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And that's that :P on with the chapter!

Kevin Crier returned home later than he'd wanted.

He and his wife - Michelle - had gotten a call from Richard Sampson; the man said they're equipment at the police station had picked up some strange signals and that Yoshino Fujieda identified them as being related to Digimon or Digital Gates. When the pair arrived, most were there; Thomas Norstein, Sarah and Spencer Damon, Miki Kurosaki, Megumi Shirakawa, plus Yoshi and Richard of course. Kevin had double checked the signal and confirmed its Digimon relation; nobody was sure what had come through the Digital Gate as the computers at the station only had some of the programs that were included in the technology when DATS was running. Nobody was entirely sure on where it was either. The group had sat or stood around two monitors for about half an hour before the Digimon signal disappeared...

Michelle got out of their car once Kevin parked next to their home. She gasped at the state of the field in front of their house. There were scorch marks and dents in the dirt and grass, foam darts littered the area. The woman sprang to the door and ran into the house, Kevin closely following.

The house was in a much better state than the field, everything was tidy and out of the way, Kevin noticed an extra pair of boots in the entryway, mixed in with the three pairs from his children and Kristy. He also saw a shawl draped over one of the coat hangers along with his daughter's jacket, son's pullover and Kristy's sweater. The parents moved towards the living room and Michelle giggled quietly at the scene, the boots and shawl belonged to Relena Norstein who must've visited sometime whilst they were out. The blonde was curled up on the sofa in a long sleeved dress and knee high socks, Ruka was with her, clinging to the girl's arm as they slept. Her shirt had a small rip by the elbow and her shorts and socks looked quite muddy so Kevin figured they'd been playing outside – hopefully before or after whatever messed up the field showed up – a blanket was loosely over the pair and they shared one of the many pillows scattered around the room. Kristy's pink vest top caught his eye next; she was sprawled out on the floor snoring somewhat loudly, her limbs tangled in a thin pink blanket. The brunette's arm was covering Keenan's nose, the boy having slept quite close to her on a bed of pillows and stuffed animals and much like the girls, he hadn't changed and was sleeping in his white jeans and stripy t-shirt.

Nothing appeared out of the ordinary, the room was messy and their clothes were muddy sure, but it didn't look like anything had attacked other than exhaustion from running around (playing he hoped). His wife smiled at him, planting a small kiss on their children's foreheads and moving towards the hallway.

"I think the children have the best idea" she whispered "I'm going to bed, see you in the morning."

"See you in the morning, love" Kevin waved, watching the woman make her way to their room.

Suddenly, a quiet ringing sounded from the hallway. Kevin made his way toward it and found a phone buzzing away in Keenan's pullover pocket, he took it carefully and saw a picture of Thomas on the screen must be Relena's phone, guess she asked Keenan to put it in his pocket or something he accepted the call.

"Hello" he said.

"Mr Crier, is Relena with you? She isn't at home and she never mentioned anything about staying out this long" the young man's voice was laced with worry.

"Don't worry, Thomas, she's here, sleeping and safe."

There was a loud sigh of relief on the other end of the line "thank you. Could she stay there for tonight? I can pick her up in the morning."

"It's not a problem."

The call ended not long after that, Kevin returned the phone to his son's pocket and walked back into the living room. He smiled at the sleeping children once more before heading in the direction his wife went and settling down for some long awaited rest.

Kristy laughed tiredly; leaning back in the wooden chair she had situated herself on around the dining table. She, Ruka, Relena and Keenan were all having a breakfast the blonde Norstein prepared and it was currently going quite well, with the added company of the Digimon in their Digivices of course.

Keenan's parents were still in bed and, as far as the children knew, had no intention of going out. That left the four of them to plan their day through breakfast. It was painstakingly obvious that they were unable to really go many places to set their Digimon free to play; Kristy's parents would probably have a reaction similar to Keenan and Ruka's and want the Digimon sent home immediately, to be fair that would probably be Thomas' reaction as well so none of the kids could really go home.

The ring of the doorbell broke their discussion. Keenan got up to answer it, the girls with their hands hovering above the Digivices, ready to hide them if necessary.

"Thomas!" Keenan exclaimed, loud enough to alert the others but quiet enough to have just sounded surprised. He looked up at the older blonde with a small, sheepish smile

"Good morning, Keenan" the boy replied, "is Relena up?"

"Uh, yeah...?" the blunet replied, turning back towards the dining room, "we're all having breakfast" he paused for a moment, thinking and kicking the floor awkwardly, "do you wanna join us...?"

"Oh! Uh, why not?"

The younger of the two jogged back into the house as Thomas removed his shoes and hung up his blazer. Relena stood to meet her brother, slipping her Digivice into Keenan's pullover (which he'd put on again) pocket with her phone and his own Digivice, Kristy and Ruka hiding theirs underneath the blanket on the sofa.

"Thomas!" the blonde smiled, enveloping the taller boy in a tight hug, something he quickly returned.

"You worried me, Relena. Don't just disappear like that"

"I'm sorry, something came up and I was exhausted – since I was already here, I stayed over. I'll be sure to tell you next time"

"Good. So, are you ready to go home?"

Relena froze for a moment, thinking up some form of excuse before snapping her fingers, "actually, I was going to help Kristy and Keenan with some homework! Wasn't I guys?"

The two addressed nodded quickly, helping her lie.

"We were gonna go to the park" Keenan added.

"What kind of homework requires you to go to the park?" Thomas asked sceptically.

"Uh... Art! And um... English" Kristy answered, "I need to draw some of the trees and Keenan has to um..."

"Write about it! To practice my skills – still not good with my spellings and this is just some extra work to help." The boy wasn't completely lying – he'd just done that work the day he got it.

Thomas raised an eyebrow at the three teenagers before sighing, "Alright you can go. Just be home before dinner"

"Yes sir" Relena cheered, playfully saluting and getting a chuckle out of her brother.

"Okay, I'll be heading home now but keep your phone on in case I need to call you home early."

"Don't I always" the younger blonde giggled, waving her brother goodbye as he exited the house. After closing the front door, she turned back to the three people stood by the doorway, "we're going to the park then?"

Keenan shrugged, picking Ruka up off the floor as she smiled, "it might be our best option. We could probably find someplace there to hold meetings and let our Digimon run around."

Kristy ran back into the kitchen for a little under a minute before returning to her friends and pulling on her sweater and shoes, she handed Keenan hers and Ruka's Digivices (being the only one able to carry anything at the moment). "I've written up a note for your parents when they get up – they'll know where you are and we can bring Ruka along."

Keenan sighed, moving his sister to sit on his shoulders as he pulled on his sneakers and passed Ruka her jacket and shoes to put on. After everyone was sorted, they left the house and moved towards the garage.

"You ran all the way here, Relena, right?" Kristy asked, looking towards the blonde as Keenan put Ruka on the floor and opening up the big main door.

"Yeah" Relena blushed in embarrassment, rubbing the back of her head.

"You wanna borrow my bike?"

Ruka ran into the garage with her brother and pulled out her bike (that had stabilisers of course) as Keenan grabbed his and Kristy's bikes as well.

"O-Oh! I couldn't!"

"Its fine, I'll ride with Keenan – he'll be alright with it."

The siblings brought out their transport and looked towards the two girls. Ruka sat on her bike and cycled to the end of the driveway to wait for her brother and his friends.

"So, uh... Who's using what?" the blunette asked, climbing onto his bike and holding Kristy's out for either one of the girls to take.

Kristy took it and held it out for Relena. The blonde took it hesitantly and climbed on, making sure her dress covered her legs before cycling away to meet up with Ruka who waited for them with a bright smile. Keenan's bike had weird pipe-like things poking out of the sides of the back wheels (I have no idea how to describe those things – I really hope you know what I mean). Kristy firmly planted her feet on those pipes and held onto Keenan's shoulders as he pedalled to catch up with the girls.

"Are we gonna get to stretch our legs again?" Labramon asked hopefully, her voice coming out of Keenan's pocket.

"Yeah!" Ruka cheered happily.

"We'll find a place." Relena smiled.