Second Best
Disclaimer: I own none of the characters mentioned within this story. Nor do I own the world within which it takes place.
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Traveling into the digital world was always unique. For a few moments, while the light washed over him, he felt weightless, disembodied. This time, the experience wasn't passing. The weightless disembodiment was frightening now, rather than exhilarating.
"Davish." They'd never talked during transit, there hadn't ever been enough time. He felt the digimon's hand wrap around his arm. "We're going far away thish time, aren't we?"
"Yeah Veemon, I think we're going really far away this time." They were passing through black bands now, the light flickering faster the farther they traveled.
"But, where are we going?"
"I think... We're going to one of the other quadrants." Or else the Dark Ocean, but that's not something he wanted to scare Veemon with.
"But Davish, we're not supposed to." Supposed to, not supposed to, when had he ever cared about that?
"Come on, Veemon, if somebody doesn't like it, they gotta catch us first!" Looking back, Davis saw the smile stretch across the small dragon face.
"Yeah!" Looking forward, the light disappeared. The first, short step of their journey ended, and so began the second step of many.
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The first time Davis had been transported to the digital world, he'd landed in a heap of the other digidestined. This time there were only two coming through the gate, but his landing was much worse. He was literally flung out of the gate, rolling head over feet for at least five yards until he came to a slow stop. Unfortunately for Veemon, he was smaller and rounder, rolling almost twice as far as his destined. It would've really sucked had he been Armadillomon.
"Davish?" The digimon sounded woozy, a little sick.
"Yeah?" Woah, he didn't sound too good either.
"I don't feel sho good."
"Yeah."
It took a few minutes for them to get situated again, their stomachs settled, and then they started to take stock of where they were. Hanging vines, humid air. A jungle. It was silent though, no wind, no noise, they were either alone, or being watched warily by the local digimon.
Nothing to do for it then. Davis had nearly worked off his backpack when he heard a small explosion behind him. He spun around.
"Davish, the T.V. just exploded." What-but-aww, come on!
"Did you see where the attack came from?" He was looking around frantically, but Veemon was just standing there, staring at the little black scorch mark that used to be a T.V.
"Nuh-uh, I was just watching it the whole time. It just went ka-boom!" Well that sucked, how was he supposed to get home?
"Aww, man!" As much as it sucked, there wasn't much else to add. Shrugging off his backpack, Davis pulled out his D-terminal, his D-three, and a box of granola bars. Flipping open the little hand-held computer he was met with the second bad turn of the day. The screen was cracked, a tiny triangle coming down from the top of the screen was just black. He held down the power button and comeoncomeoncomeon-yes! It turned on, the screen a little darker than before, but still working.
Alright, the battery was at three bars, but he had no connectivity. Nothing. Whatever let him send messages to the other digidestined was absent here, he supposed. He had one new message, but that could wait a second, he had to check the most important thing. The digi-eggs and- why did he have the rest of the digi-eggs?
"Hey Veemon?" The little blue digimon looked up at him. "Do you remember when you turned into Saggitarimon?"
Veemon nodded.
"You ever wonder what you would'a turned into with the other eggs?"
"Davish... You didn't shteal the others eggsh, did you?"
"No, no, come on! These got this little 'C' next to 'em, you see?" He held the cracked device in front of his digimon's face. "So I'm thinking they're like, copies or somethin', y'know?"
"Oh-oh... Hey Davish, you remember when you ashked me if I had a angel digivolution?" Davis' grin soon mirrored Veemon's.
"Digi-armor energize!" Davis shouted, his D-three glowing.
After the light faded away from Veemon, Davis saw a tall, draconic looking white creature with angelic wings, metal bands over most of its body, including its eyes, and a large yellow 'X' and 'O' on each arm.
"That is so cool! What are you now?"
"Gargoylemon, messenger of the just!" Their rejoicing was cut short when the D-terminal started beeping. Opening it up, Davis was met with a tiny window with an error message. 'Memory Critically low- Errors may occur!'
"You think that'll be a problem, Gargoylemon?"
"I don't know. We should probably keep an eye on it." Davis nodded and opened up the menu for messages. Maybe deleting some of the old stuff would help? Huh, that message he ignored earlier was from the Blue guy. Opening the message, he had to manipulate the window a little bit to get the message under the little black triangle so he could read all of it.
"Davis
The digiport has dropped you off in the southern quadrant, the last known location of Ryo Akiyama. Anything further will have to be done on your own. I've taken the liberty of using the connection of your D-terminal to make copies of the other eggs. Being unable to reach ultimate or mega means you will have to pick your battles carefully, as well as utilize type advantage whenever you can."
Izzy had explained that once, how'd it go? Data against vaccine, vaccine against virus, and virus against data. That sounded about right, but what if it went data against virus, virus against vaccine, and vaccine against data? He'd have to ask Veemon, he probably remembered.
"The southern quadrant is a violent place, the other digimon actively hunt one another for food. Be careful lest you wish to lose Veemon. It would do you well to keep a low profile, the sovereign there is, at best, unkind. At worst he would kill you both for your trespass.
Much like what occurred in the east quadrant, a great evil is being fought here. You may choose to involve yourself, or you may not. I would suggest finding the answer to your question quickly. Shortly after you read this, you'll find that the gateway behind you has closed. It was never meant to cover such a distance, you'll have to find your own way home."
That was it, the Blue fellow didn't even bother to sign it.
"Alright Gargoylemon, pick a direction. We'll search that way until nightfall, how's that sound?" Davis barely had a chance to get out a 'Whumph!' before his friend had picked him up and flown away.
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Someone was pounding on the door. Fantastic. Is it too much to ask that a girl get to sleep in during the holidays? She slipped on a pair of shorts and went to answer the door.
"Merry Christmas!" Kairi, Tai, Izzy, Joe, Sora, Ken and all their digimon stood outside the door. All of them were carrying some sort of dish covered with tin-foil except Izzy. He brought cookies.
"Christmas is tomorrow." Which it was. Right now was only the twenty-fourth.
"We know, today's just the day your brother suggested we have a party. We thought we'd surprise him and make it a pot-luck." Kairi was the spokesperson for the group, and for good reason. Everyone else looked like they too thought it was too early to be awake, it was only noon.
Except for the digimon, they just looked hungry.
"Ugh, alright. Come on in and have a seat, I'll go get him." Jun turned around and went to her brothers room, noticing he wasn't in front of the T.V. nor was Demiveemon. She opened his door and was met with an empty room and a blank computer screen.
Great. She was going to have to entertain.
"Sorry everyone, he's not here. Probably went for a walk or something." Most of the digidestined shrugged, Davis did have a tendency towards being absentminded.
"That's alright-" Tai yawned deeply "-we'll wait for him here, if that's okay?" Jun waved his question off, unconcerned. Now, if he left her to clean up all of his friends messes, then she'd have a problem.
AN/ Props to YinYangWhiteTiger for pointing out an error I made in the first chapter. I probably shouldn't write chapters at three in the morning, when I'm half asleep, but that's when everything seems to come out a little better, a little faster.