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Ok, so this is a shorter chapter and I'm not very proud of it. I don't think it's that well written... but these intro chapters aren't necessarily the most important to the story. For anyone that cares, I think I might be able to extend this series into a 3-part series, but that all depends on how I want to end this particular story and if I feel like writing another story in this 'Lost Hope' Series. Anyways, that's just me rambling on. Let me know what you think of the story, chapter, my writing, etc. in a review please! Also favoriting and following and all that stuff is much enjoyed. Plus, I highly encourage anyone who likes digimon fanfics to read my other current story "One Week" because that one hasn't been getting too much popularity and I would like to see what you all think about it... But it's not like you have to, it's just author advertising per say. Well, enjoy this chapter as much as you can!
Chapter 2:
Running through Odaiba in the middle of the night knowing his digimon partner was in trouble was not his idea of fun at all. He wasn't used to Gomamon being in trouble anymore because there hadn't been anything harming the Digital World for quite some time now. Sure there were a couple of rogue digimon like Cerberumon before, but that only happened maybe once a month and they never received distress calls because their digimon had always been able to digivolve and defeat the digimon. But today there had been three distress calls. One was Patamon's, and he had seen Patamon's wounds with his own eyes; they were not good! Now his and Sora's digivices were receiving distress calls. Something was obviously going on, and he couldn't stop himself from thinking the worst had happened to Gomamon.
As they kept on running he couldn't keep himself from getting mad at Izzy. That kid always had his laptop on him all the time, but when they actually needed to use it to get to the Digital World he didn't have it. Gomamon could be under attack right now, and he wouldn't be able to live with himself if he ever lost his digimon.
He and Sora were running side-by-side in front of the others. Clearly she was just as worried about Biyomon as he was of Gomamon. The other original digidestineds were following them… and Michael. Why was he here again? Oh, that's right, he was Mimi's friend.
He often wondered what was going on between those two. Michael definitely seemed like he was into Mimi. What, with the way he put his arm around her all the time, never left her side; he was really annoying if you were someone who also may be into Mimi.
Izzy had also seemed as frustrated with Michael as he had. It was no secret to any of them- except for maybe Mimi he supposed- that both he and Izzy liked Mimi. At first when they found out they both liked Mimi they had been mad at each other. They didn't even talk to each other for three months! That was over with now, and they both came to accept the fact that there was going to be competition. They actually decided to make a little game of it; whoever got the balls- as Tai and Matt liked to say- to ask Mimi out first could have her to themselves without the other interfering. Neither of them was very outgoing, though, so even after four years of liking Mimi none of them had asked Mimi out or let her know what they thought of her. He always reasoned that he was too busy with school to have a girlfriend while Izzy just said he was waiting for the right moment. Well, it seemed like both of them had waited too long because Mimi seemed pretty happy with Michael, but he still held on to the hope that they weren't dating. No one ever asked if the two of them were dating…
After what seemed like forever- he wasn't much into the whole running thing- they finally were at Izzy's apartment. They entered the building, climbed up the stairs, and Izzy got the spare key under the welcome mat and opened up the apartment. They walked into the apartment and he heard Izzy's mom call out, "Izzy? Is that you?"
"Yeah mom, I'm home, and I brought guests," Izzy replied.
"Guests?" asked, shocked. "Do you want me to…?"
"No mom, we'll just be in my room," Izzy said cutting off his mother.
"Alright, but if you…" continued, but he stopped listening to her as he followed Izzy and Sora to Izzy's room. The seven of them fit into the tiny room surprisingly and Izzy sat down on his desk turning on his laptop.
"Why didn't you have your laptop on you, Izzy?" Sora asked sounding frustrated.
"I told you it had to charge!" Izzy said just as frustrated.
Tai asked, "Could you hurry it up Izzy?"
"I cannot control the computer's speed Tai!" he yelled.
Tai's face twisted with anger as he yelled back, "I was just asking! No need to bite my head off!"
"Tai, we don't need to fight," Matt tried to reason, but Tai just turned on Matt instead.
"No one asked you blondie!" Tai retorted.
Now it was Matt's turn to get angry. He was about to yell back and maybe even attack Tai when Izzy shouted out, "Guys stop it! We're good to go!"
He turned his attention to Izzy who had the digi-port open on his screen. Luckily Tai and Matt stopped their bickering and turned to listen to Izzy as well.
"It appears Biyomon's and Gomamon's distress calls came from two different parts of the Digital World but they are very far apart. One is on Server close to Digitamamon's restaurant while the other is near the Yokomon village," Izzy said.
"Well the latter has to be Biyomon's! I got to go now!" Sora said.
"Just hold on a second; I don't even have the portal fully set up yet!" Izzy quickly added before Sora could get out her digivice.
"Are you saying we have to split up?" he asked Izzy who turned to him and nodded.
"Sora is probably right," he started, "Biyomon would most likely be near Yokomon village and Digitamamon's restaurant is close to some water which is why Gomamon would be there."
Sora spoke up, "Well I'm obviously going to get Biyomon!"
"Me too!" Tai said just as Matt added, "I'm with you." The two of them glared at each other- seriously what was up with them, they were best friends weren't they? – But Izzy continued before they could yell at each other.
"Ok, so Sora, Tai, and Matt will go get Biyomon. That leaves Joe, Mimi, Michael, and myself to go find Gomamon. That's as even as we're going to get so I say we pursue our course of action with these groups. We will meet back here after we save Biyomon and Gomamon. Sound like a plan?" Izzy asked.
Tai nodded, "Let's go."
Izzy typed on his keyboard a little bit before turning to Sora and nodded. Sora then called out "Digi-port open!" and a bright white light surrounded her, Tai, and Matt and they were sucked into the Digital World. Once they were gone Izzy typed a little more before saying, "Ok, let's go!"
"Digi-port open!" he yelled before they could waste any more time. And with that the white light returned and he was on his way to go rescue his digimon partner.
She was dumped to the ground and heard a grunt coming from her side where someone else had landed next to her. She shook her head to regain herself and went to get up to her feet when someone grabbed her arm.
"Let me help you Sora," a voice said as she was pulled up to her feet. She recognized the voice as Matt's.
"Thanks Matt," she said as she brushed the dust off of her jeans. She heard Tai practically growl at Matt and sent him a glare. Matt stuck his tongue out at Tai making the goggle-heads face turn red from anger.
Seriously, she was with two of the most immature people ever. Tai and Matt were both best friends, but there was no getting rid of the rivalry that existed between the two of them. She could handle the little bit of rivalry as long as the two of them were best friends.
She had remembered three years ago when Matt and her boyfriend were as distant as she was to, say, Cody; they both knew who each other was, but that was it. It was weird because before then the two had been inseparable, but Matt had gone through some rough times with the loss of his mother and the whole TK thing. Tai hadn't really been much of a friend to Matt during that time, but the two had finally made up and everything was back to being normal. Well, almost normal; it wasn't an everyday occurrence to receive three distress calls from their partners in the same day.
She looked around the part of the Digital World she was in- while Tai and Matt both greeted their digimon partners- and instantly knew where she was. This was the Yokomon village, or at least it had been the Yokomon village. All of the tiny huts were shattered to pieces and there were no Yokomon around. She looked around for what could have caused the attack, but her eyes instantly froze on a life-less pink bird digimon who was lying in the sand a couple of feet in front of her. She didn't wait a second to start charging at her partner.
"Sora watch out!" Tai called out towards her. She ignored her boyfriend, but then was tackled to the ground as a voice she didn't recognize called out, "Ninja Blade!"
Her back hit the ground hard, but luckily it was just sand. She looked up and saw Tai on top of her. She quickly pecked the boy on his cheek and muttered, "Thanks Tai!" causing him to blush and look embarrassed, but then he shook his head and got up to his feet. He pulled her up to his feet and she looked to see who their attacker was.
The digimon looked intimidating, and she had seen some pretty intimidating digimon in her lifetime. This digimon had to be about seven or eight feet tall and was wearing red shoulder guards and helmet that had a crazy, yellow design on the top of it. The digimon also had long purple hair and was holding a huge sword in its right hand. She didn't remember ever seeing this digimon before…
"That's Musyamon! We better watch out," Agumon spoke up.
"Matt, you should have Gabumon digivolve," Tai said, his voice hinting at the fear the goggle-head was feeling right about now.
"Right," Matt said pulling out his digivice, "Gabumon digi…"
Matt was cut off by another voice she hadn't heard before. This voice was raspy and sounded like it was more of a howl than an attack, "Snipe Steal!"
She turned towards Matt who was looking at where his digivice had been in his hand in confusion. Then she saw a red blur going off towards the woods that was nearby the village.
"That creep just stole my digivice!" Matt shouted out in frustration as he started running after the digimon. Musyamon ran off towards Matt.
"What digimon was that?" she asked to no one in particular. Even if she would have got a good look at the digimon running away she wouldn't have recognized him.
"That one was Fangmon," Agumon answered for her.
"Agumon, you know what to do!" Tai said looking at his yellow-dinosaur partner. Agumon nodded in return before he started glowing. He changed forms first to Greymon and then to MetalGreymon. MetalGreymon quickly took to the air to chase the scary-looking digimon who was chasing Matt and Gabumon who were both chasing the incredibly fast red-blur of a digimon.
"Come on Sora," Tai said motioning for her to follow him so that they could chase after MetalGreymon who was chasing after…. Agh, it was too confusing. She quickly ran over to Biyomon and picked her digimon up in her arms before running off with Tai towards MetalGreymon who was already in battle with the samurai digimon. MetalGreymon was able to wield off the other digimon's attacks easily enough and was about to launch missiles from his breasts- which was a weird place for missiles to come from she though, but maybe it was just her- when she heard another unknown voice call out, "Megaton Hammer Crush!"
She looked over to her right to see a huge green dragon-like digimon charging towards MetalGreymon. The digimon had four legs and on its back were two huge arms that were clawed. The digimon also had a tail with a silver, spiked sphere attached at the end. The end of the digimon's tail reminded her of a landmine that was used underwater- though those probably weren't called landmines; more likely water mines or something else of the sort.
The green dragon digimon jumped and lashed its tail towards the unsuspecting MetalGreymon who was hit by the tail and was launched through the air. MetalGreymon hit the ground hard and was about to get up when the dragon ran surprisingly quickly over to him before he could get back up.
"Scrapless Claw!" the dragon shouted out. She watched as the digimon's two arms picked up MetalGreymon and started pushing together, crushing MetalGreymon who was struggling to get free but to no avail.
"MetalGreymon!" Tai called out, but she held his boyfriend's hand to hold him back; she didn't need him to go doing something stupid and getting himself hurt.
"Shogun Sword!" Musyamon yelled out his attack. The digimon's sword suddenly spurt out flames that formed a ghost-dragon-like image. The swordsman ran towards MetalGreymon and slashed his sword causing the fire-ghost-dragon to leave the blade of the sword and hit MetalGreymon. MetalGreymon cried out in pain and Tai pulled free from her grasp.
"MetalGreymon!" he called out, running to his partner. Then his digivice and crest both started glowing as well as MetalGreymon. She watched as MetalGreymon changed forms to WarGreymon, a smaller but much more powerful form for Agumon. The dragon digimon continued to try to squish WarGreymon, but WarGreymon was much stronger than the other digimon. WarGreymon pushed the digimon's huge arms away and flew up into the air. He reached his arms above his head as a huge ball of fire formed.
"Terra Force!" WarGreymon shouted out as he released his attack at the dragon digimon and the samurai digimon. The fireball exploded on impact causing smoke to form all over, disabling her sight. When she finally could see again she saw that both the dragon digimon and the digimon with the sword were no longer there anymore. Tai had stopped running to the middle of the battle and looked very relieved, but WarGreymon looked like he was about to pass out from exhaustion. The mega digimon held his current form, however, and flew over towards Tai, picking him up. Then WarGreymon flew over to her- still holding Biyomon close to her- and picked her up as well.
"Which digimon was the green dragon?" she asked WarGreymon.
"Groundramon," he replied between pants.
"We need to find Matt, WarGreymon," Tai said as WarGreymon flew in the direction Matt had run off to chase after the red blur digimon, Fangmon. She looked around to see if she could see Matt, but he was nowhere to be seen so he must have gone into the forest.
"Gabumon!" a voice, clearly Matt's, called out loudly. WarGreymon instantly altered his flight pattern to head off in the direction Matt's voice came from. They came to a clearing in the forest and saw Gabumon on the ground, struggling to get back up to his feet. Matt was on his knees next to his partner looking up at what she guessed was Fangmon.
This digimon gave her the creeps even more so than Groundramon or even Musyamon. Fangmon was a wolf and had a long snout. The digimon's mouth was opened revealing many sharp, white teeth. The digimon's fur was red and his four legs were covered in black leather. The digimon's claws were purple, and its tail was mixed with red and white fur.
WarGreymon set her and Tai down on the ground before lunging towards the wolf digimon. Fangmon was extremely fast, though, and was able to avoid the attack.
"Blast Coffin!" Fangmon called out with his raspy, wolf-like voice, but WarGreymon quickly lunged again towards the digimon.
"Mega Claw!" WarGreymon shouted as he extended his sharp claw at the wolf digimon. Fangmon launched black flames at WarGreymon, but WarGreymon's claw was able to pierce through the attack. She watched as WarGreymon's talons stabbed through the wolf digimon who instantly dispersed into millions of pieces of data.
WarGreymon de-digivolved into Koromon, and Tai ran over to pick up his partner. As she- still holding onto an unconscious Biyomon- stood there watching Matt- who was helping Gabumon stand up- and Tai, all she could think to say was, "Woah."
After travelling to and from the Digital World so many times, one would assume that the world-travelling became sort of like a routine. Try telling that to his stomach. He hated travelling between worlds; he always felt sick afterwards and he didn't necessarily enjoy feeling like he was being sucked down into a toilet. At least it was over now.
Once he got to his feet he quickly scanned the area. Mimi, Joe… and Michael were all there- seriously, who did that guy think he was for trying to steal Mimi away. If he wanted anyone to be with Mimi- excluding himself- it would've been Joe, but not this blonde, American freak. Maybe he was judging Michael a little harshly and partially out of jealousy. Ok, maybe it all was because he was jealous of Michael, but he couldn't stop himself. It just wasn't fair that Mimi had run off to America leaving him basically no opportunity to commence the whole dating process.
As he continued to look around, he saw an ocean- or maybe it was a lake, he couldn't be sure which it actually was. He turned back around and saw Digitamamon's restaurant sitting up above them, but it was… on fire? He heard something whiz by from above and watched as the missile exploded upon hitting the restaurant. He looked to see if he could identify their attackers and he spotted a digimon that looked a lot like Tankmon. This digimon was pure machine and was covered all over in armor except for his torso and upper arms which were blue in color and showed defined muscles. There were two canons over the digimon's shoulders along with two other firearm devices on the outside of the canons.
"What kind of digimon is that?" Mimi asked, pointing up to where the tank digimon was at. He wanted to scold her for asking her question so loudly, but if the digimon had heard her he didn't seem to care too much. He kept rolling on his tank treads towards the restaurant.
"Gomamon!" he heard Joe gasp from behind him. He turned around and spotted the little white seal lying on the ground a little ways away from the television. At first glance the digimon seemed alright- save for the unconsciousness part- but then he spotted a red area on the digimon's fur. He was about to run over to check on Gomamon with Joe, but then he heard a familiar high-pitched voice call out his name.
"Izzy! Izzy!" a voice- no doubt his partner's- called out loudly. A couple of other voices joined in too.
"Mimi!" Palmon, unmistakably, yelled.
"Michael!" a new voice- it must have been Michael's partner, a Betamon.
They all turned towards the voices and he smiled at his partner.
"Tentomon!" he said happily.
"Now is not the time for 'hello's'" his digimon partner said much more seriously than the digimon usually was, "Tankdramon is attacking Digitamamon's restaurant! We need to stop him!"
He looked back up at the restaurant and saw most of the building was on fire. A big pillar of smoke was ascending from the restaurant.
"Right," he said, "Digivolve?"
Tentomon nodded before starting to glow a bright white. He covered his eyes until the bright light was gone, and when he was able to see again he saw Kabuterimon standing in front of him.
"Go get him Kabuterimon!" he ordered.
He watched as Kabuterimon flew up towards the restaurant. Michael's Betamon had also digivolved to his champion form, a Seadramon, and he watched as the sea-serpent digimon climbed up the ledge vertically. For a second he wondered how that was physically possible, but he passed off the thought. He also noticed Lillymon, Palmon's ultimate form, flying up to join Seadramon and Kabuterimon in battle.
Turning his attention away from the battle, he quickly moved over to Joe who was kneeling next to his unconscious partner. He went next to his friend and dropped to his knees as well as he inspected the marine digimon.
Gomamon looked as if nothing was wrong with him. There were no scratches or blood marks on the digimon, but then again the seal-digimon's fur had a tendency of hiding any injuries done to him. Despite looking 'ok' from the outside, he could tell that something was wrong with Gomamon. His breathing was very shallow and his entire body was shaking all over.
"Joe, what do you think is wrong with him?" he asked, looking over at Joe who looked as worried as a deer in headlights.
Joe shook his head, "I… I don't know. I can't tell what hurt him or how he got hurt. There's one mark, here…" at this he pointed to a tiny red mark on Gomamon that he hadn't seen before, "… that looks like a puncture wound, but the bleeding has stopped and I don't know what could be causing him to be like… this," Joe finished.
Izzy nodded his head. He didn't know what could've happened to Gomamon either, and- unless some of the other digimon had seen what happened- they would have to wait until Gomamon woke up before they could know for sure what happened.
Suddenly there was a loud thump and the ground started to shake. He quickly got up to his feet and looked over to where he thought he heard the noise and saw laying on the ground on his back trying to get up, but failing at doing so. When he realized it was hopeless, Tankdramon just decided on launching all of the missiles that he could.
"Striver Canon!" Tankdramon yelled out launching two mini-nukes at their partner digimon who were flying down towards him.
"Ice Blast!" Seadramon counterattacked sending his freezing breath at the two nukes. Even from the distance away that he was at, he could see a thick layer of ice surrounding the two nukes and they both instantly fell to the ground. For a split second he was afraid the nukes were going to explode, but the ice surrounding the bombs must have made the nukes in-explodable- which was really convenient he had to admit. He turned his attention back to their digimon who were now readying their attacks at Tankdramon.
"Electro Shocker!" he heard Kabuterimon yell out as he formed a purple ball of electricity in front of him and then released it.
"Ice Blast!" Seadramon hissed, using the same attack as he had used on the nukes.
"Flower Cannon!" Lillymon finished the attacks sending a blast of green energy towards Tankdramon from the flower canon she had formed.
The attacks combined as they flew at Tankdramon who was unable to move out of the way. The tank digimon tried to force the attack away by shooting at it while yelling out "Blast Gatling," but it was no use. The attack hit full power, and when the smoke cleared Tankdramon was gone.
Mimi cheered and he relaxed a little bit now that the battle was over, but then he heard something rise up out of the water. He was about to turn around to see what was going on when a voice bellowed, "Black Out!"
Instantly he started coughing as he and the others were surrounded by black smog. As his mind processed what was going on, he took in a deep breath and held it in. This smog was some sort of toxic and breathing in any more of it could prove fatal to him- and the others since they were in this smog as well; hopefully they were smart enough to hold their breath as well.
Just when he thought he couldn't hold his breath for any longer, the smog finally cleared up and he started gasping for air. He could hear the others strangled attempts at taking in fresh air as well, which was good since it meant they were all alive.
As he looked around he noticed all of their digimon partners were now in their rookie forms and were too tired to continue fighting. This was not good, he realized, as his eyes set upon their new attacker.
The digimon who was now standing in front of them was a scorpion digimon- kind of like Scorpiomon- except for the fact that the digimon stood on two legs and was completely made out of bones. The digimon's pincer looked extremely sharp and dangerous, and he also looked like he'd enjoy stabbing each of them multiple times with his tail- which didn't sound particularly fun, but that could just be him.
The skull scorpion digimon walked right up to him and glared down at him. The digimon started clicking its claws and hissed at him. He wondered what the digimon was doing, but then a sense of dread overwhelmed him as he realized the digimon was laughing at him.
"Poison Pierce!" the skull scorpion hissed. He watched the tail fly at him at an extremely high speed and he closed his eyes, bracing himself for the attack.
Suddenly he was hit on his side by something. The momentum caused him to fall to his side and he felt something, or someone, land on top of him. Then he heard somewhat familiar voices call out, "Treasure Axe!" and "Rapid Fire!"
He faintly heard an explosion near him and he really wanted to get out of the way, but he was kind of stuck. TK was on top of him looking over at what must have been the battle going on. He watched the blonde start to smile and he could only hope that meant the scorpion digimon was destroyed. It was then that TK seemed to realize he had not gotten off of him, so the blonde quickly pushed himself up to his feet and TK offered him a hand to help him up.
"Is he gone?" he asked TK. The scorpion digimon was nowhere to be seen; Michael, Mimi and Joe were holding their partners in their arms; Willis was holding onto an unconscious, bandaged-up Patamon; and Rapidmon and Antylamon were both de-digivolving into their rookie forms.
"Yeah," TK nodded, "That was SkullScorpiomon- or at least that's what Terriermon said."
It just then dawned upon him that his life had just been saved, and he quickly said, "Thanks for saving my life TK!"
TK's face turned a little red and the blonde put his head on the back of his head. "Ah," TK said, "It was nothing."
After thanking TK, he ran over to where Tentomon was slowly trying to get up off of the ground.
"Tentomon," he said as he knelt next to his partner, "Are you alright?"
"I've had better days," Tentomon truthfully admitted.
At least it all was over, but now that all the excitement and danger were over with, he was left with the question as to why these digimon were acting like this. It wasn't unusual for a rogue digimon to attack a digimon village every once and a while, but to have three distress calls and at least three- even more depending on what happened to Sora, Tai, and Matt- rogue digimon all in the same day was not a normal occurrence. It could just be coincidence that all of this was happening, but to him it seemed very unlikely.
He could have spent the next twelve or more hours coming up with possible theories as to these rogue digimon, but his mind was too tired to think anymore.
After talking to TK and Willis- who had luckily been walking to a digital portal close to her to go back to America when they heard the explosions from Tankdramon- they all decided to head back to the real world. He wondered for a moment why TK was staying with Willis, but he instantly dismissed the thought because thinking about it would require energy and he didn't have much left for the day especially now that he had to carry Tentomon.
The portal they had entered from was somehow not destroyed by the previous battles, so they didn't have to walk far at all before they took out their digivices. Michael and Mimi had talked about the battle the whole way there and acted like they weren't tired at all. He then realized that the two were both used to America's time, not Japan's. He checked his watch and saw that it said the time was twelve thirty-four in the morning. If his math was right- which he didn't like to brag but it was ninety-nine point nine percent of the time- then that meant for them it was eleven thirty-four in the morning which also meant that they were a whole day behind Japan.
Mimi cheered out, "Digi-Port Open!" and the familiar white light surrounded and pulled them into the television screen. His stomach churned as he once again experience the "fun" of world-travelling. He just couldn't wait to get to bed and forget about all that had happened today.
