Daichi: The plot here… well, it reaches a similar destination to canon, but the path it takes…

Verity: Does this have anything to do with the notes I found in the shredder?

BlackGatomon: I'm pretty sure that if they owned these things, she wouldn't shred a large portion of the original plot.

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"So, there's no way to turn it off?" Ken asked.

"Not as far as I know. I couldn't exactly ask anyone else about it, either. They don't have it." T.K. scratched Patamon behind his ears. "But you can control it, somewhat." He hadn't told Ken why it was just them that had that connection. He enjoyed talking with him, but he didn't know if he was ready to bring up that topic yet.

If either of them were ready. Matt fussed over him, and Joe once recommended that he see a therapist, but it wasn't something he was comfortable talking about. Not that a therapist would ever believe him, anyway. "It's not even that difficult."

"How?" T.K. remembered how he and Patamon had learned to properly use it- lots of trial and error involved- and decided to start out with the easiest method that actually worked.

There hadn't actually been a need to develop other methods, they had just happened over the course of several cross-dimension telepathic conversations. With luck, one of them would work for Ken and Wormmon.

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Little known to the DigiDestined in Japan, America had several DigiDestined living there. They didn't travel to the Digital World, mostly, instead dealing with hostile Digimon wandering through the boundaries. For a long time, each individual child learned and worked on their own, but that had recently changed, and they united under one banner. That of their leader, Mimi Tachikawa, who got the position on seniority, despite not having her partner currently with her. She did well enough, anyway, so nobody really minded.

There weren't any big threats, really, and it was always taken care of before they could draw the attention of the media, but that had changed. Soon after the defeat of the Digimon Emperor, a Digimon that had gone missing long ago reappeared, and it was dangerous. This one they couldn't kill, for more than just ethical reasons.

"Wendigomon's getting rather close!" Betamon ran up to the other Digimon and three humans. "If he finds us, he'll almost certainly follow us back to the city!" And there would go any hope of avoiding attention from anyone. Governments would find out, DigiDestined would be tracked down…

It wouldn't be fun for anyone. But they also couldn't hurt Wendigomon. Just when it seemed it couldn't get much worse, Mimi got an email.

Hey, did T.K. say anything to you about where he was going after school? Because we can't find him anywhere. Also, there's an open Digiport pretty close to you, so maybe we could meet up later or something?

An escape. If they got to the Digital World, Wendigomon couldn't hunt them down. They could even pick up Palmon while they were there.

"Guys, I have an idea."

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Ken sighed, feeling the buzzing finally fade away. The first method that T.K. had suggested didn't work so well, and neither did the second, but after a few hours, they finally figured something out. It wasn't perfect, but it did work, and that was all he cared about at the moment.

"The link has a tendency to fade over large distances and when one or both of you are asleep, but it isn't going to go away or anything." He wondered just how long T.K. and Patamon had had their link, that they could have developed so many different ways to use it. He figured he'd just block it out unless he needed something.

After all, it wasn't like having the connection would ever be important or anything.

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"Davis, Kari, Yolei, Cody, these are Willis and Terriermon. Willis, Terriermon, these are some of the DigiDestined from Japan."

"It's nice to meet you," Davis said, and Kari just hoped that he wouldn't do anything too stupid. While Tai had proven time and time again that he deserved to be leader… Davis hadn't. The most he had going for him was that they hadn't died. Given how he acted in daily life, truly a stunning achievement.

"Didn't your group have another member?" Michael asked. "I seem to recall somebody with a Patamon."

"Nobody's seen T.K. since school got out," Kari explained. "He's been disappearing a lot, lately." With what he'd told everyone at the meeting, she had an idea of where he might have been, and so did Mimi, but they couldn't say anything about it.

Not only had T.K. asked them to keep it from the new kids, but none of them knew how they would react to getting that sort of information secondhand. Davis would probably be fine, but Yolei and Cody were both rather opinionated, and they'd rather not divide the group with arguments. They could do that just fine themselves. They didn't need those older than them to help.

"I'm surprised you responded so quickly," Yolei remarked. "You must have really wanted to come see the Digital World."

"Yeah," Willis said, avoiding looking at any of them. "We have… reasons."

"First of which is finding Palmon. Do any of you know where she could be?" Mimi was worried about something, but Kari couldn't tell what.

"I seem to recall her saying something about the nearby river," Hawkmon suggested.

"The one with the dam and Control Spire?" Davis asked.

"That's the one." So they went in that direction.

They found a badly injured Palmon and a Golemon trying to destroy the dam.

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Hey, T.K., you're with Ken, right? Because there's a situation going on right now with what I think is a Control Spire Golemon, but I'm not entirely sure. The others don't want to kill it, because while I'm not sure, they think it's real, and I can't say anything because Mimi's American friends are here, and I don't want them to see us squabbling. Please help.

We'll be there in five minutes. Try to keep everything under control until then.

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Daichi: T.K. isn't the only one who hasn't told the others everything. Mimi's been leader of the American DigiDestined for the past three months and never told anybody. And because I'm not sure where exactly it goes on the timeline, Willis' movie hasn't happened. Fortunately for him, Mimi picked him up, and they've been… dealing with the situation… ever since.