By OtakuChild
DISCLAIMER: I don't own Digimon, or any of the anime characters mentioned herein, but I do own Rachel. She's my character. sue and all you'll get is a sack of flour.
NOTE: This is from Matt's POV. I just kind of smushed all my favorite anime characters into this fic. This was also before I learned that Ken was Yolei's age, not Matt's, and that Kaworu Nagisa was actually Tabris, the angel of Free Will. Don't ask me why I made Matt an ice skater, Just bear with me.
I expected Tuesday to begin like any other day, but
it ended up being one of the most vivid days of all seventeen years of
my existence.
I was deep in sleep, when...
"OH MY GOD!!! OH MY GOD!!
THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN!! OH MY GOD! NO!"
Auska's screams woke both me and Rachel up.
"Whathfuck?" I rolled over
to see Rachel, barely awake, obviously not in a good mood since she had
been so rudely interrupted from sleep. Then she rolled over and looked
at me.
"What the Hell? Someone's
screamed or somethin'."
"Yeah, I know," I said.
"Let's go check it out."
So we stumbled downstairs to find Auska in hysterics,
and Kaworu holding her in an effort to calm her down.
Rachel ran over to the two.
"What happened?" she asked.
"What's going on?"
Auska's answer was stuttered and broken.
"P-p-plane...it f-flew...it
c-crashed...hit the World T-t-trade Center...it's on f-fire...p-plane was
h-h-hijacked...t-terrorists..."
Rachel did her best to help calm her down.
I looked up just in time to see something else on the TV.
"Oh my God, look!" I said.
The four of us watched in
horror as a second plane, also hijacked, crashed head-on into the second
tower of the World Trade Center in New York. Auska lapsed back into
her fits of hysteria.
"What happened?"
Misato Katsuragi came running
down the hall.
"I heard all this commotion
from upstairs and- holy shit. That can't be." Her eyes had
also looked to the television screen. We listened to the newscaster
in disbelief:
"-and we have just recieved
word that a second aircraft just crashed into the second tower of the World
Trade Center in New York. There are people on the top floors trapped,
and-wait a minute. Now we have just gotten word that a third aircraft
has crashed into the southwest wall of the Pentagon. We have no clue
yet as to how many people have been injured or hurt in some way.
The White House is currently being evacuated..."
"No way," said Rachel.
"No fucking way..."
"OH MY GOD!" Auska screamed."
"Kaworu! Get her out of
here!" Misato said, her voice stern.
We got ready for school
and while Misato drove Kaworu and Auska to school, I drove Rachel and myself.
We both walked into Computer Tech, our first class and the only class we
have together(she's a sophomore, I'm a senior) to find the TV on CNN, with
more shots of the smoking Twin Towers. The second bell rang, and
Mr. Freeman, our teacher, turned down the volume on the TV and spoke:
"Alright. Listen up.
I see some of you aren't taking this seriously. I'll tell you right
now that this isn't funny. Terrorists have just attacked our financial
and military nerve centers, and we could possibly be going to war with
whoever did this, if they are from another country. California is
a coastal state, and while we don't live right on the coast, we are in
the highest danger. California is a powerful state, our state capital
may become a target, as could San Franciso, or Los Angeles. This
is something that needs to be taken seriously. You think it's something
to be laughed at, then get out of my class."
Silence. Just dead silence. I felt a
wave of nausea and fear overtake me. Sacramento was just an hour
and a half away, driving-wise. We lived in El Dorado County, but
who knows? For all we knew the Terrorists just might try to bomb
the whole state of California off the world map. I don't think I'd
ever been so scared in my life, not even when we faced the Dark Masters
or Apocalymon.
I'd never been in a war. None of us fellow classmates had. Hell,
we took America for granted. We all thought because our country was
so powerful, no one would mess with us.
Damn, we were so wrong. This gave us all a
swift kick in the ass, that's for sure.
Computer Tech was pretty quiet. Until someone
watching the TV spoke up.
"The towers! Oh Gods,
one of the towers is disentegrating!
We all looked up. One the towers was in fact
falling over. It just caved in on itself. All the way down.
Five minutes later the second tower caved in as well. We all stared
at the screen with shocked disbelief at once was the World Trade Center.
But now it was gone. Just a pile of rubble.
The rest of class passed by in a blurry haze.
All I remember is Rachel furiously typing away at an e-mail she was sending
out to all the members of her Anime club. We didn't do much in Government
either, we just watched the news. Mr. Becker pushed back the due-dates
of our assignments.
Lunch was awful. No one had an appetite, yet
we all ate lunch anyway. We all hugged and cried, then hugged some
more. I looked at my friends: Tai Kamiya, Tracey Airione, Li
Showron, Mielin Raye, Sora Takenouchi, Mimi Tachikawa, Sakura Kinomoto,
Sakura's friend Madison, Ken Ichijouji, all Seniors; Gary Oak, Gary's friend
Mina, Kaworu Nagisa, Jun Motomiya, who had, to my relief, gotten her act
together and quit stalking me, all Juniors; Koushiro Izumi, Ash Ketchum,
Misty Kasumi, Lita Makoto, Shizumaru Kibigami, Rei Ayanami, Auska Shoryu,
Shinji Ikari, Rachel's friends Anna, Libby, Kira, Sara, Michela, Yvette,
and lastly, Rachel herself. Then there was Yolei, a freshman now, but we
didn't mind. God, we were a huge mob. But it felt reassuring to have
my friends with me now, and know they weren't somewhere else, in danger.
I thought of my little brother, TK, and what he, Kari, Davis, Hotaru, and
Rini were doing, maybe sitting in the tiny cafeteria at Mountain Creek
Middle School watching it on a big screen TV or something.
Third block both Rachel and I both had seperate
English classes in the portable classrooms, which didn't have TVs yet.
My class went to the theater, where the other classrooms without TVs were
watching it on the huge projector screen. Rachel's class filed in
15 minutes later. She went up with Ash, Misty, Rei, Shinji, and Lita
and joined me. For the rest of the class period we watched the news
in depressed silence, the images of what once was the Trade Center a haunting
frame of memory that none of us will never forget.
Later that day Rachel, Lita, and I drove to Oakland
to get skating lessons with our choreagrapher. Rachel couldn't concentrate
in her lesson and neither could I. We got off the ice and entered the lobby
just as President Bush made a formal address. I will never forget
all of us crowded around the TV in the lobby: skater and coaches, staff
and parents, some shushing younger siblings or children. We have
different culrtural backrounds and coaches and ways of life, but at that
time, we all united as one.
Each day that passed brought all of us even closer
together. On Friday our lunch mob was a collage of red, white, and
blue. Some people even drew American flags on their arms or wrote
"God Bless America" on their binders. Now there is a fear of war,
for some of us, we are scared that we might get drafted. But we will
beat this. Who knows what life will be like in the future weeks to
come, but I know that life for me and my friends will never be the same.
I just keep hoping that we will get through it as quickly as we possibly
can.
END
So...I know I crammed a lot of different characters in there, but we
are all united right now, in a way, so why not unite the anime characters
as well? R+R.