Disclaimer: I do not own digimon or the random quotes from other sources used in this chapter!

Ok, so this story is the sequel to Lost Hope. I have read (skimmed) through Lost Hope and now have been working on planning this story out. I have some pretty exciting things (at least I think) planned for this sequel. I was so pumped when I wrote this first chapter and I think it is a decent start so far. Hopefully I can entice some old readers and new readers into reading, reviewing, favoriting, and following this story. It is all much appreciated, and I also encourage you to read my other current story "One Week." It is a very cool and different fanfic and I urge you to see what it's about. Anyways, here's the first chapter to the sequel (if you haven't read Lost Hope then you might want to before reading this so you don't get confused). Let me know if you have any questions. Review Please!


Chapter 1:

"As you can see, ladies and gentlemen, X equals Y, Y equals fourteen, and, lickity split, Q equals 37. Now isn't that… interesting?"

It was going to take a lot more than a complete memory wipe-out for him to forget just how boring math class could be. Actually, every subject in school was boring to him, except for maybe writing class; he didn't know why but he really liked to write.

The good thing was that he no longer was completely memory-less anymore. His name was Takeru Takaishi. He was fifteen years old now and was in his first year of high school. He wasn't like the other teenagers sitting in the classroom with him; no, he was different. He wasn't just saying that to make himself feel better either. He was what was called a 'digidestined.' In simple terms, he was one of many other carefully selected teens his age who were chosen to protect a world called the Digital World. In this world lived creature called digimon. All of the digidestineds had their own digimon partner who, at least for him and the other digidestineds he knew, their best friend. Together, the digidestined and the digimon partner fought the evil digimon who were a threat to the Digital World and sometimes even the human world. It was a hard concept for someone to grasp because it was 'so out of this world,' but that was why they were keeping the Digital World a secret.

There also were other worlds besides the human world and the Digital World. One world was called the Dark Ocean which wasn't the greatest of all places. The leader of that world was thankfully destroyed- he and the other digidestineds had defeated Dragomon three years ago. Even with Dragomon gone, however, that world still had such a negative feeling to it.

They also had discovered another world when they were facing a digimon by the name of MaloMyotismon. It was three years ago as well, just after defeating Dragomon. MaloMyotismon, an old enemy they had faced before who had been able to digivolve to a higher level, was using a human by the name of Yukio Oikawa to spread dark spores to the children in Odaiba. They were more worried about the digimon attacks that were happening all across the world. He had gone to France with Tai where they met up with a lovely girl named Catherine. Together they were able to send the digimon in France back to the Digital World. The other digidestineds had gone all over the world to meet up with other digidestineds in order to send the digimon back to the Digital World. When they had returned to Odaiba, though, they discovered all the children affected by the dark spore. Oikawa was leading the children back to MaloMyotismon who was in a world called the land of dreams. They were able to defeat MaloMyotismon before the children were hurt, however. Oikawa sacrificed himself so as to protect the Digital World from future evils such as MaloMyotismon, and since then there haven't been any major threats to the Digital World.

They did remember what Gennai had said a long time ago, however. Gennai had said they were going to face an enemy they had faced before- MaloMyotismon- and another new evil. After the defeat of MaloMyotismon they had been worried about this 'new evil,' but when nothing happened, they decided they'd forget about it until the evil digimon actually started causing a threat.

In the meantime they had been able to rebuild the parts of the Digital World that were attacked and destroy all of the control spires in the Digital World that were remainders of Ken's reign as the 'Digimon Emperor.' Ken was good now, but three years ago he was a real pain. He thought he could rule the Digital World and even created his own digimon partner, but that was a thing of the past. He trusted in Ken and forgave him for what he had done, even though Ken was the reason he had lost his memory in the first place.

His memory was coming back to him, though. Gennai had said that it was possible for him to regain his memory, and Gennai had been right. He had discovered that whenever he went to a place that he had been before he would start to vaguely remember what he had done there previously. Sometimes the memory would come to him right away and other times it took quite a while and he never got the full picture of the memory, but it was definitely an improvement. He also had great friends, mostly his digimon partner- Patamon-, to help him with his memory, so he was pretty happy now; a lot better than what he was three years ago.

Speaking of his friends, none of them were in this class if he remembered correctly. He looked around the classroom trying to recognize the goggle-head named Davis; the purple-haired, huge glasses girl named Yolei; the short and quiet boy named Cody; the violet-haired Ken; and then he looked for the brunette who had a smile that could light up anyone's mood named Kari. Nope, none of them were here in his seventh period Geometry class, but that was ok. They always sat together during lunch and they were going to go over to Davis's house after school to hang out anyways.

He looked at the clock and realized he had been zoning out for an entire thirty minutes now. He didn't know if he should be happy or worried about that; on the bright side there were only three minutes left in the class, but on the not so bright side he wasn't going to have a clue on how to do any of this stuff. He looked at the blackboard his teacher was writing on to see if what they were learning about looked easy, but he sighed. On the board was a circle with a triangle enclosed into it which all was inside of a hexagon. Different angles were marked and parts of the weird shape were shaded. They supposedly had to "Find the area of the shaded regions," and then "Calculate the values of each indicated angle." Nope, he wasn't going to have a clue on how to do any of this, but that was what Yolei and Ken were for!

He looked back up at the clock and saw there were about fifteen seconds left. Wow, this period went by fast! He quickly jotted down the homework and was about to collect his books together when something in his pocket started beeping. Everyone turned to look at him- except the teacher thankfully- and he couldn't stop himself from turning red. Everyone knew there was a strict 'No Cell-Phone' policy that the school followed, but most kids still carried their cell phones on him- they just had theirs on silent mode. That wasn't what he was nervous about, though. He always kept his cell phone and the other electronic devices he carried- his D-Terminal for example- in his school locker. The only one he carried with him everywhere he went was his green, D-three digivice. The D-three was very valuable to a digidestiend, and he had learned not to go anywhere without it. It usually didn't beep in the middle of class, though. The other students didn't know what a D-three was, however, so he couldn't blame them for thinking he had a cell phone on his person. One of the students looked like they were about to tattle-tale on him- seriously, they were in high school- but the bell rang thankfully. Apparently getting out of class was more important than telling their teacher he had a phone on him so everyone charged out of the room. His teacher was frantically yelling over the fuss telling them to make sure they did their homework, but no one really listened.

He got up to his feet, picked up his schoolbooks, and hurried out of the room towards his locker. His locker was fortunately located on the same floor as his geometry class so it did not take long before he was unlocking the lock on his locker. He opened the door and threw his books quickly inside before stuffing his D-Terminal into his pocket and then going to take the D-three out of his pocket. His hand grabbed the device when he heard a voice that made him jump nearly ten feet in the air- he could do that too, he was a basketball player and he had hops!

"Hey Takeru," a soft, high-pitched voice said.

He relaxed a little when he saw who it was, but he let go of the D-three and pulled his hand out of his pocket.

"Hi Kiyomi," he said as he gave his girlfriend a peck on the cheek.

"Ready to walk to English? We don't want to be late…" she started, but he nervously cut her off.

"Umm, I actually… ah, got to… go to the bathroom!" he completed, finishing his made-up excuse. He didn't like lying to Kiyomi, but he couldn't let her find about digimon, no matter how much he liked her.

He shut his locker and ran off in a random direction, not really caring where he was going.

"Takeru? The bathroom's this…" Kiyomi said, but he lost her voice as he continued down the hallway. He turned to the left and opened a door he hoped wasn't a classroom full of students who would look at him weird. He sighed in relief, though, when he found himself in the computer lab which was empty. He closed the door behind him and walked absentmindedly towards the computer they usually used to travel to the Digital World. They could go to any computer to go the Digital World, actually, but they liked using the school's computer lab for some reason. Kari told him that it brought back 'good memories,' good memories that he was not a part of because he was in the Dark Ocean at that time.

Now that he was alone he pulled out his d-three. He was told that his digivice didn't always appear the way it did now. When they had gone on their first digital adventure when he was only eight years old, his digivice looked like his brother's and the rest of the digidestineds' did a gray square device with blue buttons and a little black antenna. Now, though, his digivice was more rectangular-shaped. It was white with a green outline and a green antenna. There was a round, white dial towards the bottom and two black buttons were located to the right of the digital screen. He faintly remembered when it had changed; it was the same time he had found the digi-egg of hope that allowed Patamon to armor digivolve into Pegasusmon.

He looked at the digivice trying to see what was wrong, and his eyes were instantly drawn to the tiny, digital screen. The D-three was still beeping- which he had to admit was starting to get quite annoying- and on the screen were flashing Japanese symbols that were red in color. He wasn't sure what this meant, but he could kind of make out the Japanese symbols. Ever since he had lost his memory, he hadn't been able to read too well. His mind seemed like it was mainly hard-wired for French because of the four years he had lived in France prior to losing his memory. After three years of learning Japanese, though, he was getting it down and he could make out the word 'Help,' from the many symbols on the screen. He knew he had to go to the Digital World, but he wasn't sure if he should warn the others. 'Help,' seemed like it was trouble, but if it was big trouble then wouldn't they all have received the message and the others would be here in the computer lab with him? No, it seemed like he was the only one being called so the others must not be needed.

After coming to this conclusion, he quickly moved the mouse belonging to the computer so as to wake the computer up from its 'sleep.' The computer screen lit brightly showing a black desktop with random images running up the left-most side of the screen. One image he liked the most was the one of an orange fox running around a blue planet that was supposed to be Earth. He tore his eyes away from the application; now wasn't the time for Firefox.

He pointed his D-three at the computer and instantly the portal to the Digital World popped up on the screen. He knew what to do next as they had to say the line every time they entered the Digital World.

"Digi-Port Open!"

A familiar white light shone out from the screen surrounding him and sucking him into the computer. While he was world travelling he pulled his knees to his chest and once he was forced out of the computer he stretched his legs back out. He kept his eyes closed until he regained his composure; for some reason he never quite got used to travelling from the Digital World to the real world or vice versa. He opened his eyes though and smiled seeing that he had landed on his feet. That was a little trick his older brother had taught him one time when the two of them were going to the Digital World. He had to admit, it was a lot more comfortable than being thrown to the ground where they could scrape up their knees because of the rough landing.

He breathed in, and then let out the deep breath as he looked around the Digital World. This place always felt like it was his true home. He knew he was a human and really belonged to the human world, but the Digital World just had… something about it that made him feel more ecstatic than he ever had felt in the real world. If only he could bring Kiyomi here sometime…

He stopped looking mindlessly around, though, when he saw something lying on the ground not too far in front of him. He could tell the thing was actually a digimon, and he gasped when he saw the digimon's cream-colored belly and orange fur and bat wings acting as the digimon's ears. The digimon had scratches all over him and there were a couple of spots where the digimon looked like he had been bitten, more than likely by another digimon. The digimon had dried blood all over him and was not moving a muscle. He got to his knees next to the digimon as worry hit him like a train. This digimon was in terrible shape, and, even worse, this digimon was his partner!

"Patamon!" he said poking his partner. The guinea-pig-like digimon stirred a little bit and lifted his head up off the ground.

"TK?" Patamon said weakly as the digimon smiled up at him, "I'm so glad you're here."

"Patamon, what happened to you?" he asked concernedly as he picked up his partner and held him in his arms.

Just then he heard the howl of what sounded like a wolf off in the distance. Patamon's expression changed to one of fear.

"TK," the digimon said, suddenly sounding ten times more serious, "We have to get out of here! Run!"

He was caught a little off guard, but he quickly got up to his feet and started running as fast as he could. He looked around as he was running and noticed he was on File Island. He looked behind him and saw a huge mountain threatening to touch the sky. It was none other than Infinity Mountain; the mountain where Angemon- Patamon's champion form- sacrificed himself against Devimon in order to protect him and the other digidestineds. Surrounding the base of the mountain was a forest filled with trees that looked like they were baby-size compared to the towering mountain even though they were probably hundreds of feet tall. He heard the wolf howl again, but this time it was significantly closer.

He quickened his pace as he ran into the forest. He passed tree after tree as he ran as fast as he could looking for someplace to hide. Then he spotted a cave not too far away. He decided that was his best bet on a place to hide.

"TK! In there!" Patamon squeaked confirming his thoughts. He finally reached the cave and quickly ran inside. The cave didn't run too deep into the mountain, but there were a couple of boulders he could hide behind. He jumped behind one of them and sat with his back leaning against the rock. Lucky for him the rock was tall enough to hide his head- which wasn't easy all the time because he was a tall person. He sat there trying to catch his breath when all of a sudden he heard a growling coming from outside the cave. He decided to sneak-a-peak to see who it was and quickly moved his head back behind the rock when he saw a black wolf-digimon standing at the entrance of the cave. He could hear the digimon sniffing and his growling then intensified. The wolf digimon started barking wildly, but then he suddenly stopped. He had heard it too; it sounded like an electric blast was going through the air travelling towards him. The buzzing of the electricity stopped and he heard the wolf digimon cry out in pain. He poked his head out to see the wolf digimon running off in a different direction. He breathed a heavy sigh of relief as he realized he was safe for now.

"Patamon, who is that digimon? I've never seen him before," he asked his partner.

"That's Cerberumon," Patamon answered, "He's only an ultimate digimon, but I was in this form when he snuck up on me. I was caught off guard and he… did this."

"Are you ok?" he asked looking his partner up and down. It sure didn't seem like the orange guinea pig was ok.

"I'll be fine, I just need some rest," Patamon said with finality.

He knew Patamon well enough to know the digimon was not actually fine, but there was nothing he could do right now. He just then realized he could've gone back through the television he had come through and avoided all of this, but he was too freaked out to think of that. See, he didn't necessarily like wolves, though he never told Gabumon, his brother's digimon whose digivolution line was completely based off of wolves.

With Patamon being the way that he was, he knew he couldn't fight Cerberumon on his own, and it didn't seem like he'd be able to get out of this cave without getting caught. He pulled out his D-Terminal which he had been smart enough to bring with him and sent a message to his brother. Since Cerberumon was only an ultimate digimon they only needed one digimon, but that digimon needed to be able to fight, unlike Patamon. Once the message was sent through, he held his partner close and wished on his lucky stars that Cerberumon wouldn't come back any time soon.


"Let's see what we got here… 'Explain why Phosphorous tri-chloride is polar?' Umm, how about 'Cause God made it that way,'" his best friend said as Tai wrote the last six words onto his chemistry worksheet. He busted up in laughter! Seriously, he was so glad Tai was his best friend again.

Why did Tai have his chemistry worksheet? Well, they both were going to the university now. They had graduated from high school- actually he dropped out two years ago to be in his band because they were 'going to be a thing,' but same difference- and now were taking courses so that they could actually become something in life. He had chosen to study in astronomy while Tai was working on becoming a lawyer. He and Tai both roomed together in an apartment close to the campus located in Odaiba, and whenever they had homework they didn't know how to do they would give it to the other to write down whatever they wanted. Eh, almost whatever they wanted; he had tried to get away with writing some nasty comment about the teacher for one of the answers but Tai erased it for some reason before he turned it in. You see, the courses involved with these majors could be a bit… advanced, so more than likely they were doing each other's homework rather than doing their own. Their grades showed it, but they were both still passing, amazingly.

He liked living in Odaiba too unlike some of his friends. Mimi, for example, had moved to America- it wasn't her choice but still- and was currently working on becoming a chef. She told them she was going to have her own cooking show like Rachael Ray- none of them knew who Rachael Ray was but they let Mimi go on anyways. Yeah, Mimi had moved to America and was happy done there, but he could never move that far away. He had his friends but even more importantly his family living here. He had just got his little brother, TK, back three years ago after the not-so-little-anymore blonde had gone missing for four years of his life. TK had gone to France with their mother while he stayed here with his father. When TK had first moved away, he and his father hadn't been close at all. His father worked all the time and he basically had to live on his own. Since TK had come back, though, they had become a lot closer. This was mostly because neither of them wanted to lose TK ever again so they made sure someone was always looking out for him. His dad still worked a lot, but he came home earlier more often and he even would sometimes cook supper for them. Now, he had moved out leaving just his brother and father living together, but he made up for it by always trying to hang out with his little brother and going home often. Sometimes TK would complain about him being too close and accused him of being overprotective, but he always ignored that saying his little brother didn't know any better; he had almost lost TK for good and he didn't plan on losing his little brother any time soon.

This was why he may or may not have overreacted when his cell phone vibrated showing he had a message from his little brother. He found it odd that TK had texted him while he was still supposed to be in school- didn't they have a no cell-phone policy? He opened his phone and read out loud,

"Come to the Digital World now! I'm by Infinity Mountain! Hurry! ~TK"

"Oh my…!" he shouted as he quickly got up from the bean-bag chair he was sitting in and started running around the apartment like a chicken with his head cut off. What did he need? Digivice! Anything else? No, he didn't have time! TK could be in trouble! Or even worse…

"MATT!" Tai screamed at the top of his lungs. Apparently his best friend had been trying to get his attention for quite some time but he had been too worried about TK.

"I just messaged Izzy while you were running around and he told me to meet him at his house. Now, let's go so we can actually help your brother instead of worrying half to death," Tai said as he put on his tennis shoes. Tai tossed him his pair of shoes which he cut and quickly tied onto his feet.

Before he knew it he was in Tai's car driving through the streets of Odaiba. Tai was going about sixty miles an hour in the thirty-five miles per hour speed zone to which he worried about being pulled over, but that was quickly thrust to the back of his mind as he realized TK was in trouble. 'Oh snap,' he thought to himself, except he didn't actually think 'snap;' he thought a really bad word.

It seemed like forever- even with Tai's crazy driving- before they pulled into the parking lot of Izzy's apartment complex. He quickly unbuckled his seatbelt- safety first! - and thrust the door open. He jumped out and slammed the door shut before running through the front door. He found his way up the stairs and quickly made it to Izzy's apartment. He knocked several times and looked behind him to see Tai making his way up the last few stairs. The door opened up a little bit and he pushed it the rest of the way so he could get inside.

"What do you think you're doing!" a familiar voice said loudly. He turned and saw a red-headed young adult who had his eyes closed and had a hand up to his head. Apparently he had hit Izzy with the door when he had entered.

"Sorry Izzy," he muttered quickly before saying more loudly, "But we got to go now! Hurry up Tai!" he shouted out behind him.

"I'm right here! No need for yelling," Tai fired back at him, but he ignored it. Instead he quickly ran to Izzy's room and went to the red-head's laptop computer. He smiled a little as he realized it was still the same laptop he had brought with him on their first adventure. He wiped the smile off his face as the severity of the situation was brought back to him. The portal was already set to go to the portal closest to Infinity Mountain. He turned to make sure the other two slow pokes were coming, and once he saw them enter Izzy's room he yelled out,

"Digi-port Open!"

He landed on his feet in the Digital World and quickly started looking around. He quickly spotted the towering mountain and ran right for it. He heard Izzy and Tai call out his name from behind him but he ignored them. TK was in trouble.

Out of nowhere something tackled him. He just about fell over, but whatever had wrapped its arms around him had held him upward. He looked downward and was happy to see a wolf digimon with a fur coat on its head and a yellow horn poking out at him hugging him. He hugged the digimon back.

"Gabumon! Good to see you," he said to the wolf digimon.

"Good to see you as well," Gabumon responded. "What are you doing here?"

"TK's in trouble! He's by Infinity Mountain. Can you digivolve to Garurumon? It would make it a lot faster and he could be hurt," he asked.

Gabumon nodded before stepping back. He watched his partner start glowing and then start changing forms into a much larger wolf digimon. When the light faded, a wolf with blue and white fur, four clawed feet, and very vicious-looking teeth was standing in front of him. He smiled at his partner.

"Matt, will you please wait up for once!?" he heard someone ask from behind him. He turned around to see Tai and Izzy running up to him followed by their partners, Agumon and Tentomon.

"Guys, TK may be hurt…" he started, but then he was cut off.

"Or he may be perfectly fine! We won't know until we find him, but we need to know what we're up against first!"

"I can help you there," Izzy's partner spoke up. He instantly turned to the red-beetle.

"What is it Tentomon? Tell me everything you know! Do you know where TK is?" he inquired.

"Matt! Get a grip dude! You're acting like you did on our first adventure! You were twelve back then!" Tai stated.

"I agree full-heartedly with Tai! And if you ever try to rip Tentomon's head off again with all those questions I will personally… uh, beat you up?" he said, his voice raising as he said the last part and looked towards Tai. Tai nodded.

"Fine," he said, giving up, "I'm sorry. I'm just worried about TK."

"Which is understandable, but it is by no means the necessary reaction to this situation. It will only worsen what is occurring. Now, what were you saying Tentomon?" Izzy asked his partner.

"Right, I was perched up in one of my favorite trees enjoying the view just like any other day when I suddenly heard someone running around below me. I looked down only to see TK running with Patamon in his arms. I didn't get a good look at either of them because they were running so fast. I was wondering what they were running from when I heard a wolf digimon's howl. Then a black blur flew by in the same direction as TK and Patamon. I followed, knowing something was up and saw the digimon, a Cerberumon, standing at the entrance of the cave. I figured TK and Patamon were inside so I attacked Cerberumon from up on the trees. Cerberumon ran away to find who attacked him, and I then went to find a television to contact you Izzy," the beetle digimon finished.

He instantly spoke up, "Where's this cave Tentomon? Can you show us?"

"Sure thing," he said.

"Wait a second!" Izzy called out just as he was about to mount Garurumon. "What level is this Cerberumon?"

"He's an ultimate level digimon," Agumon piped up.

"Then we should digivolve to ultimate in case we run into Cerberumon!" Izzy said.

He nodded. Why didn't he even think of that? Sometimes he could be so thick-headed.

Their partners digivolved into their ultimate forms and then they were quickly headed towards Infinity Mountain. MegaKabuterimon was leading the way with MetalGreymon and WereGarurumon following. With the speed that their digimon's ultimate forms possessed, they had found the cave in no time. WereGarurumon set him down on the ground and he quickly ran into the cave.

"TK!" he called out loudly. He heard his voice echo off the cave walls just as loudly.

He heard something stir behind one of the boulders.

"Gosh! Don't scare me like that," a blonde boy said as he stood up revealing himself.

"TK!" he called out as he ran to his brother. He hugged his brother tight before being pushed backwards.

"You're going to hurt Patamon even worse!" TK said angrily. He swore, he didn't know a digidestined that was as protective of his partner as TK was of Patamon. Of course his brother had lost his partner twice now, but still.

"I'm sorry TK," he said. He looked his brother over to make sure nothing was wrong with him before looking at Patamon. His brother was fine, but Patamon looked terrible. He was asleep right now but the digimon looked like he had been mauled by some vicious dog, most likely Cerberumon.

"Are you ok…" he started but he was cut off.

"I'm fine Matt! I don't need you to be so worried about me all the time! I can take care of myself!" TK shouted angrily.

Ok, little brother was not in a good mood.

"TK, you don't understand. I was so worried…" he tried again, but once again was stopped mid-sentence.

"I never asked you to be worried about me," he stated.

He tried to say something, but no words came to mind. His brother had asked him to help, and this was how TK was going to treat him? He had to refrain himself from hitting TK. Instead of getting angry he just comforted himself by thinking, 'he's ok.'

TK walked past him outside the cave. He followed his brother out and noticed Tai and Izzy along with all of their ultimates facing away from the cave with a determined expression on their faces.

"Hellfire!" he heard a snarly voice call out.

"Matt!" WereGarurumon shouted as the digimon jumped towards him, picked him up, and jumped away from the attack.

He looked behind him and watched his little brother jump out of the way of the blast Cerberumon had sent. The fire attack rushed past them and went inside the cave. Cerberumon started growling and barking before jumping towards MegaKabuterimon.

"Ahh!" MegaKabuterimon shouted out as the wolf digimon bit down onto the digimon's leg. The beetle digimon tried to shake Cerberumon off but the digimon had a strong bite.

"MegaKabuterimon stop moving!" WereGarurumon ordered.

MegaKabuterimon obeyed and WereGarurumon ran on all fours towards Cerberumon.

"Wolf Kick!" WereGarurumon shouted with his leg outstretched as he jumped towards the wolf digimon. Cerberumon looked up just as WereGarurumon was inches away and was hit dead on.

"GigaBlaster!"

"Horn Buster!"

The two ultimates shouted out their attacks which were launched towards the fallen wolf digimon. They hit dead on resulting in a big explosion. When the smoke cleared he saw that Cerberumon was gone. Their digimon reverted back to their rookie forms, and he quickly ran over to his brother who was slowly getting up.

As he neared his brother he asked "TK! Are you ok? Did that attack hit you? I'm sorry…"

"Matt, I swear to goodness if you don't stop flipping out every time something bad happens to me I am going to punch you. I am not a fragile little kid anymore. I am fifteen!"

"But TK…" he started, but he stopped himself when he saw his brother's face.

"Thank you all for saving us," TK said before running off. He got about five feet away before he turned back towards us.

"Where's the nearest television?" he asked awkwardly.

Izzy pointed in the direction they came from and TK turned and started running off in the direction indicated. He had noticed TK was starting to get annoyed with him, but today was by far the worst. Was there something that had happened to his brother that caused him to be like this? That must've been it! Something must've happened to TK! But what could it have been? Oh, what if it wasn't something he could fix? What if TK was in danger?


He knocked on the door holding his partner who was still sound-asleep in his arms. Once he found his way back to the television and went back to the real world he had discovered school was out for over an hour already. The others were probably worried about him and were more than likely talking about him right now at Davis's, and what about Kiyomi? She couldn't be too happy with him right now, but all that had to wait. Right now he needed to get to Joe's place and fast!

He quickly opened up his locker and looked at his phone. Twenty text messages?! 'Seriously guys,' he thought to himself. They all probably thought he randomly disappeared and was going to be gone for another four years…

He ignored the messages and quickly dialed Joe's number to tell him he was coming over. Joe was confused but didn't ask questions. He showed up at Joe's who was shocked by Patamon's wounds. He then had to explain everything, but he was willing to because Joe was helping Patamon. Within half an hour he had explained everything and Joe had Patamon all bandaged and cleaned up. Joe told him to make sure Patamon rested for as long as he needed to before he left to go to Davis's.

And now he was at Davis's. He didn't necessarily like Davis when he had first met him… and he still didn't like him now. Granted that was mostly because he was dating Kari, but he had a girlfriend now and was 'over' Kari. He also didn't like how Davis was so arrogant; other than that, though, Davis was fine.

He heard frantic footsteps run to the door and the door was flung open wide. He saw Kari, Yolei, and Cody standing at the door all looking at him like he was the bloody ghost of Christmas past. But then their expressions changed to those of a mix between anger and relief.

"TK!"

"I knew you were ok!"

"Why didn't you answer my twenty messages…?"

He ignored them, though, and pushed by them. He was tired of people worrying about him. First his brother, and now all of these guys. He was glad they cared about him, but they were suffocating him.

He walked into the living room of Davis's place. Mr. and Mrs. Motomiya were sitting on the couch watching the news while Davis, Ken, and Willis were lying on the floor playing a board game- though it didn't exactly use a board- called Jenga. At least they were playing it until Davis pulled out a piece and the tower went crumbling down. Willis and Ken both laughed at Davis and the goggle-head started blushing.

"Oh, hey TK," Willis said looking up at him. It was then when Willis's eyes landed on the digimon in his arms. "What happened?" he asked dead serious.

Davis looked up and saw Patamon as well and then announced, "Guy talk! My room!"

He just then realized he had brought a digimon into the real world, into Davis's apartment, without thinking of anyone spotting Patamon. Luckily no one said anything, but he still had to avoid Davis's parents.

He quickly made his way for Davis's room while Willis and Ken both followed. He closed the door, being the last one, but then the door was opened again and he saw Cody walk in.

"What happened?" Willis asked again.

He sighed and then went onto telling them all what had happened. He told them what he told Joe, leaving out the parts involving his fights with his brother. When he finished Ken asked, "Is Patamon going to be all right."

"Yes," he answered with a nod, "Joe took good care of him. He just said he needs to rest a lot."

"Good ol'reliable Joe," Cody said with a smile.

He nodded again.

"You can let Patamon rest in here and then we can go back out. My parents will start to wonder what's going up if we stay in here too much longer," Davis said.

"Right, thanks Davis," he said as he set his partner on Davis's bed very carefully. As they exited the room, he took one good look at his partner and petted his head. He hated it when his partner got injured like this.

Patamon had a nick of sacrificing himself for him. Even without his memory, there were countless of times where Patamon had taken the bullet for him. And then Patamon had actually sacrificed himself and died two times now! Granted, both times Patamon was able to come back because digimon never really die, but it still was scary and not a guaranteed thing.

"You coming TK?" Ken asked him as he stood by the door.

He turned and nodded while walking out, leaving his partner in the room.

The rest of the day went by relatively fast. He was able to play games and have fun with his friends and forget about what had happened during the day. He got annoyed whenever Kari or Yolei would ask why he hadn't brought them along with him, but he didn't yell at them because they were his friends and just wanted to help him. Like Matt. Maybe he shouldn't have been so hard on his brother… No, Matt was too worried about him. He was mad at his brother. Matt needed to learn to back off and not try to act like… his mother.

His mother. He didn't remember too much of her, but he did get a few memories here and there. Most were bad memories like the night of the divorce, the day they moved to France, and the day he was forbidden from coming back to Odaiba. But he still loved his mother and wished she were here. And his grandparents. They seemed like they were such funny people…

"*Yawn* I'm getting tired. I think I'm going to head home!" Willis announced.

Going home. Matt was going to be there, and he was mad at Matt. Without even thinking, he spoke up, "Willis, can I stay the night at your house? It is the weekend after all…"

Everyone looked at him confusedly, except for Willis who looked ecstatic.

"Are you serious dude?" he asked excitedly.

He nodded to which Willis cried out in joy. For a second he may or may not have judged Willis to roll a certain way, but then he continued, "That's awesome! No one ever wants to stay at my place! We can stay up and watch basketball all night and talk about girls and… This is going to be awesome!"

He had to admit, it did sound like it was going to be fun. More fun than going back to his dad's apartment and have to face his brother.

"No one ever wants to stay at my place," Davis pouted.

"Davis," Ken said, "I stay at your house just about every weekend. Am I no one?"

Davis didn't answer which probably was the best decision.

"I think I'm heading home too. Cody, you ready to go?" Yolei asked.

Cody nodded.

They all said their goodbyes and one-by-one they left Davis's place. Yolei, Cody, and Ken left first. Then Kari left, but not after giving Davis a kiss. He couldn't stop himself from glaring at the two. Once Kari was gone they went to Davis's room where he turned on his computer before saying, "Peace out homies," and walking back outside.

The portal opened once Willis held out his digivice. Willis lived in America- New York to be exact- and it would normally take… a very long time to get to Odaiba. What they found out, though, was that travelling through the Digital World was much faster. So this is what they did.

He was about to say the famous one-liner when Willis turned to him.

"So, you like Kari, huh?" Willis asked raising his eyebrows.

He couldn't stop himself from blushing to which Willis busted out in laughter.

"Don't worry," he said, "I do too."

The way Willis said it, adding a wink at the end, made him start laughing as well. So, Willis was serious when they said they were going to talk about girls.

"Digi-Port open!"


"Sora, why is TK being like this?" he asked the auburn-haired girl sitting next to him.

They were sitting in the park. This was their normal meeting place when they were younger, so they still came here every now and then to sort of live back the old times. They usually met up every Friday, like today, to catch up on Digital World stuff. Today's topic was Cerberumon of course, but they didn't think anything of it seeing as they were used to the occasional rogue digimon. Actually, they never really talked about Digital World stuff very much because there wasn't much going on. Gennai's 'new evil' was nonexistent. They already had cleaned up the Digital World and destroyed the control spires and covered up the digimon attacks as best as they could. People could be really dumb sometimes; the government tried to play the attacks as a terrorist scheme and the people bought it even though they saw the monsters with their own two eyes.

Mimi would come and occasionally bring Michael with her on these meetings. They travelled through the Digital World in order to get to Odaiba for time's sake. He couldn't blame them coming from America and all, but he noticed that Joe and Izzy weren't too happy about Michael being there. He wasn't dumb; he could see the love rectangle or whatever it was called forming there. Tai was sitting next to Sora and he would occasionally send glares directed at him, but he didn't know what that could be for. He was only talking to Sora, his girlfriend, granted, but still. They were best friends; sure, he had feelings for Sora but he wasn't about to act upon them with Tai being his best friend and all.

"I think you just need to give him time Matt. I mean, TK's been through a lot. I think he'll come back around eventually. In fact, I think he's waiting to apologize at your dad's apartment right now."

Just then his phone vibrated. He took it out of his pocket and saw he had a message from TK. He smiled thinking it was TK apologizing. He opened the phone up and viewed the message.

His hopes were shattered as he read the message. 'Staying at Willis's… don't worry about me.'

"What is it?" Sora asked, reading his expression change for the worst. He showed her the message and she then looked disappointed as well.

"Oh, well, like I said just give it time Matt. If worse comes to worst then I'll send Kari or even myself to go talk some sense into him."

"Thanks Sora, it means a lot," he said as he looked into her eyes. 'Dang,' he thought to himself as she smiled at him, 'Tai is one lucky man.'

"*Ah hem*" Tai cleared his throat. "I think we should call it a night," he said out loud.

"But it's only ten in the morning…" Mimi started to say but then, "Oh, sorry, we're not in America anymore."

Just then a sudden beeping noise sounded. He looked to Sora seeing that the sound was coming from her. She rummaged in her pockets- Joe doing the same- until they both pulled out their digivices. A worried expression was plastered on their faces.

"Uh, guys, we got trouble."