"Takato, Henry's here." Guilmon's voice chimed through the room, sounding to Takato like the song of angels. With only a final glance over at Renamon and her mountainous, pregnant belly Takato slipped out of the room, running onto the deck where he saw Henry standing by Guilmon, Terriermon hanging from his usual spot on his tamer's shoulder.
Takato ran up to Henry, tripping a second time on the smooth surface of the exterior deck and falling down at Henry's feet. The blue haired tamer bent down, helping Takato off the deck as he asked, "Okay, I'm here. Now, explain everything to me on more time."
With a nod Takato began, carefully lying out everything that happened before he called Henry. Then, with a bit of anxiousness, Takato began telling Henry of what happened after he had hung up the phone, including Rika and Renamon's expansion to even greater sizes.
"Whoa, Henry, you didn't tell me about all this when we left." Terriermon said in awe, looking over at his tamer.
"That's because I didn't want Suzie or anybody else to hear about it. Still, you said Renamon threw you back. Did she do anything after that?"
Takato nodded, "Yeah, she got even bigger. Still, before that she did say 'Don't touch me. Touching me causes.'"
"Causes what?"
Takato shrugged, "That's all she said. After that it was back to moans of pain and more growth."
Henry held his chin, bending his head downward slightly, "Maybe... she meant to say that touching her is somehow causing this. Still, I need to be certain. Terriermon, go back to my bike and get that box I left in the basket. Takato, let me see Rika and Renamon."
Terriermon and Takato nodded, the green bunny digimon jumping off his tamer's shoulder, floating through the air to Herny's bike while Takato took Henry to the bedroom door, sliding it open as Henry looked inside. A few moment's later Takato shut the door, Henry's face pale as his mouth hung agape.
"I thought you were exaggerating."
"Would I exaggerate about something like this?" Takato countered, looking slightly offended. Still, before more could be said Terriermon returned, holding the box that Henry had brought in his mother's bike. After opening the box flaps Henry pulled out a large, black plastic thing that looked like old briefcase. Still, upon opening it up Henry revealed that contained within was a large mishmash of computer circuits, wires, an old screen and a keyboard.
"What's this?" Takato asked, looking at the device.
"It's something I've been building with my dad. It's a more advanced form of the scanner. It should let us see what's going on at the very least with Renamon's body. We may luck out and it could work on Rika, but I can't be certain."
Takato moved a bit, stepping off the deck as he looked over Henry's shoulder. The strange, cobbled together device roared to life old green lines of code appearing on the screen. As Henry began to type commands on the keyboard, he said, "This is first working prototype my father and I have managed to assemble. Because of it, it only has some basic command line programming. We were hoping to start coding some proper software this weekend, but I have a feeling that plan just got thrown out the window."
With that Henry pressed the enter key on the old keyboard, the device humming as several small lights flicked on and off. Eventually, a series of names began to appear on the screen:
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Detecting nearby entities to be analyzed......
The following entities can be analyzed......
1. Henry Wong (Tamer)
2. Takato Matsuki (Tamer)
3. Rika Nonaka (Tamer)
4. Terriermon (Digimon)
5. Guilmon (Digimon)
6. Renamon (Digimon)
Please enter the number of the entity you wish to analyze: _
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Henry quickly reached over the keyboard, pressing the number six before striking the entire key. The screen went blank, the device whirlling again. Soon, lines of data began to stretch out on the screen. Everything from Renamon's height, weight, type, card number even to smaller facts like number of hairs on her body or favorite color began to appear on the screen. Henry flipped through the long list, his eyes searching until he found what he was looking for. A pair of facts, one directly influencing the other.
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Current state of body: Pregnant
--Number of children being carried by entity: 10
--Basic Data:
----All Children are healthy
----All Children At stage of development where birth should occur
----Mother's body has not yet begun birth due to unknown factor
--Family Tree
-----All Children Share common ancestry:
------------Mother: Renamon
------------Father: Takato Matsuki
------------Means of Conception: Unknown
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Takato and Henry stared at the number for a few moments, there eyes narrowing. Finally, Takato found his voice, a weak tremble in his words as he said, "Ten!"
Henry took a deep breath, running a hand through his hair as he leaned back from the computer. "Takato, I need to know... did you..."
Takato blinked a few times, his face turning red before he shook it furiously, waving his hands, "No, No, No, No, No. I did not... I mean... uh.......Digimon aren't even supposed to have gender."
Henry nodded, "All right, I just needed to rule it out as a possibility. Still, ten children. If what Renamon said is true that the growth is initiated by touch, then in the morning you must have touched her ten times."
Takato began to look up at the deck's overhang, counting on his fingers, "Well, I tapped her to wake her up this morning, I patted her shoulder two, no three times before I left. Then, when I got back I tried to drag her from the bathroom, lost my grip and slipped. Tried again but had to stop because of Guilmon. Third time I got her onto a futon and after letting go grabbed her legs and put them on the futon. Then, after that I touched her one more time and then she grabbed me by the throat to throw me across the floor."
Takato looked down at his fingers, seeing that all of them extended and standing in the air, "That's ten..."
"And, for the time being that makes Renamon's theory our best guess as to what is causing this. Still, that leaves so many questions unanswered. We need to find out more, before we have find it out the hard way?"
"What are you suggesting?" Takato asked, a little confused.
"We need to run some tests."
"Tests, are you crazy Henry. If we test then we run the risk of making Renamon and Rika larger. Do you really want to do that?"
"It's playing an odds game right now Takato. If we find out now what can cause Rika or Renamon to get more pregnant then we can make sure they don't come in contact with it. If we don't, for the one child they may gain in the tests they may gain ten when something bad happens."
Takato crossed his arms, "I don't know Henry. I don't think Rika or Renamon would like the idea of being tested on."
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