Takato had stepped away from the pay phones, he had just called his parents and learned that West Shinjuku is being evacuated for safety of the people. His parents were both relived and upset to hear their voice, they are going to ground him when they get to the station but at the time being Takato really did not care. He went back to where he left Guilmon, it was nice to know that his digital partner had enough decency to stay in the small box he manage to scrounge up. Leaning against the wall Takato slid down until he hit the floor.
"What's wrong, Takato?"
"Nothing, my parents are coming to pick us up on the way to Kai's," Takato looked over to his friend. "And I am grounded for life but that's not really a problem." Takato sat there unknowing of what to do now, once in a while he got up to the vending machine and returned. After some time he looked up to see his mother and father standing some distance away, he waved as he called them over to catch their attention. He was receiving some strange looks from passers by as Guilmon was joining in.
"Takato, we were so worried about you," Mr. Matsuda said. "Why didn't you call?"
"I was on the train with Juri," Takato laughed nervously as he rubbed his neck. He knew his parents saw through his lie, "I was away when that happened, I heard about it coming back."
"You should have called from that other station when you got there," Mrs. Matsuda huffed as she crossed her arms. "We'll discuss this when we get to Kai's, but understand that what punishment we think up is going to be very, very, very harsh."
"Yes ma'am," Takato and Guilmon gulped.
"Come on, we're going to miss our train if we don't get going," Mr. Matsuda was waving a hand over towards the loading platform. Takato sighed as he climbed another train for another long trip, this was beginning to become very tedious but hopefully this would be the last one for a while.
He sat in front of the monitor ever since coming home with his son after learning of an abnormality from the D-reaper had came out and attacked two of his son's friends. He was now in contact with Hypnos about this, and they were scanning for anything out of the normal around and in the area of the D-reaper containment zone.
Mrs. Li looked in once every once in a while a bit curious and worried about her husband but she would not bother him, this time she brought him a small sandwich as she glance over at the screen to find it filled with massive amounts of data and other things that went over her head.
"Thanks," he took the plant out of her hands. He was facing her as she was about to talk away. "Is there is something on your mind?" she shifted, there was something on her mind.
"I was just, it was about when the kids came back from that other world. How can anybody or anything would place children into such a situation?"
"Dear," he sighed as he thought of an answer to find none. Instead looking up at his wife he shook his head while admitting, "I don't know. There is no answer to that, if there was I would have corrected it."
"That's all right Jonyuu," Mrs. Li bowed her head. "I just wish this whole ordeal would disappear and we all can pretend it never happened. But I know, that you cannot have everything you want."
Jonyuu wanted to say something to his wife, but what could he say that would make her feel better? Sorry we made things and forced our children to fight for/against them but here's a hug to make it all better. He just silently hung his head looking at the computer parts he kept under the shelves, "there is nothing I really can say. Is there?"
"Since we are being honest," she said. "No, there isn't."
The staff was overwhelmed, not only are they are tracking the possibilities of biomerging wild ones and the actions of the chaos they were tapping every information source available to find out more about the program known as the D-reaper.
Yamaki was left in the center of all this as he reviewed what was gathered, nothing about whom the creator was or what the original purpose was but Shimbumi did mention it was found among a pile of discarded disks from another lab. It was a start, at the least.
Yamaki had finished his last cigarette, quickly crumbling up the empty pack and toss it into the trash can he open a drawer to retrieve a new pack. Taking a moment to light it he continued to test a theory of his, one window was showing the original D-reaper program given to him by Shimbumi and another were samples of codes from the data base. For the last few hours he had been taking each sample and compare it to the coding of the D-reaper program, maybe this would narrow down where it was created or who it was created by finding one that somewhat matched. So far, there were no matches.
"Yamaki-san?" a voice broke his thoughts, he looked up to see Reika standing in the doorway of his office. "I brought you this," she held out a cup of coffee which he welcomed very much after almost being up for a few days. "How is it going?"
"Not good," he shifted as he rubbed his shoulder with one hand. "There was not one single lead, this is the last chance to get anywhere." he let out a grunt of desperation as the reason came up empty, he pushed away from his desk to stand up.
"I already know the answer, but is something wrong?"
"Just tired and coming up with nothing, less then nothing in fact." Yamaki sighed as he sipped his coffee, after a moment he set down his cup as his mind went to work on a new idea. Pulling back up to the desk he went back to the beginning of the data base.
"Sir?" Reika raised a brow as she knew he was known for sudden inspirations, she lean over a bit to look over his shoulder. He was taking a piece of code and laying it over the program, "what are you doing?"
"I was thinking perhaps I am looking at this the wrong way," Yamaki clicked a few things. "A few programs are normally built up from another, perhaps deconstructing it piece by piece until ether it is nothing or I find what I am looking for would lead to something."
"If you need some help just call me, sir," Reika walked away as Yamaki looked up, half tempted to call her but kept it to himself. She was already too busy as it was, he went back to work.
He'll crack this, sooner or later.