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Digimon Zero Two
Digital Agent
Prologue
Watcher
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Location and time unknown
"Name: T.K. Takashi"
"Profile: Digidestined, male"
"Digimon Partner: Patamon"
"Status: Oblivious."
"Excellent. Continue investigation. Find information regarding his connection to the Digital World and the entities known as 'Digimon'. And find out who else iswith him."
The figure sat there, his head in the shadows, twirling his hat around with his fingers, whom he addressed as 'Number 2'.
"Yessir. Thank you sir."
Agent I037 stepped out of the office, a slight feeling of guilt passing through him, as he wondered why they had to spy on kids. He got through it quickly.
'I just want the money. It doesn't matter to me.' he thought, as he walked down the sombre, depressing hallway. Still thinking about it, he got a can of cola from a machine. 'Something doesn't seem right.'
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Takashi residence, 4.30p.m., Friday
Everything was quiet in the house, except for the fan and the gentle staccato beat audible from the keyboard of T.K.'s computer. Patamon was reading a magazine with the bold words 'How to impress your girl' on the front cover. He wasn't impressed with the amateurish work.
"T.K., don't ever buy this magazine again. It's a waste of money." Patamon frowned.
"Okay, Pata." T.K. replied, busy downloading his music.
Silence once again, for a few seconds, which was then broken by the sound of the phone.
T.K. answered it sighing, but cheered up when he heard the voice on the other side.
"Takashi residence, T.K. speaking."
"Hi T.K.!"
"Kari! Hi. So what's up?"
"Oh, nothing much. Just that you left your maths workbook here. Again..." Kari couldn't stifle a giggle. T.K. did forget sometimes.
"Oh..." Patamon saw T.K. almost blushing.
"Why don't you come over for dinner?"
"Well..." T.K hesitated, albeit intrigued.
"What's the matter, T.K.? You don't like me?" Kari said, pretending to have her feelings hurt, knowing quite well what T.K. was actually thinking.
"No, no! It's not that. Of course I want to!"
"Hehehe. You sound so funny like that." Kari chuckled.
"Aw, c'mon!"
"How about you come over at about five thirty?" Kari asked, changing the subject.
"Sure thing." agreed T.K.
"Well, I'll be seeing ya."
"See you, then."
T.K. put the phone back in place.
"So are we going?" T.K. heard Patamon mention.
"Yep." replied T.K.
"Don't forget to get your book back! Remember last time, when you went to get it back, you forgot to take it." Patamon laughed.
"Yeah... but you didn't remember either." T.K. blushed a little.
"Uh-huh." he murmured.
"Well, with the unparalleled speed of my computer, this should take no time at all." T.K. went back to his PC.
It was Patamon's turn tosigh. "Can I eat a CD?" he asked.
"What?" T.K. looked at him.
"Just kidding, bet that got your attention!" Patamon smirked.
T.K. just laughed and punched him playfully, and neither him nor Patamon noticed a certain Agent I037 outside the window.
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A spider shaped camera was hanging on the wall outside.
"Status report?"
"Continuing investigation. Subject seems to be interacting with one of the digital entities."
Their conversation was interrupted when a gust of wind blew a piece of paper into the spider cam, and as the person controlling it tried to get it off, the two front legs were released, and it fell a few stories, hard on the ground.
"Oops."
"You idiot! Do you know how much that cost me!"
"I'm sorry, sir."
"Abort mission. Just retrieve the spider and get out of there. Rendezvous with Agent EI023 at the new location. That is, the area marked on your GPS by a red dot." he instructed. He sighed and lighted a match for his cigarette. "Rookies... can't do a damn thing right."
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Kamiya residence, 5.18p.m., but you knew that
"Kari. How are ya?" T.K. smiled.
"T.K., you're here already." she smiled back at him, "I'm fine. What about you? And you?" she returned the smile and turned to Patamon.
"Doing great." T.K. remarked.
"No problem here. T.K. takes good care of me." Patamon purred as T.K. stroked his coat.
"Gatomon?" T.K. questioned.
"She's in my room, looking at some magazine that Patamon left here." Kari smiled "He's kinda like you in some ways, yeah?" she added.
"Coo, not that mag!" Patamon exclaimed, flying off T.K.'s head into Kari's room.
"Heh heh. Cute, ain't he?" Kari grinned.
"Hey guys." Tai closed the door behind his back. "Whaddya want for dinner?"
"What do you think?" T.K. enquired.
"I dunno..." she closed her eyes and grinned.
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Kari's room
"Gatomon!" Patamon called out.
"Hi Pata. Erm, you don't actuallylistento what they say in this piece of trash, do you? They sooo know nothing about women." Gatomon laughed when she saw the look on Patamon's face.
"Don't smirk like that. It's T.K.'s magazine. I only read it because it was lying open on the bed. I don't actually believe it." Patamon blushed.
"You're so cute with that look on your face." cooed Gatomon.
"Dinner time!" Tai called.
"Coming!" Gatomon responded."Well, shall we go?"
"Alright." Patamon said. He got off the floor and smiled. "May I have the pleasure of escorting your excellency to the dining room?" Patamon used his quirky voice.
"Right..." Gatomon smiled.
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The Dining Area
"Hey guys!" prompted Agumon. "What's up?
"Hi Agumon." Gatomon muttered.
Tai brought out a couple of pizza boxes and a jug of lemonade, putting the box on the table.
"So how are you?" he asked, seating himself down.
"Fine, thanks." T.K. and Patamon replied simultaneously.
The three Digidestined and their Digimon talked about their day while eating, without a care in the world. At least not yet.
Kari suddenly got up and looked out the window.
"What is it, Kari?" Gatomon asked.
"I don't know. I've got a hunch that someone is watching us." she frowned.
"A hunch? You've been having hunches all day. What's up?" Tai snorted, with an odd tone that none of the others could identify.
"Right. Sorry, I guess I'm being a bit paranoid. Now where were we?" Kari replaced the frown with a smile.
They all finished eating at ten to six. Kari and T.K. offered to help Tai with the dishes and he gladly accepted, while the others headed in the direction of Kari's room.
"Why do you think Kari felt like we were being watched just now?" Agumon murmured.
"I dunno, maybe we are being watched." Patamon had a slight hint of fear in his voice, only noticeable to Gatomon.
"Are you afraid of something, Pata?" Gatomon grinned.
"Of course not! What a thing to say!" he replied, at the same moment that he accidentally hit the side of the door in midair. The result? Him having Gatomon as an impact cushion. A nice, soft one.
"Ow! What's the big idea?" Gatomon growled at him.
"Eh, sorry about that. Wasn't paying attention." he quickly apologised.
Gatomon started grinning, giving Patamon a feeling of deja vu. 'Oh, wait, I remember this. This means...'
"You're gonna get it!" Gatomon smiled and tackled him playfully.
"Ha, now you've done it!" Patamon leaped on Gatomon and the two rolled into the room, with Patamon pinning Gatomon on the floor.
"Aha, gotcha now!"
"Oh really?" Gatomon pushed him back, got up and lifted him up.
"Hey, no fair! Put me down!" Patamon didn't really see that coming.
"Okey dokey." Gatomon threw him onto the bed and leaped after him with ease. Actually, directly on him.He gotpinned down.
"So what now?" Gatomon quipped.
"Err, you beat me again?" he pouted.
"So you're letting me win? Just like that?"
"No way! I don't give up." he argued in a friendly manner.
"Oh really? Because, you know, I was expecting something like a surprise Boom Bubble or something, like you do with most other Digimon." as you can see, she was on to him the instant he almost lied.
"Well, maybe sometimes. Just for you, love."
"Aw, Pata, that's so sweet!" she smiled and got off him.
"Sooo..." Gatomon edged closer to him.
"Yes, Gatomon?" he suspected something.
She lifted her paws and put them around his head, slowly moving closer, inch by inch, second by second. Staring lovingly into his eyes, with hers that had the bizarrely soothing glow, she slowly puckered her lips, closed her eyes, and, bringing her face directly in front of his, gave him a gentle kiss.
"Mmph..."
At the end of the ten seconds, Patamon sighed happily. At the same moment, Gatomon felt a... comforting, aura that she knew all too well. 'Kari's coming!'
"Hey guys, whatcha doing?" T.K. and Kari walked into the room. Both apparently having finished the dishes, decided to leave Tai his favourite show on TV, 'Not As Seen On TV'.
"Oh, nothing much." Patamon smiled.
"Stay a bit longer, T.K.. It's not like there's any hurry." Kari said.
"Sure thing."
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Having chatted for quite a while, it was getting late. But T.K. didn't feel the need to go back yet. 'Just a little while longer' he kept thinking.
T.K. and Kari talked a bit more before settling on the net.
"Hmm, five new emails." Kari saw that it was all for her online registrations, except one from T.K.
"So you really think Veemon has a crush on me?" Gatomon mused.
"Uh-huh." Patamon clarified. "You think he'll get over it?"
"Mm, most likely." she concurred, just as Kari felt a chill run up her spine.
"Kari? What's wrong?" T.K. called.
"I don't know. Something bad's gonna happen. This feeling is so... disturbing."
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A few seconds later.
Thud
Two men in stealth suits came into the room through the window. Another one came in through the door with a gun pointed at Tai's head, and Tai wasn't comfortable with it.
"I hate being right all the time." she quipped.
"Freeze. Don't move, or bed hair here gets it." the one through the door threatened Tai.
"What do you want?" T.K. had already shoved Agumon, Patamon and Gatomon under the bed before they entered, and tugged the blanket over the space. And they were currently in a very uncomfortable position, with Gatomon's foot in Patamon's face and the like.
"Where are they?" the one with the MP5Navy demanded.
"Where is what?" Kari looked at him questioningly.
"Don't play dumb! Where are they?" he aimed his gun between her eyes.
"I don't know what you're talking about!" she insisted.
"Lay off. She doesn't know anything!" T.K. tried to protect her.
"Then you do?" he traced his gun over to T.K.
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way. Now, start talking." the one with a P228 tightened his grip on Tai.
"Ack!" Tai choked.
"Ahem, excuse me?"
The one with the P228 released Tai to turn around. The silhouette standing in the hallway knocked the guy out with a pistol butt.
"What the?" the other one exclaimed.
A shadow appeared outside the window, came in and knocked the other twos heads onto each others.
"Uhh..." one of them looked at the shadow before passing out.
"Oh, what next?" Kari put her hand on her brow.
"It's alright, we're the good guys." he stepped over the unconscious men.
"Right, someone mind telling me what's going on here?" T.K. asked, still in a daze.
"I'll do it. You take care of things." the one in the doorway said to the other one.
A silence came into the room. Only the sound of contraptions being set up around by the person outside could be heard, with beeping sounds et al.
"First of all..." Tai started "Who are you, and what is he doing with our house?" he queried.
"Setting up traps. Proximity tranquilizers, diversion cameras, infrared sensors, standard issue." he answered, not answering his first question.
"Why?"
He hesitated for a moment, before deciding that he would have to tell them either way.
"I'll start from the beginning. These people here, they're Watchers. They wanted something from you, right, Miss Kamiya?" he said while putting a pair of glowing goggles over his eyes.
"Yes. They asked us for someone. I'm not sure who..." she came close to lying to them, knowing only too well that they meant their Digimon. 'But how does he know?'
"They wanted these three." he removed the blanket to reveal the three Digimon. Agumon fell off Gatomon and Patamon, who could finally get some air.
"What the? How'd you know they were there?" T.K. questioned.
"Thermal goggles." he informed, pointing at the device he had on. "Picks up heat signatures through some solid."
"Why would they want us?" queried Gatomon.
"Here. Take a look through this." he pointed a pair of binoculars at a window lighted by a small lightbulb in the distance, and Gatomon looked through it.
"Hey, everything's green."
"Nightvision." he explained.
"Let's take a look. Scopes, cameras, more nightvision stuff, a cigar..." he wasn't so sure what it was really called. "... hey, people are spying on us!" he exclaimed.
"Yes. These people..." he pointed at the unconscious person who was being disarmed by his assistant. "...are part of an organization called the 'Global Security Agency' or the 'Global Security Alliance', the 'GSA'.
"What do they want from us?" Gatomon had a slight feeling she knew what they wanted.
"They intended to capture you Digimon and perform certain... tests. But that isn't so important to them. They want to obliterate Digimon."
"What?" Patamon almost fainted.
"How can they even think of... They're going to wipe out Digimon? What... Digimon are not dangerous! They're simply, I mean... what have Digimon ever done to deserve this?" T.K. lost his head.
"Yes, it is quite irrational. They believe that Digimon are a threat to humanity, they think them to be dangerous etc. The government doesn't believe them, and so they intend to accomplish the task themselves. In secret, of course." he informed them.
"Why do they think so?" Tai questioned.
"You see, the four directors, they are close friends. They were in an accident two years ago, involving Digimon. I won't go into details. Since then, they have believed that Digimon are a threat to humanity, they're overpowered freaks, they must be eradicated, etc. etc. etc. and it has gotten quite out of control. So they want to destroy Digimon, and they won't spare the Digidestined either."
"How exactly do they intend to do that?" Tai questioned.
"We are not exactly sure. We only know that they want to destroy the Digital World, of without which no Digimon can survive, regardless of which world they are in. You know why. And the rest... The information we've gathered is partial, the conclusions we've drawn are tentative, and this suit is kinda itchy. Anyway, we don't guess in our organisation." he remarked.
"Your organisation?" Kari raised an eyebrow.
"We're actually working under the governments supervision, as a secret network of agencies working on the supernatural and paranormal. Our particular 'Digital Investigation Team', or DIT, if you please, watches over Digital life and makes sure it doesn't do anything to harm people. Not easy, but most Digimon are good. Started the moment we discovered Digimon exist. And we're known as 'Investigators'. But anyway, I have my own personal reasons for accepting this mission." he confessed.
"Personal reason?" Patamon enquired.
"Yes. My daughter, she is one of the Digidestined, I want to protect the things she loves. But I digress. It is not important. Now we must concentrate on the task at hand, finding out what the GSA plans to do, and prevent them from succeeding. To do that, we need your help. If you accept, then good. I suppose you'll do so. But if you decline... it's not gonna turn out so good. We're a whole lot better off with the knowledge and skills of the Digidestined." he apprised.
"So what can we do?" Agumon asked.
"We need you two guys, and Digimon, to investigate what they plan to do, and to be our study on Digimon. It would seem that only Digimon and the Digidestined will be able to help us stop them. All our agents have tried, and failed, to get to them. We probably only have a couple left trying." he concluded.
"Wait a tick. You said that your daughter is a Digidestined. Can she do anything?" Kari asked.
"She has. But... she refuses to do any more. I don't want to discuss this. Now, the GSA, theyappear to bea small organisation, but they have funds and people working for them all over the world." he said.
"What about the other Digidestined?" Gatomon finally found her voice, which wasn't easy considering the massive amount of thoughts that went through her mind. "Can't they help?"
"We've considered that, but having too many people will be quite difficult. For example, the plane we have in Japan isn't very big, and besides, we'll need them here for other reasons, involvoing the Digital World. Don't worry, they'll be safe. Him too." he pointed at Tai. "What will it be?"
"Whaddya think?" she looked at the others tentatively.
"We should. It IS our duty to protect Digital life." he was sure Patamon agreed with him. And he was right.
"I don't mind anything, though I think we ought to. I'll do what Kari wants." Gatomon apprised.
"Thanks, Gatomon." she smiled "To me, it's no choice at all." Kari implied.
"Excellent. You will all gather in front of this house tomorrow at nine a.m., and I'll meet you. I'll drive you personally in my car to the Tokyo airport, after we gather his things." he pointed at T.K. We'll have more briefing on the plane tomorrow. We'll get our people to inform and help the other Digidestined with their mission here too. And another thing, leave a note for your parents."
"Yessir." T.K. concurred.
He took his NVGs back and, dragging the last unconscious suit, headed for the door.
"Wait! What're you gonna do with them?" Kari couldn't help but be concerned: It was in her blood.
"Hire them."
"Hire?"
"These guys are just mercenaries. Hired hands. Not high rank, either. They don't care about the GSA. I'm sure we can make them a better offer." he grinned.
"Phew. Alright, then." Kari's anxiety was relieved.
"Tomorrow. Nine o'clock. You stay here tonight. Too risky sticking your head out in the dark." he pointed at T.K. again "And try to travel light, yeah?" he informed. They then disappeared into the night.
"QED. They're good kids, of course they'd save the Digital World. Seems to be one of their raison d'etres."
"You're right. I don't know why I'd doubted it."
"Must be Alexis."
"Yeah. 'Still wonder why she's so reluctant."
"I don't think it's you."
He sighed "But what if it is?"
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Back in Kari and Tai's room, 10.33p.m.
"Well, here we go again." Patamon sighed.
"Yep." Gatomon grinned.
"You're unusually calm." Patamon pointed out.
"I dunno about you, but after saving the world a few times, it seems to become easier." she replied.
"Well, maybe this time." he smiled.
"I think I'll send that e-mail now." T.K. changed the address to his own.
"You do that. We'll start packing." Gatomon opened a closet and picked a few choice bags.
"Here T.K., you can wear my pyjamas. I'd bet you wouldn't want to wear Kari's. I'd bet she'd be even more uncomfortable with you wearing it." Tai chuckled.
"You'd win that bet." Kari raised and lowered her brow.
"So, overpowered freaks, eh? Quite exaggerated. Not us rookies anyway." Patamon grinned. "Think I can catch up with ya?"
"Well, you've got a long way to go." Gatomon had a rather mischievous grin on her face.
"Bad idea, Gatomon. Once a day's quite a lot already." Kari said, as she tried to decide which gloves she wanted. 'Why do I like pink so much?' she thought, and brought them out of the wardrobe.
"Sure, Kari." she turned it into a smile.
Tai raised an eyebrow and shrugged behind Kari's back.
Kari turned around to face Tai. "Yes, I know it's not a vacation, but I just wanna look good, Tai." she informed.
"Hey, this is unusually comfy." T.K. came back into the room. "It fact, it's kinda disturbing." T.K. noted.
"Kinda loose, eh? They are mine, y'know. Flannel." Tai pointed out.
"Maybe I'll get pyjamas like these sometime. Oh, forgot to send the mail." T.K. murmured.
Gatomon picked out a soft pillow and fluffed it. "Here, Pata." she instructed. Patamon found the spot rather comfy. He lay down and emitted a contented sigh.
"Erm..." T.K. hesitated.
Kari retrieved a mattress from the cupboard and lay it on the floor. "You can sleep here, T.K." Kari prompted. Tai nodded.
"Thanks."
Tai turned off the PC and got into bed. Kari and T.K. followed soon after. And the excitement eventually wore off for them, and they all fell into a peaceful slumber.
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So that's about it, R&R, everyone. Comments, critiques, anything in the reviews. Whatcha wanna see in later chapters, what's missing, etc. etc.. Pour your heart out, okay? Especially since I changed quite a few things before posting it, might not be the same what is said at other parts. Might be a bit messy too. Oh yeah, and this fanfic is set after the Digimon series. Might be a tad confusing. I might make chapters shorter. With more chapters. Anyway, I guess that's it for now. Until next time.
G.M.