Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ First Terra ❯ Paradox (They can give you a headache trying to understand them) ( Chapter 3 )

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Okay, now we get into a fun little thing called "Temporal Mechanics." Confused yet? I know I am!! The madness of time paradoxes plagues Hikari, Tailmon, Lewis, and Viscountvamdemon (I wrote FT using dub names... Why?) as they try to find the Tenth Child in... "THE WEEK FROM HELL!!"

Does Lewis sound insane?

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First Terra

Ch. 3: Paradox (They can give you a headache trying to understand them)

Prologue: If you managed to read Chapter 2 in one sitting, I congratulate you. You really got an attention span. Trust me, I will never make a chapter that long again. If I did, I could make my own novel. To recap, Lewis, Mimi, and Lilymon were finally separated, but Mimi and Lilymon weren't. They became a being referred to by the Digimon Analyzer as "Lilysapia." After a brief combat at Genai's lake, where Lewis discovered what his crest was for and what he could do using its power, they found the Enhanced Digivices and Silver Tags, along with a new Digimon Analyzer, and a Silver Digiegg with the Crest of Tranquility on it. After finding the others abducted, Mimi, Lewis, and Bukamon set out on a rescue mission. While saving the others, Lucimon attacked. Mimi was able to "Terravolve" by using her new amulet and the Shard of Martyrdom to Gaiasapia, and royally creaming that demon. Just when things looked up, Ladyshadowfiendmon, Nosferatumon, and Skulldracomon captured us yet again. During the battle, Magnaangewomon Warp Digivolved to her Giga level of Saintangewomon, and Myotismon was able to find the good in himself. His redemption allowed him to Warp Digivolve to Viscountmyotismon. Lewis, Kari, Salamon, and Viscountmyotismon were able to escape into the pillar that got Lewis in the Digital World in the first place. Meanwhile, at the Overlord's Prison/Gladiator Colliseum, Tai was forced to face Koromon, who was wearing a Dark Ring, as Skullgreymon. Remembering what a friend of Andromon said about his Shard, he fought and won. He got a shot at NeoApocalymon, but realized what a monster he would be if he killed him when he was defenseless. NeoApocalymon threw him from the top of the colliseum, where his Shard reacted and Greymon was able to break free from the Dark Ring and Terravolve to Paladingreymon. Now the Digimon Emperor, who was stolen from his time and forced into service to the Overlords, has taken Sora and rewritten her mind. Things just keep getting worse.

Lewis, Kari, and Viscountmyotismon wake up with a headache. They find Gatomon searching the kitchen for food. Lewis looks bewildered. "When did you digivolve?" "Oh, I woke up this way. You got headaches too?" Lewis says, "I feel like one of those afterschool specials where some kids took drugs, and now feeling withdrawl." Gatomon looks at him odd. "That was...... elaborate." "Well, now that akward moment is over, I say we evaluate our situation. Boy I wish we had those Marines with us. Not only would they be more useful here, but I mean, finding that Tenth child wouldn't cost me anything. Good old John Q. Public, Taxpayer, would flip the bill. Yeah, then the government would inflate the cost, screw the little man....." Kari nudges him. "You're rambling." "Sorry. When it comes to politics, I tend to do that." The door knocks. "Okay...... it's the Super. Uhh....... Gatomon, you go through the big hole in the roof and wait up there. Quickly, you two, can you fake a Jersey accent?" They shake their heads no. "Open the freakin' door or I'll open it myself!! I know you're in there." the Super says. "Maybe you'll pass for Californians." Lewis opens the door. "Hey, you. Explain the hole." He looks at it. "Uhhh... Lightning." "Listen, you should be glad you live on the top floor. If this was on any of the other floors and this bad, I'd drop kick you all the way to the Graham Courthouse. Hey, don't tell me you're letting non-lease owners live here, are you?" Lewis panics. "Uhhh.... No. This is my cousin...." pointing at Viscountmyotismon, "Drake Kamiya!! And this is his daughter, Hikari." The Super scratches his head. "Odd, I didn't know you had any foreign relatives. That name, Kamiya, sounds Japanese, and he doesn't look Japanese." Lewis begins to sweat, "Uhhhh....... hold on, I'm going to get my rent from this month." The Super yells, "Well, before I leave you better have answered me." Lewis goes to the kitchen and signals Gatomon. "I want you to go to my bathroom, and get the grey bottle from the medicine cabinet. Dab some of the contents onto a rag, then jump my Super and put it over his mouth. The chloroform usually makes him forget the last 6 minutes." Gatomon responds, "You want me to chloroform your Super because you can't answer his questions?" "Exactly!! Oswald and I always did it when we couldn't explain anything. It's like a modern version 'Three's Company,' except it's two guys and no girls. Besides, if he examind everything he'd find you." "Okay, but you owe me." She dashes to the bathroom. Lewis returns with the money. "So......" Gatomon jumps him and holds on for the wildest eight seconds of her life. After the Super passed out, Lewis drags him back to his apartment and leaves enough money to pay for 3 months' rent. "Okay, where did Genai say kid numero diez reside?" Lewis asks Kari. "He said, like us, in Odaiba." "Great, and I have only enough money for one coach ticket. The way I see it, we have four choices. One is to stowaway, but I really don't want to freeze half to death at 38,000 feet, and the security at Piedmont-Triad International in Greensboro just got improved. Second is to get jobs and earn the money, but it'll be too little, too late, because child labor laws keep you from working, you aren't human, and you," pointing at Viscountmyotismon. "Well, maybe if we can pull the wol over Uncle Sam's eyes, you could get some executive job, or, work as a hemotologist. But if we get caught, talk about the litigations and scandal, the red tape, and now we dismiss this idea. Third is to do a cross-country road trip and hope the fares are lower in California. That, or we could cross the border....... wait, that's just more fraud. Finally, we can do pot luck and use these rifts and vortexes to systematically find the one to Odaiba. Nope, wouldn't work. US military probably have gotten most of them under heavy guard, and the Overlords the same on the Digital end." Gatomon says, "Well, so far the cross-country thing sounds the best. I mean, we can work odd jobs for small-time people, make some dough, and get some sightseeing in too." Kari and Viscountmyotismon agree. "Okay, we're fighting the end of the world, we have little money, and we gotta go from Burlington, NC, to San Diego, CA, seeing as it'd be easier than going to LAX, in a very short period of time. I hope one of you can drive, because without Mimi or Lilymon in my head to keep me awake 24/7, I can only drive 16 hours before succumbing to unconsciousness. That, or we buy some really potent coffee." They pack Lewis's van up with supplies and begin to head for Interstate 40. "Ahhh........ The most direct way to the west coast. Hope there aren't many accidents." 6 and a half days later; "The direct route to the west coast. Hah. Multiple major cities, bumper to bumper traffic. Why are we doing this again?" Gatomon remarks. Lewis, now with straggly hair, black rings under his bloodshot eyes, and hundreds of whiskers on his chin, reaches in rage and starts to strangle Gatomon. "Why you little....!! I don't see you coming up with a better plan!! I haven't seen you driving for 64 straight hours with people cutting you off!!! Besides, I didn't say it was direct. I said we could take I-40 to Flagstaff, AZ, then take I-17 to Phoenix, then turn off to I-10, then to I-215 at San Bernardino, CA!!!!!!" Kari manages to poke his hand with a pin, making him release Gatomon. "Either you got a bad case of road rage, or we should of done what we had planned earlier and knocked you out back in Fort Smith, AR." The argument is stopped when a bright light is seen racing at them. "This is going to hurt." Lewis utters.

Lewis, Kari, and Viscountmyotismon wake up...... Let's just skip this part. They decide to try the roof idea again. It goes just the same as the last time, except this time as Lewis fell, he Armor Digivolved, and just in time, for his head smacked the pavement a second after Armor Digivolving. Because of the helmet, all he got was a really big knot on his head, and it made the headache worse. "Ahhhhh...... my head, " he mumbles, sitting in the parking lot as he puts as he holds a quart of milk from the Super K-Mart across over his head. "Okay, we have established that: One; a road trip won't work. Two; time keeps repeating itself. And three; we're the only ones who notice this. Now, I really hope that this is a causality loop, because they're easy to fix, as long as you have some form of temporal shielding, otherwise, everything repeats itself despite stopping the event in question. Why you ask?" Kari interrupts Lewis, "Okay, shouldn't stopping it stop the loop?" "Uh, no. This is part that blow your mind. Say for instance, that the American government had time travel ability. Now let's say that they wanted to stop World War 2 from ever happening, so they send an asassain to eliminate the leaders of the Axis Powers, and they don't have temporal shielding. The asassain is successful, now the tricky part. Because he killed them, there was no reason for him to ever go back in time, plus, much of our modern technology stemmed from military research in WW2, so time travel was never invented, along with many other pieces of technology, like the wireless phone, microwaves, and so on, which means he was never sent back in time in the first place, nullifying everything he did, and WW2 raged on, and we're back to where we started. You guys understand?" All of them looked at Lewis with their eyes wide open and their jaws dangling, with a bizarre look of idiocy over their faces. "I'm not finished. Even the number of people and the means of time travel make a signifigant impact on what happens. If one indivual up and decides to do this and knows how to re-create the means of travel, or the time travelling was accidental, and uses a means that involves no one else from the present to operate it, then all's good. Time goes on. But if even one one person or piece of technology is required in the present, then we have a causality loop, unless said parties all have a means of temporal shielding, then all is good, time flows naturally, and the shielded parties can re-introduce lost technologies. Now I'm finished." Viscountmyotismon answers, "This is the EASY problem?! I'd hate to hear what the hard one is." Lewis answers his query, "That's what is known a 'Temporal Paradox.' Excuse me for saying this, but there is no other to say this, but a Paradox is a pain in the a....... " Gatomon covers his mouth. "Echh. Cat hair. Where was I? Oh, yes. See, in a Temporal Paradox, which to help you understand, means 'Contradiction of Time,' most events that occur causality loop occur, but, an element from our future, which could anything after this point in time, our present, not the past's future, which could anything after after them but before or at this point in time, becomes involved. Take the WW2 scenario again, for instance. Say that some catastrophic event occurs, like that WW2 happens anyway, 20 years after the sniper did his job, and because of the advanced technology and that such a holocaust hadn't happened before, helping to make nations think before they act, and keeping the nations of the world isolated because there was never a need to establish the United Nations or NATO, or have the cold war to bring the downfall of Communism, they decide that WW2 must happen in the past to prevent an even greater holocaust, possibly even nuclear at some point, in their time, and to keep the Commies in check, they send a sniper to take out the first sniper. This is a very unlikely type of Paradox, where the future alters the past to fix the present. This though can be very bad if done improperly. The more likely type would if the future went to the past to stop an atrocity, and the present interfered, causing either the past or present to screw up the future, which leads back to them sending someone to fix the error, and until someone or something changes what they do significantly, it will continue forever. Usually, a paradox must be stabilized at all three major points in time to usually end it. See, that's why I hope it's the loop. Then, if we can either stop them in the present or get some temporal shielding and stop them in the past, the problem is solved." Gatomon queries, "How do you know so much about time travel?" For which he responds, "Logic, deductive reasoning, physics, and watching a whole lot of Star Trek." Kari takes the quart of milk from Lewis and puts it on her head. "Now I got a headache." Lewis laughs and jokes, "Told you it'd blow your mind."

Lewis, Kari............. skip it. You should of memorized this line by now. As soon as they escape again, this time Lewis able to land feet first. Four cycles of time pass as they brainstorm a way to find the Tenth Digidestined and fix the time problem in seven days. Most of their ideas were lemons. One idea was have Angewomon take them to Tokyo, but was ruled out due to distance. Another idea was to was take out a loan, but it bombed when they had to take a minimum of $5000 and Lewis didn't want to pay the 8% interest. He said it'd be too much trouble and it'd be bad for his credit. They even got so desperate as to suggest hijacking a 747. In fact, they tried it, but got shot down by the United States Air Force, and they all perished in a fiery wreck in the Rocky Mountains. Finally, on the last day of the ninth cycle, Lewis gets a great idea. "We'll get deported!!" Gatomon asks a good question. "How will you join us? I know we could because we weren't born here." "And you don't have green cards, either." Lewis returns. Kari asks, "What difference does it make?" "It's like this. If I can get a new identity, a least temporarily, I can fool the INS into thinking I'm a Japanese citizen who illegally immigrated to America, then I get a free ride paid for by the taxpayers too." Gatomon replies, "And just how will you pull off this masquerade?" "I figure buy a fake ID, dye my hair, and buy one of those 'Tanners in a Bottle.' If I'm right, they should believe me."

The tenth cycle was spent looking for a person willing to make a fake ID, the eleventh was spent setting up how it'd work. On the twelfth cycle. They executed the plan. Gatomon called the police, claiming to be a manager at the OfficeMax down the road near the Wal-Mart, claiming that two people came in with a child and applied for a job there. When they were checked out, they found no immigration paperwork. Minutes later, at that store, was everyone playing their respective role, and Gatomon in one of Lewis's old backpacks. Lewis, Kari, and Viscountmyotismon were thrown into a police car and taken to the Burlington Police Department HQ, where they were interrigated by INS Agents. Kari was first. "Little girl, what's your name?" She answers, "Hikari........." she remembers one of the subway stopsthey passed while they were home, and used it, because if she used her real last name, it would cause the plan to backfire. "Nerima, Hikari Nerima." The agent continues. "Okay, why and how did you come here?" "We got here by riding a boat. My uncle, Kouisoko Nerima, and his brother-in-law, Daisuke Mitoru, wanted to go to New York and get jobs in television and/or acting." "Where are you from, Hikari?" "I'm from Tokyo, sir." "Did you want to go with them?" "Yes, I did. My parents had died years earlier, and I have no other relatives that I know of." "Okay, that's all." Kari was escorted back to the holding room. Lewis giggled, "This is going to be so easy. They never found the bug. We just keep with the story, and since we have no evidence that proves that we should legally stay, we'll in Odaiba in no time." "If I could still fly, me and Angewomon could of taken shifts flying you there, but I lost that ability. We could of been there days ago, metaphorically speaking. The ability I got in its place is well worth it though. I can finally walk in sunlight without being weakened." lamented Viscountmyotismon. "Oh, don't worry. This will work." Lewis reassures. One by one, they are interrigated one by one. Each one building on the other's story. "Well, I guess we have no choice but to deport you." Lewis fakes a depressing awe. "You will taken to PTI in Greensboro, where you will be sent back to Tokyo. So far no real charges have been issued so we can release you at the terminal." INS Agents escort them to a van and drive off to Greensboro. The agent dusted the table and chair and found one of Kari's fingerprints and one of Lewis's. "Something seemed just too rehearsed about that." He starts running a profile on them. Meanwhile at the Pentagon, the now Col. Spencer starts changing Lewis's file. "You're not the only one who bugged the girl." He calls the officer who arrested them and tells him he'll be receiving a 'generous reward' from Uncle Sam. The INS agent can't believe his eyes as he looked at Lewis's file. "Multiple homicides, gun smuggling, extortion, kidnapping, treason, a member of Usama bin Laden's terrorist organization, and a known Yakuza hitman!! It's too late to apprehend him here, but I can notify Tokyo authorities." He calls Tokyo PD and tells to be on the lookout for someone arriving at the airport on an American Airlines plane, brown/black hair, about 6' 2", wearing a white shirt with khaki on the shirt's shoulders, outward part of the sleeve, and collar. He will also be wearing jean shorts and sandals, and some sort of necklace around his neck and goofy watch will be hanging on one of his belt straps. He will be accompanied by an 8-year old girl and a guy who looks too rich to have illegally emmigrated from Tokyo. He'll have fine wool dress pants, a button-up dress shirt, a royal blue crushed velvet vest, which a gold pocketwatch in the left pocket of it, these ritzy leather gloves & knee-high leather boots. They have a long list of charges here in America and across the world. I want them apprehended and returned immediately, except the girl. She is to be returned to a Mr. & Mrs. Kamiya."

On the plane, the four celebrate their genius. "Man, that was so easy!!" Lewis smirked. "Know what, I'm going to look at a paper." He has a stuartess bring him a paper. "Uh, guys. I hate to burst this bubble but we have some bad news. Apparently, the reason why the rifts are so heavily guarded is explained here." Kari looks at the paper. "'Cops Cameraman Reveals Secrets of So-Called 'Digital World' to the Public.'" Lewis answers, "Well, if he caught you on tape, then we pretty much won't be able to keep a low profile anymore, or need to. Hey, " he pulls a portable TV out of his pocket. "Good thing I brought this." He looks at his digivice. "I got an idea." He accesses main control and inserts his crest. "If it could reconfigure Izzy's computer to scan an increased range and clamp on to it, would it work on the TV antenna?" He removes the antenna and opens the bottom part of the digivice and configures it to 'Scan Port.' After a silverish light scans the hole where the antenna was, it produces a similar-shaped node and jack into the TV. The screen on the TV starts glowing. The digivice screen, the triangular points connected to it, and everything above the screen split off from the main digivice, raised up on supports, and became perpendicular to the TV. The screen lined up with the tag and crest, and the other piece of digivice. The silver triangular sections pointed skyward and began rotating around the digivice screen. A pulse flashed from the digivice screen and the TV turned on. Kari looks at the digivice, "I don't know why Genai didn't give us these to start off with?" On the screen was a list of nations and the date & time in Eastern Daylight Time. A small arrow pad formed to the right of the screen. "Hmmm. 7:58 PM EDT, Saturday, August 5, 2000. Let's just see if that cameraman blew your cover, or if the government shut them down." He selects the United States, then a list of major networks on broadcast TV showed up. Lewis selected FOX. The screen said, "Downloading satellite feed............." The digivice finally hooks up in time to catch the night's program listing. They hear the FOX announcer say, "Tonight on FOX, catch a unique and all new episode of Cops, followed by a new episode of America's Most Wanted: America Fights Back, and late night tonight, watch Mad TV's 'Best of '99' edition. Be sure to catch the season premier Sept. 30. Now a new episode of Cops on FOX." After the screen goes black and the parental discretion disclaimer goes off, the infamous Cops intro is heard. A line of text rolls at the bottom of the screen. 'To store in digivice for later review, push the top button on your digivice now.' Lewis pushes the top button. Two symbols flash in the upper-left corner. One is the Crest of Tranquility (Oh, I should of mentioned this earlier. The Crest of Tranquility looks like, you know the big diamonds pointing diaganally [At a 45 degree angle {Sue me, I can't spell diaganal right.}.] in the Crest of Light? Take the one pointing up and to the right and the one pointing down and to the left, along with the circle in the center, and overlap with a yin-yang, being sure the corners of the diamonds are tangent to the outer edge of the yin-yang, and the circles in the yin-yang moved so they line up vertically with the bigger Crest of Light like circle, and all of this is in silver.) and the other one beside it is a circle, which on VCR's represents Record. The narrator's voice is heard. "Cops in the Digital World. Cops is filmed on location with the men and women of Law Enforcement." Lewis says as he waits for the commericials to pass, "Well, now it's do or die." Cops returns. On the screen it says, '4:18 PM CDT; Dallas, Texas; Stolen Car. The cop starts talking, "One of the hardest we got to do is stop carjackers. Almost all car thefts end in some form of high-speed chase." The radio says, "This suspect described has prior and current car theft charges, along with 3 counts of assault. The license of the stolen car is 'LVX-7912.'" He grabs the radio on his shoulder. "Yeah, 10-4. I have a visual of suspect, heading west onto I-20. Request backup." Not far away is a Texas State Trooper. He joins the pursuit. About two minutes of chasing him on I-20, one of the vortexes appear. "What the........." Static fills the screen for a moment. When the picture comes back, it shows Wargreymon and Lilymon fighting the 7 Overlords. He next heard is the cameraman saying, "Toto, we're not is Kansas anymore." He continues to record he battle and the transpiring events. He continues to records up the point just before they were teleported away. Over the speaker you can hear screams, machine gun fire, explosions, and the policeman he was with calling for SWAT and military backup. The tape blacks out again. It cuts back on at the Koromon village, just before the fight with Col. Spencer." Lewis is saying, "So far, the damage has been..... acceptable." Then what he feared worst happened. He got a perfect shot of Kari and the others, and the fight with Col. Spencer was odd. The tape started just as he said, "I'm going to have to all courtmartialed for your insubordinance!!" and then the fight broke out. "Great, nothing incriminating on him. If only that tape cut back on earlier...." Gatomon laments, watching from the overhead compartment. The pilot speaks over the intercom, "We'll be landing in Tokyo in approximately 5 minutes. Please return to your seats and put on your seat belts, close your trays, and bring your seats to the upright position. Thank you." A stuartess is in the back unloading a cart while watching a on-board TV in the back with a satellite hookup. It's tuned to one of the FOX cable affiliates. On their is the same episode of Cops Lewis and the others are watching. One of the other stuartesses comes back and asks her, "Do you know where the passengers Hikari Nerima, Kouisoko Nerima, and Daisuke Mitoru were sitting?" She nods her head. "Well, the pilot was just informed by Tokyo PD that they're real names are Hikari Kamiya, Lewis Wick, and the other guy had no information, and that we needed to detain them until they could apprehend them." The other stuartess said, "Isn't there supposed to be a security officer on all flights?" The answer she got was, "Yes, but he won't be enough. He'll need help keeping them there." The stuartess takes one last look at the TV screen before turning it off and sees another shot of Kari and some of the others. "Hey, wait. That's one of them, that little girl. She's with those two guys. What's going on here?" She turns off the TV.

As the plane lands, the guard and the stuartesses surround their seats. Lewis disengages the digivice and puts it back on his belt. "What's going on here?" The guard points his revolver at Lewis. The guard yells, "Uh, you... Lewis Wick, you and the guy will stay here until Tokyo PD can board the plane and take you into custody." The stuartess asks, "And what's the deal with being on Cops and this Digital World that cameraman was talking about?" Lewis and Kari stand up. Lewis tells Kari, "Well, the secret's out. We got 4 and a half days to find the other digidestined before we got to go through all this again, so you thinking what I'm thinking?" Kari says, "Time to let the cat out of the bag." Lewis hits the gun from the guard and opens the overhead compartment. Gatomon pounces out and knocks over the stuartesses. The pilot picks up the gun and fires at Lewis.

"DigiArmor Energize!!"

"Lewis, Ninth Digidestined Armor Digivolve to Daimyosapien!!"

The bullets pings of the plate mail, but leaves a hole in it. Kari looks at him and says, "I still don't get how you can do that?" To which Lewis answers, "Later. That hole that bullet made leaves my heart vulnerable to gunfire, and this chain mail too weak of a metal to do any good. Chain mail, besides, is really meant to protect from melee weapons, not ranged weapons." He turns his attention to the personnel. "If you want me," he pulls his giant katanas out from their scabbards, "..... Come and get me." His swords discourage the stuartesses to near him. Gatomon wrestles the gun away from the pilot. She hurls it into the air.

"Lightning Paw!!"

The gun falls to the floor in pieces. She turns and sees the police running in. "Let's cheese it!!" she yells. Viscountmyotismon hurls a Viscount Bolt at an emergency exit and they run out it and take 18' plunge to the ground. As he falls, he sees emergency vehicles surrounding the plane. He sees a way past the vehicles and then lands on his feet. He runs and bounds up the side of a police car, and past the cars. Gatomon and Viscountmyotismon pursue. Gunfire begins. Lewis puts Kari down and turns around. A bullet is heading straight for him. He raises his swords up, and then it happens. Kari utters in shock, "He's digivolving again...."

"Daimyosapien Demi-Digivolve to Samurisapien!!"

He wields his Murasame, a heavier, larger type of katana, at the bullet and cut it in half. Kari is surprised to see Lewis in a cuirass, samurai style shouder plates, wrist guards with retractable claws, a shield and a bow & quiver of arrows on his back, spiked knucles in his hands, reinforced titanium alloy shin plates, titanium chain mail and studded leather all over his body, and a samurai helmet with all the accessories, including a traditional samurai face mask that can also slide into the helmet when he doesn't need it. He puts his sword away and draws his bow.

"Imperial Arrow!!"

Halfway to the target, the arrow starts to ignite. It hits a SWAT van and blows it up. Lewis puts the bow away and grabs Kari. "Let's get out of here." They run to the fence and Gatomon claws it down. "We fugitives now. We'll have to find the Tenth Digidestined of the run." Lewis says to everyone. "Good thing we have these. With the old ones, we would never find them. He inserts his crest and activates the tracking mode. "Ha, HA!! We have a ping!!" Lewis laughs. "Our digidestined is on the 17th floor of an apartment building 1.3 miles west of here. Kari, the map shows a sign out in front of the building, and don't know a lick of Japanese. Could you translate?" Kari takes a look at it. "It looks like 'The Nakano Plaza.'"

Minutes later, they come to a busy street. Lost, confused, and nervous, Lewis asks for directions to the building. No luck. Finally, one guy answers their question. "Go half a kilometer north on this street, go left for 1.5 kilometers, and north again for 90 meters. Say, why are you dressed like that?" the citizen asks. Lewis says, "Uhhh... This? This is the costume I wear for a movie. The movie is about..... time travellers, and the costume ran late, and today is the first day we film on location, and I lost the map." the citizen walks off saying, "Okay, whatever." Everyone starts going by the instructions when Lewis yelled, "It's METRIC!!" Viscountmyotismon looks at him and tells him, "Don't make a scene. We don't the police after us again." For which Lewis answers, "I know, but he had to give me the distance in metric. I'm an American, and we Americans use the English Customary System. This is going to take a moment." Kari looks over. "We don't have a moment, Lewis!!" she points at the battalion of squad cars and SWAT vans heading their way. "I got it!! Go 1630 feet north." Everyone ran as fast as they could, but at their turn were jeeps and SWAT vans. "Down this way, about a mile, something in the range of 4920 feet." Gunfire, both single-shot and automatic, ripped through the air. They see the building and charge in. Not having the time to wait for an elevator, they climb the flights of stairs to the 17th floor. Kari holds out her digivice. "Room 1734, quickly!! There's an evil digimon is the room now!!" Lewis picks up Kari and Gatomon and accelerates to over 100 MPH!! "I have no idea how, but I just set a new world record for the 100 meter dash." As they approach the door, a man flies through the door, and him and the door hit the wall. Lewis stops to check on him. The man said, "That monster.... taking my daughter........" he passes out. "Let's move him out of the hall and onto the floor." Kari says. They drag him in and see this grotesque half-rotted digimon with air bladders, squid-like head, wolf-like jaw and hundreds of sharp fangs in it, six eyes, a long scaly neck, four muscular arms, four insectoid legs, a foul stench, and flailing tendrils, some with various heads on them and some that were like squid tentacles, in its back, one of which was holding a tall, blond girl about Joe's age wearing shorts, sandals, and an orange tank top. "Need some Q & A, Gatomon." Lewis stutters. "That's FrankensteinRaremon. He's part wolf, part spider, part squid, part fish, part dragon, and hundreds of other parts that nobody has any idea what they are. Nobody knows who or what made it, but we know this. He can't be reasoned with, because he has a brain the size of a walnut. He follows only instinct and conditioning." "Yay. How fun." Lewis sarcastically speaks. "Medical science has gone too far." FrankensteinRaremon throws a piece of girder at them, fills his air bladders, and flies off.

"Gatomon Warp Digivolve to Magnaangewomon!!"

"Sacred Arrow!!"

The girder splits in two and slams into the walls, causing the walls to buckle and begin to collapse. "Quickly, everyone out. I'll hold up the ceiling until the rooms above this one are evacuated. Then I can safely release the ceiling." Kari and Viscountmyotismon herd the mother and unconscious father away from that area of the 17th floor. Kari comes back to tell Lewis to get out too while Viscountmyotismon warns residents of the collapsing wall. People are moved away from the possible area where the debris will land. "Get out. You won't be able to help Magnaangewomon that much if you get crushed." Lewis looks at her and says, "I can get to him." he runs up to the roof over the 20th Floor. "What are you doing? You can't fly." "But I'm gonna try really hard to. Listen, when that digiegg infused with me, I felt this overwhelming sense of calm and peace of mind, like I can do anything. It seems to have followed me back to the Real World. Now, somebody must stop that atrocity and save that girl, for she is the Tenth Digidestined. Now, let me do what I have to. Join me when the people are cleared." He walks to the edge away from where FrankensteinRaremon busted into the building, and then charged in his direction. While he did his, he began to worry if Kari was right. As the approached the edge, he remembered how Oswald said that the Digital World reminded him of The Matrix, and just a millisecond before the jump, he recalled the most important line from that movie: 'Free your Mind.' Then everything made sense. He truly understood the purpose of his Crest, the serenity he had been feeling, his rage and worry dissipating, and he jumped.

"Samurisapien Focus Digivolve to Hypersapien!!"

He jumped, and instead of becoming street pizza, he landed on the building across the street, wearing a robe and cloak, golden Chromadigizoid plate mail which looked futuristic, and carrying multitudes of weapons on his body. He continued to leap from building to building, catching up with each jump to that monstrocity with the Tenth Digidestined. The chase led all the way back to Highen View Terrace, where a rift laid open in the sky. Lewis sees FrankensteinRaremon and two other shadowy figures , but the light from the gateway was too bright to let him make them out. To get the beast's attention, he throws......... a rock. Although not the best weapon of choice, it got the point through. "Hey, who stupid whatever you are, over here!!" Lewis yells. FrankensteinRaremon roars a roar that sounded like every animal that ever was in the known world screaming at once. The long serpent-like body flew over to him and he started trying to stomp him from the air with his sharp legs. "Sucker!!" Lewis yells, as he throws a boomerang, cutting off the tendril holding the girl. "Now to meet my little friend!!" He pulls out a Minigun from over his shoulder.

"5mm Mayhem!!" Lewis chants.

Bullets of random elements fly from the barrels, hundreds of shells falling to his feet in seconds. FrankensteinRaremon's air bladders burst, forcing him onto the rooftop. "Oh, look who can't fly anymore." Lewis mocked him. Franky (We'll refer to FrankensteinRaremon as this since I don't feel like typing his name anymore) started spewing out an icey ink from his mouth. Lewis dodged it and watched part of the roof reach absolute zero and shatter from contracting so tightly. Franky then started growing these tumors all over its body. "Ew, nasty. I gotta stop this." He pulls out some grenades.

"Atomic Grenades!!" Lewis calls.

Some of the tumors disintegrate, but most of them fall off and start rolling at Lewis. "What can a bunch of cancerous pus sacs do to........." They explode all around him, leveling the roof and causing Lewis to fall in on a business meeting. Lewis fell through the office table and had suffered second degree burns. "Oh, now you're gonna pay." he says. Lewis leaps at him wearing his spiked knuckles.

"Fists of Fury!!"

Lewis lands nearly 70 punches into Franky's skull, if you could call it that. Franky got up and started shooting dagger-like hairs at Lewis. He leaned to the right, bent backward, swung to the left, backflipped, and rolled forward to dodge the supersonic hairs. Lewis pulls out a 25' foot long sword from the robe.

"Masamune Thrust!!" Lewis screams.

He manages to sever many of Franky's tendrils. One of the figures comes to the building. It's Rookpiedmon. "FrankensteinRaremon, go home." Rookpiedmon claps his hands twice. Franky climbs down the building he's on and climbs up the other and jumps into the rift. "Well, now that the bumbling brute is out of the way, I can destroy the ninth and tenth Digidestined without the dramatics."

"Rook Lance!!"

"Atomic Grenades!!"

Rookpiedmon misses, but he catches Lewis's grenades. "Hmmm, nice toys. Here. You can have them back. There not my style." He throws them back at Lewis and they all hit. His armor melts in places and his burns are worse. Lewis gets up and pulls out his Minigun.

"5mm Mayhem!!"

"Neat. I'd never believe that a human could fight back like a Digimon unless I witnessed it, and it looks like I just did."

"King-Castle Raze!!"

Giant boulders come out of the ground and fly up side by with Lewis. The first two he jumps up 40' and dodge, the second set he backflips and barely evades, the third set crushes his legs, along with the fourth and fifth. "But in the end, you are merely a human, nothing more, and you will be squashed like a human." The remaining boulders grind away at a colossal boulder, which as it sharpens the bottom to a point, throws the rubble on him. After it becomes super sharp, it starts to drop. The girl, hiding under the broken table says, "You've saved my life, now it's time to repay that favor." She darts out and pulls Lewis clear by his cloak as he sits shooting with pistols he pulled from the robe at Rookpiedmon. The bullets ping off his Megadigizoid Armor. "Your .45 caliber slugs are nothing compared to this."

"Death Card........."

"Ahhhhh....... Owww!! My hand!! You shot my hand!! You better have a good HMO!!" Then an arrow of light hits Rookpiedmon in the chest. "Must be that annoying Angewomon." Magnaangewomon slaps her head at his stupidity. "Boy is he behind in current events."

"Magnaangewomon Warp Digivolve to Saintangewomon!!"

"Binding Essence!!"

"Viscount Bolt!!"

The chains of light holds Rookpiedmon in place, and he takes the Bolt. "Ahh, so an old angel can learn new tricks. I'd clap if it weren't for this infernal light. And you, you look familiar? Myotismon, wasn't it. Didn't you have delusions of grandure that you couldn't make real because of these brats, and now you fight beside them. Hah, talk about your irony." To which Viscountmyotismon responded, "It's Viscountmyotismon now, and it was digimon like you and NeoApocalymon that made me realize what a monster I was, and her forgiveness was what helped me change."

"Noble Edge!!"

His sword makes a cut over Rookpiedmon's face. "Besides, I'm hungry." He puts a vial under his cut and collects some of his blood. Rookpiedmon finally breaks free and begins flying off. "I'll be back. Oy, I feel a little woozy. Come, Colonel." The other figure got into a Harrier jet and lifted off. On his way to catch up to Rookpiedmon, he took a strafe with his 20mm cannons. 3 bullets hit Saintangewomon and she reverts to Gatomon. Lewis returns to normal. The police start surrounding the building. SWAT teams swarmed up the stairs. When it looked like Lewis and Viscountmyotismon wer going to spend multiple life sentences for crimes they didn't commit, something came through the vortex. "It's Megakabuterimon!!" Kari yells in joy. "Boy, when he heard all the action from our side, everyone figured you guys could use some help getting back, so Izzy sent me." He picks everyone up. "Hey, who's the screaming girl?" "She's the Tenth Digidestined. You find the Tenth Digimon?" Lewis said, groping his legs. "It seemed too easy. This old digimon told us to look for an old metal friend. Matt didn't trust him and has went searchng on his own. The last place we detected him was on a nearby mountain."

They pass through the portal. Mimi healed up Lewis's wounds. "Stop getting hurt. I'm not a trained medical doctor. I'm not even an HMO doctor. Geez, you get hurt more than my baby brother. At least the only thing wrong with you this time are that your legs were broken in 83 places, major contusions near your trechea and upper chest, second degree burns over your torso, maybe a slipped disk from the last battle, some head trauma, and mild radiation poisoning. No biggie." "I could of guessed that. We miss anything?" Mimi takes his question to the others as insult. "What, insult me? I just patched you up, and I didn't even charge you, and you insult me!!" "Hello, Mimi, I wasn't talking to you. I was asking if the five of us need to know anything that we missed." "Oh, okay. In that case, as you already heard, we got a great tip on who the 10th Digimon is. The tip was 'An old metal friend.' I keep on telling them it's most likely Andromon, but they say that's too obvious. Matt has gone AWOL with Gabumon, Sora has disappeared, meaning Yokomon can't digivolve, and Botemon over there has Terravolved twice in the last few days to his Terra level of Paladingreymon to fend off Dark Rings and armies led by this 'Masked Empress.' I don't like the feeling of this at all." Lewis answers. "Well, we have another problem. In 4 days, time will repeat itself, and me, Kari, Gatomon, and Viscountmyotismon are the only ones who seem to be unaffected when the loop restarts." Mimi giggles, "You give them the lecture on time, didn't you? Did it blow their minds?" "Did it ever.... Kari got a headache she was so confused. It looks you and me are the only ones who get it. Back to the point at hand. You got any idea what the Overlords could be doing?" Lewis asked. "Nope." "Well, somebody's gotta go...." he is interrupted by Izzy, who asks for his digivice to see what digimon they encountered. "Hey, Izzy. Have you fully explored the capabilities of version 2.0?" "No, I haven't really....." Lewis takes the computer and opens up the program. He looks up time in the index of digimon. The computer screen shows a list of names. After combing through it for a couple of minutes, he notices something in common with most of them. "Most of these digimon had or use the Ice elemental as well." He postulates a question to the computer. "If it were possible, what would be the next likely step in Gabumon's digivolvution?" A screen popped up. Everyone could hear him yell, "Woohoo!! The timeline is saved!! Now I gotta find Matt!!" Lewis runs off towards the mountain.

What was the discovery made that Lewis was so eccentric over? Can he find Matt in time? Who is this 'Masked Empress?' Is this a causality loop or a paradox? Can they fix it? Find out in First Terra: Chapter 4-Healing!!