Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Of Doors and Data ❯ Decissions ( Chapter 1 )

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I don't own Digimon itself, or characters associated with it. But if I make one of them up I own his/her/it's name and characteristics. The same goes for other new characters. Odds are I wont in this story, but I will someday. `) I also own chapter names, unless somebody sues me because they though of it first, but rest assured, I tried to be original. Same goes for story titles.

Wait a minute...I don't make any money from doing this any way.

Just a little *NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR*

This story takes place pretending that the movies didn't happen, because being American, I'm woefully uninformed about the two season three oriented movies that came out in Japan. I've read reviews, but not one of them said how the digimon got back to the real world. If anybody knows, I'd appreciate it, and if you have Japanese friends, could you introduce me? Just kidding, sort of...

Before you flame me because of incorrect names/descriptions, remember that I'll be updating this and changing a lot of things. Like the MarineAngemon & Calumon dedigivolution conflict.

One last thing, constructive criticism is welcome. I prefer to use the Japanese names for the humans, but I'm guaranteed to screw up a bunch of them, so leave me a message with corrections some time!

Thanks for dealing with me everybody, and remember to R&R!

Chapter 1: Decisions

With a number of loud thuds and a plume of smoke, the living projectiles landed. Through the cloud, small coughs could be heard, weak and feeble. As the dust settled, the shapes of several small Digimon appeared. The nine small creatures began to gather up their strength, and get a hold of themselves. Pokomon, the In-Training level digivolution of the better known Renamon shook herself off and looked around.

Several of her comrades were unconscious, their weakest forms greatly effected by their entrance to the digital world. She went over to Hopmon and Gigimon, the dedigivolved forms of Monodramon and Guilmon and said, in a much higher pitched voice than usual, "we had better get the rest of them up, we need to see how soon we can move." It was true. The desert that was the lowest level of the digital world had seemed barren and dangerous before, but now they were alone, without tamers to help them, and in their weakest forms. To make things worse, after the onslaught of the D-Reaper, the land was decimated. Only small patches of sky could be seen through the black clouds of smoke, a byproduct of the destruction suffered at the hands of the D-Reaper. Worse though, Pokomon could see further, beyond some of the clouds, where there were no clouds at all. The space was more than black, worse than black. It was empty of all substance, like looking into a black hole. There were also places where she could see straight through to other levels of the digital world. `Those lands must have been completely destroyed in and of themselves by the D-Reaper,' Pokomon thought. "We have to get out of here."

Even through the heart rending separation from her tamer, Pokomon retained her cool, calm exterior.

"You said it," Gigimon replied. He and Hopmon hurried over to the others and began to rouse them from their unwanted and potentially dangerous sleep. Pokomon walked over to the two farthest craters and noticed Calumon and MarineAngemon sitting up and looking around. "Why did you two not dedigivolve?" asked Pokomon.

"Gosh, I guess I just don't have a lower level to dedigivolve to," Calumon said, scratching the back of his head. He was sort of embarrassed at his lack of digimon traits. The same had happened when he had tried to use some kind of special attack against a mocking Impmon and had looked like a contorting fool in the process.

MarineAngemon uttered a string of, "Pipipipipipii PiiiiPi Pi," but Pokomon understood it as, <Though my form has not changed, I feel that my strength has been drained out of me.>

"Looks like everybody's awake now Pokomon!" Hopmon yelled from a few meters away. Pokomon looked over to see Gummymon, once Terriermon, Chocomon, once Lopmon, Kapurimon, once Guardromon, and Yaamon, once Impmon getting up and dusting themselves off. The three walked over to the group of six, and they plopped down to get their bearings.

"It's clear that we cannot stay here. The damage done to the digital plane seems to be greatest here, and the land itself is could be unstable," Pokomon said, and as if on cue, a small plateau in the distance began to phase in and out of existence. "There is no telling how long we'll be able to stay here, and if the damage done to the digital world will effect us."

"Hey toots, that's easy for you to say, but look at us! We're all weak from the landing and that damned Juggernaut program, where will we go?" Yaamon exclaimed.

"I hate to say it, but he has a point for once," Kapurimon noted.

"Yeah, and I'm tired," complained Chocomon.

"And I'm hungry!" seconded Gigimon.

Pokomon's eye twitched, and a bit more edgily she looked around and said, "This is no place for a debate, we have to get to safer ground. The land over there looks less damaged, lets head over and rest, then we can argue all you want," and with that Pokomon started walking off in that direction, towards the small patch of blue in the distance.

Gummymon looked over at the sulking group as they trudged off after Pokomon, and he said, "Moumantai you guys! There's nothing we can do for now, so lets just go and figure out what to do later!"

The gang grumbled a response, and Gummymon got a little discouraged. `Gosh, that always works, seems like these guys are really down. I wish Jenrya were here, he'd have been cheered up,' Gummymon thought, his own mind beginning to darken. Just then he realized that he had fallen behind the group. "WAIT FOR ME YOU GUYS!" he exclaimed as he hopped after the group.

~*~

The ragtag group of digital midgets hopped, walked, and floated to their destination, a small oasis with a cave about three miles from their landing point. The nine exhausted creatures collapsed after drinking their fill of the water and few plants around. Pokomon and Calumon had to restrain Gigimon from eating all the food, they might need it for later.

After a good rest, Pokomon realized that they had all passed out, and that the rest of the group was still out cold. Though they needed the rest, Pokomon had to rouse them. She splashed water from the lake to cool them and jar them awake at the same time. "Get up, we all need to talk."

The groggy bunch slowly got up, and shook themselves off. "Dammit why'd you have to wake me up, I was having this great dream about these two armored lady digimon. Why they were so good looking you couldn't compete foxy," Yaamon jibed. Pokomon looked at him, and instead of shooting back a scathing retort, she ignored him and got down to business.

"There is no way we will last long in our current state. We have to digivolve, or get off this plane. Preferably both. Any suggestions?" Pokomon asked.

"Hey you guys, don't you forget that MarineAngemon here is a Mega level, and if trouble comes along he can take care of it!" Gummymon said, with obviously forced cheerfulness. He couldn't even get a `Moumantai' out.

<I hate to say this, but I'm much weaker than before we landed. The only reason I didn't dedigivolve is because I'm a Mega level, but that just means that I had that much more energy to lose. Fact is, I'm not sure if I'm much stronger than you guys are now,> MarineAngemon sighed.

"Great, so our last hope was a pink pixie who can't even fight any more? And now we don`t even have that??" Yaamon gripped to himself.

"Hey you guys, stop fighting, we have to stick together in a situation like this. Didn't we just spend days fighting the D-Reaper together?" Gigimon reminded them all, and continued, "Calumon, can you help us to digivolve?"

"Oh gosh, I almost forgot all about that! Let me see what I can do," and with that Calumon held his paws together and stared to hum. The markings on his head began to glow, and energy filled the room. Just before the red light hit it's climax of brightness, suddenly there was an ebb in the power emanating from Calumon. His body visibly sagged while the power he had been generating dispersed uselessly into the air. As his strength drained out of him, Calumon collapsed as the markings on his head returned to normal. Everybody stood frozen, until Hopmon bounced over and helped him up.

"...What the HELL was that?" Yaamon finally yelled.

Calumon looked dazed, trying to get his bearings as the cave spun around him. "Ugh, I don't feel so good you guys. My head hurts," Calumon said, and the effort it took to talk seemed to drain him even more. As he started to collapse again, Hopmon helped him up and MarineAngemon led him back down to the waterhole.

While this was going on, Pokomon had been thinking. `So this is how the Juggernaut program effected Calumon. Since he had no lower level to dedigivolve to, his ability to digivolve other creatures must have been damaged. Or perhaps his energy is just too low to use it effectively.' "Since we can't digivolve yet, and since we have no real muscle behind us, I suggest we wait here until we all get our strength fully back and then move on. But I still can't believe that we will never see our partners again," Pokomon lamented. `I don't know what I'll do without Ruki now, my entire life revolved around her, first her as her partner in battle then as her friend...I miss her more than I thought I could...And it hasn't even been a whole day yet.'

"Yeah, I don't know what I'll do without Ryo...We spent years together...where are we going to go from here?" Hopmon contemplated. "I don't mean where will we actually go, I mean, what are we going to without our tamers?" The question hung in the air like a fog, clouding over the minds of the small digimon. Even Yaamon, usually the cynical sarcastic one was being serious.

"Well I don't think it matters, I know that I'll see Takato again," Gigimon declared, lifting his chin up.

"And how do you know that?" Chocomon asked.

"Because he promised we could play together again, that's all!" Gigimon replied, very self-confident.

`Gee, I don't know if it will go along as smoothly as he thinks...but I don't want to crush his dream, we're going to need that kind of motivation,' Chocomon thought. "But how can we get back to them?" Chocomon asked, "even though I hated her little treatments, playing house and such, I still miss Suichon."

"Yeah, and though I hate to admit it, those two little kids, Ai and Makato started to grow on me," Yaamon put in, "I never really got the chance to have a real tamer like you guys all did."

Pokomon stopped quietly observing and finally said, "So is that it then? Do you all want to get back to them?" As everybody nodded, (or for some leaned forward and back again).

"Great, lets go!" Kapurimon exclaimed, starting for the entrance of the cave.

Pokomon stopped him, saying, "It is not as simple as that."

"What do you mean?" Kapurimon asked, his tail twitching in irritation at having his momentum thrown off.

"What I mean is," Pokomon explained, "Is that we can no longer exist in the real world. Because of the Juggernaut program, we were all altered so that we cannot stay where we are not constantly surrounded by data. Without it, our bodies will continue to weaken until we are deleted entirely."

"Oh...well...then how the hell am I supposed to see Ai and Makato again? And what about everybody else? And Juri, I just can't believe that she'll just make a miraculous recovery from that whole incident." Yaamon worried to himself. He thought of the look in her eye when she forgave him, that almost empty look in her eyes as she nodded...He had been too happy she had forgiven him that he hadn't given it much thought at the time. But on second thought, he wondered how much she had recovered, or if she had at all. Plus she had all those issues with her dad to work out...

"Moumantai everybody! We'll figure out a way!" Gummymon said, Interrupting Yaamon's unhappy thoughts. Forcing a smile, Gummymon tried to convince himself in the face of mountains of evidence against him that he'd be able to get back to Jen.

"Yeah, I'm with Gummymon," Gigimon seconded.

"Well I hate to say this but It's unrealistic to think we can just waltz back to the real world and I think we all see that," Pokomon said, swishing her tail as if that ended the conversation, "So the only thing we can do now is to build up our strength and prepare to go out and seek a passage to the only ones who could truly help us."

"Who's that?" a tired Calumon asked, being helped back into the cave by MarineAngemon.

Pokomon paused, taking her own advice and settling back down for a nap, before replying, "The Digimon Sovereign."

Well there's the end of chapter 1. I have a pretty good idea as to how this is going to go on, but good advice is always welcome, so write me a review if you so wish. Next chapter coming up soon, but I have an encyclopedia entry to write, plus a reflection on two books I haven't yet read, so I may get tied up some time soon. Until then, moumantai!