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I do not own digimon.
Author's Note: Sorry about the long wait. I haven't had much time to work on my stories these days. I'm also working on another story which is taking up most of my time. Hopefully, I will be able to complete this entire story soon so I won't have to worry about it later. This one will be longer, as I apologize for the last two extremely short chapters. On a happier note, the story is building up quite nicely don't you think?
IN THE DARK
Chapter Three: The Conspiracy
By: UNKNOWN
Kari, T.K., and Cody stared at the D-3. It was humming in a rather strange fashion, but the screen was pitch black. Kari shook it and pressed her ear to the device, hoping to receive some sort of response. After a while, Cody broke the silence.
"Do you think that he ran away?"
T.K. and Kari turned to face him.
"I doubt it," T.K. said. "I don't think that there was any reason he'd want to run away for…"
"Well, he's not in the digital world for sure. There's no way he could have gotten through the gates without his D-3."
Kari pocketed the D-3 right before Davis's mother barged in.
"Did you kids find anything unique or strange?"
The trio shook their heads. Davis's mother bit her lip.
"I'd better go call the police."
Kari, T.K., and Cody ran out the Motomiya apartment, past a frantic mother dialing on the phone.
Davis slammed the door shut before collapsing onto his bed. He needed to go to the digital world…but how would he be able to? Davis rolled around in exasperation until his mind came upon a thought. Ken! Ken's one of those techno freaks. I'll bet that he'll get me out of this mess! With his faith renewed, Davis hopped off the soft mattress and picked up the corded phone.
The tone rang about four times. Hmm…they must be out or something. Before Davis hung up, he heard a rough male voice answer on the other side.
"Ichijouji residence."
Davis paused.
"Hello?"
"Umm…Mr. Ichijouji? I'm Davis."
"Davis?"
"Yeah. Can I speak with Ken?"
There was a long pause on the other end. Davis rubbed the back of his neck, waiting for someone to answer.
"In case you don't remember the news a year ago…my son…he…ran away."
Davis choked. "He what?"
"He ran away! I don't want to talk about it anymore!"
With a loud cry of frustration, Ken's father hung up.
Davis placed the phone back, then laid on the bed to ponder over the recent event. Ken ran away? I remember that happened in fourth grade, but we brought him back when we defeated Chimeramon. Davis sat up.
"Shit," he muttered. The truth finally dawned on him. He rubbed his eyes and cursed more. Damn! I can't believe it took me so long to realize… Kari and T.K. not knowing about the digital world. They really didn't know about it. My D-3's disappearance…Ken's disappearance… all the same. Davis rubbed his forehead. Ken was never changed to normal because the digidestined never existed, and that means he stayed in the digital world. Davis jumped off his bed. His determination returned to him.
"I can't think like that!" he yelled. "In my past…my other past, I learned a lot from being a digidestined. But first, it was to never lose hope. If I lose hope now, there's no telling what will happen to this digital world!"
Davis paused, feeling a sense of machismo from giving his "speech". But first, I'll need to find my D-3. I know it has to exist because my knowledge of the digital world exists.
As he looked for the device, he could hear strange noises coming from the door. It's probably Jun laughing her brains out from hearing me talk to myself. Davis opened the door and chased Jun out into the living room.
After two hours of searching, Davis fell face forward onto his pillow. There, he felt something hard beneath his pillow. It's probably one of my teeth- for the tooth fairy or something. Groaning, he stretched one arm back and felt a metallic form. He felt his heart pause. Desperately, he turned over and flung his pillow away. The familiar form of his light blue D-3 was pushed into the bed, forming a small alcove. Now I remember! I used to hide my D-3 under my pillow because it was the last place that anyone in my family would look.
Holding the important artifact in his hand, he pocketed the D-3 in his favorite pair of jeans and pulled his sheets to cover his short stature. He closed his eyes as he dreamt about what the next day would bring.
The next morning was heralded by many loud birds. Unwilling to rise from the toasty warmth of his bed, Davis groaned and placed his pillow around his ears. However, the persistent shrieking of the birds finally caused the infuriated Davis to leap out o bed.
"All right! I'm up you damn birds! Shut the hell up!"
"Davis! Watch your mouth in there!"
Davis grumbled, then turned back to look at the birds who had flown away.
"Lousy birds."
Davis quickly put on his tight jeans and his usual vest. He no longer had his goggles because Tai had never given them to him in this world. Davis relaxed, realizing that it was a Sunday, and he hummed to himself as he made a breakfast of toast.
Walking out of the door, he hopped down the railing and onto the hard asphalt floor. Desperate for some adventure, he quickly jogged over to the closed school.
As he reached the entrance, the giant gate loomed above him. Boy, I don't remember being this fat! Well, I did it before… Struggling to get his stubby legs over gate proved to quite difficult. One belt strap caught onto the tip of the gate and when Davis jumped off the gate, he doubled over as the strap snapped. Shit!
Now he broke easily into the school building. Some teachers were already inside and they left the doors open for other teachers. Zigzagging back and forth, he finally made his way into the computer room. He locked the door, then plopped himself in front of the nearest computer, then turned it on. Luckily, he remembered how Izzy had activated the portal on Tai's computer. After a few minutes of grumbling and frustration, he finally got the portal to work.
Davis took one last deep breath as he held his D-3 before him. Here goes…
"Digi- port open!" he yelled.
There was a blinding flash of white light, and Davis disappeared.
Kari and Tai waited patiently in the bright sun of the park for the other digidestined to arrive. Yolei was the first, taking a break from her college education. She raced towards the two with excitement. They had not seen each other for about two years. After a quick exchange of words and laughs, they fell silent. Matt, Izzy, and Sora arrived next. Ken appeared to have ran the whole way, as he was sweating heavily. T.K., Cody, and Joe appeared last.
"So what's so urgent?" Matt asked.
Kari bit her lip. None of the older digidestined knew what had happened to Davis except for Tai.
"Well…Davis is missing."
Matt groaned. Yolei shook her head in disbelief.
"How many times has he done this?" Yolei hissed.
"But it's serious this time. His mother has already called the police and there are search squads everywhere!"
"Ugh… this is bad, " Joe commented.
"Oh yeah," Tai said. "Here Izzy. I was wondering if you could take a look at this thing."
Tai took out Davis's D-3 and tossed it over to Izzy.
Izzy frowned. "I'll see what I can do. I'm not sure anything, though. His digivice wo-"
"Well, since we're all here, I think we can do some catching up!" Yolei interrupted.
Everyone agreed and the topic of Davis's disappearance was forgotten.
After about thirty minutes of nonstop chatting, T.K. took a glance at his watch.
"Oh, I'd better get home for lunch now."
"Mom wouldn't mind me coming by right? I don't exactly enjoy dad's cooking…"
T.K. and Matt disappeared around the hedge.
"Well, we'd better be going home now too," Tai said.
The group dispersed and headed their ways.
There was a giant flash of white, then darkness. A feeling of wind blasted through his loose clothes and he felt a surge of energy crawl around at his skin. Data warped around him and spun in circles.
Finally, Davis landed in a heap in the grassy area of the digital world. This is the digital world…? It looks so…weird. The bright atmosphere of the digital world had been replaced by a thick fog drifting over the landscape. It was dark. Thunder boomed nearby and rain began to fall. Davis covered his head then ran to the nearest cave.
In the cave, he looked around and found a bright light at the end of the tunnel. What the…? Traveling cautiously, he made his way through the tunnel and peeked over the corner. There was a long bridge and some magma boiling under it. Should I take it…? Davis shook his head. With a burst of speed, he ran across the rotting bridge as fast as he could. After he had crossed it, he looked beyond his current position. It was pitch black. Davis turned behind him to view where he had just come from. The bridge snapped and burned helplessly in the heat of the magma.
"Well…there's no turning back now."
Ducking low and slowly moving, Davis made his way through the dark cave. At the end, there were two stairs. One lead left and the other straight up. Davis took the left one, as he was afraid of heights. This must be some sort of base or something. There's all this machinery and crap. I wonder whose it is. When he arrived at the end of his stair, he reached a giant metallic room. The door gave away easily. A single light bulb flickered in the middle. Pulling the cord next to it, the bulb lightened up and the room was revealed. There were five cases, each one with an object inside it. Buttons and other lights glittered.
What is this place? Davis hung by one of the cases and tapped on it. He couldn't make out what was inside, though he could see the silhouette of a spherical shape. Maybe one of these buttons will shed some light on these things. He took both of his fists and rammed the keyboard. The lights came on. And suddenly, Davis wished they hadn't. Davis touched the glass to see if it was real.
"No…" he whispered.
In the case was an egg, with the pattern of flames across it. A single horn jutted out of the shell. Veemon's egg! Who would've done this? Frantic, he began looking at the other cases, Sure enough, there were Armadillomon and Hawkmon's eggs. Nefertimon and Pegasusmon's eggs hung to the side. There were wires attached to all of them, and it appeared that energy was being siphoned off of them.
Quickly thinking to himself, he removed the glass off each of the eggs and disconnected all the cables. With frantic speed, he gathered the eggs into his arm and ran out to the fork. Taking the path straight up, he found that it simply lead to a higher elevated hill.
Outside, the stench of wet dirt permeated the air and rain was still pouring down heavily. Streaks of jagged red lightning ripped through the dark sky and thunder boomed loudly nearby. From a distance, Davis could hear voices from just over the nearby hill. Curious, he dropped to the floor carefully and leaned over the edge.
Two armies were fighting very noisily. A group of what appeared to be normal digimon, and another group which resembled shadows. Upon closer inspection, the "normal" digimon had wires running up their necks, along with a black colored ring where the wires appeared to connect. A dark ring! This must've been how Ken's domination of the digital world turned out since we didn't stop him… But then, whose army would the other side belong to?
A few more minutes of observing found that neither side could gain the upper hand. Digimon were dying on both sides and data occasionally burst every second or so. The cries of agony and despair filled the air. It did not seem possible, but it began to rain even harder.
Davis's hair was flopping around and he felt his grip on the eggs loosen. Finally, he decided to leave. Rolling out of sight behind a boulder, he quickly stood up and ran for the computer transport. A flash of lightning lit up the sky and Davis tripped over a rock. The eggs tumbled from his arms and he hit the mud. He groaned and waited for himself to recover. When he did, he could hear snarling voices coming from nearby. From which direction, he did not know. Davis looked around quickly and found all five eggs. With a burst of speed, he shot off to safety.
"Master…did you-?"
"Yes. I did."
The small Digimon scuttled back as the human figure rose. Draped in black robes and with a dark rod in hand, he was definitely a terrifying sight to witness. The small red globe on the tip of the rod pulsated every second.
"Ken…?"
The human boy named Ken whipped his head around in anger.
"I told you not to call me that," he hissed, "Ken no longer exists."
The digimon lowered its head in fear. "Yes…"
Davis landed with a thud on the hard floor of the computer room. He took a glance at his watch and noticed that only an hour had passed here in the real world. Checking to make sure the eggs were still intact, he rushed out of the school to home. Hopping over the gate proved difficult. He rolled the eggs under the gate first, then hopped it.
"Ugh."
Davis wiped his sleeves, which were now covered in dust. He scooped up the eggs in his arms and began to run home. At his apartment, he hid the eggs under a box filled with toys he hadn't played with for a few years.
As Davis covered the last egg, he thought, what am I going to do… I got five eggs under my toys, the Digital World is seriously screwed up, and not only do I need to overthrow Ken, but the other evil as well… As he thought to himself, he took a seat on his bed. He ran his hands through his puffy hair and sighed.
I wish I were back in my real time, where I could actually talk to my friends about this. Why have I even come here for? There has to be some greater meaning behind my arrival here…Davis quickly fell asleep after pondering for nearly ten minutes.
"Should we tell him now?"
The chained man shook his head and the three chains tapered onto his hood made clanging noises as they clashed with each other. His arms were folded across his chest and were bound by chains as well. His figure seemed to radiate with a dark purplish aura that extended at least half a foot off his robes.
"When do you plan to tell the child? We are not here to play games."
The former chained figure stood up to his full height, which was nearly seven feet. He looked down at the latter and green eyes gleamed through the shadows of his hood. A sudden beam of purple threw the shorter figure across the hall and then a green electrical field pulled him back.
"Do not question my authority. I know what I am doing. We have chosen this child because he holds powers the others do not and with them he can accomplish great things if he sets his mind to it. For now, however, we will observe his potential. Do I make myself clear?"
The shorter chained figure nodded and the chain around his neck shook wildly. His penetrating silver- blue eyes were lanterns in the darkness of the hallway outside Davis's room.
"I understand perfectly, Fenix."
The figure named Fenix nodded and his chains once again constricted his body to a small figure of four feet.
"Then we will now leave."
A casual nod of Fenix's head opened a small red rift next to him. As they stepped in, they melted into transparent forms and gradually disappeared into the rift. The rift close behind them with a crackling noise and it was like nothing had ever happened.
Davis had his ear pressed against his bedroom door for nearly the entire conversation. Adrenal was pumping throughout him like how water would spurt out of a hydrant. His entire body was tingling and his brain was trying to carry the weight of everything he had just heard.
To save the digital world…again? And powers? If only they would talk to me! Davis was filled with a sudden rage at the two chained men.
Why didn't they tell me!? They just sent me off to this past time as they pleased and didn't tell me jack! Who ever said that I wanted to go on this mission, or whatever you call it? Since when did I have powers capable of doing things besides embarrassing myself in front of Kari? I've freakin' had it!!!
Suddenly, he began to yell out loud in frustration and his cry was heard throughout the entire neighborhood.
I think that's a good place to end this story. Don't expect the next chapter to be up soon- I have a pretty busy schedule this month. But anyways, check back once in a while. The next chapter will have a change in mood… I think. Whatever- just don't forget to review!