Alright, since no-one's bothered to vote against it, here's a sequel to Suzie's Excellent Adventure, to tie up some of the loose ends from that story...
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Which was itself written to expand on some of the events described in the side story of Rika's Strange Birthday...
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What the heaven have I gotten myself into...?
Once, a young girl by the name of Suzie Wong, and her Digimon partner, Lopmon, fought alongside several others, Takato Matsuki, Guilmon, Rika Nonaka, Renamon, her brother, Henry Wong, Terriermon, Kazu Shioda, Guardromon, Kenta Kitagawa and MarineAngemon, against what might well be called a god of time, ZeedMillenniumon, for the fate of all universes and timelines.
Yet, such a battle could not occur with casualties, and indeed there were, as both Suzie and Lopmon were sent hurtling through space and time, into multiple parallel universes.
For better or worse, the state of affairs in those worlds were irrevocably changed, the universes sent down new and uncharted courses of history, all by the arrival of Suzie and Lopmon.
In one of the worlds they visited, a young boy by the name of Cody Hida obtained the power to Bio-Merge with his Digimon-partner, Armadillomon, a power that he might never have obtained on his own, melding their minds, bodies and souls together to grant them truly formidable power.
In another of those worlds, the fates of several humans and Digimon were changed forever, when a Digimon called Diaboromon arrived in that earth's Japan, killing hundreds of innocent citizens in its rampage, including a bespectacled scientist called Akihiro Kurata.
In yet another world, Tommy Himi's destiny changed forever when he leapt into the ravaged ruins of a world, a shapeless void in-between heaven, hell, purgatory, limbo, earth's dimension and the Digital World, against the wishes of his fellows, having decided that the battle to be fought there was too important for him to do nothing.
In Suzie's and Lopmon's own world, however, since that auspicious day, two years have flown by, and now, a new adventure is beginning for the two...
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In an isolated room with dark-grey walls within the Hypnos facility, the Wong family, save Rinchei who had elected to stay away due to Hypnos being nothing but trouble for their family, and Yamaki sat and stood, respectively, in front of a computer-screen, where Ophanimon's face was visible. "Suzie Wong, we have need of you once more," She spoke sternly, her lips pursed in a tight smile, her posture and tone making it clear that she was glaring at them. "Your foray into alternate universes two years ago have unbalanced those world, making their defenders weaker than they ordinarily would be. I ask you now to rectify that. Will you accept? Or not?"
"On a few conditions," She promptly answered, earning her an interested and curious look from Ophanimon, and incredulous looks from her family. "One; that whatever it excactly is that you need me to do will only take a few weeks at the most. Two; that you can bring me back here this moment, less than five minutes after I left."
"Suzie, you do realize that she can't hear you, right?" Mayumi tentatively asked, worried for her daughter's sanity. Perhaps all the battles she'd fought had finally taken their toll on her, she mused. Her eyes widened in shock, when Ophanimon corrected that she could in fact hear them perfectly. Henry decided it to likely be a pre-recorded message.
"But, Suzie Wong, do you realize what you are asking of me?" Ophanimon softly spoke. "To bring a human and a Digimon into the Digital World from earth is simple enough. To bring them across universes would be much more taxing, but still with my power. But you are asking me to tamper with time itself. My power is great, yes, but not limitless-" She murmured before Suzie cut her off.
"I don't care! If you want me to abandon my family, and do whatever you want me to, that's going to have a price this time!" Suzie retorted. Ophanimon couldn't argue that the girl's anger was unjustified, considering what she was requesting, but it was still slightly wearying to deal with. Nevertheless, her terms were acceptable, she told the family with a mild sigh. She didn't much like doing this, but in order to keep the worlds of the multiverse safe from the Demon Lords, some sacrifices were oftimes necessary. This version of Suzie Wong knew this well.
"Suzie, please," Jaarin pleaded, tears forming in her eyes. Yamaki decided to leave, as this didn't concern him, the sliding-doors whirring softly as they opened and closed behind him. Slowly, the girl and the rabbit turned to her, looking at their older sister with something the family decided to be shame. "You came back two years ago by pure luck! You can't go again!"
Lopmon eyed Suzie nervously. In truth, she had no real desire to go, any more than Janyu, Mayumi, Henry and Jaarin wanted them to, but she knew that Suzie wouldn't be deterred from something she felt that she had to.
"We do, you heard Ophanimon..." Suzie gave them an apologetic half-smile. "Two years ago, we left some messes behind, and now we have to be the ones to clean them up..."
As soon as she finished, Jaarin charged at her, and was promptly stopped by Janyu, who had grabbed hold of her arm. "Suzie, do you even care about us at all?" Jaarin demanded angrily. Suzie and Henry blinked simultaneously, wondering what she meant. Mayumi winced inwardly, having that this particular subject wouldn't have had to come, but she mused that it was inevitable, in a way...
"Of course I do!" Suzie's tone was louder, and mildly indignant at the question. However, she hadn't ever expected Jaarin to glare at her.
"You've got a funny way of showing it, then!" Jaarin snarled at her sister, who recoiled in shock. "Literally the first opportunity you get to leave, and you take it!?"
Suzie's eyes widened as she stared in shock at her seething, glaring sister. To her own dismay, she realized that Jaarin was absolutely right about everything. Lopmon gave her partner a worried look, as it wasn't often that she seemed so downright rattled. "I'm sorry..." Suzie whispered, unable to say anything else, a tear forming in her eye. "I'm so sorry..."
"Jaarin, calm down," Mayumi told her older daughter, who scowled, and reluctantly took a step back. Then, the woman gave her younger daughter a scrutizing look. Every noise and sound in the room seemed to halt abrubtly, as if in anticipation of her next statement. "You have six weeks, Suzie. Two months at the most, and I expect you both back, alive and unharmed, in a few minutes, understood?"
Suzie released a breath she didn't realize she'd been holding, and nodded. "I promise, Mom. You won't even notice I'm gone." She assured the family, as she and Lopmon were engulfed in the bright light that the screen depicting Ophanimon, sucking them both in, leaving Henry, Terriermon, Jaarin, Mayumi and Janyu in a dark room to await something that they knew might never come.
Whether from Suzie and Lopmon dying in some battle, losing track of time, or something unforeseen along the way, the family knew that their return wasn't assured until it had happened.
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Sampson had no absolutely no clue as to what had just occurred. The system malfunction had been inexplicable enough, but against all logic, this girl, Suzie Wong, who had ostensibly dropped in from a parallel universe, with a Digimon partner of her own, had somehow left for parts unknown, through a computer screen no less!
That was ten minutes ago, and now Thomas was busy trying to determine the possible extent of the damage that the system error might caused, and to assess its origin, while Yoshino sat by one of the terminals, staring blankly into the air, Lalamon floating beside her.
To his mild annoyance, Marcus was not only not doing anything productive, but was resting his feet on one of the terminals, though he noted it to be largely irrelevant, as the DATS had larger problems to attend, namely the ramifications of that Digimon's rampage...
Billions, even trillions, of yen in property damage from that devastated street... DATS' budget would take a very large plunge to undo the damage. The repair costs were amended somewhat by that Digimon 'only' tearing up a street, destroying several cars and houses... Even after deducting a few million for the damaged cars, the repair effort sum was still astronomical...
A few thousand casualties... The chances of keeping the Digimon and the Digital World under wraps after this were slim-to-none. Even if the general population would be willing to believe an earth-quake story, there was no way that the memories of so many could be erased...
He wasn't ashamed to admit that he was ill-equipped to cope with something like that... Loath as he was to admit it, DATS had failed completely in its mission to keep the world, both human and Digital, safe.
Kudamon, however, was more worried about the repercussions of both Suzie's arrival and the actions of that Diaboromon, in an altogether different way.
Time was a highly sensitive, mutable thing, and there was no telling what sort of consequences these events might have for the future. In the worst possible scenario, an entire alternate timeline, new territory for the Demon Lords to conquer, might be the result.
"I can't..." Lalamon slowly began, her voice cracking as she ceased to speak, as she just couldn't shake off that terrible image. Yoshino turned to her floating partner. "I can't believe that something like this could ever happen..."
"I know... So much death... And Suzie didn't even seem affected by it..." Yoshino whispered, nervously, her voice faintly brittle. Lalamon didn't really register her response. What she wouldn't give to have even a third of that girl's composure and bravery... But it was saddening to her, in a way. No child should ever have to have a resolute composure like that. Now that she thought about it, that girl honestly reminded her of nothing as much as a remorseless war veteran...
"I am very sorry, all of you," Sampson's stentorian baritone interrupted the quietude of the computer room. His posture was deathly still as he rose to his full height. The group, including Lalamon, turned to look at him, curious what he had to say. "Sending the four of you to fight that Digimon was an grievous error in judgment on my behalf. Therefore, I am assigning Thomas H. Norstein, Gaomon, Yoshino Fujieda, and Lalamon away from active duty for a full month, along with mandatory psychiatric evalution for that, courtesy of DATS."
Well, this is cheerful...
1) I have nothing against either Thomas, Gaomon, Yoshino or Lalamon, but having them keep going after what they witnessed would just be cruel, and letting them would be uncharacteristic of Sampson, especially when there is psychiatric assistance available.