In Case of Crisis Reset Reality: First Day of Summer
Summer.
An eternal promise of a few months freedom to most children and teens. Months without school work, classes, or waking up early. A time to relax visit friends and have adventures you'll never forget. For Takato Matsuda though that means another summer of seeing friends yes and even maybe taking a trip to Okinawa to see his cousin Kai. Yet most importantly to the fourteen year old was a habit he had picked up some time around three years ago. So like he has done many times before he walks up a familiar set of stairs in the park finding a shack with a broken iron gate and goes inside. The inside is three concrete walls and a dirt floor but near the back is the most noticeable feature, a large tunnel dug long ago that seems to emit a soft glow.
Takato sits down cross legged in front of the hole. His blue jeans have dirt and dust on the back once he gets up but it isn't something that bothers him too much. He moves his hand up near his neck a grips slightly a pair of yellow goggles with blue lenses that hang there and begins to speak.
"Hey Guilmon…"
Meanwhile in another place a tall figure with a white cloak covering his entire body walks on a grassy plateau. The sky is blue with white clouds floating among the expanse. In fact it would look like somewhere one could easily find on Earth if it were not for that very skyline being dominated by what seemed to be a dome of green circuitry hanging up above like the sun in the sky. Still that wasn't what had the cloaked figures interest. Not that was the ivory archway that sat alone in the middle of the plateau. Inside the gothic entryway a glowing portal can be seen. Another figure walks past the cloaked one. This one seems to be made of chunks of ice shaped into a vaguely humanoid form with yellow eyes. Fittingly this being is called an Icemon and currently seems nervous about what is going on and looks the cloaked figure.
"There I showed you the thing. Are we square now?" The ice monster seemed to be shaking slightly while asking this. The cloaked figure just smiles; not that the Icemon had the benefit of seeing his face under the cloak though.
"Yeah you can go back to your boss now. This is just what I was looking for." At this the Icemon runs quickly in the opposite direction.
"… and honestly I don't even get why my parents think I should go to university in the first place. I mean an art degree really gets you nowhere these days so why pay the extra money when I'm already good at drawing? Besides I could walk into any network office in the world and say I'm finally ready to give a full interview about the D-Reaper and be set for life off what they'd pay me. Heck let them make merchandise and I could be set for two lifetimes." Takato scratches his head having just finished telling the tunnel his thoughts on what lies for him beyond high school. Well that and also being Japan's worst kept secret hero, though give Yamaki all credit in the world for try to cover up the Tamers involvement in the D-Reaper incident anyways. He lets out a huff and stretches slightly.
"As for the others they are doing fine. Well as fine as we can be after what happened.."
Back in the other world the cloaked figure approaches the archway. He raises his left arm letting the sight of its black leather sleeve and black clawed hand reaching for the portal. Before he can touch it though a somewhat airy and metallic sounding voice calls out.
"MYSTIC BREAK!" A white hot beam of energy lances out aiming for right were the cloaked figure stands. Though luck would prove to be on his side as he is able to quickly dive to the right and roll sideways back onto his feet. He shouts in the direction of where the beam came from
"Alright wise guy who do you think you are to ruin this moment for me?!" As if to answer a figure floated down from the clouds. It appeared to be an eagle made of golden armor wings flapping to keep it afloat. With wicked talons, two arms, something you would not see on a normal bird but then normal birds weren't made of metal either, ending in dark grey talon like hands, and red gems embedded around its neck. The figure opened its beak and the same voice as before rang out.
"I AM CROSSMON THE MEGA LEVEL DIGIMON THAT GUARDS THIS PLACE AND YOU WILL NOT PASS THROUGH THE PORTAL!" The cloaked figure shook his head a bit annoyed at birds need for such loud speech. He shouts back in defiance of the other creature's decree.
"Just who the hell do you think I am?! You outta know I deserve to be allowed through this portal more than anyone!" He points a clawed finger at the metallic eagle for emphasis. Crossmon just clicks the ends of his beak together in annoyance.
"I know exactly who you are and that is exactly why I won't let you through murderer." The cloaked figure flinches as if slightly offended at this statement but Crossmon continues.
"Others may have come to see you as something of a heroic figure now but I can see who you are inside and for that you will PERISH! KAISER PHOENIX!" Crossmon presses his wings against himself diving towards the figure with enough speed to create a sonic boom and his body glowing red hot with energy. The cloaked figure sees this and instead of going to dodge again pulls back his left arm with his hand balled into a fist.
"If that is the way you want it fine I'll take you out in one blow!" Just before the metallic eagle reaches him he throws his arm forward to let his fist collide with the Crossmon head on orange energy gathering around his knuckles.
"FIST OF THE BEAST KING!"
Back in the shack Takato is finishing his talk.
"So anyways I'm trying to find a way to get ahold of Impmon's tamers and see if they had a message they wanted to write for him but it seems they are the only ones the media doesn't realize exist and I think they might have moved recently. Still I should probably get going now." The young man stands up and dusts off his pants looking back at the portal. He looks at the tunnel and clenches his hands into fists at his sides his voice catching somewhat like it always would when he'd come to the end of these talks.
"Guilmon I know you can't hear me and I know they said the portal is too weak for me to go through but please if you could just give me a sign that we can see each other again someday... Just anything please." Yet this time instead of greeting the young man with silence and disappointment the universe seems to answer as the shack is suddenly filled with a thick fog spewing out of the tunnel and before Takato could react something small and purple collided with his stomach knocking him backwards and out the door landing on his back.
The young man winces and sits up in time to see the purple thing that hit him stand as well. Except it is not all purple. In fact the short humanoid creature face is white, with red gloves, red bandana around his neck, green eyes, and a yellow fanged smiley face he was quite colorful. The figure shakes his head rabidly and sways while he stands.
"Geez who would of thought portal travel makes you feel like a Mammothmon stepped on your head." Takato can do little but stare his eyes going wide with recognition.
"Impmon?!"
Well talk about getting a sign when you ask for it. How Did Impmon find a portal to the human world? Is Takato going through and emo phase? Are the other Tamers as fine as Takato says? Find out next time on Digimon Digital Monsters!