Welcome to chapter 2 of The Virus Lord. I forgot to mention in the last chapter that this will be an AU, the major changes are that everyone's personalities will be colder and darker (except terriermon's) and that Kai and his grandfather both died in the D-Reaper events, anything else that will be affected I will say later. And now onto the story!

1 year after Takato left for the digital world

'Hey Gigimon, did you see that?'

'See what Takatomon?'

'That black shadow, it looked kind of like a cat'

'No, sorry'

Takato and Gigimon were trudging through a dense forest trying to find some food, this confused them because last time they were in the digital world, they didn't need to eat. They have been walking for a few hours now and the most interesting thing they could see was dirt, when suddenly 'Hey Takatomon, look a clearing. Maybe we can set up a camp for the night.'

'We don't have to set up a camp, look over there, there's a cave, we can stay in there for the night, it's starting to get dark.'

This had also confused Takato because usually the day transitions to night instantaneously. They went into the cave for the night.

Human world- Rika's house

Rika was having an intense mental conversation with herself

'I should just forget about that stupid gogglehead'

'But what if he's still alive'

'Shut up, he can't be alive, it's impossible for someone to be away for so long and not be dead'

'He is not dead! He has Gigimon with him'

'THAT DOESN'T MATTER HE IS DEAD AND THERE IS NOTHING I CAN DO!'

'Are you so sure he's dead?'

'Yes'

'Then he's dead'

Rika started sobbing.

'Rika are you ok?'

'Yes, Renamon, I'm fine'

Henry's house

'Hey Henry, daddy wants to see you'

'Why'

'He said something about the digital world'

'What about?'

'Creating a por…'

'Don't worry I'm sure your dad just wants to destroy the digital world' cut in Terriermon

'Terriermon' exclaimed Henry, annoyed about his partner's sarcasm

'Momentai'

'Anyway just get down to Hypnos' started Suzie 'He wants you ASAP'

Hypnos- monster maker offices

'Dad you wanted to see me?'

'Yes Henry, come in. Do you remember Shibumi?'

'Yeah, why?'

'He sent me an email with a file attached, the email read:'

'To my old friend Janyu, (is that how you spell it) recently I've been doing research on what happens when a digimon bio-emerges, what I found was very interesting but I need some help with a line of code that I found.' 'In the attached file contains the line of code I found, send me your results'

'Shibumi believes that the gateway between the digital and human worlds has been sealed one year ago, but he believes that this line of code allows digimon to still pass through'

'Ok, so why did you want me here?'

'He believes that we can create a stable digiportal with this coding'

'Holy shit' Henry muttered as his mind processed that.

And end chapter. Where do you think Takato is? What did he see (it was something)? And thank you for reading, advice is much appreciated. AtomicPotato out!