Finally here you go. Chapter 36! *Falls to the floor from exhaustion* This
has been a very hectic week for me, with exams and such going on, I have
some major studying to do this weekend, and it won't be all over until
Wednesday. But nonetheless here's the next Chapter. I have to admit it's
not exactly my best work. I kind of wrote it in a hurry during my free time
when I wasn't studying, I might revise it later, tell me if I should, and
one last thing about this chapter before I shut up and let you read it.
This chapter strongly promotes the theory of evolution as fact, if you're a
creationist or are offended by the theory of evolution, I'm sorry if I
offended you with this Chapter that truly wasn't my intention. Anyway enjoy
Chapter 36…and oh yeah I don't own Digimon.
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Chapter 36: Dark Force Revealed
Dan
My eyes opened to see bright sunlight shining into Janine's bedroom, my eyes moved to her clock, it just over ten. I guess a night of sex could really tire you out. I smiled as I looked down at the Goddess in my arms. It had been five days since the latest attack, five days since Janine and I had first slept together and thus became a couple. Every night since then, I'd shown up at her window or she'd shown up at mine and we "reenacted" what happened in the cave that night. For the past five mornings I'd woken up with her wrapped in my arms, and I had absolutely loved it.
I honestly didn't think I would, Janine hadn't been the first girl I'd been with, before I moved to this town from Toronto I'd gotten a very good going away present from her, but she wasn't have as good as Janine was. With her I couldn't wait to leave afterwards, but with Janine the best part was just cuddling with her and falling asleep in each other's arms. I was actually enjoying cuddling! That's a switch, what was this girl doing to me? I was becoming as bad as Kris.
I could feel my lover sir in my arms as she cuddled up closer to me; I ran my fingers through her long brown hair and held her closer. I was actually enjoying this, even better than the actual sex part of it, just holding her close like this was the most incredible feeling I'd ever had. She moaned cuddling closer again, and her eyes slowly opened and looked into my own.
"Sleep well?" I asked.
"How could I not?" she answered. "You sure tired me out last night. I'm still tired."
I tightened my hold on her. "Then sleep, I'll make sure your comfortable."
"Mmmm," she moaned snuggling up to me, as I laid gentle kisses on her cheek.
She didn't fall asleep, but that was okay, as long as she was here.
Suddenly the shrill ringing of Janine's phone broke the peaceful silence. By pure instinct I reached out and picked up the phone.
"Hello," I said right before smacking myself in the forehead.
Not your phone dummy! This is Janine's house remember.
"Dan?" it was Rob. "I must have gotten the wrong number, I could have sworn I dialed Janine's number."
"Apparently you didn't," I said. "Otherwise you wouldn't be talking to me right now. So what did you want, how's that scan going along?"
"Actually that's what I called about. It's done we've found him."
"Evamon!" I said happily. "You found Evamon."
"Possibly, we've found Demidevimon Evamon could be with him, but we've definitely found Demidevimon. It took us almost a week and we got very little sleep but Izzy Ken, Andrew and I finally got it done. We're going to meet this afternoon at Kris's house in about three hours, and decide for sure what we're going to do."
"Alright," I said. "I'll see you then."
"Okay, I've got to call the others. See you."
I heard a click as Rob hung off the phone; I did the same before cuddling Janine again.
"Who was that?" she said not moving from her current position. She didn't even open her eyes.
"It was Rob," I answered. "Apparently they've found Demidevimon. In three hours we're going to meet and probably rush to our deaths."
"That's nice," she said still not moving from her position.
I didn't blame her, this was absolute paradise, and I wouldn't give this up for anything, all I wanted to do right now was lay here with Janine in my arms and forget about Evamon. I was actually enjoying this more than fighting! Even I couldn't believe this, I enjoyed cuddling not only more than sex, but more than that thrill of not knowing whether I would live or die today. I couldn't believe it, but as strange as it sounds I liked it.
For a second time the phone broke the silence and for a second time I answered it.
"Hello." I smacked myself in the forehead again. You think I would have learned the second time. Janine laughed. She wouldn't be laughing it Rob figured out what was going on.
"Dan? Oh sorry, I must have dialed the wrong number again."
"Yeah, I'm sure you did," I said. "Now stop it, I'm trying to get some sleep."
"Right sorry," he said as he hung up the phone.
Only a few minutes later the phone rang a third time, and for a third time I picked it up, except this time I handed the phone to Janine.
"Phone for you."
She got up form her position, and brushed some stray hair out of her face before taking the phone.
She talked to Rob for about five minutes, where he was probably just telling her the same thing he told me, before she hung up.
"Rob have anything interesting to say?" I asked.
"He just told me what you did." She answered. "So we've got three hours. What do you want to do?"
I sat up along with her and wrapped my arms around her waist and kissing and nibbling her neck.
"What do you think I want to do?"
She giggled. "Don't you ever get tired?"
"Of you? Of course not."
"If that's what you want to do." She said suddenly pushing me back onto the bed and straddling my waist and guiding me inside of her, we both moaned as I entered her. I pulled her as close as possible to me and began to resume what we'd been doing the past five days.
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Kris
"I can't believe this is it," Davis said. "Your telling me that the most powerful dark force in the real world and the Digital world lives in the suburbs!"
"Not necessarily," Izzy said. "This is just where the scan said Demidevimon was. It didn't indicate any other Digimon. All we know is that Demidevimon is in there we still can't be sure that it's Evamon's headquarters."
"Yes Demidevimon definitely in there," Andrew said keeping an eye on his Digivice. "My Digivice indicates that he's in there. So let's stop wasting talking about it and get him out."
Andrew quickly pocketed his Digivice and ran up to the door of the house.
An hour had passed since our meeting it went by pretty quickly. Izzy Rob and Ken had shown us the results of the scan; they scanned our town first and had gotten lucky on the first try, and it had indicated Demidevimon was in the house that our entire team was standing in front of. I couldn't believe this was it; this could possibly where Evamon had been this entire time. I knew this house, I'd never actually been inside, but I did walk by it every day on my way too and from school it was only a few blocks away from my house. I never thought for a second that Evamon would be here; sure I thought he could have been in the real world, but I pictured something a little less friendly. This was your classic stereotypical homey house. White picket fence bright green grass, lawn gnomes and pink flamingoes on the lawn.
"This is weird," Kari said. "It doesn't look like the base of an evil force."
"That's the whole point," Tai said. "He set up here because he never thought we'd come looking for him here, in such a friendly looking place."
"Yeah either that or he just stashed Demidevimon here," Izzy said. "We don't know for sure that it's his base, keep that in mind."
"That doesn't mean we're not going to be careful," I said. "We don't know for sure that it's not his base either. So when we're in there be careful."
"You guys coming!" Andrew yelled, who was already at the front door to the house waving for us to follow.
As I rolled my eyes I accepted his invitation and walked down the stone pathway to the front door, the rest of the Digidestined and our Digimon followed.
"It's about time," Andrew said reaching for the doorknob, right before Tai grabbed his wrist stopping him.
"Not a good idea," Tai said.
"You think Evamon has some sort of trap set up in there?"
"Uh no," Tai said. "It's just that it could just be someone's house it wouldn't be a good idea to just go bursting in there. Knock first."
Andrew rolled his eyes. "Demidevimon is in mortal danger and you're worried about politeness! Fine we'll knock."
While keeping a sarcastic look in his eyes and glaring at Tai Andrew knocked on the door. We waited about two minutes no answer, not even any shuffling inside. We knocked again, but still nothing, finally after we got no answer from the third knock we abandoned that plan.
"What now great leader!" Andrew said coldly. "Wait patiently for them to come home."
"No," Tai said gritting his teeth. I couldn't blame him for being irritated. Andrew was being more annoying than Dan usually is.
"I think the best idea would be to just go in, carefully of course," I said. "And if it is just someone's house and they show up while we're in there, so what? We've dealt with giant killer monsters, I think we can handle an angry family."
Before anything else could be said I began to turn the doorknob only to find it locked.
"Hmm, the door's locked." I said.
"Good for it!" I heard Andrew say which was followed by the sound of breaking glass.
Soon my eyes met with the window, which had been shattered by a rock.
"Was that really necessary?" I asked.
"Yes it was! I'm going to get Demidevimon out of there, and I don't care if I have to break a stupid window to do it." Andrew said putting his hand through the hole in the glass and unlocked the window and opened it.
"If you guys are too goody - goody to break and enter then stay out here, I'm going in for Demidevimon."
I sighed as I helped Elecmon climb into the open window before climbing in myself. Soon by followed by the other eighteen members of our team and our Digimon. I examined the surroundings, it looked like your basic house, nothing too out of the ordinary. Couch, TV, stereo, everything seemed normal, aside from the fact that there was a good layer of dust on everything.
"Looks like no one's been here in a while," Elecmon said looking at the dust.
"Well Demidevimon has and is," Andrew said. "And we're going to find him, let's go."
"Hold it a second," Tai said. "We're still not sure if this is Evamon's base or not. I don't want anyone going off in this house alone."
Tai and I both examined the house, he were currently in the living room, and there where four ways to go, one way, which led into a kitchen and some other rooms that I couldn't see from here, a second way led to some sort of a den, the third were stairs leading upstairs, the fourth was a second stair case adjacent to the others but this one led downstairs.
"We've got to search the entire house, look for Demidevimon or anything out of the ordinary. Find anything like that call the rest of us, and we check it out together as a team."
I nodded in agreement. "Yeah we split up in four different groups and each take the four different sections of the house."
Following my plan we split up into four groups of five. One group taking the basement, another taking the Den and living room area, a third going into the kitchen area and the fourth, which consisted of myself, Jenn, Andrew, Joe, Cody and our Digimon.
"Looks like we got the hard job," Gomamon whined. "We've got the biggest area to search."
"Fine!" Andrew snapped whatever we've got to do to find Demidevimon.
Gomamon was right though; we probably did have the biggest area. We'd reached the top of the stairs and were looking down a hall with four doors, two on each side.
"Well we better get looking," Cody said as he and Armadillomon approached the first door.
Elecmon and I stepped ahead of them, and the four of us peaked into the first room on the right. It wasn't anything special just a bathroom, a virtually empty one too. Aside from the basics, a sink, a toilet, and a bathtub, along with a towel flung onto the floor.
"Nothing here," Armadillomon said as we moved onto the next room.
Jenn and Joe were already looking into the second room.
"Same with this one," Jenn said.
I look a look in the room as I passed it, she was right there was literally nothing in there; it was a completely empty bedroom. Aside from a few wires hanging from the ceiling there was nothing in it but carpet.
"Find anything?" Elecmon asked as he noticed Andrew looking into the third room.
"I found something," Andrew said. "Not exactly what we're looking for but pretty creepy."
I stepped up to the room, and Andrew was right about it being creepy. All around the room where pictures of Digimon tons of different ones posted on the walls and scattered on tables and desks. I stepped into the room and examined it.
"This is weird," Jenn said, and she and the others also stepped into the room. "If the guy who lives here isn't Evamon, then he knows a lot about Digimon."
I went through the papers on the desk; each of them had a picture of Digimon on it, the occasional one had a picture of the Digital World, there were even some detailed maps of the Digital World. However the maps weren't very accurate, I'd been to the sections of the Digital World this map indicated and they were all wrong.
"Should we call Tai and the others?" Cody asked.
"No not yet," I answered, beginning to move out of the room it was really starting to creep me out. "Let's search the final room first."
"We're not going to look at this room first?" Elecmon asked. "It could help us a bit."
"I doubt it, all it is, is a bunch of outdated maps of the Digital World and some dusty pictures of Digimon."
I stepped out of the room, and began to make my way to the final room, following my lead the rest of the group followed me taking one last look into the room and following me. Andrew and I pushed the almost locked door open at the same time. He stepped into the room before it had been completely opened.
At first I thought this was just another room, all I saw was a bed with a nightstand with a lamp on it, and a small table in the center of the room. Andrew ran into the room as a smile grew on his face quickly running up to the small table. It wasn't until I saw what was on the table that I saw why he was so excited about it.
There was a small cage on the table, and in it was an unconscious Demidevimon. Andrew approached the cage, but I stopped him before he got within two feet of it.
"Are you nuts?" I said. "Here we have Demidevimon just lying there with no one guarding him, just lying there free for us to save, doesn't this look a little bit like a trap."
"I don't care!" Andrew yelled breaking out of my grip. "I'm getting him back whether it's a trap or not! I don't care if a bear trap suddenly cuts my leg off trying to get him out of that cage!"
"Andrew no!" I yelled as he started to run.
There was no way any of us could stop him, I averted my eyes for a second, expecting something to happen, but as I looked back at Andrew, all I saw was Andrew opening the cage and taking Demidevimon out of it. No trap was sprung nothing.
"Wow, some trap." Andrew said. "I'm in such horrible pain."
"Okay, okay I get it, but you've got to admit it did look like it could be a trap."
"Kris is right," Cody said. "This was way too easy."
"Come on Cody," Armadillomon said. "Don't be so pessimistic, Demidevimon probably just stashed him here."
"Yeah maybe."
There was an audible silence, as we thought, which was finally broken when Demidevimon began to wake up.
"Andrew," he said groggily. "Andrew!"
Demidevimon's drowsiness faded away, as he jumped from Andrew's arms practically jumping into his face.
"I was so afraid I wasn't going to see you again," Andrew said prying his Digimon off of his face and holding him up in his arms.
"Come on you know that as long as you're alive you'll always be together." Demidevimon said.
"What happened to you anyway?" Elecmon asked.
"I'm – I'm not sure," Demidevimon said fluttering out of Andrew's arms and onto the table. "I remember being knocked unconscious by a Thundermon, then I remember talking to Evamon…he told me about that battle against Tai, then I was knocked out again, and I woke up here." Demidevimon began to fly around the room. "I'm just glad to be out of that cage, it's nice to be able to – oof."
Demidevimon's sentence and flight was cut off as he slammed into something else that had just flown into the room, both of which fell to the ground upon hitting each other.
"Tentomon?" Penguinmon said seeing the Ladybug Digimon next to Demidevimon.
"Hey watch where you're going!" Demidevimon yelled.
"Is anything wrong Tentomon," Jenn asked. "What are you doing up here, shouldn't you be searching downstairs with Izzy and the others?"
"Hey you found Demidevimon, too bad." Tentomon said, while Demidevimon glared at him.
"Answer the question!" I yelled. "Is something wrong?"
Tentomon shook his head. "No nothing's wrong, Izzy's found something, you've got to get downstairs fast!"
"Actually we found-"
"It can't be half important as this, come on."
Before any of us could say anything about the room full of pictures of Digimon, Tentomon fluttered into the air and started flying down the hall.
"We better go. This looks important." I said scooping Elecmon up into my arms and running down the hall trying to keep up with Tentomon, he wasn't exactly making it easy. The luckily the others were doing the same thing and managing to keep up with him as we ran down the stairs soon meeting up with the other two groups, and we met up with the fourth group as Tentomon led us past the living room and into the den, the entire team had gathered in one spot once again.
"Everyone here?" Tai asked.
"Yeah everyone," I said taking a quick head count. "Plus one that was previously missing."
"Oh you found Demidevimon," Tai said indifferently. "That's great, but there's something you guys should probably see." He turned to Izzy obviously more concerned over what they had found than that we had found must have been big.
"Hurry up already," Dan whined. "I don't want to find out I was dragged to this house to find nothing."
"Izzy, Matt, Show'em." Tai instructed.
They both nodded as they approached a bookcase against the far wall of the den.
"Oh boy a bookcase," Dan said. "That's exciting."
Everyone ignored him as Tai, Izzy, and Matt grabbed one side of the case, giving it a push. The push caused the bookcase to slide over to the side like a sliding door, not something bookcases usually did. Where the bookcase once stood was a huge steel vault door, and not the newer types either with the small little combination dial, this one had giant steel wheel in the middle. Whatever was behind that vault door must have been valuable to be behind that thing.
"Wow cool!" Sean yelled admiring the giant steel door in front of us.
"How come they always have those secret passages behind bookcases?" Veemon asked.
"Uh one question," Elecmon said. "If you found that safe door thingy before why did you put the bookcase in front of it again."
"Simple," Izzy said. "Dramatic effect."
I sighed and approached the giant steel door. "Well one thing's obvious we've got to get in there," I knocked on the door causing a steel clanging sound. "Sounds pretty solid have any ideas how we're going to open it."
"Pepper breath!"
"Blue blaster!"
"Super shocker!"
"Aaaaah!" I yelled jumping out of the way of Agumon, Gabumon, and Tentomon's attacks, which all hit the dead center of the vault door where the wheel was – or should I saw had been, their attacks had completely destroyed it.
When they had cleared away they had left a big gaping hole in the door, you could see right through it now. Unfortunately the hole was pretty small even the smallest of our Digimon Otamamon and Patamon wouldn't be able to fit through it.
"Wow I'm impressed," Matt said. "You got right through it on the first try, but could you make that tiny little hole a little bigger."
"One it," Agumon said, then he Gabumon and Tentomon fired their attacks at the door again.
"Sparkling Thunder!"
"Ice Slide!"
"Rock Fist!"
Elecmon, Penguinmon and Gotsumon also added their own attacks, to the mix, but when they cleared the hole was bigger, big enough for some of the Digimon to fit through but not big enough for all of us to fit through. Noting the obvious the six Digimon launched their attacks again, soon joined by Biyomon, Tapirmon, and Dokunemon, soon all twenty of the Digimon were contributing their attacks to getting us through that door. After about ten minutes of launching a barrage of attacks the Digimon had created a hole in the safe large enough for us to get through.
"Let's see what's inside that safe," Tai said approaching the giant steel door.
"Let's," I said following Tai also approaching the door.
The others were soon to follow. All of us managed to fit through the hole we had created without much of a problem, except that Will's wheelchair couldn't fit through, so Rob and Ken helped him get through and supported him on their shoulders. He didn't look too happy about it, I'd already figured out he didn't like receiving help just so he could do something like standing up.
We all examined the vault, and I think I spoke for everyone when I said we were all surprised at what we saw in there. Not because of what we saw was some amazing or dangerous, but just the opposite, we didn't see anything, the room was practically empty, the only object in the room was a computer, and it wasn't even a very good one. In fact it didn't look any good at all, it was at least a decade old, probably more, it showed too, it was covered with a thick layer of dust.
"This is it?!" Davis said. "Some ancient computer?"
"Ancient is right," Izzy said looking over the computer. "This is almost as old as they come, an acorn one of the first PCs that ever came out, I'd say it's at about fifteen years old. Not very useful though, it's mainly just used for word processing, not to mention it's big and clunky, compared to the computers we've got now it's just a paperweight, kind of weird he would lock something like this up with such extreme measures."
"Maybe he just wants to protect it because it's so old," Davis suggested. "Aren't antiques really valuable."
"When it comes to vases yes, but computers decrease in value when they get older, like I said this thing is just some high tech paperweight, there's no reason for whosever to store it like this."
"Couldn't it just be possible that whoever lives here didn't know about the huge safe in his house," Agumon suggested. "And the computer was just put in here at a time when it was valuable."
"That's a possibility," Izzy said. "But I think it's pretty not to notice a giant vault in your house."
"It doesn't look like we're going to find much here," Tai said. "Did you guys find anything?"
Davis and T.K who had each been in the other two groups shook their head.
"Nothing but a bunch of dusty stuff," Davis said.
"Actually, we - " I began to say before a sound coming from the door cut me off.
My head along with everyone else's jerked towards the direction of the door, in time to see what we could only assume was the only of the house, squeeze through the hold we had made. He wasn't exactly big, he was very skinny, looked to be in his early thirties, and had the thickest pair of glasses you'd ever seen, your classic stereotypical nerd.
"What are you doing here?!" He screamed. "This is private property! Who are -" He paused for a second as he stared at us then noticed our Digimon.
Okay what am I supposed to say to this guy, tell the truth, make up some like and leave, or just blast our way out and leave no explanations just a shocked look on his face. Personally I was pulling towards the third option.
"You – You're the Digidestined aren't you! Wow I can't believe you're actually here."
"Did he just say what I thought he said?" Dan asked.
"You know who we are?" Tai said definitely sounding confused.
"Do I know who you are?! Of course I know who you are! You're the Digidestined, twenty kids given powers by the forces of light of the Digital World! I've watched your battles since the first fight at Highton View Terrace between Greymon and Parrotmon. I've dedicated the last thirteen years of my life to studying Digimon, and the Digital World! You're an integral part of the whole thing how could I not know who you are?"
My jaw had dropped wide open. Why hadn't we heard about this guy before? If there was some expert on the Digital World why didn't Baihumon tell us about it? He was holding out on us, this guy must know everything there was to know about Digimon if he'd been studying them for thirteen years, that was five years before our first encounter with the Digimon, even then we didn't know what was going on, it wasn't until eight years later that we all finally figured out the majority of what was going on. Though it did look like he had turned Digimon into an obsession of his, that at least explained the multiple pictures in the room upstairs.
"I can't believe I'm actually meeting you! I've been watching your battles for so long, and you're actually here in my house." He stepped up to Elecmon beginning to examine him. "Wow, I've seen Digimon on my computer screen but I've never seen one up close, it's so amazing."
"Uh yeah," Elecmon said backing off slightly looking a little creeped out. "Who are you anyway, I don't recall hearing about you, and a second question how do you know so much about us?"
"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't introduce myself did I. My name is Chenk…it's a nickname don't ask, and I know so much about you because I've seen it all. I was there when the Digimon and the Digital World was just a single bit of data…I'll never forget that day."
"What?!" Tai yelled. "Are you saying you actually saw the Digital World being created?"
"Well I didn't actually see it be created, but I did see it grow into what it is today. I'll never forget that day fourteen years ago. I came home and sat down at my new computer, I was really excited, I actually saved up enough money to get one, I'd used it before and loved it, but when I sat down to do some typing that day and discovered something that would change my life, my computer had spawned life."
"Life?" Izzy said. "That's physically impossible. "Computers are machines they have no organic components. They can't spawn life."
"Neither did the earth billions of years ago," Chenk said. "It was just a lifeless ball of rock, and it's believed, that a one and a million chance occurred, when conditions were just absolutely right, life somehow created itself, and then slowly evolved into what we are today. All from inorganic compounds, that's exactly how the Digimon and the Digital world was created. I had left the computer on during the day and somehow conditions within it's operating were just right Digital life was created on the computer. At first it was really simple, just like life on earth was. The first life thought to be on earth were just single celled organisms, the same thing happened with Digimon, at first it was just one bit of information dancing around on the white space of my word processing program. Then like earth they began to evolve, getting more complex, soon bits turned to kilobytes, kilobytes into megabytes, and megabytes into gigabytes, until it was a totally complex system, one that wasn't just contained on my simple little computer anymore, somehow they had created another world, a second dimension. I was amazed at how fast they had developed, in a matter of five years an entire world of complex digital life had been created within it's own world, now separate from my computer. Yet though they were complex, they weren't half as complex as they are now, they were alive, but they were still data, still just binary code…but still alive. Then the invention of the Internet changed everything for them. Once the World Wide Web went up the Digimon took full advantage of it taking in all the data from it that they could. Using that data given to them by humans to evolve even further, allowing them to take a physical shape, for example, Agumon there probably obtained his physical form, by copying data from some web page on dinosaurs."
"Are you calling me a copycat," Agumon grunted.
Chenk continued ignoring the Agumon. "This allowed the Digimon to escape their Digital form they were no longer Digital, they were real. Like I said before I was amazed at how fast this all happened it only took six years fro them to go from living Digital binary code to physical real living beings, they evolved just like humans are thought to have done, from a simple life form to a complex one, only in a matter of six years. Of course to the Digimon it was much longer than that, as most of you know time moves much faster in the Digital World than in the real world, in fact back then the time went by so fast that for every second in the real world a year went by in the real world, so though billions of years went by in the Digital world only six years had gone by in the real world. It probably would have continued that way if Evamon hadn't shown up."
"He disturbed the balance right?" Rob said.
"Exactly," Chenk answered. "He launched an attack on the Digital World at that time he disturbed the balance of the Digital world causing the Digital World and the real world to become closer together thus causing the time difference to become smaller. To fight this the Digital Worlds defenses created you, and though you managed to win victory after victory against Evamon it wasn't enough to stop him from disturbing the balance, and now the time between the Digital World and the real world has become synchronized, and all this time, while the Digital World was being created and while you were battling Evamon, I was watching, watching and admiring those amazing battles, on my computer screen."
"Well that explains why the computer was in this big safe," Sean said. "You wanted to protect it when the Digimon and Digital World was still evolving."
Chenk nodded. "Yeah, though there's not much point in keeping it here now, since the Digimon created their own world and separated from it."
"Okay now I have a question. If you knew about us why didn't you ever try and help us?" Matt asked. "Your information could have helped us."
"You didn't seem to need it, you were fighting fine all by yourself, but if you really want my help I think I've got something that could be of use to you."
"And that is?" I asked.
"I think you mentioned before that you were tired of just sitting around waiting for Evamon to attack, I've got a way for you to do something. See I've been tracking Evamon's trail; whenever that Dark rip he creates disappears he leaves a data trail. I did a quick scan and I've detected where he's going to appear next. If you want I can show you."
"Your kidding right?" I said. "We've been looking for this guy for months and you find him that quickly!"
"Quickly isn't a good way to put it. I've been monitoring Evamon ever since he first appeared I've just recently found out this much. Now come on follow me and I'll show you where he's going to appear."
"No," Tai and I said at the same time. I gave Tai a signal to go ahead and give the reason we were both thinking of.
"It's too dangerous, if Evamon himself is going to be there, it's going to be dangerous for us let alone you. You'll tell us and we'll take care of it."
"I don't think so! For years I've just been watching through a stupid computer screen this time I'm going to see it up close."
"Like Tai said it's too dangerous!" I said.
"If you don't take me with you I'm not going to tell you where Evamon's appearing!"
Both Tai and I froze now, trying to think up some sort of an idea to force him to tell us, but nothing came to mind. We couldn't force it out of him; he had studied us since the beginning, he knew that whatever we threatened him with we'd be bluffing.
"Fine," I said approaching the safe door. "Looks like we don't have a choice. Penguinmon you'll be our transport, are you okay to Digivolve to Parrotmon.
"Yeah," Penguinmon answered. "I've had plenty to eat I can Digivolve."
"Well let's go," I said slipping through the hole in the door. "The more time we waist here, the more time we give Evamon to show up."
The others were hesitant especially with Chenk coming with us, but they knew like I did they didn't have much of a choice, so after about ten minutes, we were in the air all forty of us riding on Parrotmon's back.
"How far exactly is this place?" Tai asked Chenk.
"Not far at all," he answered. "In fact we're here right now, right down there."
That was strange, we'd only been flying for five minutes and we were already there? Chenk pointed down towards the ground right at the town square, it was where certain festivals were held in the town, there wasn't anything down there now but an empty lot, but it was right in the center of town so there were plenty of people down there.
"Are you nuts!" Jenn yelled. "Parrotmon can't land there, there's a crowd of people down there, she'd cause a panic!"
"Well I'd say in about five minutes Evamon is about to cause a panic, don't you think it's better that they see a friendly Digimon and run at the same time clearing out before Evamon can show up and hurt them."
"He's got a point," I said. "Let's take her down."
Parrotmon was hesitant, but she did like I had instructed and landed in the center of the square, and like we'd predicted most people ran away screaming, though some of them just stood there amazed that the giant parrot that had just descended. We ignored them and all of us slid off of Parrotmon's back onto the ground.
"So when exactly is Evamon going to show up?" Elecmon asked.
Chenk began to walk away from the group, keeping his back to us. "Oh I'd say he's here right now!"
I could feel my stomach tighten up as a strange black aurora surrounded Chenk. As that happened something suddenly clicked in my head. Ever since Chenk had told me his name, I'd felt that there was something familiar about it, but I couldn't figure it out until now. He was Evan Chenk! A computer programmer that had mysteriously disappeared about fourteen years ago, I now began to see the obvious. Evan, That's where Evamon's name had come from!
Those who hadn't figured out what was going on did as Evan turned around revealing his now glowing yellow eyes. Glowing yellow eyes that had haunted me ever since I first saw them, the same day I'd encountered Emily and this entire fight started.
"I've waited so long for this!" Evamon said no longer disguising his voice using Evan's. "Fourteen years, I've finally managed to reassemble my human body, and then assemble a Digimon one. It's time to end this pathetic feud Digidestined!"
As he said that Evamon began to change, starting to mutate, the only thing any of us could do was take a step back, we were all to afraid to attack in fear that it might just make things worse, so all we did was watch, watch as the once skinny and geeky human before us began to mutate.
"Time to end this feud!" Evamon repeated. "Time to end it with your deaths!"
Ah so what did you think about the origin of the Digital world I created? That's just how I think it may have started, as data on a computer and eventually evolved into…never mind you read the story I don't need to explain it. Maybe that's not how it started in the show, but that's how it started in my fic, and yeah I know I'm horrible for leaving you at a cliffhanger like this, and there are a lot of questions unanswered, but I assure you all questions will be answered in the next Chapter.
Stay tuned for Chapter 37: Bio Digivolution
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Chapter 36: Dark Force Revealed
Dan
My eyes opened to see bright sunlight shining into Janine's bedroom, my eyes moved to her clock, it just over ten. I guess a night of sex could really tire you out. I smiled as I looked down at the Goddess in my arms. It had been five days since the latest attack, five days since Janine and I had first slept together and thus became a couple. Every night since then, I'd shown up at her window or she'd shown up at mine and we "reenacted" what happened in the cave that night. For the past five mornings I'd woken up with her wrapped in my arms, and I had absolutely loved it.
I honestly didn't think I would, Janine hadn't been the first girl I'd been with, before I moved to this town from Toronto I'd gotten a very good going away present from her, but she wasn't have as good as Janine was. With her I couldn't wait to leave afterwards, but with Janine the best part was just cuddling with her and falling asleep in each other's arms. I was actually enjoying cuddling! That's a switch, what was this girl doing to me? I was becoming as bad as Kris.
I could feel my lover sir in my arms as she cuddled up closer to me; I ran my fingers through her long brown hair and held her closer. I was actually enjoying this, even better than the actual sex part of it, just holding her close like this was the most incredible feeling I'd ever had. She moaned cuddling closer again, and her eyes slowly opened and looked into my own.
"Sleep well?" I asked.
"How could I not?" she answered. "You sure tired me out last night. I'm still tired."
I tightened my hold on her. "Then sleep, I'll make sure your comfortable."
"Mmmm," she moaned snuggling up to me, as I laid gentle kisses on her cheek.
She didn't fall asleep, but that was okay, as long as she was here.
Suddenly the shrill ringing of Janine's phone broke the peaceful silence. By pure instinct I reached out and picked up the phone.
"Hello," I said right before smacking myself in the forehead.
Not your phone dummy! This is Janine's house remember.
"Dan?" it was Rob. "I must have gotten the wrong number, I could have sworn I dialed Janine's number."
"Apparently you didn't," I said. "Otherwise you wouldn't be talking to me right now. So what did you want, how's that scan going along?"
"Actually that's what I called about. It's done we've found him."
"Evamon!" I said happily. "You found Evamon."
"Possibly, we've found Demidevimon Evamon could be with him, but we've definitely found Demidevimon. It took us almost a week and we got very little sleep but Izzy Ken, Andrew and I finally got it done. We're going to meet this afternoon at Kris's house in about three hours, and decide for sure what we're going to do."
"Alright," I said. "I'll see you then."
"Okay, I've got to call the others. See you."
I heard a click as Rob hung off the phone; I did the same before cuddling Janine again.
"Who was that?" she said not moving from her current position. She didn't even open her eyes.
"It was Rob," I answered. "Apparently they've found Demidevimon. In three hours we're going to meet and probably rush to our deaths."
"That's nice," she said still not moving from her position.
I didn't blame her, this was absolute paradise, and I wouldn't give this up for anything, all I wanted to do right now was lay here with Janine in my arms and forget about Evamon. I was actually enjoying this more than fighting! Even I couldn't believe this, I enjoyed cuddling not only more than sex, but more than that thrill of not knowing whether I would live or die today. I couldn't believe it, but as strange as it sounds I liked it.
For a second time the phone broke the silence and for a second time I answered it.
"Hello." I smacked myself in the forehead again. You think I would have learned the second time. Janine laughed. She wouldn't be laughing it Rob figured out what was going on.
"Dan? Oh sorry, I must have dialed the wrong number again."
"Yeah, I'm sure you did," I said. "Now stop it, I'm trying to get some sleep."
"Right sorry," he said as he hung up the phone.
Only a few minutes later the phone rang a third time, and for a third time I picked it up, except this time I handed the phone to Janine.
"Phone for you."
She got up form her position, and brushed some stray hair out of her face before taking the phone.
She talked to Rob for about five minutes, where he was probably just telling her the same thing he told me, before she hung up.
"Rob have anything interesting to say?" I asked.
"He just told me what you did." She answered. "So we've got three hours. What do you want to do?"
I sat up along with her and wrapped my arms around her waist and kissing and nibbling her neck.
"What do you think I want to do?"
She giggled. "Don't you ever get tired?"
"Of you? Of course not."
"If that's what you want to do." She said suddenly pushing me back onto the bed and straddling my waist and guiding me inside of her, we both moaned as I entered her. I pulled her as close as possible to me and began to resume what we'd been doing the past five days.
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Kris
"I can't believe this is it," Davis said. "Your telling me that the most powerful dark force in the real world and the Digital world lives in the suburbs!"
"Not necessarily," Izzy said. "This is just where the scan said Demidevimon was. It didn't indicate any other Digimon. All we know is that Demidevimon is in there we still can't be sure that it's Evamon's headquarters."
"Yes Demidevimon definitely in there," Andrew said keeping an eye on his Digivice. "My Digivice indicates that he's in there. So let's stop wasting talking about it and get him out."
Andrew quickly pocketed his Digivice and ran up to the door of the house.
An hour had passed since our meeting it went by pretty quickly. Izzy Rob and Ken had shown us the results of the scan; they scanned our town first and had gotten lucky on the first try, and it had indicated Demidevimon was in the house that our entire team was standing in front of. I couldn't believe this was it; this could possibly where Evamon had been this entire time. I knew this house, I'd never actually been inside, but I did walk by it every day on my way too and from school it was only a few blocks away from my house. I never thought for a second that Evamon would be here; sure I thought he could have been in the real world, but I pictured something a little less friendly. This was your classic stereotypical homey house. White picket fence bright green grass, lawn gnomes and pink flamingoes on the lawn.
"This is weird," Kari said. "It doesn't look like the base of an evil force."
"That's the whole point," Tai said. "He set up here because he never thought we'd come looking for him here, in such a friendly looking place."
"Yeah either that or he just stashed Demidevimon here," Izzy said. "We don't know for sure that it's his base, keep that in mind."
"That doesn't mean we're not going to be careful," I said. "We don't know for sure that it's not his base either. So when we're in there be careful."
"You guys coming!" Andrew yelled, who was already at the front door to the house waving for us to follow.
As I rolled my eyes I accepted his invitation and walked down the stone pathway to the front door, the rest of the Digidestined and our Digimon followed.
"It's about time," Andrew said reaching for the doorknob, right before Tai grabbed his wrist stopping him.
"Not a good idea," Tai said.
"You think Evamon has some sort of trap set up in there?"
"Uh no," Tai said. "It's just that it could just be someone's house it wouldn't be a good idea to just go bursting in there. Knock first."
Andrew rolled his eyes. "Demidevimon is in mortal danger and you're worried about politeness! Fine we'll knock."
While keeping a sarcastic look in his eyes and glaring at Tai Andrew knocked on the door. We waited about two minutes no answer, not even any shuffling inside. We knocked again, but still nothing, finally after we got no answer from the third knock we abandoned that plan.
"What now great leader!" Andrew said coldly. "Wait patiently for them to come home."
"No," Tai said gritting his teeth. I couldn't blame him for being irritated. Andrew was being more annoying than Dan usually is.
"I think the best idea would be to just go in, carefully of course," I said. "And if it is just someone's house and they show up while we're in there, so what? We've dealt with giant killer monsters, I think we can handle an angry family."
Before anything else could be said I began to turn the doorknob only to find it locked.
"Hmm, the door's locked." I said.
"Good for it!" I heard Andrew say which was followed by the sound of breaking glass.
Soon my eyes met with the window, which had been shattered by a rock.
"Was that really necessary?" I asked.
"Yes it was! I'm going to get Demidevimon out of there, and I don't care if I have to break a stupid window to do it." Andrew said putting his hand through the hole in the glass and unlocked the window and opened it.
"If you guys are too goody - goody to break and enter then stay out here, I'm going in for Demidevimon."
I sighed as I helped Elecmon climb into the open window before climbing in myself. Soon by followed by the other eighteen members of our team and our Digimon. I examined the surroundings, it looked like your basic house, nothing too out of the ordinary. Couch, TV, stereo, everything seemed normal, aside from the fact that there was a good layer of dust on everything.
"Looks like no one's been here in a while," Elecmon said looking at the dust.
"Well Demidevimon has and is," Andrew said. "And we're going to find him, let's go."
"Hold it a second," Tai said. "We're still not sure if this is Evamon's base or not. I don't want anyone going off in this house alone."
Tai and I both examined the house, he were currently in the living room, and there where four ways to go, one way, which led into a kitchen and some other rooms that I couldn't see from here, a second way led to some sort of a den, the third were stairs leading upstairs, the fourth was a second stair case adjacent to the others but this one led downstairs.
"We've got to search the entire house, look for Demidevimon or anything out of the ordinary. Find anything like that call the rest of us, and we check it out together as a team."
I nodded in agreement. "Yeah we split up in four different groups and each take the four different sections of the house."
Following my plan we split up into four groups of five. One group taking the basement, another taking the Den and living room area, a third going into the kitchen area and the fourth, which consisted of myself, Jenn, Andrew, Joe, Cody and our Digimon.
"Looks like we got the hard job," Gomamon whined. "We've got the biggest area to search."
"Fine!" Andrew snapped whatever we've got to do to find Demidevimon.
Gomamon was right though; we probably did have the biggest area. We'd reached the top of the stairs and were looking down a hall with four doors, two on each side.
"Well we better get looking," Cody said as he and Armadillomon approached the first door.
Elecmon and I stepped ahead of them, and the four of us peaked into the first room on the right. It wasn't anything special just a bathroom, a virtually empty one too. Aside from the basics, a sink, a toilet, and a bathtub, along with a towel flung onto the floor.
"Nothing here," Armadillomon said as we moved onto the next room.
Jenn and Joe were already looking into the second room.
"Same with this one," Jenn said.
I look a look in the room as I passed it, she was right there was literally nothing in there; it was a completely empty bedroom. Aside from a few wires hanging from the ceiling there was nothing in it but carpet.
"Find anything?" Elecmon asked as he noticed Andrew looking into the third room.
"I found something," Andrew said. "Not exactly what we're looking for but pretty creepy."
I stepped up to the room, and Andrew was right about it being creepy. All around the room where pictures of Digimon tons of different ones posted on the walls and scattered on tables and desks. I stepped into the room and examined it.
"This is weird," Jenn said, and she and the others also stepped into the room. "If the guy who lives here isn't Evamon, then he knows a lot about Digimon."
I went through the papers on the desk; each of them had a picture of Digimon on it, the occasional one had a picture of the Digital World, there were even some detailed maps of the Digital World. However the maps weren't very accurate, I'd been to the sections of the Digital World this map indicated and they were all wrong.
"Should we call Tai and the others?" Cody asked.
"No not yet," I answered, beginning to move out of the room it was really starting to creep me out. "Let's search the final room first."
"We're not going to look at this room first?" Elecmon asked. "It could help us a bit."
"I doubt it, all it is, is a bunch of outdated maps of the Digital World and some dusty pictures of Digimon."
I stepped out of the room, and began to make my way to the final room, following my lead the rest of the group followed me taking one last look into the room and following me. Andrew and I pushed the almost locked door open at the same time. He stepped into the room before it had been completely opened.
At first I thought this was just another room, all I saw was a bed with a nightstand with a lamp on it, and a small table in the center of the room. Andrew ran into the room as a smile grew on his face quickly running up to the small table. It wasn't until I saw what was on the table that I saw why he was so excited about it.
There was a small cage on the table, and in it was an unconscious Demidevimon. Andrew approached the cage, but I stopped him before he got within two feet of it.
"Are you nuts?" I said. "Here we have Demidevimon just lying there with no one guarding him, just lying there free for us to save, doesn't this look a little bit like a trap."
"I don't care!" Andrew yelled breaking out of my grip. "I'm getting him back whether it's a trap or not! I don't care if a bear trap suddenly cuts my leg off trying to get him out of that cage!"
"Andrew no!" I yelled as he started to run.
There was no way any of us could stop him, I averted my eyes for a second, expecting something to happen, but as I looked back at Andrew, all I saw was Andrew opening the cage and taking Demidevimon out of it. No trap was sprung nothing.
"Wow, some trap." Andrew said. "I'm in such horrible pain."
"Okay, okay I get it, but you've got to admit it did look like it could be a trap."
"Kris is right," Cody said. "This was way too easy."
"Come on Cody," Armadillomon said. "Don't be so pessimistic, Demidevimon probably just stashed him here."
"Yeah maybe."
There was an audible silence, as we thought, which was finally broken when Demidevimon began to wake up.
"Andrew," he said groggily. "Andrew!"
Demidevimon's drowsiness faded away, as he jumped from Andrew's arms practically jumping into his face.
"I was so afraid I wasn't going to see you again," Andrew said prying his Digimon off of his face and holding him up in his arms.
"Come on you know that as long as you're alive you'll always be together." Demidevimon said.
"What happened to you anyway?" Elecmon asked.
"I'm – I'm not sure," Demidevimon said fluttering out of Andrew's arms and onto the table. "I remember being knocked unconscious by a Thundermon, then I remember talking to Evamon…he told me about that battle against Tai, then I was knocked out again, and I woke up here." Demidevimon began to fly around the room. "I'm just glad to be out of that cage, it's nice to be able to – oof."
Demidevimon's sentence and flight was cut off as he slammed into something else that had just flown into the room, both of which fell to the ground upon hitting each other.
"Tentomon?" Penguinmon said seeing the Ladybug Digimon next to Demidevimon.
"Hey watch where you're going!" Demidevimon yelled.
"Is anything wrong Tentomon," Jenn asked. "What are you doing up here, shouldn't you be searching downstairs with Izzy and the others?"
"Hey you found Demidevimon, too bad." Tentomon said, while Demidevimon glared at him.
"Answer the question!" I yelled. "Is something wrong?"
Tentomon shook his head. "No nothing's wrong, Izzy's found something, you've got to get downstairs fast!"
"Actually we found-"
"It can't be half important as this, come on."
Before any of us could say anything about the room full of pictures of Digimon, Tentomon fluttered into the air and started flying down the hall.
"We better go. This looks important." I said scooping Elecmon up into my arms and running down the hall trying to keep up with Tentomon, he wasn't exactly making it easy. The luckily the others were doing the same thing and managing to keep up with him as we ran down the stairs soon meeting up with the other two groups, and we met up with the fourth group as Tentomon led us past the living room and into the den, the entire team had gathered in one spot once again.
"Everyone here?" Tai asked.
"Yeah everyone," I said taking a quick head count. "Plus one that was previously missing."
"Oh you found Demidevimon," Tai said indifferently. "That's great, but there's something you guys should probably see." He turned to Izzy obviously more concerned over what they had found than that we had found must have been big.
"Hurry up already," Dan whined. "I don't want to find out I was dragged to this house to find nothing."
"Izzy, Matt, Show'em." Tai instructed.
They both nodded as they approached a bookcase against the far wall of the den.
"Oh boy a bookcase," Dan said. "That's exciting."
Everyone ignored him as Tai, Izzy, and Matt grabbed one side of the case, giving it a push. The push caused the bookcase to slide over to the side like a sliding door, not something bookcases usually did. Where the bookcase once stood was a huge steel vault door, and not the newer types either with the small little combination dial, this one had giant steel wheel in the middle. Whatever was behind that vault door must have been valuable to be behind that thing.
"Wow cool!" Sean yelled admiring the giant steel door in front of us.
"How come they always have those secret passages behind bookcases?" Veemon asked.
"Uh one question," Elecmon said. "If you found that safe door thingy before why did you put the bookcase in front of it again."
"Simple," Izzy said. "Dramatic effect."
I sighed and approached the giant steel door. "Well one thing's obvious we've got to get in there," I knocked on the door causing a steel clanging sound. "Sounds pretty solid have any ideas how we're going to open it."
"Pepper breath!"
"Blue blaster!"
"Super shocker!"
"Aaaaah!" I yelled jumping out of the way of Agumon, Gabumon, and Tentomon's attacks, which all hit the dead center of the vault door where the wheel was – or should I saw had been, their attacks had completely destroyed it.
When they had cleared away they had left a big gaping hole in the door, you could see right through it now. Unfortunately the hole was pretty small even the smallest of our Digimon Otamamon and Patamon wouldn't be able to fit through it.
"Wow I'm impressed," Matt said. "You got right through it on the first try, but could you make that tiny little hole a little bigger."
"One it," Agumon said, then he Gabumon and Tentomon fired their attacks at the door again.
"Sparkling Thunder!"
"Ice Slide!"
"Rock Fist!"
Elecmon, Penguinmon and Gotsumon also added their own attacks, to the mix, but when they cleared the hole was bigger, big enough for some of the Digimon to fit through but not big enough for all of us to fit through. Noting the obvious the six Digimon launched their attacks again, soon joined by Biyomon, Tapirmon, and Dokunemon, soon all twenty of the Digimon were contributing their attacks to getting us through that door. After about ten minutes of launching a barrage of attacks the Digimon had created a hole in the safe large enough for us to get through.
"Let's see what's inside that safe," Tai said approaching the giant steel door.
"Let's," I said following Tai also approaching the door.
The others were soon to follow. All of us managed to fit through the hole we had created without much of a problem, except that Will's wheelchair couldn't fit through, so Rob and Ken helped him get through and supported him on their shoulders. He didn't look too happy about it, I'd already figured out he didn't like receiving help just so he could do something like standing up.
We all examined the vault, and I think I spoke for everyone when I said we were all surprised at what we saw in there. Not because of what we saw was some amazing or dangerous, but just the opposite, we didn't see anything, the room was practically empty, the only object in the room was a computer, and it wasn't even a very good one. In fact it didn't look any good at all, it was at least a decade old, probably more, it showed too, it was covered with a thick layer of dust.
"This is it?!" Davis said. "Some ancient computer?"
"Ancient is right," Izzy said looking over the computer. "This is almost as old as they come, an acorn one of the first PCs that ever came out, I'd say it's at about fifteen years old. Not very useful though, it's mainly just used for word processing, not to mention it's big and clunky, compared to the computers we've got now it's just a paperweight, kind of weird he would lock something like this up with such extreme measures."
"Maybe he just wants to protect it because it's so old," Davis suggested. "Aren't antiques really valuable."
"When it comes to vases yes, but computers decrease in value when they get older, like I said this thing is just some high tech paperweight, there's no reason for whosever to store it like this."
"Couldn't it just be possible that whoever lives here didn't know about the huge safe in his house," Agumon suggested. "And the computer was just put in here at a time when it was valuable."
"That's a possibility," Izzy said. "But I think it's pretty not to notice a giant vault in your house."
"It doesn't look like we're going to find much here," Tai said. "Did you guys find anything?"
Davis and T.K who had each been in the other two groups shook their head.
"Nothing but a bunch of dusty stuff," Davis said.
"Actually, we - " I began to say before a sound coming from the door cut me off.
My head along with everyone else's jerked towards the direction of the door, in time to see what we could only assume was the only of the house, squeeze through the hold we had made. He wasn't exactly big, he was very skinny, looked to be in his early thirties, and had the thickest pair of glasses you'd ever seen, your classic stereotypical nerd.
"What are you doing here?!" He screamed. "This is private property! Who are -" He paused for a second as he stared at us then noticed our Digimon.
Okay what am I supposed to say to this guy, tell the truth, make up some like and leave, or just blast our way out and leave no explanations just a shocked look on his face. Personally I was pulling towards the third option.
"You – You're the Digidestined aren't you! Wow I can't believe you're actually here."
"Did he just say what I thought he said?" Dan asked.
"You know who we are?" Tai said definitely sounding confused.
"Do I know who you are?! Of course I know who you are! You're the Digidestined, twenty kids given powers by the forces of light of the Digital World! I've watched your battles since the first fight at Highton View Terrace between Greymon and Parrotmon. I've dedicated the last thirteen years of my life to studying Digimon, and the Digital World! You're an integral part of the whole thing how could I not know who you are?"
My jaw had dropped wide open. Why hadn't we heard about this guy before? If there was some expert on the Digital World why didn't Baihumon tell us about it? He was holding out on us, this guy must know everything there was to know about Digimon if he'd been studying them for thirteen years, that was five years before our first encounter with the Digimon, even then we didn't know what was going on, it wasn't until eight years later that we all finally figured out the majority of what was going on. Though it did look like he had turned Digimon into an obsession of his, that at least explained the multiple pictures in the room upstairs.
"I can't believe I'm actually meeting you! I've been watching your battles for so long, and you're actually here in my house." He stepped up to Elecmon beginning to examine him. "Wow, I've seen Digimon on my computer screen but I've never seen one up close, it's so amazing."
"Uh yeah," Elecmon said backing off slightly looking a little creeped out. "Who are you anyway, I don't recall hearing about you, and a second question how do you know so much about us?"
"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't introduce myself did I. My name is Chenk…it's a nickname don't ask, and I know so much about you because I've seen it all. I was there when the Digimon and the Digital World was just a single bit of data…I'll never forget that day."
"What?!" Tai yelled. "Are you saying you actually saw the Digital World being created?"
"Well I didn't actually see it be created, but I did see it grow into what it is today. I'll never forget that day fourteen years ago. I came home and sat down at my new computer, I was really excited, I actually saved up enough money to get one, I'd used it before and loved it, but when I sat down to do some typing that day and discovered something that would change my life, my computer had spawned life."
"Life?" Izzy said. "That's physically impossible. "Computers are machines they have no organic components. They can't spawn life."
"Neither did the earth billions of years ago," Chenk said. "It was just a lifeless ball of rock, and it's believed, that a one and a million chance occurred, when conditions were just absolutely right, life somehow created itself, and then slowly evolved into what we are today. All from inorganic compounds, that's exactly how the Digimon and the Digital world was created. I had left the computer on during the day and somehow conditions within it's operating were just right Digital life was created on the computer. At first it was really simple, just like life on earth was. The first life thought to be on earth were just single celled organisms, the same thing happened with Digimon, at first it was just one bit of information dancing around on the white space of my word processing program. Then like earth they began to evolve, getting more complex, soon bits turned to kilobytes, kilobytes into megabytes, and megabytes into gigabytes, until it was a totally complex system, one that wasn't just contained on my simple little computer anymore, somehow they had created another world, a second dimension. I was amazed at how fast they had developed, in a matter of five years an entire world of complex digital life had been created within it's own world, now separate from my computer. Yet though they were complex, they weren't half as complex as they are now, they were alive, but they were still data, still just binary code…but still alive. Then the invention of the Internet changed everything for them. Once the World Wide Web went up the Digimon took full advantage of it taking in all the data from it that they could. Using that data given to them by humans to evolve even further, allowing them to take a physical shape, for example, Agumon there probably obtained his physical form, by copying data from some web page on dinosaurs."
"Are you calling me a copycat," Agumon grunted.
Chenk continued ignoring the Agumon. "This allowed the Digimon to escape their Digital form they were no longer Digital, they were real. Like I said before I was amazed at how fast this all happened it only took six years fro them to go from living Digital binary code to physical real living beings, they evolved just like humans are thought to have done, from a simple life form to a complex one, only in a matter of six years. Of course to the Digimon it was much longer than that, as most of you know time moves much faster in the Digital World than in the real world, in fact back then the time went by so fast that for every second in the real world a year went by in the real world, so though billions of years went by in the Digital world only six years had gone by in the real world. It probably would have continued that way if Evamon hadn't shown up."
"He disturbed the balance right?" Rob said.
"Exactly," Chenk answered. "He launched an attack on the Digital World at that time he disturbed the balance of the Digital world causing the Digital World and the real world to become closer together thus causing the time difference to become smaller. To fight this the Digital Worlds defenses created you, and though you managed to win victory after victory against Evamon it wasn't enough to stop him from disturbing the balance, and now the time between the Digital World and the real world has become synchronized, and all this time, while the Digital World was being created and while you were battling Evamon, I was watching, watching and admiring those amazing battles, on my computer screen."
"Well that explains why the computer was in this big safe," Sean said. "You wanted to protect it when the Digimon and Digital World was still evolving."
Chenk nodded. "Yeah, though there's not much point in keeping it here now, since the Digimon created their own world and separated from it."
"Okay now I have a question. If you knew about us why didn't you ever try and help us?" Matt asked. "Your information could have helped us."
"You didn't seem to need it, you were fighting fine all by yourself, but if you really want my help I think I've got something that could be of use to you."
"And that is?" I asked.
"I think you mentioned before that you were tired of just sitting around waiting for Evamon to attack, I've got a way for you to do something. See I've been tracking Evamon's trail; whenever that Dark rip he creates disappears he leaves a data trail. I did a quick scan and I've detected where he's going to appear next. If you want I can show you."
"Your kidding right?" I said. "We've been looking for this guy for months and you find him that quickly!"
"Quickly isn't a good way to put it. I've been monitoring Evamon ever since he first appeared I've just recently found out this much. Now come on follow me and I'll show you where he's going to appear."
"No," Tai and I said at the same time. I gave Tai a signal to go ahead and give the reason we were both thinking of.
"It's too dangerous, if Evamon himself is going to be there, it's going to be dangerous for us let alone you. You'll tell us and we'll take care of it."
"I don't think so! For years I've just been watching through a stupid computer screen this time I'm going to see it up close."
"Like Tai said it's too dangerous!" I said.
"If you don't take me with you I'm not going to tell you where Evamon's appearing!"
Both Tai and I froze now, trying to think up some sort of an idea to force him to tell us, but nothing came to mind. We couldn't force it out of him; he had studied us since the beginning, he knew that whatever we threatened him with we'd be bluffing.
"Fine," I said approaching the safe door. "Looks like we don't have a choice. Penguinmon you'll be our transport, are you okay to Digivolve to Parrotmon.
"Yeah," Penguinmon answered. "I've had plenty to eat I can Digivolve."
"Well let's go," I said slipping through the hole in the door. "The more time we waist here, the more time we give Evamon to show up."
The others were hesitant especially with Chenk coming with us, but they knew like I did they didn't have much of a choice, so after about ten minutes, we were in the air all forty of us riding on Parrotmon's back.
"How far exactly is this place?" Tai asked Chenk.
"Not far at all," he answered. "In fact we're here right now, right down there."
That was strange, we'd only been flying for five minutes and we were already there? Chenk pointed down towards the ground right at the town square, it was where certain festivals were held in the town, there wasn't anything down there now but an empty lot, but it was right in the center of town so there were plenty of people down there.
"Are you nuts!" Jenn yelled. "Parrotmon can't land there, there's a crowd of people down there, she'd cause a panic!"
"Well I'd say in about five minutes Evamon is about to cause a panic, don't you think it's better that they see a friendly Digimon and run at the same time clearing out before Evamon can show up and hurt them."
"He's got a point," I said. "Let's take her down."
Parrotmon was hesitant, but she did like I had instructed and landed in the center of the square, and like we'd predicted most people ran away screaming, though some of them just stood there amazed that the giant parrot that had just descended. We ignored them and all of us slid off of Parrotmon's back onto the ground.
"So when exactly is Evamon going to show up?" Elecmon asked.
Chenk began to walk away from the group, keeping his back to us. "Oh I'd say he's here right now!"
I could feel my stomach tighten up as a strange black aurora surrounded Chenk. As that happened something suddenly clicked in my head. Ever since Chenk had told me his name, I'd felt that there was something familiar about it, but I couldn't figure it out until now. He was Evan Chenk! A computer programmer that had mysteriously disappeared about fourteen years ago, I now began to see the obvious. Evan, That's where Evamon's name had come from!
Those who hadn't figured out what was going on did as Evan turned around revealing his now glowing yellow eyes. Glowing yellow eyes that had haunted me ever since I first saw them, the same day I'd encountered Emily and this entire fight started.
"I've waited so long for this!" Evamon said no longer disguising his voice using Evan's. "Fourteen years, I've finally managed to reassemble my human body, and then assemble a Digimon one. It's time to end this pathetic feud Digidestined!"
As he said that Evamon began to change, starting to mutate, the only thing any of us could do was take a step back, we were all to afraid to attack in fear that it might just make things worse, so all we did was watch, watch as the once skinny and geeky human before us began to mutate.
"Time to end this feud!" Evamon repeated. "Time to end it with your deaths!"
Ah so what did you think about the origin of the Digital world I created? That's just how I think it may have started, as data on a computer and eventually evolved into…never mind you read the story I don't need to explain it. Maybe that's not how it started in the show, but that's how it started in my fic, and yeah I know I'm horrible for leaving you at a cliffhanger like this, and there are a lot of questions unanswered, but I assure you all questions will be answered in the next Chapter.
Stay tuned for Chapter 37: Bio Digivolution