Not much to say, except that I don't own Digimon and I so wish I did

Not much to say, except that I don't own Digimon and I so wish I did!

BTW, I changed the name of the new digivices from D-Stone to…well, read it and see!

NEXT GENERATION

…And So It Begins (Again)

CHAPTER TWO: DIGITAL RELICS

"Whoa," Lauren said, her eyes wide. "What was that all about?"

Cleo shook her head. "Don't ask me. I've never heard of anyone named Gennai before."

Lee had a thoughtful look on her face.

~flashback~

"Sora, Izzy just called. He said that Gennai sent him a message."

Five-year-old Lee was walking past the living room in her pajamas, a glass of water in her hand. Being naturally curious, she stuck around to find out about whom her dad was talking about.

"Oh no," Sora gasped. "Is he in trouble?"

"No, it's nothing like that," Tai assured her quickly. "Izzy says he said that our children are going to be Digidestined. He doesn't know when, but he does know that their enemies are going to be nothing like we've ever seen before. I guess that means that they'll be stronger than we ever were."

"God, Tai, you talk about it like it's nothing! You know Gennai. He's so old that he can't remember anything. For all we know, he could be sending for our kids tomorrow! Lee's only five, and Mimi and Izzy's youngest is three. They'd never make it in the Digital World and you damn well know it!"

Tai sighed. "I'm not saying that I'm not worried too," he told her. "But really, I'm not surprised that the kids are Digidestined. I've had my suspicions."

"What are we going to do, Tai?"

"Let's just hope that Gennai doesn't take them soon."

At that point, Lee walked into the living room. "Are me and Bubby and Holly going on a trip?" she asked sleepily. "And who's Gennai?"

Both her parents jumped. "Go back to bed, honey," Sora told her firmly, gently pushing her daughter out of the room.

~end flashback~

"Hey Lee, what's the matter?" Kinaka asked.

Lee shook her head. "Nothing," she mumbled.

"Well, I say that we should go back and ask our parents who this Gennai guy is and what he could possibly want," Jenna suggested.

Lauren closed the laptop and stood. "All right. Let's go."

Izzy greeted them at the door, smiling. "Hey, kids! Back so soon?"

Mike looked up at his father. "Dad, who's Gennai?"

Izzy's smile faltered, and he took a step back. "Tai! Sora! Did you tell your kids anything?" he yelled over his shoulder.

"What!" Tai said indignantly. "After all we've done to keep it under wraps? No way!"

"Matt?"

Matt shook his head. "Uh-uh. I didn't even tell Sabrina when she was alive."

"Mimi? You didn't tell them, did you?"

His wife shook her head.

"TK? Kari?"

"No way," they said in unison.

"Joe? You wouldn't by any chance have told them anything in secret, would you?"

Joe shook his head.

"Davis?"

"Right, I told Kim everything," he said sarcastically. "Yeah right!"

"Cody?"

The youngest adult Digidestined looked outraged. "You of all people should know that I wouldn't," he said indignantly.

"Yolei? Ken?"

"Get a life, Izzy. We don't go telling our kids things that would endanger their safety," Yolei said.

Izzy sighed. "All right then. Who told them if it wasn't any of you?"

Lauren unshouldered her laptop and opened it. "Dad, an image of this Gennai guy popped up on the screen at the park. He was all covered in blood, and the image was fading, but he managed to tell us that he needs us before the window disappeared. Does this have anything to do with this program I can't open on this thing?"

"Give it to me," Izzy told her. Once he had it in his hands, he sat down and typed away. "Aha. Is the file you can't open by any chance named analyser.exe?"

"Exactly! Dad, what's the password?" Lauren asked.

"I guess you'll need to know this, because you're going to need it later. It's 'prodigious', p-r-o-d-i-g-i-o-u-s." Izzy typed in the password, and a window with three programs on it popped up.

"OK," Izzy said, clicking away. "Oh…"

"What, Dad?" Mike asked.

"Davis, do you happen to have your D3 handy?" Izzy asked, ignoring Mike.

"Uh, yeah," Davis said, putting his hand in his pocket and withdrawing a device shaped like a warped walkie-talkie.

"Great. Open the port."

Davis stepped up to the computer and yelled, "Digi-Port, open!"

A green light flashed on the screen. From the light, several strange-looking devices flew out of the screen and beaned Davis and Izzy right in the head.

"OW!" they both yelled at the same time, rubbing their foreheads.

Lee stepped closer and picked up the navy blue device. It flashed once with a brilliant blue light, then stopped.

"What is this thing?" she asked. "Dad, do you know what this is?"

"Here, let me take a look," Tai said.

Lee handed him the device, and he examined it. It was pretty strange-looking. It had Lee's name on it in gold and silver letters across the top, a sort of trigger on the side, and a fairly large screen with Digi-code around it. It almost looked like a cross between the first digivices and the D3's.

"Well, Dad? What is it?" Lee asked.

Tai handed it back to his daughter. "Izzy? Should I tell her?" he asked his friend.

Izzy nodded. "I think we should all tell them."

"Tell us what?" Tina wanted to know.

So the adults told their children the whole story of the Digidestined. They began with the original eight, who told of their adventures almost thirty years ago at summer camp. Then they told about the other four Digidestined joining their group four years later, and the stories behind the digivices, D3's, Digi-Ports, Digimon, etc.

"But I don't get it," Kim said after they were done talking. "Who's this Gennai guy? And how did he send us a message?"

Izzy sighed. "Don't ask me," he said heavily. "Gennai's a mystery himself. He's a very old man who used to help us when we went to the Digital World for the first time. But four years after our first adventures, we never saw him again. Sure, I've gotten emails from him from time to time, but that's just about the only contact I have with him."

"But why would he want us?" Hikaru asked.

"I have no idea," Izzy said. "But judging from Lee's digivice, I'd say you guys are all Digidestined."

"Wait, that's right!" Sora exclaimed. "The digivices! Izzy, you just left the new ones on the floor like that!" And she pointed to the pile of new digivices on the floor.

"Well, we might as well let the kids pick them up. They belong to them anyway," TK said.

Hesitantly, the kids went over to the pile of digivices, and each one picked up the one they thought were meant for them.

Tina picked up the red one.

Chris picked up the black one with a sort of eye symbol on it.

Hikaru picked up the gold one.

Kiko picked up the silver one.

Leon picked up the obsidian black one.

Jenna picked up the teal one.

Cleo picked up the black and white one.

Kinaka picked up the aqua blue one.

Lauren picked up the yellow one.

Holly picked up the orange one.

Kim picked up the purple one.

Mike picked up the green one.

All at one, there was a brilliant flash of white light, as each and every digivice became emblazoned with each kid's name.

"Cool!" Kiko squealed.

"What are these things called, digivices or something?" Chris asked.

"Uh…" Ken started. "Maybe they should be called something different. I mean, they're not digivices and they're not D3's, so what should they be called?"

"D-X's!" Kinaka blurted out.

Everyone stared at her.

"No, I'm serious!" she said. "I dunno…it just popped into my head. I guess it sounded good to me."

"Well, I like it," Lee said slowly.

"I like it too," Jenna agreed.

"I think we all like it," Lauren said.

"I knew you would," Kinaka grinned. Then she looked down at her D-X. "Hey! What's with this thing? It's got my name wrong!"

"What is it, Kinaka?" Matt asked.

She shoved it in his face. "Look! It says 'Kina' on it! I hate that name!"

Matt started to laugh. "Maybe they couldn't fit your name on it!"

"No…" Hikaru said. She held up her D-X. "My name's just as long as Kinaka's and it fits on mine just perfect."

"Oh, man," Kinaka grumbled.

Just then, the same window that they had seen earlier popped up. It was Gennai again, and he still had blood on his robes.

"Do they like them?" he asked.

"Gennai!" Izzy exclaimed.

"Listen to me, Izzy," Gennai wheezed. "The children need to come. They need to help stop the threat that is endangering the Digital World."

"But who is it?" Davis asked.

The window started to fade. "They'll see when they get here," Gennai replied before the window disappeared again.

Izzy was left staring at a blank screen.

Nobody spoke for a long time. Finally, Lee piped up. "Well, I guess we'd better get going," she said. She picked up her black sports bag from near the door and grinned. "When's the next flight to the Digital World?"

"You get there using a Digi-Port," Sora told her. "Just hold it up to the screen and say 'Digi-Port, open!' That's all there is to it."

Kiko clung to his sister. "Mom, I'm not sure I want to go," he said.

Kari smiled softly at her son. "Don't worry, Kiko. If you kids really are Digidestined, you'll have your very own Digimon waiting for you in the Digital World. He or she will watch over you and keep you safe."

"Sort of what I already do for him," Hikaru pointed out.

Izzy passed the laptop to Lauren. "Take this with you," he instructed her. "I think that you'll find the analyser.exe program will help you a lot."

Lauren hugged her father. "Thanks, Dad."

All the kids who had brought knapsacks with them picked them up and put them on, while Lauren put the laptop on her back.

"We'll have to use my computer, then," Izzy decided. He led everyone into his large computer room, which had not one, but five computers in it.

"I'll set it up," Ken offered.

As soon as Ken had the port set up and they were ready to go, all their parents came up and hugged them.

"Be careful," Sora and Tai warned Lee, Holly and Leon.

"Don't talk to any strange Digimon," Kari and TK told Hikaru and Kiko.

"Don't eat anything you don't recognise," Davis said to Kim.

"Keep in touch over the laptop," Izzy and Mimi said to Lauren, Tina and Mike.

"Wear your coat," Matt told Kinaka, who just rolled her eyes.

"You're the oldest, so I expect you to be responsible and look out for the other kids," Cody told Chris.

"And don't forget to be careful!" Yolei and Ken said to Jenna and Cleo.

"So, are we ready now?" Lee asked.

"YEAH!" the other kids chorused.

"All right then." Lee held her D-X in front of the screen. "Let's get out of here then! Digi-Port, open!"

There was a flash of green light as they were sucked away into oblivion, on their way to the Digital World…