Altered Path 2

Aww, Thanks you guys. I never knew how much reviews actually meant for an author until today. (August 21, 2007) I’ve been feeling really euphoric all day, on an otherwise solemn first day of high school.

To reply to some reviews:

Brightshadow 5: Thanks for the compliment, but in all honesty, there are a few good rukato’s that stay sorta on plot, but if you think that, then it’s your opinion.

Ruki44: again, thx. I didn’t think I was that funny, but thx for the confidence boost.

Frozen Twins: I’ll try to be better about the scene changes from now on. Oh, and about that pairing, I would do it, except for the fact that she isn’t going to end up in that world.

Kuroy: Expect to see more from me later as I develop more skill (hopefully) and find the ability to trust my work and use more of my already thought up plots.

Lord Pata: Thx. I’ll put into consideration your votes.

Alright. Now that that’s over with, I have somethin’ to say. I was thinking of making this into a sort of Author’s universe type thing. You’ll understand more at the end of the story. I appreciate the favs and alerts people have given me. I won’t beg for reviews, or try to force reviews for chapters like some people do, but I would ask if you could kindly review. Oh and just to tell you now, this’ll probably be my last disclaimer for the story, unless I need to do it.

Oh and about the girl’s hair, I used wrong color. Her hair is actually aqua, not sea-green.

Matt’s thoughts

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or The mystery people that I use (or their show.).
“Owee, ow ow, that weally hurt.”

Rubbing her head, Suzie stood up and looked around, trying to get an understanding of where she was (which isn’t the easiest thing to do when you’re 7 years old in a digital desert). Making sure to get the sand out of her eyes, she called to her companion.

“Wopmon? Wopmon! Where are you?”

BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!BEEP!

Reaching into her pocket, she pulled out her D-ark, which was the source of the beeping, and bared a toothy grin.

“Yay, a map, a map! This must be where Wopmon went to.” Following the arrow, Susie sauntered through the sand and rocks. After walking for about 7 minutes, she came across a dense forest nestled near the border of the desert. Wanting to find her friend, although confused as to why she would just abandon her like that, she marched fearlessly into the unknown jungle, and she soon came across a clearing. But apparently, it wasn’t empty.

‘Ooh, maybe they know where Lopmon is?’ As she walked farther into the clearing, she squealed at the totally cute sight.

‘Aww, that’s so cute! o-o’ She tried to be sneaky so she could closer, put tripped over a huge (roll eyes now) rock.

Clam! Bam! Boom!

The clatter she caused while falling onto the logs and rocks piled in the center was enough to wake up the other people at the site.

“HEY, what’s going on!!?” Looking over to the side, she saw a really tall boy with a blue bandana on atop his even bluer hair. He was glaring at her, already fully awake and standing, while the others were still trying to stop there hearts from racing.

“I’ll ask you again, WHAT’S GOING ON!” He screeched.

“Wow, you’re just like the Angwy kid.”

“ANGRY? I’ll show you angry!” Feeling a hand on his shoulder, the boy turned around, only to come face to drowsy-face with a sleepy JP.

“Hey, chill out Kouji, she’s just a- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!” If he wasn’t awake before he definitely is now! It seems he finally noticed the sleeping couple. Running over to the log, he grabbed the slowly waking Takuya by the scruff of his neck and started to shake him!

“What…do…you…think…you’re…doing!?” He seethed.

“I don’t know what you mean!” The boy in question replied, his voice a little shaky from the… well, shaking.

“You know what I mean! How dare you slip away in the middle of the night and take advantage of poor Zoë?”

Blushing in embarrassment-and a little anger at the accusation- Takuya tried to pry the giant hands off of his shirt, to no avail. “I didn’t do anything, JP, I was on watch duty last night and-“

“And apparently not doing it right.” Everyone turned to see Bokomon, Patamon already tucked in his warmer, still asleep. “The point of watch duty is exactly that, to lookout for any enemies, not cuddle up with Zoë time.”

“Wow, you have weally Pwetty haiwe.” Turning again, the boys saw Susie playing with Zoë’s- who was already awake- golden hair, twisting and curling it in weird fashions. There was a tangible tension in the air as they gazed upon the stranger in uneasiness. Seeing as the others were too distraught to do it, a short brown haired kid decided to step up to the plate.

Walking over to the girls, Tommy introduced himself. “Hi, I’m Tommy, What’s your name?” Blushing, the little girl just stared, not at his face, but a little higher.

‘That’s a weally big hat! (0.o)’ Focusing back on the boy, Suzie answered. “My name is Suzie…” She shuffled her feet nervously as she waited for them to yell again. Surprisingly enough, it never came.

Zoë chuckled at the little exchange. “Well, Suzie, my name is ‘Zoë’, the ‘angwy' one is Kouji-Kouji humphed and turned around-, the cute, I mean Goggle headed one is Takuya-blushes and nervously turns head- the one with the jumpsuit is Jp- glares at Takuya- and the lazy one is Kouichi- snores loudly-. The 2 digimon over there are-“

“Bokomon and Neemon, wight?” she interrupted, showing the group her tan D-arc. The group let out a gasp (except Kouichi) as Bokomon ran forward, snatching the device out of her hands.

“How did you get a D-tector, little girl?”

“That isn’t a D-tectowe; it’s a D-awc.” Suzie insisted. “And I was using it to twy to find my fwiend.” She groaned, as when Bokomon returned the D-arc, the map had disappeared. Takuya decided to speak up.

“Well don’t worry, Suzie, we’ll be glad to help you find your friend. By the way, who is this friend you’re looking for?”

“My bestest fwiend in the whole world”, she emphasized by spreading her arms wide open (which wasn’t much, mind you),” Wopmon.” A squeaky gasp from the back redirected there gaze yet again. This time, it was the now fully awakened Patamon.

“That can’t be. There are no Lopmons on this Ser- Planet”, looking around with shifty eyes to make sure no one noticed his almost slip-up, “and the only that actually is here is…”

“Cherubimon…”

2+++

Henry stared him straight in the eye. ‘Who is this guy?’ Knowing that his mental inquiry would yield him no answers, he decided to speak his mind.

“Who-“

“I’m only gonna ask this once; who are you!?” The stranger interrupted. Henry was unnerved by the piercing glare this guy was giving him. And the killer intent he was radiating was astounding. Luckily, Henry was saved, in the form of a young aqua haired girl.

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Eureka had had enough of just sitting there, waiting on him to come back, so she decided to take matters into her own hands. Rising off of her spot on the ground, she dusted her pure white dress to get it cleaned, and tottered over to the far side of the beach, where she had just seen her boyfriend run to minutes ago.

“I’m only gonna ask this once: who are you!?” She recognized the voice as belonging to the one she was looking for, but who could he be talking to? Starting to get jumpy, she rushed over to him as soon as she could.

“What’s wrong Renton?” Shifting the boy over to the side, she froze as she came face to face with a boy and 2 of the oddest looking rabbits she’d ever seen. The brown one was… kinda dingy, but the other one was-

“So CUUUTE!!”

Running over at a frighteningly high speed, crashing into the bunny, sending them down, sprawling on the ground.

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‘W-what just happened? I didn’t even see her move!’ Spinning his head slowly, he turned to see if what had happened, really happened.

Yep.

The weird girl was on the ground, Terriermon in her clutches, rolling around, giving the dog-bunny hugs and kisses, rubbing his fur in such a way that it made Terriermon twitch his leg up and down. In all honesty, despite Terriermon’s probable future objection, he looked more like a dog today than he ever did as a rabbit his WHOLE life.

Feeling an ominous feeling from behind, I turned my head to look at the other bunny still resting on my shoulder. ‘What the heck? Why is she mad?’

If there was an award for The Understatement of the Year, calling her mad, would definitely take the cake. But I couldn’t help but let out a chuckle and smirk as I saw the jealously in her eyes.

Bad move.

For some reason, the next thing I saw was a bundle of leaves as I was forcibly dragged into the woods by Lopmon. And the only thing I could think of to say would be-

‘Oh…Fuck.’

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Groaning, Renton lowered his head in sadness, and whined. “Aww come on, Eureka, you’ve kissed that thing more times in the past 5 minutes than you have me the entire time we’ve known each other.”

“Don’t hate the player, buddy, hate the game.” Terriermon quipped. Renton’s left eye twitched, and just when he had the perfect comeback;

“AAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

3+++

Somewhere, on an island, in a village, in a house, on a bed, a group of digimon was huddled up together, overlooking their newest arrival. But, the weird thing about it is, they were all In-training and Freshies, and their newest arrival? A Mega. Now why do you think that they would nurse back to health a digimon that could pwn them like noobs in no time flat if he wanted to?

It’s because they have plans. They can sense something. Something deep inside this one. So there gonna—

Wyoom!

A flash of light, followed by a gust of wind, and the mega on the bed, (tall, dark, and wild) had reverted back into a rookie (small, purple, and annoying).

“Ughhh…what hit me?” The small Imp-like digimon rose, rubbing it’s head as it did. Looking around, he immediately flew off the handle.

“All right, what is it you jerk wads want?” He threw his arms down and reached for his gun, but ended up slapping himself in the thigh. ‘Ow! Where’s my…oh.’ Looking down, he realized why he couldn’t grab his guns. Scratching his head nervously, He tried to talk instead.

“Umm, so, uhhh, what were you proper gentlemen doing, anyway?” It was starting to get uncomfortable. ‘Why haven’t I just blasted them yet? Even without bein’ Beelzemon I could totally waste these chumps.’

'Because even you have morals...

Jumping up, Impmon grabbed the nearest digimon, which just happened to be a Koromon. “Alright, which one of youse guys said that?” Forming a tiny flame on his fingertips, he was just about to slam it in the tiny, In-training digimon’s face when-

“I wouldn’t do that if I was you.” Turning, Impmon glared at the newcomer, before dropping the Koromon.

“Heh, and what’s it to you, shrimp? Bada-Boom!!”

“Boom Bubble!!” The two attacks collided, causing a veil of steam to cover the room. Taking initiative, Impmon ran forward, fist ready to ram into the petite Digimon’s body…head…feet…WHATEVER. But he was met with an unwelcome surprise.

“Kitty Claws (?)!!”

Impmon flew back a good five feet, as the opposing Gatomon land in a graceful fighting pose, standing protectively in front of the Patamon.

“Phew, thanks, Gatomon. I owe you one. But…” Smiling, Patamon walked around so he could see the fallen rookie. He was unconscious. “...I think you over did it a bit.”

She shrugged. “I forgot he was a Rookie, so sue me.” Walking over and picking up said rookie, she dragged his limp body forward; she was almost out the door before the other digimon in the room spoke up.

“Thank you, Misses Gatomon! I was really scared.”

“Don’t mention it…better yet, why don’t you put in a good word with the boss. Maybe I’ll get some more catnip or a ball of yarn…” She trailed off. Shrugging again, she turned back around and, followed by Patamon, she headed for the ‘Boss’s’ room, the dangling Impmon still effortlessly hung over her shoulders.

4+++

Taichi sighed. He looked to the sky, trying to piece together the mess of problems that seemed to revolve around him.

‘What have I really been doing? I’m almost 18 now, and I still can’t get over it. Kari already has a boyfriend (who I need to talk to by the way), Ken has a girlfriend, sheesh, even Agumon has a girlfriend. I just wish it wasn’t her…

He could faintly hear a ringing in the background as his hair blew in the sudden draft.

‘…Sora… what does he have, that I don’t have? How could you choose him over me? Heh, I guess girls really do like the bad boys.’ He let out a morbid sigh. ‘I know I shouldn’t, but I can’t help but feeling…that this is my fault. Maybe, if I hadn’t tried so hard. Maybe…if I had let Matt be the leader, you would have noticed me more? Or maybe… what if I had told you sooner…’ He spread his arms, as if trying to absorb the sun’s very life force, taking its rays of happiness for himself. Unfortunately, someone took it the wrong way.

“TAI, DON’T JUMP!!!”

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As the waves of green-and-white continued to exit the school, Izzy rested his body under the shade of a conveniently placed Sakura tree, which still had the rather large stump of it’s sister tree, which was cut down, placed a few feet over to the side. It was a little bit wide, about a foot and 3 inches wide, and just a little bit shorter than Izzy himself. But like I said, he was resting. His computer screen had been showing the same thing for the past 2 hours; a green dot that was growing bigger, slowly but surely. Right now, it was about the size of the middle of a CD, with a white, smaller circle in the middle.

The girl next to him cuddled closer, resting her head on his shoulder, as he wrapped his arms around her waist. The wind blew, stirring the loose leaves, causing them to sway left and right in the air before falling ceremoniously onto the ground. It was peaceful, just the way he liked it. Just him and his girl, no one to disturb—

“Hey, Izzy, we’re here!” He turned his head to see Matt, the one who yelled, followed by the rest of the DigiDestined and a bored looking Sora by his side. Gently placing the still sleeping Mimi to the ground, taking off his jacket for her to use as a pillow, he ran over to the others.

“Oh, good, you’re here.”

“Yeah, Izzy, we’re here. So what was it that was so important that we had to get here right away?” Looking at his side, he could see that Sora was very upset about something as she kept looking in every which way, as if trying to find something.

“Sora, what’s wrong?”

“It’s Tai…I don’t see him anywhere…” A look of anger flashed on his face as he thought about what His girlfriend just said. Why the hell is she thinking about him when I’m right here? Just as quickly as it appeared it was gone, but not before being caught by the observant eyes of both Izzy and Mimi, who was a really good actor. “I’m pretty sure he’s just fine Sora, so don’t worry about it.” He reprimanded, saying her name in a very possessive way.

Izzy, fearing the worst, decided to step in. “So, anyway, you guys, the reason I called you was because of…this.” He said, turning his laptop to face his friends, showing them the dot, which was now the size of a regular CD, the white speck being a full blown circle now and the outer parts green, with splashes of yellow on the sides.

“Umm, what is that?” Cody, the youngest member, finally spoke up.

“Well, personally, I don’t know, but I was thinking of talking to Gen-“

“TAI, DON’T JUMP!!”

Confused (and scared), the group followed the direction Sora was pointing and were met with a terrifying sight.

There on top of the school, stood Tai, arms spread eagle, standing dangerously close to the edge.

Or at least…he was…

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“TAI, DON’T JUMP!!”

Startled, Tai lost his footing and fell right off the edge. ‘I’m gonna die. I’m gonna die!’ Shutting his eyes, he made on last declaration. ‘I never got the chance to tell you this Sora, but…’ “”I LOVE YOU!:

Biyomon digivolve to… Birdramon!

The gogglehead stopped flailing as the giant orange caught him mid-fall and looped in the air, heading back to the ground. Back to Sora. But there was just one little problem.

‘We’re going too fast! I’m gonna feel this in the morning…’ And crash he did. Just not in the way he expected.

‘You know, actually, I wouldn’t mind feeling this tomorrow. Or any other day for that matter.’

He had been thrown (not crashed or fallen, thrown winkwink) into Sora, their faces smashed together in a dazed lip-lock.

Neither of them moved, not pushing or pulling away, just staring. Then, slowly, Sora’s eye’s began to droop and-

He was gone.

Looking up, she realized what had occurred. Tai was a half-foot above the ground, his shirt ruffled, courtesy Yamato Ishida. “All right, Kamiya, where do you get off kissing my girlfriend?”

“Ooh, thanks for caring. I’m really feeling the love now.” He joked.

“This is not the time for your jokes, Tai. What did you think you were doing, kissing MY woman, and WHAT THE HELL were you thinking trying to commit suicide?!” That statement had pushed Tai over the edge. He used all his strength to knock Matt’s hands away, causing the blonde rub hi sore wrists.

“First of all, Ishida, Sora is a person, not a thing, she can do whatever she wants, whether you like it or not. And secondly, who do you think I am? No matter how depressed or angry I may be about some things, I’m not gonna run, because I’m not a coward like YOU!” Tai began to grow nervous as everyone just stared at him, mouths hung in shock. Replaying the words in his head, he realized why. “I-I mean—“

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!”

Everyone flinched and tried to cover their ears at the impossibly loud screeching. Looking around for the cause of the yelling, Izzy made an interesting discovery.

Everything seemed to move in slow motion as a leg appeared from inside the laptop, coming to the side of Koushiro’s head, another leg coming to block his other side. Stepping back, Izzy tried to get away as the rest of the body materialized, but he was moving too slow.

“Ooooooooohhhh, shiiiiiiiiiiittttt!”

Blam!

The others (people and digimon) would have been shocked at Izzy using a curse word, which never happens, if it wasn’t for the even more interesting new guest. A brown-haired girl that was currently sitting on Izzy’s face.

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All they could do was stare in shock. I mean, how often does a girl come out of a computer- pardon the times they went to the digital world over, and over, and over, and over, and over…- and sit on your computer geek’s face? Never. Needless to say, Mimi was pissed!

“You HUSSY, what the fuck are you DOING!! Why I oughta…!” It took the combined power of Palmon’s vines and Tentomon’s and Agumon’s raw power just to stop Mimi from bashing the girl’s face in. ‘I swear if that whore doesn’t get off my Shiro-kun right now…!’

‘Where am I? and why does my head hurt so much?’ The girl looked up at the people staring –and yelling- at her. ‘Why do these guys look so…’

Ding!

“I know you guys!”

“Huh?” Everyone stopped what they were doing to turn back to her, even Mimi stopped flailing.

“Yeah I know you guys, you’re from that show. You’re…Matt…” She started with Matt and made her way right. “Gabumon, Taichi, Sora, Biyomon (who had a smug grin on her face for some reason), Yolei, Ken, umm, your that one that likes Kari, ummm, K.O., right?” The referred boy sweat-dropped.

“Actually, my name is Davis, heh heh.” She blushed as she continued to go through the list.

“Ok, then you’re T.k, Veemon, Kari, Cody, Armadillomon, Palmon, Mimi, Tentomon, and Agumon. Wait… isn’t there one more?” ‘Hmm, the ground is kinda soft…and wet. You don’t think…’ Looking down slowly, she screamed as she saw the passed out head of Koushiro Izumi between her legs.

“AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH, PERVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!!” She kicked him in the stomach before she jumped away, trying to pull her shkirt as low as possible.

“What! You fell on him. He’s not a… Oh!” Mimi stared angrily at her fallen boy-toy, his eyes swirly, sporting a massive nosebleed.

The digimon had already let her go so she was free to charge- and choke- the fallen redhead. But when she got about halfway there, she tripped over something. Expecting to rant to a rock, she was confused by what she saw. Following her gaze, the DigiDestined and their digimon were just as confused as her. On the ground rested…

A yellow Digivice.

“Wha… that’s a weird digivice…did Izzy make it?”

“No…it’s a D-arc…and its mine.”

Davis ran up to the still flushed girl and started burning out questions. “Wow, that’s really cool, you know. How did you get in the digital world? How old are you? Do you prefer blonds or blunettes? Who’s your digimon?” The girl’s eyes misted over after he asked that last question, causing them grow a grim pale color, potrating death and overwhelming grief.

“Leomon…”

Who is this new girl? Why is she sad? What happened to Henry? Are Takato and Izzy pervs? (Yeah…) Did Rika really enjoy that? WHERE THE HELL ARE RENAMON AND GUILMON? Find out next time on…

An Altered Path…
You should pretty much know the answer to almost all those questions or you haven’t been paying attention. Now as I’m sure you’ve all noticed, No RenaGuil, or Rukato action in this chapter, but don’t worry they’ll be the only one’s in that chapter, and maybe a lemon if you guys want one. Heck, you can even submit one of your own if you think it applies in some way to the story. Just send it to my e-mail or something.

Ok so... This wasn’t my easiest or best chapter…but here it is. Umm, if your gonna vote or something for the pairings, you might wanna do it soon, cuz if you don’t I’m gonna use my idea. And some of you may not like it. School has been murder this first week, let me tell you. It would have been perfect if it wasn’t for the one class that I got; Drama. I guess that’s it.

How do you like RENT-on and Eur-EKA being in the story? If you don’t like it, TOO BAD. It’s one of my favorite pairings, so whatever. And they will have importance in this story, so yeah, no flames about that.

RUKATO Forever!!