(Case) White Wolf Betrays Her Friends

It would be some time before an agent would show up. Mainly because the girl was standing in one of the busiest intersections in Tokyo with what was obviously an Agumon and a Gabumon. What the hell was this stupid girl doing? Was this some kind of trap?

She had been watched by a dark-haired woman wearing sunglasses and a professional kind of business suit. The woman was tall, and had an expression of distaste on her face. After a few minutes, she would reach into a pocket, remove a device, and whisper "Smell anyone else out there, Jiro?"

"No, Ma'am. Just the Agumon and Gabumon" came the reply.

"Alright. I'm going out there, get ready if they resist" she told the digimon in the digivice, then approached the girl with the digimon, walking up behind her, then cleared her throat.

"Just what the hell are you doing out here?" she asked. "Standing in the middle of the site of a recent digimon fight with your digimon is not a very good idea at all, young lady".

She would have ordinarily just called for backup and ordered her to be arrested, but there was something about this that didn't add up. Surely she knew that such a brazen act would get this kind of response? It was almost like she wanted to get caught. And this agent wanted to know why.

It was as the Agent suspected, this was a plan to draw them out. However, she would listen. If this was an ambush it would be a very poor place to hold it, but for now she folded her arms and listened, glad that the girl returned Agumon and Gabumon to her digivice.

She raised an eyebrow with interest at her story. That she agreed with them, now that was interesting. And of course logically sound, at least in her mind. 'Digimon don't belong here' had been what Commander Hashimoto had told her, and the woman agreed with him. If it wasn't for digimon...

No, she couldn't dwell on that for now. To her surprise, the girl then offered her digivice, with the digimon inside. Almost stunned, Agent Tiger accepted it, then gave a nod, understanding what a hard thing to do this was.

"Very well..." she began. "This is sufficient for now. Follow me back to DATS Headquarters, then we can talk in confidence. But I'm warning you, any funny business and you and your partners will be dealt with severely".

The Agent placed the digivice in her pocket, so shaken by how this encounter had gone that she placed it in the same pocket as her own, the screens facing toward each other. Jiro's face could be seen on her own, and he blinked at seeing Agumon and Gabumon.

"Hi there" the Dracomon-X said to them. "I'm Jiro. I understand that your tamer is going to our side? That's a smart move".

As Agent Tiger led Rebecca through central Shibuya toward the headquarters, she mulled over the possible motivations she might have. Does she think cooperating with DATS will mean they allow their own digimon to remain on Earth? Possible. If it was up to her then that would be allowed, but it was not. That was for the Commander and the Director to decide.

"Oh, you can call me Agent Tiger for now" she said, realizing she hadn't introduced herself. "What's your name?"

For the moment, given the expression on the girl's face as she surrendered her digivice, Agent Tiger accepted the motion as genuine. This was a lot to give up, and frankly, she wouldn't be able to do the same, not with Jiro.

The girl lamented that her friends were unlikely to trust her ever again. The dark haired woman made a sympathetic sigh. "I know, and I'm sorry that you'll go through that with your friends, but in the long run, and for humanity, you're making the right move" she assured her.

The DATS Agent would hide her expression as she thought more on that, what digimon meant to her personally. She did her best to not be noticed as she seemed to lament on more personal things than whatever social breakups this girl would be going through. But she did her best to suppress them as they proceeded through Central Shibuya, gathering little notice through the usual crowds.

"White Wolf? Hm. No, I haven't heard of you" Agent Tiger replied, frankly.

Meanwhile, in Agent Tiger's pocket, Jiro the Dracomon-X blinked at Agumon and Gabumon's antics. So they were two digimon, yet they didn't seem to get along with each other very well. Frankly he had sincere doubts that they'd be any use to DATS, at least compared with the other digimon he knew. They both seemed puerile and stupid, and entirely out of sync with the significance of what was going on here, with the girl surrendering them to the agent.

"You... do realize that if your partner's no use to us, you're both going back to the Village of Beginnings, right?" Jiro asked, sternly.

Agent Tiger was silent for a moment as "White Wolf" said that her plan after telling them her secrets was to escape to the digital world with her partners and remain there. This made her grind her teeth with disapproval. This girl was probably not even 18 years old and still she seemed to want to go down this path. The DATS agent stopped there and then, speaking at a tone that couldn't easily be overheard, but made clear that if they were alone that she would be shouting at her at this point.

"Have you told your parents about this?" she demanded to know. "Your family? Do they know you intend on travelling to another world and staying there? Do you know what they would feel about that? How much that would hurt them? Do you, White Wolf?!"

It was clear that Agent Tiger was somewhat angered by this line of conversation. So much that she wouldn't care to respond to such frivolry as White Wolf's career as an idol, like she would care about things like that.

Meanwhile, in Tiger's pocket, Jiro looked at his presumptive "companions" with a look of dislike. Frankly, the Dracomon-X thought they were both imbeciles at this point. Mainly because a moment ago they were bickering like petty toddlers, yet now they presumed to threaten him.

"Just remember whose pocket you're in" he replied. "Your partner won't be able to save you here. Speak with more respect". This was more advice than threat, but Jiro felt that the two digimon needed to remember just where the power was here.

They stopped for the moment after Agent Tiger had said her piece, then as she looked to Rebecca, she saw something familiar. That expression... oh... had she gone through that pain too?

She listened in utter silence as she explained that digimon killed her parents. The DATS Agent gasped and stepped back a pace, looking mortified at the reality of what she had said. The young woman could say nothing for a minute or so, having to remove her sunglasses as they were fogging up from tears. She turned her face for a few more moments in an attempt to regain her composure, before she turned back to Rebecca, resigning to having to face her with rolling tears.

"I see" she said, giving a simple nod, using what seemed to be a long experience of this despair to hold her voice steady. "Then, in which case, I understand. Digimon killed my son too".

As she said that, Jiro gasped, astonished she would reveal that so easily. But there was something genuine they could feel from Rebecca. Even though as an Idol she would have been trained to tell stories that pierced the soul all in the name of acting, he trusted that his partner could identify this as genuine pain.

"I'm sorry, I didn't know" Jiro said to Gabumon and Agumon. If Rebecca knew of the pain that his partner felt, then, her attempts to join them were fully understood.

"Let's continue" Agent Tiger said, leading them closer to the DATS HQ, speaking considerably more gently now.

Agent Tiger's tears persisted, but she did her best to make her voice remain firm. "Not for revenge..." she said firmly. "But... to make sure that no others go through the pain I went through".

Night after night, reports of more young children, some younger than her dead son, all of them ending up with digimon partners and somehow winding up in the digital world. Agent Tiger could not tolerate such a thing, every young tamer she would prevent making that leap, that was a good thing in her books.

As for how she felt with White Wolf here, well, she made the connection fairly quickly it seemed. She had felt the same pain she had felt, although to a lesser degree. To lose a son is worse than losing parents. Sons and daughters were meant to bury their parents, not the other way around. But for the sake of good conversation here, she wouldn't bring attention to that line of thinking for now.

Eventually, they would reach the entrance to DATS HQ. "Well, here we are..." Agent Tiger said before they would enter. "After we enter, I'm going to have to ask you to answer any question that's asked of you honestly and correctly. If you do so, we'll release you back to your life without disruption. If not... well, I'll just say that my superiors may not be as generous as I am."

Agent Tiger hated that she had shown such weakness so easily. She knew that she should have put up more of a resistance to this, but, alas, that was her weakness. The reason someone wanted to submit themselves for DATS for the same reason that she had? It just felt right to do.

But as long as it didn't endanger Jiro, then it would be acceptable to do.

The dark haired woman turned to White Wolf as she explained something further. She said her true name was Rebecca Story, and removed a wig. Only when they were safely secured within the headquarters did Tiger react to this.

"Ma'am, please do the same. It's honorable" Jiro requested through the digivice. Tiger sighed, then relented.

"Very well. But you are never to mention this name outside of here. My name is Nami Esaki. Mother of Kazuo Esaki, now deceased, age 12. Have you met him?"

Part of her wanted her to answer that she did, that another tamer knew of his last moments. If not, that would be fine, but, part of her wanted to just know what happened to her son in the digital world.