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..Tamers-verse
..D-657
"Did you get anyone?" Ryo asked over an ear comm to Gennai. "We're almost to the Surph Board now according to the computer." He told him.
After a short radio silence a reply, "I'm sorry there's nothing from anyone." They walked up to a door at the end of a hallway. It unlocked as they got close, then the light illuminated.
"Not yet anyways," Gennai replied, "it keeps saying the network is offline or deadlock activated..."
Ryo opened the door, the device sat closed in a glass crate on an empty table. He froze as a camera scanned him.
"Shit-" he panicked.
"Got it." Gennai said calmly.
"Access granted." The computer said, as a lock on the glass crate clicked.
"I- uh, shit that was fast. You're pretty good." Ryo told him, fairly impressed.
"Little by little my corrupted memory has been being restored, it's very old and very large, but the computer is downloading bits, restoring them and uploading them back in small segments to make it easier to handle. But little by little I'm understanding this system."
Ryo was silent for a few moments before he replied back, "so what you're saying you've got a big head... I mean, have you not looked in a mirror?" The others could hear his smirk through his words.
Gennai sighed, "get the damn device and get back here!"
"I'll take that as a yes." Henry and Takato could not hold back their laughter, Jeri just shook her head and rolled her eyes but had a big smile as she opened the glass case and grabbed the Surph board.
When she picked it up, a screen lit up. "Weird, it says, D-657, what the heck does that mean?"
"No idea. Let's get back, maybe Gennai can decode it." Ryo
They started back the way they came.
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..Gravity Falls-verse
..46'\
The Doctor, David, Ken, and Miyuki all ran around the computer control room, discussing things way over some engineers heads as the others followed directions and helped or stayed out of the way.
"I think that's the last of it." David said, his screwdriver warbling as he checked the wiring one last time.
"Those things caused carnage." Ken said, looking back over to a panel with wiring ripped out and shrapnel hanging off of it.
"Luckily enough their choices were pretty terrible and none of the vital systems were hurt. Though this place is pretty weak from the inside." The Doctor said as he walked back in. "We're ready?"
"Ready." Miyuki confirmed.
"Hit it." David and the Doctor said in unison.
"It is definitely creepy when you both do that." Rose scolded them.
A light hum filled their ears and everyone got quiet. You could hear the power coming towards them as the lights sudden turned back on.
"Yes! No more phone lights. And whatever the heck that is." Mabel said, eyeballing the ball of light River pulled from the doctor's bag.
"Ok what's next?" Daisuke said, "should we contact the others? Or go find them like you guys found us? How did you guys find us?" He rambled.
"Slow down, first you're going to have-"
The Doctor was interrupted by the ai hologram suddenly appearing inches in front of him. "Ok..."
"How can I be of service?" It asked with a smile. The Doctor backed up.
"Can you contact our friends we were connected to?" Miyako asked it.
"Would you like to contact the facility Zzzz (buzzzz) or the facility D-657?" It asked bluntly. She started back then looked at Ken.
Ken just shrugged some and asked, "uhhhh what's the first one?" The computer buzzed again, and showed zzzz on the screen.
"Uh, I guess that one."
The hologram stood frozen for a few moments.
David just opened his mouth, about to rush it along and it suddenly said, "connection initiated."
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..Adventure-verse
..Zzzz
"Hey, I think I found something interesting." Sora said as she walked into the control room.
Iori turned in the chair to see. "What have you got?" He asked curiously.
"I was exploring and I found a room that looked like Koushiro would've had a blast in, beakers, computers, equipment, it was a testing or research facility of some sort. So I was looking around and I found a hand written note book, I can't really understand what it says but look..." she handed it off.
He grabbed it, looked at the cover, back to Sora, then returned and opened the cover. She was right, it was gibberish, page after page. Some with pictures, and suddenly he spotted it. His eyes widened. He flipped a few more pages, again and again he looked more and more confused.
"You definitely found somethi-" he was stopped by the computer.
"Incoming transmission from 46'\," the computer's sudden interruption made Sora jump but didn't let it bother her.
"Answer." Iori didn't skip a beat and was ready to switch gears.
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..Gravity Falls-verse
..46'\
The screen lit up, after a few moments Miyako sighed, she was frustrated by the silence, "ugh, I can't tell how long is too long I feel like it should just ring like a phone."
"Miyako." Iori rolled his eyes on screen and smiled, "are you all ok?" He asked.
She looked back up and saw his face. "Iori? Yes! We're fine."
"Ok so Zzzz (buzzz) is the universe we were just in." David said, catching on quickly.
"What a dumb name." Kaito pointed out.
After thinking about it both Mimi and Miyako looked at each other, "ooooooh. Oh... Oh. That makes sense now."
The others who weren't involved looked confused.
"Stories for another day, focus." David said and refocused the group.
"What's happened? I see you found everyone." Iori questioned.
"Not everyone." Daisuke told him, "they got Ruki."
"We've got only one device still, he stole the device here as well." The Doctor spoke up.
Iori's face was upset, but he just asked, "what can we do?"
"I think you need to contact the others, apprise them of things, we will continue to search, we can talk through the comms we have, I'll tap what we were given into the Tardi- uh well," the Doctor looked at David and his Tardis.
"We will tap into the comms to give us realtime communication to you guys." David assured himself. Or well the Doctor. 'Looking at them makes my head hurt' Iori thought.
"Ok then, we'll continue-"
"Wait!" Iori stopped them from ending the call, "we also found something weird in the library, well...Sora did." He told them. They all looked with interest as he picked up and showed them a book, "it's gibberish, but inside," he flipped a few pages, "it has David's column on it, the same words inscribed on the top, the same design, I know it's hand written and drawn, but-"
"Oh my god, it's exactly the same." Rose said, everyone in the room looking at the screen.
"It's old, incredibly old too. It's on a bunch of pages as well." Sora told them.
"But this one..." he holds up the book again and silence.
The Doctor, River, and David all looked at each other seriously.
"How is that possible?!" Daisuke asked.
"XVmon, Renamon, Agumon, Gabumon..." Taichi said.
"There's only one possibility." The Doctor finally said.
"It hasn't happened yet." David said looking at him.
"Exactly. It's nice having someone of the same intelli-" he stopped, reading the room he changed his tune, "I mean someone so in tune with myself..."
Changing subject he said, "wait go back a few pages, I saw something."
Iori complied and slowly went back page by page. "What did you see?" He asked.
"I don't know." He said reading each page carefully.
Miyako narrowed her eyes. "Madman how can something not happen and it's right there." She muttered to herself.
"There!" The Doctor said. Miyako slightly jumped.
"Oh! How did I miss that?" David complained.
"I almost did too." The Doctor reassured him.
"What is that?" Rose asked. The Doctor smiled at her voice happy to answer her questions again.
"It's coordinates, like we're in 46'\ they're in Zzzz (buzz), it's fancy to look at but I think it reads A-102." He told her looking back at her with soft eyes.
"I can't wait to catch up." She told him. He smiled and nodded. "Me too." He said.
"So off we go?" He looked back at everyone who nodded or motioned in agreement.
"Well two of us have to stay..." Mimi reminded them.
"Wait do they? Their facility went offline and was rigged back on, I don't see an ai interface maybe we don't?" Yamato said.
"'Should we risk it?' is the real question I think." David said from behind them.
"Well listen," Stanford finally spoke up from beside Mabel and Dipper. He continued, "this is our universe, I've done my share of multiverse jumping... Me and Stan will take care of things here." He looked to Dipper and Mabel, "we can cover them from here."
"Right we'll have your back when it's time!" Dipper said.
"Right then, I guess we're off to A-102, it's time." David turned to the others and invited them to his humble abode as he put it.
He darted inside with Rose, the Doctor and River close behind, loving every moment of their predicament.
"It's weird it feels so familiar yet I've never felt any Tardis like it." The Doctor exclaimed, walking into David's for the first time.
"I felt the same the first time." David confirmed. "She's born from her. But not her..." The Doctor smiled.
They refocused back on the computer. David entered the coordinates, looked around, "ready?"
But without waiting for a proper response the Tardis engines roared to life and she was on the move again.
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..??
..X-504
The view is fuzzy, distorted. Then dark. Fuzzy and distorted. Dark.
She rubs hers eyes, "ugh." Less fuzzy. Dark. Rubs again, she can almost see.
"Oh my head hurts- ugh, where-" The girl's eyes widened and she shot upright. She scanned the room with her dreary vision. Movement.
"Who's there?" She kept rubbing her eyes. She attempted to stand in a defensive position.
"Easy on the eyes, that seems to be a side effect." A voice made her jump, she turned to where she heard it but still couldn't quite see who was talking.
Still very defensive she asked, "who are you? And where did you take me?!"
"Whoa whoa, easy, I'm a prisoner too." He pointed to the door, "it's locked up tight.
"..." she took in what he said, blinking a few more times she could see brown hair. The voice was kind of familiar.
"...You said side effect..." she said in an untrusting tone.
"Yea, it's a side effect of Bugendaimon's, if he creates a dream state in real life those copies will usually sleep for a day or two, at least that what it felt like and the eyes always take awhile to focus again..." the young man told her.
She sighed, agitated, she rubbed her eyes once more, and finally got a decent glimpse of the young man, "wait, you're... uh, Kou, uh I remember kou-kou-Koushiro! Yea aren't you?" She demanded to know.
"Yes. It's good to see you're ok Ruki." He said to the purple eyed girl.
"So I'm right? Oh, the others are gonna be so happy but wait, how? I saw you...we all saw you...I mean, your end..." She trailed off. Not really finishing the word.
He shook his head, "I wasn't there for any of that, they showed me everyone's reaction, I guess to hammer it in home that no one..." He stopped and sighed. "It's been hard knowing no one was coming for me..." He looked deeply saddened.
"I...I don't, I don't know what to say. I'm so sorry." Ruki told him, in an unusually soft tone.
"No. It was convincing, I understand, no one knew, no one could've known. I'm just glad you're here." He told her, redirecting the conversation.
"I'm not very helpful, locked up here with you." She said, looking around at their conditions.
"Maybe not directly, but Daisuke will be coming for you, he-" Koushiro watched his name cause her emotions to battle, "...what happened?" He asked her, worried.
"He's fine, it's nothing. No wait, I meant I'm fine. I mean he's fine too. Ugh. Just Nevermind..." she downplayed her feelings and moved on. He could tell it was bothering her.
But before he could press her about it, she spoke up again. "Wait a minute, what about the hooded guy that brought me here, what gives, who is he?" She asked.
"I don't know, he's never spoken a word to me, only Bugendaimon talks to me." He told her. She was uneasy about what was coming.
They both got quiet. Both knowing there was nothing to do now but wait. Ruki wasn't good with patience...
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..??
..??
The Tardis' engines wavered, the Doctor, David, and River were trying to correct her to no avail.
Until River spotted the problem, "wait, it's showing on the device as unavailable, look." She pointed.
"That's odd, what does it mean unavailable?" The Doctor questioned no one in particular.
"It means that reality has been destroyed, at least at this moment in time..." Miyuki spoke up.
"What? How do you know?" Ken asked.
"Well, I can't be sure, but we were supposed to find an endless mind who made time his friend and I think we've met two now that might know about time..." She looked at David and the Doctor.
Daisuke caught on, "wait she's right, the little wiseass said some realities were gone, that we would have to go to them when they were there..." he emphasized.
David and the Doctor immediately smiled to each other and started on it, "1000 years?" David asked as he walked about pulling levers and pushing buttons.
"10,000." The Doctor replied doing the same. The others watched in anticipation, excited as the two ran about.
The Tardis engines roared as they phased out, but it felt different, no g's from movement. Then all the sudden it was quiet after a thud like landing.
"Alright, shall we try again?" River asked, not waiting she clicked the button, which reset, turned on, loaded, and made an error noise again. "Still unavailable." She turned it around and showed the others.
"100,000." David said. They went again. Everyone braced again...
"No, nothing." River replied.
"1,000,000." He said confidently. Again.
The noise again. "Not yet, still nothing." She replied.
"Wait, try 2,600,000 years ago..." Hikari told them.
David and the Doctor looked at each other, pushed the lever and smiled.
The Tardis sat down again with a thud, 2.6 million years. Everyone was silent in anticipation.
River waited and as the device lit up she looked up and smiled, "it's worked." She said.
"Shall we?" She asked.
"We shall!" Rose exclaimed.
David, the Doctor, and River all did their part and engaged the device, "A-102, here we come!"
With that, the Tardis disappeared into the purple mirror once again.
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..TBC
..Thanks for sticking around! See you next time.