The earth of this dimension seemed normal by all accounts, they had entered the first city, the street were crowded with people, going on with their daily routine like it was the end of the world in a few hours. Takajin felt weird seeing so many people without digimon partners, some of them did have pictures of them on the clothes that they were wearing, he was pondering if that was their digimon partner.
"Takajin no they aren't their digimon partners," Kari said as she was reading Takajin expression "This world is like mine the world and the digital world are two different worlds but still connected. Unlike yours which it is the same world I kind of envy you on that because that is my dream world"
"A world where no digimon existed would be my ideal world, because Digimon are a potentially dangerous I don't know how I would handle a world filled with them," Suzi said failing to hide her complete disdain "I am glad our digivices are also a storage device for our digimon partner I might keep it after we are" she ignored the expressions she got from both Takajin, and Kari.
"Just because one of them went out of control, you hate even your Lopmon, and rather not even look at her either, She looks harmless?" Kari asked pushing back her annoyance with Suzie.
"So digimon should not have been made, it's not humanities right to play creator, we don't have the capacity to control the artificial life we make, we can't even control the life we naturally create." Suzie said rubbing her stomach area like she was making her point.
That statement made Kari's face flush a slight color of red. Because her dream had always been to be a kindergarten teacher and maybe someday would have a family of her own. Then introduce her children to the digital world but that dream was gone as long as her world was gone, this made her go from being embarrassed to feeling depressed, she pushed the thought from her mind because she needed to remain focused.
"What do you expect from this Suzie, my dimension has a Mitsuo Yamaki as well, and he use to talk exactly like she is doing now. I guess hers didn't have any life altering experience like the one in mine, but she is making me miss the Suzie from my world, and her annoying W's" Rika said trying to hold her temper, and not strike Suzie Yamaki herself. "So just ignore her I thought her attitude was changing when she apologized before the mission started I guess I was mistaken"
They went on without another word, until a beeping noise came from all their pockets; they all pulled their digivices, and the signal was getting stronger meaning it was that D-Nemesis was about to enter this dimension and from the reading they were an hour away from its location of entry. Kari gestured for them to follow her, and she led them to a mysterious glass and metal structure.
"I noticed that Mikuni is the only one here who doesn't have her digimon partner in the digivice, isn't it worrisome that someone might bump into that invisible mass that is Vasantmon, stealth armor or none?" Suzie said making an observation, which she just thought of at that moment.
"that could be an issue but I think that would be your friend Ryo's to be since he is the leader of the tactical assault team, I wish the best of luck dealing with Mikuni," Takajin said glad he wasn't on the same team as her. Even though, Mikuni is a great ally, she tends not to work well with others, but she had been improving lately on that.
"This is a bus stop, where vehicle known as a bus, picks up passengers and takes them from location to location for a small fee" Kari said intending this description for Takajin "a mass transit service" She pulled her digivice, "I peeked at the manual and it's also a communications device" she pressed a button on it "Homeostasis, will this bus take us where we need to go"
"Affirmative, this bus will show up in the next 5 minutes and take you within 10 minutes of where you need to go" the voice of the Homeostasis said from Kari's digivice.
They waited for 5 minute, and it took the bus another 5 minutes to actually show up, Takajin was the first to entered, and after a moment turned around "What does it mean, exact change?" he said, Kari just walked past him trying not to laugh knowing this world was very much unknown to him unlike to her. Before Takajin could make it to his seat, the bus accelerated launching him forward landing belly flop on the floor with an audible yelp of pain making him wonder if mass transit always tried to kill its passengers. Both the recon team and the assault team ended up having to take the bus together, but one team was at the front of the bus, and the other was at the back of the bus. To Suzie it was still good to see her friends even from a distance.
Takajin finally took his seat, and watched as the city landscape sped by the window, so far he could not make heads or tails of this strange new world. Everyone around him was also so weirdly dressed it was like he was on some strange alien home world, but at least it wasn't as bad as the world he had come from, he suddenly remembered that he was now dressed like this being told he had to give up his tunic, but his goggles were fine. Something about him looking like he was a time traveling person from medieval times or whoever this Tolkien was. Looking over at Mikuni, who looked like she was taking this world a lot better than he was, maybe it was her champion of justice mentality that was helping her deal with this world hopping. He reminded himself suddenly to why he was here, he had to help defeat this D-Nemesis his sister was depending on him, and he didn't want to let her down.
"Calm down Takajin, I know I had the same expression on my face when I was in your world I know exactly how you are feeling. Even though it looks almost exactly like my world I have noticed several differences since we got here I will not get into those because they will make me anxious and we need to be each other's rock to anchor ourselves to so we can be strong for Suzie, I have seen her kind before they walk on a precipice caused by a severe loss in their lives" Kari said placing her hand on Takajin's shoulder "The person I am talking about was named Ken ichijouji, his brother died and he fell into darkness, She is standing on that same precipice"
At that moment, several stops from when they got on. A man dressed head to toe seemingly with leather and wore a spiked dog collar got on the bus, he carried a comically oversized music device, which was being loud with its volume. He took a seat across from the recon team making it impossible for them to talk. Kari tried to reason with him but he only turned up the volume and flipped her off with a gesture Takajin didn't understand but from the expression it got from everyone else it had to be very offensive in nature. Next was Suzie, who tried to reason with him, but that only got the volume turned up even more, which began to hurt all their ears. That's when Mikuni walked up to be standing in front of the loud boom box man, and without saying a word, kicked the boom box into the air and then shattered turning it into confetti that rained down on its owner. The man was now angry and got up from his seat and was going after Mikuni, who stood her ground. She and her digimon combined attacks and kicked the man out the bus window just as the bus came to a stop to pick up more passengers. Mikuni extended her and copied the gesture he had done earlier "Double dumbass on you!" she said before the bus started moving again. Kari was trying to stop from laughing it was one of the funniest things she had ever seen in her life. Takajin was looking very embarrassed about Mikuni's reaction to the situation.
When they reached their destination, the teams separated once again, and the recon team headed out first. While the tactical team stood back until distance between the teams was comparable enough that the recon team would be the first to encounter the target to get information enough for tactical to take it down.
Rika pulled out her digivice, and pressed the green button, Renamon appeared in front of her, and with a brief nod to each other, and she disappeared again to scout ahead of them "Vasantmon isn't the only one that can remain hidden when they want to be," she said with a smirk on her face.
They continued forward, with Kari's digivice detecting the distortion that D-Nemesis was causing as it got closer to coming into this dimension. In a couple of minutes, it would emerge into this world and try to destroy it, and they would do everything in their power to stop that it.
Renamon reappeared in front of Rika once again, "Rika, further ahead in the park, the distortion gets strong enough that I can feel it, it's like nothing I have ever felt before, please be careful," Renamon said with some concern in her tone.
"Aren't I always?" Rika responded, letting her partner that she understands her concerns about what is going on and is already wary of it. Renamon nodded and disappeared again, trusting her partner would be safe.
"Does your friend always overdo things like that?" Kari asked turning to face Takajin, she was asking about what happened on the bus between Mikuni and the loud music guy, who would probably needed medical care right now.
"Yes even though she likes to think of herself as a strategist in certain aspects she is, but she tends to rush headlong into things without thinking when there is justice involved her moral code won't let her think of any other solution" Takajin replied thinking about his journey with the vigilante princess Mikuni.
"Some aspects of her remind me of my brother, Tai, hardly ever thinking things through when a friend or an innocent was in danger," Kari said trying to think positively, and hoping that she would see her friends and family again.
"Takato was the same way, acting without thinking," Rika said interrupting the conversation, she had been eavesdropping, even though it was very hard to not overhear their talking being this near to them "Stupid gogglehead!" she shouted at no one, It was her fault everyone in her dimension had died, they had allowed her to survive by sacrificing themselves, Takato got hurt because of her actions or lack thereof.
"With how backwater your worlds are I think you might be better off, but I am jealous that some of your worlds don't have digimon everywhere they look," Suzie said thinking she would be better off without Lopmon and the only reason she had her around was her father gave it to her.
Takajin and Kari sighed in response while Rika glared a hole in Suzie, like she was going to rip her a new one in a few moments, but she fighting among themselves would not be a good idea, since it would jeopardize the mission that they were on.
They were in another rural area, and they were walking passed a very rundown looking pawn shop, its front display filled with TV sets, but suddenly while they were passing it a voice called out to them "Destruction is upon you children not from this world" all the TVs said all at once with the same exact words scrolling across their screens too, with a weird symbol behind it, the voice was raspy, thick, and distorted "You can't save this world, and you're going to die with it, as I will compress it and it will feed my power, and then continue on to destroy the others"
"To quote a friend of mine even though he never directly said this. Not if we destroy you first, Buddy!" Kari said with an intensity that she didn't show prior to this moment.
"And take your theatrics back to the cinema, you remind me of a movie I just saw last week!" Rika said as she stepped in between Kari and the TVs.
"Yeah," Takajin said, trying to be a part of telling off the D-Nemesis but could not think of anything better top say.
As fast as the symbol on the screen had appeared, now it was gone. Leaving the TVs blank with static as it was before, they turned away from them to see Suzie sketching something in a notepad, which she returned to her pocket. "The Symbol looked like something I have seen before, once this is over I am going to research it" Suzie said noticing them looking at her "it might be important"
"Of course we weren't questioning that at all" Kari said shrugging off the accusation "but we hopefully gave it something to worry about"
A jeep pulls up beside them, and a man dressed in a uniform gets out and walks up to them "aren't you kids supposed to be at school right now?" he said with a strict no nonsense, he was taking a measure of each of them "I am Truant officer Wilhelm, and you better have a good reason"
"We're on a field trip?" Kari stated nervously, trying to think of a better reason and fail to do so.
"Truancy?" Takajin asked confused at what was going on, looking at the officer that looked like someone from his world but sounded completely different.
Officer Wilhelm ignored Takajin's question, and looked directly at Kari "Light Kamiya, didn't I catch you yesterday, playing hooky again I see, I thought you would know better!" he said pulling out handcuffs that he was going to put on each of them. They had no time for this, and Kari was being mistaken for this world's version of her, and they had to get away from this guy as soon as possible.
That's when the truant officer's car started rolling forward on it's on its own, and Wilhelm ran after his trying to stop it before it ended up in traffic, a voice called towards them, just wanting to get out of their went towards it, and a boy with spiked hair was waiting for them that Kari recognized.
"Davis?" Kari said, but realized after this wasn't the same person, it was the version from this dimension, and he still had the same mischievous expression.
"No I am not, my name Dai, I almost mistook you as my girlfriend but I just dropped her off at her house, she was feeling under the weather, from the looks of you, you're not from this world?" Dai said looking proud of himself, "I am still happy to help even an alternate world version of Light, I would kiss you but I don't think my girl would appreciate it if I cheated with her other world counterpart"
Kari fought back tears; the Davis was one of her friends that had died with her world, seeing him alive had given her hope and then like a carpet was pulled from under her, since this wasn't her friend, and that friend was still dead.
Dai turned away to look at the direction of the truant officer had went in to chase his car, "Whatever you have to do in this, I mean my world, you better hurry before he comes back, he will be even more pissed than before" he said "and good luck"
They all waved by to Dai, except Suzie, who just ignored him like he never had been there, she just wanted to get this over with and go home to her own dimension. They rounded the corner, and there was the soft spot, the place weakened by The D-Nemesis, it had a wrongness to how it felt, it was going to be a hole that the D-Nemesis was going to tear open, and come through into this dimension and if it wasn't stop this world would go the way theirs had gone. As Suzie set up the recon equipment, and running through her prestart up check list, everyone else and their digimon partner admired the park: it contained flowers few of them had ever seen in their lifetime. Takajin admitted to not having ever seen a rose before, and Kari explained to him the significance of the flower, and watched as Takajin face reddened slightly.
"I hate that flower it's so girly," Rika said glaring at the rose like it was on fire.
"You know you are a girl too?" Kari asked teasing Rika, knowing fully well what the answer was
"Not all girls are supposed to like roses" Rika retorted loudly turning with an annoyed expression towards Kari.
"Just most of them do," Kari said before starting to laugh because she had flustered Rika so easily, she meant this as a way to get their minds off the current situation to calm them down. She knew Rika kind; she was a tomboy like her friend Sora, but with little more of an edge to her.
"Soon that thing will break through to this dimension, and we need to get as many readings as possible, and then the assault team tries to slow it down, while we try to get a weakness, it's no time for us to joke around," Rika said with her arms crossed in annoyance. "Hopefully it doesn't know we are here yet"
After Suzie had set up the equipment, she joined with the other, they were looking into the void and did not know if they could do anything about the impending destruction of this world and everyone on it, the words from Mikuni rang through his mind, and Takajin hoped that she would succeed in stopping this thing from destroying another world.
It was when the sun was setting in the distance that any sign of D-Nemesis's arrival showed in the sky, it looked like the sky was about to tear like a piece of paper that someone was playing tug a war with, it was stretching and looked warped. The sky was so deformed right now it didn't look like resembling the blue atmosphere that any of them recognized all the colors had blended into an ugly brown. Till it finally ripped open and now they could see the faces of the D-Nemesis, its silver imposing form through the crack, its eyes were now open, pupil less and eerie. It tore the rest of the way through, the faces at the sides of the dimension hole that they touched. Right behind it was streams of numbers, which looked like data stream from a computer. The D-Nemesis suddenly stopped and hovered, it made no progress from just orbiting above them. After a few minutes it started to rotate, beams of light shot from all the eyes of all over a thousand faces.
"It's scanning the planet, soon it will know we are here" Ryo said turning towards his team, "As soon as the recon team is out of the way of harm and are safe, we move in for the kill"
Mikuni looked up at the massive silver form of D-Nemesis, and smirked, she was looking forward to bringing this matter to justice, "As Champion of Justice I'll do whatever it takes," she said clinching her right hand into a fist and punching her left palm.
"That's what I like to hear" Ryo said patting Mikuni on the back "Lets smash this things glass jaw"
"For friends, family, and everyone else that had been important to someone" Takuya Kanbara said doing the same gesture as Mikuni.
Mitsuo Yamaki watched them wordlessly, and he was just their reluctant babysitter but he was starting to like these kids, they had some serious spunk to them, he wondered why he was even there; he had thought them as mere children. Now they had almost proved him wrong.
Back at the recon team, Suzie Yamaki was nearly done with her collecting of data, she hoped they would soon have a weakness to this thing, defeat it and go home. Her thoughts were interrupted when the computer announced that its scan was complete, she picked up her laptop, and nodded to the rest that she was done. That's when faces began to fall from D-Nemesis; those faces ate everything on the way down, everything from building structures to trees and plant life like ravenous little silver Pac men, they were clearing the way so they could find the access point so they could sever the connection between the real world and the digital one, and then absorb the wave of decompression as the world falls apart, The faces quickly joined together in a wall as they touched the ground.
Suzie stopped moving, she put the laptop down, and turned, she was going to face this thing herself, she called forth her digimon partner Lopmon, and Chrono digivolved her to Antylamon, and then they made their way towards D-Nemesis probes, or whatever they were. She was going to take care of this so Ryo wouldn't have to.
"Please Suzie, follow your orders, don't be a hero!" Takajin shouted after Suzie. And tried to catch her, but she was too fast for him.
Suzie Yamaki was in the path of the wall of faces, and she tried to stand resolute. She was going to stop this thing and she was going defeat it.
The face wall stopped and looked down at Suzie "Ah Digidestined, and a little girl too, so I need to get through you first, How pathetic!" it said with the voice coming from all the face in unison.
Antylamon spun into the wall of D-Nemesis face, splattering silver sludge all over the place, but the sludge instantaneous rejoins the main mass off faces like nothing had happened, she attacked it again with the same results. She didn't know that little bits of it were getting passed her.
Ryo and the tactical assault team appeared on the horizon behind Suzie "What the hell are you doing" Ryo shouted towards her, he ran towards her.
"Thank you Suzie" The Face wall said, "You helped me find the connection point" at the moment an explosion shot up behind them, and a light shaped as a digi egg shot up and lit up the sky. The face wall turned into one enormous mouth, and it inside looked like a vortex, a stream of data started to flow into its gaping maw, it threatened to suck Suzie, but Ryo grabbed her and shoved her out of its immediate radius, he dissolved as he was pulled into D-Nemesis probe's mouth, all sound seemed to fade from the world from Suzi perspective, and she didn't notice Mitsuo had been trying to drag her to safety, before he was also dragged off to the same fate as Ryo, She was finally rescued by Kari riding Nefertimon, with Kari asking about what just happened, as they all tried to escape the decompression of this world. They managed to reach their arc transports, with the remaining members of both teams, and lifted off, they watched as this dimension imploded on itself and leaving in the void and the D-Nemesis. This dimension had just shared the same fate as their own and was a crippling blow to their moral as a team.
"This is all your fault, if you did what you were told; this wouldn't have happened; this is why champions of justice mostly work alone or with people they can absolutely trust," Mikuni said taking Suzie by the collar of her shirt and looked her right in the eyes right before slapping her hard in the face. Her words weren't even registering with Suzie, she was lost in the moment that took the last people that meant anything to her. She had lost her family all over again, first her real parents, now her adopted father, and best friend.