Winter Days: A Rukato Tale
Chapter one: Frozen Hearts
Rika Nonaka walked the streets of her Shinjuku neighborhood after her most recent argument with her mother. Despite how well they were getting along right before the final battle with the D-Reaper, once Renamon had been taken back into the Digital World thing went back to business as usual between them.
As she rounded the corner she ran head first into a rushing Takato Matsuki.
"Watch it Goggle head!" She shouted getting up off the ground and dusting herself off "What's got you in such a hurry anyway?"
"Sorry Rika, no time ask me again later!" Takato said running off.
"Well that was weird." Rika thought out loud before resuming her walk.
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Henry Wong lay on his bed one arm across his forehead the other outstretched above him with his old Digivice in his hand. He never thought he'd miss Terriermon as much as he did, after all the bunny dog's big mouth had gotten him into trouble more times than he could count, but never the less he'd give anything to hear him say "Momentai" once more. The phone rang in the living room and he heard his mother pick it up.
"Hello, Wong residence… Oh hello dear… What? Another all nigher? Alright... Ok I won't hold Dinner. Yes. Love you too dear. See you tomorrow. Goodbye."
Henry's dad had been spending more and more nights away from home working on some big project that he refused to speak about. Though Henry couldn't really fault him for that, after all Henry hadn't spoken a word to him since his rash actions caused the Digimon to be forced back into the Digital World. It seemed childish, even to Henry, but he subscribed to the old saying "if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all.
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Takato ran towards the old Hypnos building with renewed urgency after running into Rika.
'She looked worse than ever.' He thought 'Back to the broken heart shirt and everything.'
Takato got to the skyscraper without further incident. He ran through the broken doors that no one bothered to fix. Hypnos had been shut down following the D-Reaper incident. With all link to the Digital World cut Digimon could no longer cross over and with no Digimon for it to monitor Hypnos' funding dried up quickly.
Inside one of the old labs Takato found Janyu Wong, Henry's father.
"Sorry it took so long for me to get here." Takato said trying to catch his breath
Janyu chuckled and said "It's no problem. Now let's get to work as see if we can get my son to talk to me again."
"The separation was hard on all of us." Takato said "Though it's been hardest on Rika and Henry."
"Yes well hopefully you won't be apart from them much longer." Janyu said "Now, down to work. The device you planted next to the Digi Gate has been feeding me information. Get on those controls over there."
Takato nodded and sat at something resembling a jet fighting arcade game interface and waited.
"Alright, we're starting the sequence. The feed has commenced, link established. Digiport Open. Activating Arc2."
The screen in front of Takato turned on and displayed a live video feed from the large shuttle at the top of the lab.
"Arc2 is on Mr. Wong. I'm getting the feed." Takato said
"Alright, launching Arc2."
Rusted and old machines buzzed to life as they moved the red and gold shuttle above the Digigate and lowered it in. Takato put on his head set and grabbed the controls. As soon as Arc2 was through the portal Takato began flying it through the various layers of Data the group had fallen through when they went to the Digital World to rescue Calumon. Soon he was past all that and saw the Digital wasteland below, the craters that had been left from their first visit still visible on the surface.
"Alright Takato, with your Digivice at the core of Arc2 it's compass should guide you to Guilmon. I'm activating it now."
A red arrow appeared on Takato's screen, he followed it until a siren went off in the labs.
"What's going on?" Takato asked panicked
"There's a Digimon behind you in a collision course! Quick move!" Janyu shouted
It was too late. Before Takato could react an Airdramon smashed into the Arc causing it to fly out of Takato's control into a nearby rock spire then into the ground. The video feed went black and Takato could no longer control the arc.
"NO!" Janyu shouted
"It's alright we'll pull it out on the track I left, repair it, and try again." Takato said getting up from his chair
"Yes, I suppose you're right." Janyu said typing in the commands to pull the Arc back until…
"Takatomon?"
DT: Sorry the first chapter is so short, it'll get better I swear! I suppose a small chapter deserves a small AN so I'll just say the old… I do not own Digimon!