The first day of summer was a marvelous day for the citizens and children living in Odaiba. The sun was slowly dipping behind the Fuji Television Station, casting and creating a beautiful sunset, and a warm breeze from the water front casually graced whoever met in its way. Couples and groups of people alike lingered around the edge of the bay, laughing and talking with their feet dipped in the cool water. Everyone had to agree – the weather was a perfect start to vacation season.
Matt Ishida was sitting on a park bench by himself when his girlfriend found him. The blonde haired young man was strumming on his acoustic guitar, playing a sweet melody that just added to the perfect mood of relaxation and care free bliss. With each strum, he brought a new feeling of freedom to each of the people around him, and each of the girls threw him a longing glance. Matt remained sitting with his eyes closed, picking at each string and creating his music.
As the red headed girl approached, Sora Takenouchi smiled at her boyfriend, taking in this perfect post card scene. Normally, Matt wasn't the type of guy to try to serenade his girl, but today had been special, and she didn't mind.
As she sat down next to him, Matt opened his eyes, and his blue eyes met her reddish brown eyes. He smiled and kept playing and started to murmur softly, staring at Sora.
Matt finished playing and placed the guitar down and wrapped his arm around Sora. He grinned at her and said, "I hope you liked that. I've been practicing for a long time."
"It was beautiful! Thank you for that, it was so sweet," Sora replied as she leaned and kissed her boyfriend on the cheek.
He returned the kiss and said, "You smell good. What have you been up to today? Baking more with Mimi?"
Sora giggled and answered, "Yeah, she invited me, Yolei, and Kari over for a bit of girl's time. She taught us how to make great brownies and vanilla treats. And get this!" Sora said with wide eyes. Matt cocked his head to the side and raised his eye brow. "Mimi actually got her hands dirty and didn't care!" Sora continued, laughing.
Matt chuckled and replied, "No way! Mimi got dirty and didn't even complain?! The world must be ending!"
As he and Sora laughed, there was rapid beeping, and they immediately stopped and pulled out their own silver devices. Sora's remained quiet, but Matt's Digivice continually beeped.
He gave her an apologetic look and said, "Looks like I have to go. Gabumon needs me!"
The smile from Sora's face dropped and she replied, "Sure, okay."
Matt reached for her hand as he stood up and asked, "Why don't you come with me? You and Biyomon could help us!"
Sora looked away and said, "No, it's okay. I've got to get back to the house anyway. Mom is expecting me home."
As Sora stood up from the bench, she glanced back at Matt and gave him a small smile. "Just kick butt, okay?" She said, almost in a whisper.
"Will do. Are you sure you will be okay?" Matt asked with a frown as he put his guitar in the case.
"Yeah, just go! Gabumon needs you!"
Matt took one last look at his girlfriend and nodded his head and ran in the opposite direction, following the map on his Digivice.
Sora sighed as she watched her boyfriend take off towards his Digimon partner. For once, she just wanted a quiet moment with Matt where neither of them had to take care of business like this. It seems this moment is always so rare.
She sat herself back down on the bench. It's been nothing but trouble since last Christmas when they defeated MaloMyotismon in the Digital World. It seemed like everything had gone back to normal, but just recently, more Digimon had been escaping through different portals throughout the city, and the citizens were still having trouble adjusting to the monsters. The Digidestined still had to hide their partners when traveling in public.
There had been new Digidestined to take the job now, but for some reason, their Digimon couldn't leave the Digital World. The only ones that could are the original Digidestined as well as Davis Motomiyo, Yolei Inoue, Cody Hida, and Ken Ichijouji. Genai had come up with a couple of theories, but none make total sense. So now, it was up to them to take care of it. That meant no more private time with their significant other.
Sora rose from the bench and took one last glance around before heading down the road to her home. One of these days, she would get Matt alone. One of these days….
~oOo~
As Matt bolted down the streets of Odaiba, heading to his Digimon partner, he began to beat himself up in his head. Dammit! Dammit, dammit, DAMMIT! The one chance he had with Sora, he blew it because of this stupid emergency. The couple hadn't had a true date in a long time, since the appearance of evil Digimon had taken up all their time. A few times, he tried to invite Sora and her partner Digimon along, but she wouldn't have anything to do with them unless Biyomon was the one in danger. Matt didn't get it.
As he turned the street corner, a blue and white creature streaked beside him, and Matt threw himself onto Garurumon. The wolf Digimon howled happily and then sprinted down the street.
"Garurumon, what's going on?" Matt shouted, tightening his grip around his partner's neck.
"Two Apemon had appeared climbing around buildings like this place is their own personal jungle gym! Tai is already on the scene with Greymon and T.K. and Pegasusmon, but they need help containing them. Greymon has already caused enough damage." His partner growled as he turned the corner again.
Up ahead, a giant T-Rex like Digimon and a flying horse gathered around the bottom of the building, and they looked annoyed. Two other boys were next to them with fists clenched, and the boy with big brown hair was shouting loudly. The other boy, a smaller blonde boy, nodded his head in agreement to whatever the brunette was saying.
As Garurumon came to a halt, Matt hopped off and jogged to his best friend and his little brother. "Guys, what's going on?" He asked as Garurumon bounded over to his allies.
Tai Kamiya, a tall teenage boy with huge brown spiky hair and tan skin, looked at Matt and said, "About time you got here!" He pointed up to the buildings and continued, "There are two Apemon swinging up there from building to building, and we don't have enough speed to catch them! We need you and Garurumon to get up there and try to round them up so we can send them back."
His little brother, T.K., climbed onto his Digimon, Pegasusmon, and added, "I'm going to try and round them up in the air for you."
"Be safe, little brother," Matt said as T.K. took off into the air.
Pegasusmon circled the building once before calling down to Garurumon, "I have them cornered! It's up to you, friend!"
Matt got back on Garurumon and they bounded together towards the building. The Digimon used his super speed to scale the building to where Pegasusmon had the two Apemon trapped on the rooftop. As Garurumon reached the top, the two Digimon were snickering to each other. They were tall monkey-like Digimon with yellow fur and gleaming red eyes and sharp teeth.
Matt glared at the two Digimon and called, "Hey, banana brains!"
The Apemon looked at him and one bared it's fangs. Garurumon let out a fierce growl and said, "Bring it, Monkey Boy!"
The one Apemon let out a screech, and Matt covered his ears in pain. Garurumon growled in discomfort and took a few steps away. As Matt looked up, Apemon was looming above them, holding a bone club.
It gave them a toothy grin and swung the bone, yelling, "Mega Bone Stick!" and bringing its attack down onto Garurumon's head.
Garurumon responded quickly and snapped the bone up in his mouth. Apemon gave a surprise look as the wolf Digimon swung the bone and monkey into the air and tossed it over the ledge. Matt could hear the monkey Digimon screech and Greymon roar as he caught his new prey.
'One down, one more to go," Matt thought as he looked over at the other Apemon. The Digimon sneered and growled, "You will never catch me!"
"T.K.!" Matt called. "Make sure Tai has that Apemon bound! I'll get this one!"
His younger brother gave a nod, and Pegasusmon took a dive down to the street as Garurumon jumped onto the next roof.
Apemon swung from building to building effortlessly as the wolf Digimon gave everything he had to keep up.
As it scampered down the building and on to another, Garurumon gave into the full out chase. The two Digimon vaulted from building to building and Matt tried to keep an eye on the monkey, but it was too fast.
"You've got him, Garurumon! Keep it up!" He called to his partner as the Digimon panted.
Suddenly, as the Apemon disappeared behind a building, it let out a terrible screech and Garurumon stopped in his tracks. The screech was followed by barking and snapping, like something was tearing away at fabric or meat.
"What is going on over there?" Garurumon asked to his partner.
Apemon screamed, "Get away from me, you foul beast!" and Matt and Garurumon looked towards the shouting, bewildered.
The yellow Digimon suddenly came into view and it was heavily wounded. Apemon had a stunned look on it's face as it stumbled away from the hiding spot. As it whimpered, it fell to the roof and Garurumon dashed over.
The wolf stopped into front of the injured Digimon and it looked at him with pained, red eyes.
"Apemon, what just happened?!" Matt asked.
The monkey whimpered one last time and responded, "The Big Bad Wolf… It's real. Beware!"
Suddenly, it disintegrated and was no more.
"Big Bad Wolf? What does that mean?" Matt asked his partner as he hopped off his partner and went to investigate.
"Matt, be careful!" Garurumon shouted as he walked with his partner. As they glanced around the corner to where Apemon got attacked, they found nothing.
"That's weird… What attacked Apemon?" Matt mumbled as he climbed back on his partner.
Garurumon growled and said, "Well, whoever it is, they've got a way of taking out Digimon."
Matt agreed and replied, "Let's get going back to Tai. He's probably wandering where we went. Come on, bud."
As Garurumon launched himself into the air, Matt glanced back to where Apemon disintegrated. Whatever attacked the monkey Digimon was going to be a tough foe, but that was a mystery for another day.
