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Touya, Sakura, and I were seated on the couch. Kevy leaned against the door frame because his wings would have made sitting on the couch impossible.
"All righty, now that we're settled, I can now attempt to explain. First off, as I said before, this is Kevy. He's the guardian of the doors to different dimensions. I have a mission to collect certain people from a number of worlds, or should I say, dimensions. I'm doing this because a horrible, catastrophe will befall the universe very soon. It will wipe out everyone and everything. If I can save people, like yourselves, who have had a large impact on their dimension, I can get the 'Powers That Be' to use your memories and recreate the universe. Your universe is one of many that I need to gather people from."
The two sat in silence for a moment.
"How do we know you're telling the truth? You're a complete stranger."
"Well, uh…."
"Wait Touya." Sakura turned to face him. "I'm not sure how, but she's telling the truth…I can feel it, as weird as that sounds. We can trust her."
"But Sakura…"
"Listen, I know it's hard to believe me, but I'm only trying to save your lives. I mean, if I wanted to hurt you or something, I would have done it already. I have a big guy with wings backing me up, so believe me, I could hurt you if I wanted to. Ooh,, since I'm on the topic of wing-ed guys, I need to pick up Yukito too. Not to mention Lee, Mei Lin, and Tomoyo."
"So, how are you going to save us from this catastrophe anyway?"
"Well, the PTB have devised two Arks to hold the survivors. After it's over, we will rebuild the world you know now."
"JENN!"
"WHAT, KEVY!!!"
"Why don't you stop talking, and start moving!"
"Why don't you SHUT UP!!!"
"Fine, I guess you won't need Kevy's PHENOMENAL, COSMIC HELP!"
I fell to my knees and crawled over to Kevy. I grabbed hold of his pant leg and gave him the saddest look an artist could bestow upon an anime character.
"P-p-please f-forgive me. I shouldn't h-h-have yelled at you. You've helped us soooooooooo much. I've t-taken you for granted. I'm s-so s-s-sorry…" I whimpered; "meemeemeemee..."
Kevy turned a cute shade of red and smiled.
"Oh… shut up."
I pulled myself up and gave him a big hug.
"Oh, please." Touya was less than impressed with my award winning ass-kissing and overdone affection. Sakura tried to keep her giggling to a minimum, but couldn't control it for long. Touya gave her a disapproving look. Kevy leapt behind Touya and pulled the sides of his mouth wide to produce an extra large smile. Might I add that it didn't match the extra annoyed eyebrows.
"Come on Touya, lighten up!!!"
He didn't like Kevy's comment. He turned to punch him in the face. But as he through his punch, Kevy lifted him up and flew out the window.
"KEVY!!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!! …DAMN IT!!!"
"Jenn, what's Kevy going to do to my brother?"
"Um…I'm not too sure ,Sakura. I think we should follow them."
"Oh, okay. RELEASE! FLY CARD!!!"
Sakura produced her staff and hit the fly card in mid air. I was speechless.
"What's wrong Jenn? I figured that if you knew about Yue, you'd know about me."
"I-I-It just really, really, REALLY surprised me."
"Okay. So come on, we've gotta go."
She climbed on her staff and extended her hand.
"Sakura, can it hold both of us?"
She was about to answer when Kero flew in my face and yelled, "WHO-ARE-YOU!!!"
He produced a kung-fu pose and gave me the meanest look a small, winged, orange-ish puff-ball could give.
" KERO!!!! Stop it! I want you to carry her behind me. We have to get Touya from her guardian Kevy."
Kero looked me over for a second, pondered, then gave a nod to Sakura.
"All right, but If you try anything silly, I'll bite your head off!"
"Uh…thanks Kero."
A bright light illuminated him, and he transformed into Cereberos. He motioned for me to climb on. I put one hand on his back and pulled myself over. He was so soft and warm.
"I LOVE big kitties!!!"
"I'm no CAT!!!"
"And you're so CUTE!!!"
"Grrr…"
Sakura flew ahead of us, out the window.
Wait a minute…guardian…guardian…HEY!!!
"Sakura, he's not my guardian! SAKURA! Ah, forget it!!!"
"Hold on tight, Jenn."
He walked over to the window and leaped through. He spread his wings once he had enough room. We were lifted by the wind and were off. I could see the houses getting smaller as we glided through the air.
"Kero…"
"Hm? What?" He sounded annoyed.
"Thank you for agreeing to this. I've always wanted to fly."
I leaned down and hugged his scruffy neck. He was quiet, so I think he was okay with me now.
"Kero! Jenn!"
Sakura had stopped a few meters ahead and was pointing to a bridge over a river.
"They're over there!"
Kevy was standing on the railing of the bridge holding Touya upside down from his foot. We flew down to the bridge and landed behind Kevy. Kero let me off and I looked up at my 'guardian'.
"Kevy-baby, WHAT are you doing?"
"Now Jenn, I think this Touya fellow needs a lesson."
"In WHAT!!!"
"In having fun and not being such a depressing lump of flesh."
"By dropping him in the river?"
"Well, at least it'll make me laugh. HA!!!"
Touya gave a little yelp as Kevy let go of his foot. Sakura yelled out and ran to the side of the bridge. As soon as I heard the splash, I ran up to Kevy and pushed.
"Hey-ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh….(splash….glub…glub…glub)"
"Take THAT you selfish, stubborn, hot-tempered jack-ass!!!"
Although it wasn't going too fast, Touya was someways down the river by the time I stopped gloating. I was about to tell Kero to go get him, but I spotted an angel-like figure gliding down to pick him out of the river.
"Hey…that's…YUE!!!
I watched avidly as he reached down ever so gracefully, and lifted Touya out of the water. Touya looked up at him and smiled sincerely. I could tell that these two were close. Suddenly all the rumors I had heard of them being 'together' came rushing back. No way could those two…naw, don't even think about it, Jenn. Yue let Touya down on the path that led up to the bridge. I had seen them speaking to each other, but I couldn't hear them. I had seen Yue look over to me, then nod to Touya. I guess he's explained everything to Yue. I heard a gurgle from behind me.
"(gurgle) …Ack! Wings and Water DO NOT MIX!!! Do you know how long it'll take me to dry!!! You're lucky I can materialize a blowdryer or you'd be swimming in the arctic right now!"
"Oh cram it Kevy, you deserved it!!!"
He had climbed out of the river, and was headed for Touya and Yue. Sakura had now joined them, so me and Kero decided to walk over. Yue had an expressionless face when I arrived.
"So what's the verdict?" I asked.
Yue looked over to Sakura.
"What are your thoughts?"
"I have a feeling that she is telling the truth. I think we should help her get the others and save our world."
"I believe that you are right." He nodded, then transformed back to his equally beautiful self, Yuki.
He looked over at me and extended his hand.
"You're Jenn, right? I'm Yukito."
"I'm very pleased and honored to meet you Yuki." (I'm on cloud nine!!!!!)
Sakura decided to take charge then.
"Okay, so we need Tomoyo, Mei Lin, and Lee. It's in our favor that all of them are at Tomoyo's house. We can gather them tonight and be out of here in no time."
A very wet and disheveled Kevy poked me in the shoulder.
"Jenn, do you mind if I go take a nap? I mean, I'm wet and tired, and you seem to be trouble-less at the moment. Helping you AND Amanda out is VERY exhausting. Not to mention I don't like being pushed into a river."
"Or dropped." Touya added.
Kevy gave him a Why-don't-you-piss-off look.
"It's no problem Kevy. I mean, all these guys are helping me and you've done so much already. Take a breather, and come back when you're ready, okay?"
"All right!"
Kevy winked, then did his little disappearing trick. Nobody was really surprised.
"Okay everybody ready to go-" I felt a sharp pain just above my eyebrow and instinctively went into a crouched position and held that spot. Sakura ran over to me.
"Jenn, are you okay?"
"Uh…(ouch)…I'm okay, I guess I'm still recovering from my fall. No biggy, I'm just a bit dizzy."
"I don't think Kero will be able to hold you like that. Yuki, could you carry her?"
"No, but my other self can." Yukito closed his eyes and became Yue once more.
Touya looked rather annoyed. "Sakura, make up your mind! Yuki can't be changing all the time! Give him a break!"
Yue turned to Touya and put his hand on his shoulder. "It's okay."
Touya nodded.
…Okay. I don't know what that was about…but WHO CARES! I prefer to be clue-less anyway!
Yue walked over to me and lifted me into his arms. He was amazingly delicate. I felt so relaxed, I could have fallen asleep.
"Touya, you're with Kero."
Both of them gave her a Do-we-have-to look, but complied.
"Okay, ready to go."
Everyone nodded, so Sakura led the way. Touya and Kero held up the back, leaving me and Yue in the middle.
Yue is so graceful in everything he does. I bet Amanda will be soooooooooooo jealous of me. She's just as in love with Yue as I am. BOO-HOO, AMANDA! HAH!!!
"Thanks for carrying me, Yue."
"I'm glad you're saving Sakura and this world. I'm very grateful. ….and you're welcome."
Although he never looked down at me while talking, he did smile.
Sakura called from the front. "Hey guys, this is it."
We landed in front of Tomoyo's house and Sakura knocked on the door. Tomoyo answered it and invited her in. We had hid in the bushes because she thought it best to let her explain it to Tomoyo first. That way, she could help them explain it to Lee and Mei Lin. Those two would probably have the most difficulty accepting it. After about ten minutes, Sakura came out and motioned for us to come inside. We hurried so the neighbors wouldn't see us. After rushing into the house, Tomoyo told us all to take a seat while she got Lee and Mei Lin. To make it easier on everyone, Kero went back to his teeny form, and Yue was once again Yuki.
"Why do we have to bring the BRAT too?" Kero mumbled to himself
"Shush."
"But Sakura-"
"I mean it Kero!"
We heard a creaking down the stairs and Lee turned to face us. He was a bit shocked to see everyone here, but he didn't freak out when he saw me. Mei Ling hopped down the stairs, but stopped when she'd seen me.
"Eh? And WHO are YOU?"
She gave me the look of distrust and crossed her arms.
"I'm Jenn. I'm from another dimension. And, I'm very pleased to meet you, Mei Ling.
"HEY!!! How do ya know my name?!? Start talking!!!"
Sakura got up and walked over to her.
"Don't worry Mei Ling, she's our friend. You can trust her."
Sakura and Touya then spent about twenty minutes explaining the situation in detail to the three. In this time, Lee had leaned himself against the wall, Mei Ling had made a few weird faces, and Tomoyo had grabbed her video camera. After, everyone but Lee seemed to have been convinced to go. He stood, uncertain of what to say. The silence was interrupted be the ringing of my cell phone. Puzzled, I answered it.
"Uh…Hello?"
"Hi, It's Omi."
"AHH! Um, could you hold on a second."
I covered the phone and told everyone else that it was someone from another universe, and that it was a private call. I walked into the kitchen to talk. It was eight p.m.
"Hey, Omi."
"We're ready to meet up now."
"Right now?"
"What, is this a bad time?"
"Uh…no, it's just that I'm in a different universe saving other people right now. Where's the meeting place?"
"There's a new club called the 'Beat Haven' north two blocks of my school. There aren't that many people, so we can talk in private in a moderately populated area, just to be safe."
"Is everyone with you?"
"Yes."
"Okay, so can you give me fifteen minutes?"
"Sure."
"All right, see you soon Omi."
"Bye."
I returned to find Tomoyo and Mei Ling gone. Before I could ask, Sakura told me where they were.
"I know this sounds silly, but Tomoyo was inspired by the fact that you're from another world. She went with Mei Ling to make you a… costume."
"(long pause)…REALLY!!! All right!!! That's gonna be soooooo cooooool!!! She's the best costume maker in the WORLD!…This also gives me time to go pickup the Weiss Kreuz guys."
"The what?"
"They are four guys from a different dimension I'm trying to save. Wait a minute…you know what would make my job so much easier, Sakura?"
"Hm? What?"
"If you came with me!!!"
"W-why?"
"Well, because you're from a different world. You'll be obviously different. This will make my trip shorter, and I'll exert less effort. While we're gone, Tomoyo can finish my costume-thing, and we can pick up everyone later. What do you say?"
"Um…okay, I guess."
It dawned on me that Sakura would disappear as soon as we stepped through the door. So I called up 'old reliable'.
"KEVY, WE NEED YOU!!!!"
I felt a hand on my shoulder, so I turned around. What I saw was a very tired, still wet- looking Kevy.
"Hmm?"
"Can you open a portal directly into the Weiss Kreuz universe?"
"Why?"
"So Sakura can travel with me to go get the guys."
Kevy sighed, and gave me a thumb-sized, red key with a whistle on one end.
"Okay, but don't lose this. My boss will have me thrown into a volcano. And blow the whistle if you need me. Just screaming my name isn't going to work if I'm in another dimension."
I nodded in agreement ,and Kevy vanished after a yawn.
"Hmm…I never thought this would need a key. Oh well…"
A door appeared before me and Sakura called to the others.
"We'll be back soon guys, I'm just going to help Jenn."
I let Sakura through first, but I stepped on her shoelace, which sent us sprawling into the next world.
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I stepped out of the doorway and stood in front of a large apartment building…"Well, at least I recognize this place…Heh, I'll be done this in no time." A few people had stopped to stare at me and I realized that I was talking to myself. Oh well. At least these characters are of the non-lethal sort…well for the most part, anyway. I shrugged and headed for the apartment complex in front of me. I'd pick up Ken first…It wasn't my fault if I grabbed my favorites first…it just meant I spent more time with them. It doesn't matter anyway. You'll be on an ark alone with them for God knows how long. Meh-heh-heh-he-
"STOP!"
Oh God, now Jen's stopping me from laughing maniacally even when she's not here! Waitaminute! Jen's NOT here…that means…
I looked up and found myself face to face with a particularly stubborn looking door attendant. How did I know that he was the door attendant? Simple. He was wearing a tag with his name on it, with 'Door Attendant" written underneath. "I can't let you pass without clearance. Who are you? And who are you here to see?"
I looked at my feet and bit my lip. I was wearing a Japanese school uniform. It consisted of a tan shirt, one of those neck-tie things, and a dark blue skirt that reached to my knees…I got one of those cool uniforms. Alright! Now, what to do about him?… I looked up and smiled as innocently as I could. "I'm here to see Ken Ichijoji. I'm an old friend of his that moved away a few years ago. We used to go to school together. My family just moved back here and I wanted to surprise him with a visit….?" I let the question hang in the air.
The attendant smiled "Sure, go in." He opened the door for me. "The Ichijoji's live on the fifteenth floor, in apartment number 1527. Ken's home right now, I saw him about an hour ago." He smiled again, then turned towards the entrance. Well, that was easy. I was enjoying the fact that this world was relatively normal. No giant robots or sword wielding yoma to be seen. I got on the elevator. Fifteenth floor. I pressed the button, watched the doors close and felt my stomach fall to my feet. I'll never be an elevator person I swallowed and watched the numbers flash…13…14…15. Finally… I stepped off the elevator and looked for apartment number 1527. I walked up to the door and knocked. A kind looking lady answered. That's Ken's mother…This is going to be so easy!
"You must be Ken's mother. My name is Amanda, I'm a friend of Ken's. I was hoping to surprise him with a visit. Is he in?"
"Y-Yes, he is. Won't you come in?"
I followed her into their apartment. "You have a wonderful home." I wasn't lying. It WAS beautiful.
"Thank you. Ken's in his room. Why don't you go right in? It'll really surprise him."
"I will. Thank you very much." I headed towards Ken's room.
Ken' mother watched the her go. My Ken has a new friend! And such a nice girl too. Going to surprise him, how thoughtful. Look at that, she even knows where his room is. I wonder how…? She wiped her eye, which seemed to have gotten some dust in it, to make it water the way it was, and headed towards the kitchen.
I knocked on the door and walked inside Ken's room. I loved the fact I knew where it was. That's what you get when you watch something as religiously as I do. I looked around. Sitting at the computer was Ken, lying on the floor trying for all the world to look like a stuffed animal was Wormmon. Ken's eyes didn't move from the computer screen. "I'm alright mom, I don't need anything right now, but I can't wait for dinner. Thank you for making my favorite."
"Ken Ichijoji?" He spun in his chair.
"Who are you? How did you get in here?" His eye's narrowed.
"Your mother let me in. I need to speak with you about some very important matters." I turned towards Wormmon, who was still a seeming stuffed animal. "I need to speak with you as well, Wormmon." Ken jumped up and Wormmon rolled over and took position in front of him. "How do you know about Wormmon? Who sent you? What do you want?" I sighed. At least there's not a gun at my head or a blade at my throat…
"I need you and some of the other Digi-Destined to save this world. Again."
He seemed to relax about two millimeters. "What do you mean? And who are you?I"
"I don't have a lot of time. I won't be able to explain this half-a-dozen times, so can you call the others? Not all of them. I need to speak with Cody, Matt, Izzy, T.K. and Kari. And their Digimon."
"Hold on! What makes you think I'm going to call them over here? Why should I trust you?"
I shook my head and sat on the now vacant computer chair. I put my head in my hands and took a deep breath. I tilted my head towards him, propping it up on my hands. "Listen, I come from another dimension, and am here for the sole purpose of stopping the complete destruction of this and many other universes. I know all about all of you. I know about the original Digi-Destined. I know of the new Digi-Destined, including yourself. I know about Amour Digivolving and DNA-Digivolving. I know that you were once possessed by the Dark Forces, and were once the Digimon Emperor. I know all about your battles, with Black Wargreymon, Areukenimon, Mummymon, Owikawa, Meta-Myotismon, and even yourself. I have spent easily the last three hours holding the relatively same conversation with five Mobile Suit pilots, and was almost killed by them several times over, not to mention I had to beat one of them in FENCING just to get him to agree to come with me! I have a huge headache, and have a dozen of so more dimensions to travel to and convince the specific people to come with me, most of whom will react just the way you did, which will mean I will have another conversation almost exactly like this! I could really use a break, so could you please just call them and I'll explain everything. Please?" I slammed my head on the desk. What in the world made me think that this would be easy?
"Another dimension? Like the Dark Ocean?" Ken's voice was like ice.
"Yes and no. My dimension is almost the same as this world. In fact, I figure that they would be exactly the same, except your world has an open portal with the digital world, among with several others, like the Dark Ocean, where my world has no such portals, and so we have no problems with digimon or Dark Forces. Unfortunately, instead of having to worry about some power crazed digimon trying to take-over/destroy both worlds, we have to deal with power crazed dictators destroying small countries."
"So why are you here?"
I guess I'm going to have to explain after all… "I was sent here because there will be a huge disaster, an Apocalypse of sorts, that will completely destroy this universe, and many others. If I can rescue several members of each universe, ones who have had a profound effect on their respective worlds, then, when this disaster is over, the PTB will be able to restore each affected universe with the genetic memories inside it's survivors. That's why I need you. With Matt, Kari, Izzy, T.K., Cody and yourself, I'll be able to restore your universe. But I haven't much time…" I let the hint hang in the air for a moment.
"I understand about why you need people from our universe…as odd as that is. The only question I have is why us?"
I looked to Ken and smiled. "Simple. As the Digi-Destined. All of you have saved this world at least once. Add to the fact that if I mentioned alternate dimensions and an apocalypse, you wouldn't lock me up in an asylum. You've all experienced these things yourselves. I'm willing to believe that if you just went out and told anybody about your adventures, you'd be declared insane as well."
"She's got a point, Ken." We both looked at Wormmon, who had remained silent, until now. "You have had experience with other dimensions, and everything else that she's talked about. If this world really is in danger, then we should help."
Ken smiled. "Why not? You can always convince me to do what's right, Wormmon."
That is so sweet. And they've agreed to help…YAY!
"Thank you. Both of you." I smiled. How could I not?
"I'll E-mail everyone now. You said you didn't have a lot of time."
"Yes." He's so wonderful! Waitaminute! AMANDA! You're gushing over an anime character! Worse yet, he's only what, 12? 13? Hussy! Swooning over him like that…
But he's soooooo cute!
Oh well. What the heck? I can never win these arguments anyway.
"Ok, I just E-mailed everyone. Kari and T.K. are on their way, and Izzy's with them. Cody's in Kendo practice, he'll be here as soon as he finishes. I still haven't heard anything from Matt though. He tends not to reply, but rather just head out though, so I can't tell you when he'll be here.
"That's alright. Thank you for trusting me."
"I couldn't do much else. Either you're from the dark forces, or you're telling the truth, considering all that you know. If you're from the dark forces, you wouldn't have bothered with all this set-up. If I was your target, you would've destroyed me. If it had been one of the others, you would have gone after them and ignored me."
"I could be trying to get rid of you all as a group, have you thought of that?" I mentally kicked myself. I'm always pointing out holes in ideas and arguments. That was stupid! Stupid!Stupid!Stupid!Stupid!-
"That's two other things you wouldn't do if you were from the Dark Forces. You wouldn't point anything out that would incriminate yourself. And you'd be going after the whole group of Digi-Destined. Not just the six of us."
"That does make sense." ThankYouThankYouThankYouThankYouThe door opened and Matt walked in, looking more than a little breathless. He was in his high school uniform- Probably just came from school… I wonder what time it is over here? And why was Ken not in school? A few dozen possible answers passed through my mind….Just forget it. So long as they all get here, don't worry about the little things..
"Izzy's with T.K. and Kari, I was on my way to meet them when I got your message. What's wrong?" Matt noticed me sitting on the computer chair. His eyes scanned the room and fell on Wormmon, who was crawling towards Ken. Mat looked from Wormmon to me as the realization seemed to dawn on him. He turned back to Ken, who had picked up Wormmon. "Who is she? And how does she know about digimon?" Ken was about to answer when T.K, Kari and Izzy walked in. Kari smiled. "Hey Ken, your mom just let us right in. She said the others are here too. We got your message, what's wrong?" She glanced around the room and noticed me for the first time. "Where's Cody? And who's she?"
"S-She's…Umm…well…" Ken seemed more than slightly flustered. I was willing to bet that he had no idea of how to introduce me or explain things either. He was a genius, and I loved him to death, but he simply wasn't the greatest people person around. I decided that I was too nice to let him babble like that.
"Thank you Ken, but it might be better if I explain." I turned to the group. "My name is Amanda. I am a traveler from another world, another dimension, in fact. I will explain everything once Cody is here." I smiled. "Did you bring your digimon?" Everyone stiffened, and seemed to shift into a battle mode of sorts.
Matt stepped towards me. "I'll ask again. How do you know about Digimon? And what do you know?" He did not look particularly happy.
"She knows everything Matt. All of it." Ken stepped between Matt and myself. "She's explained everything to me once, and she doesn't want to have to repeat it more than necessary." Ken smiled. "It's alright. She's not from the Dark Forces. She's proved that already. She'll explain it all when Cody arrives. He should be here soon, he had Kendo practice."
Kari stepped forward. "Alright. Ken trusts you, so I will too. But you had better explain everything once Cody gets here. And if this is a trap…" She let the statement hand in the air.
I nodded. "Of course."
Kari sat down on the floor in front of Ken's bed and opened her backpack. Gatomon popped out. T.K. followed suit and soon Patamon was flying around the room. Izzy sat down beside them and faced me. Tentomon's in the digital world right now. I have a few questions myself. If you come from another dimension, what dimension do you come from? Is there a portal to it in this world? Have you been to the digital world? How did you get here?-"
I laughed. Something that seemed to surprise them all. I have got to stop acting so grim. To surprise them by laughing. God, you're worse that Ken! "Izzy, you'll have all the answers that I can give, once Cody is here."
"What do you mean, 'All the answers that you can give'?" T.K stared at me.
"Simple. I'll answer any question I know the answer to." The door opened and Ken's mother came in with a tray filled with glasses and snacks. Cody followed behind her. "Ken honey, would you and your friends like something to drink? I've also got takoyaki if you'd like some. And another friend of yours is here." Cody looked at our odd little group and sat down with Izzy.
"Thank you mom, just leave them on the table." Ken smiled.
"Of course honey. Now have some fun, alright?" She shut the door behind her.
"Alright everyone. First off…" I turned towards Cody. "My name is Amanda. I know all about digimon and the digital world." Patamon came flying down towards T.K. and landed on his hat. Cody seemed to realize for the first time that the digimon were out in front of me. "Did you bring your digimon? I must tell you of a great matter of importance that will affect all of you." Having cleared all of the questions I knew he would ask. I waited while he let Upamon out of his bag. At least there wouldn't be any more incessant questions. Now I could get down to business.
"Could you pass me a glass of juice? I'm parched."
"Me too please! I haven't had a drink all day!"
"You too! I feel like the Sahara desert I'm so thirsty!"
"Well I've been running all over trying to find an algorithm that will let me find the cubed form of PI!"
(Cue customary sweatdrop.)
"Is there ever a time when you don't talk about school Izzy?"
"I don't know. Maybe?"
"If you're still looking for that algorithm Izzy, have you tried using the Sphincties Theorem? It would probably work if you kept a set of coefficients to work off of."
(Cue even larger customary sweatdrop.)
"You too Ken? How can you think about math like that? Even mentioning it gives me a headache."
"You know Ken, that would probably work. It's worth a try. May I use your computer to give it a shot?"
"Sure"
I began slamming my head on the computer table. Why me? WHY ME?! Jen gets to go to pick up the easy guys…But can Amanda have it easy? Noooooo….Why should she? I continued bashing my head. Maybe if I blacked out, I'd wake up and all this would be a dream.
"Um…..Ken?"
"Yes?"
"Why is she smashing her head on your desk?"
"I haven't got the slightest idea."
"Maybe we should stop her…?"
"I guess."
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That's the doorway. All you have to do is walk through it. Please hurry. I still have a lot to do.
"You've mentioned that fact several times already."
"Sorry Izzy, but it's true."
"I know. I know."
Kari picked up Gatomon and walked through the portal. T.K followed with Patamon still on his head. Cody walked up to the doorway but stopped and stared at me for a moment. He seemed to be thinking about something, but he shook his head and walked through the portal. Izzy walked up with the recently retrieved Tentomon flying close behind him. He too stopped. "You promise that you'll take me to visit some of the other universes?"
"Both you and Ken. I have to check with the PTB though. I don't know whether they'd allow it. But I promise to ask. And if they agree, I'll take you dimension hopping." Izzy's eyes glazed over. And he walked through the portal. "Just imagine the possibilities Tentomon! Other dimensions!" His voice trailed off. Finally all that was left was Matt and Ken. Ken walked through the portal without a word. I'd already answered all of his questions. Matt approached me. "You said you'd answer any question you knew the answer to. Will you answer one of mine?"
I couldn't back down now. "Each of you were chosen because of the effect you've had on-"
"You've said that already. What I want to know is why us? Why not bring Joe and Tai and Sora and all the others along?"
"Simply put? You were all chosen because of your inherent abilities, talents and personalities. Not to mention some simple factors. Joe gets seasick- We're on an ARK! Mimi's in America- I need you all right now. Sora can't stand to be away from her mother for long periods of time-God knows how long we'll be going. Davis and Yolei are inherently annoying, and that is a deadly trait considering some of the other passengers you'll be sharing the ark with. Tai always wants to lead, and won't be able to back down-another deadly trait considering the circumstances. I need Izzy and Ken's talent with computers and their genius in general if I'm going to keep things running smoothly. Cody can keep a clear head during an emergency, and has a water digimon to boot. I need Kari on the girls Ark as a calming factor. There is going to be a lot of arguments on that ship if someone with a level head isn't there to stop them. I need you to help with the entertaining. You have a fantastic voice and a lot of talent and I can always use that. T.K. is here because of the emotional attachment you and Kari have for him, not to mention the defense he can provide with Angemon. That's why I chose you. That's why the others aren't here. Now I need you to get going. I'm really pressed for time." I realized that I was really BS'ing Matt, but I figured that just saying 'You're all our favorites' wouldn't cut it with him.
Matt seemed more than a little overwhelmed by this last shot of information. I used this to my advantage and pushed him through the portal, following close behind. I guess that was easier than the last one….Man, this is going to kill me! That reminds me…I've got a few questions for Kevy once I get back…I must have been insane to accept this… I let the portal swallow me and found myself back inside the Hall of Dimensions. I'mmmmmmmm Baaaaaaaaack!
"Hehehehehehehehe!"
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