Chapter 18: Princess Taylor

Taylor had fallen off the inter-dimensional traveling Kommondomon that was taking The Elemental Four Digidestined to the World For Us All Headquarters! An evil Digimon called Owarimon had grabbed Taylor at the exact moment she was hit by Kazemon's Hurricane Wave attack! Sharkmon digivolved to Jawsmon and was able to free her from Owarimon's grasp, but now the two were falling into one of the universes in The Mother Universe!

Some time later, Taylor was unconscious. But as she began to awaken, she heard some voices around her talking. "I can't believe something like this could happen." One of the voices said. "Are you sure you saw the princess falling from the sky? That sounds absurd." Another said. "Well, Anastasia can fly." "Yes, but her powers skip a generation." Taylor opened her eyes and groaned a little bit. Her back was hurting and her head was pounding. She sat up and rubbed her head. "Ugh….what happened?" She said, disoriented. Then she remembered; "Owarimon!" She said outloud. Taylor looked around and saw that she was in a very fancy looking room. It was kind of a cross between a rich person's bedroom and a hospital room. Very beautiful art of different kinds of fishes adorned the walls and ceiling. Taylor was lying in a hospital bed with an IV running through her arm. Her shirt was removed and just the black tube top she wore underneath remained. The people in the room looked very pleased to see her. They were a group of men and women who were wearing Aqualian loin cloths and doctor coats with stethoscopes around their necks, and satchels around their waists. "She's awake! Princess Taylor is awake!" One of the male doctors with short brown hair said. One of the female doctors shushed him. "We don't want the press to know right away. She's been through a lot. Do you want them swarming the poor child like piranha?" She scolded. This doctor had jet black hair.

Taylor looked confused. "Princess Taylor? What are you….talking about? I'm no princess." She asked. The female doctor who had previously shushed the male doctor took a few steps forward. "I was afraid this might happen. Amnesia due to head trauma." Taylor was extremely confused. What was she talking about? She inferred from their apparel that they were probably Aqualian doctors, not Earth doctors. Human doctors on Earth would never walk around so scantily clad. These had to be merpeople. But she wasn't underwater, and she had read in her mother's book that all Aqualian hospitals were under the ocean. Taylor was a very smart girl though. She put the pieces together. Knowing she had fallen from Kommondomon while traveling the inter-space of the Multiverse, and knowing scientists theorizing that there were likely billions of alternate versions of every person in billions of parallel worlds, she inferred that she must have fallen into some world where she was born into Royalty. She decided it might be best to play along until she could figure out what to do next. Taylor smiled nervously. "Oh, no! I remember everything just fine! I'm Princess Taylor, daughter of….Anastasia." She said with a nervous smile.

Taylor didn't look like she had sustained any injuries. She must have been administered advanced Aqualian medicine while she was out. The black haired woman doctor smiled. "And do you know who I am?" She asked. Taylor looked confused. "Uhh…my doctor?" Taylor guessed. "Well, yes, but I'm also…." She said, prompting Taylor to fill in the gap. "A natural brunette?" Taylor said, slightly in jest. The doctor sighed. "Nice try. I'm your Aunt. Aunt Cordelia. My name is Cordelia Poseidon and I'm your aunt." She said. Taylor looked surprised. She had two aunts; Lilly Glovion who was her father's sister and Marin Neptune, who was Kinandon's wife. But she had never met this woman before.

Just then, Jessica burst into the room looking extremely distraught. She fought through a crowd of people who were blocking the way. They had gathered around the hospital door out of concern for Taylor. "Out of my way! Let me through! I order you to move!" She shouted. She eventually was able to push her way through the plethora of people blocking the way. She entered the hospital room and ran over to Taylor. Jessica was wearing a golden crown, a golden clam shell top to cover her breasts, golden metallic gloves with emeralds embedded in each, and golden bracelets, and a black Aqualian loin cloth. "Taylor!" She said as she quickly embraced her. "Mom?" Taylor said. Doctor Cordelia's eyebrows shot up. "Oh, I guess she doesn't have amnesia after all! Only a little disorientation upon waking up." Doctor Cordelia said before writing something down on her clipboard, well, it was more like a really advanced PDA than a clipboard.

Jessica backed up and looked Taylor in the eye while caressing the side of her face. "They told me you fell from the sky! How did that happen?" She asked. Taylor grimaced and sweated a little. She scratched her chin trying to think of an answer. What would she say? Would this woman, who is likely a multiverse counterpart of her mom, even believe her? "Well, uh….I….hang gliding accident." Her mind went to that because she thought of Emmett. "Why in the world were you hang gliding, dear?" Jessica asked. "Oh well, uh, you know, I just wanted to try something new. I spend so much time in the water, I was like, 'I wonder what the air is like!'" Taylor replied before letting out a nervous laugh.

Jessica stood up and looked over to Cordelia. "Is she ok enough to be released soon?" She asked. "Yes, your majesty. I just need to fill out some paperwork and the young princess should be discharged in an hour." Cordelia responded. "Oh, stop with the 'Your Majesty' stuff. You're my little sister. Just call me Anastasia." Jessica-err, Anastasia said. Taylor's eyebrows furrowed. "So she's going by her original birth name?"

Suddenly, something occurred to Taylor. "Where's Sharkmon!?" She blurted it out, and then realized that these people may not even know what Digimon are. Queen Anastasia smiled at her 'daughter'. "He's in the next room over. Gabumon and Leormon are visiting him. He's fine, don't worry." Queen Anastasia said. So, this version of her mom became a Digidestined too? She took a sigh of relief, knowing her Digimon partner was alright.

An hour had passed, and Taylor and Sharkmon walked out of the hospital doors with Queen Anastasia. Gabumon and Leormon followed behind her. Taylor looked up at the queen, "So uh…Mom. Could you tell me the story of how you became the Queen of Aqualia and how you met Dad and how you met Digimon?" Taylor asked. She was so curious to compare this universe's history with her own. Queen Anastasia looked down at Taylor and giggled. "So, basically you want me to go over my whole life story?" She said. Taylor let out another nervous giggle. "Well….maybe just a synopsis of the key events will suffice." Taylor said. Queen Anastasia reached down and rubbed her hand through Taylor's hair. "When did you cut your hair?" She asked. Taylor responded "Uhh….earlier today. I thought it was time for a change. Now, story time, Mom!"

"You're acting rather strange. Hang gliding, cutting your hair, actually being interested in hearing your old mom tell stories?" Anastasia observed.

"Taylor's not strange. Well, she does read books written by a hawk who's also a king." Sharkmon said. He was thinking of Hawking.

Queen Anastasia, Taylor, Sharkmon, and Anastasia's Digimon reached a huge palace on land. "I thought Aqualia's castle was underwater!" Sharkmon said. "Well, it used to be…until I decreed that it be moved to land to compensate for my husband, the king's, humanity." Anastasia replied. Taylor's eyes lit up again. "Humanity? So, does that mean…?" She turned and the front doors of the castle opened. A red carpet rolled out and some Aqualian royal guards (clad in blue cybernetic armor that made them seem reminiscent of the Storm Troopers from Star Wars) blew trumpets. "The King is coming!" One of them shouted. A man walked out looking kind of annoyed. "Oh for Pete's sake, I know I'm an important person, having married into the monarchy and all, but do we have to do this every time I leave home?" He asked. "My liege! It is standard procedure to!" The King waved his hand. "Standard procedure blah blah blah." It was Evander! He was shirtless, wearing a yellow cape that went all the way to the floor. On his head sat a large crown, and his black scraggily beard was much, much longer. Like, ZZ Top long. Around his neck was a multi-layered metallic dark green necklace. He wore poofy golden yellow pants with dark red stripes going down it, and fancy shoes. "D-Dad!?" Taylor said, surprised to see her father like this. Evander's eyes lit up as he saw Taylor. He ran down and hugged her tightly. "Ah, my little mermaid! You're ok! Thank goodness!" He exclaimed before showering her with kisses. Agumon, Terriermon, and Ladybugmon followed behind him. The Aqualian guards bowed to them as well. "Master Agumon, Master Terriermon, and Master Ladybugmon are arriving!" One of the guards exclaimed.

Later, Evander, Anastasia, Taylor, Sharkmon, and Evander's and Anastasia's Digimon were all sitting around a big fancy table. Servants came in and served the food, and they all began eating. "Ok, this seems like the perfect opportunity for story time." Anastasia said. "Story time? Oh! Anastasia, tell me the one about the pigs and the wolf!" Evander said. Anastasia chuckled. "Our daughter wants to hear about how I became queen and how we met." She said.

"My mother was the queen; Victoria Poseidon. Our name comes from way back in our lineage. Sebastian Poseidon was a legendary king of Aqualia. He even went to Earth to help people. He had incredible powers and they made him out to be a god. My Father is Ahab Neptune. The two of them married and I was born. My mother named me Anastasia Calista Posiedon. When I turned 11, I found a mysterious portal while swimming in the ocean. It was covered in binary code. I touched it, and what I would later learn to be a digivice came out of the portal. Before I knew it, I was sucked into another world surrounded by creatures called Digimon. I assumed my legs to run away. Unfortunately, I had no loincloth because I never came up on land. So, needless to say that when I ran into your goggle headed father, it was extremely embarrassing. I had nothing on my body but a blue tube top covering my chest and the princess tiara on my head. Your father was a sweet boy. He took out an extra pair of blue jeans from his backpack and tossed them my way. Lucky for me, they were a perfect fit. I spent my entire time in the Digital World in my blue tube top and your dad's blue jeans. After recovering from my embarrassment, I learned that your father had been sucked into that world as well. He had ended up with an orange Digivice that looked like mine. We walked around file island and talked a little." Anastasia explained.

"She was so embarrassed that she started crying. It was with great luck that I decided to pack an extra pair of pants. Boy, I sure was surprised to find out Anastasia was a mermaid. I thought they were just the stuff of myth. But then I found out that Anastasia wasn't just a mermaid, but a mermaid princess as well. I thought I got sucked into some movie produced by a large corporation run by a mouse." Evander said.

"We then found our Digimon in File City; Ladybugmon, Terriermon, and Agumon for your father's partners, and Gabumon, Leormon, and Gomamon for me." Anastasia explained.

"Gomamon? Don't you mean PawnChessmon?" Taylor asked.

"Who? Anyway, we then met up with another human named Mario, and a Demi-Felincius named Flora, and a Devliian named Zai. Now, I know what people say about Devillians, but Zai was different. She was a very nice girl. Although her BlackGatomon seemed to have a bit of a screw loose especially when she digivolved to Ultimate for the first time." Anastasia said.

Taylor and Sharkmon were listening intently. So far, there were lots of parallels between her actual mother's story, and this multiverse variant's story, but there were some obvious differences. Taylor's real mother moved to Earth at age 5 because her grandmother, the queen, was in a relationship with Evangelos, but was cheating on him with Ahab Neptune. THIS Jessica, however, seemed to have ALWAYS been in a relationship with Ahab, and sired Jessica within marriage. And as a result of that, rather than being a childhood friend with Evander, THIS version of Jessica met Evander for the first time when she went to the Digital World. This is because Victoria never had any incentive to move to Earth. In Taylor's world, her grandmother took her mother and fled to Earth because Ahab was persecuting her out of revenge. Her grandmother had falsely accused Ahab of trying to rape her and had him sent to prison. Moreover, although two of the three Digimon partners her mother received were the same in both worlds, THIS version of her mother got a Gomamon instead of Pawnchessmon. It was like an alternate timeline. What would have happened if things had played out differently in Jessica's past.

"We, the digidestined, defeated many foes. We defeated The Digimon Ruler, the Anti-Royal Knights, and Thithemon. Afterwards, we all went our separate ways. The gate to the Digital World closed and we had to say goodbye to our Digimon. Just as painful for me was not only having to say goodbye my Digimon, but having to say goodbye to Evander. I had fallen in love with him during our adventures together. I never thought I'd see him again when we returned to our own planets. However, 14 years later, we were reunited when a fake version of me came to Earth. She barged right into the UN and declared war on planet Earth. She killed lots of people. The portal to the Digital World had been re-opened! Your Dad and I met in the Digital World and decided to investigate who this fraud might be. It turned out to be a Kappamon who was being manipulated by Ophanimon Falldown Mode. We and the other Digidestined reunited and fought this new threat. Ophanimon's plan was to have Earth and Aqualia fight and use my Poseidonic powers to destroy everything. However, I had worked on my abilities for years. After Omnimon was beaten down, he and I bio-merged to become MarineOmnimon. We took Ordinemon into outer space and we destroyed her with our strongest attack; Poseidon's Judgment." Anastasia explained.

Again, more parallels, but things were slightly different. In Taylor's world, the Kappamon had taken on Jessica's identity and invaded Aqualia, not Earth. And she killed many of the Aqualian royal family, not UN representatives on Earth.

"MarineOmnimon fell back to Aqualia through its atmosphere. Fortunately, Emily's Cherubimon caught her before she hit the ground. Her previous husband had been killed in the battle by one of the enemy Digimon. I gave her some time to grieve, and then I asked her to marry me. She said yes, and shortly after, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl; you." Evander said, finishing the story.

Everyone was eating honey baked ham, macaroni and cheese, green beans, black eyed peas, and other food items. It was like a Christmas Day dinner, except this was an average lunch. Being the king and queen, Evander and Anastasia ate like a king and queen. Sharkmon inhaled all of his food in one bite. He rubbed his tummy and smiled. "Deeelicious! Thank you for the food!" Sharkmon said. Anastasia smiled at the little four footed shark Digimon. "Any friend of Taylor's is a friend of mine." She said.

After several minutes, they heard some ruckus out in the hall. A guard ran in. "Queen Anastasia, King Evander, we've apprehended someone impersonating the princess!" He said. Taylor's heart sank. This must be HER parallel universe counterpart. "Do you think she might be using a ShapeChange device like Kappamon did many years ago?" Agumon asked. "Could be. But why would anyone want to impersonate Princess Taylor?" Gabumon asked. "Well, she is really pretty! Maybe they just wanted to be as pretty as she is!" Ladybugmon said. Taylor looked over to King Evander. "Hey, have you ever worked as a detective?" Taylor asked. Evander looked confused at this question that seemed to come out of the blue. "I have not. What brings this on?" He asked. Taylor was panicking on the inside. She gave a nervous grin and said, "Oh, just wondering."

After dinner, Queen Anastasia and King Evander went down into the dungeon where the "imposter" was being held. An 11 year old girl sat in a dungeon cell. Although it was called a "Dungeon", the walls, ceiling, and floors were made of platinum, and they were lit by modern electrical lights, not torches. The 11 year old girl sat on a bench next to the wall. She looked exactly like Taylor, except she had much longer brown hair that went all the way down her back and a golden tiara on. On her torso, she wore a golden yellow tube top, and a golden yellow Aqualian loin cloth. She had a red starfish in her hair, and a necklace consisting of different kinds of sea shells. On her left arm was a bracelet made of real gold. She did not look happy. She looked over to see the king and queen. She ran up to the cell and grabbed two of the bars. She looked furious. "Mother! Father! What is the meaning of this!? Why have you confined me?!" She asked. "You can drop the act. You've been caught, imposter." King Evander said. "The guards called me that too! Why do you think I'm not the real Taylor?" She asked. King Evander's eyes widened. He reached up and ran his fingers through his long beard. "Oh, uh….you have a point there." He said. "Absolutely. If there's another entity that has acquired my form, why have you presupposed that she is the genuine article?" The imprisoned princess asked.

Queen Anastasia started looking concerned. "You know, honey. Ever since I met Taylor at the hospital earlier, she's been acting strange. She speaks much less formally, she said she got hurt as a result of hang gliding, and she cut her hair. Besides that, she's been acting really nervously." The queen said. The imprisoned princess began stomping her foot. "Father! Mother! I DEMAND that you release me from this prison IMMEDIATELY! This is absolutely degrading! A princess should not be a prisoner in her own castle!" She said. Evander sighed. "Well, until we get this straightened out, there's only one thing to do." He said.

What was that one thing? He went and got the other Taylor and tossed her and Sharkmon into the dungeon cell along with the princess! "My dear, sweet, beautiful daughter. I am so sorry. But until we figure out who's the fake, you BOTH will have to be locked up." Evander said. Taylor Glovion looked terrified. She knew she wasn't a fake. In fact, neither of them were. They were both the real Taylor. They were just different Taylors from different universes. "You! You're the imposter!" Shouted Princess Taylor. She pinned Taylor Glovion to the wall and glared into her eyes. "Oh no! Taylor!" Sharkmon exclaimed. "I demand to know who you are and what your objective is!" Princess Taylor said angrily. "You'd never believe me." Taylor Glovion said. "Please respond. I do not wish to resort to violence in an attempt to force the truth out of you, but if I have to become a roughian, so be it!" Princess Taylor said. "Hey! There will be no fighting in the cell!" King Evander said.

"Boy, this Taylor sure does talk funny." Sharkmon observed. Princess Taylor looked over at Sharkmon and shot him a mean look. "And just who are you? Are you a Digimon like the ones father and mother have?" She asked. "Yes! I'm Sharkmon! I'm Taylor's partner!" Sharkmon responded. The princess turned her attention back to her counterpart. "Tell me who you are." She said. "Take your hands off me and I will." Taylor said. So the princess did so.

King Evander and Queen Anastasia took a seat in front of the cell. Their 6 Digimon were with them. "I'm not a fake Taylor. Rather, I'm a version of you from another universe. In my universe, Anastasia never became queen. She and Victoria had to move to Earth because she was persecuted by Ahab. Victoria falsely accused Ahab of trying to rape her to get him sent to prison. She had given birth to my mother out of wedlock in an adulterous affair with him when she was already married to Evangelos. As a result, they moved to Earth, Victoria changed her name to Maria, and changed my mothers name from Anastasia to Jessica. She grew up being a childhood friend of the Evander from my universe, and when they were 11 and 12, they went to Digital World together." Taylor explained.

Taylor went on to explain some other features of her world that were similar and dissimilar to this one. It took her a little while, but eventually she explained everything. Including how she ended up falling into this universe. The princess, king, queen, and their Digimon sat listening intently. They didn't believe a word of it, but it was interesting to hear an alternate version of their history. "That is quite an elaborate tale you've concocted." Princess Taylor said. "It's the truth! I swear!" Taylor Glovion said. King Evander opened the door to his cell and grabbed his daughter's hand. "She basically confessed to being the imposter, so you may go free, princess." He said. He hugged his daughter. "I'm sorry you went through this." He said. "I forgive you, father." Princess Taylor said.

"Good to know which one's the real you, Princess Taylor." Agumon said.

"Yeah, now you can go free." Terriermon said.

Evander, Princess Taylor, and Evander's Digimon all left the dungeon. Queen Anastasia stayed behind. Taylor looked the queen in the eyes with a look of desperation on her face. "Please, you have to believe me. I'm no imposter! I really am from another world!" Taylor pleaded. "Unfortunately, such a wild tale has no proof behind it. And after what happened with the Kappamon incident 11 years ago, we can't take any chances." Queen Anastasia said. Taylor reached into her satchel and brought out her smartphone. It had been returned to her along with her clothes after she had been discharged from the hospital, although she had been walking around in her black tube top and blue aqualian loin cloth this whole time. "You want proof? I can show you proof! Go through the videos and photos on my phone! You'll see your counterpart in many of them!" Taylor said.

Queen Anastasia grabbed the phone and played the first video in the gallery. The video was taken by Taylor. She had filmed her parents, Evander and Jessica, playing around in the ocean at the Overflow Beach resort in the Digital World. Evander was floating in an inner tube sipping some lemonade. Jessica popped up and propped her shoulders on the inner tube. "Oh my! A beautiful mermaid has once again appeared!" Evander said in the video. "I remembered the lyrics! Upon one summer's morning, I carefully did stray, Down by the Walls of Wapping, where I met a sailor gay." Jessica started to sing in the video. "Hey, who you callin' gay?" Evander protested in jest. "Oh, shut up and let me entice you with my singing so I can drown you, handsome sailor." Jessica joked. Taylor giggled from behind the camera. Agumon then floated by on his own inner tube. "That would be considered racist if it wasn't coming from you, Jessica." Agumon said. Agumon's body was blocking the view finder. "Agumon, get out of the way! You're blocking the view!" Taylor said. "Excuse you. I AM the view." Agumon joked.

Queen Anastasia watched the video in fascination. "I don't remember doing any of this with Evander." She said. "That's because it's NOT you. It's one of your multiverse counterparts, like I am to your daughter!" Taylor said. Anastasia looked down to continue watching the rest of the video. In the video, Jessica resumed singing the song, "My heart is pierced by Cupid. I disdain all glittering gold. There is nothing can console me. But my jolly sailor bold." Jessica sang in the video. She then flipped the inner tube over with Evander in it. "Man, I love Pirates Of The Caribbean. We should watch that movie again sometime." Agumon said in the video. The video ended. Anastasia looked up at Taylor who was grabbing two cell bars and peering through the cell door. The mermaid queen looked back down at the smartphone and swiped right to another video.

In this video, a very drunk Evander clad in flame themed swim trunks was being carried with his arms over the shoulders of his wife, Jessica, and his friend Zai. Jessica was wearing a regular bikini for once instead of mermaid apparel. Her bikini top and bottom were a deep blue color. Zai's bikini was black. "Why did you drink so much rum coke?" Zai asked in the video. "Rum coke? I no drink dat. I drink *hiccup* just coke." He said. "Well, it was Coke mixed with rum." Jessica said in the video. "It taste like co-cola, it look like co-cola, why it no co-cola?" Evander said in the video, sounding absolutely wasted, which he was. "We'll get you back to your room and I'll make you some grilled cheese sandwiches with milk to help you sober up." Zai said in the video. Evander looked over to Zai and said. "Oh….that sounds niiiiice. You're so good to me honeeeeey. I love yooooou." The drunken Evander said in the video before grabbing Zai, pulling her in, and making out with her. In the video, Jessica was visibly upset. "Evander, what the hell are you doing!?" She shouted. She whacked him on the head and he fell over. Zai looked just as surprised. "Well, he's a good kisser at least." Zai said in the video.

Queen Anastasia was visibly fascinated. It was written all over her face. "Again, I remember none of this." She said. "Again, that's because these things never happened to you. They happened to your counterpart." Taylor said. Anastasia swiped through and saw several photos. One of them was Evander sitting at the breakfast table holding his head from the terrible hangover. The next one was of Evander and Jessica in the sea playing chicken. Agumon sat on Evander's shoulder while Gabumon sat on Jessica's shoulder. The next one was of Taylor and Drusilla building a sandcastle with Sharkmon and Coalmon. Jessica had taken this with Taylor's phone.

"I'll admit this is strange. Still, these could have been faked. Other imposters could have used ShapeChange devices and made these." Anastasia said.

"But they weren't!" Sharkmon said.

"I'm sorry, but this isn't strong enough proof that you're some interdimensional traveler." Queen Anastasia said before getting up and leaving. "Queen Anastasia, wait! Queen Anastasia! QUEEN ANASTASIA!" Taylor exclaimed while reaching out to her. The ginger mermaid queen walked up the stairs leading to the exit of the dungeon and she closed the door behind her. Taylor fell to her knees, her hands sliding down the bars of her cell. "Queen Anastasia, please….please believe me." She said.

"I could probably bust us out of here if I digivolve to Jawsmon." Sharkmon said.

"And then what? Mom and Dad…err…Queen Anastasia and King Evander would probably fight us. And as high as their Digimon can digivolve, we wouldn't stand a chance." Taylor said.

"Oh…yeah. Not even WarJawsmon could handle MarineOmnimon." Sharkmon said.

After a few hours, Queen Anastasia came down into the dungeon with a man in a brown trench coat and Aqualian loin cloth. He was sporting a fedora and had a short black beard. Taylor and Sharkmon seemed to be a bit down. They were sitting on the bed in the cell on the left hand side. Taylor and Sharkmon looked over to the queen and the trench coat wearing man. "What is it?" Taylor asked. "Well, it kept bugging me. I don't know who you are or why you're here, but you're clearly sticking to your story no matter how many times we dismiss you. I have a foolproof way of determining the truth." Anastasia said. "What is that? I hope it involves eating lots of hot dogs!" Sharkmon said. The man in the trench coat brought out a small rectangular device. It looked like a smartphone. On the back of the device was written "Truth" in multiple different languages. Out of ports in the small smartphone esque device were cords that culminated in suction pads. The man in the fedora and trench coat spoke. "My name is Detective Finn Aquasis. What I'm holding is a lie detector. Unlike lie detectors on Earth - the planet you were supposedly raised on - this lie detector is an Aqualian invention. It does far more than measure heart rate, respiration, and skin productivity, although it does those things too. It actually can read your very thoughts and extract memory from them. It plays what's in your mind's eye on this little screen here. And in HD too!" He explained.

Taylor stood up enthusiastically and grabbed both cell bars. "Put it on me!" She said. Anastasia opened the cell door and allowed the detective to walk in. Taylor looked at his coat and beard and was reminded of her father back home. This would be one heck of a story to tell him if she ever made it back. "I'm going to need you to remove your goggles." He said. Taylor did so. Detective Finn hooked up two of the suction pads to her forehead, and one on her chest, right over her heart. There was one suction pad on the other side of her chest. The pads lower down were for reading her heart rate and respiration. The ones on her forehead were for converting her memories to video. The man tapped the screen a few times to adjust some settings and then to activate the device. "Ok, now tell me, why are you here? How did you get here?" Detective Finn asked.

"I'm a version of Taylor from another world, a world where things played out slightly differently in my mother's past. Recently, I became a Digidestined, getting my partner Sharkmon. A group called World For Us all approached us and told us we should go to their headquarters that exists in a space outside of all universes to shield us from our enemy called All For One World. All For One World plans on annihilating the multiverse with a Digimon created from the Red Stones. That Digimon is already in existence, but isn't at full power. It attacked us en route to World For Us All HQ and when an ally attacked her, that Digimon grabbed me and I got knocked off with her, falling into one of the bubble universes below. Next thing I knew, I woke up in a hospital here and people were calling me princess." Taylor explained.

On the mind reading lie detector, visual images of these things Taylor was remembering, what she was seeing in her mind's eye, were playing on the screen.

"Where did you get your goggles?" The detective asked. "My Dad gave them to me when I was 6 years old. Being part human and part mermaid, I…can't stand to have my eyes open in salty water. These goggles belonged to him. He wore them when he was around my age…during his adventures in the Digital World." Taylor replied. On the mind reading lie detector, visual images of Evander handing the goggles to Taylor were being shown. On the video, Evander knelt down and handed the goggles to Taylor. "Here. Wear these. These goggles will keep all the water out of your eyes. Take good care of them. These goggles were my fashion statement of choice when your mommy and I became Digidestined. I think you could get better use out of them than me." Evander said in the video. The tiny Taylor let out a giggle. "Really!? Oh, thank you, Daddy! Now I can swim underwater like mommy!" She said. Evander put his hand on the little Taylor's head and rubbed it, messing her hair up. "That's right, my little mermaid!" He said with a big grin on his face. The detective could see Taylor's memory from her first person point of view.

"Are you here to kill the queen or any of the royal family?" The Detective asked. "No, I am not." Taylor responded.

The detective looked at the readings of her heart rate and respiration. "Everything checks out. From her extracted memories to her heart rate and respiration." The detective said. "How do you know what you're seeing on the screen aren't just creations of my imagination?" Taylor asked. "Because it's only pin pointing that part of the brain that regulates memory, known as the hippocampus. The brain treats reality and imagination differently. The visual information from real events that the eyes see flows 'up' from the brain's occipital lobe to the parietal lobe, but imagined images flow 'down' from the parietal to the occipital. Simply put, you could imagine yourself riding pink polka dotted elephants when you were 5, but that would never appear on my screen…unless it actually happened, of course." The detective explained.

Queen Anastasia's eyes widened slowly. "Then that means…" She began. "She's telling the truth." Detective Finn finished. Queen Anastasia took the keys out her her satchel and unlocked the door. "Well, I guess that means you're free to go, my daughter from another mother." Queen Anastasia said. Taylor and Sharkmon looked ecstatic. "Yes! They believe us!" Taylor cheered.

The Next Day….

Taylor, Princess Taylor, and Queen Anastasia went to their version of the Digital World. The only Digimon Anastasia brought along was Gabumon. Queen Anastasia had already explained everything to the princess as well as the royal guards, and issued an official statement to calm the fears of the populace. They stood on this world's version of Overflow Beach. "Although I have to live on land because of my husband, I just can't get enough of the ocean. Especially in the Digital World, where I get to play with so many different kinds of aquatic Digimon." Queen Anastasia said. "Wow, Queen Anastasia, you sound exactly like me." Taylor Glovion said. "I share in the sentiment. Now, let us assume tailed forms and enter the ocean to experience merriment." Princess Taylor said. "Shouldn't we focus on trying to get back to the others?" Sharkmon asked. "Sharkmon, we have no idea where they are. And it's not like we can rip open the fabric of space to exit this universe. We have to wait for them to come to us." Taylor explained. Sharkmon looked a little worried. "But…what if they never find us?" Sharkmon asked. "That won't happen! We're digidestined. That means we're destined to complete our mission and save everyone!" Taylor said.

Just then, out in the distance, they saw a figure who looked like he was surfing. He was too small to identify at first, but when he got closer, Taylor's eyes lit up. She smiled and let out a brief giggle. "That's Surfimon! He's a Mega level cyborg Digimon and part of the Deep Savers family. Like Sharkmon, he's a shark Digimon. Although it's an aquatic Digimon, it's body has been enhanced even for movement outside of the water. Stay clear of his Lightning Cutter attack, though! That hurts way worse than a jellyfish sting!" Taylor said. Queen Anastasia's face was full of dread. "Ah jeez, not this guy again." She said. "Mother, you must speak eloquently. Queens must not say 'jeez'." Princess Taylor said.

Surfimon's appearance was that of a humanoid shark covered in armor. He rode a purple surfboard with an orange chainsaw in the front, and a jet booster in the back. Sharkmon looked up at the queen with a confused look on his face. "Why do you look unhappy to see him? Does he diss hot dogs? Because if so, that makes him my enemy!" Sharkmon said. Anastasia put her hands on her hips and sighed, looking down. "If only. This Digimon has a gigantic crush on me and he doesn't take no for an answer." She replied.

"Is that my beautiful Anastasia I see? Welcome back to the Digital World!" Surfimon said as he approached shore. He got off of his board and put it under his arm. He walked over to the group of girls. "Hey, Queen Anastasia. You get more beautiful every time I see you. How about you come to my underwater cave and be my bride?" Surfimon said. "I already told you that I'm not interested! I'm married with a daughter, not to mention I have my duty to fulfill as queen of Aqualia!" Queen Anastasia replied.

"Your lips say no, but your eyes say yes." Surfimon said.

"That just means you're bad at reading body language." Queen Anastasia responded.

"Leave that husband of yours and come be with me, please Queen Anastasia. I can't get you out of my head! Your beautiful smile, those deep blue eyes, that gorgeous orange hair, that shapely womanly figure you've got…it drives me crazy! I can't get you out of my mind!" Surfimon said.

"Then eat some mushrooms of forgetfulness! This queen is turning you down!" Taylor said. Mushrooms of forgetfulness were a kind of mushrooms that grew in the Digital World. If you ate them, it would cause you to forget everything. "I didn't know Princess Taylor had a twin!" Surfimon said. "Well, she does. I'm Princess…Melody and I challenge you to battle my Digimon; Sharkmon. If he wins, you have to never hit on my Mom again. If we lose, Queen Anastasia will divorce the king and be your woman forever." Taylor said. "It's a deal!" Surfimon said. "Hold on! Those are pretty high stakes!" The queen said. Taylor looked back and gave her a thumbs up. "Not to worry. Sharkmon is a very special Digimon." She said before giving a closed eyes smile and giggling.

Sharkmon and Surfimon stood at opposite ends. "Ready, set, begin!" Princess Taylor said.

Taylor Glovion took out her D-Eco and held it up. "This guy's a Mega level, so Digivolve!" Taylor said. The word "DIGIVOLUTION" scrolled across her digivice in big green letters against a black background. Then light shot out of the digivice and enveloped Sharkmon.

"Sharkmon digivolve to…Jawsmon!"

Jawsmon ran up to Surfimon. "Power Pummeling! Power Pummeling! Power Pummeling!" Jawsmon shouted, punching Surfimon over and over with his powerful, muscular arms. Surfimon just stood there absorbing all of the blows, not seeming to take too much damage. "Hahahaha! Is that the best you've got? You'll never penetrate my armor with puny little punches like that!" Surfimon taunted. Surfimon then kicked Jawsmon and sent him flying a couple of feet away. After that, Surfimon hopped on his surfboard and flew towards Jawsmon with the chainsaw blade on the front of his surfboard spinning. "Lightning Cutter!" Surfimon shouted. Jawsmon jumped out of the way just in time and the blade instead hit a wall of rock that was behind him. The blades embedded themselves a little bit into the rock. Surfimon tried to back up, but his board was stuck in the rock. "I-I'm suck!" Surfimon exclaimed. Jawsmon used this as his opportunity to attack. "Titanic Bite!" Jawsmon shouted before clamping down on Surfimon's arm with his powerful jaws. Jawsmon was trying to penetrate Surfimon's armor, but he wasn't getting through. Surfimon swung the arm that Jawsmon was biting and slammed him into the wall of rock in front of them. Jawsmon let go and slid down the rock wall. Surfimon hopped off of his surf board and pulled on it, trying to get it free. "Come on! Come on!" Surfimon said as he pulled on the purple surfboard. Jawsmon got up and attacked again. "Titanic Bite!" Surfimon jumped back and dodged the attack, and he countered with a powerful punch. He hit Jawsmon in the face and he grunted. Surfimon then unleashed a barrage of powerful punches on Jawsmon. When he was finished, he jumped up high and kicked Jawsmon in the gut, knocking him down.

"Jawsmon! Get up!" Taylor cried out. "Yeah! I don't want to be some Digi-Trophy wife!" Queen Anastasia said.

Surfimon tried to pull his surfboard out of the rock again and this time, he succeeded. Jawsmon stood up and groaned while holding his head. "Lightning Cutter!" Surfimon shouted as he came towards Jawsmon with the chainsaw blade on his surfboard spinning. Jawsmon jumped out of the way to dodge it. "Taylor, he's too strong! I need to digivolve again!" Jawsmon shouted. Taylor nodded with a determined look on her face. She held up her digivice and said "Got it!" Once again, "DIGIVOLUTION" scrolled across Taylor's digivice in big green letters.

"Jawsmon digivolve to….WarJawsmon!"

WarJawsmon looked at Surfimon and gave him a smug smile. "You're gonna need a bigger board." He said. He aimed his guns at Surfimon and fired them while shouting "Great White Gatling!". A plethora of bullets hit Surfimon. He didn't try to dodge because he didn't think he needed to. He believed his armor was strong enough to take anything Taylor's Digimon could dish out. He was wrong. Surfimon's armor got dents in every place one of WarJawsmons' bullets hit. One dent for each bullet. Surfimon grunted in pain. "Hey! That stings! You're actually doing damage!?" Surfimon exclaimed in surprise. "Just goes to show you, never bring a surfboard to a gun fight!" WarJawsmon said.

"Great White Gatling!" WarJawsmon attacked again. "Barrier Blade!" Surfimon shouted. This attack involves Surfimon rotating the spikes growing over his body like that of a chainsaw while attacking and defending. The rotating blades deflected the bullets from WarJawsmons weapons. Surfimon gave WarJawsmon a big grin. "You may think you're hot stuff, but I still have a few tricks up my sleeve! It'll take more than that to cause me to wipe out!" Surfimon said. Surfimon then flew on his surfboard over to WarJawsmon. "Barrier Blade!" He rotated the spikes growing over his body like that of a chainsaw while repeated punching at WarJawsmon over and over. WarJawsmon dodged each of Surfimon's punches. "Gun Whack!" WarJawsmon shouted as he smacked Surfimon in the head with one of his gatling guns. Surfimon fell off of his board and onto the sandy beach below.

"Great White Gatling!" WarJawsmon attacked, causing more dents in Surfimon's armor. "Barrier Blade!" More punches with rotating spikes came WarJawsmon's way. He dodged all of them. "Gun Whack! Gun Whack! Gun Whack!" WarJawsmon attacked. WarJawsmon then grabbed Surfimon by the arm and span around a few times before letting him go. Surfimon was sent high up into the air. "Marine Missile!" WarJawsmon attacked, sending the missile on his back at his opponent. The missile hit Surfimon and exploded! Taylor smiled and jumped up and down while pumping both of her fists. "Yeah! That's my Digimon! Go, WarJawsmon! Go, WarJawsmon! You're the coolest!" Taylor exclaimed. Taylor's royal counterpart looked impressed. "I believe it is safe to assume that that shiny shark simp is sunk." She said.

Surfimon fell into the water below. It took a few minutes, but Surfimon swam back to shore. He was groaning in pain. "Alright! Alright! I give up!" He said. He then began crying. "I'll never find true love!" He lamented. Taylor walked over to Surfimon. Surfimon was lying on his stomach, so she got on one knee. "Hey, chin up. There's lots of other fishes in the sea. I should know. I am a mermaid after all." Taylor said, holding Surfimon's chin up. Surfimon stopped crying. He smiled. "Will YOU be my lover?" Surfimon asked. Taylor's face fell. "No." She responded bluntly, and in a somewhat annoyed tone. "How about your twin?" Surfimon asked. Princess Taylor placed both hands on her hips and scowled. "What a preposterous suggestion!" She said. "Then umm…..hey, is WarJawsmon a girl?" Surfimon asked. WarJawsmon facepalmed. "Oh good grief." He said.

A Dolphmon popped up and said "Yoo hoo! Over here, big boy!" Surfimon jumped up with big ole' hearts in his eyes. He hopped on his surfboard and went over to the Dolphinmon while whistling, leaving the girls and their Digimon with odd looks on their faces. "Uhh…what just happened?" Taylor asked.