I looked up.
Then to the side.
"What the actual fuck?"
I appeared inside Guilmon's shed, noticing that Guilmon himself wasn't currently inside.
That didn't come as a surprise, however. I'd known the instant that Guilmon had vanished from within.
Guilmon wasn't here anymore. And by here, I meant that he wasn't here, in this dimension anymore.
But, dimensionally speaking, he was quite close.
My head twisted, and I gazed at the other dimensions in this World.
There was a new one- or at least, one that had not been here before.
And, inside, I could see Guilmon's Heart.
I 'walked' through the air, looking around at the weird surroundings.
Shifting blues, greens and purples, with the occasional splotches of yellow and a streak of red, white and black.
Wait.
That wasn't a streak of colour.
"Hello!" Guilmon called, floating upside down.
Or... was I the one upside down?
Oh, what the fuck, there was no gravity in this place, ergo, there's no down.
"Hello Guilmon." I said, moving closer to him. "How are you feeling?"
"Sleepy." Guilmon said, happily.
"I see." I reoriented, so that I was looking at Guilmon right side up. "Do you know how you got here, Guilmon?"
"Nope!" Guilmon spoke, smile firmly in place. "I was sleeping, when I felt like I was fading, so I opened my eyes and I was here! Where is here?"
"Not where you should be, that's for one." I said. I reached out, patting him on the head. "How about we get out of here?"
"Okie-dokie!"
I patted him one last time, before letting my hand rest on top of his head.
And then, I twisted space like a pretzel.
We appeared in Guilmon's shed, and I immediately had to stop Guilmon from being drawn back over.
I could see (literally see) Guilmon's Data attempting to be pulled over, and if I wasn't forcefully stopping it myself, he would have been drawn over in an instant.
"Well, that's a problem, now isn't it?"
"Huh?"
"Oh, nothing you need to be concerned about, Guilmon."
I kept my hand on his head, the dinosaur looking at me inquisitively. If I let go of him, I wouldn't have been able to stop him from being drawn over.
I looked down at my hand.
And then at Guilmon, who was still staring at me with a confused expression on his face.
Ah-hah.
"Say, Guilmon. How would you like a bracelet?"
"What's a bracelet?"
This is it.
The moment of truth.
I let go of Guilmon.
Nothing happened.
"Oh good, that worked." I said.
Guilmon sniffed at his new accessory, getting used to it.
It wasn't much; just a thin black band of Darkness that wrapped around his wrist, serving the sole purpose of keeping him firmly anchored in this dimension, and thus stopping him from getting pulled into the other, new one.
...
Which effectively means that the Tamers won't be getting almost-killed while rescuing Guilmon from Yamaki's program.
Huh.
That wasn't even my intention.
"Morning Guilmon!" Takato called, rushing up to the front of the shed.
"Morning!" Guilmon said.
"Good morning, Takato." I greeted.
Watching Takato nearly jump out of his skin was the funniest thing I'd seen all morning.
"Uh, hey." Takato greeted, opening the gate and handing a bag to Guilmon. Bread, no doubt.
He frowned as he looked at Guilmon, noticing the black band on his wrist in an instant. Surprisingly perceptive, I'll give him that. Especially since it was just about perfectly camouflaged by the colour that was already present on Guilmon's skin.
"What's that?" Takato asked.
"Long explanation short, that's a dimensional anchor." I said.
"A what?" Takato asked again. "And why does he need one?"
"Effectively, that bracelet is keeping your partner in this dimension. Though you can't see it, there's a dimension close to this one, so close that the walls between realities are softening a little. Last night, your partner was drawn into that dimension while he was sleeping. Don't worry, he's fine." I said, cutting off Takato's question. "I got him out of there, and I gave him that bracelet so he wouldn't be drawn back in. Speaking of," I handed him a small ring. "That's for Terriermon, so if you could give that to him the next time you see Henry, that would be great."
"Sure..? Wait, what about Renamon?"
"Well, I suppose I could send you after them, but I don't consider myself that cruel. Don't worry about it, I'll make sure Renamon gets hers."
Preferably after Kyubimon degenerated. Those bands couldn't change shape on their own, so they'd be basically useless on Renamon if they were made for Kyubimon. The size difference was way too big.
"If you say so."
"She'll be fine, trust me."
I looked up as I felt fear and the beginnings of panic from Rika's Heart.
Why was Rika panicking?
"Renamon, do not move." I said, completely and utterly serious. "Bad things will happen if you move more than a few inches."
Well, not really. She'd get pulled into the other dimension, but getting her out of it wouldn't be any more difficult than getting Guilmon out.
Rika stared at the scene with no small degree of concern.
As did Takato and Henry.
Renamon was, rather precariously, pressed against a wall, trying to hunch in on herself as much as was physically possible.
She was, unfortunately, mostly out of luck.
She couldn't go anywhere, trapped, on all sides, by an anomaly that she couldn't see unless she crossed it.
Her left leg seemed ghostly, which as did a portion of her left arm, a change that was slowly spreading to the rest of her.
"Now, you can't see it, but the dimensional walls are fairly thin around this area." I said, calmly walking through the disturbance. "So if you're not careful, you can be drawn into a neighboring dimension. This isn't exactly a problem for me, since I know enough about these things to simply not care about things like that, but since you don't really have a way to navigate interdimensional space, it's a much bigger concern."
I pulled out a band from my cloak, like Guilmon's but much smaller. "Luckily for you, I can solve that. This band," I gestured. "Will keep you anchored to this dimension, so you won't have to worry about being drawn into the other one."
"It seems awfully convenient that you just happen to have these on hand." Renamon muttered, staring at the air around her like it was going to swallow her whole. Another 30 seconds, and it probably would.
"Hardly. I prepared them after Guilmon got sucked in. That, and the fact that it takes me less than a second to make the things" I said, grabbing her now-ghostly shoulder, and wrapping the bracelet around her wrist.
She sighed in relief as the bracelet clicked in place, the ghostly shimmering of her body promptly fading, returning her to a normal appearance.
Rika quickly rushed over to her, grabbing her arm and drawing no small amount of relief from her continued presence.
"Okay, not angry anymore." Rika whispered, only Renamon and myself hearing it.
"You're welcome." I said, letting only Rika and Renamon hear it.
"Thank you for your assistance." Renamon spoke.
"No problem."
"Not going to lie, that was pretty cool." Terriermon said. "Aside from the almost-disappeared part, that is!" He hastily corrected himself upon seeing Rika's glare.
"If you hadn't been around," Henry began, concerned. "Renamon would probably be stuck in there."
"Until you went and got her, anyway."
"Wait, what?"
"Oh yes."
For the second time that day, I twisted space like a pretzel.
They all startled when the scenery suddenly changed, before Henry's gasp drew their attention.
"What is that?" Rika asked, staring at the white and blue shifting mass of shapes.
"That, Rika, is the point where this dimension and the other dimension have intersected. If you could wander in there, you would be able to traverse to the other dimension. Subsequently, if you were to leave the other dimension, this is where you would end up." I gestured. "Your D-Powers have the capacity to track your partners, even if they ended up in the other dimension. They would lead you down here if that happened."
As if on cue, all three D-Powers began to emit a bright beam of light, sufficient to light up the tunnel we were in.
"If you were to point those lights towards the entrance, you would be able to get in. However, we are not going in, because your partners are out here and it isn't entirely safe in there." I turned to them, completely serious "If you absolutely have to enter, you should make haste to get out as fast as possible."
For the third, and final, time that day, I twisted space like a pretzel.
I noted that their D-Powers stopped shining the moment we had warped away.
"Your D-Powers can do a lot of cool things, no?"