DISCLAIMER: I do not own Digimon, but I do own the plot, and DRAGOON.
Digimon Continuity
Quest for the Digimon
Chapter 11
Turning Point
:. Digital Plane - Desert Plane
01:59 PM JST
"HENRY!!"
"NO!"
"Ah! Help me!" Henry cried.
:. Real World - Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Towers
Main Control Room
01:59 PM JST
"What's wrong with Rika?!" the voice repeated, a little more threateningly this time.
"Now, now Mrs Nonaka. Calm down. Getting mad is not going to get us anywhere." Yamaki skillfully cut in.
"NO! I will not calm down! It is my daughter we are talking about here!" Mrs Nonaka said.
"Yes, Janyu! Where is our son?!" Henry's mother exclaimed, dragging along with her Henry's younger sister, Suzie. Two unknown people that had blue hair also followed. They, Takato presumed, were Henry's older brother and sister.
"Please, Mayumi. Calm down, we are looking for him right now," Mr. Wong tried to calm his own wife.
"No, Janyu. If our son is in that horrible place again, I will make sure I divorce you right this instant!" Mrs. Wong said, leaving the room in shock at her words.
"Yeah, Dad!" the female of the two said. "What is going on with Henry?"
Ryo, was not intimidated by the two angry mothers and a sister. In fact, it seemed to give him a reason to be angry as well. "ENOUGH!!" His voice echoed on the walls, making him sound even louder than the three women and angrier.
All turned to Ryo as one, the adults trembled. Takato instinctively took a step back. This was almost exactly like the time Guilmon turned into Megidramon. Painful memories returned, and comparing the two situations, Takato was sure that if Cyberdramon was here, it would be extremely bad... not that he could think of how Cyberdramon could get any worse. He never knew Ryo kept such a rage in him, masked by the confidence.
Ryo took a deep breath, whist everyone held theirs. Even Yamaki. After calming down, Ryo spoke in his usual confident voice, the one Rika would kill to mute, no trace of the untold anger hidden within the previous one. "If you still want to keep wasting time making stupid threats like divorcing, you can say goodbye to your children..." Gasps were heard from the two mothers, Ryo just ignored them. "... because they most likely will not come back if you keep delaying us."
With that, Ryo coolly walked off, headed for the elevator. Yamaki regained his voice. "Stop Ryo, you are not ready."
Ryo halted in his tracks, and faced the older man, meeting the eyes of Yamaki. "I am ready. I have gone to the Digital World and survived with only the things on my back." he gestured to himself. "There is nothing else I need that I don't have."
Yamaki was at a loss for words. Suddenly, someone shouted something. "DRAGOON has reached the Dessert Plane!"
Takato looked to the screen, sure enough, it was the Dessert-like Plane, except that it was so badly damaged that he could barely look at it, and he himself had been lost in the entire thing, looking for the other Tamers.
"Oh man, do you... think Babamon and Jijimon are alright?" Kenta asked. Takato understood, those were his and Kazu's possible partners, before they met MarineAngemon and Guardromon respectively.
"Yeah. They have to be, they are Mega Digimon after all..." Kazu tried in vain to console his companion.
Takato all of a sudden remembered Ryo and turned to find the latter, but it seemed Ryo had already gone. Yamaki also suddenly noticed Ryo's absence as well, because he quickly went to one of the consoles. Takato would have sworn that it was the building's guard one the other side of the line that Yamaki was talking into.
The others noticed as well. Takato realized that only himself, Kazu, Kenta, Jeri and Suzie remained of the original group that traveled to the Digital World. It made him feel sad, as he expected everyone to go and come back together, not like this.
Yamaki slammed the table, jolting Takato from his thoughts. "Ryo's gone, the guard never stood a chance," He looked to Takato. "You are the only one left." Somehow, Yamaki voicing out the fact made him feel worse.
"What do you mean 'you are the only one left'? We are still here!" Kazu exclaimed, sounding as stupid as ever. That managed to bring a smile out of Takato.
He knew Yamaki also smiled at some point, but he only a turned glare on the visor boy.
"DRAGOON has found them!" another voice yelled out.
The remaining Tamers, the parents and Yamaki turned their eyes to the screen, where a horrible thing was shown.
:. Digital Plane - Desert Plane
02:00 PM JST
Henry watched in shock as he was dragged towards the portal. At that moment, it was as though time had slowed down. He noticed Gargomon calling for him, but had his hands rooted to the ground, feet flying. Rika was on Kyuubimon, while the latter struggled to hold her ground. Cyberdramon had one set of claws in the ground, while the other slashed the air, creating shockwave energy that was able to destroy and erase data, and sent them at Cerberumon. Guilmon was doing the same, both sets of claws full buried, while Lopmon and MarineAngemon held on. It was only then that he realized Guardromon was missing. Great timing, Henry. he thought.
Those who noticed his predicament were unable to do anything, those would could were too busy. No one was left that could help him. The dark feeling was getting stronger with each centimetre that he neared the abyss. This is what Kari must have felt when she was in the Dark Ocean. It was hard to imagine this feeling consuming his entire being. He really admired the girl for keeping a cool head for the amount of time she did in that place.
Henry looked towards the abyss that was the horrible portal to the Dark Area. Despite not knowing what that was, Henry knew that it was not going to be much different from the Dark Ocean. In fact, I think that maybe they are the same thing. He mentally slapped himself. Great, now I am attaining enlightenment...
Henry's feet were partially in the hole now. He felt them numb from the evil darkness. A horrible cold went up his spine. Someone, anyone... help...
God, if there was any up there, must have particularly liked him that day, because directly after the mental cry, a great 'swoosh' was heard.
Rika watched in horror as Henry was sucked into the portal. There was nothing she could do. That was what she hated most about it. Her friend was in danger, he needed her help, and yet, all she could do was watch as he slid inch by inch into the portal conjured by Cerberumon.
Kyuubimon can't Digivolve Ultimate, and all she can do herself is to hold on tight. Bunnymon is half flying holding on for his life. she thought as she watched Gargomon. What can I do, I am the only one who can do anything!... But what? Then, it hit her. Of course! I am such an idiot!
She quickly drew a card, and was prepared to slash it when a blur flew down from the sky, scooped up Henry, and made for the safety of the sky. It then released a barrage of energy beams. Her eyes followed the beams' tracks, to see them impacting on the area around Cerberumon.
Cyberdramon's attacks have thus far missed the hell dog, not even being close to hitting the latter... and he was standing still. The unknown Digimon's attacks hit their mark. Cerberumon lost concentration and the portals disappeared.
:. Real World - Japan, Tokyo, Tokyo Metropolitan Towers
Main Control Room
02:05 PM JST
"Alright! He did it!" Takato cheered. They saw Henry's predicament though the screens. None of them had done anything. DRAGOON itself did all the work.
"Looks like DRAGOON is doing well," Yamaki noted.
"What?" Babel asked. "Didn't you have faith in us?"
Yamaki let out a laugh. Shibumi crossed his arms. "Look people, he is now laughing at us, what should we do about that?" He asked good-naturedly.
"I don't know," Dolphin, aka Rob McCoy said. "How about getting on with the preparations? I hate to admit it, but that kid earlier was right. DRAGOON can take care of Rika and Henry..." Mayumi Wong let out a sigh of relief, trusting in her husband's team. Mrs. Nonaka, however, did not look as reassured.
"Yes," Yamaki turned to Takato. "I trust in Ryo to be able to take care of himself, with that map of his, he can go anywhere easily."
Yeah, if we had Ryo's map last time, we would not have gotten lost like we did. Takato thought, though he doubted he would have been able to navigate such a map. To add to that, he was clumsy. If he used the map, they would take forever anyway.
"Hey!" Daisy exclaimed. "I just had an idea! We could use the map..." She rushed to the console that Ryo put the map in. "... and transfer it into the Tamers D-Powers!"
"Great idea, Daisy!" Dolphin said. He turned to Shibumi. "Can you connect their Digivices?"
"Sure," Shibumi replied.
"You heard them guys, hand over your D-Powers," Yamaki said.
"Alright, alright," Kazu grumbled. "But you could ask nicely."
"No time," was Yamaki's retort.
All the D-Powers were handed to Janyu, who passed them to Shibumi. However...
"Are you alright, Jeri?" Takato asked in concern. She had always kept her own D-Power with her, for reasons unknown. Takato believed she drew strength from the little device. But going to the Digital World again, with everyone but her reuniting with their Digimon, will ignite painful memories.
"Yeah, I'm OK," she said expressionlessly, handing the white device with a gold ring around the screen. Janyu's eyes lingered on the brown haired girl for a while, before returning to his task.
"Now," Yamaki continued, but his words were lost as Takato took no notice. He was looking at Jeri, trying to see if there was anyway to help her. It is the least I can do after she helped me. He reasoned, thinking of how both Jeri and Ryo were the only ones going around, trying to convince everyone that they will meet the Digimon again. Now looking at her, Takato realized that it should probably have been the other way around, as Jeri herself will never meet Leomon again. He wondered what it was like, to never meet Guilmon again. He had thought of it before, but to even think that Guilmon was gone forever, deleted, that thought almost made him fall to his knees in horror.
Except at that moment Kazu slammed Takato's head with his palm, jolting Takato out of his thoughts. In front, Jeri face was very red and she was looking away from him. Then his brain caught a hint of what Kazu had said: "... don't need to stare at her like an idiot, we all know you like her, but now is not the time Chumly..." Takato's face turned a shade of crimson as well, such that you would not be able to differentiate his face from Guilmon's body if you positioned them together. Oh man, I forgot to look away... He mentally hit himself. He went into such a deep thought while still looking at Jeri, making it as though he was staring at Jeri.
Yamaki shook his head. "Takato, focus."
"Right," he replied in a small voice. Kazu would make such a fuss out of it, he would never live it down.
"Now, I want you guys to take these," He started to hand out small devices that looked like... D-Terminals. He however, only gave them to Kazu, Kenta and Jeri, despite still having a few more at hand.
Kazu started talking. "Look Yamaki, I know that the guys in the show use these D-Terminals to talk to each other and all, but can't you be more original?"
In return, he got a glare. "These aren't just your everyday toys that come out from the stores. We have upgraded them best we could, but given the limited budget, I could only add some speakers, a microphone and tune it in with DRAGOON's own frequency, allowing you to communicate with him from far. The frequency is also that of the Biomerge one, that means you can talk to the others from afar in their Biomerged forms too."
Kazu let out a whistle. "What about Takato?" He asked, pointing to the boy. Yamaki thought for a while, before handing the remainder to the boy. The older man also tossed a bag to Takato as well. "Put them inside, and buckle it tight. I don't want you to lose these the way you lost your bread."
Takato started to open his mouth in protest. But his words were stopped when the D-Powers arrived, ready to be taken back. So, instead, he asked a question more suited to the current situation. "What if the D-Terminals don't work?"
"..." None of the staff in the room said anything. Takato understood.
"I... probably shouldn't have asked that..."
Dolphin reacted. "No, no. It was right for you to ask that... but..."
"... we are hoping what the show shows is right." Janyu completed. "After all, Azulongmon was in the show and he showed up... ..." The blue haired man suddenly fell silent, his eyes widening to the size of dinner plates.
"No... way..." Daisy said in disbelief. "I can't believe we never realized that."
"What is it?" Yamaki asked, not accustomed to being in the dark.
Shibumi answered for his two shocked teammates. "Think about it Yamaki, what are the chances of the Show showing a Digimon of the exact same name, holding the exact same title as that which the children met."
Janyu turned to the Tamers. "Kids, is the big blue dragon from the show the same as the one you met?" Takato, Kazu and Kenta nodded in unison. Jeri was... not in the right state of mind to remember meeting the Sovereigns.
Janyu turned to the other Monster Makers. Dolphin nodded. "Yamaki, think about it," he said when he saw Yamaki confused. "The same blue dragon Digimon, the same name, the same title of the Four Harmonious ones? The Four Holy Beasts? The Four Sovereigns?"
He could practically see Yamaki's shocked face. "Then what are we waiting for?" He turned to one of the staff. "I want you to find out who is the one who made this show and bring him here right NOW!"
I don't believe it... Can it be... that the show is... REAL?
Heads up people! Ryo is turning into Rika! ... Nah. Alright, I have now demonstrated Ryo's anger. But he seems to have it under control. Won't want to know what happens when he doesn't. Henry is saved, but Cerberumon is still kicking. Shocking revelation. I did say what I planned for in my profile page, right? This is just some foundation. We will not be sticking around to find out what happens when the maker of the show is discovered.
Moving on, I have shown one of DRAGOON's capabilities. There is more to come.
I have plans to start a new fic, along with this and another that I am also currently working on. I am having a poll on whether you readers think I should make a new one to focus on the part I am about to drop off, or work on one that will focus on how 02 leads up to Tamers and eventually this fic.
Thanks to Giff4815 for Beta Reading this chapter and for your review.
Thanks also to tiff315 for reviewing. Sorry that I never said so in earlier chapters.
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