A new chapter for this story is here, I hope you like it, once again I am no professional when it comes to writing, but practicing will only help to improve my skills so I continue to write fanfiction…also it's fun. I own nothing.
Chapter 6: Causes of Concern
"So…why did you bring me here anyway?" Miyu questioned as she followed the two creatures known as "digimon" who called themselves "Shamanmon" and "Goblimon" as they lead her deeper into the cavern that she had woken up in.
"The Digital World is in trouble, and I figured a tamer was the best solution," Shamanmon answered, glancing back at Miyu, Goblimon gave a glare and a snort of displeasure before both continued to lead her into the cavern, as they walked further in Miyu noted the feeling of warmth that filled the air, she soon spotted a light up ahead and looked down at the two digimon.
"What's that light down there?" Miyu asked and Shamanmon smiled.
"That is where our friends are; we are all working together, hiding in this cavern," Shamanmon explained as Goblimon remained silent, Miyu gave a small gasp of surprise as they walked into a part of the cavern that did not look much like a cavern at all, there were computers, lights, and much more, she could also tell a heater was in use because of the warmth in the area, she noted the other small creatures walking around which she could only guess were more digimon.
"What is this place?" Miyu questioned.
"Welcome to the base of the Resistance tamer," Shamanmon said.
"And you're lucky we're even allowing you in here, so don't mess with anything," Goblimon added with a glare that made Miyu slightly nervous despite the fact that she was much bigger than the creature threatening her, there was just something about these creatures that gave off an aura of power.
"So, this is the tamer?" a female voice questioned and Miyu looked to see a small purple creature that looked like she was wearing kendo equipment, a short purple tail trailed her, and her face behind her mask appeared to be nothing more than pure darkness other than the presence of a pair of glowing yellow eyes.
"Um…I guess," Miyu shrugged, still unsure why these creatures were calling her a "tamer" "So, who are you?" Miyu asked kneeling down to the purple digimon's eye level.
"Kotemon," the kendo wielding digimon said holding out her hand which Miyu shook "And you?" Kotemon asked politely causing Miyu to smile slightly.
"I'm Miyu; say if you don't mind me asking; why do you all keep calling me a "tamer?" What is a tamer anyway?" Miyu asked in curiosity.
"A tamer is a human who is linked with a digimon partner," a male voice alerted Miyu to the presence of a small tapir-ghost creature who floated over to her "a digimon and tamer are linked through a bond that is through a device called a digivice, with a digivice a tamer may supply power to their digimon partner and even allow them to digivolve," Tapirmon explained, Miyu was confused by the use of many words she did not know the meaning of but decided to ask about them after she finished with her currant questions.
"Um…ok, so why do you think I'm one of these…tamers?" Miyu asked and Shamanmon walked over to her with a gentle smile on his goblin-like face.
"Because if you were not a tamer you would not have been brought here in the first place," Shamanmon said.
"What do you mean?" Miyu asked before Shamanmon continued.
"You see Miyu, as we said the Digital World is in trouble, we aren't sure why but something is wrong with the digital world, and the previous tamers are no longer with us, and Zhuqiaomon; our sovereign does not seem to be doing anything," Miyu was still confused by Shamanmon's explanations but nodded "So we called you here," Shamanmon added and Miyu frowned.
"How do you know if I can be one of these tamers?" Miyu asked, Goblimon frowned and shook his head.
"Because Tapirmon and Shamanmon worked forever on a device to call a tamer for one of us, those two are the most technologically gifted digimon I know, I don't like the idea of a tamer, but if what they did brought you here, you are the tamer of one of us," Goblimon said as he continued to glare at Miyu.
"Device?" Miyu questioned and Shamanmon nodded as Tapirmon floated over with a small device in hand, it looked like a glowing blue orb of sort that emitted a strange buzzing noise.
"This is the Digi-Light, me and Shamanmon made it to connect to other worlds, to find tamers for digimon, it brought you here Miyu, that's all the proof we need that you are one of our tamers," Tapirmon explained as Miyu stared at the ball of light he held.
"How do we know which of you is my partner?" Miyu asked, accepting the prospect of her being a tamer.
"Simply touch the Digi-Light, if you are one of our tamers, your digivice will come and show you who your partner is," Shamanmon said. Miyu slowly approached Shamanmon and reached her hand out towards the Digi-Light, as her hand approached the Digi-Light its glow brightened, until her hand was mere inches away from it, Miyu was nearly blinded by the light but managed to touch it, suddenly another light shot out from the Digi-Light and into Miyu, Miyu gasped as her body glowed and shot two more lights out that hit Shamanmon and Goblimon, after a few moments a small device formed in Miyu's hands.
"This is…a digivice?" Miyu questioned as she stared at the device that had appeared in her hands, it was a upside down triangular shape of sorts with rounded ends, and the tops sides were flat, with what looked like a slot of sorts on one side, the main body of the device was the same color of green as Shamanmon's body, and the buttons as well as the circle that surrounded the screen of the device were the same shade as Goblimon's body, there was also what looked like a clip for a belt on the top of it that was also Goblimon's color.
"The light hit both Goblimon and Shamanmon," Tapirmon stated in surprise.
"You have two partners," Kotemon said.
"Well I'll be, what do you think about that," Shamanmon said with a chuckle, Goblimon however growled.
"Wait a moment! She's both our tamer!? That cannot be right!" Goblimon objected.
"I honestly don't see why not, it's unusual yes, but how much do we really know about digimon-tamer partnerships?" Shamanmon questioned "And we've worked together enough that I would think this would be no problem," Shamanmon added.
"I have no problem working with you, but her," Goblimon said pointing at Miyu, who despite her confusion was starting to get a little annoyed.
"Hey, what is your problem with me? If you remember, you brought me here," Miyu said in irritation, Goblimon glared at her.
"It wasn't my idea! I was against getting a human to help us! But no, that had to be the only way to do things!" Goblimon growled glaring at the other digimon.
"Hey, tamers have saved us in the past, don't be so hostile, we had a discussion, and it was decided the tamer idea would be more effective," Tapirmon said in defense.
"You guys keep bringing up other tamers, but who are they? And why aren't they helping you?" Miyu questioned.
"The other tamers are what defeated the D-reaper before, the D-reaper was a being that would have destroyed the entire Digital World, and the real world if they had not, but they defeated it in the real world and have not returned here since their first visit, the only connection they made with the digital world since has been sending an arc to bring their partner digimon back to the real world, but other than that we have not heard anything of them since and we have no way to contact them," Shamanmon explained.
"But why get me instead of trying to contact the ones who were already tamers?" Miyu asked and Tapirmon sighed.
"You see, the connection between the Digital World, and real worlds are…complicated, we had no way to be sure we would contact the same real world that the tamers lived in, finding someone to be a tamer for one of us was a safer bet," Tapirmon said and Miyu looked confused.
"So are you saying these tamer guys aren't from the same world as me?" Miyu asked and Shamanmon shrugged.
"We honestly don't know, as Tapirmon just said we couldn't really tell if the real world we contacted was the same as the one of the previous tamers, sure digimon sometimes pass into real worlds through digital fields, but most of the time that's a one way trip unless they come back before the boundaries between the worlds stabilize again, and a digimon that went through the trouble to leave the Digital World is usually in no hurry to get back," Shamanmon said.
"Ok…I'll try," Miyu said, feeling some happiness inside at knowing that she was going to become special like Yuri, Kumi, and Kasumi, but also fear as she realized that a whole world could very well now be counting on her.
"Come, we have much to plan," Shamanmon said as he took the lead and began walking further into the base.
"Fine," Goblimon grumbled, shooting Miyu one last glare before following Shamanmon, Miyu knew one of the tougher things was going to be getting Goblimon to accept her, she followed her digimon partners, Kotemon and Tapirmon following close behind.
In a large building which was the base of operation for an organization called Hypnos; a group that was originally dedicated to destroying any digimon that tried to enter the real world, now one that revolved around peace for both humans and digimon and the interactions between the two, the organizations leader; Mitsuo Yamaki paced around the large room, flicking his lighter anxiously.
"So, when do you think Chumley and the others will get here anyway?" a boy named Kazu Shioda questioned as he sat on the ground playing a game of digimon cards with a girl named Jeri Katou, who seemed to be more focus on the card game than her opponent.
"They'll be here, you guys need to calm down, yes Yamaki I can see you flicking that lighter, nobody would flick it that fast if they were calm," another boy named Kenta Kitagawa said as he sat next to a large rust colored robotic creature and a small pink fairy-seal-like creature who were actually his and Kazu's digimon partners; Guardromon and MarineAngemon. Yamaki gave a grunt and shoved his lighter into his pocket.
"We have no idea what is going on and we don't know when the only three of you tamers who can go to the mega level will arrive and you wish for us to be calm?" Yamaki asked in aggravation.
"Hey now, MarineAngemon is a mega all the time!" Kenta said in defense of his small partner who nodded and gave a few "pi" noises.
"No offense Kenta, but MarineAngemon's not much of a fighter," Kazu said with a light chuckle, Kenta gave him a glare but then smirked.
"Maybe you should pay less attention to me, and more to your opponent," Kenta said, Kazu looked confused until he looked down to the card game he was playing and his eyes widened as he realized Jeri had just beaten him.
"SaberLeomon destroys all!" Jeri cheered before holding up her yellow dog sock puppet "Jeri's number one! Ruff!" Jeri said through the puppet in a fake voice, Kazu just stared and gave a sigh of defeat.
"I'll win next time Jeri," Kazu said, regaining his smirk.
"But Kazu, that's the fifth time she's beaten you this week," Guardromon stated in his normal robotic voice, Kazu gave his partner a glare but didn't say anything, soon another man entered the room and looked over at Yamaki.
"Sir, the other three tamers have arrived," the man said "But um, there are others with them," the man added unsurely.
"Ryo, Suzie, Ai, and Mako maybe?" Jeri questioned and the man shook his head.
"No, three girls wearing strange hats," the guard said, Yamaki sighed.
"Just let them in, I'll deal with it," Yamaki said, the man nodded and quickly left, soon the three tamers, and alien fighters, along with their respective creatures entered.
"Wow, it looks even bigger from the inside" Kasumi said looking around curiously.
"Yup it's a big place all right," Takato said, Kumi looked around while Yuri stuck close to Takato.
"Yamaki, what did you want that was so important?" Rika asked impatiently after walking over to Yamaki.
"Who are these people?" Yamaki asked, ignoring Rika's question, much to her irritation, what he had called the tamers here for was important, but it could at least wait until he found out who these people were and why the tamers had thought it a good idea to bring them to Hypnos.
"Um…it's complicated," Henry said unsurely.
"What he said," Terriermon said, from his place on Henry's head. Yamaki did not look happy and looked at the alien fighters.
"You need to leave here," Yamaki said firmly but Kumi shook her head and glared at the man in charge of Hypnos.
"No! We're not leaving until you tell us what the heck is going on!" Kumi yelled and Takato stepped forward.
"Sir with all due respect, we think they may have as much to do with whatever's going on as any of us do, maybe even more," Takato explained.
"I haven't even told you what's going on," Yamaki countered and Takato sighed.
"Ya, but I still think it's something like what I think it is," Takato said calmly, Yamaki just shook his head and sighed.
"Fine, they can stay if you're so sure they're relevant to the situation, but only because we're not even sure what's going on yet, now just stay there, I'll be right back," Yamaki said before walking out of the room. After Yamaki had left Kazu, Kenta and Jeri came over to inspect the alien fighters.
"So…what's with the frog hats?" Kazu questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"Excuse me, but we don't like being called frog hats," Kumi's borg said with a frown, shocking Kazu and Kenta, but Jeri did not seem effected by the suddenly talking hat.
"You guys have digimon that can ride on your heads as hats? Cool!" Jeri cheered, looking at the borgs.
"They're not digimon," Kumi said rolling her eyes.
"Yes, we're symbiotic aliens, called borgs," Yuri's borg said with a small smile, trying to seem friendly.
"Aliens?" Kenta questioned, skeptically.
"Wow, real aliens," Jeri said in awe as she stared at the borgs. Kazu walked over to Kumi and carefully poked her borg in the eye, causing both her, and her borg's eyes to twitch.
"Get out of my face!" Kumi shouted, causing Kazu to jump back.
"Oh great, another Rika," Kenta sighed and Rika and Kumi glared at him.
"I am nothing like her!" they both shouted, pointing at each other.
"And so it begins," Yuri's borg muttered with an eye roll.
"What exactly do you mean by that?" Rika questioned, with her arms crossed.
"Nothing," Yuri's borg said with another eye roll, Takato shook his head at the others slight disagreement before something caught his eye.
"Hey, where's Ryo?" Takato asked, looking around.
"We don't know, Yamaki couldn't get a hold of him for some reason," Kenta said with a shrug.
"Typical, that jerk is only around if he has an opportunity to show off," Rika scoffed.
"You're just jealous of him," Kazu said with a wave of his hand, but shut up at Rika's harsh glare, he than noticed Yuri who was staying close to Takato "Hey Chumley who's that girl and why's she so close to you? Is she your girlfriend?" Kazu asked with a smirk. Yuri's face turned red and Takato frowned.
"No Kazu she isn't, I think it's time for introductions, everyone this is my old friend Yuri, and her friends Kumi and Kasumi," Takato introduced the alien fighters, Kumi frowned and looked away while Kasumi smiled.
"Hi! Nice to meet you!" Kasumi cheered, before Takato turned to the alien fighters.
"Guys, these are our fellow tamers and friends; Kazu, Kenta, and Jeri, and over there are Kazu and Kenta's partners Guardromon, and MarineAngemon," Takato said before MarineAngemon floated over to Yuri and held out one of his fins, Yuri stared at it for a few seconds before shaking it.
"Wait, Yuri's your old friend?" Kazu suddenly questioned and Takato nodded "Ok, how come we haven't heard of her until now?" Takato shook his head in annoyance while Yuri looked nervous.
"Look, let's just say she lives far away, it's a long story and we'll explain more when Yamaki gets back," Takato said firmly and Kazu frowned.
"Why can't you just tell us now?" he asked impatiently.
"Because none of us really want to go through the explanation twice," Henry sighed and Terriermon nodded.
"Ya, we're going to have enough trouble getting you to believe us," Terriermon laughed, most expected Henry to scold Terriermon but he simply sighed and nodded.
"What can I say, he's right," Henry admitted.
"You can say that again," Rika said as she looked through her digimon cards out of boredom, after a few moments Jeri smiled and approached Yuri.
"Well any friend of Takato's is a friend of mine," Jeri said cheerfully, Yuri looked at her for a moment before smiling, and was about to say something when Jeri suddenly pulled out her yellow dog puppet, startling Yuri and causing her to jump back a bit "Ruff! Jeri is happy to meet you Yuri! Ruff!" Jeri said through her puppet, now all the alien fighters and their borgs were staring at Jeri with mixed looks, Takato gave them a look which seemed to suggest "just go with it," so Yuri smiled.
"Um…ok, it's nice to meet you…um…Jeri," Yuri said nervously as she shook Jeri's hand.
"You know now that I think about I think Takato did mention you once, but that was a long time ago," Jeri said scratching her head.
"Do you remember the context?" Yuri's borg asked and Jeri jumped slightly before looking at the frog-hat-like alien.
"Oh sorry, not used to things on people's heads suddenly talking, except Terriermon," Jeri apologized.
"Thank you," Terriermon laughed and Henry shook his head before Jeri continued.
"Anyway, no, not really, I just remember him mentioning someone named Yuri, it was so long ago, why?" Jeri questioned.
"Just wondering," Yuri's borg said as Yuri gave a relieved sigh.
"By the way Takato, are you feeling better? You seemed pretty spacey earlier," Jeri questioned and Takato nodded his head.
"Don't worry Jeri, I'm fine," Takato said with a smile.
"Ok, if you say so, just tell me if anything is wrong, I was worried about you," Jeri said, smiling back at Takato, Yuri looked between Takato and Jeri with a frown for a few moments before Takato noticed.
"Yuri? Something wrong?" Takato asked, snapping Yuri out of whatever was bothering her.
"Um…no Takato, I'm fine," Yuri said, giving her old friend her own smile. Kenta decided to walk over to Kasumi and looked at her borg in curiosity.
"So, those things are really aliens?" Kenta asked, while looking at Kasumi's borg.
"Sure are nya!" Kasumi laughed.
"Just like in the movies," Guilmon said walking up behind Kenta who suddenly looked nervous, Kumi just rolled her eyes.
"No, no they're not, these guys won't lay eggs in you or anything," Kumi said, patting her borg who seemed to enjoy the attention.
"Thank you Kumi, and yes, you have no more to fear from us than you do from those digimon partners of yours," Kumi's borg confirmed.
"Renamon can be very dangerous," Rika stated, in a voice that was not completely serious and with a smirk on her face.
"She sure can, but she wouldn't hurt us," Takato chuckled and Yuri gave a weak chuckle of her own, despite the fact that she was still nervous of this situation.
"Don't be so sure," Renamon said, fazing into existence right behind Takato and Yuri, Yuri gave a small whimper and Takato sighed.
"Renamon please don't do that," Takato requested and Renamon nodded.
"Very well," she agreed before vanishing from sight once more.
"So, are you a robot?" Kasumi asked as she looked over Guardromon who nodded.
"I am a robot digimon, so yes I suppose," Guardromon answered before Kazu walked over.
"Knock it off Guardromon, a machine digimon is not a robot," Kazu argued.
"What's the difference?" Kenta muttered to himself as he watched Kazu before turning to look at MarineAngemon who was happily floating throughout the room.
"I think it has to do with how machine digimon are made out of digital data as opposed to actual robotic parts," Takato said with a shrug.
"Ya, about that, I'm still having some trouble buying this physical life forms made out of digital data thing," Kumi said, looking at all the digimon in the room.
"Hey, you're the one who's wearing an alien on her head," Kazu countered.
"Oh be quiet," Kumi said with annoyance in her voice before she walked over to a chair and sat down.
"Come on Kumi, don't be like that," Kasumi said cheerfully as she played around with MarineAngemon and Guilmon.
"Ya, how about loosening up," Yuri's borg suggested resulting in Kumi glaring at him, and by extension Yuri, causing her to hide behind Takato.
"Don't worry, she's not glaring at you Yuri," Takato assured noticing how Yuri was reacting; Kumi noticed too and stopped her glaring.
"Oh, sorry about that Yuri, your borg just annoyed me there," Kumi muttered, turning away; feeling slightly embarrassed.
"All I said was loosen up," Yuri's borg said glancing away from Kumi who glared at him again before looking away herself.
"It's time to show you what's going on, follow me," Yamaki's voice startled all of the occupants of the room.
"About time, we've been waiting longer than them," Kazu said.
"I agree, what is so important-ruff!" Jeri asked with her puppet earning a tired look from Yamaki before he turned and began leading them to another room.
"I don't get what's going on," Yuri said in a scared tone.
"Trust me Yuri, Yamaki is just going to tell us what is going on," Takato assured his old friend.
"Didn't he say he didn't have much idea what was going on?" Terriermon pointed out, Kumi and Yuri's eyes widened slightly at the site of the room they followed Yamaki into, but the borgs and Kasumi seemed to take it all in stride, the room they had entered was basically a large dark room with a huge monitor on the walls with lots of words and flashes going across it that the alien fighters could barely begin to understand the meanings of.
"Riley, Tally have there been any changes?" Yamaki asked two women who seemed to be operating the monitor.
"Not since the last time you asked us, and we still have no idea what is going on that could be causing this," the longer haired women of the two said as she typed on the controls in front of her frantically.
"What is going on?" Takato asked and Yamaki turned to him.
"Something is going wrong with the barrier between the real and digital worlds," Yamaki answered.
"What do you mean?" Renamon asked walking over to him.
"The barrier that should be in between the real and digital worlds keeps fading in and out on our radar, like it's struggling to stay up," the shorter haired woman said as she typed at her own controls.
"And you have no idea what is causing it?" Henry asked with concern in his voice, the severity of this possible problem was beginning to hit the tamers and digimon, though the alien fighters and aliens still were not sure what they were talking about or what was happening.
"No we don't, we're trying to figure it out," Yamaki said before glancing at the alien fighters "And I believe you said you think these girls may have something to do with what is happening, despite the fact that you did not know what was going on when you said that.
"Well…it's like this," Takato said as he got ready to at least try to explain what he thought was going on.
"We'll explain this part," Kumi said, stepping forward, Takato gave her a thankful look and stepped back "As far as we can tell me and my friends have come from another universe," Kumi said as calmly as she could. Everyone in the room who wasn't already aware of the alien fighter's and borg's extra-dimensional origin were shocked to hear this, though it overall wasn't that hard to believe considering everything but being skeptical was part of a human beings nature.
"Wait, I'm sorry but I thought I just heard you say you were from another universe," Kenta said with a look of disbelief.
"Yes, I did," Kumi said with a glare.
"Wait you guys are digimon!?" Kazu exclaimed and Kumi turned her glare to him.
"No! We're from another REAL world!" Kumi growled.
"Yup, it's true, just ask my borg!" Kasumi said with a smile.
"Yes, we did indeed come from another world, not the digital one you all know of but a world much like this one," Kasumi's borg confirmed, the tamers who did not already know this along with Yamaki seemed to need a moment to take this in, the digimon however didn't seem to have much trouble accepting this.
"Well it is nice to meet you beings from another world," Guardromon said with a wave.
"You just met them a few minutes ago," Kazu snorted with some annoyance before his digimon looked at him.
"Yes, but I didn't know they were from another world then," Guardromon stated, Kazu didn't even try to follow whatever logic his partner was using and just turned away. Jeri walked over to Takato with a confused look on her face.
"Wait, they're from another world?" she questioned, Takato nodded looking at Yuri who looked more nervous than earlier.
"Look Jeri, I'll-we'll explain everything to you guys after this is cleared up," Takato said with a weak smile, Jeri frowned a bit but after a few moments gave a smile of her own.
"Look, I don't know if you are telling the truth about being from another world, but if you are, what does it have to do with our current problem?" Yamaki questioned impatiently.
"Millenniummon," Henry stated, walking next to Kumi and looking at Yamaki "Kumi, Yuri, and Kasumi described to us a digimon they fought that brought them here, to our world; the description matched that of the digimon Millenniummon," Henry explained, Yamaki seemed to think about this.
"Millenniummon…could that be what's causing this?" Yamaki muttered to himself before he turned his attention back to the kids "We can't do anything about it now I suppose, you kids go home, we'll try to figure out how to deal with this and contact you if we need you, and be aware, the weakening barrier means it's likely for digimon to bio-emerge," Yamaki explained.
"Anything we can do to help?" Guilmon asked looking around the room for something to do, Yamaki simply groaned at the dinosaur digimon's eagerness.
"No, the most you and the others can do to help is to stop being a distraction and leave," Yamaki said as gently as he could, though Guilmon got the message without much difficulty and walked back over to where Takato and Yuri stood.
"Come on boy, let's go, Yamaki, Riley and Tally will take care of this until we're needed," Takato said and Guilmon nodded.
"I got it Takatomon; can we go get food now?" Guilmon asked with an eager smile, Takato and Yuri both chuckled at Guilmon's behavior, Takato because it was so typical, and Yuri because she thought Guilmon's childishness was cute.
"Well if there's nothing we can do here than fine, let's go Renamon," Rika muttered before her fox digimon vanished and she began to leave.
"Rika, wait up!" Takato called noticing she was getting ahead of them.
"Takato," Yuri whimpered before running to catch up with him with Guilmon chasing her, Kumi raised an eyebrow at Yuri's behavior as she observed her from a few feet away.
"Huh, that's odd," Kumi commented.
"I do not understand," Kumi's borg responded.
"I'm just not used to Yuri acting that way with a stranger, or boys in general," Kumi said in thought.
"Well she did say he was her old friend, even if the whole 'imaginary friend' bit didn't make much sense, it isn't much weirder than what's happening now," the dark colored borg said and Kumi nodded deciding that he was likely right.
"Enough thinking, let's go have fun with our new friends!" Kasumi exclaimed; MarineAngemon happily cradled in her arms before she ran out of the room.
"Hey!" Kenta called after Kasumi before chasing her in an attempt to retrieve his partner who was cheering all along the way.
"Well this is going to be interesting," Terriermon said with a smirk, Henry shook his head but said nothing to debunk his partner as he began leaving along with his friends silently thinking about the problems with the barrier between the worlds and what it could mean, and what could happen if they didn't fix it soon.
Someday when I'm a better writer I may need to come back to this chapter and many more of this and other stories probably, and make it, you know, better, but for now this will due.