Part 2
Follow-up - Digimon 02
Previous chapter: A Letter to TK's Son
Chronocler's Notes: Following is an email Cyan sent to me a day after he forwarded the previous one.
Since you're writing this as a lead-in to "Rift", I guess I'd best include some of the things that happened after "01". sarcasm Of course, I can't find the email I sent to Akio....so I'll cover it again here. /sarcasm
When Anthadd returned home he got a disturbing surprise. There was no trace of the Digimon series as we had known it before our own Digital adventures. It wasn't on TV; the music files he had on his computer were gone; and the centre of the online Digimon community was just starting, as if time had run backwards. It was the same date as when our adventures began, though. We're guessing there's some kind of paradox or disturbance in the space/time continuim or something, caused by our having existed in the Digimon adventures. We still don't know what it is and Izzy is just as confused as the two of us.
Checking to see what else had changed, Anthadd went on IRC to look for me, but I was nowhere to be found, as expected. One of my friends asked Anthadd if he had any idea where I was, but he had nothing to tell. I never did find out why, or how he managed it, but Anthadd managed to open the portal to the Digital World again.
When he got there, he discovered he had become
translucent. I think that's because he was halfway between the two
Worlds as he shouldn't have been able to return to the Digital World at
all. He started walking and came to a cliff where he saw a lone figure
standing on the brink. Realising what was about to happen, he ran
towards the cliff shouting, "Don't jump!". Hearing his voice rather
surprised me since I didn't think he could return. I turned around. He
came to a sudden halt, seeing that it was me, perhaps even more
surprised than I had been.
Anthadd told me what he had found upon returning
home, receiving only an apathetic response of "Who cares?" from me. I was
far gone in depression then, three weeks (note
1) of trying to go on after losing everyone I'd ever known -
except Cantomon - had taken its toll on me. After hearing what he had
to say, I turned to finish what I was doing, returning to the edge of
the cliff and leaping off of it, while Anthadd watched in disbelief.
Cantomon saved me that day by digivolving to Magna Knightmon. If you
recall, when Cantomon digivolves to Magna Knightmon both he and I gain
the ability to hover, which prevented me from falling to the jagged
rocks below. When we landed back on the cliff, I argued with Cantomon
for a couple minutes before storming off. Anthadd followed, then
unexpectedly he and I were transported back to Winnipeg where we could
survey the destruction. There I was a translucent like Anthadd was in
the Digital World, but still able to touch things. In the destruction
Anthadd found a large piece of debris with writing I could not see on
it. Realising what it meant, he managed to rid me of the worst of my
depression. The purpose of the trip accomplished, we returned to our
respective homes; Anthadd to BC and myself to the Digital World.
That wasn't the only time I nearly killed
myself. I eventually gained the ability - though I don't know when or
how - to cross the gap between the two Worlds, being whole in both, but
I couldn't choose for myself when to cross. I found myself in Odaiba
around Christmas of that year. Having nowhere to stay of my own, I again
boarded with Matt. While I was there it became apparant to both the
Ishidas (note 2) that I was growing
despondant (sp?) during my first Christmas without my family. Fortunatly they
too were able to protect me from myself, and I realised a part of the
legend Anthadd found in Winnipeg's ruins although he hadn't told me that
part, I had to realise it on my own. I realised that while I had lost
my own family, I had gained another one which was just as tightly knit,
the Digidestined. Knowing now that I had been destined to lose my
family - there was nothing I could have done, so I had no reason to
blame myself anymore - the despair that had plagued me for months was
finally lifted and I turned my first christmas alone into my first
christmas with my new family. That was the last significant event
before "02" - as I call it - started. Strangely though, in the three
years between 01 and 02, I don't think I actually aged or changed
physically at all.
Three years after Apocalymon was defeated, the Digimon Kaizer
appeared and I spent a lot of time running, although that's against my
nature. With Cantomon unable to digivolve - meaning neither of us could
fight at our maximum - we were in no position to try fighting the
Kaizer.
Agumon - along with all the other digimon - was also running from the
Kaizer. After a few days of this, Agumon couldn't run anymore and
called for help from Tai, who then returned to the Digital World.
Cantomon and I joined them shortly thereafter, with Patamon and Gatomon.
When we got trapped in the cave and the new Digivices had been
released, a Unimon came charging through. I led Unimon outside and
decided that now was the time to try fighting again. Cantomon tried to
digivolve again and was actually successful! The downside was that doing
so left me drained because I supplied the extra energy to overcome the
power of the Dark Digivice. The battle was relatively short, if
different. When I got hit hard by Unimon the massive energy output I
was maintaining for Cantomon triggered my ability to transcend the gap
between the two worlds.
That was when things started to get even stranger. Instead of just
popping up somwhere in the Real World, I burst out of the Digiport just
as TK, Kari and Izzy were preparing to go in. Seeing me come flying out
of the computer confused Daisuke even more than he usually is. We
returned to the Digital World where Daisuke lifted the Digimental of
Courage and was joined by V-mon.
I got an interesting surprise when we returned to the Real World
through the Digiport that day. After we had untangled ourselves from
the heap we landed in, I stood up and found myself staring almost
eye-to-eye with TK, which is unexpected considering I'm usually a foot and
a half taller than he is. For some reason I had become 4 years younger
when I exitted the Digital World! Fortunatly it turned out that it
wasn't permanent. When we returned to the Digital World the next day
with Miyako and Iori, I found I was back to my normal form - if any form
of mine can be considered "normal" now. Why it is that I'm always 15 when
in the Digital World - or why I never age when I'm there, for that
matter - I don't think I'll ever know.
After Miyako and Iori got their Digimentals and TK and Kari got an
upgrade to their Digivices when they found their Digimentals, I was
starting to feel rather useless since Cantomon and I still couldn't do
anything. That didn't last very long, though.
A few days after TK and Kari found their Digimentals, we were walking in
one of the many forests of the Digital World when we were attacked by the
Kaizer's slaves. The Veggiemon bound the others tightly - preventing
them from being able to have their digimon armour digivolve - but I
managed to stay free. Even the six Rookies and I put together were not
enough to stand up to the Red Veggiemon who lead our attackers. He took
us out one by one, starting by nailing me with one of his spiked "fists"
and knocking me out.
What exactly happened after that I'm not quite sure. I woke up and
found myself alone where I had lost consciousness. The Veggiemon
had carried off the others and our digimon when their leader had won the
battle, but they left me. I suppose they either thought I was dead, or
they didn't have enough arms left to take me as well. It's a good thing
that the tracks of half a dozen Veggiemon, five humans, two cats, an
armadillo, a ... whatever V-mon is, a hawk and a Patamon - even the Veggiemon
were smart enough to force Patamon and Hawkmon to walk not fly - are very
hard to disguise. Granted I did have my Digivice, but the tracks
helped;otherwise I would not have been able to find where everyone had been
taken.
The Veggiemon had taken the others to a fortress which I had no
intentions of attacking on my own, so I went to get Anthadd's help. I
got to his home within an hour, but of course he wasn't home then, so I
went to his room to wait. I fell asleep, so Anthadd got a bit of a
surprise when he got home. When he woke me up we wasted little time in
getting back to where the others were being held. We wasted so little
time in going back to the Digital World that I didn't explain it was me
who had been sleeping there -- he had no idea I reverted to a younger state
when returning to the Real World.
We were able to sneak into the fortress with little difficulty, but
finding the others was another matter. While searching we fell into a
pitfall set up by the Kaizer's slaves. You'd think this would have been
bad, but when we landed my Digivice reacted to something. We moved some
rubble on the floor of the pit and found a Digimental, the Digimental of
Honour. When I reached to take the Digimental, my Digivice began to
glow like TK's and Kari's had and it reformatted itself into a D-3.
We were quite lucky the Kaizer's slaves are so stupid. They hadn't
smoothed the sides of the pit adequately, so we climbed out with little
difficulty. We found where the others were being held shortly
thereafter. Having only encountered one of the Kaizers minions to that
point, we were wondering where the other ones were. Of course, finding
the others was the easy part;defeating the Devidramon guard was much
harder. They swooped down from above us as we approached the cells
where the others and their Digimon were being held. I turned to block
their attack, while Arimon used his Spark Popper. Anthadd took thi
oppurtunity to look for the D-3s and D-Terminals that had been taken
from the others.
As soon as I had an open second, I called out "Digiarmour energise!"
and Cantomon digivolved to Cougamon. Now free of his ropes, Cougamon
broke through the cell door and assisted Arimon and me. Anthadd freed
the others and returned their possessions. With the whole group now in
the fight, the single Devidramon stood no chance of winning. We
destroyed the Evil Ring, then quickly made our exit before any of the
Kaizer's other troops could attack us.
As to how I got the Digimental of Loyalty, I'd prefer not to go into
that. I might tell you of it later, but not now... In any case, that
covers pretty much everything up to when "Rift" occured.
-Cyan-
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