MA: hey peoples. Damn! You folks really do like ascendants, don't ya?
(Takato flying around the sky as an ascendant.)
Takato: YIPPPPEEEEEEE!
Max: he's been like that since the last episode. Come on down kid.
Takato: man! What a rush! This is great!
MA: of course. Last night I had a brainstorm; currently I am thinking of working on a digimon version of resident evil. It will be just like the game but with some digimon characters in it. And I have some favors to ask of my fans. First, maybe it's just me or has everyone seen digimon movie with the tamers but me. Can some tell me where they have seen and where I can too? Second, I hope to create a d3 website but I find some where to make it. I tried geocities but they sucked. If anyone knows of somewhere, let me know.
Tai: is that it?
MA: well, yeah.
Towelie: don't forget to bring a towel.
MA: towelie? But we don't need a towel.
Towelie: oh I know. I just needed an excuse to come here.
Takato: why?
Towelie: wanna get high?
(They all look at each other.)
MA: sure.
Tai: what the hell!
Max: let's do it.
Takato: let's light up that J!
Towelie: all right!
MA: before I lose all sense of reality, I don't own digimon so don't sue me!
The others: GO! GO! GO! GO! GO!
(Takato takes a long drag from the joint, holds his breathe, and exhaled.)
Tai: well?
Takato: it's the Bombay dog!
MA: on with the fic!
DIGIMON THE MOVIE: THE RETURN OF THE DIGITAL WARLORD
TRAINING DAYS
Renamon and guilmon lay in the woods, the fox hanging from a branch and the dino on the ground. Both were barely aware of the night sky or the chirping of the crickets but were now very aware of a bright golden light. Walking down the path was takato with rika in his arms. His entire body was surround by a golden aura; his normally brown replace by gold and his brown eyes were now green. As he pass the digimon, part of takato's aura shot over to them, turning them that color for a short time. When it died, both opened their eyes and stood up.
" Renamon?"
" Guilmon? How do you feel?"
" Great, like peanut butter. Takato?" he said as he and renamon finally caught a good look at takato.
" Rika! is she ok?"
" Yes renamon. She's fine." He said, unbelievably calm with little to no emotion on his face.
" Renamon, I'm taking her home. Meet me there."
Before she could do anything, takato floated off the ground and into the sky to Guilmon's awe. Rika inched her eyes open, looking up at takato as they flew.
" Takato, is that you?" she asked weakly.
" Yes."
" Where are we going?"
" Shhh! Just rest. I'm taking you home."
" What...about...the warlord?"
" Don't worry. I won't let him hurt you anymore."
Rika smiled a little before passing out as they flew over the skyline. Meanwhile, in his room, Henry, with a bandage around his head, was on the phone with takato's parent, in hopes to finding him, since he and rika disappeared after the battle.
" Ok, if I hear something, I'll call, sir. Ok. Thank you."
" Well?" asked terriermon, sporting his own Band-Aids.
" They haven't heard a word from him and the same goes with rika. I hope they are ok."
" Well, Henry, maybe they are spending some time together, if you get my drift."
" Terriermon!"
The rabbit digimon laughed his head when he glances out the window.
" Henry! Come quick!"
" What is it now? You better not be watching the neighbors doing it again."
" No, some thing better."
The tamer looked out his window to see an awesome sight; a strange gold streak of light flying over the roofs of the city.
" Is it a digimon?"
" No but it has some strange power. Unlike anything I've ever felt."
Henry stared at the phenomenon and could barely make out some shapes in it. His eyes shot open wide as he recognized a familiar face.
Takato?
" Oh rika, where are you?" wondered rika's very worried mother. It had been hours since she last heard from her daughter. It didn't help the fact that her friend, Henry, called asking if she was there.
" Rumiko, calm down." Spoke her mother, rika's grandmother.
" Calm down?! Mom, I could barely handle that d-reaper mess but now this! I don't know if I can handle this again!"
" Don't worry. Rika's is getting older. She can handle whatever comes her way. Besides, she has renamon, and she wouldn't let anything happen to her."
" I hope you're right, mom."
Just then, rika's grandmother caught a glimpse of a strange glow out side the window.
" Rumiko? Did you leave any lights on out side?"
" No mom. Why?"
Unknown to both of them, takato landed out side in the yard. As he walk down the short stone path, flowers that would usually open in the day, did so as the youngster passed. Checking on a hunch, rika's grandmother went outside in time to see him walk up to rika's room. Gasping in awe and surprise at the sight of the illuminated boy, whom she recognized as one of her grand daughters' tamers friends.
" Takato?" she said, remembering his name. He turned towards, staring at her with his emerald eyes, allowing her a view of her half dead granddaughter.
" Rika! Is she...."
" No. She just weak. Is this her room?"
" Yes."
" Thank you." he committed as he slide open the door. Rumiko ran out, just in time to see the golden goggle boy take her daughter into her room.
" Mom?"
" Don't ask."
Takato looked around her dark room, his power being the only source of light. He realized that this was his first time inside his crushes room but he paid no mind to this. He found rika's little patch of a bed and laid her down on it and covered her with her blanket. He looked down at her sleeping face and stroked it lightly.
" I won't let him hurt you again."
Wave dizziness over took him as the golden light escaped him. As he returned to normal, he passed out beside rika. Just then, the mysterious masked man appeared in the room and look over the duo.
" Sleep well, takato. For tomorrow, we train."
Takato's eyes burned as the morning sun hit his eyes. He groaned as he rose from his sleep and look around. At first he wondered where he was but the other day's events flooded back into his head and he panicky looked over at rika who was still sleep.
" She's fine."
His attention was now caught as he looked over to the door; leaning against the frame, sipping some tea, was the masked man.
" What?"
" She's fine. You saved her life."
" Really? I just took her home."
" You don't understand. When the warlord drained her power, she was dead but when you transformed, you kept her alive. You should be proud."
" Wait a minute. Just who are you and what do you want?"
" Who am I? I'm a friend of Simms."
" Really?"
" Yes. Call me X. and what I want is you, takato."
" Me?"
" Takato, inside you rest a power that you don't fully understand, a power that could be your greatest weapon or the means for you destruction."
" I don't have to worry. I took out the warlord. He's dead and buried under a pile of debris."
" No, it takes more that a single kick to take him down. Trust me."
" So what do we do?"
" It's not what we can do but you can do. I've here to train you to master the power within you. Once done, no one, digimon or other wise, will be able to surpass you."
" What about the warlord?"
" Even though you didn't kill him, he's pretty hurt after your fight. It will be a while before he can do anything so you must take this time to train as much as you can."
" And rika?" he asked turning to the sleeping girl.
" Like I told you before, she gonna be fine. It will take some time before her body can natural replenish the energy she lost so she'll be out for a while."
" Well, if you say so. Let's do it."
Takato stood up and walk over to the door, passing X to the outside. On the way out, rika's grandmother walked out to greet them.
" Oh, takato. Glad to you are awake. Is rika up?"
" No ma'am. She's still asleep."
" Mr. X, I hoped you enjoyed the tea."
" Yes, it was delicious." He said handed the small cup to her.
" Ma'am, if you don't mind, I would like to ask some favors of you."
" Go ahead."
" First, could please inform any one that takato is here?"
" What? But my folks will be worried if they don't know where I'm at!" exclaimed takato.
" No! If your friends or family were here they would only provide distractions and I need your full attention."
" Fine. If you think that's best."
" Good. My second favor is that if it's not much trouble, I would like takato to stay here, not just for training but for your grand daughter's sake."
" Of course he can. After all he's done for my granddaughter, it's no trouble."
" Thank you. And lastly, I want you to get started on a 16-course meal. If you feel you can't make that much, here." He said, removing a large stack of bills from his trench coal and giving it to her.
" Are we having a party?"
" You'll see."
" You seem like a nice man, Mr. X. you know, my daughter is single."
" Umm, I'm flattered but I'm not in any position for any longer term relations." He explained uneasily.
" Oh well. Say did any one tell you that you look like that guy from G-gundam?"
X's eye twitched while takato laughed a little. Both of them walked out into the yard where, finally, guilmon and Renamon had made it to the house.
" Guilmon!"
" Takato!"
Tamer and digimon embraced each other in joy while for some reason, renamon, instead of checking on her tamer, locked eyes with X. the two stared at each other, almost checking each out.
" Takato, what's the man from g-gundam doing here?" asked guilmon.
" Why does everyone keep saying that?!"
" Well, you do look like him. Oh, guilmon, renamon, this is X. he's gonna help me master this power in me."
" Like last night?"
" Yep."
" What about rika?" asked renamon.
" She's fine but she'll be out of it for a few days."
" Now that's out of the way, we have training to do."
" Right. I'm ready."
Renamon sat on her tree while guilmon plopped on the ground as takato's training began.
" Alright, takato. First, you must understand that the power of the ascendant draws its power from life. No villain, no matter how strong can not destroy life."
" Does that mean rika has to almost die for me to become an ascendant?"
" Now that you have unlocked the power, you can access it more easily now but it feeds off your emotions so keep that in mind."
" Well, how come when I got angry in the digital world, it turned guilmon into a monster?"
" Because of the base."
" Base?"
" Anger and other strong emotions are key to unlocking the power but they must have a positive base. Your anger had a negative base, hate, thanks to beelzemon and thus, had a negative reaction. You then channel that negative power into guilmon turning him into megaidramon. Last night, what made you angry?"
" Well, when I day what happened to rika, I couldn't take it. He just killed her and I couldn't do anything about it."
" And why didn't you want rika to die?"
" Because I care about her."
" But you care about all your friends. Would you be anger like that if Henry were killed or jeri?"
" Yeah but with rika, it was all out rage."
" But why is rika different?"
" I don't know. She's just unlike any of my friends."
" How so?"
" There is just something about her that I needed to be around."
" So you care about her differently than the others."
" Yes."
" More than a friend?"
" Yes. I love her."
Takato looked at what he just said and hoped to take it back but X merely looked at him with the same expression in his eyes.
" Can you forget what I just said?"
" It's ok. Being an ascendant is more than anger and rage. It's also about love. Now that you're not hiding it, it will help your training. Now you are ready."
" For what?"
" To became ascendant."
X stood back a few feet, giving takato some room to groove.
" Alright now. Takato, feel out your emotions and force them into your stomach. Once there, you should feel and warm feeling in the pit of your gut. Force it up and out. Make it into a fire, let consume you."
" Ok. I can do this."
Takato spread his legs apart and readied to attempt the transformation. Closing his eyes, he focused all his feels into himself. He felt strange warmth in him but it felt pleasant. Like a stoker feeding a fire, he let the warmth increase from a small ember to a raging fire. Around him, bits of earth began to rise into the air. Takato hair started to wave into the air as sparks of energy jumped off his feet and up his body.
" That's it! Keep pushing it takato!"
Guilmon watched in awe as his hair changed from brown to gold for second. In one big blast, he changed into an ascendant.
" Wow! This is great!" he said opening his now green eyes.
" Don't lose focus! Keep it together!" ordered X as takato's aura decreased in size a little. Takato reestablished his control but beads of sweat covered his face, signaling his strain. In one big breathe; he went to back to his normal state while going to one knee.
" You have done well, takato." X praised as he walked over to the kneeling boy.
" Thanks. Man that was hard!" he panted out.
" I know. Just holding the form is trying enough but with further training you will be able to hold it much longer, for days at a time."
" Wow. Let's get back to work." he said until he the growling of his stomach told him other wise.
" Judging the smell and your gut, I think it's time to break. Go on in."
" I smell bread!" guilmon spoke as he dashed to the door, followed by an equally hungry takato. Renamon leapt down off the tree, behind X.
" So you know?" he asked, still with his back to her.
" Of course. How could I not?"
" I guest so."
" I though you were dead."
" I am. This is my new job. Not as exciting as my last one but I have to do it."
" I know. You're not as strong as you were when we last met."
" Does guilmon know?"
" With his nose? I don't doubt it. Never the less I'll talk to him later on."
" I noticed that you and him are a lot closer now. Do I smell romance?"
" Please. Guilmon is a good friend but only two people have ever held my heart; you and your brother. How is he?"
" He's around. He asked me to give you a message."
" What?"
" Later. We have bigger things to worry about."
" Do you think takato can beat the warlord?"
" Maybe, if he sticks to his training and if rika wakes up."
" What does she have to do with his training?"
" Because my friend, an ascendant fights better when someone they love is behind him."
Takato and guilmon were in awe at what was before them; on the dining room table was a large assortment of food like soup, rice, pizza, bread, steak, and the list went on and on.
" I made some of it but to fill your order, I had to order out mostly." Explained rika's grandmother.
" That's fine." Said X.
" Takato, this bread smells like yours." Guilmon claimed, sniffing a loaf.
" Ma'am, did you order this from my parent's bakery?" asked takato.
" Yes, but I said nothing about you being here."
" Thank you but I don't think I can eat all this. You eating too X?"
" No. That's all for you."
" But I can only eat a bowl of rice and a few slices of bread before I get full."
" Trust me on this."
" Oh well. Dig in boy!"
The tamer and digimon began to eat into the large buffet of food. After eating some rice and a loaf of bread, takato stopped with a strange look on his face.
" Takato what's wrong?" asked guilmon, stuffing a piece of bread in his mouth.
" Usual after that, I'm full but I'm still hungry."
Without warning or another word, takato began to viscously grab, slurp, and gulped any food that he could get his hands on. Guilmon and rika's grandmother watch in shock and disgust as the boy made it half way through all the food on the table while X just shook his head and grinned under his mask. After ten minutes of non-stop and messing eating, takato finished off the last morsel of food, patting his stomach in ease.
" AHH! That was great! I sure was hungry!"
" He ate more than me!" said a shocked guilmon.
" How can he eat that much? He's just a boy." The old women asked.
" Simple; using the power of the ascendant burns up a lot of energy and speed up the metabolism, thus increasing his appetite." Explained X.
" You mean, every time I turn, I'll be super hungry?"
" To a point, yeah."
" Oh man! I'm gonna put my folks in the poor house!"
" Get some rest. We continue tomorrow."
" Stay focus!" commanded X. takato was in his ascendant in the yard while renamon used her super speed to zip around takato. The goggle boy tried to keep up but he could barely catch her shadow.
" Slow down! X, what's the point of renamon jumping around me?"
" Takato, this exercise to develop your sense."
" Like my sight?"
" No, your sense. In a battle with the warlord, he will move fast than your eyes can follow so you have to find him using all your senses as one. By combining all of your senses, you can create a new sense."
" But why is that important?"
" Using your new sense, you can do many things, like detecting energy signals, much like renamon can."
" Really?"
" And that's only the beginning; you can also, identify persons by their signal, tell if they are good or evil and how far away they are. You'll also be able to tell how strong they are, even if they are hiding some of their power."
" So how do I do this thing?"
" Do you want to keep track of renamon?"
" Yeah."
" Then don't just see renamon. Smell her, taste her, feel her, and hear her. Use all of your senses to find her."
" I'll try."
" Don't try. Do."
Takato then closed his eyes and began to tune out all the noise and scents around him. Suddenly, he felt a small gust of wind on his left side he smelt a faint smell of sweat in his noise. He heard small footfalls around him. He opened his mouth and tasted small bits of fur. He finally opened his eyes and began to use all the info he got from his other senses. Just then, he caught a glimpse of renamon's profile to his left and then to his right. Concentrating a little more, he saw more and more of her form and now was finding it easier to keep track her of her. As quick as he could, he jumped forward and grabbed her arm to her surprise.
" I did it." he simply said.
" Good work. You're learning a lot fast than most other people."
" Thanks."
PYRO SPHERE
Guilmon launched a simply attack, destroying a rock near them.
" Takato, have you ever wondered how a digimon can perform an attack like that?"
" No. Not really. How can they?"
" Digimon, unlike humans, have a better understanding and better control over their internal energy. Every living being has this energy within them but can go their whole lives without using it. Digimon have been using this power for a very long time and a few humans as well."
" Do you're saying I can do this too?"
" With the right training."
" So how do I start?"
" Feel your aura and power. Draw it out and use it!"
Takato extended hand another rock and began to focus his inner power. Just then his palm began to glow and a small energy ball started form in his hand.
" Good. Now focus on where you want it to go."
" I'll try."
" Don't try. Do."
Takato concentrated on the stone in front of him and with a gasp, let the ball fly out of his palm but it curved and blasted a hole in the wall.
" Well at least it destroyed something, huh?" said takato sheepishly.
" Your aim was a little off, gogglehead."
Takato's heart stopped when he hear his nickname and knew only one person who called him that. He turned to the porch to see rika standing there; she wore a small housecoat with some sandals and her hair was draping over her shoulders. Takato noticed that that she wasn't well enough to do anything. Her usual cold and tough Demeter was replace by a weak and tired one. She was barely able to stand as he watched her pants and gasp for air. Renamon suddenly appeared next to her, allowing rika to lean on her for support.
" Rika you need to rest."
" No. I want to watch him train."
" She's right, rika. You can't waste what little enough you have." Said X.
" No. I want be here!" she said forcefully but weakly.
" Rika please! I can't stand to see you so hurt. Do this as a favor to me. Rest." Pleaded takato.
" Well, since you asked nicely......" she squeaked out before passing out. Renamon picked her up in her arms and carried her back inside.
" It's hard isn't it?"
" She seemed so weak and helpless."
" She won't be after some needed rest and right now, we needed to get back to training."
" Right."
" He's around here somewhere."
Two recently bio-merged gazimon wandered around the old warehouse where takato first became an ascendant.
" Are you sure about this? I mean, he did beat the sovereigns."
" Don't worry. When I found him he was dead to the world."
" But what are we doing here?"
" If we upload his data, we will be more powerful than any digimon before us."
The digimon made their way into the building, finding a massive pile of rubble in its center. The lead one edged forward and onto the pile seeing the motionless body of the warlord. He breathed a sigh of relief, replaced by a smile as he turned to his partner.
" Well?"
" He's dead. Come on-AHHHHHHHHH!"
Before he could finish, he sunk beneath the junk, screaming for his like. His friend was to frozen with fear as his buddy's howls became silent while some data floated up. The warlord then erupted from the mess, dusty and cut up, but fine. He cracked his neck and turned to the terrified gazimon.
" That was delicious but now it's time for seconds."
" Man that was rough!" takato sighed as a he gulped down a 32 oz. Bottle of root beer after finishing another large meal. He sat on the porch and looked up at the night sky and then his hands.
I can't believe this; I have so much power in me but I have so little understanding of it.
" If you're gonna do what I think you're gonna do, get some napkins first."
He turned to see rika standing behind him.
" Rika......"
" Don't give me that bull. I've been asleep all day and I need to move around. Move over, gogglehead."
Even in her weaken condition; he knew not to deny her anything, so he did as she commanded.
" I heard that you've been a human garbage disposal."
" Yeah. It's the training."
" Do you think it's doing anything for you?"
" I think so. I can sense things now that I never have before like I know I how strong renamon compared to me, where Henry is right now, and that fact that I could tell you were coming moment before you spoke."
" Pretty good." She said putting her head on his shoulder.
" Takato, I want you to do me a favor."
" Sure."
" Don't fight the warlord."
" Why?"
" I don't want you to get hurt."
" I won't get hurt."
" But he almost killed me."
" Don't you think I know that? I-I had to hold you in my arms and you were so lifeless. I felt sorrow on a level I don't want to feel again."
" Takato......"
" Rika, the last time some one hurt you was icedevimon and I saw what it did to you. I made a promise to myself; I'd never let something like that hurt you again. That bastard hurt you and he won't do it again."
" Takato I......" she said before she passed out. Takato smiled as he picked her up and head to her room, unknown to him that the warlord was standing on the roof of a near by house, watching scene in delight.
" Well, isn't that a nice scene; the loyal and brave knight caring for his beloved queen. Makes wanna puke!" he remarked while his hand began to power up.
" A shame I have to end it all. Good bye love birds."
" I don't think so."
Turning around in amusement, he found the person who spoke to him, in the form of X.
" Well, well, if it's isn't Mr. Mask from g-gundam. Care to tell me who you are?"
" Who I am is not important. What you are about to do is. Everyone in that house is under my protection. You will not attack."
" Fool! You are in no position to order me! He may have accessed his power but not enough of it to stop this attack!"
" I can't allow that."
" Oh yeah? And who are you to stop me?"
Without another word, X, for the first time, removed his mask, revealing his face and identity. The warlord stepped back in fear and horror, recognizing as if on instinct.
" This is who I am. Happy?"
" NOT YOU! NOT HERE! ANYONE BUT YOU!"
" Yep and you know what I can do to you so you'll leave them and let me finish his training."
" Why don't you just finish it now? You have the power!"
" I can but I won't."
" What?"
" This is not my world. It's his and it's his job to defend it. So your will come, not by my hands but his."
" Fine. I will leave them be but the moment he leave that yard, he's mine, and when he and rika are both beneath my heel, begging for their lives, I just wanted you to know that you could've ended it, right here and spared them so much pain and torture. See you later old friend." he grinned while he flew off the roof and into the night, while X looked over the side to the house.
" I hope you can do it kid, because I can't help this time."
NEXT TIME: takato's training is over and now must put his new powers to test as the warlord confronts him at school but does the evil one have a plan for our gogglehead?
TRIAL BY FIRE
Keke: hey everyone. The girls and me are doing this part since ma and the others are too high.
Tai: yeah, what ever she said.
Takato: wait. What's going on again?
Max: I don't know. Who am I again?
Rika: idiots.
Sora: hey someone has to care for them.
Takuya: damn. They smoked it all.
Zoe: don't worry. You're already a knucklehead without it.
Takuya: shut up, bitch.
Zoe: bastard.
Takuya: slut.
Zoe: homo.
Takuya: horse fucker.
Zoe: turd burglar.
(The two look at each other with hate in their eyes. Suddenly, Zoe jumps on takuya and starts making out.)
Zoe: shit eater.
Takuya: crack whore. (Starts making out again.)
Max: what the hell was that?
Keke, sora, and rika: foreplay.
MA: that was awesome!
Max: wait a minute! What's going on again?
LATER UM-UM. WHAT AM I SUPPOSE TO SAY AGAIN?
(Takato flying around the sky as an ascendant.)
Takato: YIPPPPEEEEEEE!
Max: he's been like that since the last episode. Come on down kid.
Takato: man! What a rush! This is great!
MA: of course. Last night I had a brainstorm; currently I am thinking of working on a digimon version of resident evil. It will be just like the game but with some digimon characters in it. And I have some favors to ask of my fans. First, maybe it's just me or has everyone seen digimon movie with the tamers but me. Can some tell me where they have seen and where I can too? Second, I hope to create a d3 website but I find some where to make it. I tried geocities but they sucked. If anyone knows of somewhere, let me know.
Tai: is that it?
MA: well, yeah.
Towelie: don't forget to bring a towel.
MA: towelie? But we don't need a towel.
Towelie: oh I know. I just needed an excuse to come here.
Takato: why?
Towelie: wanna get high?
(They all look at each other.)
MA: sure.
Tai: what the hell!
Max: let's do it.
Takato: let's light up that J!
Towelie: all right!
MA: before I lose all sense of reality, I don't own digimon so don't sue me!
The others: GO! GO! GO! GO! GO!
(Takato takes a long drag from the joint, holds his breathe, and exhaled.)
Tai: well?
Takato: it's the Bombay dog!
MA: on with the fic!
DIGIMON THE MOVIE: THE RETURN OF THE DIGITAL WARLORD
TRAINING DAYS
Renamon and guilmon lay in the woods, the fox hanging from a branch and the dino on the ground. Both were barely aware of the night sky or the chirping of the crickets but were now very aware of a bright golden light. Walking down the path was takato with rika in his arms. His entire body was surround by a golden aura; his normally brown replace by gold and his brown eyes were now green. As he pass the digimon, part of takato's aura shot over to them, turning them that color for a short time. When it died, both opened their eyes and stood up.
" Renamon?"
" Guilmon? How do you feel?"
" Great, like peanut butter. Takato?" he said as he and renamon finally caught a good look at takato.
" Rika! is she ok?"
" Yes renamon. She's fine." He said, unbelievably calm with little to no emotion on his face.
" Renamon, I'm taking her home. Meet me there."
Before she could do anything, takato floated off the ground and into the sky to Guilmon's awe. Rika inched her eyes open, looking up at takato as they flew.
" Takato, is that you?" she asked weakly.
" Yes."
" Where are we going?"
" Shhh! Just rest. I'm taking you home."
" What...about...the warlord?"
" Don't worry. I won't let him hurt you anymore."
Rika smiled a little before passing out as they flew over the skyline. Meanwhile, in his room, Henry, with a bandage around his head, was on the phone with takato's parent, in hopes to finding him, since he and rika disappeared after the battle.
" Ok, if I hear something, I'll call, sir. Ok. Thank you."
" Well?" asked terriermon, sporting his own Band-Aids.
" They haven't heard a word from him and the same goes with rika. I hope they are ok."
" Well, Henry, maybe they are spending some time together, if you get my drift."
" Terriermon!"
The rabbit digimon laughed his head when he glances out the window.
" Henry! Come quick!"
" What is it now? You better not be watching the neighbors doing it again."
" No, some thing better."
The tamer looked out his window to see an awesome sight; a strange gold streak of light flying over the roofs of the city.
" Is it a digimon?"
" No but it has some strange power. Unlike anything I've ever felt."
Henry stared at the phenomenon and could barely make out some shapes in it. His eyes shot open wide as he recognized a familiar face.
Takato?
" Oh rika, where are you?" wondered rika's very worried mother. It had been hours since she last heard from her daughter. It didn't help the fact that her friend, Henry, called asking if she was there.
" Rumiko, calm down." Spoke her mother, rika's grandmother.
" Calm down?! Mom, I could barely handle that d-reaper mess but now this! I don't know if I can handle this again!"
" Don't worry. Rika's is getting older. She can handle whatever comes her way. Besides, she has renamon, and she wouldn't let anything happen to her."
" I hope you're right, mom."
Just then, rika's grandmother caught a glimpse of a strange glow out side the window.
" Rumiko? Did you leave any lights on out side?"
" No mom. Why?"
Unknown to both of them, takato landed out side in the yard. As he walk down the short stone path, flowers that would usually open in the day, did so as the youngster passed. Checking on a hunch, rika's grandmother went outside in time to see him walk up to rika's room. Gasping in awe and surprise at the sight of the illuminated boy, whom she recognized as one of her grand daughters' tamers friends.
" Takato?" she said, remembering his name. He turned towards, staring at her with his emerald eyes, allowing her a view of her half dead granddaughter.
" Rika! Is she...."
" No. She just weak. Is this her room?"
" Yes."
" Thank you." he committed as he slide open the door. Rumiko ran out, just in time to see the golden goggle boy take her daughter into her room.
" Mom?"
" Don't ask."
Takato looked around her dark room, his power being the only source of light. He realized that this was his first time inside his crushes room but he paid no mind to this. He found rika's little patch of a bed and laid her down on it and covered her with her blanket. He looked down at her sleeping face and stroked it lightly.
" I won't let him hurt you again."
Wave dizziness over took him as the golden light escaped him. As he returned to normal, he passed out beside rika. Just then, the mysterious masked man appeared in the room and look over the duo.
" Sleep well, takato. For tomorrow, we train."
Takato's eyes burned as the morning sun hit his eyes. He groaned as he rose from his sleep and look around. At first he wondered where he was but the other day's events flooded back into his head and he panicky looked over at rika who was still sleep.
" She's fine."
His attention was now caught as he looked over to the door; leaning against the frame, sipping some tea, was the masked man.
" What?"
" She's fine. You saved her life."
" Really? I just took her home."
" You don't understand. When the warlord drained her power, she was dead but when you transformed, you kept her alive. You should be proud."
" Wait a minute. Just who are you and what do you want?"
" Who am I? I'm a friend of Simms."
" Really?"
" Yes. Call me X. and what I want is you, takato."
" Me?"
" Takato, inside you rest a power that you don't fully understand, a power that could be your greatest weapon or the means for you destruction."
" I don't have to worry. I took out the warlord. He's dead and buried under a pile of debris."
" No, it takes more that a single kick to take him down. Trust me."
" So what do we do?"
" It's not what we can do but you can do. I've here to train you to master the power within you. Once done, no one, digimon or other wise, will be able to surpass you."
" What about the warlord?"
" Even though you didn't kill him, he's pretty hurt after your fight. It will be a while before he can do anything so you must take this time to train as much as you can."
" And rika?" he asked turning to the sleeping girl.
" Like I told you before, she gonna be fine. It will take some time before her body can natural replenish the energy she lost so she'll be out for a while."
" Well, if you say so. Let's do it."
Takato stood up and walk over to the door, passing X to the outside. On the way out, rika's grandmother walked out to greet them.
" Oh, takato. Glad to you are awake. Is rika up?"
" No ma'am. She's still asleep."
" Mr. X, I hoped you enjoyed the tea."
" Yes, it was delicious." He said handed the small cup to her.
" Ma'am, if you don't mind, I would like to ask some favors of you."
" Go ahead."
" First, could please inform any one that takato is here?"
" What? But my folks will be worried if they don't know where I'm at!" exclaimed takato.
" No! If your friends or family were here they would only provide distractions and I need your full attention."
" Fine. If you think that's best."
" Good. My second favor is that if it's not much trouble, I would like takato to stay here, not just for training but for your grand daughter's sake."
" Of course he can. After all he's done for my granddaughter, it's no trouble."
" Thank you. And lastly, I want you to get started on a 16-course meal. If you feel you can't make that much, here." He said, removing a large stack of bills from his trench coal and giving it to her.
" Are we having a party?"
" You'll see."
" You seem like a nice man, Mr. X. you know, my daughter is single."
" Umm, I'm flattered but I'm not in any position for any longer term relations." He explained uneasily.
" Oh well. Say did any one tell you that you look like that guy from G-gundam?"
X's eye twitched while takato laughed a little. Both of them walked out into the yard where, finally, guilmon and Renamon had made it to the house.
" Guilmon!"
" Takato!"
Tamer and digimon embraced each other in joy while for some reason, renamon, instead of checking on her tamer, locked eyes with X. the two stared at each other, almost checking each out.
" Takato, what's the man from g-gundam doing here?" asked guilmon.
" Why does everyone keep saying that?!"
" Well, you do look like him. Oh, guilmon, renamon, this is X. he's gonna help me master this power in me."
" Like last night?"
" Yep."
" What about rika?" asked renamon.
" She's fine but she'll be out of it for a few days."
" Now that's out of the way, we have training to do."
" Right. I'm ready."
Renamon sat on her tree while guilmon plopped on the ground as takato's training began.
" Alright, takato. First, you must understand that the power of the ascendant draws its power from life. No villain, no matter how strong can not destroy life."
" Does that mean rika has to almost die for me to become an ascendant?"
" Now that you have unlocked the power, you can access it more easily now but it feeds off your emotions so keep that in mind."
" Well, how come when I got angry in the digital world, it turned guilmon into a monster?"
" Because of the base."
" Base?"
" Anger and other strong emotions are key to unlocking the power but they must have a positive base. Your anger had a negative base, hate, thanks to beelzemon and thus, had a negative reaction. You then channel that negative power into guilmon turning him into megaidramon. Last night, what made you angry?"
" Well, when I day what happened to rika, I couldn't take it. He just killed her and I couldn't do anything about it."
" And why didn't you want rika to die?"
" Because I care about her."
" But you care about all your friends. Would you be anger like that if Henry were killed or jeri?"
" Yeah but with rika, it was all out rage."
" But why is rika different?"
" I don't know. She's just unlike any of my friends."
" How so?"
" There is just something about her that I needed to be around."
" So you care about her differently than the others."
" Yes."
" More than a friend?"
" Yes. I love her."
Takato looked at what he just said and hoped to take it back but X merely looked at him with the same expression in his eyes.
" Can you forget what I just said?"
" It's ok. Being an ascendant is more than anger and rage. It's also about love. Now that you're not hiding it, it will help your training. Now you are ready."
" For what?"
" To became ascendant."
X stood back a few feet, giving takato some room to groove.
" Alright now. Takato, feel out your emotions and force them into your stomach. Once there, you should feel and warm feeling in the pit of your gut. Force it up and out. Make it into a fire, let consume you."
" Ok. I can do this."
Takato spread his legs apart and readied to attempt the transformation. Closing his eyes, he focused all his feels into himself. He felt strange warmth in him but it felt pleasant. Like a stoker feeding a fire, he let the warmth increase from a small ember to a raging fire. Around him, bits of earth began to rise into the air. Takato hair started to wave into the air as sparks of energy jumped off his feet and up his body.
" That's it! Keep pushing it takato!"
Guilmon watched in awe as his hair changed from brown to gold for second. In one big blast, he changed into an ascendant.
" Wow! This is great!" he said opening his now green eyes.
" Don't lose focus! Keep it together!" ordered X as takato's aura decreased in size a little. Takato reestablished his control but beads of sweat covered his face, signaling his strain. In one big breathe; he went to back to his normal state while going to one knee.
" You have done well, takato." X praised as he walked over to the kneeling boy.
" Thanks. Man that was hard!" he panted out.
" I know. Just holding the form is trying enough but with further training you will be able to hold it much longer, for days at a time."
" Wow. Let's get back to work." he said until he the growling of his stomach told him other wise.
" Judging the smell and your gut, I think it's time to break. Go on in."
" I smell bread!" guilmon spoke as he dashed to the door, followed by an equally hungry takato. Renamon leapt down off the tree, behind X.
" So you know?" he asked, still with his back to her.
" Of course. How could I not?"
" I guest so."
" I though you were dead."
" I am. This is my new job. Not as exciting as my last one but I have to do it."
" I know. You're not as strong as you were when we last met."
" Does guilmon know?"
" With his nose? I don't doubt it. Never the less I'll talk to him later on."
" I noticed that you and him are a lot closer now. Do I smell romance?"
" Please. Guilmon is a good friend but only two people have ever held my heart; you and your brother. How is he?"
" He's around. He asked me to give you a message."
" What?"
" Later. We have bigger things to worry about."
" Do you think takato can beat the warlord?"
" Maybe, if he sticks to his training and if rika wakes up."
" What does she have to do with his training?"
" Because my friend, an ascendant fights better when someone they love is behind him."
Takato and guilmon were in awe at what was before them; on the dining room table was a large assortment of food like soup, rice, pizza, bread, steak, and the list went on and on.
" I made some of it but to fill your order, I had to order out mostly." Explained rika's grandmother.
" That's fine." Said X.
" Takato, this bread smells like yours." Guilmon claimed, sniffing a loaf.
" Ma'am, did you order this from my parent's bakery?" asked takato.
" Yes, but I said nothing about you being here."
" Thank you but I don't think I can eat all this. You eating too X?"
" No. That's all for you."
" But I can only eat a bowl of rice and a few slices of bread before I get full."
" Trust me on this."
" Oh well. Dig in boy!"
The tamer and digimon began to eat into the large buffet of food. After eating some rice and a loaf of bread, takato stopped with a strange look on his face.
" Takato what's wrong?" asked guilmon, stuffing a piece of bread in his mouth.
" Usual after that, I'm full but I'm still hungry."
Without warning or another word, takato began to viscously grab, slurp, and gulped any food that he could get his hands on. Guilmon and rika's grandmother watch in shock and disgust as the boy made it half way through all the food on the table while X just shook his head and grinned under his mask. After ten minutes of non-stop and messing eating, takato finished off the last morsel of food, patting his stomach in ease.
" AHH! That was great! I sure was hungry!"
" He ate more than me!" said a shocked guilmon.
" How can he eat that much? He's just a boy." The old women asked.
" Simple; using the power of the ascendant burns up a lot of energy and speed up the metabolism, thus increasing his appetite." Explained X.
" You mean, every time I turn, I'll be super hungry?"
" To a point, yeah."
" Oh man! I'm gonna put my folks in the poor house!"
" Get some rest. We continue tomorrow."
" Stay focus!" commanded X. takato was in his ascendant in the yard while renamon used her super speed to zip around takato. The goggle boy tried to keep up but he could barely catch her shadow.
" Slow down! X, what's the point of renamon jumping around me?"
" Takato, this exercise to develop your sense."
" Like my sight?"
" No, your sense. In a battle with the warlord, he will move fast than your eyes can follow so you have to find him using all your senses as one. By combining all of your senses, you can create a new sense."
" But why is that important?"
" Using your new sense, you can do many things, like detecting energy signals, much like renamon can."
" Really?"
" And that's only the beginning; you can also, identify persons by their signal, tell if they are good or evil and how far away they are. You'll also be able to tell how strong they are, even if they are hiding some of their power."
" So how do I do this thing?"
" Do you want to keep track of renamon?"
" Yeah."
" Then don't just see renamon. Smell her, taste her, feel her, and hear her. Use all of your senses to find her."
" I'll try."
" Don't try. Do."
Takato then closed his eyes and began to tune out all the noise and scents around him. Suddenly, he felt a small gust of wind on his left side he smelt a faint smell of sweat in his noise. He heard small footfalls around him. He opened his mouth and tasted small bits of fur. He finally opened his eyes and began to use all the info he got from his other senses. Just then, he caught a glimpse of renamon's profile to his left and then to his right. Concentrating a little more, he saw more and more of her form and now was finding it easier to keep track her of her. As quick as he could, he jumped forward and grabbed her arm to her surprise.
" I did it." he simply said.
" Good work. You're learning a lot fast than most other people."
" Thanks."
PYRO SPHERE
Guilmon launched a simply attack, destroying a rock near them.
" Takato, have you ever wondered how a digimon can perform an attack like that?"
" No. Not really. How can they?"
" Digimon, unlike humans, have a better understanding and better control over their internal energy. Every living being has this energy within them but can go their whole lives without using it. Digimon have been using this power for a very long time and a few humans as well."
" Do you're saying I can do this too?"
" With the right training."
" So how do I start?"
" Feel your aura and power. Draw it out and use it!"
Takato extended hand another rock and began to focus his inner power. Just then his palm began to glow and a small energy ball started form in his hand.
" Good. Now focus on where you want it to go."
" I'll try."
" Don't try. Do."
Takato concentrated on the stone in front of him and with a gasp, let the ball fly out of his palm but it curved and blasted a hole in the wall.
" Well at least it destroyed something, huh?" said takato sheepishly.
" Your aim was a little off, gogglehead."
Takato's heart stopped when he hear his nickname and knew only one person who called him that. He turned to the porch to see rika standing there; she wore a small housecoat with some sandals and her hair was draping over her shoulders. Takato noticed that that she wasn't well enough to do anything. Her usual cold and tough Demeter was replace by a weak and tired one. She was barely able to stand as he watched her pants and gasp for air. Renamon suddenly appeared next to her, allowing rika to lean on her for support.
" Rika you need to rest."
" No. I want to watch him train."
" She's right, rika. You can't waste what little enough you have." Said X.
" No. I want be here!" she said forcefully but weakly.
" Rika please! I can't stand to see you so hurt. Do this as a favor to me. Rest." Pleaded takato.
" Well, since you asked nicely......" she squeaked out before passing out. Renamon picked her up in her arms and carried her back inside.
" It's hard isn't it?"
" She seemed so weak and helpless."
" She won't be after some needed rest and right now, we needed to get back to training."
" Right."
" He's around here somewhere."
Two recently bio-merged gazimon wandered around the old warehouse where takato first became an ascendant.
" Are you sure about this? I mean, he did beat the sovereigns."
" Don't worry. When I found him he was dead to the world."
" But what are we doing here?"
" If we upload his data, we will be more powerful than any digimon before us."
The digimon made their way into the building, finding a massive pile of rubble in its center. The lead one edged forward and onto the pile seeing the motionless body of the warlord. He breathed a sigh of relief, replaced by a smile as he turned to his partner.
" Well?"
" He's dead. Come on-AHHHHHHHHH!"
Before he could finish, he sunk beneath the junk, screaming for his like. His friend was to frozen with fear as his buddy's howls became silent while some data floated up. The warlord then erupted from the mess, dusty and cut up, but fine. He cracked his neck and turned to the terrified gazimon.
" That was delicious but now it's time for seconds."
" Man that was rough!" takato sighed as a he gulped down a 32 oz. Bottle of root beer after finishing another large meal. He sat on the porch and looked up at the night sky and then his hands.
I can't believe this; I have so much power in me but I have so little understanding of it.
" If you're gonna do what I think you're gonna do, get some napkins first."
He turned to see rika standing behind him.
" Rika......"
" Don't give me that bull. I've been asleep all day and I need to move around. Move over, gogglehead."
Even in her weaken condition; he knew not to deny her anything, so he did as she commanded.
" I heard that you've been a human garbage disposal."
" Yeah. It's the training."
" Do you think it's doing anything for you?"
" I think so. I can sense things now that I never have before like I know I how strong renamon compared to me, where Henry is right now, and that fact that I could tell you were coming moment before you spoke."
" Pretty good." She said putting her head on his shoulder.
" Takato, I want you to do me a favor."
" Sure."
" Don't fight the warlord."
" Why?"
" I don't want you to get hurt."
" I won't get hurt."
" But he almost killed me."
" Don't you think I know that? I-I had to hold you in my arms and you were so lifeless. I felt sorrow on a level I don't want to feel again."
" Takato......"
" Rika, the last time some one hurt you was icedevimon and I saw what it did to you. I made a promise to myself; I'd never let something like that hurt you again. That bastard hurt you and he won't do it again."
" Takato I......" she said before she passed out. Takato smiled as he picked her up and head to her room, unknown to him that the warlord was standing on the roof of a near by house, watching scene in delight.
" Well, isn't that a nice scene; the loyal and brave knight caring for his beloved queen. Makes wanna puke!" he remarked while his hand began to power up.
" A shame I have to end it all. Good bye love birds."
" I don't think so."
Turning around in amusement, he found the person who spoke to him, in the form of X.
" Well, well, if it's isn't Mr. Mask from g-gundam. Care to tell me who you are?"
" Who I am is not important. What you are about to do is. Everyone in that house is under my protection. You will not attack."
" Fool! You are in no position to order me! He may have accessed his power but not enough of it to stop this attack!"
" I can't allow that."
" Oh yeah? And who are you to stop me?"
Without another word, X, for the first time, removed his mask, revealing his face and identity. The warlord stepped back in fear and horror, recognizing as if on instinct.
" This is who I am. Happy?"
" NOT YOU! NOT HERE! ANYONE BUT YOU!"
" Yep and you know what I can do to you so you'll leave them and let me finish his training."
" Why don't you just finish it now? You have the power!"
" I can but I won't."
" What?"
" This is not my world. It's his and it's his job to defend it. So your will come, not by my hands but his."
" Fine. I will leave them be but the moment he leave that yard, he's mine, and when he and rika are both beneath my heel, begging for their lives, I just wanted you to know that you could've ended it, right here and spared them so much pain and torture. See you later old friend." he grinned while he flew off the roof and into the night, while X looked over the side to the house.
" I hope you can do it kid, because I can't help this time."
NEXT TIME: takato's training is over and now must put his new powers to test as the warlord confronts him at school but does the evil one have a plan for our gogglehead?
TRIAL BY FIRE
Keke: hey everyone. The girls and me are doing this part since ma and the others are too high.
Tai: yeah, what ever she said.
Takato: wait. What's going on again?
Max: I don't know. Who am I again?
Rika: idiots.
Sora: hey someone has to care for them.
Takuya: damn. They smoked it all.
Zoe: don't worry. You're already a knucklehead without it.
Takuya: shut up, bitch.
Zoe: bastard.
Takuya: slut.
Zoe: homo.
Takuya: horse fucker.
Zoe: turd burglar.
(The two look at each other with hate in their eyes. Suddenly, Zoe jumps on takuya and starts making out.)
Zoe: shit eater.
Takuya: crack whore. (Starts making out again.)
Max: what the hell was that?
Keke, sora, and rika: foreplay.
MA: that was awesome!
Max: wait a minute! What's going on again?
LATER UM-UM. WHAT AM I SUPPOSE TO SAY AGAIN?