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By: Ultimanium 
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Anime/Manga: Digimon Fan Fiction / Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction / Gundam Wing Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Comedy / Adventure / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 09.15.2002 | Pages: 8 | Words: 5.3K | Visits: 285 | Status: Completed
ULTIMATUM 2 - THE ARGETLAHM ADVENTURES
A Continuation of the Ultimatum Saga
by Keyvan Chandonnet (Ultimanium)
(READ THE ULTIMATUM, THEN DEUS EX CONKER, THEN CHRONOCEPTOR, THE PREVIOUS THREE PARTS OF THE ULTIMATUM SAGA, TO GET ANY IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!!! I CAN'T STRESS IT ENOUGH!!!!!! Thank you.)
Alright, People. I don't own Digimon, DBZ, any Final Fantasy, Conker's Bad Fur Day or Chrono Cross or any of their affiliated characters. However, I own a computer, and in the end, that's all I need to make your life a living hell. =)
On with the show.
*A fire is burning in the wilderness. Two logs sit encroached around the blaze. Three people are seated, one on one log, two on the other.*
Keyvan : (sighs) Who would've thought it would end here.
Demiveemon : Who woulda figured this entire Ultimatum thing would last so long.
Davis : I've learned a lot from all these experiences, Keyv. Thanks.
Keyvan : No problem. But duty calls. The Ultimatum has to draw to a close... And the Argetlahm beckons.
Demiveemon : This is our adventure... let's make it count!
Davis : (smiles) C'mon, Vee. Let's show Ultramagnus who's boss.
*The scene is deep space. The camera pans across the massive starboard of the capital ship Argetlahm as it sails by. Slowly, the camera begins to zoom in to a medium-large plexiglass dome on the front-top of the starship.*
I never thought it would come to this.
*The camera continues zooming in.*
Me, Ultimanium, Lord Raul, and the crew of the Argetlahm are the only things standing between reality itself and an abyss of oblivion.
*The camera continues zooming in.*
Ultramagnus will pay dearly for his crimes against the dimensions... creation itself.
*The camera continues zooming in. Ultimanium's face is finally in sight.*
My recons have filled me in on the destruction that runs rampant in the third dimension. It has to stop.
(A/N - Alright, we know Ultramagnus has control over the third dimension, but how did it get that way? Let's find out... oh, if you really aren't interested, you can always skip this next part... but you'll be sorry....)
*Flashback*
Ultramagnus looked on upon the utopia that stood before him. Perfect. A perfect light. A perfect light to corrupt and make his own.
The third dimension was easily the most technologically advanced of them all. Time never existed... and it never would, as long as he remained here. The fourth dimension, he wasn't interested in that, no. All that 'time' crap in the confusion of the fourth dimension limited its technological advancement. It's life. The third dimension retained the fourth's design. But without time in its way, the greatest minds of all time allied together to advance civilization to heights never thought possible in any higher dimensions. They were immortal. As was everybody. Ultramagnus grit his teeth and clenched his fists. Eternal life. He had to have it. No one was going to get in his way.
********
"Master, we've received a telematrix message for you."
Magnus smiled as he took the thin slip from the robotic probe on his flank. "Thank you, Minonim. You are excused." He pressed a button on the small card. A holographic image protruded from the slip and presented itself to Magnus.
Magnus stopped in a cold sweat.
"... no...."
"Hello, Magnus, ruler of the third dimension. I come to you in great regard. I have a small offer to make to you...
"I, Ultramagnus, formally request that you cede control of the World State Government to me."
Magnus placed the card on the desk and backed off. "Who.. what are you?!"
Ultramagnus laughed. "Don't you know? It's me... you. Your form in the fifth dimension. One a bit more powerful than yourself, I believe. Now, listen to me. Hand over the presidency and I'll be more than happy to spare your people."
"My people are smart enough to abhor tyranny." Magnus growled.
"Then I guess it wouldn't matter terribly if I did this..."
Ultramagnus stuck out his hand and fired a gigantic energy blast through the wall to the ground below. The laser contacted the west district of the city and blew it completely up, with a frenzy of granite, concrete and metal fragments and boulders taking to the sky.
Magnus turned back to Ultramagnus, eyes wide. "YOU...."
"Now, now... it's not like it has to be like this.. maybe with the price of your title, your people don't have to suffer."
Magnus began to back away. "Never..."
"Damn you!! No one defies my and lives to tell ABOUT IT!!!" Ultramagnus yelled.
Another energy blast tore through Magnus' arm. He hit the ground.
Ultramagnus let loose a villanous laugh. "I could just crush you like a bug... but be thankful I'm a bit more forgiving than that. To the first dimension with you!!"
Magnus shivered. "...n...no.... you... can't..."
"Watch me."
Ultramagnus shot another pulse of energy at Magnus, which exploded violently on impact. The very reality around Magnus rippled as the dimensional gate was opened. Magnus grasped the ground to avoid being sucked in.
"Y..yo..you'll n neee never get away wiitttt h this!!!"
Ultramagnus smirked. "Sorry, man, I believe I just have."
Magnus lost his grip on the ground in front of him and slid into the vortex, closing behind him. He was gone.
Ultramagnus walked up to his new desk and sat down in it. "I rule."
*End flashback*
Ultramagnus since then obliterated anybody who dared stand in the path of his actions. The world's population in that dimension is decimated, and Ultramagnus himself has command over an army of androids, making him unstoppable in that dimension. That's when Ultimanium, me, from the fifth dimension, knew I had to step in and do something.
I swung my swivel chair around.
"Lord Raul! Open the gate."
Next Chapter - (Yes, it's longer) A full recap of the Ultimatum Saga to this point. Including all that dimensional-jumping crap... and the arrival of the original Ultimatum crew. Most of it, anyways. The Gundam pilots are going to show up a bit later in the series, given the Gundams lack the small mass necessary for transversing dimensions. Just you wait, they'll be just as pivotal as anyone else...
Davis flopped down on his bed facefirst. Runs through the Digital World never quite seemed to get him tired anymore after the Ultimatum occured in New York and him and his friends were forced to battle in it. It was all a consuming experience for him. He reached over behind his bed and pulled out the Buster Sword. He examined the small green crystals in the base of the blade.
*flashback*
"Wow! You mean it??" Davis had a mile-wide grin on his face.
"Yeah, you can have it. And take all the materia in it too."
"Materia?" Veemon was lost. Again. All this talk of Limit Breaks and Trances and Materia and Magic and GFs had Veemon losing track of the conversation every couple minutes.
"Crystals containing magic power," Squall explained. "Possession of materia gives the user magic abilities."
*end flashback*
Davis flung the Buster Sword in an arc around him and propped himself up on it. Handling the Buster Sword was a like second nature to him. It looked cool, it kicked ass, and it really pissed TK off. He would kill to have a sword like that. Davis returned to his relax position on his bed. "Life is good."
Kari still was having times with Davis, though they certainly died down since the events of the Ultimatum. Veemon still had a thing for Gatomon, though Gatomon realized the error of her ways and made an effort to ignore Veemon and get him out of her hair at every turn. He was out of the house right now, planning to crash one of Gatomon's recent fish raids at the local supermarket.
The Ultimatum was a time of reckoning for the Digidestined.
Davis sat up in his bed, stunned. A paralyzing thought hit him. Why? Why did the Ultimatum take place? Damn it, he was right in front of Ultimanium and he STILL never told him or his friends the true purpose! There was something being hid from Davis, and he'd be damned if he never found out.
A beam of light enveloped him from the sky.
As did Tai. Kari. TK. Cody.... yes, Cody. Ken would sit out this time. His position is not pivotal in this case. Ultimanium made his decision.
********
Tai whistled as he drummed the blades of the Ultima Weapon on his desk. If there were only a chance... that these weapons of true crystalline asskicking, as Tai referred to it as, got another crack at Ultramagnus, he would take it. Leveling the Super Saiyan with the dual blades had to be one of Tai's happy-happy-giddy moments. Not only was the slash recorded, it was played back, in slow-mo, from 8 different angles on the news. He was a celebrity in his school, now. Thanks to a couple of daggers.
From nowhere, his wish was granted. The beam of the Argetlahm took Tai high once again.
********
Kari sipped from a chocolate milkshake down at the nearest restaraunt. The beam hit her.
********
TK was watching a rented anime, with Patamon napping on the couch next to him. The beam hit them.
********
Cody was in the middle of a Kendo class. He had just leveled his grandpa with the wooden blade and sent him sprawling across the dojo floor, an honor he had only dreamed of since he started the art. Before he could point the imitation sword at his humbled teacher and chant the 'nyah nyah na na na nyah, goodbye' victory speech, a beam of light tore down from the sky and absorbed Cody, leaving a heap of practice armor at his grandpa's feet.
He pushed himself to a stand, removed his mask and brushed himself off. "A technicality on my behalf. Nyah nyah na na na nyah! Goodbye! ... Cody?"
********
Veemon looked up from his hideout in the cabbage rack at the supermarket. Gatomon dashed from the meat section, and froze at the sight of the ominous yellow light consuming the very vision in front of her.
He leaped out into the aisle ahead of Gatomon. "Don't worry, I'll save you!!"
Gatomon groaned. She didn't have time to contemplate decking Veemon as the flash roared forward and blinded both of them.
Gohan looked down from the sky. He could swear he could see and hear the power of Cell rising on the horizon. He stopped to analyze the power surge radiating from the land far off in the distance, but realized it wasn't him. He shrugged and glanced down at his homework. Square roots always seemed to escape him.
"Urrggghh!! Can't they just come out as a whole numbers for once?"
Gohan took a deep breath, and sighed. He tagged the back of the math textbook and flipped to the back pages, where the answers for page 212 lied. Gohan scanned down the side of the page for his salvation.
"4.33? What the..."
Gohan sat and stared at the confusing decimal ahead of him as the cool sea breeze ran across him. Disgusted, he scowled to himself and threw the textbook shut.
"Gohaaaaan! Your father wants to talk to you!" Chichi yelled.
Gohan scooped up the scribbler and the textbook under his arm. "Be right there, mom!" He dashed towards the Kame house and threw open the screen door. Gohan stared Goku in the face.
Goku grinned. "Hey, Gohan! What's the big rush?"
"Er.. nothing. I thought you wanted me to put my books away so we could...."
Goku waved. "Actually, I was wondering if you wanted to go fishing. I flew by North City Bluffs and I found a really good place, and..."
Gohan was struck. "A..aren't we training?"
Goku shrugged. "Just figured you wanted a little break, that's all."
"But the Cell Games start tomorrow!"
"I'm aware of that, Gohan. Isn't it alright to take some time off once in a while? We'll go through another exercise before we head off to fight Cell. How about it?"
Gohan checked behind him. The normally flocked living room of the Kame house was empty, its normal residents off at different parts of the planet training. "If anyone finds out, you'll have your butt in a sling."
Goku laughed to himself. "Don't worry. We have plenty of time."
Gohan grit his teeth. What was wrong with his father? He's been acting so worryfree since he got back to Earth... he didn't last through the Ultimatum's final battle when he had an attitude like this...
*flashback*
Vegeta sped up. "Alright, Kakarot, I want to know what is going on here, and I want to know now! You pride yourself in showing your supposed power in public more than anyone I have ever seen! Do you stop this madness, or do you want someone to show you REAL power!?"
Goku kept moving. "C'mon, Vegeta.. calm down. It's just that with all the coverage from the Cell Games, It's up to me to maintain the celebrity image I've created for myself."
*end flashback*
It was all Cell. Cell was just another challenge to Goku. The entire planet was in danger here, billions of lives, and Goku treated it as one big WWF match. He wanted to save the planet, sure, but social affairs began to take precedence in his life.
No. It couldn't be... was Ultimanium really right...?
*flashback*
"Yeah, that pisses you off. I know. But Goku is just so concerned with his social life, he has time only to become semi-super powerful. A real Saiyan warrior prides his combat over all his mental luxuries. Your father is a warrior, yes, but a sub-par one at best. I wouldn't be suprised if he didn't last through the Cell Games."
*end flashback*
Ultimanium. Goku isn't going to last if you don't do something! Ultimanium! I know you have that power to right Goku's wrongs... why aren't you stepping in? I need to know! What is your purpose, one that overrides the safety of this planet? Tell me!!
A voice rang out in Gohan's head. "You wish to know, Gohan? Then come with me."
"Ultimanium..."
The tell-tale beam of light shot down from the sky, and a flash of light erupted from under Gohan's feet.. consuming all in its path, including the not-too-far-off Goku. Somehow, somewhere, Vegeta took notice.
"Ultimanium!!!" Vegeta yelled. "You dare take those fools on another challenge?! Take me, Vegeta! The true warrior for the situation!!"
"As you wish."
The beam split trajectories and connected with Vegeta.
All three beamed up into the heavens, leaving the fourth dimension without so much as a trace.
Cloud held the memo above his head. "Is it.... yeeeeah... YEAH!! YAHOOO!!!"
Squall lifted his head off the couch. "What now?"
"Another fighting tournament! Hosted by Ultimanium! Maybe that ass will give me my sword back at some point..."
Squall buried his head under a cushion. Sharing an apartment with Cloud was bad enough. But the frequent fighting tournaments, one of which being the Ultimatum, had gotten terribly out of hand. Again, mostly the Ultimatum. All sorts of wackos showed up to topple Squall and Cloud, one of which being the kid who Squall snuck Cloud's sword out to. Davis, he thought his name was.
Squall threw up his hands and sighed. "I guess we're on it again."
Cloud picked up the Rune Tooth lying on the ground, now the weapon of his choice. In his spare time he used a bit to drill out materia slots in the handles and now was armed properly. He placed the thief sword across the arm rests of his recliner and picked up the note again.
"To be held where normal matter doesn't exist. That doesn't help us very much, does it? Whatever this guy's got planned it's freaking me out even more than last time. Oh well. Destiny beckons."
"Alright, guys. Read the flier. It's time." A voice boomed from nowhere in particular.
Cloud glanced down at the flier and back up at the wall clock. Both read 9:00 PM.
"Well, I guess we.." Cloud didn't have time to finish his sentence as the infamous blast of light surrounded Cloud and Squall, still on the couch. Before either could speak a word, they were gone.
Davis took another deep breath and looked up and around him. "W-where am I?"
"Shut up, someone mind telling me where I am?!" Vegeta yelled. He looked over and spotted Davis.
"Some kinda starship thingy." Cloud spoke, uneasy.
All of the Digidestined stood up, and stared confusingly at Squall, Cloud, Gohan, Goku, and Vegeta.
All of the Z fighters stood up, and stared confusingly at Squall, Cloud, Tai, Davis, TK, Kari, and Cody.
Squall and Cloud stood up, and stared confusingly at Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Tai, Davis, TK, Kari, and Cody.
Tai's eyes grew wide. "...No way! These are the guys from..."
Goku shifted an eyebrow. "...No way! These are the guys from..."
Squall backed off, he knew what was happening and he hoped Mimi sure as hell wasn't here. "...No way! These are the guys from..."
"Yes, the Ultimatum."
Everybody looked around them. They were all standing on the enormous bridge of the Argetlahm, on a circular floor placing in the center. Pathways parted from the epicentre of the circle and made their way out to the four corners of the gigantic command center. A humungous spherical plate of plexiglass was suspended over their heads. At the very front of the ship, on a heightened platform, stood Ultimanium and Lord Raul.
Vegeta clenched a fist. "Ultimanium!!"
Ultimanium stepped forward. "Yes, very much so."
TK looked around him in fear. "What's going on here?!"
Cody remained his neutral state. "I wouldn't mind knowing either."
Ultimanium solemnly shook his head, and began to come up with something.
"Ladies... gentlemen... friends and advocates. You stand now on the bridge of the Argetlahm, my main base of operations. You, being the warriors of the Ultimatum, have shown your bravery and faithfulness on the battlefield in New York. This was just a small part of the greater scheme of things."
Squall bowed his head. "Greater scheme of things... what do you speak of?"
"...everybody..." Lord Raul sighed. "We would like you to get in the turbolift behind you and head down to the war room, and take a seat. We need to talk to all of you."
The group, seeing no alternative, finally gave up and plodded toward the expansive space elevator at the far edge of the bridge. Once everybody was inside, the heavy steel doors slid closed with a clank and the pod began its descent.
Eventually, everybody downstairs had located the war room, it being the only chamber down there. Everybody took their respective seats around the large stage in the center of the auditorium. In the middle of the platform sat a large hologram terminal.
No one had any idea what was going on, and carried on small discussions.
"Damn it," Tai sighed. "Davis, do you have any idea what's going on here? You said Ultimanium talked to you personally on several occaisions. Did he mention anything about this?"
Davis turned around in his seat and shrugged. "Beats me."
"How about you, Kari?" Tai asked. "You said you had dreams in which Ultimanium announced his motives.. did anything like this come up?"
Kari shook her head. "No way."
Tai fell back in his theatre chair. "Hey, these things are pretty comfy."
Ultimanium and Lord Raul phased onto the stage, in front of the terminal.
Ultimanium began to speak. "You probably don't know why you are here."
Vegeta folded his arms. "Say something stupid and you die right now."
"C'mon, Vegeta," Goku whispered. "I'm trying to listen here."
Ultimanium continued. "You were all warriors in the fighting championship held by me, Ultimanium. This fighting championship was held by me to find and chronicle the greatest warriors from your dimension... but your question is.. why?"
"This had better be good." Squall growled.
"The truth is, I didn't particularily know why. But now I do. Something happened at the end of the Ultimatum, you'll recall. I used my most powerful attack Shattered Reality on Ultramagnus to keep him from killing you all, but I fear this attack had backfired. Normally, the attack was meant to tear a temporary hole in space-time and get him through it, banishing him to a foriegn dimension, where the temporal status alone would kill him. But.. it became worse than that. Due to Ultramagnus' defense against Shattered Reality, the gate flung him much less further than I expected. He was tossed from the fourth dimension into the fifth. This meant he had some chance of returning at some point and extracting his revenge."
"Wait, wait," Gohan piped. "Wasn't that the Super Saiyan fat guy with only 4500 HP?"
Davis stood up. "Yeah, no problem! Quaterisipalimon has more HP than him! We'll fix him!"
Ultimanium bowed his head. "The problem is worse than you think, Davis."
"Huzzah?"
Ultimanium looked back up. "Alright, let's get this straight. Ultramagnus gained possession over a device of mine called the J2, a transport probe designed for traversing dimensions. In case Ultramagnus had any chance of returning like he did, I was going to go into the nearest dimensions and rig the Ultimatum so it had the exact same outcome in each dimension. However, this didn't work. Ultramagnus telepathically gained control over the J2 and redirected it to his position. I was in the fifth dimension rallying more troops for the Argetlahm crew when Ultramangus mobilized a small group of rampaging barbarians called Tediz and sent them against the monarchy of the country I was in. This is when I realized that the person I was looking for was within the government, so I raced to the presidental palace of the region and helped defend. I was able to get the single Chosen in the area to my side.
"Why don't you come out, Conker?"
Conker phased in alongside Ultimanium and looked around at the audience in front of him. "Hey, guys. Ultimanium's told me all about you."
Cloud sulked back. "A talking squirrel. In a Matrix outfit. Phasing through walls. And holding a can of beer. More sleep, Cloud, more sleep."
Ultimanium glared back at Conker. "Not in front of the kids, Conker."
Conker rolled his eyes. "...sorry." He tossed the empty can over his shoulder and rubbed his hands together. "C'mon out, guys! Coast is clear!"
Berri and Rodent phased in alongside him.
Cloud buried his head in his hands. "Less alcohol and you wouldn't be in this situation, Cloud..."
"Woohoo!" Rodent chirped. "New arrivals!"
"Like, now who are THESE people?" Berri sighed.
"Anyways, back to my story," Ultimanium laughed. "When I entered the dimension to get Conker, I built a new probe beforehand with some new features to help us out, the J3. When we got Conker, Berri, and Rodent, there were only three Chosen remaining to get in the fifth dimension. I sent out Conker to claim everybody else. Take it away, Conker."
Conker stepped forward. "Three Chosen were left... people named Serge, Karsh, and Kid. I was able to find Serge easy enough, but as I began searching for Karsh and Kid, it began apparent that Ultramagnus was trying as hard as he could to fuck things up, and..."
"We have children in the audience." Ultimanium interupted, somewhat annoyed.
"... oh, yeah, sorry. Anyways, it was clear to see that Ultramagnus was trying to screw us up. He threw some robotic cronie into the mix to stall us, but we were able to get the three Chosen back to the ship successfully. C'mon out, guys!"
Serge, Karsh and Kid phased onstage.
Lord Raul stepped up. "Serge, Karsh, Kid... meet the Ultimatum crew."
Serge and Kid waved. Karsh just kind of stood there.
"What, this is what we get? A bunch of kids and guys with weird haircuts?" Karsh shouted.
Vegeta shot up. "Silence! I am a Super Saiyan, and superior to you in every way! Pipe down or become an imprint on my boot!!"
"God, shut up already! I'll take you right now!" Karsh yelled.
Ultimanium stepped in Karsh and Vegeta's line of sight. "C'mon, guys.. cool down."
Vegeta slowly returned to his seat. Karsh turned slowly away from Vegeta's position.
"Anyways," Ultimanium stated. "Ultramagnus didn't stop there. He needed a new home. Last I heard, he has completely obliterated the domain of the third dimension and now rules over it with an iron fist. Thousands have fell at his hands. He had to be stopped. That's where you, the Ultimatum battlers, fell in. You are the only hope for this wasteland of the third dimension."
Ultimanium rose up his hands. "And that's where you are now. You all will be appointed into Ultimanium's Battalion, the strike force against Ultramagnus. You will live aboard this ship, the Argetlahm, for the next several weeks, months, years... whatever it takes to defeat Ultramagnus. I trust you with all of my resources to make a plan and strike successfully. That is all I have to say. I will..."
Gohan stuck up his hand. "Er... Ultimanium? Before you go any further, could you explain this entire dimension thing to us? I'm kind of lost here."
"Yeah, now that you mention it, I could use a refresh." Kari said.
"Me too." Cloud said.
A bright-green six-tiered structure appeared in the hologram generator.
Ultimanium turned out to his expectant crowd. "The Dimensions. Ultimanium's view."
"Alright. We all know how alternate dimensions work, right? For every choice you make in your life, there is a split right there and two seperate dimensions continue on, each with a different resolution to the problem. This continues on for any person, any body until the number of possible directions numbers virtually infinite."
"The Zeal Dimensional Theory states that while all these dimensions do in fact exist, they are not easy to traverse, with the amount of space-time bending that goes on to make bridging dimensions possible. To this extent, only dimensions three tiers up or three tiers down may be reached with Zeal machinery, and that is all that is physically possible. While the six dimensions accessible to us differ radically, they remain constant for each person, an anolomy if you will. These are known as the Six Dimensions."
"Dimensions work rather understandably... For each dimension you are in, the previous three tiers are accessible for editing, while the current dimension runs in the background and cannot be physcially affected. For example, in the fourth dimension, you can move physically freely, being a three dimensional object. And while time runs in the background and takes its toll on you, it can never truly step in and edit time as you please. The fifth dimension is similar, as well. Three dimensional movement is possible and time travel was acheived through the efforts of the Guru of Time that lived in the Zeal kingdom, a man by the name of Belthasar. He was the one that designed and implemented the technology of time travel. And the current tier, the fifth dimension, the very editing of reality itself, can be achieved partially through magic, the art of wielding the earth's elements as you please."
Kid snapped her fingers. "Yeah! You mean Elements, right?"
"Exactly."
Tai rubbed his chin. "Hey, you said Ultramagnus invaded the third dimension, right?"
"Yes."
"Well, that's probably why he would want it! He can move around in 3D as he pleases, and theoretically, time doesn't exist! He would be immortal in an enviroment like that!"
"Correct, Tai. Ultramagnus could not die of old age or hunger or any other time-related death in a world like that. And as long as he retains his power level, he would be virtually invincible."
"The third dimension itself is a wonderful place. It is easily the most technologically advanced of the dimensions, even though it does not have artifical time travel. There is no death, no poverty, every single intelligent mind ever conceived since the creation of the Earth lives. However, with Ultramagnus' recent intervention, we can't expect it to stay that way much longer." Ultimanium spoke.
"And we're all here to save the third dimension, whatever the cost." Raul added.
"Ultramagnus, upon invading the third dimension, banished the good self that ruled that world into the first dimension. However, we were able to save him before the dimensional guidelines reverted him to his linear form. C'mon out, Magnus."
Magnus shifted onto the stage. "I cannot thank you enough, Ultimanium. I will come with you on your adventure to liberate the third dimension." He shifted off.
Ultimanium grinned. "Yeah, he's pretty tired. That is all I have to say to you, heroes."
TK stood up. "Hey, Ulty. We're still in the fourth dimension, right?"
"No. We're in the first dimension. One feature of the J3 is that it is capable of setting up anti-dimensional fields while the J2 is not. Basically, as long as we stay in the first or second dimensions, Ultramagnus can't touch us."
Ultimanium grimaced. "Enough of that. I imagine you're all pretty tired from all this dimension jumping business. Back in the turbolift, one floor down. All the male bunks are down there, female bunks are below that, a training centre and the rec room are on the floor below that. Everything on that floor you can use. The last floor below that is off limits. Understood?"
Cloud smiled evily.
"Don't even think about panty raids," Ultimanium sighed. "There WILL be a barrier down there that prevents members from the opposite sex from making it to the other end of the barrier."
"Wait a minute," Davis spoke. "I can't fight without..."
"Veeeeeeeeeeemon!!!"
Davis sweatdropped to find Veemon sitting on his lap. Veemon, seeing the new audience of people to impress, hopped up on Ultimanium's stage.
"That's V for Victory! V for Valiant! V for Vicious! V for Vigorous!" Veemon wailed, while leaping into various combat poses.
"...V for Vanity. V for Vulnerability. V for Valueless." Patamon droned on.
"...where did you guys come from?" Kari asked, surprised to find Gatomon perched on her shoulder.
"We were about to ask you the same question." Gatomon gasped. Her vision danced around the quasi-theatre at the various other attendees.
"Heeeeey everybody!" Agumon shouted as he ran down the war room aisle and turned into Tai's position.
Armadillomon dropped from the celing and landed in front of Cody.
*Keyvan putts around the aisles on a moped and tosses out sheets of paper*
Goku caught a flying flier
Keyvan : How ironic.
and looked through it. "Alright, who the hell was that?"
He got no reply.
On the sheet the bunks were listed...
MENS BUNKS
1. Conker/Davis
2. TK/Lord Raul
3. Tai/Serge
4. Cody/Squall
5. Karsh/Vegeta
6. Rodent/Gohan
7. Goku
8. Cloud
WOMENS BUNKS
1. Berri/Kid
2. Kari/Gatomon
MISC BUNKS
1. Veemon/Agumon/Patamon/Armadillomon
Veemon held his sheet to his side and slapped his forehead. "Great, I'm an It."
Agumon wrapped his arms around Patamon and Veemon and brought them together in a hug. "Are we gonna be great bunk buddies or whaaaaaat?!"
Armadillomon sweatdropped. "You guys... go to your bunks and... yeah. I think I'm going to bunk with that fellow Goku."
Everybody just kind of trudged off and settled in their bunks and went to sleep. However, not one of them could shake the thought of the impending weeks ahead. Would they live through this? Happy and negative thoughts were in reach of everybody. It was all a matter of being positive. Tomorrow was going to be a big day.
A Continuation of the Ultimatum Saga
by Keyvan Chandonnet (Ultimanium)
(READ THE ULTIMATUM, THEN DEUS EX CONKER, THEN CHRONOCEPTOR, THE PREVIOUS THREE PARTS OF THE ULTIMATUM SAGA, TO GET ANY IDEA WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!!! I CAN'T STRESS IT ENOUGH!!!!!! Thank you.)
Alright, People. I don't own Digimon, DBZ, any Final Fantasy, Conker's Bad Fur Day or Chrono Cross or any of their affiliated characters. However, I own a computer, and in the end, that's all I need to make your life a living hell. =)
On with the show.
*A fire is burning in the wilderness. Two logs sit encroached around the blaze. Three people are seated, one on one log, two on the other.*
Keyvan : (sighs) Who would've thought it would end here.
Demiveemon : Who woulda figured this entire Ultimatum thing would last so long.
Davis : I've learned a lot from all these experiences, Keyv. Thanks.
Keyvan : No problem. But duty calls. The Ultimatum has to draw to a close... And the Argetlahm beckons.
Demiveemon : This is our adventure... let's make it count!
Davis : (smiles) C'mon, Vee. Let's show Ultramagnus who's boss.
*The scene is deep space. The camera pans across the massive starboard of the capital ship Argetlahm as it sails by. Slowly, the camera begins to zoom in to a medium-large plexiglass dome on the front-top of the starship.*
I never thought it would come to this.
*The camera continues zooming in.*
Me, Ultimanium, Lord Raul, and the crew of the Argetlahm are the only things standing between reality itself and an abyss of oblivion.
*The camera continues zooming in.*
Ultramagnus will pay dearly for his crimes against the dimensions... creation itself.
*The camera continues zooming in. Ultimanium's face is finally in sight.*
My recons have filled me in on the destruction that runs rampant in the third dimension. It has to stop.
(A/N - Alright, we know Ultramagnus has control over the third dimension, but how did it get that way? Let's find out... oh, if you really aren't interested, you can always skip this next part... but you'll be sorry....)
*Flashback*
Ultramagnus looked on upon the utopia that stood before him. Perfect. A perfect light. A perfect light to corrupt and make his own.
The third dimension was easily the most technologically advanced of them all. Time never existed... and it never would, as long as he remained here. The fourth dimension, he wasn't interested in that, no. All that 'time' crap in the confusion of the fourth dimension limited its technological advancement. It's life. The third dimension retained the fourth's design. But without time in its way, the greatest minds of all time allied together to advance civilization to heights never thought possible in any higher dimensions. They were immortal. As was everybody. Ultramagnus grit his teeth and clenched his fists. Eternal life. He had to have it. No one was going to get in his way.
********
"Master, we've received a telematrix message for you."
Magnus smiled as he took the thin slip from the robotic probe on his flank. "Thank you, Minonim. You are excused." He pressed a button on the small card. A holographic image protruded from the slip and presented itself to Magnus.
Magnus stopped in a cold sweat.
"... no...."
"Hello, Magnus, ruler of the third dimension. I come to you in great regard. I have a small offer to make to you...
"I, Ultramagnus, formally request that you cede control of the World State Government to me."
Magnus placed the card on the desk and backed off. "Who.. what are you?!"
Ultramagnus laughed. "Don't you know? It's me... you. Your form in the fifth dimension. One a bit more powerful than yourself, I believe. Now, listen to me. Hand over the presidency and I'll be more than happy to spare your people."
"My people are smart enough to abhor tyranny." Magnus growled.
"Then I guess it wouldn't matter terribly if I did this..."
Ultramagnus stuck out his hand and fired a gigantic energy blast through the wall to the ground below. The laser contacted the west district of the city and blew it completely up, with a frenzy of granite, concrete and metal fragments and boulders taking to the sky.
Magnus turned back to Ultramagnus, eyes wide. "YOU...."
"Now, now... it's not like it has to be like this.. maybe with the price of your title, your people don't have to suffer."
Magnus began to back away. "Never..."
"Damn you!! No one defies my and lives to tell ABOUT IT!!!" Ultramagnus yelled.
Another energy blast tore through Magnus' arm. He hit the ground.
Ultramagnus let loose a villanous laugh. "I could just crush you like a bug... but be thankful I'm a bit more forgiving than that. To the first dimension with you!!"
Magnus shivered. "...n...no.... you... can't..."
"Watch me."
Ultramagnus shot another pulse of energy at Magnus, which exploded violently on impact. The very reality around Magnus rippled as the dimensional gate was opened. Magnus grasped the ground to avoid being sucked in.
"Y..yo..you'll n neee never get away wiitttt h this!!!"
Ultramagnus smirked. "Sorry, man, I believe I just have."
Magnus lost his grip on the ground in front of him and slid into the vortex, closing behind him. He was gone.
Ultramagnus walked up to his new desk and sat down in it. "I rule."
*End flashback*
Ultramagnus since then obliterated anybody who dared stand in the path of his actions. The world's population in that dimension is decimated, and Ultramagnus himself has command over an army of androids, making him unstoppable in that dimension. That's when Ultimanium, me, from the fifth dimension, knew I had to step in and do something.
I swung my swivel chair around.
"Lord Raul! Open the gate."
Next Chapter - (Yes, it's longer) A full recap of the Ultimatum Saga to this point. Including all that dimensional-jumping crap... and the arrival of the original Ultimatum crew. Most of it, anyways. The Gundam pilots are going to show up a bit later in the series, given the Gundams lack the small mass necessary for transversing dimensions. Just you wait, they'll be just as pivotal as anyone else...
Davis flopped down on his bed facefirst. Runs through the Digital World never quite seemed to get him tired anymore after the Ultimatum occured in New York and him and his friends were forced to battle in it. It was all a consuming experience for him. He reached over behind his bed and pulled out the Buster Sword. He examined the small green crystals in the base of the blade.
*flashback*
"Wow! You mean it??" Davis had a mile-wide grin on his face.
"Yeah, you can have it. And take all the materia in it too."
"Materia?" Veemon was lost. Again. All this talk of Limit Breaks and Trances and Materia and Magic and GFs had Veemon losing track of the conversation every couple minutes.
"Crystals containing magic power," Squall explained. "Possession of materia gives the user magic abilities."
*end flashback*
Davis flung the Buster Sword in an arc around him and propped himself up on it. Handling the Buster Sword was a like second nature to him. It looked cool, it kicked ass, and it really pissed TK off. He would kill to have a sword like that. Davis returned to his relax position on his bed. "Life is good."
Kari still was having times with Davis, though they certainly died down since the events of the Ultimatum. Veemon still had a thing for Gatomon, though Gatomon realized the error of her ways and made an effort to ignore Veemon and get him out of her hair at every turn. He was out of the house right now, planning to crash one of Gatomon's recent fish raids at the local supermarket.
The Ultimatum was a time of reckoning for the Digidestined.
Davis sat up in his bed, stunned. A paralyzing thought hit him. Why? Why did the Ultimatum take place? Damn it, he was right in front of Ultimanium and he STILL never told him or his friends the true purpose! There was something being hid from Davis, and he'd be damned if he never found out.
A beam of light enveloped him from the sky.
As did Tai. Kari. TK. Cody.... yes, Cody. Ken would sit out this time. His position is not pivotal in this case. Ultimanium made his decision.
********
Tai whistled as he drummed the blades of the Ultima Weapon on his desk. If there were only a chance... that these weapons of true crystalline asskicking, as Tai referred to it as, got another crack at Ultramagnus, he would take it. Leveling the Super Saiyan with the dual blades had to be one of Tai's happy-happy-giddy moments. Not only was the slash recorded, it was played back, in slow-mo, from 8 different angles on the news. He was a celebrity in his school, now. Thanks to a couple of daggers.
From nowhere, his wish was granted. The beam of the Argetlahm took Tai high once again.
********
Kari sipped from a chocolate milkshake down at the nearest restaraunt. The beam hit her.
********
TK was watching a rented anime, with Patamon napping on the couch next to him. The beam hit them.
********
Cody was in the middle of a Kendo class. He had just leveled his grandpa with the wooden blade and sent him sprawling across the dojo floor, an honor he had only dreamed of since he started the art. Before he could point the imitation sword at his humbled teacher and chant the 'nyah nyah na na na nyah, goodbye' victory speech, a beam of light tore down from the sky and absorbed Cody, leaving a heap of practice armor at his grandpa's feet.
He pushed himself to a stand, removed his mask and brushed himself off. "A technicality on my behalf. Nyah nyah na na na nyah! Goodbye! ... Cody?"
********
Veemon looked up from his hideout in the cabbage rack at the supermarket. Gatomon dashed from the meat section, and froze at the sight of the ominous yellow light consuming the very vision in front of her.
He leaped out into the aisle ahead of Gatomon. "Don't worry, I'll save you!!"
Gatomon groaned. She didn't have time to contemplate decking Veemon as the flash roared forward and blinded both of them.
Gohan looked down from the sky. He could swear he could see and hear the power of Cell rising on the horizon. He stopped to analyze the power surge radiating from the land far off in the distance, but realized it wasn't him. He shrugged and glanced down at his homework. Square roots always seemed to escape him.
"Urrggghh!! Can't they just come out as a whole numbers for once?"
Gohan took a deep breath, and sighed. He tagged the back of the math textbook and flipped to the back pages, where the answers for page 212 lied. Gohan scanned down the side of the page for his salvation.
"4.33? What the..."
Gohan sat and stared at the confusing decimal ahead of him as the cool sea breeze ran across him. Disgusted, he scowled to himself and threw the textbook shut.
"Gohaaaaan! Your father wants to talk to you!" Chichi yelled.
Gohan scooped up the scribbler and the textbook under his arm. "Be right there, mom!" He dashed towards the Kame house and threw open the screen door. Gohan stared Goku in the face.
Goku grinned. "Hey, Gohan! What's the big rush?"
"Er.. nothing. I thought you wanted me to put my books away so we could...."
Goku waved. "Actually, I was wondering if you wanted to go fishing. I flew by North City Bluffs and I found a really good place, and..."
Gohan was struck. "A..aren't we training?"
Goku shrugged. "Just figured you wanted a little break, that's all."
"But the Cell Games start tomorrow!"
"I'm aware of that, Gohan. Isn't it alright to take some time off once in a while? We'll go through another exercise before we head off to fight Cell. How about it?"
Gohan checked behind him. The normally flocked living room of the Kame house was empty, its normal residents off at different parts of the planet training. "If anyone finds out, you'll have your butt in a sling."
Goku laughed to himself. "Don't worry. We have plenty of time."
Gohan grit his teeth. What was wrong with his father? He's been acting so worryfree since he got back to Earth... he didn't last through the Ultimatum's final battle when he had an attitude like this...
*flashback*
Vegeta sped up. "Alright, Kakarot, I want to know what is going on here, and I want to know now! You pride yourself in showing your supposed power in public more than anyone I have ever seen! Do you stop this madness, or do you want someone to show you REAL power!?"
Goku kept moving. "C'mon, Vegeta.. calm down. It's just that with all the coverage from the Cell Games, It's up to me to maintain the celebrity image I've created for myself."
*end flashback*
It was all Cell. Cell was just another challenge to Goku. The entire planet was in danger here, billions of lives, and Goku treated it as one big WWF match. He wanted to save the planet, sure, but social affairs began to take precedence in his life.
No. It couldn't be... was Ultimanium really right...?
*flashback*
"Yeah, that pisses you off. I know. But Goku is just so concerned with his social life, he has time only to become semi-super powerful. A real Saiyan warrior prides his combat over all his mental luxuries. Your father is a warrior, yes, but a sub-par one at best. I wouldn't be suprised if he didn't last through the Cell Games."
*end flashback*
Ultimanium. Goku isn't going to last if you don't do something! Ultimanium! I know you have that power to right Goku's wrongs... why aren't you stepping in? I need to know! What is your purpose, one that overrides the safety of this planet? Tell me!!
A voice rang out in Gohan's head. "You wish to know, Gohan? Then come with me."
"Ultimanium..."
The tell-tale beam of light shot down from the sky, and a flash of light erupted from under Gohan's feet.. consuming all in its path, including the not-too-far-off Goku. Somehow, somewhere, Vegeta took notice.
"Ultimanium!!!" Vegeta yelled. "You dare take those fools on another challenge?! Take me, Vegeta! The true warrior for the situation!!"
"As you wish."
The beam split trajectories and connected with Vegeta.
All three beamed up into the heavens, leaving the fourth dimension without so much as a trace.
Cloud held the memo above his head. "Is it.... yeeeeah... YEAH!! YAHOOO!!!"
Squall lifted his head off the couch. "What now?"
"Another fighting tournament! Hosted by Ultimanium! Maybe that ass will give me my sword back at some point..."
Squall buried his head under a cushion. Sharing an apartment with Cloud was bad enough. But the frequent fighting tournaments, one of which being the Ultimatum, had gotten terribly out of hand. Again, mostly the Ultimatum. All sorts of wackos showed up to topple Squall and Cloud, one of which being the kid who Squall snuck Cloud's sword out to. Davis, he thought his name was.
Squall threw up his hands and sighed. "I guess we're on it again."
Cloud picked up the Rune Tooth lying on the ground, now the weapon of his choice. In his spare time he used a bit to drill out materia slots in the handles and now was armed properly. He placed the thief sword across the arm rests of his recliner and picked up the note again.
"To be held where normal matter doesn't exist. That doesn't help us very much, does it? Whatever this guy's got planned it's freaking me out even more than last time. Oh well. Destiny beckons."
"Alright, guys. Read the flier. It's time." A voice boomed from nowhere in particular.
Cloud glanced down at the flier and back up at the wall clock. Both read 9:00 PM.
"Well, I guess we.." Cloud didn't have time to finish his sentence as the infamous blast of light surrounded Cloud and Squall, still on the couch. Before either could speak a word, they were gone.
Davis took another deep breath and looked up and around him. "W-where am I?"
"Shut up, someone mind telling me where I am?!" Vegeta yelled. He looked over and spotted Davis.
"Some kinda starship thingy." Cloud spoke, uneasy.
All of the Digidestined stood up, and stared confusingly at Squall, Cloud, Gohan, Goku, and Vegeta.
All of the Z fighters stood up, and stared confusingly at Squall, Cloud, Tai, Davis, TK, Kari, and Cody.
Squall and Cloud stood up, and stared confusingly at Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Tai, Davis, TK, Kari, and Cody.
Tai's eyes grew wide. "...No way! These are the guys from..."
Goku shifted an eyebrow. "...No way! These are the guys from..."
Squall backed off, he knew what was happening and he hoped Mimi sure as hell wasn't here. "...No way! These are the guys from..."
"Yes, the Ultimatum."
Everybody looked around them. They were all standing on the enormous bridge of the Argetlahm, on a circular floor placing in the center. Pathways parted from the epicentre of the circle and made their way out to the four corners of the gigantic command center. A humungous spherical plate of plexiglass was suspended over their heads. At the very front of the ship, on a heightened platform, stood Ultimanium and Lord Raul.
Vegeta clenched a fist. "Ultimanium!!"
Ultimanium stepped forward. "Yes, very much so."
TK looked around him in fear. "What's going on here?!"
Cody remained his neutral state. "I wouldn't mind knowing either."
Ultimanium solemnly shook his head, and began to come up with something.
"Ladies... gentlemen... friends and advocates. You stand now on the bridge of the Argetlahm, my main base of operations. You, being the warriors of the Ultimatum, have shown your bravery and faithfulness on the battlefield in New York. This was just a small part of the greater scheme of things."
Squall bowed his head. "Greater scheme of things... what do you speak of?"
"...everybody..." Lord Raul sighed. "We would like you to get in the turbolift behind you and head down to the war room, and take a seat. We need to talk to all of you."
The group, seeing no alternative, finally gave up and plodded toward the expansive space elevator at the far edge of the bridge. Once everybody was inside, the heavy steel doors slid closed with a clank and the pod began its descent.
Eventually, everybody downstairs had located the war room, it being the only chamber down there. Everybody took their respective seats around the large stage in the center of the auditorium. In the middle of the platform sat a large hologram terminal.
No one had any idea what was going on, and carried on small discussions.
"Damn it," Tai sighed. "Davis, do you have any idea what's going on here? You said Ultimanium talked to you personally on several occaisions. Did he mention anything about this?"
Davis turned around in his seat and shrugged. "Beats me."
"How about you, Kari?" Tai asked. "You said you had dreams in which Ultimanium announced his motives.. did anything like this come up?"
Kari shook her head. "No way."
Tai fell back in his theatre chair. "Hey, these things are pretty comfy."
Ultimanium and Lord Raul phased onto the stage, in front of the terminal.
Ultimanium began to speak. "You probably don't know why you are here."
Vegeta folded his arms. "Say something stupid and you die right now."
"C'mon, Vegeta," Goku whispered. "I'm trying to listen here."
Ultimanium continued. "You were all warriors in the fighting championship held by me, Ultimanium. This fighting championship was held by me to find and chronicle the greatest warriors from your dimension... but your question is.. why?"
"This had better be good." Squall growled.
"The truth is, I didn't particularily know why. But now I do. Something happened at the end of the Ultimatum, you'll recall. I used my most powerful attack Shattered Reality on Ultramagnus to keep him from killing you all, but I fear this attack had backfired. Normally, the attack was meant to tear a temporary hole in space-time and get him through it, banishing him to a foriegn dimension, where the temporal status alone would kill him. But.. it became worse than that. Due to Ultramagnus' defense against Shattered Reality, the gate flung him much less further than I expected. He was tossed from the fourth dimension into the fifth. This meant he had some chance of returning at some point and extracting his revenge."
"Wait, wait," Gohan piped. "Wasn't that the Super Saiyan fat guy with only 4500 HP?"
Davis stood up. "Yeah, no problem! Quaterisipalimon has more HP than him! We'll fix him!"
Ultimanium bowed his head. "The problem is worse than you think, Davis."
"Huzzah?"
Ultimanium looked back up. "Alright, let's get this straight. Ultramagnus gained possession over a device of mine called the J2, a transport probe designed for traversing dimensions. In case Ultramagnus had any chance of returning like he did, I was going to go into the nearest dimensions and rig the Ultimatum so it had the exact same outcome in each dimension. However, this didn't work. Ultramagnus telepathically gained control over the J2 and redirected it to his position. I was in the fifth dimension rallying more troops for the Argetlahm crew when Ultramangus mobilized a small group of rampaging barbarians called Tediz and sent them against the monarchy of the country I was in. This is when I realized that the person I was looking for was within the government, so I raced to the presidental palace of the region and helped defend. I was able to get the single Chosen in the area to my side.
"Why don't you come out, Conker?"
Conker phased in alongside Ultimanium and looked around at the audience in front of him. "Hey, guys. Ultimanium's told me all about you."
Cloud sulked back. "A talking squirrel. In a Matrix outfit. Phasing through walls. And holding a can of beer. More sleep, Cloud, more sleep."
Ultimanium glared back at Conker. "Not in front of the kids, Conker."
Conker rolled his eyes. "...sorry." He tossed the empty can over his shoulder and rubbed his hands together. "C'mon out, guys! Coast is clear!"
Berri and Rodent phased in alongside him.
Cloud buried his head in his hands. "Less alcohol and you wouldn't be in this situation, Cloud..."
"Woohoo!" Rodent chirped. "New arrivals!"
"Like, now who are THESE people?" Berri sighed.
"Anyways, back to my story," Ultimanium laughed. "When I entered the dimension to get Conker, I built a new probe beforehand with some new features to help us out, the J3. When we got Conker, Berri, and Rodent, there were only three Chosen remaining to get in the fifth dimension. I sent out Conker to claim everybody else. Take it away, Conker."
Conker stepped forward. "Three Chosen were left... people named Serge, Karsh, and Kid. I was able to find Serge easy enough, but as I began searching for Karsh and Kid, it began apparent that Ultramagnus was trying as hard as he could to fuck things up, and..."
"We have children in the audience." Ultimanium interupted, somewhat annoyed.
"... oh, yeah, sorry. Anyways, it was clear to see that Ultramagnus was trying to screw us up. He threw some robotic cronie into the mix to stall us, but we were able to get the three Chosen back to the ship successfully. C'mon out, guys!"
Serge, Karsh and Kid phased onstage.
Lord Raul stepped up. "Serge, Karsh, Kid... meet the Ultimatum crew."
Serge and Kid waved. Karsh just kind of stood there.
"What, this is what we get? A bunch of kids and guys with weird haircuts?" Karsh shouted.
Vegeta shot up. "Silence! I am a Super Saiyan, and superior to you in every way! Pipe down or become an imprint on my boot!!"
"God, shut up already! I'll take you right now!" Karsh yelled.
Ultimanium stepped in Karsh and Vegeta's line of sight. "C'mon, guys.. cool down."
Vegeta slowly returned to his seat. Karsh turned slowly away from Vegeta's position.
"Anyways," Ultimanium stated. "Ultramagnus didn't stop there. He needed a new home. Last I heard, he has completely obliterated the domain of the third dimension and now rules over it with an iron fist. Thousands have fell at his hands. He had to be stopped. That's where you, the Ultimatum battlers, fell in. You are the only hope for this wasteland of the third dimension."
Ultimanium rose up his hands. "And that's where you are now. You all will be appointed into Ultimanium's Battalion, the strike force against Ultramagnus. You will live aboard this ship, the Argetlahm, for the next several weeks, months, years... whatever it takes to defeat Ultramagnus. I trust you with all of my resources to make a plan and strike successfully. That is all I have to say. I will..."
Gohan stuck up his hand. "Er... Ultimanium? Before you go any further, could you explain this entire dimension thing to us? I'm kind of lost here."
"Yeah, now that you mention it, I could use a refresh." Kari said.
"Me too." Cloud said.
A bright-green six-tiered structure appeared in the hologram generator.
Ultimanium turned out to his expectant crowd. "The Dimensions. Ultimanium's view."
"Alright. We all know how alternate dimensions work, right? For every choice you make in your life, there is a split right there and two seperate dimensions continue on, each with a different resolution to the problem. This continues on for any person, any body until the number of possible directions numbers virtually infinite."
"The Zeal Dimensional Theory states that while all these dimensions do in fact exist, they are not easy to traverse, with the amount of space-time bending that goes on to make bridging dimensions possible. To this extent, only dimensions three tiers up or three tiers down may be reached with Zeal machinery, and that is all that is physically possible. While the six dimensions accessible to us differ radically, they remain constant for each person, an anolomy if you will. These are known as the Six Dimensions."
"Dimensions work rather understandably... For each dimension you are in, the previous three tiers are accessible for editing, while the current dimension runs in the background and cannot be physcially affected. For example, in the fourth dimension, you can move physically freely, being a three dimensional object. And while time runs in the background and takes its toll on you, it can never truly step in and edit time as you please. The fifth dimension is similar, as well. Three dimensional movement is possible and time travel was acheived through the efforts of the Guru of Time that lived in the Zeal kingdom, a man by the name of Belthasar. He was the one that designed and implemented the technology of time travel. And the current tier, the fifth dimension, the very editing of reality itself, can be achieved partially through magic, the art of wielding the earth's elements as you please."
Kid snapped her fingers. "Yeah! You mean Elements, right?"
"Exactly."
Tai rubbed his chin. "Hey, you said Ultramagnus invaded the third dimension, right?"
"Yes."
"Well, that's probably why he would want it! He can move around in 3D as he pleases, and theoretically, time doesn't exist! He would be immortal in an enviroment like that!"
"Correct, Tai. Ultramagnus could not die of old age or hunger or any other time-related death in a world like that. And as long as he retains his power level, he would be virtually invincible."
"The third dimension itself is a wonderful place. It is easily the most technologically advanced of the dimensions, even though it does not have artifical time travel. There is no death, no poverty, every single intelligent mind ever conceived since the creation of the Earth lives. However, with Ultramagnus' recent intervention, we can't expect it to stay that way much longer." Ultimanium spoke.
"And we're all here to save the third dimension, whatever the cost." Raul added.
"Ultramagnus, upon invading the third dimension, banished the good self that ruled that world into the first dimension. However, we were able to save him before the dimensional guidelines reverted him to his linear form. C'mon out, Magnus."
Magnus shifted onto the stage. "I cannot thank you enough, Ultimanium. I will come with you on your adventure to liberate the third dimension." He shifted off.
Ultimanium grinned. "Yeah, he's pretty tired. That is all I have to say to you, heroes."
TK stood up. "Hey, Ulty. We're still in the fourth dimension, right?"
"No. We're in the first dimension. One feature of the J3 is that it is capable of setting up anti-dimensional fields while the J2 is not. Basically, as long as we stay in the first or second dimensions, Ultramagnus can't touch us."
Ultimanium grimaced. "Enough of that. I imagine you're all pretty tired from all this dimension jumping business. Back in the turbolift, one floor down. All the male bunks are down there, female bunks are below that, a training centre and the rec room are on the floor below that. Everything on that floor you can use. The last floor below that is off limits. Understood?"
Cloud smiled evily.
"Don't even think about panty raids," Ultimanium sighed. "There WILL be a barrier down there that prevents members from the opposite sex from making it to the other end of the barrier."
"Wait a minute," Davis spoke. "I can't fight without..."
"Veeeeeeeeeeemon!!!"
Davis sweatdropped to find Veemon sitting on his lap. Veemon, seeing the new audience of people to impress, hopped up on Ultimanium's stage.
"That's V for Victory! V for Valiant! V for Vicious! V for Vigorous!" Veemon wailed, while leaping into various combat poses.
"...V for Vanity. V for Vulnerability. V for Valueless." Patamon droned on.
"...where did you guys come from?" Kari asked, surprised to find Gatomon perched on her shoulder.
"We were about to ask you the same question." Gatomon gasped. Her vision danced around the quasi-theatre at the various other attendees.
"Heeeeey everybody!" Agumon shouted as he ran down the war room aisle and turned into Tai's position.
Armadillomon dropped from the celing and landed in front of Cody.
*Keyvan putts around the aisles on a moped and tosses out sheets of paper*
Goku caught a flying flier
Keyvan : How ironic.
and looked through it. "Alright, who the hell was that?"
He got no reply.
On the sheet the bunks were listed...
MENS BUNKS
1. Conker/Davis
2. TK/Lord Raul
3. Tai/Serge
4. Cody/Squall
5. Karsh/Vegeta
6. Rodent/Gohan
7. Goku
8. Cloud
WOMENS BUNKS
1. Berri/Kid
2. Kari/Gatomon
MISC BUNKS
1. Veemon/Agumon/Patamon/Armadillomon
Veemon held his sheet to his side and slapped his forehead. "Great, I'm an It."
Agumon wrapped his arms around Patamon and Veemon and brought them together in a hug. "Are we gonna be great bunk buddies or whaaaaaat?!"
Armadillomon sweatdropped. "You guys... go to your bunks and... yeah. I think I'm going to bunk with that fellow Goku."
Everybody just kind of trudged off and settled in their bunks and went to sleep. However, not one of them could shake the thought of the impending weeks ahead. Would they live through this? Happy and negative thoughts were in reach of everybody. It was all a matter of being positive. Tomorrow was going to be a big day.