#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.

[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.”