"Oh…Gah…." I opened my eyes.
What was this? I was in a room, a wooden room. A sink in the corner, a
door, a toilet, a garbage can, a red chair, and a small tv in the corner
inbetween the walls and my bed. My bed? I groaned and sat up. The bed was
wooden also with a green blanket and a soft green pillow. I rubbed
my hurting eyes and shook my head. Where in the world am I?
The door opened and I snapped
my head in its direction to see who it was. It was that strange lab coat
man! What was HE doing here?
He sat himself down in the red
chair and smiled at me.
"Had a good dream Mr.Kamiya?"
I gasped.
"How do you know my name?" I
smiled warmly inside of me. My body was fully functioning once again. Not
at one hundred percent yet, but it soon would be.
The man in the chair laughed.
"I know a lot about you Mr.Kamiya. Oh, where are my manners?" The
man extended out his hand and smiled. "I'm Scott
Joe McHarlen. However, I'd prefer if you just called me Joe or Scott."
This guy seemed trustworthy in some deranged sense. So I extended my hand
out and we shook hands.
"I'm Taichi Kamiya, but I guess
you already knew that." We let go of our handshake. Scott leaned back in
his chair and put his arms behind his head, cushioning himself.
"Now, you must have a thousand
of questions for me, don't you Taichi?" I nodded. He leaned back even further.
"Ah, well. Let me guess your
first question. 'Is this the afterlife'? Well, the answer to that is no.
Your FAR from the afterlife." I furrowed my eyebrows. Then where was I?
"Your still here on home sweet Earth, if anyone can say that about Earth
anymore."
"Where is everybody? How'd I
get here?"
"Everybody? Are you referring
to your friends or family or perhaps both?"
"Just, everybody" I replied.
"I'll get to that in a moment
if you will." I nodded my head in approval. "Tai Kamiya. Let's skip back
a bit to your very last memory. Your last memory before your ice cube haven."
I thought for a moment. It was such a horrible memory. Just thinking about
it brought back all the pain. It felt as though I were reliving the horrible
event.
"Well?" Scott asked somewhat
impatient. I began with a somewhat hurt voice.
"I was fighting a digimon. He
had ambushed my friends and I on our journey to fight the greatest evil
of all, Apocalymon. I found a gun nearby and my friends and I began to
shoot the tyrant down." I paused trying to call back the images of the
warfare.
"Go on." The man instructed.
I sighed and continued on.
"It was a mega level digimon.
Lucky for us. We wanted to conserve energy for the final fight, so our
digimon only digivolved to the champion level. But we underestimated our
enemy. It was too late. By the time Izzy told us it was a mega digimon,
it unleashed an attack on me. It released some deadly poison dart. I was
down and out. I… I died there….."
Scott nodded in approval. I wonder, did he understand
anything I said and put me off as another nutcase in this world?
"Tai….. your friends really
loved you. They cared about you."
"I know that." I responded
automatically.
"They cared so much about you,
that when you died…. They put you on the cryonics patients list." I jumped
out of my bed.
"What?"
"Sit down!" I sat.
"Don't worry. What they did
was let us take your dead body. We froze you using cryonics so that you
could be brought back to life in the future. In the future where our knowledge
on medicine is great, wide, and vast. We were able to bring you back to
life using this technology. You see, it cost your friends a fortune, but
they wanted to let you live once again." I leaned back against the wall.
This was all too much for me. Firstly, I'm in the future thanks to my friends.
I guess they really cared that much about me if they paid so much money
to bring me here….
"Where are they?"
"Who?"
"My friends." Scott sighed.
He bent his head down. I frowned too. They weren't here…
"What…. What's the date then?"
"It's the year 2035. That's
about 35, 36 years from your death my boy." I blinked once.
"Wow…."
"Shocking, isn't it?"
"I'd say….. I mean, I never
expected to be catapulted into the future. Heh, you know? This is all really
too much for me."
"I understand if you need some
time. However, there are some things I'd like to point out to you that
are different from your time. Would you like me to show you them now?
"Hold it." I said. There was
still one more question in my head.
"Yes?"
"It's the year 2035, right?"
"Correct."
"Then how old am I?"
"Your still 12…." Scott stood
up and started for the door. What in the world? 35 years passed and I'm
still 12? Did I just take a dip into the fountain of youth or what?
"Are you coming or not?" I snapped
back to reality. Using my legs for the first in what seemed a short time,
I followed Scott out of my dreary room.
"Whoa." I was speechless. We
were in what seemed to be a HUGE factory. Machines stalked the whole place.
Many busy people wearing dull gray uniforms and hard hats were running
around checking valves and checking things off of their clipboard.
It was bustling inside the place.
I was quite surprised to see little rookie digimon running around wearing
much the same hard hats and uniforms as the humans did. In the distance,
something roared. I looked and saw a huge Greymon helping to lift some
boxes onto a moving platform. A little needle poked at me. The thought
of Agumon came back to me. He was so saddened by my death.
"Now Taichi." I turned and gave
Scott my attention. He waved his arm over a large metallic pot looking
thing with steam coming from the bottom of it. "This is where we prepare
the nice cold ice to freeze people"
"People still want to be frozen?"
I asked. "Why?"
"They simply want to see the
future. Perhaps they want to see flying pigs and swimming dinosaurs. I
just can't tell you what they are thinking. It's their reasons as to why
they want to be frozen." I nodded and let him continue on.
"Is the cost still so high to
freeze people?"
"The cost is reasonable nowadays."
"Ah, I see…. Now my question…."
I felt something push me back a bit. I looked down to spot a little Terriermon
walking around.
"Why are digimon here?"
"Yeah, and how exactly do you
know about them?"
"Hmm, to make a real long story
short…. We have come and made an alliance with the friendly digimon to
fight against those on the side of the psychic freak."
"Huh?"
"Nevermind, someone will fill
you in on that."
"Ah, I got it."
"Yes, well, I could give you
the 411 on it right now. But, I don't feel like it. It's basically a prophecy
of some sort. You can read about that later in the Chamber if Records.
It's in the city."
"Okay…" I said taking the information
in like a sponge.
"Yep. Well now, I must show
you this." Scott led the way past digimon and people to a whole bunch of
frozen chambers lined up against the wall. Dry ice was flowing out from
underneath the frozen specimens.
In each tube was a person or
digimon with their name plates on the top of the little chamber. They were
literally frozen in time. Come to think of it, so was I.
"This is our cryonic freezing
chamber. AS you can see, many people work here making sure that everything
is in order."
"I get it."
"Good."
"Hey! Boss! Are you coming here
or what? Another one is unfrozen!" Scott smiled at me in a strange way.
"Follow me Tai, I believe you'll
find this amusing." I followed behind him. We passed what seemed to be
millions of chambers of frozen humans and digimon. I just looked in awe
at everything before me. So this is what the future is like, machine dependant.
I shook my head. It was sad, yet funny at the same time I suppose. Although,
I have yet to escape from this factory and view the city of Odaiba, if
that's where I am.
"Am I still in Odaiba?" I asked.
"Nope. This cryogenic
lab is situated in the home of Ohio. Dayton, Ohio in fact." My jaw dropped.
"Ha, just kidding. We are in Odaiba still. No jokes."
"That's…. good…."
"Oh boy, Tai, take a look ahead
of you. I find that this will bring a pleasant reunion."
I looked ahead of myself to
find several men and an Ogremon holding a weak digimon wrapped in blankets.
The digimon was just thawed out, I could tell. I felt the same and probably
looked the same when I was thawed out not to long ago. Oh man, I lost my
sense of time.
Wait a minute. This digimon was at the rookie level
with orange skin and a huge protruding snout…. Oh man.
"Agumon!" I happily ran over
and hugged the digimon. He looked wearily at my face and weakly said my
name.
"Tai…" I nodded. Agumon smiled.
"So we made it…." With that, Agumon fell back asleep in the arms of the
many who brought him back to life. I shook my head in happiness.
"Agumon is here….."
"Indeed. Your quite an observant
one, aren't you?" I rubbed my head and smiled as the men and Ogremon carried
Agumon away somewhere else.
"I guess so." Both Scott and
I laughed. I guess the future wouldn't be as bad as I thought with my friend
here. Agumon and I, facing this new world…. It'd be a piece of cake.
Or so I thought.
Ah, this fanfic is off to a slow and
boring start. But don't worry, the interesting parts will take part soon.
Well, not much to say. Better get cracking on homework , reading, and writing.....
-Ice Wolf17, 12/08/02