"Who cares? We have to go now!" During all of this, I had been packing my things together. I threw the sack over my shoulder and ran to Tento. "Come on, come on." Tento whistled a question. "Yes, you're going to be in my X-wing. Just hurry!" I turned and waited at the door. As soon as the Imp's found out that I killed one of the stormies, they'd be all over the place.
Finally Tento came, and we were off to the hangar. There I saw Corran and Whistler also getting into their green and white X-wing. We talked for about a minute, and he told me that 4 stormtroopers had jumped him. He killed them all, got Whistler, and ran here. I told him my story and then we parted. We both never thought we'd see each other again.
Tento and I took off in our X-wing as Corran and Whistler did the same. We flew to the outer rim of the Correllian System, and then we said our final goodbyes. I actually hadn't left my Mom and Dad behind on Correllia. They were dead. Mom had been a CorSec officer too, and one day both of them were killed from misfire one of the stormtroopers shot. The trooper had been shot for his idiocy.
Well, that is the first part of my life story. I could have dragged this on and told you about my digital adventures, but you already know about them and that would bore you. While my time in CorSec was short- lived, seeing as how I was only 25 when I left, I feel that I made a world of difference in that time.
It seemed as if no planet wanted me. First Earth got rid of me by having my adoptive parents tell me the truth. I ran from Earth to Correllia, where my real parents ended up dying by the blaster of some smart-ass stormtrooper. Correllia got rid of me by having Kirtan Loor try to kill me.
I knew I would either have to go into hiding somewhere, or I would have to change my identity. While I didn't have someone like Gil Bastra to make me fake ID's, I was probably better than Bastra was at creating fake ID's.
I still have my Digivice. I don't know, but this may be what has kept me alive all these years. It's useless in this galaxy, of course, but I guess I just use it as a good-luck charm. In that area, it's a great good- luck charm. Kudos, Tentomon, wherever you are.