[Cue Theme - "Infinity (Red Zone Mix)"]
[A clear blue sky, a few white clouds floating lazily by. Pan down, past
the sun, until the skyline of a city comes into view: San Francisco.]
D I G I T A L M O N S T E R S
[We weave through the skyscrapers, before cutting to the streets below, a
crowded sidewalk. A shadow quickly moves over them. Cut again to
the skyline, then zoom into the top of the TransAmerica Building (the large
triangular building), where a figure stands with its arms crossed: Aero Veedramon.]
[Cut to a red background, a silver haired person turns left to face the camera,
Ira Caraway, before fading away. Fal Michael fades in and does the same,
only turning right, before fading away. David Milliard fades in, turns
left to face the camera, then fades away.]
[Aero Veedramon, Seadramon, and Veemon Akira fade in and do the same as their
respective partners]
[Cut to a shot of the camera flying over Tokyo bay towards Tokyo itself, the
skyline in the distance. Cut again to a shot flying over Shinjuku,
looking straight down as we pass over the Tokyo Metropolitan Building]
[Cut to a blue background; Kouyuu Fukushima, "Callie" Stone, and
Kaoline Shokai fade in and do the same as the others, followed by their
partners: Hitorimon, Psymon, and Dianamon]
[We now see two Earths floating next to each other in front of a star-filled
background. Suddenly, two glowing red eyes open, looking somewhat faded,
one over each Earth.]
[Now we are above the clouds, in the distance we see a giant blue-ish dragon,
Azulongmon. We rapidly zoom in to the face of a person sitting on his
head: Caspian Callaway. Cut to what appears to be a desert, another young
man, Shadow, stands alone covering his face with one hand (like Heero in the
Gundam Wing intro), we pull back just far enough as Antylamon lands in front of
him. Cut again, Garfield Magus and Black Agumon are back to back,
Garfield firing two handguns and his partner shooting a fireball. Now we
are in a field of tall grass, Jajan appears and shoots an arrow at a target,
then Celermon walks up behind him.]
[All of the partner Digimon each appear and fire their signature attacks at an
unseen enemy (in order: Aero Veedramon, Seadramon, Veemon Akira, Hitorimon,
Psymon, Dianamon, Azulongmon, Antylamon, Black Agumon, and Celermon). We
then cut to black. The background lightens to reveal seven shadowed
figures: Olympidianamon, Metal Seadramon, Ridatsumon Zero, Imperialdramon,
Paladinmon, Black WarGreymon and Adeemon.]
[All of the Tamers (Ira, Fal, David, Kouyuu, Callie, Kaoline, Caspian, Shadow,
Garfield, and Jajan) walk into view (like the end of Digimon Season 3's intro),
followed by their respective partners.]
DIGITAL MONSTERS FOREVER
--
"A Meeting of Minds"
Tuesday, April 7, 2071
Sacramento, California
It was a dark apartment that Ira Carraway returned to. He wasn't
at all surprised - he rarely had anyone over and he didn't expect anyone to be
waiting for him. He generally didn't like to be with people anyway. Besides, it
was one of his general rules not to permit strangers into his temporary
housing; he had enough things hidden away that he was uncomfortable of the idea
of letting others into the apartment. With a deft motion, he flicked on the
lights. What's this? His deep violet eyes fell on the object sitting on
his desk before his glowing computer terminal.
His first thought was that someone had found out about him. The
pale man never lost his composure, however - he wasn't particularly worried
about that, because it would be a loss to his contact and her employer; it
would be by no means his loss. Besides, if the intruder was still in the
confines of the apartment, he could probably take him out: he'd been trained
enough in self-defense that he could easily disarm him. Ignoring the beeping
black device the oak table, he began a silent search of the room, his footsteps
falling noiselessly on the carpet.
When he came back into the living room, he was satisfied
that there was no one else in the apartment - he'd made a thorough search, and
had come up empty. It didn't look like anyone had gone through his belongings
either, because he had check on that too and he knew his house well: everything
was where it had been when he'd left the room earlier. So that just left him
wondering about the device sitting before his computer. Did I leave that on?
He wondered. He didn't think so - in fact, he'd turned it off last night,
because he remembered the monitor had been off when he had gotten ready to
leave for the high school.
Perhaps my contact was a little eager to get me on the
job...
Ira strode over, picked up the sable object in his hand and turned it
over, examining it carefully. It didn't look like it was an explosive,
though he wasn't really an expert on those sorts of things. And it didn't look
like it could contain any disks or anything - just an LCD screen and a few
buttons. Whatever it was, the thing was on, for the screen was glowing a wan
blue glow; the light was spilling up, reflecting off his glasses.
For a moment, a wave of uneasiness assailed him; his instincts
were urging him to put down the device, or throw it out. He was inherently
distrustful. After all, he'd never seen anything of its make before. But...perhaps
it has something to do with my contact? Something she wants? If that were
the case, then it would be a good idea to keep it. He'd rather have it than
she. It was the principal, after all.
--
Callie couldn't think. The device next to her keyboard
still bothered her. Where had it come from? And what about that fox-thing...
She picked it up and then sat down in the middle of her floor. She reached
under her bed and pulled out a wooden box. Inside sat a set of animal tarot
cards. Callie but the device in front of her and shuffled the cards. She laid
out a reading. Callie glanced of the cards and her eyes widened. There were
only four fox cards in the entire deck, but all four had managed to get on top.
"Hmmm..." Callie touched one of the cards. She had always liked
foxes. She had read enough stories that some people believed that they
possessed psi abilities. Callie wasn't sure about that, but at school a few
people called her Kit. And in her locker were a few pictures of the animal.
Callie picked up the device again. Another wave of visions hit her. The fox was
getting closer yelling her name. Behind it dark creatures armed with spears
were chasing her. Callie almost opened her eyes. She knew that the fox was
female, and more than that she was somehow linked with her.
"What do you want?" Callie whispered.
"Help me!" the fox called to her.
Callie jumped. The fox had answered her question. Callie ventured another.
"How?"
"The device in your hand!" The fox screamed. The dark creatures were
almost on top of her. "Hold it to your computer!"
Callie opened her eyes and spun on her computer. She held up the device. A dark
blue beam of light shot forward. The next thing that happened left Callie
speechless. The fox began to emerge from her screen! Callie backed away as the
little figure landed gently on her floor. Callie looked at her in wonder. She
was beautiful! Her fur was golden rust and her features were so small and
perfect. Her face and tip of her tail were white. Callie walked toward her.
"Who are you?" Callie asked the fox.
--
The Digital World...
The Dragon Vanguard squad enters the village, only to find that it isn't as
populated as they believed. In fact, it seems abandoned, although not for
at least an hour.
"Something is wrong..." whispers Akira, looking around cautiously.
He is being watched, he knows it. The squad's commander, a
Knightmon, unsheathes his sword and steps forward.
"Come out, you cowards! We know that you traitors are letting
Digimon allied with the Phoenix Armed Forces hide here! Come out now and
I might let some of you live!" yells Knightmon, his loud
voice echoing off the mountains. When no response comes, he looks back at
his squad, specifically Tyrannomon.
"Burn them out," he orders. Tyrannomon quickly nods, dropping
the Dragon Vanguard flag and turning to one of the houses. The Digimon
opens his mouth, a slight glow moving up his throat into the back of his mouth,
before the fireball is finally launched into the house, reducing it to burning
cinders.
"If you don't surrender now, I will destroy this entire village!"
yells Knightmon, motioning Tyrannomon to destroy another house. Out of
the corner of his eye, Akira spots someone in the window of another house, but
only a second too late as an arrow quickly whirrs through the air and into
Knightmon's back.
"GAAK...!" he gurgles, dropping his sword, collapsing to the ground
and deleting in a shower of pixels.
"It's an ambush!" yells Kuwagamon, "SCATTER!" As if
on cue, a group of Gazimon and Agumon rush out of every house still standing
and the battle begins. Grabbing a small sword from one of the three
Agumon in his squad, Akira gets into a defensive stance.
I don't want to kill anyone, thinks Akira as two Gazimon run at him.
Closing his eyes, Veemon slashes across their chests, killing them
instantly. Panicking, Tyrannomon starts shooting fireballs in all
directions, only to get blasted with a hail of fireballs from the enemy Agumon
and arrows from the mysterious archer, before falling to the ground dead.
Akira and his three Agumon allies go back-to-back, each wielding a short sword
and entering a frenetic melee against the sword-wielding Phoenix soldiers.
Akira finds himself slashing wildly, killing without really trying, and
knowing that he will still lose.
We're outnumbered four to one...scratch that, three to one, thinks
Akira, as the enemy Agumon he slashed falls to the ground. Suddenly,
another arrow whizzes by and flies right through the throat of one of his
allies. Quickly glancing over, Akira suddenly realizes where the archer
is: one of the nearby houses. Pushing through the crowd of enemies, Akira
makes a run for the house, diving inside as several fireballs from the enemy
Agumon explode outside. Quietly, Agumon gets up, sneaks toward a nearby
door and peers inside.
Just as I thought, a Sagitarrimon! he thinks, as the reptilian,
minotaur-like Digimon takes aim out the window again. Quickly, Akira runs
in, yelling at the top of his lungs while lunging his sword at the enemy.
Surprised, the Sagitarrimon turns and fires the arrow at Akira, who almost
immediately stabs his sword into the Digimon's torso. For a moment, they
both stand there, unmoving, before both collapsing to the ground.
"Sh**..." mutters Akira, pulling the arrow out of his right shoulder,
praying it wasn't poison-tipped, and then pulling his sword out of the dead
carcass as the body begins to delete. For a moment, Akira considers
absorbing the data, but decides not to. Slowly, he walks back to the door
and looks back outside, where the battle still rages. Most of the village
is aflame now, thanks to the now-dead Tyrannomon.
Suddenly, a large Digimon flies over the house towards the group of Digimon,
Kuwagamon. He is about to call out when he realizes what the Virus-type
is planning to do, Kamikaze. Kuwagamon slams into the ground less than a
meter away from the other Digimon, ramming into them before they all crash into
one of the burning houses. Akira remains standing in shock at what
happened, falling to his knees as a steady stream of data pours out from the
burning wreckage.
"No... they're dead...they're all dead..." he mutters. The village is now dead silent, the only
sound being that of the fire consuming it.
--
Sacramento, California
No... they're dead...they're all dead...
"What...?" whispers David, stopping and putting a hand to his head.
Just great, first the nightmares, now he's hearing voices in his head.
Next thing you know, one of his teachers will be a secret agent or
something. Quickly shaking the thoughts from his head, David starts
walking down the sidewalk again. Since that jerk made him miss the bus at
the other bus-stop, he decided that he'd might as well walk all the way home.
Luckily, it isn't that far away...
"I wonder if dad is home yet..." he sighs, looking to the right.
In the distance he can see the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco's most
prominent landmark.
And where my dad is stationed... thinks David, At the Air Force Base
across the bay. Suddenly, everything starts to get blurry and David
feels disoriented. He grabs his head with both hands and starts to fall
over, but regains his balance, looking up only to see...
"Holy sh**..." he whispers, "This is the village...from my
nightmare..." David quickly spins around and spots what he's looking
for: the three-foot tall, blue, and wingless dragon with the wounded shoulder.
The creature doesn't notice him at first; just standing up and starting
to walk forward a bit before looking up.
--
The Digital World...
Akira stands up and walks a few steps from the house, before suddenly feeling
disoriented and falling to the ground weakly. A few seconds pass and the
feeling vanishes; Akira tries to stand again, only this time he makes a
startling observation.
"This is concrete..." he whispers, quickly looking up. He is no
longer in the burning village where the hellish battle took place, now he is in
a totally different place, a peaceful city on a warm spring day. The sky
is clear, not a sign of battle anywhere, nor any clue as to what happened.
Akira takes a few steps before realizing that he is not alone,
a...creature...unlike any he'd ever seen is standing a short distance away.
"Is that...a human?" whispers Akira, "Am I in the Real World?
No...that's only a legend told by old Digimon...maybe I'm dead..."
--
Sacramento, California...or is it the Digital World...?
The two stand there for a few moments, silently staring at each other in utter
confusion, the Digimon seeing a heaven, while the human sees a hell.
Slowly, the human takes a step forward.
"Are you...Akira...?" asks David.
"How do you know my name?" replies Akira, not sure what is happening.
Is this where they decide whether or not you can enter heaven?
"I saw you...in a nightmare..." says the boy, before suddenly shaking
his head, seemingly snapping out of a trance, "What the hell..?! Now
I'm hallucinating?!!"
"Oh, so THAT's what's going on! At least now I know I'm not
dead..." says Akira, thinking out loud.
"And that I'm apparently crazy..." says David, putting his hands in
his pockets. A thought comes to his mind, an odd thought but still one
worthy of mentioning.
"Wait...who's hallucinating who?" he asks, garnering a weird yet
understanding look from the Digimon.
"Now I'm confused...maybe I really am dead and I'm haunting you...wherever
this is..." replies Akira.
"If you're dead, then why are you still bleeding?" asks David,
pointing to the rivers of blood flowing down the Digimon's arm. Like an
involuntary action, David takes off his backpack and opens it up, taking out a
first aid kit. Having gotten into a number of fights already, his parents
forced him to take the kit with him in order to perform any first aid if
necessary. He opens it up and takes out some gauze, rapping it around
Akira's bloody shoulder, then putting a clip on it to keep the bandage secure.
"Um...thanks," says Akira, as David puts the first aid kit back in
his backpack.
"No problem. So what happened here? Why are all of these
houses on fire?" replies David.
"What fire...?" asks Akira, confused.
"This whole village is on fire, how can you NOT notice it?!" yells
David.
"I don't see a village, I see a city and it's definitely NOT on
fire!" replies Akira.
"Wait...you mean you're seeing Sacramento and I'm seeing...wherever the
hell this is?!" says David.
--
Sacramento, California
"DAVID!"
"Wha...?" whispers the boy, blinking as the car horn goes off again.
"David! Can you hear me?" says a female voice, it is his
mother.
"Mom...?" says David in confusion as he realizes that he's back in
Sacramento.
"David, either your hearing is getting really bad or...just get in the
car," she replies.
"Okay..." he replies quietly, walking around the side and getting in
the passenger's seat, not noticing the slight red glow in his pocket...
--
Shadow looked at his Digimon with a smirk on his face.
"It's a new Tamer," he says, turning to his laptop.
"You're looking to find out more about the other tamer in the area?"
Shadow turned away from the monitor and looked at Mist.
"You know me all too well," he replies before turning back to the screen, "It appears I'll need more time to find him." He set the trace program to auto to find the new tamer.
"We will find him then we'll challenge him, Mist." Lopmon Mist's only response is a sly smile.
--
The Digital World
The cries, the death keens, the roaring inferno.
Aero Veedramon could hear it, all of it. But he did nothing. Instead, he
slowly walked away from it, from the slaughter at the bottom of the dust bowl.
It didn't matter if it was the Dragon Vanguard unit or the villagers that were
dying. They had allowed themselves to be swept up in the war - it was their
choice to pull out. There was always a choice and they had chosen to turn it
down. They had chosen to fight an unnecessary battle: they all had. The
Ultimate didn't look back as he picked his way carefully through the rough
terrain.
It was getting easier and easier to ignore the bloodshed.
The dragon-type jumped the rest of the way down, his tattered scarlet
wings snapping open as he floated down the sheer drop of the rocky cliff. It
disgusted him to no end, how things were handled. It made him desire a change.
A great one, which would affect his own existence - for he was getting tired of
doing nothing, but he didn't kid himself. The Ultimate knew he wasn't strong
enough to attempt any drastic actions (it was a miracle that he'd managed to
digivolve to his current level): he'd surely be deleted, if not by power than
by sheer numbers.
Even the fact that I'm neutral right now is going against me.
Why didn't someone else see things the way he did? Someone who didn't
take sides, but used force when it was needed?
Because we Digimon have grown weak. Weak in mind, weak in will,
and weak in body.
--
Sacramento, California
Ira eyed the computer screen, which was still glowing an
unearthly color before him. There was something almost enticing about the
throbbing light; it beckoned to him. He thought he had an idea of what it was;
he knew enough about his employer and his own experiences with his jobs that he
guessed it had something to do with the Digital World. Because he'd been
working with his contact for quite a while, he'd been privy to some otherwise
classified information - he knew what the Digital World was, what was happening
there, all the whys and hows. He didn't think the glowing screen before him had
anything to do with the work his contact had described to him, however. It's
far too sloppy, for one thing. .
Was this a gateway to that world? He couldn't say that he was very
curious if it was - he had no burning desire to see what was on the other side
if it wasn't - and the only thing that checked the silver-haired man from
shutting the damned thing off was a faint thought flickering in the back of his
mind.
...What if there was power to be attained? You did have to
take risks to get what you wanted. Ira paused. True, he'd been to that world
before due to missions his contact had given, though only for a few hours. He
knew of ways to return back to the Real World.
Ira glanced down at the device he still held in his hand. Fine. So
he would check it out. But not without a weapon - he wasn't stupid, and he
certainly wasn't going to go without some sort of security. His crystal eyes
fell on the sheath that he had mounted on the wall - his taijiquan sword. That's
just going to have to do. He was moderately proficient with the blade, due
to years of practice. It wasn't something he'd normally use, but at the moment,
he didn't have any other weapon. With a deft motion, he pulled the sheathed
sword off the rack, and began typing commands into the computer as the device
fairly shone like a sapphire star.
Let's see where this rabbit hole leads. Perhaps it will be
worth my time.
--
The Digital World
With a small puff of dust, Aero Veedramon landed on the hard ground, his
clawed feet settled smoothly as he furled his scarred wings along his back.
From this distance, the sounds of the slaughter were almost inaudible, and the
only sign of the battle was the thick tower of oily black smoke lazily rising
up in the sky. They must be done by now. I hope they're happy with
themselves. He scowled. One more village wiped off the map. It was pitiful.
And irritating. Irritating like that low hum that was growing louder by the
minute.
Wait a minute...The Ultimate paused. Humming? He scanned
the area warily with his large gray eyes. The sound was getting louder; it felt
almost like his horns on his head were reverberating with it. He snarled at the
humming - it was making his head hurt and the dragon-type backed away, looking
away as the air before him began to twist and waver like a mirage, glowing.
When the humming finally died down, Aero Veedramon tilted his
head forward, able to see now that the light had faded away. His leathery lips
drew back in an expression of complete surprise as he took in the small,
two-legged creature standing before him. What kind of Digimon is this?
Perhaps an enemy, an agent of one of the factions. He had sworn up and down
that he wasn't going to get involved.
He started to charge forward for an attack, but the strange
creature in ivory was much faster. Before he could blink, the blazing figure
had him pinned against the cliff's steep surface, a shimmering sword pressed
dangerously at his chest, the keen tip of the blade hovering above his heart.
He could only stare in blind astonishment at the small creature, at the
silver-hair as the depthless violet eyes turned up toward him:
"Is this the Digital World?"
--
[Cue End Theme – "I'll be there – Megumi Hayashibara"]
[In a dim, trash-filled alleyway, we see Ira Caraway, his hands in his coat pockets as wind blows his silver hair into his face. Panning up slowly, we see Aero Veedramon looking down at him from atop the building to his right. Cut to a street in Sacramento, overlooking San Francisco Bay. David Milliard is on the sidewalk, leaning against a building and staring towards the ground, as rain falls from a dim and cloudy sky. As we pan to the right, dissolve into a similar view of Veemon Akira, who is doing the same except he is in a devastated village, the way he is leaning giving the impression that they're standing back to back. The sky is black, but glowing red as is rains lightly]
[Cut to a beach on the Southern California coast at sunset. Fal Micheal watches as the sun slowly sinks below horizon, bathing him in an orange-red light. Quickly zoom into his eye, then back out to see Serpentmon doing the same. Cut to Kana Stone sitting on a windowsill, staring out across Tokyo as the Sun sets in the distance. Dissolve to a similar scene in the Digital World with Psymon, only she is sitting on the opposite side of her window, staring out across a devastated city with columns of smoke lazily drifting across the red-orange sky.]
[On an empty road on Okinawa, we see Kouyuu Fukushima leaning against his car staring towards us as a heavy rain falls from the dark sky. Cut to the Digital World, Kaoline Shokai, Dianamon, and Wizardmon stare up at the Digital star filled sky. Pan and zoom to a tree to the right, Jajan looks out from behind it at her, Celermon behind him.]
[Cut to a gray background, the shadows of Azulongmon appears. Then, Shadow and Caspian Callaway fade into view, Lopmon Mist on Shadow's shoulder. Cut again to a dark room, where Garfield Magnus loads a handgun as Black Agumon looks on]
[On the plains of North America, Alan Maxwell and Oppimon stare at the dark clouds brooding in the distance ominously. In the Digital World, Titaniumon Utora stands in the shadows of some city.]
[A park in Tokyo, Shiro Arkov walks silently in a heavy rain, several shadows passing by him. A short distance away, Tim Areo and Dashamon watch.]
--
Episode 2 Cast (In Order of Arrangement)
Ira Caraway . . . . . . . . . . . Camille Vidan
AeroVeedramon
Kana Stone . . . . . . . . . . . . Renee Aarons
Psymon
Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shadow
Lopmon Mist
David Milliard . . . . . . . . . . Pkmatrix
Veemon Akira
Dragon Vanguard Soldiers
Enemy Soldiers
Jenna Milliard