By: IcBlue_Dmoness
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, they belong to companies such as Bandai, WB 50, etc. I wish I did own Digimon though… (BTW, this disclaimer is for every chapter in this fic)
Ships: I'm letting the readers decide on the ships for this one…except for Taiora. I'll take a vote and tally them up. IT'S YOUR VOTE!
Rating: PG-13 – "Parents Strongly Cautioned. This story contains some material that many parents would find unsuitable for children less than 13 years of age. Parents are strongly urged to exercise greater care in, and are cautioned against letting children under the age of 13 read this story unattended. This story contains one or more of the following: intense violence, intense sexual situations, strong coarse language, or intensely suggestive dialogue."
Summary: **Post season 2** He was standing in a pool of his own blood… "Tai! NOO!!… His eyes glowed red, a pain shooting out from beneath his shoulder blades… He caught her lips in a fiery and passionate kiss… "SORA RUN!!"….
THIS IS A TAIORA… or well, it will be eventually.
This story takes place a year after the 02 digidestined defeated evil and the peace was restored to the digital world. Matt and Sora are still together in the beginning. The digimon are in the real world, staying with their partners, and if they need to go to the Digital World, they can use the computer to get there.
*** Note: the older digidestined are at the age of 17-18, and the younger ones are 14 yrs.
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Lost in the Digital World (Chapter I): Computer Malfunction
Tai
walked into his small yet cozy apartment, his soccer bag slugged over his
shoulder. Kari was sitting on the couch, watching TV when she saw Tai walk in.
"Hey Tai," Kari said in a mindless
tone. "Mom made some food before she left for
Grandmas. If you want to eat it, it's over by the stove," she said, giving
a slightly disgusted face at the mention of her mom's cooking.
"No thanks," Tai said, cringing, as he dropped his bag by the table
and walked into the kitchen. As he walked in, he saw a wanton display of
kitchen utensils spread out over the counter.
'Gosh, mom must
have been in a rush to go to grandma's,' thought Tai, as
he surveyed the state of the kitchen. He walked to the fridge and got out the
things he needed to make himself a sandwich of his liking. After he made
it, he took his food, sauntered over to his room and closed the door.
A scream could be heard through the apartment once Tai entered the room.
"AGUMON! Get back here with my sandwich!" screamed Tai, as he heaved
the door open and started chasing Agumon around the house. Kari lazily turned
around and looked over the top of the couch. She smiled slightly, and
then started giggling at the sight in front … err, behind her. She was happy Tai was back to his normal
self. Ever since Sora "hooked up" with
Matt, he had not been his normal, annoying self.
Tai gave up chasing Agumon around the house for his sandwich after a while and
fell back on to the couch, landing himself beside his sister. "What are you watching?" Tai
languidly asked.
"Oh nothing
much. Just flipping though the channels. There is nothing worth while to
watch," said an exasperated Kari.
Tai chuckled at his baby sister's face. He pulled himself off the couch and
made himself another sandwich, this time, eating it before he entered his room
again. He walked in while thinking to himself, 'I really should clean up
this room.' He looked around the room, which was cluttered with
clothes and other accessories and found Agumon laying on his bed.
"Hey, buddy. Do you want to go to
the digital world today?" he asked Agumon, knowing fully that the little
critter would agree.
"Sure!" Agumon exclaimed, jumping up and down repeatedly on Tai's
bed. "When do we go?" Tai chuckled at the hyper- active digimon in
his room.
"Hold on. I'd better tell Kari where we're going, otherwise she might
freak."
"Ok, but hurry up!" yelled Agumon, watching his human partner go out
of the room, to inform Kari.
"Hey Kari, me and Agumon will be going to the digital world," said
Tai.
"It's Agumon and I," said Kari, pausing for a second. Then she continued, "and when do you
plan on coming back?"
"Um… do not worry; we will be back before dinnertime… or around
dinnertime. But we won't stay over night. Don't worry," Tai repeated,
giving her a reassuring smile.
He walked back into his room, and got his digivice out. He turned on his
computer, and brought up the portal that connected this world to the digital
world. He pointed the digivice at the computer, when all of a sudden he
remembered that Izzy forgot to repair some malfunction with his computer.
*Flashback *
"Hey Izzy, can you come over tomorrow and fix my computer?" asked
Tai. "It seems to have a virus in it."
"Ahh… Sure… but it will have to wait for a day. I'll be busy tomorrow, but
I can come over day after," the red haired boy explained. "How's that?"
"That's fine. Thanks Izzy," said Tai, running off towards his
apartment complex.
*End of Flashback *
"Oh no!! I forgot that Izzy's going to come here tomorrow," whispered Tai,
getting a dreadful look on his face. He
didn't know what would happen if they got sucked into the computer when there
was a virus on it. He didn't even know if they would land up in the digital
world itself!
Tai dropped his digivice, unknowingly, and tried to make a grab for Agumon who
was already half way through the computer screen. "Agumon! Waitttt!!" screamed Tai. Unfortunately, Kari
couldn't hear a thing because the TV was on a bit too loudly.
Tai tried to grab a hold of Agumon before he ended up somewhere other than the
digital world, but it was too late.
Because of that one false move, Tai was sucked in as well, his digivice still lying on the ground where he dropped it.
"KARIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!"
Tai screamed out, trying to get the little girl's attention off from the TV to
where he was, but to no avail. She didn't hear him calling and he got sucked
into the computer to who knows where…
A pair of chocolate brown eyes slowly opened and immediately closed because of
the sun. A brown haired boy slowly sat up on a sandy beach, wondering where he
was.
"Agumon?" the
brown haired boy asked. He surveyed the area around him, but couldn't
find what he was looking for. "AGUMON! WHERE ARE YOU????" the
boy screamed at the top of his lungs, but he didn't get a response back. "AGUMON!!" Tai moaned out, falling
to his knees.
Tai slowly turned his head and looked around the place to find where he was,
but couldn't make out anything. This
place was unfamiliar to his eyes. Then
all of a sudden, a roar was heard vibrating from one end of the beach that he
landed on.
Tai turned and looked to where the source of the sound was. All Tai saw was a gigantic Monochromon
running towards him. His eyes got as big as two dinner plates as he scrambled
back onto his feet, turned around and took off running in the direction of a
forest that was near by. Tai was about
a yard from the forest when he realized he had to slow the digimon somehow
before he got trampled over by it. He
picked a stick off the sandy ground and waited patiently for the rampaging
Monochromon.
Twenty feet… Ten feet… five feet…
Tai screwed his
eyes closed and attacked the Monochromon mindlessly. Tai got a lucky shot and when he opened his eyes once again, he
realized he had stuck the stick in the attacking Monochromon's shoulder. He was thankful that the stick was strong
enough to last that long.
The Monochromon roared in pain. It pulled the stick out with its mouth, and
threw the blood stained stick back at Tai. Tai barely got enough time to dodge
the stick and start running before the digimon was after him again.
Tai ran into the forest saw some trees that were placed closely together. 'Maybe…' Tai took a quick glance behind him and approximated the size of the attacking Monochromon. He turned back around and perused the distance between the two tree trunks and realized it was just big enough for two people to slip through side by side, but was not big enough for a Monochromon to get through. Tai nodded to himself and ran in-between the two trees. Fortunately the Monochromon was stupid enough to follow Tai into the forest and ended up getting stuck between the two trees that Tai ran in between.
The Monochromon gave a loud roar again, this time loud enough so that it would alert the other Monochromon in that vicinity. Tai felt the ground shake beneath him because of the reverberating roar.
Soon Tai could
hear the roars of the neighboring Monochromon and he decided it was time to take
off and find another route out of the forest.
He turned back to the Monochromon that was stuck between the trees and
stuck his tongue out at the beast, teasing him.
Tai turned around and decided to leave before the Monochromon untangled himself
and started coming after him again. Tai
started walking away from the Monochromon, finally catching sight of an opening
leading out of the forest, when he saw another Monochromon heading his way.
'Uh oh. This is not good…' thought Tai as he started backing up from the
latter of the two beasts. He felt something breathing down his back and turned
to his right, to look at what it was. When he turned around, all he found was
gapping jaws that were ready to eat him at any moment. Unfortunately, Tai was too preoccupied with
the Monochromon stuck between the trees and forgot about the one in front of
him.
'I have one Monochromon behind me, and the other one still advancing here. I
think I better run,' he thought as he prepared to run out from the
forest. Suddenly, Tai felt a searing pain shoot up through his left arm. He
turned around at a neck breaking speed, only to find that the latter of the
Monochromon had come and grabbed his arm in its mouth.
"AHHHHH!!" screamed Tai, as he tried to get his arm out of the monsters
mouth. 'I guess it's lunch time for them,' Tai thought with narrowed
eyes as he made a grab for anything sharp that was near by without pulling his
arm off. He got a hold of a stick and stuck it in the Monochromon's mouth
vertically, so that one end of the stick was poking at the roof and the other
end was in the bottom end of the beast's mouth. Slowly taking his arm out, Tai replaced the sick for his arm that
was in the Monochromon's mouth. Tai made a dash for the edge of the forest,
leaving the two vicious beasts in his wake. He slowed down once he made it
through to the other side, stopping to catch his breath.
Tai looked at the condition of his arm. The sleeve was torn off, and blood was
dripping off of his arm, slowly trailing down his hand to the dirt ground
below. He tried to move his arm, but he
couldn't feel it and he was loosing blood at an astonishingly fast rate. Tai
could feel himself getting dizzier by the moment. He ripped the sleeve of his other arm with his mouth, and rapped
the wound with the shirt sleeve, making a makeshift sling.
"Hopefully that should stop the blood," Tai muttered to himself as he got
up and looked around, figuring out where to go next.
"Maybe, if I landed in the digiworld, then Agumon must be here too,"
Tai said, thinking aloud. 'If I use my digivice I can track down where he
is,' thought Tai, as he reached into his pocket to try and find the little
piece of technology that connected the digital world to the real world. Tai's
eyes widened as his search became more frantic, trying to look for the
digivice.
'Where did it go? I know I put it in my pocket...I think...' Tai
searched all of his pockets but couldn't find it. 'Oh no! I remember
now... it fell from my hands when I went to grab Agumon. Great...' he thought,
with narrowed eyes. 'Just great!' Tai kicked some sand away from his feet,
in anger and frustration.
'I don't even have my cell, or anything with me, to call Kari or someone.'
Tai continued walking, trying to find someway to get back into the real world.
Unfortunately, Tai didn't see where he was walking and ended up getting caught
in some quicksand. Tai's eyes narrowed as he thought bitterly, 'This is just
not my day...'
He tried to grab a hold of something near by that he could use to pull himself
out of the sand that was taking him down pretty quickly. He finally found a vine that was near by and
tried to reach for it. Once he got it, he tried to move his left arm to get a
better hold on the vine, but he forgot that it was in pretty bad shape. He let
out a light scream as a jolt of pain shot through his arm because of the abrupt
movements.
His arm was still
in no condition to move so he gritted his teeth and used his right arm to pull
himself out of the quick sand. Once he got out, with great difficulty (since he
had to pull himself out with only one arm, and the sand was pulling him in), he
took a breather and look at the condition of his arm. The shirt sleeve was now
soaked in blood again and he still couldn't feel his arm.
'This is bad. If I don't get this arm healed or something, I don't know what
will happen to it,' thought Tai, worry etched on his face as he got up and
wandered away from the quick sand and the forest.
"AGUMON!! Where are you!?" screamed Tai, slowly falling to his knees
and breathing heavily. All the running and exercise that he got ever since he
arrived in the digital world started to take a toll on him and he was finally
feeling the after affects of the excursions.
Then he heard a buzzing noise coming from some where near by. He turned his head towards the sound, only
to see...
**back in the real world**
Kari was still watching TV, since she finally found a show that was intriguing
enough for her to watch. It was around
dinnertime when the show finally finished and Kari slowly stood up and
stretched her aching body. She walked
into the kitchen and grimaced in realization that she would have to eat out
tonight.
'Ugh… great, mom
left the kitchen a mess, went to grandmas, and dad is out of town on a business
trip. That just leaves Tai and I to clean it up. Guess mom was in a real rush
to go to grandmas. I wonder why…' Instinctively she
called out to her brother, preparing to ask him where he wanted to go out for
dinner. When she got no response back,
she finally realized that Tai still wasn't home. 'He said he would be home
by now,' Kari remembered as she walked out of the kitchen and into his
room.
Just as she was about to place a foot into Tai's room, the phone rang,
startling Kari. She turned around and
reached for the phone.
"Hello, Kari Kamiya speaking."
"Hey Kari, this is Sora. Is Taichi there?"
"Oh, hey Sora. No Tai's not here, he went to the digital world."
"But didn't Tai say something about getting his computer fixed by Izzy
tomorrow? I remember him telling me that sometime yesterday."
Kari's eyes widened as the realization hit her. "Oh my god! Tai used
his computer to go to the digital world and there's a virus on it!!" Kari
said, worry seeping into her voice.
"Kari, don't panic. I'm sure Tai didn't become virus food or something…
hopefully. He has his digivice with him, right? We can go to the digital world,
and if he's there we can track him down," said Sora in a calm and
collected voice, trying to get the younger girl to calm down.
"Yea, that's true. Hold on a minute," said Kari. She placed the phone beside the cradle and
walked into Tai's room to get Gatomon, who silently crept into the room a few
minutes ago. Kari gasped as she saw
Tai's digivice on the floor beside the computer, and Tai, nowhere to be seen.
She ran back out into the hallway and picked up the phone, with Gatomon in her
other hand.
"Sora! Tai must have dropped his digivice when he was sucked into the
portal, cause I found it on the floor beside his computer just now!"
screamed Kari.
"Oh god," Kari could hear Sora whisper.
"Ok Kari. Come over right now and we'll go to the digital world, from
here," said Sora, starting to panic a bit, but trying not to show it.
"Alright, I'm on my way." Kari replaced the phone back onto the cradle
and ran to her room to grab a sweater from her closet. Once she donned the sweater, she ran back to
the front door, Gatomon hot on her trail.
She slipped her shoes on and ran out the door.
"Where are we going?" asked Gatomon.
"I'll
explain everything when we get to Sora's," said Kari as she grabbed the
digimon and broke out into a sprint towards Sora's apartment complex.
As Kari was running towards the apartment complex, she bumped into someone, and
landed hard on the floor.
"I'm sorry," mumbled Kari as she looked up. When she did, she let out
a soft gasp upon seeing whom she bumped into.