From: ambasosor_lardo@hotmail.com   
      
   [JESSE and GUILMON are at the consession stand, JESSE is behind the counter   
   near a soda fountan. Below the nozzles are two huge paper cups being filled   
   with pop.]   
   JESSE: So, enjoying the movie, Guilmon?   
   GUILMON: Yeah, but it's confusing sometimes.   
   JESSE: I hear you. Have you been able to figure out who all the kids were   
   from the roof in New York?   
   GUILMON: Nuh uh.   
   JESSE: There was an Albert and an Al and a Rick, I think.   
   GUILMON: I think there was a Stephen, too.   
   JESSE: Now that you mention it, I think so...   
   [TAKATO enters the loby and runs towards JESSE and GUILMON]   
   TAKATO: Guilmon! There you are! You really had me worried.   
   GUILMON: I'm sorry, Takato.   
   TAKATO: That's alright, Guilmon. As long as you're safe. [to JESSE] How   
   many people saw him?   
   JESSE: As far as I know, I'm the only one. We've been watching a movie in   
   the theater for about twenty or thirty minutes now.   
   TAKATO: He hasn't been too much trouble, I hope.   
   JESSE: No trouble at all. Actually, it's been pretty cool having him   
   around.   
   TAKATO: Well, it's good to know that there's been no trouble. What's the   
   movie you've been watching?   
   JESSE: Something you might like. Lots of science fiction stuff. Computers   
   that cough out digital watches and pull people into cyberspace...   
   GUILMON: Kids that play Digimon just like you do!   
   JESSE: And there's this really mysterious place where nameless people do   
   high-powered cyberspace tracking and the like.   
   TAKATO: Cool! Mind if I join you?   
   JESSE: Be my guest.   
   [All enter theater. TAKATO takes the third seat in; GUILMON and JESSE take   
   the same seats they had before.]   
      
   >   
   >"There you go, Ling," the girl said as she tied the bandage. "Just be sure   
   >to keep the >bandage on until you get to the hospital."   
   >   
      
   JESSE: I think we're about to meet the team's medic.   
      
   >"Kay, Chi," the child said.   
      
   JESSE:[child] Mind if I practice martial arts along the way?   
   TAKATO: What?   
   JESSE: Kay Chi sounds alot like Tai Chi, doesn't it?   
   TAKATO: Yeah, I guess it does.   
      
   > The child's mother turned to her.   
   >"Thank you so much, Chi. >It's a good thing you were here when Dara broke   
   >her leg."   
   >   
   >"It was my pleasure, Mrs. Pom," Chi said with a little bow. Ling and her   
   >mother left but >not before Mrs. Pom stopped to speek with her mother.   
   >   
   >"You are so lucky to have Chi.   
      
   JESSE:[Chi's mom] Well, spirit *does* tend to run high in my family...   
      
   > She's a big help with   
   >the neighborhood children."   
   >   
   >"Yes, her father and I are proud of her." Chi blushed but because her back   
   >was turned, >the two women didn't see it. She always blushed when people   
   >complimented her.   
   >   
   >"Mom, I'm going to go onto the Internet," she called.   
   >   
      
   JESSE: Literally.   
   TAKATO: Huh?   
   JESSE: You wanna tell him, Guilmon?   
   GUILMON: Nah. I think he should see for himself.   
      
   >"All right, dear. Dinner's in an hour."   
   >   
   >"Kay." Chi went into their family's computer room. The computer was   
   >primarily used >by her father for his work as a video programmer,   
      
   JESSE: Hey, mabey Chi's old man could hire my kid brother. He's a computer   
   programmer. MSCE certified, even.   
      
   >   
   > but the other members of the family >were allowed to use it as well.   
   >   
   >Chi logged on and accessed her favorite web site, a streaming-band radio   
   >station from >Japan. Although she didn't know the language, she could make   
   >out   
      
   JESSE: I don't know if that's the best way to put it...   
   TAKATO: Yeah.   
      
      
   some of the >language including "strange,"   
   (okashii) "company," (ittai) and "monster" (kaijuu).   
      
   JESSE: Looks like Hoshi's translation matrix is off just a touch.   
   TAKATO: You're a Trekkie, aren't you?   
   JESSE: Does it show?   
   TAKATO: Just a little bit.   
      
   >   
   > Just >as Chi was   
   >settling down, the music turned off. Chi panicked, afraid that she screwed   
   > >up her Dad's computer.   
   >   
      
   JESSE: Personally, I would have gone with *messed* up on that...   
   TAKATO: You're mind's really in the gutter with this one.   
      
   >The screen began to glow. What Chi could only guess as an electronic watch   
   >came out >of the screen. Chi screamed.   
   >   
   >"Chi, is everything all right?" Her mother called from the kitchen.   
   >   
      
   TAKATO: Well, her dad's computer just gave her a Digivice. It's kinda hard   
   to be alright after that.   
      
   >"No... I mean yes... I mean nothing to worry about," Chi stuttered.   
   >   
   >"Okay."   
   >   
   >Chi took a deep breath and picked up the watch. As she did that, the   
   >screen glowed. >Chi dropped the device but she was still sucked into the   
   >computer along with it.   
   >   
      
   JESSE:[slight whooshing to words] Sliders!   
   TAKATO: So this is what you guys meant when you said she was literally going   
   on the Internet.   
   GUILMON: Sure was.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >"I'm telling you, Guriko, there's something funny about that tower."   
   >   
   >"You're dreaming, Shinji. My Dad tells me there nothing but an Internet   
   >Service >Company."   
   >   
   >"Then tell me what an Internet Service Company is doing with a SWAT team."   
   >   
   >"Huh?"   
   >   
   >"I saw it last night. They were hauling something big with that   
   >helicopter." This >argument had been going on for a while. Shinji   
   >believed that there was something >strange about the Sakiyuchi company that   
   >ran the towers with all the satellite dishes. >But Guriko, who was   
   >spending the night at Shinji's house, was skeptic.   
   >   
      
   JESSE: Must be a branch of Shinra, Inc.   
   TAKATO: You like Final Fantasy Seven, huh?   
   JESSE: Just haven't beaten it yet.   
      
   >"Whatever. Hey, did you hear about Takato?"   
   >   
   >"Why, what happened to him?"   
   >   
      
   TAKATO: Yeah, what?   
      
   >"Apparently he and his friends got into some huge fight."   
   >   
   >"What a dork."   
   >   
      
   JESSE:[Eddie] Ah, whadda you know?   
      
   >"Who are you talking about?"   
   >   
   >"All three of them."   
      
   TAKATO: Well, if Rika and Renamon would just warm up a bit...   
      
   > Shinji looked up from his bed. "Um... Guriko,   
   >did you leave the >computer on?"   
   >   
   >"No, it's not my house." Shinji got up and tip-toed into the next room.   
   >Sure enough, the >computer screen was glowing. Shinji was going to turn it   
   >off when the watch-type >device flew through the screen and hit him on the   
   >head.   
   >   
      
   JESSE:[Shinji] AAAAAHHHHH! My eye!   
      
   >"Ow." Shinji picked the device up off the floor. "What the..." Suddenly   
   >the screen >began to glow and pull him in. Shinji grabbed the chair but   
   >the pull was too strong.   
   >   
   >"Shinji, what's..." Guriko's eyes bulged out when he saw the sight.   
   >   
   >"Guriko, get me out of here!" Shinji cried.   
      
   TAKATO:[Shinji] This stupid computer thinks it's picking a duck!   
   JESSE: D'ho! His name is Shinji. Why didn't I think of that one?   
      
   >   
   >Guriko grabbed onto Shinji's arm (the one >that wasn't carrying the digital   
   >device) but it was too little, too late as Shinji was pulled >into the   
   >computer.   
   >   
   >   
   >   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)