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..Adventure-verse

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"I just talked to Koushiro!" Takeru yelled to Hikari and Joe from atop Pegasusmon, "Willis confirmed there are at least 6 spotted down in New York!"

"We could've gate hopped in another town with internet!" Joe complained.

"It wasn't that far Joe we tried three towns. We're almost there anyways, see!"

The view pans out to see Hikari and Takeru riding atop their armor evolutions over the sea with Joe on Ikkakumon lady liberty peeking in the distance.

"Where are we meeting?" Joe yelled back.

"Central park, they're all close to there!" Takeru said loudly. They all upped their pace with determination on their faces, wind rushing past as they made it past the magnificent statue.

As they zeroed in on the harbor they could all hear an explosion not far from the water.

"What was that?" Joe yelled, Takeru and Pegasusmon flew high in the sky.

"Thunder Javelin!" Another explosion rang out.

"It's Megaseadramon!" Takeru yelled, "watch out he just dove back down!" Nefertimon avoided the hit, raising high to the sky, but Ikkakumon took a broadside hit throwing Joe in the air.

"Joe!" He yelled.

"Ikkakumon!" Joe reached out, it felt like slow motion for both as a rush of light invaded everyone's eyes. Zudomon burst from the light barreling towards Joe, catching him moments before hitting the water. As he landed and turned, Megaseadramon shot out of the water toward them.

"Ice arr-" the beast was interrupted.

"Shooting stars!"

"Curse of the Queen!" Both attacks hit and the digimon, realizing it was outnumbered, retreated.

"Wait, don't let it get away!" Takeru said.

"I'll try to open a gate again. Joe, Takeru Lead it back here!" Hikari told them, they both took off as she grabbed her bag. A laptop inside. She opened it and quickly opened the software.

"Come on, come on... Yes!" If finally started booting up, the gate app finally showed, she pulled out her D3.

"Alright Hikari!" Takeru yelled as they all sped back towards her.

But the computer kept making a noise, "no, what? Come on. Open. I have a connection... It's not-" ding. It finally turned green. She turned the screen and they dived, cornering the digimon, it was sucked into the portal. But as she tried to exit the program wouldn't shut, and it began to pull Takeru, Joe, Zudomon and Pegasusmon in as well. They turned and fought the pull and she repeatedly tried and finally just before she panicked she shut the computer and the gate closed finally. Everyone flew to the harbor park and landed, the destined catching their breath, the digimon reverting to Gomamon, Patamon, and Tailmon.

They all silently looked at each other concerned. Hikari called Koushiro.

"Hikari-." He started.

"Koushiro, we had a problem after the last stop, a Meramon hit power station and we couldn't get any gates to open for a few hours. We tried 3 little towns before we flew to New York to meet Willis. But when we got in town we ran into more trouble, called Megaseadramon, but when we had a cell tower connection again I tried repeatedly to open a gate and couldn't. Nefertimon and I were almost in trouble, but then it was suddenly all fine it seemed, it chimed, turned green and opened. But afterwards it wouldn't close, I tried over and over, Joe and Takeru were almost sucked in with Zudomon and Pegasusmon. So I finally shut the laptop and it stopped..." She told him on speaker.

"Oh." He said.

"What do you mean, oh? That's it?" Joe said, slightly irritated with the lack of reaction. "We almost were pulled in!"

"Sorry I'm getting reports of this everywhere starting about 10 minutes ago. I just got off the phone, I messaged you and Takeru, I called Hikari but it wasn't working when I tried. I need you all back now. Something's gone wrong. You've got to go the hard way though, do not open a gate. I've gotta go, I'm trying to call everyone." *Click* he hung up, clearly stressed.

Joe sighed, "I'm tired of bugs in my face! We didn't have that problem in the Digital World!" He grumbled as he walked towards the pier. "Let's just go."

Tailmon and Patamon evolved once again, taking flight and headed home as fast as they could with Joe and Gomamon in tow on Pegasusmon

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..Tamer-verse

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Ryo had sent Henry and Takato home hours ago. He had been typing and hacking for almost a whole day. No traces of the digital world or their partners. Like they had vanished instantly. But in the last few minutes using a weird old coding he'd found searching the darkest parts of the forbidden web, he had found a coding of something, it was similar to the digital world but completely unique.

He wasn't sure why the coding sparked his attention but it immediately felt familiar. He wasn't sure why. A few hours later he was staring off into space, exhausted and he got an idea, he started rewriting gate code with this new coding and when he did something strange began to happen. When he finished and engaged the new coding, his computer shined brightly, he tried to move and closed his eyes as the light engulfed his entire room.

As the light subsided the room was quiet and empty. His computer showed a new strange background, the app showed a box that beeped and turned from green to red. Ryo had disappeared.

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As Ryo found himself transported. It was different than he was used to, but again that nostalgic feeling. 'Why does this all feel familiar?'

As he landed with a thud, and groaned, he rubbed his back as he stood up and shook it off, he looked around, a small screen was on the ground, a forest around it, 'what, is that my room? Does that mean I'm in-' it beeped and the screen shut off. 'Wait! Shit. I hope I can get back.'

As he sighed and turned around he could see a lake, but as he walked closer it looked odd. 'Is that a whirlpool? No, it's something else,' he carefully edged closer, 'it's an opening, a hole? Is that...stairs?Why are there stairs in the water... Definitely the Digital World, it feels foreign but still familiar.' Ryo looked around, unsure if he should continue.

He made a few steps closer cautiously, he looked down and couldn't see. He took a few more steps before a head popped out of the darkness and scared Ryo, "whoa," he fell back, "who are you?!"

"Oh. No. It's you," the head said with a confused look on his face, "how are you back here again? You left. Never to be able to return I thought... How did you get back here?" He asked as he walked out and fully emerged from the darkness. Brown hair and eyes, sporting a ponytail.

"What do you mean, do you know me? Who are you I've never seen you before? And where is here, it feels like the Digital World, but it's not my Digital World is it?" Ryo said hesitantly.

"Oh boy. This is very bad then. Come inside Ryo. There's much to discuss." The man turned and began to walk down the steps.

"You say you know me..." The man turned back to look at Ryo.

"I know much more than that." He faced the stairs again and resumed walking. "Come. We'll talk inside..." Ryo finally took a last look around and began descending the stairs.

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.. Survive-verse

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It was dark and late, Ruki was pacing the floor, steaming mad. Daisuke was running lines in his head. Trying to think of a way to cheer her up or at least get her calm enough to talk to. But before he could find the right words she noticed him in the corner and broke her pace.

"What do you want Goggles 2." 'Damnit! She's making it a thing.' His inner thoughts cried.

"Grr, I was trying to think of something nice to make you feel better. But I guess you can just let goggles make you feel better." He made a face when he heard the words out loud.

She did calm a little watching his face try to be stern after putting his foot in his mouth. He was jealous and she loved it. "Heh," she chuckled, "ok. You're right I needed that." She had stopped pacing, she walked past Daisuke when she spoke to him.

"What did I do?" He questioned, she dismissed him not turning back or acknowledging the question.

"But we've got to figure out a way to Renamon." She said with determination in her voice, "we have to."

"We're going to. You've got the power inside," he turned her back around and grabbed her hand holding it in his, looking in her eyes, she was slightly caught off guard and turned red as a beet as she broke his eye contact.

"You'll figure it out, I know it and I'll be there to protect you, me and Vmon have got your back. You're strong, intelligent, and determined. Nothing could stop you."

She didn't know what to say, "I...Daisuke..." 'His touch is warm. I don't know what to do.' Her mind shook it off before her heart could react.

"I wish I shared your confidence. But you've still got your partner so it's easy to say..." She pulled away from his hand, still upset.

"We're gonna find her, I promise Ruki." Daisuke said finding her eyes again. "You will find her. You're both connected forever. Don't give in to those thoughts."

'Ugh how can he be so damn confident?' She thought.

"I know you mean well-" She started to say, avoiding his eyes.

"Look, you're not going to get anywhere moping around about it. You'll figure it out but not if you don't snap out of it!" He finally got serious with her, she turned her gave back and was staring him straight in the eyes now instead.

"I...You're right." She remembered her times with her friends, the worst times, she made it. "I will do this, I can't get stuck in my own head... Thank you."

She stood up to leave but stopped, "why though? why do you have so much faith in me? You don't know me. Not really." She questioned about to walk out looking back at him.

He just smiled, "because I've still got to take you to the best most exclusive hidden beach ever with no annoying people around at all."

She smirked, rolled her eyes, shook her head and said, "whatever you say cartoon boy." She felt slightly better as she left the room, with that, she set out to find Miyuki to practice some more.

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..Rose's Whoniverse

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The digidestined, David and Rose were still all standing in the makeshift sickbay. No one daring to move. All their digimon guarding the entrance.

"Renamon? So you are a digimon, what do you remember?" Sora asked.

David looked to Rose and back to the Digimon.

"We're not here to hurt you, we just want to find our friends and get home." Iori told the silent figure.

"This is the real world. I feel it. But what is this... place." She looked around at the room and its structure, "I can feel energy, this place, it makes me at unease."

"We feel it too," Gabumon started.

"But we don't feel any malice or fear from it." Palmon told her.

"That's because this place knows you don't belong, this place is a Tardis. And at its heart is a Time vortex. That vortex doesn't agree with other realities' objects, including you, it's a paradox. It's like you're indigestion and that feeling is the Tardis coping with your being here." David told them. "And being what I understand as digital beings, you may be more likely to be influenced by it, able to feel it affecting you. It means no harm but it won't feel good." He said hoping to ease Renamon's mind.

"..." She seemed to accept his answer, "I was searching for someone when I was ambushed. Then while I tried to get the high ground, without warning, that pool opened and I couldn't stop. I went straight through it. It followed me." The digidestined looked at each other.

Of course with no discussion Taichi, "then stay with us, we will get you back to your friend!"

"Taichi, we're on our own search and rescue-" Yamato started.

"I know, but whatever's going on is effecting all realities obviously. She's not from here or our reality it seems, so if we find our friends maybe we can find her friend along the way. Or at least get her back home." Taichi argued.

"She's not in my world. Her presence disappeared in the middle of the night one night, she wasn't in the real world or the digital one anywhere... Well, I couldn't reach them for sure near the end..." she sort of trailed off.

"What do you mean? Couldn't reach who?" Sora asked Renamon.

"My partner left her friends behind, I was in contact with them, then hours before that door opened I lost contact and couldn't leave the digital world thru any gate nor get in touch with her friends anymore..." She said.

"But you were able to come into the real world here from your digital world effortlessly. Your energy definitely isn't from this universe." David said, handing his 3d glasses to Rose. "Nor is it like theirs." He said pointing her to look at the digidestined, "each reality has electrons and all kinds of things invisible to the human eye. With these, you see what doesn't belong." They all looked through the glasses.

"But I'm beginning to wonder if you can't contact your real world anymore because it's been separated from your digital world." David said curiously.

"Bugendaimon said the realities were cracked and the walls were coming down, does you think he meant the digital and real worlds have all cracked and separated?" Ken asked, starting to form a theory with the man.

"Yes! I think that's the best answer. But if that's the case, when you said your friends disappeared in front of Bugendaimon, it couldn't have been a rip like these doors, they seem to quickly and violently grab whoever is close and throw them through. But what happened to them sounds directed, like someone took them maybe, but then, no that wouldn't make much sense unless another entity did it. Or maybe one of them caused it, very odd indeed." David began to think to himself. They all sort of got caught up discussing this and forgot the incident until Miyako finally thought about it and asked Renamon, "so are you going to stay with us and let us help find your friend?"

Everyone stopped and looked to Renamon who sighed, "I don't suppose anyone else will be able to help better right now. I will join you for now. Just know I'm here to find my partner. Not as your puppet..."

They all nodded or ok'd her. "So if you're feeling better," David looked to the digimon who nodded, "then we can go to the bridge and discuss our next move." They all agreed and departed for the bridge.

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..Survive-verse

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Ruki and Miyuki sat across from each other in a stance that looked like they were meditating. They had practiced a few hours, still not able to get the door to form again Ruki was getting frustrated again, not used to failing. And after Miyuki had suggested that this anger might be getting in the way, her eyes narrowed as Ruki was about to smart off.

But their training was interrupted as Takuma burst in the door, "Miyuki, Haru needs you, he says it's urgent."

The two girls looked at each other and jumped up, they went running. Daisuke peaked his head out as he heard them all ran past, immediately following.

Once in their computer room, Ruki and Daisuke saw The professor Haru, Kaito, Aoi, Miu, and two unknowns.

"Miyuki, Miu and Saki just got back, they had problems trying to get home." Haru told her.

"What happened?" She asked.

One of the unknowns, a pretty girl softly spoke, "I was with Ceresmon, recovering again, once I felt better Mui was helping me home. But she could get the gate to open, she tried over and over. She's normally flawless. But we ended up going to the inner shrine before the door would finally open Miu worked hard." Saki told them looking to Miu

"You were just trying to save my feelings it's ok." Miu knew she was still training too.

"We dismissed it too, but then reports and calls began pouring in about having intermittent problems. And now no one that I've talked to can even get a door to open." Haru told her, he looked to Ruki and Daisuke.

"My sister trained everyone who can open a gate to the digital world."

"Let's try it in the buffer room." Miyuki said , turning and walking out, everyone followed, they went back to that first office, into the large fortified war torn room.

Once in the room, Miyuki began to sing, as she neared the middle of the song, energy began to spark.

"It's never done that before." Haru stared. As she continued only sparks would fly, the door never opened. Even as she reached the end...

"This isn't good." She looked to her brother.

They all looked distressed.

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