Chapter 2 - Red, Green, and Blue

Her hair was long and red, but not tied back in a ponytail. Her eyes were deep and purple-grey.

She was very pretty, like her mother. Her mother was famous, she was a model. The kind that attended every fashion shoot in town at the same time.

But Rika wasn't as famous as her mother. Rika was secretive, something her mother didn't have the time for. Her mother had no time for anything but fashion.

Rika looked at the Hypnos building. It was still getting repairs done to it- -the D-Reaper had been merciless.

Rika kept her digivice in her pocket at all times.

It was fully functional. It had not been neglected like Takato's digivice had.

Beep.

Rika looked up from her homework. What was that?

Beep.

There it was again... this time louder. Rika sat up and looked around, bewildered.

Suddenly the digivice in her pocket.

Rika gripped it, her eyes wide with wonder. What was happening?

***

Henry was helping his father design the latest version of DigiBattle. It was as realistic as a digimon game gets. However there was a pretty bad bug that kept messing up Devimon's name to say Hitler.

The digivice sat on a shelf, with wires poking out of it from everywhere. Henry's father monitored the Digital World through Henry's digivice. It worked sort of like radar.

"Spongebob is on!" Cried Suzy from downstairs.

Suzy felt she should announce every show that came on Nickelodeon every half hour. She also announced the commercials.

Henry's parents said Suzy could be a singer when she grew up.

Henry said Suzy could be a human TV guide when she grew up.

Beep.

Henry glanced at the screen. Wait a minute... the computer hadn't made that noise.

What?

There was another beep. Like the sound a computer makes when you just reset it.

But the computer wasn't being reset. Mr. Wong was still working at it.

Mr. Wong noticed the sound too.

And for some reason his eyes darted to the green digivice, sitting on the shelf.

Maybe because it was vibrating.

Mr. Wong nodded at his son.

Go.

***

Takato liked his fingers. The pleasures of a chocolate coated doughnut...

He sat down and ripped open his backpack. A dozen large books fell out. The teacher often referred to these books as homework books.

Takato referred to these books as vision impairment.

Wiping his hands on his pants, he flipped through the science book. He was studying chemistry.

Boring, thought Takato.

By some odd chance, he looked at the digivice on the dresser.

And by some even odder chance, it was glowing.

Takato picked it up quicker than the flu. It was glowing! The screen was bright red.

But what did it mean?

The compass appeared. The digivice had gone into compass mode... by itself.

Takato was dreaming. He had to be...

No, he decided. This is real.

He grabbed his coat and rushed out of the house. Rushed into the pouring torrents of rain.

He didn't mind the wet or the cold. Or the extremely heavy wind. Or the lightning. It didn't matter to him, because he knew exactly where the compass was pointing.