Authors Note: What can I say, my three muses are out to get me.
Legal Disclaimer: If I owed the show believe me all that owikawa trash would never have seen the light of day. Not to mention it would be rated NC-17. Thank you Belva Plain for your novels. I don't own those either.
Dedication: To Melissa Ford without whom none of this would be possible and Allekto for being the first to read this.
Fate Isn't A River Daisuke
by: Yamato Magna
Chapter Twelve: Misty Intuition
Dearest Dai-Chan,
Do you know you are everything to me?
Wherever I am, alone or in a crowd there is a part of my mind that is always aware of you.
As clearly as if you were speaking to me, I hear your lovely voice.
In the darkness, I see your courageous eyes and that one sided curve of your lips when you laugh.
We've had so little time together, only a few weeks, and yet I know you as if I had known you all my life.
You have my total trust, and I hope, I know, I have yours. It's my last thought before I sleep and the first before I wake.
Ken Ichijouji
The Digimon Kaizer
Daisuke awoke on the plush bed. His head felt like someone had left him in for an extra rinse cycle. The room, it was familiar. It was Ken's room. The black satin sheets and the Victorian dressers were an odd but soothing match. The wide rectangular room stretched far as the eye can see. Marble walls and floors; with a large full length mirror in one corner beside a large a cabinet holding undoubtedly more clothes. Finally a small desktop computer adorned the last wall.
The empty spaces above the aforementioned apparel were full of paintings. Oil, watercolour's photographs. There was no specific theme they weren't by the same artist none of them even had the same kind of scenery. It seemed as though Ken or more likely the Kaizer had picked them at random.
Quietly stretching his arms and legs he quickly realized something. He was naked. Grasping the covers he quickly draped them over him as his eyes wandered over the room looking for any shard of clothing. There was nothing. Not a piece in sight. Starting to feel the blood rise and go straight to his ears he immediately jumped up and began searching deftly for any sort of clothes. He stopped as he reached the closet as what he saw caused his jaw to drop.
Leather. The closet was full of leather. Jackets, leggings vests, and other unmentionables that caused the blood that was formerly stored in his ears to rush elsewhere. Daisuke sifted throughout the wardrobe to see if there was anything appropriate. "What's this?" He nearly jumped back when he uncovered the forlorn item. "A PVC!?" What was the Kaiser doing with his free time.
Daisuke quickly shut the door wiping the newly acquired sweat from his brow. Calmly pulling the sheets he made his way over to the dresser on the side of the bed. The clothes in here were even worse, but, sighing Daisuke swallowed his pride and found the blue pants and matching shirt. Another drawer revealed shoes and a cape which he refused to put on. Daisuke sighed as he smoothed out all the wrinkles and was about to check himself out in the mirror when something caught his eye. Tight braided leather, a spare whip was hidden underneath the capes in Ken's drawer. Taking it and attaching it to a clip on the belt it was in plain sight without the cape.
Daisuke sighed as he made his way slowly towards the mirror. He looked evil. Perhaps it was his imagination but the costume of the Digimon Kaizer seemed to radiate negativity. It was like a large wet hand was grabbing at him, groping for him trying to get inside of him. Gulping down his fears he turned and searched the pockets for his D-3. "How stupid." Daisuke grunted, of course Ken would have taken it from him. It was nowhere in sight.
Trying the door Daisuke found it open. He popped his head out the door. There were guards everywhere. Floramon Bakumon and even some Tapirimon. Daisuke quickly closed and locked the door before the red eyes of his slaves could turn upon him. Sighing he sat on the bed about to tuck his head in his hands when he noticed the computer flaring slightly.
Getting up he approached the machine calmly as the light dimmed and then the screen turned off completely. Brushing it off as a power saver he sat down in the chair and pulled it into the desk. Daisuke immediately tried clicking on a small icon labeled "digi-port". There was no harm in trying. Immediately a box came up asking him for a password. "Uhoh, password?" Daisuke murmured to himself. He didn't have any idea. Taking the keyboard he quickly tried a few common passwords.
"I N C O R R E C T!" The computer spoke loudly in a robotic voice.
"Umm maybe this is it. W-O-R now is it two m's or one." Daisuke wondered as he tried the name of Ken's partner. "No that's not it either." He sighed as he yawned and stretched out on the keyboard.
"Initiating Camera Program." The screen read suddenly.
"Camera?" Daisuke asked aloud as the screen flared code for a moment before displaying a list of options. Most in red but two at the top in green. "What's this Daisuke read the list. "Iori, Hikari, Miyako, Wormmon, Yamato. It's footage of every time any of us ever came to Digi-world." Daisuke gasped shocked. He took the mouse to the top of the screen where two options were highlighted. Live Feed and playback. Daisuke clicked on the leftmost one.
The screen flared for a moment before finally showing a scene that Daisuke remembered well.
"Well Dai-chan" The Kaizer said from up in his throne.
"Kaizer." Daisuke said as the leather outfit defragmented leaving only his usual digital world outfit behind. "I will not let you hurt my friends or my love anymore." He took a step up his open palms turning into fists. "I'll stop you so me and Ken can be together."
"I remember that it was just before I ended up here, but, how did I get here?" Daisuke asked himself as the computer flared again and Daisuke noticed the date. It was three days ago. What was going on?
The screen calmed and the footage returned as Daisuke watched with interest.
"Ken!" The Kaizer stood up outraged at the mention of his alter ego in such a manner. "He's gone he's dead I'm in charge now and you will do as I command." Instantly his whip snapped out and was around the hands of the other boy.
Gasping Daisuke continued his march up the stairs increasing his speed as he neared the top. The Kaiser looked shocked as he retracted his whip to strike another blow only to find Daisuke's arms upon him charging with him across the narrow expanse atop the thrones pedestal until they reached the edge, and, beyond.
Together they fell tangled in each others arms like two skydivers clinging to each other to survive only to drag each other to their doom. In a quick maneuver Ken flipped himself in mid air just before they hit the ground. Ken hit the ground hard. Blood spilled everywhere.
Immediately Digimon rushed in. Several Floramon and what looked like an Angemon but with a pink scarf instead of blue immediately spun his staff causing a large amount of sparkling dust to emit from his staff. As soon as it touched his nose he immediately began to twitch and gasp for air.
Opening his eyes he stood up and knocked the Digimon out of the way. Regaining control the Kaizer made a quick decision. Just as the Mon was about to heal the other human Ken stopped him. "Bring me the Arrowmon." He command as all the other Mon immediately left the chamber. "Stop! Who said you could leave!" He yelled furiously before the Mon could reach the door.
A few moments of stoic silence later three small mon appeared. Hidden in the shadows it was impossible to tell what they truly looked like. "Give me one of your arrows immediately." The mon shivered s their master spoke. Instantly an arrow was produced and handed to him by a floramon.
Laughing to himself Ken took the arrow and stabbed it deep into Daisuke's side.
As if the reminder of the pain somehow reopened the wound Daisuke looked down at the side of the Kaizer suit to see the once blue and white was now beginning to turn red. "How could I not have noticed this." He said to himself sheepishly. Looking around he noticed the lack sheets of the bed now showed the red blood. It was easy to miss seeing as the dried blood seemed to take on the color of the material. Sighing Daisuke turned his attention back to the screen.
"Shove him in my chambers, I'll see to him later." He snarled. "Now GET OUT!" He screamed as the angelic creature lifted up Daisuke following the other saves out the door. Immediately the Kaizer fell to his knees and began to…cry?
The footage cut there. Daisuke trembled a bit, before finally falling back into the chair he didn't remember getting up from. What, was that? Deciding that now was not the time for dramatics he quickly took the mouse and before he could the camera program came back online.
"So you want to play do you?" The Kaizer could be seen standing on top of his trademark Airdramon, shades in place despite the high winds that flailed his cape about. The camera slowly lowered until-
"Hey what's happening." Daisuke shouted as the computer suddenly spewed out static.
"Visual data lost. Play audio alone?" The automated computer message pop-up asked.
"Yes." Daisuke said as he clicked.
"Play we'll show you who's playing around!" A male voice shouted
"Yeah we'll make you wish you'd never come to this world."
"Cause we're gonna send you back to another world."
"Yeah a world of hurt is more like it!"
"Get ready Kaizer!"
"We're The Digi-Destined!"
"End Audio Feed." The computer message displayed.
Daisuke sat back calmly. Those voices, Taichi, Yamato, Sora and then all the others joined in. This didn't make sense. Daisuke checked the date on the monitor. It was two days ago. If he was still here it meant that there were two options; either the other digidestined had defeated Ken and they simply hadn't found the base yet, or, the second and much more plausible solution was that Ken defeated the others.
The latter was much more likely seeing as how he left his D-terminal with the coordinates of Ken's floating base. Not to mention it was the last place he went to on his own D-port. So they were either somewhere here, or. Daisuke didn't even want tot think about the alternative. Beginning to feel more blood seep from his wound he quickly placed a hand there accidentally causing the mouse to select the other option on the screen.
The screen fizzled for a moment before splitting up into 10 separate windows. The top two were uneventful. Nothing more then hallways, empty and unguarded. The next were much more interesting. "Miyako." Daisuke gasped as he saw the girl suddenly awake and slam her head back against the wall. Frantically he searched for some sort of an intercom device. Finding nothing he returned to the screen. Miyako was now checking the side of her body.
Quickly moving onto the next scene he saw Hikari by herself in a dungeon. He couldn't care less what happened to her normally, but for some reason he could take her eyes off of the brunette. Sleeping calmly in the corner of the room with Gatomon furled up next to her the moonlight reflecting in her distraught and tangled- wait a minute moonlight. Daisuke checked the corner of the screen. The clock read 2:34 am.
Holding his breath Daisuke glanced over the other screens. Iori and Takeru in one sleeping. Empty. Taichi and Yamato. Jyou. Sora. They were all here. So they had been captured too. Things couldn't get much worse. "Maybe if we're lucky some other Digi-Destined from another country will come save us or Ken will just-"
"AHHHH!" Daisuke snapped his head around only to snap it back to the screen. That sounded like a girl. Everyone was fine, no one was missing. "Wait Hikari wasn't." Instead of being in the fourth window she was now in the last and suddenly the first camera's range of vision. Taking a closer look he noticed the two almost invisible Bakumon dragging her across the halls one hand over her mouth to prevent her from screaming again.
Making up his mind quickly he rushed over to the door, tearing it open.
"I'm coming Hikari!"