Holiday- Chapter 2: Ahead of Schedule

madjack89: Hey everybody! I got some positive reviews so, as promised, I'll continue this story!

Takuya: Madjack, what the heck is this?

madjack89: Oh, hi Taki! What're you doing here?

Takuya: I noticed you made another story about us, and I also noticed that this never happened!

madjack89: It's called an imagination, Takuya.

Takuya: Well you're making me sound stupid!

madjack89: …Too easy.

Takuya: Grrrrr…

madjack89: Alright, time to answer reviews and get on with chapter two!

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agoodcupoftea: Thanks, I'm glad you like it!

JewelledTears: …Dang it, you're right! But I suppose I'll get my chance once we get rid of this pesky car (lol)! And there is a specific reason why Taki flipped out that you'll find out about momentarily. Thanks for reviewing! (And I can't wait for Dai either!)

greywindfalcon: Aw, I think you're writing is good, especially compared to other writing I've seen on this site (not talking about anyone in specific, but you know what I mean). Thanks!

hazeleyedharmony: Oh, I wouldn't KILL anyone (heh heh). I'm glad you think this is worth reading (I've read some bad stories dealing with this too)! Anyway, I'm glad you liked the video, and the Invader Zim part (lol)! Thanks for the review!

Kayland Elric: Well, I landed in the story before Ilsemon sent her little Digimon in but after Kouji's little issue was brought to light, if that makes sense. In fact, I'll make it the day before the twin's birthday so I can crash…I mean, go to their party (mua ha ha…)! But, since this time period wasn't really explained much in F2HF, I'm just gonna create a new plot! Hope that answers your question, and thank you!

Aldamonburst: Oh, I'm flattered! And if you want to write a fanfic like this, then go for it! I'd definitely read it! Kay, thanks for reviewing!

GoldenDragon326: Oh, I'm glad you think this is interesting! And this is with Home Frontier, so I'm not going to the Digital World (aw). But anyway, thanks for reviewing!

Jaeda star: Ha, I should be taking notes (and JP's chocolate)! lol Anyway, glad you like it and I'll try to be fairly quick with updating this, okay? Okay, thanks!

fg1fg: I love grapes! And hm, that's an interesting proposition, but I'm not what you'd call the "fighting type." I'm more of the "you guys go ahead and fight; I'll cheer you on" type (lol)! Anyway, I hope I can do a good job on this for you! Thanks!

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madjack89: Alright, now that that's done, time for chapter two of Holiday!

Takuya: Madjack, the disclaimer!

madjack89: Oh right! Thanks Taki!

Takuya: You owe me one.

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon! If I did, do you really think I'd be writing fanfiction? (lol)

I stared at Takuya for a moment, trying to figure out what he meant. What did I do to him? I think I just saved his sorry butt, along with mine!

I was about to tell him this when I heard car wheels screeching. Takuya and I turned our heads and realized that the black car was speeding toward us yet again, and this time it was too close to dodge.

With nothing left to do, I did the only thing I could think of at the moment. I closed my eyes and screamed. Pretty pathetic, huh? But, in my defense, Taki didn't do anything to save us either.

Actually, what stopped my screaming, and the car, was a cry of "Howling Laser!"

Howling Laser? I thought for a moment, trying to remember whose attack that was. As I slowly opened my eyes, I saw both Lobomon and Lowemon standing protectively in front of me and Taki, Lobomon's little arm gun thingy smoking.

"Oh, that's right! It was Lobomon's attack!" I said entirely too loud, so that even Lobomon and Lowemon turned and stared at me like I was crazy. "Uh..." I muttered, feeling uncomfortable.

I glanced beyond the two Digimon in front of me and saw that Lobomon had stopped the car by aiming his attack at one of the wheels, pretty much disintegrating it beyond repair. I expected a random person to hop out of the car and come at us with a gun or something, but instead I saw something worse.

Lobomon and Lowemon tensed as the window to the driver's side (Japanese driver's side, naturally) was rolled down, but they relaxed when they saw a small black cat hop out of the car and take off down the street.

"Okay? Where's the driver?" Lobomon asked rhetorically after a few moments.

I watched as Lowemon cautiously approached the car, crouching down and peering through the windows for any sign of the driver.

But I knew they wouldn't find a driver, because he/she/it had already left. The he/she/it I am referring to was obviously Hallucimon, the shape-shifting Digimon I had created specifically for my fanfiction. That's when something occurred to me. I wasn't just in Digimon Frontier, I was in my fanfiction about Digimon Frontier.

"Oh my god, this is the best day ever!" I exclaimed, once again, entirely too loud. The guys, once again, stared at me like I was insane. Maybe I was, but at this point I was way too excited to care. After all, I wouldn't just be meeting the original gang; I'd be meeting my OCs too! Woot!

"What the hell is with you?" Takuya's slightly annoyed voice cut through the cloud I'd been floating on. And who knows, I could have been literally floating on a cloud. After all, this is anime we're dealing with!

But, to get back to the story, I felt slightly stung by the tone of Taki's voice. I couldn't believe that, of all people, I had managed to tick him off first, and I didn't even know how I'd done it!

"Um, what happened here, guys?" Suddenly the twins walked up to us, trying to look like they didn't know what had just occurred for my sake.

Throwing caution to the wind, I replied flatly, "Guys, I already know that you guys have the spirits of the ten legendary warriors and just used them to stop that car over there."

I smirked when I saw the guys' eyes grow really wide, like, anime wide (you know what I mean). "What are…?" Kouichi began, but I cut him off by lifting my hand.

"Kouichi Kimura: age twelve. Legendary warrior of darkness. Name of said warrior: Lowemon. Name of Beast Spirit: JagerLowemon. When you were following your brother, Kouji Minamoto, in the subway because you wanted to meet him because you were separated at birth and you went with your mom and Kouji went with your dad, you fell down a flight of stairs. When you awoke, you were in the Digital World. There, you were given the corrupted spirit of darkness, Duskmon, by Cherubimon. Taken over by the spirit, you attacked Kouji several times before he and Takuya Kanbara managed to purify you. Then you managed, in turn, to purify your spirits, thereby gaining a D-Tector and your current spirits. However, you were told later, by Crusadermon, that you were merely a spirit in the Digital World. You were troubled by this for the duration of your time in the Digital World, up to the point where you sacrificed yourself in the final battle with Lucemon in order to save the other legendary warrior children, giving your spirits to your brother, Kouji. After they defeated Lucemon, they found out, from Lowemon, that you were still alive. They then rushed to the hospital, where they found you in a coma and managed to revive you with love or something like that. Oh, and you're going out with Zoe Orimoto. Kudos, man!"

Okay, if they were surprised before, then they weren't showing it very well, because now their mouths were hanging open and everything. Just to mess with them more, I said, "Anybody else want me to summarize their life in one large paragraph?"

They still didn't say anything to me. Instead, Kouji lifted his cell phone, pushed a few buttons, and waited for the person he was calling to pick up. When they did, he said, "JP, I think we have a situation here. Call everyone and tell them to meet at Takuya's…"

"Oh, we're seriously going into your house, Taki? That's awesome!" I exclaimed happily, thinking I might as well show the level of my excitement at this point.

"…house," Kouji finished, staring at me incredulously.

A few minutes later, I was sitting at Taki's kitchen table, slurping down my second juice box. Dang was I thirsty!

The guys were sitting opposite me, staring at me like I was some sort of weird alien or something. I stared back at them, trying to analyze what they could be thinking.

Hm…Kouji's probably trying to come up with some logical explanation for me knowing all that I know, along with wondering over my sudden appearance. I bet I shook Kouichi a little with the whole summarizing his past thing, so that's probably all he can think about. Sorry Chief! But as for Taki…

"Uh, Takuya, may I ask you something while we wait for everyone else to get here?" I asked, trying to sound humble so he would humor me.

He continued glaring (rudely) at me for another minute or so before finally saying, "Shoot."

"Okay, why did you freak out at me? I mean, before I let you guys in on how much I know?" I asked, glaring right back at him.

"As if you don't know," I heard him mumble under his breath.

"I don't know!" I countered, beginning to get really ticked off. Wasn't Kouji supposed to be the rude one in this group?

Suddenly Takuya's expression changed from one of barely contained suspicion to confusion. "You really don't know what you did?" he asked, cocking his head in a way I would have thought was kind of cute had I not been so annoyed with him.

"What I did? How can I know what I did when I didn't do anything?" I retorted, crossing my arms defiantly. I can be pretty stubborn when I wanna be.

"Takuya, she kind of has a point," Kouichi said quickly, trying to break up what might have been a fight.

"Yeah," Kouji agreed, to my slight shock. "She may be a little mysterious and definitely weird (Well excuse me, Mr. Light Saber!) but she hasn't really done anything to make us distrust her. At least not yet she hasn't."

"Exactly," I said, giving Taki a cocky little grin (I'm so evil).

Takuya sighed, resting his forehead on his hand. Dang it, what had I done to get him this ticked off?

"Guys, I think we have a worse situation on our hands than we realized," Takuya said slowly, glancing at both the twins. "This girl…I think she can make us do things. Like, command us to do things, and we have to do them."

"What?" the twins and I said at the exact same time, staring quizzically at Taki.

"Um, you," Takuya said, pointing at me. I then realized I hadn't given the guys a name to call me. Let's see, Madjack is a handle and it would sound weird, so…

"Maddie," I said, correcting Taki.

"Okay, Maddie," he said, continuing his sentence, "You remember when you told me to get us both out of the way of that car?"

I nodded, completely unaware of where this was going. "You had your whole little deer in the headlights thing going."

"Yeah," Takuya muttered, glaring at Kouji when he snickered. "Hey, I didn't see you guys rushing in to help!" Taki snapped at Kouji angrily. (Oh boy, a real live Taki-Kouji fight!)

"Because something grabbed us from behind," Kouji retorted. "Kouichi and I managed to Spirit Evolve and scared whatever had grabbed us away. Then we came and rescued the damsels in distress." (Harsh.)

Takuya was pretty much boiling with fury at this point, so Kouichi had to take over the conversation. "Can you really do what Takuya says you can do? I mean, force us to do things?" he asked me slightly nervously.

"Oh my gosh." Now I finally got it. I could force them to do things. I had made Taki save me and him from the car. I thought I had just snapped him out of a stupor, but I could actually command these guys to do anything, and they would obey. And I even knew why this was.

"I'm the author," I said to myself, realizing too late that the guys could hear me.

"You're the what?" Kouji asked me.

"Um…" I was at a loss for words. If I told them that they were just anime characters in a fanfiction I wrote, they'd probably have some existential crisis or something. I had to play this cool and think of something else to say.

Before I could say anything, though, Taki said, "Whoever she is, she has some serious power if she's able to control us."

"No kidding," Kouji agreed, turning his attention away from me. Looked like Taki bought me some more time to think of an alibi. Good going, Taki!

But this was quite an interesting predicament, I thought as the guys continued to talk amongst themselves. I had somehow been inserted into my story, yet I hadn't been inserted as a mere character. I was still the author of the story, and I could still influence events in the story, which reminded me…

"Hey, Kouichi," I said suddenly, getting back the guys' attention.

"Uh, what is it?" Kouichi asked, staring warily at me.

"Chief, I'm not gonna use my power to make YOU do anything, at the least," I said, trying to get him to trust me a little.

"How did you know…never mind," he said, quickly changing his mind. I assumed he was going to ask me how I knew his nickname but thought twice about it. "So, what do you want?"

"Okay, you definitely are going out with Zoe, right?" I asked, trying to discern exactly want time I had landed in the story.

"Um, yeah," he replied, blushing slightly. Man, he can be so cute sometimes!

"Does the name Seiko mean anything to you?" I continued, deciding I'd go out on a limb.

As I expected, Kouji's face paled and he looked stung by the mention of Seiko's name. But I got my answer when I saw Takuya and Kouichi give Kouji sympathetic looks. Okay, so this was after Wizardmon left with Gatomon.

"Uh, Maddie, that's kind of a touchy subject, and I'm guessing you know what I mean by that," Kouichi said, somehow managing to admonish me in a nice way.

"Sorry," I said, glancing guiltily at Kouji. "One more question, okay? Is your birthday, and Kouji's birthday, coming up soon?"

"Yeah, it's tomorrow," Kouichi replied. "February 24."

"I see," I muttered thoughtfully. Alright, I was here in the period of time before the final arc of F2HF. They'd just gone through the whole Kouji ordeal and the twins were having a (surprise) birthday party tomorrow.

That I would have to crash, I mean, attend! Heh heh heh…

Suddenly there was a knock at Taki's front door. "Good, maybe the others can help us get some answers out of you," Taki muttered as he strode past me to open up his door. Oh boy, I was gonna meet someone else! Please let it be Dai, please let it be Dai, please…

Taki opened the door, but it didn't reveal the little sugar-crazed maniac we all know and love. It wasn't even one of the gang. It was someone who was arriving ahead of schedule in the story, which ticked me off!

"Excuse me, but I'm looking for a Madjack89. You wouldn't happen to know where she is, would you?" asked the Digimon standing at the door.

Dang it, he ruined everything by showing up now! I watched as Takuya took a few steps back, saying, "There's no way…"

Kouji tensed, glaring angrily at the Digimon standing at the door. Kouichi just looked…well, it's hard to explain the look he had on his face.

I groaned, turning back to glare at the Digimon. "What do you want, Duskmon?"

madjack89: Okay, here's your chapter two! Happy now?

Takuya:

madjack89: Just kidding, guys! So, how was this chapter, anyway?

Takuya: …We are in trouble, is all I can say. Whether that's more from you or from Duskmon is hard to say.

madjack89: Tee hee!

Takuya: *sigh* Alright, see you in the third chapter, I guess!