Authors Note: Yeah so I got a little bit in over my head. We all knew I would be able to make a speedy recovery right. Besides now I have an excuse to put Mimi Midori and Jun in the Fic, not to mention Chibimon. Also this chapter introduces Shin. Even though he doesn't do much at the moment. Also I'm sort of at a loss as to who the main character for the next chapter should be. Any ideas?
Legal Disclaimer: Okay we all know I don't own Digimon. Please don't sue me. The story idea is mine but the characters are not, I just pull their strings. Dance I command you to dance! Mwhahahaha! *Cough hack*
Dedication: Well this one is dediated to anyone whoever felt like their world was going to come crashing down on them.
Fate Isn't A River Daisukeby: Yamato Magna
Chapter Fourteen: Inlet of Avail
Koushirou sighed as he gazed down at his laptop. He had boosted it with the power of two of his own computers and even that of Taichi's and Takeru's. And still he could not locate any of them. Donkey Madness sure loaded fast though.
Quickly closing off the leet programs he ended his brief chat with Mimi and Michael and began uploading the data he had received from Gennai. Small files concerning historic relics and other such stuff. It really seemed like that old sprite was aware of much more than he was letting on. Of course this was to be expected of one such as he.
Sighing once again he pulled up the files accidentally clicking on an image identification program and stared at his screen amazed. Quickly turning around to share his findings with Jyou as always he silently remembered that he wasn't there. He sighed again; it was beginning to become a habit.
Saving his finding he recalled the conversation, more like a one-way conversation that he had had with Taichi. It had all started innocently enough a small email with Taichi's usual bad punctuation mangled leet speak and lots of exclamation marks.
"KOUSHIROU WE NEED UR HELP!!! KARI MISSING!! DIGITALWORLD!!!
TAI"
"I wonder what it is this time Kou-chan." Jyou said amused as he read over his boyfriend's shoulder.
"Oh you know him probably got his hair stuck in a toaster again." The redhead mused before taking an actual look at the message. "Uhoh we've got trouble."
"What?" Jyou asked reading the email, "Oh I see." Sighing he picked up the phone next to Kou's desk and dialed in Sora's number. "Moshi Moshi, Takenouchi-sama…"
Kou typed away on his keyboard. Flying through programs he instantly found what he was looking for. If he was right they were going to need it. Just as soon as he'd found the code and had begun to open an editor program his J.O.L. automated message came online.
" Bosch_1/4@JOL you have one new message."
Clicking on another desktop icon he opened his inbox to find that there was nothing there other than the usual spam. "Oh gee thanks more hentai." He muttered
"No Ishida-sama I didn't say hentai I said umm Semper Fe!" The bluenette recovered quickly, shooting daggers at the back of his partner's head from his eyes.
Suddenly Koushirou's screen blazed for a moment. Covering his eyes he couldn't see the strange icon suspiciously shaped like an old familiar figure. When the light subsided he blinked for a moment before the automated message returned. Sighing he opened the Inbox again to find there really was something worth reading. A letter from Gennai! Hurriedly he clicked on the envelope.
"Digi-Destined,
I hope this will reach you before the calamity takes place. You must know that what is happening is not supposed to be. Someone or something is editing the data of the digital and it's not the digimon Kaiser, Or at least not him directly. In any case you must go to Digi-World and return things to their natural flow before it's to late.
Good Luck
Gennai
PS I've enclosed a finished Digi-port for those of you with original Digi-vices and a handy crest screensaver. Hope you enjoy."
"Thanks Shin I wont be long." Jyou said as he hung up the phone. All right everyone's coming here Kou-chan." He said looking relaxed from behind his glasses.
"What why here why not at the computer lab!" Kou nearly yelled. He couldn't have a bunch of people disappearing again; just think of all the shoes, his mother was bound to notice.
"Don't worry we'll just keep them on." The other said reading his mind.
"Remind me again why I keep you around." The genius said as he leaned in towards the other.
"Well for one thing we've got a long history, for another we both have an interest in badly cell shaded video games, oh yeah and before I forget." Jyou leaned in tipping the shorter boys head slightly as his lips parted allowing his tongue to pass through. Like two dancers on a pole each one strived for prime position, as only one could be the dominant. Koushirou's eyes sparkled as he reached out a hand and clamped on the doctor in training's butt. Yup he was definitely the dominant.
"That's cheating and you know it." He mock complained pretending to pout and cross his arms.
"Don't act like you didn't like it Jyou-kun." He smirked as his hands seemed to ravish the shirt of the other boy. Tearing it open he began to caress his boyfriends flesh and -
"Boy can you guys keep your hands off each other for more than twenty seconds!" An angry female voice burst into the room deleting all traces of intimacy from the two lovers as bodies pulled apart and shirts buttoned themselves.
Snapping himself back into reality he quickly reran the program at a lesser speed and was amazed at his findings. Opening the file labeled "Jinzo" the computer automatically composed an email and saved the information sending it to all of the other Digi-Destined.
To put it simply it was a wonder none had ever though of this before. There was another crest. It made sense when you thought about it. Even in Digi-World there had to be a system of checks and balances. That way neither good nor evil was allowed to truly ever win. So whenever evil got out of hand the Digi-Destined were summoned to kick some but. The same thing could be said for Ken, but, recent activities would prove this theory wrong.
"A Crest of Darkness, sacrifices sounds like someone's been watching to many horror movies to me." Kou murmured aloud. A knock on the door snapped him out of his trance. He was more than shocked to see the people who entered into his already cramped room.
"Hi Izumi-san." A trembling voice said.
"Jun! You're Jun Motomiya aren't you, Daisuke's brother?" Koushirou stood as the redhead entered the room with a blue stuffed animal in her hands, followed behind closely by Midori and Shin. It was no wonder they made it his mom's security. Shin would often come to collect Jyou from his house since he could almost always be found here when he turned off his cellphone, pager, two-way and voice mail. "What are you guys doing here?" He asked as he clicked to minimize the top programs.
"Koushirou, we know." Midori said.
The redhead instantly dropped any pretenses as the small blue fur ball instantly jumped from Jun's arms onto Koushirou's head and smack into the computer screen. "Let me in! I've got to get to Daisuke! Let me in right now!" The blue ball collapsed into Koushirou's lap as the hard LCD refused him entry and left him with a small bump on his head.
"Don't mind him," Shin spoke up as he maneuvered over to sit on the other boy's bed. "He's been doing that all day."
"Well at least this time it wasn't in a computer store." Midori laughed as she took a seat on the floor next to her now girlfriend Jun Motomiya.
"Hey that wasn't my fault." The other girl chimed in. "It was Shin who needed something or other from that store."
"Well how was I supposed to know the little guy would go smack dab into the screen of every computer…" Their voices trailed off as Koushirou's mind recalled a similar scene to this one.
"Hey Sora calm down at least they weren't-" Yamato was about to say as he entered the room.
"Don't say it Yamato! If I have to here about your little escapade in the restaurant one more time!" Sora threatened while taking a seat at Koushirou's computer, as Koushirou and Jyou sat where they were on the floor and Yamato maneuvered over to the bed.
"So what's the big emergency?" Jyou asked, trying to look serious after being caught in a make-out session. He failed miserably as the others all burst out laughing.
"But, seriously," The brunette said in-between giggles, "What is the problem?"
"As near as I can tell, it could be something as small as Hikari and the others simply not coming straight home or it could be as large as-"
"Koushirou!" The bluenette was staring at him expectantly.
"I'm sorry, what?" He asked.
"He asked what we know about there whereabouts, in other words why don't you just give us a complete briefing or whatever." Jun said holding the strangely quite Chibimon in her arms.
"All right." Koushirou said taking in a deep breath. "Well it all started way back when all of us-the original Chosen Children that is- all lived at Heighten View Terrace. Do you remember that bombing …" Koushirou's voice droned on for hours until finally Jun and Midori were completely caught up.
"Well." Jun said, almost unable to believe the things she had heard. But she had the proof it was asleep in her arms as he spoke.
"My sentiments exactly Jun." Her girlfriend spoke. She was now seated right next to her as the two had slowly moved closer and closer together as the story progressed.
"Now onto the good stuff." Kou said as he brought up the files from his computer and displayed them. "Come and take a look at this." The others gathered around as his screen displayed the program Gennai had sent him. "All right see these symbols." The group nodded as seemingly random coloured images flashed ahead of them. "Well they're the crest we told you about, the ones we used to help our Digimon digivolve to the ultimate level. I'll skip the history lesson but what you really need to know s that the crests were supposed to of just been empty vessels used to contain some of the power of the digital world. Really there was no way we could have used the power for our own ends but," He said pausing the screen as a black crest rolled over it. "this crest is different. It is called the crest of darkness."
"As in the opposite of the crest of light." Midori asked
"Well sort of but not really, don't worry I'll explain that too. You see the thing that makes this crest different from all the others besides it being evil is the fact that it is non-corporal."
"Meaning what exactly?" Jun asked scratching her head.
"It's not real. In fact it doesn't even exist."
"So let me get this straight, we came all the way over here because some kid is using something that doesn't even exist to hold all of our friends hostage!" Shin nearly yelled.
"No, that's not it at all, you didn't let me finish. Now if everyone's quite finished interrupting."
"Sorry." The three said in unison.
"As I was saying the crest doesn't exist in our time space dimension but in another, and before anyone asks that means it's from an alternate universe, but not necessarily one that's that far away. However this fact doesn't make the crest different enough for it to have any actual power. It is my theory that Ken must have tried digivolving a Digimon with the crest when he learned that was what we used them for and failed. So it leads me to believe that he is using some sort of device in order to amplify the power of his towers."
"Those are the things that make the Digimon his slaves right?" Jun asked again.
"Well no not directly. It's more like they're a huge lighting rod for the rings as the spirals are powerful enough to not need amplification. However the towers are what he uses to stop digivolution of Digimon." Clicking on some more programs Koushirou had everyone turn their attention towards another monitor. "Look here, this is a program that records residual wave lengths of energy from Digi-World. More specifically the energy used when digimon digivolve. The blue line at the top s kind of like a measurement of digivolution."
"It's flat." Shin said.
"Exactly and that is because this line," He said gesturing to a red one at the bottom, "is also flat. It symbolizes the energy made by the Black Towers negates that of digivolution. If you look back a few months you can see the radical difference." Koushirou rolled back the screen showing huge blue spikes registering across the screen. "Moving on," He said as he clicked a few more buttons, "See this wavy green line, it represents armor digivolution, and you guessed it, the purple one is the counter energy."
"What I thought Armor-Digivolution was fool-proof" Midori said.
"Well it seems as though Ken has found a way to cancel it out, my theory is that he is using the crest of Darkness to do as such that but there's a greater problem. You see the crest isn't supposed to exist, it's upsetting the delicate balance of things. According to my calculations, if the crest grows any stronger it will not only be the end of any hope we had of stopping the Kaizer, but also, it will destroy the digital world. And earth with it." Koushirou sighed as he said the last part
"What! You have got to be kidding us Kou, hurry up and tell the others, we've got to get their immediately."
"And what do you think you guys could do, you don't even have Digimon and even if you did a few rookies would be useless against Ken's armies." He stopped his rant as he looked at their discouraged faces. "Sorry guys, their is just one more thing I have to show you…"
"As near as I can tell, it could be something as small as Hikari and the others simply not coming straight home or it could be as large as, well you know." Koushirou said.
"We don't know what exactly is going on but we do know what we have to do. Mimi is rallying forces all over North America and they're planning to launch a little blitzkrieg on the Kaizer." Jyou smirked.
"So I guess that really is our only option, we just have to storm in there." Sora said standing up Digi-vice in hand.
"Boy and people thought I was starting to sound like Tai." Yamato said as he stood up taking out his Digi-vice as well.
"Wait a minute, I'm expecting word from Mimi really soon so doesn't it make more sense to stand here and wait." Koushirou pleaded as he stood up.
"Good idea Kou-chan! You stay here and we go." Jyou said grinning at the others.
"Well then just how do you expect to get into the digital world, have you thought of that. Don't expect me to let you in there with that kind of attitude." Koushirou stood up and folded his arms doing his best to look intimidating. It didn't work in the least as the others were all taller than him.
"Well then, I guess it's a good thing you've been giving me all those computer lessons, isn't it." Jyou said as he reached over and clicked on a hidden link opening up his boyfriends experimental D-Port program.
"I've always wanted to say this." Sora said as the trio held out their digi-vices ducking Koushirou's warnings. Kou on the other hand simply ducked.
"Digi-Port Open!!!" The three shouted in unison and in a bright flash of bluish-white light, they were gone.
Koushirou sighed…
Shaking his head Koushirou turned back to his computer. The others were staring strangely at him.
"Hey are you all right…" Shin begins , before letting it drop at the expression he se's n the other boy's face.
"This is the last thing I have to show you. These history records I received from Gennai. They speak of the last time the crest of darkness was invoked. Apparently it nearly destroyed the digital world then too. Other than the usual cryptic nonsense the only thing they really say is that the crest eventually becomes sort of self aware and, it requires a sacrifice to retain it's power or grow."
"A sacrifice?" Jun asked hesitantly "You don't think, Daisuke," she looked towards the others, "or Miyako?"
"Unlikely." Shin said staring out the window at the bright blue sky. "Hikari is the chosen of light, the enemy of darkness."
Midori stood up, for the first time the resemblance really showed between her and her sister. "I'm not waiting any longer!"
"Chibimon we're going to go find my brother!" Jun said standing up watching as the small blue creature perked up at the mention of his partner.
"Let's go. Daisuke is counting on all of us!" The small blue dragon yelled.
"Well I don't know if it's the best idea we've got, but it sure beats siting around her just waiting for things to happen." Shin moved to stand beside the two girls.
Jun Motomiya took another step forward as Koushirou took one hesitant step back. "Move over Ken, we're a comin' in!"