Alter-universe, this story is actually set in the real world. Evereybody anticipated the arrival of Season3, and Rika Burnes was no exception. The problem was, when she Does see it, she'll be in for the shock of her life...how many violet-eyed girls Are there in the world?

Disclaimer: I don't own digimon. I think that if I did, you'd be seeing Keramon Waaay more often.



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Twin Times

"Rika! It's starting!"

"Coming!"

Young 13-year-old Rika Burnes came trotting down the stair as fast as she could. The new third season of Digimon, Digimon Tamers, was going to premire in a few minutes. And she was NOt going to miss it.

Grabbing a cup in the kitchen, she quickly filled it with milk, and ran into the living room, plopping down in a chair as she did so.

She's in her pajamas right now, but her face is quite cheery. Her golden- red hair was cut at the small of her back, and small bangs dangled from her ears. Her eyes were a bright violet, a rare color, and one that she prided herself about.

Sitting in the chair next to her is her father, and in the floor is her younger sister. Her mother was back in the kitchen, making waffles for breakfast.

"You're just in time Rika. They're about finished playing the commercials." Mr. Burnes looked at his watch. "If you've wanted to see it this much, why did you have to wake us all up? And even then, why not just let the Vcr auto-record it?"

"One, I didn't want for you all to miss out. Second..." she popped a tape into the aforementioned Vcr. "I don't trust the timer recordings. And there's a third, I don't know anything about it. You know I've gone on that internet strike when I first heard about it, I don't even know what the characters look like!"

"Of course." he scratched his cheek nervously. He knew how persistant his daughter could be, and although she was nothing like a tomboy, she made her decisions and stuck by them.

"Look!" the sister, Cassie, crowed.

Rika turned right around and hit the record button, just as the digital blocks appeared onscreen.

They all sat mesmerized by the scenes that unfolded. The little white digimon was running away from the armored digimon, which Rika noted in her head that it was Maildramon.

Right before the opening song started to play, the worst possible thing that could happen to her, happened.

Her bladder called at her.

"Dangit!" she cursed, running towards the bathroom. From in there, she could at least hear what the new song sounded like. She didn't see anything...

Yet.

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Seated back in the chair, she watched as the boy, Takato, drew a red digimon in his notebook. She chortled when Ms Asashii caught him. Her dad commented. "He's a goner."

Then Rika became glued to the screen as Takato went back to the playground, to pick up his cards. He found the blue card, and slashed it through his reader. She downright sqealed when she saw the new digivice.

Then came the scanning scene. She couldn't belive her eyes as the digivice scanned his notebook pages, and created a digiegg in the screen. She was estatic.

Then came the dream sequence.

Takato was suspended in the air, watching something. A girl appeared out of the fog.

Eyes widened when she saw her hair. Golden-red. Bangs at the ears. It was done up in a spikey ponytail.

Now that's creepy, she thought. I'd never do my hair like that.

The wind was blowing, and she wore a trenchcoat and sunglasses. She took the glasses off.

Her heart stopped.

Her eyes were a bright violet.

Then a giant flaming tiger digimon appeared in the fog. A far corner of her mind tagged it as Lynxmon.

Then She Spoke.

"So it's Renamon versus Lynxmon."

The voice...it's just like...

She stepped aside, and revealed a large fox digimon.

She could only watch the battle as it played out. The new digimon, Renamon, saw Takato, but said nothing. She continued her attack on the armor digimon, but it became clear she needed help.

Then the card slash sequence played. It was imprinted on the girl's mind forever as it played out.

"Digi-Modify! Hyperspeed, activate!"

Renamon went faster than ever, and unleashed her Diamond Storm attack. The tiger digimon was deleted, but somehow the scene wasn't finished.

Then she exclaimed quietly as she saw the next part. "She's Uploading the data into herself!"

Then the shot went back to the girl, and she froze again. The person onscreen didn't cheer or anything, she simply nodded, and left the fog.

The girl watching the show, sat through the rest of the episode, half- watching, half-numb.

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She was quite surprised when she discovered that it was a two-parter, one- hour long mega episode. She woke up enough to watch the rest of it.

Seeing the new Guilmon's antics was funny, especially when confined to the box. Then the scene switched to a busy street.

She froze again, there was the girl, sans trenchcoat, listening to a small headphone set. She could see now that she wore a white top, with green sleeves, and a broken purple heart on the chest. She also had on blue jeans, and a brown leather card-holder belt swung around her hip.

Is this her normal outfit?

The character girl walks by some guys, who were talking about the card game. "One card man, and you're back to rookie."

"He, hehey, it's you! I mean, you're her? arn't you?" One of them was pointing and looking at the girl.

"You're Incomprehensible."

"Comprehend this, that's Rika Nonaka, the Digimon Queen! She won the official digi-battle championship this year!"

"Aw man, really??"

Then the telepathic scene occured. It was clear that she didn't treat even normal people as people, much less digimon.

As the scene ended, she heard Renamon say "You only think you're alone Rika."

As the commercial break started, Mr. Burnes, and Cassie, looked up towards the other chair.

Sitting in it, Rika 's purple eyes were glazed over in shock. she had heard every little bit, and the name had her reeling. Nervously, she watched the rest of the episode play, as it ended with Takato coming up against the character Rika. "Renamon, walk all over him."

The episode ended.

Who am I?

Although it was 8 in the morning, and she had slept 7 hours, Rika felt like she had been up for three days straight. Sleep started to claim her.

Maybe I shouldn't have made that stupid strike.

She passed out.

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