Beep

Beep. Beep. Beep.

Kazu groaned and reached out his hand. He felt along the lines of his nightstand looking for his alarmclock – knocking several things over in the process.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

'Yeah yeah, I'm already up' He muttered hitting the snooze button. For the second time that morning. He turned around, his arm lazily above his head. Eight in the morning was definately not a good time to get up.

BEEP BEEP BEEP!

Again Kazu let out an annoyed moan, hitting his alarmclock in an attempt to silence it, but shoving it off the nightstand instead. The small machien started beeping like there was no tomorrow – which very likely, there wouldn't be for the clock.

'I'll get it!' A large figure stormed into the room. 'I'll protect you' A few well aimed shots claimed the life of the alarm clock.

'Geez thanks chumley, you saved me from the destructive powers of the alarm clock'

'It was my pleasure, Sir' Guardomon made a bow-like pose, obviously missing the sarcasm in his tamer's voice.

'Dude, you gotta stop talking like that. It's not healthy.' Kazu yawned and rolled out of the warmth and comfort of his bed. With a light thud his feet reached the floor. With another exaggurated yawn he searched for his clothes underneath a big pile of junk. Tossing cards, shoes and several lonely socks over his shoulder, he finally reached his shirt and pulled it over his head.

'This had better be good' He mumbled when he had finally located all his clothes and was ready to head out of the door, Guardomon just several feet behind.

'Hey Kazu!'

'Hey chumly!'

'You're late'

'There no such thing as late, eight a'clock in the morning my friend' Hirokazu pointed out.

Kenta shrugged and followed his friend. Yesterday afternoon their friend and rolemodel Ryo Akiyama had told them of a 'surprise'. After several hours of nagging and annoying him, Kenta and Kazu figured he wouldn't tell. But he did tell them to meet at his house in the morning.

Of course, any surprise from Ryo was bound to be good. Kazu and Kenta had spent all last night trying to figure out what it was. So far they had come up with; major digimon butt-kicking for which Ryo needed their help, some secret digimon-tamer meeting (which they believed to be some sort of sekt, to which they would be asked to join) or planetary destruction.

The last of which was unlikely, since Ryo had disclosed that he was sure they'd both enjoy it. And although there's nothing as relaxing as a good world domination plan, somehow it just didn't seem to fit in the 'enjoy'-catagory.

'So where's Takato?' Kenta asked.

'How should I know? I just walked out the front door!'

'The train will be here soon...'

Kazu and Kenta leaned casually against the fence of the station. Every now and then they would recieve strange looks regarding the giant robot and the flying pink ball in their close proximity, but ferthermore they just waited. And waited. And waited some more.

'Man, I'm usually the late one' Kazu folded his arms behind his head and stared down the street. 'Think of all the extra time I could've spent in bed' He added in an afterthought. In the holidays, the average teenager is suposed to sleep in untill at least noon, only to spend the entire upcoming night with his friends doing irrisponsible teenage stuff.

'Guys!' A panting seventeen year old came running up to them.

'Dude! What took ya so long?'

'Guilmon... he wouldn't...' Takato leaned forward and rested his arms on his knees in an attempt to catch his breathe. '... Stop eating'

'Sounds like Guilmon alright' Kenta chuckled.

'So where's Henry?'

'He couldn't make it. He had some.. family thing' Takato replied as they entered the train.

'What are you lookin' at?!' Kazu shot at some random kid who showed an extreme interest in Guardromon and Guilmon. Luckily, MarineAngemon was small enough to go unnoticed by most of the passangers.

After searching the entire train, they finally located a compartment with next to no other passangers. It would be simpler to travel without too many questions.

'We should've just flown there' Kazu stated.

'Oh yeah, and how do you supose the rest of us would've gotten there?' Kenta raised his eyebrows.

'How should I know?' Kazu replied back, standing up again. He was definately not a morning-person.

'Guys, come on' Takato jumped in front of Kazu, forcing him back down. 'It's all going well so far'

'Yeah well, you at least got more than two hours of sleep' His friend replied, pulling his cap over his eyes. 'Wake me when we get there'