Digimon Revolt:
Summary- It has been three years since the warriors have returned from the digital world. None of the kids have fully recovered from what they have seen and are all the more freaked out when nightmares of the Digital World, both memories and unlived events invade their minds. What could these dreams mean for our favorite Legendary Warriors?
Disclaimer: No…I don't, and if you didn't know that by now, well then…*sighs while silently shaking head in disapproval*
Chapter 10: To Ophanimon's House We Go
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"…are talking trains normal in this world?"
"Nothing here is…normal per say, things are just…oh jeez, I don't know…"
"Usual," Zoe said with a hint of annoyance, turning away from looking out the window to face the chatting boys across from her, "everything here is just…usual."
"…and what the hell is that supposed to mean?" asked Katsuharu shifting his body to fully face the blonde.
"Every creature in this world is just used to strange things happening, to them, it's just usual. This is how this world works, what's unusual to you is normal to them. Now are you done asking questions, I'm tired and I can't sleep with all your talking," she finished giving the boys pointed looks. They had only been on the train for half an hour or so and Zoe had just started to truly realize how truly drained she was. The rest of their companions had fallen asleep amongst the train cars with Bokomon and Neemon curled up next to JP. Katsuharu and JP hadn't stopped talking once yet, and with the headache Zoe had building up, she needed it as quiet as possible if she was finally going to get some sleep.
"Are you seri-" Katsuharu started to yell, only to have his mouth covered up by one of JP's hands, his other hand fell onto his shoulder to make sure he didn't get up. "Mmph!" he tried again as JP started to speak.
"Sure Z, get some rest," JP said softly. The Blonde gave a soft smile and mumbled a thank you as she once again rested her arms along the top of the seat. Her eyes closed, the last thing them seeing being the miles of desert outside the window. At this, Katsuharu stopped struggling and silently stared at her, still not understanding her one bit.
After sitting in silence for a few minutes, and making sure Zoe was, in fact, asleep, JP finally spoke up.
"Sorry about Zoe, she's really not this rude all the time, I promise," JP said quietly with a bit of amusement to his voice. "We're all just so used to cranky Zoe at this point that it doesn't really faze any of us anymore."
"Does Zoe even realize what I'm going through right now?" Katsuharu asked as his eyes narrowed at the sleeping blonde. "I mean, she just expects me to adapt all of a sudden? I got dragged into this world without any say in it; I need time to process it all."
"Sorry, but you don't get that luxury," JP said becoming serious. At this sudden change in demeanor, Katsuharu turned to face him, mouth slightly agape. JP had been nothing but kind and apologetic about all this since joining them; Katsuharu was just so taken aback.
"When I first landed in this world, I was with Zoe, Takuya, and Tommy. Four strangers landing in an unfamiliar world, no adults, and when that trailmon drove away, no way back either. Tommy tried though, and both of us wanted nothing more than to just go home and forget about this place. Takuya and Zoe wanted to stay and see what it was all about. To see what was happening."
"You see," JP continued looking at Katsuharu dead on, "Zoe hasn't fully been where you are right now, she was scared, we all were, but her Takuya and Kouji wanted to stay. They were thrilled to have an adventure in a new world. They were running away from Earth."
"What were they running away from?"
"Not my place to say." He answered, glancing back at Zoe before turning back to Katsuharu as he began to ask another question.
"Ok then…what about the rest of you guys?"
"Me and Tommy were just like you, hating everything about this world. We just wanted to go home."
"And…what about Kouichi?"
"…I don't think you're quite ready for his story just yet," he finished with a sad smile as his hand fell on Katsuharu's shoulder. Silence fell upon the train once more.
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"…Takuya?" asked Kouji quietly as he watched his fiery friend along with the rest of the gang, all of them just as confused.
"Yeah," Takuya asked, looking down at his friends.
"What the hell are you doing?!" Kouji yelled standing up, still having to look up to make eye contact with Takuya as he dangled from the ceiling.
"Oh, I was just gunna open up this hatch here to ask Angler where we're going, why?" He asked confusedly as he tried to fiddle with the hatch while simultaneously trying not to fall.
"I give up," Kouji said as he sat back down and crossed his right leg over his left, "who wants to tell him."
"Tell me what?"
"About the intercom system you idiot," said Teppei as Tommy and Chiaki giggled at his sides and Kouichi pointed at the box next to Tommy's head.
"Oh," and with that, Takuya dropped back down and walked over to it, "my bad."
"Really Takuya, think a little," said Kouji, not at all amused. Kouichi on the other hand, who sat right next to his brother, was trying to hold in his own laughter as he watched Takuya press the intercom button and ask Angler where he was taking them.
"Vell… I don't veally know…"
"What?!" yelled everyone on board.
"I vas simply instructed to bring you chillies back to ze Digital vorld, vith very specific directions to come to zome place I've never been to before, " Angler said Sheepishly over the intercom, eliciting Takuya to remove his hand from the button and sit down next to Kouji.
Just then, the ride became bumpy and the train suddenly dipped straight down as the teens frantically tried to grab onto something. A few of them were screaming, most of them had shut their eyes, but all of them had braced for impact. Takuya opened his eyes to a familiar sight. He was currently gripping his seat, knuckles turning white, as he watched each of his fellow riders being surrounded in the images of the warriors he had grown so accustomed to. Finally, after what felt like hours, but in hindsight was probably only a few minutes, the track smoothed out and they were riding normally again.
"Is everyone alright?" Takuya asked, glancing around at his fellow disheveled, uniform ridden companions, almost laughing at the sight. He received nods and vocal reassurances as he reached into his pocket to see if his assumptions were true. He stared at what was now in his hand as the others looked towards him in curiosity.
"Well, I guess we're not on Earth anymore," said Tommy in bewilderment.
"Huh?!"…take a guess.
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"Item retrieved," droned on a troopmon, "what is the next mission?"
"Recharge, no mission."
"Yes captain," and with that, the troopmon walked to one of the hundreds of pods throughout the large room. Sealsdramon watched to make sure he was fully plugged in as the door lowered shut and his glowing red eyes became even duller than before. With a brown box in hand, Sealsdramon made his way through the long chamber and entered a simple and large dark painted room consisted of four plain doors, one per wall, and a lone elevator smack in the middle attached to a cord. Walking out of one of the doors, he headed straight into the elevator and hit a button.
The doors closed, and when they reopened a few moments later, he was in a long hallway with doors on all sides. He walked straight and entered the room at the end of the hall. The room was fairly large and consisted of many machines and a floor covered in crossing wires. Along its back wall stuck out three simple metal tables, and in the middle of the room stood three podiums with domes at the top, two of which seemed to be occupied.
"Our agents secured the package Sir," spoke up Sealsdramon in his monotonous and mechanic voice, "But I do not see your reason behind needing it. Our efforts should have been in re-securing the prisoners, not watching them leave to reunite with the other warriors."
"You don't need to see my reasoning, you just have to follow it HAHAHAHAHA," Piedmon laughed as he emerged from the shadows and swiped the box from Sealsdramon as he handed it to the three troopmon behind him to tinker with.
"They will have to come back here anyways if they want their precious things back HAHAHAHAHA," Piedmon exclaimed psychotically as he pointed to the podiums, his laughing and the tinkering from the troopmon being the only noises in the room. Sealsdramon looked over at the strange devices in the podiums as the troopmon finished up whatever they were doing and put a third device into the last podium.
"What are these?" he asked as he watched the last one glow and morph into the same shape as the other two.
"Our key to trapping those cursed children, and getting my revenge on that blonde brat HAHAHAHAHA!" Sealsdramon simply walked out of the room shaking his head, annoyed that this clown was his superior.
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"Hey Z," JP spoke quietly as he shook the blondes shoulder. Sometime during her nap, Zoe had stretched out along the seats on the train and turned to face the backings of them, and answered JP by mumbling about needing five more minutes.
"C'mon Zoe, it's time to wake up, we're here."
"Ugh," she sighed in defeat and sat up only to look out the window to see a shining metallic platform…surrounded by crudely carved stone and dirt tunneling. "And where exactly is here?" she asked, making quotations around the word 'here'.
"I'm…uh… not really sure myself there," he admitted, scratching his cheek with his pointer finger absentmindedly, "but apparently, it's where Ophanimon currently is," he finished, stepping back to give her enough room to stand up.
"Everyone else is getting off right now, why don't we join 'em."
"Ok."
Once they were off the platform, a few small white, pawn-shaped digimon came out to greet them and guide them through a series of hallways and into a grand throne room. It was quite bright due to the ornate floating chandeliers and white walls and floors covered in gold, silver, and turquoise decorations. After-a-while, they were led into a large chamber consisting of a long skinny carpet running down its middle, and at the end of the long, ornate carpet, stood a large stage with steps wrapping around it with a decorative throne smack in the middle with none other than Ophanimon herself sitting gracefully upon it.
Zoe, JP, and the digimon were led up to right in front of the stage and followed lead as the Pawnchessmon bowed and walked to stand around the podium. JP had to grab Katsuharu and pull him down into a bow as well as the boy was frozen both in shock and awe.
"Please children, warriors, there is no need for you to bow, please stand," Ophanimon softly demanded. The three teens stood up as the digimon lifted their heads to watch.
"Where are the others?" She asked gracefully.
The three of them looked at each other nervously until Zoe finally stepped forward a bit, the two boys now further behind her to her left, silently thanking Zoe.
"You see," she began nervously, fiddling with the hem of her skirt, wishing she didn't look so beat up at the moment in her torn and dirtied school uniform. It was better than her pajamas, which is what she put on before she fell asleep before her last nightmare whilst on Earth. She had just assumed she got dressed in her sleep before being induced to sleep walk all the way to Shibuya station. Yes, her uniform was better than shorts, a T-shirt, and no shoes, but a torn skirt and blouse wasn't exactly dignified either.
"We think they're still on Earth…maybe?" She began, ending her sentence as a question as the boys slapped their foreheads in exasperation, expecting a little more from the blonde.
"You…Think? Why are you so unsure child of Wind?"
"The three of us have recently escaped imprisonment and haven't exactly been on Earth for a bit, me having not seen the rest of my fellow warriors in weeks. As much as we can't be too sure where they are, they probably aren't too sure where we are either."
Ophanimon stood up and walked towards the blonde and gently held her face with one hand as she examined her blackened eye and scratches, then, dropping her face as Zoe backed up to be in line with her friends, slightly embarrassed.
"I had sent for you all some time ago, when I had learned of our enemy's intentions, it seems I learned a bit too late to protect you all," She finally spoke, bringing confusion and shock to their faces as they glanced at each. "Nonetheless, I have received word that they are on their way here, perhaps until then, a visit with our medics and some clean clothes are needed. Come children, digital companions, I shall bring you there myself."
And with that, the group was led down another hallway as they tried to let everything sink in.
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They had been in the digital world for about 10 minutes now and had entered a rather rocky area bordering a desert. The gang was still as the newest members stared at their d-tectors, the seasoned veterans out the windows, all of them wondering where exactly they were going. After a few more minutes, the rock structures began to grow taller, until they appeared to be heading straight into a rock right in front of them, broken railroad included.
It was almost too late to get Angler's attention and tell him to stop. The twins mouths dropped as Takuya and Tommy began to scream in horror. When the other three looked up, Chiaki joined in on the scream-fest, Teruo looked on in horror, and Teppei felt dizzy and tried not to pass out. But all that was over when the train went straight through and continued along through a series of crudely made and torch-lit tunnels. Each one of them staring off in disbelief as Angler quietly sighed in relief, finally realizing Ophanimon was right in saying the secret tunnel was quite invisible to the naked eye.
After a few minutes in the tunnels, Angler stopped at a shiny platform and very kindly opened up the roof and kicked all of them out, speeding off immediately after.
"Well he certainly hasn't changed," Takuya mumbled standing up and dusting off his pants.
"Yeah, no kidding," Kouji scoffed as he helped his brother to his feet.
"Good evening legendary warriors," spoke up a voice behind them, startling a few in the process. It was a pawnchessmon who had spoken, although he wasn't alone as there were five others right behind him. "We are so very pleased to have you, now, please follow along."
And with that said, Takuya, Tommy, Kouji, and Kouichi began to follow, no questions asked, until they realized the others weren't following as well.
Tommy then walked over to them, "Aren't you guys coming?"
"Why the hell would we?!" yelled Teppei.
"Teppei, calm do-," Chiaki began as he cut her off.
"Why should I?! We don't know what's going on!" he yelled hysterically at Tommy, "Why are we just following these…these…things?!"
"Because Ophanimon sent for us," Takuya said speaking up, "She's in there and she'll be able to explain what's going on."
"Oh…well why didn't anyone tell me that in the first place," Teppei said, grinning at the prospect of finally understanding their current situation, and walked towards the doors as the others sweat-dropped, "Well come on!"
"I…am…so sorry for him, I… well I honestly don't even know how to handle him anymore," said Chiaki, holding her shaking head in her hand.
"He is…one-of-a-kind," said Teruo matter-of-factly as they followed the pawnchessmon into Ophanimon's throne room.
"It's beautiful…" Chiaki whispered as she took in the room. Everything about it screamed that this Ophanimon she's heard of so much about was quite important here.
"My thoughts exactly," said a smug voice coming from the doorway next to the stage, causing all eyes to turn to face him, "Miss me?"
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Her feet moved slowly through the library, her feet were bare and the floor was ice cold. Clad in nothing but thin pajamas, she was freezing. No matter where she looked, stacks of books twice her height stood, surrounding every path she took. After what felt like hours of walking, she began to hear footsteps behind her. Her pace quickened as she began to hear a quiet chuckle coming from the same direction as the footsteps.
Before long she was running towards a set of large doors, climbing over piles of fallen books in the process. The chuckling soon grew into hysterical laughter and she stopped. It now sounded as if the laughter was coming from all around her. She began to hyperventilate and started whipping her head around, trying to catch sight of the perpetrator.
And then…it went quiet.
"Well well well… didn't think I would run into you again…HAHAHAHAHA!"
"HELP!"
She heard footsteps once again coming towards her in the dark, and registered something soft underneath her. She looked towards where the sound was coming from and saw a door, creaking open and then a hand, reaching in to flip a switch on the wall. The room was suddenly bathed in light as a worried voice called out.
"Kari, what's wrong?!" Tai yelled as he pushed the door open sporting quite the worried face. He walked up to her slowly when her only response was to stare at him, eyes glazed over, and gently place his right hand on her forehead to check for a fever, sitting on the edge of her bed in the process. "Kari wha-"
"I was in a library…" she started quietly as Tai leaned in closer to hear her better, "and there was laughing and then…something is wrong Tai, something is very wrong…"
"Kari, what the hell are you talking about?" Tai asked, still unsure as to what was happening with his little sister.
"Piedmon Tai!" she yelled at him, causing him to jump back at the suddenness of her movements, and how quickly her eyes shifted out of their glassy state to stare back at him.
"I…I-I think he's back, I think he's connected to the missing students!"
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Hi…I'm back…and I am SO SORRY for being away for so long. I've been super busy with school and some personal issues that have prevented from finishing up the last section of this chapter and from editing the whole thing. Don't give up on me yet though folks, I already have the layout of the next chapter thought out!
And yes, this is a crossover between Adventure and Frontier, but it will be more focused on the Frontier gang, which will come to make more sense later on. And keep in mind that Adventure 2 hasn't happened yet in this story line. I'm also still trying to figure out when to capitalized digimon names, and when not too, so long story short, bear with me here.
And, as always, stay prodigious my friends.