CHAPTER 2: enter the digital-world
(Alastair POV)
I'm falling, why am I falling, why can't I see…
"Your eyes are closed" yells Gato over the rushing wind
"Oh" I open my eyes and see a blue grid above me "that's not normal" I turn over and see Gato falling a bit below me "I'm pretty sure you past normal when you met me" and there that smirk of hers
Even though we're falling to are doom I can't help but smile, but then I see we're heading to a floor that looks like a green computer circuit, ok I'm goanna scream now
"AAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Ally" I stop to see that Gatomon is drifting away from me "Gato take my hand" I move my arms and legs to get closer
"Come on"
My hands getting closer
"Just a little more"
I can almost touch her paw
"Got it!"
Her claw slips through my hand and she drifts further away from me "GATO!" I yell as we move further away from each other "DON'T WORRIE ALLY, I'LL FINE YOU WHEN WE LAND!"
Land?
I look down again and see the green floor below
Oh, right
"AAHHHHHHHHH!" and then I black-out
Landing spot
The first thing I feel after blacking-out is soft ground under me "err… what happened" I stumble a bit getting up but after a while I get my balance back and spot two items around a crater I'm in
First is the book I was going to read
The second is a small pile of digimon cards, the ones I keep on my desk, they most of gotten sucked in by the light
And the thread is some… sliced bread in a plastic bag?
I pick up my cards and book then walk over to the bread and pick it up looking at it in confusion "whys this hear?" seriously! Why would a packet of bread be lying in the middle of a crater in a- am I forgetting something
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"GATO!" I quickly climb out of the of the crater and look around in a frenzy "ah man how could I forget I got separated Gato", ok calm down when me and Gato were falling she was on my left- how did we even survive that I mean we were pretty high up and I didn't see this type of area below us- "FOUCES!"
Wait that device I got when Gatomon appeared to me as a Salamon can track her location, so all I have to do is use it
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"And it's gone, *sigh* well if I go left then I'll run into something"
I start walking "ow" I stepped on a rock and realised I'm not wearing any shoes and that I'm in my pajamas, looking down I see my white T-shirt that goes down to my knees with baggy sleeve that go over my knuckles and my black pajama bottoms with three white lines around the bottom part of the legs
Somewhere else (Takato POV)
"So this is the Digital-world" I hear Henry say from the crater I'm in, I look over and see Guilmon having trouble getting out "need a hand there boy" I walk over and give him a push "man your heavy"
"Push harder" and *thud* got it
I look over to the side and see pink light coming down from that metal planet looking thing "hay what's that?"
"I don't know it looks like a movie primmer" Kazu say looking up at the lights
I can't help but star in amazement "wow, it's so beautiful" I then spot Rika with a per of binoculars "those beam are gigantic and they lead right up to the real world" she moves the binoculars her eyes "they're everywhere"
"They must be stream of data being transferred between are wold and this one" Henry starts to explain "any time you use a computer I bet it sends one of those beams to extract the information from here"
Later
After some pictures with the flag we made and planting it in the ground we're getting ready to move
"Now that Kenta's little fashion shoots over shouldn't we start looking for Calumon?"
"Rika's right who knows maybe this can help" I say taking out the device Yamaki gave me "system error" I say in confusion, I try to get it to work but then I spot something in the sky "what's that?"
I look over to Henry and others "hey guys" they all look at me "is there anything that didn't fall with use" I point to the thing falling and they all look up
"What is that?" Henry asks
"I don't know did we drop anything" Rika replies
"THE BREAD!" Guilmon yells running over to it
(3rd person POV)
Takato grabs his bag "Guilmon don't run off on your own" he shouts chasing after him, the other then follow after them
"What's with that Dino and bread" Rika says in a annoyed tone
Looking up again Rika sees that the falling object is moving, 'what is that' she thought?
"HELP!" a voice yells from the falling object
"That voice" say a humanoid lion man "what's wrong Leomon" asks the brunette girls running next to him "I believe I know who that is Jeri" he says running ahead the group
"Leomon what is it?" ask the humanoid fox Renamon
Leomon looks back at the group "I know who that is" he says before speeding off, he quickly jumps and run up the wall of a cliff after reaching the top he leaps into the air and catches what's falling
Landing on the ground with a soft thud Leomon turned to the others and they see what's in his arms "aww, it's a kitten" coos Jeri
"No, that's a Gatomon" Kazu says in a mater-of-fact way
Rika takes out her D-arc and scans the Gatomon "he's right, Gatomon champion level free-type, be careful her Lightning paw will send you flying"
"Isn't free-type rare?" Kenta asks
Kazu puts his hand on his chin and holds his elbow with the other hand "ya they are, usually digimon are data, virus or vaccine"
If they thought a Gatomon falling from the sky was the strangest thing that would happen today they are wrong, because from the sky fell a D-arc with a silver ring that hit Kenta in the head and rebound into Kazu's head "OW!" they both yelled falling to the ground
"Are you guys ok" Takato asks helping his friends up
Rika walk over and picks up the device "a digivice" Henry moves next to her and takes a look "it may be this Gatomon's tamer"
"She's waking up" Jeri tells the others
As Gatomon's eyes open she sees herself surrounded by human and digimon but many focuses on the digivice in Rika's hand and then her instinct kicked in
As fast as lightning Gatomon leaped from Leomon's arms grabbed the digivice from Rika and landed several feet away from the tamers and their digimon
"Who are you, wears Ally" she demands bearing her claws
Rika crosses her arms with a look of annoyance "hey don't snap at us, we found you like this" Rika and Gatomon enter a glaring contest and you can see the spark of anger fly between them
Leomon steps forwards "it has been a long time" tough's words snap Gatomon out of her glare and she looks towards Leomon, she sniffs the air and smells a sent she remembers from long ago
With a look of recognition on Gatomon face she can't help but smile "Leomon it's you" she say walking over to him and Leomon gets down on one knee to be somewhat near her high "yes it has, but the last time I saw you, you were but a Salamon"
Gatomon scratches the back of her head "what can I say I got stronger", Jeri stands next to Leomon with a look of curiosity "Leomon do you now Gatomon"
Leomon looks at the confused faces of he's friends and with a small smile of amusement he begins to explain "yes, you see years ago I helped an injured Salamon from being deleted, after that we travelled together but one day she disappeared" Leomon then looks to Gatomon "I didn't even think of the possibility of you becoming a tamers digimon"
"Ya, well it's a long story, you see it started-" but before Gatomon can tell her story a look of horror crosses her face "ALLY!" everyone in the group flinch back at the volume of Gatomon's voice
Gatomon starts moving around the area calling out to her partner "ALLY, WERE ARE YOU, are man where can you be?"
'Poor thing' thought Takato, he then walked up to Gatomon "hey, we'll help find your partner"
Gatomon looked up at Takato with hope gleaming in her eyes and her ears pointing down "really" she say in small whisper
'Cute~' Rika cooed in thought but then shock her head to clear the thought 'this isn't the time for that!' she scolded her self
"Of course we will" Leomon says with his arms crossed
"You two shouldn't have landed to far from each other so it won't be that hard to find Ally" Henry muses in thought
"Ya and then guys can travel with us" Kenta say "it be a help to have another tamer on the team" added Kazu
"A bigger help then you two" Rika comments
"HEY!" was their response
Henry moves to dissolve the situation "alright you three cut it out" the digimon on his head moves his hand in a relaxed wave "Momentai" is the only thing Terriermon says
Rika turns to Gatomon "so how do we find Ally" she asks, Gatomon looks up at the red-head and gives it some thought "well I got a little turned around but I'm sure he fell in that direction" she says pointing south
"HELLO-AHH!" *thud* came a voice then a noise of something falling down but it came from the north not the south
Gatomon sweats and then turns so she is pointing north "I mean that way, let's go" as she runs off the group sweat-drops at her antics as they follow after her
(Alastair POV)
I've been walking across this desert-like area for several minutes now and my feet are burning from the hot ground and I think I've stepped on every sharp rock there is in this place
"AH!" *thud* and now I have a face full of dirt "*cough* *cough* come on" I get up and rub the dirt from my eyes" *sigh* can this day get any worst" I grumble
*Quack* *rumble* what's that? I turn around to see the sores of the noise, when a see it I fall back in fear "well then" a somewhat high gravelly voice says "does this count"
Back to Gatomon (3rd person POV)
The group of tamers and digimon run the sores of a lot of different noise
"What's all that racket" asks Rika
Renamon who is run beside her answers "it sound like someone is attacking" "ALLY!" Gatomon shouts in a panic and speeds up ahead of everyone
When they got there they saw a large yellow betel on two legs with drills on parts of its body attacking a kid their age
Henry took out his digivice and scanned the digimons data "Digmon, armour digimon, vaccine type, careful his gold rush attack packs a punch" he read
Digmon was about to attack Alastair but before the tamers could intervene something small and white went flying past them "Neko-kick" toughs words came from Gatomon as she delivered a powerful kick to Digmon's shoulder and knocking him off balance, Gatomon then spun in mid-air calling "Cat-tail" and smacked the other digimon in the face with enough force to make him move into the air but when Gatomon landed and then leaped at the airborne Digmon
"Lightning-paw" called Gatomon as she slammed her open hand into Digmon's chest sending him flying into a large and smashing it on contact
But it wasn't over since Digmon burst from the bolder he was bared in with a look of pure anger in his eyes "WHO DEARS INTERFERE?" he yells in rage
Gatomon stands in front of Alastair with her claws beard "I do and you better not lay a hand on Ally" she said lasted with venom
"Gato" was Alastair's only response to the situation at hand
The tamers group are in awe at what they just saw "whoa, that was brutal" Takato says breaking the silence, Renamon look on with a hand on her chin "something is odd" she voices her thoughts
"What do you mean Renamon" asks Rika looking at her partner
"Renamon is correct" the group turn to look at Leomon "it is natural for a digimon to protect their tamer but Gatomon seems to be a bit more protective" he mused
'Whys that?' Was the collective thought among the tamers
Back with the two digimon facing off, Gatomon throw the digivice to Alastair who court with a bit trouble
"Let's show this guy what a real armour digimon can do" it took a while but Alastair got what Gatomon was saying and pulled out a card from his pocket
He took the digivice so the screen was facing him and swiped the card diagonally from top right to bottom left, it almost looked like he was playing a violin "Digi-modify: Digi-egg of light activate"
A bright light engulfed Gatomon "Gatomon armour Digi-volve to… Nefertimon" when the light subsided Gatomon had turned into a white sphinx with wings and silver armour
"He used a Dig-egg card to evolve Gatomon, interesting" Henry mused in thought
Back to the fight the two digimon are ready for battle "Gold-rush!" shouts Digmon firing his drills, "Rosetta-stone" Nefertimon summons a gate of light from her back and shoots a large slab of stone which connects with a drills and explode creating a smokescreen
From the smokescreen Digmon rushes to Nefertimon and swings his claws to hit her but she dodges and moves back "Rock-cracking" Digmon rams his drills into the ground and creates a crack in the ground, Nefertimon spreads her wings and takes off into the air
The crack misses Nefertimon but Alastair isn't fast enough and trips getting a small scratch on he's left cheek, Nefertimon seeing this seems to give off an aura of anger towards Digmon
"Queen's-paw" shouts Nefertimon firing sharp gems from her bracelets that rain down on Digmon cutting his armour, Nefertimon then fly's down and lands in front of Digmon and moves her head to his chest "Beam-of-Isis" a light pink beams of light shoot out from her eyes and pushes Digmon back until he crashes into the same rock he hit before
Nefertimon then fly over to him with her claw at the ready "now your mine" she says bring down her claw
"GATO STOP!" yells Alastair
The claw stops mere inches away from Digmon's face, it then moves back and Nefertimon fly's over in front of Alastair and look over her shoulder at him
"That's enough" he says with a sad look in his eyes "there's no reason to fight any more" he tells her
A moment of silence passes until a light engulfs Nefertimon and she turns back to Gatomon "ok" she says quietly, Alastair walks over to her and pets her head lovingly "thank you"
"You…" the two look over to see Digmon looking at them from the rock or what's left of it "why did… you stop" he ask even in pain with confusion in his eyes
Alastair simply look at him and gives a kind smile which takes Digmon by surprise "because your to hurt to stand" he then puts his hand in his pocket and pulls out a card "in fact you could use some help" he slashes the card just like before "Digi-modify: Marineangemon activate"
A pink aura surrounds Gatomon "Kahuna-wave" she summons a red energy heart and throws it at Digmon, on contact it overs him a red aura and his injures close and heal
Feeling better Digmon gets to his feet and looks at Alastair who still has that same kind smile on his face, after a while Digmon turns away and digs into the ground
"Good to see you're ok Gato" Gatomon looks up at Alastair and smiles "ya, you to" she then sees something reflecting the light by Alastair's feet "Ally what's that" she asks
Alastair kneels down and picks up a plastic bag of sliced bread "this, I found it after I landed" Gatomon looks at the bread in confusion "what the, why would there be bread in a place like-" Gatomon's words are cut off by a red blur flying past them taking the bread and knocking Alastair on his butt
(Alastair POV)
"Ow" well that hurt
"Guilmon!" I hear a voice shouts, I turn and see a group of kids my age and a bunch of different digimon, as a kid with brown hair and blue hoodie runs to the red blur that turned out to be a raptor-like digimon and a guy with black hair and orange vest comes up to me "hey, you ok" he asks in a different language but it sound a bit familiar
He extending his hand and I take it with a smile "thank you" he help pull me up and I take a look at Gatomon and see a lot of anger pointed at the red dino
Oh no, that's not good
"Hey yo-" before Gatomon can reprimand the red dinosaur I pick her up into my arms, she struggles a bit but eventually stops "don't start a fight" I whisper to her
"Hey" a new voice says, I turn and see the brown haired kid with the red dinosaur next to him "I'm sorry about Guilmon, you're not hurt are you" I'm still puzzled about what they're saying "excuse me" from the look I guess it's his turn to be confused
That language, it sounds so familiar but I can't - that it! - It's Japanese, Sophia taught me in her spare time, hope those lessons pay off
(Rika's POV)
Great, we find this girl and we can't even understand her (I did not miss spell it she thought her)
"English" we all look over a Henry "what?" Goggle-head asks, Henry looks over at us "English, it's the language she's speaking" he explains
"Well what do we do now if we can't talk to her" I say, this is getting annoying
I look over at the girl and see her in thought, probably trying to figure out what we're saying
"Hello" I was a little taken back that she's speaking Japanese now
(3rd person POV)
The rest of the group is also taken off by Alastair's change in language
"You can speak Japanese" Henry asks breaking the silence
The boy looks at him "ya, I'm a little rusty but I think I can manage" says the white haired boy, he then turns to Takato "and to answer your question I'm not hurt but thank you for asking" Alastair says in a polite and formal tone laced with kindness and a smile
No one in the group knows why but they all found themselves a little flustered by Alastair's tone even Leomon and Renamon who are usually clam at all times here taken back by him
Shaking it off Takato decides to introduce everyone "well my names Takato and this is Guilmon" he says pointing to the red dinosaur now known as Guilmon who has his snout stuffed into the bag of bread
He then jesters to the boy in the orange vest and a cream coloured bunny digimon on his shoulder "that's Henry and Terriermon"
"Hey there" Henry says "nice ta meet'cha" Terriermon adds
Takato then points to two guy, one with glasses and the other with a green visor on "over there is Kenta and Kazu"
"Hey" says Kenta "sup" Kazu says
Next is a girl with red hair in a ponytail that spikes out and a yellow humanoid fox "that's Rika and Renamon" Takato says
"A pleasure" Renamon says with a small nod "hey" and that's all that Rika says
Finally it's a girl in a green dress with brown hair "this is Jeri and Leomon" Takato says pointing to the girl and a large humanoid lion man in black trousers
"Nice to meet you" Jeri says with a small bow "it is good to meet Gatomon's partner" the lion man says
Gatomon jumps on to Alastair's shoulder with him looking between her and Leomon "you two now each other?" he asks, Gatomon looks at him "me and Leomon now each other from my time in the Digital-world, were old friends" she explains
"Oh" Alastair says forming an 'O' with his mouth, he shakes it off and look at the others with a small look of embarrassment 'I just remembered this is the first time I've talked to someone that isn't mother or Sophia' "well it's a pleasure to meet you I'm-ow" from moving his weight from one foot to the other something sharp stabs into the soil of his left foot
Bring his left foot up Alastair loses his balance and falls on his back and Gatomon jumping off so she doesn't get squished "you ok" Henry asks looking down at Alastair who look to Henry "I'm fine, just stepped on something sharp" he sits up cross-legged to see if his foot is cut "you're not wearing shoes" Kazu asks "no, I was in my room before me and Gato ended up where" he tells them
"I can fix that" Takato says tacking off his bag and going through it, he then pulls out a par of blue slip-on shoes and hands them to Alastair "these should help"
Alastair takes them with a thank you and puts them on, he then stands up and moves a bit to make sure his feet aren't hurt
"Since you're where it would probably be best for you to stay with us" Henry says, "ya it would be great to have another girl in the group" Jeri adds excitedly "what do you say Ally" she asks
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"HAHAHAHA" Gatomon breaks down on the floor howling in laughter rolling from side to side
"What's so funny" Jeri asks "ya, she was just asking if she wanted to come with us" Rika adds which only makes Gatomon's laughter increase "HAHAHA… please *giggle* stop HAHAHA… oh god my stomach hurts HAHAHA" Alastair who was sending a glare at Gatomon turned to Jeri with a nerves smile "um, miss Jeri"
Jeri looks at Alastair and gives him a smile "just call me Jeri" she says, Alastair nods "well Jeri… the reason that Gato's laughing is… well" he trails off nervously, "oh just say it already" Rika snaps annoyed
"I'maboy" Alastair blurts out a bit fast but the other understand after a moment
And the shocked looks on everyone's face proves that, you can almost read what there thinking 'that's a guy' is the thought in everyone's head, Jeri has her hand covering her mouth in shock "I'm… I'm so sorry, it's just you look so…" she trails off but is stopped by Alastair putting his hand out "it's fine, I've been told a bit that I look like a girl" after that the group comes out of there shock
The white haired boy does a small bow to everyone with one arm behind him and the other in front "my name is Alastair Maxwell Lhant the second, a pleasure to meet you all" he finishes
"Alastair" Terriermon says tilting his head, "yes, Ally is just a nickname Gato gave me" Alastair explained and then a thought hit him "excuse me everyone" he asks
The group that turn to him "what is it Alastair" Takato asks
Alastair gives them an innocent look "I don't mean to be rude but where are we"
A/N: god that was a long chapter sorry but there not all going to be that long, I hope you all like it please tell me what you think, it helps