Aww… After telling you last chapter that some idiot was being stupid and insulting my work, I received a tremendous amount of support from you guys dismissing their comment as immature and incorrect. I really appreciate the support. That idiot "NoobKiller96" apparently insulted random other people because I saw another digimon story complaining about him/her in the summary. Beware of morons on the internet. So again, thank you for your continued support and reviews because those really make my day.
On to business: Miss Mizutani is my creation and she be more than just a female Yamaki (there is a great more to her than that, but I can't reveal it all right away). I know that is what it seems like now, but unlike him, she will have a background story!!! A good one! Really!
Other notes: I am trying to fill in some empty spaces left by the show. I have a perfect way to explain some of the unanswered questions that we all wonder at some time. The first one is where Destiny claims to have sent Tai and Kari's (and Willis') first digi-egg from the first digimon movie. We know that those who saw the fight between Greymon (also referred to as RedGreymon because of his size difference and color in comparison to normal Greymon, just like he was BigAgumon instead of Agumon earlier) and Parrotmon were chosen because they saw the fight and that Gennai (and his group of hooded figures friends from a flashback) created the crests, tags, and digivices and chose the Chosen digimon based on what trait they exhibited strongest (courage, friendship, love, knowledge, ect.). But, at no point do they explain why in the world they received a digi-egg to begin with and spark off the whole show! So, I decided that it would be explained by Destiny. I have other "holes" in the plot that I can fill later (for 01, 02, and 03), so stay tuned.
Now, back to trying to explain things to the Digidestined…
Takato stared in wonder as they reacted the Kamiya residence. The Kamiya residence. If that wasn't awesome enough, there were four boys standing by the door he could recognize anywhere. And what they were holding or standing beside were equally familiar.
One had dark, smooth hair. He looked so calm and generally a nice guy. He held a brown, spiky, cocoon-like something with a green head poking out. The boy looked too friendly to have once been the Digimon Emperor, but Takato knew that Ken originally had been the terror of the digital world on the show. Or rather, in this reality.
Next was an older boy with short, reddish-brown hair. Under his arm was his laptop and its presence was equally as important in Takato's mind to identify the Digidestined of Knowledge as the green-eyed insectoid digimon beside him. Izzy and Tentomon studied the new arrivals with curiosity.
A blond boy with a white hat held onto an orange shape with bat-like wings on his head. He exchanged a glance with Kari. She nodded. Then, the youth known as T.K. smiled slightly. Patamon shared his grin.
The final pair spotted the silent exchange and the human half frowned. His short, spiky brown hair was topped by the iconic goggles that first inspired Takato to adopt his own yellow version. Though those goggles had belonged to another before. Tai, the original Goggle-head. Their new owner still wore them with pride. In his arms was another digimon. A blue one with a white face. The shape of his head reminded Takato vaguely of a miniature Impmon, which Terriermon would likely make a comparison to it later. From the boy's expression, Davis wasn't quite over Kari, but he wasn't as bad as he used to be. DemiVeemon waved his short arm at the tamers. The new leader of the Digidestined turned his attention to them as well.
"Sweet. Two more digidestined and one has a champion," he grinned, looking at Leomon.
"You know Henry, playing stuffed animal doesn't really get me any respect," pointed out Terriermon, startling Davis with his presence. "No one ignores Guilmon after all."
The tamer shook his head, "Terriermon."
"Do I even have to say it? Momentai, Henry," the rabbit grinned.
"From Kari's phone call, they are more than your average digidestined," pointed out Ken, shifting Minomon in his arms. "She mentioned alternate realities."
"Like that weird dream world?" Davis asked. "I couldn't quite get what she meant."
"From what I gathered, she meant something more along the lines of an alternate human and digital world," explained Izzy. "Gennai likely would be able to explain better, but that's what it sounds like to me. Perhaps he could shed some light on their situation."
"Or maybe you could try talking to us rather than acting like we can't hear you!" shouted Rika, causing the digidestined half of the group to jump and the tamer half to shake their heads.
"Is she okay?" asked Agumon to Guilmon softly.
The red digimon shrugged, "She's just grumpy sometimes."
"Where's Gatomon and Biyomon?" Patamon questioned the girl digidestined.
Sora answered, "Bringing along the rest of the group. We have a more digimon coming."
Izzy blinked, "How many more?"
"Just two more for our team are coming," announced Takato, overcoming his awe at the existence of all these characters.
"And as interesting as this is, shouldn't we get inside?" T.K. suggested, glancing around. "Right now we're kind of exposed."
The other digidestined nodded in agreement. Tai pulled out a key and unlocked the door, allowing the various children and digital beings to enter. Jeri glanced up at her partner as the twins slid off him once more. His size was rather problematic at times.
Kari approached her, "You know, we have a balcony. Your friend should be able to fit there fairly comfortably."
"Thanks," smiled the green-dressed tamer. "Leomon is wonderful, but most buildings aren't designed for him."
"Jeri, what's taking them so long?" Ai asked softly. "Do you think Impmon is okay?"
Leomon reassured the child, "I'm certain he and Renamon will be here soon."
Davis, possessor of the Digi-Eggs of Courage and Friendship, tried not to feel claustrophobic. Even with the largest digimon, Leomon, on the balcony with the sliding door open so that he could hear and be a part of the conversation if he wished, the room was filled with humans and digimon. All the in-training and smaller rookies were being held to prevent anymore crowding. And the boy with the yellow goggles had mentioned that there were more coming. So they were waiting before the strange meeting could officially begin.
DemiVeemon sighed, bored. In this form, he was a playful bundle of energy. But the restriction of space was holding him back. The boy grinned down at him.
"Don't worry. I'm sure things will get more interesting," he assured the digimon.
The digidestined caught sight of the new boy in the blue hoodie. He seemed be wrestling with a bigger, stronger, red and black version of Agumon. The digimon was determined to keep his head in the refrigerator while the brown-haired youth seemed equally set on getting him away.
"But I'm hungry, Takato," cried the reptile.
"Guilmon, we're guests here," explained the boy tiredly. "You can't eat them out of house and home."
The digimon turned and blinked his yellow eyes in confusion. "I wouldn't eat their house. Just the food."
"It's an expression. I don't mean…"
Tai interrupted the exchange, "Hey, if he doesn't mind my mom's leftovers, go for it. Just don't blame me for the results."
"He'll eat anything," snickered Terriermon, earning him a look from the boy earlier identified as Henry.
Suddenly a shout came through the open sliding door. The boy could see Leomon stiffen at the sound and his head turned.
"I'm going to get you for that!"
Davis recognized the voice of an apparently furious Biyomon but the purple blur that leapt through the opening into the overcrowded interior was new. The bird followed quickly, along with Gatomon and a large, yellow, fox-like creature.
"What happened?" demanded Sora.
"That little virus yanked my feathers out," growled the pink rookie to her partner. Sure enough, the purple figure held something in his red glove. "I'm going to make him pay."
The digimon rolled his emerald eyes, "Are all the losers around here so sensitive? Foxy, back me up here. These guys are way too stiff."
"If you insist on antagonizing everyone we come in contact with," the yellow digimon sighed, "you can deal with the consequences yourself. And you know if you try to bother me, I'll tie you up with your own bandana."
"Impmon!" called the two youngest children. Davis couldn't figure out why they were here, considering their age. "We were worried about you. It was taking forever."
"Munchkins, relax a little," he grinned. "Pinky and the stray are just slow." The purple digimon ignored the glares sent by Biyomon and Gatomon. "But I did speed things up at the end."
Then a figure who had been silently standing in the corner, her eyes shut previously as if in deep thought, stepped forward. Her blue eyes swept across her audience. Her cloak looked impressive, but seemed strange in the real world. But it suited her. Silence met her gaze. The dark-haired girl took a deep breath.
"To begin, I am not simply another person," she informed them. "I am Destiny. I am the fulfiller of prophecies. I am the balancer of realities. I have seen the beginning of the digital world's existence on multiple occasions, as well as the destruction of both worlds in a variety of manners. I have been to universes that know only fear, hate, and war between the humans and digimon, just as I've encountered them living in peaceful co-existence."
She paused as they tried to absorb this. The strange digidestined nodded, as if they already knew this. Kari and Gatomon also gave a slight indication of understanding. The rest stared in astonishment at her claims. Davis didn't realize his mouth was open until DemiVeemon closed it for him. It was so strange, this girl describing... that as if she was merely commenting on the weather.
"My duty is to use prophecies I am given to maintain a balance of good and evil, right and wrong, order and chaos, darkness and light to reality. And I do this for several different realities," the girl continued. Her deep blue eyes were so calm and certain, no one felt that her strange words were less than the truth. "Some realities… 'brush' against others. They seem vastly different from each other in most details, but strange coincidences can be found between them. Like familiar people or digimon can exist or similar events occurring in multiple realities that have little else in common." She indicated the new digimon and humans. "Their reality 'brushes' against this one."
"Prodigious!" smiled Izzy. "What you're implying is…"
Tai held up his hand suddenly, "So, not only are you saying that all of you are from some other Earth, which considering all the strange things we've seen in our lives, I could accept, but your reality is 'brushing' ours? How is it 'brushing' against ours, exactly."
"… The show," whispered Takato.
"What?" Ken asked.
Destiny nodded, "There are those who are sensitive to the other realities. They may have odd dreams or strange memories of events that they have never seen, but occur in universes that 'brush' theirs. One of those individuals ended up being the writer for a children's show. Thus, events for this reality were learned in another in the form of apparent fiction."
"So, our lives became a television show?" gasped T.K. in surprise.
"It's called 'Digimon Adventures,' and was my favorite show," confirmed Takato.
"Do you realize how strange that is?" Sora asked.
The new red-haired girl, standing near the tall, yellow, bipedal fox, pointed out, "Stranger than living creatures made of data that come from a world parallel to ours?"
"As fascinating as all this is," groaned the purple rookie, Impmon, "could you get to the point? Why in the world are we here instead of at Braniac's kid sister's party? I have better things to do than deal with a new group of digi-dorks. So, Dee, what's the deal?"
Destiny glanced at him, her face gaining an expression that Davis could not easily identify, and sighed, "While much of what is to come is yet hidden, I do know something is coming. And all must be ready for it. 'Digidestined and tamers will encounter past foes in new forms and new foes in past forms. Secrets hidden even from their owners shall be remembered.' But there still is a great deal to be revealed before this is over."
"Does she always sound like that?" asked Patamon softly.
Terriermon muttered, "She's in prophecy-mode. Of course she sounds all mysterious and cryptic."
Henry, ignoring his partner's comments, finally requested a straight answer. "So what's the next step? Where do we go from here?"
The dark-haired prophetess smiled, "We find Gennai. We entered the digital world and seek him. He has something that we require."
The tapping of computer keys carried across the entire seventeenth floor. Everyone was focused on their computer screens, working on their job, their mission. The programming algorithms and formulas were complicated for most of their projects, but they were the best. That was why DADP hired them after all.
Miss Mizutani sighed slightly, rubbing her head in frustration. Her current source of annoyance was her pride and joy, her personal project. She had envisioned it since the general public learned of the existence of digimon. In the beginning, though, the idea had seemed too impossibly large in scope and too grand to succeed. But a few months ago, she discovered hope. She made a miraculous break-through and suddenly her dream seemed possible.
A program designed to detect and monitor digimon in the human and digital world, assess their threat level, and remove the dangerous ones. Technically, in her opinion, all digimon were trouble and only suffering would come of them, but just as there were anti-digimon groups, there were also supporters of the digital creatures. DADP couldn't yet remove them entirely, but perhaps someday. Until then, Mizutani's project would serve as insurance.
Guardian was a beautiful program, or it would be. After her original break-through, she had presented the proposal to her superiors. The simplicity of the concept was tempting. They agreed to allow her to continue her work. Now, all her progress was slowed to a crawl. Right now, she could use it effectively if she wished, but it wasn't selective enough yet. She need to set the parameters to be able to assess when one of the digital beings counted as being too dangerous to live.
Mizutani in many ways was an expert in the very creatures she hated. They could be broken into three basic types. Vaccines were generally considered good; their personalities having a high emphasis on justice, morals, and supposedly "fighting evil." Viruses apparently desire power above almost anything and could be greedy, selfish, wild, or "evil." They were the most likely to be danger to the general public. From her research, those digimon who had attacked the real world had been viruses. The final type, data, was more flexible in their behavior patterns. They could act like either of the first types or even somewhere in between.
Then there were levels of power. Baby and in-training digimon were harmless in comparison to their larger brethren. Rookies could harm individual humans, but champions, ultimates, and megas were the real threats to public safety.
So, should viruses be targeted at lower levels than vaccines? Should all viruses be removed? Should vaccines be completely ignored for now? Would removing all megas be best? Mizutani sighed. Should she work on an individual species basis instead of general types? The woman didn't know. And that was what was slowing her down.
She considered her work on screen. And then she glared. Stupid digimon. Even when humans had no contact with those things, they could still cause problems. She hated them. It was a deep hate and anger that had burned even before she learned what she hated. How she could despise something the world was ignorant of, she didn't know. She just knew that for years she felt frustration beneath the calming medication that kept her mind away from her past "problems," and the first time she heard the word "digimon," the frustration burst into flaming hate. Her frustration had found it's target.
"If I had my way," she muttered grumpily, "I'd make sure no one would ever deal with one of those digital monsters and any that tried to ruin our lives would be destroyed."
Okay, I now have a request. Why do you think they need to visit Gennai? What do you think he has that the Digidestined and tamers need? I want your predictions. In fact, give me any predictions dealing with my story you have. I enjoy them.
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