Yamato Ishida (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
angry_friendship_wolf) wrote2020-12-18 09:54 pm
angry_friendship_wolf) wrote2020-12-18 09:54 pm
[tri OOM] Results and Results
“I’ve figured out why Gennai posted Digimon at the Gates,” Koushiro says one morning, as Yamato’s cooking breakfast. He has bags under his eyes, a surefire sign that he’s spent the night working instead of sleeping, and Yamato makes a mental note to order him to get some sleep later.
“And?”
“He’s stabilising the Gates. We know that just under two years ago, all the Gates shut, with only Ken’s dark digivice able to open one. We know now that’s because the distortions that Infected Digimon create had altered the curvature of the multiverse, changing the distance between worlds, just like Apocalymon did,” Koushiro says. “Those Digimon holding position beneath every Gate outside Japan are acting like living signal boosters, rendering those Gates usable again.”
Yamato frowns, flipping a pancake. “He doesn’t need to do that, though. He can use distortions to travel and to bring Digimon to and from the Digital World.”
“I think he must want to send something else through. The distortions create massive electromagnetic fields, and a powerful enough distortion can even interfere with our powers, so they aren’t suitable for every situation.”
“What is it he’d want to send through that’d need nearly a dozen Gates?”
“Energy,” Koushiro says. “The only thing he could be planning to send through is a massive amount of energy.”
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Nishijima visits later, handing off their mail, including a letter for Yamato, marked with the Crisis Academy’s seal. He almost doesn’t open it. He wasn’t expecting this letter for at least another week or two, the fact that it’s early has got to mean he failed.
He takes a deep breath, opens the envelope. There are two letters inside.
The first is a notice of his acceptance onto the course. This letter is to certify that Yamato Ishida has been accepted onto the Military Aviation (Jet Fighter) Course, conducted by the National Crisis Defence Academy of Japan (henceforth NCDA), with associated Bachelors degree in Aeronautical Engineering and Theoretical Physics conducted by Juntendo University in association with the NCDA.
Attached you will find a list of documents you should send to us; information on your course; and an information pack that will cover uniform acquisition, housing during your course, code of conduct, facilities that the NCDA includes, and Culture and Sports clubs, for which membership in at least one of each is mandatory.
Yamato just stares at it for a while in numb disbelief. He hadn’t really ever believed he’d be accepted, and he has to read it five more times just to be sure he’s reading it right, that he hasn’t missed or misinterpreted it at all.
The next letter is …
This letter is to inform Yamato Ishida of an official demerit added to his record at the NCDA, for reasons of unacceptable behaviour towards a superior. Three demerits received during a single academic year, or eight over the entire course, will result in expulsion.
It continues in much the same way until the final paragraph.
Notes from presiding officer: We’ve only been up and running for four years, but I think this might be the first time a cadet has been given a demerit before they even officially start. Breaking new ground, Ishida.
He believes that one a lot more readily. He can’t even find it in himself to care, though. Demerit or no demerit, he’s still been accepted, and the vague notions of a future that he never really believed would happen have solidified into something excitingly and terrifyingly concrete.
“University of Tokyo, here I come!” Jyou crows from across the room, which Yamato guesses means he’s just got his entrance exam results back. “I’ve got to call my parents.”
“And?”
“He’s stabilising the Gates. We know that just under two years ago, all the Gates shut, with only Ken’s dark digivice able to open one. We know now that’s because the distortions that Infected Digimon create had altered the curvature of the multiverse, changing the distance between worlds, just like Apocalymon did,” Koushiro says. “Those Digimon holding position beneath every Gate outside Japan are acting like living signal boosters, rendering those Gates usable again.”
Yamato frowns, flipping a pancake. “He doesn’t need to do that, though. He can use distortions to travel and to bring Digimon to and from the Digital World.”
“I think he must want to send something else through. The distortions create massive electromagnetic fields, and a powerful enough distortion can even interfere with our powers, so they aren’t suitable for every situation.”
“What is it he’d want to send through that’d need nearly a dozen Gates?”
“Energy,” Koushiro says. “The only thing he could be planning to send through is a massive amount of energy.”
Nishijima visits later, handing off their mail, including a letter for Yamato, marked with the Crisis Academy’s seal. He almost doesn’t open it. He wasn’t expecting this letter for at least another week or two, the fact that it’s early has got to mean he failed.
He takes a deep breath, opens the envelope. There are two letters inside.
The first is a notice of his acceptance onto the course. This letter is to certify that Yamato Ishida has been accepted onto the Military Aviation (Jet Fighter) Course, conducted by the National Crisis Defence Academy of Japan (henceforth NCDA), with associated Bachelors degree in Aeronautical Engineering and Theoretical Physics conducted by Juntendo University in association with the NCDA.
Attached you will find a list of documents you should send to us; information on your course; and an information pack that will cover uniform acquisition, housing during your course, code of conduct, facilities that the NCDA includes, and Culture and Sports clubs, for which membership in at least one of each is mandatory.
Yamato just stares at it for a while in numb disbelief. He hadn’t really ever believed he’d be accepted, and he has to read it five more times just to be sure he’s reading it right, that he hasn’t missed or misinterpreted it at all.
The next letter is …
This letter is to inform Yamato Ishida of an official demerit added to his record at the NCDA, for reasons of unacceptable behaviour towards a superior. Three demerits received during a single academic year, or eight over the entire course, will result in expulsion.
It continues in much the same way until the final paragraph.
Notes from presiding officer: We’ve only been up and running for four years, but I think this might be the first time a cadet has been given a demerit before they even officially start. Breaking new ground, Ishida.
He believes that one a lot more readily. He can’t even find it in himself to care, though. Demerit or no demerit, he’s still been accepted, and the vague notions of a future that he never really believed would happen have solidified into something excitingly and terrifyingly concrete.
“University of Tokyo, here I come!” Jyou crows from across the room, which Yamato guesses means he’s just got his entrance exam results back. “I’ve got to call my parents.”