#And now I’ve been told by Digi that I said something very Vee like

[eclipsedcrystalstar]

I need to stop picking up mannerisms from characters I enjoy

[digimonadventuretimelines]

[04 - Tenacious Soul Combo!!]

“So, what’s the plan?” Taisuke asked the other two “I mean, you got a plan right… You can’t expect to us go there and take him out of his home right?”

“I don’t do that!” Kiyoko snorted, her arms crossed “Daichi’s not dumb and even if we do that, he would simply beat us all!”

“I thought you had strength enough to take him down…”

“I can’t use my strength on my own brother! He’s not a bad person! I only fight bullies and meanies!”

“Okay, no brute force” Eiji intervened “He’s not going to like it. I think our approach must be calm. We could invite him to visit the library.”

“Making him go outdoors just to shove him indoors, yeah nice plan Eiji” Taisuke said with a sarcastic tone.

“At least he would take some sunlight on the way.”

“No, that’s not enough!” Kiyoko made an X with her arms “Daichi needs to practice sports, at least some exercise! Like walking in the park or playing soccer.”

“Hey I don’t play soccer and I’m fine!” Taisuke pouted.

“I said soccer because uh dad used to play with us. But now that he’s worldwide famous…”

“He got no time for spending time with you two, am I wrong?” Eiji asked, watching Taisuke clench a fist.

“Well, yeah?” she answered “I mean, when he get free time he plays games and soccer with us.”

“At least that” Taisuke muttered “I have none of it anymore.”

“My father is too busy” Eiji commented “Him being the head of a special cases unit focused on digimon takes almost a good part of his time.”

“We’re the group of children whose have busy daddies” despite the fun wording, Taisuke was being salty about that. Mostly on his side, leaving the other two catching the message and gently switching back to the plan.

“I’ve cooked some plan for that!” Kiyoko snapped her fingers “First, we tell Daichi his and my dad called and said he needs to take a break from his studies. Then, we suggest that he goes to the cinema watch the most recent tokusatsu movie in the theaters with us! Next, we go around the town and buy some snacks!”

“That’s a complex plan” Taisuke blinked.

“It’s well planned I say” Eiji nodded “And isn’t dangerous, so I think it might work.”

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“Ok, everyone’s out” Daichi returned to Daisuke’s office on the Motomiya household after checking it out the surroundings “Natsu, take us to the Digital World again please.”

“Um, you sure?” she asked “I mean, Lupinmon might hunt us down all again if we go… Can’t we go look for a digimon in your world?”

“Actually, there’s not many digimon in the human world… At least today” he took his phone from his pocket “I mean, there’s some digi-event happening today, but… Not sure if we can go.”

“An event?” Ulforce and Natsu frowned.

“Oh that’s right. The release of a new tokusatsu movie, Digimon Rangers . It’s like Super Sentai but now with a good chunk of the population being digimon, there’s shows around to promote the bonds between Human and Digital Worlds.”

“Seems good!” Ulforce eyes were shining with excitement “Imagine… Being a superstar, filming many movies and TV shows, fame and money--”

“I doubt of someone going to watch a movie about you” Natsu rolled her eyes.

“HEY--”

“Please no fights you two. We can go there and see if a digimon would like to be my partner to save my father.”

“Big bro, I’m home~”

“K-Kiyoko!?” Daichi gasped, and then left the office. He met her and the other two boys at the living room “Oh you guys are here too… Hello how you’ve been?”

“Hello, Daichi” Eiji greeted him while Taisuke kept in silence.

“How about we go to the premiere of the new movie, my dearest big brother~” Kiyoko chirped, showing a pamphlet of the said movie to Daichi “I heard it will be good!”

“Funny though, I was thinking about going with a few friends” he replied.

“I knew you would say ‘no’ but-- Wait WHAT!?”

“You guys can go, I will catch you three once I call my friends.”

“Huh, okay then” she answered, glancing at her friends. Taisuke shrugged while Eiji blinked. They left, and Daichi returned to the old office room.

“We got some trouble” Daichi announced after going in and closing the door “Kiyoko and her friends want to go to the event with me.”

“And what’s wrong about that?” Ulforce frowned.

“The problem is… I can’t tell Kiyoko that my dad had become a bad guy and tried to kill us. Or talk about this… Digivice-thing.”

“Hm, right” Natsu nodded “I can switch back to human form, and Ulforce can pretend to be a regular civilian digimon.”

“Do you think it will work…?” Daichi seemed concerned “I still do not know how to… Get partnered with a digimon…”

“Usually there’s a digimon fated to be your partner” Ulforce said “Like your father and his V-mon--”

“Vee. His name is Vee” Natsu punched Ulforce’s head lightly “That’s how everyone call him right now.”

“O-ok…!!”

“Anyway, we need to go” Daichi interrupted them “Natsu can distract Kiyoko and her friends, while I go searching for my partner.”

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The theater’s building was full of humans and digimons waiting for the event, the trio arrived first than Daichi, and they were having difficulties to get their own tickets. The new series had became popular enough to get very high scores, from all audiences. Children, human and digimon, were on a giant line to buy the tickets.

Taisuke was quite of excited for the event when he saw someone familiar with the movie’s staff. The man and the Agumon wearing a bowtie didn’t see him, however the boy dragged Kiyoko and Eiji to the corner.

“No one told my father would’ve been here!”

“I thought you knew that?” Eiji blinked “I think it’s to promote the bonds between human kind and the digimon kind.”

“I don’t like it! Especially this means if he sees me here we might get privileges for that! Also… I’m not here to be used by paparazzis and journalists! Let’s go back, we can watch the movie next time!”

“But!!” Kiyoko pouted “This is a plan! For Daichi!”

“We can do that another day, sorry Kiyoko” Eiji replied. She sighed but nodded.

“Thanks guys” Taisuke smiled and then the trio left with caution, to not get caught by anyone.

Daichi, Natsu and Ulforce were on their way to the theater but something made Natsu stop for a second. The other two glanced at her in silence, and she dragged them to the alley closer to the group.

“What’s wron--”

“Shh, be quiet!”

They saw two Strikedramons pass through them, talking with someone. Daichi never had seen that digimon species before, so it didn’t look like civilians or actors from the session.

“Yes, I’ve heard he will be there. Let the troops know. We’re taking down that human and his partner digimon before he could call for the rest of his ol’ group.”

“What the” Ulforce whispered.

“They’re after someone?” Daichi quietly commented.

“That’s bad…” Natsu gasped “I’m sure they’re after Taichi and Agumon!”

“W-we need to do something!” Ulforce responded.

“Yes, we need to warn him about this” she nodded “Or Ken. He can handle it--”

“There’s no time for that! Let’s assault that digimon right now! Two versus two is easy!”

“No,” Daichi said “Let’s act normally, tell ambassador Yagami and officer Ichijouji later because first we need proofs.”

“Right Daichan.” / “Roger.”

They arrived and saw a giant group of people in line. The staff were trying their best to help every human and digimon, but it wouldn’t be possible attend everyone. The first session of the movie premiere had special guests, including the DigiWorld’s human and digimon ambassadors.

Natsu started reading the digimon’s energy with her special abilities, trying to detect the Strikedramon duo. Due to the number of digimon attendants, she was lost and unable to discover their position on the area. Daichi had to tell the ambassadors, but not without a solid proof to support his accusations.

“Please, stay in line! Sorry, all tickets for today’s sessions are sold out.”

“Aw, I wanted to watch today…”

“Already!?” Daichi gasped “We need to get in… Ah I’ve got it!”

“What is it?” the other two asked.

Daichi dragged Natsu and Ulforce to the back of the building, grabbed his phone and typed something for a while.

“What are you doin’?” Ulforce was clueless.

“Asking backup from a friend. She’s pretty good at hacking and building stuff.”

“You will… hack the system?” Ulforce were completely impressed “Cool!”

“That’s not cool, that’s troublesome!” Natsu however wasn’t happy with it “Your father wouldn’t--”

“If it’s an emergency, he would’ve asked for help” Daichi chuckled “Don’t worry, it won’t go wrong!”

The door suddenly does a ‘click’ noise and Daichi opens is normally. While Natsu wants to question Daichi’s choices, Ulforce is curious about what kind of friend is able to unlock doors without using brute force. They got in and began searching for the suspects, but no clue where they had gone, until…

… The fire alarm rang.

“What’s happening!?” Natsu shouted, as the group saw the audience going out of the room. 

Taichi and Agumon ran to another direction, being chased by the Strikedramon duo. Daichi had no other option but go after them, with Natsu and Ulforce coming behind him.

“Don’t let them escape-- Huh??” Natsu threw a plasma bubble against one of the enemies and they stopped “So so, there’s a group of wannabe heroes here. Brother, go ahead I’ll take care of those two kids and lady” The other Strikedramon nodded and resumed the chase.

“Don’t underestimate me!” Ulforce yelled “I may be a child level but I am invincible!”

“And he’s not alone,” Natsu started to charge another bubble in the palm of her hand “I can fight as well, dummy!”

“Very well… I will delete your data in mere five seconds!” the opponent attacked them with his claws. Natsu blocked it with a shield and Ulforce attacked with his plasma sword. Strikedramon dodged but smirked “Heh not bad child.”

“Hey don’t dodge!” Ulforce shouted, then kept attacking “STOP! MOVING! YOU! JERK!”

“Hahahaha! Take this!” Strikedramon hit him with the tail, then jumped at the blue dragon and struck a blow with the claws “How’s that, shorty!? Ain’t you invincible!?”

“Kh… I won’t… lose… to… you!” Ulforce got up despite the blows he received and used his fury on his plasma sword. 

“Is there anything I can do-- Huh?” Daichi took the digivice from his pocket and its screen was glowing. On screen he read ‘insert digimon’s data please’ in English “What does it mean? Scan… digimon?” he looked away and didn’t know what to do.

“Daichan,” Natsu called his attention while Ulforce kept attacking Strikedramon “He wouldn’t stand for much time…!” 

“Insert… Ulforce’s data?” the boy thought, then he pointed the D-TimeRune’s camera on the back at Ulforce and scanned it. The screen started to light up, accepting the data.

“Evolve him, now!” Natsu ordered.

“R-right…!” Daichi nodded, and browsed thru the features inside the digivice. When he reached ‘evolution’ mode, he read the instructions on screen “Use the screen to scan the back of your hand and using ‘Scan DigiRune’ voice command. Then activate by ‘Load Evolution’ voice command.”

“Hurry up!!” Natsu shouted in panic, now noticing Ulforce had fallen on the ground and Strikedramon was preparing the final blow.

“R-RIGHT!!” Daichi nodded, grabbed the digivice to scan the back of his right hand. 

“Scan… DigiRune!” [ Scan completed]

“Load… Evolution!”

The D-TimeRune then sent a light at Ulforce, covering his body. The light illuminated the place for a while, making Daichi and Natsu blind for a while.

"V-mon evolve! XV-mon!"

The light vanished, revealing an adult level digimon -- XV-mon. Unlike Daisuke’s XV-mon, this one had his blue skin a bit darker. However, the V-Bracelets and the Holy Ring vanished…!?

Ulforce then released the X-Laser from his chest, hitting Strikedramon while the one was off guard. Then, Ulforce grabbed the foe digimon and looked at Daichi.

“Open the Digital Gate! Now!!”

“B-but how!?” Daichi babbled, browsing thru the digivice features all again.

“Leave it to me!” Natsu nodded, and she captured Strikedramon with a plasma bubble “One to go, now we need… Huh did you hear that??”

The sound of police sirens came from outside. Ulforce then returned back to V-mon form, while Daichi heard the police officers’ footsteps and voices.

“We need to go” he said “Because if I stay here I will have to tell officer Ichijouji about my dad and I don’t want to.”

“You sure?” Natsu frowned.

“Let’s go, take us out of here please.”

“Right!” she opened a gate from nowhere and they jumped in.

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“You won’t hurt anyone…” The brave man said, as Greymon was holding the second Strikedramon with his hands “Who are you and why did you attack this place?”

“I don’t owe you anything, human!” the captive roared.

“You have no option. Tell who sent you after me, now.”

“I won’t!”

“Taichi!!” a voice came from the entrance of the room. The other man approached with Stingmon behind him “Are you ok? What happened here?”

“I’m fine, still not that old to fight” despite the humorous tone, Taichi wasn’t smiling “This Strikedramon attacked this theater, There’s another one around so be--”

“Yeah we know” the other said “We found another Strikedramon inside of a pink bubble.”

“Huh…? A pink bubble?” he blinked “Isn’t that…”

“We’re not sure” Stingmon shrugged “It can be any kind of digimon, right Kenchan?”

“There’s no time for that” Taichi glanced from Stingmon to Ken “We need to interrogate those two first.”

“Alright” Ken nodded.

[ladyofthecastleproject]

[Path] 208 - The Heart’s Light

“What do you mean it was here?!” - Miyako wasn’t happy with the bee-like digimon - “There’s nothing here! Are you making fun of us?!”

She was pretty intimidating the poor Funbeemon, who didn’t know how in the world the castle had disappeared. Ken just walked around the ‘crime scene’ and searched for something, a clue perhaps. Takeru and Iori tried to keep Miyako calm but she was very unhappy with it, alleging the digimon was lying to them.

“I don’t think it’s a lie” - Wormmon commented to the others - “It must be like that time we went to the Dark Ocean from nowhere.”

“That time?” - Hawkmon rested his beak on his wing - “We met you and Ken-san and tried to help you two, but suddenly we went into a distortion and ended up there.”

“Distortion?” - Ken glanced at the digi-quintet - “That’s it… We need to find a point in this place that could’ve been the barrier to that world.”

“You’re sounding like Daisuke-san now” - Iori commented - “I mean, no offense. But it reminded me of his plan to move the Holy Stone to a safer place with our digivices.”

“I don’t remember how did the castle appear in the first place” - explained Funbeemon - “But I’m not lying! I met a human named Daisuke and a V-mon. They helped me to reach the end of the castle’s labyrinth.”

“Better you not be wasting our time, you insect!” - Miyako kept giving the bee a death glare.

“S-she’s scary!!” - Funbeemon cried to the boys - “That sentinel from the labyrinth looks alike her!!”

“Huh?” - Iori blinked - “Did you meet someone who looked like Miyako-san?”

Funbeemon nodded.

“Ehh?! S-someone like me?! Like, in appearance?! Face?!”

“And that mage looked like him” - and Funbeemon pointed at Ken.

“What, like me??”

“I don’t think Funbeemon is lying” - Takeru said.

“Me too, dagya.”

“But it doesn’t matter” - Tailmon interrupted all the discussion - “How will we go there? And we don’t know where Hikari is yet… I don’t want to sound like Daisuke is not important, but Hikari is alone. Daisuke can handle himself if he has V-mon.”

“... It’s just a crazy theory but” - Ken looked directly to Tailmon - “If there’s a world with a version of us, then there’s high chances that Hikari-san is in this other world.”

Takeru had a flash, and exclaimed:

“Hikari-chan was looking at the merchandise in a shop window…!”

Miyako, Iori and the digimon seemed surprised.

“Ken-kun must be right… Maybe Hikari-chan’s other-self brought her to that world…!”

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Spending her time speaking with Lia made Hikari notice a lot of things in common. Like how gentle and innocent they are, their deep brotherly love with their siblings, them having friends who seemed similar to each other as well… But what made Hikari more and more curious was the fact that when she talked about Daisuke, Lia seemed to have met him.

It couldn’t be true… Why would Daisuke hide that from them? Or at least from her?

“Lia-san” - Hikari had to ask - “Did you meet Daisuke-kun before?”

“Daisuke…” - Lia was thoughtful. Then, she answered - “I met a person from another world once. He mistook me with a Hikari girl, so I guess it’s the same person…?”

“You met him…” - she looked at her feet - “Daisuke-kun… He likes me.”

“He’s a good person, isn’t he?” - Lia smiled - “I was mean to him, but if I ever meet him back I… I want to apologize for what I had done.”

“So this is why you found me. Because Daisuke-kun mistook you with me.”

“I’m sorry for borrowing you from your world, but I want to save mine.”

“It’s okay” - Hikari smiled back - “Daisuke-kun is a good friend, but… I hurt his feelings when I refused his invite to spend time with him. Now he’s avoiding me.”

Lia gasped.

“Why? When we met, he was a bit disappointed that I wasn’t you.”

“Was he…?”

“I think he was trying to give you a break, not that he hates you or something. Don’t worry.”

“That’s the problem, Lia-san. Daisuke-kun thinks that I do not like him, but I… I don’t want to make choices now. I’m just an Elementary student! I don’t want to have a relationship with anyone now…!”

“Maybe you should just tell him. I believe he will understand.”

“You’re right, Lia-san. Let’s save your world first so I can go home and talk to Daisuke-kun.”

Hikari grabbed Lia’s hand and dragged her down the dirt road.

“Wait, Hikari” - Lia giggled - “You don’t know the way!”

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“Daisuke, you’re different since we left Helios’ palace.”

V-mon could see and feel something odd in his partner, it was like Daisuke became pretty quiet compared to the time they were walking in the Castle’s labyrinth. He remembered that inside the labyrinth, Daisuke had been chatting and making puns enough to distract them from the corridor’s heavy and dark atmosphere.

But now? He was silent, thoughtful. So much unlike Motomiya Daisuke.

“Is there something bugging you?”

Vee kept insisting to converse with him.

“I hate it when you spend your time being quiet. Like, this is not you. You’re always joking and making things funnier. You’re the heart in the team.”

“... I don’t believe my mission here is to find Lia and Hikari-chan.”

Daisuke finally spoke.

“Huh? What do you mean with it?” - V-mon blinked.

“The Spooky-Daisuke-Ghost has a name” - he began - “And he also explained to me that I’m the only one who can save this world from the darkness. I couldn’t talk about it with Helios-san around, sorry.”

“What? So, we’re needed here right after finding Lia and Hikari?”

“Would Hikari-chan accept it? Accept that I’ll have to stay here and accomplish this mission?”

“She will understand. I guess.”

“... I never had done anything alone, V-mon” - he stopped and gave a concerned gaze to the digimon - “Remember? I hadn’t saved the world alone. I had Hikari-chan, Ken, Miyako, Iori, Takeru, Taichi-san’s team, the worldwide Chosen Children… All of them on my side!”

“You’re not alone, you have me!”

“I know, but what I meant is… Without them, I shouldn’t have won! Now I have this kind of mission labeling me ‘the chosen one’ and ‘you’re our only hope’ that I’m afraid of not being strong and powerful enough to save this entire world from the darkness!”

“You’re strong and powerful, Daisuke! You can do it!”

“... I must confess, I was afraid when we were fighting Vamdemon, but I had y’all on my side. I could see victory. I could tame my fears and give hope to everyone. But now I… I’m feeling like maybe I won’t do it.”

“You will, because I’m here!”

“Everyone thinks I’m courageous but… I’m not. I’m just a scaredy-cat trying to have courage.”

V-mon grabbed his hand, making Daisuke glance at him in surprise.

“I will be your shield, your courage and your strength. You’re my friend before my human partner. If you want to fight until the end of the world, I will fight alongside you.”

“V-mon…”

“So don’t worry about it. Alone or with the group, we can solve anything if we do it together.”

“You… That’s right.”

He put the digimon on his back, giving Vee a piggyback ride.

“We can do it, I ain’t alone because I have you…!” - he grinned - “Hold tight, now I’m your Lighdramon. Roar!”

V-mon laughed as they resumed their journey.

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“We’re almost there, Hikari” - said Lia, smiling and leading the way - “This is Duskstella.”

Lia pointed at the gates of the kingdom, but they were old and rusty thanks to the time aging factors. Lia probably expected Helios to fix it, however since they were still working on the worldwide relationships, they had no funds to attempt repairs.

“It’s beautiful, just like a fairy tale’s book!” - Hikari was amazed - “But where are you going, why are we taking another way?”

“Because I did bad things to Duskstella’s people” - she confessed - “They don’t deserve to be threatened by my presence.”

“Oh… But just like you told me to tell Daisuke-kun that I’m not rejecting him but I don’t want a romantic relationship now, you should tell the people that you regret for whatever you had done to them.”

“I don’t know… My brother…”

“... I think your brother would’ve wanted you to tell them how deeply regretful you are.”

Lia kept glancing at Hikari in silence, thinking about it. Did her brother want it? Or Hikari was assuming he would because that’s what Taichi would want if it was Hikari’s problem?

“Okay, I will try-- Huh?”

Lia immediately, dragged Hikari out of the way from a scythe attack. Then, she recognized that weapon… It was just… The same weapon used to kill her brother.

“He found me…!” - Lia said, bit her lips and told Hikari - “Hikari, run. I will keep him busy. He does not want you, but me.”

“Who?”

“Look at this…! Two Duskstellas.”

“That voice sounds like… Takeru-kun” - Hikari gasped and did it again when she saw a blond boy in front of them.

“She’s not a Duskstella, you creep!” - Lia shouted - “She’s another person, from another world! If you dare to hurt her, I will make you pay!”

“You don’t need to lie to me, Lia Duskstella” - he smirked - “I’ve been looking for you. And when I find him, I will send him to the darkness as well.”

“You know he is dead!” - she charged her hands with pink spheres - “You killed him and I won’t let you kill me or Hikari!”

“Dead? I met him with a monster in the road to Duskstella,” - he answered - “He was pretty alive to me.”

“D-don’t--… Wait… A monster?” - Lia stared at him, petrified - “Don’t tell me Daisuke is in this world.”

“Daisuke-kun is here?!” - Hikari babbled, panicked - “Where did you find him?” - she tried to get some information from the boy - “You’re Takeru-kun from this world, aren’t you?”

“My name is Boniface,” - he grabbed the scythe and was ready to hit the girls - “and I am your condemnation…!”

Hikari thought it was the end. She could feel it in her spine, that she was about to die there… Killed by injustice, by a person who looked like her best friend since she was young.

At this hour, Yagami Hikari wished to be saved. Wished that Tailmon was there. Wished to Daisuke to appear and save her, since he was in that corrupted and unknown world too.

But what saved her was her own power. A barrier of light was built around her and Lia, repelling the scythe.

When she realized it, she saw the symbol (crest) of Light on her chest, shining in pink light. It surprised both Lia and Boniface, who wasn’t sure what had happened there.

But Hikari knew. It was the power of Light. The power of her crest, the power that brings life to the world. She, the Light Child of the Digital World.

“How did you--”

“I don’t know, but… You won’t kill anyone here” - Hikari said with a serious tone - “Stay away from us” - she ordered Boniface - “NOW.”

“And you think I will give up on my mission?!” - Boniface kept hitting the barrier, trying to force it to get down - “You and him must die, Lia Duskstella!!”

A roar echoed and a beast jumped right against Boniface, stealing his scythe. Lia felt relieved and grinned.

“Amis!”

“Amis?” - Hikari frowned.

A Black Weregarurumon was fighting Boniface. And in this form, Amis was much stronger than a human. He threw Boniface away and glanced at the girls.

“Two Lias?!”

“She’s not a copy” - Lia giggled - “Thank you, Amis.”

“This won’t end here, Lia Duskstella!” - Boniface took the Scythe and vanished.

“He’s gone” - Lia commented - “Right in time, if weren’t for Hikari’s magical barrier we could’ve died here.”

“But you know spells that could’ve stopped him” - Amis argued - “What wouldn’t you attack him?”

“Because I don’t want to hurt anyone anymore.”

“Excuse me,” - Hikari looked at the lupine digimon - “have you seen a boy with goggles and a blue digimon with a yellow ‘V’ on the forehead?”

“She meant Daisuke and his partner monster” - explained Lia.

“Does he know Daisuke-kun and V-mon??”

“Ah, yes” - Amis nodded - “He’s here, master Warlock summoned him here to look for you. And now, master Warlock told me to find and help him.”

“Then we need to find him!” - Lia seemed nervous - “That hooded boy, Boniface, said he’s going to kill him!”

“I don’t understand… Why would he want to kill Daisuke-kun?”

“Because he mistook him with my brother!”

Hikari was in denial now. So Lia’s brother wasn’t the Taichi from that world...?!

[digimonadventuretimelines]

[03 - After The Re:encounter]

He opened the door of his dad’s office room after everyone had left the house, holding a few packages and juice boxes so he could feed the other two. It was like dealing with pets except said pets can eat human food.

Ulforce was still sleeping in the couch, with Natsu in her digimon form on his back. A very adorable scene, except that Daichi had to wake them up.

“Uh, good morning?”

The digimon duo opened their eyes slowly, sitting one next to the other on the couch.

“Man, I’ve been sleepin’ on the cold solid ground of a cave so this whole royal treatment is so good!” Ulforce chirped, smiling “Huh? What’s this? Food?”

“Uh, yeah… I couldn’t cook something without my mom and Kiyoko asking me about the quantity of food so… I brought some snacks and juice.”

“Oh, I miss eating those!!” Natsu cried “It brings me so many good memories…”

“Y-you’ve eaten those before, digi-girl?!” the blue digimon exclaimed.

“Daisuke and I had known each other for years…! I’m an honorary partner digimon of his.”

“That I didn’t know” Daichi seemed happier today “My dad always talked about you being an old friend of his and friends.”

“Mimi and Wallace were okay, but Vee was so jealous of me!”

“Is Vee my father’s partner digimon?” the boy asked “I thought he was just an employee from my dad’s restaurant…”

“Your dad’s partner is Vee, and he can be a little meanie compared to my loyalty to Daisuke.”

She wasn’t fine talking about another digimon, especially the one who didn’t like her at the beginning…

“You kiddin’?! He’s a legend!” Ulforce protested “He beat Chimeramon, Cherubimon Vice, Belial Vamdemon, Boltmon and Pukumon, and Diablomon’s highest form!”

“W-wow, this means… my father were in those stories?!” you can feel Daichi’s joy to hear his father had been a hero in the past.

“Not only him, but also other cool ‘mons too!” the draconian digi-child grinned, “All the Twelve are legendaries! You seem surprised, didn’t you hear about them?! They’re in the books and lore about our worlds as the ones who connected humans and digimons!”

“Um… My parents never had told me that. Actually, I didn’t even know the DigiWorld’s Ambassador was one of those most known heroes too… I’m not sure if I can tell Taisuke about that...”

“They had children” Natsu said vaguely “and they decided to not let anyone else know their identities and keep their children safe.”

That made sense, at least to Daichi.

“When the first kids of the Twelve had born, a lot of discussion between what to do and how to keep them safe happened. Then, Taichi and Daisuke decided they had to keep their identities as a secret and… Requested Homeostasis to do a soft reboot on the worlds. Their digimon kept being known, but the human partners of them got all data and memories deleted from most of the people and digimon’s heads.”

“So… No one knows the identity of the Twelve? But how can my father be controlled by the bad guys right now…?”

“I didn’t say ‘everyone’ but ‘most of them’ had their memories rebooted” she pouted “Some digimon and the Worldwide Chosen Children know their identities. Also them all had their memories untouched.”

“Man, that thing about reboots is annoyin’!!” Ulforce crossed his arms “Lots of stories got taken away! Not just that, but some don’t even believe they existed!”

“Thinking about that… That possibly happened with the first human children who fought for the DigiWorld…”

“So, my dad and ambassador Yagami weren’t the first…?”

She looked down.

“No, Taichi’s from the second generation and Daisuke from the third. The story of the first gen. is a bit of unknown… All we know is that four of their partners evolved into the Holy Beasts to fight the Four Dark Masters.”

“ENOUGH OF STORIES I WANT TO EAT!!” Ulforce roared nervously “I want those there! and that too! Aaah, human food! I’ve dreamed with this day!!”

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“Ugh, he’s spending more and more time inside without even taking a break to play with me!”

Kiyoko was not okay again, venting all of her frustrations to Taisuke and Eiji, the ones who she sees as her best friends. Despite of Eiji’s height, he’s twelve like Kiyoko, and only Taisuke is the youngest of the trio, being eleven years old.

“I don’t understand!”

“Have you tried to ask what’s bugging him?” Eiji mused “Sometimes asking is better than jumping to conclusions… I hope that’s not a little intrusive.”

“I tried!” she responded with some annoyance. She was upset with Daichi though, “Today mom left to work and then he just said ‘go play with your friends I have to study’ and… And…!!”

“He’s a meanie!” Taisuke interrupted her “Locking themselves in the office and not even coming to play with us at the park…!”

“Yeah, that!”

Though Eiji realized Taisuke wasn’t talking about Daichi only, but about someone else too…

“Who do they think they are?!” the youngest clenched his fist “They have no time for us, we’re like nothing to them?! I hate it!!”

“Yeah-- Uh, ‘they’ you mean…”

“Sigh, his father” Eiji answered “The ambassador is too busy lately and Taisuke spends more time at my house with my sister and me.”

“Oh… Yeah, I’ve heard the news” she frowned “There’s something big happening, some guys causing a fuss because of the digimon and some digimon causing a fuss because of us.”

“My dad is also busy…” he added “We barely see him these days.”

“I’m mad…!” Taisuke growled.

“At least you two aren’t hearing weird theories that my dad is dead and no one can admit that, like Daichi’s doing on a daily basis every time we talk...”

“We don’t relate to that issue but we feel sorry, Kiyoko.”

“Thanks Eiji…”

“I’d have said it’s okay to spend time studying, but honestly Daichi’s case is somehow unhealthy. Does he skip meals or pull all nighters?”

“Huh, not that I know… If he weren’t going to school I’d have said he has turned into a complete shut-in.”

“That’s a problem then… He needs to exercise at least once per day…”

“Why care about him,” Taisuke rolled his eyes “He chose that path. Let him face the consequences.”

“I don’t want to let Daichi’s health get bad…” she kept voicing her concerns “He’s definitely suffering the most with that anxiety about dad. Maybe we can do something?”

“... ‘we’ like, me and Eiji?!”

Eiji glanced at her and then started thinking of something. ------------------------------------------------------------------------

After the digimon finished their breakfast, them and Daichi started examining the mysterious D-TimeRune device given by Skuld. The boy explained then that the digivice’s design reminded him one of the several retro phones his best friend had collected.

But that made no sense to the blue digimon, since he never had seen said phone before and Daichi’s description of that sounded like a digivice to him while Natsu kept in silence. Daichi sighed, then changed the entire subject.

“I… I tried talking to mom about what we know but…”

“ ‘But’ …?”

“I lost courage,” he sighed.

“But you HAVE to tell her and Taichi!” Natsu wasn’t happy with that answer.

“I know, I know! But seems they’re too busy to hear me out!” he babbled “I can try to send him an e-mail or a voicemail… And try to talk with mom when she’s home from work tonight!”

“At this pace better you take me back to the DigiWorld so I can beat that--” Ulforce was threatened by Natsu’s deathly glare “--that m-man and then bring it back home f-for you, kid!”

“... mrs. Skuld said I can… Do something about that.”

He looked at the digivice.

“What if I use this power to prevent my dad from being captured?”

“H-Hold on, Daichi” the pink digimon gasped “You shouldn’t mess with space-time! Awful things happen to those who defy the laws of Space-Time.”

“How do you know that?” both Ulforce and Daichi frowned.

“... Feminine intuition.”

“But we can try… I won’t mess things enough to change the entire course of story!”

“Ryou, Taichi and Daisuke never messed with time, just traveled through parallel worlds. You messing with time might be worse than anything. You can end up destroying this world’s timeline or…”

“... Making me to not exist anymore?”

“Yes.”

“Whoa, wait can all of those happen?!” that V-mon definitely felt concerned with that idea.

“Natsu,” Daichi glared at her “If you had this power to save my father, would’ve you taken the chance to change his fate… Or would’ve you let him suffer and be seen as a traitor?”

“H-how do you know about that part… About him being accused of--”

“If he’s a hero and is working for the evil, then they will treat him as a traitor until proven otherwise. It’s logical. I don’t know if mom and ambassador Yagami think he’s innocent, but you do! We do!”

“Except Ulforce, though”

“I didn’t know he’s the kid’s father COME ON!!”

“But…” she looked at the boy with some concern in her face “I think it’s better to let the adults solve it. Have faith in your parents and Taichi, they will solve it--”

“I know my father is friends with Ambassador Yagami, but now that he’s on an important role, he will ignore boundaries and do what’s right for the digimon. He won’t go easy on dad, and might… Might do something wrong.”

“And why do you think that…?”

“Because as I remember, this is a threat to the human world and it might force Ambassador Yagami to put an end on this, by killing my dad.”

“... I think he wouldn’t--”

“No, he would. He’s a responsible adult, not a leader from a children’s group.”

“Hey, kid’s right” Ulforce added “If he let his mom and this Yagami-dude know about Lupinmon they gotta ground kid and do the wrong thing!”

Natsu felt conflicted. Especially because she knows Daisuke would’ve preferred her to keep Daichi and Kiyoko away from him to avoid misfortune, but on the other hand Daichi is the only one able to do something and save Daisuke.

“Please, Natsu!” Daichi begged her.

“I don’t know!!” she cried “Daisuke’s very important to me, but his children is also important! I can’t let you do something risky-- I...”

“My father would’ve done the same for me! I know it!”

Natsu’s imagination worked all again, her imagining Daisuke in front of her smiling and approving the idea of Daichi becoming a hero like him. It made her eyes shine and she nodded her head many times that the boy and blue digimon felt scared.

“LET’S GO!” she yelled “To save your father and the worlds!”

“But kid needs a partner digimon first, doesn’t he?” Ulforce looked at the digivice and then to Daichi, “This means he needs to… Return there.”

“Let’s go,” the boy nodded “If I get partnered with a digimon, I can save my father.”

“... I can’t be your partner” Natsu looked away “I can’t, sorry.”

“Who’s sayin’ it will be you!?” Ulforce pouted “Also why would he pick you!?”

“I understand” Daichi smiled “You don’t want to fight my father, is it?”

“... Let’s say it's that.”

“Then, you won’t be forced to! Now let’s go to the Digital World, I will find a digimon who’s willing to fight alongside me and then save my father and the the world.”