Demons and Wizards -Chapter 4
Ken was sitting in his quarters, a small room with a bed, chair, and desk with a computer on it. He kept it simple, because he didn't often spend time in his quarters. He'd taken them when Luciemon had been sealed, figuring he'd never be back to reclaim the simple room. Ken was concentrating, sifting through the sands of time looking for what the future held in relevance to his former co-worker and how it was connected to the vision Hikari had witnessed. He felt another presence in his mind, not something he was foreign to, but something which surprised him, and he soon found himself in the room of his own mind, a pure darkness with nothing but two chairs facing each other, sitting down face to face to a black-haired stranger, who looked to be about his age, the same age as Takeru. He couldn't believe he had been working on this project since he was eight, it was shocking to have that advanced concept of programming, especially for an orphan, he though, as he fell into the vision in his mind.
"So Ken, it's been a long time. Five years I believe, and there's been no reason to contact you or Kushirou," the boy smirked, "Have you finally put together your knowledge with there visions of the new oracle?" the boy asked.
"Yes, now, tell me what you want, so I can deny or grant your request," Ken replied, waiting for his old friend to respond.
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Daisuke had been trained for about a week now, and because Hikari had been placed under the training of Ken, so Taichi had some time. Daisuke looked at his watch, 2000 hours, where was Takeru? He was usually back in the quarters by now, and Daisuke had something to ask him, something he wasn't at all confident in asking and might make it an awkward situation, but after the talk on the first day living together, it couldn't get weirder.
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"So Takeru, this procedure is not usually granted to anybody under the rank of Corporal, but, being who your parents were and the fact we have found two of the three new oracles, you were cleared to do this," Koushirou said, looking Takeru in the eyes with a stern look, "You will now be given a temporary level 12 security authorization allowing you to enter the GENNAI Basement Level 3, organic storage room. You will follow all decontamination procedures so as not to infect the computer. You will then be instructed by GENNAI as to what to do next."
"Thank you, Koushirou, I appreciate this favor," he said, bowing politely.
"In eight years since you actively started helping us, this is the first time you've requested one, so I figure it's a nice favor to give," Koushirou said, handing Takeru back his digivice, which had a green light glowing, meaning he had level 10 or higher clearance.
Takeru passed down the stairs, into the GENNAI chamber after going through the decontamination process and having to change into sterile clothes, "Ok, lets do this," he said, entering the room, and amazed at the piles of mutated animals in test-tube like things, and the objects that looked like human brains as well as large oddly shaped matter in the suspended tools, and a lonely computer terminal with a constant buzz in the printer.
Bzzz...bzzz...bzzz...bzzz...bzzz...
"Welcome Takeru," a giant figure of GENNAI appeared on the wall, this time more like a real person than on the first floor briefing room, "Come, follow the green line on the floor to the mind sync station," he said, and Takeru looked down: Yellow line leading to the exit, green to brain sync, red to organic maintenance terminal, blue to mechanical maintenance terminal, and purple to the backup computers.
Takeru followed the green line, until he came to what looked liked a flight simulator pod, but with more sensors, "Sit down in the pod, I will connect the probes," as Takeru did, a head covering came down and tentacles seemed to fuse themselves with his skin through the clothes, as a cover closed and the pod filled with liquid oxygen, and Takeru found himself in what he assumed was eithr his mind or GENNAI's. A room, with four large windows, one with the daytime sky, one with the night time sky, another with darkness and another with pure white. The room itself was Black Chrome, and there were three chairs around a table, and an old man standing in the opposite corner.
"Your mind is quite an interesting place," the old man replied, and Takeru realized it was GENNAI's vision of himself, a red-haired man about age 25, robed in a white hooded vestibule and a katana at one side, "May I sit down?"
"Yes, GENNAI, you may," he said as he sat down himself, "What do we do in this?"
"Well, concentrate on memories of what brought you here, so we know what we're doing.
Takeru thought back to his first vision, a vision of the world through the window of darkness, and GENNAI and him seemed to disappear as it was seen by both.
Running, that's all that could be seen, "Mother!' he screamed, as he saw his mother being suspended in mid air by a large man clad in armor and with a rapier at either side, "Mûrdock put her down!" His mother was clad in a emerald dress with a silver tiara, and a rapier at her side.
The vision stopped
"There was more to that GENNAI," Takeru stated, but GENNAI stopped him.
"I know that, I've seen it before but not as a vision. Lets try a more recent one. Vision once again faded, but this time the last thing they say was the window of the night sky filling their view.
TAP TAP TAP
Bzzz...bzzz...
The vision continued all the way through just as Takeru had seen it before. "Most interesting Mr Ishida, most interesting... I never realized how exhilarating it was to witness ones own creation. For some reason, you are seeing memories of Luciemon, and I don't know how. However, if my theory is correct, you should be able to focus on yourself and see things in your past, focus on yourself," the room seemed to grow darker before growing lighter and focusing on what Takeru recognized as the Foyer of DW, a younger Mimi was working at the desk, and looked up as two faces Takeru would know anywhere appeared.
"Ah, the Ishida's I presume?" Mimi said astwo blondes, one male the other female,nodded, "Welcome to the GENNAI project, you are the auditors sent from the government I assume?" again they nodded, "Well, Luciemon will see you to the right and down the hall," shed said, giving them maps and pointing them.
They entered a room which Takeru recognized would later be GENNAI's briefing room, and the lights were up. A desk was in there, and a silver haired boy sat at the desk, he looked no older than 20, except for his silver hair, "Mr and Mrs Ishida, here is the paper work you require, and here are your access keys that you may use while here. Actually, keep them after this, should you decided to join us at a later date, after GENNAI's completion," the boy finished.
"Sir, we shouldn't be here long, my wife is due for her second child soon, and we need to report back to the Government soon," Mr Ishida spoke. Eighteen years ago, before the other two Triad members had joined the project, GENNAI was still in the preliminary stages of software design Takeru realized.
The vision stopped.
"I've seen enough for today Takeru, and Ken is requesting your presence in my main briefing room, we will see each other there, I will tell him where you are and stall the meeting."
Takeru's eyes opened and he left the pod, returning back to the exit, and changing back into his clothes. He took the stairs to the briefing room, where he found Ken, Daisuke, and GENNAI waiting for him.
"Sorry I'm late, I was in a mind sync session," Takeru said once the doors closed, and he bowed to Ken.
"Yes, I understand," he said, "GENNAI said he would fill me in later, but for now I have a mission for both of you. GENNAI's covert ops mission has now been given to Yamato and Taichi, and Iori has been reassigned to Sora for training. You two are to proceed here," he said, indicating a map that appeared on another wall, there is an energy distortion we've been monitoring and we believe it's a Gate. If it is, you are to use all means necessary to close it. Should you require back-up it will be sent. Once there, you will rendezvous with an agent known as Saraphimon, he will guide you on closing the gate and will engage in combat if something breaches through it. You are each issued a clip of 5 golden bullets for this, Saraphimon will guide you on their use, and once you get back Takeru will personally invite him into the first door" Ken handed them their headsets and sunglasses, and they put them on, officially accepting their agent names, "Flamedramon, Angemon, you have been given a mission, do you accept?"
"Yes sir, mission accepted," they said, and saluted Director Stingmon, as their clothes transformed into matching black trench coats with the allotted bullets, then bowed before heading to the armory and then set out.
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"So, Director, I believe Takeru is the Oracle of the Past," GENNAI said, "Not only did he come in contact with Luciemon in the womb, but he has been seeing Luciemon's memories with his powers."
"GENNAI, please switch to standby and lock the doors in here, I need to focus my mind in this room as it has the only shielding in the building," Ken said, as the lights completely faded along with GENNAI and the other projection.
Colors, shapes, geometric patters, kaleidoscope, fading. Focus damn you, and the world seemed to focus.
Daisuke and Takeru would get to the gate, but things wouldn't go as expected. Koushirou was not happy when he learned Ken had bypassed him and changed the database to allow this new agent access, but his co-conspirator was already at work doing what he needed: finishing the job that he had started previously and a job the Koushirou and Ken began and never finished, this much he had already seen, but what came after that? The future was no longer seeable, he went back to the geometric patterns and shapes before coming out of the trance.
"So, the transfer has already begun. How long can you hold your cloak before you lose your powers?" Ken said, seemingly to himself, as he looked at the darkness and wondered why this was happening now.
A/n: meh, I screwed myself up with the timeframe and didn't leave enough time for what I initially wanted with Yamato and Takeru, but I'll adapt the story around it. Not much to say other than that, but it happens. Also, I forgot teh hot Daikeru action, but it should be up next chapter or one after depending on what I decide to do next chapter.