DISCLAIMER: I don't own Digimon, but I do own the OCs introduced in this story and later stories (except where stated).

And now we have another interlude between books, so here's an Extra Dimension to the story. Kristy Nonaka is basically identical as a character to Kristy Damon in Data Squad, but obviously in a different situation, and not from the Data Squad quadrant either.

It's also going to be a sort of expanded Diary entry story, so we'll find out about thoughts and feelings of our favourite couple as they head into the life changing events of the next few books, when a lot is due to be revealed, and to happen.

This story starts a few minutes after Evils ends.

Note: This story occurs between Evils and Gods.


EXTRA DIMENSIONS

STORY THREE

Sister Act

By Blazing Chaos


11TH JANUARY 2010


Nonaka Residence

11:50 JST

"Mum, I'm going to the park…" Rika called, walking to the door of her home, hair now back up in its usual style, hairband and all, and scorched clothes replaced by identical clothes. Renamon followed her, as did a certain girl with pigtails.

"I'm coming too…" Kristy insisted.

"Suit yourself…" Rika replied.

"Huh?" Kristy said confused, not expecting the reaction. Rika picked up a jacket, and threw one to Kristy.

"Well, put it on then…"

"Oh, right…" Kristy realised, snapping to and putting the coat, a dull pink one that Rika found nauseating. Kristy, Kudamon on her shoulders, followed Rika out of the door. Rika turned left and headed along the pathways and alleyways away from her home. There was silence; neither girl spoke, until it began to drive Kristy insane and she decided to ask a question. "So why did you put your hair up?" she asked.

"I normally have it like this; my hairband just got destroyed…"

"Ok…"

Silence ensued as they reached the main road and headed along its pavements.

"So do you have any idea why we have suddenly become sisters?" Kristy asked.

"Hmm…maybe…"

"Yeah?"

"Perhaps you were from a different quadrant to me and when the quadrants collapsed in on each other, we all ended up in the same world…"

"What's with your voice?"

"Huh? What?"

"It went all different..."

"I'm not sure what you are talking about." Rika insisted. Kristy was about to reply, but Rika continued. "However, that idea doesn't explain why no-one notices that everything has been merged, and more importantly, why we remember it…"

"Hmm…"

They had now entered the park with its tree lined paths and neatly trimmed grass.

"So where are we going?" Kristy asked.

"We're going to the hideout…"

"The…hideout?"

"Yeah, it's a utility cupboard that we used to hide Guilmon in before Takato's parents knew of him. We now use it as a sort of meeting spot."

"I see…" Kudamon answered.

Rika turned the corner and they reached the hideout. She smiled. "Hey Honey…" she called, seeing Takato sitting on the steps. He nodded.

"Hey…" he replied. "Hey Kristy…" he greeted.

"Hey Takato…" Kristy replied, grinning. Rika sat next to Takato, and kissed him on the cheek.

Takato smiled. He looked over to see Kristy, holding a much larger grin on her face. "What's with Kristy and the grinning?" Takato asked Rika quietly.

"Meh, she's a child and I told her that you and I are boyfriend and girlfriend, she must find it funny…"

"I see…" Takato replied.

"Kudamon…" Kristy asked, as her partner leapt off her shoulder.

"Yes?" he asked.

"What are we meant to…you know…do?"

"In what way?"

"As partners of course!"

"I'm not sure…"

"Hey Rika, Takato, what do you guys do as…you know…Tamers?" Kristy asked.

"We handle bioemerges mostly…" Takato explained.

"Biomerges?" Kristy asked confused.

"When a digimon leaves the digital world and arrives here. They normally have to be deleted before they harm anyone." Rika explained, rolling her eyes at Takato's lack of an understandable explanation.

"That sounds a bit mean…"

"Unfortunately, there is really no other way in most cases…" Takato replied, frowning. Kristy frowned.

"We do it to protect this world…" Guilmon explained. Renamon nodded.

"If we could, we would try a different tact, but we haven't found any other ways" the Kitsune explained.

"I see…" Kristy replied. "I want to help you protect this world!" she insisted, expecting retaliation.

"Okay…" Rika answered.

"What?" Kristy asked.

"I said okay…"

"We could use the help…" Takato noted. "Here, I'll tell you how the D-Arc works…" he added, holding out his gold-ringed D-Arc.

"Wow, it's really pretty with all that gold."

Takato chuckled. "Thanks…" he replied. "Anyway…" he added, returning to his professionalism and showing Kristy the screen of the device, before pressing the buttons. "The two buttons here switch between the screens. There is a clock, data storage areas, partner-finding compass, bioemergence finding compass, digimon lists, settings areas, and of course, the viewfinder hologram, the most useful of all." The hologram now shone out of the device, showing Guilmon's current vision, which paradoxically, was over Takato's shoulder at the screen, creating a very confusing repetitive effect.

"Wow…that's so cool…" Kristy said in awe, before pulling out her own D-Arc. She flicked through the screens, finally coming to settle on Kudamon's viewpoint, of Kristy. "That's really cool…" she added, her enthusiasm quickly dying. "…what does this button do?"

"That's the power button…" Takato noted. Kristy blushed with embarrassment, recognising the symbol on the button itself.

"Oh yeah…"

"And then, of course, there is the best feature of all…"

"Takato, I think I'll explain, okay?" Rika suggested.

Takato frowned, but then nodded when he realised that Rika would probably explain it better than him.

"This is the card slot. We can use Digimon Cards, such as…this one…for example…" she explained, holding out a speed card. "Renamon, if you please…" she gestured to her partner, who nodded.

"With pleasure…" she replied.

"DIGI-MODIFY...SPEED ACTIVATE!" Rika yelled, swiping the card through the slot. Renamon's legs tensed as she felt energy in them, and she leapt forward at high speed. Kristy blinked in surprise at the movement. Suddenly, Renamon vanished.

"Huh, where'd she go?"

"Over here…" she taunted, and Kristy turned round to face her, giggling.

"That was fast!"

"Renamon is pretty fast anyway. The speed modifiers have a better effect on slower digimon." Takato explained. Kristy nodded.

"Rika, card?" Kristy called, putting her hand out to Rika. Rika cocked her head at first, until she cottoned onto the message and handed her sister a few cards. "Cheers…ready Kudamon?"

"As you wish…" Kudamon replied.

"DIGI-MODIFY…Power Activate!" she called, slashing the card diagonally through the Digivice. Kudamon glowed as the power ran through him.

"This is impressive…" Kudamon said.

"Try it out..." Kristy suggested.

"What is my target?"

"Him!" Rika called, pointing at Guilmon.

"Huh?" Guilmon asked in confusion. Kudamon leapt at him, and he was thrown back. "Ow…" he moaned in pain.

Kristy giggled, and Rika smiled. "Rika, that wasn't fair…" Renamon scolded. Rika grinned.

"Yeah, but fun…" she replied.

"You know, I thought the days of you attacking Guilmon were over…" came a familiar child-like voice. Rika turned to see Henry, Terriermon waving his long ears from his shoulder. Suzie was following him, with Lopmon on her head.

"Kudamon, new target…" Rika began.

"Kristy, do you approve?" Kudamon asked, looking up to his partner.

"Who are you?" Terriermon asked, looking at Kudamon. Suzie held up her D-Arc.

"Kudamon, Vaccine Type, Rookie Level, attacks Crystal Aura and Shining Blast" she quoted.

"I am the rookie form of Reppamon." Kudamon replied.

"Aha…who are you?" Suzie asked, seeing Kristy.

"Kristy Nonaka!" she replied, curtseying. "Pleased to meet ya!"

"Nonaka?!" Terriermon asked in surprise. Rika stood behind Kristy and put her hand on her little sister's shoulder, smiling slightly.

"This is my sister, Kristy…" she introduced.

"You have a sister?" Lopmon asked.

"It's one of those parallel universe things…" Takato explained.

"Hmm…" Henry pondered.

"Hey Rika, now you have another person to get angry at, I'm safe, right?" Terriermon asked, smiling.

"Wrong…" Rika replied. "I like my sister…"

Terriermon sweatdropped and sighed. "I give up…"


13TH JANUARY 2010


Nonaka Household

16:18 JST

"I hate my sister…" Rika moaned, falling down on her futon. Renamon materialised. The light outside of the house had begun to die down, and Rika's bag had been thrown aside.

"What is the problem?" she asked.

"We had an argument…"

Renamon chuckled quietly.

"Did you just laugh?"

"Sorry…you seem to have a knack of starting arguments, that's all…"

"I know…but…" Rika groaned. "I can't stand her! Her and her childish little innocence, pulling my hairband out and switching the milk at breakfast for water! And I return home from school, and she teases me!"

"Are you sure you aren't just exaggerating? I mean, it is that time…"

"No, she drives me mad!" Rika moaned, burying her head in the pillow. Renamon sighed.


Kristy kicked the pillow, frowning and clenching her fists. "I only pulled her hairband out, why did she have to get all angry?!" she complained. Kudamon, sitting on the floor in her room, frowned. The room was a few doors along from Rika's room, on the other side of the bathroom. The sliding door was closed and the house was quiet, although tense. Rumiko was at a fashion shoot, and Seiko was food shopping.

"Please calm down Kristy…" Kudamon pleaded.

"But I can't…she drives me mad!"

Kudamon frowned. "Kristy…I think that Rika has far more on her mind than she lets on to you."

"Huh? What like?"

"I am not sure…but you must have seen those occasional blank stares into thin air she has, along with her strange mood swings…"

"Yeah…so?"

Kudamon sighed. "To be honest, I have no idea myself…"

Kristy frowned. She was suddenly interrupted by a beeping noise. "Huh?" she enquired, before reaching into her pocket and pulling out her pale blue D-Arc. "What do I do?"

The D-Arc automatically switched to the correct screen. Kristy's eyes widened, as the holographic compass appeared.

"What should we do?" asked Kristy, looking to her partner.

"This must be a bioemergence…" Kudamon replied. "Do you wish to go and find it?"

"Of course…" Kristy replied, holding out her arm. Kudamon ran up it, and onto Kristy's shoulders. Kristy turned and slid the door aside, stepping through, and then headed to the front door via the hallway. She opened it quietly and left.


Renamon's ears twitched, and she noticed the glow for a fraction of a second. She looked across to Rika, still pouting in her futon. She frowned, and concentrated her energy. 'Rika needs time to think…'

The alarm silently stopped, and the glow vanished.

'Someone else will deal with it…it is not like there is only a small group of Tamers now…'


East Shinjuku

16:36 JST

The streets were quiet at this time of night, and in the middle of the roadway, the ground seemed to have a hole in it.

Upon closer inspection, the hole seemed to pulse and move, and then almost fell downwards through the ground. Material seemed to fall into it as if it were bubbles from a bath swirling down the drain, and then likewise it gurgled up, swelling before exploding upwards in a geyser of light.

Kristy arrived and watched this ordeal, stationary from the pavement. Kudamon on her shoulders was equally shocked. A thick mist descended on the area, surprising Kristy.

"What's going on?" she questioned. She clutched her digivice in her hand and felt her cards in her back pocket. She bit her lip. "Here goes nothing…"

A shadowed figure appeared in the mist. The figure was bug-like, and short. It had a big head, and long thin bony arms and body. Its body was completely blue, and topped by small bug-like ears.

Kristy held up her D-Arc. "Keramon, Unknown Type, Rookie Level…attacks are Bug Blaster and Network Flapping…ready Kudamon?"

"Yes…"

Keramon turned to face them, and Kudamon used this as his chance to strike. He leapt forward, straight at Keramon, who promptly leapt aside and prepared to attack.

"BUG BLASTER!" he yelled, firing a blast of data at the ferret. Kudamon rolled aside, and prepared to attack, but was surprised by another attack. "BUG BLASTER!" Keramon yelled again, and Kudamon barely dodged as the roadway exploded. Kristy covered her eyes as the wind blew the dust up, and opened them again to see Keramon facing her. She winced in fear.

"Kristy!" Kudamon yelled. "CRYSTAL AURA" he called, as his red earring glowed. The radiant aura created dazzled Keramon, who flinched, giving an opening for Kudamon to attack. The pattern on Kudamon's back glowed gold. "SHINING BLAST!" he summoned, as a holy beam of energy from his mouth was released, which collided with Keramon and kicked smoke and dust into the air.

"Thanks Kudamon…" Kristy told her partner, who landed near her.

"Thank you…" he answered, before turning back to Keramon. "Kristy, I request power…"

"Right…DIGI-MODIFY…Power Activate!" Kristy yelled. Keramon glowed, and his pattern glowed gold once again.

"SHINING BLAST!" he called, as the finishing blow shot towards Keramon. Kristy cheered, as the explosion hit the bug-like digimon.

"We did it!" she cheered. "Great work Kudamon…"

"UNCONNECT BLASTER!" came a voice out of the smoke, as a pair of long black thin tentacles with diamond shaped ends shot out of it.

"Kristy!" Kudamon yelled, leaping to push his partner to the ground, which she hit hard and slid slightly. "Are you okay?" he asked.

"Yeah…back hurts a bit but otherwise fine…what happened?" she asked.

"He digivolved…" Kudamon replied, looking at the blue, cocoon-like digimon with a sharp red horn out of its head, six long thin black tentacles with blue diamond shaped ends with sharp blades, and a sharp tusk on the bottom of the cocoon.

"To what?" she asked. She held out her D-Arc. "Let's see…Chrysalimon, Unknown Type, Champion Level, attacks Data Crusher, Unconnect Blaster, Internet Surge"

"He has increased his power by digivolving; I am going to need modify cards to get through this." Kudamon told his partner, who nodded.

"DIGI-MODIFY…Speed Activate!" Kristy yelled, swiping the card crossways through her D-Arc. Kudamon leapt forward quickly at Chrysalimon and leapt into the air. Chrysalimon grabbed Kudamon with his tentacles, and Kudamon struggled to get free. "Kudamon!" Kristy called for her partner, but it merely attracted the attention of the enemy digimon. Chrysalimon turned to her and opened his mouth.

"DATA CRUSHER" he yelled, as a ball of yellow energy fired from his mouth.

"KRISTY!" Kudamon yelled in fear. Kristy crossed her arms in a vain attempt at self-preservation. The blast threw her to the ground as it hit her, and she slid along the ground a short distance. Kudamon, thrown to the ground by Keramon, ran promptly to her aid, and his eyes widened as he noticed that she had hardly sustained any injuries, excepting a few scratches and a grazed back. Kristy stood up, slightly weakly, and looked down at herself.

"How…how did I survive?" she asked.

"Kristy, we have to retaliate!" Kudamon told his partner. Kristy nodded, and pulled a card out of her pocket, before smiling at what she saw.

"Perfect…" she noted. "DIGI-MODIFY…Digivolution Activate!" she called out, slashing the card diagonally through the D-Arc. Reppamon glowed.

DIGIVOLUTION

Kudamon Digivolve to…

The pale blue wire mesh orb encircled Kudamon. He changed into a green wire mesh, and his form extended to front and back. A fox-like mask appeared on his face, and a sharp blue blade-like tail shot out of his rear.

Reppamon!

"Back to Reppamon…" Reppamon noted. "Are you ready Kristy?" he asked. Kristy nodded.

"Go get him!" she ordered. Reppamon leapt forward at the cocoon-like digimon and spun into a ball shape with blade sticking out, spinning through the air.

"FLIP BLADE!" Reppamon hit Keramon hard and threw him to the ground, bruise across his body from the blade hitting him. Keramon pushed himself back up, and aimed at Reppamon.

"INTERNET SURGE!" he yelled, the spike on his bottom launching a beam of energy at Reppamon. Reppamon landed on the ground and quickly dodged. Reppamon prepared his claws and leapt at Keramon.

"WILD CLAW!" he called, wildly tearing at Keramon with his claws. Keramon was thrown to the ground. Keramon growled angrily, as his tentacles shot towards the fox.

"UNCONNECT BLASTER"

Reppamon's eyes narrowed as he concentrated on his foe, ignoring the tentacles shooting towards him, getting closer and closer as Kristy's eyes became wider and wider. Reppamon's tail moved slightly right to left.

"WIND SCYTHE!" he yelled suddenly, as Keramon was hit by invisible blades of wind and burst into data, the tentacles doing likewise. Reppamon floated in the air as he absorbed the data.

"You did it!" Kristy cheered.

"We did it..." Reppamon corrected her. "Your help was paramount to my win…"

"Right…wow, we caused a lot of damage…" surveyed Kristy, looking around at the damaged road. She turned to her partner and held up her D-Arc. "Now let's see…Reppamon, Vaccine Type, Champion Level, attacks Wild Claw, Flip Blade, Wind Scythe…hmm…"

"What is it?"

"Can I ride on you?" she asked. Reppamon nodded, and Kristy climbed onto his back. "How fast can you…" she began, before Reppamon leapt into motion, racing along the roads. "Whoa, this is fun!"


Nonaka Residence

17:01 JST

Kristy quietly slid the door across, and Reppamon followed her into their home. Reppamon glowed, before shrinking back to Kudamon, who leapt onto his partner's shoulder.

"It's very quiet…" Kristy noted. Kudamon nodded. "Rika, I'm home!" she called out. She walked down the hallway, and paused when the sliding door of the bedroom on the other side of the bathroom opened. Rika stepped out, and looked at her oddly. Renamon stood nearby.

"When did you go out?" she asked.

"We just took out a Digimon! You should've seen it, it was a Keramon, and then he digivolved to Chrysalimon, and Kudamon digivolved and…"

"Yes, I should have seen it. Hmm…Renamon…" she called, turning to Renamon, who Kristy noticed had vanished into thin air. Rika frowned when Renamon didn't appear. "Where is she?" Rika pondered, before turning back to Kristy. Her eyes widened when she noticed Kristy's injuries, consisting of various scratches and bruises on her arms, along with some damage to her clothes. "What happened?!" she asked in surprise.

"Chrysalimon attacked me directly" she replied.

"And you got hit?!"

"Yeah…"

"But…why…how did you survive that?"

"How should I know?"

"How did you even let him attack you?"

"Kudamon was trapped by tentacles, and Chrysalimon attacked me."

"I apologise for letting my guard down," humbly added Kudamon.

"You don't have to apologise!" Kristy replied.

"You can never let your guard down…" Rika disagreed. "We learnt that the hard way."

"I'm sorry…" Kristy replied looking at the floor.

"Don't apologise…" Rika told her. "Look, just tell me next time and I'll…help you out…" Rika told her, struggling on her words slightly.

"Thanks…" Kristy replied, hugging her bigger sister. Rika wasn't entirely sure how to react at first, but soon she hugged back.

"No problem…" she replied eventually.


18TH JANUARY 2010


Shinjuku Park Tennis Courts

13:14 JST

"Ready Kristy?" Rika asked. She, Kristy, Takato, Henry and Suzie, with partners, faced a digital field appearing in the park, in the same place where Guilmon and Renamon had once fought when they first met.

"Yeah…" she replied.

"Good…" Rika added.

Takato held up his D-Arc and pointed it at the fiery digimon that had bioemerged. "Meramon, Data Type, Champion Level, attacks Fireball, Burning Fist, Magma Blast and Fire Blast"

Henry, Suzie and Kristy prepared cards, and held them up, alongside their D-Arcs, Green, Pink and Pale Blue respectively.

"DIGI-MODIFY…Digivolution Activate!" Henry called.

"DIGI-MODIFY…Digivolution Activate!" Kristy echoed.

DIGIVOLUTION

Terriermon Digivolve to…Gargomon

Kudamon Digivolve to…Reppamon

MATRIX DIGIVOLUTION

Lopmon Digivolve to…Antylamon

"DIGI-MODIFY…Matrix Digivolution Activate!" Suzie yelled, swiping a summoned blue card through her D-Arc.

"Renamon?" Rika called.

"As you wish…" she replied, before leaping into the air and crossing her arms, summoning diamonds of ice. "DIAMOND STORM" she yelled as the diamonds shot at one of the Meramon. They hit the beast and exploded, Renamon backflipping and landing back on the ground gracefully, bending her knees slightly as she did so. The Meramon's midsection flared up as he walked towards Renamon menacingly. Renamon frowned. "Rika, he's made of fire, we need a new strategy…" Rika nodded and began to look through her cards, while Gargomon moved into the fray.

"GARGO LASERS!" he roared. The blasts hit their target and exploded, but the Meramon was only slightly fazed.

"Hmm…seems like a tough one…Rika, are you sure this will be a good first battle for her?" Suzie asked.

"Of course…" she replied, spinning a card through the air sideways. Kristy caught it quickly and accurately.

"Cheers! DIGI-MODIFY, Shellmon's Hydro Pressure Activate!" she called out. You see, this was Kristy's first battle alongside the others, and so they wanted to make sure she wouldn't end up injured like last time. Antylamon, an ultimate, was their insurance in case anything went wrong, and both Renamon and Gargomon were testing the bioemerged digimon to insure that he was powerful enough to be a challenge but weak enough for Kristy to be able to defeat him.

Reppamon's mouth glowed as water amassed in it. "HYPRO PRESSURE" he yelled, as he fired a blast of concentrated water at the fiery humanoid digimon, who roared in pain as the water hit him. The recoil from the highly strong blast pushed Reppamon back slightly and he dug his claws into the floor.

"Nice shot…" Kristy complimented.

"Don't let your guard down!" Rika scolded. Kristy frowned, but nodded in agreement recalling her previous battle. Meramon roared, and ran towards Reppamon.

"Concentrate!" Kristy ordered. Reppamon's eyes narrowed, as he targeted his opponent. He prepared his tail, pulling it in close to his form and sticking it out sharply. He rolled into a ball and rolled towards his opponent at speed. Meramon screamed in pain as he was split in two by the high-speed ball, Reppamon then landing neatly on the floor, although his foot stumbled slightly.

Gargomon and Guilmon jokingly held up cards with a number 6 and 7 respectively. Renamon smiled at Guilmon's antics, while Henry scolded Gargomon.

"Gargomon!"

"What? He stumbled!"

"I at least deserve an eight…" Reppamon noted arrogantly, in an odd side of his personality that had only recently become more apparent. Gargomon chuckled.

Rika groaned.


29TH JANUARY 2010


Nonaka Residence

16:20 JST

"Yay, presents!" Kristy cheered, looking around at the amassed Digidestined and Tamers who had been able to make it to the party for her eleventh birthday. Rika smiled, as did Rumiko as they watched her open her presents.

"Well, what else was there to get you?" Rika joked, as Kristy opened a pack of cards and a deck holder. The third so far. Other than that, she had got some more typically 'girly' stuff, two pale blue hairband, a new set of clothes which Rumiko had selected (that Rika was actually quite impressed at, as they were not dresses or skirts, but instead were a pair of blue jeans and a pink shirt with white arms, that she didn't doubt Kristy would probably use as her 'Tamer' outfit, following in Rika's footsteps to some extent), and, of course…

"Kudamon's evolution line?!" Kristy asked in surprise, seeing the four cards in a line, Kudamon, Reppamon, Quilinmon and Sleipmon. All were rare and holographic.

"How do you do it Takato?" Rika asked, looking at him in equal surprise.

"Do what?"

"How do you manage to get these cards?"

"Luck, money, and favours…oh, and Chaos…" he replied, silently mouthing the name.

"Huh?" Kristy questioned, looking up in confusion at how Takato had stopped talking mid sentence. She looked to Kudamon for clues, but he shook his head. Kristy shrugged her shoulders, deciding that it wasn't worth finding out. "Thanks everyone…" she told the audience cheerfully.

"There is still one more present dear…" Seiko told Kristy, handing her a small box. She opened it carefully, and found a simple gold-stringed necklace with a small pendant consisting of a small golden triangle attached off-centre to a small golden circle, looking oddly like a 9.

"Wow…it's really pretty…" she said in awe, watching the light glisten off it.

"Where did you get it?" Mimi asked curiously. "I've never seen anything like it…"

"That is the strangest thing…" Seiko replied. "I was given it…"

Rika's eyes widened. "I should get one, it looks fantastic. Who gave it to you?" Mimi asked.

"It was a girl, about 15 or 16 years old, with red hair, a similar colour to Rika's I think."

Rika turned to look at her grandmother. "Did she have red hair hung loose, and a red Digimon shirt?" she asked.

"Yes, that is her. Why, have you met her?"

"Once…" Rika replied. "What did she say?"

"She said that Kristy should hold that and hope for good fortune and success…" Seiko told her.

"Hmm…" Rika pondered.

"I found it strange that she knew my daughter's name, but she was gone before I could ask. It was like she vanished into thin air."

"Who do you think it is?" Kristy asked.

Rika stared into thin air for a second, before shaking her head. "Never mind…"

Kristy nodded, and put on the necklace. "I'll wear it always" she promised, before turning to her Grandmother. "Thanks Grandma, mysterious girl…" she thanked, clutching the pendant.


14TH FEBRUARY 2010


Nonaka Residence

08:57 JST

"Happy Valentines Day…" Takato said cheerfully, standing up.

"Nice work Takato…" Rika said sarcastically smiling, looking at one of his typical blunders. It was a particularly rainy Valentines Day, and Takato had fallen headfirst into a puddle outside the Nonaka Household, along with the roses he was holding. Kristy, standing behind Rika, and Renamon, eying Guilmon as always from her position standing against the wall, chuckled. Takato's hair was now wet, and for an oddly rare occasion, so were his Goggles. "Come in, we'll dry you off…" Rika invited, and Takato gratefully accepted.

"Remember to take your shoes off dear…" Seiko advised. Rumiko was on a date with a fellow model, a relationship that Rika and Seiko didn't doubt would end in failure, despite Kristy's oblivious optimism about it.

"There's a towel in the bathroom…" Rika told her boyfriend, and he nodded, quickly heading down the hallway to the bathroom, still wearing his wet shoes. "Take your shoes off!" Rika told him, smiling yet surprised at his forgetfulness. Takato, embarrassed, quickly returned and took them off.

"Sorry…" he told Seiko quickly in his usual blunderful way, before heading back to the bathroom.

"Childish as ever…" Seiko noted. Rika smiled weakly, before sighing. Renamon alone noticed this. Rika sat on the couch, and Kristy fell forward on the couch end, smiling at her.

"So?" she asked, wearing her pink and white shirt and blue jeans.

"So what?" Rika replied.

"What are you guys going to do today of course?" Kristy asked.

"Up to him…" she replied.

"He's really romantic…" Kristy told her sister, eyes watering slightly and smiling dreamfully.

'Yeah…but…why do I feel like we've not progressed at all in three years?' Rika thought, nodding unhintingly to Kristy's question.

'What do you mean?'

'I guess…I'm really not sure…maybe it's just puberty…maybe more…'

Harmony sounded like she had realised something, and Rika could swear that her eyes would've widened if she could see them. 'I see' she replied simply. 'So what do you think you'll do today?'

'Let's see…he'll probably take us walking through the Cherry Blossoms, he'll give me a card, then he'll take us to some sappy restaurant for lunch and we'll kiss a bit, then probably not much else…' Rika mentally sighed.

'Something's wrong, isn't it?' Harmony asked concerned.

'Don't worry…'

'Rika, if I have to, I can find out through your memories, thoughts and feelings, but I would rather find out from you.'

'Well…I am just finding myself more attracted to him…I mean, I was always attracted to him, but now it's much more…'

'I see…'

"Ready Rika?" Takato asked, putting his hand out. His hair was now disturbed from where he had dried it, and his clothes had been dried off, no doubt with Chaos' help.

"Of course…" she replied, taking his hand and pulling herself up, smiling.

"I thought we could go for a walk amongst the cherry blossoms, then to a restaurant…"

"Great…" she replied cheerfully. 'And I guess it is…but…I told you something once Takato…and one day that is going to happen…mark my words…'

'You become more disturbing every day. I swear you've become like a stalker or a pervert or something.'

'Oh ha ha.'


25TH MARCH 2010


Nonaka Residence

20:21 JST

The night had long set in, and the last remaining person of the party they had had earlier that day. Kristy was currently running around the house, playing some kind of game of Tag with Guilmon, who promptly fell flat on his face in Rika's bedroom, where she and Takato sat against the wall, his arm round her back. Renamon smiled at Guilmon's antics, as Takato stood up, followed by Rika.

"We better get home now…" Takato told his partner.

"Okay…bye bye Rika, love you Renamon…"

"See you later Guil…"

"Huh?"

"As in Guilmon…"

"Oh yeah…"

Rika smiled at their back and forth, before turning to Takato. "Thanks for a great birthday Takato…" Rika thanked, grabbing Takato's waist and pulling him into a hug, followed by a kiss. Takato smiled, pulling out of the embrace.

"Glad you liked the line of DarkRenamon cards…" he replied. "Well, I've got to go now, see you tomorrow" he told her, turning to leave. She nodded.

"Bye honey…" she told him, and he left, Rika moved to her computer, and began to type.

Dear Diary,

My birthday today, and it was okay I guess. I got a line of DarkRenamon cards from Takato, a new pair of jeans and a heart shirt from my mother, a hairband from my sister and a belt from my grandma.

Still…

"More could've happened?" a voice came from behind, as Rika typed the words.

more could've happened.

She suddenly realised she wasn't hearing things. She turned round, to meet the smiling face of Rey.

"You again?" she asked.

"Good to know you're happy to see me…"

"Who are you?"

"I can't tell you yet…someday I might be able to, haven't finished his list of times yet…"

"Why did you give Kristy that necklace?"

"Just a hint…anyway, I have something to give you…I'm afraid it isn't a birthday present, but…"

She placed eight objects on the desk. Each was gold, and Rika looked at them in surprise.

"But…these are like Kristy's necklace?!"

Rey nodded. "Take a closer look…"

Rika looked at the first. It was two triangles in a line, the top one inverted so the points touched, making a sort of 1 shape.

The second was a small circle connected to an off-centre triangle, in a 2 shape.

The third was made of three triangles pointing to the left, each connected in a 3 shape.

The fourth was a right angled triangle with a small circle in the bottom right corner, where the right angle was, in a 4 shape.

The fifth was a pair of opposite-pointing triangles, one left, one right, in a 5 shape.

The sixth consisted of a circle attached to a triangle above, in a 6 shape.

The seventh was a single long right-angled triangle, in a 7 shape.

The eighth was a pair of circles, in an 8 shape.

"What do they mean?"

"Think about it…" Rey told her. Rika looked at the eight shapes, considering the connotations of them. 'She must be talking to Harmony…' Rey thought, clutching her necklace. Rika noticed this.

"What's that?"

"Erm…nothing…"

"Is that another one?"

Rey sighed, and removed the necklace. She placed it next to the others. "This is mine…" she told Rika. Hers was a pair of triangles in the same way as on the 1 necklace but with a circle next to and attached to it, in a 10 shape.

"They are the Angels, aren't they?" Rika asked. "All nine of them…hold on…Ten…but Harmony said.

"At present in this timeline, there are only Nine Angels Rika…"

"Who are they?" Rika asked.

"I'm afraid I can't tell you but…you will figure it out…I know for a fact that you will. Don't expect it to be all so simple, the Angels won't even become wakeable until the First Angel awakes.

"I see…"

"Keep them safe Rika, you'll need to…" Rey told her.

"I see…so, that makes you the Tenth Angel?"

Rey nodded.

"So what makes you different then?"

"I really cannot tell you…one day I probably will, for you it may be years, for me it may be a week…"

"So when are you from?"

"The future, obviously, although I can't say when."

"Anything at all you can tell me?"

"Rika…the next few years…you just have to hold your own…be careful, but expect things to go out of your control at times. Don't worry, you'll find your way in the end."

"So what is your surname?" Rika asked.

"Not telling…"

"It's Matsuki, isn't it?" Rey flinched slightly in surprise. "I knew it…who are you?"

"I have to go…"

"Wait…if Kristy is the Ninth Angel, what is she meant to do?"

Rey sighed, and turned back to the necklaces on the desk.

"Right, and I think Harmony has already told you by now if he told me correctly…"

"Harmony is a girl…"

"I wasn't referring to Harmony when I said 'he'."

"Chaos? Takato?"

"No, you will never guess…anyway, here we go…" she began to point at each necklace in turn. "…The First Angel, Time. The Second, Control. The Third, Knowledge. The Fourth, Light. The Fifth, Courage. The Sixth, Spirit. The Seventh, Miracles. The Eighth, Love. The Ninth, Hope. And finally…" she stepped back to the middle of the room, a small red blob jumping onto her shoulder. She pointed to herself. "The Tenth, Destiny."

She pressed the button on the wrist-mounted device, and vanished into thin air. Rika looked on in surprise, and then frowned, looking back to the necklaces, before gathering them up. She opened a nearby drawer, and placed them all in.

"I guess I'll find out one day…"


17TH APRIL 2010


Matsuki Residence

08:31 JST

Takato slept calmly. His dreams were, naturally, of Rika, although Chaos regularly intruded to annoy him, or alternatively, to make him think things he didn't want to think. However, the majority of the time the dreams were calm.

However, what shocked him was when Rika suddenly kissed him, and he woke up suddenly. The kiss stopped, and he looked his side to see Rika's face, leaning over him to the side, smiling.

"Morning Goggles…" she greeted, standing at the edge of his bed. He smiled.

"Morning Rika…" he greeted.

"Happy Birthday, now get the hell up!" she ordered. He quickly climbed out of bed and stood up, Guilmon soon following from his position at the end of Takato's bed. Rika and Renamon chuckled. "Nice pyjamas Gogglehead…" she noted at his pale blue striped pyjamas.

He chuckled nervously, embarrassed. Rika walked to one of his drawers, and, blushing slightly, threw him a pair of underpants, hitting him in the face rather accurately. She subsequently found blue shirt, grey trousers, socks and his blue hooded pullover from the wardrobe. She put them on the bed, and then stood and crossed her arms.

"Go on then…"

"Huh?"

"Get changed…"

"But Rika, I can't with you here."

"Oh, right…" she remembered, blushing slightly before leaving his room. She closed the door, and stood leaning against it. 'What the hell is wrong with me?' she thought, closing her eyes tightly.


Rika sat at the table which had been laid out for breakfast, along with Mei and Takehiro Matsuki, and her sister Kristy.

"I apologise for my sister, she insisted…" she apologised to Mei.

"Hey!"

"I don't mind…" Mei replied. They heard a door open, and heard Takato walk down the stairs, wearing his usual attire. "Happy Birthday…" Mei called.

"Hey everyone…" Takato greeted, before taking his seat at the head of the table, Rika to his left, and Mei to his right, with Takehiro next to Mei, Kristy (and Kudamon on shoulders) next to Rika, Guilmon at the other end of the table, and Renamon standing silently nearby. He began to eat his breakfast, incredibly quickly actually, a sight which left Kristy galled.

"Does he ever swallow?" Kristy asked her sister quietly. Rika dismissed her.

"So, what do you want to do today?" Rika asked when Takato had finished.

"I'm not sure…"

Rika sighed.


Special Observatory, Tokyo Tower

12:01 JST

Rika looked out at the views of Tokyo, arm round Takato. Unlike the Eiffel Tower that it was based on, the Tokyo Tower lacked any observation deck near the top, so they were in the so-called 'Special Observatory' with 360-degree views, 250m from the bottom of the tower.

"I've been up here countless times, and it still impresses me…" Sora told them, arm round Tai. Takato nodded. "Happy Birthday anyway…"

"Cheers…" he thanked her, and they moved to talk to other members of the Digidestined and Tamers groups.

Rika looked out over the endless views. Time was that this place had been completely razed to the ground, but now…it was as if it had never happened.

'Well, I guess it didn't. Still…it's strange…'

She looked to Takato, and they kissed for a while, before returning to the view.

'I know that something is coming, something big, something that will change all of our lives…probably more than one thing actually. Regardless…I have Takato here by my side…we can do anything…'

She looked to Takato again, and finished her thought.

'…I wish…'

THE END


A nice long mix of stories, concepts, ideas and mysteries in this chapter. Was fun to write as well, and leads into the next story very well. Review please.

Next time…

What is coming? Who is Rey? What will change their lives? Who are the Nine Angels? What makes Rey different as the Tenth? Who is 'he'?

Find out in Dimensions Book Four: Gods.