Chapter 3
Wham!
Mitsuo slammed his large briefcase on a desk in the van and opened it up. As he sifted through the mess of papers and files, Shin came in looking thoroughly pleased with himself. Shin looked over at his partner and raised an eyebrow.
"Mitsuo? What in the world are you doing?" Shin said. Mitsuo didn't answer, but when he found what was he was looking for he started whispering to himself in a concentrated manner.
"Pi over Theta X equals... yes, Delta squared might work if that's there, but pi's irrational so how...?" Mitsuo said quietly. Shin snapped his fingers in his colleagues face and Mitsuo looked up, annoyed.
"What are you doing?" Shin repeated.
"Only confirming a major scientific breakthrough." Mitsuo said with a hint of sarcasm. "Here, be helpful and hold this."
Shin took the piece of paper he was handed. It was full of complicated equations and graphs that looked like only Einstein could solve.
"Do you mind telling me what's going on?" Shin persisted. Mitsuo stopped working and sighed.
"OK. Look at these schematics." Mitsuo pointed to his laptop that was next to him. If there was one thing that both partners had in common, it was the ability to understand the complicated programs that the unit used. "In the numbers was this interesting energy reading. I though it was a glitch, but I did it again and it came up with the same result. I'm not positive, but this looks like a high radiation dimensional rift!"
"So? Dimensional rifts happen all the time. That's how digimon bio-emerge and the only reason you're here." Shin said skeptically
"See, this is why I'm the scientist, and you're not. Digimon use low radiation dimensional rifts because our computers, cell phones and assortment of electronic devices connect to the digital world and make crossing over only require a small amount of energy, hence the name low radiation. If a high radiation dimensional rift is detected... well, no one's ever discovered a high radiation rift. This is going to prove every theory I've ever come up with." Mitsuo said excitedly. He started typing frantically on the computer
"And those would be...?" Shin said, looking skeptically at the foreign readings.
"In layman's terms, that dimensions beyond ours and the one we created by us do exist. Now be quiet. I need to figure out how to isolate this energy-"
"Move." Shin interrupted.
"What?"
"I said move. You may be the Ph.D. bearing physicist, but I'm still a better programmer than you." Shin smiled slyly. Mitsuo opened his mouth to protest, but seeing no way to win this argument, he promptly stood up and Shin took his place, typing rapidly.
"As soon as you isolate it, I would like a 3-D graph of the reading and the ones surrounding it." Mitsuo requested. Shin nodded.
On the monitor, screen after screen of tables and charts came up, the next one showing less numbers each time. After about two minutes, Shin stopped typing and rolled backwards on the swivel chair. Two screens were on the monitor. One had two numbers on it, obviously that was the isolated reading. The other, however, showed something neither Shin nor Mitsuo had ever seen before. It showed the three dimensional graph with it's usual bumps in it, which usually meant jolts or pockets of random energy. Nothing was out of place. However, in the middle of the graph was what could only be described as what a black hole does to space and time. The graph created a thin tube with a wide opening . Mitsuo narrowed his eyes and took the isolated reading and entered them into one of his physics equations he had on his large notepad. Then Mitsuo's eyes widened.
"Do a trailing scan. Now." Mitsuo commanded. Shin looked up at his partner, practically laughing.
"You're kidding, right? I created that scan and it was only for the juggernaut program. You do realize that the only thing it does is tell and show particles going back into a digital field. It's completely useless anywhere else. Especially since digimon don't have particles going back to their own dimension, if they did Yamaki would still be working for Central Intelligence." Shin explained. Mitsuo looked coldly at his partner.
"Just do it."
Shin shook his head but complied. A bar came across the bottom of the computer screen as the scan ran it's course. While they were waiting, Shin decided to make conversation.
"What's this all about, Mitsuo?" Shin said.
"What ever these anomalies are, they most definitely from another dimension. And I think I know how they got here. You see, there are theories that say that dimensions are like sheets of paper, called planes. And from studies of digital fields, we are pretty sure that they float around in a type of anti-matter, which is what digital fields are half made of, the other half being data obviously. I and many of my fellow dimensional physicists believe that this makes the dimensions move slightly ever so often. Usually the planes will never cross paths, but if a dimension that is similar to another dimension come close together, a magnetic attraction can be created and a connection made. But, even if they cross, to be able to open an rift like the one we are seeing is almost impossible except if..." Mitsuo got a glazed look in his eyes as he thought hard. "If another portal was being opened at the same time."
"That digimon!" Shin said loudly, making the other members look up from their stations. He waved at them sheepishly.
"Exactly. So say that these... humans were in their version of the digital world, which for some apparent reason is more similar than our real world to theirs. The probability of actually being at the exact same time and spot when not only two dimensions cross, but also when a digimon is creating another dimensional rip and linking the two together and having just the right amount of energy to cross the humans into our world is an astronomical ratio." Mitsuo said, confused an amazed at his conclusions.
"But it's happened." Shin said, gaping at his partner. He was about to say more but the laptop beeped and whirred, indicating that the scan was done. Shin pressed an icon on the screen and a graph came up, showing two steady streams of particles flowing into an invisible hole and disappearing. Shin stopped gaping at his partner and gaped at the monitor.
"Oh no. The anomalies dimension is still connected to them. Unless we get them back to their own dimension soon, there won't be enough left of them to send back." Mitsuo said.
"And how do you propose to do that?" Shin asked.
"Only one thing has the functions needed to send them back. What we need is..."
"Juggernaut." Henry whispered in his room. Ken looked up.
"What did you say?" Ken asked as he walked over and looked down at the half finished math homework.
"The juggernaut program! That's it! Takato was telling me how, when the program was executed, he went into this weird limbo dimension. I bet if you were to go through that, your digivices would take you back to your own dimension." Henry said. Ken raised an eyebrow.
"I guess we could try it. Why don't you go tell your dad." Ken gave a very strained smile. "Oh by the way, you have to use Pythagorean theorem to find the answer to question five, not algebra."
Henry looked and saw that Ken was right and Henry's answer was completely wrong.
"Humph. I knew that. Now then, I've got to talk to dad." Henry huffed and walked out. Ken smirked and walked behind him.
"The juggernaut! Henry, that's an impossible solution. It's not like you can just tap Yamaki on the shoulder and expect him to had you the controls to the most expensive project Hypnose has ever worked on." Mr. Wong said, putting down the newspaper.
"Leave that to me and Terriermon. I just want to know if it will work." Henry explained.
Mr. Wong pressed bit his lip, then got up and opened his briefcase which had only one item in it, his laptop. He opened it up and the pineapple program uploaded. Soon, the juggernaut program was displayed on he screen. Henry couldn't believe what he was seeing.
"Why do you have this?" Henry asked.
"This program was given to me so that I could evaluate how well it would work on the digimon. This will help us figure out exactly how much power the juggernaut will need so that when Ken and TK go through it, they won't be destroyed." Mr. Wong said. He estimated the density of the digidestined (data has no density so digimon would have considerably less from humans) and typed it in. He started at fifty percent and saw that it did not equalize out, so he put in a lower energy input. He did that several times until the input was equal to the density.
"Here we are. The juggernaut program has to be at 23.8 percent." Mr. Wong said. Then he frowned slightly and added "At least I think so."
"Are you one hundred percent sure this won't rip me and the digi-dork into pieces." Ken said as Henry frowned at him. Ken ignored Henry and looked at the program and narrowed his eyes as he read. Mr. Wong looked at the screen too for a long time before answering.
"No, there's no way I can be sure this is the right level. There is only two people I know of that have access to the type of technology needed for that kind of work; Yamaki and Mitsuo Yamamoto."
Henry looked up in surprise and recognition of that name from the e-mail.
"Wait a minute. Who is this Yamamoto guy? How come he has access to all those things." Henry asked.
"Mitsuo Yamamoto has access to that technology because not only is he the head of special operations unit three, which is a very important digimon research and tracking group, but he is also a highly respected scientist at Hypnose. I wouldn't be too quick to run to him to ask for help either. Mr. Yamamoto was, I believe, one of the main researchers during the testing of Darklizamon. After Yamaki, he would probably want to get his hands on Ken and TK the most."
Henry groaned.
"This situation keeps getting better and better." Henry said sarcastically.
"Clam down. SOU 3 is not equipped for long distance digimon tracking. We're safe for now. Especially since, as Ken kindly pointed out, he's not a digimon." Mr. Wong said.
"And tomorrow?"
"Tomorrow, we figure out how to get this juggernaut program running. Because I am not staying here any longer than I have to." Ken interjected, crossing his arms. Henry nodded.
"Fine." Mr. Wong said, closing his laptop. "Let's just hope SOU 3 doesn't find you before that."
*At the SOU van*
"We've got to find those kids soon." Mitsuo said. "Did you get any leads from those people at the park?"
"Not much, though one of them did recall seeing five kids with strange looking stuffed animals in the park." Shin said, raising an eyebrow at Mitsuo.
"Which means those tamer kids have them." Mitsuo said.
"Unfortunately, we don't have any information of them."
Yeah but I know some one who does." Mitsuo said. Then he took out his cell phone and started to dial slowly.
"Oh come on. What makes you think Yamaki is going to just give you classified information in which half of it hasn't even been confirmed." Shin said skeptically.
"It might take some Yamamoto charm," Shin snorted into his laptop, "but if Yamaki wants us to find these anomalies, he's bound to have some leeway on what's considered classified." Mitsuo looked down at the screen that held the trailing scan. Mitsuo shook his head as he put the phone to his ear. "We have to find those kids."