Chapter 4
Crawl Space
~*Meanwhilist*~
Alright, Cleo thought, this one isn't half bad. A young teenage girl had just finished a picture, a picture of a digimon she had created. Cleo had studied computer coding for a while, but it had just been too much to contend with her evil teachers homework piles, so she would have to find someone else to help her make her digimon into a digital pet for her computer. She sighed and sat down. Drawing really took a lot of concentration, she thought as she sipped her ginger ale. A crash from within her room made her bolt upright. I hope that was just Simba, she thought as she rounded the corner to her room, but seeing her slightly rotund dog lying in the entranceway denied that truth. She slowly opened her door, and saw a hole. Not a hole in the wall, but a space hole. Woah, back away from the portal, she thought wildly, but before she could, she was sucked into the portal's swirling depths.
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(Anyways, back at Mike's house our heroes (or so they think) start to prepare for the long rode of peril that awaits them.)
"Flashlights!" "Check." "Food!" "Check." "Nightlight!" "Che-. Who's that for?" "You!" "WHAT?!?!?!" SHMACK "Owwwww!" "Ok, just continue." "Umm. where was I. Oh yes! Matches!" "Check." "Watches!" "Check." "Superglue!" "Ch. What's THAT for?" "Just in case." "Oooook.." "Harry Potter style tents!" "WHAT!? I refuse to sleep in one of those!" "No, Matt. These are the ones that are like a hotel suite in side." "Oh.. Ok then, Che- no wait, we don't have those." "Hang on." I typed in a search in my summon program and sure enough, one small package coalesced on the floor. "uhhh.check." "Ok.. Extra food!" "Ch. Why do we need that? "To be prepared for the worst?" "Ok then. Check!" "Ok. There will be other things we shall bring from other universes." "Like weapons!" "And allies!" I reminded him. "Oh yes, and them, too." Matt said in a brushing-off kind of tone. "Matt! We will need allies, because if we don't, our overconfidence will tempt the Irony gods." "Ooooook, Mike, no more Acid for you!" "Not acid, Animorphs " I said, smiling innocently " Oooook. Anywho's let's get on with it, ok, so what weapons are we going to "Summon" first?" I thought about this one hard. There were many weapons of mass destruction that I could summon, but I couldn't decide.
"We'll just grab some Phasers for now" I said
"Oh, Wow, Phasers!" said Matt in mock surprise " We might as well be using laser tag lasers on Dracomon."
"Did I say we would have to use them on her," I said. "She may have used her own summon program to create an army or something."
"Good point." Matt replied
"Um.so if you've got all this "power" then why do you need us?" Asked Peritomon. Shocked by this question, it took me a minute to come up with a reason.
" Because no matter how powerful she is, she is still a Digimon," I said.
"Meaning?" said Pyromon
"Meaning we need you to help defeat her"
"Oh" Pyromon said before rummaging through the clutter that was on the floor for something. I just hope she stays a Digimon, I thought, mentally praying.
"Alrighty, I think we've finally got everything" I said. We managed to get food, clothing, electronics, gadgets, gizmos, tents, sleeping bags, toiletries, and anything else we could conceive to bring at the moment, all of that into 2 small backpacks.
"Um.what happens if we crash into something, won't all this get damaged?" Matt asked. I shook my head
"It's all protected in there, so as long as the bag doesn't get utterly obliterated, the stuff in there shouldn't be harmed,"
"YAY! WE'RE GOING ON A TRIP!.. Where are we going anyway?" Peritomon asked while jumping on my bed.
"Again, I have no Idea, we're sailing into the unknown here"
"Enough blabbing people! We have to save the world and all." Matt said, as he picked up his backpack.
"Alright, ready?" I asked, and everyone nodded. "Ok, here we go." And I pulled up a travel program I had written for the rift. "Lets get onto the net! It's accessing, alright! We're in! Please keep your arms and legs in the vehicle at all times and if you feel the need to hurl, please don't." and I hit the Execute button. We were all unceremoniously plucked off our feet and hurled into a vortex that had appeared above my bed.
"I changed my mind!" Pyromon cried above the gail of wind " I want off!"
"Too bad!" Matt shouted back " You're stuck in the ride!" We whizzed past endless corridors of fiber optics, cables and systems. I had no Idea how incredible being inside the Internet would be! Streams of raw data blurred past as we plunged deeper into the recesses of the web.
"WAIT!" Matt shouted, and we turned to look at him, which needless to say, is a feat on its own in cyberspace.
"What's up?" I asked him, drifting over to him.
"I saw something down a turn off back there a bit" he said as he gestured over his shoulder. "We should go back"
"Alright, let's go guys!" and with that we retraced our steps back to the last junction.
"Turn here!" Matt shouted and zoomed off down another cable. We all followed, and were traveling for about 5 seconds at what seemed light speed (It just might have been) before Matt smacked into an invisible barrier. There was no time to react before the rest of us hit it too.
"OWWWIEEE!!!!" Pyromon cried
"Quit your whining" Peritomon said
"What happened?" I asked
"THAT might have happened" Matt said, and with that, collectively our jaws dropped "So much for sailing into the unknown, we kinda ran smack into it."
"No kidding," I mumbled, as I stared into the gash made into the side of the cable, a gash in space-time itself. I drifted forward towards it. "What are we waiting for? Lets go!"
"Ok, but just for the record it was your dumb Idea" said Matt
"And If we die, we're gunna make sure you pay for it!" Peritomon said. Pyromon mumbled something like "mimblewimble" but I couldn't hear it.
"YAHOO!" Matt yelled and plunged through the gash, and we all followed suit. I woke up on solid earth. I spat out the dirt that was in my mouth. Wha? Dirt?! I bolted to my feet to a sight that baffled me. We were in a forest, but it looked exactly like the forest near my house. Matt was sitting not too far off
"Amazing isn't it." He said. I nodded "But what I don't get, is what this place is"
"I don't have a clue, but we should get some equipment out"
"Sound's like a plan" Matt said, and reached for his backpack, but never got the chance, for a huge, clawed foot smashed it into the ground
"I don't thing you'll be needing that" Dracomon sneered.
Crawl Space
~*Meanwhilist*~
Alright, Cleo thought, this one isn't half bad. A young teenage girl had just finished a picture, a picture of a digimon she had created. Cleo had studied computer coding for a while, but it had just been too much to contend with her evil teachers homework piles, so she would have to find someone else to help her make her digimon into a digital pet for her computer. She sighed and sat down. Drawing really took a lot of concentration, she thought as she sipped her ginger ale. A crash from within her room made her bolt upright. I hope that was just Simba, she thought as she rounded the corner to her room, but seeing her slightly rotund dog lying in the entranceway denied that truth. She slowly opened her door, and saw a hole. Not a hole in the wall, but a space hole. Woah, back away from the portal, she thought wildly, but before she could, she was sucked into the portal's swirling depths.
**____**
** **
(Anyways, back at Mike's house our heroes (or so they think) start to prepare for the long rode of peril that awaits them.)
"Flashlights!" "Check." "Food!" "Check." "Nightlight!" "Che-. Who's that for?" "You!" "WHAT?!?!?!" SHMACK "Owwwww!" "Ok, just continue." "Umm. where was I. Oh yes! Matches!" "Check." "Watches!" "Check." "Superglue!" "Ch. What's THAT for?" "Just in case." "Oooook.." "Harry Potter style tents!" "WHAT!? I refuse to sleep in one of those!" "No, Matt. These are the ones that are like a hotel suite in side." "Oh.. Ok then, Che- no wait, we don't have those." "Hang on." I typed in a search in my summon program and sure enough, one small package coalesced on the floor. "uhhh.check." "Ok.. Extra food!" "Ch. Why do we need that? "To be prepared for the worst?" "Ok then. Check!" "Ok. There will be other things we shall bring from other universes." "Like weapons!" "And allies!" I reminded him. "Oh yes, and them, too." Matt said in a brushing-off kind of tone. "Matt! We will need allies, because if we don't, our overconfidence will tempt the Irony gods." "Ooooook, Mike, no more Acid for you!" "Not acid, Animorphs " I said, smiling innocently " Oooook. Anywho's let's get on with it, ok, so what weapons are we going to "Summon" first?" I thought about this one hard. There were many weapons of mass destruction that I could summon, but I couldn't decide.
"We'll just grab some Phasers for now" I said
"Oh, Wow, Phasers!" said Matt in mock surprise " We might as well be using laser tag lasers on Dracomon."
"Did I say we would have to use them on her," I said. "She may have used her own summon program to create an army or something."
"Good point." Matt replied
"Um.so if you've got all this "power" then why do you need us?" Asked Peritomon. Shocked by this question, it took me a minute to come up with a reason.
" Because no matter how powerful she is, she is still a Digimon," I said.
"Meaning?" said Pyromon
"Meaning we need you to help defeat her"
"Oh" Pyromon said before rummaging through the clutter that was on the floor for something. I just hope she stays a Digimon, I thought, mentally praying.
"Alrighty, I think we've finally got everything" I said. We managed to get food, clothing, electronics, gadgets, gizmos, tents, sleeping bags, toiletries, and anything else we could conceive to bring at the moment, all of that into 2 small backpacks.
"Um.what happens if we crash into something, won't all this get damaged?" Matt asked. I shook my head
"It's all protected in there, so as long as the bag doesn't get utterly obliterated, the stuff in there shouldn't be harmed,"
"YAY! WE'RE GOING ON A TRIP!.. Where are we going anyway?" Peritomon asked while jumping on my bed.
"Again, I have no Idea, we're sailing into the unknown here"
"Enough blabbing people! We have to save the world and all." Matt said, as he picked up his backpack.
"Alright, ready?" I asked, and everyone nodded. "Ok, here we go." And I pulled up a travel program I had written for the rift. "Lets get onto the net! It's accessing, alright! We're in! Please keep your arms and legs in the vehicle at all times and if you feel the need to hurl, please don't." and I hit the Execute button. We were all unceremoniously plucked off our feet and hurled into a vortex that had appeared above my bed.
"I changed my mind!" Pyromon cried above the gail of wind " I want off!"
"Too bad!" Matt shouted back " You're stuck in the ride!" We whizzed past endless corridors of fiber optics, cables and systems. I had no Idea how incredible being inside the Internet would be! Streams of raw data blurred past as we plunged deeper into the recesses of the web.
"WAIT!" Matt shouted, and we turned to look at him, which needless to say, is a feat on its own in cyberspace.
"What's up?" I asked him, drifting over to him.
"I saw something down a turn off back there a bit" he said as he gestured over his shoulder. "We should go back"
"Alright, let's go guys!" and with that we retraced our steps back to the last junction.
"Turn here!" Matt shouted and zoomed off down another cable. We all followed, and were traveling for about 5 seconds at what seemed light speed (It just might have been) before Matt smacked into an invisible barrier. There was no time to react before the rest of us hit it too.
"OWWWIEEE!!!!" Pyromon cried
"Quit your whining" Peritomon said
"What happened?" I asked
"THAT might have happened" Matt said, and with that, collectively our jaws dropped "So much for sailing into the unknown, we kinda ran smack into it."
"No kidding," I mumbled, as I stared into the gash made into the side of the cable, a gash in space-time itself. I drifted forward towards it. "What are we waiting for? Lets go!"
"Ok, but just for the record it was your dumb Idea" said Matt
"And If we die, we're gunna make sure you pay for it!" Peritomon said. Pyromon mumbled something like "mimblewimble" but I couldn't hear it.
"YAHOO!" Matt yelled and plunged through the gash, and we all followed suit. I woke up on solid earth. I spat out the dirt that was in my mouth. Wha? Dirt?! I bolted to my feet to a sight that baffled me. We were in a forest, but it looked exactly like the forest near my house. Matt was sitting not too far off
"Amazing isn't it." He said. I nodded "But what I don't get, is what this place is"
"I don't have a clue, but we should get some equipment out"
"Sound's like a plan" Matt said, and reached for his backpack, but never got the chance, for a huge, clawed foot smashed it into the ground
"I don't thing you'll be needing that" Dracomon sneered.