Chapter Two: Out of This World
A/N: Sorry this took so long! I don't have much of an excuse, except that most of what I had planned doesn't happen until they get to their world, so I didn't know what to write...Oh, and if I say 'Lynette's world', I'll be talking about the whole timeline in which the others had been deleted, including both the digital world and the 'real world'. If I say 'Kari's world', I'll be talking about the timeline we're familiar with.
Disclaimer: Somebody else owns Digimon and all show characters. I own Lynette Jordan and I sort of own her timeline, but not entirely, because it does have Digimon in it. (Same goes for Felinemon.) I own this wording. I own one mostly-full computer, a messy room, and no money. I own my backpack again, though. It turned up in the Lost-And-Found. Oh, and I own a flute. And some McDonald's fries, which I really oughta throw away, as they're left over from yesterday ^^;; And I own a printer to go with my computer. And I own a few CD's. But that's all. And it isn't worth suing for ^^
The Digidestined--especially Ken--looked at her oddly. She looked a little nervous under their stares. "What? Do I have something on my face?"
"Why do you have a black Digivice?" Ken asked coldly.
"My colorful one just kept turning darker and darker until it was black."
"Are you working for the powers of darkness?"
"N-no," Lynette stammered.
"Why do we not believe you?"
"You've got a Dark Digivice, too, Ken," Kari pointed out. "You aren't working for the powers of darkness."
"Isn't it some kind of racism to mistrust someone because their Digivice is black?" Davis joked, trying to lighten the mood (and not succeeding).
"Look, I'm not working for the powers of darkness. I don't know how to prove it," Lynette said desperately. "Our worlds need help!"
"Why is your Digivice black?" Ken asked again.
"I told you, mine turned black," Lynette replied. She hesitated, then slowly said as if it was painful, "Well...if you've gotta know...I was...I...I used to...I was part of the powers of darkness." She hurriedly added, "But I'm not anymore, and I've reformed, and I'm trying to get rid of the darkness now!"
"Why didn't you bring your Digimon with you, then?"
"We decided that she should stay in our world, because she and I are the leaders of our rebellion, and if I...if the wormhole deleted me...someone would still be able to command it." Lynette smiled suddenly. "And anyway, if it did malfunction, I wouldn't want Fi to be deleted, too."
"Digimon get reconfigured, you know," Davis pointed out. "If she was deleted, she'd come right back."
Lynette looked at him funny. "Maybe she'd be OK--and we don't know; maybe the wormhole thing would keep her data from coming back--but I sure wouldn't be. How would you feel if Veemon was deleted and you could've been deleted instead?"
"I think she's telling the truth," Davis said, like she'd passed a test.
TK and Yolei nodded their agreement. Kari thought for a second before halfway agreeing. Ken decided in Lynette's favor after a few seconds of thinking. Cody didn't agree at all, but went along with the others.
"Okay, now, no more interruptions?" Lynette asked, glancing around at all of them. "Okay, then. Hold your Digivices up. Worldport open!" she said, holding her Digivice up to another device that had a screen that looked a whole lot like the Digiport's.
The seven were sucked into the familiar rush of colors, only it looked slightly different to the six of Kari's world.
They found themselves piled up on the floor of a room that was a lot like the computer lab at school. Except the lab at school didn't have lots of Digimon and no humans.
"Lynette! Lynette!" a catlike Digimon shouted when she noticed them. She (not literally) flew towards the girl. "Lynette!"
"Fi, I've only been gone about three hours," Lynette said, laughing. "But it is nice getting back into your own world."
One or two of the Digidestined wondered briefly about the fact she considered the digital world her world, but decided she just meant the timeline.
Gatomon was one of the first to get untangled from the big pileup. The catlike Digimon--who those not of Lynette's world assumed was Felinemon--stared at her as she stood up.
The two cat-type Digimon looked almost exactly alike, except for a few things: Felinemon's tail ended like most cats', without the little tip; Felinemon had green eyes instead of blue; and Felinemon had a bracelet instead of Gatomon's tail ring.
"Everyone, this is Felinemon, also known as Fi, and Fi, this is Kari Kamiya--you know her; she was Tai's sister, remember? She's the Crest and Digi-Egg of Light in their world. And this is Ken Ichijouji--he was the Emperor in their timeline, but reformed--and you should know all the others," Lynette said, pushing aside all those feelings that come with your friends coming back from the dead but knowing they'll go away once they help you. "Oh, and this is Gatomon, Kari's partner. You already know Wormmon."
The twelve of Kari's world said hello.
"Ya want the grand tour?" Lynette asked them after a couple moments of awkward silence. (What are you supposed to say in a situation like that? 'Wow, your timeline's great'? 'It's good to see you again after you died'?)
They all said yes, glad that they had something to do.
About an hour later, the tour was over, and all those of Kari's world had gathered in a computer lab Lynette had showed them. ("Not much else to do except play Jezzball and Minesweeper all day," Lynette had joked.)
"Did you notice that she didn't show us all of her base or whatever you wanna call it?" TK asked.
Kari nodded. "I don't think I trust Lynette very much, even if that isn't very nice."
"Maybe she just thought we'd be bored with the tour by then," Davis offered.
"You seem to think very highly of her," Yolei teased. "Ooh, Kari, you might have some competition."
"We should at least give her a chance," he replied defensively.
"I think Davis is right," Ken said. "We don't need to know every square centimeter of her base. She probably thinks it'd be a security risk."
"She didn't show us the control room or any kind of exit," Cody pointed out. "I still think this might be a trap."
Meanwhile, the Digimon were discussing Lynette and Felinemon, too.
"I wonder why Felinemon let Lynette come to our world by herself? I wouldn't let TK do something so dangerous," Patamon said critically.
Gatomon shook her head. "I don't trust that Digimon."
"I do," Wormmon disagreed. "Usually, if someone's working for the darkness, their Digimon won't be."
"So you think Lynette's working for the darkness?" Armadillomon asked.
"I didn't say that," Wormmon replied. "I just said that even if she was, Felinemon might not be."
"You probably know more about the powers of darkness than the rest of us do," Hawkmon pointed out.
"So you can probably recognize them better," Patamon said.
"I worked for the Dark Masters," Gatomon said, "so I know just as much about the powers of darkness. And I don't think either Lynette or Felinemon is working for them, but I don't trust them."
"I'm hungry," Veemon announced suddenly. The other Digimon nodded their agreement, and forgot about their conversation for the time being.
The door to the computer lab opened. Felinemon stuck her head in.
"They're serving lunch now, in case you're hungry!"
The cat-type Digimon learned never to say that again as she was almost flattened in the mob of hungry Digimon and humans.
A/N: Not much of a cliffhanger, huh? *sighs* Oh, well. It isn't supposed to be. Hey, what do y'all think of Lynette? I'm rather pleased with her at the moment, as she isn't quite as Mary Sue-ish as most of my OC's...