Fanfic: Digimon Mentors XVIII
Title: Digimon Mentors
Author: x_eleven
Rating: PG-13 (Rough language)
Genre: Magical Realism
Summary:
This is an "alternative universe" treatment of Season Three: Digimon Tamers. I changed the title because I need one that's distinctive, and because I never liked the original title anyway: we're not dealing with wild animals in need of domestication, but rather foreign visitors who need to learn the ways of their new home. What the "Tamers" were really doing is mentoring. I suppose, given the age demographic, "mentor" would have been a BIG WORD they wouldn't have understood.
Legal Schtuffs: I do not own Digimon; Bandai and Toei Animation do.
18) The Gift
"We interrupt this program for an update on the strange phenomenon...", began the announcer. "The west side of the city continues to be surrounded by this strange, red mass. Ms. Toki is live at the scene: Ms Toki...", the screen changed over to a live feed.
"Right now, I am to the east of the phenomenon, just across from the railroad station. As you can see, the material has been spreading, day-by-day, and has now covered half of the tracks. Needless to say, rail traffic has been halted for safety concerns. This is Toki reporting, and thanks for joining us".
That wasn't very helpful, but TV news needs something photogenic.
"The unidentified mass came out of this Internet surveillance system called 'Hypnos'", one of the guests being interviewed explained. "Such surveillance systems have been operating in Asia, Europe, and America ever since the days of the Cold War".
"It has also been suggested that this Hypnos system has also been responsible for the appearance of other para-life formations", the anchorman asked, "Which appeared in the city a couple of months ago" (Switch to scenes of Vikarylamon's rampage).
"A virtual life called 'digimon' appeared in the real world in a physical form that greatly resembles that of a real creature. In my view, this blob is something that also came out of this network".
"Do you believe this has anything to do with digimon?", the anchor asked.
"Naturally, it does".
Footage of the flock of bird-like critters spawned from the D-reaper: "Unidentified creatures have been appearing from the red mass. Are they also digimon? We have also contacted Professor Rob McCoy, who was involved with the development of digimon in the mid-1980s, to comment on the current situation".
"This has nothing to do with digimon: it's a separate and unrelated phenomenon. It's true that digimon have evolved far beyond what they used to be over the years, and they organized their own world within the networks. However, digimon evolved themselves after human contact, especially with children. They wouldn't wipe out the world where we live. That would be suicidal on their part, since their very existence depends on the existence of the network, the systems that support it, and the humans who maintain it.
We understand that this is something called 'D-reaper', which is totally different from digimon, though it seems to have arisen from some different part of the networks".
This went on with "Carley" describing that D-reaper started out as a simple maintenance program that prevented resource hogging by keeping the whole Digital World, as it existed then, within its own allocated "sandbox". She theorized that, instead of simply deleting straying digimon, that it also absorbed the digimons' ability to evolve, and, as a consequence, grew into something much more than the simple little program it started out being.
It was another morning as the Mentors awakened at their school, which had now become their base of operations. So far, they'd been undisturbed, and doubted that anyone knew they were there, which was fine by them. The main downside to this was that that old stock bread back at Takato's father's bakery wasn't getting any fresher.
"Takato, whatcha thinking about?", Henry greeted, having awakened shortly after Takato did. Takato was standing by one of the windows.
"I don't know...", as he looked out the window at nothing in particular.
"Do you think we'll be able to figure this out by ourselves?", Henry wondered.
"I dunnow... Yesterday afternoon, after the fight with D-reaper, I thought I saw Jeri", Takato confessed.
"Huh?", Henry asked.
"'Huh' is right. Something isn't adding up. I called Jeri's step-mother's place in Matsumoto, and she told me Jeri'd disappeared just that afternoon. Yet, I could have sworn I saw her here in Shinjuku. There's no way in hell she could have gotten from there to here: it's a four hour train trip. Even if she flew, I don't see how she could make it".
"Are you sure it was Jeri? Could you have mistaken someone else for Jeri?", Rika asked. It was a reasonable assumption, given Takato's persistent worry over Jeri. "Anyway", she continued, "There was something decidedly wrong with her -- even before we returned to the Material World"
"Well, after experiencing all those shocks, it's no wonder...", Henry offered.
"It's more than that", Takato explained, "And I'm feeling really bad about it", he confessed. "Why would she run away in the first place?" Takato feared the worst: that that dipshit father of hers had done something to drive her away. Still, that didn't explain where she went, solve the problem of where she was right now, how she was doing, or how she had managed to get so far, so fast. If she had, then why wasn't she trying to find Takato? If he had seen her in the park, then why did she disappear as soon as she'd been seen?
As they arrived at the bakery, Takato saw something flapping in the breeze. He saw that it was a note someone had taped to the door:
"Please come to Rika's house", was all it said.
"Huh?", Rika asked. As far as she knew, her folks weren't staying there. Even though the note wasn't signed, Takato recognized his mother's handwriting. Given that, they set off to see what was going on over there. So far, they had no better ideas anyway. The streets were still quite deserted, and so far, they had seen no patrols. They figured that the authorities were otherwise occupied.
"Jeri?!", Takato suddenly called out. He thought he saw something on the other side of the street, by one of the trees growing between the sidewalk and the street itself. When he looked again, all he saw was an empty street. Regardless, Takato took off running.
"What is it?", they asked as they chased Takato.
"I thought I saw Jeri standing right here!", he declared.
"Did you see her?", Rika asked.
"I didn't see anybody", Henry answered.
Just as Takato was beginning to wonder if he wasn't going just a bit "off": "I definitely sensed something", Renamon told them.
"You mean someone?", Rika corrected.
"No. Not 'someone' -- some... thing. I don't know what, but it definitely wasn't human". Takato was at once relieved and concerned. Relieved that he wasn't going nuts; concerned about Renamon's assessment. How could Renamon not know that Jeri was perfectly human? It wasn't as if they'd just met, and they'd been together in the Digital World for quite some time. If it wasn't Jeri, then what was it? And, more importantly, where was Jeri?
This mystery having no solution in sight, they decided to continue onto Rika's.
"Huh?!", "Wha...?!", came the chorus of surprise as soon as they'd stepped through the front door. Rika's place had somehow managed to avoid being overrun with chaos mass, and their folks were waiting to greet them: Rika's mother and grandmother, Takato' mom and dad, Henry's mother, Suzy and Lopmon.
"Welcome home!", Takato's father said. "Ooops, I forgot: we're at Rika's home now".
This was the first chance they had to really be together since the Mentors' arrival on the Ark. They'd been busy, preparing a "Welcome Home" party for the returning travelers. Terriermon and Lopmon were running around the table, excited as they checked out what was on the menu. Guilmon found a "Guilmon bun" at his place, shaped like his own face, and made red with a generous application of cinnamon.
"This is Guilmon Bread?", he asked.
"That's right: you finally get to try it, just like I promised", Takato's father told him.
"Thanks, dad", Takato said.
"We all cooked this together", Rika's grandmother explained, "So we want you to dig right in -- have as much as you like"
"Granny?", Rika asked, "Mom?"
"You know, I have been known to cook once in awhile", said the "Carry-out Queen" -- it was damn seldom her mother ever actually cooked, unless warming left-overs in the microwave was considered "cooking". Because of that, Rika was secretively all that more appreciative of the extra effort her mother had shown.
Calumon had also just arrived in Shinjuku. He used his own power of flight for that, as opposed to taking public transportation. He had the same problem: Jeri had gone missing, and he had no more of an idea as to what happened than did Takato and Henry. He stood in the school's playground, looking around: "Where is everybody, culu?", he asked himself. While in Matsumoto, he had not seen the news, and so was not aware that the area had been evacuated.
He found himself shoved to the ground: "You look pathetic, ya little polliwog", he recognized the voice even before he looked around. It was Impmon. "Why so miserable?"
"How could you do that to me, culu?", he complained.
"Where'd ya disappear to?", Impmon asked.
"I was staying with Jeri, but I can't find her anymore, culu?"
"Jeri's missing?", he asked. Calumon might have told him to fuck off, but for the tone of genuine concern he heard in his voice. Calumon didn't think Impmon would care about anyone, let alone a human. All he could recall were the nasty tricks Impmon pulled, the angry rants, the insults. Part of the reason Impmon picked on him, he knew, was because humans found him "cute".
"We were staying in Matsumoto, and she suddenly went missing, culu? She was walking towards the laundry room, culu, but when we followed just a moment later, there was no one there, culu? No one knows what happened, where she went, culu?"
"Jeri... I... still feel partly responsible", Impmon confessed.
Calumon had no idea what he was talking about as he'd missed all the action: first, he'd been locked away in Zhuqiaomon's dungeon. Then he released the Shining Evolution, which had taken a lot out of him, leaving him too tired to care enough to pay attention, then the arrival on the Ark, followed immediately by the unanticipated diversion to Matsumoto. He'd had no time to ask anyone to fill him in. Jeri had not exactly been forthcoming with explanations. All he knew was that something must have gone wrong in the Digital World. He recalled that Leomon wasn't on board. Why not? Why didn't he accompany Jeri, as the rest of the digimon partners had accompanied their Mentors? Did they have some sort of falling-out, he wondered.
"Where are you going, Impmon, culu?", he asked. Impmon had started running down the street.
"I don't know yet, but I have to do something..."
"Wait for me, culu?", he called out as he followed after Impmon. "We'll look for Jeri together, culu?", Calumon proposed. "I think I at least know where we can begin looking, culu?"
Impmon followed Calumon down the street. Suddenly, Calumon stopped.
"What's up?", Impmon asked.
"I want to go there, culu?", as he pointed towards the now abandoned Hypnos building.
"You've got to be shitting me", Impmon replied. Calumon was pointing right at the heaviest concentration of chaos mass. How could anything be left intact, he wondered.
Calumon spread his wing-like ears, and took off. Impmon barely caught him in time, tackling him to the ground. Regardless, Impmon knew that he was deadly serious about where he was going. It was that "deadly" part of it that most concerned him. If they were to proceed, he knew, Calumon would need the protection.
"Why do you have to be such a nasty bully all the time, culu?"
"I'm not being a bully. If you touch that red shit, you just might cease to exist completely"
"I didn't know you cared, culu?", he asked, genuinely surprised.
"I've always cared. Yeah, I liked to give you a hard time. (Did Calumon detect a hint of regret?) Sometimes, I thought it was irritating, the way you always wanted to follow me, but I never wanted to see any harm come to you", Impmon explained. "What's this all about? What's so important that you feel the need to go over there?"
"She's over there, culu?"
"I hope you know what you're talking about", Impmon said, as he accompanied Calumon towards the Hypnos building. The closer they got, the worse the devastation. The pavement had been broken up by that red mass, guard railings ripped up and twisted, buildings ruined, abandoned cars and downed light posts littering the street. From cracks in the pavement, globs of that red chaos mass were bubbling up. There was no doubt about it: they were approaching the D-reaper's "ground zero".
"Hold up, Calumon!", he ordered.
Calumon kept going: "I'm in a hurry; we don't have much time, culu?", he stated.
"I can see that, but what are we doing here?"
"Jeri is here, culu..."
"What the fuck are you?!", Impmon called to the attack drone that suddenly blocked their way. It replied with a blast of energy that came much too close for comfort, as they ran back the way they'd come. Another blast sent them flying and rolling over the ground.
"This thing is really beginning to Piss. Me. Off.", Impmon said.
Impmon double warp digivolve to...
...Deinondramon!
"Calumon: go!", Deinondramon ordered. As one of those attack drones gave chase, Deinondramon neatly severed its connecting cable with a sickle-shaped claw, sending it crashing to the ground, useless, as it burst into chaos mass. Deinondramon watched as Calumon flew up towards the top of Hypnos' twin towers. He wondered why, as it didn't look like anything was up there. He didn't have time to wonder about it just now, as more of those attack drones were appearing. He charged up his energy attack.
"Plasma Slash!", he sent the blast at them, causing the whole group to vapourize on contact. He joined Calumon, who was apparently just standing there, doing nothing.
"What're you doing?", he asked.
"I want to get in, culu?"
There didn't appear to be any "in", that is, until Deinondramon ran into something as impenetrable as a brick wall, but completely invisible. Calumon, with as much futility as determination: "Open, culu?! Open, culu?!", he demanded, as he kicked with his stubby hind legs.
"Stand clear", he ordered Calumon, "We need to knock a little harder... Raptor Slash!", he struck the force field, causing it to collapse completely. Now it was obvious what was there: a reddish sphere stuck between the tops of the twin towers.
"Listen carefully, Calumon" Deinondramon explained, "I'm going to try to make an opening in the outer shell, I don't know if it'll work, but if I succeed, and you think you can make it, then go for it, understood? But only if you're sure you can make it". He didn't wait for a reply.
"Raptor Slash!", the outer shell cracked, then gave way.
"Now!", Calumon flew towards the opening, but got stuck half way through.
"You really need to lay off the cream puffs", Deinondramon said, as he gave him a final shove through the opening, which quickly healed itself. He could only hope that Calumon had made it to Jeri, that is, if she was really in there.
Deinondramon saw something through the nearly opaque red sphere. He immediately dropped, wings folded, as dropped in a free fall. He glanced back, seeing that he'd narrowly avoided being entangled in these red tendrils that had shot from the interior of the sphere. They were turning to chase after him, but he was too fast, as he opened his wings, flapped hard, to get away. Now, he needed to find the others to tell them what he'd learned.
As Deinondramon soared over the city, he spotted someone familiar walking the streets below.
Calumon had discovered that there was an inner shell, translucent, he saw that he'd found Jeri, who was trapped inside the sphere within the outer sphere. It looked like electrical discharges flashing between the two spheres. Calumon found himself stuck outside.
"Jeri, let me in, culu? I want to play, culu? Jeri? Culu?", he asked, as he sat on top of the sphere, wondering what to do next. An opening appeared, and Calumon found himself dropping inside. He had no idea why he'd been let in, and he didn't care. He was with Jeri, but she was completely unresponsive: "Are you sleeping, Jeri?", he asked. Jeri was sitting, knees pulled to chest, arms wrapped around her knees. She said nothing, did nothing, to in any way acknowledge she even knew he was there.
"I should be doing something", Kenta was complaining to his partner, Marineangemon, "I'm a Mentor, too, aren't I? ... What the fu...", the words failed him, as a large, dangerous-looking, winged, indigo feathered "dragon" landed in front of him.
"Kenta...", it started.
"How do you know my name?", he interrupted.
"Listen carefully: I know where Jeri is. She's somewhere in that sphere that's stuck between the towers of the office building where Hypnos used to operate. Tell the others ASAP".
"Uhhhh... Who are you?"
"You were my co-pilot"
"Impmon?"
Deinondramon answered with a nod of the head, before spreading his wings to fly off. He need not have been so concerned: Yamaki and the Wild Bunch had seen the whole thing from their temporary headquarters.
The feast at Rika's was over: Guilmon was stuffed, Terriermon and Lopmon had also filled up; Renamon was the only digimon who had acted with her characteristic restraint. It was one of those things that distinguished Renamon from other digimon: she wasn't a chow hound.
"I think you ate too much", Takato's mother commented to Guilmon.
"I found Guilmon Bread wonderful!", Guilmon said with satisfaction.
"I preferred the steamed buns", Terriermon said.
"I figured you would...", Henry's mother started.
"How would you know?", Terriermon asked.
"Henry was always sneaking more than his fair share to his bedroom for some reason, so it wasn't too difficult to figure out", she explained.
"Thank you for the meal", Renamon said, always formally polite.
Takato was about to say something. "Shit! Not now!", he thought to himself, as heard his digivice go off. Henry's, Rika's, and Suzy's also sounded off.
"What's going on?", Rika asked.
"I'll check it out", Renamon offered, as she disappeared.
"We gotta go!", Takato declared. All the adults stood up at once.
"We had a good long talk amoung ourselves over this matter", Takato's father began his address. "There's no responsible parent in the world who's gonna let their child go off and do something dangerous like this. Never" Takato didn't like the sound of where this was going.
"However, that applies to normal times, and these are anything but. We also don't have the right to prevent you from doing what you see as a larger duty. We may not like that it has fallen to you, but, since it has, you have to do what you have to do..."
"... Now, we could sit around and feel sorry for ourselves, but we decided to do otherwise", Henry's mother continued. "If we can help in any way, then just ask, and we'll do it -- if we can. You can know that we'll be thinking of you, and hoping for the best. And that you stay safe, and come back to us all in one piece".
Guilmon and Terriermon looked on, not knowing quite what to make of the scene playing out before them.
Growlmon carried Takato, Henry, and Rika on his back.
"Wait for me!", Gargomon called out as he followed.
They arrived at a skywalk that overlooked what should have been the busy street below. They were on one end, and across a perpendicular intersection was Kyuubimon.
"Let's join them and make a real fight of it", Growlmon announced.
Gargomon fired at two of these D-reaper attack drones, easily destroying them.
"Pyro Blast!", Growlmon sent the attack skimming over the walkway, destroying a whole flock.
"They were after someone!", Takato called out, as two figures were at the other end of the long skywalk, running away. Three more attack drones appeared.
"Spirit Fireballs!", Kyuubimon attacked, destroying these as well. They ran up to a fallen figure, laying on the skywalk.
"You alright mister?", Takato called out.
"I'm getting too old for this", he said, as he got up. Like most ten year old kids, they were not good at estimating ages. All they knew was that this guy was clearly older than their parents. He had greying, thinning hair, quite different from Janyu Wong's premature grey. He got up, standing next to a large dog.
"You OK?", Takato asked again.
"I've been better", he replied.
"Who are you?", Rika asked. She had no idea as to why anyone would still be around, or why the D-reaper would be attacking.
"Are they the ones I seek?", the dog asked, so as not to be overheard.
"I believe so", he answered.
"You're the ones who call themselves the 'Digimon Mentors', aren't you?", he asked. None of them had ever seen this guy, and had no idea how he might have known that.
"Who are you?", Rika insisted.
"I know who you are..."
"Look, asshole, you'd better come up with some answers... are you some sort of perv?", Rika challenged.
"Rika!", Kyuubimon reprimanded.
"Takato: that man's dog -- that's no dog, it's a digimon", Growlmon announced.
"He's right: this is Rottwielermon, and we've been looking for the ones who call themselves 'The Mentors'".
The big "dog" growled at them.
"Your... partner", Henry had to force himself to say it, as he didn't think such an old person could be a partner, "Seems to be awfully on edge there".
"It's because he's been hunted by those, whatever-the-hell-they-are's, ever since arriving in this world. I found him on a roadside, and thought it was another roadkill pup -- until I saw he was still alive. I took him home, and got the shock of a lifetime when he first spoke to me. We've been together ever since".
"That's all fine and dandy, but that doesn't answer the question: what do you want from us?", Henry asked.
"Nothing. I've come to bring you something", Rottweilermon said.
"What?", Takato asked.
Just then, something exploded from the ground. Two thin grey filaments appeared, wrapping themselves around the skywalk. These glowed bright orange, then began burning their way through the skywalk itself. Everyone ran in the opposite direction, as the whole skywalk collapsed. These filaments were attached to an even larger attack drone. This time, Gargomon's 0.50s had no effect:
Gargomon digivolve to...
...Rapidmon!
Growlmon digivolve to...
...Wargrowlmon!
Kyuubimon digivolve to...
...Taomon!
"Symbol of Light!", this attack destroyed a half-dozen of the smaller attack drones of the type which Kyuubimon could already deal with. The main attack drone remained unaffected. Growlmon and Rapidmon couldn't even get off a shot before they got nailed, thrown to the ground.
"Wargrowlmon!"
"Rapidmon!"
"Unless we digivolve to ultimate, we can't help them at all".
"Unless we become data too...", Henry started.
"That's why we've come", Rottweilermon's partner finished his interrupted explanation.
"How did you know who we are?", Takato asked.
"I was sent by Azulongmon to deliver a message... and more", Rottwielermon said.
"Huh?", Takato asked.
"From the three Sovereign Digimon?", Henry asked.
"Thank you for bringing me so far", Rottwielermon said, "Please stand back", he warned his human partner.
"You're goin'?", he asked.
With that, he leaped up to the part of the skywalk that hadn't collapsed to the street below:
"Three Sovereign Digimon are fighting the D-reaper in the Digital World", he began his announcement, "Uniting their efforts with other digimon".
He leaped from the skywalk, into the sky, obviously propelled by some other force, as he literally flew.
"However, the most developed part of D-reaper is here in this world, and it is you who must fight against it: Digimon Mentors who fight beside digimon: Three Sovereign Digimon send you power!"
With that, the dog began to "dissolve" into what looked like bright red and blue streamers, intertwined.
"What the hell is it?", Takato asked.
"The power of the Digital World?", Henry half explained and half asked.
"That's it!", Takato realized, "In this world, we have to fight against the D-reaper, and they sent us the means to do precisely that! Wargrowlmon!"
"Taomon!"
"Rapidmon!"
"Matrix Fusion Evolution!", they called out simultaneously.
"I guess I used to be pretty selfish when I was little...", Henry remembered as whatever the Sovereign sent them scanned him into data. He didn't know why he was thinking of this. "...It was sibling rivalry. I've been studying Kung Fu with Mr. Cho for awhile, but then I got into a fight with one of the kids in the neighborhood -- I don't remember what it was about, but I used what I'd learned in order to beat the living hell out of him. I hated myself for that. I tried to cultivate patience, and to avoid fighting, but now I realize that only Terriermon and I can do anything about the D-reaper"
Terriermon and Henry digivolve to...
...Megagargomon!
"I never really wished I'd been born a boy, but about my dad...", Rika also had this unwelcome memory. "...That's no one's goddamn business but my own", she protested. "It's in the past... Though when I met Renamon, and made friends with Takato and Henry, I was afraid I was becoming weak. But the truth is: I was afraid of involvement, commitment, of setting myself up for rejection, like my father rejected me. I had to relearn that there is strength in friendship, and the rewards are worth the risk".
Renamon and Rika digivolve to...
...Sakuyamon!
"When I first digivolved with Guilmon, I had no idea what happened at first. I never figured on becoming digimon myself. However, it was an awesome experience. I was right there with Gallantmon, feeling everything he felt and experienced everything he experienced. Guilmon: my special friend, we will be together forever!"
Guilmon and Takato digivolve to...
...Gallantmon!
"D-reaper tries to turn everyone who lives in either of the worlds into nothingness", Gallantmon issued his declaration of war. "I, Gallantmon, shall never allow this!"
Rottweilermon's partner watched as red and blue specs of data swirled around him, before coalescing into a dog's head. "You're back!", he said. He received a big, sloppy, canine "kiss", then he disappeared again. It was his final farewell.
Gallantmon fired his Royal Sabre, and took out dozens of the smaller attack drones.
"Digimon have engaged the D-reaper agents", one of the Hypnos operators reported to Yamaki.
"So the children are somewhere near D-reaper?", Janyu asked. He didn't need to ask which digimon.
"Dangerous creatures we call 'D-reaper agents' are manifesting themselves from that red mass, and the digimon have just opened fire", she explained.
"We're not just going to let the children fight alone?", Janyu asked.
"No, we're not", Yamaki replied. He had something in mind.
Megagargomon was shooting the agents down, while Sakuyamon was preparing a force field shield which she sent after them. They burst into chaos mass as soon as they came into contact with it.
"Rika", her mother said, as she and Rika's grandmother watched the fight on the news. They watched as Sakuyamon used a version of Renamon's Diamond Storm to sweep the street of attack drones. After an attack, one different agent -- a large bluish-grey one -- resisted Megagargomon's ordinance. Not having been destroyed, it attacked back with bluish-grey tendrils that entrapped Megagargomon.
Seeing this: "Why? We should have destroyed them", Gallantmon remarked.
"Leave it to me", Sakuyamon requested. "Plasma Foxes!", these reached out, sought their targets, and destroyed them.
Gallantmon took out a bunch of the observer drones, then slammed the large grey agent that still was trying to pull down Megagargomon with his shield: "Megagargomon", he called out. Megagargomon let forth a barrage of ordinance, as Gallantmon charged up his main weapon.
"Final Elisia!", he attacked, and this destroyed the largest, most dangerous, agent.
"D-reaper: what are you up to now?", Gallantmon called out.
"It can't communicate", Sakuyamon reminded him.
"We have no choice but to beat it", Megagargomon said.
"We'll settle this now!", Gallantmon declared, just before a mass of the red chaos mass shot up, and entrapped him, pulling him into the body of that mass. They had no idea as to whether or not he'd survived this surprise attack, or had he been deleted?
"Daisy, that Ark you designed still exists in the Digital World, doesn't it?"
"I suppose so, but what good is that gonna do us now?", she asked.
"I received a contact on my comm that purports to be from the Ark", Yamaki explained. "Is it possible this is genuine?"
"I suppose so, yes".
"What I propose is that, since the power of the Digital World is information, that you'll help me give the Ark renewed power"
"Why should that be necessary? When we debriefed the Mentors, didn't they say that Impmon had started up the Ark's main reactor? It should have all the power it needs, shouldn't it?", Daisy asked.
"That was in its virtual existence. Once it realized, there was no nuclear material on board", Janyu explained.
"I ask again, what program did you use?", Yamaki asked.
"It was the core digimon program", Janyu explained, "So it shouldn't be communicating at all".
"Yet it did act on its own when Guilmon asked it to stop", Yamaki observed.
"There is one possibility", Janyu said, "Guilmon talked to it, Impmon flew it, and Kenta was his co-pilot. There is a possibility that one or maybe all three, inadvertently transferred something to it"
"What?", Yamaki asked.
"The capacity for self awareness", Janyu theorized.
Prologue
Ch 1
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Epi