Interlude: Dats

"I see," Commander Sampson of Dats threaded his fingers together atop his command desk, taking in the information, "Good work Nene, giving us at least a week to respond gives us time to think this over."

The massive, muscular commander looked down at his shoulders, where a small, white mammal digimon was curled around him like a scarf, "What do you make of this, Kudamon?" he asked it, "These claims to have been the first human to enter the digital world and be crowned king."

"Frankly, they're very far fetched, but at the same time, they fit," Kudamon replied, voice a deep, calm baritone, despite the digimon's tiny size, "The story of Floatia has been regaled for thousands of years, and it was known, that before the digidestined, there was a previous group of humans that entered the digital world, or in this case, just the one."

"Yeah, but saving the digital world and becoming king?" Yoshino spoke up from where she stood at the side of his desk, "He would have been what, eight, that's just too."

"I don't know...He had this presence about him, like there was a pressure pressing down on me, it was a bit intimidating to be honest," Nene mused herself, before shrugging, "Besides, did you forget who we're talking about? This guy started a company superpower and advanced the world's technology by decades when he was ten, he's even a doctor at this point, if it's him, I can see it."

"I can at least tell you though, that Floatia was a real place," Kudamon input, "My lord was not very forthcoming with information, but we learned at least, that Yggdrasil had strong ties to Floatia, and we, as an order, were formed in order to hunt down the ones remaining who facilitated the destruction of the city."

"What about his demands?" Yoshino asked, "I mean, we're trying to break away from the government simply because of their demands on what we do, isn't this trading just one for another?"

Nene shrugged, "I don't really see the problem to be honest," she replied, "His demands while quite high, don't really affect us overall too much, and we have no authority in the digital world anyway."

Kudamon grimaced, "Maybe not you all, but I am unsure how to feel about his claim to rulership," the rookie digimon said, "On one hand, it seems he has good motives, and isn't an evil person, but on the other hand, rule of the digital world is the right of Yggdrasil."

"That's where the biggest problem lies," Samson nodded in agreement, "There is no true single ruling authority in this world, the idea that he is such or will become such, means there is one person ruling an entire world to be on edge about, it means the entire digital world will march at his words should it come to pass, and that is a force this world has no chance against, we are panicking after all just because the governments plans to weaponize the small number of digivice holders and digimon partners in comparison."

"There's the slight chance he'll let me accompany him to the Digital World in two days," Nene said. She tapped her chin in a wondering fashion, "My odds of getting anything out of him are low. I went all honey trap and he barely batted at an eye, most guys stumble over themselves just to speak to me these days."

Yoshino grimaced, "I still don't know how you can do that without batting an eye."

Nene shrugged, "While I'm not a fan of it personally, the fact of the matter is, I'm hot, and he's a teenager," she replied, "Thousands of lives could depend on getting his backing, I wasn't going to let a little discomfort get in the way of that."

"Oh yeah?" Yoshino challenged, "Even if he made it a point for you to spend your time in his bed with him?"

Nene raised an eyebrow at the older woman, "Sex you mean?" she asked, and when Yoshino nodded the idol just shrugged her shoulders, "My virginity is a small price to pay, if that was what it took."

Commander Sampson nodded lightly to himself. He made the right decision in backing Nene when recruiting her for DATS. She was the type of girl that practically embodied the word 'go-getter', if she wanted to achieve something, she put her all into doing so, and worked harder than most could fathom. There was a reason she was one of the top agents of DATs, on top of being an Idol, top of her year in school work and the student council president for the high school course at her school.

She wasn't unfeeling, but she was logical, and had the great resolve needed to make hard decisions, and she was a kind girl, and as such, much more willing to put herself through bad situations, than others

"I'll leave it in your capable hands then Nene," Commander Sampson nodded, standing up,"I'll bring this information and the deal we were given to the other high ranking officers."

He internally grimaced. While most of them would be easy to deal with on this matter, the biggest problem...was Kurata. The head scientist of DATs.

..Ever since that 'Digimon World' game was released, the man had been obsessed with taking digimon that managed to cross over, alive, into his custody and experimenting on them.

He'd already created a monster out of a Tyrannomon they had captured. Metal Tyrannomon. It was, perhaps the strongest digimon DATs had on command...besides his own. It worked as Kurata's 'partner' despite the fact, the man did not even have a digivice.

He would stonewall any agreement with Artus' Kokuo in reference to his rule over the digital world. It would mean, the digimon would be Artus' subjects, as such, it would be like illegally torturing and experimenting on another countries subjects. Grounds for war.

Kurata would not want to give up his obsession and research materials in any form.