Eric, Ken, Sora and their digimon found themselves unceremoniously
dumped on top of a building. The clothes they wore were ill befitting
the modern age, as they were straight out of the Middle Ages, complete
with long swords and cloaks.
"Will we ever get used to that?" Eric bemoaned as he staggered to his
feet.
"I hope to get home before we get used to it," Lopmon sniped back.
"What are the chances we are home?" Wormmon wondered.
"We can hope," Ken commented, sitting up.
Sora stretched. "That last world was fun. I didn't know I could sing so
well."
"Why not? You have a pretty voice," Eric complimented.
Sora blushed, but then struck a pose. "Maybe I should adopt the role of
Sora Asagiri when I get to your world."
"It sucks we didn't get any clothes," Eric grumbled.
"At least I got some real underwear," Sora retorted.
It was Eric's turn to blush, thinking of all the various female clothes
sold at Mimi's Silky Doll shop. He wondered what Sora got from there as
'plain' panties and bras were not in the inventory.
"The idea of Mimi being Stingray is rather disturbing," Wormmon
shuddered. "Do you know what Sylia Stingray did to Knight Saber
candidates that failed?"
"No, what?" Sora questioned.
"She killed them," Wormmon replied flatly. "At least according to the
manga."
Sora paled.
"I wouldn't be too worried about that," Eric commented. "The world was
more of a 2040 Bubblegun, and that Sylia didn't kill them. They died
fighting Boomers."
"Not very reassuring," Ken put in.
Sora smirked and decided to change topics. "It was kind of interesting
that Taichi and Yamato were police officers."
Eric folded his arms. "I'm still trying to figure out if Yamato was Wong
from the original or 2040."
Sora blinked. "Why did you ask that?"
"He seemed awfully interested in both you and Taichi," Eric replied.
"And in the original, Wong was strictly dickly," Lopmon added.
Sora paled again.
"Why don't we see if this world is home or not?" Wormmon suggested.
"BOOMING VOICE!" echoed from below.
The group looked over the edge of building and saw Volcamon, a large
humanoid digimon in armor that sort of looked like American football
helmet and shoulder pads, but had a volcano erupting out of his back.
Their attention was drawn to the eight elder Odaiba Chosen running
toward the digimon. As one, they all shouted, "Digi-Armor
Enerrrrrrrgize!!!!" Eight pillars of light shot into the air.
"That would be a no," Lopmon answered Wormmon's early question with flat
disbelief.
"They evolve in this world?" Ken said aloud.
When the pillars subsided, each of the Odaiba Chosen were clad in full
bodied spandex almost entirely of a single color with a matching helmet.
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D^3 : Digital Diaries Dimensions
Variations 1.3.5 : Go! Go! Digi-Rangers!
Written by: Lord Archive
Series by: Shaun Garin
Disclaimer : The concept of Digimon and some of the appearing characters
belong to Toei Animation and Akiyoshi Hongo. Other referenced series
belong to their creators and companies. They are used without consent
and with no intent on making a profit. The Diaries World setting belongs
to Lord Archive and is used with consent. The D^3 series, Eric and his
Lopmon were created by Shaun Garin and are used with consent.
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"They're Power Rangers?!" Eric questioned in disbelief.
The eight Chosen proceeded to attack the Volcamon and were quickly
knocked away with ease by the digimon. The golden Chosen seemed very
protective of the pink one.
"Is that the best you Digi-Rangers can do?" Volcamon laughed.
"Step it up!" the Orange Ranger called out. He then flailed his arms in
rapid movements. "Power of the Great Dinosaur!" He glowed and blue
stripes formed on his orange spandex outfit. His helmet morphed to form
a pair of antlers and a horn.
"Power of the Firebird!" cried out the Red Ranger and similarly flapped
her arms about. Her outfit added orange to make a fiery pattern and
feathery wings connected her sides to her arms.
"Power of the Wolf!" The Dark Blue Ranger's helmet took a canine form
and he now sported a pair of claws.
"Power of the Beetle!" The Purple Ranger's body became incased in armor.
"Power of the Sea Mammal!" The Black Ranger's hands became webbed and a
large hammer appeared in his grip.
"Power of the Flower!" The Lime-Green Ranger sprouted leaves over her
body and she pulled out a rose thorn whip.
"Power of the Angel!" The Golden Ranger sprouted a pair of pure white
wings and a golden rod held tightly in his hands.
"Power of the Sacred Cat!" The Pink Ranger was now brilliant white with
cat ears adorning her helmet and sporting a pair of claws.
Lopmon folded his arms. "Looks cheesier in real life."
"That's so cool!" Eric chirped, half-tempted to imitate the rangers.
Maniacal laughter filled the air from a nearby, but shorter, building
than the one Eric and the others were on. Ken's heart sank seeing the
wild haired boy with dark sunglasses wearing an outfit that no sane
person would wear.
"The Kaiser," the Orange Ranger spat as if he cursed. "We'll deal with
you after we take care of your monster."
"With your pathetically weak powers? I think not, worms," the Kaiser
laughed mockingly. "Volcamon, I wish to hear them scream."
"With honor," Volcamon sneered. "BOOMING VOICE!"
The shock wave from his attack sent the Digi-Rangers flying. The golden
one caught the now white ranger and took the hard fall for her.
The Digi-Rangers shambled back to their feet and returned to battle save
for the golden and white rangers. Volcamon seemed to delight in knocking
them away one by one.
"Takeru, I have to help them!" The White Ranger struggled to free
herself of the golden one's grip.
"Hikari, you shouldn't even be here," the Golden Ranger retorted.
"BOOMING VOICE!"
The Digi-Rangers went flying again, but this time their armor exploded
off them.
"Just two more to deal with," Volcamon laughed menacingly as he strode
toward them.
"We have to fight now," the White Ranger said firmly.
The Golden Ranger reluctantly nodded.
Volcamon prepared to send a fiery blast, but paused when he felt someone
tap his shoulder. He turned and blinked at who he saw. "What are you
doing here?"
"I'm not who you think I am," Stingmon retorted before punching Volcamon
with his clawed fist.
"Why you?!" Volcamon cried in pain and shock. He launched his flaming
attack at Stingmon, who dodged by leaping into the air.
The white and gold rangers stood in stunned surprise at the turn of
events.
"My turn!" Wendigomon dropped from behind the explosive digimon.
"Destroyer Voice!" His torso opened up and unleashed his attack at
Volcamon's exposed volcanic back.
"Spiking Finish!" Stingmon stabbed the giant digimon in the head.
Volcamon screamed in pain and a bar of code formed around him. His body
began to break apart into black particles of data.
"Stingmon?! What the hell are you doing?! You're my servant!" the Kaiser
bellowed in rage.
"I'm not your Stingmon," the humanoid green insect retorted, clenching
his fist tightly.
"You have done nothing to help anyway." The Kaiser held out a black
digital device.
"Oh, shit," Eric cursed.
"Volcamon, seek your revenge!" the Kaiser yelled.
A beam of darkness struck the ban of digital code and Volcamon began to
reform, but not at his former height but at well over several stories
tall.
Taichi and the other Digi-Rangers had re-armored and looked upon the
threat with dismay.
"Call out the Digi-Zords!" the Orange Ranger ordered. He performed a
complex movement of his body and called out, "Grey-Zord! Awake to
Warrior mode!"
From the Earth came forth a giant robot that looked like Metal Greymon,
who then transformed into a humanoid form resembling War Greymon.
The other rangers likewise called forth their Digi-Zords.
The Red Ranger's Birdramon-esque Zord flew in and transformed into the
humanoid form of Garudamon.
The Dark Blue ranger's Metal Garurumon looking Zord stood up and took a
werewolf appearance, but with even more visible weapons at it's
disposal.
The Purple Ranger's giant robotic Kabuterimon formed a mauve beetle
shell to take the form of Altur Kabuterimon.
The Lime-Green Ranger's Togemon fell away to unleash a giant Lillymon.
The Black Ranger's Ikkakumon stood up, sprouted a giant turtle shell on
its back, and produced a giant hammer as it changed to become Zudomon.
The Golden Ranger's angel broke his staff in half and placed them on its
back as it grew more wings and armor.
The White Ranger's Nefertimon unfolded into Angewomon.
"If he uses that 'Booming Voice' attack now...." Ken trailed off.
Sora paled. "We can kiss this building and us good-bye. Wendigomon,
Stingmon! We've got to retreat!"
Wendigomon devolved so Stingmon could carry Eric, Sora, Ken and himself
out of the way of the fight that was now raging.
Volcamon's tactics didn't change as he sent away the various smaller
opponents.
"Merge to Omega-Zord! Let's go Digi-Rangers!" the order was called from
the War Greymon Digi-Zord.
The two angel Digi-Zords raised their arms and both intoned, "We shall
be the legs that will carry us through the Valley of Death."
Zudomon and Altur Kabuterimon launched into the air. "We are the body
that supports the whole."
The bipedal Metal Garurumon and War Greymon moved to parallel to the
body. "We are the arms that do battle."
Garudamon moved behind the combining figure. "I am the cape that can fly
to our heart's desire."
Lillymon curled into a ball. "And I am the head that sees the purity of
the world."
Ken looked at the giant combining before him with a questioning look.
The various parts that were making up this giant robot would not match
the appearance of the Omegamon he had seen. Then a blinding flash
obscured the giant as the merging of zords completed into one ultra zord
that stood taller than Volcamon. White armor had appeared over the
smaller zords that made up it's body making it look like the digimon
Ichijouji knew.
Omega-Zord pointed with his wolf headed arm and a large barrel emerged
from the canine's mouth. "Garuru Cannon, fire!"
Volcamon, the streets and buildings were suddenly encased in impossibly
thick ice.
"Together, everyone!" the Orange Ranger ordered.
"Grey Sword!" they all said as one. The dinosaur arm sprouted a sword
which sliced through Volcamon with ease. The giant digimon fell to the
ground and explode. Omega-Zord flicked his arms and it's weapons
retracted, but then paused seeing what should be an impossible sight.
Stingmon who was holding three humans was staring at a... Stingmon?!
The Kaiser was equally dumbstruck, but then began to laugh haughtily.
"Perhaps HE is the key to the Dimensional Zord! Come, Stingmon, take me
away from these worms! It is high time I unleash my new generals."
The unburdened Stingmon took off immediately and grabbed the Kaiser and
flew away.
Omega-Zord flew closer and stared intently at Stingmon and his
passengers.
Sora laughed nervously. "I guess you want to talk to us. Huh?"
"These talks are really getting on my nerves." Lopmon grumbled.
The giant zord stared at them, befuddled.
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Eric and the others introduced themselves, but the Digi-Rangers didn't
power down until Ken called each of them by their real names.
Ichijouji frowned seeing that by their appearance this wasn't 2002, but
2004. Somehow this world's version of himself was still the Kaiser.
"Let me get this straight," Taichi looked at Eric's group skeptically.
"You're all from a different dimension, similar but very different from
our own. That the Kaiser isn't a human looking digimon, but is actually
human. And you know this because you were the Kaiser of your world."
Ken nodded. "That's correct."
"Well, if the Kaiser is the Ichijouji Ken of this world, it would
explain what happened to him. He was a scientific genius who disappeared
without a trace from his home," Koushiro added.
Ken frowned. "Do you know Akiyama Ryo?"
The Digi-Rangers nodded.
"He's the Silver Ranger. Whenever one of us got knocked out of
commission, he'd come and replace them. Somehow being able to use our
zords as if they were his own," Taichi explained. "We last saw him
during the Time Battles of 2002 when the Time Rangers of the future came
and helped us defeat the Millennium-Zord after he stole our powers."
Ken nodded. "Was Ryo ever alone when he fought that zord?"
The Digi-Rangers looked at each other.
"There was another ranger with Ryo during one battle, but we don't know
who he was," Hikari answered. "You're not saying...."
"Your world's Ken was that ranger," Ichijouji confirmed. "I was infected
with a Evil Spore that drove me to do unspeakable things after defeating
my world's Millenniumon."
Mimi pouted. "How can we fight another ranger?"
"Make him see that he's not playing a game," Wormmon explained sadly.
"Huh?" was the general reply.
"When I was the Digimon Kaiser, I thought the Digital World was some
giant virtual reality game," Ken explained. "This Kaiser likely views
the presence of the zords as 'proof' this world is a virtual reality
game he's stuck inside."
"How did you realize it wasn't a game?" Digi-Ranger Sora questioned.
"I died," Wormmon answered.
An uneasy silence fell upon them.
Taichi broke it. "Let's go see Gennai and talk to him about this."
Yamato nodded. "Maybe he's figured out the time dilation so we can
contact the Time Digi-Rangers as well."
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As the Digi-Rangers and their guest materialized in a futuristic
computer room, a flying robot that looked awfully like Tentomon rushed
toward them. "Welcome back!"
"Hi, Tento-Five, any luck with the time dilation?" Koushiro asked.
Tento-Five shook his head. "Afraid not. After two years of trying, we've
covered everything from twenty years to a hundred, but no luck."
"Greetings, Digi-Rangers and dimensional travelers," a giant image of an
elderly man's face intoned.
"So, they're telling the truth about being from another dimension?"
Takeru questioned.
"Yes. There is an unusual amount of dimensional energies on them,"
Gennai replied.
"Gennai, is the Kaiser really Ichijouji Ken AND a ranger?" Taichi
demanded.
The image closed his eyes. "Yes."
"Why didn't you tell us?!" Hikari cried out.
"Because he needs to be stopped and it would be difficult if you knew
the truth," Gennai replied.
"We can't kill him," Mimi protested. "We have to save him!"
"The Time Digi-Rangers know how," Yamato stated. "We just have to
contact them."
"Why couldn't they just tell us and not leave us a cryptic message?"
Sora questioned.
"'When you truly need to contact us, one of you will know what the
dilation is,'" Taichi quoted. "How can we figure it out?"
"Exactly. All we know about them is that they're our descendants," Sora
added. "They never told us by how many generations."
Hikari swallowed as she approached the computer. "They are our sons and
daughters. Set dilation to... s-sixteen years."
"Hikari, the eldest Time Digi-Ranger was thirteen two years ago. He
would be fifteen now," Taichi commented, confused.
Hikari looked at him with tears in her eyes. "Fifteen and a half,
actually. H-he'll be born in November, I think."
"Time dilation confirmed! Incoming message from the future!" Tento-Five
called out.
"Hello, everyone," greeted a teen with chestnut hair and blue eyes.
"Hello... Mother."
Hikari bowed her head. "Hello... Son."
"Protect Takeru," Ken whispered to Eric. "Taichi is a bit over
protective."
Eric nodded.
Clone Sora's mouth dropped along with the others.
"I don't have much time," the future ranger began. "The first thing I
have to tell you is time is not absolute. When we saved the future from
the Millennium-Zord, it changed dramatically. Us Time Digi-Rangers, for
the most part, weren't directly affected by the timeline shift, but the
world we are in now is not the world we were in before.
"In the timeline we were in before, the Millennium-Zord had taken the
powers of the Digi-Rangers preventing you from defeating him. Under his
hellish rule, many of you sought comfort in the arms of others. The Time
Digi-Rangers were born from that." The Time Digi-Ranger looked down.
"Mother, don't cry."
Hikari sobbed at the computer. "Takeru... I knew about that. All of it.
I... I started sleeping with you so he could be born."
Takeru stared at her. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I was afraid you wouldn't... perform if you knew I'd get pregnant,"
Hikari answered.
"Ahem, ah, back to what I have to say." The Time Digi-Ranger was visibly
disturbed. "If we existed in this timeline, we assumed the place of
ourselves and shared their memories. Not all of us did exist though.
While some of us found ourselves in younger bodies, Sora's son found he
now had a half-sister his own age and he didn't exist."
"What?!" ranger Sora cried out.
The Time Digi-Ranger frowned. "I don't know if I should say this,
but.... In the original timeline, you were with Taichi... while you
lived. In the new one, you are married to Yamato. The presence of
Taichi's son has brought... trouble. Your marriage is in doubt."
Both Takenouchi girls looked between Taichi and Yamato.
Koushiro coughed. "Everything else is fine in the future, right?"
"You're all alive and having the usual problems of life," the Time
Digi-Ranger replied cryptically. "Far better than what Millennium-Zord
had done to our world."
"What can you tell us about the Kaiser?" Koushiro questioned.
"Trust the travelers, for they know the weaknesses to exploit," the Time
Digi-Ranger answered. "We'll talk more when you need me again, as you
all have a lot to talk about before the next battle. And Uncle Taichi,
please don't kill Dad. He's rather important to me. See you in the
future."
Taichi turned away from the monitor and glared at Takeru. "You...."
Hikari grabbed her brother's arm. "You will do nothing. Everything was
MY decision. If you want to hit someone, hit me."
"Hikari..." Taichi trailed off, his gaze changed focus. "I can beat up
Yamato, right?"
"No!" ordered Hikari and Ranger Sora.
Silence filled the room as no one moved to speak.
"Now this is awkward," Lopmon clipped.
"Very," Wormmon agreed.
"Right, um, Ken, do you know who these generals of the Kaiser are?"
Yamato questioned, hoping to focus on this threat and not anything else.
Ken rubbed his chin. "Well, off hand I'd say Archnemon, Mummymon and
Black War Greymon... but those don't make sense. They didn't work for me
and I don't know any special weaknesses for them. All of the digimon I
used were mind controlled slaves. The strongest was Chimeramon, but he
had no real weaknesses."
"Besides being an unintelligent killing machine," Wormmon corrected.
"Who else could it be?" Taichi pressed.
"I don't know," Ken replied with a frown.
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"Care to explain why you weren't surprised over Hikari's announcement
earlier?" clone Sora demanded her wayward companions.
Eric shrugged. "Because the Hikari in our world is also pregnant with
Takeru's kid. They even got married through some legal loop hole."
"It's just the matter of parental approval of marriage," Ken corrected.
"Anything else I should know about?" Sora demanded.
"Well, um..." Ken trailed off.
"Daisuke's been sleeping around, mostly with Miyako but any willing girl
would suit him fine," Eric replied.
"Motomiya Daisuke?!" Sora questioned in shock. "Soccer nut with hero
complex on Taichi and a childish crush on Hikari."
"Apparently he never let go of his crush on her until after he saw her
screw Takeru," Eric explained.
Sora massaged her forehead. "Who's Miyako?"
"You sort of met her. She was Nene in that last world. She's one of
Odaiba's second group members," Eric answered.
"Right.... Who else?" Sora pressed.
"Well, our Sora has been with Taichi since the end of their first
adventure in the Digital World," Eric continued.
Sora stared at him blankly. "But I would've only been eleven."
Eric shrugged. "Things happened."
"Anyone else?" Sora questioned with dread.
"Well, Koushiro was with Miyako briefly, now he's chasing after some
chick named Ayashi. Jyou is with Mimi and she's beyond kinky with sex
games." Eric tapped his chin. "Oh, and Ken did Daisuke's sister while
drunk."
Ken betrayed his character and slapped Eric, hard. "Some things should
remain secret."
"You act like half the Chosen and Digi-Destined around the world don't
know this." Eric rubbed his head. "Hell, I don't think there's a Chosen
who doesn't know Yamato dated Sora briefly to make Taichi jealous and
take her back."
"I did?" Sora questioned. Yamato was a good friend, but she had trouble
seeing him as more than that. Apparently time would change her opinion.
"Course it helped that Yamato is more bent that Ken," Lopmon added. "At
least he looks at girls, but Yamato is after Taichi's ass, not yours."
Sora's hair stood on edge. "Excuse me. I need some air."
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"What do you think?" Taichi questioned, the monitor before the team
displaying Sora leaving Ken and Eric.
"That I'll have to introduce myself to Ayashi. Nyara!" Koushiro meowed,
looking at a file on a monitor of his classmate, complete with recent
school picture. "How could I have missed those... er... her?"
Mimi peered over his shoulder and slapped his head. "Breast boy."
Hikari held a deep frown. "Daisuke has seen me with Takeru."
Jyou coughed. "Well, um...."
"Sex games are fun!" Mimi chirped.
Everyone sweat-dropped.
"Taichi and I aren't exactly virgins...." Sora trailed off.
Yamato coughed. "We should be getting ready for these generals of the
Kaiser." He quickly left.
Taichi looked sick. "The girl who fucked me when I was eleven has the
hots for my best friend, who happens to be gay and wants my ass? Hello,
reality? Check please!"
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Hikari sighed as she stared over the ocean. She relaxed into the arms
that wrapped around her. "Takeru... I'm sorry."
"Don't be," Takeru whispered into her ear. "Hikari, when you told me you
were pregnant, I promised I'd stay with you and I mean to keep that
promise. I love you, and this doesn't change that."
"But I kept everything a secret," Hikari returned tearfully.
"Because you had to." Takeru smirked. "I probably couldn't perform if I
knew you were going to get pregnant." He then laughed. "Not asking to
use protection was my own fault. Which is a good thing I didn't. It's
odd knowing what my son will be able to accomplish. I'm already very
proud of him... and you."
Hikari turned around and hugged him back, sobbing into his chest. "I
love you, Takeru."
Taichi frowned as he watched the couple in secret. "Take care of her,
_little brother_, or your new big brother will send you to hell."
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"Um, Sora, can I talk to you?" clone Sora questioned.
"Sure," ranger Sora replied.
"Are you in love with Taichi or Yamato?" the clone asked.
The ranger smirked. "If you asked me yesterday, I would've said Yamato.
A couple years ago, Taichi. Right now, I don't know. They both mean a
lot to me. But to know that I'm going to end up with one of them scares
me."
The clone laughed. "I'd say keep Yamato and let me have Taichi. But that
won't work."
The ranger nodded. "Probably not. Finding out Yamato likes Taichi
sexually certainly shocked me."
"How did you find out?" the clone questioned.
The ranger smiled sheepishly. "We eavesdropped on you and compared our
histories. Everything matched up and Yamato ran out of the room." She
shook her head. "I lost interest in Taichi because the only time he
acknowledged any feelings for me was when I had sex with him. Yamato was
always there for me and he did show his feelings for me in small ways."
"But Taichi showed his feelings in small ways too. He didn't know or was
too embarrassed to show it more than that," the clone protested.
"Yeah, but Taichi didn't do it when I needed him most. Yamato did." The
ranger toyed with her hair. "I don't think Yamato is as gay as Lopmon
said he was. I'm supposedly going to have his daughter in a few years if
I don't have Taichi's son first. There was nothing about Taichi and
Yamato ending up together."
The clone laughed. "I doubt Taichi would go gay on us."
The ranger smirked. "Yeah. He's too girl conscious."
"What are you going to do?" the clone questioned.
"I'm going to have to reevaluate my relationships," the ranger replied.
"I can't just pick one now knowing the decision will last for the rest
of my life. But that means I'm going to hurt someone I care deeply for."
"I wouldn't let Taichi go," the clone voted.
The ranger patted her duplicate's shoulder. "Yes, you would, if you went
through the experiences I have. Actually, I doubt Taichi is the
goggle-head you think about most now."
The clone blushed in response.
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"Can I ask you a question?" Ken asked.
"Shoot," Koushiro replied.
"How do digimon and zords exist on your world?" Ken asked.
"Well, there's another dimension known as the Digital World from which
the digimon come from," Koushiro began.
Ken nodded. "The same as mine."
Koushiro continued, "Yes, well. When we first became rangers, we didn't
even know that world existed. Just that some alien creature named
Devimon was trying to take over Japan. It wasn't until the third
overlord, Vamdemon, came that we learned not all digimon were evil. That
lesson came at a high price."
Ken nodded, but looked a little puzzled. This certainly wasn't the same.
"You see, two of Vamdemon's followers were more like double agents,"
Koushiro explained. "Wizarmon and his mate, Tailmon, worked to undermine
Vamdemon. Being digimon, we didn't trust them. Only Hikari did, but she
wasn't a ranger yet. When Vamdemon attempted to kill Hikari as he
somehow knew she was going to be a ranger, Tailmon and Wizarmon
sacrificed themselves."
Ken blinked.
Koushiro frowned. "It was then we learned how we got our powers.
Wizarmon bestowed his strength to Hikari allowing her to become a
ranger, while Tailmon awakened a dormant zord that had no mind of its
own. Our powers and our zords were gifts from digimon who sacrificed
themselves to allow us to protect our own world. We didn't let their
sacrifice be in vain. We have since gone to the Digital World and
deposed of the Dark Masters and Apocalymon that had ruled it."
Ken rubbed his chin. "Okay, the digimon provided your powers, but where
did the zords come from in the first place?"
"There are a group of powerful entities called the Keepers of Balance.
They're the kami that protect the various worlds. They created the zords
as guardians."
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"ALERT! ALERT!" Tento-Five cried out. "Three zords have appeared!"
"Show us," Taichi ordered as he rushed into the room along with the
other rangers and the dimensional travelers.
Three separate images sprang up.
A steel look shakkou idol stood menacingly over an off shore oil
platform.
A giant brown bird with horns was tearing apart the Ginza Shopping
District.
A humongous blue dragon zord was tearing apart the world's tallest
Ferris Wheel that was in Odaiba with its teeth.
"What are those?!" ranger Sora cried out in shock.
"I guess you would call them Shakkou-Zord, Aquilla-Zord, and
Imperial-Zord," Ken responded. "They would be piloted by the generals
your Kaiser mentioned."
"Who are these generals? Are they rangers?" Takeru demanded.
"To you, yes." Ken moved to the first image. "Shakkou-Zord should be
controlled by Hida Iori." He turned toward Tento-Five. "He demanded all
the workers leave the oil rig, didn't he?"
"Yes. How did you know?" Tento-Five asked.
"Iori is driven by a strong moral code. He was likely manipulated into
thinking he needed to take justice into his own hands," Ken explained.
"Aquilla-Zord is Inoue Miyako's," Wormmon continued.
"Miyako's?!" Takeru cried out in shock. "I live in the same apartment
complex as her."
"So does Iori," Wormmon informed. "Anyway, Miyako hates sharing as being
the youngest of four children she's had to share everything. Often
having to wear her older sisters' hand-me-down clothes."
"Which explains why she's attacking the largest shopping district in
Japan," Ken added.
"How do you know that much about her?" Yamato questioned skeptically.
"Well, we're good friends now, and...." Ken trailed off.
"She can bitch," Wormmon answered.
"Wormmon...." Ken said harshly.
"Sorry, but she does at times," Wormmon returned.
"He's been hanging around you too much," Eric commented toward his
digimon.
"Okay...." commented a few of the Digi-Rangers.
"And who's the third?" Hikari questioned.
Ken looked at her seriously. "Motomiya Daisuke."
Hikari's eyes widened in absolute shock.
"You know how he was manipulated," Ken stated.
Hikari nodded, unable to speak.
"We know who they are, but how do we fight them?" Yamato demanded.
"We can't fight them! They're just being manipulated!" Mimi protested.
"So we'll just let them destroy Tokyo?" Yamato shot back.
"We can protect Tokyo without fighting them directly," Ken told them
firmly.
"And just how do we do that?" Taichi questioned.
"We'll need to break up into groups and deal with how they were
manipulated in the first place," Eric chirped in.
"Exactly," Ken confirmed. "Hikari will need to confront Daisuke. It is
his love for her that has been manipulated. Mimi, you'll have to talk
sense into Miyako. I know you can do it." Ichijouji then frowned. "I
know you don't want to be away from her, but... Takeru, you're the best
one to deal with Iori."
"What about the rest of us?" Ranger-Sora asked.
"You'll play back-up. Mimi could certainly use your help, Sora... both
Soras. And I'm sure Hikari wants yours, Taichi. Eric, you know Daisuke
well enough to be of some help. Jyou and Koushiro should aid Takeru as
well," Ken added.
"What about me?" Yamato questioned.
"You'll back up me if something goes wrong with my plan," Ken told him.
"We'll deal with the Kaiser. I know how to stop him, but I'll need a
little help to set it up."
"You certainly know your tactics," Takeru commented bitterly.
"No, I know you, and that makes the greatest difference," Ken corrected.
"There is no enemy more dangerous than the one who knows you," Koushiro
commented.
"Right." Taichi nodded with a frown. "Let's go Digi-Rangers!"
------------------------------
The golden angel ranger appeared with the black sea mammal ranger and
purple beetle ranger standing on top of the oil rig. Then they
de-powered.
Takeru stepped forward. "Hida Iori! We wish to speak with you!"
A light dropped from the Shakkou-Zord and a steel-gray colored ranger
stood before them. "You know who I am?"
"Yes," Takeru replied. "We also know you don't want to do this!"
"Why wouldn't I want to stop the exploitation of the Earth?" the Steel
Ranger questioned harshly.
"If you destroy the oil rig, the resulting oil spill will kill plant and
animal life by the millions!" Jyou yelled.
"Check the gauges." The Steel Ranger motioned.
Koushiro looked over them. "Huh? There's almost no oil left here."
The Steel Ranger nodded. "Of course. I had Shakkou-Zord hack the
computers and pump all the oil away safely. Soon I can destroy it
without endangering the environment. Once I'm done here, I'll move on to
the next rig and continue until all oil drills are no more."
"People need oil!" Takeru protested. "Stopping every oil refinery in the
world would cripple the whole Earth. People would die from starvation
without the means to transport food. We depend too much on it."
"So?" the Steel Ranger questioned. "People use the Earth. Soon it'll
become unlivable if this raping of the ground is not stopped. People
will die tomorrow, but the children generations from now shall live with
blue skies."
"There are ways to save the Earth without stopping oil production. We
can find alternate fuels that don't harm the environment," Takeru shot
back. "Do you really want to become the ultimate Eco-terrorist? To be a
criminal that every country in the world wants to be brought to
justice?"
"Justice?!" the Steel Ranger shouted in anger. "What do you know of
justice?! My father died for it!"
"Would your father approve of this 'justice?!'" Takeru shot back.
The Steel Ranger shook in fury. "I will become justice for him!"
"If you want to destroy this oil rig, you'll have to kill me first!"
Takeru powered up and called forth his zord, "Angel-Zord! Awake to
Archangel Mode!"
"If that is your wish to die, so be it!" the Steel Ranger jumped up into
his Shakkou-Zord.
Jyou and Koushiro could only watch as the angelic zord rushed toward the
steel idol zord.
Shakkou-Zord spread it's arms and unleashed a volley of spiked explosive
disks that the Holy Angel-Zord dodged.
Then the angel's sword extended from his wrist while the idol's eyes
began to glow.
A blast of energy painted the sky red as the Shakkou-Zord fired at point
blank range.
Jyou and Koushiro stared in horror as one of the angel's wings crashed
into the ocean. But then they were surprised as Shakkou-Zord leaned
backwards and also fell into the watery deep.
"I'll get him!" Jyou cried out, morphing into full sea mammal mode
before jumping into the turbulent ocean waters.
A moment later Zudo-Zord emerged holding the idol zord, which sported a
huge gash on its chest.
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A mauve colored ranger laughed haughtily as she strolled down Ginza's
main street. The entire place was hers and hers alone after some
careful... redecoration. Who needed men's clothing stores anyway?
"Oh, Sora this is definitely YOU!" a girl chirped.
"Isn't that a bit TOO sexy?" replied another girl, presumably Sora.
"I wouldn't be caught dead in that," added someone who sounded awfully
like the other girl, but perhaps a little young.
The Mauve Ranger clenched her fist. How dare someone intrude on her?!
She rushed toward the direction of the voices and saw one girl with pink
hair holding up a red leather ensemble and a pair of red headed sisters
with the elder one looking rather embarrassed.
"Oh, come on Sora, don't you want impress your man?" the pink haired
cooed. "Don't you agree with that, So-chan?"
The younger girl blinked and shrugged. "Well... a little sex appeal
couldn't hurt... I guess."
Sora scowled. "Mimi, I haven't decided who I want just yet!"
"This is for when you do!" Mimi retorted.
"The Ginza and everything in it is MY domain! You are trespassing!"
yelled the Mauve Ranger.
"Nonsense," Mimi waved her off. "Shopping is an experience best shared!"
The ranger stormed at the trio. "If you don't leave now, I'll kill you!"
Mimi appraised the angry girl in mauve. She then snapped her fingers. "I
know just the outfit!"
"What?!" the ranger cried out.
Mimi flipped through the racks and pulled out an assortment of clothes
that she tossed at the ranger who caught them reflexively. She then went
to a hat display and grabbed a leather aviator helmet. She added that to
the clothes in the ranger's hands and told her, "Go ahead and try it on.
It'll be PERFECT for you!"
The ranger looked over the red slacks, beige vest, light blue shirt and
helmet in her hands quizzically.
Mimi started to push the ranger into a changing room. "If you don't try
them on, you won't know how they'll look!" She shut the door behind the
ranger and then turned and smiled at the red heads with her.
"How did she do that?" 'So-chan' asked.
Sora shrugged uncertainly. "Because Mimi is, well... Mimi."
Minutes later a lavender hair girl with glasses nervously exited the
changing room wearing the clothes Mimi had selected.
Mimi tapped her foot examining her. "You need accessories. I know just
the things!" She rushed and got an army green shoulder bag and white
gloves, which she gave the bespectacled girl who put them on. Mimi
smiled at the results. "What do you think?"
The lavender haired girl examined her appearance in the mirror. "This
is... great! How did you know?"
Mimi smiled. "It's a gift! Now what's your name?"
The girl shifted. "Miyako."
"I'm Mimi, the older red head is Sora, and the younger you can call
So-chan," replied the pink haired girl. "Now let's go find some other
outfits."
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Eric held Lopmon in his arms and he twitched nervously as they
approached Imperial-Zord. The gargantuan dragon quickly noticed their
presence and turned toward them.
Hikari advanced a few steps ahead of them. "Daisuke!"
"Hikari...." the dragon seemed to breathe.
"Daisuke... please let me talk to you!" Hikari pleaded.
"Why? So you can stab me in the back some more?!" the dragon roared.
"When were you going to tell me you were fucking Takeru? After he
knocked you up?"
Hikari flinched as if hit. "I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt you. I
didn't know what to say to you."
"Bullshit!" the dragon growled. "All you've done is hurt me! You lied to
me! How long have you been screwing that trash?"
Hikari bowed her head. She knew she had to tell him the truth. "Al...
almost two years now."
The dragon screamed in rage and fired off its cannon. The blast barely
missing the apartment building the Yagami family lived in.
"Whoa! Calm down buddy!" Eric shouted.
"Buddy?!" the dragon bellowed. "I'm no friend of yours."
"Not in this timeline," Eric returned. "You may not know me, but I know
you. So what if Hikari chose Takeru to be with? She'll be happy with
him. If you truly love her you'll let go of her and let her be happy."
"Why should I let her be happy when she's the reason I'm miserable? I've
loved her as long as I can remember and she couldn't even tell me she
wasn't interested!" the dragon retorted.
Taichi laughed coldly. "If you knew Hikari enough to love her, you'd
know she could never do that. She'd couldn't be rude and tell that to
anyone, especially a friend like you."
"Friends don't lie and stab you in the back!" the dragon yelled angrily.
"I didn't lie to you!" Hikari protested, tears leaking from her eyes. "I
just... didn't tell you the truth. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I should've
told you a long time ago."
"Sorry doesn't cut it!" The dragon advanced on them.
"Listen, Daisuke! Hikari isn't the only girl in the world! There are
many other girls out there that would love you!" Eric shouted.
The dragon laughed. "Right. No girl would kiss me, let alone do more
than that!"
"Bullshit!" Eric countered. "Believe me when I say once you start
screwing girls, they'll start forming a line at your door. The Daisuke
from my world had sex with half the girls in his class."
The dragon snorted. "Riiiiight. What other tales do you care to spin?"
"Don't believe I know you?" Eric questioned.
"Of course you don't," Daisuke shot back.
"Let's see." Eric tapped his chin. "Things that would stay the same for
this timeline. Well, your sister going to college was the happiest day
in you life as it finally got her, and her insults, out of your hair.
You've had a crush on Hikari since first grade when you walked in on her
going the bathroom, though you didn't see as much as you wanted."
"When did THAT happen?!" Hikari questioned.
"It was... it was one of the times you were sick... so you didn't notice
me...." The dragon's gaze locked on Eric. "How did you know that?!"
Eric smirked. "I'm from another dimension and that world's version of
you chats with me on email. Boy do you like to vent. Particularly about
how your math teacher, Gotoh, is such an ass-hole and singles you out as
a 'delinquent.'"
"Other girls will like me?" the dragon questioned.
"Oh, they'll LOVE you. Course, I only know of one girl you've done on
any consistent basis. All the others were one-night stands that wanted
to 'ride the Daisuke' considering your sexual endurance is literally
beyond belief and only Miyako has been able to keep up with you," Eric
explained. "Your record was over eight hours straight."
"EIGHT HOURS?!" chorused Hikari and Taichi.
"I've only managed an hour once," Taichi muttered.
"Thirty minutes," Hikari added.
"I'm a stud and I didn't even know it?" the dragon questioned aloud. He
then shook his head and glared toward Hikari. "There is one thing I
want."
Hikari stepped back. "W-what's that?" He couldn't be thinking along the
lines of what Eric just revealed... could he?
"I want a kiss," the dragon demanded.
"A... kiss?" Hikari questioned.
"Yes. A kiss," the dragon repeated.
Hikari couldn't help but notice that people were present. On one hand,
it was rude to kiss in public. On the other, Daisuke could easily kill
them if she refused. There wasn't a choice. May Takeru forgive her.
"Okay... one kiss."
A flash of blue light shot from the head of the dragon and formed into a
light blue ranger before her, who then de-powered into Daisuke.
Hikari stood stiffly as Daisuke advanced toward her. She couldn't relax
herself as his arms slipped around her and his lips pressed against her.
Taichi's fist clenched tightly as he watched impotently.
Daisuke finally withdrew from her and frowned. "You never did love me,
did you?"
Hikari bowed her head. "You're a friend, Daisuke. That's all you've ever
been to me. I sorry I never felt more than that for you."
Daisuke lifted up her chin. "If Takeru ever treats you badly, let me
know. I take care of him."
Taichi smirked. "Not if I don't get to him first."
"Daisuke...." Hikari swallowed nervously. "I have to tell you this
now... to let you know everything. I... I'm pregnant."
Daisuke blinked and then laughed good-naturally. "You really weren't
going to tell me until after he knocked you up."
"Your not going to go on a rampage again, are you?" Lopmon questioned.
Daisuke first stared at the small digimon and then at the destroyed
Ferris Wheel. "What was I doing?!"
Taichi placed a hand on Daisuke's shoulder. "Don't worry about it. The
Kaiser was controlling you. We'll have it fixed with 'Ranger
Insurance.'"
"Ranger... I'm a digi-ranger now...." Daisuke breathed. "I have my own
zord."
Hikari nodded. "Welcome to the team."
------------------------------
"What have I done?" Iori questioned as he woke.
"Beyond screw with one oil rig's production for a day, nothing," Takeru
replied. "How are you feeling?"
Iori glanced around. "Confused. Am I... am I a digi-ranger?"
"Yep. Welcome to the team. I'm Takeru." Takeru offered his hand.
Iori grasped it and sat up. He stared in dismay at the Shakkou-Zord's
damaged form.
A rust-haired teenager approached and added, "I'm Koushiro." He then
glared at Takeru. "You didn't have to damage it that badly. I'm going to
have to spend the next week fixing it now."
"It can be repaired?" Iori questioned with hope.
"Certainly. Though the water damage is going to be a pain to deal with,"
Koushiro replied.
"Hey, guys! Foods ready!" Jyou announced.
"How long was I out?" Iori questioned.
"A few hours. By the way, my name's Jyou," replied the cook. "No urge to
destroy anything?"
Iori shook his head. "I'm not sure why I wanted to destroy it."
"You were being controlled," Takeru informed. "You don't have to worry
about that. The one behind that is being handled as we speak."
------------------------------
Four girls laughed merrily sitting in an empty restaurant after helping
themselves to some food.
"It's been great sharing this time with you," Mimi commented.
"You don't have to go yet, do you?" Miyako questioned.
"Nope. It's just that I enjoyed spending today with you," Mimi replied.
"I don't have a little sister, but if I did, I'd like to think she'd be
like you."
Miyako frowned. "I hate being a little sister. Everything I have or use
either belongs to the family or is handed down from my older sisters. I
don't have much that is mine and mine alone."
"But isn't it nice being able to share everything? When you need
something, aren't your older sisters there to help you?" Mimi asked.
"I wouldn't mind sharing if it wasn't everything. I couldn't even buy
myself a cake and not have others taking a piece without even asking,"
Miyako bemoaned. "How do you two handle being sisters?"
The red heads looked at each other.
"Err... that's a bit... complicated," ranger Sora answered.
Mimi laughed a little. "Now, Miyako. There is something that is yours
and no one can take from you."
"What's that?" Miyako asked.
Mimi pointed at the electronic device strapped to the girl's belt.
"You're a digi-ranger. The power that it gives you is for you to use and
no one else. Just as your zord is for you to pilot. Sora and I may be
digi-rangers, but only you are the Mauve Ranger with the Aquilla-Zord.
No one else can claim that."
Miyako took her digi-morpher in hand and stared at it. "I'm a
digi-ranger?"
Mimi nodded. "Yes, you. Not your sisters. You. And there was no Mauve
Ranger before you. What example you set for that ranger is for you to
decide."
Miyako hugged Mimi tightly with tears in her eyes. "Thank you!"
"Don't thank me." Mimi smirked. "The power is more of a burden than a
blessing. And I'm not the one who chose you, just made you realize that
you were."
Miyako withdrew and looked around. "Wha... what have I done?"
"You were controlled. This was not your fault, or even the fault of the
one who used you. Everything will be set right before you know it," Mimi
assured her.
"Welcome to the team." Ranger Sora held out her hand.
Miyako took it. "Thank you."
------------------------------
A scream of rage echoed over Tokyo.
"My generals have all turned against me! How could this happen? How
could they be defeated so soon?!" the Kaiser yelled to the sky, standing
on top of Tokyo Tower with his loyal Stingmon hovering over him.
"Well, well, Ken-chan. Such a brat you've become."
The Kaiser whirled and stared as if he was looking upon a ghost.
Standing before another Stingmon was a young man wearing glasses and
medieval grab, complete with sword, with his hair done in a long
pony-tail was someone that appeared to be straight from his past.
"Osamu.... But... you're dead."
'Osamu' smirked. "Yes, I'm dead. Get over it! I know you wished that I
was gone, but wishing for things doesn't make them happen."
Kaiser shambled forward a step. "But you're here. I... I've wished for
nothing more than that since... since...."
'Osamu' nodded. "I know. But I'm not here. I can never be here. THIS is
your imagination Ken-chan." He then pointed at the Kaiser's Stingmon.
"THAT is your reality. Digimon and zords exist. They are most certainly
real and are not part of some demented game."
"Of course it's a game! It's all a game!" the Kaiser protested.
"Is it? Follow me." Without another word, 'Osamu's' Stingmon picked him
up and they flew off.
The Kaiser nodded at his companion and they followed quickly after them.
Their journey ended at a school. 'Osamu' directed both Stingmon to stay
towards the center of the school's roof while he led the Kaiser to the
edge.
"Tell me, Ken-chan. Why would a game include this?" 'Osamu' questioned,
waving toward a play ground teaming with children.
"Realism," the Kaiser replied, but with a hint of uncertainty.
"Would programmers really go to THAT extent?" 'Osamu' pointed with a
frown.
The Kaiser stared as a young boy laid screaming on the ground, his leg
torn open and bleeding. A teacher quickly rushed over and soothed the
sobbing child.
Another teacher called in all the other students while the first teacher
rushed the injured child inside.
'Osamu' jumped down from the roof and grunted as he landed. The Kaiser
followed suit. They approached where the accident happened and the
Kaiser reached out a touched a puddle of blood that remained.
"Why... why would they include this?" the Kaiser muttered to himself.
"Because it's not a game, Ken-chan. It never was," 'Osamu' replied.
"People get hurt and die in this world because it is real."
"It can't be real!" the Kaiser protested. "My digimon are mine to
control. They follow my commands to take over the world! The papers
report how long the battles lasted, how much damage was caused, the
number of injured, how many people died! Reality is not like that!"
'Osamu' slapped the Kaiser across the face. "Feel that pain! It's real!
What you did is REAL!" He grabbed the boy by the shoulders and shook
him. "Ken-chan, remember back to the fight against the Millenium-Zord!
Remember fighting along side Ryo! That was real too. The seed that
struck you in the neck at the end of battle is blinding you from seeing
the truth. You have to fight it!"
The Kaiser's features locked into a glare. He then decked ''Osamu'.'
"You're not my brother."
"You're right. I'm not. I'm you," Ken replied, tossing away the glasses
he had worn. "But everything I've told you is true. I'm from another
dimension where I was infected from the seed and my Stingmon paid for my
salvation with his life. I don't want you to go through losing your
Stingmon as well."
"Ken-chan... listen to him," pleaded one Stingmon.
"He's telling you the truth," added the other Stingmon.
"You expect me to believe other dimensions, digimon and zords really
exist? That's a bunch of fantasy! The real world is a harsh reality
where everything goes wrong and none of that exists!" the Kaiser yelled.
"But it does exist. Tell me, if this world is the game you believe it
is, would she ever play it?" Ken pointed behind the Kaiser.
"Ken-chan... is... is that really you?" a woman questioned nervously.
"M-mother...." the Kaiser breathed.
"Oh, Ken-chan." The woman hugged the Kaiser in a fierce embrace and
began sobbing. "I've missed you so much. You've done all this because
I'm a bad mother, didn't you? It's my fault."
"Mother... it... it's not..." the Kaiser stammered.
Mrs. Ichijouji took off her son's glasses to look him in the eyes.
"Don't ever leave me again."
"B-but...." the Kaiser trailed off.
Mrs. Ichijouji hugged him again. "I love you, son."
Ken blinked as the Kaiser's clothes burst off revealing a school uniform
underneath before the boy in front of him went limp.
"Ken-chan?!" Mrs. Ichijouji cried out.
"He'll be fine. He'll sleep for a few days as his mind copes with what
the seed forced him to do. The Digi-Rangers will contact him, and
hopefully remove the seed that made him do all of this," Ken explained.
Mrs. Ichijouji's eyes widened. "You...."
"I'm Ken from another world. One who has already gone through what he
has. He'll need all the support you can give him," Ken explained.
Both Stingmon hopped down from the school roof and devolved into
Wormmon.
One of the Wormmon approached the resident Ken and his mother. "Please
allow me to help him. I... I've waited for this day for a long time."
Ken picked up his Wormmon. "Those two are like brothers, as my Wormmon
has become mine. He would do nothing to harm him, and would die for
him."
Mrs. Ichijouji didn't know what to make of all of this. But she didn't
care. She'd agree to anything to have her son back. "Thank you."
Ken smiled. "I think this may have helped me as much as it did him."
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"Sora, they're here!" Eric called out. He then blinked, seeing her in
the medieval clothing from Digi-Earth. "I thought you got an outfit."
Sora blushed. "More than one, but I'm finding it difficult to choose
which to wear."
"Well, figure that out later," Eric told her. He grabbed her by the hand
and led her to the Digi-Ranger Control Room.
Sora was blushing fiercely when they arrived. A Canadian might not think
much of holding hands, but she was a Japanese girl.
Daisuke, Miyako and Iori looked around in slight awe.
"You three have come at an opportune time. With Ken being of
questionable assistance and the loss of Hikari and Takeru as rangers, we
will need your help," Gennai intoned.
"Actually, I believe I know of two replacements if the powers can be
passed to someone else," the visiting Ken spoke up.
"You mean Sayuri and Yume?" the visiting Wormmon questioned.
"They are part of the current Odaiba group in our world," Eric noted.
"Iori will have to be careful of them," Lopmon teased.
"You mean Sayuri and Yume from my class?" Iori questioned. "But Yume
can't walk."
"Our Yume can walk in the Digital World, and I suspect as a ranger as
well for yours," Ken commented.
"We shall have to consider that if the need arrives," Gennai replied.
"But to you three, do you accept the responsibility of being
Digi-Rangers?"
"You bet!" Daisuke replied.
"I'm in!" Miyako added in.
"With great power comes great responsibility," Iori noted. "I have to
accept."
The gate started to glow.
"Looks like our job is done here," Eric commented.
"Bye-bye!" Lopmon waved.
"Goodbye," added Ken and Wormmon.
"Not yet," Sora protested. "I have some real cl-"
And they were gone.
------------------------------
The pile of humans and digimon wearily looked up and saw a befuddled
group return their confused looks.
Eric laughed. "Looks like our clothes work for this world."
Sora pouted, extracting herself from the pile. "Excuse me, would you
mind telling me who you are?"
The red head in the other group blinked, but then shrugged. "I'm the
genius sorceress Sora Inverse." She thumbed the wild haired man to her
left. "That's Taichi Gabriev." Then she pointed to the blue skinned and
blond haired man on her right. "Stone boy is Yamato Graywords." She then
looked around.
"I'm Princess Miyako wil Tesla Sailoon!" chirped the lavender haired
girl in the tree with a chest size that would make their Miyako jealous.
"You've got our names," commented Inverse. "Now who the fuck are you and
why do you look like me."
Sora sighed. "It's a loooong story."
"I'm really hating these talks," Lopmon grumbled.
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Archive's Notes:
Visiting Ken only set it up for that world's Mrs. Ichijouji to be there.
He hadn't planned on a child being injured, but wasn't going to pass up
the opportunity that presented.
Crux Point: The events of Digi-Rangers came about because the Keepers of
Balance that guided this world opted to make zords to protect Earth over
partnering people with digimon and creating crests for children to enter
the Digital World and face near impossible odds to save it. This
resulted in the Digital World being abandoned to the Dark Masters and
that some evil digimon wanting to increase their power sought to
increase it by conquering Earth.
dumped on top of a building. The clothes they wore were ill befitting
the modern age, as they were straight out of the Middle Ages, complete
with long swords and cloaks.
"Will we ever get used to that?" Eric bemoaned as he staggered to his
feet.
"I hope to get home before we get used to it," Lopmon sniped back.
"What are the chances we are home?" Wormmon wondered.
"We can hope," Ken commented, sitting up.
Sora stretched. "That last world was fun. I didn't know I could sing so
well."
"Why not? You have a pretty voice," Eric complimented.
Sora blushed, but then struck a pose. "Maybe I should adopt the role of
Sora Asagiri when I get to your world."
"It sucks we didn't get any clothes," Eric grumbled.
"At least I got some real underwear," Sora retorted.
It was Eric's turn to blush, thinking of all the various female clothes
sold at Mimi's Silky Doll shop. He wondered what Sora got from there as
'plain' panties and bras were not in the inventory.
"The idea of Mimi being Stingray is rather disturbing," Wormmon
shuddered. "Do you know what Sylia Stingray did to Knight Saber
candidates that failed?"
"No, what?" Sora questioned.
"She killed them," Wormmon replied flatly. "At least according to the
manga."
Sora paled.
"I wouldn't be too worried about that," Eric commented. "The world was
more of a 2040 Bubblegun, and that Sylia didn't kill them. They died
fighting Boomers."
"Not very reassuring," Ken put in.
Sora smirked and decided to change topics. "It was kind of interesting
that Taichi and Yamato were police officers."
Eric folded his arms. "I'm still trying to figure out if Yamato was Wong
from the original or 2040."
Sora blinked. "Why did you ask that?"
"He seemed awfully interested in both you and Taichi," Eric replied.
"And in the original, Wong was strictly dickly," Lopmon added.
Sora paled again.
"Why don't we see if this world is home or not?" Wormmon suggested.
"BOOMING VOICE!" echoed from below.
The group looked over the edge of building and saw Volcamon, a large
humanoid digimon in armor that sort of looked like American football
helmet and shoulder pads, but had a volcano erupting out of his back.
Their attention was drawn to the eight elder Odaiba Chosen running
toward the digimon. As one, they all shouted, "Digi-Armor
Enerrrrrrrgize!!!!" Eight pillars of light shot into the air.
"That would be a no," Lopmon answered Wormmon's early question with flat
disbelief.
"They evolve in this world?" Ken said aloud.
When the pillars subsided, each of the Odaiba Chosen were clad in full
bodied spandex almost entirely of a single color with a matching helmet.
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D^3 : Digital Diaries Dimensions
Variations 1.3.5 : Go! Go! Digi-Rangers!
Written by: Lord Archive
Series by: Shaun Garin
Disclaimer : The concept of Digimon and some of the appearing characters
belong to Toei Animation and Akiyoshi Hongo. Other referenced series
belong to their creators and companies. They are used without consent
and with no intent on making a profit. The Diaries World setting belongs
to Lord Archive and is used with consent. The D^3 series, Eric and his
Lopmon were created by Shaun Garin and are used with consent.
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"They're Power Rangers?!" Eric questioned in disbelief.
The eight Chosen proceeded to attack the Volcamon and were quickly
knocked away with ease by the digimon. The golden Chosen seemed very
protective of the pink one.
"Is that the best you Digi-Rangers can do?" Volcamon laughed.
"Step it up!" the Orange Ranger called out. He then flailed his arms in
rapid movements. "Power of the Great Dinosaur!" He glowed and blue
stripes formed on his orange spandex outfit. His helmet morphed to form
a pair of antlers and a horn.
"Power of the Firebird!" cried out the Red Ranger and similarly flapped
her arms about. Her outfit added orange to make a fiery pattern and
feathery wings connected her sides to her arms.
"Power of the Wolf!" The Dark Blue Ranger's helmet took a canine form
and he now sported a pair of claws.
"Power of the Beetle!" The Purple Ranger's body became incased in armor.
"Power of the Sea Mammal!" The Black Ranger's hands became webbed and a
large hammer appeared in his grip.
"Power of the Flower!" The Lime-Green Ranger sprouted leaves over her
body and she pulled out a rose thorn whip.
"Power of the Angel!" The Golden Ranger sprouted a pair of pure white
wings and a golden rod held tightly in his hands.
"Power of the Sacred Cat!" The Pink Ranger was now brilliant white with
cat ears adorning her helmet and sporting a pair of claws.
Lopmon folded his arms. "Looks cheesier in real life."
"That's so cool!" Eric chirped, half-tempted to imitate the rangers.
Maniacal laughter filled the air from a nearby, but shorter, building
than the one Eric and the others were on. Ken's heart sank seeing the
wild haired boy with dark sunglasses wearing an outfit that no sane
person would wear.
"The Kaiser," the Orange Ranger spat as if he cursed. "We'll deal with
you after we take care of your monster."
"With your pathetically weak powers? I think not, worms," the Kaiser
laughed mockingly. "Volcamon, I wish to hear them scream."
"With honor," Volcamon sneered. "BOOMING VOICE!"
The shock wave from his attack sent the Digi-Rangers flying. The golden
one caught the now white ranger and took the hard fall for her.
The Digi-Rangers shambled back to their feet and returned to battle save
for the golden and white rangers. Volcamon seemed to delight in knocking
them away one by one.
"Takeru, I have to help them!" The White Ranger struggled to free
herself of the golden one's grip.
"Hikari, you shouldn't even be here," the Golden Ranger retorted.
"BOOMING VOICE!"
The Digi-Rangers went flying again, but this time their armor exploded
off them.
"Just two more to deal with," Volcamon laughed menacingly as he strode
toward them.
"We have to fight now," the White Ranger said firmly.
The Golden Ranger reluctantly nodded.
Volcamon prepared to send a fiery blast, but paused when he felt someone
tap his shoulder. He turned and blinked at who he saw. "What are you
doing here?"
"I'm not who you think I am," Stingmon retorted before punching Volcamon
with his clawed fist.
"Why you?!" Volcamon cried in pain and shock. He launched his flaming
attack at Stingmon, who dodged by leaping into the air.
The white and gold rangers stood in stunned surprise at the turn of
events.
"My turn!" Wendigomon dropped from behind the explosive digimon.
"Destroyer Voice!" His torso opened up and unleashed his attack at
Volcamon's exposed volcanic back.
"Spiking Finish!" Stingmon stabbed the giant digimon in the head.
Volcamon screamed in pain and a bar of code formed around him. His body
began to break apart into black particles of data.
"Stingmon?! What the hell are you doing?! You're my servant!" the Kaiser
bellowed in rage.
"I'm not your Stingmon," the humanoid green insect retorted, clenching
his fist tightly.
"You have done nothing to help anyway." The Kaiser held out a black
digital device.
"Oh, shit," Eric cursed.
"Volcamon, seek your revenge!" the Kaiser yelled.
A beam of darkness struck the ban of digital code and Volcamon began to
reform, but not at his former height but at well over several stories
tall.
Taichi and the other Digi-Rangers had re-armored and looked upon the
threat with dismay.
"Call out the Digi-Zords!" the Orange Ranger ordered. He performed a
complex movement of his body and called out, "Grey-Zord! Awake to
Warrior mode!"
From the Earth came forth a giant robot that looked like Metal Greymon,
who then transformed into a humanoid form resembling War Greymon.
The other rangers likewise called forth their Digi-Zords.
The Red Ranger's Birdramon-esque Zord flew in and transformed into the
humanoid form of Garudamon.
The Dark Blue ranger's Metal Garurumon looking Zord stood up and took a
werewolf appearance, but with even more visible weapons at it's
disposal.
The Purple Ranger's giant robotic Kabuterimon formed a mauve beetle
shell to take the form of Altur Kabuterimon.
The Lime-Green Ranger's Togemon fell away to unleash a giant Lillymon.
The Black Ranger's Ikkakumon stood up, sprouted a giant turtle shell on
its back, and produced a giant hammer as it changed to become Zudomon.
The Golden Ranger's angel broke his staff in half and placed them on its
back as it grew more wings and armor.
The White Ranger's Nefertimon unfolded into Angewomon.
"If he uses that 'Booming Voice' attack now...." Ken trailed off.
Sora paled. "We can kiss this building and us good-bye. Wendigomon,
Stingmon! We've got to retreat!"
Wendigomon devolved so Stingmon could carry Eric, Sora, Ken and himself
out of the way of the fight that was now raging.
Volcamon's tactics didn't change as he sent away the various smaller
opponents.
"Merge to Omega-Zord! Let's go Digi-Rangers!" the order was called from
the War Greymon Digi-Zord.
The two angel Digi-Zords raised their arms and both intoned, "We shall
be the legs that will carry us through the Valley of Death."
Zudomon and Altur Kabuterimon launched into the air. "We are the body
that supports the whole."
The bipedal Metal Garurumon and War Greymon moved to parallel to the
body. "We are the arms that do battle."
Garudamon moved behind the combining figure. "I am the cape that can fly
to our heart's desire."
Lillymon curled into a ball. "And I am the head that sees the purity of
the world."
Ken looked at the giant combining before him with a questioning look.
The various parts that were making up this giant robot would not match
the appearance of the Omegamon he had seen. Then a blinding flash
obscured the giant as the merging of zords completed into one ultra zord
that stood taller than Volcamon. White armor had appeared over the
smaller zords that made up it's body making it look like the digimon
Ichijouji knew.
Omega-Zord pointed with his wolf headed arm and a large barrel emerged
from the canine's mouth. "Garuru Cannon, fire!"
Volcamon, the streets and buildings were suddenly encased in impossibly
thick ice.
"Together, everyone!" the Orange Ranger ordered.
"Grey Sword!" they all said as one. The dinosaur arm sprouted a sword
which sliced through Volcamon with ease. The giant digimon fell to the
ground and explode. Omega-Zord flicked his arms and it's weapons
retracted, but then paused seeing what should be an impossible sight.
Stingmon who was holding three humans was staring at a... Stingmon?!
The Kaiser was equally dumbstruck, but then began to laugh haughtily.
"Perhaps HE is the key to the Dimensional Zord! Come, Stingmon, take me
away from these worms! It is high time I unleash my new generals."
The unburdened Stingmon took off immediately and grabbed the Kaiser and
flew away.
Omega-Zord flew closer and stared intently at Stingmon and his
passengers.
Sora laughed nervously. "I guess you want to talk to us. Huh?"
"These talks are really getting on my nerves." Lopmon grumbled.
The giant zord stared at them, befuddled.
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Eric and the others introduced themselves, but the Digi-Rangers didn't
power down until Ken called each of them by their real names.
Ichijouji frowned seeing that by their appearance this wasn't 2002, but
2004. Somehow this world's version of himself was still the Kaiser.
"Let me get this straight," Taichi looked at Eric's group skeptically.
"You're all from a different dimension, similar but very different from
our own. That the Kaiser isn't a human looking digimon, but is actually
human. And you know this because you were the Kaiser of your world."
Ken nodded. "That's correct."
"Well, if the Kaiser is the Ichijouji Ken of this world, it would
explain what happened to him. He was a scientific genius who disappeared
without a trace from his home," Koushiro added.
Ken frowned. "Do you know Akiyama Ryo?"
The Digi-Rangers nodded.
"He's the Silver Ranger. Whenever one of us got knocked out of
commission, he'd come and replace them. Somehow being able to use our
zords as if they were his own," Taichi explained. "We last saw him
during the Time Battles of 2002 when the Time Rangers of the future came
and helped us defeat the Millennium-Zord after he stole our powers."
Ken nodded. "Was Ryo ever alone when he fought that zord?"
The Digi-Rangers looked at each other.
"There was another ranger with Ryo during one battle, but we don't know
who he was," Hikari answered. "You're not saying...."
"Your world's Ken was that ranger," Ichijouji confirmed. "I was infected
with a Evil Spore that drove me to do unspeakable things after defeating
my world's Millenniumon."
Mimi pouted. "How can we fight another ranger?"
"Make him see that he's not playing a game," Wormmon explained sadly.
"Huh?" was the general reply.
"When I was the Digimon Kaiser, I thought the Digital World was some
giant virtual reality game," Ken explained. "This Kaiser likely views
the presence of the zords as 'proof' this world is a virtual reality
game he's stuck inside."
"How did you realize it wasn't a game?" Digi-Ranger Sora questioned.
"I died," Wormmon answered.
An uneasy silence fell upon them.
Taichi broke it. "Let's go see Gennai and talk to him about this."
Yamato nodded. "Maybe he's figured out the time dilation so we can
contact the Time Digi-Rangers as well."
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As the Digi-Rangers and their guest materialized in a futuristic
computer room, a flying robot that looked awfully like Tentomon rushed
toward them. "Welcome back!"
"Hi, Tento-Five, any luck with the time dilation?" Koushiro asked.
Tento-Five shook his head. "Afraid not. After two years of trying, we've
covered everything from twenty years to a hundred, but no luck."
"Greetings, Digi-Rangers and dimensional travelers," a giant image of an
elderly man's face intoned.
"So, they're telling the truth about being from another dimension?"
Takeru questioned.
"Yes. There is an unusual amount of dimensional energies on them,"
Gennai replied.
"Gennai, is the Kaiser really Ichijouji Ken AND a ranger?" Taichi
demanded.
The image closed his eyes. "Yes."
"Why didn't you tell us?!" Hikari cried out.
"Because he needs to be stopped and it would be difficult if you knew
the truth," Gennai replied.
"We can't kill him," Mimi protested. "We have to save him!"
"The Time Digi-Rangers know how," Yamato stated. "We just have to
contact them."
"Why couldn't they just tell us and not leave us a cryptic message?"
Sora questioned.
"'When you truly need to contact us, one of you will know what the
dilation is,'" Taichi quoted. "How can we figure it out?"
"Exactly. All we know about them is that they're our descendants," Sora
added. "They never told us by how many generations."
Hikari swallowed as she approached the computer. "They are our sons and
daughters. Set dilation to... s-sixteen years."
"Hikari, the eldest Time Digi-Ranger was thirteen two years ago. He
would be fifteen now," Taichi commented, confused.
Hikari looked at him with tears in her eyes. "Fifteen and a half,
actually. H-he'll be born in November, I think."
"Time dilation confirmed! Incoming message from the future!" Tento-Five
called out.
"Hello, everyone," greeted a teen with chestnut hair and blue eyes.
"Hello... Mother."
Hikari bowed her head. "Hello... Son."
"Protect Takeru," Ken whispered to Eric. "Taichi is a bit over
protective."
Eric nodded.
Clone Sora's mouth dropped along with the others.
"I don't have much time," the future ranger began. "The first thing I
have to tell you is time is not absolute. When we saved the future from
the Millennium-Zord, it changed dramatically. Us Time Digi-Rangers, for
the most part, weren't directly affected by the timeline shift, but the
world we are in now is not the world we were in before.
"In the timeline we were in before, the Millennium-Zord had taken the
powers of the Digi-Rangers preventing you from defeating him. Under his
hellish rule, many of you sought comfort in the arms of others. The Time
Digi-Rangers were born from that." The Time Digi-Ranger looked down.
"Mother, don't cry."
Hikari sobbed at the computer. "Takeru... I knew about that. All of it.
I... I started sleeping with you so he could be born."
Takeru stared at her. "Why didn't you tell me?"
"I was afraid you wouldn't... perform if you knew I'd get pregnant,"
Hikari answered.
"Ahem, ah, back to what I have to say." The Time Digi-Ranger was visibly
disturbed. "If we existed in this timeline, we assumed the place of
ourselves and shared their memories. Not all of us did exist though.
While some of us found ourselves in younger bodies, Sora's son found he
now had a half-sister his own age and he didn't exist."
"What?!" ranger Sora cried out.
The Time Digi-Ranger frowned. "I don't know if I should say this,
but.... In the original timeline, you were with Taichi... while you
lived. In the new one, you are married to Yamato. The presence of
Taichi's son has brought... trouble. Your marriage is in doubt."
Both Takenouchi girls looked between Taichi and Yamato.
Koushiro coughed. "Everything else is fine in the future, right?"
"You're all alive and having the usual problems of life," the Time
Digi-Ranger replied cryptically. "Far better than what Millennium-Zord
had done to our world."
"What can you tell us about the Kaiser?" Koushiro questioned.
"Trust the travelers, for they know the weaknesses to exploit," the Time
Digi-Ranger answered. "We'll talk more when you need me again, as you
all have a lot to talk about before the next battle. And Uncle Taichi,
please don't kill Dad. He's rather important to me. See you in the
future."
Taichi turned away from the monitor and glared at Takeru. "You...."
Hikari grabbed her brother's arm. "You will do nothing. Everything was
MY decision. If you want to hit someone, hit me."
"Hikari..." Taichi trailed off, his gaze changed focus. "I can beat up
Yamato, right?"
"No!" ordered Hikari and Ranger Sora.
Silence filled the room as no one moved to speak.
"Now this is awkward," Lopmon clipped.
"Very," Wormmon agreed.
"Right, um, Ken, do you know who these generals of the Kaiser are?"
Yamato questioned, hoping to focus on this threat and not anything else.
Ken rubbed his chin. "Well, off hand I'd say Archnemon, Mummymon and
Black War Greymon... but those don't make sense. They didn't work for me
and I don't know any special weaknesses for them. All of the digimon I
used were mind controlled slaves. The strongest was Chimeramon, but he
had no real weaknesses."
"Besides being an unintelligent killing machine," Wormmon corrected.
"Who else could it be?" Taichi pressed.
"I don't know," Ken replied with a frown.
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"Care to explain why you weren't surprised over Hikari's announcement
earlier?" clone Sora demanded her wayward companions.
Eric shrugged. "Because the Hikari in our world is also pregnant with
Takeru's kid. They even got married through some legal loop hole."
"It's just the matter of parental approval of marriage," Ken corrected.
"Anything else I should know about?" Sora demanded.
"Well, um..." Ken trailed off.
"Daisuke's been sleeping around, mostly with Miyako but any willing girl
would suit him fine," Eric replied.
"Motomiya Daisuke?!" Sora questioned in shock. "Soccer nut with hero
complex on Taichi and a childish crush on Hikari."
"Apparently he never let go of his crush on her until after he saw her
screw Takeru," Eric explained.
Sora massaged her forehead. "Who's Miyako?"
"You sort of met her. She was Nene in that last world. She's one of
Odaiba's second group members," Eric answered.
"Right.... Who else?" Sora pressed.
"Well, our Sora has been with Taichi since the end of their first
adventure in the Digital World," Eric continued.
Sora stared at him blankly. "But I would've only been eleven."
Eric shrugged. "Things happened."
"Anyone else?" Sora questioned with dread.
"Well, Koushiro was with Miyako briefly, now he's chasing after some
chick named Ayashi. Jyou is with Mimi and she's beyond kinky with sex
games." Eric tapped his chin. "Oh, and Ken did Daisuke's sister while
drunk."
Ken betrayed his character and slapped Eric, hard. "Some things should
remain secret."
"You act like half the Chosen and Digi-Destined around the world don't
know this." Eric rubbed his head. "Hell, I don't think there's a Chosen
who doesn't know Yamato dated Sora briefly to make Taichi jealous and
take her back."
"I did?" Sora questioned. Yamato was a good friend, but she had trouble
seeing him as more than that. Apparently time would change her opinion.
"Course it helped that Yamato is more bent that Ken," Lopmon added. "At
least he looks at girls, but Yamato is after Taichi's ass, not yours."
Sora's hair stood on edge. "Excuse me. I need some air."
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"What do you think?" Taichi questioned, the monitor before the team
displaying Sora leaving Ken and Eric.
"That I'll have to introduce myself to Ayashi. Nyara!" Koushiro meowed,
looking at a file on a monitor of his classmate, complete with recent
school picture. "How could I have missed those... er... her?"
Mimi peered over his shoulder and slapped his head. "Breast boy."
Hikari held a deep frown. "Daisuke has seen me with Takeru."
Jyou coughed. "Well, um...."
"Sex games are fun!" Mimi chirped.
Everyone sweat-dropped.
"Taichi and I aren't exactly virgins...." Sora trailed off.
Yamato coughed. "We should be getting ready for these generals of the
Kaiser." He quickly left.
Taichi looked sick. "The girl who fucked me when I was eleven has the
hots for my best friend, who happens to be gay and wants my ass? Hello,
reality? Check please!"
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Hikari sighed as she stared over the ocean. She relaxed into the arms
that wrapped around her. "Takeru... I'm sorry."
"Don't be," Takeru whispered into her ear. "Hikari, when you told me you
were pregnant, I promised I'd stay with you and I mean to keep that
promise. I love you, and this doesn't change that."
"But I kept everything a secret," Hikari returned tearfully.
"Because you had to." Takeru smirked. "I probably couldn't perform if I
knew you were going to get pregnant." He then laughed. "Not asking to
use protection was my own fault. Which is a good thing I didn't. It's
odd knowing what my son will be able to accomplish. I'm already very
proud of him... and you."
Hikari turned around and hugged him back, sobbing into his chest. "I
love you, Takeru."
Taichi frowned as he watched the couple in secret. "Take care of her,
_little brother_, or your new big brother will send you to hell."
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"Um, Sora, can I talk to you?" clone Sora questioned.
"Sure," ranger Sora replied.
"Are you in love with Taichi or Yamato?" the clone asked.
The ranger smirked. "If you asked me yesterday, I would've said Yamato.
A couple years ago, Taichi. Right now, I don't know. They both mean a
lot to me. But to know that I'm going to end up with one of them scares
me."
The clone laughed. "I'd say keep Yamato and let me have Taichi. But that
won't work."
The ranger nodded. "Probably not. Finding out Yamato likes Taichi
sexually certainly shocked me."
"How did you find out?" the clone questioned.
The ranger smiled sheepishly. "We eavesdropped on you and compared our
histories. Everything matched up and Yamato ran out of the room." She
shook her head. "I lost interest in Taichi because the only time he
acknowledged any feelings for me was when I had sex with him. Yamato was
always there for me and he did show his feelings for me in small ways."
"But Taichi showed his feelings in small ways too. He didn't know or was
too embarrassed to show it more than that," the clone protested.
"Yeah, but Taichi didn't do it when I needed him most. Yamato did." The
ranger toyed with her hair. "I don't think Yamato is as gay as Lopmon
said he was. I'm supposedly going to have his daughter in a few years if
I don't have Taichi's son first. There was nothing about Taichi and
Yamato ending up together."
The clone laughed. "I doubt Taichi would go gay on us."
The ranger smirked. "Yeah. He's too girl conscious."
"What are you going to do?" the clone questioned.
"I'm going to have to reevaluate my relationships," the ranger replied.
"I can't just pick one now knowing the decision will last for the rest
of my life. But that means I'm going to hurt someone I care deeply for."
"I wouldn't let Taichi go," the clone voted.
The ranger patted her duplicate's shoulder. "Yes, you would, if you went
through the experiences I have. Actually, I doubt Taichi is the
goggle-head you think about most now."
The clone blushed in response.
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"Can I ask you a question?" Ken asked.
"Shoot," Koushiro replied.
"How do digimon and zords exist on your world?" Ken asked.
"Well, there's another dimension known as the Digital World from which
the digimon come from," Koushiro began.
Ken nodded. "The same as mine."
Koushiro continued, "Yes, well. When we first became rangers, we didn't
even know that world existed. Just that some alien creature named
Devimon was trying to take over Japan. It wasn't until the third
overlord, Vamdemon, came that we learned not all digimon were evil. That
lesson came at a high price."
Ken nodded, but looked a little puzzled. This certainly wasn't the same.
"You see, two of Vamdemon's followers were more like double agents,"
Koushiro explained. "Wizarmon and his mate, Tailmon, worked to undermine
Vamdemon. Being digimon, we didn't trust them. Only Hikari did, but she
wasn't a ranger yet. When Vamdemon attempted to kill Hikari as he
somehow knew she was going to be a ranger, Tailmon and Wizarmon
sacrificed themselves."
Ken blinked.
Koushiro frowned. "It was then we learned how we got our powers.
Wizarmon bestowed his strength to Hikari allowing her to become a
ranger, while Tailmon awakened a dormant zord that had no mind of its
own. Our powers and our zords were gifts from digimon who sacrificed
themselves to allow us to protect our own world. We didn't let their
sacrifice be in vain. We have since gone to the Digital World and
deposed of the Dark Masters and Apocalymon that had ruled it."
Ken rubbed his chin. "Okay, the digimon provided your powers, but where
did the zords come from in the first place?"
"There are a group of powerful entities called the Keepers of Balance.
They're the kami that protect the various worlds. They created the zords
as guardians."
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"ALERT! ALERT!" Tento-Five cried out. "Three zords have appeared!"
"Show us," Taichi ordered as he rushed into the room along with the
other rangers and the dimensional travelers.
Three separate images sprang up.
A steel look shakkou idol stood menacingly over an off shore oil
platform.
A giant brown bird with horns was tearing apart the Ginza Shopping
District.
A humongous blue dragon zord was tearing apart the world's tallest
Ferris Wheel that was in Odaiba with its teeth.
"What are those?!" ranger Sora cried out in shock.
"I guess you would call them Shakkou-Zord, Aquilla-Zord, and
Imperial-Zord," Ken responded. "They would be piloted by the generals
your Kaiser mentioned."
"Who are these generals? Are they rangers?" Takeru demanded.
"To you, yes." Ken moved to the first image. "Shakkou-Zord should be
controlled by Hida Iori." He turned toward Tento-Five. "He demanded all
the workers leave the oil rig, didn't he?"
"Yes. How did you know?" Tento-Five asked.
"Iori is driven by a strong moral code. He was likely manipulated into
thinking he needed to take justice into his own hands," Ken explained.
"Aquilla-Zord is Inoue Miyako's," Wormmon continued.
"Miyako's?!" Takeru cried out in shock. "I live in the same apartment
complex as her."
"So does Iori," Wormmon informed. "Anyway, Miyako hates sharing as being
the youngest of four children she's had to share everything. Often
having to wear her older sisters' hand-me-down clothes."
"Which explains why she's attacking the largest shopping district in
Japan," Ken added.
"How do you know that much about her?" Yamato questioned skeptically.
"Well, we're good friends now, and...." Ken trailed off.
"She can bitch," Wormmon answered.
"Wormmon...." Ken said harshly.
"Sorry, but she does at times," Wormmon returned.
"He's been hanging around you too much," Eric commented toward his
digimon.
"Okay...." commented a few of the Digi-Rangers.
"And who's the third?" Hikari questioned.
Ken looked at her seriously. "Motomiya Daisuke."
Hikari's eyes widened in absolute shock.
"You know how he was manipulated," Ken stated.
Hikari nodded, unable to speak.
"We know who they are, but how do we fight them?" Yamato demanded.
"We can't fight them! They're just being manipulated!" Mimi protested.
"So we'll just let them destroy Tokyo?" Yamato shot back.
"We can protect Tokyo without fighting them directly," Ken told them
firmly.
"And just how do we do that?" Taichi questioned.
"We'll need to break up into groups and deal with how they were
manipulated in the first place," Eric chirped in.
"Exactly," Ken confirmed. "Hikari will need to confront Daisuke. It is
his love for her that has been manipulated. Mimi, you'll have to talk
sense into Miyako. I know you can do it." Ichijouji then frowned. "I
know you don't want to be away from her, but... Takeru, you're the best
one to deal with Iori."
"What about the rest of us?" Ranger-Sora asked.
"You'll play back-up. Mimi could certainly use your help, Sora... both
Soras. And I'm sure Hikari wants yours, Taichi. Eric, you know Daisuke
well enough to be of some help. Jyou and Koushiro should aid Takeru as
well," Ken added.
"What about me?" Yamato questioned.
"You'll back up me if something goes wrong with my plan," Ken told him.
"We'll deal with the Kaiser. I know how to stop him, but I'll need a
little help to set it up."
"You certainly know your tactics," Takeru commented bitterly.
"No, I know you, and that makes the greatest difference," Ken corrected.
"There is no enemy more dangerous than the one who knows you," Koushiro
commented.
"Right." Taichi nodded with a frown. "Let's go Digi-Rangers!"
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The golden angel ranger appeared with the black sea mammal ranger and
purple beetle ranger standing on top of the oil rig. Then they
de-powered.
Takeru stepped forward. "Hida Iori! We wish to speak with you!"
A light dropped from the Shakkou-Zord and a steel-gray colored ranger
stood before them. "You know who I am?"
"Yes," Takeru replied. "We also know you don't want to do this!"
"Why wouldn't I want to stop the exploitation of the Earth?" the Steel
Ranger questioned harshly.
"If you destroy the oil rig, the resulting oil spill will kill plant and
animal life by the millions!" Jyou yelled.
"Check the gauges." The Steel Ranger motioned.
Koushiro looked over them. "Huh? There's almost no oil left here."
The Steel Ranger nodded. "Of course. I had Shakkou-Zord hack the
computers and pump all the oil away safely. Soon I can destroy it
without endangering the environment. Once I'm done here, I'll move on to
the next rig and continue until all oil drills are no more."
"People need oil!" Takeru protested. "Stopping every oil refinery in the
world would cripple the whole Earth. People would die from starvation
without the means to transport food. We depend too much on it."
"So?" the Steel Ranger questioned. "People use the Earth. Soon it'll
become unlivable if this raping of the ground is not stopped. People
will die tomorrow, but the children generations from now shall live with
blue skies."
"There are ways to save the Earth without stopping oil production. We
can find alternate fuels that don't harm the environment," Takeru shot
back. "Do you really want to become the ultimate Eco-terrorist? To be a
criminal that every country in the world wants to be brought to
justice?"
"Justice?!" the Steel Ranger shouted in anger. "What do you know of
justice?! My father died for it!"
"Would your father approve of this 'justice?!'" Takeru shot back.
The Steel Ranger shook in fury. "I will become justice for him!"
"If you want to destroy this oil rig, you'll have to kill me first!"
Takeru powered up and called forth his zord, "Angel-Zord! Awake to
Archangel Mode!"
"If that is your wish to die, so be it!" the Steel Ranger jumped up into
his Shakkou-Zord.
Jyou and Koushiro could only watch as the angelic zord rushed toward the
steel idol zord.
Shakkou-Zord spread it's arms and unleashed a volley of spiked explosive
disks that the Holy Angel-Zord dodged.
Then the angel's sword extended from his wrist while the idol's eyes
began to glow.
A blast of energy painted the sky red as the Shakkou-Zord fired at point
blank range.
Jyou and Koushiro stared in horror as one of the angel's wings crashed
into the ocean. But then they were surprised as Shakkou-Zord leaned
backwards and also fell into the watery deep.
"I'll get him!" Jyou cried out, morphing into full sea mammal mode
before jumping into the turbulent ocean waters.
A moment later Zudo-Zord emerged holding the idol zord, which sported a
huge gash on its chest.
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A mauve colored ranger laughed haughtily as she strolled down Ginza's
main street. The entire place was hers and hers alone after some
careful... redecoration. Who needed men's clothing stores anyway?
"Oh, Sora this is definitely YOU!" a girl chirped.
"Isn't that a bit TOO sexy?" replied another girl, presumably Sora.
"I wouldn't be caught dead in that," added someone who sounded awfully
like the other girl, but perhaps a little young.
The Mauve Ranger clenched her fist. How dare someone intrude on her?!
She rushed toward the direction of the voices and saw one girl with pink
hair holding up a red leather ensemble and a pair of red headed sisters
with the elder one looking rather embarrassed.
"Oh, come on Sora, don't you want impress your man?" the pink haired
cooed. "Don't you agree with that, So-chan?"
The younger girl blinked and shrugged. "Well... a little sex appeal
couldn't hurt... I guess."
Sora scowled. "Mimi, I haven't decided who I want just yet!"
"This is for when you do!" Mimi retorted.
"The Ginza and everything in it is MY domain! You are trespassing!"
yelled the Mauve Ranger.
"Nonsense," Mimi waved her off. "Shopping is an experience best shared!"
The ranger stormed at the trio. "If you don't leave now, I'll kill you!"
Mimi appraised the angry girl in mauve. She then snapped her fingers. "I
know just the outfit!"
"What?!" the ranger cried out.
Mimi flipped through the racks and pulled out an assortment of clothes
that she tossed at the ranger who caught them reflexively. She then went
to a hat display and grabbed a leather aviator helmet. She added that to
the clothes in the ranger's hands and told her, "Go ahead and try it on.
It'll be PERFECT for you!"
The ranger looked over the red slacks, beige vest, light blue shirt and
helmet in her hands quizzically.
Mimi started to push the ranger into a changing room. "If you don't try
them on, you won't know how they'll look!" She shut the door behind the
ranger and then turned and smiled at the red heads with her.
"How did she do that?" 'So-chan' asked.
Sora shrugged uncertainly. "Because Mimi is, well... Mimi."
Minutes later a lavender hair girl with glasses nervously exited the
changing room wearing the clothes Mimi had selected.
Mimi tapped her foot examining her. "You need accessories. I know just
the things!" She rushed and got an army green shoulder bag and white
gloves, which she gave the bespectacled girl who put them on. Mimi
smiled at the results. "What do you think?"
The lavender haired girl examined her appearance in the mirror. "This
is... great! How did you know?"
Mimi smiled. "It's a gift! Now what's your name?"
The girl shifted. "Miyako."
"I'm Mimi, the older red head is Sora, and the younger you can call
So-chan," replied the pink haired girl. "Now let's go find some other
outfits."
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Eric held Lopmon in his arms and he twitched nervously as they
approached Imperial-Zord. The gargantuan dragon quickly noticed their
presence and turned toward them.
Hikari advanced a few steps ahead of them. "Daisuke!"
"Hikari...." the dragon seemed to breathe.
"Daisuke... please let me talk to you!" Hikari pleaded.
"Why? So you can stab me in the back some more?!" the dragon roared.
"When were you going to tell me you were fucking Takeru? After he
knocked you up?"
Hikari flinched as if hit. "I'm sorry. I didn't want to hurt you. I
didn't know what to say to you."
"Bullshit!" the dragon growled. "All you've done is hurt me! You lied to
me! How long have you been screwing that trash?"
Hikari bowed her head. She knew she had to tell him the truth. "Al...
almost two years now."
The dragon screamed in rage and fired off its cannon. The blast barely
missing the apartment building the Yagami family lived in.
"Whoa! Calm down buddy!" Eric shouted.
"Buddy?!" the dragon bellowed. "I'm no friend of yours."
"Not in this timeline," Eric returned. "You may not know me, but I know
you. So what if Hikari chose Takeru to be with? She'll be happy with
him. If you truly love her you'll let go of her and let her be happy."
"Why should I let her be happy when she's the reason I'm miserable? I've
loved her as long as I can remember and she couldn't even tell me she
wasn't interested!" the dragon retorted.
Taichi laughed coldly. "If you knew Hikari enough to love her, you'd
know she could never do that. She'd couldn't be rude and tell that to
anyone, especially a friend like you."
"Friends don't lie and stab you in the back!" the dragon yelled angrily.
"I didn't lie to you!" Hikari protested, tears leaking from her eyes. "I
just... didn't tell you the truth. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry. I should've
told you a long time ago."
"Sorry doesn't cut it!" The dragon advanced on them.
"Listen, Daisuke! Hikari isn't the only girl in the world! There are
many other girls out there that would love you!" Eric shouted.
The dragon laughed. "Right. No girl would kiss me, let alone do more
than that!"
"Bullshit!" Eric countered. "Believe me when I say once you start
screwing girls, they'll start forming a line at your door. The Daisuke
from my world had sex with half the girls in his class."
The dragon snorted. "Riiiiight. What other tales do you care to spin?"
"Don't believe I know you?" Eric questioned.
"Of course you don't," Daisuke shot back.
"Let's see." Eric tapped his chin. "Things that would stay the same for
this timeline. Well, your sister going to college was the happiest day
in you life as it finally got her, and her insults, out of your hair.
You've had a crush on Hikari since first grade when you walked in on her
going the bathroom, though you didn't see as much as you wanted."
"When did THAT happen?!" Hikari questioned.
"It was... it was one of the times you were sick... so you didn't notice
me...." The dragon's gaze locked on Eric. "How did you know that?!"
Eric smirked. "I'm from another dimension and that world's version of
you chats with me on email. Boy do you like to vent. Particularly about
how your math teacher, Gotoh, is such an ass-hole and singles you out as
a 'delinquent.'"
"Other girls will like me?" the dragon questioned.
"Oh, they'll LOVE you. Course, I only know of one girl you've done on
any consistent basis. All the others were one-night stands that wanted
to 'ride the Daisuke' considering your sexual endurance is literally
beyond belief and only Miyako has been able to keep up with you," Eric
explained. "Your record was over eight hours straight."
"EIGHT HOURS?!" chorused Hikari and Taichi.
"I've only managed an hour once," Taichi muttered.
"Thirty minutes," Hikari added.
"I'm a stud and I didn't even know it?" the dragon questioned aloud. He
then shook his head and glared toward Hikari. "There is one thing I
want."
Hikari stepped back. "W-what's that?" He couldn't be thinking along the
lines of what Eric just revealed... could he?
"I want a kiss," the dragon demanded.
"A... kiss?" Hikari questioned.
"Yes. A kiss," the dragon repeated.
Hikari couldn't help but notice that people were present. On one hand,
it was rude to kiss in public. On the other, Daisuke could easily kill
them if she refused. There wasn't a choice. May Takeru forgive her.
"Okay... one kiss."
A flash of blue light shot from the head of the dragon and formed into a
light blue ranger before her, who then de-powered into Daisuke.
Hikari stood stiffly as Daisuke advanced toward her. She couldn't relax
herself as his arms slipped around her and his lips pressed against her.
Taichi's fist clenched tightly as he watched impotently.
Daisuke finally withdrew from her and frowned. "You never did love me,
did you?"
Hikari bowed her head. "You're a friend, Daisuke. That's all you've ever
been to me. I sorry I never felt more than that for you."
Daisuke lifted up her chin. "If Takeru ever treats you badly, let me
know. I take care of him."
Taichi smirked. "Not if I don't get to him first."
"Daisuke...." Hikari swallowed nervously. "I have to tell you this
now... to let you know everything. I... I'm pregnant."
Daisuke blinked and then laughed good-naturally. "You really weren't
going to tell me until after he knocked you up."
"Your not going to go on a rampage again, are you?" Lopmon questioned.
Daisuke first stared at the small digimon and then at the destroyed
Ferris Wheel. "What was I doing?!"
Taichi placed a hand on Daisuke's shoulder. "Don't worry about it. The
Kaiser was controlling you. We'll have it fixed with 'Ranger
Insurance.'"
"Ranger... I'm a digi-ranger now...." Daisuke breathed. "I have my own
zord."
Hikari nodded. "Welcome to the team."
------------------------------
"What have I done?" Iori questioned as he woke.
"Beyond screw with one oil rig's production for a day, nothing," Takeru
replied. "How are you feeling?"
Iori glanced around. "Confused. Am I... am I a digi-ranger?"
"Yep. Welcome to the team. I'm Takeru." Takeru offered his hand.
Iori grasped it and sat up. He stared in dismay at the Shakkou-Zord's
damaged form.
A rust-haired teenager approached and added, "I'm Koushiro." He then
glared at Takeru. "You didn't have to damage it that badly. I'm going to
have to spend the next week fixing it now."
"It can be repaired?" Iori questioned with hope.
"Certainly. Though the water damage is going to be a pain to deal with,"
Koushiro replied.
"Hey, guys! Foods ready!" Jyou announced.
"How long was I out?" Iori questioned.
"A few hours. By the way, my name's Jyou," replied the cook. "No urge to
destroy anything?"
Iori shook his head. "I'm not sure why I wanted to destroy it."
"You were being controlled," Takeru informed. "You don't have to worry
about that. The one behind that is being handled as we speak."
------------------------------
Four girls laughed merrily sitting in an empty restaurant after helping
themselves to some food.
"It's been great sharing this time with you," Mimi commented.
"You don't have to go yet, do you?" Miyako questioned.
"Nope. It's just that I enjoyed spending today with you," Mimi replied.
"I don't have a little sister, but if I did, I'd like to think she'd be
like you."
Miyako frowned. "I hate being a little sister. Everything I have or use
either belongs to the family or is handed down from my older sisters. I
don't have much that is mine and mine alone."
"But isn't it nice being able to share everything? When you need
something, aren't your older sisters there to help you?" Mimi asked.
"I wouldn't mind sharing if it wasn't everything. I couldn't even buy
myself a cake and not have others taking a piece without even asking,"
Miyako bemoaned. "How do you two handle being sisters?"
The red heads looked at each other.
"Err... that's a bit... complicated," ranger Sora answered.
Mimi laughed a little. "Now, Miyako. There is something that is yours
and no one can take from you."
"What's that?" Miyako asked.
Mimi pointed at the electronic device strapped to the girl's belt.
"You're a digi-ranger. The power that it gives you is for you to use and
no one else. Just as your zord is for you to pilot. Sora and I may be
digi-rangers, but only you are the Mauve Ranger with the Aquilla-Zord.
No one else can claim that."
Miyako took her digi-morpher in hand and stared at it. "I'm a
digi-ranger?"
Mimi nodded. "Yes, you. Not your sisters. You. And there was no Mauve
Ranger before you. What example you set for that ranger is for you to
decide."
Miyako hugged Mimi tightly with tears in her eyes. "Thank you!"
"Don't thank me." Mimi smirked. "The power is more of a burden than a
blessing. And I'm not the one who chose you, just made you realize that
you were."
Miyako withdrew and looked around. "Wha... what have I done?"
"You were controlled. This was not your fault, or even the fault of the
one who used you. Everything will be set right before you know it," Mimi
assured her.
"Welcome to the team." Ranger Sora held out her hand.
Miyako took it. "Thank you."
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A scream of rage echoed over Tokyo.
"My generals have all turned against me! How could this happen? How
could they be defeated so soon?!" the Kaiser yelled to the sky, standing
on top of Tokyo Tower with his loyal Stingmon hovering over him.
"Well, well, Ken-chan. Such a brat you've become."
The Kaiser whirled and stared as if he was looking upon a ghost.
Standing before another Stingmon was a young man wearing glasses and
medieval grab, complete with sword, with his hair done in a long
pony-tail was someone that appeared to be straight from his past.
"Osamu.... But... you're dead."
'Osamu' smirked. "Yes, I'm dead. Get over it! I know you wished that I
was gone, but wishing for things doesn't make them happen."
Kaiser shambled forward a step. "But you're here. I... I've wished for
nothing more than that since... since...."
'Osamu' nodded. "I know. But I'm not here. I can never be here. THIS is
your imagination Ken-chan." He then pointed at the Kaiser's Stingmon.
"THAT is your reality. Digimon and zords exist. They are most certainly
real and are not part of some demented game."
"Of course it's a game! It's all a game!" the Kaiser protested.
"Is it? Follow me." Without another word, 'Osamu's' Stingmon picked him
up and they flew off.
The Kaiser nodded at his companion and they followed quickly after them.
Their journey ended at a school. 'Osamu' directed both Stingmon to stay
towards the center of the school's roof while he led the Kaiser to the
edge.
"Tell me, Ken-chan. Why would a game include this?" 'Osamu' questioned,
waving toward a play ground teaming with children.
"Realism," the Kaiser replied, but with a hint of uncertainty.
"Would programmers really go to THAT extent?" 'Osamu' pointed with a
frown.
The Kaiser stared as a young boy laid screaming on the ground, his leg
torn open and bleeding. A teacher quickly rushed over and soothed the
sobbing child.
Another teacher called in all the other students while the first teacher
rushed the injured child inside.
'Osamu' jumped down from the roof and grunted as he landed. The Kaiser
followed suit. They approached where the accident happened and the
Kaiser reached out a touched a puddle of blood that remained.
"Why... why would they include this?" the Kaiser muttered to himself.
"Because it's not a game, Ken-chan. It never was," 'Osamu' replied.
"People get hurt and die in this world because it is real."
"It can't be real!" the Kaiser protested. "My digimon are mine to
control. They follow my commands to take over the world! The papers
report how long the battles lasted, how much damage was caused, the
number of injured, how many people died! Reality is not like that!"
'Osamu' slapped the Kaiser across the face. "Feel that pain! It's real!
What you did is REAL!" He grabbed the boy by the shoulders and shook
him. "Ken-chan, remember back to the fight against the Millenium-Zord!
Remember fighting along side Ryo! That was real too. The seed that
struck you in the neck at the end of battle is blinding you from seeing
the truth. You have to fight it!"
The Kaiser's features locked into a glare. He then decked ''Osamu'.'
"You're not my brother."
"You're right. I'm not. I'm you," Ken replied, tossing away the glasses
he had worn. "But everything I've told you is true. I'm from another
dimension where I was infected from the seed and my Stingmon paid for my
salvation with his life. I don't want you to go through losing your
Stingmon as well."
"Ken-chan... listen to him," pleaded one Stingmon.
"He's telling you the truth," added the other Stingmon.
"You expect me to believe other dimensions, digimon and zords really
exist? That's a bunch of fantasy! The real world is a harsh reality
where everything goes wrong and none of that exists!" the Kaiser yelled.
"But it does exist. Tell me, if this world is the game you believe it
is, would she ever play it?" Ken pointed behind the Kaiser.
"Ken-chan... is... is that really you?" a woman questioned nervously.
"M-mother...." the Kaiser breathed.
"Oh, Ken-chan." The woman hugged the Kaiser in a fierce embrace and
began sobbing. "I've missed you so much. You've done all this because
I'm a bad mother, didn't you? It's my fault."
"Mother... it... it's not..." the Kaiser stammered.
Mrs. Ichijouji took off her son's glasses to look him in the eyes.
"Don't ever leave me again."
"B-but...." the Kaiser trailed off.
Mrs. Ichijouji hugged him again. "I love you, son."
Ken blinked as the Kaiser's clothes burst off revealing a school uniform
underneath before the boy in front of him went limp.
"Ken-chan?!" Mrs. Ichijouji cried out.
"He'll be fine. He'll sleep for a few days as his mind copes with what
the seed forced him to do. The Digi-Rangers will contact him, and
hopefully remove the seed that made him do all of this," Ken explained.
Mrs. Ichijouji's eyes widened. "You...."
"I'm Ken from another world. One who has already gone through what he
has. He'll need all the support you can give him," Ken explained.
Both Stingmon hopped down from the school roof and devolved into
Wormmon.
One of the Wormmon approached the resident Ken and his mother. "Please
allow me to help him. I... I've waited for this day for a long time."
Ken picked up his Wormmon. "Those two are like brothers, as my Wormmon
has become mine. He would do nothing to harm him, and would die for
him."
Mrs. Ichijouji didn't know what to make of all of this. But she didn't
care. She'd agree to anything to have her son back. "Thank you."
Ken smiled. "I think this may have helped me as much as it did him."
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"Sora, they're here!" Eric called out. He then blinked, seeing her in
the medieval clothing from Digi-Earth. "I thought you got an outfit."
Sora blushed. "More than one, but I'm finding it difficult to choose
which to wear."
"Well, figure that out later," Eric told her. He grabbed her by the hand
and led her to the Digi-Ranger Control Room.
Sora was blushing fiercely when they arrived. A Canadian might not think
much of holding hands, but she was a Japanese girl.
Daisuke, Miyako and Iori looked around in slight awe.
"You three have come at an opportune time. With Ken being of
questionable assistance and the loss of Hikari and Takeru as rangers, we
will need your help," Gennai intoned.
"Actually, I believe I know of two replacements if the powers can be
passed to someone else," the visiting Ken spoke up.
"You mean Sayuri and Yume?" the visiting Wormmon questioned.
"They are part of the current Odaiba group in our world," Eric noted.
"Iori will have to be careful of them," Lopmon teased.
"You mean Sayuri and Yume from my class?" Iori questioned. "But Yume
can't walk."
"Our Yume can walk in the Digital World, and I suspect as a ranger as
well for yours," Ken commented.
"We shall have to consider that if the need arrives," Gennai replied.
"But to you three, do you accept the responsibility of being
Digi-Rangers?"
"You bet!" Daisuke replied.
"I'm in!" Miyako added in.
"With great power comes great responsibility," Iori noted. "I have to
accept."
The gate started to glow.
"Looks like our job is done here," Eric commented.
"Bye-bye!" Lopmon waved.
"Goodbye," added Ken and Wormmon.
"Not yet," Sora protested. "I have some real cl-"
And they were gone.
------------------------------
The pile of humans and digimon wearily looked up and saw a befuddled
group return their confused looks.
Eric laughed. "Looks like our clothes work for this world."
Sora pouted, extracting herself from the pile. "Excuse me, would you
mind telling me who you are?"
The red head in the other group blinked, but then shrugged. "I'm the
genius sorceress Sora Inverse." She thumbed the wild haired man to her
left. "That's Taichi Gabriev." Then she pointed to the blue skinned and
blond haired man on her right. "Stone boy is Yamato Graywords." She then
looked around.
"I'm Princess Miyako wil Tesla Sailoon!" chirped the lavender haired
girl in the tree with a chest size that would make their Miyako jealous.
"You've got our names," commented Inverse. "Now who the fuck are you and
why do you look like me."
Sora sighed. "It's a loooong story."
"I'm really hating these talks," Lopmon grumbled.
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Archive's Notes:
Visiting Ken only set it up for that world's Mrs. Ichijouji to be there.
He hadn't planned on a child being injured, but wasn't going to pass up
the opportunity that presented.
Crux Point: The events of Digi-Rangers came about because the Keepers of
Balance that guided this world opted to make zords to protect Earth over
partnering people with digimon and creating crests for children to enter
the Digital World and face near impossible odds to save it. This
resulted in the Digital World being abandoned to the Dark Masters and
that some evil digimon wanting to increase their power sought to
increase it by conquering Earth.