I know I made changes to the battle system, so to get rid of any controversy I wanted to explain my method slightly. The entire Digivolution process I took from Digimon Tamers, and the weapon system is something from another Digimon story I plan on doing some time in the future. I love Digimon Adventure, so I'm not knocking the way they did things, this is just my art. Sorry to talk so long, won't happen again.
Now back to our feature presentation.
Life as an American Girl
Back in the Digital World, Jenai and a few of his cloked companions were putting up barriers around their labs in the Epsilon Server, where most of the Digital World's maintenance was done. At the moment an army of Digimon were actually attacking the labs, only they had red and black stripes all on them, and most of them were usually benevolent. Some were Rookie Levels too.
"Jenai, we can't keep this up!" one of his companions shouted, "They're just too powerful!"
"Why are they even attacking?" another of his companions asked.
"Argh, I just don't know!" Jenai said, although he had a small idea. There was a large explosion on the other side of the lads, and a Centaurmon and Unimon charged in and began destroying the labs. "Damn it!" Jenai shouted when he saw them enter.
He ran off to a secret room in the labs and began typing on a computer while his companions continued to fight.
"I didn't want to do this," he said to himself, "but if this really Odiousmon's doing then the only ones who can save us are the Digi-Destined! I pray this reaches you Izzy!" after sending the Email Jenai picked up his sword and ran back outside, "If you want the Digital World then you'll have to go through me! ODIOUSMON!" he shouted running up to the army of Digimon, knowing full well this would be his...
The next morning at Central High in New York, everyone was talking about Bradly's party. It was said to be the biggest party this year, and everyone was going. It was one of thse parties that if you didn't go, you were either a nerd and therefore not invited, or you were stupid and therefore about to become a nerd for not showing up.
When the door to the school opened, everyone turned to look at the girl that walked in, the guys watching her with eyes of attraction, some of the girls with a slight hint of envy. This girl had been voted prettiest girl for three years straight and was given the nickname "Miss Sincerity" for her honest personality.
Mimi Tachikawa...
She was now a senior in high school, and surprisingly she had changed quite a bit. Physically she filled out almost into a bit of a bombshell, her brown hair now went halfway to her waist, she was wearing a fancy black top, pink mini skirt, black high heeled boots, and her trademark pink cow girl's hat. She was an expert on make up, so the only make up she wore was pink lip stick as to show off her natural beauty. Her expression, while not angry or depressed, wasn't as bright and cheerful as it would have been just three years ago. She walked up to her locker and was taking out her books when a girl with long blond hair, glasses, white blouse, black skirt, and black high heels walked up to her.
"So, Mimi, you are coming, right?" the girl asked, making Mimi smile.
"You mean to Bradly's party? Of course I'm coming, Sara. I am his girlfriend after all," Mimi replied shutting her locker and walking to her class, her friend next to her.
"That's good. No party is really a party here if Miss Sincerity herself doesn't show up," Sara said.
Mimi sighed a fake and conceited sigh, "So true." When the two girls turned the corner, they saw three boys wearing football jackets talking next to another locker. The one with short blond hair looked at Mimi, and pointed to her winking, making Mimi smile.
"Remind me again how you managed to get the captain of the football team as your boyfriend," Sara said enviously.
"I guess he just has good taste," Mimi answered. When Bradly walked up to Mimi, he held her close to him and kissed her, making Sara roll her eyes.
"So, did the 'rents say it was cool?" Bradly asked after he was done kissing his girl.
"Yep, as long as I'm home by eleven, they say it's fine," Mimi said.
"Great, 'cause I have a surprise for you at the party."
"Mmm, I can't wait," Mimi then kissed him again, "See you tonight then."
"See you tonight," Bradely said before letting Mimi go. She and Sara then proceeded to their homeroom.
That night unfortunately, Mimi did get a surprise, but it wasn't a piece of jewelery, and it wasn't one that Bradly meant to give her. At Bradly's house that night, there was loud music playing, teenagers drinking, talking, dancing, hanging out by the pool, and doing a whole bunch of things that describing could raise the rating on this story. Mimi was walking around, looking for Bradly or Sara, anyone one she knew. She eventually found Sara, talking with two other girls, apparently a little buzzed since she was holding a small glass of booze. Mimi rolled her eyes realizing she wasn't going to get too much of an intelligent conversation out of her tonight, but walked over to her all the same.
"Sara," Mimi called out over the music. When Sara turned to Mimi, she was happy to see that her friend wasn't too buzzed, just enough to make her a little overly cheerful.
"Hey Mimi!" Sara said enthusiastically, "When did you get here?"
"Just a few minutes ago actually. Have you seen Bradly anywhere?"
"Brad... Brad..." Sara was thinking, something that was still hard to do with the alcohol in her system, "Right! I saw him go upstairs."
"Thanks Sara," Mimi said walking off. When she got upstairs though she didn't see anything right away. "Maybe he's in his room," she said to herself. When she walked up to his door though she heard moans of pleasure and kissing, which she thought was odd. She slowly opened the door and got the shock of her life. It was Bradly, only there was another girl with him, and they were lying on the bed making out, apparently about to take it a step further. Mimi covered her mouth to stop herself from screaming, and instead closed the door and ran back downstairs.
Sara saw her storm out of the house and ran after her, sober enough to know something was wrong with her friend.
"Mimi!" Sara called out running after Mimi, who stopped when she heard her friend. Sara ran up to Mimi and took her hand, "Are you okay?"
"I'm sorry," Mimi sobbed, "but I have to go! I'll tell you tomorrow!" with that said Mimi pulled away from her now sober friend and ran off. Sara just looked at Mimi as she ran, wanting to run after her, but feeling like it was better to leave it be for now.
Once Mimi got inside her apartment, she immediately ran into her room, happy that her parents were already asleep. In her room she saw Palmon sitting on the floor drawing a picture.
"Mimi!" Palmon said happily, not yet noticing how upset her partner was, "Look at what I drew," Palmon got up and showed Mimi the picture. It was a sort of crude drawing of all of the original Digi-Destined and their Digimon. "I wanted to do something nice for your birthday tomorrow, but since I couldn't buy you anything I just made this for you." Mimi smiled looking at it, which only made her sadness that much easier to notice.
"That's really nice Palmon. Thank you," Mimi said softly, making Palmon worried.
"Mimi, are you okay?" Palmon asked.
"No Palmon, I'm not okay," Mimi said walking over to her bed. Now Palmon was really worried.
"What happened? Can I help?"
"I really don't want to talk about it. Could you get me one of Mom's cinnamon rolls for me though? I could use something sweet right now."
"Sure thing Mimi," Palmon said slowly walking over to the door. She took one last look at Mimi and then exited. Once she was alone, Mimi fell onto her pillow and cried, longing for the days that "he" was there to make all of her problems go away.
After her cinnamon roll, Mimi drifted of to sleep, but even in her dreams she didn't find any peace. In her dreams she found herself in the same gray beach she found herself in her dreams a lot these days. In front of her was a dark ocean, and she heard a voice in her head.
"No!" Mimi said holding her head, "I won't! That's not me!" she was silent for a few seconds, but then fell to her knees still holding her head, "Stop it! I'm not going to be what you want me to be! Leave me ALONE!" she then cried, knowing that it was a dream, and wanting to wake up, but unable to. Eventually she felt a hand on her shoulder, forcing her to wake up with a start.
She sat up in her bed and tried to catch her breath. This was why she had started loosing the smile she had in her youth. The dreams started around the time they defeated MaloMyotismon. She started randomly ending up there in her dreams. She didn't know it, but it was the same place that Ken first became the Digimon Emperor and the same place Kari found herself two times. The Dark Ocean. Once her breathing returned to normal, she buried her face in her pillow to suppress her scream of despair.
She looked at the clock, shocked to see it was only twelve o'clock. Only three hours? This was turning out to be a great night for Mimi. First her boyfriend was caught cheating, and now the dreams. She got up, put her pink robe on, and then walked into the kitchen.
In the kitchen she went right to the refrigerator. There she picked up another cinnamon roll and started eating it, something she tended to do when stressed. Downstairs she thought about the times before, when she was able to live simply and happily. After fighting Apocalamon, she was sad to have to say good bye to Palmon, but the thought that "it" wasn't going to happen put her heart at ease. When she had to return to the Digital World four years later, she tried to put up a tougher exterior in order to not seem to fragile, but now that the dreams had started she wasn't able to keep it together as much. She started acting out toward her parents, her grades were slipping, she was dating Bradly McDonald, and while she made sure not to go as far as to start doing drugs, she did drink alcohol every now and then, and she did have sex a fw times with Bradly. She knew her parents weren't happy with her attitude of late, and she knew that she shouldn't be acting the way she had been acting, but she didn't know how else to process how she was feeling. She couldn't say nothing was wrong when something was wrong, but the only one she could tell all this to was on the other side of the world.
Mimi decided to get on the computer for a little while to try and relax. While her computer loaded she looked at the picture on her dresser. It was the group picture of the original Digi-Destined and their Digimon friends after the fight against Apocalamon that Andromon took. She really missed them, her friends. It was funny, because before then, she would have never spoken to any of them, and here she was wishing to be in their presence. Once she got online she checked her Email and was surprised to see that she had Emails from everyone, wishing her a happy birthday and wishing that they could be there. Seeing that made Mimi almost want to cry. At least her real friends remembered her.
She replied to all of them, thanking them, and was about to log off when a message appeared on her screen.
~kido_the_reliable02 wants to chat~
"Joe..." Mimi said, her heart doing that strange flutter it did whenever she had contact with Joe. Out of all the Digi-Destined, she probably spoke to him the most, through Email of course. Every now and then she was able to instant message him like this, but since he was in his third year in college he was busy a lot. When she saw he wanted to talk she couldn't hold back her smile, and accepted the request.
~kido_the_reliable02: Hey birthday girl, you're up late. 12:00 over there, right?
~miss_sincerity03: Hi Joe! And yeah, it's around that time. Couldn't sleep. *groans*
~kido_the_reliable02: What's wrong?
~miss_sincerity03: Men are pigs, that's what's wrong! (
~kido_the_reliable02: Let me guess, Bradly?
~miss_sincerity03: I'll tell you, but you have to promise not to say "I told you so".
~kido_the_reliable02: Oh god, I think I know where this is going. What happened?
~miss_sincerity03: Went to his house party, caught him with another girl. It looked like it was about to get X rated.
~miss_sincerity03: *screams*
~kido_the_reliable02: Sheesh, and right before your birthday. I'm sorry Mimi.
~miss_sincerity03: That, and I had the dream again.
It took a minute for Joe to respond to that, probably thinking. He was the only one who knew about the dreams, and he didn't hide his concern for Mimi.
~kido_the_reliable02: Are you going to be okay?
~miss_sincerity03: Honestly, I don't know. Joe, I'm afraid. What if I see him again? What if he's right? What if I...
~kido_the_reliable02: You won't!
~kido_the_reliable02: I don't know what's going to happen, but if anything does, I'll protect you!
~kido_the_reliable02: I promise.
Seeing Joe say that made Mimi cry a bit. He wasn't there, but she was still comforted. It was as close to being in his arms as she would get, and since he was the only one who knew the truth, it was enough.
~miss_sincerity03: Thank you Joe, I needed that.
~kido_the_reliable02: Anytime Mimi. Now, shouldn't you get some sleep?
~miss_sincerity03: I am getting a little tired now. But I don't want to say good bye yet.
~kido_the_reliable02: Don't worry, we'll talk tomorrow. Besides, my surprise will make up for it.
~miss_sincerity03: Surprise? What surprise?
~kido_the_reliable02: You didn't think this was the surprise, did you? Come on Mimi, I can do way better than this. You'll like it, trust me.
~miss_sincerity03: You're lucky I know your crest is Reliability, otherwise I would be really angry.
~kido_the_reliable02: No you wouldn't.
~miss_sincerity03: ...
~miss_sincerity03: Damn it...
~kido_the_reliable02: Lol
~miss_sincerity03: Fine. I'm looking forward to it. See you Joe!
~kido_the_reliable02: Yes... Yes you will...
~miss_sincerity03: ?
Before Mimi could question it though, Joe logged off. What was he planning? Contrary to what people thought, Joe was pretty clever. Once he grew up a little, he wasn't so awkward either. Mimi went to her bed, careful not to step on Palmon (who for some reason prefered the floor over the bed) and lied down.
"Joe Kido, just what do you have planned?" she asked, suddenly excited as to what her surprise she had waiting for her the next day.
