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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