THE BAY OF INFINITE FOG_ _ _| 2:59 A.M._ _ _|
A Lone Sentry stood at the light house in the early hours of the morning. "Aye..." he said to himself, "A quiet night."
The clock struck three.
From outside the lighthouse- a quick flash of green light could be seen through the windows.
The Lone Sentry was no more.
SEVERAL HOURS LATER_ _ _|
"KAORU-CHAAAN!"
Kaoru- also known as Trompeaurmon- sighed as she spotted the girl who was waiting for her down at the docks. "Hello Mizuki-san," she said in greeting, "and do you want the whole world to hear us?"
"Heheh..." The Red head simply grinned.
"So where's Yuu? I thought you said he was on his way?" Kaoru frowned.
"Ah, he's a bit late," said a male voice from behind her, making Kaoru jump and turn around in surprise to see who it was speaking. "They're meeting up with Shoutmon, apparently, before coming here," the owner of the voice was a teen with dark brown hair under a royal blue fisherman's hat and was wearing a wet suit. Oddly, he had an eye patch over one eye- and Kaoru grimaced internally.
He was the human form of Hangyomon- the traitor to the Bagura Empire from back in Island Zone- also known as the rebel whom she'd had a robot clone constructed of and had forcibly torn his eye out from in order to create the duplicate she'd stood alongside during Xros Heart's liberation of Cyber Land.
Kaoru tried to put on a false smile- that she'd put it all behind her. To be frank, however, it creeped her out that despite her identity being outed long ago- neither Mizuki nor Hangyomon had confronted her on her deeds. It made her feel all awkward inside whenever she saw them.
"So, ah..." Kaoru turned towards Mizuki, "what's up? What did you call me down here for?"
"There was a major surge of oceanic activity last night!" Mizuki explained, waltzing over to the docks to peer down over into the surface beneath her. "All of the Dolphins in the world suddenly made a mass exodus through Time Storms to the Digital World at approximately three A.M. this morning."
"What?" Kaoru did a double take- "Don't tell me they-"
"My Dolphmon cousins who met them this morning said they had one thing to say about the Earth," Mizuki laughed at the absurdity of it all.
"So Long, And Thanks For All The Fish," Hangyomon quoted.
"I asked you not to tell me," Kaoru face palmed.
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DIGIMON XROS WARS
THE YOUNG HUNTERS THAT LEAP THROUGH TIME.
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"So Long! And Thanks for all the Fish!"
"So...you want me...to go diving under water?" Kaoru grimaced slightly as she was handed a wet suit.
"Yeah, well, a few reports in this area showed some odd seismic activity just before the Dolphins left," Mizuki explained, "I think that's got something to do with it, so if we check that out then we should be able to find out what's causing all of this!"
"Well...you see..." Kaoru scratched at her nose nervously, "despite my being a water themed digimon...I can't actually swim."
"..." Hangyomon stared at her for a few moments. "Are you serious?"
"...Yes, Yes I am!" Kaoru huffed.
"Damn it! Seriously?" He huffed and stormed off of the docks, muttering about that being the second person that day.
"uh...Did I say something wrong?" Kaoru asked.
"Heheh," Mizuki giggled. "Let me walk you through this..."
"Look, Kame! It's Kaoru-nee-san!" The Younger of the two Bastemon Princesses waved at them from a table at a nearby restaurant. "HIII! Hey! Kaoru-nee-san! Over hereeee~"
"Ah, I see," and next to her was Chibi-Kamemon. Both were in human form at the moment.
"S...Seriously?" Kaoru's eye twitched.
"Hangyo and I were on watch duty today," Mizuki laughed at the absurdity of it all, "The Princess and her Consort had a free day. We were going to take them with us as part of her Princess training, but..."
"She can't swim," Hangyomon grumbled, "or rather, refuses to learn. Cats. They absolutely hate the water."
"I can see why," Kaoru sighed in agreement. "So either I stay here and watch them or I risk going under water and potentially drowning?"
"Actually, we were hoping that Tsuwamon could watch them," Mizuki explained. "Kotone-san couldn't make it due to school stuff, so since he was coming anyways, we figured he could watch them while we went underwater to investigate."
"Uh huh..." Kaoru nodded, "Right, so...Do you got anything I could use to maybe hitch a ride down then?"
"I think we can work something out," Mizuki grinned.
"Reload: Submarimon!" A flash of light came out of Mizuki's Xros Loader (Formerly Splashmon's Darkness Loader, Kaoru noted), and from that light emerged a Submarimon who splashed down into the water. "There!" Mizuki's grin didn't seem to fade, "One undersea ride! Free of admission!"
"Cool," Kaoru laughed.
SPLOOSH!
The trio of explorers entered the water- with Hangyomon and Mizuki having shifted into their Digimon forms. The former, of course, was who we all knew and recognized, but the latter was being seen like this for the first tine in a long time.
In case it wasn't abundantly clear from the earliar Dolphmon comment- Mizuki indeed was a Dolphmon.
Kaoru was riding inside the Submarimon's inner compartment, watching the ocean roll by. "Somehow I was expecting this to be all...Lifelike." She said into the Wrister she had on in between the sleeve and glove parts of the wet suit. "It's kind of quiet."
"Yah," Mizuki agreed, though her voice echoed through the water somewhat, "All the fish are gone too. No Turtles or Sharks either..."
"This is kind of creepy, actually," Hangyomon agreed, also with that same voice echo. "Oceans are not supposed to be this empty at this depth, even as close to shore as we are."
"Okay, the seismic activity should be somewhere close to our present location here..." Mizuki said after a few minutes of steady diving. "I think we're closing in on a cave system..."
Indeed, they were. A few moments later- they lowered down within sight of a massive- swirling gateway of light and glass-like shards of static.
"Well," Hangyomon muttered, "there's your problem!"
SPLASHHH!
They surfaced to meet the concerned and expectant faces of Yuu and Shoutmon.
"Where the hell have you been for the last two hours?" Shoutmon asked impatiently. "Bastemon-hime and ChibiKamemon were really worried about you when we showed up!"
"What?" Kaoru asked as she slid out of Submarimon's air-pocket. "What time is it?"
"Fifteen 'til ten," Yuu answered. "We were going to go after you in a few minutes."
Mizuki went under again before resurfacing in her human form, now wearing a wet suit instead of the clothes she had been wearing before, "That can't be right! We were only down there for ten minutes tops!"
"Maybe it was that rift?" Hangyomon offered a solution- "It looked like a time storm in a crystallized form. Maybe our time line got de-synchronized the closer we got to it?"
"Rift?" Shoutmon asked, "What rift?"
"You've got to see it to believe it," Kaoru said with a slight trace of awe in her voice, "that thing is unreal."
"Alright, Tsuwamon, we'll be back as soon as we can," Shoutmon ordered as he struggled to adjust the straps for his scuba tank, "don't come looking for us if we're not back right away. We think the warp is a condensed Time Storm, so there's probably some time dilation around it."
"Alright!" Tsuwabuki saluted. "I'll hold down the fort and keep an eye on the radio in case we get a call from HQ!"
"And make sure those two stay on the surface, I don't want them wandering down and getting caught up in the currents," Shoutmon said that in direct reference to ChibiKamemon and ChibiBastemon.
"Aww! You sure we can't come?" ChibiBastemon asked with a frown.
"Be careful, Shout-onii-san!" ChibeKamemon nodded.
"We'll try," Shoutmon gave a half-smile.
SPLOOSH!
Into the water their group went once more.
Yuu had Corone slung over his back in her scythe form, which she seemed comfortable with to some degree.
"This is weird, not having to breathe..." Corone said as they dove deeper, "I never even noticed that I didn't breathe in this form before."
"Ah, yeah, I can imagine," Shoutmon rolled his eyes beneath his diving visor, "You notice the weirdest things at times."
"So where's that rift at?" Yuu asked.
"Just a bit further ahead," Hangyomon motioned towards the cave clusters.
A short swim later- accelerated or decelerated by whatever time warp was being forged on the spot- they reached the rift.
It still spun and shimmered and gave off a terrible presence.
"Holy-" Shoutmon cursed at the sight- "Just what the hell is that thing?"
"Who knows," Kaoru spoke up, "we won't find out though unless we pass through it."
And so they progressed forwards through the Anomaly.
DIGI-QUARTZ_ _ _| UNKNOWN LOCATION_ _ _|
The shift in coloring was immediate- from dull blues to bright pinks, greens, and yellows.
They were in Digi-Quartz.
And also- they were quite clearly no longer in the local cave system as the water suddenly increased in temperature by about Twenty Degrees.
"Well, that's uncomfortable..." Hangyomon muttered.
Another sign of the cave system being different was the type of rock around them. It had gone from cool grey to Red Velvet coloring.
A few moments of swimming later- and they suddenly found themselves at the surface of the water- leading up into a massive cave that was impossibly large for being anywhere near where they'd left.
Shoutmon spat out his re-breather and grumbled, "Well...this is totally implausible."
The cave was huge- towering and massive- the roof supported by large brown support pillars with glowing green gaps on the sides.
And at the center of it all?
A massive spherical device that was being constructed around an imprisoned oceanic Digimon- Dagomon.
"RRRRRAAAHHH!" Dagomon roared in the primordial tongue of the Horror Terrors, "Spleh'wyn Elocni'uo'ysi Ht'Rof yap L'Lahsuoy!"
The floating, smaller versions of the support towers, turned their green gaps towards Dagomon and fired Red Lasers out of their 'faces'- stunning Dagomon once more before they returned to their work.
"K'RHAAAAH!" Dagomon slumped into his restraints again.
"Poor guy," Corone whispered, "Nobody deserves that..."
"Wait-" Yuu pointed towards the mostly-completed casing- "What's that thing on the front?"
"Lemme see here..." Hangyomon pulled out a telescope and looked at the shape on the Black Sphere. "Looks like a giant silver ring with... .da...Nine Red Triangles on it."
"Let me see that," Shoutmon grabbed the telescope and looked at the sphere. "...Damn. It's one of the old man's Gates."
"You're right," Kaoru muttered as she looked at it through her own set of micro-binoculars, "it's a gate. That device it's being built into is probably it's power source."
"What about Gravimon?" Yuu asked. "Didn't Quartzmon say that he was using him as a power source?"
"No, *I* said that," Kotone corrected, "Quartzmon just said something vague about us never being able to get to Gravimon first."
"So we were wrong about why he wanted Gravimon," Shoutmon scowled, "so what the heck is up with Dagomon here...?"
"Shouldn't we go get a closer look?" Mizuki asked.
"No way," Hangyomon shook his head, "I don't like the look of those towers."
"Yeah, they're giving me the creeps too..." Yuu frowned. "What are those things anyways?"
"I have a feeling we'll find out soon enough," Shoutmon scowled, "One's coming our way! Dive Dive!"
EYE CATCH!
The camera zoomed onto the right side of a disk, showing Shoutmon in his Digimon form, then panned over to the left side, showing him in his Human form.
The camera pulled out and the disk flipped over, revealing an red cut out OmegaShoutmon holding a sword and a shield, with the Greek letter "OMEGA" behind him.
EYE CATCH!
A floating tower of rock came to the edge of the pool.
A few moments passed- and then an emoticon face appeared in a deep shade of red superimposed on the green data field. It was a " :c " face.
The Tower scanned over the pool for a few moments... and seemed dissatisfied by it's results.
'C'mon you big lug...' Shoutmon thought desperately, 'turn around. Go away!'
It didn't turn away.
'Shoo! Shoo!' Shoutmon desperately wished for it to go away.
It didn't "shoo."
'Please. Just go away already!' Shoutmon prayed.
Moments later- the Tower glowed a green-white color, and it began to change its shape.
From a brown rock cylinder, the Tower changed into a large, sea fairing creature with equally massive fins and a long neck.
A Plesiomon- with the Hourglass logo painted on it's chest.
"CRAP!" Shoutmon shouted into the radio channel- "EVERYONE SCATTER!"
The Plesiomon Tower dove towards the water...
KASPLOOSH!
BAM! BAM! BAM!
Only to be forced out of it as a smaller, white furred Digimon emerged from the water, firing off it's single black horn repeatedly as missiles.
"HARPOON TORPEEDO!"
The Plesiomon Tower was flung back into the cave- where it hit the dirt moments before an alarm blared.
Every Tower's 'face' turned red as an angry " :[ " emote appeared in green.
"Whoops! I think I over did it!" The Ikkakumon, for that indeed was who it was, chuckled dryly as a green bubble emerged from the water behind him and floated up into the air.
Inside was Shoutmon, Yuu, Mizuki, Kaoru, and Hangyomon- of course- but joining them were four others- Tsuwabuki, Chibi-Bastemon, an older teen with glasses and blue hair, and, naturally, Chibi-Kamemon, who was creating the bubble.
"I think you're right Ikkakumon," The older teen laughed, "but hey! Since when have we not ever over done it?"
"Good point, Joe!" Ikkakumon laughed even as the towers started converging towards them, "Don't you think it's time we took it up a level?"
"My thought's exactly!" The teen- Joe- pulled off a golden necklace from around his neck and threw it into the air with his left hand, even as he held up a smaller, white, almost watch like device under it. "GO NOW, IKKAKUMON!"
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The Digivice pulsed and transformed into a Navy Blue color as it shot a beam of light out into the necklace- containing what other than the Crest of Reliability- which continued on, containing all of the data necessary for a Digimon to Digivolve. The Crest data exploded at the top of the cave roof and spiraled down onto Ikkaukmon in a rush of energy.
"IKKAKUMON SUPER DIGIVOLVE TOOOO...!"
The waters grew turbulent, and Ikkakumon submerged underneath a massive pillar of spiraling water. Lightning shot off of the water spout in all directions- but mainly at the converging Towers- hitting them in the faces and short circuiting them rather heavily.
The tornado of water fell to the wayside as a new Digimon grabbed a lightning bolt and transformed it into his Hammer- "ZUDOMON!"
"Woah!" Yuu gawked at the sight in surprise, "What kind of Time Burst was that?"
"Not a Time Burst, A Super Digivolution," Joe corrected with a smile as he casually caught the falling necklace on its descent, "by the way, sorry we're late! The anomaly was rather unstable by the time we found it. We almost didn't make it through on time."
"But that's our Good Ol' Reliable Joe!" Zudomon laughed as he punched an oncoming tower in the 'face' sending it flying backwards into the cave, "Always making it just in the nick of time!"
"I'm Joe Kido, this is my partner, Zudomon," Joe introduced himself, "It's a pleasure to finally meet you for the first time, King Shoutmon."
"Eh?" Shoutmon stared at the glasses wearing boy for a few moments, "Have we met?"
"About four years ago on my personal time line," Joe laughed just ever so slightly, "but that's about par the course for this adventure so far."
"VULCAN'S HAMMER!" Zudomon utterly smashed a Tower into collapsing dirt and debris with a side swipe from his hammer.
"Damn, Time Travel again," Shoutmon muttered, "so did I leave any advice for my past self?"
"Not really," Joe then pointed at the spherical construct, "though if I had to guess, I'd say destroying that Gate would be the most important thing right now!"
"Right then," Shoutmon nodded, then shifted into his OmegaShoutmon form, "ChibiKamemon! Open the bubble please!"
"Right!" ChibiKamemon nodded, and let a small opening in the bubble appear so Shoutmon could escape from it.
"Thank you!" Shoutmon saluted before summoning his engine wings and leaping out.
"I'll cover you," Yuu drew Corone in her scythe form, and leaped out after Shoutmon. ChibiKamemon then resealed the bubble and took a breath.
"Holding a hole open is a lot harder than maintaining a whole bubble," he said with a sigh.
"You did great!" ChibiBastemon patted him on the shoulder.
"So wait just a second," Hangyomon took a moment to collect himself, and then asked, "What the hell is going on here!?"
"Isn't it obvious?" Joe asked as Zudomon smashed another tower to pieces (Damn, there were a lot of them). "This is the eye of the storm! We've gathered about as many fighters as our timelines can spare, and we're joining in the hunt for Quartzmon."
"You know who Quartzmon is?" Kaoru asked, surprised.
"Of course we do!" Zudomon shouted, "He nearly killed us all when he super-charged the Dark Masters like he did!"
"We've all got sort of a grudge against him, really," Joe said with a completely serious look on his face, "If we didn't come back to this moment in time to help you guys out, you couldn't go into our pasts to help us out in our time of need! And then the timeline would get all convoluted and paradoxical and Izzy says that'd be a Really bad thing."
"So now it's our turn to even the score against this jerk!" Zudomon smirked and pulled his hammer back again, "VULCAN'S HAMMER!"
Another Tower bit the dust.
"God, I hate stable time loops," Kaoru rubbed at her forehead.
"Tell me about it!" Tsuwabuki and Joe said at the same time, and then laughed the same laugh at the coincidence.
OmegaShoutmon landed on the ground and summoned the massive SMASH CANNON, loading it with raw material that had just been lying around from one of the destroyed towers. "Let's see how you like a taste of your own medicine, eh, Quartzmon?"
The Cannon revved up.
"DEMON HUNTER!" Yuu slashed through some of the even smaller towers that were starting to form up from the larger surviving chunks. "BREATH IMPACT!"
"Oh hoooo!~" Zudomon chuckled as the Plesiomon Tower came at him, "Ultimate Vs. Mega? Who Will Win?" He twirled his hammer around, and then jumped towards the mockery of his Evolution Line's higher form. "RRRAAAH VULCAN'S HAMMER!"
"HERE WE GOOO!" OmegaShoutmon roared as the cannon locked onto the Stargate on the partially constructed sphere. "RESONANCE...CASCADEEEE!"
A massive beam of energy fired out of the cannon mouth and hurled straight towards the entrapped Dagomon.
The attack hit dead center.
Zudomon's hammer smashed the Plesiomon Tower's fragile rib cage right on the Hourglass Logo- and Shoutmon's Laser Beam smashed into the Gateway like an arrow through the bullseye.
The Plesiomon Tower broke apart into cubes of green, yellow, blue, and white, much like Quartzmon had- and the Gateway...?
It melted into liquid, and then was vaporized into gaseous particles before it ever had a chance to explode.
And then Dagomon broke free of it's prison with a roar: "EERF MA'I!"
"And that's our cue to skedaddle!" Joe shouted, "Everyone, Fall Back Now!"
Zudomon quickly scooped up Yuu and Shoutmon, and leaped into the water as Chibi-Kamemon pulled the bubble back down after them.
The remaining Towers turned towards the enraged and freed Dagomon and tried their best to contain him once more.
Dagomon smirked as the Towers failed in their goal.
They'd barely made it out of the anomaly before a pressure wave followed them out and the rift collapsed in on itself with a snuff, as if it were a birthday candle.
"Whewf," Joe sighed in relief, "I wasn't sure we were going to make it out of there for a second."
"You think that was close?" Kaoru asked, "You should've seen what kind of pressure we were under when we fused two whole planets together."
"Ah, point taken," Joe chuckled.
After they surfaced what was actually a few seconds later (The Time Dilation from the anomaly had been rather severe it seemed), our heroes found the harbor surrounded by boats, apparently sealing it off.
One was heading their way, and, at the bow, was a certain Watch Maker.
"Oiii! You all look like you had fun!" He waved at them.
"Ah, Emmit!" Joe called out, "It's good to see you again!"
"You blew up a gate?" The Watch Maker asked in surprise.
"Sort of vaporized it, really," Shoutmon confessed.
"That's impossible," The Watch Maker scowled, "the material the gates are made out of was chosen because it can handle heat and energy to an impossible degree when made into a circular form. It absorbs that energy and disperses it in an instant! You can't melt one into a liquid with anything short of throwing it into Volcdramon's core- and even then, the temperatures required to further vaporize it are impossible to reach by anything in the known universe! It can't be done!"
"But we saw it vanish in an instant," Shoutmon insisted, "My Resonance Cascade-"
"Should never be able to reach that kind of temperature without first vaporizing YOU first!" The Watch Maker had genuine panic in his eyes now, "That wasn't the real gate! Quartzmon tricked us yet again!"
"Wait, what do you mean again?" Yuu asked.
"Your school was meant as a distraction," The Watch Maker explained, "Tagiru and Chou managed to stop that incident, but it was obviously meant as a distraction from this, but if the Gate wasn't Real...then...Then..." he realized what was going on that exact moment, "Betsumon...That fool was a plant in case he ever got caught...! Quartzmon must have fed him false information!"
"But why?" Shoutmon frowned. "What could be so important as to set up such a massive con like that?"
Inside his interrogation cell, Betsumon smirked ever so simply as he heard the chaos outside unfold.
"I can't be sure," The Watch Maker grumbled, "But there's something bad about to happen. One of these things is not like the other...!"
"Wait, I think I remember you saying something before, King Shoutmon," Joe spoke up suddenly, "something about a warehouse?"
"Ah!" Shoutmon's eyes widened, "Betsumon's warehouse! Where he was hiding out...!"
"That's our Joe!" Gomamon, Zudomon's and Ikkakumon's base form, laughed, "Always coming through at the last possible moment!"
Airu pulled a large tarp away from an object to uncover a strange crate. "Guys! Over here!"
"Wow, that's pretty weird," Haruki stared at it in awe. It was a wooden box- large and square, but mostly flat. "I wonder what's in it?"
"Should we open it?" Gumdramon asked.
"Why not?" Witchmon shrugged.
And so they went to open the box.
"So what's there?" Shoutmon asked, "What could possibly..?" It hit them all then as they simultaneously said:
"The Gate."
MetalLifeKuwagamon- not a Digimon but a transformed Tower as indicated by the hourglass on it's forehead- surveyed the ruined warehouse with a cold dedication.
It was now the time to strike.
TO BE CONTINUED.
BEGIN: ACT 3 INTERMISSION 19.
Joe Kido stared out over the docks with a bit of concern. Nothing good ever came from areas like this. When Myotismon had taken over Odaiba and trapped it in fog, Joe and T.K. had left from docks similar to these ones to enter the city to help their friends. Then, years later, their friend Ken, when he was under control of the Darkest of forces, had trapped Cody, Davis, Yolei, Kari, and T.K. inside an oil well off the coast of docks just like this.
There'd even been a MegaSeadramon both times- something Joe hoped to never repeat.
"I need to find King Shoutmon," Joe said simply, glancing about for any sign of the Digital World's present ruler. Instead, he saw a girl and a boy who would've been just a bit older than T.K. and Kari were during their first adventure, along with an awkward looking teen who seemed to be watching them. That was a hopeful sign. "Let's try talking to them, okay?"
"Yeah, sure! They look pretty friendly," Gomamon, his ever present Digimon Friend/Partner/Companion, agreed with a nod.
And so they walked over.
"Excuse me," a voice called out, "can I ask you three a question?"
ChibiKamemon looked up, surprised to see someone talking to them. "Uh..."
"Hi, I'm Joe Kido," Joe held out his hand to greet them, as if expecting someone to meet it in return, "I was told I could find King Shoutmon down here?"
"If it's not too much trouble, we've got a message to deliver," came a second voice- making all three of them look down.
"OooH!" The Princess cooed, "It's a Gomamon! I haven't met one of you before!"
"Pleasure to make your acquaintance then," Gomamon pretended to take off a hat and place it in front of his heart as he bowed his head.
"Who sent you, exactly?" Tsuwabuki asked, slightly wary. Where did this guy come from?
"Emmit Brown, the guy who runs the clock shop," Joe answered.
"Oh, that guy!" Tsuwabuki nodded, "Gotcha! Okay then, well, I'm sorry to say that Shoutmon and the others went underwater to investigate something!"
"Oh no," Joe's eyes widened in panic, "I'm too late!"
"Too late for what?" ChibiKamemon asked.
"I've got to go save them before it's too late!" Joe turned to run off before, turning back around towards them, "Sorry, um, Which way did they go again?"
"This way!" The Princess cheered and hoped down from her seat to lead Joe and Gomamon to where they needed to go.
END: ACT 3 INTERMISSION 19.
NEXT TIME!
"We're too late!"
"Why the hell can't I teleport?"
"We've gotta hurry!"
"Palmon! Time to show these goons who's boss!"
"Renamon! I don't want to get left behind by a Flower Girl, do you?!"
"Hey Hey Hey! Guess who's finally here!?"
"Ugh, couldn't we have left him back home?"
"Sorry, Yolei, I don't think the timeline would've liked that."
"Next Time: DIGIMON XROS WARS!"
"XROS THROUGH! The Eye of the Storm!"
"Are we really picking that naming scheme up again?"
"Do we have the time to discuss the Meta Narrative Prompt right now, Takato?!"
A.N.: Welp. This was rather interesting to write. Joe proves himself a hero in his first named scene of the story! The Xros Over Begins! W00T! _DTC