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DT: So this is a continuation of both "The Goggles and the Hat" and "Her Hidden Heart". That having been said I hope you enjoy "A Whistle to Wake You".

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A Whistle to Wake You

Chapter One: The Sun and The Heart

Tai Kamiya woke slowly and naturally as he rolled over to face the angel sleeping next to him. He had been dating Sora Takenouchi for nearly a year now and they had been sleeping together, nothing more than sleeping, whenever they could.

As Tai watched her sleep he noticed a small strand of hair obstructing her beautiful face. He gently brushed it back and tucked it behind her ear. Satisfied he took up watching her again. She was so cute when she slept. Her eyes gently shut, yet still radiating as much beauty and love as they did when they were open. And the way she breathed, with her mouth slightly open silently taking in air.

Tai smiled and brushed her cheek gently. She rolled in her sleep and turned away from Tai. He was upset for a moment until he embraced her and snuggled up behind her.

Tai then began to think about the relationships the other Digidestined had found themselves in. TK and Kari had been together happily for a long time now, to think about it, it was Tai and Sora who had gotten them to admit feelings for each other roughly a month before they had begun dating themselves. Matt had surprisingly begun dating Jun, guess the end of that double date went better then Tai had thought. Izzy had established a strong relationship with the girl he met online, what was her name again? Motoko? Yeah, she was one of Sora's friends. Joe and Mimi were obviously dating, however still refused to tell anyone.

As for the new Digidestined, Yolei had told Davis about the reason she had said they were dating and things had gone (somewhat) back to normal for the two, and now, Yolei and Ken had been flirting constantly. Davis seemed to no longer be bothered by TK and Kari's relationship, and Cody had nothing new going on.

Life was perfect.

Or so Tai thought. Little did he, or anyone, know that the Digidestined weren't done with their work yet. Gennia had one last task in store for them.

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A Whistle to Wake You

Chapter Two: Her Discovered Heart

Takato and Rika laid together on a hammock that they had tied between two trees in the park. Rika had snuggled against Takato's chest and was nearly asleep while Takato had his arm wrapped around her and stared at the sky. The sky was clear and blue with gentle clouds that gave shade to tired travelers and shapes to young children. It was that special kind of day where everything just seemed to go your way; Rika had announced that she was switching schools, and joining Takato's high school, and then after a long walk Takato and Rika had come to their special spot and laid down on their hammock. It wasn't much really but it was more than enough to make Takato happy.

As he laid there he heard someone walking up to him, he looked and saw the young Legendary Tamer, Ryo Akiyama wearing a rather serious expression.

Takato gently woke Rika then stood up and said, "What's up Ryo?"

"I just got a message from the digital world. The sovereigns said we are needed for something." Ryo said

Takato's expression turned grim. The last time the sovereigns had needed them it started a chain of events that led to Takato losing Guilmon for a time. So much for everything going your way. "We should tell Henry and the others." Takato said

"Already did, everyone's waiting for us to show up." Ryo said with something obviously disturbing him.

"Something wrong Ryo?" Takato asked

"You'll find out soon enough…" Ryo said and then started to walk to Guilmon's shack.

Rika and Takato ran back to Takato's house retrieved Guilmon and then met up with everyone at the shack. Together they all went through the portal to the Digital world where they met up with the Digimon Sovereigns upon landing on the outer level.

"Tamers, it is good to see you again." said a large blue dragon in front of the group

"Uh… Azulongmon? We were told that we were needed for something…" Takato said

"Indeed you are human," Zhuqiaomon said, "Though I detest asking for your help there is no one else who can complete this task."

"Well what is it? Anything we can do to help" Henry said

"Yeah birdie, tell us whatcha need!" shouted a small Digimon on Henry's shoulder.

"Terriermon! Quiet!" Henry said quickly

"First, I think it is time Ryo told you his secret" Azulongmon said.

Everyone looked at Ryo who looked at the ground.

"Ryo?" Kazu asked

"The truth is…" Ryo started "I'm not from this world…"

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A Whistle to Wake You

Chapter Three: Gennia's News

The next day started like any other Tai completed his morning routine and after a small breakfast would walk to Sora's and walk her to school. The school day proceeded like any other until, that is, school got out. Izzy ran up to Tai and Sora looking rather flustered and out of breath.

"What's up Izzy?" Tai asked "another egg hatch?" Tai laughed remembering the whole event leading up to the Diaboromon crisis

"Very funny Tai," Izzy said, "but no, I just got a message from Gennia, he said he needs to see all of us at once."

Tai's expression changed from his carefree smile to the more serious expression he wore whenever the Digital World called. "I'll go home and tell Kari, let's all meet back here at school in an hour."

They both nodded and began to send emails to the other Digidestined, telling them were to meet and when.

Tai burst through his front door and shouted "Kari! Grab your Digivice, we've got some work in the Digital World!"

Kari ran into the living room wearing a worried expression, "What's going on Tai?"

Tai turned around as he pulled his goggles from his neck to his fore head "I don't know Kari but we'll take care of it, just like we always do!"

They walked back to the college with their partner Digimon and met up with all the others. Together they traveled into the Digital World and found themselves back on File Island, on top of Infinity Mountain no less. Gennia was standing there in front of them wearing the lighter expression he favored in his younger form.

Tai was the first to speak "What's the emergency?"

"No emergency Tai, however you are needed." Gennia said

"Well if there's no emergency then why are we here?" Yolei asked

"Yeah isn't it the job of the Digidestined to kick evil's butt?" Davis exclaimed

"You are correct in a way Davis, that is part of your job, but there's more to it than that." Gennia said "It is also your job to help create the best world possible."

"So what is it you need us to do?" asked Cody

"First you need to know something. There is another world that exists parallel to this one. And I'm not talking the way the Digital World, Real World, and Dark Ocean are." Gennia explained, "You see in truth there is another Real World and another Digital World."

Everyone looked at Izzy hoping he would explain it with one of his usual metaphors. When he saw them he kneeled down and began to draw lines in the dirt. "So what your saying is not only is there our multi world," Izzy said as he drew lines to represent each world, (straight for the real world, wavy for the digital world and zigzag for the dark ocean) "but also another set that is far enough away to not feel the effects of when the destiny stones were being destroyed" Izzy finished as he drew one more straight and wavy line a large distance below the first three.

"That's right" Gennia said "but something else you need to know is that it wasn't always this way. There used to be only one digital world and one real world but they were split long ago."

Joe asked the question everyone else was thinking "Why?"

"Well, in the Digital World there used to be a great force, neither good nor evil, that boasted the ability to delete anything it touched. There were some who would have used this force as a weapon so the ancient elemental Digimon separated the evil Digimon from the great force."

"But why split the real world too?" asked Matt

"The digital world and the real world have been strongly connected since they were created, one cannot exist without the other therefore the splitting of the digital world also caused the real world to split." Gennia said.

"So what is it you need us to do?" asked TK

"We need you to rejoin the worlds" Gennia said "With the evil Digimon from in this world defeated and the great force also destroyed having the worlds split serves no further purpose."

"How are we supposed to do that?" Mimi asked

"D-3 holders, step forward." Gennia commanded, and they did as they were told "Now hold out your D-Terminals."

When they did beams of light shot out of them, orange and blue from Davis', purple and gray from Cody's, red and green from Yolei, and yellow, pink, and light pink from TK's, Kari's, and Ken's respectively. The beams began to form into the Digieggs everyone had gathered over the duration of their adventures. The light slowly died down leaving only the Digieggs floating in front of their respective users. The eggs then began to glow again and shrink into the form of the nine crests, which then floated to their previous owners. However three new crests were born at the same time, Davis', Yolei's, and Cody's eggs not only became the crests the used to be, but also became compound crests, representing their compound crest traits that was (up until a short while ago) represented by the two Digieggs they held. Everyone was in shock and the 02 Digidestined were slightly disappointed at the loss of their armor forms.

Gennia comforted them by saying "Don't worry we are working on making new Digieggs for all of you, be patent and you will get back what you lost and then some."

Tai and the rest of the Digidestined took their crests and waited for further instruction which Gennia soon gave "Now Digidestined, release the power of your crests once again."

They did as they were told and their crests began to glow very brightly and the world began to distort and quake. Then in a sudden and violent eruption both the real and digital worlds were reformatted and expanded to respond to the sudden increased population. Both worlds nearly doubled in size as their population did.

When the Digidestined opened their eyes they saw a group of eight (yes eight, I'm leaving Impmon's tamers out of this.) kids standing in front of them each of them holding a golden card and a strange Digivice.

Ken immediately recognized one of the kids in the other group and, in total shock, said "Ryo?"

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A Whistle to Wake You

Chapter Four: The Truth of Twin Worlds

"What are you talking about Ryo? Not from this world? What kind of stupid thing is that to say?" Rika said

Takato put his hand of her shoulder and squeezed gently to get her attention then he whispered "Rika, please don't, I don't think he's kidding and this isn't easy for him to say."

Rika (surprisingly) did as Takato asked and stopped verbally attacking Ryo and in fact apologized. Even in the short time they had been together Takato has pushed the change that had been occurring in Rika to a whole new level, now, although she still lashed out like before, she would soon realize what she had done and apologize. She, in short, had become a much kinder person.

"Hold on there Lassie McSharp-tounge, he's telling the truth" Ebonwumon said "Yeah, the truth" his other head added.

"Well if you're not from our world then what world are you from?" Henry asked

"Well, truth be told, the Digimon TV show that you all watch isn't really just a show, it's the story of the great battles that happened in my home world." Ryo said

"Wait, so you're saying that the Digimon TV series is real?" Takato asked (somewhat rhetorically)

"Yeah." Ryo said

"So Tai Kamiya and all the others are real people?" Takato continued

"Yeah, and I've met all of them. I don't know if you noticed but I'm in that show too. If you look at when Ken Ichijouji is having a flash back to his first trip to the digital world, I'm the one there with him." Ryo said

"This is the part where one of you says "April fools" right?" Rika said

"This is no joke, Human." Zhuqiaomon said, "We now need your help to join the twin worlds back into their true form."

"True form? What do you mean?" Henry asked

"Long ago the worlds were one, but we feared that the evil Digimon would try and use the power of The Chaos as a weapon so we split the worlds in an attempt to separate The Chaos from those who would see it as a weapon." Baihumon said

"But with the D-Reaper gone the worlds can be one again." Takato finished

"That is correct," Azulongmon said, "Now to rejoin the worlds we will need the help of the Digignomes call out to them in your heart and wish for the power to return the world to its true state."

The eight did as they were told and before long they all saw a gold card floating in front of them. They took it and Takato said, "So we just have to swipe the cards?"

"I do not know. The ancient ones work in mysterious ways, but if there is something else that you need to do trust that it will present itself." Azulongmon answered

Takato turned and faced his friends and said "So how about it guys, one more time?" The whole group nodded and shouted "Digimodify!" as they swiped their cards. Then the world began to shake and warps could be seen all over the world sucking in all the data as well as the real world. The streams of light that connected the Digital world to the real one began to go out one by one until none remained before long the whole world had been sucked up and the tamers were standing on the last bit of land until a beam of multi colored light stuck them and then they saw nothing. Their senses of sight, speech, and hearing abandoned them and they could only feel themselves moving at an incredible speed. Takato reached out and found Rika's hand, he grabbed it and pulled her close to him. They held on to each other tightly until they felt solid ground under their feet and their senses gradually returning. When they could see and hear again they saw the whole group of legendary Digidestined in front of them. Then they heard Ken speak Ryo's name in shock, and when he felt his voice return he answered, "Hey Ken, it's been a long time."

Takato watched his idol, Tai Kamiya, walk up to him. Tai grinned and placed a finger on Takato's goggles.

Then Takato heard him say, "Hey kid, nice goggles."

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A Whistle to Wake You

Chapter 5: Introductions

Tai looked at the kid and saw that he was totally shocked. The kid then stammered "You… You're Tai Kamiya!"

Tai raised an eyebrow and said "Yeah, but who are you?"

"Me? Oh! Yeah, I'm Takato Matsuki" Takato stammered "I'm a huge fan!"

"Fan?" Tai laughed slightly "I know I'm a great soccer player, but a fan?"

"Yeah most of us are fans on some level, take Kazu and Kenta, for example" Takato said as he turned to see his friends on their knees screaming "We're not worthy!!!"

Off to the side Matt asked Henry "Are they always like that?"

Henry sighed and said "Just about as long as I've known them."

"So how do you know of us" Tai asked

"In the world I came from, your adventures were told on a Saturday morning cartoon." Takato said

Tai was surprised by this, but weirder things have happened, so he didn't react as much as someone else would have. Tai saw how Henry seemed to act just as "cool" as Matt did and chuckled "So I can gather who the two on the ground like, but what about the three girls?" Tai asked

"Well Suzi likes Mimi, I think she thinks Mimi's a princess or something" Takato said

"Recipe for disaster" Tai remarked

Takato laughed and then continued "Jeri's a huge Leomon fan and Rika… well you didn't hear this from me, but I think she admires Sora."

Tai looked from his girlfriend to Takato's and said, "I can see most of your friends acting like their favorite Digidestined. But Rika seems so… frosty, and Sora is a really warm caring individual."

"Rika is too, she's just not that good at showing it. But we've been working on that together." Takato said

"Ah, so you are her are…" Tai said

"Yeah, we're dating. What about you and Sora?" Takato asked

"Yeah we're dating, was that in the show too?" Tai asked

"No, but Rika pointed out to me how much chemistry you two had" Takato said

"Is that so…" Tai said.

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A Whistle to Wake you

Chapter Five: The DigiDate

Tai woke up on another great day in the new world. The sun was shining. The air was clean, and it looked like it was going to be a great day. To Tai it seemed that since the world was reunited, things had been great. Tai got up and got ready for the day, it was going to be interesting.

Takato woke up in his new room, because of the new sized world, and the many more people living there, the Matsuki bakery had really taken off. They had moved to a new shop in the Odaiba District, and things had never been better for the family. Rika and her family had moved too, she now lived in a fantastic apartment in, quite to Rika's pleasure, the Odaiba District. The two were planning to meet up with Tai and Sora that say for a big group date. They had been hanging out with the now legendary teens for the past couple of months and Tai had suggested this about a week ago, it took all of Takato's self control to not answer right away, and instead ask Rika first. Even though they had been hanging out for quite some time, Takato was still having a bit of trouble getting past his idolization of Tai.

On his way out, Takato grabbed some bread and other things he had promised to take to the beach. Guilmon was less happy at what the day would hold for him. He would be spending the day with all the other Digimon whose partners were otherwise occupied for the day. They were going to the Digital World with all of the Digidestined that weren't going on the date, specifically Mimi, Joe, Cody, Davis, Ryo, Henry, and Suzie. (Kazu and Kenta were grounded for getting "F"s in math class.)

Takato arrived at the beach just as Tai and Sora did. Rika was already there and had put down her towel and laid down on it. Takato stabbed an umbrella into the ground while Tai and Sora did the same a few feet away. Before long the other couples arrived, TK with Kari, Matt with Jun, Izzy with his new girlfriend Motoko, and finally Yolei with Ken. After everyone was set up Matt, Ken, and Tai went over to three grills that were located on the grass a few feet away and began to make hot dogs and hamburgers as Takato sliced his bread to act as buns for the various things being grilled. Everyone sat happily and talked about various subjects, some people went swimming, but a good time was had by all. Matt and Tai finished cooking at about the same time and both ran over with the food, upon reaching the table Takato had left the bread at they both quickly fixed themselves a hamburger and grabbed a drink. They raced to be the first to finish their meal and the first one to slam down their empty soda can, would be the winner. No one else seemed to know they were competing.

Slam! Slam!

"Yes!" Tai cheered

"Damn!" Matt cursed, then sighed "A deal is a deal, I'll go clean up the charcoal"

Tai strutted back to his umbrella with Sora giving him an odd look.

"Don't tell me you and Matt had an eating contest to see who would clean up…" Sora said

"Yeah, why?" Tai asked

Sora shook her head and said "No reason Tai."

"Davis would have congratulated me…" Tai mumbled.

Meanwhile Takato and Rika were laying together in the shade. Takato had his eyes closed and his arm wrapped around Rika who was lying against him. His eyes were closed because he was feeling a little star struck, he was, after all, surrounded by his childhood heroes. Not only that, but he had the world famous Digimon Queen snuggled in him arms. It was almost too much.

"You haven't said much goggle head, afraid you'll say something stupid and the other goggle head will think you're an idiot?" Rika said playfully.

"I don't care what Tai thinks, I don't want you to think I'm an idiot." Takato said, feeling that (for once) he had said the right thing at the right time.

This though was decimated when he head Rika say "You liar. You do too care what he thinks" They shared a laugh and snuggled closer.

Everyone's good mood was cut short when they heard Yolei scream "I hate you Ken Ichijouji!" and run away with tears in her eyes while Ken turned away and left the party without a word.

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DT: Gasp! Yolei and Ken in a huge fight? But they are supposed to get married! Oh wait, the tamers weren't in the so many years after part, so that change caused many others. Don't get me wrong, I still think Ken/Yolei is the real coupling, but I don't think it's as much fun as what I have in store. So I'm sorry this installment took so long, but I was having a hard time finding the proper mood and inspiration to work on it, and I hope it was worth the wait. So, I don't own Digimon, but that won't stop me from writing fan fiction about it all the time! Next time: The Goggles and the Hat… Again?