The news had been disheartening, this dimension was the next likely to fall if the D-Nemesis wasn't stopped, Izzy was now working around the clock trying to figure out how to stop it and also if he could save people that it had decompressed and absorbed, and it wasn't looking good, the idea of being able to get her family and friends back had perked Suzie Yamaki up, she had worked tirelessly and got almost all systems up that she accidentally put in lock down. She and Yolei worked together like they had been a team for years.
"I am glad things are moving again, with the plan to defeat the D-Nemesis, but it could be here anytime soon" Takato said to Rika, who just walked away from him, He sighed about her silent treatment, it hadn't been her fault he had gotten hurt, he ran up to her, and grabbed her arm "It's not your fault I got hurt, and it's not your fault about what happened to everyone else. But didn't you hear that there could be a way to get them out?"
"But they wouldn't have been in there if I had fought" Rika said with determination that she was right about this.
"No you wouldn't have, you would have joined them, and it was tooo late for either of us to do anything" Takato said, ignoring the look that was being given to him, he couldn't have his friend blame herself like this. "Anyone that blames themselves, for this is stupid" he shouted at everyone in the room, and to everyone else via intercom he had been standing beside.
"Stupid Gogglehead" Rika said actually smirking, and holding back a laugh. "That was almost half way intelligent"
"Let's Squash this bug!" Takato said raising his arm into the air and making a fish with it.
"Prodigious" a voice sounded from the intercom, "Everyone come to my lab"
Everyone went to the monitor room, and entered the door this world's version of Izzy came out of when he revealed himself to be Homeostasis something thought to be an A.I. problem, which led to a grandiose lab, where Izzy sat in front of a huge computer screen, on it was several images of the D-Nemesis, it bothered everyone to even look at its.
"It's unknown what the D-Nemesis is made of, it's a mysterious digital particle, but I now know what it does to decompress worlds, overloads the connection with said particle causing the worlds to fall apart. I am really close to getting a person and their digimon partner out of it" he swiveled in his chair "Totally Prodigious genius" he slapped his hands together. "Also I can stop the decompression of infected people too, if all goes right, also I am working on a virus that might take it out at it core, we need Volunteers to take it inside the belly of the beast"
"I'll do it, I need to make up for what I have done" Suzie said stepping forward out of the crowd.
"I'll go too" Takajin said stepping forward too, now standing beside Suzie. With Kari, Rika, and Mikuni.
"You might have made a mistake, but you owned up to it, but if you do that again, I'll make you regret it for the rest of your life" Mikuni said clenching and unclenching her hand. With everyone else nodding in agreement.
"Finding the way in will be the problem" Izzy said cutting off the conversation that others were having as he was oblivious to it, as he hadn't even looked up from his computer. "We need to create a hole, I need to look through the data collected for a weak spot in its exterior"
"This feels like a movie I once saw, it was based around an American holiday of some kind" Yolei said thinking to herself, and dismissed the thought as pointless. "I'll help with Izzy's research"
"This could be our final battle, you guys we need to prepare ourselves, and these could be our last days" Kari said, looking sympathetic "But we will take this thing out even if it's the last thing we do"
The first thing her comment did was bring up the somberness of their situation, and then it ended it gave them all hope, that they would take this thing out, and saving this world and all its people, even though they hadn't been there long enough to get to know someone well. There hope was currently a shot in the dark any positive thoughts were a breath of fresh air. They all left the lab trying to hold onto that one shred of hope, which would hold them from falling further into despair.
Later that day, Suzie Yamaki suggested she give them a bit of a tour of her world, and after making some arrangement that they all were heading back to Edo City, on the grounds they were getting to know one of the world they were going to be saving that's not their own, first stop was the Tower of Terminus, the largest self-sustaining building in Edo city it was its own biosphere, and a shopping center where Suzie Yamaki bought all her hacking supplies. Whatever computer stuff she wanted, it was there. It was like a platinum finger pointing at the sky. She walked over and ripped a picture from a wall, and crumpled it mumbling about something called My Little Ponimon, and how it makes her gag. She tossed it away and continued the tour, it was to the top of the tower, to look down to look down at the city from the observation deck, and the city was a flurry like it was like one living organism. Steam power cars going flying around like blood going through the veins. It was something breathtaking to behold. Suzie stopped at flower stand, and picked up some roses.
"Next we are heading to the building that ruined my life, the building that as the former headquarters for Hypnos before it, Rika and Takato will recognize this building from their world, it looks exactly the same except for the enormous hole in it from the digimon that killed my family" Suzie said solemnly thinking about that day. She gestured for them to follow, as she head towards a building that looked like a giant U.
Once they reached the building itself, they entered through the hole Suzie had mentioned, they place was a complete mess, there was shattered glass tubes all around them, and the floors were blackened. Another memory flash before Suzie's eyes, her friend Rei was now in front of her.
"I had this made for all three of us" Rei said holding up an intricately crafted necklace, which she unclasped into three pieces "I think each piece means something, the part I give to Ryo means kindness, the part I give to Suzie means spirit, and the one I keep means mind, I will always be your friend"
"Why aren't you visiting their graves, instead of coming here?" Kari asked out of curiosity. The question startled Suzie back to the present, and her friend was now gone again.
"We don't bury our dead here, on my world, we digitize our remains, which is put in an archive, I was banned from it because of acts of hacking" Suzie Yamaki said "This was the last place I saw my father alive, he died right in front of me in that room over there, my mother and brothers in this room we are in now" she walked over and placed two roses on the ground where there was two almost faded chalk outlines. "This is actually the Anniversary of all their deaths, my Family, and people that were my childhood friends" she headed towards a shattered glass wall, and entered it through a frame with a door, but its hinges were still there showing its absence. In the room was a table, and abandoned wheelchair, she placed one on the floor where there was another faded chalk line, she collapsed to her knees, and fresh tears streaked her cheeks as she cried "Papa!" She pictured herself in her dad's arms, as they both laughed and played. She then punched the ground "I was hoping that this was just a dream, a nightmare to haunt me since that incident when I was 6. Because this does not feel like reality, does it?" She was losing it mentally, she shouldn't have come here in her current state of mind.
Kari walked over to Suzie and embraced her in a tight hug, "I am sorry I hit you earlier, seeing this now, I can understand your feelings, but we want you to know that you're not alone, ok? Feel our hope, feel our strength, let out us comfort you, and let it all out!" She said continuing with the hug, as Suzie cried into her shoulder.
. "Only a simpleton can look at data and think they know someone and how they feel" Suzie said as she calmed down enough to speak. "This might not be my fault, but I screwed up and got more of those that were important to me killed"
Kari pulled away but kept Suzi Yamaki at arm's length "Maybe Izzy can save them both, you need to pull yourself together so that can happen" she said looking with renewed enthusiasm at Suzie hoping to pull out of the depressed state she was in. "They are probably waiting to be rescued, lets squash this bug!"
A smile slowly made its way onto Suzie's face, "Yeah let's take this bugger down" she said with renewed confidence "it will regret messing with an illustrious hacker like myself" she punched the air in triumph, even if she didn't want to work with digimon, she would have to save the ones she cared about.
After leaving the dilapidated Hypnos building the tour of Edo city was going to continue, when a hover limousine pulled up beside them, and a big man got out "How dare you little brats upstage my singing diva with your digimon battle" He shouted as Kari stared at him in shock. "I am Mr. Yukio Oikawa, Agent to the stars, you interrupted my clients' concert, take me to who booked you, so we can talk about the terms of recompense, my client is never to be upstaged by anyone or thing"
A noise started coming from the laptop Suzie Yamaki carried in a case strapped to her back, she pulled it off and opened, to reveal a picture of Izzy "Look Mr. Oikawa, we didn't mean to interrupt your clients, it was official Hypnos business, the mention of Hypnos made the agent back away from the laptop. "Does your client still have that special digimon that was meant magnify sound, instead it caused digimon to digivolve, just remember this right hearing your voice from my listening devices on my employees laptop, if she does I'll gladly pay her to have a concert, at triple her usual rate so she could deal with being near a digimon battle" a phone number now flashed on the screen.
"You terms are acceptable, I'll talk to my client and get back to you" Oikawa said before getting back in his limo and it driving off.
"In my world he died, and became a part of the digital world" Kari said "it's weird seeing him again"
"That was the agent of Ruki Makino, She is this world version Rika Nonaka, and she is a pop idol, a very famous one" Izzy said not seeing the expression Rika was giving him since she was standing behind the laptop.
"I really don't know how to react to this" Rika said, trying to keep focus on stuff that was more important than her other world doppelganger, that was disturbingly a pop singer that Izzy just hired for some reason.
After that odd Revelation, they continued the tour, she showed them building that visit, all the location she was and had shown them were technologically impressive structures, that showed off how futuristic her world was compared to the rest of theirs, far more ahead of the world which Takajin came from event though there was still technology in his world but very little. When it was over they headed back to Hypnos building the one at Mount Fuji. To make final preparations for the final battle. Izzy, Yolei, and Suzie Yamaki working on the virus that will take down the D-Nemesis.
Takajin sat beside Kari, Takato, and Rika on the observation deck, it looked down at the city they had visit an hour ago, it was so lively and active.
"We will be able to stop this thing, right?" Takato asked Takajin, as he patted Guilmon on the head.
"I don't know, I hope so, recue everything this monster destroyed, so we can all go home, if anything could be recovered" Takajin said, looking down at his feet "But I know I'll die trying, doing everything in my power to do"
"We will win, we have to" Kari said, trying to motivate the others, she wasn't going to let their hope fade again, it seemed very weak so any negative thoughts seemed to knock it down, she was even having a hard time being positive herself. "This is a beautiful world, filled with people just like our worlds, we will rescue our families, our friends, while preventing the same fate to these people"
"How many speeches are there going to be before we actually do something, this was pointless tour, a champion of justice doesn't need motivation we just do something to save the day" Mikuni said interrupting Kari's speech. She was getting with the repeated speeches and monologues, and visits to someone's ghosts of the past.
"Prodigious!" Izzy's voice called over the communications device on each of their digivices, "Come I think I have something"
They all teleported back to the Hypnos headquarters, and entered Izzy's below ground computer chamber, he was waiting for them looking very happy about himself.
"I have come up with a plan using the digital filtered, and the digivice matrix of your digivices, all we need to do now is scan the D-Nemesis for the bio signatures of people trapped inside it. Like so" he said, flipping a switch after doing some typing on his laptop computer. Digitalization field formed similar to that when a digimon formed in Tamers universe version of earth. When the field departed standing in the room was Ryo Akiyama, Suzie couldn't hold herself back, she ran up and hugged her friend tightly.
"Suzie, what the heck is going and how did I get back here, last thing I remembered was we were trying to stop the D-Nemesis, and… oh my head hurts" Ryo said rubbing the temples of his head, as he winced in pain.
"I screwed up that mission, that world was absorbed by the D-Nemesis, It got you and father, I am so sorry, please don't hate me, even though you should" Suzie Yamaki said as she tried to not cry again, she was so happy to see her friend alive again.
"I will never hate you, no matter what you do, I am your best friend forever, you got me out why can't we get out your father too, Mitsuo's knowledge of digital life would be an asset we cannot afford not to have" Ryo said before turning to face Izzy. "Please can you bring him back like you just did with me?"
"I certainly can" Izzy replied, typing again on his laptop, the room hummed again, but no digital field formed, he typed again, and the room hummed again, this time the laptop sparked and the building shook "What the heck, something went wrong and shorted out the system, it will take me hours to fix it, by the time its back up the d-nemesis will be here, and it will be too late"
"What was the pal n before I got here?" Ryo asked, as the pain in his head was starting to clear up. "I want to teach this thing a lesson and rescue my mentor"
"We are going in it and putting a virus in its core, destroying it from the inside out" Izzy said, looking down at his prized laptop like it was his child that was dead in his arms, he cradled it.
"Sounds like a good plan to me, and two hackers are better than one" Ryo said, ruffling Suzie's hair, and they both laughed cheerfully, their hope was now renewed.
They geared up to head out, in two teams, one that was going to drill a hole for team two to get inside it, Team one was composed of Ruki, Takato, Takuya, Mikuni, and Sasuke, Team two was going to be composed of Rika, Kari, Takajin, Suzie, and Ryo, once team two was in they would make their way to the center of D-Nemesis, and upload the virus. The fate of many worlds was resting on their shoulders, now will they succeed.
Izzy had worked with the military to have the city evacuated, Edo city was now deserted. All that was there now was the teams getting ready for the final battle.
Kari was about to say something, when she caught sight of Mikuni, and stopped, and just nodded in her direction, the time for speeches was over. As they were heading to their destination after they had teleported down to Edo City again. A bunch of truck pulled up, and a very fancy looking RV, and several big men got out of the truck, and started setting something, which looked like a concert stage, this must have been what Izzy was talking Ruki was setting up for a concert. Mikuni rolled her eyes as she watched, to her this was pointless, she walked and shoved one of the roadies, he fell backwards dropping what he was carrying.
"This is a battle not for musical entertainment I don't care what Izzy agreed with, take this away now" Mikuni said forcefully.
The RV door slammed open, and Rika's Prime universe doppelganger Ruki Makino stormed out, she was dressed in a very frilly looking dressed, it didn't look like she was dressed for battle more like for a night of the prom, and she made a beeline towards Mikuni glaring at her with a look that could have scared anyone other than Mikuni, barely anything could scare her, even a stampede of angry rhinos. "How dare you interfere with my concert, you lowly peon, if it was up to me none of you would be here, but I am being paid for a concert and a digimon battle, I'll do my show and you will do yours" she said looking Mikuni right in the eyes, which was considered a death wish if she knew better. In an instant Ruki was face first into the ground, with Mikuni's hand planted on the base of her neck holding her down. As soon as that happened Ruki's security team was charging towards the scene. Mikuni let go of Ruki, to kick the first two security guys in the face, and knee another one in the groin, and the last got his face shoved into a wall. They were all knocked out in a matter of a minute, their unconscious forms lying in a pile, Ruki stared wide eyed at her security detail, now she was rethinking ever messing with Mikuni ever again.
"My digimon needs my voice, to help digimon digivolve, how am I supposed to sing without the proper setup" Ruki stuttered as she spoke, as she kept looking on the very dangerous person she didn't want to kill her.
"I saw you on stage using a device, called a microphone, you don't need to set up an entire stage for singing this is not a concert you were brought here to help with the battle to get us into D-Nemesis, if it was up to me you wouldn't be here" Mikuni pointing at the device that the man she had first attack before Ruki had shown had dropped.
"Ok! OK! I'll just use the microphone, please don't hurt me, once this is over I am going to sue Hypnos…" Ruki said, stopping briefly to think about something "Never mind, I'll bill them more instead"
Takato looked over to Rika, who was embarrassed to even look at her doppelganger, which was so different than herself, in a way that pissed her off. She was also happy for what Mikuni did to that annoying diva, putting her in her place.
When D-Nemesis arrived the sky would tear apart, and its probes would rain down in search of this world's connection with it digital world, it would do what it did to previous worlds, decompress it and absorb it, this might be the final world it did this too, causing a chain reaction that destroyed all others that are left.
Izzy appeared before them, this being the first time in years he had stepped foot outside of safe base on Mount Fuji, , and Yolei was with him holding an advanced looking box " Team two come over here" Izzy said with them gathering around him and Yolei. She opened the box to reveal goggles bearing a symbol of the crest of Miracles, in various different colors. "Team two will wear these protective goggles, they will shield you from D-Nemesis, and block you from its view, it can't absorb you while you are wearing these, they don't work while you are outside of it, they use it's wavelengths to work"
"Hey you are a gogglehead now" Takato teased Rika, who elbowed him in the gut, knocking the wind out of him.
"Shut up!" Rika said while elbowing Takato for the second time. She hesitated for a few moments, then picked up her pair which was blue.
"Once the machine is working I'll send down reinforcements, I am working on an algorithm that will bring back multiple people, you need all the help I can get you" Izzy said before he and Yolei vanished in teleportation light.
Suzie went to say something, telling Ryo all the mistakes she had made after he had been taken from her with her adopted father, but he shushed her "I don't care what you did, we can talk about this later" Ryo said to her "whatever it was you didn't mean to"
it was getting closer to the time of emergence, Two team anxiety levels were sky rocking, nerves were fraying, Takato wiped the sweat from his brow, Takajin did the same, followed by everyone else, you could literally cut the tension with a knife. Kari looked over to Takajin with an expression that asked are you ready for this, he nodded in response, knowing fully well by now what was ahead of them all, didn't stop him from being nervous like everyone else. His father once told him that people that aren't wary or nervous will walk into danger unprepared. Those words rang true now, hopefully.
A deep voice boomed out from all around, it was the voice of the D-Nemesis, and echoed from all around them, coming every technology, from TVs and personal computer from high tech looking billboards it was coming from everywhere possible "Your destruction is coming, face me if you dare" it said in a mocking voice
Moment the echo of the voice stopped, the sky started to glowed, and the world shook, and it seemed like it was ripping itself apart, each time the rip got bigger the world shook again, it was like looking at a piece of paper, held by someone with a flashlight and the paper blocked the light, which was only visible through the tear itself. Even though they saw this before it didn't make any less eerie and disconcerting, it continued till there was a great hold in the sky and peeking out of that hole was the D-nemesis as it began to emerge into that world all its faces staring intently through the hole it created. The light from the tear reflected off its surface like its faces, all the faces began to grim as it emerged finally into the prime universe. All the faces opened their mouths and spat out tiny version of its face that begin to rain down on the city below the battle to save the Digiverse had begun as terror rained down from the sky above. Each team had all their digimon partners, with team one running to meet the enemy.