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"Hello?" Matt was frantic as he tried getting a signal from his communicator. "Tai? Sora? Anyone there?" The only response he received was a monotone static buzz in his ear.
Gabumon looked up at him in concern.
"It'll be alright, I'm sure the others will find our signal again." Gabumon tried.
"We should start leaving trail markers. We don't want to keep backtracking and getting lost." Matt said as he took the device from his ear and stuffed it into his pocket.
"We'll check in every hour to see if they're online again." Gabumon agreed.
(Tamers!)
"Where's Yamaki? Wasn't he going to see us off?" Takato asked. He and a group of tamers gathered in park, soon to depart for the digital world.
"Something's come up, so I'm here in his place." Reika stated as she assessed the group. Kenta brought only a small bag with mementos from home, Hirokazu on the other hand looked to have packed his entire house.
"There wasn't much I could do to persuade them Ruki" Renamon said to her partner. Ruki gave the two a look of contempt but accepted that when it comes to those two, there really wasn't any helping them. They were just too stubborn.
"Looks like everyone is here, let me introduce to you the team hypnos has prepared to help you. Shimbumi is captain of this expedition, his experience with the digital world should prove useful. This is Aoshi, he's a member of hypnos's ground control squad, he was apart of the team which helped capture and subdue rouge digimon in the past." Reika explained. Takato gave a weary glance at the stranger. He remembered the time when hypnos only thought to destroy digimon all too well. "While we know you kids can handle yourselves in the digital world quite well, many are still uncomfortable with leaving children to fend for themselves. I hope you all can get along, these two are here to help supervise your mission and make sure everything goes well. I wish you all the best of luck."
With that she stepped aside and let the tamers, digimon, and their supervisors board the ship. It wasn't sentient like ark was, in fact it was built in the human world. I was quite a bit larger but it should get the group to the digital world and back.
And so, Takato, Guilmon, Ruki, Renamon, Kenta, Marineangemon, Hirokazu, Guardromon, Shimbumi, and Aoshi entered the digital world.
(Adventure!)
With difficulties in the digital world with their communications, many of the digidestined kids were already in the digital world trying to figure things out. TK and Patamon are still missing, and everyone is worried. Mimi is the last to arrive, after debating it with herself she decided to bring the two kids with her. They were digidestined too, so there shouldn't be a problem, it'd be worse for them if she left the behind.
She entered the coordinates in the school computer like Izzy had shown her and everything was ready now.
"Okay, now we hold our digivices out like this, and say digiport energize. Do you two understand?"
The little girl, Ai pulled out the odd looking digivice from under her shirt where it had been hanging on a string. She and Makoto would take turns wearing it, and never really wanted to take it off, even when going to bed. Although Impmon made them take it off before they went swimming or took a bath. He didn't think water would hurt it too much, but wanted them to be careful with it still.
Ai held it in front of her and Makoto told hold of it too, and they nodded to each other before saying, "Digiport energize!"
The two of them, along with their partner were pulled into the digital world, with Mimi and Palmon right behind them.
"I have legs again!" Impmon cheered.
"So we can call you Impmon again now?" Makoto asked. His partner nodded.
"Mimi has to meet her friends here, remember? We should go help her." Ai said.
"Oh don't worry about that Ai, they're waiting for us just a bit more that way." Mimi said.
The five of them began walking.
"What is with this place..." Impmon muttered, looking at the lush forest untouched and unharmed. Nothing here seemed right. Isn't this supposed to be the digital world?
"Hey! We made it!" Mimi called out seeing her friends.
"Mimi? Hey! You made it!" Yolei shouted to her.
"Who are those two? More digidestined?" Cody asked.
"That's right! Me and Gatomon saw a girl with a digivice a day or two ago. Do you think it's a new group of digidestined kids?" Kari asked.
"What's a digidestined? We're tamers!" Makoto said proudly. His sister nodded in agreement.
"Guys, we still don't know where TK and Patamon went off to, we should send someone to go find them." Ken suggested.
"We'd like to, but we don't have any idea where those two are. Last we saw them they were in the human world. And we can't get our communications to work right. It's just static and voices still." Izzy said.
"Then there's still those weird light shows. Most of our friends are gone now because of them." Yolei said.
"Light shows? Are they white and blue kind of like static? Kinda like an old dust packet?" Impmon asked.
"No, they're pink and travel for miles before disappearing." Hawkmon replied.
"You mean like data streams? Are you guys all dense? All this Digidestined mumbo jumbo get to your heads?" Impmon said with a sneer.
"Not a very friendly digimon, is he?" Armidillomon said.
Impmon scowled at him, but said nothing g to defend himself.
"What's a data stream?" Mimi asked.
"It's an annoying pink light which picks up things from one place and moves it to another. They're all over the digital world, or at least the real one anyways." Impmon said gesturing around him.
"I see... and your digital world? Is it broken apart and is there a mechanical moon in the sky even during the day?" Izzy asked realizing something.
"Um, yeah. Have you seen it?" Impmon asked.
"No, but our friends have. They are there right now. A 'data stream' as you call it, came through at took them there. We're trying to get this computer to connect to their signal again. Please, tell us everything you know about the world you're from so that we can get our friends back safely." Izzy pleaded.
"So you're friends are stuck? Well best of luck to em, my digital world isn't all too friendly a place. There are a few digimon there who really hate humans, not to mention the ones who look for digimon to fight and absorb." Impmon said sourly.
There were a few gasps from the group around him. Are the others safe? What will happen to them if they stay there?
"Don't worry about them, they can take care of themselves pretty well." Ken said confidently.
"Well for there sakes I hope you're right. I'd love to help you guys and all... But I've got my own problems right now, Ai and Mako need to get home as soon as possible." Impmon said.
"Impmon! We've got to help them!" Ai cried.
"They're Mimi's friends!" Mako agreed.
"It's possible that by working together on this we may solve both of our problems." Izzy said.
"Fine, what do you want ta know?" Impmon consented.
(Tamers!)
"You all ready to go then?" Ryo asked.
"Of course! We should hurry now, shouldn't we?" Juri asked.
"First we need to get rid of that barrier." Cyberdramon said.
"I think I know what will do the trick. Card slash!" Ryo said using his card to give his partner the boost needed.
With a well controlled attack, the barrier shattered into pieces.
"Now we won't have much time before they replace it, so let's hurry everyone!" Ryo said, and he jumped into the tear with Cyberdramon following close behind.
Juri gave one last look at the twins room seeing the various crayon drawings and toys. She nodded to herself and jumped in.
Culumon had been following Juri unnoticed.
"We'll need this too! Culu!" Culumon said, taking a stack of cards off of Makoto's dresser and following his friends through the portal.
(Adventure!)
Sally was worried. Flamemon hadn't contacted her at all since they planned to meet in the digital world. Now that boy with the Patamon who said he'd help wasn't answering or returning her calls. Well fine, if they didn't want to speak with her, she would just go back to her everyday life. It's not like she asked to be a digidestined or whatever anyway. Things were just fine before.
With new resolve made out of mostly spite, she went down the stairs. Only to stop in shock after reaching the bottom.
"Are you okay miss?" The digimon who was just sitting there in her living room asked.
"Labramon!" Her brother Henry exclaimed. He had asked his partner to stay hidden from his family. At least until he was ready to do some serious explaining.
"My dorky brother is a digidestined... like me..." Sally muttered before falling down.
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TK had fallen asleep while searching. Being awake for nearly two days straight put quite a bit of strain of the pair. Patamon tried to keep guard, but soon succumb to sleep just as easily. When they awoke though, they were in a place neither had ever seen before.
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Joe Kido-16
Taichi "Tai" Kamiya, Sora Takaishi, Yamato "Matt" Ishida, Ryo Akiyama-15
Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi, Mimi Tachikawa-14
Ken Ichijouji-13
Yolei Inoue, Alice McCoy, Sally Carter(firestar's oc), Michel Ferran(firestar's oc)-12
Takeru "TK" Takaishi, Kari Kamiya, Davis Motomiya, Takato Matsuda, Ruki Makino, Jianliang "Jian" Lee, Juri Kato, Hirokazu "Kazu" Shiota, Kenta Kitagawa-11
Cody Hida-9
Shaochung Lee, Henry Carter(firestar's oc)-8
Ai Terada, Makoto "Mako" Terada-5
Hello again everyone! Welcome new readers and to the rest of you thanks for sticking with me for so long! I needed to send someone along with the tamers to the digital world a d there weren't many characters available. I wonder if anyone can guess where I got the name Aoshi from.
I forgot to reply to reviews last time...
Hey Firestar! I'm already planning out how that scene will go, quit spoiling it! I'm kidding of course, it's really cool if people can guess what's going to happen next(although if they do it too much I should change it up a bit. Don't want to be too predictable do I?). That's actually going to happen pretty soon now... Thank you for all the reviews you've sent thus far and the messages. I should probably reply to them shouldn't I? I just stink at holding conversations, don't feel intimidated if I don't reply, I do appreciate them, I'm just not good at showing it. I decided to let Henry get his partner earlier then I 'planned'.