In Case of Crisis Reset Reality: Catching Up
"You're back!"
"Yeah great but…"
"Are the others ok!?"
"I'll tell ya but.."
"Are they going to come through the portal too!?"
"Goggles I need some air!" Takato blinks realizing he had Impmon in a practical choke hold for the past few minutes and lets him go the Digimon landing on his feet and making a motion of dusting himself off.
"Thank you. Before you ask no the others aren't following close behind. The rest found a safe place to hunker down while I went looking for a way back." Takato just tilts his head slightly seemingly disappointed.
"Ok but how did you find a way back anyways and why did you come alone?" Impmon just does the best at an equivalent to pinching the bridge of his nose trying to quickly sum up a four year search quickly.
"Look it is simple alright. I come here and get you guys and then take you back so we can pick up everyone else at once." During this both he and Takato had started to walk away from the park Takato typing something furiously into a cell phone trying to message everyone of the Tamers he could get ahold of. The message read..
Guys meet up at the dinosaur in the park Impmon just came through the portal at the old shack – Takato
Impmon meanwhile just looked around him remember all the times he had been in that park before. He started to wonder if Ai and Mako were ok and about how different they might look. Yet looking at Takato he didn't feel like he was gone that long as the young man seemed only slightly taller than he had before. In fact despite a pair of blue jeans he even dressed the same goggles and all. Honestly the rookie level Digimon was still unsure if he was dreaming based on the impossibility that he had finally made it back. So he quickly pulled on his own tail and when he noticed the shooting pain he decided to trust his senses.
Takato on the other hand was much less introspective and more walking on air. Impmon was back and was going to take them to the others. He was going to see Guilmon again. Honestly he wasn't sure he had ever felt this happy before. In fact he was at the point he could probably start skipping to their destination.
In short order the pair arrived at the old playground were it all began with the same clock bearing thing, the dinosaur as it was called, standing tall and old. None of the other Tamers had arrived yet besides Kazu and Kenta who were both panting and holding their knees as if they had run a marathon. Kenta looked about the same as before. His hair was a bit shorter and face a bit thinner, orange shirt replaced with a blue one. Height and weight had seen almost no change something that distressed the teen but his friend reassured him didn't mean too much. Kazu on the other hand….
"Say last I checked you guys do change clothes once in a while right?" What greeted Impmon and Takato was a strange site of Kazu apparently having in his excitement found and pulled on his old clothes from those days four years ago in which they had their various adventures. The issue was unlike Kenta who stayed the same body shape and could probably stay in his old clothes, if he had been the type to keep those, Kazu had shot up like a bean stalk in puberty leading to his old attire to fit somewhat poorly, besides the ever present green visor for his head had gotten big only in the metaphorical sense. His pants now being more akin to shorts and his shirt hardly reaching the top of his belly button. Apparently the strangeness of this was lost to him until he noticed Takato holding back a chuckle.
"Hey I'll have you know these clothes are quite stylish and manly even if they are a bit small!" Kazu pointed at Takato and Impmon as if daring them to respond. Instead a voice from to the left took that opportunity.
"If you consider looking like a teenage girl manly I'd have to wonder just what you are into." The remark got Kazu to glare at the newcomer a girl with red hair down in a top knot, dark blue jeans, and a blue sleeved t-shirt with a blue heart in the middle but this one lacking the yellow neck part her old shirts had been known for.
"Yeah well who asked you Rika I thought you didn't care about fashion!" Rika just shrugged.
"There is a difference between caring about fashion and just not wanting to handle the embaressment of being seen around you right now." Before Kazu could have refute that Rika turns to Impmon and holds out her hand.
"Good to have you back. So this means the others are ok too?" Impmon returns the shake and nods.
"Yeah and they'll be happy to see you guys again too." He looks around at the already formed group of four.
"So how many more we going to see show up?" Takato responds counting on his fingers.
"Well it should be Kazu, Kenta, Rika, Henry, Suzie will probably follow Henry, tried to contact Ryo but still get nothing when I try his phone, don't have the number to your tamers Impmon, and Jeri's… she's… sick yeah and didn't want her to get out of bed when we can surprise her when everyone is back." Impmon raises an eyebrow slightly catching something off in Takato's tone but not questioning it. Still they all take the chance to sit down and wait on the last couple of arrivals.
Earlier in an abandoned factory in another part of the city things were going slow in what was the "secret" nerve center for a new Hypnos. Secret in that even though Hypnos is now more openly operating and known by the public the location was chosen that no one would ever care to look at it and as such they could still operate with some level of privacy. Now the current team was consisting of the Monster Makers as consultants, Riley, Tally, some assorted staff for field operation, and at the helm Yamaki. Offically they now worked so Earth would be ready if, or admitted internally at Hypnos when, Digimon returned, moniter the Tamers activities, which had been somewhat successful except for Ryo having gone off the grid two years ago, and the more unsung job of keeping the press from intruding on the lives of those kids with Digimon the world did know about.
The latter was what Yamaki was dealing with right now arguing with a reporter over video chat.
"No Ms. Tachibana for the last time you are not allowed to have exclusive interviews with them. No one is allowed interviews with them." He keeps his hand at his side opening and closing his old lighter out of the reporters field of vision. In fact the video screen was set up in such a way that people could really only see Yamaki and some of the bases computer equipment behind him. Ms. Tachibana, a young woman with short brown hair and fair features currently scowling at the head of Hypnos, was the most persistent reporter for the Tamer's story over the past two years.
"Come on you know I'll give them a fair shake. Besides I thought I was promised an exclusive anyways." Yamaki pinches the bridge of his nose.
"No it was said that if the Digimon come back we might consider you to be the person we'd contact now I have some business to attend to good day Ms. Tachibana." He quickly shuts off the feed and walks over to the monitoring station. Somewhat less high up than the old one it still saved the same purpose and was still monitored by Riley and Tally. Well in this case just Tally as Riley was visiting her family out of city this week.
"Please tell me there is something to actually attend to. Another meeting like that and I'm going to go crazy." The blond bridge bunny looked at her boss from the corner of her eye while still watching the monitors.
"Well we could talk about how this is the third time you've refused to go see Riley's family with her. I mean did you guys fight? Are the bugging you to ask the question? She has told me anything and I really want to know." Yamaki just gritted his teeth slightly not happy that once again Tally had to ask him about his and Riley's relationship.
"Look I understand you're are friends but what is happen between us is between…" Suddenly the monitors flash with an alert and both quick look to see what it is.
"Sir it says there might have been a bio emergence… it's at the shack Guilmon used to stay in at the park!" Yamaki quickly turns on his heel and walks out the room.
"Call ahead to get a van ready I need to see this for myself."
Well looks like the cat's out of the bag so they say. So what are the others like now? Where is Ryo? What about Jeri? Maybe get a clue next time on Digimon Digital Monsters.
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