More Introductions
"Man, can you believe that story? That's got to be the worst." Kenta stated with Guardromon close behind him.
"Yeah, what an awful childhood." Kazu remarked, now holding Marineangemon whom had fallen asleep again.
"Who're you talking about?" An all too familiar voice came from behind them. Turning to the figure that had appeared behind them, they saw the Digimon King, Ryo, and his partner in his Rookie form, Monodramon.
"Oh, hey Ryo," Kenta waved, "we're just talking about some new guy from another planet." He explained nonchalantly.
"Huh! You mean you met an actual alien?" Ryo gasped with amazement.
"Yeah, that's what Rika called you about. Renamon found this human-like fox in the park and everyone went there to meet him." Kazu told him. "Now the others are taking him to HYPNOS to meet Yamaki and see if they can at least locate his planet."
"Okay, mind filling me in on the details?" Ryo asked.
"Hey, where's Guardromon?" Monodramon interrupted, noticing there was one less member in their group than there should have been.
"WHAT!" Kenta shouted and then noticed the metal Digimon was moving out of sight, apparently not noticing Ryo's arrival in the least. "GUARDROMON, WAIT UP!" He yelled at his Digimon's back while running at top speed to catch up with him. "Nice seeing you again and you can meet the others at HYPNOS!" The young Tamer called over his shoulder with Kazu and Marineangemon barely managing to keep up.
"So what do you say about going to meet this newcomer, Monodramon?" Ryo asked his Mini-Dragon Digimon.
"Why not?" Monodramon merely replied. With that, they were off to HYPNOS to meet this new individual.
-----At HYPNOS-----
"Tally, Riley, report. Do you have anything on that anomaly yet?" Yamaki's commanding voice rang through HYPNOS' central control room.
"Nothing yet, sir," Tally responded "this anomaly is unlike anything we've ever seen before."
"Is there a possibility that it's a new way of Digimon bio-emerging?"
"That doesn't seem very likely, there's no trace of digital signals of any kind and no new Digimon have been reported." Riley answered him this time.
"Keep trying, whatever this is, I doubt it can be anything good with our track record." Yamaki commented, remembering what happened the last time a new anomaly showed up, which was the first time the Devas had made an appearance in their world. Instinctively, he began to open and close his lighter, a habit he had hoped to break a while back.
"Sir, a Tamer is here to see you and there's someone new with them." An unidentified aide informed Yamaki dashing into the control room."
"Huh? Why would they bring anyone here? They know this is a top secret installation. Put it on-screen Riley!" Yamaki ordered, halting his consistent ritual.
"Right away, sir." She responded and within moments Rika and Renamon appeared on the vast console surrounding the government employees, but who was with them was what surprised all of them the most.
"Riley, is that a Digimon?"
"Scanning sir. Readouts show negative. Whatever that is, it's one-hundred percent organic."
"Hmm, interesting. Let them in and take them to my study." Yamaki ordered the aide who left immediately without another word.
"Continue looking for the reason of that anomaly, I'll be in my study if you need me." Yamaki informed Tally and Riley before leaving. "This should prove interesting." He muttered quietly to himself.
-----Outside of HYPNOS-----
The Tamer, Digimon, and Mobian fox waited patiently for the aide to return. Halfway there, the others had decided that it may seem just a bit silly if they all showed up at HYPNOS merely to introduce someone. Rika had seen the logic, but still swore silent retribution for not speaking up earlier as they left.
Suddenly, the aide appeared in the newly opened doorway, out of breath. "Please (huff) follow me (puff) to Mr. Yamaki's study. (wheeze) He will meet you there." Including Tails, the three of then understood why the aide was so tired; HYPNOS wasn't exactly a compact office building.
The trio entered the building and the aide led them down the halls. Although Takato had told him all about this HYPNOS, Tails was none-the-less amazed at the sheer vastness of the building from the outside. That made him wonder if the humans back on Mobius had built such impressive structures themselves. However; aside from the outward appearances of his hosts, they seemed to bear no resemblance to their 'counterparts' back home; and even then, they had four fingers instead of three that all citizens of the planet Mobius possessed.
Tails snapped out of his thoughts when the aide stopped in front of a door that looked like any other down the long hallway they had been traveling through.
"This," the aide started, "is Mr. Yamaki's private study. You should wait for him in here." He finished while opening the door.
"There won't be any need for our guests to wait any longer than they already have." Yamaki's voice startled the aide, nearly making him jump back in fright.
"Please come in, you'll see that I have already made arrangements to accommodate you." He motioned for the three of them to enter. "You may leave, now." He added to the aide whom was holding his hand over his heart in an attempt to keep it from leaping into his throat.
The door quickly shut behind them and Tails' sensitive ears picked up the hurried footsteps of the tired and shocked employee. Inside he saw two chairs and wondered if Yamaki had miscounted the group until Rika sat in one of the chairs and Renamon stood behind her. Realizing that the second chair had been meant for him, he hurriedly moved to it and waited nervously for someone to start conversation.
"Let's get down to business. I can see that you have a new member in your group and I already know that he's not a Digimon." Yamaki said matter-of-factly from his swivel-chair behind his desk.
"Now sir, where are you from and what's your name?" Yamaki questioned of Tails who snapped to attention as soon as he realized he had been spoken to.
"I'm from the planet Mobius and my name's Tails." He quickly answered.
"Oh, and how did you happen to get here?"
"Basically, someone apparently transported me here for some reason and I ended up in the lake in the park."
"That's right; whoever sent him here also caused that anomaly HYPNOS detected." Rika confirmed, seeing the slightly stunned look on Yamaki's face.
"Well, now we know what it was that caused that anomaly." Yamaki speculated when he heard this news.
"Not exactly," Tails muttered quietly, "I don't know who sent me here and why myself." He was unsure of what Yamaki's reaction would be to his own cluelessness of the situation he ended up in.
"Great, but at least now we know more than we did; whoever sent you here might have had some ulterior motive for doing so." Yamaki surmised, putting an end to Tails' worries of him getting annoyed.
"Besides," Yamaki added with slight smile towards Tails, "what we were most interested in was who or what came out of the anomaly and whether or not it was dangerous. Seeing you, there is no doubt in my mind that you're a very upstanding individual."
"Oh, thanks." Tails replied taken aback somewhat by the statement.
"Getting to know each other is all well and good, but the reason we came here in the first place was so we could ask for the temporary use of HYPNOS' computers." Renamon suddenly spoke up after having her fill of small talk.
"Say what!" It was now Yamaki's turn to be taken aback. He seemed shocked somewhat by the request made by the Digimon.
"We want to ask for the temporary use of HYPNOS' computers," Renamon repeated and then added, "so we can try and locate Tails' home planet of Mobius. There's no way of telling how far away it is and I'm not sure if even these computers would be able to detect it, but it's better than not doing anything at all."
"Well, I'll have to think about this. My superiors haven't been so keen on keeping me on after the D-Reaper affair, even though I was the one who got the Monster Makers back together which ended up saving the entire world. To just allow something like this would give them an opportune reason to kick me out indefinitely." Yamaki explained starting to click his lighter again.
This particular development made Tails really nervous; on one hand, if Yamaki did help him and Mobius couldn't be located, he stood the chance of being fired because of it. Tails didn't want to get anyone in trouble on his account. However, on the other hand; if Yamaki didn't help him, he might be stuck on this planet for the rest of his life, which might not be so bad he thought to himself turning his head towards Renamon.
Realizing what just happened he snapped his attention forward again and hoped no one saw that. Fortunately for him, Rika seemed to have nothing more to add to the conversation and so was making adjustments to her deck, Yamaki had been looking down in thought, and Renamon was watching him, apparently waiting for a more suitable response. Breathing a silent sigh of relief and feeling the heat of a slight blush under his fur, he made up his mind.
"Sir," Tails started, "I really wouldn't want to put your job on the line…"
"Hold it right there." Yamaki interrupted, ceasing his clicking once again. "First off, it wouldn't be you putting my job on the line, it would be me. Second, I've decided to help, although I'm not sure how to look for this planet without attracting too much attention, however, it will come to me eventually." If this was him over a year ago, he would have declined without a second thought whatsoever, but he had gone through some radical changes since the Tamers first entered the Digital World for the first time. Now here he was offering to help an alien whom he had never met before gambling with his own job that he had already been fired from once, he thought humorously to himself.
"Now that we have that whole thing settled, I say we leave and let the man do his work." Rika practically ordered just as soon as Yamaki finished, replacing her deck in its box.
As they all rose to leave Tails muttered a quiet thanks to Yamaki for his assistance to which the black suited man gave friendly smile and no problem. Yamaki got up from his seat and opened the door for the trio to exit.
"I'm sure you all know the way out so I'll just go back to my post." Yamaki stated and left down the hallway while they went the opposite direction.
Backtracking through the hallways gave Tails time to mull over the events in Yamaki's study, particularly the way Renamon went straight for the point of the conversation. Not to mention the fact that she could take the extraordinary and make it look like something just above ordinary.
But what he truly wanted to think about was why he seemed attracted somewhat to Renamon. The only explanation would be that he liked her, but they only just met and he knew very little of her. Sure she was beautiful, but liking her because of that seemed like lust to him.
Of course, it wasn't like he never went on any dates, plenty of vixens back home who asked him out thought he was 'cute', the most likely reason he could think of would have to have been his two tails. Sonic often joked that Tails was a bigger babe magnet than him. What poetic justice that what brought him such grief as a child would make him so appealing to females as an adult.
For the second time that day Tails made up his mind, he would get to know Renamon better as soon as he could so he would know once and for all whether or not he liked her. This revelation came when they had left HYPNOS and heard an unfamiliar voice to him but one that was well-known to the Digimon Queen and partner.
"Hey Rika, Renamon, I thought everyone else would be here too." Ryo questioned when he noticed they were the only ones there including the visitor Kazu and Kenta told him about.
"Yeah, well they were supposed to, until they pretty much chickened out." Rika explained in her most annoyed voice.
"Oh, so this is the guy Kazu and Kenta told me about. They weren't kidding after all; personally, I thought this was some insane joke dreamed up by you guys." Ryo admitted.
"For once in their lives, they actually knew what they were talking about." Rika commented with an amused grin on her face.
No sooner had the sentence left Rika's mouth, then Renamon and Monodramon suddenly appeared distracted and moved their gazes to the same direction. Before Tails could vocalize his question as to whether or not they were alright, Monodramon unknowingly answered him.
"We'd better hurry, there's a Digimon bio-emerging nearby." The purple streaked lizard exclaimed.
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In case no one can tell, I'm trying to insert some humor into this fic; pretty dry, huh?