Alright, the horrors of tests piling upon the poor writer are pushing me down. Way too much studying is really cutting into my creative free time. I will try to keep it going when I can. I think that trying to do this is way more fun than preparing for whatever exam I have next, but what are you going to do? I have to get good grades after all.
And just to remind you, I do not own Digimon or most of the characters. I did invent the following things from stories "Destiny" and "Fate" so far: Destiny, Fate, Fatemon, Miss Kirai Suzuki, the last name of the twins, Polydromon, Manipumon, Beelzemon Chaos Mode (with the help of my younger brother), Tamiko Mizutani, the first name of the twins' mother, and the story line itself. I think that's everything so far. I will end up with more added later because I have plans. Interesting plans…
Daylight was just beginning to trickle through the windows when a shout of surprise awoke most of the people and digimon inside the Kamiya residence. Even Tai was yanked out of the depths of slumber by the sudden disturbance to the peace. The original Goggle-head scrambled out of his room, nearly tripping over an equally startled Agumon in his haste, and prepared himself for whatever threat dared to invade his home.
What he wasn't expecting to find was the red-haired tamer pinning the purple rookie to the ground by sitting on him, her arm wrapped around his neck and her knee on his back.
"And if you ever try a stunt like that with me again, I'll make you wish the D-reaper ate you," Rika continued to threaten. "This is one of the stupidest things you've ever done. I expect this type of stunt form Kazu and Kenta, but you must really have a death wish."
From underneath her, his face buried into the blanket, Impmon shouted, "Fox-face, call your crazy tamer off. Munchkins, help me out. She's squashing me."
"I believe you brought this on yourself," noted Renamon. "And your tamers have already pleaded for mercy on your regard. I believe the original plan was to tie you up with your own bandana and leave you to the mercy of a passing Ogremon. She's going easy on you."
"This is going easy on me?" exclaimed the virus type as the girl finally let him up. "You try waking up because some insane human sat on you and started shouting in your ear sometime, toots."
Tai shook his head, wondering if the tamers and digidestined would survive the day, before going to assure his parents that everything was under control. ("No, there is no reason to make breakfast since everyone is having cereal. Really, Mom, you don't need to make something. Go back to bed. We're fine without wheat germ pancakes.")
By agreement, the large group slowly trickled towards Izzy's home. By the time Ken, Minomon, and Destiny (her borrowed clothes wrinkled from sleeping in them) arrived, most of the rest of the others were already present. Only Davis and DemiVeemon were still absent, likely from oversleeping. Hopefully, his sister would toss him out of bed soon. Just as was the case the night before, space was a real issue. How in the world Leomon was able to fit was anyone's guess.
"I don't suppose you can help with…?" whispered Jeri, glancing at her cramped partner and hoping the prophetess would understand her meaning.
Destiny shook her head slightly, "I know I digivolved him from baby to champion, but his more 'familiar' form is as a champion. I could no more change him from his current level than I could change Guilmon. Every digimon has a level they are most familiar and are natural to, even if that may change in time. For digimon without partners, it is usually the form they have reached naturally at that time. For those who digivolve and dedigivolve constantly, it is the one they spend most of their time as. I could return a digimon to that level since I currently don't have a partner, but not much else."
The girl smoothed out her green dress and sighed, "I understand. I just feel bad that he looks so… squashed."
"As soon as the final digidestined arrives, we'll go and he'll have plenty of room," assured the dark-haired girl. "We'll go speak with Gennai and learn why you are here."
"And how to find Fate?" prompted Jeri.
"I… don't know how directly involved he is in this situation, whatever it is," Destiny admitted. "The more I study what little I know so far, the more it seems that the main prophecy and mine are parallel rather than intertwined. Memories and the past seem to be the key in both cases."
"What do you know?" the tamer asked.
She shook her head, "Not much. I remember you and your friends. I know background information of this reality and the digidestined. I know that we have to see Gennai, but I know I have to find someone on the way."
"Who?"
"I'll know when we find him," the dark-haired girl shrugged, looking annoyed at not knowing. "I know that Kari and Ken need to bring something with them, though he will bring it anyway. Finally, I have… the feeling that the past and memories are important in both cases. Any other bits of information I have, I already told you."
The door burst open, allowing a brown-headed boy and his tiny blue friend to stumble in.
"The Hedgehog lives!" smirked Impmon. "Glad you could join us. What took you so long? Scared that Rika'll beat you up again?"
Davis glared at the purple rookie, "You did that on purpose. You knew that Rika would freak out on me. You set me up."
"Duh! And I thought the Kazu kid was slow," he remarked, rolling his eyes. "Of course I did it on purpose. Awesomeness like that doesn't happen on its own."
"She could have killed me," complained the boy. "She's worse than Yolei."
"I'll be sure to mention that to her when she gets back," T.K. smiled.
Patamon nodded, "Be sure to run fast."
"If you don't stop," Rika sighed, "things will not go well for you. Your pointless argument is wasting my time."
"Now that we're all here," interrupted Izzy, "we can open a portal on the computer."
"Don't bother, Digidestined of Knowledge," Destiny announced. "I can handle that myself. I do I do request you remain here. Keep an eye on the internet."
"How are you…? Why would I…? What am I watching for?" the youth tried to ask, but unable to decide where to start.
"I don't know what is coming yet, but something is and if there is a trace of evidence to be found, I know you will find it," explained the prophetess. "Look for anything unusual, contact others, and try to uncover the threat."
"But if you don't want to open a portal, how will…?" he tried again, but she smiled.
"Who said we wouldn't use a portal? I just said don't bother using a computer to do it."
Enjoying the look of pure confusion on the unusually knowledgeable youth, Destiny pulled out her D-arc to produce a colorful portal. The tamers had seen this display before, but the Digidestined reacted with shock to her actions.
"Prodigious!" breathed Izzy. "Do all of you possess that capability?"
"Nope, just the prophecy-girl," Terriermon smirked.
Frowning, Tai began to ask, "Wait, if she has one of your odd digivices, does that mean she's a tam…"
The dark-haired girl stopped through the portal, not wishing to hear the boy's words. She didn't want to be reminded again that her partner was absent. Someday, she'd see Fate again. Soon, if she could finish an unknown prophecy. As she arrived in the digital world, she couldn't help but smile as her cloak, worn after all this time because it was his idea, reappeared on her.
This digital world was nothing like Impmon expected. He thought that since the human world was, more or less, close to what he'd already knew, he had believed that the digital ones would be equally similar. Where Destiny's portal spat them out removed that assumption.
The biggest difference was, obviously, the sky. It looked like the same blue one that hung over the human one. Clouds and even the sun took the place of data streams and the earth. For a moment, he wondered if they were even in the digital world at all.
Next, there were the changes to the group. Hedgehog apparently experienced a costume change along the way. Somehow, he gained a jacket with flames and a fur collar. His mini partner also must have digivolved, becoming closer to Impmon in height and gaining a yellow 'V' shape on his forehead. The feline's partner, Kari, just gained a pair of long, pink gloves. The dark-haired boy with the insect was holding a catapillar-like digimon instead of the cocoon. Finally, Destiny once more wore her cloak.
"Um… I think you messed up, Destiny," commented Terriermon. "You dumped us in a giant park."
"What are you talking about?" Gatomon asked.
"This doesn't look like the digital world," the rabbit-like creature. "It's too normal."
Davis scowled, "What did you expect to see?"
"Glowing, weird lights," answered Mako, "and a funny sky."
"Pretty much what the munchkin said," Impmon agreed. "This looks like the human world."
Henry explained, "This digital world, and its inhabitants, evolved from a different source and developed in a different way. This one is closer in appearance to Earth and follows those rules more often than our digital world does. No data streams, no instant nightfall, you can actually get hungry here, and there are no different layers. And fewer digimon who will attack us on their own incentive."
"Sounds like paradise," the purple rookie rolled his eyes. "When do we ever get that lucky? I give us five minutes tops before something tries to kill us. I vote we toss the Hedgehog at whatever sharp-toothed monster attacks us. He'd make a perfect distraction. If Rika couldn't kill him, nothing will."
"Leave Davis alone," ordered the boy's partner.
"Make me, Smurf," retorted Impmon. "Not a single one of you digi-dorks in this reality have a sense of humor. Foxy takes a joke better than you. I get that the humans are acting stupider than usual in your human world, but that's no reason to be serious about everything."
"What do you mean…?" Takato tried to interrupt, but Davis continued the growing argument.
"Don't call Veemon a Smurf and who are you calling a digi-dork?"
"Technically, it could apply to either you or blue boy, because you are both are complete dorks. Does it really matter if I mean the digidestined or the digimon?"
"Alright, Veemon, do you want to teach him a lesson?"
Impmon grinned evilly, "Just me versus your Smurf? Piece of cake."
Before the pair of rookie's could come to blows, something decided to interrupt.
"Arrow of Artemis!"
A long, icy shard buried itself into the spot previously occupied by the arguers. Digimon and humans turned towards the source of the assault, the digital creature positioning themselves in front of their partners. Impmon, to far from the twins to do this properly, glancing back to see Jeri holding the pair's hands. Leomon loomed over the trio protectively.
Three fairly humanoid shapes emerged from the treeline. One was shirtless, his bright-red muscular chest demonstrating that he was no weakling physically. His human-like head was covered by what looked like a saber-toothed snow leopard with a red-horn. Around his wrists were a set of metal cuffs. The most distracting aspect was the flames flickering around his fists.
The next one was more bird-like in some aspects. His arms possessed long, white feathers with red tips, giving the impression of wings. A helmet in the shape of a bird's head hid his face, the same way the red dude's did. This guy had a variety of weapons on him, including a sword, a crossbow, and a shield attached to his left arm. Even weirder, he had a golden falcon resting on his right wrist.
The final strange digimon seemed to be covered in a series of white and blue crescent-moon shapes. She appeared to be wielding a double-crescent blade. On her legs seemed to be images of the moon. A thin pink ribbon nestled on her form like a scarf, adding a sense of femininity to the being.
Takato began reading a description from his D-arc, "The red guy is Marsmon, a mega vaccine type. His Corona Sanctions will burn you up, but his main strength is all unarmed combat."
"The girl is Dianamon, another mega. This data type, associated with the moon, has light and dark sides to her personality," described Rika. "Her Arrow of Artemis and Crescent Hook are a dangerous combo."
"And that leaves Valkyrimon, the mega form of Hawkmon. His Feral Sword, Lightning Arrow, and Laser Javelin, combined with his incredible speed, leave his opponents in deep trouble," concluded Henry.
Impmon shook his head, "Told you, five minutes tops, and something's here to kill us."
Tai tightened his grip on his digivice. In a matter of seconds, the group had gone from tensely waiting for the hot-heads to either move on to blows or become best friends (sort of like he and Matt did) to facing a trio of megas. The frozen projectile proved that the arrivals were aggressive. Doubtless a fight was imminent.
The original Goggle-head mentally went through the options. Agumon could digivolve to WarGreymon. Veemon and Wormmon would have to DNA digivolve to reach the mega level. Of the new guys, at least one could…
Takato held his D-arc and a holographic image appeared. The younger boy read off a description, identifying the digimon before him. The digidestined smiled at the thought of Izzy drooling over the piece of technology. The small devices could recognize digimon like the boy's laptop while being more portable and being in the form of a cool hologram like out of a sci-fi movie. Rika and Henry copied the kid's action, naming the other two digimon.
Valkyrimon stepped forward, small wings and silvery straps attached to his metallic sandals, "Humans, you are not welcome here. You have one chance to return to your world unharmed. We will not allow you to ruin our world and destroy us with your presence."
"What are you talking about?" demanded an insulted Tai. "Me and my friends have been saving the worlds for the last four years or so."
"And if you say the words 'Digimon Emperor,' I would like to point out the large number of digimon that do more damage," T.K. added. "The Dark Masters did far more."
Marsmon shook his head, "He was only the tip of the iceberg of what your kind is bringing. You are a dangerous race that cannot co-exist with even your own species. If you remain, we will destroy you." He glanced at a furious Agumon, "Your poor, misguided digimon are welcome to remain if they renounce their foolish bond to the humans."
"You can't be serious," growled Terriermon. "It's the Devas all over again, only mega-style. And not enough room for MegaGargomon here."
Rika stepped forward, "Takato, feel like showing off to your hero? Sakuyamon and Gallantmon with Rapidmon for back-up?"
"Count me in," grinned Impmon. "I feel like beating someone up."
"We're helping too," Ai declared, her and her brother running over to the purple being.
"No way," he frowned. "I'll handle it myself, munchkin."
"Please," begged Mako. "Everyone else helps all the time and we want to. The more help you have, the better."
Wondering what the pair meant exactly, Tai saw the virus type sigh slowly, "Fine, but I don't like you two kids being involved."
"Leave this to us," Rika instructed the digidestined. "We've dealt with anti-human losers before."
With that, she pulled out her D-ac and grinned Renamon. Takato held his out and Ai held their purple one so her brother could touch it.
"Renamon Biomerge to… Sakuyamon!"
"Guilmon Biomerge to… Gallantmon!"
"Impmon Biomerge to… Fatemon!"
As the three digimon (and their respective humans) were swallowed up by light, Henry held a card up and closed his eyes. The small rectangle shifted to a shade of blue. The tamer then slid it through the green-ringed D-arc.
"Digi-Modify! Matrix Digivolution Activate!"
"Terriermon digivolve to… Gargomon! Gargomon Matrix digivolve to… Rapidmon!"
As the light from the various changes faded, four digimon stared at the enemy. After the whole Willis, Terriermon, and Lopmon (now rejoined with the other two) event in America, Tai had borrowed Izzy's laptop to learn about them. This Rapidmon was different. He possessed green armor instead of the gold one brought on by the Digi-egg of Destiny. Other than a few other cosmetic changes, he looked like the picture.
In addition to Rapidmon, a red-caped knight in shining armor, a golden fox shaman, and a sword-wielding version of Beelzemon replaced the others. That wasn't extremely unusual, considering all the things Tai had experienced. What was concerning to the boy was four tamers were no longer present.
"I assume that you shall not be going back where you belong," sighed Dianamon. "You have humans choose to pollute this world with your presence and you digimon remain slaves to them."
"At least it should be an interesting fight," grinned Marsmon.
The golden mega shifted her staff in her hands. A tiny smile appeared below her mask.
"We call that one," she claimed, her voice a shocking mix of Renamon and Rika.
"And we'll take Valkyrimon," nodded the knight, his words sounding like Takato and Guilmon.
"So we're dealing with the girl," Impmon's voice acknowledged from the final mega. "Try not to get jealous, Foxy." A childish voice, the kid Mako, added from the same digimon, "But girls are icky, Impmon."
"How…?" began Kari, but Gatomon interrupted.
"I think they DNA digivolved, but with their humans. I don't know how that's possible, but that's what it sounds like."
Tai could just stare as the battle began, wondering what the next surprise would be.
Yes! Fight scene coming up. And that will take a little work. But it will be worth it to get some action going again. I know what I am doing and where this story is going, but getting there is a slow process if I want to do it right.
Now, a little observation about digivolution I've noticed. When going from rookie to champion, all it takes (regardless of whether it is season 1, 2, or 3) is a kid and a digivice. To reach the ultimate level, another power source is needed to do so. For season 1, it was the crests. Season 2 had DNA digivolution and a secondary digimon (Wormmon, Gatomon, or Patamon) provided the power to the primary digimon (Veemon, Hawkmon, or Armadillomon) to reach the ultimate. Season 3 had blue cards. Now, if they wanted to reach mega it required yet another outside power source, either a one time thing or required each time. For Agumon and Gabumon, they had the whole "arrows of hope and light" that were shot at their partners. To get Palidramon, Azulongmon gave the Digidestined one of his Digi-cores. For Seraphimon and Magnadramon, shown only in the movie, they were in that form for only a few seconds to summon the Digi-eggs of Miracles and Destiny before losing those forms, likely from the exhaustion of both summoning the Digi-eggs and not having an outside power source to aid in digivolution. And, of course, season 3 had Biomerging with humans to provide the extra power (and Dobermon to provide an extra donation of data to allow the main three to Biomerge in the human world. Justimon could because Ryo spent so much time in the digital world anyway, that there was enough data to him. And for why I allowed Kazu, Kenta, and Suzie to do so… well, why else do you think Justimon died? He was fulfilling the same role as Dobermon and Calumon helped finish it. Not all his data, obviously, was used to Biomerge them or else they couldn't have come back. Sorry, babbling...). And in the case of Beelzemon reaching mega, he received that power from the Digimon Sovereign.
So there are my observations on digivolution. Just felt like going through them real quick. I'll update as soon as I can. School just is slowing me down. But if you have questions, comments, predictions, or ideas, let me know. Thanks.