Here is the first cross dimensional chapter since the prologue!. :P We finally get into some action that's away from the original story line (UGotD). This chapter takes place in all the worlds and in POVs of those with the plans i.e. Gennai, Yamaki and Janyu, and the three Celestial Digimon.
Updated: 4/11/21
I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON ADVENTURE 02, TAMERS, FRONTIER OR ANY OF ITS CHARACTERS!
Chapter 7: Plans of Action
The Adventure Digital World: Location: Gennai's Base
Gennai was alone at the moment typing away at the keyboard hooked up to his supercomputer. He was running scans over every inch of the Digital World.
"There must be some place…" the digital man muttered to himself as he launched another scan. He was so preoccupied with his work that he didn't hear the door open.
"Gennai," a voice called out to him. "You'll work yourself to data bits if you don't stop and take a break soon.
"I will, Harry," Gennai sighed. "In a minute though. I'm almost finished."
"You said that three hours ago," his friend chuckled.
Gennai pursed his lips, knowing that the other was right, but just couldn't seem to tear himself away from the screen. He had this feeling that if he waited long enough…
BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!
"What the hell?!" Harry cried, rushing further into the room to join Gennai by the supercomputer's console.
"Finally!" Gennai sighed with relief as he tried to zero in on what the scans had finally picked up. "Now we're getting somewhere."
"What'd you find?" Harry asked.
"…Just give me a nanosec," Gennai muttered.
"I'll even give you three." Harry smiled.
"…Found it!" Gennai grinned.
"Found what?"
"The break we've been waiting for," Gennai said. "We haven't been able to break through this communications blackout that we're in, so I thought that if I could find just one spot in the Digital World where that signal blockage isn't as strong…"
"We might be able to get through to the other worlds!" Harry whooped.
"Precisely." Gennai nodded. "And my scans have just picked up a weak spot that we might be able to use."
"Where?" Harry asked, looking at the screen as Gennai pulled up the location.
"…At the highest peak of File Island's Infinite Mountain," Gennai mused.
"The highest peak in the Digital World…" Harry muttered. "It won't be easy getting the necessary equipment up there."
"Indeed," Gennai sighed. "But no one said that any of this was going to be easy."
"Touché." Harry nodded. "Well done, Gennai. This will lighten the mood significantly. Any hope that we can give those families is better than all the bad news they've had so far."
"Then let's not keep them waiting any longer," Gennai said, saving the important data onto a disc and hurried for the door with Harry right behind him.
The two digital men raced excitedly down hallways and staircases towards the housing section of the base to the wing that had been cleared for the families. Only Hiroaki Ishida was awake when they finally arrived.
"What's going on, Gennai?" Hiroaki asked when they burst in.
"Harry, wake the others," Gennai ordered as he rushed over to the computer in the lounge and uploaded the disc. "Hiroaki, my friend, I may have found a solution to our problem."
Hiroaki quickly joined him by the computer just as the first couple of families and parents started streaming out of the living quarters.
"What's going on, Hiroaki?" Susumu Kamiya yawned.
"Gennai's got some good news for us," Hiroaki said, smiling; his comment stirring interest and awareness through the sleepy parents.
Once everyone was gathered, Gennai launched the program he'd downloaded on the disc, sending it to a projector that displayed a 3D virtual rendering of File Island. The DigiDestined's families moved out of the center of the room and lined the walls so that they could all get a look at what Gennai was showing them.
"This is File Island," Gennai stated. "Four years ago this is where Tai and the other six chosen DigiDestined ended up in the Digital World and met their Digimon partners. That little fun fact aside, my scans have revealed that whatever sort of jamming signal that is blocking all communications from coming in or out of this world is weak enough at the tip of the mountain's peak that if we can get the right equipment up there we may be able to break through and reach out to other worlds."
"Really?" Mel Motomiya gasped, clasping her hands together.
"Yes." Gennai smiled.
"The only complication is the fact that it's going to take some clever ingenuity to get all of the necessary equipment up to that peak," Harry sighed. "File Island's mountain is named Infinity Mountain for a reason. It's the tallest mountain in all of the Digital World."
"Couldn't you just fly up there?" Jun Motomiya asked.
"We could," Gennai said, "but it would attract a lot of attention if we flew in loaded down with equipment. File Island may no longer be under Devimon's control, but there are still some Digimon that live on that mountain that would find it great sport to shoot us out of the sky."
"It would be best if we hiked up the mountain," Harry stated. "Unimon can be our guide and Centarumon could accompany us, but it would take time."
"Aren't you just as likely to get attacked hiking up the mountain as you would be if you flew?" Jim Kido asked.
"Yes," Gennai nodded, "but we'd be prepared for it and more likely to ward off any attacking Digimon, whereas in the sky the risk is a lot more severe. We have a greater advantage with our feet on solid ground."
The parents nodded.
"When do we set out?" Hiroaki asked.
"We?" Harry blinked. "I'm afraid you misunderstand, Mr. Ishida. Gennai and a few others of our kind will make the trek, but there is no need for any of you to come."
"What?" many parents gasped, a few outraged.
"What Harry means is that it would be safer for you all to remain here," Gennai sighed. "The Digital World is a dangerous place for humans. Surely you all knew that before coming here. None of you have Digimon partners like your children do to aid you in this world. Harry and I cannot protect you all outside of this base."
"Be that as it may, Gennai," Hiroaki said firmly. "I'm afraid that I must insist that I join you."
Gennai looked at the human man thoughtfully. Hiroaki Ishida was not like the other parents… Hiroaki was different somehow and Gennai thought he finally knew why that was...
"Let me go with you as a representative," Hiroaki added thoughtfully. "I understand that not all of us can go but at least let me come to represent the others."
"…Yes," Dan Motomiya said as he stepped forth. "Take Hiroaki with you. We trust him… or at least Mel and I do. If you take him, then… I'll know that we can trust you."
Dan let his statement hang in the air. Other parents started nodding muttering, "Take Hiroaki."
"You don't trust us," Harry sighed.
"Would you if you were in our position?" Susumu Kamiya shrugged. "Our children are out there with eighteen other children in an unfamiliar and dangerous world and you're asking us to stay behind and sit on our hands and do nothing. Gennai, you told us that we might all be able to help get our children back home to the world where they belong. You could say we didn't have much choice in the matter. You asked us to make a spur of the moment decision to come here without really considering the consequences. Now here we are, with a plan that might actually work… and you won't let one – just one! – of us go with you. We've already taken a great leap of faith in you and your people by simply coming here… Won't you at least give us some peace of mind and reward us with some trust of your own? You know that Hiroaki is good with equipment. He may be human like the rest of us, but maybe that's what you and your people need. Someone who isn't like you and can come up with alternatives and solutions that you wouldn't normally think of."
Harry opened his mouth to respond, but Gennai held up a hand.
"He's right, Harry," Gennai sighed. "We dare not refuse them. Hiroaki was a big help to the DigiDestined during the Myotismon incident at the Convention Center. He was the only one resourceful enough not to get caught by the Bakemon and he also knows more about Digimon than the others do. His feats during that time are evidence of that."
"And just how is that? Well, Mr. Ishida?" Harry asked, eyes narrowing slightly. "How do you know so much about Digimon? I doubt your sons told you."
"It's true that Matt doesn't talk to me much about his adventures in the Digital World," Hiroaki admitted. "And I have honestly never asked."
"Yet you appear to be quite knowledgeable," Harry prodded. "What is your connection to the Digital World, Mr. Ishida?"
Hiroaki sighed, running a hand through his hair. He wasn't getting out of this one. He could see that the digital man wasn't going to let him, and the other parents were looking at him curiously.
"…Does this answer your question?" Hiroaki asked with a sigh as he pulled a small beat up looking device from his pocket. A digivice.
"That's-!" many parents gasped, recognizing the significance of the item.
"…Where did you get that?" Harry gasped.
"Isn't it obvious?" Gennai smiled. He'd been right after all. "Hiroaki was chosen. …He was a member of this world's first team of DigiDestined."
"…Impossible," Harry breathed. "The original chosen children came to this world thousands of years ago-!"
"In this world, yes," Gennai nodded. "It's been thousands of years in the Digital World. …I assume it's only been roughly twenty years in the human world."
"Twenty-four actually," Hiroaki grunted, returning the old device to his pocket. "This small piece of scrap metal is all that I have to remind myself that the trip I took with four others was real and not some crazy adventure that we all dreamed up."
"And where are the other chosen children from those days now?" Gennai asked. "I only ask because we may need their help in getting your children back."
"…Saito Yoshimura married Yumi Wakai right out of high school. Last I heard they'd moved to Hiroshima. As for the other two, Keisuke Hiroko is working at Tokyo University as a professor in the engineering department, and Haru Yoshi is a fourth grade teacher in Yokohama prefecture," Hiroaki sighed. "I haven't seen any of them in years…"
"So you've been here before, Hiroaki?" Nancy asked quietly, shocked. Even though she'd know Hiroaki for a long time, she didn't remember knowing anyone by the names that her ex-husband had just mentioned.
Hiroaki shook his head; looking out the window to see what view they had of the Digital World.
"No." Hiroaki frowned. "The Digital World is a lot different from when I came here with the other four DigiDestined in my group. It's changed drastically. It can actually be considered another world now. The Digital World used to be a series of levels… it didn't resemble Earth at all… just a complex video game. That's actually what I originally thought this place was. A game. But the others and I quickly found out that the Digital World was much more than that…"
"The technology on Earth has advanced since your time," Gennai mused. "And so has the Digital World."
Hiroaki nodded.
"…So when do we set out for Infinity Mountain?" he asked.
"At dawn," Harry sighed. "I suggest that you get plenty of rest, Mr. Ishida. It's going to be a long trip up that mountain."
"Isn't it always?" Hiroaki smiled sadly as he watched the two Digital men leave.
Tamer DigiDestined World: Location: Hypnos Headquarters
Yamaki was pacing back and forth as he waited for Janyu and Shibumi to finish their latest attempts to reach the Digimon Sovereign. It was four in the morning and two hours since the transmission they'd gotten from that Seraphimon Digimon.
"Any luck you two?" Yamaki sighed.
"…I think so." Shibumi suddenly smiled. "I've been trying to send our message through any link possible to the Digital World, but there is just too much interference from whatever it is that's jamming the communications between our worlds."
"How is that lucky?" Yamaki frowned.
"Because I think I've found something useful," the computer man grinned. "Since we can't seem to send any messages from here, I've tried scanning for possible sites where we might be able to relay a message."
"And you've found one?" Yamaki asked.
"I believe so," Shibumi nodded. "I can't say I've got a fix on what it is that's jamming us up so bad, but whatever it is it's weakest point appears to be in the children's park where the children were transported to the Digital World both times they've gone. We just might be able to break through the jamming signal long enough to send a message to the Sovereign in our parallel Digital World."
"Do it," Yamaki nodded. "Have Daisy assist you in setting up any equipment you may need out there."
"On it," Shibumi nodded, hurrying off excitedly to get Daisy.
"Janyu," Yamaki said, nodding to the remaining expert. "While Shibumi is working on sending the Sovereign that message, I want you to try and trace that strange transmission we received. That Seraphimon had something important to tell us, and it didn't sound as if he came from our parallel Digital World. If he's from one of the other Digital Worlds out there then I want a link established between our worlds. Have Curly and Dolphin help you and anyone that can be spared working on this. I have a feeling that we're going to need outside help on this one. If we can't get through to our own Digital World than maybe one of the other ones out there can. One message has already gotten through. With any luck there will be more."
Janyu nodded before going to gather his team.
Yamaki sighed as he approached the monitors broadcasting every channel for all thirty children from three different Digital Worlds. The children were still traveling in the tunnels but appeared to be stopping for a break.
On the lower level Janyu was also watching the monitors, but was watching Henry and Suzie's in particular while he waited for Dolphin and Curly.
"Another late night, Jan?"
Janyu blinked before finding Mayumi standing behind him in her robe and slippers.
"Yes," he sighed. "Sorry honey, but it looks like I won't be coming back to bed tonight."
Mayumi nodded, but joined him in front of the monitors, worry evident on her face as she observed their son and daughter.
Henry was talking with Takato and a few other boys from the other groups that she didn't know the names of. He was so busy talking to friends that he didn't notice Suzie slip away from his side. The Wong parents watched nervously as she wandered about the large group until she bumped into the back of someone's legs and fell back on her butt.
"Are you alright?" the boy she'd run into asked.
Suzie had looked up and stared at him as she nodded mutely. The boy chuckled and held out a hand towards her.
"Hello," he said with a smile. "I'm Takuya. You're Suzie, right?"
Again, she nodded without speaking, an awed look on her face. Suzie continued to stare at the boy like that for a couple of minutes before she suddenly frowned.
"Are you hurt?" she asked him.
The Takuya boy glanced down at his hand that was clenching the front of his shirt. He was quick to move the hand away from his chest.
"Is it your heart?" Suzie asked. "My daddy says that if your heart hurts you should take deep breaths. Like this!"
Suzie began to show Takuya how to take nice, deep, even (if not somewhat exaggerated) breathes. Takuya smiled and imitated her.
"You're right," he grinned. "It does help."
Suzie giggled.
Janyu and Mayumi smiled sadly as they watched the interaction. It was then that Henry appeared to have realized that Suzie wasn't with him.
"I think your brother is looking for you," Takuya said, pointing off Suzie's screen.
"Oh!" Suzie gasped, hurrying back to Henry's side, but not before turning around to smile hugely at the boy one more time. "Bye-bye, Takuya!"
"Suzie! There you are!" Henry sighed, relieved. "Where'd you go?"
"I was talking to Takuya," Suzie said. "He's really nice."
Henry looked up – Janyu could only guess that his son was looking at Takuya – and nodded after a moment. "Takato seems to think so too."
"Janyu!"
Janyu tore his eyes off his son and daughter's screens in time to see a fully dressed Curly and a sleepy Dolphin approach.
"Looks like it's time I head back to bed," Mayumi smiled sadly at her husband. "I won't wait up."
"Night, Yumi," Janyu sighed, kissing his wife on the cheek.
"It's technically morning," Mayumi smiled tiredly before leaving the lower observation platform.
Janyu smiled sadly as he watched his wife leave. When she was gone he turned his attention to his two co-workers. It was time to get back to work.
The Frontier Digital World: Location: The Celestial Digimon's Castle
Seraphimon was staring at the communication's port when Ophanimon rejoined him and Cherubimon in the Throne Room.
"Any news from the other worlds?" she asked.
"I was able to reach out to one of the other human worlds, but when I tried to warn them about the effects that crossing through the dimensional field have had on their children's digivices, a powerful force blocked me out. I can't even reconnect to the dimensional corridor at all now… We're sealed off from all the parallel worlds too," Seraphimon sighed. "Someone doesn't want us interfering with events occurring across the dimensional plane."
"Can we at least get through to the Shadow World?" Ophanimon asked, looking at Cherubimon.
"No," the holy beast deity sighed. "We're completely cut off."
"…I see," Ophanimon sighed. "Then there is nothing left for us to do?"
"For the moment," Seraphimon said grimly. "Whoever it is that's behind this, is trying to seal us off in particular. I sense that the force cutting us off is focused on our world much more than the other worlds involved."
"I wonder why that is," Ophanimon mused.
"Because of the Warrior Spirits," Cherubimon growled. "Of the three worlds involved, our Digital World is the oldest and has the strongest fighters. As they say in the human worlds, with age comes experience, and our Digimon Warriors have the most of that… At the moment, the DigiDestined from our dimension are the strongest fighters those kids have, and they're only six strong…"
"So you think that whoever's behind this is afraid that we'll revive the other four Warrior Spirits?" Ophanimon asked.
"It's possible," Seraphimon mused. "If all ten Warrior Spirits were to be revived and come together, they'd be a force to be reckoned with."
"They'd certainly put pressure on the enemy," Cherubimon nodded. "But to do that we'd first need to find human hosts for the remaining four Spirit Warriors, and at the moment we have no way to even contact the human world."
"…But we have two possible candidates for hosts," Ophanimon mused.
"Are you referring to the two boys?" Seraphimon asked.
"I am," she nodded.
"…I don't know," Cherubimon muttered. "The little one, perhaps. I'm sure the Fire Warrior's little brother has great potential as a host for one of the four remaining Spirit Warriors, but as for the other boy… the Warrior of Ice's brother might be too old. He's nearly an adult. He might not cut it."
"I think you both are missing the point," Seraphimon sighed. "Even if both boys become revived Legendary Warriors, that still leaves us with two host-less Spirit Warriors."
Ophanimon and Cherubimon shared a glance. Their friend had a point.
"What do you suggest we do?" Ophanimon asked.
"The only thing we can do," Seraphimon sighed again. "We must try to find a way to reopen the dimensional corridor, or at least find a way to get in touch with the DigiDestined. Once we've established contact with the other Digital Worlds, we can discuss selecting four new Warriors. For now, let us-!"
"My Lords and Lady!" Nefertimon cried as she burst into the room. "We've got trouble! The DigiDestined are under attack!"
The three celestial Digimon quickly left the throne room for the viewing chamber where the palace's staff were monitoring all activities within their Digital World and the one that the DigiDestined had been taken to. The viewing globes revealed that the DigiDestined were engaged in battle with a Digimon none of them were pleased to see when they were informed of who he was.
"Crusademon," Cherubimon growled. "Crusadermon's brother… I'd wondered what had happened to him. Lucemon had sent him away on some mission. I'd just assumed that he'd failed and had been deleted. Looks like I was wrong."
"This could be bad," Ophanimon worried. "I better get back to the DigiDestined's families. They're probably watching this too."
In spite of the DigiDestined's large numbers, Crusademon fought all of the attacking Digimon off easily. He then made a beeline for the Warrior of Light, but swerved at the last second to take a swing at the frozen form of the Fire Warrior. Caught off guard by the unexpected attack, Takuya lost his footing and stumbled backwards. That was when the female Digimon accompanying Crusademon made her move.
The woman Digimon solidified a plucked strand of hair into a needle and threw it at the falling Warrior of Fire. It struck him squarely between the shoulder blades and the shock immobilized his body completely. The bag he was wearing slipped off his shoulder and landed right beside him in a deflated heap.
"Takuya!" the DigiDestined Warrior of Light yelled out in alarm and rage, pulling out his D-Tector and spirit evolved into Lobomon. The other Warrior DigiDestined Spirit Evolved as well, but they were too late.
Crusademon charged at Takuya and knocked him out before hefting the now unconscious boy onto his shoulder. He dealt a wide arching blow with his blade to intercept any and all would-be rescuers. The woman Digimon gave a delighted laugh and changed into a spider form, bursting out of her dress.
"Spider Thread!" she cried, depositing a net of web on top of the Warrior DigiDestined and the partner Digimon to halt any possible pursuit.
"We have him," the she-Digimon grinned. "Now let's go. The master doesn't like to be kept waiting."
Crusademon didn't offer up any comment but followed her as they left the scene.
"Takuya!" Koji cried out in vain as he struggled with the sticky threads.
It took all of the remaining DigiDestined's effort to free the captive Digimon and the Legendary Warriors, but by the time everyone was finally free the spider-woman and Crusademon were long gone.
"Damn it!" the Warrior of Light choked out, slamming a fist into the ground after he reverted back to his human form.
"…This does not bode well, Seraphimon," Cherubimon said softly.
"No, it doesn't," Seraphimon agreed. "It appeared as if they were after the Warrior of Fire specifically…"
"What do we do now?" Cherubimon asked. "Is there no way we can help him?"
"I'm afraid not," Seraphimon sighed. "The boy is on his own. …Our jobs have just gotten a lot harder."
"How so?"
"…We're pressed for time," Seraphimon explained. "And with Takuya captured we now have to deal with an even more distressed group of parents. Our already limited control is slipping out of our hands… And I don't see any way we can change that."
Cherubimon nodded. Things looked grim indeed.
Hiroaki Ishida was once a DigiDestined? The Adventure and Tamers groups seem to have plans of action, but the Frontier world appears to be stuck. Will at least one of the three worlds be able to break free of this mysterious communication's blakout? Find out next time on Digimon: Digital Monsters!
I feel bad that the Tamers third of the story comes off as short, but other than that I'm very satisfied with this chapter. So much happened even though it doesn't really feel like it. Hiroaki was once a DigiDestined! Wow! 0o0
...Ok, yeah, how many of you caught that little bit of foreshadowing in the prologue? XD
The scene that Janyu was watching was the flashback scene Suzie had in chapter 30 of UGotD, and the scene shown in the Frontier World was the beginning of chapter 7. What's nice about PW is that we have a chronological series of events for this first part of the story. Moving on, this was originally going to be an Adventure chapter again, but when i finished that part i was dissatisfied with the length so I threw in excerpts from the other two worlds. Now we've actually got a semi-independant story line going on. Yay!