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neoKOS-MOS: All right. I know it was a long wait, but things have been nuts. My computer went crazy and was holding my data hostage. The negotiations didn't go too well. In other words, Windows corrupted and I lost everything. Thankfully, I had printed most of this before it happened, so I could retype it out, instead of having to rewrite it all from scratch.
As I said in the last chapter, this is the challenge chapter. 5300 words total, give or take. I knew it was gonna be long. This chapter is a little different from the previous ones. I said the story was taking a turn. Please enjoy, and thanks for your patience in waiting for this.
Into the Looking Glass
Too tired to stay in his rookie form, Veemon had reverted to Demiveemon. Davis picked his friend up and turned around to stare at the digimon that had saved them. She was looking back at him with those spooky eyes. The irises were amber, and the parts that should have been white were as black as her pupils. She took a step closer to him, lowering her head a little to come down to his eye level.
"Are you hurt?" She asked with a blink.
Davis stared for a moment. "Uh, no. I'm fine. Great, thanks to you, that is."
She nodded and looked over toward Rika. "You should go over to your friend. You'll want to hear what Nora has to say."
The boy followed her eyes and, for the first time, noticed the girl talking to Rika. "Nora?" He asked.
The plant digimon motioned for him to go over. He sprinted across the ransacked clearing, glad that he'd worn his gym shoes instead of the dress shoes his mom had been pushing on him. Rika was staring at the other girl in disbelief as he stepped up next to her.
"What do you mean, you've known me for a long time?" The redhead demanded. "I've never seen you before in my life."
Nora smiled. "I know. But I know for a fact that you've met my boyfriend before." She turned to look back into the forest. "Right?" She asked.
"Oh, did you have to say it that way?" A familiar voice asked.
Davis's mouth fell open as TK stepped out of the underbrush. "You!"
The blonde boy smiled, looking cocky and embarrassed at the same time. He stepped up next to Nora. "Hey, Davis."
"But, you..."
The green haired girl laughed, making Davis stop his confounded questions.
He blushed. "What's so funny." He demanded.
"Nothing." She turned to her digimon. "Delphinium, was that Felsemon being controlled by one of them?"
The theropod paced over to the group of humans. "I don't think so. It seemed as if he truly believed in their cause."
The girl nodded and turned back into the forest the way she had come. TK took a step to follow her before looking back over his shoulder.
"You coming?" He asked, before turning back onto his path.
Davis and Rika stared at each other for a second before following. The boy went up to TK and grabbed his arm.
"You've got some explaining to do."
The blonde boy sighed. "All right. Remember that night when you stayed over at my house?"
Davis stared blankly.
"Your sister was having a sleepover."
He blinked. "Oh. Yeah."
Demiveemon elbowed him in the stomach.
"Well," TK continued, taking no notice. "I had been chatting with Nora online for a few months."
"Dating." Davis explained to Rika. She smiled.
"Whatever." The other boy dismissed the comment with a wave of his hand. "That night, she told me that she knew I was digidestined, and that she had a digimon too. She wanted to meet up."
The brunette grinned. "How did you know she wasn't some forty year old sexual predator?"
"Shut up, Davis." TK elbowed him in the side. "It just sounded right. And Patamon had a feeling she was telling the truth. But, anyway, we met up outside the school, and she told me about this organization she and Delphiniumon are part of."
"Organization?" Rika asked, leaning over to see around Davis.
"Yes." Nora said, having stopped up ahead to wait for them to catch up. "How many worlds are there, Rika?"
The violet eyed girl looked confused. "I don't know. For a while I thought there were only two."
Nodding, Nora smiled. "That's what most people who have digimon think. But, what's your world number? Six seventy something? Doesn't that mean there are at least that many worlds?"
The three of them came to a stop as the met up with the green clad girl.
Rika frowned. "But, that's insane. Does each world have people living there and everything? And why is there only one digital world?"
Nora smiled again. "The universe is a complex thing. Let's go back to base, where I can explain it a lot better."
She pulled her digivice out of a pocket. Davis stared at it. It looked like a palm pilot, flat, with numerous buttons underneath the black screen, arranged like a keyboard. The girl held the forest green device in one hand, and pressed a large side button with her thumb. The antenna erupted into a blade of green plasma, and she cut a hole in the air.
She stepped through and turned back to look at the other three. "Coming?"
Davis nodded dumbly and followed as first TK and then Rika stepped through. Delphiniumon and Renamon followed suit, and he caught a glimpse of Torey shooting through after, taking care to hide himself behind the fox's bushy tail.
As Nora closed the rip behind them, Davis looked around at the world they had just entered. They were standing on a huge open semicircular platform, like nothing he had ever seem before. The platform itself was bright cobalt blue, the center glowing a lighter color than the edges. It seemed to vibrate with a warm energy. In the distance, he could see other platforms, tiny and dark because of how far away they were, and separated by a seemingly endless fall. Bluish purple mist swirled far below the platform, with no hint that the emptiness was ever ended by land. And the sky, while deep blue on the horizon, arced up, growing darker as it rose, until the eye reached the zenith, where the sky was black as night, stars and all.
"What is this place?" Davis asked in awe, unable to tear his eyes from the landscape, or lack there of.
"It has a perverse beauty to it." Nora said, looking around as well. "This is our transition world."
"Transition world?" Davis pulled out his digivice and displayed the world number. It read 129.
"You see," Nora explained. "When we cut into different worlds, we can't travel spatially in that world. You can only step through to the spot in that world that is equivalent to the spot in the world you were cutting from."
Rika, sandals still in hand, stared down at the buzzing platform, feeling the vibration with her bare feet. "Yeah. That's so annoying. I have to walk so far in my world to get anywhere close to Davis's house."
He looked at her. She rolled her eyes and shrugged.
"That's why we use this world." Nora continued, "We erected the energy platforms and closed in the sky."
Demiveemon squirmed out of Davis's arms. "Wow." The little cynodont said as he approached the edge of the platform and peered over. "There's nothing holding it up."
"Actually," TK replied, pointing up. "It's attached by energy ropes to the sky dome."
Nora poked him in the arm, grinning. "Look at you, trying to act like you know it all."
He blushed and shut up.
Off in the distance, Davis caught a glimpse of a dot of blue approaching. The tiny speck seemed to grow exponentially as it got closer. The group fell silent and watched it. After a moment, Davis realized what it was.
"It's a train." The boy whispered, squinting at it.
The vehicle glided to a halt in front of the semicircular platform. It was floating on a strand of pale blue energy, leading back to another platform in the distance. The train was deep purple cobalt, and shaped like a bullet train, a deep violet windshield stretched across it's pointed face. A cerulean door opened in the side, and Nora moved inside.
"Come on." TK said, following her.
"Rika," the green clad girl called from inside. "I'd suggest that you hold on to your soul while we're traveling about. As rare as seers are, we don't want someone snatching him on you."
Rika stopped in her tracks, mouth falling open. It took Davis a moment to realize that he was doing the same. TK, standing in the open doorway, was alternating between staring in confusion at Nora, and then Rika.
"How do you..." She started.
"Look, I'll explain everything on the way. But, please, get on the train. It'll be a long ride without you stalling."
Torey emerged from behind Renamon and hid himself behind Rika's feet. Bristling with anger and confusion. The redhead looked just as mad for a moment, but then composed herself and picked up the furious cat, hugging him to her chest roughly. Then she stepped forward and entered the train, Davis on her heels. The girl took a seat by the door, glaring across the aisle at Nora. The two boys exchanged glances, and then Davis moved to sit by Rika, TK by Nora. Delphiniumon bent down and stepped inside, standing in the aisle in the opposite side of the doors from the humans. Renamon lingered just inside the doorway as the cerulean panels snapped shut behind her.
Demiveemon jumped into Davis's lap as the train took off. The boy could barely feel the acceleration, but when he turned around to look at the platform, it was already disappearing over the misty horizon.
"Wow." He whispered under his breath.
"How did you know?" Rika demanded.
Nora sighed, averting her eyes. "We've been watching you guys for a long time. You see, it's my job to watch people who have been granted access to the digital world. The balance between all the worlds is a delicate thing, and anyone with a digivice can go to any of them if they know how. We have to make sure that no one harms that balance, either by mistake or design.
"That doesn't answer my question."
"My team had been assigned to watch you and the other tamers in the Japan of your world. Do you think I would have missed him while watching you over the past two months?"
"I understand that you saw him." Rika snapped, closing her eyes for a second. "What I don't understand is how you knew what he was, or how you knew I could see."
TK, looking very confused, opened his mouth to ask something. Before he could, Nora elbowed him in the ribs, shutting him up.
"I knew what he was because we've worked with seers before. And I know you have purple eyes."
Rika sighed, sliding down to a slouch in her chair. "Whatever. I guess that makes sense."
Torey, whose fur had been practically standing on end a second ago, relaxed himself and curled up snugly in the girl's arms. Davis smiled, glad that the two of them had settled down.
"Um, Nora?" TK asked, still rubbing his side. "Can I..."
"Later." She said, holding up a hand to silence him as she stared out the window behind Davis and Rika.
The brunette craned his neck around to see what she was looking at. They were approaching another blue energy platform, this one much bigger, with a huge pillar shooting up out of it and disappearing into the sky.
"Is this our stop?" She asked, still peering out the window.
"Yup." The girl announced, getting up and grabbing onto one of the poles near the door.
Slowly, as the platform in the distance grew, the train pulled itself to a smooth halt, the deceleration barely pulling at it's passengers bodies. The cerulean doors slid open again, and Nora stepped out, Renamon on her heels. TK got up too, heading onto the platform, and Davis stood. He helped Rika up and then followed the violet eyed girl outside, Demiveemon clutched in his arms. Delphiniumon exited last, her larger form fitting through the doors without much trouble. As she stepped out, the plant digimon shook her head, fluffing out the petals surrounding her neck and sending a sweet flowery smell into the air.
The train sped off into the distance, riding on it's strand of blue energy. Davis stared up at the huge pillar leading up into the sky. It was a translucent aqua color, with tow long stripes of blue lavender rising up on each side. At the base, he could see something that looked like a basket inside. There was a base of midnight blue with a mesh of ocean colored bars rising up around the sides. Nora led the way toward the weird looking thing.
"What is that?" Davis asked, knowing Rika wouldn't, and that TK already knew.
"It's an elevator." The other boy said in a matter-of-fact voice.
"Oh. Right." The brunette mumbled, annoyed because he felt stupid for not knowing.
The green haired girl walked up to the base of the thing, and placed a palm on the almost clear surface. A flash of electric blue crackled over that spot, and then a door sliced open in the energy glass. Nora ushered them inside, and the four humans stepped onto the deep blue elevator base, the mesh having peeled away to leave an opening around the door. Renamon and Delphiniumon climbed in after, and the door zipped closed. The mesh knit itself back together, and the base began to rise beneath their feet.
"Don't watch the platform." Nora warned.
Davis peeked through the energy glass and watched as the warmly glowing platform shot downward at breakneck speed. He clapped a hand over his mouth and sunk down to the floor, closing his eyes.
"You okay, Davis?" Rika asked, setting a hand on his shoulder.
Feeling sick, the boy looked up at her and nodded.
"I told you not to watch it." Nora said, laughter in her voice.
He moaned and stared at the floor for a while, willing his stomach to resettle itself again. Then he stood up and blankly watched the mesh surrounding the dark circle, telling his brain to ignore the knowledge that they were shooting up into the sky. After a few minutes, he felt the elevator begin to glide to a slow stop.
"All right." Nora said, pulling out her digivice and stepping forward to approach the side.
Some of the mesh curled away, and she again set a palm to the energy glass. Light crackled over her hand, and then another door sliced open in the side. Without a moments hesitation, she stepped out into thin air. Or maybe it wasn't so thin, since she still stood there, on some invisible platform, looking back through the door at them. TK followed her, and Rika pulled Davis onto the transparent platform of energy glass. He couldn't help but stare at his feet, looking like they were supported by nothing, with only the pale purple mist far below.
Nora plugged a world number into the direction, and sliced another hole in the air. It was dark on the other side, in stark contrast to the aquamarine of the sky outside the elevator. The girl let the two digimon go through first, and them stepped in after them. TK followed her, and Rika grabbed Davis's arm, leading him into the rip, off the invisible platform and onto visible ground.
He looked back through the rip and saw the deep blue elevator drop back downward, just as Nora closed it up again. She sighed loudly, slipping the green digivice back into her pocket, and turning into the room.
"I'm back." She yelled.
Confused, Davis looked around. Where they had just stepped though, there was now a deep red wall. It was a small room, with three bare walls. Where there should have been a fourth wall, there was instead an opening, a giant door leading into another, larger room. The green clad girl headed toward that door, following her digimon as the pale green theropod went inside. The other four hurried after them, coming out into another deep red room, this one much bigger.
"Whoa." Davis whispered.
It was almost as big as his entire living room, and one of the walls had windows cut in it, though they were curtained from the outside. That, and the normal sized door that was along that wall, gave the impression that there were more rooms hidden behind it. Everything was still that deep red color, almost as if it was a trick of the lighting, despite the dimmed yellow fluorescent bulbs on the ceiling. Lining the two walls not occupied by the strange covered windows, were dozens of screens. They were each about a meter square, and displaying different scenes in crisp black-and-white. Davis saw busy streets, crammed with too many people. Other screens showed empty rooms, with only furniture and pets. Some were black, displaying nothing.
Beneath the screens were a line of computers, set up against the wall, each with a swivel chair bolted to the floor in front of it. They looked like the NASA computers Davis had seen in the movies, old but futuristic looking at the same time. Except, he could tell that these computers were not out of date. Their keyboards were flat touchscreens, with a qwerty overlay to distinguish between the keys. The monitors, while bulky, looked like plasma screens, warm to the touch. Everything about the computers looked high tech and complicated.
In the middle of the room, there was a big wrap-around desk, almost completing a square, except for the absence of a corner, leaving an entrance to the inside. Sitting with her feet propped up on the dark wooden desk, was a girl. She was leaning back n a wheeled swivel chair and watching the new arrivals.
"Took you long enough to bring them in." She said to Nora, not moving at all.
"Well, we were attacked by a rogue Felsemon. Weren't you watching?"
The girl shook her head. "Sky said he was gonna do it." She jerked a thumb at one of the covered windows.
Nora sighed, frowning. "I guess I'm just not that important then."
The other girl only smiled, seeming to know that her friend was only guilting her. "Yeah, But, anyway, I should probably introduce myself."
She pulled herself out of the chair and made her way over to them, holding a hand out to Rika. "I'm Adara. I'm head of our team here."
The girl moved to shake Davis's hand after she had released Rika's. He couldn't help but stare at her. She was taller than him, with gorgeous mahogany hair, so dark it almost looked black at times. Her eyes were bright green and her skin had a light tan to it. She was dressed in dark jeans, hemmed at mid-calf, with a black tank top under a red jacket. She was wearing black heels, which added to her height, though she would probably still be taller than him without them. She had silver jewelry on both wrists, as well as a simple locket necklace.
Rika elbowed him in the ribs as Adara moved away. He grunted and looked over at her, only to be fixed with a glare.
"Sorry." He whispered. "But she's gorgeous. Not as much as you are, though."
The redhead rolled her eyes, smiling a little smugly. "Thanks, Davis." She whispered back.
Adara had led the way over to the computer consoles. Nora was already seated in one of the chairs, looking up at the display screens. TK, standing off to the side near her, waved the two of them over. Rika led him over, and they stood about a yard from the other three, waiting for this whole thing to be explained to them.
The dark haired girl turned back around, a little smile on her lips.
"Well, you've probably got a thousand questions swimming through your heads right now. I don't know how well I can answer all of them, but I think a summary of our history will help with a lot."
She sat gingerly on the edge of one of the consoles, and set a hand on her knee before going on.
"First off, our tam is a part of the organization known as MIRROR. Multiworld Interference Regulation and Registration of Otherworlder Roaming. Basically, MIRROR keeps track of people who have been granted access to the digital world. Most of them, like you guys until a few months ago, don't even know that they can use their digivices to go to other worlds. MIRROR is broken into teams of six or seven, each of which keep track of the people who don't know what they can do. We make sure that they don't accidentally do something to endanger their world, or their portion of the digital world."
"Portion?" Davis asked, feeling a little lost.
"Yeah," the girl said, pressing a finger to the touchpad of a computer. A strange diagram, sort of like a complex spider web, popped up on one of the dark screens on the wall. "You see, there's only one digital world, but hundreds of regular ones. Confined worlds, as we call them. The reason for this is because the digital world, while remaining one world, can divide itself up to devote a portion to each of the confined ones."
"The digital world is what connects all the other worlds together." Nora explained. "Without it, all the confined worlds would have no way to interact. And that's why we need to make sure nothing bad happens to it. If it goes bad, all the others will follow."
Rika moved over and sat in one of the chairs. "If the digital world only gives portions of itself to the other worlds, what does it matter if one or two of them go bad? Won't the rest of it be okay?"
"Well, yes." Adara said, looking over at the violet eyed girl. "It'll be okay for a while, but if enough of them go bad, there's a problem with keeping it from leaking into all of the digital world. The portions may be separated, but they are still part of the same world, and thins travel intraworld much easier than they travel interworld.
"And that's where we come in." Said a male voice, followed by the slam of a door.
Davis whirled around to find the speaker walking away from the door in the windowed wall, smirking mischievously and blue eyes shining. He looked a few years older Davis, as well a a little taller. Dressed in worn blue jeans and a loose white dress shirt, the dark-blonde paced over and shook Davis's hand.
"I'm Randy, and it looks like Adara's been pulling you into her 'world order' talk before giving you the fun stuff."
"The little details don't make any sense if you don't tell the history first." She complained.
"Yeah." He responded, moving to shake Rika's hand. "But they're so much more interesting.
Nora smiled, leaning back in her chair and propping her feet up on the console. "Why don't you enlighten them, Randy."
"Sure." He back stepped and grabbed a wheeled chair from the desk. Dragging it over, he turned it backwards and sat down, resting his arms in front of him on the back of the chair. "You see, a lot of the time, when a portion of the digital world goes bad, it's because there's interference from one of the confined worlds. Think the Digimon Kaiser, or your world's Juggernaut, Rika."
Stretching, he continued. "Our job is to watch the otherworders, people who can at least go to the digital world, and to make sure they don't get to close to contaminating their portion of the digital world."
"But the whole Hypnos thing almost destroyed all the digimon." Rika interrupted. "And the Kaiser did almost take over the digital world. Where were you guys then?"
Nora took that one. "Hypnos couldn't have destroyed all digimon. It might have succeeded to stop them from coming to your world, but that's all. And the Kaiser couldn't have taken the digital world. He had too much against him."
Davis blinked. "Us?"
"Yeah." TK cut in. "It kinda makes you feel good, that we were strong enough for these guys to trust us to take care of it."
The brunette smiled, agreeing with his friend. "All right. But I have a question. Nora has a digimon, but what about you two?"
Randy laughed. "Chispamon is on a mission, so he'll be gone for a while. As for Adara's..."
"Yeah, I'm coming."
From behind the wooden desk emerged a small digimon. He was the size of a house cat, and looked the same, except for the crimson red flecks in his fur. The cat trudged over to his partner, scowling up at Davis as he passed by, and punctuated it with a hiss as he leapt onto Adara's lap. She smoothed a hand over his back.
"Don't be mean, Mau." She whispered.
Randy held a hand to his mouth to direct his comment at Davis. "The two girls have taken a habit of leaving the 'mon' off the end of their digimon's names."
Rika sat back and crossed her arms in front of herself, leaving Torey to sit on her knee. "All that stuff makes sense, but what I don't get is why you brought us here. Is it because we figured out that there were more than two worlds? Was it because we learned how to cut rips between them? Do you want us to join MIRROR now, because of that? Or is it something else?"
Adara smiled. She sighed and stood up, walking over to stand next to Davis, and motioning for him to take her place. He went over and sat down.
"You're a smart one, Rika." She said, setting her digimon down on the floor. "Yes, it is something else. Actually, it's a lot more than that. It's the fate of the universe."
Davis stiffened a little at the tone of her voice. She sounded worried and scared, and maybe a little tired of having to feel that way. Of being afraid of loosing something so important.
"What's been happening?" He asked.
The girl sighed again, closing her pretty eyes for a moment before going on. "The digital world and the confined worlds go through a cycle every once in a while. You've noticed that there's a difference in the time pattern between worlds, right? Well, whenever this cycle comes around, there's a period of time when all the time patterns lock onto the digital world's, and they all equalize."
"That doesn't sound like a bad thing, right?" Randy continued. "Except that when this happens, it seems to get easier to travel between the digital world and the confined ones. Crazy things happen when the cycle restarts, like normal people ending up trapped in the digital world, or hoards of digimon transferring into a peaceful city. People even transfer between the confined worlds, sometimes, and get trapped there."
"Rika, that rip you found in the park was caused by the approaching of the restart cycle." Nora explained. "It's not here yet, but it has been causing a lot of those kinds of things to happen. Once it comes, things are only going to get worse. All the time patterns will be the same. Digimon will start drifting into confined worlds, some without even knowing it. People will get lost in worlds they don't know, and will have no way of getting back. Rips will close behind them, and they'll be stranded. It'll be chaos."
"And that's not the worst of it." Adara said, walking over to the console Davis was sitting on and hitting another of the buttons. Numerous digimon profiles replaced the diagram on the screen as she returned to her spot. "Something, we're not quite sure it It's a digimon or something new, has come to power in the digital world. But not the part of it you're thinking of. This new entity had situated Itself in the Core, the innermost confines of the digital world, a place that doesn't connect to any confined worlds. A place where you can't escape by cutting out, and where digimon live in isolation from the good effects of the confined worlds. They have never known friendship with people, and have never experienced the extra vitality that the confined worlds share with the digital world. The Core is a harsh place, and that's where this new evil is."
"The entity has been gaining allies, by their choice or Its own brute force, making them join It's cause. Powerful allies. Digimon even above mega level, who could delete their enemies and leave no data behind to absorb or reconfigure into an egg."
"And the It's gathering these allies, waiting for the restart cycle to begin. Once all the world times are locked and the barriers are weakened, It'll send them out into the confined worlds and attack. You see, It's not after just one world. It knows that there's hundreds of them, and It wants them all. It wants the entire universe to rule."
Davis blinked, staring at the girl. Sadness had seemed to come out in her features as she had spoken. With all that was at stake, no wonder she had looked so worried.
"So..." He asked hesitantly. "You want us to go take out this supreme evil?"
Randy laughed, cutting through the tension and blowing it away like chaff in the wind. "Right. We need you to go take out the Ultimate Bad Guy, who not even all of MIRROR could kill if we tried." He grinned sarcastically.
Nora rolled her eyes. "Shut up, Randy. No, Davis. I don't think anyone is strong enough to kill It yet, and it would be foolish for us to send anyone to attempt that. What we need, is some help. Our team has been assigned to take out three of It's high ranking allies, and we would like if you guys, and the other digidestined and tamers, would help us."
The green haired girl licked dry lips. "We could do it one at a time, but it would take a while, and they'd catch on to our plan. If you help us, we could attack them all at the same time, and it would take less time, and fewer world would be hurt in the process."
"Do you really think we could do it?" Rika asked, glancing over at Renamon for a second. "I thought you said these digimon were all powerful. How are our digimon going to be able to fight something like that?"
"Yeah." Davis added. "What if not everyone wants to go? I know they won't be too excited about their digimon being deleted permanently. I'm not too excited myself." He hugged Demiveemon and the little blue cynodont looked up at him.
Adara nodded. "I know. But, remember, we'll be coming with you. Out of the five of us, three of our digimon won't be tied up and each of the can go past mega. You guys should be perfectly safe."
The brunette sighed, smiling ever so slightly. "Actually it sounds kinda fun. We haven't fought anything in two months." He looked up and found Rika grinning at him.
There was a static crackling, and a voice spoke from the console. "Hey guys, Team 73 is getting hit hard. They maydayed asking for some help." It was high, but male, like a child's voice, and with just the slightest hint of an accent Davis had never heard before.
Adara sighed and looked down at her digimon, sitting beneath Randy's chair. "You feeling up to it?"
The cat frowned. "I guess. I think I could pull ultimate. If only that stupid accident hadn't happened, I could pull mega no problem." He scowled around the room, meeting Davis's eyes for a moment.
The dark haired girl stooped down and picked him up. "All right. I'm gonna go take care of it. Nora, you coming with?"
The green clad girl nodded and got up.
"'Kay." Randy said, standing up and giving his chair a shove back over to the desk. "I guess I'll take these guys back. You coming, TK?"
The blonde boy shook his head. "I think I'll go with the girls. I wanna see one of these supreme digimon."
The older boy shrugged and waved Davis and Rika to follow him back to the elevator room. "Come on. Let's get you guys home so you can talk to your friends."
neoKOS-MOS: Well, how was that to answer some questions? I said it was gonna be kinda different. For those of you who like the home life, this isn't going to totally ignore that. It'll be a while before they actually go anywhere. Hope you liked it, and still do. Now, I'm gonna try something new:
Dark Qiviut: Thank you for reviewing so quickly. As well as for your suggestions. With this set up, I can basically bring in anyone I want to. I'll need to do some research before I tackle any characters I'm not that familiar with. I wanna get them right. Also, to your constructive criticism, I know about that. The problem is, my word processor of choice capitalizes everything after a period, and I'm not about to go back and change them all. So lazy.
cutekitty: Hi anonymous reviewer! I'm glad you liked it so far. About WWRT, did you read it through right after you read this one, or while it was being written?
miricles-3: Glad you came back. Have you gotten your muse back yet? I know it can take time, but I'm still waiting for the next chapter of your Dairuki.
ApricotKisses: Haylo. It's okay that it took you so long to review. It took me way to long to post it in the first place. Glad you like that they went to Digitamamon's. I had a feeling someone would. As for the Jun fiasco, it'll definitely not go away. And it's only more interesting because Ken is living at Davis's now. grin
Thanks for reading. Please review.