Future Dreams
Disclaimer: *Sobs* I don't own digimon! WAAAHHHHH!!!
A/N: Yay I got more reviews! Thanks again! This chapter took me a little longer than the last time to get out, but at least it's a little longer! That counts for something right...
Chapter Two
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Takato watched the clock in the classroom silently, wishing the minutes would speed up and stop feeling like hours.
*One two minutes left* He thought happily.
He had spent most of his detention doing everything from drawing digimon, to counting ceiling tiles… There were 138 of them.
He looked up at the clock yet again, *one more minute…*
He wanted to get out of here and see Guilmon, besides maybe if he was lucky he'd find Kenta, or Kazu waiting for him there, and they could hang out for a while… Or if he was even luckier maybe he'd see Rika…
He blushed just thinking about her. Sure, he didn't know his exact felling for her, but they sure weren't bad ones…
One more quick look at the clock… *Yes 4 o'clock!*
Looking up at Ms. Finsa with pleading eyes, he prayed mentally,
*Please let me go…*
She looked up at him warily, finally giving in to his pleading look.
"Fine Takato, you may leave."
These simply words had an effect she had been expecting… He was up and out of the classroom in under a second. But not before giving a quick bow and a poilite "thank you" of course.
She stared at the door, long after he'd left.
"Kids." She muttered shaking her head, before returning to her paperwork.
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"Hey goggle-head what took you so long?" Asked Rika, as he rushed up to greet them.
"It's…A…Long…Story…" He panted, taking in a few long breaths of air.
"He got a detention." Kazu said, smirking.
Takato sweatdroped. "Apparently not that long."
Takato looked at the sight set before him, and ask the simply question on his mind.
"Hey? What are you guys doing here?"
With the exception of Jeri, who had obviously left earlier, all the Tamers were here. Even little Suzi sat beside a bush, playing with Lopmon.
"Hey it's a free country you know." Rika stated with a half smile, that suited her well. "Besides, we were bored."
"Cool." He smiled, though still staring at Suzi. Not that he minded her company. But even if Henry had been bored, that was no reason to drag her along for the ride...
Henry answered his unasked question, "My mom made me bring her." He sighed. "Apparently she's been making trouble around the house."
Suzi obviously knew that they were talking about her. "It wasn't me who knocked over the lamp. It was Tewiermon!" She stated, pointing her finger at the little digimon.
"Hey!" He cried out in response. "Tattletale! Oops…" He looked sheepishly at Henry. "Hey, momentai Henry! It was an accident I swear!"
Suzi grinned widely, apparently proud of her accomplishment.
"Hey Guilmon!" Takato called, wondering where he was and hoping to avoid listen to a lecture from Henry to Terriermon.
"Takatomon!" Takato turned his head to the sound of the noise, only to be tackled by an oversized digimon.
"Hi boy." Takato wheezed the air knocked out of him.
"Oh Guilmon." Cried both Rika and Henry. "Get off him, he needs to breath you know!" Both of them were able to pull the dinosaur off his partner.
"Sorry Takato." Guilmon said looking almost as sheepish as Terriermon had a few moments ago.
"Don't worry about it." He smiled, got up, and starting brushing off his clothes for the second time that day.
"Hey guys?" Takato asked the question that was on his mind. "How come Jeri didn't stay and hang out with you guys?"
"I don't know." Said Kazu, putting his two cents in. "Maybe she sorta felt out of place."
"Huh? How come?" He asked, confused.
Kenta took his chance to speak up, "Well you know… She doesn't have a digimon like the rest of us. She's still a Tamer, but do you really think that she'd just forget about Leomon? It's only been three months, and he was here partner."
"Yeah, I know I'd defiantly be lost without Guardromon here." Kazu said, pointing to his big lug of a digimon.
"And I, you, Kazu." His partner smiled proudly.
Takato kept his cursing to himself. He had been hanging around Jeri for the last three months, and he hadn't known enough to notice his best was still hurting.
*Some friend I am…*
Rika had obviously seen his sad, and discouraged look, because she put her hand on his shoulder.
"Hey don't worry about it Takato. You not the only one who didn't notice. Besides she'll be fine, and if not, she has us to help her."
"Yeah I guess your right." He admitted defeat.
*But I still should have noticed…*
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"What do you mean Yamaki" Asked Janyuu, trying to keep calmness in his voice. What kind of problem?
"One word." He said calmly enough, though his companions could still see the strain.
"D-Reaper."
Dolphin looked at him his face a mask of shock and confusion. "Your joking right?"
"No joke." He said steadily. "Let's just say it brought in reinforcements."
"But that's not possible!" Janyuu cried out, in both anger and alarm. "We made sure it was gone for good! We made complete scans of both the real and digital world, alike! There's no way it could just reappear after 3 months!
"I assure you Janyuu, it's back, and no matter what you want to believe, is not going to change just because you want it to! If you're interested in helping come with me and I'll explain."
He motioned a hand towards the door to the side, where one of the main labs was held.
They followed, and found one of Yamaki's main computer experts, Tally, waiting for them.
Yamaki nodded to her, and she motioned them to a nearby computer in response.
"As I'm sure Yamaki has told you all, we have a big problem on our hands. Apparently as the D-Reaper evolved it created a back up program. What were dealing with now." She finish, getting straight to the point."
"But how?" Ask Daisy, confused. "It should have been detected when we scanned the area."
"That was the tricky part." She said continuing. "D-Reaper obviously knew we would search for remains if it was ever destroyed, so it created something called a time fold, built right between the real and digital world, so it was undetectable."
"A time fold?"
"I know. We've never seen anything like it. But it did its job, hiding the program until it was ready to activate."
"Oh." Was all Daisy could reply, trying to process this new information.
"We picked up the D-Reaper's signature coming out of the fold, sometime late last night, and managed to gather some information from the fold before it collapsed."
"Apparently this new D-Reaper has only one concious state, unlike the first one that had many. But it's at least ten times stronger than the original, and there's even a bigger problem…It's damaged…" She looked grim.
"Damaged?" Asked Janyuu confused. "Wouldn't that be a good thing?"
"Well in some ways yes." She replied. "In the battle between the Tamers and the D-Reaper, we believe the fold was some how damaged, damaging the program in the process. It's good in the way that it defense is at minimum, and it's attack power has been lowered by a bit." She was starting to babble. "But the fact that the D-Reaper isn't totally in the real world yet-"
"Not in the real world yet?" Babel interrupted. "What do you mean?"
"Another one of things damaged, it can't totally merge into this world yet, but we need to work fast before it learns to compensate."
"So what have you come up with so far?" Asked Janyuu.
She sighed loudly, "Nothing yet, but our main problem is finding it first."
"Huh? I thought you knew where it was?"
"That's the bad news. It's attack pattern eregular, and with it's motives now changed-"
"Motives? I don't understand what motives?"
"Well sir." She sighed again. "Before the D-Reaper was interested in only one thing, Destruction of life, in both the real and digital world. Now it's after something completely different…"
They looked on impatiently waiting for her to continue.
"…Revenge."
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