Broken Realities

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'Thoughts'

"talking out loud"

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(V)(V) different point of view

'+' flash back

Chapter 7

It was around seven when Ranma and the two Tendo sisters came home. He had seen Takato and Rika play the Digimon Card game. It wasn't the first time watching any of the Tamers battle it out. The most interesting games were often when Rika and Ryo dueled. Between them, Rika and Ryo played their hardest and they also take along time when it was their turn. He has seen Kari play sometimes; he heard that Rika showed Kari how to play. It also seems that Takato was giving Rika trouble.

He sighs and heads for the kitchen to get some drinks for Ranma and the sisters. They were sitting at the same table where Takato and Rika where dueling. He gets some glasses out and finds Mango juice. He finishes with the juice and puts it back into the fridge. Moving carefully, as so not to spill the juice, he puts them down in front of the natives of this reality.

Ranma and the sisters nod their thanks to him and he sits down. He turns to watch Takato and Rika play their game. He watches as Takato finally places a card by a Digimon that's on his side of the field. He looks over at Rika's face to find that she looks shocked. "Where did you get that?" Rika asks after a minute. "I borrowed it from Ryo. I promised to do a light show in payment. It's good practice for my casting spells." Takato says, a bit embarrass. Rika sighs and says, "You win this match. Let's go, we need to start packing." Rika says as she begins to collect her cards. Takato does the same.

Soon he's left with Ranma, Nabiki, and Kasumi. "Packing?" Nabiki asks him. "Cassandra sent a message asking for help. We think that Davis's Digivice will take us to Tayth 832. It seems that the GL have gotten desperate. They want to unlink the six realities that the Stalkers control. I think they plan to have the energy backlash affect the realities and not the Anchor. They might even try to make it worst. Guyver is asking for us by name. I wonder just what Guyver has planned." He tells them. Ranma perks at that, so does Nabiki and Kasumi. "Just what happened?" Kasumi asks. "It seems that this morning, a spell was caste and it did damage to some realities. The ones that the Stalkers control weren't hit that hard. I don't know more than that." He says to them. Ranma has this thinking expression on his face. "You mean that these spell are meant to cause a backlash of energy to other realities? Could it speed up the destruction of this one?" Nabiki asks slowly. He blinks and thinks about it. "I think it might have something to do with the spell they cast. But with the right spell, it might." He tells them. Slowly he remembers about what the Dire told Ranma about this reality dying. It might not have happened for another ten years or so, but if this spell finds it's way here, it could speed it up. "Ooo." He says, as he looks shocked at just where his thoughts lead. Ranma and Kasumi too look stunned. "Damn, and here I thought that we had like a few years before this. Looks like we better start planning. I'll phone Rachel, then if I can Trace." Ranma says as he gets up and heads to where the phone is.

(V)(V)(V)

Gatomon was helping her pick what to take. She looks to see Rika come in. She asks, "Who won?" Rika looks for her bag and answers, "Takato, he barrowed a card for Ryo." Zoe then says, "I think your bag is under the bed." Rika looks over and then checks under the bed. Rika pulls it out and looks around. "Where's Suzie?" Rika asks. She looks from her cloths and answers with a grin, "Helping Henry to pack." Rika laughs a bit and then turns her attention back to her dresser.

She also returns to packing. She's deciding on her last item. She sighs and picks up her picture and places them on her dresser. "I'll get Kasumi to look after those. I don't want to lose them. I'll take the extra memory sticks." She says to Gatomon. She had gotten a better camera, one that uses memory sticks; it was a good thing that Izzy has the soft ware to read them too. She could get better pictures and more of them. Her new camera wasn't that big either. With the ability to delete pictures and to even video record for a few minutes, it was a big step. That camera would have come out when she might have been fifteen, so now she was ahead of the markets back at her home reality.

Soon she finishes picking her last item and heads out of the room. As she heads to the living room, she sees Ranma on the phone. She continues by him and into the living room. She sees Kouichi and the Tendo sisters lost in their thoughts. Her eyes drift to the glasses of juice and then heads to get herself a glass of juice. She finds the Mango juice; she finishes filling her glass and puts it back. She sits by Kouichi and takes a sip of her juice.

Kouji, Takuya, and Davis walk into the room. They give her a questioning look and she shrugs. Kouji's eyes look at his twin and Kouji then sits on the other side of Kouichi. Davis and Takuya head to the kitchen for a snack.

After they get back, Kouji finally asks his brother what's wrong. Kouichi blinks and looks around. "I told them about Cassandra's message and we think that if the energy backlash found it's way here, it could speed up this world's destruction." Kouichi tells them. They look to Kasumi and Nabiki for agreement and they nod their heads.

After a few minutes of thinking about it Davis asks, "Wouldn't the Dire try to protect this world?" Kasumi answers that, "She can't. She only has total control in her dimension. Plus this world getting to be on its last legs. It would have been a matter of years when this place gets destroyed. Minimum of five years and maybe eleven year tops." They look surprised that Kasumi says that. Nabiki, too, looks stunned.

Soon they just stay quiet, even when more people come into the room. Ranma also comes into the room, with a distant look in his eyes. They Digimon come inside to get snacks and finds most of them in the living room. Terriermon remarks, "If this is a living room, I'd hate to see a dead room!"

(V)(V)(V)

He looks over at the others, sighing he looks to where Ranma and the Tendo sister were. He knew that they'd have a tough time, for they now were preparing for when their reality gets destroyed. They'll get dividing their time between helping the Dire get the right housing underway and recruiting as many as they could. Ranma and the Tendo sisters were going to be the first to move into those houses. Ranma's going to have to cut his visits with his mom. He wishes that he could help them, but knew that the only real way to stop it would be going to the source of the problem, the Anchor.

He looks at Calamon and Guilmon; Calamon was on Guilmon's head. They both look sadly at Takato and he just sighs. He gives them a weak smile and then turns to the group of Digidestine, Legendary Warriors, and Tamers. Some how, he was voted leader this morning. He didn't get why him, but they had faith in him and he hopes that he wouldn't let them down. He also appointed Izzy as his second. He knew that Izzy would be a good choice if anything happens to him and that Izzy would help to give him advice like he did to Tai the first time around. His eyes travel to the Digimon of the group. Patamon, Terriermon, and Wormon were with their partners. Cyberdramon was standing behind Ryo and Renamon was on Rika's left. Lopmon was on Suzie's right and he could see that Suzie was trying her hardest not to pick up Lopmon in a big hug. Kage and Sky were talking with Tentomon.

"Ready?" He hears Dire say to his right. He turns to look at her and nods, not trusting his voice. Everyone watches at a portal opens and he had told Davis to go first, and so Davis leads them through. He was the last one and he looks at Dire in the eyes. "Good luck, Dire. I'll see you when this is over. Thanks for all your help." He tells her. Dire smiles sadly at him and says, "Just try your hardest, Takato. That's all you can do. Good luck and may everything work out in the end." He then turns to the portal and with Guilmon and Calamon following him, he enters.

As soon as Guilmon takes a step from the entrance, it closes. Memories of that mega level Digimon flash through his mind for a minute. Then he walks over to the others. They then look to Davis and Davis takes out his Digivice and says, "Digi-Port Out, to Tayth 832!" A flash of light occurs and a gate opens. They walk through it.

They find themselves in a city. It looks like some kind of quake occurred for some of the buildings seem to have been split apart. They all look around and then they followed the road to where they see more buildings in better shape. He stays human as he walks with Guilmon. He takes up the rear of the group. The younger members of the group were in the center of the group. Davis, Kage, Sky, and Takuya were at the front. The Legendary Warriors were scatters around the group. Rika was walking with Ken and Kouji. Kari was with Henry and J.P. He doesn't pay much attention to the people and Digimon in front of him. He was busy looking at shadows, wondering if they were being spied on.

After about five miles they meet up with some humans with Digimon. There were about five humans and Digimon. He looks at the group, about three of the groups Digimon were Bearmon, there was one Fangmon and, this surprised even him, a Goldramon. Both groups look at each other then the one with black and white hair asks, "So, new?" The group of Digidestine, Legendary Warriors, and Tamers just nod. He motions for Izzy to take it. Izzy nods and begins, "We're friends of Dash and Cassandra. We received a message from them about them wanting our help."

The five humans and five Digimon look surprised about that. "So, you're the ones that they talk about. I'm Gray, the one to my left is Set, and then the one with the bat cap is Aaron. The one standing with Goldramon is Mark, and the last one is Gruff." Gray was the one with the black and white hair. Each of the teens that had their names spoken nods their heads in turn. Izzy then intrudes them.

Soon they are following the other group back to their base. It seems that they were about eight days from the main office. He was relieved that they didn't get into any fights. Gray was talking to Davis and Takuya about stuff. Mark and Loyal, that's the Goldramon's name, went on a head to report. He was walking with Gruff and his partner Rash the Fangmon. Gruff and Rash didn't talk much and he didn't mind. They both were busy looking out for danger.

After about an hour they made it to the base. It seems that with the quake, they were on the look out for escaped prisoners; most of the captives from the other realities get transferred to this reality. It was common sense, for this reality was the Stalkers home reality. It would be harder for the prisoners to get help or sympathy from the surrounding Digimon. They wouldn't even think to ask for help from a human, so it was more likely that they'd get captured again in this reality then any other. The base commander greeted them and they were shown were the mess hall was. They wave good-bye to Gray and the others as they headed to the mess hall. It was around lunch, for they had left at 10:00 am. He grins a bit as he sees more humans and Digimon in the mess hall. On seeing them, he feels better about this place. Soon they get their food and find that a lot of the people and Digimon interested in them. They split up to tell their stories, for they were popular. He guesses that a lot of the humans here were here solely because of the tales they heard about from when Davis was here. He counts about thirty humans and Digimon in the mess hall alone. He relaxes as he listens as Rika tells the group around them about their adventures from their home reality.

To be continued …