Digimon Unlocked Doors
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XxXXxX
Takato and the others could do nothing but watch as the Monkey Deva vanished into the sky, taking Culumon with him. Even Cannonbeemon couldnÆt do anything; while they had a number of ways to stop him, they couldnÆt use any of them while he was holding Culumon.
Their attacks were famous for blowing up buildings, after all. A Baby Digimon like Culumon wouldnÆt survive any of their attacks. Their only hope had been Leomon and heÆd been taken down in an instant, further proving their points.
æOnly one of their Perfect Digimon could fight MakuramonÆ and æCulumon couldnÆt survive a fight between Perfect Level Digimon.Æ
The silence rolled on even after the torn sky merged back together, their helplessness holding their tongues.
It was Ruki who broke the silence.
ôOur town is a mess.ö She said awkwardly.
Takato didnÆt reply, though he flushed a bit and felt guilty. Vikaralamon had done most of it, but that didnÆt change the fact that to get from point æDevaÆ to point æNo Deva,Æ he and his partner had needed to blow up a few buildings.
ôWhat should we do now?ö Jenrya asked. ôAs Takato said, it was Culumon who gave the ability to evolve. But nowàö
Takato looked up at a sky dyed by the sunset.
The sight of smoke over their wrecked city hardened his resolve, as did the absence of the rent sky.
ôWeÆll go.ö He said.
He could feel his friendÆs gazes on his back.
ôTakatoà?ö
ôWeÆll go rescue him.ö Takato continued. ôWeÆll go to the Digital World!ö
He turned around to look at his friends and for a moment the silence returned.
But their nods, however slight, told Takato everything he needed to know.
ôButàö Jenrya had to ask. ôHow do we get there?ö
Takato didnÆt hesitate to look at his partner, who gave a reassuring hum.
ôI thinkàö He began. ôI know a way.ö
XxXXxX
ôWhat is this place?ö Hirokazu asked, awed.
Takato smiled with uncertain pride.
ôThis is our Royal Base.ö He said.
ôMan, this place is awesome!ö Hirokazu crowed. ôI thought after Cannonbeemon, youÆd reached the limit of coolness, but man! This place is even cooler!ö
ôItÆsàö Juri began, hesitantly, Leomon trailing after her.
Takato quickly realized what she was going to say.
ôàBigger on the inside.ö Juri said while Takato mouthed the same words.
Juri smiled at him as he chuckled.
ôReally, though.ö Jenrya trailed in afterwards. ôHow does that work? ItÆs a huge building. Inside an abandoned shed. How did that happen?ö
ôWellàö Takato shrugged. ôFunbeemon built it.ö
Jenrya furrowed his brow and looked around. Just as the place had changed after MihiramonÆs death, it had become very different in the weeks that followed. As the DevaÆs attacked and were defeated, Funbeemon continued to gather and use their data.
No longer was it a platform hanging in the center of a sphere with only a single bridge connecting it to anything; now there were a number of bridges. Eight total, to be precise, each leading to a door.
And those doors lead to different places, now. They no longer lead back in time; or rather, Takato corrected himself, they no longer just lead back in time.
They each lead to a new sphere, each with a platform in the middle and eight other bridges. Each bridge led to one of the other spheres and crossing from one platform to another always required covering the same distance; even if the positioning needed to have nine different spheres of equal size should have rendered that impossible.
Takato probably should have wondered more about that, but heÆd long since chalked it up to nonsensical space-bending, science fiction physics.
He was more concerned with the eight new platforms, for on each platform there was another doorway.
And only the doorway behind him led out of the shed.
Ah, but Jenrya was still waiting for him to respond, wasnÆt he?
Takato debated lying to him, but they had a right to know what they were getting into.
It would only get worse the further they went, after all.
ôItÆs made out of data.ö He replied.
Jenrya understood.
ôàOh.ö He said, suddenly weary of the Base. Takato couldnÆt blame him; he felt the same way.
ôSo this place is built out of your defeated enemies?ö Ruki said, apparently not put off. Her words startled Juri, Kenta, and Hirokazu, though. ôCoolàkind of creepy, but cool. But that doesnÆt explain how weÆre going to get to the Digital World.ö
She stood to the side, leaning her elbows against the railing Funbeemon had put up at his insistence. Renamon stood by her, examining the place with interest.
Takato gestured to the bridges.
ôPick one.ö He said. ôThere are eight more rooms and eight more doors. The one behind us leads outside the shed in our worldàbut the other doors lead other places. Not even I know where, though, so weÆll have to keep searching until we find the right one.ö
He lifted an eyebrow challengingly.
ôLadies first.ö
XxXXxX
Takato and the others could do nothing but watch as the Monkey Deva vanished into the sky, taking Culumon with him. Even Cannonbeemon couldnÆt do anything; while they had a number of ways to stop him, they couldnÆt use any of them while he was holding Culumon.
Their attacks were famous for blowing up buildings, after all. A Baby Digimon like Culumon wouldnÆt survive any of their attacks. Their only hope had been Leomon and heÆd been taken down in an instant, further proving their points.
æOnly one of their Perfect Digimon could fight MakuramonÆ and æCulumon couldnÆt survive a fight between Perfect Level Digimon.Æ
The silence rolled on even after the torn sky merged back together, their helplessness holding their tongues.
It was Ruki who broke the silence.
ôOur town is a mess.ö She said awkwardly.
Takato didnÆt reply, though he flushed a bit and felt guilty. Vikaralamon had done most of it, but that didnÆt change the fact that to get from point æDevaÆ to point æNo Deva,Æ he and his partner had needed to blow up a few buildings.
ôWhat should we do now?ö Jenrya asked. ôAs Takato said, it was Culumon who gave the ability to evolve. But nowàö
Takato looked up at a sky dyed by the sunset.
The sight of smoke over their wrecked city hardened his resolve, as did the absence of the rent sky.
ôWeÆll go.ö He said.
He could feel his friendÆs gazes on his back.
ôTakatoà?ö
ôWeÆll go rescue him.ö Takato continued. ôWeÆll go to the Digital World!ö
He turned around to look at his friends and for a moment the silence returned.
But their nods, however slight, told Takato everything he needed to know.
ôButàö Jenrya had to ask. ôHow do we get there?ö
Takato didnÆt hesitate to look at his partner, who gave a reassuring hum.
ôI thinkàö He began. ôI know a way.ö
XxXXxX
ôWhat is this place?ö Hirokazu asked, awed.
Takato smiled with uncertain pride.
ôThis is our Royal Base.ö He said.
ôMan, this place is awesome!ö Hirokazu crowed. ôI thought after Cannonbeemon, youÆd reached the limit of coolness, but man! This place is even cooler!ö
ôItÆsàö Juri began, hesitantly, Leomon trailing after her.
Takato quickly realized what she was going to say.
ôàBigger on the inside.ö Juri said while Takato mouthed the same words.
Juri smiled at him as he chuckled.
ôReally, though.ö Jenrya trailed in afterwards. ôHow does that work? ItÆs a huge building. Inside an abandoned shed. How did that happen?ö
ôWellàö Takato shrugged. ôFunbeemon built it.ö
Jenrya furrowed his brow and looked around. Just as the place had changed after MihiramonÆs death, it had become very different in the weeks that followed. As the DevaÆs attacked and were defeated, Funbeemon continued to gather and use their data.
No longer was it a platform hanging in the center of a sphere with only a single bridge connecting it to anything; now there were a number of bridges. Eight total, to be precise, each leading to a door.
And those doors lead to different places, now. They no longer lead back in time; or rather, Takato corrected himself, they no longer just lead back in time.
They each lead to a new sphere, each with a platform in the middle and eight other bridges. Each bridge led to one of the other spheres and crossing from one platform to another always required covering the same distance; even if the positioning needed to have nine different spheres of equal size should have rendered that impossible.
Takato probably should have wondered more about that, but heÆd long since chalked it up to nonsensical space-bending, science fiction physics.
He was more concerned with the eight new platforms, for on each platform there was another doorway.
And only the doorway behind him led out of the shed.
Ah, but Jenrya was still waiting for him to respond, wasnÆt he?
Takato debated lying to him, but they had a right to know what they were getting into.
It would only get worse the further they went, after all.
ôItÆs made out of data.ö He replied.
Jenrya understood.
ôàOh.ö He said, suddenly weary of the Base. Takato couldnÆt blame him; he felt the same way.
ôSo this place is built out of your defeated enemies?ö Ruki said, apparently not put off. Her words startled Juri, Kenta, and Hirokazu, though. ôCoolàkind of creepy, but cool. But that doesnÆt explain how weÆre going to get to the Digital World.ö
She stood to the side, leaning her elbows against the railing Funbeemon had put up at his insistence. Renamon stood by her, examining the place with interest.
Takato gestured to the bridges.
ôPick one.ö He said. ôThere are eight more rooms and eight more doors. The one behind us leads outside the shed in our worldàbut the other doors lead other places. Not even I know where, though, so weÆll have to keep searching until we find the right one.ö
He lifted an eyebrow challengingly.
ôLadies first.ö
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The first door they found, even Funbeemon shied away from. Takato was scared of it, but he couldn’t explain why. Through the doorway, all he saw was an ocean of dark waters crashing against a colorless beach. But it frightened him on an instinctual level that he couldn’t explain.
It took him a moment to realize that he was feeling what Funbeemon felt, and that, if anything, worried him even more. He’d never known his partner to be scared. Even when he had to fight a Perfect level Digimon by himself, he did so without fear. If he was scared of what lurked on the other side of that doorway, despite having the entire team with him…
Well, it wasn’t the doorway they were looking for, so it didn’t matter—and Takato silently thanked God for that.
The moved on to the next doorway, through with they saw a truly bizarre realm of bright colors and random, shifting shapes, most of which Takato couldn’t identify. But a few, just a few, made him think of things he’d dreamt of. Perhaps it was just his imagination. It had always been a tad overactive, he supposed, before laying a hand on his partner. It had yielded nothing but positive results so far, though.
Still, Renamon and Leomon—the only members of their group who had ever actually been to the Digital World—claimed not to recognize the place, so they moved on to the next doorway.
What they saw through the third doorway surprised even him—it had Digimon in it, certainly, but for every Digimon they saw, there was also a human beside it. That stumped all of them, for Renamon and Leomon claimed to have never seen a human in the Digital World, which left them all to wonder where that doorway led.
“It’s probably an alternate reality,†Jenrya suggested and it said something about both them and the situation that the possibility didn’t seem outlandish in the slightest. There was a murmur of understanding as they realized how obvious it was. “Perhaps Digimon and Humans found a way to get along peacefully. It’s a nice idea, isn’t it?â€
Ruki hummed, tilting her head.
“I kind of want to just step into some of these doors and find out,†She admitted. “For some of these, I really doubt that’d be a good idea, but…well, I’m curious, now. But Culumon comes first and I don’t think he’d be through this one, either.â€
The next two seemed to be a matching set—two doorways with actual, well, doors in them. Said doors were unremarkable, made of the same metal everything in the base was, but for the fact that they were actually present. From the cracks beneath them, however…
Below one shined a pure, white light that was bright enough to stand out, even in the well-lit base. Beneath the other spilled, rather impossibly, darkness, as if shadow was leaking through it like water—a vague shape stretching out before the doorway as waiting for someone to open it. Both doors were locked and though there was room enough for a key in each, Funbeemon flew passed both without so much as looking at them and they had little choice but to follow.
Which left them with three doors.
Three doors, three choices, three worlds. If they picked the wrong one, who knows what could happen? At the very least, they’d be wasting time until they figured out they’d made a mistake—and who knew how much time Culumon even had?
Assuming, of course, that he was right and one of the doors did lead to the right Digital World. Funbeemon had connected eight worlds, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was more than one—and if there were eight, why not ten? Why not a hundred, a thousand, a million, or more? Maybe now was a bad time to start doubting, but they were already halfway through the Doors without any success. Maybe he’d been wrong and in choosing one of these doors, they were wasting time they should be spending finding another way.
No—it was too early to start second guessing. He had gotten this far by trusting in Funbeemon and in their base; he’d keep doing so until the end. Besides which, this was their best bet, short of somehow tracking down that weird guy with the sunglasses and having him tear open the sky again—and good God were there a bunch of problems with that idea. Until it was proven otherwise he had to assume one of these was the right choice.
It was just picking the right one that was tricky.
Renamon and Leomon examined the scenes shown in each of the doors, which honestly weren’t very helpful. One showed the inside of a forest with the doorway apparently being between a pair of trees, one a wasteland viewed from inside a cave, and the last a beach seen from somewhere over the water, but Leomon had stated from the beginning that the Digital World was large and varied enough that any of the could be the right one. Even so, they were trying to determine if there was anything that set them apart from each other.
The rest of them, of course, were just crossing their fingers and hoping they could, because the only other choice they had was to draw straws and hope they got lucky.
After a minute of silence that seemed to stretch on and on and on, Renamon spoke.
“This one.†She said, pointing at the wasteland door. “I’m certain of it.â€
“How so?†Leomon asked, turning to face her. He didn’t seem to have had any luck with the forest door, but Takato couldn’t blame him. He’d looked at it himself and hadn’t seen anything but shadows and trees.
“It had only been for a moment, but…I saw a Light Pillar in the distance.†Renamon said and it seemed to mean something to Leomon because his eyes widened and he nodded once. Renamon then looked over her shoulder at him, gaze impassive.
Takato blinked once before understanding—she was asking him what to do. It surprised him, but then he supposed it was his base and his extradimensional doorway thingy.
No time for doubts then.
“If it’s good enough for Renamon, it’s good enough for me. Let’s go.†He said, striding passed Ruki’s partner and passing through the door before he could have any second thoughts.
The first door they found, even Funbeemon shied away from. Takato was scared of it, but he couldn’t explain why. Through the doorway, all he saw was an ocean of dark waters crashing against a colorless beach. But it frightened him on an instinctual level that he couldn’t explain.
It took him a moment to realize that he was feeling what Funbeemon felt, and that, if anything, worried him even more. He’d never known his partner to be scared. Even when he had to fight a Perfect level Digimon by himself, he did so without fear. If he was scared of what lurked on the other side of that doorway, despite having the entire team with him…
Well, it wasn’t the doorway they were looking for, so it didn’t matter—and Takato silently thanked God for that.
The moved on to the next doorway, through with they saw a truly bizarre realm of bright colors and random, shifting shapes, most of which Takato couldn’t identify. But a few, just a few, made him think of things he’d dreamt of. Perhaps it was just his imagination. It had always been a tad overactive, he supposed, before laying a hand on his partner. It had yielded nothing but positive results so far, though.
Still, Renamon and Leomon—the only members of their group who had ever actually been to the Digital World—claimed not to recognize the place, so they moved on to the next doorway.
What they saw through the third doorway surprised even him—it had Digimon in it, certainly, but for every Digimon they saw, there was also a human beside it. That stumped all of them, for Renamon and Leomon claimed to have never seen a human in the Digital World, which left them all to wonder where that doorway led.
“It’s probably an alternate reality,†Jenrya suggested and it said something about both them and the situation that the possibility didn’t seem outlandish in the slightest. There was a murmur of understanding as they realized how obvious it was. “Perhaps Digimon and Humans found a way to get along peacefully. It’s a nice idea, isn’t it?â€
Ruki hummed, tilting her head.
“I kind of want to just step into some of these doors and find out,†She admitted. “For some of these, I really doubt that’d be a good idea, but…well, I’m curious, now. But Culumon comes first and I don’t think he’d be through this one, either.â€
The next two seemed to be a matching set—two doorways with actual, well, doors in them. Said doors were unremarkable, made of the same metal everything in the base was, but for the fact that they were actually present. From the cracks beneath them, however…
Below one shined a pure, white light that was bright enough to stand out, even in the well-lit base. Beneath the other spilled, rather impossibly, darkness, as if shadow was leaking through it like water—a vague shape stretching out before the doorway as waiting for someone to open it. Both doors were locked and though there was room enough for a key in each, Funbeemon flew passed both without so much as looking at them and they had little choice but to follow.
Which left them with three doors.
Three doors, three choices, three worlds. If they picked the wrong one, who knows what could happen? At the very least, they’d be wasting time until they figured out they’d made a mistake—and who knew how much time Culumon even had?
Assuming, of course, that he was right and one of the doors did lead to the right Digital World. Funbeemon had connected eight worlds, proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that there was more than one—and if there were eight, why not ten? Why not a hundred, a thousand, a million, or more? Maybe now was a bad time to start doubting, but they were already halfway through the Doors without any success. Maybe he’d been wrong and in choosing one of these doors, they were wasting time they should be spending finding another way.
No—it was too early to start second guessing. He had gotten this far by trusting in Funbeemon and in their base; he’d keep doing so until the end. Besides which, this was their best bet, short of somehow tracking down that weird guy with the sunglasses and having him tear open the sky again—and good God were there a bunch of problems with that idea. Until it was proven otherwise he had to assume one of these was the right choice.
It was just picking the right one that was tricky.
Renamon and Leomon examined the scenes shown in each of the doors, which honestly weren’t very helpful. One showed the inside of a forest with the doorway apparently being between a pair of trees, one a wasteland viewed from inside a cave, and the last a beach seen from somewhere over the water, but Leomon had stated from the beginning that the Digital World was large and varied enough that any of the could be the right one. Even so, they were trying to determine if there was anything that set them apart from each other.
The rest of them, of course, were just crossing their fingers and hoping they could, because the only other choice they had was to draw straws and hope they got lucky.
After a minute of silence that seemed to stretch on and on and on, Renamon spoke.
“This one.†She said, pointing at the wasteland door. “I’m certain of it.â€
“How so?†Leomon asked, turning to face her. He didn’t seem to have had any luck with the forest door, but Takato couldn’t blame him. He’d looked at it himself and hadn’t seen anything but shadows and trees.
“It had only been for a moment, but…I saw a Light Pillar in the distance.†Renamon said and it seemed to mean something to Leomon because his eyes widened and he nodded once. Renamon then looked over her shoulder at him, gaze impassive.
Takato blinked once before understanding—she was asking him what to do. It surprised him, but then he supposed it was his base and his extradimensional doorway thingy.
No time for doubts then.
“If it’s good enough for Renamon, it’s good enough for me. Let’s go.†He said, striding passed Ruki’s partner and passing through the door before he could have any second thoughts.
Yeah, although it hadn't gotten to the point of actually having Ulforce Veedramon appearing. Guilmon was fighting the battle that was going to cause him to reach Adult level.
And as far as Cannonbeemon becoming Alphamon, I think that falls in the same vein as, for example, Guilmon evolving into Birdramon: technically, it is a possibility that exists, but in practice the likelihood of it happening is so low as to be zero.
And as far as Cannonbeemon becoming Alphamon, I think that falls in the same vein as, for example, Guilmon evolving into Birdramon: technically, it is a possibility that exists, but in practice the likelihood of it happening is so low as to be zero.
He-who-voted-for-Kodos said:
Didn't your list of other future partners to write about include things like DORUmon, Lucemon, and D-Reaper? I feel like I definitely remember those last two being mentioned.
In no particular order, the partners that I wrote some details for are as follows:
A Twin Dracomon chapter, though I hadn't decided if they'd both be partnered to Takato or if it'd be Takato and a rival figure.
A Dorumon story in which everything is going to shit and needs fixing.
A Lucemon story about choices, determinism, and free will. Lucemon as he originally was vs. what he became would be a big theme.
A Lunamon fix about loneliness and establishing one's place in a world that needs no Gods. The other Olympians would take part, too, as either partners of other characters or similar things. It would be a clash of the gods, thing.
A Commandramon story about worlds colliding--humans basically being dropped into the Digital world and having to survive the South at it's worst.
A Keramon story of nature vs. nurture.
One of my personal favorites: A Labramon story which would basically be a Jenrya and Takato buddy cop/vigilante/superhero story in a world where Digimon are a big part of the world. Will probably be the Plutomon story.
A Strategic warfare story set in the Digital World featuring PawnChessmon.
A sort of everyone in the world has a Digimon but Takato story, until suddenly very powerful Digimon begin breaking through. Takato would be partnered with Strabimon, one of the few Legendary Warriors who had yet to fall. A few of the other Tamers would also eventually become Warriors, but the whole story would probably take place in the Digital World.
A Pichimon story about climbing your way to the top in a world full of bigger fish.
A Millenniumon story about, obviously, Time Travel, but Takato and Milly are going in opposite directions, learning more about each other as the other forgets, until by the End--or the Beginning, as it may be--one knows everything about the other and the other knows nothing about him.
A D-Reaper story about Takato being the Reaper's fuel source at first and it eventually growing beyond it's original programming, for better or worse. To make matters even more interesting, in an attempt to survive D-Reaper, the X-Antibody begins to develop, eventually resulting in Death-X and other problems.
An Honor vs. Duty story with Kotemon as a knight faced with hard choices.
A Patamon story in which Seraphimon doesn't job--erm, I mean, a War in Heaven type of story.
A Hagurumon story about a world where Digimon terrorize Mankind and kidnap children, motivated by tales of power. A revolution type story.
A Penman story about proving one's worth, trials, and how looks can be deceiving. A competition in the Digital World and such, amongst other things.
Maybe others. But that's the current list. I might post more detailed versions in the idea thread--a lot of these don't say much about the stories in question.