Well, the genres of this fic, I think, would be mainly action/adventure and romance, but I hope to add some humour, suspense, sci-fi, thriller, and, anything else that I'd like to add in. Oh yeah, Palmon still likes pepperoni ;). T for crude humour and possible comic mischief, minor suggestive adult themes, some violence and possibly language. Let's see, I don't own Digimon, they belong to some other people, however I do own the idea for this story, so please, no plagiarism. Did I forget anything?
Also, I'd like to point out that I'm not so much into Mimiato. I'm pretty much just a Takari fan. It's just that it seems right (to me anyway), but I know that not everyone agrees. Sorry if you don't like it, I'll just warn of any other "pairings" next time, k?
Well, here it is.
The Next Generation
Chapter 1: Secrets Revealed
"GATOMONNNNNN!"
"Yeah, coming." Gatomon leaped off the kitchen table and headed for Kari's room.
"Yeah?" Gatomon asked.
"Could you please explain WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?" Kari didn't look too happy.
"Ooh. A Digiegg. I wonder how that got there, heh heh..." Gatomon grinned.
"You're sweating."
"Erm, no I'm not?"
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Err, well, you see..."
"Hmm?"
Gatomon sighed. "I thought you wouldn't approve." Gatomon looked down.
"Hey, come here Gatomon."
"Yeah?"
"Don't worry about it. You can tell me anything. You see, I'm not upset because you had an egg, I'm upset because you didn't tell me."
"Really?"
"Yeah. I don't like you hiding things from me."
"How come?" Gatomon asked.
"Because, if there's a problem, I won't be able to help." Kari explained.
"Really? How come you didn't-"
"Shh. Because I can't do that to Digimon, you know that."
"Oh yeah. Well, erm, Kari?"
"Yeah?"
"Well, there's something else you should know." Gatomon said shyly.
"What is it?" Kari asked.
"Well, erm, you see... err..." Gatomon stuttered.
"Don't worry. You can tell me, no matter what it is."
"Well... follow me."
Gatomon lead her to the bookcase. She climbed to the second level, and pulled out a few books.
"Well? What is it?" Kari queried.
"Here." Gatomon held something purple and green.
"Another one? How many..."
"Well, there's about five more in this house, and Pata has another dozen or so at T.K.'s house, and Agumon's hiding another three somewhere, and Palmon's got another eight or so, and-"
"Oh, my, god..." Kari practically fainted.
"Just kidding! There's only two."
"What! You gave me a freakin' heart attack, you bloody dy-"
"Heh heh. Sorry. Just wanted to see how you'd react." Gatomon scratched the fur at the back of her neck.
"Yeah, well, wouldn't be easy with a few dozen or so. But there's just one thing I'd like to know."
"Yes?"
"Both of them from last night?"
"No, just the other one that was under the bed. This one we've had about three weeks ago."
"I thought it was just last night. How many times did you..." Kari looked uneasy.
"Trust me, you don't wanna know." Gatomon said.
"Erm, okay. I'm gonna back off now."
"Easy, Kari. I'm still just me."
"You're not the you that I knew."
"What me do you know?"
"The you that you know that was you before you now."
"Me before what?"
"You know..."
"Oh, that me before I decided on something and became a slightly different me from the me before me now?"
"Yeah. The you that wasn't so you now, now that you're you now."
"Okay, I'm confused."
"Now that you have Digieggs to look after."
"Ohhhh."
"Well, they're your kids, and I'm not gonna judge you any differently."
"Thanks a lot, Kari."
"But we've gotta keep this down. The others will freak out if they find out about this. Especially Veemon."
"Veemon still has a crush on me?"
"Technically, he likes you, but he thinks it's love."
"Oh."
"But we're gonna keep it a secret, right?" Kari confirmed.
"Keep what a secret?" Tai entered the room.
"TAI! Err, well, nothing." Gatomon backed off, pushing the Digieggs under the bed at the same time.
"What is it! Wasn't T.K. over last night? Kari, you didn't!" Tai asked.
"No. Nothing like that."
"You're still underaged, you know that." Tai said.
"I didn't!"
"Okay, okay. So what it the big secret, then?" Tai asked.
"Err, well, ahh, yeah..." Gatomon stammered.
"T.K. got a new Xbox36O!" Kari said suddenly.
"What! Those don't come out till next year! Where is it!" Tai questioned.
"Right here, next to the telly. He left it here for us to play." Kari pointed to the big white box.
"Whoa!" Tai went over and hugged it.
"Tai, you're drooling." Gatomon pointed out.
"What games you got!" Tai asked.
"The old ones. New games are still being in development. But there'll be absolutely no lag or problems. At all. Ever."
"Ah well. Let's play splitscreen."
"Okay." Kari turned to Gatomon. "That was a close one." she whispered.
"Yeah, I know."
Somewhere else...
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, creeps this pretty-"
"Petty." T.K. corrected.
"...creeps this petty pace from day to day." Davis continued.
"To the last syllable of counted-"
"Recorded." T.K. corrected again.
"...of recorded time. And all of yesterdays lighted morons-"
"Fools." T.K. said.
"...yesterday's lighted fools. Out, out -"
"Brief." T.K. sighed.
"...brief candle. Life's but a moving-"
"Walking." T.K. frowned.
"Ahh, I give up! What's with this poetry anyway? If that Shookspear guy didn't-"
"Shakespearee. Davis, this is English literature. I just can't see you as Romeo. Why do you want this part anyway?" T.K. questioned.
"What do you think? Kari's in it." Davis informed him.
"She is? Oh well. I'm not worried."
"You're not? Whew... hey!"
"Well, you know what I mean." T.K. said.
"Yeah. ...hey!"
"Nevermind. Hey, are you coming to that TimeFreeze concert?" T.K. queried.
"No, I can't get a ticket." he sounded disappointed.
"Don't worry. Free backstage passes. Yolei's other uncle works there. How many does she have anyway?"
"Free! Backstage! Passes! What's the catch?"
"Nothing. But you know..."
"Yeah, I know. But they're only slips of paper, so what could possibly be wrong with them?"
"You never know." T.K. said in a mysterious way.
"Eh?"
"Never mind."
Outside Kari's room...
"Man, I can't believe how Tai much Tai loves that game game." Gatomon said.
"Yeah, good thing at least he didn't notice us going." Kari sighed.
"So, what's up?"
"Does T.K. know about this?"
"I don't think so. But maybe he doe-" Gatomon answered.
She was interrupted by a beep from Kari's digivice.
"What is it?" Gatomon asked.
"The Digital World. There's trouble afoot. But, it's strange." Kari noted.
"What? What's wrong?"
"It's so vaguely familiar. This signal, it's like the one that came on when Ken was the Digimon Emperor, using all those collars and such."
"But Ken's a good guy now!"
"I know."
"Kari?"
"Tai. You got it too?"
"Yeah. Where's Ken? Isn't he with one of us now?" Tai questioned.
"Yeah. I just don't get it. It doesn't make any sense."
"He couldn't have gone back to the dark side, could he?"
"I don't know. Only one way to find out." Kari took out her phone.
At the somewhere else with T.K., Ken and Davis...
"Hey, my digivice's beeping." Davis said.
"Mine too." T.K. responded.
"There's trouble. In the Digital World." Davis stared at his.
"Thanks, Mr. Obvious. What... it's Ken!" T.K. exclaimed.
"But, it can't be me! I'm right here." the now pale raven hair pointed out.
"Yeah, but, that's what the Digivice says. What's up with that?" Davis frowned.
His cellphone started ringing.
With Izzy and the others...
"Eh?"
"What is it, Izzy?" Matt asked.
"Guys, come have a look at this."
Their digivices started beeping at the same time.
"Hmm?"
"Something's going on in the Digital World. Something big. It's Ken?" Izzy scratched his head.
"Isn't Ken with T.K. and Davis?" Joe murmured.
"Yeah. Better call them."
Back at wherever Davis and the others could possibly be on a Saturday morning...
"This is Ken. Whaddya need?"
"Ken, erm, whatcha doing?"
"Kari? Yeah, I'm staring at my Digivice. Why?"
"Ah. It's not you, is it?"
"No. What should we do?"
"Hold on, I've got a new message. ...it's Izzy. He's telling us to meet up in the Digital World."
"Yeah, we got it too." Davis said.
"We'll be there." Ken cut the connection. "Well, better get moving."
"Okay. But we can't get in from here." T.K. noted.
"Well, too bad. Let's go home and have some pie."
"No, Davis! No pie!" Ken said.
"Let's take a taxi. I've got a computer at my house that we can use." T.K. suggested.
"'kay. Let's move." Davis said.
The other two in the room stared at him.
"What? What?" Davis asked.
"Nothing..."
And finally, back in the Digital World...
"Where are they? If I have to wait one more minute, I'll-"
"You'll what, bro?" T.K. and his group dropped down from above.
"Never you mind. So Izzy, you're the genius. Why are we here?"
"Okay, take a look at my laptop here. Notice anything?" Izzy queried.
"Yeah, there are some black spots and some white spots! What do I win?" Mimi grinned.
"Nothing. See, this is a map. Same map as before. See these?" Izzy pointed. "They are under the influence of mind control towers."
"You mean?" Yolei started.
"No, they're different." Izzy said.
"They're practically the same thing." Yolei pointed out.
"No. See, the Internet protocol of these specific constructs are relayed out of a transmission dish, creating a more accurate signal which can not only be used to control the surrounding, but can be redirected at any given location."
"Izzy, you know I hate it when you don't speak English." Sora frowned.
"Okay, forget all that. It's the same thing, okay? Happy now!"
"Yep." Yolei rested her head on a rock.
"So now what?" Tai sighed.
"Well, as far as I know-" Cody closed his eyes.
A Digimon sprang out from behind the trees. It ran up towards the team and tried to slash Cody.
He drew a sword from nowhere, and countered the attack. Cody then proceeded to attack the Digimon. After being slashed several times, the black figure fled.
"What was that?"Matt frowned.
"It was a Zuerstmon. A new species. Rookies. I have no idea where they came from. They should be easy to handle, but in groups, they're a nightmare. They have several attacks, most notably of-" Izzy droned on.
"Okay, okay. I didn't ask for your life story."Matt said. "But, assuming you're correct, which isn't very hard to do, why did one attack us?"
"I don't know." it was the first time anyone ever heard him say that.
"Well, what now?" Davis closed his eyes and rested his head on a tree.
"Well, maybe we should... what was that?" Izzy looked around, ditto the others.
They heard a hiss and in the blink of an eye, were surrounded by dozens of the new Zuerstmon. Cody drew his sword, but all the others had only their bare hands to fight with.
"We're doomed." Ken said.
And that's when the cavalry arrived. Well, not really. But the Digimon did arrive in time.
"Marching Fishes!" Gomamon shouted.
"Pepper Fire." Agumon breathed.
In a long and relentless battle, the Zuerstmon and the other Digimon fought each other. Many were injured and more were killed. It caused mass destruction and killed many innocents, severely damaging the Digital World. The Digidestined were hunted down like the dogs they are...
Okay, so that isn't exactly what happened. Actually, the Zuerstmon were pretty weak, and easily defeated by the others. As Gabumon finished off the last one, thunder was heard in the distance. VERY odd thunder.
"What was that?" Hawkmon raised an eyebrow.
"I don't know. We'd better check it out." Izzy said.
"Eh?" Gatomon stared up at the tree. A figure was crouching there. She only made out a human form and some purple before it disappeared.
"Gatomon?" Armadillomon called.
Gatomon felt, or rather, heard a weird buzzing noise. It seemed to come from nowhere, and everywhere.
"Ahh..." Gatomon fell to her knees.
"Gatomon?" Patamon hopped up to her.
"...I'm fine." she spoke.
"What happened to your voice?" Kari noted the weird breathing. It sounded like... like she was talking through a gas mask.
"Ooh... my head..." Gatomon rubbed it.
"What's wrong?" Patamon asked.
"Did anyone else hear..." Gatomon shook her head.
"Hear what?" Veemon asked.
"Oh... it's nothing. I must be hallucinating, or something." she said.
"You sure?" T.K. queried.
"Yeah. C'mon, let's go." Gatomon got onto her feet.
The figure, who really was human, watched them from a distance.
"Close one, eh?"
"Yeah, right."
"Don't do it again. Some master of camouflage you turned out to be."
"Hell would you know."
"I would know..."
Well, that's chapter one. Hope it works, cause I was actually planning something different, and decided to just make this. But anyway...
BTW does anyone know what ciao means? And AU? You know me, the n00b. I know practically nothing. Also, I'm not really an Xboxx guy.
Well, I'm outta here. And pleeeeease... leave a review. I want feedback, you know. (looks hopeful)