05
"Brand New World"
"What's your name?" Tai asked the blonde girl in front of him.
"Alice… Alice McCoy," was her answer.
"I'm Tai," Tai replied. "Tai Kamiya."
Tai looks around, it seems like a city, with the exception of a big red jello blob in the distance.
"Guess I'll start with the obvious," Tai began. "Where am I and how did I get here?"
"You're in another dimension," Alice answered. "It was your crest that sent you here, because your courage gave it the power to do so."
"How do you know this?"
"Your crest talked to me before you woke up," she replied. "It asked me if I wanted to help you control your power. I had to know what you were fighting for."
"Things just keep on getting weirder," Tai mumbled to himself, then he notices something in the sky, flying monsters. "That's not good."
Tai grabs Alice's hand and begins to run away. "Hey, do you know how to activate our power?"
"I… don't know," Alice mumbled, suddenly realizing a major problem.
"Great," Tai grumbled. "This way."
Tai led her around several buildings in hopes of losing the strange flying creatures. Panting behind a building he turns towards her again. "Just what is going on here?"
Alice looks at the red blob in the center of the city, "That, is the D-Reaper. Its sole purpose is to eliminate all humans and digimon."
"Digimon," Tai started. "This may be a different earth but are the digimon from the same world?"
"I don't think so, if the Earths are different, our digital worlds might be different too."
"Duck!" Tai jumped onto her and knocked her down, barely avoiding a laser beam. "Come on!"
The two of them turn into an alley only to find more of the agents waiting for them. The monsters fire as they ran off.
"Look out!" Alice screamed as she pushes Tai out of the way.
Tai falls onto the ground and looks back as Alice is buried under rubble. "ALICE!"
To Tai's surprise, Alice walked right through the pile and in front of him.
"You don't need to worry about me," she explained to him. "I've already passed on."
"You… you're a ghost?" Tai's voice trembled.
Alice just nodded.
"I don't think I can take anymore surprises," Tai struggled to keep a level head.
The boy quickly grabbed Alice's hand and dragged her out of the area, away from the pursuing creatures.
Tai and Alice continue to run and avoid more of the D-Reaper's agents. Turning a corner, they face down several more monsters. Looking back, their chasers were coming at them. Tai puts his arm in front of Alice and they both step back.
"Tai,"
"Huh?" Tai sees a bright light from out of the corner of his eye. It was his Digivice, "My digivice, but why?"
"Tai…" Alice held out her hand. "Please."
Confused at first Tai just looked at his digivice, Alice, and the D-Reaper's agents. He hands her his shining digivice. Alice takes it in both hands and presses it against herself, the light glows brightly and engulfs the both of them.
The monsters fire off their attacks at the light, creating a huge cloud of smoke before stopping.
"Now this is more like it," a voice from inside the smoke spoke. The dark clouds cleared up to reveal Tai holding up a crest of courage symbol in front of him like a shield. "Alice! We'll need to figure out how to control this power fast."
I'm with you, Tai.
"Let's go!" Tai charges towards the strange creatures, throwing his crest like a disc.
"Lightning Joust!" Gallantmon blasts away some monsters in his path. He quickly turns to slash away some that were sneaking around him. "Shield of the Just!" A great beam of energy engulfs the street, wiping out anything that was on it.
"Takato," Guilmon notices something happening in the distance. "What's going on over there?"
"Where Guilmon?" Takato looks around trying to catch what Guilmon saw. An explosion not too far caught his eye. "I see it now. Something's fighting the D-Reaper."
"We should help it Takato."
"Right!"
Gallantmon jumps off to where the explosions are originating, fighting off any pursuers.
"Eat this!" Tai launches another courage disc at the monsters, cutting them apart. More of them come in from the side and Tai makes another crest to shield himself. Behind his barrier he fires off read beams of energy from the palm of his hand. A purple monster jumped above his targets, intending to land on top of the boy. Tai clenched his fist, fire energy gathers around, he swings at the creature as it came down.
The blast dissolved the monster and Tai fired off a more concentrated stream at the creatures.
"Lightning Joust!"
A white beam of light wiped out a small group of monsters in front of Tai. A white armored knight landed in front of him.
"Taichi?! Taichi Yagami?!" the digimon asked.
"Taichi Yagami?" Tai asked back. "Where did you get that from? I'm Tai, Tai Kamiya."
"B-but-"
"Behind you!"
The digimon turns around to shield himself from some attacks. Tai runs ahead and fires of some more blasts of energy.
"I'd like to stay and chat but we need to deal with this first," Tai told him.
Tai and the white knight spread out to wipe out all of the remaining creatures. "Lightning Joust!"
"HUAAH!"
"Whew," Tai panted. He collapsed once he saw that there were no more enemies left in the area. He saw himself glow then flash. Alice appeared standing right next to him.
The white knight also glowed and separated into a small red dinosaur and a boy with goggles on his head.
"Oh great," Tai to chuckle nervously. "Another surprise. Heh…"
"Hey," the smaller boy spoke to him. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine," Tai told him. "I'm just beat. By the way, what's your name?"
"Oh," the younger boy smiled. "My name's Takato Matsuki and this is my digimon, Guilmon."
The red digimon sniffed him a little, "You're not a digimon. How did you fight the D-Reaper?"
"It's-" Tai stuttered. "A really long and confusing story."
Alice walked up to Takato. "He came from another world, thanks to his cre-"
"Well whatever happened it was cool that you got those powers," Takato blurted out.
Tai and Alice looked at each other, confused.
"Huh?" Takato turned to where Tai was staring. "What are you looking at?"
Alice walked up next to Tai. "You're the only one that can see and hear me now."
"That's… inconvenient," Tai mumbled.
"Huh?" Guilmon and Takato looked at him funny.
"It's nothing," Tai quickly told them. "Sorry."
"Anyway," Takato started. "We need to get you to someplace safe. We can't keep fighting these things here."
"You're right," Tai got up. "Where can I go? Hopefully some place where I can explain my story."
Takato pointed to a certain building. "Why don't you start there? That's where everyone is finding out a way to fight this thing."
"Thanks," Tai thanked him. "I'll head there now, don't worry about me."
"Huh?"
"Just do what you have to, there are a lot of questions I want to ask and even more that I have to answer. But for now, you should stay focused on fighting that thing."
"O-okay…"
BIOMERGE DIGIVOLUTION
"Guilmon biomerged to… Gallantmon!"
Gallantmon jumped off to rejoin the fight as Tai and Alice quickly merged and ran off quickly in the direction Takato was pointing.
Tai…
"What is it Alice?"
What are you going to do?
"I don't know," he told her truthfully. "I will tell them the truth. I know it sounds stupid, but having a giant red blob in the center of the city sounds pretty stupid too. But there's only one way to convince them, my Digivice. I know that might be the only way I can get them to believe me!"
Alice was quiet for a second, she knew he wants to get home as fast a he can, but she can also sense that he wants to help this world in any way he can. Tai… I have a request.
"What is it?"
When you mention how you got your power, could you please leave me out?
A short silence overcame the two.
"I guess there's no helping it," Tai broke the silence. "There's no way to prove it anyway if I'm the only one that can see and hear you."
Thank you.
Author: I had to keep the encounter short, like I said, I don't want to mess with the Tamer's story. Tai's adjusting to everything that's happening surprisingly easily. How would you react if you ran into an attack that could kill you, wake up in another dimension with a ghost right next you and you find out you have superpowers?
Anyway, a short break from all the action next time.
