World Travellers Reunited…
Chapter 11: The way two worlds become one.
Digital World – Plane of the sovereigns.
"Terriermon! Get out of Omnimon's cape!"
"Aw, but Hennnnnryyyy!"
"Terriermon, you've been in there for the past half an hour. It's time to get out…" Henry sighed, the diminutive dog-bunny complying with the Holy Knight's appreciation.
"You have no idea how much I feel like hitting you right now little bunny…" Omnimon growled softly.
"I'm a dog-bunny!" Terriermon corrected, he flinched when Omnimon's sword flew out of its holster with a 'schwing' as the blade glimmered in the sunlight.
"Silence is all I want to hear from you right now." Omnimon commanded. Terriermon sighed and walked back to his Tamer who, along with Izzy and Tentomon had been watching his antics for quite some time and hopped up onto his shoulders.
"You really shouldn't mess with a Digimon like Omnimon, or any Digimon a higher level than you for that matter." Tentomon advised.
"What's he going to do about it?" Terriermon asked, the sound of a charging cannon reached his sensitive ears and he craned his head to see Omnimon pointing his 'Garuru Cannon' right in his direction.
"Hey, you won't hit me! There are innocent bystanders here!" Terriermon taunted the taller Digimon. Henry picked Terriermon up and set him down on the ground, the two boys and Tentomon running off in another direction without him noticing.
"I don't know what you're talking about…" Omnimon teased back causing the little bunny to turn around and see that his Tamer and new friends had left him.
"Aw, nuts."
"So what do you think?"
"Hmm…"
"I don't want to interfere much either but if it will speed things up then it's what me must do!"
"I don't know Kazu, Takato doesn't seem to like her that much anymore…"
"C'mon Kenta! Trust me on this!"
"It's been three years Kazu, if he really did like her then he would've done something ages ago. Even Takato isn't that timid…"
"But what about all those life risking stunts he pulled just to save her from D-Reaper, or all those goofy looks he gave her constantly?"
"We all risked our lives to save Jeri, Takato just went that one step further and actually succeeded. He also stopped giving her those looks a long time ago, I can't believe that even you're so blind to that."
"Yeah? Well I can't believe how bad you are at the card game!"
"Seriously? I thought this was about Takato?"
"It was, now it's about how much you suck."
"Or is it really about how much you like to boast?"
"I don't boast all the time loser! I'm just modest."
"Tell that to Suzie…"
"SHE CHEATED AND YOU KNOW IT!"
"I'm sure she did, Kazu. I'm sure she did…"
"Azulongmon, I'm curious, what other changes will happen with the merge?" Ken asked the goliath in the sky.
"There might be some time changes… Whether it goes forwards or backwards, I have no way of knowing but it may happen as both worlds need to settle on a time that most fits where they were before." Azulongmon replied.
"So you mean our worlds weren't in complete sync?" Yamaru questioned, he was under the assumption that both worlds were at the same time and date as the other.
"Of course not. The DigiDestined children were at late November whilst you Tamers were in early September." He informed the boy who looked astounded.
"You know what else bugs me?" Tahu asked the group as a whole.
"What?" Davis replied, inviting him to tell them.
"At the end of the show it shows you all grown up an…" The black haired boy started to say before Gennai interrupted him.
"It would not be the best idea to reveal how their futures turned out. It could cause a massive collapse in time's framework and the show will most likely be erased when the universes merge." He said.
"Aw, man! I wanted to watch an episode…" Veemon huffed.
"I bet we were so cool on TV!" Davis exclaimed proudly.
"Ehh… You had your moments." Tahu muttered to himself.
Azulongmon was about to comment until a sharp pain ran through his mind, it was like someone had taken a whole chunk of his data away, he felt exhausted and slightly worn out. Gennai noticed what had happened and came to a conclusion on what had just occurred.
"He did it?" The grey robed man asked.
"Yes, he did, which means that he is on his way back with the egg." Azulongmon replied, regaining his strength after the moments feeling of weakness.
"Tamers! DigiDestined! Please gather around!" Gennai exclaimed, projecting his voice all across the small clearing behind the noodle shop that seemed uninhabited.
Small scattered groups of mixed Tamers/ DigiDestined children and adult all gathered into one larger group in front of Gennai and Azulongmon. Davis, Ken, Tahu and Yamaru all moved over and joined the group so they could all be addressed as a whole.
"Why did we all have to move for? Do you know how much of an effort it is to move Gogglehead when he's injured?" Rika called out, slyly winking to Takato so he knew that she was only playing around with him.
"Ryo has completed his task. Zhuquiaomon has been reverted back to his Digiegg form, leaving his quadrant unguarded." Azulongmon boomed sadly at the loss of his friend.
"So that's it then… Zhuquiaomon is gone?" Jeri asked as she unconsciously gripped Leomon's paw tightly.
"No, not gone. His egg will hatch sometime in the future where he will just live like an ordinary Digimon." Gennai explained to Jeri's relief that Ryo hadn't gone and killed him permanently and that he would one day awaken without the evil influence of the Dark Spores.
"So what now?" Yolei inquired.
"Now, we merge the quadrants. Could you all please raise your Digivices to face me?" Azulongmon commanded.
"Let's do what the 'mon says!" Kazu exclaimed as he raised his white D-Arc with its rust coloured ring, the other Tamers following suit.
"C'mon Izzy!" Mimi called, raising her own Digivice and grabbing the taller redheads arm and forcing him to raise his.
"I was going to Mimi!" Izzy stated as the other older DigiDestined raised theirs as well.
"Let's do it!" Davis shouted, Kari ,TK, Yolei and Cody all raising their D-3's towards the serpent.
Beams of white light shot from all Digivices, each beam impacting with one of the multiple Digicores scattered around the dragon-serpents body. Another beam of light flew in from somewhere far away and hit the small ball of power a well, adding it strength to it. "Now for the finishing touch…" Gennai muttered as he lept up into the hair and pushed his hands into the ball of energy. Everyone watched on as Gennai's body grew shorter and his robes changed form a brown and grey combo to a black and red combo. His head became bald except for a small ponytail that stuck out from the back of his head. His face became noticeably more wrinkled and he seemed to be a lot older and wiser now. All the children and single adult lowered their Digivices when the beams faded so they could get a proper look at the new Gennai.
"Gennai? You look just like the first time we met you!" TK exclaimed making the old man chuckle with pleasure.
"We can't all stay young forever you know? I had to lend my power to help out." He said.
"You looked much more attractive when I first met you…" Yolei sighed, Jeri and Kari both giggling in amusement.
"Now, it is time for you all to return home. You will be seeing each other again in the near future, don't you worry." Azulongmon said as the ball of glowing light split in half, creating two portals back to their homes. "I'd ask that you go through the portal that takes you to your proper home please. DigiDestined on the left, Tamers on the right."
Tai, Matt, Davis and Ken all made their way to the portal on the left so that they could return home for the first time in days. Sora embraced Tai and Matt in a hug that they both returned gratefully. "You all had us really worried there you boys. We thought that you might have been in a fight!" She exclaimed.
"Oh, we did get in a fight. The Tamers could've destroyed us in the sheer numbers they had. I was able to get Agumon to Digivolve to WarGreymon just in time to block all the attacks." Tai stated.
"I almost got into a fist fight with some government dude all because I landed on him when I entered that universe." Matt grumbled.
"Oh, wow… Wait… How did you get Agumon to WarGreymon? And how did you become WarGreymon with him?" Sora asked, not having caught onto the shouting of 'biomerge activate' during the brief battle with ChaosGallantmon. Tai pulled out his crest from under his black shirt while he unclipped his D-Crest from his pants, Matt mirroring his actions.
"How did you two get your crests back?" She asked.
'She must have been out of it that whole battle…' Matt sighed.
"We'll explain another time, okay?" Tai smiled, the orange haired girl smiling back as the chosen children all walked through their portal with Omnimon being the last to walk through.
"I just wanna go home and sleep!" Kazu whined as Kenta and Tahu followed him through the portal with their partners in tow.
"Hopefully we weren't gone too long." Leomon said, picking Jeri up and placing the girl gently onto his broad shoulder as he walked through the portal.
"What will happen to Ryo? He's still here…" Henry voiced his concern.
"Ryo will be perfectly fine, don't worry." Azulongmon reassured the blue haired boy who nodded and made his way through the portal.
"Are you okay Takato?" Yamaru asked the goggled boy who was still using Rika for support.
"Yeah, it all just hurts a bit…" He sighed.
"See you both on the other side." Yamaru said as he and BlackAgumon walked through the shining portal.
"I'm sorry again Azulongmon… Gennai…" Takato said, not even having the courage to look at them despite part of his crest resembling courage.
"It is okay Takato, just beware of how the Hazard virus is used." Gennai said, his words triggering a small headache in the back of Takato's head as if they had made him remember something for a split second before the memory was lost quicker than it had appeared.
"Let's go goggles." Rika encouraged him to get a move on, everyone had forgiven him and he had no more reason to apologize, but he still did, and he always would. It's just the person he was.
"Right." He replied as they both moved through the portal after their partners.
"I hope that girl doesn't get too attached to him to the point that they become dependent on each other." Gennai noted miserably.
"He needs the love. It will be what helps him to accept what he has to do." Azulongmon sighed.
"I know he does. I was only hoping for her sake, she will be the one who loses the most." Gennai replied.
"There's never an easy way. Nevertheless we have to move on with our current situation." Azulongmon stated. The serpent closed his eyes and the clouds around his form changed to a pink hue as the two portals moved closer to each other. Gennai spread his arms out wide and slowly started moving them closer together, making the action of pushing two things towards each other. The two portals collided and there was a bright flash to signal all had gone well and the merge was successful.
"That was exhausting for an old man!" Gennai exclaimed jokingly.
"Now you've got me thinking how old we are." Azulongmon respired.
"I remember the last year we got up to we were about four hundred." Gennai noted with a nod of his head.
"Ah, but how long ago was that?" Azulongmon asked, not quite sure of how long ago they had stopped counting.
"I have no idea. I would have to ask Centarumon, he keeps a better track of these kinds of things." Gennai laughed heartily.
"How is Centarumon these days?" Azulongmon asked.
"Still guarding the ruins checking on the firewall." Gennai replied nodding his head once again.
"Well my friend, we should all catch up again some other time. You, Centarumon, Elecmon and Yggdrasil are all welcome in my domain." Azulongmon expressed.
"Bah! Yggdrasil is too wrapped up in godhood now that it's gone crazy. The thing's a nutjob." Gennai laughed, him and Azulongmon parting ways.
West Shinjuku – Shinjuku Upper High.
"Now can you each come up one at a time to the computer to copy down this web address, then you can go home and access your grades from there." Nami Asaji said to the small amount of students that were left in her class after the Tamers' sudden outburst and disappearance early on in the morning.
"Miss? There's something wrong with the screen." One of the students managed to pull her out of her thoughts. She made her way over to the front of the desk so she could get a better look at what was wrong.
"Hey! That's Kazu and Kenta with one of the new kids!" The same student called out.
"Get back!" Nami yelled as Kazu, Kenta, Tahu, Guardromon, MarineAngemon and BlackGabumon flew out of the screen and landed in the room, knocking down a few tables and chairs with their landing.
"At least Guardromon didn't land on any of us…" Tahu groaned as he got to his feet. The young boy was knocked off of his feet when Jeri and Leomon burst from the computer, the latter landing on his feet as his Tamer apologised to Tahu for knocking him over.
"Watch out!" Leomon grabbed Jeri and Tahu, pulling out of the Henry and Terriermon's path, instead the duo hit Kenta who had managed to get to his feet as he muttered apologies to his teacher who was fit to burst in anger.
"I don't know what's worse, landing with a thump in the Digital World, or landing with a crash back here…" Terriermon grumbled. Yamaru came blasting out of the computer screen with no warning and rammed headfirst into Gaurdromon's side, Leomon and Henry wincing at the hollow thud that reverberated through the room.
"That's gonna hurt tomorrow!" Tahu laughed loudly at his brothers' misfortune.
"WEEEEEEE!" Guilmon came flying out of the monitor with Renamon and crashed into Tahu while he was laughing, the aforementioned vulpine Digimon landing a lot more gracefully than her saurian friend.
Takato and Rika followed through last, the goggle wearing boy landing on top of his girlfriend as they crashed to the floor. He heard Kazu call out something along the lines of; "You're supposed to buy her dinner first!" He heard Kazu , Kenta and Tahu roaring with laughter as he opened his eyes.
'Uh-oh…'
Takato noticed that he had landed on top of Rika, something that wouldn't have seemed so bad in this situation if his head wasn't lodged between her breasts.
"Takato." Rika said sternly, Takato hadn't heard her voice take this kind of tone since one of the first times he met her. He clumsily got up and helped her to her feet, constantly muttering apologies the whole while.
"I'm not going to hit you because it wasn't your fault and you've already had a harsh beating today." She said a lot more calmly now as a blush appeared on both their cheeks.
The laughter of the three boys was stopped by the shouting of their teacher who was forgotten by them completely after their escapade in the Digital World. "You all think you can just run off on me like that! You are all so lucky that it's the weekend tomorrow or I would make you all stay back!" She roared as the bell chimed in for the end of the day, everyone proceeding out of the room as quickly as they could so none of them would have to stay back and clean up all the toppled tables and chairs.
"I thought it was only Monday?" Jeri voiced as the Tamers all made their way outside of the classroom in one big group.
"Azulongmon did say that there might be a little bit of time skipped to suit the two worlds being merged into one." Yamaru informed.
"Some? Dude, its October now…" Tahu said as he checked the calendar on his phone.
"What!? That means we've skipped into a whole other month." Henry exclaimed.
"Are you sure?" Kenta asked, not believing what he was told.
"Yep, here it is. Friday, October twenty-third." Tahu muttered, holding his phone up for everyone to see.
"That means Halloween is coming up!" Terriermon exclaimed happily.
"How did you know about Halloween? You were never here for one and no one ever mentioned it before." Rika questioned.
"Internet." He replied.
"Terriermon, were you using my computer without my knowing?" Henry asked.
"Momentai, Hen!" Terriermon giggled.
"You Momentai!" Henry replied.
Highton View Terrace.
"Why don't we ever end up somewhere we want to be? Or even land it right?" Davis moaned as he got to his feet. The DigiDestined had all been thrown out of a random laptop in computer store in Highton View Terrace.
"Well I can't go in there again without getting weird looks…" Izzy sighed.
"Hey Tai, remember when we were kids and we all tried to get back to Odaiba by calling out to random people passing by?" Matt questioned the wild haired boy.
"Yeah, that was when we were looking for Kari." He replied with a light chuckle.
"You tried to flag down the cops by saying your cat was stuck in a tree!" Mimi exclaimed as the whole group burst into laughter at the memory, the newer DigiDestined not laughing as hard because they weren't there to experience it.
"Remember when Garudamon fought that Mammothmon and destroyed the bridge like Greymon and Parrotmon had done four years before?" Joe asked, Tai and Kari nodding in response.
"It's hard to believe that was twelve years ago now." TK noted reminiscently.
"Yeah, remember Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon?" Patamon asked.
"Yeah, poor guys just wanted to have fun…" Gabumon sighed at the sad reminder of what had happened to them, him and Agumon having dedigivolved during their teleportation.
"Myotismon is gone now and he can't harm anyone else…" TK stated, trying to pick up the mood to no avail.
"I guess we should make our way home then." Cody voiced, murmured agreements echoing throughout the large group.
Black Ocean World.
"I had told you to be careful, didn't I?" A woman that was dressed in a long purple gown asked.
"Indeed you did." An angelic man replied.
"And yet you didn't." She chided him.
"I knew what I was doing, the Hazard Virus just wasn't stable enough for me to keep a hold of him after that attack."
"That being so Lucemon, you should tell me what possessed you to take him over in the first place." She asked.
"I just wanted to see what would happen Lilithmon…" He lied, slight worry in his tone that Lilithmon managed to pick up on.
"You're lying. You found out some more of the prophecy, didn't you?" She probed.
"I did…" Lucemon sighed.
"And?"
"'But he won't be able to be fully stopped unless the six can find one.' '…between three worlds by helping in the defeat of the six.' We are the six Lilithmon… It is written that we shall die…" Lucemon stated despondently.
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building – Hypnos.
"Do you like me Yamaki?" Big emerald eyes stared curiously up at the man who was dressed in his usual black suit with dark blue button up shirt underneath.
"What do you mean?" He responded, no Digimon, or person for that matter, had ever asked him if he liked them before. He started to unconsciously flick his lighter open and closed as he looked back at the little Digimon.
"Are we friends?" Those big green eyes peered up at him again. He wondered if the little Digimon could see his cool blue eyes behind his dark shades but instantly dismissed the thought when Riley interrupted him.
"Do you love him YamYam?" She teased, her boss letting go of the nickname for this one time only, he didn't want to get angry and scare the little fairy Digimon away. He had grown kind of used to Calumon over the past few days, even if he had locked Yamaki in rooms so that he would play games with him all the time.
"I guess we are friends. Yes, Calumon, we are friends." Yamaki replied, the flicking of his lighter stopped. The only sound coming from it when clattered to the floor as the room was lit up by a bright light, blinding everyone in the vicinity.
End Chapter 11.
The worlds are now merged and everyone is home or they are heading home. More of little Calumon and his friendship with Yamaki appeared as Halloween is now drawing closer. A lot is going to happen before that ghosty event though so stay tuned! Looks like the Tamers were thrown forwards a month while the DigiDestined still don't know the date yet. I decided to throw in a small remembrance part for Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon, that episode was one of my favourites from season one even though they were deleted. :'(
What was the bright light at Hypnos? What will Lilithmon's reaction be? Why do Azulongmon and Gennai pity Takato and Rika so much for?
We'll have to find out later won't we!?
-DW96
