Fey: (back turned to Wolf, apparently not talking to her)
Wolf: Come on. I know I'm a little late, but you shouldn't be acting like this.
Fey: (still doesn't move)
Wolf: (Let's out a defeated sigh) Comment, folks. I'm not going to get anything from her anytime soon. Oh, and I don't own the song. It is sung by Meg and Dia.
The subway car jostled down the tracks.
"So, where are we going?"
"To school. The place we last saw our friends wasn't near a Trailmon rail long enough to get here, so odds are Kari and the others will find a TV and get back that way."
"What are you talking about?" I let out a depressed sigh. Losing memories is one thing, but this was an entirely different situation. Without Koichi's memories of digimon, he was at risk of being attacked and as defenseless as a newborn digimon.
Still, I can't just tell him what's going on. He'll freak out… or think I'm crazy.
"I need a minute alone, Koichi," and before he could protest, I exited the car and entered the next. The car was completely empty. I glanced under the seats to make sure there wasn't anyone hiding, and once I was sure, I opened the door to the next car, the one without Koichi in it, before I had the chance to have a panic attack. That car was empty, too. "This is weird. Normally these cars are full of people." Then I heard a voice on the loudspeakers.
"Attention, all subway passengers. We appear to be having some technical difficulties with our subway trains. Please exit at the next available platform and thank you for riding." I could almost hear the smile on the woman's face as she was saying this.
"'Technical difficulties?' Ha. I'll bet it's more like 'digimon difficulties.'" I said to myself. I looked back. Koichi apparently was still waiting on me to go back to him. I started that way, and then doubled over, clutching my chest in pain. "Come on, not now! Just wait a little longer." The pain slowly subsided. I have to get his memories back fast! I glanced back to the door once more. No Koichi. I took a deep breath.
There's little whispers,
"Love me, Love me…
That's all I ask for,
Love me, Love me."
He battered his tiny fists to
Feel something.
Wondered what it's like to touch,
And feel something.
Monster.
How should I feel?
Creatures lie here,
Looking through the window.
They… caged her,
Bruised and
Broke her
He struggled closer,
Then he saw her
Violet wrists and
Then her ankles,
Silent pain.
Then he slowly saw their nightmares
Were his dreams.
Monster!
How should I feel?
Creatures lie here,
Looking through the-
My eyes wandered over to the window and saw a face reflected back at me.
It wasn't mine. I screamed and brought my hands up to my face.
No mask.
"Are you alright?" I looked over to the door and saw Koichi hurrying in my direction.
"Y-yeah. Just…" I doubled over again, clutching my chest. "Just old heart conditions," I badly lied. Koichi even looked at me skeptically. The train came to a stop.
"We'd better get off and-"
"No, there aren't any problems with the trains." Koichi looked at me, confused. "Do you really think they would be running the trains if there were technical problems?" Koichi opened his mouth to counter what I said, but stopped short. I knew it was because he didn't have anything to comment. I looked outside the train and saw DATS running down the stairwell. "On the other hand-Run!" I turned and ran out of the subway car, Koichi and Marcus hot on my heels. We surfaced and I started running in random directions. I had one advantage: They were in public and were not allowed to pull out their digimon, so they could only run so fast.
But that was countered by my disadvantage. Without Koichi's memories, I would have to protect us both if something bad happened to us, like DATS catching us.
"I'm not sure… how much longer… I can run…" Koichi panted, slowing down. We had been running for almost an hour with very few stops because every time we lost them, they found us in around two minutes later. Not only that, but because of my choosing random directions, I didn't even know where we were. It was some kind of suburb. That meant there wasn't anywhere for us to hide.
"Come on, we can't stop!" We passed a house when the both of us had to stop, not because we were exhausted (I personally could have gone another hour of running, being part digimon has its perks). No, we stopped because of a choir of screams coming from the house. I looked back and saw DATS was about two blocks away, still not risking pulling out their digimon.
"Come on!" I said, trying to urge Koichi further. I didn't need to though, because at that moment the door to the house flew open and the digidestined all running out of the house in a panic. We locked eyes.
"What are you guys doing here?!" I asked, surprised.
"Emergency Exit," Ken explained. "We didn't have time to lock onto the school, so we evacuated to this house."
"And the owner?" Just as I said this, a man came running out.
I recognized him instantly.
"Spencer!" The man turned to me and was shocked to see me.
"Fey? What are you doing here?"
"Not enough time to explain," I said before looking at everyone. "Get back inside the house, before Marcus and the others get here!" I was met with shocked looks, but nobody countered as everyone filtered back into the house. I made sure I was the last one in and locked the door. For extra measure, I put a chair against it.
"Ok, one more second and I'll explain as much as I can," I took a deep breath. "SHEILD!" At that moment, every window in the house started to glow a pale purple-blue color. All the digidestined tensed up. "Relax, you guys can just escape through the computer, remember? I just want to slow down Marcus and the others as much as possible."
"What's my son done now?" Spencer asked.
"HUH!" everyone asked, startled.
"Not exacly anything, Mr. Daimond, sir," I responded to inform everyone else. "Look, I have a theory for what happened to the real and digital worlds. Gennai hasn't gotten back to me yet, but I don't see anyone else having the ability to convince DATS to stop chasing these guys, so here's the deal." I took a very deep breath.
"Ithinkseveralversionsofthere alanddigitalworldshavefusedt ogethertocreateoneworldforea ch." I said in a rushed voice. I saw confused looks on everyone.
"What did you say?"
"She said, 'I think several versions of the real and digital worlds have fused together to create one world for each,' whatever that means," Koichi translated. He is taking seeing digimon for the 'first' time rather well.
"Even I don't get it. What are you trying to say exactly?" Izzy asked.
"During the earthquake that occurred about a week ago, a few strange things happened. I don't know if anyone else saw it, but I saw multiple planets look as though they were going to plow into Earth, but they disappeared instead. I think they were different versions of our world and they fused together to become one."
"That doesn't make any sense," Davis called out. "How can there be different versions of the same planet?"
"It's called another dimension, and don't forget the digimon come from a world that's like ours that resides in another dimension," I countered. Davis quieted down. "I have 'proof,' but I don't know how much you will believe me. With Koichi's memories gone, I don't have anyone to vouch for me, but here it goes: I have memories from three different lives." I was met with nonbelieving eyes. "I'm serious!" I thought quickly to think of a time that would prove it. "Do you guys remember the time I lead you to Gennai?"
"Of course, how could we forget that day."
"What was the date?" I asked. The digidestined looked at me, confused. I turned to Izzy. "Well?" He responded telling me the date.
"Hold on," Spencer said. "That's the day I ran into you during-
"The First Expedition to the Digital World," I finished. Everyone was confused.
"The fact that I was in two places at once proves that there are at least two worlds that were out there. Now, how-" I flinched because I felt my shield getting weaker in several spots. "Thomas," I groaned. "Anyway, how do people from two worlds get to exist in the same world when neither party went through a portal."
"By combining worlds, I think I get what you're trying to say!" Ken said, the wheals spinning in his head.
"Well I don't," Yolie said. "And I don't think most everyone else does either." I thought for a second.
"Ok, let's try a visual aid," I said and turned. I found a piece of paper and drew three circles. "Let's pretend each of these circles is Earth. Now, each of these share the same people in them, and each have a digital world linked to them that people are able to go to. The only difference between these planets is who goes to the digital world. In this world," I gestured to one on the upper right, "Everyone from Tai and Davis's group goes," I said and drew a quick sketch of a crest. "In this one," I pointed to the one next to it, "Takuya's group, the Legendary Warriors," I drew Agunimon's symbol. "This last one had DATS group," I drew a few 0s and 1s. "Until recently, nothing has happened to disrupt the 'barriers' between these worlds. However, for some reason, on the day of the earthquake, the barriers broke down and allowed these three worlds to come together, rewriting it into a world in which all these groups exist in the same plane," and as I said this, I drew a fourth circle and in the middle, drew a crest with Agunimon's symbol inside it, and 0s and 1s around it.
"Ok, so how does this theory explain people being where they shouldn't be?" Cody asked.
"Excellent question. You see, you all had to go through specific events in order for you to become the people, no, the digidestined you are today. However, in the other two worlds, these actions were not needed, and therefore never happened. Cody's dad never knew about digimon and never died, causing Oikawa to react the way he did." I flinched again as the attacks suddenly got harder. "Gotta hurry. To make this long story shorter, the worlds fused together and rewrote everyone's memory so they think they had normal lives, except people who have digimon. Although I can't explain why you guys weren't effected, I can guess it is because of you close links to the digimon." I couldn't hold the shield up anymore and glass shattered as Agumon flew through.
Upside down.
He landed on the other side of the room and I looked out the now broken window and saw someone I'd hoped I wouldn't see again.
"Keep the digimon back! Gizumon have surrounded the house!"
Wolf: (Turns back to Fey) Really, still nothing?
Fey: (Sits there playing Digimon World Dawn on her DS)
Wolf: Erg! You know digimon. How can you sit there and play that?
Fey: (No response)
Wolf: Fine. Later. (Walks out)
Fey: (smiles) It is so easy to get her aggravated… and fun! Like she said, comment and review, because I might not talk to her for a while… After all, this has to get old at some point, right?
