Nabiki looked over from her laptop, looking over at Ranma practicing his moves.
It was a little weird to be young again, losing the body she had spent her former youth sculpting to her wishes, now replaced with the body of a twelve-year-old version. Somehow, she didn’t expect this to happen when she and Ranma had gone through that mystic Arch.
She remembered watching ‘Digimon’ when it was on television back in their original world. So she at least had the basics.
Digimon were creatures from a dimension where data from the normal universe became the basis for reality. They came in the levels of baby, in-training, rookie, champion, ultimate, and mega. Though if you asked her, there had to be a level even above Mega. It didn’t just fit right that you DNA-digivolved two Mega-level digimon and got another Mega.
So when they woke up in the park with two in-training digimon and two weird looking digivices, they tried to make their way home.
But now, their home was ... in Shinjuku?
The Tendo Dojo was there as it always had been, even if the other houses were different. And to make it even weirder—though she should have expected such considering who she was with—the Saotome home was right next door.
And thus they began to notice the little changes in this new world they had been placed in by the Arch ... aside from the new homes.
They were both twelve now, instead of their former ages. Genma was not a martial artist, but a lawyer ... a well respected lawyer ... a lawyer that people liked!
That knocked Ranma out for a good hour when he heard his father actually being thanked by people.
Kimiko Tendo, the famed lost mother, was alive as well, and led to Nabiki herself passing out for a while.
The two mothers worked for some huge charity that helped the community.
The Tendos and the Saotomes were pillars of the community.
Talk about getting the runts of the litter.
Some things remained the same though. Akane was still the heir for the Tendo School, a school based on something called the Infinity School, a positive-created version of Anything Goes. All three daughters were well taught, with Kasumi being the only certified master of it of the three.
Soun had even started to teach Ranma when they moved in several years ago, shortly after Genma’s promotion to partner in his firm.
Of course, not everything had been fun and games. The two had also been forced to deal with newly arriving digimon that seemed to want to go berserk on everything nearby.
And thus the new digivices and digimon card modifiers came into play.
This of course led to why she was using her laptop.
When they had begun their new little crusade, she began looking for ways to use the cards to digivolve the digimon. Luckily, she was able to access the data from when Lizarmon and Kyokyomon had digivolved on their own to Dalimon—a green lizard who somewhat resembled a smaller Tyranomon with red fins that were twice the size of the larger digimon—and Ryudamon.
And the fact that her father and sisters believed they were stuffed animals that Ranma had won for his ‘girlfriend’ really didn’t speak well of their powers of observation.
With the saved data from the digivolutions, she was trying to come up with the code to reach the needed levels.
Not that she planned to test them out if she did. She preferred that to be saved as an ‘emergency option.’
She had been able to find a programmer named Janyuu Wong, who helped her out with her initial coding problems.
Though if I’m not wrong, he seemed to recognize some of that code
But so far, her work wasn’t needed, for which she was grateful for. The last thing she needed was her coding to be wrong and end up mutating the digimon into something ... worse.
A beeping drew her attention, as Ranma finished off his workout.
“Looks like we have new arrivals,” said Nabiki, holding up her D-Arc to locate the digital field.
“Think they’ll insist on being pains in the asses as usual?” asked Ranma, as Dalimon handed him a towel.
“I hope not,” said Nabiki. “It’d be nice if we could just find them a Tamer.”
“Nah,” said Dalimon. “They all are too weird to get Tamers like you guys.”
“Idiot,” muttered Ryudamon.
After the digimon left, Nabiki and Ranma tried to make their exit ... only to meet the usual teases of their parents about ‘another wild date between the two love birds.’
If it wasn’t for that damned Arch, I’d tell them to stuff it.
The Arch had proven that they were a destined love.
This is why the two had probably had that same thought at once, not even noticing as they reached out and grabbed the other’s hand.
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