A/N: I'm sorry about the length of the chapter, but I had the Penn State Information Night to go to, which combined with homework, left me very little time to write.

Ryou: Don't lie, you know you weren't planning on writing anything tonight.

Yes I was. And I had to switch the chapters as well. I had everything all planned out, but when I looked at how it was going to flow, I changed a few things.

Ryou: You're worse than Ruki. Everything has to her way or its-

The only reason you're here is because having Yamaki and Reika as guest muses and in the chapter would be repetitive. But if you continue slandering Ruki, I'll take a leaf out of Flamegaruru's book and lock you in the closet.

Ryou: I wasn't "slandering" Ruki at all. And as for the closet, I'm the Legendary Tamer, I've dealt with far worse situations than that.

Did I mention locked in the closet, chained together with Hirokazu and Kenta and forced to hear their singing for hours on end?

Ryou: …I'll be quiet.

That's better. I hope that I've kept everyone in character and that you enjoy my story!

Disclaimer: Digimon is the property of Toei Animation and of Bandai

Prevention Terminated

On a warm spring day in West Shinjuku, several events were occurring simultaneously. In the Elementary School, the Digimon Tamer Matsuda Takato was doodling in his notebook distractedly, as his teacher Asanuma Nami spoke about finding the perimeters of rectangles.

As he doodled, Takato noticed that the rest of his classmates looked equally as uninterested, save his two friends Shiota Hirokazu and Kitagawa Kenta.

They both were whispering to one another and ever so often would glance at Takato or former Tamer Katou Juri. Takato shook his head and sighed. He had no idea that Hirokazu and Kenta were planning something to make him and Juri admit their undying love for one another, but if he had any inkling of what they were plotting, he probably would have paid more attention to them.

A few doors away, Lee Jenrya sat listening intently as his teacher discussed history and the  relevance of finding and observing the patterns that were repeated within it.

A distance away from the Elementary school, in a rigid private academy, Tamer Makino Ruki struggled to stay awake, as her teacher continued to drone on about mammals and their common anatomy.

She hadn't been getting much sleep lately, due to terrible nightmares about being trapped in a frozen wasteland, with someone trying to kill her. She would usually wake up in the middle of the night screaming and then take quite a bit of time to fall back asleep. 

But last night had been the last straw. She was going to find out what her nightmares meant, no matter what.

~*~

Further away, located within the bustling hub of West Shinjuku, two large towers stood tall against the skyline. It had taken some time for the construction workers to fix the extensive damage done to the buildings after they had been ingested by D-Reaper, but to Yamaki Mitsuo, one of the head employees of the corporation Hypnos, which was housed within the building, things looked almost normal. Almost.

Yamaki stared out one of the building's highest windows, with his dark eyes encased within his usual sunglasses and clicked the cover of his lighter open and shut with irritation. His office was lined with numerous boxes and several files full of information littered his unusually unkempt desk.

I still can believe that things are ending this way. He thought with annoyance. Things may seem quiet for the moment, but with everything I've seen those kids and their partners do, I know for a fact that we haven't seen the last of the digimon.

But with the knowledge of Hypnos finally divulged to the public and the destruction of D-Reaper, there had been little reason, save Yamaki's suspicions, to convince the superiors of Hypnos of any possible danger.

And if anything does happen, I'll be the first person they try to either blame for the situation or be called in to help eliminate it. Yamaki thought with a measure of bitterness.

But it wouldn't be the first time. Now with the Hypnos project ending, Yamaki was left without a job, an event that hadn't happened for quite some time. But he wasn't worried about his situation. With his intelligence and background in computer programming, there was little doubt within him that he wouldn't be able to find another high power, well paying job.

"Just as long as the job doesn't entitle you to work with anyone even slightly normal." Reika had said jokingly over dinner one evening.

Yamaki smirked slightly. No matter what job he found, he still did have a way with people. He clicked the lid of his lighter closed once more, then began to proceed from his office into the hallway. Moving quickly, he descended the hall stairs and made his way into Hypnos' central office.

The room was as large and as bare as ever, with much of the equipment already boxed and removed. The only operational items were the immense computer system that had been used to track and eliminate countless digimon and the machine in which Ootori Reika and Onodera Megumi were presently seated within.

Despite the serious atmosphere that infiltrated the room, both women were speaking in casual tones about their new employment prospects.

"It's funny, after everything that's happened to us at Hypnos, I feel so depressed that things are finally ending." The strawberry blonde haired Megumi spoke unhappily.

From in front of her, Reika nodded, causing a piece of her crimson hair to fall onto her face. She brushed it away quickly and sighed. "I know what you mean. You'd think that having D-Reaper turn our computer systems into a gateway to our world would make us all the more anxious to leave." 

She typed a command on her keyboard that caused the screen to form into the grid of the overlap between the Real and Digital Worlds. Yamaki glanced at the screen, his irritation returning as he stared at its inaction.

Reika looked upwards, and finally noticed him. "It looks as though everything is normal between both of the worlds."

"It would seem so." Yamaki conceded. "But I have a feeling that things won't remain that way. I believe that this is what's referred to as "The calm before the-"

A loud beeping sound interrupted him as several red dots appeared upon the once dormant computer screen.

"We're picking up a mass amount of data rapidly converging from within the Digital World." Megumi said loudly as she began typing rapidly.

With a feeling of slight satisfaction, Yamaki gazed at the screen. "Deploy the tracers and establish a visual lock. I want to see what's happening."

"Tracers deployed." Reika confirmed, the relaxed tone gone from her voice. Seconds later, multiple green dots appeared on the screen, apparently following the red ones.

"Visual lock will be established in five seconds."

Yamaki watched the screen sharply. In a few seconds we'll see what's really going on within the Digital World.

~*~

It stood silently, its body neither in the Digital nor in the Real World, but waiting in between. Parts of its pallid body were continuously being formed from bits of stray data. The area surrounding it lacked most color and shape, causing the creature to stand out among the green and black around it.

As more data flowed towards it, it noticed several green devices moving closer as well. A sadistic smile lit its normally vacant face and its eyes seemed to bleed with a scarlet malice.

A game to play. It thought viciously. Interesting. "Come to me then, come to your end." It spoke softly and extended its tattered white wings…

~*~

Within the Hypnos building, Yamaki Mitsuo was loosing his patience. After months of inaction, something had finally made contact from the Digital World, but the time needed to get a visual image of that something seemed to be crawling by. Yamaki couldn't help but be hopeful that whatever was causing the disturbance, was in fact the digimon belonging to Matsuda Takato and the rest of the Digimon Tamers.

He hadn't needed to be there to know that the departure of the digimon had affected the children greatly and despite his earlier misguided actions, he felt that the digimon should be reunited with their human counterparts.

Yamaki wasn't an emotional person, but the Tamers and their digimon had gone through hell and back while facing D-Reaper, and if it weren't for them, the world would have been nonexistent.

"Visual lock established." Megumi interrupted his thoughts.

The grid on the screen suddenly vanished as the image of a strange white creature took its place. Yamaki's eyes narrowed as the hazy image became clearer.

The digimon, for that was what Yamaki assumed it was, was humanoid and thin. Its body was one great mesh of white, from the tips of its boots to the front of its face. Its face was ashen and a light blue mask surrounded the flaming red eyes. Blue hair stood up in spikes behind the mask, while ragged white wings extended behind it.

Suddenly the digimon smiled and raised a hand complimented by razor sharp claws. Shards of white crystal flew from within it, destroying several tracers.

"The tracers have been destroyed. We're losing our visual!" Reika said anxiously.

"Then launch more!" Yamaki spat angrily.

The image began to fade as the digimon targeted more of the tracers.

Megumi typed the command on her keyboard. "The tracers have been launched, but the digimon keeps destroying them."

"This is bad." Reika said darkly. "It is now trying to bio-emerge into the Real World."

Yamaki clenched a fist in frustration. Despite everything that had happened between the digimon and the humans, this new digimon obviously had hostile intentions and could not be permitted to enter the Real World.

"Activate Yuggoth." Yamaki said finally. "With all of the power that it has and its obvious enjoyment for causing destruction, that digimon must not enter our world."

"Yuggoth has been activated."

The computer screen darkened as a blue light surrounded the digimon. The three Hypnos operatives waited apprehensively for the deletion program to take effect.

~*~

It was angry. Destroying the devices had been fascinating for a time, but it had quickly grown boring. When the blue light began to surround it, the creature began to feel enraged.

This ends now. It thought venomously. It quickly gathered its power together and as the light drew closer…

~*~

"Damn it!" Yamaki swore when the computer screen went black. He slammed his lighter down upon the consol, as though it could relieve some of his anger.

Megumi sighed wearily. "Deletion was unsuccessful. The digimon has bio-emerged into the Real World.

"We'll have to wait until the system reboots before we can get a positive lock on the digimon's position." Reika added.

"We'll know where it is as soon when it starts terrorizing Shinjuku." Yamaki responded sarcastically. "But until then, we'll have to keep a watch on things. The Tamers won't be able to do anything without their digimon, leaving the situation completely in our hands."

~*~

It stood in the shadows, cringing as small particles of light shone on its pale skin. It had wanted to come to the Real World for a reason, but perhaps the darkness would have chosen a better cover.

No matter. It didn't have the patience nor the knowledge of the passing of days in the Real World to tell day from night. It was tired of waiting, only reaching for what it desired. Now that it had finally come in its true form, it was ready.

"Makino Ruki, " it spoke in its silent, yet dangerous voice, "Our true reckoning has finally arrived."

~*~

Okay, our villain has finally made its dramatic entrance into our story. As for the whole "it" used when mentioning the villain, I'm still not sure whether to make them male or female. Digidestined of Courage, you were halfway correct, IceDevimon does have some focus in the story, be he isn't the antagonist. And sorry if the whole Hypnos finding the digimon scene wasn't completely accurate. It's been some time since I've seen the early episodes, but I did my best.

In the next chapter, Hirokazu and Kenta put their plan into action and Ruki learns the meaning of the words déjà vu.