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Chapter 4: Angel
Takato forced himself to wake up early, even though he had already woke up once this morning he knew he had a lot to do today and knew it was for the best if he started before school. So far today he had already had a long talk with Renamon explaining to her a little of his past, he had not gone into details but he knew it was for the best that some others knew about him. Already she had given him a question that he didn't know the answer to but one he was hoping to answer for himself soon. It was a simple question, one that had come without much thought but one that he had never thought to ask himself.
As he slowly sat up in his bed he thought it over, how could he have never thought of it? How could he have spent all these years with the thought never crossing his mind? The question was so simple it scared him, yet it was a question that was actually asking about his very nature itself. To a human it would never need to be considered, but to a Digimon it was a part of nature. As he was both this question might determine who he was from this day forward, it was a question that both excited him with its possibilities and scared the life out of him.
He slowly climbed out of bed trying not to wake BlackGatomon and walked into his bathroom turning on the shower before turning to look in the mirror while the water heated up. After a few minutes of staring into the eyes of his reflection he shook his head to clear his mind and stripped of the last of his clothes. Stepping under the hot spay of the shower he felt his muscles start to relax and his mind begin to clear, the water beating against his skin made him remember what he had learnt from the martial arts he had taken up to help control his anger. To know yourself was the first step to finding true peace, which made him realise that he did not need to answer the question, it meant he had to.
As he washed the sweat and dirt off his body he thought of what he was to do in the day ahead of him. There were only two things that had to happen today, the first was to answer the question and the second was to go to school. He hoped that Ryo had taken the lesson he had taught him yesterday to heart, he didn't want to have to beat it into the boy every day until he finally got it through his thick skull.
Turning off the water he stepped out the shower and started to towel himself dry, making sure he got every inch of skin on his body and he was just about to dry his hair when he noticed that he had forgotten to shut the door. Wrapping the towel around his waist he made his way back into his room, not bothering to check if any of the Digimon were awake he pulled out a pair of black boxers from one of his draws and pulled them on before dropping the towel.
BlackGatomon had woken up when he had turned the shower on, she had instantly missed the feeling of his warm body beside her. She had slowly opened one of her eyes and looked around the room for him, what she had seen through the open bathroom door was him naked stepping into the shower. Deciding to get a better look she snuck into the bathroom, this was the first time she had got this chance as normally he would have made sure to shut and lock the door. In this form she usually stayed away from water sharing a cat's dislike for it but watching the water run down the boy's body gave her the strange urge to join him. Shaking her head she walked back to the bed, jumping on and deciding to pretend to be asleep and wait for him to finish.
After getting dressed Takato made his way over to his bed to stroke BlackGatomon behind her ear, with a smile on his face he leaned down to whisper in to her "You know its rude to spy on people while they are in the shower." Her eyes opened in shock at hearing this "I hope you enjoyed it because it's the last free show you're getting" he teased.
Takato turned and walked away amused at how she was still frozen in shock, he guessed that she had not expected him to know that she had been watching him. Walking over to his computer desk he opened one of the draws, he was looking for the card he had found next to the omnivice the morning after his D-Ark transformed. It was a plain red card with a black strip down one side, it had the same orange pixelated monster the blue cards had but instead of the D it had the letters AI in blue.
He had put it in this draw and not touched it since, but over the last two years he had chucked all his unneeded cards on top and this now made it harder to find. After ten minutes of searching he finally found what he was looking for, he pulled it out leaving the rest in an unordered heap. He was a little unsure of what would happen and his nerves caused him to hesitate, he knew this needed to be done but that didn't know how the AI would affect both him and the omnivice. Slowly he mustered up the last of his courage and raised his left arm, taking a deep breath he swiped the card with shaking hands.
For a few seconds the only thing that happened was the screen on the omnivice flashed, then the holographic screen activated. 'Omnivice Artificial Intelligence Activated' appeared on the screen, making him sit on the computer chair. 'Compatibility scan started' all the nerves inside his body suddenly becoming alive. 'Personality profile completed' 'Profile Uploaded' He felt a slight buzz in his head before reading the screen 'Link Established'.
"Hello there Takato" a female voice said from within his own head "it's good to finally be able to talk to you."
"How is this possible?" Takato said to himself, not understanding what was happening to him.
"I am you omnivice, I'm sending electric impulses to your brain which translates it into words" the female voice answered.
"How did you create your personality?" Takato asked slowly, he had not expected to have his omnivice to talk in his head but he was curious about what had happened.
"I scanned your brain checking for a suitable profile, I finally decided upon a teasing but kind hearted personality. Taking the teasing nature of a LadyDevimon you know I mixed it with the honesty and kindness of an Angewomon." The omnivice answered truthfully, before teasing "Though it's up to you if you want to name me, after all you are the only one that can hear me and omnivice makes me sound like a simple item."
Takato smiled to himself at the last part, she had only just become able to think for herself and she was making sure that he didn't treat her as a machine. He didn't even need to think about what to name her, based on the two Digimon she had used to create herself and how he was hoping that she could help him find out more about himself there was only one name that fit her. "Well I was wondering if you can help me understand a few things Angel" he said with a smile on his face.
"Did you just call me Angel?" she asked with a small amount of shock in her voice.
"Well you used an angel and a fallen angel for your personality and I'm hoping you will be able to help guide me, maybe watch over me a bit" he said rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.
"I love it" Angel said, before asking "what would you like help with?"
"I was just hoping that I could ask you a question, I was asked it myself and was unable to answer" he replied.
"I would be happy to help Takato" Angel said in a cheerful voice.
"I was asked if because my body was reformed with Digimon data, if that means I would be able to digivolve. I just wanted to know if you knew the answer." Takato said, his nerves starting to come back.
"Actually yes you can but only to one form" she said.
"So I can only go to rookie?" he asked in in slight disappointment.
"No I didn't say that, you can create your Digimon form like you did Guilmon. As long as I scan the picture and data you decide on before you digivolve, what I meant was if you make a rookie you can only go to rookie but if you make a mega then you will only go to that."
"So all I have to do is draw the form I want and then write the data for a mega. Then when you scan it you will save it as my only digivolved form" Takato smiled as ideas entered his mind already. "Thanks Angel, you really are heaven sent." 'Now I just need a way to talk to her in public without looking like I'm talking to myself' he thought, he didn't want people staring at him.
"But you can just think it when you in public" she said answering his thoughts.
Takato sat there in shock, he hadn't said a thing and yet she had still answered him. 'She can read my thoughts' "Yeah so now you don't have to worry" Takato sat there in shock before he heard a voice behind him.
"Takato who have you been talking to?" he heard, he recognised the voice in seconds so didn't bother to look round.
"My omnivice BlackGatomon," he explained a smile on his face. Pulling forwards one of his notebooks and opened it to a blank page, he started by drawing a human body, legs and arms. He drew a tail coming out from the bottom of the back, large wings from the shoulder blades and two small horns from the head. Then over the light sketch of the body he drew the armour on, drawing the outline of the armour darker and darkening the outline of the body where it was left exposed.
After writing the data for the Digimon down under it he looked at the time on the clock, deciding to finish the details and colour it in while as school. Getting up he woke up the other two Digimon and made his way to breakfast to eat before making his way outside to get on Grani.
"Takato there is a Digimon watch us" he heard Angel say within his head. 'I know Angel I could sense it the moment we stepped outside, but I haven't been able to work out where it is' he thought back.
"It's on top of the building to the right of us" she said sending him a mental image of where to look.
"Is there something I can do for you or you just looking about" he called out to the hiding on the roof. He watched as a strange Lillymon walked to the edge and looked down at him, he could feel the others get ready to fight but just waved them off.
"Just watching for now" he heard the Lillymon reply before she smiled at him "I will let you know if I need anything." She then turned round and flew away, Takato just shrugged and got on Grani to leave for school.
Upon arriving at school Takato ignored the awed stares he was getting from the other students and made his way to class. Sitting down at the table at the back near the window and pulled out his notebook, he spent the ten minutes till maths started to finish off the drawing. Being satisfied with the end product he put it back into his bag, he felt like today would be a good day right up until the moment Rika sat down next to him. He knew that this would mean two things, first it meant that Renamon had told Rika and that he will want to talk soon. The second thing it meant was that Ryo will get jealous again and forget about the lesson he had learnt yesterday, that meant he would likely challenge Takato again.
He stayed quiet while he watched the other first tamers walked, the shock on their faces was nothing compared to the look of jealousy and hatred on Ryo's. It was at this moment that Takato knew that he would have to fight Ryo at least one more time before he would get over it and learn his lesson properly.
The teacher entered the room at this point with a large smile on her face, "It seems we have two more new students joining the class this morning." At this point a blonde boy in blue jeans and a white t-shirt and a brown haired girl with blue jeans and a pink top on entered the room. "This is Takeru Takaishi and his partner Patamon" pointing to the boy and the Digimon behind him "and Kari Kamiya and her partner Gatomon" pointing towards the girl and the Digimon at her feet.
"Please just call me TK" the boy said a kind smile on his face before the two made their way to the spare seats at the back. The girl's Digimon froze when it got to the back of the room, it had spotted BlackGatomon sitting on the window seal. Turning to look back at the teacher it asked "May I ask why there is a virus Digimon in the room."
Before the teacher could answer though Takato's strong voice spoke out "I think you will find that there are three virus Digimon in this room." Every eye in the room in the room was now focused on the boy, Takato though had his gaze locked on the feline Digimon's with a look of extreme dislike on his face. Behind him all three of his Digimon were up and ready to battle, Gatomon looked down in apology and stated "I meant no disrespect to the Digimon's class, though I am curious as to why they all seem to follow your reaction. I know what is happening to them in the Digital World and I don't agree with it, I had just never known that any had a tamer."
A small smile appeared on Takato's face "Then let me apologise for my hasty actions and answer your question, there is a tamer with a virus Digimon as a partner but there is only one. As to why they follow my reactions, that's because they are my partners and all four of us have had personal experience with what is happening to virus types in the Digital World."
Gatomon gave the tamer a sad smile before saying "You seem a very interesting person, would you mind if we could speak about the situation sometime." She bowed slightly "I would like to hear more about it" Gatomon added before walking to lie under the chair Kari chose.
Every other person in the room was now trying to work out just what was going on in the Digital World and why it would affect them the way it did. Kari didn't know what this boy and these Digimon had been through but she knew she would ask Gatomon about it tonight, but she knew that whatever it had been it wasn't good.
Takato made sure he was the first one out at lunch, sitting down under a tree he quickly scanned the picture and stats before putting back away. "Evolution data accepted Takato" he heard Angel say in his head. The boy sighed after hearing this, he didn't want others knowing yet and he didn't want to have to answer more questions.
He then saw Ryo walking straight towards him, he looked angry "Me and you are going to have a rematch only this time you're going to start with that 'Crimson Mode' of yours, I don't want that sneak attack involved."
Takato shook his head slowly before agreeing 'Angel I need you to quickly work out how hard I have to hit Justimon and how many times to take his energy away without hurting him too much' "Power at 25% would do it in 36hits." He smiled to himself, 'You really are an angel, did you know that?' he heard her giggle in his head before he told her to call Grani here.
Once again everyone made their way to the battle area, Kari and TK were shocked when they heard a boy was taking on a first tamer. Upon sitting down they noticed Ryo standing on one side of the battle area with his partner and the other side way the boy from this morning. The boy only had one of the Digimon that he was with him this morning and yet he still looked calm.
Takato was pissed off that the boy wouldn't learn so he decided to let off some steam "To think I used to respect you, but that was until I found out that fame was all you cared out. You don't understand what it means to be a tamer, I hope you learn what it means before it's too late."
'I'm just lucky I can beat it into his skull now' he thought to himself, "Looking forward to a fight, tut tut" he heard her tease. 'I'm not, I'm just glad that I can teach it before he loses someone' he said in reply.
"I am what it means to be a tamer" Ryo called back, he would demand the respect by beating him.
Takato laughed at this, "How can you think fame is what it means to be a tamer? Being a tamer is about protecting those around you whether that's your partner or a stranger. I hope you learn that soon" he said.
"Bio-merge activate" they both shouted.
BIO-MERGE DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATE
Guilmon bio-merge to …. Gallantmon
Kari was staring at where the boy had been, the large knight that now stood there suddenly jumped high in the air landing atop a dragon. TK was at the same moment watching Ryo, he could not believe what he had heard. How could Ryo think of himself first, he was meant to lead the first tamers not think of fame.
BIO-MERGE DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATE
Cyberdramon bio-merge to …. Justimon
Kari hadn't expected the dragon's arrival and couldn't guess why it was here, she wondered briefly if he was there to ride into battle.
"You ready for this Grani?" she heard the knight ask.
"I'm ready Takato" was his reply.
"Mode change activate" he shouted before a sphere of red light encased both the dragon and knight.
MODE CHANGE DIGIVOLUTION ACTIVATE
Gallantmon mode change to …. Gallantmon Crimson Mode
Takato flew down to the ground, he stood there proudly in his red armour with Blutgang and Gungnir in his hands. He wouldn't need to fly in this battle unless Angel can find a quicker was of lowering his energy levels without hurting him too much.