Octavo again! It's time to introduce my take on Digimon. And who better to do it than the future DigiDoctor himself, Jyou?
To reply to the reviews I have received:
Lonelobo09: I'd hoped it wasn't spectacularly complex... mostly just Ken's confused at a mile a minute. Supposed to be fun!
JyouraKoumi: That sounded like a compliment, so thanks!
TheMostRoyalShiz: Get your plot fix right here! Step around the science fiction, I've pushed it all to one side.
ClintonBradford: Um, thanks. Henceforth I reserve the right to respond to your reviews in person.
Oh yeah, you came here for a story, right? Well, here it is!
The Odaiba Project Chapter 2: Meet the Mon with Jyou
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"I have network - and you'll never believe what I see!" Izzy exclaimed.
Naturally, I looked over.
The network showed servers like "Tentomon," "Wormmon," and "Gomamon." Strange names for computers - they didn't mean much to me. Until I looked again – the server pictures showed our creatures!
"It says here they're called Digimon - they're digital lifeforms!"
"Explain for the rest of us?" asked Tai.
"It means your - let's see - Agumon is really a computer."
"That's pretty cool! Does he play any games?" asked Daisuke. Takeru's turn to hit the table; like brothers, like twins.
However: "Just watch me!" his little blue - Veemon - exclaimed, jumping over to the Nintendo.
Daisuke, Tai, and Ken, along with Agumon and - Wormmon, followed into the common room.
"Motion to leave the computer people to do their thing?" inquired Kari.
"Seconded!" replied TK, and he, Matt, and the girls disappeared to their respective entertainment.
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That leaves me in the kitchen along with Izzy, Iori, and our three creatures - Gomamon, Tentomon, and Armadimon? Well, that last one's easy to remember.
Really, this is very interesting - I hadn't known such digital creatures could exist. It wasn't covered in Biology or in Computer Science.
"All right, Tentomon; let's see what you've got there!" exclaimed Izzy, launching into another flurry of typing.
Tentomon replied, "If you say so, Izzy..."
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"Oh, it's you, Osamu! Have you tried this game?" inquired Jun.
"No. No, I have not tried that game. In fact, let's stop trying the game and go back upstairs, right now."
"Why?"
"It's time for bed, okay? We need to go."
"Well, all right; I wouldn't want Kari to notice I was gone."
Osamu exited the program, hoping they wouldn't notice it had been run, and turned to follow Jun up.
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"Access denied? Why is my access denied?"
I replied, "Maybe whoever created life didn't want anyone tinkering with it?"
"Nonsense. It's a computer, isn't it?"
"Well, maybe I can devise a workaround…" suggested Iori.
"Go ahead."
We waited a bit while Iori tinkered with the laptop.
"No good. It keeps displaying the "access denied" with this image."
"Image?" I asked.
"Yeah. It looks like two different circle shapes, connected by a short horizontal line..."
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Osamu exclaimed rather loudly.
Ken was gone. There was nowhere else he should be at one in the morning. Probably he snuck off talking to that Daisuke. When he got hold of that boy, he'd make sure he knew not to go running off in the middle of the night.
As if he needed another problem tonight...
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"Try me! Try me! It looks like fun."
This from my Gomamon.
"Well, okay." Izzy loaded him up.
"No good. Access denied. This symbol looks like a cross sort of thing, with marks in the corners."
Armadimon interjected, "I'll try."
A couple seconds later, "Nope! This one's locked with a sort of a sword shape."
I guess I'll have to study them from the outside in, then.
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Jun, too, had a bit of a problem. She noticed that both Kari and Sora were gone.
Oh well, she thought, they'd probably gone for snacks too. She couldn't exactly call them on it, so she went back to bed.
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"Well, at least now we know their names," Tai summarized.
"If you'd asked, I'd have told you," stated Veemon.
We'd gone back and given the group our results.
"Uh, okay. So what are we going to do now?"
"We're going to find Jun and Osamu," replied Davis, getting up on a chair of his own.
"Wait," I said, "we're going outside?"
"Uh, yeah? If my sister was in here, wouldn't we see her?"
"Okay. But aren't there bears and things out there?"
"If there are, we'd better find them fast, right?"
Mimi interjected, "I don't want to find any bears at all!"
Well, long story short, I lost. Everyone went outside, and I'm not staying in an empty building.
I felt vindicated, if a little terrified, when a giant red bug thing swooped down at us.
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And that's a chapter! Go forth and review!