Bad books, missing keys, trees, names, and family mysteries
"NO SCHOOL TODAY?!" Lizzy was stopped by her mother's phone call and was just about to walk out the front door.
"Why the hell am I awake then?" Hoppie mumbled from Lizzy's backpack.
"Oh because of th- I mean a fire?! No I had no idea about that...so still school tomorrow...okay love you too mom bye!" She hung up.
"Well I'm going back to sleep."
"I would say same here but I found something interesting yesterday!"
"Can it wait five hours?"
"Nope! I'm calling the others!" Lizzy beamed already dialing up Bridget since she was one of the first contacts and she hung up almost immediately. "...Okay I expected that from Bridget."
"In all fairness it's seven in the morning and there's no school."
"True true." She called Kevin who answered about a minute of ringtone.
"Is there a reason you're calling me at seven in the morning when there's no school?"
"Hi Kev! I found something cool yesterday and I wanted to ask if you'll check it out with me?"
"Can it wait a few hours?"
"Fine...bye!" She hung up and dialed Sunny...who's went to voicemail... "I guess she's still asleep..."
"Can we just go back to bed?"
Meanwhile Sunny followed the noise of Drop pop candy and found her phone under her mattress. "Oh thank you Lizzy for choosing Drop pop candy for a ringtone!"
"Congratulations Sunny you win!...your phone!" Kyaromon exclaimed cheering that Sunny actually found her phone and probably wasn't mad!
Meanwhile again Wizardmon came back way later than expected holding a pretty big book and looked like got in a fairly bad fight with something fire related... A simple "hello" from Bridget startled him and he jumped in surprise and aimed his staff at her face, to which she simply pushed it aside not phased.
"O-Oh sorry Bridget!" He quickly apologized and pulled his staff away from her face.
"It's fine and I have a few questions. One where were you? Two what's with the book? And three why does it look like you lost a fight a matchstick?"
"Funny how you say matchstick..." He mumbled.
"That didn't answer any of my questions."
The wizard signed, "I went to Witchelny, this is a book of advanced dark spells, and I fought a FlameWizardmon."
"...so did you win?"
He avoided eye contact. "Well..."
"Got it, ass kicked." She said flatly trying to grab and look at the spell book but Wizardmon held it way from her.
"First of all rude, and secondly this book contains high level dark sorcery and should not be looked apon by just anyone!"
"Then why did you bring it here you know very well that one of us is bound to read it or try to. Also WHY do you have it in the first place?"
"I...can't say..." He mumbled.
Meanwhile Bridget eventually stopped trying to grab the book once the book flew off and was practically touching her celling and inching away from her. "Weird ass magic..." She mumbled staring up at it...
"Now Bridget if you'll excuse me I have three thousand, three hundred ninety-four chapters to read." He said as he retrieved the book from the celling.
Bridget was slightly shocked. "Are you actually going to read ALL of that?!" She got a simple nod as a reply. "Alright...good...luck I guess...?"
"Thank you." The second he opened the book dust completely filled the room. "..."
"..." It was dead silent for about a minute until Drop pop candy could be heard...
Back to Lizzy who was just texting Tanner because calling didn't seem to work with everyone else and eventually he responded saying that he actually found something interesting in the Digital world that everyone should check out as well.
"Ta-da!"
"The hell am I looking at?" Bridget stared at...a tree. They all got out of their homes walked a few blocks or so...for a tree. "I'm serious why did you get us all out here to look at a tree?"
"This isn't JUST a tree! It's me and Hoppie's tree!"
"First of all Hoppie and I and secondly what?"
"This was where we first met! She was hiding around here and I crashed into this tree! I just happened to pass by here yesterday and decided to show all of you guys it!"
"...I'm going home now."
"WAIT! There's also more...I found some writing on a paper stapled to the tree...but I can't understand a thing it says... Oh I have it right here!" Lizzy pulled out a piece of paper that was written in what seemed like a bunch of lines and dots... "I swear I've seen this before but-"
"It looks like morse code." Kevin said while Bridget snatched the paper from Lizzy.
"Yeah I can translate it for you I suppose."
"Why morse code couldn't actual words work?"
"Well at least it's not binary is what I would say if my Digimon couldn't read that."
"But how do you read all of those ones and zeros?!"
"Oh you actually know what binary is."
"Not really its just ones and zeros right?"
Sunny finally decided to speak up. "Th-This could actually be the tree we could just hang out at...o-or not just a suggestion..."
"Actually I agree Sunny if this tree is important to Lizzy and Hoppie then it's important to all of us!" Tanner agreed.
"Debatable." Bridget said flatly.
"We still have to check out that cave in the digital world the walls are littered with binary and we all might have a connection to the cave but it's just a guess..."
"Well then let's go!"
"I'll go call Keira I think she went to the mall..."
"Okay everyone grab what you need and then we can go lets meet up in the Digital world!" Lizzy said with a smile.
"Where exactly in the digital world?" Bridget asked crossing her arms.
"Uhh..."
"Let's just meet up at my house Lizzy my parents are always busy." Kevin suggested.
"Okay Kevin's house it is!"
"I'm guessing you know about the 'it' situation..." Scarlet was sitting across from Techomon in the living room.
"We really need to give it a name." Techo was looking at files via his visor and screens.
"Well we don't exactly know what it is or where it necessarily came from..."
"Can we at least stop calling it it like it's a bad guy from some movie?"
"You know what not the point. We need to find out what it wants with us..."
"Well so far we're pawns for some big plan..."
"Yes and we need to find out what that plan is."
Just then Bridget opened the door, "Hey mom hi Techo." She said without much thought she left the room and went up the stairs.
"...How about D-00? Techo suggested, "I mean it's just a nickname not actual numbering or anything."
"Fine I suppose..."
Bridget opened her bedroom door to see Wizardmon reading the 'impossible to finish' book looking pretty...bored. But he noticed Bridget walked in as usual. "Hey if you're okay with taking a break from reading three thousand something pages then the others want to see something in the digital world and it involves Binary.
He closed the book with the bookmark on the page he was on. "Well I am only on page 30 and I haven't found what I'm looking for unless you count an almost burnt beyond reading as in page four and and one page that just has a huge inkblot on which is page thirteen. I have ideas on who might've caused those accidents..."
"No offense but I honestly can't care unless I know what your talking about."
"Nice try Bridget but my lips are sealed you absolutely can not know what I'm looking for and that's final."
"Fine whatever you coming?"
"Of course."
"Yep this is the same cave!" Tanner leading the group inside.
"You didn't tell me that we were going in a cave Kevin these heels are brand new!" Keira complained while looking down trying not to step in nonexistent mud...
"More like were brand new, and what exactly are we going to find here?"
"Something written in binary." Tanner replied stepping on one of the panels which lit up green and shortly afterward everyone else stepped on panels as well. Lizzy's was orange, Kevin's was blue, Keira's was red, Sunny's was gray, and Bridget's was purple. This time the panels even lit up around the Digimon with the same corresponding colors.
"Woah this is freaky!" Lizzy was looking down at the bright orange she was standing on.
"Why orange?" Hoppie asked as the colors lit up different messages on the walls.
"That's a lot of numbers..." Sunny stated quietly.
"A lot indeed...I'll just start with Lizzy's" Wizardmon floated up to the orange message, "You may seem foolish but you have none-"
Bridget interrupted with a small "ha" before letting him continue,
"... You have fears but ignore them and bore them for a brave leader must show no fear.
"I can already tell that this will be interesting...or possibly stupid. Ether way this place is obviously important." Bridget looked over at at the purple text, "hey Wizardmon can you try mine next?"
"While some say this is bliss you take none, you search for answers you search for truth
You try to find them all in your youth"
"Pretty vague, but I'm guessing that it means-"
"Heart! It means heart!" Lizzy shouted, mostly to get back at Bridget for interrupting the first time.
"No you idiot! How would that even make sense?!" Bridget shouted back.
"Can you do mine please?" Diana asked politely.
"Of course, you laugh and play without a care, but when someone needs you you are there, you know how to care, you know how to share."
"Sounds like Diana" Hawkmon said "she always shares when given the opportunity."
"I'll just read the green one next,
"You hold on to the truth and stick with it, trustworthy they call you, you won't forget your truthfulness even if it hurts you"
"Interesting..." Tanner said since apparently the so called smart one was currently arguing with the so called fearless one.
"Er moving on to red and then I'll read the blue one, You show you care you really do, you think for and about others and it shows you really care for those you're there for you'll always be there."
"Huh." Keira stopped paying attention to her shoes for a minute.
"You weren't necessarily the glue for you started out with two but as you grow you'll soon find that you won't leave anyone behind, in times of need you decide what's right and you won't abandon in a fight."
Kevin didn't add a comment to that and instead thought to himself, meanwhile Nini did, "What does that mean?"
"That's something I think you two have to figure out... Oh! I almost forgot about the gray one...sorry Sunny."
"I-It's fine..."
"I'll just read yours, you won't abandon on your plans you won't abandon your own friends, you're always there when someone needs it even if you don't feel it, you leave no one hanging."
"I like it how they know how to rhyme and then they forget." Hoppie said.
"That's how some poems work Hoppiemon." Biyomon replied.
"Anyone else notice these weird shape holes?" Kyaromon was jumping near the gray message and Sunny was wondering how they got over there so quickly!
Bridget ignored Lizzy for a second, "They're sort of trapezoid shaped... I think they might be keyholes."
"Keyholes for what exactly Bridget?" Lizzy didn't like being ignored simple as that.
"Hell if I know maybe some keys?! Now where these supposed keys are I don't know, but it's probably important..."
"Definitely connected to all of us..." Kevin finally said.
"Yeah...but how do we find those keys?" Sunny asked.
"No idea..."
"Hey mom I'm home!" Lizzy exclaimed running towards the stairs.
"Oh hey sweet heart you were at Kevin's right?"
"Yeahh just talkin...bout school...stuff."
"If you say so." Her mother went back to looking at her shopping magazine while Lizzy was about to go back upstairs to her room and Hoppie when something stopped her...she looked at a photo on the wall next to the staircase... Lizzy looked at the old family photo of when she was younger...
A three year old girl mahogany haired girl wearing a pink dress with pink bows in her hair holding a stuffed pink bunny between her folders arms was on the lap of a red haired woman wearing a dress of a semi pale red velvet variety with darker high heels. Next to the woman was a brown messy haired man wearing a white tux with gray pants. They all had light blue eyes...
"Hey mom?" Lizzy asked holding the photo...
"Yes Lizzy?" Susan, Lizzy's mother asked.
"Where does dad work again?" Lizzy said not necessarily quietly but still not at her normal level...
"Oh um somewhere important..." Susan said calmly.
"Well then where?"
"..." There was a long pause... "He...works...for the government." For how long it took her to say that it almost sounded like a lie...
"Is that the truth?"
Lizzy's mother decided to quickly change the subject. "Hey what do you want for dinner?"
Lizzy didn't answer that question. She just stared... "No thanks I'm not hungry." She finally said... Taking one last look at the photo before going up the stairs to instead go to bed...
