Authoress Note: I am back again, this time with the sequel to Missing Link, Shattered Realities. Now I bet most of you are going @_@ What the heck was with that last chapter? It was stranger than usual. Now this is true, but you also hafta think that, that last chapter of ML was leading up to this and just about everything will be explained. The last chapter of ML WAS very confusing, so don't worry about anything and just read the first chapter of Shattered Realities! It will all make sense soon........ *insert crash of lightning and thunder followed shortly by evil laughter here*
*~* Legend!*~*
{Behemoth talking}
[Grani talking]
"Speach"
*Thoughts*
/Digimon in biomerged form/
//Human in biomerged form//
Chapter 1 - Back to the beginning
*~*~*~*~*Tamers Realm, Southern Quadrant, Real World*~*~*~*~*
Takato opened his eyes and sat up. He blinked several times just to make sure he wasn't hallucinating. He was in his room, his old room, the one he had when they defeated the D-Reaper and Parisimon. It wasn't the sparce one that he had when he had last seen his room.
What happened? He knew that he would be returning to his Quadrant but he didn't know quite -when- he would return to.
Takato sat up slowly and found that he wasn't the only occupant in his bed. Guilmon and Impmon were in his bed to. Guilmon was curled up at the end and Impmon was leaning on Guilmon, using him as a living pillow. Guilmon was sleeping peacefully, softly mumbling something about bread and peanut butter every now and then. Impmon was snoring softly while his tail twitched from side to side.
He moved slowly and carefully so as not to jar the others. He didn't want to wake them just yet. They would have to many questions that he didn't have answers to and he REALLY didn't want to deal with that first thing in the morning.
Once he was out of bed Takato quietly crept out of his room and into the hallway. He glanced up at a clock that had always hung in the hallway and found it to be 4:25. His parents would be up soon.......Takato walked softly down the stairs and out into the massive kitchen that was used to bake all of the bread in the bakery. He walked to the front of the store and peeked through one of the blinds to look outside. The sun had just started to rise, and with the faint light Takato was able to answer ALL of his earlier questions.
He was back. Waaaaaaaaay back.
Takato pulled his hand away from the blinds and stared at them for a moment before snapping out of the small daze that he had fallen into. He stayed in front of the windows thinking. He didn't know how long he stayed their just thinking about what happened, but it must have been a long time because he was startled out of his thoughts by his mother.
"Takato? What are you doing up so early? Are you feeling alright honey?" Takato's mother asked worriedly and placed her hand on Takato's forhead to see if he had a temperature.
"I'm fine Mom! I just couldn't sleep, that's all" Takato said. After becoming a Tamer lying had become easy for him.
"Then if your not sick then you can help me and your father with the bread!" Mrs. Matsuki said far to cheerfully and went to get herself a nice cup of coffee.
Mr.Matsuki stumbled into the kitchen, still half asleep. He looked up to see that his wife had managed to rope their son into helping them in the kitchen. Poor kid.....
"Daaaaaaaaaad can't you get Mom to leave me alone?" Takato asked, trying to get out of the extra work. He had way to much on his mind to be working with food. Knowing his luck he would end up putting in salt instead of flour or something equally horrible like that.
After two slight mistakes that were easily mended and a small explosion, the bread was ready to be baked and Takato was free until the afternoon when he had to help with the front while his Mom helped his Dad in the back.
Takato sighed and wiped his forehead with the back of his hand and groaned when he realized that he was covered in flour and other baking ingrediants. When did he managed to get so dirty? Takato grumbled to himself quietly and quietly tip toed into his room to grab a clean pair of clothes before heading to the bathroom to clean up.
He closed and locked the door behind him before placing his clothes on the hamper and taking a quick look in the mirror to acess the damage. Takato stiffled a groan and started the water so he could take a shower. He took another quick glance in the mirror and wiped most of the flour off of his forehead. When he looked once more into the mirror he had to gasp. He still had all three symbols on his forhead! They formed a triangle.....hazard was the bottom point while life was on the top left corner and chaos was on the top right. Takato groaned to himself and quickly stripped down to stand under the hot water that was now pouring down from the shower head.
He sighed and let the water wash away his troubles for the moment.
Everything was so confuzing.....when had his life gotten so complicated? He thought back and remembered what had started everything for him....a strange little blue card and a picture that he had drawn. He smiled and quickly washed up. Even with all he had been through he wouldn't go back for anything in the world. Not when he had friends like his partners and the other Tamers.
Takato stepped out of the shower, toweled off and got dressed into his clean clothes and putting the dirty ones in the laundry hamper where they belonged. He opened the door and went back to his room to find that Guilmon was still sleeping peacefully while Impmon had woken up and was now looking around the strange room that he had found himself in.
"Morning Impmon" Takato greeted quietly as he pulled his goggles on over his head and ajusted them. He gave his head a quick shake to get his hair out of his face. He then grabbed his new D-Arc and clipped it onto his pants.
Impmon yawned and looked up to see his Tamer rumaging around in a desk next to his bed.
"What are you doing.....and where tha heck are we?" Impmon asked, rubbing a emerald green eye before hopping off of the bed and landing next to Takato.
"We're in my room. And I'm trying to find my digimon cards. I have to modify my deck now cause you're my partner" Takato answered and gave up looking in the desk drawers in favor of looking under his bed.
"Okay.......why does your room look like this? Last time I saw it theres wasn't anything in here. And how come you have to mess around with your cards? Pineapple head an me are both viruses" Impmon pointed out and leapt up to stand on top of Takato's desk. Impmon was being very talkative for some reason and though Takato was glad that he wasn't being his usual bad-ass self he was busy trying to find his cards, which seemed to have grown legs and walked away on him.
"Well it looks like this cause well....if you look outside you'll find out why, and I need to change my digimon card deck around cause your a different kind of virus. I designed Guilmon to work better with certain cards and I know that a good chunk of the cards won't help you any............dang it! Where are those cards? Aha! OUCH!" Takato said when he found the cards and then managed to hit his head on the board that helped support his bed whilst he was climbing out.
Impmon gave Takato a questioning look even though he couldn't see it. What was he talking about though? Look out the window? Impmon gave a mental shrug and pulled back one of the curtains and looked outside. He stared, bug-eyed for a moment before letting the curtain drop back into place.
"Whoa...." Impmon managed to say, his eyes still wide.
"I know" Takato said as he sifted through his cards, picking out the ones that he thought would be of a help to him and Impmon.
"Your not very talkative are ya? Well whatever, I'm gonna grab some bread and go check out the city real quick alright?" Impmon said, already gone when Takato looked up to tell him to wait a minute.
"See you later Impmon" Takato said to the spot that he had seen Impmon last. He got up from his spot on the floor to move to a more comfortable spot by his desk. As he added the cards to his deck and then removed some of the ones that he didn't really need he thought about what had happened in the last month or so.
He had suddenly found himself in the Eastern Quadrant, with the Digidestined. Only they were older.....all except Tai, Ken, Matt and Davis. They had all gone back to the real world and Beelzebumon had shown up to take him home. When he arrived back home everything was different, twenty years had passed......Everything blurred together and he and the other Tamers had ended up back in the Eastern Quadrant. They had fought hard but whatever had started the whole mess, wasn't going to be defeated so easily. In the end Takuya's power did something and now he was back in his own Quadrant......BEFORE any thing had happened.
"Takato! Your friend Henry is on the phone!" Mrs.Matsuki shouted and went back to what she had been doing.
Takato got up and dashed downstairs to grab the phone from where it was sitting on the table.
"Hello?" Takato said, not sure what to say to his friend. He had seen Henry not even a day ago, but he had been a grown man then and now...well now he was a kid again. It was just a little to weird fo Takato. But all in the life of a Tamer..........
"Oh hey Takato, how are you?" Henry asked and waited for Takato to reply.
"I'm okay I guess....." Takato said, still unsure of how to talk to his friend.
"You guess? I can ask you later but I wanted to make sure that you're still coming to the meeting at 1:00 today. You know, the one in the park to discuss the Parisimon attack?" Henry said, trying to get Takato to remember.
"Oh man! I forgot about that!" Takato groaned. It was true, he had forgotten. It seemed like an eon ago that the meeting had been planned, and to Takato it was because he remembered everything that had happened while the others had not. At least thats what Takato thought, he wasn't sure but he was going to find out later.
"I thought you might.....anyway, don't forget to bring Impmon. He's always running away from these meetings........" Henry continued, and gave a small squawk into the phone when he was attacked by his little sister Suzie. Takato winced and pulled the phone away from his ear for a moment while Henry tried to settle Suzie down.
"Sorry about that Takato. As I was saying, ever since Impmon became your partner during that fight with the D-Reaper he hasn't been causing so much trouble in the park....but can you make sure he comes? There's something that Renamon would like to talk to him about." Henry finished.
"Huh? What are you talking about Henry? Impmon didn't become my partner when we fought the D-Reaper!" Takato protested. What was wrong with Henry? Why was he saying something like that when..........unless......somehow their memories had been changed?
It didn't really make sense but it would explain why Henry and no doubt the others didn't remember what Takato did.
"Are you SURE you're feeling okay?" Henry asked, sounding very concerned.
"Uh...ya....fine! Uh, I got to go...um see you at Guilmon's old hut then?" Takato managed to stutter out. Great, now Henry was going to think he was insane......
"Alright but don't forget about Impmon alright?" Henry said.
"Don't worry, okay? Well see ya later..." Takato said and hung up the phone when Henry said goodbye.
Takato slumped to the floor with a sigh. Why was his life always so screwed up? He looked up to the ceiling and tried to think of what he was going to do with the rest of the Tamers, because obviously Henry didn't remember anything so there was a good chance that the rest of the Tamers wouldn't remember a thing............... At least Impmon remembered so Takato was pretty sure he wasn't insane.
He got up with another sigh and started up the stairs only to be stopped by his Mom.
"Takato, if you're going out can you get a bag of sugar?" Mrs.Matsuki asked when her son had appeared by her side in the front of the bakery.
"Alright....um, I probably won't be back for a couple of hours....do you need it right away?" Takato asked and punched in a couple of purchases for his Mother while she grabbed some fresh loaves from the back.
"Not just yet, but try not to take to long!" Mrs.Matsuki said and let Takato go back to whatever he had been about to do.
When he finally got back to his room the first thing he noticed that Impmon had come back and was juggling fireballs around his room and that Guilmon was awake and looking in his closet for some unknown reason.
"Uh Guilmon.........what are you doing?" Takato asked as he watched his first partner dig through his closet, still looking for something.
"I'm looking for the boogey man! Impmon said he lives in the under the bed or in the closet" Guilmon said and continued to dig through the closet looking for the boogey man. Takato had blinked and then gone over to Impmon to ask him why he did that.
"Impmon, why did you convince Guilmon that the boogey man lives in my closet?" Takato asked and waited for the answer while he tried to think of a way to get Guilmon to stop searching his closet.
"Cause I could.......and its funny?" Impmon said, not sure why he had done it either. It was probably his imp like nature, making him play tricks and such on people.
"Impmon............" Takato groaned and set about convincing Guilmon that there was no such thing as the boogey man. After he had managed to complete that task and tell Impmon and Guilmon about the meeting.
"So...it really is just like you never left huh? I kinda figured that when I went out and about the city. They're still repairing the damages from the D-Reaper and the recent Parisimon attack that thankfully didn't leave to much damage" Impmon said and closed his fists around the fireballs, snuffing them out.
"I guess, we'll never know for sure until we talk to the others. We should probably get going, its nearly one o'clock and I don't wanna be yelled at by Rika, no matter how old she is" Takato said with a chuckle and set out to get Impmon and Guilmon to the park without either of them causing to much trouble.
*~*~*~*~*Digidestined Realm, Eastern Quadrant, Real World*~*~*~*~*
Tai gave a yawn and wormed farther back under his blankets before they were suddenly pulled away from him. A giggle met his ears and he opened his eyes to see his sister holding his blanket hostage and giggling insanely.
"Kari!!!" Tai whined and tried to snatch the blanket back from his sister who had climbed down from the bunk bed and was now waving the blanket back and forth like a flag of victory. Koromon was awake now and trying to block the harsh light out from his eyes with his long ears.
"You can have the blanket back when its time to go to bed Tai, right now you have to get up. Its day time, you know, when you get up and do stuff?" Kari said, talking to her older brother as if he was five instead of sixteen.
"Fine" Tai said with a grunt and got up and out of bed while Koromon hopped down on his own.
Kari left the room still grinning at her brothers antics. Tai scowled at his sister and locked the door so she couldn't come back into the room while he sulked and changed into some clothes. While he did this he thought of what had just happened to him.
Why was he back in the real world, where his sister was younger than him again......was it all a dream? Or worse.....was this, where he was now a dream?
Tai sighed once he was done and picked Koromon up from the ground even though he could easily follow. He unlocked the door and walked into the living room where his sister was sitting with her partner in her lap. Tai stood there, just staring for a moment, taking everything in.
It was a huge shock, but a very welcome one..........even if it was a dream.........
"Tai! Are you okay? I've been calling your name for like five minutes!" Kari said, worry evident in her eyes.
"Huh? Oh yah, I was just thinking about something......" Tai said softly and sat down next to sister, letting his partner hop off to get something to eat.
"Oh now I'm really worried!" Kari said with a smile and waited for the retort she knew would come.
"HEY!" Tai shouted in indignation. He turned to his sister, a murderous look in his eyes. Kari backed as far away as she could, which wasn't very far because the couch was in the way.
"Tai...NO! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA STOP I GIVE, I GIVE!" Kari managed to choke out as she was mercilessly tickled by her brother while her partner looked on in amusement. This happened all the time and it never ceased to amaze Gatomon at how the two could be yelling at each other one minute and then laughing the next.
Tai stopped and backed away, letting his sister breathe. He had things he wanted o ask her, but he wasn't quite sure how to go about it without making his sister think he was crazy.
"Kari........I gotta ask you something....well kinda ask, kinda tell.....but if I do you're gonna think I'm crazy" Tai said, his tone serious as he sat up straight waiting or his sister to talk.
"Aw, come one Tai! You can talk to me about anything!............Your not gonna tell me you're gay or something are you?" Kari asked, her face stone serious.
"WHAT?! Where the heck did you get THAT idea?!" Tai screeched and looked at his sister like she had the plague.
"Well, you're always hanging out with Matt..............." Kari said, a small grin forming on her face when she saw her brothers face.
"Ugh, KARI! That is just WRONG, he's my best friend! It would be like going out with my brother!" Tai continued to rant as Kari, Gatomon and Koromon watched on, laughing.
"You don't have a brother" Kari pointed out, slowly loosing the battle to kep all of her giggles in.
"Kari!" Tai shouted, getting fed up with his sister. He had wanted to have a serious talk with her and this is what she does?
"Okay, I'm sorry Tai.....it was just there, ya know? You can talk to me if you want to" Kari said, actually listening this time. Tai scowled at his sister and then straightened his face and began to tell her all of what happened in the last few weeks to him, the Eastern Digidestined, Northern Digidestined and the Tamers. When he was finally finished the whole house was silent. Kari finally spoke up when Tai picked up Koromon from the floor.
"Tai.........I have to know.......did you ACTUALLY eat Mom's liver sticks last night? Cause that must have been one heck of a dream!" Kari said and placed her hand on her older brothers forhead to make sure that he wasn't running a temperature.
"Uh...yah...thats it..." Tai said quietly and let Kari fuss over him while he remained quite. The silence was suddenly broken with the ringing of the phone.
"I'll get it! Tai, you stay there! I want you to rest! I can't believe you actually ate the liver sticks....." Kari said and muttered the last part to herself as she picked up the phone.
"Hello Kari, is Tai there by chance?" A voice asked, one that Kari recognized as Ken
"Oh hey Ken! How are you? Tai's kind of out of it and I don't know if he wants to talk. I'll ask him though, hold on" Kari said into the phone before pulling it away and placing her hand over the mouth piece.
"Ken's on the phone, he's asking for you. You wanna talk or should I tell him you're not feeling well?" Kari asked, her smile ever bright.
"I keep telling you I'm fine Kari! Gimmie the phone....." Tai said and jumped up from the couch and made a dive for the phone which Kari held out for him. He grabbed the phone and landed on the floor with a thump.
"Hi Ken! What's up?" Tai said as he sat up from his spot on the floor. Kari watched him for a minute and then went back to the couch to finish watching T.V.
"......Tai I wanted to talk to you about.........what happened" Ken said, not sure how to put into words what he wanted to say. He wasn't sure if Tai even remembered, or if he had really gone insane.
"You remember to?" Tai said, sighing with relief when he found out that he wasn't crazy or, if he was, he wasn't crazy alone.
"Yes, and if you remember I think we need to find out who else remembers and get together to try and figure out just what happened" Ken said and tried to remember exactly what the digimon.........Haunlongmon....had said to them.
"Alright, I'll call Matt and you can call Davis, alright?" Tai said and got ready to hang up, but was cut off by Ken.
"I guess we should meet at my house as I'm the only one who doesn't have another Digidestined in my family so meet at my house in about an hour" Ken said and bid Tai goodbye before hanging up and trying to remember Matt's number.
*~*~*~*~*Digidestined Realm,Western Quadrant, Real World*~*~*~*~*
Takuya mumbled something inaudibly and rolled over in his sleep. He was half-awake and half-asleep and he wanted very much to either stay at the half consciousness that he was at right now or go completely back to sleep. Sadly, he was granted neither pleasure because at that moment someone decided to preform a spectacular flying tackle right into his midsection.
"Oof!" Takuya gasped as all the air was forced from his lungs. Takuya sat up and looked around to find himself, home in his own room with his little brother sitting on his bed, grinning at him.
"Shinya you're going to die a painful death!" Takuya shouted and made a half attempt at trying to grab his little brother who was laughing and already out of his room and no doubt hiding somewhere near their Mom.
Takuya got out of bed with a groan, not wanting to get up but knowing that if he stayed in bed he would more than likely be under constant attack from his little brother. He yawned and recalled what had happened to him and the others. It had seemed like only yesterday, but supposedly none of it ever happened. He remembered what the golden dragon digimon had said to them
*~*~*Slight Flashback*~*~*
"You are here because you are the chosen of all the Quadrants. Balance does not affect you as it does others. Once Balance has finished you will find that everything is as it should be. None of the Digidestined or Tamers will remember what has taken place before Balance returned to the worlds. I do not have long, but I have to say you have all done immensely well against Kage. I am sorry to say though that your troubles are not over. Kage will return and you will need to stop him. He was once a good person....but now he is corrupted with hatred and anger. Already Balance has nearly finished its job.......good bye Chosen, and good luck" The golden dragon said and was about to dissapear but Takato and Takuya stopped him.
"Who are you?" Takato and Takuya asked at the same moment.
"I am one of the first digimon ever created. I am Huanlongmon. And now farewell" Haunlongmon said and faded away.
*~*~*End small Flashback*~*~*
"So no one remembers.......and now I'm alone against some pyscho who wants to destroy/conquer the worlds? Greeeeeeeaaaat." Takuya muttered sarcastically to himself and glared at his reflection when he saw that the symbol for Balance had kept itself on his forehead. Takuya rubbed at it, annoyed that it was still there but left it alone and tried to think of a way to contact Takato, Davis and the others.
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Skittles the Sugar Fairy: And that would be the end of the first chapter from the sequel to Missing Link. I hope that you guys enjoy this fic as much as the first one.
Dragoon: Ch, knowing you, you're never gonna update!
Skittles: You. Shut up. It's your fault it took me this long to get the one chapter up and finished!
Dragoon: Meh.
Skittles: *sighs* Muses.....anyway, review and tell me what you guys think!
Dragoon: Skittles don't own digimon, though she does own the soul of Chris and an arm. ^.^
Skittles: Ya ya......^____^ Ah, mighty quote!
The human race has just taken its first step into the world of stars... and someday, it'll probably be as screwed up as everywhere else we've meddled.
Well thats it for now! Hurry and review so I can hurry and start the next chapter!
*~* Legend!*~*
{Behemoth talking}
[Grani talking]
"Speach"
*Thoughts*
/Digimon in biomerged form/
//Human in biomerged form//
Chapter 1 - Back to the beginning
*~*~*~*~*Tamers Realm, Southern Quadrant, Real World*~*~*~*~*
Takato opened his eyes and sat up. He blinked several times just to make sure he wasn't hallucinating. He was in his room, his old room, the one he had when they defeated the D-Reaper and Parisimon. It wasn't the sparce one that he had when he had last seen his room.
What happened? He knew that he would be returning to his Quadrant but he didn't know quite -when- he would return to.
Takato sat up slowly and found that he wasn't the only occupant in his bed. Guilmon and Impmon were in his bed to. Guilmon was curled up at the end and Impmon was leaning on Guilmon, using him as a living pillow. Guilmon was sleeping peacefully, softly mumbling something about bread and peanut butter every now and then. Impmon was snoring softly while his tail twitched from side to side.
He moved slowly and carefully so as not to jar the others. He didn't want to wake them just yet. They would have to many questions that he didn't have answers to and he REALLY didn't want to deal with that first thing in the morning.
Once he was out of bed Takato quietly crept out of his room and into the hallway. He glanced up at a clock that had always hung in the hallway and found it to be 4:25. His parents would be up soon.......Takato walked softly down the stairs and out into the massive kitchen that was used to bake all of the bread in the bakery. He walked to the front of the store and peeked through one of the blinds to look outside. The sun had just started to rise, and with the faint light Takato was able to answer ALL of his earlier questions.
He was back. Waaaaaaaaay back.
Takato pulled his hand away from the blinds and stared at them for a moment before snapping out of the small daze that he had fallen into. He stayed in front of the windows thinking. He didn't know how long he stayed their just thinking about what happened, but it must have been a long time because he was startled out of his thoughts by his mother.
"Takato? What are you doing up so early? Are you feeling alright honey?" Takato's mother asked worriedly and placed her hand on Takato's forhead to see if he had a temperature.
"I'm fine Mom! I just couldn't sleep, that's all" Takato said. After becoming a Tamer lying had become easy for him.
"Then if your not sick then you can help me and your father with the bread!" Mrs. Matsuki said far to cheerfully and went to get herself a nice cup of coffee.
Mr.Matsuki stumbled into the kitchen, still half asleep. He looked up to see that his wife had managed to rope their son into helping them in the kitchen. Poor kid.....
"Daaaaaaaaaad can't you get Mom to leave me alone?" Takato asked, trying to get out of the extra work. He had way to much on his mind to be working with food. Knowing his luck he would end up putting in salt instead of flour or something equally horrible like that.
After two slight mistakes that were easily mended and a small explosion, the bread was ready to be baked and Takato was free until the afternoon when he had to help with the front while his Mom helped his Dad in the back.
Takato sighed and wiped his forehead with the back of his hand and groaned when he realized that he was covered in flour and other baking ingrediants. When did he managed to get so dirty? Takato grumbled to himself quietly and quietly tip toed into his room to grab a clean pair of clothes before heading to the bathroom to clean up.
He closed and locked the door behind him before placing his clothes on the hamper and taking a quick look in the mirror to acess the damage. Takato stiffled a groan and started the water so he could take a shower. He took another quick glance in the mirror and wiped most of the flour off of his forehead. When he looked once more into the mirror he had to gasp. He still had all three symbols on his forhead! They formed a triangle.....hazard was the bottom point while life was on the top left corner and chaos was on the top right. Takato groaned to himself and quickly stripped down to stand under the hot water that was now pouring down from the shower head.
He sighed and let the water wash away his troubles for the moment.
Everything was so confuzing.....when had his life gotten so complicated? He thought back and remembered what had started everything for him....a strange little blue card and a picture that he had drawn. He smiled and quickly washed up. Even with all he had been through he wouldn't go back for anything in the world. Not when he had friends like his partners and the other Tamers.
Takato stepped out of the shower, toweled off and got dressed into his clean clothes and putting the dirty ones in the laundry hamper where they belonged. He opened the door and went back to his room to find that Guilmon was still sleeping peacefully while Impmon had woken up and was now looking around the strange room that he had found himself in.
"Morning Impmon" Takato greeted quietly as he pulled his goggles on over his head and ajusted them. He gave his head a quick shake to get his hair out of his face. He then grabbed his new D-Arc and clipped it onto his pants.
Impmon yawned and looked up to see his Tamer rumaging around in a desk next to his bed.
"What are you doing.....and where tha heck are we?" Impmon asked, rubbing a emerald green eye before hopping off of the bed and landing next to Takato.
"We're in my room. And I'm trying to find my digimon cards. I have to modify my deck now cause you're my partner" Takato answered and gave up looking in the desk drawers in favor of looking under his bed.
"Okay.......why does your room look like this? Last time I saw it theres wasn't anything in here. And how come you have to mess around with your cards? Pineapple head an me are both viruses" Impmon pointed out and leapt up to stand on top of Takato's desk. Impmon was being very talkative for some reason and though Takato was glad that he wasn't being his usual bad-ass self he was busy trying to find his cards, which seemed to have grown legs and walked away on him.
"Well it looks like this cause well....if you look outside you'll find out why, and I need to change my digimon card deck around cause your a different kind of virus. I designed Guilmon to work better with certain cards and I know that a good chunk of the cards won't help you any............dang it! Where are those cards? Aha! OUCH!" Takato said when he found the cards and then managed to hit his head on the board that helped support his bed whilst he was climbing out.
Impmon gave Takato a questioning look even though he couldn't see it. What was he talking about though? Look out the window? Impmon gave a mental shrug and pulled back one of the curtains and looked outside. He stared, bug-eyed for a moment before letting the curtain drop back into place.
"Whoa...." Impmon managed to say, his eyes still wide.
"I know" Takato said as he sifted through his cards, picking out the ones that he thought would be of a help to him and Impmon.
"Your not very talkative are ya? Well whatever, I'm gonna grab some bread and go check out the city real quick alright?" Impmon said, already gone when Takato looked up to tell him to wait a minute.
"See you later Impmon" Takato said to the spot that he had seen Impmon last. He got up from his spot on the floor to move to a more comfortable spot by his desk. As he added the cards to his deck and then removed some of the ones that he didn't really need he thought about what had happened in the last month or so.
He had suddenly found himself in the Eastern Quadrant, with the Digidestined. Only they were older.....all except Tai, Ken, Matt and Davis. They had all gone back to the real world and Beelzebumon had shown up to take him home. When he arrived back home everything was different, twenty years had passed......Everything blurred together and he and the other Tamers had ended up back in the Eastern Quadrant. They had fought hard but whatever had started the whole mess, wasn't going to be defeated so easily. In the end Takuya's power did something and now he was back in his own Quadrant......BEFORE any thing had happened.
"Takato! Your friend Henry is on the phone!" Mrs.Matsuki shouted and went back to what she had been doing.
Takato got up and dashed downstairs to grab the phone from where it was sitting on the table.
"Hello?" Takato said, not sure what to say to his friend. He had seen Henry not even a day ago, but he had been a grown man then and now...well now he was a kid again. It was just a little to weird fo Takato. But all in the life of a Tamer..........
"Oh hey Takato, how are you?" Henry asked and waited for Takato to reply.
"I'm okay I guess....." Takato said, still unsure of how to talk to his friend.
"You guess? I can ask you later but I wanted to make sure that you're still coming to the meeting at 1:00 today. You know, the one in the park to discuss the Parisimon attack?" Henry said, trying to get Takato to remember.
"Oh man! I forgot about that!" Takato groaned. It was true, he had forgotten. It seemed like an eon ago that the meeting had been planned, and to Takato it was because he remembered everything that had happened while the others had not. At least thats what Takato thought, he wasn't sure but he was going to find out later.
"I thought you might.....anyway, don't forget to bring Impmon. He's always running away from these meetings........" Henry continued, and gave a small squawk into the phone when he was attacked by his little sister Suzie. Takato winced and pulled the phone away from his ear for a moment while Henry tried to settle Suzie down.
"Sorry about that Takato. As I was saying, ever since Impmon became your partner during that fight with the D-Reaper he hasn't been causing so much trouble in the park....but can you make sure he comes? There's something that Renamon would like to talk to him about." Henry finished.
"Huh? What are you talking about Henry? Impmon didn't become my partner when we fought the D-Reaper!" Takato protested. What was wrong with Henry? Why was he saying something like that when..........unless......somehow their memories had been changed?
It didn't really make sense but it would explain why Henry and no doubt the others didn't remember what Takato did.
"Are you SURE you're feeling okay?" Henry asked, sounding very concerned.
"Uh...ya....fine! Uh, I got to go...um see you at Guilmon's old hut then?" Takato managed to stutter out. Great, now Henry was going to think he was insane......
"Alright but don't forget about Impmon alright?" Henry said.
"Don't worry, okay? Well see ya later..." Takato said and hung up the phone when Henry said goodbye.
Takato slumped to the floor with a sigh. Why was his life always so screwed up? He looked up to the ceiling and tried to think of what he was going to do with the rest of the Tamers, because obviously Henry didn't remember anything so there was a good chance that the rest of the Tamers wouldn't remember a thing............... At least Impmon remembered so Takato was pretty sure he wasn't insane.
He got up with another sigh and started up the stairs only to be stopped by his Mom.
"Takato, if you're going out can you get a bag of sugar?" Mrs.Matsuki asked when her son had appeared by her side in the front of the bakery.
"Alright....um, I probably won't be back for a couple of hours....do you need it right away?" Takato asked and punched in a couple of purchases for his Mother while she grabbed some fresh loaves from the back.
"Not just yet, but try not to take to long!" Mrs.Matsuki said and let Takato go back to whatever he had been about to do.
When he finally got back to his room the first thing he noticed that Impmon had come back and was juggling fireballs around his room and that Guilmon was awake and looking in his closet for some unknown reason.
"Uh Guilmon.........what are you doing?" Takato asked as he watched his first partner dig through his closet, still looking for something.
"I'm looking for the boogey man! Impmon said he lives in the under the bed or in the closet" Guilmon said and continued to dig through the closet looking for the boogey man. Takato had blinked and then gone over to Impmon to ask him why he did that.
"Impmon, why did you convince Guilmon that the boogey man lives in my closet?" Takato asked and waited for the answer while he tried to think of a way to get Guilmon to stop searching his closet.
"Cause I could.......and its funny?" Impmon said, not sure why he had done it either. It was probably his imp like nature, making him play tricks and such on people.
"Impmon............" Takato groaned and set about convincing Guilmon that there was no such thing as the boogey man. After he had managed to complete that task and tell Impmon and Guilmon about the meeting.
"So...it really is just like you never left huh? I kinda figured that when I went out and about the city. They're still repairing the damages from the D-Reaper and the recent Parisimon attack that thankfully didn't leave to much damage" Impmon said and closed his fists around the fireballs, snuffing them out.
"I guess, we'll never know for sure until we talk to the others. We should probably get going, its nearly one o'clock and I don't wanna be yelled at by Rika, no matter how old she is" Takato said with a chuckle and set out to get Impmon and Guilmon to the park without either of them causing to much trouble.
*~*~*~*~*Digidestined Realm, Eastern Quadrant, Real World*~*~*~*~*
Tai gave a yawn and wormed farther back under his blankets before they were suddenly pulled away from him. A giggle met his ears and he opened his eyes to see his sister holding his blanket hostage and giggling insanely.
"Kari!!!" Tai whined and tried to snatch the blanket back from his sister who had climbed down from the bunk bed and was now waving the blanket back and forth like a flag of victory. Koromon was awake now and trying to block the harsh light out from his eyes with his long ears.
"You can have the blanket back when its time to go to bed Tai, right now you have to get up. Its day time, you know, when you get up and do stuff?" Kari said, talking to her older brother as if he was five instead of sixteen.
"Fine" Tai said with a grunt and got up and out of bed while Koromon hopped down on his own.
Kari left the room still grinning at her brothers antics. Tai scowled at his sister and locked the door so she couldn't come back into the room while he sulked and changed into some clothes. While he did this he thought of what had just happened to him.
Why was he back in the real world, where his sister was younger than him again......was it all a dream? Or worse.....was this, where he was now a dream?
Tai sighed once he was done and picked Koromon up from the ground even though he could easily follow. He unlocked the door and walked into the living room where his sister was sitting with her partner in her lap. Tai stood there, just staring for a moment, taking everything in.
It was a huge shock, but a very welcome one..........even if it was a dream.........
"Tai! Are you okay? I've been calling your name for like five minutes!" Kari said, worry evident in her eyes.
"Huh? Oh yah, I was just thinking about something......" Tai said softly and sat down next to sister, letting his partner hop off to get something to eat.
"Oh now I'm really worried!" Kari said with a smile and waited for the retort she knew would come.
"HEY!" Tai shouted in indignation. He turned to his sister, a murderous look in his eyes. Kari backed as far away as she could, which wasn't very far because the couch was in the way.
"Tai...NO! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA STOP I GIVE, I GIVE!" Kari managed to choke out as she was mercilessly tickled by her brother while her partner looked on in amusement. This happened all the time and it never ceased to amaze Gatomon at how the two could be yelling at each other one minute and then laughing the next.
Tai stopped and backed away, letting his sister breathe. He had things he wanted o ask her, but he wasn't quite sure how to go about it without making his sister think he was crazy.
"Kari........I gotta ask you something....well kinda ask, kinda tell.....but if I do you're gonna think I'm crazy" Tai said, his tone serious as he sat up straight waiting or his sister to talk.
"Aw, come one Tai! You can talk to me about anything!............Your not gonna tell me you're gay or something are you?" Kari asked, her face stone serious.
"WHAT?! Where the heck did you get THAT idea?!" Tai screeched and looked at his sister like she had the plague.
"Well, you're always hanging out with Matt..............." Kari said, a small grin forming on her face when she saw her brothers face.
"Ugh, KARI! That is just WRONG, he's my best friend! It would be like going out with my brother!" Tai continued to rant as Kari, Gatomon and Koromon watched on, laughing.
"You don't have a brother" Kari pointed out, slowly loosing the battle to kep all of her giggles in.
"Kari!" Tai shouted, getting fed up with his sister. He had wanted to have a serious talk with her and this is what she does?
"Okay, I'm sorry Tai.....it was just there, ya know? You can talk to me if you want to" Kari said, actually listening this time. Tai scowled at his sister and then straightened his face and began to tell her all of what happened in the last few weeks to him, the Eastern Digidestined, Northern Digidestined and the Tamers. When he was finally finished the whole house was silent. Kari finally spoke up when Tai picked up Koromon from the floor.
"Tai.........I have to know.......did you ACTUALLY eat Mom's liver sticks last night? Cause that must have been one heck of a dream!" Kari said and placed her hand on her older brothers forhead to make sure that he wasn't running a temperature.
"Uh...yah...thats it..." Tai said quietly and let Kari fuss over him while he remained quite. The silence was suddenly broken with the ringing of the phone.
"I'll get it! Tai, you stay there! I want you to rest! I can't believe you actually ate the liver sticks....." Kari said and muttered the last part to herself as she picked up the phone.
"Hello Kari, is Tai there by chance?" A voice asked, one that Kari recognized as Ken
"Oh hey Ken! How are you? Tai's kind of out of it and I don't know if he wants to talk. I'll ask him though, hold on" Kari said into the phone before pulling it away and placing her hand over the mouth piece.
"Ken's on the phone, he's asking for you. You wanna talk or should I tell him you're not feeling well?" Kari asked, her smile ever bright.
"I keep telling you I'm fine Kari! Gimmie the phone....." Tai said and jumped up from the couch and made a dive for the phone which Kari held out for him. He grabbed the phone and landed on the floor with a thump.
"Hi Ken! What's up?" Tai said as he sat up from his spot on the floor. Kari watched him for a minute and then went back to the couch to finish watching T.V.
"......Tai I wanted to talk to you about.........what happened" Ken said, not sure how to put into words what he wanted to say. He wasn't sure if Tai even remembered, or if he had really gone insane.
"You remember to?" Tai said, sighing with relief when he found out that he wasn't crazy or, if he was, he wasn't crazy alone.
"Yes, and if you remember I think we need to find out who else remembers and get together to try and figure out just what happened" Ken said and tried to remember exactly what the digimon.........Haunlongmon....had said to them.
"Alright, I'll call Matt and you can call Davis, alright?" Tai said and got ready to hang up, but was cut off by Ken.
"I guess we should meet at my house as I'm the only one who doesn't have another Digidestined in my family so meet at my house in about an hour" Ken said and bid Tai goodbye before hanging up and trying to remember Matt's number.
*~*~*~*~*Digidestined Realm,Western Quadrant, Real World*~*~*~*~*
Takuya mumbled something inaudibly and rolled over in his sleep. He was half-awake and half-asleep and he wanted very much to either stay at the half consciousness that he was at right now or go completely back to sleep. Sadly, he was granted neither pleasure because at that moment someone decided to preform a spectacular flying tackle right into his midsection.
"Oof!" Takuya gasped as all the air was forced from his lungs. Takuya sat up and looked around to find himself, home in his own room with his little brother sitting on his bed, grinning at him.
"Shinya you're going to die a painful death!" Takuya shouted and made a half attempt at trying to grab his little brother who was laughing and already out of his room and no doubt hiding somewhere near their Mom.
Takuya got out of bed with a groan, not wanting to get up but knowing that if he stayed in bed he would more than likely be under constant attack from his little brother. He yawned and recalled what had happened to him and the others. It had seemed like only yesterday, but supposedly none of it ever happened. He remembered what the golden dragon digimon had said to them
*~*~*Slight Flashback*~*~*
"You are here because you are the chosen of all the Quadrants. Balance does not affect you as it does others. Once Balance has finished you will find that everything is as it should be. None of the Digidestined or Tamers will remember what has taken place before Balance returned to the worlds. I do not have long, but I have to say you have all done immensely well against Kage. I am sorry to say though that your troubles are not over. Kage will return and you will need to stop him. He was once a good person....but now he is corrupted with hatred and anger. Already Balance has nearly finished its job.......good bye Chosen, and good luck" The golden dragon said and was about to dissapear but Takato and Takuya stopped him.
"Who are you?" Takato and Takuya asked at the same moment.
"I am one of the first digimon ever created. I am Huanlongmon. And now farewell" Haunlongmon said and faded away.
*~*~*End small Flashback*~*~*
"So no one remembers.......and now I'm alone against some pyscho who wants to destroy/conquer the worlds? Greeeeeeeaaaat." Takuya muttered sarcastically to himself and glared at his reflection when he saw that the symbol for Balance had kept itself on his forehead. Takuya rubbed at it, annoyed that it was still there but left it alone and tried to think of a way to contact Takato, Davis and the others.
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Skittles the Sugar Fairy: And that would be the end of the first chapter from the sequel to Missing Link. I hope that you guys enjoy this fic as much as the first one.
Dragoon: Ch, knowing you, you're never gonna update!
Skittles: You. Shut up. It's your fault it took me this long to get the one chapter up and finished!
Dragoon: Meh.
Skittles: *sighs* Muses.....anyway, review and tell me what you guys think!
Dragoon: Skittles don't own digimon, though she does own the soul of Chris and an arm. ^.^
Skittles: Ya ya......^____^ Ah, mighty quote!
The human race has just taken its first step into the world of stars... and someday, it'll probably be as screwed up as everywhere else we've meddled.
Well thats it for now! Hurry and review so I can hurry and start the next chapter!