All Seasons: Wisemon’s
Actual Ending Series
Part 9: Your
Horoscope for Today
By Wisemon
Digimon
is the property of Toei Animation. This
series is intended mostly as a release for a burning plot idea, and for an ending
that I find far more relatable than that of my Alternate Ending Series. So, the dialogue will be a bit less frequent
in this one. In fact, at this point, I’m
just summarizing the plot in the present tense (to make it sound more like a
summary) and throwing in scenes when I feel like it. This barely constitutes fan fiction. I would advise reading this chapter only so
that the last chapter (the brilliant one) makes complete sense. Well, have at it.
The Real Legendary
Warriors, Suzie, and Mr. Wong are back in the Wongs’
apartment. Henry tells his dad that the
mission was relatively successful; they got the Yuggoth
and Juggernaut programs, and they rescued Suzie. Tomoki let out the password Yamaki wanted, and Yamaki turned
out to be the D-Reaper, and the D-Reaper entered the digital world, but other
than that, everything went as planned.
Mr. Wong is happy
to have Suzie back, but he’s rather miffed about the D-Reaper entering the
digital world. The digital world was the
only backup the Earth had, and if the D-Reaper takes over the digital world,
the Earth loses the internet, which would cause a complete collapse of
government, business, and society.
Tomoki calls up Junpei and Izumi and warns them to be on the lookout for
the D-Reaper, last seen as BlackWarGreymon or Yutaka,
and he apologizes for letting it in. He
advises the best course of action would be to quarantine the rest of the
digital world, meaning they should stay in
Henry proposes
that by using the Yuggoth blasters and the Juggernaut
program, the Real Legendary Warriors can stop the D-Reaper altogether by
eliminating both core consciousnesses.
They would not even have to worry about the D-Reaper in the digital
world because that agent would get sucked in with the core consciousness, just
the way worm-holing the D-Reaper core consciousness in the real world (the
first time) also sucked in the D-Reaper in the Digital World.
Mr. Wong counters
that the D-Reaper, most likely, has already considered this outcome and sent
one of the core consciousnesses to the digital world to prevent it, just as the
D-Reaper sent its core consciousness to Earth the first time. In general, by keeping its core consciousness
at the frontier of un-assimilated territory, the D-Reaper programmed itself to
stay a step ahead.
After much
bickering, it is decided that the war must be fought on two fronts. Henry and Kenta
will stop the core consciousness on Earth, the one that bonded symbiotically
with a human, and Daemon will take Miyako, Daisuke,
Tomoki, Cody, and SlimeBakemon to the digital world
to stop the original program’s core consciousness. But before any of that can happen,
they must finish constructing the Yuggoth blasters
and install the Juggernaut chip in Henry’s containment rod.
The next day, Junpei, Izumi, young Tomoki, and several Ultimate level digimon representatives (Azulongmon
got rid of all the Mega level digimon) have a meeting
in the
Over the course of
several days, SlimeBakemon and Daemon finish making
the bodies of the guns, which turn out to be much heavier than expected. Miyako writes programs
to chips, including the one that can convert mechanical vibrations to storage
battery potential, and Henry solders in all of the components. They have to work closely together to
accomplish this, and that means Miyako has to pay
frequent visits to the Wongs’ apartment, including a
few sleepovers, and that means Daisuke struggles like crazy to control his
jealousy. When Henry and Miyako are all done, they have created five pump-action Yuggoth blasters ready for combat with the D-Reaper.
Now, while the Yuggoth blasters are being constructed, there’s a crucial
confrontation between Tomoki and Suzie:
Tomoki and Suzie
sat next to each other on the Wongs’ living room
futon, as they did so often, but to Tomoki, there seemed to be a rare urgency
of opportunity. Mr. Wong was at his
job. Miyako
and Henry were fine-tuning the Yuggoth blasters in
Henry’s room. As a way to clear his
conscience about living in Tomoki’s apartment for free, Cody was helping SlimeBakemon sell snow cones. Daisuke and Daemon were in the park playing a
pickup game of soccer. Kenta was…somewhere.
Tomoki was engaged in a retrospective conversation about Suzie’s ordeal
at Hypnos.
“I was so
scared.” Despite her assertion, Suzie’s
voice was more exuberant about having a tale to tell than scared for having
gone through it. “It was even scarier
than being in the Digital World. At
least there, I had Lopmon to protect me.”
“I’m glad that
you’re back and you’re safe.” Tomoki saw
nothing remarkably attractive about Suzie.
By some convention, she probably was attractive, but Tomoki just didn’t
find himself attracted to any girls (or boys for that matter). She was just a friend, but there was comfort
in friendship, and that was an attraction all its own. “When you got kidnapped, I was worried about
you.”
“I was worried
about me too,” Suzie needlessly added.
Tomoki tried to
find the courage, or what he thought was courage, to say what he thought he was
supposed to feel. “Suzie, I care about
you.”
“Uh…I care about
you too,” Suzie responded apprehensively.
Tomoki went for
it. There was no instinct. He very consciously decided to lean his face
toward Suzie’s and pucker up. He got
within two inches. Then his face was
shoved away.
“What are you
doing?” Suzie asked Tomoki with an air of agitation.
Tomoki was
baffled; it was just such an unexpected outcome. “I was trying to kiss you.”
“We’re
friends. Friends don’t kiss each
other.” The agitation gained a tinge of
condescension.
“I know…but I
thought…” Tomoki tried to remember what
he thought. “I thought once we got to
know each other well enough, we were supposed to be boyfriend and girlfriend.”
“That’s not how it
works.”
“But I’ve seen it
work that way,” Tomoki protested. “Junpei and Izumi, my friends in the digital world, were
best friends before they fell in love, and then they got married and had a
kid.”
“Good for them,
but that’s not how it goes in the real world.”
Much like her father, Suzie felt the need for a lecture. “See, when boys and girls first meet, there’s
a choice they have to make as to whether they want to be friends or eventual
sexual partners. You chose to be my
friend. It’s too late to change that.”
“But that was five
years ago! I didn’t know I was making a
choice.” Tomoki decided to approach the
situation from the other end. “Do you…do
you like me?”
“Yes, as a friend,
but you’re much too weird to be my boyfriend.”
“I’m weird?” Tomoki had never considered himself to be
weird. “What about me is
so weird?”
Suzie shot out her
reasons like bullets on a PowerPoint.
“It’s weird to run your own business at fifteen years old, live by
yourself in a tiny apartment, call friends you’ve never met in person just
because they happen to have Digivices, call your best
friends people you’ll probably never see again, have another friend/business
partner who’s a ghost with a speech impediment…and those friends of yours
living with you in your apartment, they’re weird too, especially that kid who
looks like you.”
“You mean Cody?”
“I don’t care what
his name is. The kid acts like a police
officer or something. He’s a total spaz, and I think he’s not that different from you.”
“And I think he’s not that different from
your brother,” Tomoki retorted.
“Henry’s the
weirdest of the weird. I might have to
look up to him, and I might have to respect him, but I don’t have to like
him. He always thinks he knows what’s
best for me, just like my dad, just like everyone. You’re all just so annoying!” Suzie jumped from the futon and ran to her
room. She came back a minute later with
a little plastic bag. Every piece of
quartz Tomoki had given her for her birthday over the course of five years was
inside. “I want you to take back the
stones you gave me. I thought it was
cute at first, but then it just got stupid.
You gave me quartz, Tomoki, quartz;
what the fuck?”
Reluctantly,
Tomoki took back the accumulated quartz pieces.
“I thought girls liked stones.”
“No offense, but
what you don’t know about girls could fill a stadium.” Suzie went to her closing remarks. “I don’t want to be your girlfriend, and I
barely want to be your friend anymore.”
Tomoki examined
his little quartz pieces trying to figure out how he felt. He didn’t think he was moved one way or
another, but it was hard to tell. “It’s
cool.” It was the only conclusion Tomoki
could come to. “If you don’t want to be
my girlfriend, I’m okay with that. We
can still be friends.”
Suzie added
another bullet. “Then that’s another
thing that’s weird about you. You just
got rejected; you’re supposed to be heartbroken and sobbing right now.”
“I don’t know what
to tell you. I haven’t cried in years.”
Suzie stood up and
went back to her room, leaving Tomoki to stare in silent wonder at his quartz
pieces.
So, the Real
Legendary Warriors have their Yuggoth blasters, and
Henry has the Juggernaut chip installed in his containment rod, but they have
no way to find the D-Reaper’s core consciousness. Then Daisuke makes a comment on how the
weather in May in this dimension is hotter than the May weather in his home
dimension. Henry tells him that the
climate, on average, has been getting hotter by a few degrees every year over
the past few years. That’s when Mr. Wong
has his eureka moment. The D-Reaper must
be the cause of the warming trend (no, not global warming caused by greenhouse
gases, which, coincidentally, has also been increasing scarily over the past
few years). Mr. Wong elaborates; when
probes were put in the D-Reaper’s barrier, the measured temperature was very
hot. Henry says that he also remembered
it being very hot when he went inside as MegaGargomon. They both conclude that a consistent and
large barrier sustained by the core consciousness over the years could cause
the surrounding air across the entire island to increase in temperature
noticeably, as it had. By locating the
hottest area, the source, the D-Reaper’s core consciousness can also be
found. Here’s some dialogue:
“So what are we
supposed to do—run around the city reading thermometers?” Daisuke asked
somewhat sarcastically.
“No, you’re going
to be running around the digital world
reading thermometers,” Henry retorted.
“Finding the heat source in this world is just a matter of checking
in-depth meteorological maps, which for the time being, are still available on
the internet.”
Studying the maps,
Henry deduces the approximate area, within a kilometer radius, and he says that
is where he and Kenta will be going. Undoubtedly, this is where they will find the
core consciousness that remains on Earth.
Meanwhile, it is agreed that Daemon takes Miyako,
Daisuke, Tomoki, Cody, SlimeBakemon, and the ice
cream truck to the digital world, and they will drive around with thermocouples
and a reader looking for the heat source, which should be the other core
consciousness. Then they will delete it
with their Yuggoth blasters. Such is the plan, and they all agree to go
through with it the following day.
In preparation for
the next day’s mission, Cody and Daemon refill the gas tank of the ice cream
truck. Daemon tells Cody he went into
the gas station convenience store to pay the clerk, but Cody knows Daemon
doesn’t have any money, and he knows he has once again been cajoled into
illegal activity.
For this reason,
that night, inside Tomoki’s overcrowded apartment, Cody has trouble falling
asleep—but they all have their own reasons.
Daemon has a tummy ache. SlimeBakemon is afraid of getting assimilated by the
D-Reaper. Tomoki is still in disbelief
over what happened with Suzie. Somehow,
they all manage to fall asleep before Miyako and
Daisuke. Here’s some dialogue:
It was hot in the
room, even hotter than it actually was.
Daisuke was lying atop his sleeping bag, and he was trying his best to
fade, but he knew Miyako was also still awake. He rolled to his side and faced her. “You know, what we’re doing tomorrow, it’s
going to be risky. We don’t have our Digimon to protect us this time, and…I get the feeling…we
might not come out of this alive.”
Miyako immediately sat up.
“You can’t say that!” she told Daisuke in a loud, agitated whisper. “You’re supposed to be the voice of
unshakable confidence. When the rest of
us have our consternations and places we would rather be, you’re supposed to be
the one who says everything will be satisfactory as we are.”
“I know, and I’m
sorry. I think I matured a little in the
past several years. I didn’t mean to; it
just happened.” Daisuke moved onto the
question he wanted to ask. “Look, just
in case we don’t make it, and for the sake of getting some sleep, let’s call
that a slim chance, is there something you always wanted to say to me?”
Miyako maintained a drowsy poker face. “…Nothing comes to mind, but right now, I’m
too tired to cogitate.”
“If you’re so
tired, then why don’t you fall asleep?” Daisuke asked smugly.
Miyako’s eyes shut, her head and body crashed back to her
sleeping bag, and she immediately fell asleep.
“Oh…you’re
good.” Daisuke followed Miyako to dreamland a few minutes later.
Meanwhile, Kenta sleeps over at the Wongs’
apartment. He and Henry go over potential
strategies for the next day, and then they go to sleep. Kenta dreams about
the last video game he played—the battle with Cryotek
he never got to finish.
Henry is having a
nightmare. He’s MegaGargomon
spinning like crazy to suck the D-Reaper back into the Digital World, but it’s
just not working. The D-Reaper comes out
of the wormhole. It deletes Terriermon, Guilmon, Renamon, Monodramon, and Calumon. Then it
kills Takato, Jeri, Ryo, and Rika. Kazu, Kenta, Guardromon, and MarineAngemon enter the scene in MarineAngemon’s
heart bubble, but to no avail. The
D-Reaper kills/deletes them as well. A
voice tells Henry this is his future.
The warrior of earth will perish in battle, and the warrior of steel
will have to stand alone against the D-Reaper.
Henry recognizes the voice, the same one he heard in the PowerPoint
presentation, and he realizes this dream is not entirely the conjuring of his
own subconscious.
In the morning,
the morning of
Tomoki tells Henry
to chill, but that doesn’t mean Tomoki isn’t having similar concerns. Oh so carefully, Tomoki is considering what
he’ll do when he returns to the digital world, deliberating where choice and
destiny separate, and where they might just have to meet.
Author’s Notes:
Personal Inspirations:
The little scene with Tomoki and
Suzie was a bit personal. I changed a
few things.
©2007 by Benjamin Wiseman
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