Okay, announcement! RV is giving me this update and an explanation of his crazy life. He is going to Ireland this Thanksgiving, and will not be able to update, but will be writing A LOT! There will probably be at least two more updates before he leaves on Saturday, though.
"Where are we?" Rika asked, looking around the massive basement.
"In a house that has no real boundaries," Danny answered.
"It's just the basement. The first level at least. We know there's at least one more level of the basement and catacombs underneath," Jazz nodded. "We don't know if there's anything under that."
"This is just a really old museum. Although, it has been very surprising in some respects," Sam noted.
"We can get to that later," Tucker said as he madly connected sets of wires, cords, and cables. "Right now, I need the D-power."
Rika, once again, reluctantly handed over the device. Danny, Sam, and Jazz backed off slightly as Tucker began work more and more furiously. He was a man on a mission now. The massive computer was no connected to some sort of platform, and logged onto the Internet. After about half an hour of this, Tucker finally slid the last piece, the D-power into place. This was going to be one wild ride…
Thinking was something Maddie Fenton knew how to do. It was her life. Speculation, and invention to fight off the ghosts. Make Jack cookies and think. The cookies were keeping her husband occupied now. What she had to do was think of a solution to her children's problems. She had to get them back onto the right track. Suddenly, the ghost zone door opened, and a decidedly green man in a lab coat flew out.
"Beware, for I am Technis, ghostly master of all electronics! And I am back to have my revenge!" Technis yelled.
"Hold it right there ghost!" Maddie yelled and pulled out a Fenton Bazooka. She had made sure that the bazooka was charged. No mistakes.
"You have quite a lot of Technology," Technis hummed to himself, "And the boy would not dare strike his own mother. Yes, this will be the perfect revenge." Maddie blinked at his speech. Was he talking about Danny?
That blink was her undoing. Technis swooped in quickly and overshadowed the Fenton matriarch. Her eyes glowing with an evil light, she said, "Yes this will do very nicely. Ha, Ha, Ha!"
Suddenly, his head snapped to the left, and an intriguing grin spread across his face. "I believe this merits some investigation…"
"We should leave," Jazz said, pulling the her brother and his friends out of the basement. On the platform that had been empty just recently, there was now a six-plus foot tall golden fox-woman with a very confused expression on her face. Rika's eyes started to tear again. She made a gigantic leap from the three foot safety distance into the fox's arms.
Renamon deftly caught her. It was an automatic response that hadn't been wiped away in the three or so months that they had been apart.
"Rika," Renamon said softly, petting her partner's hair softly.
"Renamon," Rika almost sobbed.
"It's okay heart-breaker. It's okay," Renamon cooed, smiling. It was nice to have Rika's weight in her arms again. After a moment, Rika's face reddened in embarrassment. Renamon smiled more widely as Rika pulled herself back from hysteria. In another moment, she was back to the cold, aloof girl whose emotions took second-place to action.
"You sure took your time finding your way back," The fiery red-head sniffed.
Renamon gave a full chuckle. "Well, Rika, where are we now? This does not seem like Japan."
Rika nodded. "We're in America. My mom moved our family here after the D-reaper incident. I met a very smart boy who located you with out any apparent effort."
"I would like to meet him," Rika smiled. "He needs to be thanked properly."
"Oh," Rika smiled, remembering something. "I don't think we'll be fighting any digimon, but we may have a nice brawl with a ghost now and then."