Dejital Wars Episode 1
C2: Eternal Ice and Light
[A/N: Next!]
[Disclaimer: Lucas and his boys own the original stuff, but I own the modified stuff I type down. Don't steal and don't sue.]
Gennai watched the stars pass by for a long while, listening to Taichi and Agumon snore loudly. He almost never realized that Hikari was gone from the main control room until he glanced up and felt the missing piece in the Digital flow. He stood, tired of the snoring sound, and went to look.
His acute senses of the Digital led him straight to the library of the vessel. Hikari and Tailmon were sitting in the middle of the mahogany-toned room, reading books they had tugged from the rows of shelves and mentioning facts to each other.
"Hey, Tailmon," Hikari said, "do you suppose there are lots of Virus Lords around?"
"There are." Gennai spoke up, stepping fully into the library, "But none will be a match for you thirteen Chosen Deji."
"Hi, Gennai." Hikari looked up at the man. Tailmon giggled vaguely at the rhyming, but Gennai nodded in return.
"You don't need to worry about Virus Lords on this little journey." he explained, "No one except the Deji Council knows that I'm collecting you children."
"What's got you smiling so much, Yagami?"
Mr. Yagami turned and looked at his coworker, still smiling broadly.
"My wife called me just before we took off." he replied, "Our children are going to be trained."
"Oh?" the other man replied, "At an Imperial Institute back on Junray?"
"To be Deji." Mr. Yagami lowered his voice, but couldn't keep the excitement from his words.
"Really?" the other man's eyebrows lifted, "Would you excuse me for a moment?" He stood from his seat and headed through the ship to the cargo bay. He withdrew a pocket VC, or Video-Communicator, and activated it.
"General, I've news of Deji." he whispered with glee.
Destination: Icae. Time: Arrived. Destination: Icae. Time: Arrived.
"Gennai, your computer's yelling stuff!" Taichi shouted, rolling over and covering his ears, "Shut it up!"
Gennai, Hikari, and Tailmon walked into the main control room, carefully stepping over Taichi and Agumon, and sat down.
"So who are we looking for on Icae?" Hikari questioned after Gennai had requested permission to land.
"Two brothers." Gennai answered, "Ishida Yamato and Takaishi Takeru. I don't think they'll be living together because their parents are divorced. However, Yamato and Takeru like being with each other. Their partners are Patamon and Gabumon. Both boys have blond hair and blue eyes. The way to tell them apart is Takeru has a fisherman's cap, and Yamato is a musician. I hope we can find them quickly."
"What if they aren't together?" Taichi sat up and rubbed his brown eyes, "I mean, what if they're in different places in…where are we going exactly?"
"The boys live in the city of Rime." the Deji Knight replied, typing in commands when the confirm to land came, "We're landing there right now."
The temperature in the ship began to drop as they lowered through the atmosphere. Taichi and Hikari began to shiver from the cold, but Gennai was trained to deal, and the digimon didn't feel it.
"You had better wear some different clothes." Gennai said without looking, "There's a storage room back from this room and to the right. But I advise you hurry. We're almost there."
"Oy, there!" the man that was running the port called, "You'll be freezing your feet if you walk around in those boots! Take those HTS units over there, and don't stand in the snow for very long if you like your feet!"
The three humans took the HTS units and Taichi and Hikari carried their digimon in their arms. As they exited the large spaceport, the group was met with a cold breeze. Snow was falling gently, and everything was covered in snow and ice. The buildings themselves seemed to be formed from ice, large stalagmites rising from the ground.
Lights glinted from inside the ice-buildings, and very faintly, shapes could be seen to move.
"It would be far easier to search for these two boys if we all split up." Gennai murmured, "I will search out their parents, and you two will look for the boys. Taichi, you look for Yamato, and Hikari, you look for Takeru. Remember what they look like, who their partners are, and I'll contact you on the com-links I gave you. May the Digital be with you." He flew off on the HTS, heading for the ice-buildings. Taichi and Hikari nodded to each other and went in opposite directions.
"So they're on Icae then."
"Yes sir. By your command, I'm sending probe droids to see if it's actually Gennai. We'll have news shortly."
The holographic transmission ended, and the first speaker turned to look out to the stars.
"You are searching for Deji, are you, Gennai?" he questioned to nothingness, his red and yellow eyes scanning the horizon of space and stars, "How interesting that you are." He took a long, slow draw of red wine from a snifter, smiling maliciously.
He laughed wickedly.
"Man, I hate you, Agumon." Taichi said, his teeth chattering, "You get to have fire in you, and I'm freezing my hair off."
"Come on, Taichi!" the orange dinosaur said, "We need to find Yamato, like Gennai said!" Taichi sneezed hard and sniffed wearily.
"Yeah, yeah." the human muttered ruefully, "I bet he's just a stuck-up loser that can't tell anything apart from the stick up his butt."
"Taichi!"
"What? What?"
"Excuse me, but do you know a boy named Takaishi Takeru?" Hikari questioned the small boy playing with his friends.
"Yeah, but he's not here." the little boy replied, packing a snowball in his gloved hands, "He likes playing with us, but he didn't come today."
"Where might he be?" Hikari questioned further, Tailmon curled around her neck.
"Well, he likes hanging out by the ice river." the boy answered, "He and Patamon are always down there."
"Thank you." Hikari smiled at the boy. She turned, nearly falling over, and started away. The boy nodded and chucked the snowball at one of his friends.
"All right, so I've managed to track down their parents." Gennai muttered, "And they happen to live right next to each other. Must have been the boys' doing. Oh well."
He raised both hands, and knocked sharply on the two doors. They opened at the same moment, and two people answered, "Yes?" at the same moment.
"Hello, Mr. Ishida, and Ms. Takaishi." he greeted them both with smiles, "My name is Gennai, and this is about your sons."
"OK, so this Yamato guy likes to play music." Taichi said, looking about the snowy region, "Maybe he's at some sort of concert place or something."
There was a sudden splat as a snowball smacked Taichi in the back of the head. He spun to hang upside, looking around rapidly.
"Oh, sorry, man!" a blond boy rushed up to him, running through the ankle-deep snow, "I thought you were Gabumon!"
"Yamato!" a lizard-wolf hopped over a snow bank, "What did you hit?"
"Some guy!" the blond boy called back, "Listen, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to hit you."
Taichi stared angrily, but the HTS had too much strain from him and Agumon's weight, and the energy binders stopped working. The two collapsed into the snow, and Taichi leapt back up into the air immediately, screaming with rage—and the fact that snow had gone straight up his shirt and pants.
"GET IT OUT!" he screamed, dancing about, "GET IT THE HELL OUT!" He clapped his clothes, trying to move the snow out.
"Here!" the blond hurried over to Taichi and tugged at his shirt. The snow plopped out, but there was more snow to be found in Taichi's pants. Taichi kicked each leg furiously, and snow flew in every direction.
"F-f-f-freezing…" he hopped up and down, teeth chattering hard.
"Cripes!" the blond boy said, rubbing the back of his head, "I'm really, really sorry! It's my fault!"
Taichi rubbed his arms, trying to keep his feet from going numb by leaping up and down. The boy grabbed Taichi around the waist and lifted him just enough so he wasn't touching the snow.
"Gabumon, get the guy's HTS!" the blond boy said, "I'm not holding him forever!"
The Gabumon hurried and set the HTS back up. The boy set Taichi down carefully, and the HTS lifted from the ground. Taichi still shivered a bit, but was better.
"I'm really sorry about that." the boy bowed, looking rather embarrassed, "My name's Ishida Yamato, and this is my buddy, Gabumon. Who are you?"
Taichi blinked, his shivering stopping. Yamato… Ah, yes.
"Name's Yagami Taichi, and you're the one I've been looking for!" he cried.
The snow was still falling when Hikari and Tailmon arrived at the ice-river. It was completely ice, just separated from the snowy ground, and a small waterfall was frozen in the most interesting fashion. It was beautiful, how the water had frozen in the shape of its spray. A blond boy with a fisherman's cap was sitting on a rock by the top of the waterfall, petting a Patamon that was sleeping in his lap.
His blue eyes spotted Hikari as she moved closer on the HTS, and he waved in greeting.
"Hello." he said as she came close enough to step onto the rock off of the HTS, "I haven't seen you around here before."
"My name is Yagami Hikari." Hikari placed a hand on her chest with a smile, "This is my friend, Tailmon. We're from the planet, Junray, and…well, what's your name?"
"I'm Takaishi Takeru." the boy smiled back, "This little bum is Patamon. So what is a person from a sunny planet like you doing on this ice ball?"
"You're Takeru?" Hikari pointed a finger at him, smiling even more, "It seems I've found you."
"Our boys are going to Deji?" Mr. Ishida questioned.
"With their consent, of course." Gennai murmured.
"It's obvious that they should be." Ms. Takaishi said in a soft voice, "Takeru has always had a deep connection to everything, and Yamato always was able to do anything his mind was set to."
There was a sharp crackling noise from the com-link around Gennai's neck.
"Gennai, I found Yamato!" Taichi's voice emerged from the link, "Where should we go?"
"Gennai, Takeru is with me." Hikari's voice also came from the link, "Where should we meet?"
"Tell the boys to take you to their homes." Gennai flicked on both sides of the link, "I'll be here."
"So that's four down, nine to go?" Taichi questioned as they all headed for the spaceport.
Takeru and Yamato had agreed immediately when told of their situation. They both wanted to become Deji, and they wanted to help the Deji get rid of the Darkness.
"Yes." Gennai murmured, "We're going to—" He stopped moving completely, his eyes slowly moving from side to side. The four children and digimon looked back at Gennai, about to ask what was the matter.
In a flash, Gennai had drawn and activated his shining silver lightsaber and spun about on the HTS, slashing hard. A small black machine that was hovering a few feet behind them was cut in half, and the acrid scent of burnt metal and scorched wiring filled the snowy air.
"Probe droid." the Deji Knight muttered thoughtfully, "Why is it following us, though? No one's supposed to know I'm looking for you…"
He whipped around again and gestured to move quickly to the spaceport. The children and digimon followed fast, and they were soon inside the Silver Sword.
"Damn." Gennai sighed, sitting in the main control room, hand over his mouth, "Damn. I never expected this to happen."
"What's wrong?" Takeru asked, Patamon lounging on his head.
"Someone knows." Gennai answered, "Someone knows I'm searching for Deji, and they're trying to track me and get an idea of who I'm looking for."
He let out a sigh and started to punch in commands. Taichi and Yamato flopped down into two other chairs but Takeru and Hikari remained standing.
"We would have had to make a long HJ to reach the next planet anyway." Gennai said, his hands flying over the keyboard, "But I think we had better make a few short ones to keep our movements secret."
"HJ?" Patamon looked down at Takeru in question.
"Hyperspace Jump." Takeru replied, "So if we keep our time in hyperspace short, we can't be tracked, right?"
"That's correct." the Deji Knight answered, "I'll tell you where we are at each stop so you'll know, but you two had better sit down and strap in. HJ traveling isn't that fun when you stand up at takeoff." He typed the last commands in as Takeru and Hikari sat and strapped up.
"To the planet Cycron, then." Gennai pulled one last lever. The stars in the viewscreen began stretching, and then the surroundings turned white with their speed.
They were off.
—to be continued—
