"You're going to go talk to her?" Sam asked. She should have known. Danny loved to be the hero and this new girl was in desperate need of saving, even if it was from herself.
"Something won't leave me alone. I mean, when I look at her…" Danny sighed, not having the words to explain it.
"You see someone about to fall off a cliff and into an ocean of despair?" Sam guessed. Danny nodded as Sam started to eat her salad.
"Good luck," Tucker said as Danny began to make his way over to a lonely tree, where the new girl was sitting.
Danny stepped up to the tree, eyeing the red-head nervously. "Uh, hello?" Rika sighed and set down the small lunch she had on her lap.
"What do you want?" She asked in a tired voice that spoke of a tiredness deeper than simple muscles.
"Well, I'm Danny Fenton," Danny said, sitting next to her. "And I know it's not any of my business, but, you really do need to talk to someone. It will kill you if you don't."
Rika snorted. Takato had said something like that before she left.
As Danny got up, Rika spoke. "She would tell me to talk to you. Tell me that I shouldn't worry her, but I miss her." As she spoke, her eyes clenched, keeping tears at bay, barely.
"I'm listening," Danny encouraged.
"Do you believe in other worlds?" Rika asked.
Danny blinked. "Yes."
It was Rika's turn to blink. The answer had been firm, unyielding. He KNEW something that made the answer so definite. Taking the card out of her pocket, Rika showed it to him. Danny furrowed his brows.
"Renamon. She and I fought, for so long, together. Side by side. Would you believe it when I say that even though no one would ever accept it, I loved her," Rika explained as she whipped away a few stray tears.
"I can sympathize," Danny whispered. Rika looked at him strangely.
"You are a very strange person. Probably one of the few that really could sympathize." Rika smiled.
"So, what happened?" Danny asked. Rika nodded and began to tell her story, Danny nodded in understanding all through the story. The edited version of the story only took twenty minutes.
"She sounds like quite the digimon," Danny said appreciatively.
"Why don't you remember the D-reaper?" Rika asked, suspicious.
"That was probably when the whole town was sucked into the ghost zone," Danny nodded, deep in thought.
"Ghost Zone?" Rika asked as the bell rang.
"Why don't you walk home with me and my friends, and I'll tell you about living in Amity Park." Danny offered. Rika shrugged, but nodded.
"So my mom thought I would be better off having a fresh start, and here I am," Rika explained for the second time that day.
Jazz had tear-ed up, "That was so sad. I wish we could help."
"Uh," Tucker interjected.
"I didn't expect that you could. Some of the greatest people who ever wrote programs weren't able to anything," Rika shrugged.
"Uh," Tucker said again.
"Well, we could…" Sam trailed off, not really having an idea.
"Uh," Tucker said once again.
"Ghost Zone?" Jazz asked.
"Could I speak please!" Tucker almost yelled. Everyone turned to him, startled.
"What?" Danny asked.
"Could I see that?" Tucker asked, pointing to the D-power.
Rika bite her lip, but handed it over grudgingly.
Tucker took out his PDA and connected it to the D-power via a small cord. After a few moments, Tucker nodded in an appraising fashion and shrugged. "Found her," Tucker said simply.
"Huh?" Rika said simply. Indeed, a holographic image immediately popped up of the fox-woman that Rika loved.
"How?" Rika said faintly.
Tucker shrugged. "Give me…a day and I should be able to get her here."
Rika tear-ed up slightly. "You mean it?"
"Sure," Tucker shrugged once again. Rika smiled brightly and took her D-power back reverently.
Hmm...tell me what you think of it? Is it good? Is it bad? Do you like cheese? Do you shop at Hot Topic? Do I ever stop asking questions? Answer the first three question, plz.