"I can't get this on straight..." Eric fiddled with his tie as Lopmon fiddled with his ears, mimicing his partner. Eric looked down and scowled. "You don't have to mock me, you know." "But it's so fun!" Lopmon exclaimed, grinning easily. "Hey, there's Kyle! I'm SO going to grind him into the dust!" Eric grabbed his partner by his ears as Lopmon attempted to dash off. "Hold on there, buddy boy; this is Hikari and Takeru's wedding, not 'Duel Evanick into the Dust' Day." Lopmon pouted, hanging in the air. "Spoil sport." Renamon brushed a lock of what appeared to be teased fur away from her face. Somehow, in her own way, the fox digimon was able to adjust her fur so that she seemed to have a delicate set of bangs, off setting the white blouse and black skirt. "We're here to have fun and celebrate a wedding. So don't go off Dueling, okay?" "Fine." Lopmon pouted as Labramon giggled a bit, earning a similar expression from Raine. "You're such a pouty face," Labramon exclaimed sunnily, pulling at his cheeks. Sharmamon snorted in laughter as Lee sighed and hung his head. Hikaru looked around. "Say, where's Carter?" "He's off with his girlfriend already." Renamon indicated Carter and Penguinmon with Kylie and her Hagurumon. "Lucky duck," Sharmamon exclaimed. "My partner's such a prude." "I'm not a prude, I'm just shy," Lee defended himself with a huff. Jullie shook her head as she restrained the urge to expand her wings. "We should mingle." "Best idea I've heard yet," Lopmon exclaimed, running off into the crowds to find a table. --------------------- D^3 : Digital Diaries Dimentions Variation 1.1 : Worlds Apart Written by Shaun Garin Toei owns Digimon and all it's copyrights. Lord Archive wrote the Diaries universe, I just meddle in it. --------------------- "Sure are a lot of chosen and digi-destined around here," Eric replied, leaning back in his chair, tipping the front legs off the ground. Lopmon looked up from where he was shuffling his Duel Monsters Deck. "Are you sure I can't duel Evanick? I mean, he's going at it over there." Eric sighed in defeat as he unsheathed his sword and started to play with it, tossing the light weapon from hand to hand. "All right, but keep the shouting low, okay?" Lopmon grinned as he gathered his deck and ran through the crowd towards where the Californian group were clustered. 'I'm hungry.' Eric stood up, brushing his black turtleneck free of lint and checked the twinned belts that hung over his hips so they wouldn't snag on chairs. Adjusting his new silver rimmed goggles while dissmissing his sword in a smooth motion, hooking the D-3 onto a belt, he strolled over towards the buffet line, piling up a small mountian of deli foods. "Where's the cake?" he asked himself, putting a few crackers onto his plate, assuming it would come later. Sitting down at the empty table that he and the Canadians had staked out, he watched, idely chewing on a cheese cracker. Renamon was dancing with what he identified as a Goblimon, apparently the same Goblimon that Fredrick had from the London group. It was a surprise that he had deemed to dance, and they seemed to be having fun. Hikaru had taken up the slack with Fredrick who looked to be enjoying himself, though the dark cloud still seemed to hang over his head somewhat. Lee had timidly asked Raine to dance and they hadn't stopped since. Carter had been hauled out onto the dance floor by Kylie, his girlfriend from Melbourne, Florida, not the Australian Melbourne. Carter, though light on his feet, was one of the worlds worst dancer. Jullie had dissapeared into the crowd and he hadn't seen the half digimon girl since they arrived. Sean was at home since he had some major testing to do to get into high school. Besides, he and Patamon had things to do, catching up with each other. Eric chewed and swallowed. He then let out a breath. "Looks like I'm going to be sitting on the sidelines again." "Excuse me, is this seat taken?" Eric looked up to see Jade standing beside him in a gold colored dress that did nothing to hide her obviously developed 12 year old figure. Most girls would kill for her figure that would most definately become something that most women would kill for. Pulling out a chair, she sat down and grinned easily. "So, why aren't you out on the dance floor?" "I can't dance," Eric said, taking a sip of his juice, hair falling over his head as he affected a serious Squall expression. "Not that well anyways. You?" "Trying to find a dance partner who's NOT staring at my chest all the time. You're staring." Jade pointed out. "Sorry," Eric replied. "They're just THERE." Jade giggled. "Glad to see you're enjoying the view." Eric blushed as she smiled. Her brown eyes roamed the dance floor with interest. "Looks like some of the others are out there already." Her grin turned mischevious. "Tell you what. I'll dance with you, okay? You have got to lighten up." "But but but," Eric sputtered. "I can't dance! I suck! Besides, I need to find Jullie." "Jullie's dancing already. I saw her over with some guy." Jade pouted. "So you'll only dance with a girl you like?" Leaning in, she waved her hand around his face in a hypnotic motion. "You-will-dance, you-will-dance. There. Did that work?" Eric made no reply as he chugged the punch and reached for his other cup of lemonade. Jade snorted. "You are such a Squall!" she exclaimed, hauling him to his feet. "Even though you're dressed a lot like him, there's no reason to ACT like him. C'mon, lets dance just once. Okay?" Eric sighed as he put the empty punch cup to the side. "All right. But I suck. Just as a preemptive warning." Gennai noticed the oddly dressed pair and grinned to himself, changing the song to a waltz. Eric groaned to himself as he fumbled through the motions, slowly smoothing up. The other kids, some of them recognizing the type of song, attempted to walk through the waltz like music, some fumbling through it, others catching on quite quickly, demonstrating previous dance lessons. "You have to loosen up," Jade replied, readjusting his grip to one hand on her hip, the other on her shoulder. "Just flow. Okay?" Eric nodded as he began to loosen up, memories of the game's cinimatic flooding back to him as he began to go through the steps more smoothly. "This isn't so bad," he replied with an easy grin. "See? Just relax." Jade whirled around him as the pair moved more fluidly over time. "You pick up things pretty quickly." "Well, I suppose so," Eric replied with a shrug. "I mean, I do tend to get things the first time around." He then noticed her dress and blushed. "You're wearing the Rinoa dress." Jade looked down and nodded. "Yeah. It was an older dress of my mothers. She adjusted it a while ago. You can barely notice the chinese markings on it." "It looks nice." Eric managed. Jade blushed and brushed back a lock of hair. "Thank you." She smiled. "You make a nice Squall." "I didn't have anything else to wear to this, so I modified an old halloween costume. I ditched the shirt, kept the necklace, pants and belts, but added a black turtleneck and removed the jacket. I'm a pretty good seamstress. Made this myself." Eric said as they moved around on the dance floor. "Really?" Jade asked, earning a nod from Eric. "Wow. I can't sew worth beans. Just goes to show you that dad teaches me too much martial arts in my spare time." "The path of a Martial Artist is fraught with peril," Eric answered with as much of a straight face as he could muster, despite trying not to break out into laughter prematurely. Jade exploded into helpless giggles, Eric following her. After a moment of unstable dancing, she recovered. "Oh my god, my dad says that ALL the time!" "He quotes Genma," Eric realized. "Be afraid. Be VERY afraid." All too soon, the song drew to an end as Eric led Jade back to their table. "Wow," Jade said, taking a sip of punch he had fetched her. "What a song." "Tell me about it," Eric groaned. "I was stumbling through the first half of it." "You're really good," Jade said with a soft smile. Eric shrugged, chewing on a few chips and taking a long drink of his lemonade. "So... you want to come to my place and check out my harddrive?" Jade asked mischeviously. Eric sputtered, spitting and coughing a spray of lemonade and chips through his nose and mouth. Fortunately, Jade had planned this and was well out of range as she patted him on the back. Eric looked up at her as she grinned. "I can't believe *cough* that you used that old pick up line." "You okay?" Jade asked. "Oh sure, I just love having stuff up my nose." He replied sarcastically. He then blew his nose with a helpfully provided napkin. Raine walked over, dressed in the low cut black and silver dress she had picked out for the occasion. Her skirt was odd, a half skirt that went to just above her knees, and made entirely of heavy leather belts and sturdy black cloth. Lee was dressed in a blue silk chinese shirt and black pants with some unrecognizable charecters stitched into the fabric in a darker color than the blue silk. "You okay?" Raine asked curiously as Jade and Eric wiped up the liquid from the table. "Just peachy," Eric said lightly. "Nothing a little revenge won't cure." He looked at Jade who stuck her tongue out at him. ------------------- "So many people," Yami remarked as she and Raine wandered through the ranks, stopping every so often to meet a new chosen or digi-destined. "Hey, there's Gennai! Lets go and greet him!" "No way," Raine said, taking control. "Sex is out." "I won't do that with him," Yami pouted, taking control again. "C'mon, lemme say hi!" "No!" Raine exclaimed, pulling her control to the fore. "You're going to do something again that I'm going to regret letting you do!" "It's one little kiss!" Yami argued as Raine forcibly steered their shared body away towards the door to continue their arguement. Catherine of the French Team looked at the arguing pair-in-one, blinking. She then turned to her current dance partner, Daisuke, who was staring at Raine. "Wow," he said. Catherine's lips quirked in a mischevious smile. "I'll let you be." "No!" Daisuke exclaimed forcefully, but composed himself. "Sorry. I'm having a great time." Catherine giggled as they moved around in a circle... and Daisuke stared again. Jade looked up, smirked and waggled her finger at him. She then moved off, swaying her hips, teasing the poor boy. "Daisuke? Are you still there?" Catherine was enjoying this immencely as Daisuke drooled. "..." Daisuke said, a glazed look in his face. Steve snorted in laughter as he had seen the event, as with a couple from Egypt. "Titties," Steve rumbled in a neanderthalic voice, shocking Daisuke out of his stare. The japanese boy glared at the american as Catherine resumed dancing with Daisuke. ------------------- Carter sat down, finally having a break from his non-stop dance partner. Kylie had sat down, complaining that he stepped on her toes so much that they would be bruised. The pair had sat down as Carter had pulled out his tricorder and began scanning everything around him. Finally, Kylie sighed. "What are you doing now?" "Just getting readings on some of these digimon," Carter replied. "Hey, here's something new." He frowned. "Wow, the data is almost unreadable." He looked up at Takato who was moving through the sea of digi-destined and chosen with a wide eyed stare of awe. "Interesting..." "We're here to have fun, not go into Mad Scientest Mode," Kylie reprimanded. Carter shrugged as he pocketed the tricorder. "I'm going to get some punch for us." Kylie stood. "I'm going with you so you won't do your Stalker bit." "Who, me?" Carter snorted. "Naw, I was thinking of doing my Peter Loire impression." He ducked away from a swipe as he grinned, lurching away like a paticular hunchback. "Catch me if you can master!" he exclaimed, drawing stares and laughter from people around him. Kylie fumed. "You are so dead, Windam!" She stomped after him as Hikaru sighed, shaking her head. "Never a dull day around us," she remarked to Renamon who nodded in agreement. "C'mon, lets snag Igor before he gets himself creamed." Renamon vanished into the crowds as Hikaru followed the fox close behind. ------------------- Jullie scowled to herself as Eric was once again dragged out onto the dance floor with the girl, Jade. Her wings, already out from irritation, flapped once, nearly smacking Iori and Sayuri in the head. "Eric you idiot," she muttered, glaring at the pair. "Leaving me here." Eric looked up at Jullie who was scowling. He blinked as the song winded down and hurridly escaped Jade's grasp, making a beeline to the table. Jade followed, casting a glance at Jullie and smirked. Jullie scowled as she headed over towards the table. Eric sipped at his punch. "Boy. You keep dragging me out onto the floor." "Just to keep you in shape really," Jade replied lightly as Jullie sat down, folding her wings around herself. Eric noticed the irritated twitching of her wings with some trepidation. "Hello Jullie," she replied. "Hello Jade," Jullie drawled. "Eric, why don't we dance?" "Naw, I've had enough," Eric replied, starting to sweat at the intense looks that the girls were giving each other. If they were Ayeka and Ryoko from Tenchi Muyo, the place would have been crackling with energy and things would be exploding right about now. 'Then again,' he thought, 'one can shoot ice shards and the other can achieve perfection. Oh boy.' "Eric. Dance floor. Now." Jullie's voice broke no contradiction. Eric swallowed as he got up to help her to the floor. "Yes ma'am." Jullie shot a triumphant look at Jade who scowled back at her with a look that clearly said, "This isn't over." "I look forward to it," was the smirk before the pair began to dance, Jullie placing her wings around herself and Eric, closing the space between them. Eric began to sweat again as he fumbled even more on the floor. "So, um, are you enjoying yourself?" he asked lamely. "Quite," Jullie replied with a smile. "And you?" "Well, quite well actually. I like this place." Eric sighed to himself. 'I sound like an idiot.' Raine shook her head as she and Lee broke off from the slow dance to watch the pair. "I don't know what's worse; Eric getting in between two girls or Eric acting like a spineless wimp." "I'm gonna say; both." Lee remarked. Their partners looked at the pair as Sharmamon peeked over to where Lopmon was finishing up his duel. "Looks like Lopmon isn't helping things either." "What do you expect?" Labramon asked. "He's got a one track mind." The music wound down as Eric attempted to escape his dance partner. But Jullie's grip was like iron; a considerable feat for someone her size. "Oh no," she said, a hint of amusement in her tone. "You are going to dance some more with me." "But but but..." Eric sputtered. "You sound like a two-stroke motor," the half angel girl said, scowling. "Now c'mon. We're going to dance or I'll tie us together for the rest of the night." Eric hung his head. "Yes dear." "WHIPISH!" Sharmamon enunciated, snapping his hand up and down. "You be quiet," Labramon glared. "In a million years, yeah. For now, I'm gonna enjoy this." Sharmamon shot back as Raine dragged Lee back onto the dance floor. Jade smirked as she thought up of a plan. ------------------- "Ken, hi!" Ken looked up at Eric who plopped himself down beside the indigo haired boy. "Haven't seen you in at least half a year!" "I've been busy," Ken replied with a wry smile. "Yeah, I've heard about the situation here. Harsh." Eric leaned back in his chair. "Why don't we get out of this place and get some air? I hear there's a nice park near here." Ken blinked. "Why?" Eric exhaled. "Well, I've seen you moping around here. Any more, and you'll run yourself into the ground like Mr. Ishida and Yamato over there." He gestured towards the pair of Ishidas who were burrowing themselves into the box of alcohol. "And this place is getting kind of stuffy. You know?" He then looked around nervously. "And I'm trying to get away from Jullie and Jade." "Girl trouble?" Ken asked curiously. "Does the words 'Tenchi Muyo Syndrome' strike fear into your heart?" Eric asked, with a straight of a face as he could muster. Ken chuckled as Wormmon waddled up, Lopmon rushing towards him with a wide grin on his face, cards tucked under one small arm. "Okay. Lets go before your girls start pulling you on each arm." ------------------ The world is governed by laws. Laws were essencial for this world to live by. Laws such as the sky is blue, the earth is brown and gravity pulls downwards. When one of these laws are broken, it is a once in a lifetime event. But in the span of two minutes, reality is about to get a kick in the pants. ------------------- Ken leaned on the railings as Lopmon and Wormmon played a game of tag, with the worm being it. He looked over at Eric who adjusted the silver rimmed goggles on his head. "It's a nice day," Ken remarked. "Perfect for Hikari's wedding." Eric nodded as he looked around. "It's so quiet on this part of town." "Unnaturally quiet," Ken agreed as the digimon began to splash in the water. Then, a call came from the waters edge. "Ken-chan!" "Eric!" Lopmon echoed. "Check this out." Eric caught the strange box that Lopmon heaved towards him with one ear. Fumbling with it for a moment, Eric finally grasped hold of the smooth box encrusted with jade. Ken looked over the railing as the pair of digimon made their way up to the top of the bridge where they sat. "Where did you find this?" Ken asked when Wormmon accended to his shoulder. "We found it floating in the water," Wormmon answered. Eric looked at it, puzzled. "Wonder what it could be." "It kind of looks Chinese, but I haven't seen these kind of markings before," Ken said as he inspected the box. "Oh well, it's ours now." Lopmon exclaimed. "C'mon, lets get back to the reception. There's still hours left of it and I wanna spend as much time socializing." Eric shrugged as he tossed the box back and forth between his hands. "All right, we'll go back." He tossed it to one hand, and a strange clicking sound was heard. Ken looked at the box which was now shifting around like a rubix cube. "Um, Eric?" "I see it," Eric replied warily as the box floated upwards into the skies. It clicked around once, twice, three times before it came to a stop. Then, with an eerie ice blue glow, it split apart, bathing their world within a flare of brilliant blue light. ------------------- Authors Notes : And here we go again! This story would NOT let itself go without getting written. So, thus, ends my break on this fanfiction and lo and behold, we are off on another quest! Mr. Referee : Will they ever see home again, or be forced to wander the multiverse with no hope of finding home ever again? Will Ikki get Meda-bee's Medal back? New surprises are in store in every turn! Stay tuned to the Medabot Channel, er, I mean, Digital Diaries Dimentions!