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digimon adventure 02 - ken ichijouji

009 Dark Towers Destroyed; voice;

[He might sound just a tiny bit irritated right now.]

I'm staying inside for the remainder of the day.

[And, yes, all you can hear in the background is blissful silence.]

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Ken? Are you all right?

Yes, I'm fine. I just don't care much for music. [Not very interested in the world around him look.]

[And then a bit more animated.]

Doctor Brown! There's some things I should show you. And this theory someone was telling me about. I can't find the older guides that mention it, however. [Never mind the music. This is more important!]

[What? Theories? Things to be shown? Distraction successful. Not that it's terribly difficult.]

What sorts of things? And a theory, really? I had found some older guides, but perhaps they simply weren't old enough - I'd be fascinated to hear anything that you've learned, of course.

First, I was given an auditory guide, which while blunt, I find to be more personal. [By the tone of his voice, he rather likes it.]

So far, I've only seen the theory proposed in this out of date guide, but it seems the people here, at the time, suspected the clock was counting down to a doomsday along with other speculations. Someone else mentioned how many things here seem to allude back to clocks, counting time and the like, the layout of the apartment buildings, too. Even the desert, we had sand and glass which could be an hourglass reference. Of course, that's just speculation and could be coincidence.

Colloquial, but to the point! Perhaps lacking in finer detail, but a decent introduction nonetheless.

[Oh, the clocks. Ken, you've no idea.]

The clock is absolutely of consequence! I very much doubt that there's many things that are coincidence here; the details are most certainly the key to developing a greater understanding. In fact, I've been considering paying a visit to the clock itself, though I've been made to understand it can be a bit of a risky decision. The hourglass theory is certainly of interest - though sand can also be made into glass. Still. The clock, the ticking, the layout - all of it most certainly hints at some deeper meaning to be found in the clock. It makes perfect sense, even, given the obvious relation between time, alternate timelines, and their role in creating multiple worlds - at least, in most theories. And these deities, all the while, have access to our own timelines, to the points from which we came. People believe time stops when they leave, but that viewpoint is simply lacking in the capacity to think fourth-dimensionally. If the deities have access to remove a person from a certain point in time, obviously they possess the same capacity to return the person to the same moment! It's hardly a question of time stopping so much as being returned to the same coordinate on the space-time continuum from which you had initially been removed!

[... that may have been a hot-button topic.]

[Ken sees that, now, and he doesn't mind, feeling any information might be useful when it comes to the world around them and the deities, and getting home and all of that, but his mind has completely stopped - heart nearly with it - on something else.]

Wait. You're saying rather than stopping time, the deities pull us out, then return us to the same point in time? If they did that, aren't they, technically, creating another timeline where we go missing? Doesn't that affect things after all? Because time would still continue....

[Sure, it means Ken will return to A TIMELINE right where he left and keep things going on a track he feels he has some control on. But if it creates another parallel universe instead, then there's a timeline where things go on without him, and Wormmon is ALONE. His expression, crestfallen and worried, will say how much this idea affects him.]

[Oh goodness, Ken, now Doc is concerned - and rapidly changing course away from his ramblings.]

Oh no, no, not at all! See, time can't be stopped, by the very nature of it. However, when we approach the issue fourth-dimensionally, if we can be removed from a certain point in our timelines, there's absolutely no reason that we can't also be returned to that same point, in the very same timeline. It would still be precisely as if we had never left, since we would be returned to the same point from which we had originally been removed. To any observer within the timeline, no time would have passed, thus creating the illusion of time having been stopped.

[Ken calms down after being told that, significantly.]

I see.... That's...I'm fine with that. I still want to find a way out of here as soon as possible, but that makes it easier to be here.

Then again, after seeing some of these theories, I think we need more information. I don't want to leave if there's something sinister going on here, until that's taken care of.

Of course, of course. I believe many of us are united in that particlar thought.

[And then there's the difficult bit; he pauses there. He thinks he may have a way out, via the DeLorean, if he can reproduce the overload in the circuits, but it does mean leaving everyone here who's come to mean a good deal to him...]

The very same thing has been troubling me, I must confess. Certainly, not much about the City seems to suggest it's innocuous... and even if I were to find a way out, it would mean leaving all these people at the mercy of whatever beings these deities are. Hardly a decision I savor having to make... and the perfect reason to develop a fuller understanding of the City before any decision is made.

Yes, I'm in complete agreement with that.

There are people who've stayed here for some time, but that doesn't mean this will last. And if some of these theories are correct, we might not even be safe at home, even we make it out.

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