What you recognize I don't own and it's AU since there are nine original digidestined from the start

well Mary was doing good even though her co-workers kept asking her about her new watch and what happened to the necklace she used to always have around her neck. The boss also looked at the watch curiously but also knew better than to think he would get straight answers from her, after all he had a feeling she had been lying to him since she had become an employee five years earlier. The only reason why she hadn't been fired was because she was good at her job. Actually she was the only one who could do her job (flu season was never mentioned around him after the one year she'd had it). What Mary didn't know was that her boss had recently started to really think about things and had finally made a connection that no one else had

"get back to work people you're paid to do a job not talk"

(sighs) "actually boss I was just coming to talk to you about that. Remember when you assigned me the repair job three days ago?"

"what about it?"

"I'm having issues getting all the parts in a timely fashion"

(sighs) "what's the delay Mary?"

"simple, I went to a place that usually has parts for my spare projects but I struck out this time. They had just ran out of the parts when I asked them, it's going to take at least a week before the order comes in"

"I understand, just try and do the repairs as quickly as possible. I get a bad feeling that we'll be needing them soon"

"I know what you mean...if not for the fact that I mentioned that it was urgent I got those parts for my job it might've taken longer"

"why's that?"

"simple sir, you've order high demand parts from them"

(winces) "forgot about that"

"thought so"

"and Mary as soon as is convenient for you we need to talk about a private matter"

(sighs) "yes sir"

and so for the next few days things were pretty mundane. Mary had yet to meet the boss because things simply just kept popping up. She would be right at his door and then suddenly be summoned to an emergency. What Mary didn't realize was that the talk with her boss had become more urgent recently due to the disappearance of six children during a camping trip. Finally a month after she had first been summoned both she and her boss had the time in their schedules to meet

"so Mary, are things finally in a good enough working order that you can actually take a short rest?"

"yes sir, and I'm sorry it took so long to have that meeting you wanted a month ago"

"forget about it, after all I've been just about as busy as you this past month with the merger, the factory issue that popped up and several other things that bosses of businesses have to do"

"what did you want to talk about in the first place sir?"

"do you know about the sudden disappearance of six children during a camping trip?"

"yes sir, I tried asking my friends if they know anything else about it due to their traveling a lot but nothing came of it"

"I thought as much...Mary I have a question that may seem rude and personally disturbing, but first I need you to close the blinds and lock the door"

she does as much and then sits back down

"Mary, do you suspect that the kids are digidestined?"

Mary is taken aback for a brief moment before quickly regaining her footing

"I don't know what you mean sir, but honestly no sir, I don't think those kids are digidestined...whatever that is"

he gives Mary a cold hard stare that tells her he ain't buying her story

"Mary I really hope I don't have to pull rank on you because you're one of my best employees. For the past few months I've been observing you, I mean really observing you. I wanted to see if you might be able to handle a higher position considering how much you already do for the company. During my observations I've made some odd observations. These observations separately don't make since, but I've thought of how you've acted over the past five years and now suddenly they do. That watch was pretty much the final piece of the puzzle. As a friend I ask you...are you a digidestined like the kids might be?"

Mary sighs in defeat knowing she's busted and also not looking forward to what would happen if the boss did pull rank on him

"you're correct in calling me a digidestined sir, as for the kids I truly don't know. You see as the permanent digidestined I'm supposed to know about any changes made that could endanger both the real world and the digital world. However you might very well just be correct in your assumption, due to the fact that a month and a half ago, while I was recovering from that blasted stomach bug my digivice changed into the watch I now always have on me"

"how long have you been a digidestined?"

"I was one of the original nine sir, as for being the permanent digidestined...I didn't find out about that until I was in high school"

"will you be fighting if the battle moves to here?"

"most definitely sir, and sir I may also be called to the digital world if things get bad enough"

"why haven't you already?"

"Genai...he knows I now have a job and doesn't want to risk me losing it"

"well now that I officially know there's no risk of that"

"thank you sir, and sir there's also the possibility that the kids are also currently able to handle things there"

"that's a good thing"

"indeed it is" (suddenly frowns in thought) "I just hope both they and Genai know to call for help if they come up across Myotismon, who was tough to kill, or another major creep"

"don't worry I'm sure this Genai can handle things quite well"

"true, oh and one more thing sir, to get to and from the digital world we use computers, have been since the second generation came"

"I get it, if one of the computers suddenly starts glowing tell everyone to get back correct?"

"exactly sir"

"will do, now then is there anything else you haven't told me yet about your other job that I absolutely need to know about?"

she thinks for a minute and then remembers something

"actually yes, remember monsters fighting something on the internet several years back?"

"and then it returning just a few years later?, what of it?"

"virus digimon sir, if they get into the system I'm gonna have to fight them"

"understood Mary, should I let the others know just in case you have to leave?"

"sorry sir but that's just not a good idea"

"too many questions you don't want to answer?"

"more like can't sir, sir you have to realize something, the digital war has been fought on earth twice now, once very publicly with Myotismon and the second time not so much. Wait scratch that when monsters suddenly started to appear every where's with the spears it was public. How ever people may remember it vaguely but they also tend to forget fairly quickly because it's in the realms of impossible"

"I get it, your co-workers might remember the incidents but they might also have forgotten them due to what happened"

"exactly sir, you can say something if I mysteriously just disappear as well, but not until then"

"first we're going to have to define mysteriously disappear, if your suddenly called to the digital world then I know where you are"

they think about it for a bit and then Mary comes up with the answer

"I think I got it sir, put out your hand"

he does so curiously and then she touches it and suddenly a green mark appears on his hand