CR: Here we go again.
Sora: I do not own Digimon. Never have, and hopefully will. Now, on with the story!
Chapter Eleven: A New Start.
In the middle of the night, you really don't expect to see a group of teenagers running down the street, following a group of monsters, but that was precisely what was seen in West Shinjuku. These were the Tamers, one was not but we will get to him later. Some of them really needed a vacation, while some enjoyed running after monsters. Kenta was the former. Unfortunately for everybody else in the group.
"Are you sure that this is a good idea? I mean what if-" Kenta was cut short when the newest Gogglehead stopped and twirled to look at him. Davis' eyes were blazing with annoyance as he stalked towards Kenta, a scowl displayed on his lips. This look alone was enough to send Kenta to the land of quiet. With the whiner of the group shut up, the team started to run again, of course the digimon hadn't stopped, so the humans had to catch up really fast to the far away creatures. When they did catch up, they found themselves in the middle of a battle.
Davis sweatdropped, wondering how far back they had been. "They sure don't waste time, do they?" He asked his cousin, who was looking as equally surprised. In answer, Takato took out his D-Ark and scanned their enemy.
"FlameDevimon. He's a virus type. We had better watch out for his Fire Claw and Flaming Evil. Hey Davis, use Raidmon on this one instead of Flamedramon, he absorbs fire attacks."
"Okay. Digi-armor energize!"
"Veemon armor-digivolve to... Veemon. What in the seven hells?" Veemon flopped down, pouting at his failed digivolve attempt. Davis to say the least was unamused. He started to growl rather irritably as he glared down at his D-3. The thing said on the screen that no signal from the digi-egg was being received.
"It isn't going to work. I think that I have to be in the eastern quadrant for me to use the Armors." Davis explained to the others, who had all gathered around him. Takato sweatdropped and then asked the question that everybody else was thinking.
"Does this mean that Veemon can only digi-volve to ExVeemon?" Takato asked, worried, "Because if he can't even do that, then we are in big trouble." Takato got a far away look in his eyes as he started to think about the tactically disadvantages of such a situation.
"Well, I don't see why not. Ready, Veemon?" Davis asked his panther, who was still pouting about his failed attempt. Veemon nodded, straightening out his shoulders and standing up a bit taller.
"Veemon digi-volve to... Veemon! Something's wrong, Davish." Veemon slumped down, hiding his face out of shame. Rika's eyes got wide as she started to think. She turned to Renamon and asked her a very important question.
"Can you digi-volve even?" She asked her, worried that they were about to get their butts kick by a champion. Renamon's eyes widen as she thought about the consequences if she could not. She walked away from the humans and waited for the signal from Rika.
"Digi-modify! Digi-volvion activate!"
"Renamon digi-volve to... Renamon!" Renamon growled out of annoyance, her eyes narrowing to silts of their normal selves. Rika sweatdropped at the idea that her digimon could not digi-volve.
"Perhaps it's because that little digimon that you told me about is not here. What was his name? Calumon?" Davis turned to his cousin, questioning. Takato pondered this for a second before shaking his head.
"Nah. That can't be it. Before we were able to digi-volve even if he wasn't here. I mean-" Takato was cut off short by Rika, who had elbowed him sharply in the side. He looked at her questioningly, only to see her pointing at their enemy in a way that meant, "Stop talking and get fighting." Takato quickly got the hint. He motioned for everyone to take their positions, but they were stopped short when their D-Arks and one D-3 started to glow. The devices unhooked themselves from their stunned users belts and floated in the air. They started to grow and lengthen, no longer shaped like a hand-held device but more like a arm warmer. The devices length varied, but they were all in the same shape. The glowing devices started to move towards the startled humans, who all started to think the worst things at the same time, in typical human fashion.
Davis started to feel faint as one of the devices rapidly closed in on him. He could see the others around him were doing the same thing. Finally he felt the device against his skin, it felt like cool metal. Scratch that, it felt like freezing metal. Metal that just came from Antarctica on a express flight metal, and Davis knew that he did not like that feeling. The thing stopped glowing and Davis had his first good look at the thing on his arm.
It went from his knuckles and bottom of his hand through the gaps between his fingers all the way up to his elbow. It was colored a silver color with flame designs etched into the metal. In the middle, on the top, there appeared to be the top of a compartment. He reached out rather tenderly and pressed down on the lid. It flipped up to show a blank plasma screen waiting. Davis poked the screen and jumped back when the thing lit up with a blaze of light. Not that it did him any good, the thing was squeezing his arm after all.
There was words on the screen written a rather fancy script that was hard for Davis to make out at first. Finally he got what they were saying. It was asking for him to specify what language he read and spoke. Under that was a column of characters of different languages from around the world. He reached down and hit the Japanese characters while side stepping a flying digimon, Terriormon to be precise. The screen once more lit up with bright light and when it settled down, along with his eyes, there was a menu screen. On the screen there was five options writing in Japanese.
The first one said Evolution. The second said Status, followed by Web Connection and E-Mail. At the bottom of the screen the final one said Port Out. Davis quickly took in all of this and hit the first option. A new screen popped up, on it there was words on this screen as well. The words described the various stages of the evolutionary tree of Digimon from Baby at the bottom to Mega at the top. The background of this screen was dancing flames. Davis grinned at the idea that he would be able to have Veemon digivolve. He hit the champion option and once more was startled by the bright light that went with everything that this new device did.
When the light finally faded away, and Davis' grumbling at being blinded as well, there was a status screen on the plasma screen. On it there was a full length picture of a Digimon that Davis had never seen. It was bi-pedly with large dragon wings coming out of its back. It's colors were mostly blue, a little bit of red, and a whole lot of black. It had a mostly flat face, more human-like than dragon. It was in proportion to a avenge human body, just a whole lot taller. At the end of it's human-like fingers there were dragon-like claws. The Digimon's eyes were a deep blood-red color and it's face was red, whereas it's body was blue on it's underbelly and the rest was black. At the top of the screen in bold red characters 'Xiaodemon' was wrote. "Xidodemon, huh? He looks cool!" Davis reached out once more and touched the screen where the name was wrote. A bright light shone, and this time it was not from the screen but from Veemon.
"Veemon digivolve to... Xidodemon!" Xidodemon came down out of the sky, his wings at full spread. Unfortunately for some poor soul, he landed on top of a car, crushing it.
"Oops!" Xidodemon back flipped off of the car and landed on a roof top nearby. He looked at his enemy, this so called FlameDevimon. Xidodemon smirked, he knew that this was to be his battle. He rushed FlameDevimon, shooting upwards at the last minute and coming to land on the fellow champion's head. FlameDevimon did not take kindly to such actions and attempted to destroy the fool that would make him look like a chump. Swiping upwards with his claws, he back-flipped away from the now flying Xiaodemon and launched his first attack at his newest enemy.
"Flaming Evil!" Xiaodemon rolled his eyes at such weak attacks and flew straight through the on coming flaming skull. When safely through he unleashed his own attack.
"Draco's Icebox!" FlameDevimon howled with pain as ice fell from the sky in massive sheets crushing him like a pancake. Xiaodemon smirked as his advertise deleted. He turned to face the humans and was greeted by gaping mouths and sweat drops galore. Davis walked forward and looked up at his panther. Xiaodemon grinned down at him and asked a question.
"What exactly did you press, Davis?" He asked, watching the little human sweat drop at his now deep voice. It sounded like the earth had spoke.
"Well, I just used this thing-" Davis cut off in the middle of his sentence to attempt to yank the 'thing' off his arm, to no avail by the way, "Why won't it come off! stupid thing!" Davis was now hopping up and down, trying to slip the thing off of his arm. Jun meanwhile was trying to change the color. Davis sweatdropped at the comment that she made.
"How is silver going to match with my outfits? It'll totally clash!" Everybody turned and looked at the highschool girl as if she had grown three or four more heads, "What? Why is everybody looking at me?"
"We got things stuck on our arms, and you're asking how is it going to match with your outfit! Give me a break!" Davis bellowed at his sister, who in turn narrowed her eyes and motioned for the other girls to come to her. They huddled for a few seconds before Rika straightened up. She turned and started to walk toward Davis. Davis quickly got the point and set off running before she could get to him. She turned and smirked at everybody before setting off after him. Those that had been left behind sweatdropped, following at a much slower speed.
They soon arrived at the bakery to find a cowering Davis, a cackling Rika, a eating Yamaki, and one very grouchy Mie. She looked up as soon as her son walked through the door and let out a growl that even scared Yamaki. Yamaki soon regained his form when he heard the oven once more ding as more bread was ready. He looked rather pleadingly at Mie, and Takato realized immediately who had ratted them out to his mother and exactly why.
Yamaki might have noticed the alarm on the oven, but now his attention was on the gauntlet-like devices wrapped around the children's arms. He motioned the closest, Rika, forward so that he could examen this strange looking thing.
As he examined the new device, he scarfed down Mie's city famous bread. All truth be told, he was lucky to get his hands on fresh bread. It was usually rather hard to get her bread fresh, but seeing as it was the dead of the night, there was no other customers to fight with.
After about thirty minutes of examining the object, he smiled taking out his trusty notepad from his pocket and starting to sketch the device before him, telling Rika to hold still every so often. Finally when he was done, he stood up with a grin.
"Tomorrow all of you come down to Hypnos after school, okay? I'll have a explanation ready for all of you. Is that okay, Mie?" Yamaki turned to Takato's mother, knowing that Mie was a major thing to add in to any plan and not to inform her was like waltzing with the devil. Mie sighed, knowing that trying to win a argument with Yamaki was impossible.
"Alright. But only if Takato doesn't get another detention." With that she stopped and gave her son a stony look "Meaning, try to be on time to Miss Asagi's class this time, got that? Same goes for you, Davis. Jun, try not to slap Saito this time at lunch." Jun turned away at this, muttering a reply under her breath. "But he deserved it..." She muttered quietly so that her aunt would not hear. Unfortunately for her, Mie did hear it.
"He may of deserved it, but next time give it to him after school where you can't get detention," she told her niece, turning away to the oven and taking out more bread. To everyone's great surprise, Yamaki started to drool over the bread immediately. Mie sighed at this, "Some things never change, eh Yamaki? Your just like you were in highschool. The only reason that you took Home Ec was so that you could eat the stuff I made." Yamaki just smirked at her before diving at the bread. Mie just watched him with an amused look, knowing what was going to happen next. As she had thought, Yamaki jumped back, trying to juggle a hot loaf of bread from hand to hand. The former Tamers, seeing as to what they would call themselves now, all sweatdropped at the image of one of the most grown up people they had ever met acting like a kid, all because of bread.
The next day at school went smoothly, well as smoothly as it went for our teenage heroes. Meaning Takato failed another Geometry test whereas Davis made the highest grade in the class and was bragging the entire day. Takato just couldn't wait for school to be over so he could give Davis what he deserved. When school was over, Davis flew out of there like a lit rocket with Takato close behind him. The others all sweatdropped, following far behind. When they arrived at Hypnos, they had to go through a security check-point with personnel that were stupid enough to attempt to demand that Takato leave his goggles there. All they got was a stony glare and a remark that basically meant to call Yamaki. Oddly enough, there was a lot of filler in that remark that made Henry gasp along with the security personnel and cover Suzy's ears. The security people got right on it. After all, how often was it that you saw someone that young with that bad of mouth? When Yamaki got down there to pick them up, he saw Henry giving a scolding to a uncaring Takato, who was clutching a hold of his goggles with a deathgrip. Yamaki smirked at this, walking over.
"Well now, I heard that one of you knows language so bad that it even curled the toenails of our security. What would your mother say if she heard you?" Yamaki teased the amassed group in front of him. Takato smirked, knowing completely well what his mother would say.
"She would say, 'Good for you, dear.'." Takato smirked at Yamaki, who just sighed and started to head for the elevator. Takato followed him, still smirking like usual. The elevator finally arrived at Yamaki's floor and everybody piled out. Yamaki ushered them all into a boardroom. The funny thing about this room was that everything in it was pitch black. The walls, the table, the ceiling, the chairs, everything was black. Takato's eyebrow rose into his hair when he saw this, turning to Yamaki he muttered at him, "You sure are depressed, aren't you?" Yamaki glowered at him for awhile before answering.
"I'm not depressed, and would you sit down? You want to hear about your devices don't you?" Yamaki motioned towards the black leather chairs with an arm while walking forward and messing with a overhead projector that was pointed toward the only white thing in the room, a pull-down screen. He flicked off the lights as the others sat down and flicked on the projector, putting a transparency with a diagram of the new devices on to the light pad, "Now, these 'devices' are much more different than your old D-Arks and D-3s. For instance, they have a flip-up plasma screen. Underneath that there is the area where the plasma screen previously covered, that area is taken up by a couple of speakers. I went through the menus the other day and I found that," As Yamaki said this, he once more changed transparencies and continued, "you can pick up radio signals with this device by pulling an antenna out of the frame of the plasma screen." Yamaki paused to gauge the reactions of the teenagers and one child gathered around him.
They ranged from shocked to confused to absolutely fascinated. Yamaki did a sharp double take at the absolutely fascinated one. It came from none other than Davis. Davis was almost drooling over the high tech little piece of equipment. Yamaki smirked at this and decided to continue on.
"Now here is were it gets interesting. You see," Yamaki cut off for a second to change transparencies again, "this little machine is powered by something we haven't been able to harness yet. It's powered by kinetics or-" Davis was the one to cut Yamaki off, a grinned plastered across his face. "The motion of your body! The heat that the human body gives off is taken in and conduced into electricity!" Davis finished with a grin that soon turned sheepish when he saw all of the stares being directed at him, "What?"
"Very good, Davis. Now when you hit the Status option, you get another screen in which you can check on your Digimon's health along with your own. Settings are also available on this screen. You can change the color of the device, the design on it, and also the background on the screens. You can also add on attachments to the device. The Port Out option on the main menu allows you to basically teleport to anywhere in all four quadrants. You can go from the human world to the digital and back or you can go from a human world to another human world. Also, you can go to different locations in the world you are presently in, meaning with this device you can instantaneously go from West Shinjuku to, say, New York. All in all, it is a device any government would want. The down-side is that you can never get it off your arm after you put it on," Yamaki once more gauged the reactions of the children in front of him. To say the least, they were all stunned.
Sora: Oh yeah! I made one kick ass device! Hey, um, guys? I need a little bit of help. I don't know what I'm gonna call them now, because they aren't Tamers any more and also what am I gonna call the device? I also need some suggestions on what their digi-volvions should be like. Any help you, dear Reviewers of mine, can give me would be appreciated! Also, once more, Warrior of Darkness has beta'd this chapter. So give him a hand, people!
CR: She went all out this time.
Sora: Now, REVIEW!
