Note: I got the idea to write this after reading two stories. One was in a book about cryonics and the other was my one of my favorites stories if not my favorite (Ruin by Soccer Dude). If you have not read Ruin before, I recommend it to you then! 12/07/02
Prologue
"Tai!" I groaned. The pain was
growing quickly and it was getting worse at the same time too. I reached
for my side and quickly tossed aside the gun I had in my hand. The pain
was overwhelming. I flinched and fell to my knees. Instantly my sister
and a few more friends came to my side. Despite the fact that they were
trying to help me, they couldn't do anything to help me. This pain was
going to last forever until I died. And that wouldn't be too long from
now.
"Oh no! Somebody call a medic
in!" My sister, Kari, had shouted out that command. She a hand on my back
and one on my side, trying to support me. Sora, one of my other friends,
assisted Kari in assisting me. Agumon, my digimon partner, only stood at
the side, looking at me with worried eyes.
"Agh…. It hurts…" I said. It
was hard to speak. The pain, it was spreading all throughout my body. I
clenched my teeth to prevent myself from yelling out in pain. I couldn't
take it anymore. I fell onto my side, my sister and friend began to grow
tears in their eyes.
"Tai…. Big brother… hold on…."
I gasped for air. The world was becoming smaller each second. My head was
throbbing and so was everything else in my body. It wouldn't be too long
before everything became numb.
I looked to the side to see
my digimon partner frozen in his spot. He was struck with the horrible
truth. I was dying and no one could do anything about it. I was suffering
a long and torturing death, the worst kind of death anyone could experience.
I saw as Agumon closed his eyes.
He was bringing his claws upwards from his sides. They were shaking very
violently. He was getting quite frustrated at the fact that I was passing
before his eyes. I guess I would be too if I were in his position.
"AHHH!!!!" It hurt really bad
now. I kicked my legs, hoping that the pain and hurt would eventually fade
away into nothing. But it didn't. It was increasing.
"THAT'S IT! YOU WILL PAY YOU
SCUM FOR WHAT YOU DID TO TAI! CHARGE!!!!" The brave rookie digimon leaped
into the air with his claws extended. Agumon roared and everyone turned
their attention to my pal. He was about to go and attack a big, blue, evil
digimon corpse brought back from the dead out of pure anger and hatred.
"Ugh…." I said as the pain began
to strike at me once again. I was too busy to notice my digivice, somewhere
on the ground ahead of me. It was glowing and letting off a bright orange
glow.
"Agumon! Warp-Digivolve to…… WARGREYMON!"
I had to struggle to keep my
eyes open as I watched my courageous partner flew at the enemy. My eyes
began to grow numb. Soon, my body was beginning to feel numb. The pain
was finally beginning to fade away. However, I had the impression that
I was too, fading away from everything.
"Take this!" The brave mega
digimon scored a direct hit on the digimon's left eye. It roared out in
pain as WarGreymon landed on the ground. Matt looked at his digimon and
nodded. I blinked once or twice. My eyes were growing heavy and my head
was beginning to grow dizzy. My eyesight was soon becoming foggy and dim.
I had to blink a couple times for my eyesight to become temporarily clear.
"Gabumon! Warp-Digivolve to…… METAL GARURUMON!"
"Ice Wolf Claw!" The cold attack
hit the digimon square in the other eye. Metal Garurumon landed beside
WarGreymon. The two looked at each other, nodded, then split up. Metal
Garurumon flew to the right of the blinded digimon while WarGreymon flew
around to the other side. The two digimon met up once again and made a
huge attack ready for the evil digimon. The other digimon quickly lent
out a helping hand even though they were nearly out of energy.
WarGreymon silently thought
as he created his ultimate attack. He couldn't help but think of his partner.
Tai, I'm going to miss you. And I hope that this will make you proud!
"Marching Fishes!"
"Poison Ivy!"
"Spiral Twister!"
"Boom Bubble!"
"Lightning Claw!"
"Electro Shocker!"
"Metal Wolf Claw!" And the strongest
attack of all…..
"Nova Force!" With that, WarGreymon
released the fireball of doom onto the mega digimon before them. All 8
attacks hit the digimon right on. No sooner did the digimon begin to dissolve
into thin air. WarGreymon and Metal Garurumon de-digivolved and quickly
came to my side like everyone else had.
No one was celebrating the victory,
they were all too worried about me….
"Tai, please hold on. medics
are coming….." I threw a fit of coughs before I replied. My throat was
dry and my voice was raspy. I couldn't think that straight. As I looked
at my friends, I saw doubles of them swaying before me.
"I…. won't…… make it….." I coughed
again. Sora carefully held my head and softly yelled at me. The pain, it
was no longer around. Everything was numb. I blinked once. With my half-open
eyes, I looked at one of my best friends in the world. She was crying.
"Tai, don't think like that."
"But… I won't…. I'm…. sorry."
Gomamon came close to my face.
"There is no need to be sorry
Tai. You've been the greatest leader to all of us."
"He IS the greatest leader!
Present tense!" Palmon said correcting the digimon. No one laughed.
The world was becoming darker
now. Everything that I could see was becoming farther away from me. I blinked
once. My eyes were getting heavy, the voices were getting softer.
I looked into my sister's eyes,
or what I could see of them. I struggled as I lifted my arm up and touched
my sister's cheek. This would probably be the last time I'd see her.
"Kari…." My sister put both
of her hands on my hand. She squeezed my hand as hard as she could. She
didn't want me to leave.
"Tai… Please don't go. I'll
be lonely without you."
"You have Gatomon" I said
weakly.
"But….. It won't be the same
without you." I felt touched by that comment.
"I know Kari…. I know….." She
sniffed and began to cry. My sister fell onto my chest and hugged me. Her
tears began to stain my shirt. I put one arm on her back and smiled.
"Goodbye Kari. I love you…."
I turned to Sora.
"Bye friend."
"Tai, please hold on." I coughed
loudly before responding.
"I…. I am….. trying…..to… But
I can't…. hold on forever….." Sora looked down. I lifted her chin up using
my right arm.
"I'll see you again someday……
bye Sora…." I could only one more goodbye. My instincts told me so. I looked
wearily at my digimon partner in crime.
"I guess…. I'll be seeing you
around…..friend…." Agumon closed his eyes and bent his head down. He just
couldn't bring himself to look at me in my pathetic state.
I wearily looked at my friends.
"Bye everyone…. And Kari… tell mom and dad that…. I love them too…."
"I will…. I promise…" was the
last thing I heard. It was a quiet whisper from my sister. I closed my
eyes for what would be forever. Finally, I let my tiredness overwhelm me.
The darkness was coming, and I was letting it come. No fighting against
it. I was too weak and tired from the reason that caused me so much pain.
The last thing that I felt was
the loud heartbeat…. Of my own heart. My breathing stopped long before
that. And as soon as I heard the last heartbeat…. I knew that my time was
up. It echoed throughout my mind that I was leaving this world…. To a better
place…..
Chapter 1 : Waking Up
"He's coming to sir."
"I'm aware of that Johnson."
"What shall we do?"
"Notify the boss."
"Now?"
"Now."
Thoughts clouded my mind. Where
was I? My brain was slowly beginning to function. Was I hibernating? No,
I don't sleep for that long on any day….
BUMP! Heavy machinery was being
used somewhere in the distance. I tried to open my eyes and see what was
happening, but I couldn't. I tried to move, but I couldn't. In fact, I
was breathing very oddly at the moment. I was breathing frigid air. Never
before had I breathed in air like this before, or have I?
Wait. Frigid air, can't move
my body…. I must be frozen. Are they thawing me out? What are they doing
to me? Wait, a better question, who are they? I had to wait and find out.
CLUNK! I think I landed on something.
Of course, I couldn't look at what it was that I had fallen onto even if
I wanted to see. My body was frozen. The odd part is, I don't feel very
cold inside my prison.
ZZAPP!!!! Clunk, clunk, clunk.
Must have been a laser taking off a chunk of this huge ice cube I must
be in. ZZAPP!!!! Clunk. The laser beam continued to cut off chunks of the
ice block for what seemed like eternity. Finally, I heard some heavy machinery
coming my way.
I tried to open my eyes, but
they were still frozen shut. Clunk! Screeee….
Ah! That noise! It was the noise
of metal claws scraping across an icy surface. I wanted to scream for some
reason. I wanted to cover my ears, but my arms just couldn't do that. I
endured the somewhat short scraping noise. Very soon though, I was lifted
up into the air by this machine.
My ice cube eventually reached
it's destination when it came to a screeching halt. I was dropped carefully
into something. The metal claws left me. Next thing I heard was a loud
speaker saying something. Must have started up whatever I was in.
I was on my side as something
poured into a huge container like thing I was in. It was a redish orange
goo and boy, was it hot. I felt the ice, the coldness around me begin
to drift away. It was being replaced with what seemed to be warm goo. Not
boiling hot, but warm. I let it envelope my body. Ah, the ice all around
me had faded into nothing.
I was in a whole pile of nice
warm goo! How fun. CHING! Brr…… the silent humming of the machine began
to move me up and out of the goo into fresh air. It was cold, except worse
cold than what I felt in that frigid ice cube I called home for a couple
of minutes.
I felt my body begin to shiver.
Whoa, what was happening to me?
"Hey, Gary, you go on the left
and grab his arm."
"Yes sir."
"Okay. You other guys! Get over
here and help us!"
I was being lifted up from where
I was on the metal platform. I was soon in the arms of many people. Now,
this time, I could open my eyes. I slowly opened them, they ached real
bad. Like they were in a blender and glued back together by a little child.
A million questions flashed
before my mind. Where was I? How'd I get here? They swirling about, dancing
in my mind. I wearily shook my head. It hurt to do that. In fact, my whole
body was sore. Was this… was this the afterlife?
I blinked once. In front of
my eyes was a poor image of a man dressed in a lab coat before me. I wanted
to ask him, where in the world was I? But I felt too weak to do anything
practically.
"Don't worry, the answers are
coming soon…" My eyelids were heavy. I let them fall.
Yeah, I'm back in business! And you
know, this story is really interesting me. So you can expect updates...
hopefully quite soon. I have to also tend to my other stories, but this
one has caught my attention! I guess this is the result of a huge igamination,
watching the Matrix twice in a week, reading Ruin once again, and trying
to work on Science homework (cryonics). Well, I should be getting back
to my homework. But I'll be back during the Christmas holidays. Maybe you
might not see updates, but I'll be hanging around somewhere..... Right.
Well, adios for now.
-Ice Wolf17, 12/08/02