Thanks for the praise and yes this chapter and the last were supposed to
make Travis a bit more human. That and let me have some fun with the
history of the digital world. There is so much that isn't explained in the
US version that I can have a field day. I have no idea were this chapter
came from, I was sitting in my car after driving home from West Virginia
and it just hit me.
I liked the idea and this is what came out. I can't wait to see everyone's opinions to this one.
Oh and Cherry its nice to know I'm not the only one who has those thoughts about Sora. I had to put that down. It was the what was running through my head in 02 with Sora and Matt... it was all I could come up with.
Kim, I'm a huge Tiaora fan, the only couple I like more then Tai and Sora is Rika and Ryo. I'm going to try. However in keeping with how I've got the characters established its not going to be easy and it is possible to my grate distaste that it might, in the end, still be a Sorato.
I don't own it anymore now then I did last chapter. Its too bad too because I just got a job with the graveyard shift and I've got school... this is not going to be pretty.
Chapter four.
A place called Heighton View Terrace...
As I told Tai, I was fighting the Dark Masters, pitting the power of my Ultimate and my shield against four Mega levels.
Gods above I was full of myself back then wasn't I?
Piedmon had managed to rip a hole between the real world and the digital world when he attacked and imprisoned the digital gods.
In the instant that one of the guardian bests was locked away, a digi-egg that should have arrived in primary village showed up in the real world instead. One digimon in our world for one digimon gardein who was trapped by the dark masters.
A freshly made Botamon, that ended up popping out of Tai and Kari's fathers computer. And a single egg with both Conomon and Zerimon inside for Willis...
Both Conomon and Zerimon were my fault. I had just gotten the hang of my crest, learned how to use it to raise other digimon in level and they suffered because of my foolishness. I was forced to watch as two of my far too few friends were deleted right in front of me by Puppetmon and MetalSeadramon.
Friends who until recently I had thought dead by, in a round about way, my hand. And lastly, a Parrotmon.
That was one of the oddest things I've ever heard of. An Ultimate level digimon coming out of a Digi-egg? Piedmon's work yet again. He pushed part of his own power into the egg as it was emerging. The power would have been more then adequate for a Mega had it come out of a computer.
Thank God for small miracles. Such as a jumbo sized egg forming in the sky and not out of a Titantron somewhere. That and Tai having an innate bond to that Graymon. Had it not been for Tai and the fact that the Parrotmon was still unstable...
It would have been a heck of a lot worse then it was that's for sure.
That battle made me grow up some. The data that was collected by Gennai showed that the of all the children, and surprisingly it was only children who saw the whole thing. That eight of them had certain properties that could be used here in this world.
At that time, I had grown wiry of being alone. Besides I had just gotten my ass handed to me by the Dark Masters and The powers of the digital guardians would soon fade away. So Gennai and I came to a decision.
Thinking that Destiny no longer had digimon because of me. And that there eggs had not reformed according to Elecmon. I had to think that Willis was out of the fight for good. Ken's change had already started and Wormmon had gone into hiding So he too was out o of the picture. At the time I thought that Wormmon was hiding from me because of what I had done to Lopmon and Terriermon.
If only it had been so simple.
That left Betamon and myself. There was no way I was going to endanger Michael in this, not again. So we made new crests, based off the ones that my team had received.
From Honor came Knowledge and Reliability. From Kindness came Friendship and Courage. Destiny begot Love and Sincerity, and my own Faith was split into Hope and Light.
Into these crests the remaining power of the digital gods flowed into them, creating both the tags and the digi-eggs that would be effected by them.
Each crest now had a portion of the power of one of the gods. Each one was half of one that had come before. An abstract, and a concrete. One half of each crest pair was an obvious for what had come before.
Love and destiny, friendship and kindness, honor and reliability. Faith and hope. The other half is more abstract. I'm not even sure why some came out of the ones they did, some make sense such as light and courage the others though... the others I'm still don't totally get.
Courage and kindness makes some sense, as you much be courageous to offer kindness to a stranger, or even worse a former enemy. Light makes sense as well, but the others, I'm not sure why they came about.
Was it because destiny would lead one to a sincere love? And if so which definition of sincere are we talking about? I know not, perhaps I never will. All I know is that I created the crests that dragged the middle eight children here.
That I watched them for nearly a year, saw how they reacted, how they just wanted to go home. I saw them fight, and bleed, I watched one loose there partner, and one almost loose her life for the sake of a copy.
And were was I? I was fighting a another war, a war to keep the most powerful evil in the digital world at bay until reinforcements for my side could arrive. But I watched them. From afar or from close in, I watched them.
Always looking, but never helping. Dear God what have I become? Have I, in all the years that I've been in this world, become nothing more then unfeeling, uncaring data after all? Am I less then human now? Have I ever even been human?
Am I good or evil?
Questions like these have plagued me for far too long. I have finally came to grips with that last one. But the others... I do not know about the others.
And now there are three more of us. Each with two eggs, each egg one half of the combo for each of my teams crests. Coincidence? I think not. All but Hope and Light were given to a new child. Now what do all the others have in common besides those too?
An inactive destined.
That's it. Destiny had been taken out of the mix way back, only a single year after I had sent him back home. Kindness had been corrupted, it was the very enemy that this new group had been called to fight.
But I've already gone over those haven't I? So what of Honor one must ask, why wasn't he called as well? To Answer that question I have to say but one name.
Piedmon.
The Dark Masters returned with a vengeance. They had been gone, hiding and gaining strength through some means that I don't know. I and Betamon had been their first target. Having been cut off from the rest of the world they thought that we were that last of the digidestined.
Betamon was killed before I could do anything to help him. Another of my friends gone. Somehow, someway he ended up in New York with his partner and stopped a rogue Guerillamon. All this as the new kids were fighting for their lives against Myotismon.
And they saved mine with their return. Quite suddenly I was no longer needed, nor was I to be feared. I was yesterdays model, obsolete. And so they left me alone and went after the new kids. I watched then out of fear.
Fear to get close to anyone else, fear of loosing them as I had lost everyone in my life. First Sara and then all but Serpentmon either through death or letting there partner, or partners die for my mistakes.
But somehow they won. One only to find themselves against an enemy that I thought I had killed years, maybe even centuries ago. I watched as their crests were destroyed, I watched as they died.
And I watched as they came back.
As they came back and killed the bastard who had taken my life from me all those years ago.
I was humbled by that. With out me they had beaten the evil that threatened both worlds. And so started my doubts. Then they did it again. This time against Diaboromon and with only four of their team even there to see.
And then came the Emperor.
Ken.
One of mine. A bright, kind but lonely boy who had a large brother complex. But this was nothing like the Ken I knew, I was going to step in to stop him but then Tai showed up. Three new digivices were released, the digi- eggs found. I backed off then.
I backed off even more when Light and Hope joined this new team. As I slowly got my courage back, and was about to step in and help once more... Michael made his appearance with Mimi.
And I called Tai the coward. What a hypocrite I am. He runs from love, I run from both love and friendships, from my responsibilities and my past. I run from pain and I run from what sooths that pain.
It seems that I run from anything and everything that lets me know I'm alive... I'll sleep on it. Yes sleep would be a good thing right about now, Patamon is way ahead of me in that regard.
Good night journal, I don't know when I'll get the chance to talk to you again, but at lest I do feel a bit better for putting this all down. But I've got so many more questions in my head now with of course the most important simply being: why?
-Michael Travis Lock
I liked the idea and this is what came out. I can't wait to see everyone's opinions to this one.
Oh and Cherry its nice to know I'm not the only one who has those thoughts about Sora. I had to put that down. It was the what was running through my head in 02 with Sora and Matt... it was all I could come up with.
Kim, I'm a huge Tiaora fan, the only couple I like more then Tai and Sora is Rika and Ryo. I'm going to try. However in keeping with how I've got the characters established its not going to be easy and it is possible to my grate distaste that it might, in the end, still be a Sorato.
I don't own it anymore now then I did last chapter. Its too bad too because I just got a job with the graveyard shift and I've got school... this is not going to be pretty.
Chapter four.
A place called Heighton View Terrace...
As I told Tai, I was fighting the Dark Masters, pitting the power of my Ultimate and my shield against four Mega levels.
Gods above I was full of myself back then wasn't I?
Piedmon had managed to rip a hole between the real world and the digital world when he attacked and imprisoned the digital gods.
In the instant that one of the guardian bests was locked away, a digi-egg that should have arrived in primary village showed up in the real world instead. One digimon in our world for one digimon gardein who was trapped by the dark masters.
A freshly made Botamon, that ended up popping out of Tai and Kari's fathers computer. And a single egg with both Conomon and Zerimon inside for Willis...
Both Conomon and Zerimon were my fault. I had just gotten the hang of my crest, learned how to use it to raise other digimon in level and they suffered because of my foolishness. I was forced to watch as two of my far too few friends were deleted right in front of me by Puppetmon and MetalSeadramon.
Friends who until recently I had thought dead by, in a round about way, my hand. And lastly, a Parrotmon.
That was one of the oddest things I've ever heard of. An Ultimate level digimon coming out of a Digi-egg? Piedmon's work yet again. He pushed part of his own power into the egg as it was emerging. The power would have been more then adequate for a Mega had it come out of a computer.
Thank God for small miracles. Such as a jumbo sized egg forming in the sky and not out of a Titantron somewhere. That and Tai having an innate bond to that Graymon. Had it not been for Tai and the fact that the Parrotmon was still unstable...
It would have been a heck of a lot worse then it was that's for sure.
That battle made me grow up some. The data that was collected by Gennai showed that the of all the children, and surprisingly it was only children who saw the whole thing. That eight of them had certain properties that could be used here in this world.
At that time, I had grown wiry of being alone. Besides I had just gotten my ass handed to me by the Dark Masters and The powers of the digital guardians would soon fade away. So Gennai and I came to a decision.
Thinking that Destiny no longer had digimon because of me. And that there eggs had not reformed according to Elecmon. I had to think that Willis was out of the fight for good. Ken's change had already started and Wormmon had gone into hiding So he too was out o of the picture. At the time I thought that Wormmon was hiding from me because of what I had done to Lopmon and Terriermon.
If only it had been so simple.
That left Betamon and myself. There was no way I was going to endanger Michael in this, not again. So we made new crests, based off the ones that my team had received.
From Honor came Knowledge and Reliability. From Kindness came Friendship and Courage. Destiny begot Love and Sincerity, and my own Faith was split into Hope and Light.
Into these crests the remaining power of the digital gods flowed into them, creating both the tags and the digi-eggs that would be effected by them.
Each crest now had a portion of the power of one of the gods. Each one was half of one that had come before. An abstract, and a concrete. One half of each crest pair was an obvious for what had come before.
Love and destiny, friendship and kindness, honor and reliability. Faith and hope. The other half is more abstract. I'm not even sure why some came out of the ones they did, some make sense such as light and courage the others though... the others I'm still don't totally get.
Courage and kindness makes some sense, as you much be courageous to offer kindness to a stranger, or even worse a former enemy. Light makes sense as well, but the others, I'm not sure why they came about.
Was it because destiny would lead one to a sincere love? And if so which definition of sincere are we talking about? I know not, perhaps I never will. All I know is that I created the crests that dragged the middle eight children here.
That I watched them for nearly a year, saw how they reacted, how they just wanted to go home. I saw them fight, and bleed, I watched one loose there partner, and one almost loose her life for the sake of a copy.
And were was I? I was fighting a another war, a war to keep the most powerful evil in the digital world at bay until reinforcements for my side could arrive. But I watched them. From afar or from close in, I watched them.
Always looking, but never helping. Dear God what have I become? Have I, in all the years that I've been in this world, become nothing more then unfeeling, uncaring data after all? Am I less then human now? Have I ever even been human?
Am I good or evil?
Questions like these have plagued me for far too long. I have finally came to grips with that last one. But the others... I do not know about the others.
And now there are three more of us. Each with two eggs, each egg one half of the combo for each of my teams crests. Coincidence? I think not. All but Hope and Light were given to a new child. Now what do all the others have in common besides those too?
An inactive destined.
That's it. Destiny had been taken out of the mix way back, only a single year after I had sent him back home. Kindness had been corrupted, it was the very enemy that this new group had been called to fight.
But I've already gone over those haven't I? So what of Honor one must ask, why wasn't he called as well? To Answer that question I have to say but one name.
Piedmon.
The Dark Masters returned with a vengeance. They had been gone, hiding and gaining strength through some means that I don't know. I and Betamon had been their first target. Having been cut off from the rest of the world they thought that we were that last of the digidestined.
Betamon was killed before I could do anything to help him. Another of my friends gone. Somehow, someway he ended up in New York with his partner and stopped a rogue Guerillamon. All this as the new kids were fighting for their lives against Myotismon.
And they saved mine with their return. Quite suddenly I was no longer needed, nor was I to be feared. I was yesterdays model, obsolete. And so they left me alone and went after the new kids. I watched then out of fear.
Fear to get close to anyone else, fear of loosing them as I had lost everyone in my life. First Sara and then all but Serpentmon either through death or letting there partner, or partners die for my mistakes.
But somehow they won. One only to find themselves against an enemy that I thought I had killed years, maybe even centuries ago. I watched as their crests were destroyed, I watched as they died.
And I watched as they came back.
As they came back and killed the bastard who had taken my life from me all those years ago.
I was humbled by that. With out me they had beaten the evil that threatened both worlds. And so started my doubts. Then they did it again. This time against Diaboromon and with only four of their team even there to see.
And then came the Emperor.
Ken.
One of mine. A bright, kind but lonely boy who had a large brother complex. But this was nothing like the Ken I knew, I was going to step in to stop him but then Tai showed up. Three new digivices were released, the digi- eggs found. I backed off then.
I backed off even more when Light and Hope joined this new team. As I slowly got my courage back, and was about to step in and help once more... Michael made his appearance with Mimi.
And I called Tai the coward. What a hypocrite I am. He runs from love, I run from both love and friendships, from my responsibilities and my past. I run from pain and I run from what sooths that pain.
It seems that I run from anything and everything that lets me know I'm alive... I'll sleep on it. Yes sleep would be a good thing right about now, Patamon is way ahead of me in that regard.
Good night journal, I don't know when I'll get the chance to talk to you again, but at lest I do feel a bit better for putting this all down. But I've got so many more questions in my head now with of course the most important simply being: why?
-Michael Travis Lock