Prologue
As the
digidestines neared the portal that would bring them home, Davis was getting
himself all worked up over what just happened with Shinobimon.
"Why can't
he just stay put?" shouted Davis.
"You should calm down Davis, there's no point
getting your self all worked up over this."
"Kari's
right Davis, you should get some sleep. Once we get back to my room we should
all call it a night," Agreed Yolei "Digiport Open!"
***
They all
come tumbling out of Yolei's computer with the usual lack of grace and landed
on the hard floor, right at the feet of a very surprised Chris.
Not missing
a beat, Yolei said, "Guys, meet Chris Anderson. Chris Anderson, meet my
friends."
"Interesting
friends." Said Chris.
***
Suspicions
By Jack
This is the
second chapter in the Shinobimon Trilogy.
***
After the
initial introductions, Yolei spoke up,
"Chris!
What are you doing here?" said Yolei as she pushed herself off her bedroom
floor.
"What am I
doing here? What are you doing here?" Exclaimed Chris, his eyes wide with
surprise. "I come over to see if you're alright then, one minute I'm here alone
and the next you guys come spilling out of a computer!"
"Calm down
Chris, just give us a second and we'll tell you." Said Davis to the nearly
hysterical boy in front of him as he motioned the others into a huddle. "So,
what are we going to tell him?" whispered Davis once the group was together.
"We could
say he's dreaming all this." Suggested Cody.
"No, I
don't think he'll go for it." Said T.K, "Anyone else?"
"We could
knock him out."
"I don't
think so Gatomon," said Yolei, "He may not look it but he's strong, when he
pushed me out of the way of that truck I could feel it. He could put up fight
and someone could get seriously hurt."
"Maybe we
should tell him the truth." Said Kari.
Everyone
just stared at Kari, not believing that she actually suggested that.
"Well,"
shrugged Kari, "he's already seen us come out of the portal. Besides, wouldn't
it be good if we could talk to another kid who isn't a digidestined about our
experiences?"
There were
nods of approval going through the group as each one of them considered Kari's
idea. It would be nice to tell another person about their secret. It would feel
that they aren't alone fighting a war that no one knows about.
"I don't
know, are you sure we can trust him?" asked Cody as he watched as Chris
cautiously taped on the computer screen as if afraid it might reverse and suck
him into it.
Everyone
turned to Yolei. "Yes, I'm sure we can trust him, after all, who's going to
believe him if he decides to tell someone?" she assured them.
"Ok, so
who's going to tell him?" asked Davis.
"I'll tell
him, he trusts me." Volunteered Yolei, "Chris, could you come over here?'
Startled
out of his examination of the computer, Chris jumps slightly. "Uh, Ok."
"Ok, What
I'm about to tell you may be a little, umm, unusual so you'd better sit down."
Said Yolei gesturing towards the bed.
Once they
were all seated around the room Yolei began. "Chris, do you believe that there
are other alternate dimensions?"
"Uh, yah. I
believe that there are more alternate realities than anyone can imagine." He
said and paused a second, "Where are you going with this?" raising an eyebrow.
"Well,
you're right. There are other dimensions, other realities, and we been to them.
Well only one actually, it's called the digital world. It's made up entirely
out of digitized data and is populated by all kinds of different creatures
called digimon. We travel to this dimension through a computer by opening a
gateway with these," she pulled out her D3 and showed it to him. "The reason we
can do this is because we, as cliché as it sounds, were chosen to save the
world. We're called digidestines and we are pared with a digimon to help us.
Mine is Hawkmon, Kari has Gatomon, Davis, T.K and Cody have Veemon, Patamon and
Armadilomon. And what you saw was the portal opening and us coming back through
it from the digital world; unfortunately we haven't got the landings down yet."
After Yolei
had finished her impromptu explanation of the digital world, everyone was
watching Chris to see how the guy would take this life altering news.
He blinked.
He blinked again. Slowly he got up off the bed and began pacing slowly across
the room. "So your telling me that there you five with the help of monsters
made up of purely computer data, travel to an alternate dimension in order to
save it every day." He said calmly.
"Well, yes.
Sounds crazy doesn't it? But it's all true." Said T.K
"I see…"
Was all he said as he continued to pace across the room.
"For a guy
who has just been told something that will alter the way he sees reality,
you're taking it rather well." Commented Armadilomon.
"Hmmm? Oh,
that's because I'm in shock. Once my brain gets around the sheer immensity of
what you've just told me you'll get a bigger reaction." He said as he continued
his pacing.
"Oh? And when
will that be?" asked Davis.
"Let's
see," said Chris, who had stopped and was considering his watch carefully,
"Well, based on the scope of what you just told me, I should be coming out of
the shock. Right. About. Now."
Instantly
after saying 'Now', his eye's rolled up into the back of his head and tipped
over backwards, landing with a loud thump on the floor.
"That was
not the bigger reaction I was expecting." Remarked Hawkmon dryly.
***
Once the
digidestines moved the insensate form of Chris onto the living room couch and
had returned to Yolei's room, a pressing question presented itself.
"So, now
what?" asked Davis.
"Good
question Davis," agreed Cody, "Well, when he wakes up he probably will want to
go the digital world and see it for himself."
"Can a
non-chosen person go through the portal?" asked Yolei, turning to the two most
experienced members on the team.
"I don't
know. It's never come up before." Admitted Kari.
"Maybe we
should talk to Izzy about this, he should know if it's possible." Suggested
T.K.
"All right
I'll go talk to him," volunteered Cody, "but what will we do with sleeping
beauty in the other room?"
"We should
let him rest, if it is possible for him go to the digital world, he'll need all
the sleep he can get." Said Kari.
Nodding,
Cody got up and left the others to plan their trip through the portal.
As he
pasted through the rest of Yolei's house on his way to the front door, he was stopped
by a sharp squeal from his digivice. Pulling it out, he looked at it trying to
find what had caused it to sound the alarm.
"It's
picking up another digivice." He said as he looked around the room, it was
empty except the immobile form of Chris who was snoring slightly as he slept on
the couch. "It's too faint to get a direction, it must be too far away. I
should show this to Izzy." Quickly leaving the house, he headed towards the
computer wizard's apartment.
***
"Come on,
Come on." Pleaded Izzy as he tried to coax the program on the screen in front
of him to show him what was keeping it from working. Sighing, he leaned back
and took a sip from his now flat soda.
*Ding Dong*
Startled
out of his reverie, he got up out of his chair and padded across the soft
carpet towards the front door. Opening it he found a very out of breath Cody
standing and panting heavily as if he had ran all the way here.
"Cody? What
are you doing here?" He asked.
"I- I found
another digivice." Said Cody gasping for breath.
"What?" Exclaimed
Izzy. "Were? When? How?"
"I was just
leaving Yolei's house to tell you about Chris when my digivice picked it up but
it was too faint for me to tell a direction. I thought you might be able to
help me tell where or what it is so we could find…"
"Whoa,
whoa. Slow down, who's Chris? And what do you need to tell me about him?" Said
Izzy as he held up his hands to slow the speed of the information being thrown
at him by the young kid in front of him.
"Chris
saved Yolei life yesterday and came over today to see if she was alright but he
saw us coming out of the portal from the digital world. So we decided that it
would be good to have a non-chosen one to talk to about the digital world so we
told him everything. He took it rather well until he fainted. We assumed when
he woke up he would want to see the digital world but we didn't know if that
was possible so I said I would come over here and ask you if it was possible or
not. That's when I detected the new digivice, so I hurried over here to see if
you could find out what it was. And that's why I'm here."
"Hmmm. You
guys have been busy. I don't know if he can travel to the digital world but if
one of you is there to open the portal, I don't see any problems. As for the
new digivice you detected lets see yours. Maybe we can download the data to my
computer so I can analyze it." He said as he motioned Cody inside and closed
the door behind him.
***
Since the
departure of Cody, Chris's snoring while quiet at first, had grown in intensity
until it was at the point that it could be heard through the door to Yolei's
room.
"Wow!
Chris's a real noisy sleeper!" Exclaimed Yolei.
"Yah, he's
almost as loud as Davis!" Laughed Kari.
"Very
funny, I'll go wake him up." Said Davis who was visibly upset that Kari was
making fun of him. He got up and left the room.
"If Chris's
going to be up, we should get Cody back here. We're going to need the whole
team together just incase there's trouble and we need to protect him."
Suggested T.K.
"Right,
good thinking. I'll send him an e-mail." Said Yolei as she moved over to her
computer.
***
Davis
entered the living room and found Chris, still on the couch and still sleeping,
just as they had left him. What had changed was the noise. It was deafening!
Was his snoring really this loud? He moved towards him quietly, wait a
minute, why was he moving quietly? He was just going to wake him up anyway.
Standing up he stepped off the carpet and onto the hard wood floor, which
squeaked when he put all of his weight on it. Instantly, it was if the whole
house went quiet, even Chris stopped snoring. It was if everything had stopped
and was listening to what would move next. Davis stopped and waited, slightly
awed at the intense silence that pressed against his ears. After a few moments
the normal sounds of the house returned, with a grunt, Chris turned over in his
sleep and started to softly snore again. Waiting a couple of seconds to make
sure that whatever just happened, wouldn't happen again, Davis moved across the
floor quietly, with out anything else happening.
As he
reached the couch Chris' snoring was trying to return to its previous volume,
not wanting to hear that again he quickly reached over and shook his shoulder.
Unfortunately for Davis, he chose that time to blink. Had he kept his eyes open
he would have seen Chris launch himself off the couch and tackled Davis to the
ground. What Davis did see was Chris on top of him with his knee on his chest
and a fist poised ready to strike. But that didn't surprise Davis; though only
a short time in the digital world it had expended most of the things on the
list that could surprise him, but what did surprise him though was that Chris
did this while he was still asleep!
(A/n:
Apparently this one slipped onto the list while no one was looking.)
Sure
enough, Chris' eyes were closed and he was breathing slowly, almost if he were
sleepwalking.
"Hey! Whoa!
Chris! Wake up!" called Davis, snapping his fingers in his assailant's face.
"Huh?
What?" Said Chris as he woke up with a start, "Davis! What are you doing on the
floor?"
"You
attacked me in your sleep! And you were about to punch my face in before you snapped
out of it!" yelled Davis.
"Oh, well,
you probably have a good reason to be upset then." He said as he got off Davis.
"What's
going on Chris? Why did you do that?" asked Davis.
Chris
seemed to ponder this very carefully, "Well, I guess because I grew up with two
younger brothers, I need to act first and ask questions later. I just didn't
know I was that high strung. It must have been from that news you guys gave
me." He explained as he scratched his head. "So when do I get to go to that,
what did you call it?" he asked as he changed the subject.
"The
Digital World?" Offered Davis as he brushed himself off.
"Right, can
we go now?" asked Chris who had by now recovered from his sleepwalking and seemed
very excited at the idea.
"Well, at
the moment we don't actually know if you actually can travel with us to the
digital world." Said Davis.
"Why not?
Don't those D3 things open the gate?" he asked.
"Yes but
the gate only transported digidestines before, we don't know if a normal human
can travel through it. That's why Cody went over to Izzy's house to ask him."
Explained Davis.
The blank
stare that appeared on Chris' face told Davis he needed to explain a little
more.
"You see;
we aren't the first digidestines."
"You mean
there's more of you?" asked Chris.
"Yah, in
fact there's digidestines all around the world, each of them have a digimon
protector. I've actually met a few in the digital world. Izzy is part of the
original team of digidestines that traveled to the digital world almost four
years ago and defeated the first of the dark masters. Understand?"
Chris
nodded his head. Paused, then realized that he didn't have a clue as to what
Davis was telling him. He told him so.
Davis
sighed, "We'll explain it better when we get to the digital world. Come on!
Cody should be getting back by now, we'll leave as soon as he gets here."
***
Meanwhile,
Izzy and Cody were finishing up at Izzy's house.
"Well Cody,
I've got the data your digivice collected running through my analytical
programs on my computer, I should have the results in a couple of hours."
"Great! Now
we better get back to Yolei's, I just got a message from her saying that Chris'
up. If he's going into the digital world, the others will have their hands full
keeping him out of trouble. And we'll need you to watch the gate incase
something does go wrong or we need to get out of there in a hurry if the digimon
emperor shows up."
"Ok, lets
go." Said Izzy as he grabbed his coat as he made his way to the door.
***
After Cody
got back with the older Izzy in tow, they found that the rest of the
digidestines were crowded around the computer in Yolei's bedroom. When the two
new arrivals came in Chris came over and introduced himself to Izzy.
"Hi, you
must be Izzy. My name's Chris." Said Chris as he shook Izzy's hand.
"Nice to
meet you Chris." Said Izzy, "So, are you ready to go to the digital world?"
"You mean I
can?" asked an excited Chris.
"I don't
see any problems, but you must keep close to the others. If you get separated
you can't get back to this world and you'll be stuck in the digital one."
Cautioned Izzy.
"Right,
don't worry, I don't want to get lost in any crazy dimension." Laughed Chris.
"Can we go now?"
"Yes we can
go now." Smiled Kari, "Digiport open!"
And so, the
new digidestines disappeared into the digital gate linking the two worlds
together, with Chris following right behind them. Izzy watched as they
disappeared into the void.
***
The screen
that sat in a large meadow glowed slightly before expelling its cargo of
inter-dimensional travelers onto the hard ground of the digital world.
"Ouch,
sorry Chris. You get used to these landings as you do this a lot more."
Apologized Yolei.
"Yah, you
get used to them but they don't stop hurting any more." Groaned Davis as he sat
up. "Chris?"
Davis and
the others soon noticed the usual wonder one got from experiencing the trip to
the digital world and the world itself for the first time was oddly absent from
their new companion and traveler.
After a
quick inspection of the terrain around them, they realized that it wasn't the
wonder that was missing. What was missing though was Chris himself. There was
no trace of him anywhere. It was if he vanished or never arrived.
"Ok, nobody
panic." Said a calm Cody, "He might not have gotten through the gate at all and
is still in the real world with Izzy."
Yolei bent
down to the monitor and looked through it. "Hey Izzy! Is Chris there? He didn't
come through with us."
From beyond
the rift the image of the teen looked worried. "No he isn't, as far as I can
tell everything when as it was supposed to. He should be there with you.
Unless…"
"Unless
what? What is it?" asked T.K
"Well, he
could have been bounced to another monitor in another sector of the digital world,
or…" he trailed off again.
"Come on
Izzy, out with it!" said Kari who really wasn't sure that she wanted to hear
the rest of the 'or'.
"Or,"
continued Izzy, "He might not have made it to the other side."
"But if he
didn't make it here and he's not there with you, where is he?" puzzled Cody.
"Lost
between the dimensions."
Everyone
turned to Davis who had spoken. The horrible consequences of that statement
were now registering into the thought processes of the others around him. If
Chris really was lost between dimensions, then there was nothing they could do
to get him back. He would be lost forever, spinning in endless nothing until
time itself stopped its procession.
Yolei shook
her head and tried to get the image of her newfound friend lost forever out of
her mind. "Look, lets not count him as lost just yet. He probably did get
bounced to another monitor. He's probably lost and afraid and most likely in
some sort of trouble. We better get looking for him."
"Yolei's
right." Agreed Kari, who was always choosing to look at the better side of the
situation. "Let's go."
And so, the
digidestines set of in their quest to find their missing friend all the while
calling his name.
***
"Chris!"
"Chris!"
The group
had been searching for hours. Their throats were almost raw from calling Chris'
name but all they got in return was silence. The digital world was a very big
place to get lost in; it was impossible to search the entire world in one day
but they were determined to do it.
At the
moment they were walking through a dense patch of forest and the digital sun
was lowering itself down past the horizon in preparation for the coming night.
They walked further into the trees and come across a clearing between the trees
and were nestled against a tall imposing cliff.
"Oh, my
feet hurt," groaned Cody as he sat down against a tree at the edge of the clearing.
"We need to rest a bit."
"Cody's
right, we can't keep up this pace." Agreed Kari.
"What? I
can't believe you guys! Chris can be seriously hurt and you want to rest?"
exclaimed Davis.
"Davis,"
Yolei said tiredly, "We don't even know if he is in the digital world."
"Still, we
have to keep searching and go on the assumption that he is." Countered T.K.
"But we can't do this ourselves. Maybe we should ask Shinobimon for help."
"No way!"
Yelled Davis. "For all we know he could have caught Chris and is holding him
hostage! There's no way I'm gong to trust him to help us."
"Your lack
of faith in me hurts, Davis." Came a now familiar voice from the trees above
their heads.
"Ah! Stop
that!"
"Stop
what?" asked Shinobimon calmly who was now perched on one of the lower
branches.
"The way
you keep disappearing and reappearing like that! It's getting on my nerves."
Said a now very annoyed Davis.
"I'm a
ninja, it's the way I do things." Shrugged Shinobimon.
"Humph! You
call yourself a ninja? You are no ninja." Countered Davis.
Shinobimon's
reaction to that last remark was subtle but there. His body tensed, his hands
griped the branch he was sitting on tightly, and his eyes went cold as steel.
Kari saw
this and didn't like it. "Uh Davis, I don't think you should insult him like
this."
"In fact,"
continued Davis, if he heard Kari's warning he chose to ignore it, "You're just
a fake! You have no honor!"
Shinobimon's
voice matched his eyes in intensity when he spoke. "I accept your challenge."
"Hun?
What?" asked Davis, "What challenge? I didn't offer a challenge."
"You
insulted my honor, we will fight so that I may get it back." Said Shinobimon as
he jumped down to the ground.
"Oh Yah?"
asked a now confident Davis. "You're on." He turned to his digimon, "Ready to teach
this guy a lesson Veemon?"
"You bet
Davis!"
"Uh Davis,
We should be looking for Chris. Not fighting." Reminded Yolei.
"This will
only take a minute." Answered Davis. "Digi-armor Energize!"
Veemon armor
digivolved to *Flamedramon*
And so, the
two combatants faced each other. Each on stood at opposite sides of the
clearing, Shinobimon with his back to the cliff and Flamedramon with his back
to the towering trees that made up the forest.
"Are you
ready to lose Shinobimon?" asked Davis smugly. "Go get him Flamedramon!"
"Fire
rocket!" Flamedramon yelled as he launched a volley of scorching fire towards
his motionless opponent.
But
Shinobimon just stood as still as if he was carved from stone, seemingly
oblivious to the missiles that were hurtling towards him. Closer and closer
they came but he didn't move, didn't attempt to get out of the way. Everyone
stared at the figure as if he had gone mad.
The fire
was only a couple of feet away from impacting on its target when there was a
burst of movement from Shinobimon. With a flash of steel his sword was in his
hand and moving towards the balls of flying heat, and with three deft strokes
he sliced them in half. The new six halves, who were deflected by the force of
the strike, sailed past Shinobimon and impacted with the cliff behind him.
Which immediately exploded, sending dust and bits of rock raining down on both
the combatants and spectators.
As the dist
cleared, the form of Shinobimon emerged unscathed. Still standing, he reached
into the folds of his tunic and drew out three shards. With a yell, he launched
them towards Flamedramon. Seeing the shards hurtling through the air, the
digimon brought up his arms and covered his face. The iron missiles arrived and
exploded harmlessly against the armor protecting his body.
"It seems
that missile attacks are ineffective." Called out Shinobimon after letting the
smoke clear.
"So it would
seem." Agreed Flamedramon.
"Shall we
step it up a notch?" asked Shinobimon dropping into a crouch.
"Lets."
Answered Flamedramon who went in to his own crouch.
Shinobimon
was the first to attack. He launched himself towards his adversary, sword in
hand. Flamedramon blocked the swipe aimed at his head and brought his hand
around to deliver a punch to Shinobimon's jaw. The jarring impact knocked the
ninja back into a backwards flip; using the momentum, Shinobimon brought his
leg up and gave a hard kick to Flamedramon's stomach. The two combatants
separated and eyed the other.
"Impressive."
Said Shinobimon.
"You're not
too bad yourself." Said Flamedramon.
"Hello? You
guys are supposed to be fighting, not commenting on each other's moves!" Yelled
Davis.
"Would you
like to be fighting instead of your digimon?" asked Shinobimon.
"Uh, no."
"Then stay
out of it."
With that
said, Shinobimon leaped into the sky. With a growl, Flamedramon followed. The
combatants met in the free fall, Shinobimon attacking with his sword and
Flamedramon countering with his fists. Each giving and receiving attacks, they
landed back onto the forest floor. Instantly Shinobimon jumped backwards towards
the trees and landed in one of the higher branches. Seeing an opportunity,
Flamedramon launched a volley of fire, but it wasn't aimed at Shinobimon, it
was directed to the tree he was in. The rockets impacted with the wood and the
entire tree shattered sending splinters flying everywhere. Seconds before,
Shinobimon saw the attack and jumped clear. As he was tumbling through the air
something caught his leg. It was Flamedramon. As Shinobimon jumped, he moved
quickly beneath him and caught his leg in between the points of his hand.
Bringing the now trapped ninja around before he could respond, Flamedramon
slammed him into another tree. Shinobimon cried out and fell to the ground
clutching his right shoulder, his sword fell to the ground beside him. Flamedramon
jumped back, giving his opponent time to recover so they may continue the
battle.
Shinobimon
groaned and razed himself slowly to his feet. He was obviously hurt but was
determined to end this battle and reclaim his honor. He looked for his opponent
and found him on the opposite side of the clearing in front of the partially
destroyed cliff, waiting patiently for him. Shinobimon calmed himself, letting
the pain in his shoulder become nothing more than a shadow on his conscious
mind. He closed his eyes, gathering his strength and summoning his remaining
power to his aid. Sword poised in front of him, he reached into his tunic once
more and brought out three more iron shards.
Letting
them fly, the spinning metal headed towards their target, strait and true. As
before, Flamedramon razed his hands to shield himself. And as before, the
shards exploded harmlessly on the armor. But as the smoke cleared, there was a
surprising sight. Flamedramon stood there motionless not moving a mussel, and
the glint of steel poised at his throat was a good reason why. Shinobimon's sword
was mere millimeters away.
All of the
spectators were stunned at what just happened, it was if Shinobimon just
appeared in front of Flamedramon. But that wasn't the case. The iron stars were
just a diversion, immediately after they were thrown Shinobimon was at their
heels. As they exploded against Flamedramon's armor, he entered the smoke and
took him by surprise. The others didn't see this because they were following
the stars and not watching Shinobimon.
"Do… you…
surrender? Panted Shinobimon.
"I guess… I
have… no choice." Answered Flamedramon.
"Good."
Said Shinobimon as he turned and started to leave. "My honor… is restored."
He only got
as far as the first tree before he collapsed against it.
"Shinobimon!
You're hurt!" said Kari as she ran up to him but was stopped by Davis' voice.
"Stay away from
him Kari! He's dangerous!"
"But he's
hurt, we've got to help him." She said as she turned back to the fallen
digimon.
But the
ninja wasn't there; he had disappeared again. Kari ran up to the spot where she
last saw him but there was no trace. The only thing that she did find was a red
smudge on the bark of the tree. Touching it with the tips of her fingers she
brought the liquid closer to her face for another look.
It's
blood. But digimon don't bleed, …do they?
***
Izzy was
getting frustrated, he had spent hours looking trying to find which monitor
Chris could have been bounced to. All he had to show for it was dead ends and
false trails. Finally he gave up on that search and began, with growing
concern, to search the space in between the dimensions. That was two hours ago
and still he came up with nothing. There was a huge area to search for
something as small a person who was floating out there.
"Come on.
Where is he?" he asked the monitor in front of him.
He put his
head down onto the table while he waited for the computer to finish this newest
search. He was tired; sleep was a growing threat. He knew that if he went to
sleep, the chances of finding Chris would dwindle to almost nothing. But his
body was loosing the fight. His eyes were like lead weights and his thoughts
were getting fuzzy. His senses were shutting down one by one in preparation for
the sleep that he had fought for so long. His skin felt all tingly, his mouth
tasted dry, and his ears were beeping.
Wait a
minute, beeping?
Izzy razed
his head and looked at the screen. The computer had dutifully finished its
search and was waiting for its next instruction.
Great,
it probably found another dead-end. He thought bitterly as he went through the
data.
One piece
though, caught the attention of his semi-conscious brain. It was a video link
to a particular point of the void. Izzy opened the file and ran it through the
descriptor; a swirling mass of golden clouds that made up the space between the
dimensions met his eyes. He looked, but couldn't see anything that would tell
him why the computer had picked this particular spot to show him. The swirling
clouds continued their dance across the screen not wanting to give up the
secrets they held. Frustrated, Izzy wiped the screen to get rid of the smudge
that had now seemed to take up residence there. And got even more frustrated
because it refused to budge. He moved closer to see what it was. And was quite
surprised when it moved.
Startled,
Izzy realized that that wasn't something on the screen; it was something the
camera was picking up. Quickly he selected the area of the image and enlarged
it. Immediately he let out a whoop of joy. It was Chris! He was waving his
hands in an almost panicked way, trying to get the attention of anyone who
could help him.
Izzy
quickly sent a message to the others, telling them to get back here as quickly
as possible.
***
Kari was
puzzled, what could the blood mean? Could have it come from Shinobimon? Or was
it there before? How could Shinobimon bleed if he's a digimon? But if he's not
a digimon, then…
"Kari! We
just got a message from Izzy, he found Chris! He's lost in the void between the
dimensions. We need to get back there so we can find a way to get him out."
Called Yolei happily.
"All right!
Lets go!" said Kari as she ran towards the nearest monitor, deciding to worry
about the blood after they got Chris back.
***
They came
out of the computer in front of Izzy into a pile on the floor. Quickly getting
up from the pile of digidestines, the first thing out of Yolei's mouth was:
"Where is he?"
"He's in
the void. I almost didn't see him at all. He turned up as just a small speck in
the distance that the last search I did. You can see him on the screen over
there." Explained Izzy as he pointed to the screen that just brought them back
from the digital world.
"Uh, Izzy."
Said Cody as he looked at the monitor.
"Yes Cody?"
"How big
did Chris look when you found him?"
"Very
small, I thought he was a speck of dust on the monitor until he moved."
"And was he
moving?"
"Uh, no. He
was just spinning a little."
"Well, he's
moving now. Right at us!" Cody yelled as he quickly moved away from the glowing
screen.
"What?"
asked Izzy as he ran towards the computer. What he saw was a spinning form that
was quickly solidifying into the image of Chris heading right towards the still
open gate. "Uh oh. I think we better get out of the way."
Everyone
moved away and the screen started to glow brighter. With a yelp of surprise,
Chris was thrown from the computer. It was with such force that he flew across
the room and hit the wall with a thud.
"Chris! Are
you all right?" asked Davis.
"Yah fine."
He said as he picked himself of the floor. "Wow, what a ride."
Even though
to the contrary of what he assured them, they looked him over to see if he was
hurt at all by his trip. They couldn't find anything wrong he was in perfect
health. The only thing left was to find out what happened.
"Well,"
Chris began, "when we went through the gate I was behind you guys. It was an
amazing ride, up until the point where I stopped. It was if I hit an invisible
wall, and I watched as you guys went on without me. I tried to get your attention
until you disappeared. Then that's when I started floating away from the gates.
I was like that for hours, I kept on yelling and waving my arms incase you guys
were looking for me. Then when I was getting the Idea that I was going to be
stuck out there forever, I saw you guys coming back through the portal. I waved
and called but I was too far away for you guys to hear or see me. Then you
disappeared. I was just about to give up when I realized that I was moving, not
further away from the portal but towards it and I was going faster. When I got
to it, it sucked me in and tossed me against the wall of your room, Yolei."
"Wow, I
guess humans can't go through the portal. Sorry, it must have been horrible."
Apologized Izzy.
"What? Are
you kidding? That was amazing! If not for the fact that I could have been lost
forever, it would make a wild ride!" Exclaimed Chris.
Just then,
a bleep sounded from Izzy's pager.
"Oh, it's
my computer." He said as he checked it. "I set it to contact me when it was
finished with the data analysis of the new digivice."
"Wait, hold
on a minute." Interrupted T.K, "what digivice?"
"On my way
to see Izzy, I found a signal coming from another digivice but it was too faint
to get a direction. So when I got to Izzy's, he started his computer analyzing
it so we can tell where it come from." Explained Cody.
"You mean
there's another digidestined here?" Asked Chris.
"It looks
that way." Nodded Izzy. "I should go over there and check the data. See you
guys tomorrow."
"I'll come
with you Izzy," said Cody, "I want to know where that signal came from."
"All right,
come on."
As the two
left the apartment, Chris turned to the others.
"It's
getting late, I better get home. See you guys!" he said as he turned and left.
"He's
right, we all should get home." Agreed Kari. "Bye Yolei"
After
saying their goodbyes, the digidestines each went off to their houses. Turning
towards her room, Yolei found herself alone with her thoughts.
Too bad Chris couldn't come to the
digital world; I would have liked to show him around. But I wouldn't want to
risk that he would get lost in the void again. Maybe I could help Izzy find a
way to do it. I should think it's possible. It's not like it's going to cause
the end of the digital world if one human enters it…
"Oh, what's
this?"
Noticing
something on the floor that wasn't hers had shaken her out of her reverie. She
bent down to grab it. She turned it over in her hands.
"It's a wallet.
Let's see who it belongs to." She said
as she opened it up.
Inside were
some bills and a couple of coins. Looking around, Yolei found a worn picture
that was starting to fade. The picture on it was of a young boy who was
standing in front of a roller coaster waving at the camera and smiling happily.
The caption underneath was in English, fortunately for Yolei, she was taking
the language in school.
"Canada… Day…
Celeb…Celebration, Alb… Alberta, Canada." She read out loud with a little
difficulty. "This must belong to Chris. It must have fallen out of his pocket
when he hit the wall. I hope he's not too far away so I can't catch him."
She grabbed her
coat and ran out the door in search for Chris.
***
Yolei hurried
through the streets looking for a sign that her quarry had passed that way. She
had almost given up and was checking the last street around her house. It was
the street leading up to the school. Walking towards it, Yolei scanned the
shadows looking for movement. She passed the school and was about to turn back
when an odd noise caught her attention. It was like rusted metal scraping
against concrete. Yolei spun around in time to see Chris entering the school
grounds through the old gate.
Why would Chris be going into the school
at this hour? Yolei asked
herself.
Her curiosity
aroused, she followed the boy quietly into the school. Through the empty halls
an up the deserted staircases Chris led Yolei up to the third floor. That's
where she lost him. When she reached the top of the stairs she couldn't see him
anywhere. She started to check each classroom one by one. She got to the fourth
room when a white light bathed the floor, spilling out of the computer room.
Hurrying to the door, Yolei found nothing, just an empty room just like the
others and no Chris. But there was something unlike the other rooms; the gate
to the digital world was open on one of the screens. She peered into the gate
in hopes of seeing whatever went through but saw nothing.
***
For the final
truth about Shinobimon and Chris watch for the third and final chapter in the
trilogy - Revelations.