A/N: I'm so sorry for the long absence again. This is probably going to become a habit, so please bear with me.

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon, nor the majority of the characters.

—2—

This was just not my day. I was roughly (I say roughly because I still haven't figured out the exact amount of years) 19 years in the past. As if that wasn't bad enough, I was standing in front of my own mother.

Why is mom so embarrassed to say that she's dating dad aloud?

Looking at Kari, I could tell she was embarrassed. The same embarrassed look was on her face as when I was about to turn five and had asked my parents how babies were made. "Uhm, Kari, why do you say it's embarrassing? Does my da—cousin, not treat you right or something?" Sunmon sighed as I almost screwed up again.

"He treats me very well, thank you." Kari laughed as she responded. "He's quite the gentleman on our dates. I'm just nervous about today." What could be the special reason that she'd be nervous? It's not the day dad purposed… So why? I stood there in silence, trying to figure out any possible reason she'd be nervous by recounting the significant events that happened over the course of my parents courting.

She must've noticed my confusion, because she answered my silent question. "Takuya is meeting my brother today… for the first time. My older brother, Tai, is extremely protective of me and doesn't know I've been seeing someone… To make matters worse, he decided to invite some people over today, friends of ours. One of which has been very open about his crush on me for years now. Both are hot heads, and I'm worried it'll turn into an argument."

I nodded along in agreement as she sighed. Definitely a worrisome thing for mom, but dad said it went over pretty well… But he didn't say Mr. Motomiya was there too. Could that be something different that's happening here, that didn't happen originally?

I couldn't help but reassure her that everything would be fine. I smiled and faced her. "Everything will be fine. If you're older brother really cares for you, he'll see how happy you are with Takuya, and if this friend of yours really likes you, wouldn't he want the same? He'd want you to be happy, even if it's not with him right? I mean, if I was in his place, I'd just be happy that she was happy. Plus, I could threaten the guy to make sure he takes care of her right."

I didn't realize how eerily similar to my father I sounded at that moment until I realized a strange silence had filled the small clearing. Sunmon was now sitting on the forest clearing's floor, staring at me like I was an idiot, again. If someone asked me how many times I had screwed up in the past ten minutes, I couldn't tell them. My mother – the younger her – looked at me in awe. One… Two… Three… Four… I slowly counted the seconds until she spoke, well laughed. "Hahaha, you two, ahaha, sound so much alike. That's so, ahaha, cool." She could barely speak through her laughter. "Ahahahaha, ahaha, yeah. So cool." I nervously laughed along her.

Smooth, Nikolas. Very smooth. You sounded just like dad – AGAIN. One more time, and she'll have figured out that somethings weird.

"So, uh, Kari. Could you not mention that you ran into me? I want to surprise my cousin, and that doesn't really work if he knows I'm here, you know?" I was being such a horrible son at that moment. I knew my mother would tell a secret, or ruin a surprise. So I used it to my advantage.

But my mother at this point in time, didn't know that I knew this. She thinks I'm just a stranger here to surprise my cousin, who just happens to be her boyfriend.

She seemed to think it over for moment, but then smiled. "Sure. I won't tell him, at least not until you surprise him. Consider it a thank you for making me feel better about tonight."

I felt horrible, but at the same time great. Mom wouldn't mention my appearance to dad. I wanted to sit there and talk with her some more, but a small beep from my 'Digivice Locater' told me to get out of there ASAP. I silently thanked Avery and her father for creating this program and adding it to the newly created DigiAssist tablet. This program beeps when another Digivice gets close. It was originally created to help locate everyone, in the occasion that someone got separated from the group while in the Digital World. It must've just restarted. That's why it didn't alert me when mom got close.

"Thanks, Kari. I should get going. Hopefully I'll see you around. Bye!" I grabbed Sunmon off the floor and took off. I ran as fast as I could, barely hearing my mother yell a goodbye. Sorry mom, I'll apologize properly when I'm back home. After five minutes of running, I stopped and tried to take a good look around. I never lived in Odaiba. I visited my grandparents and my uncle here, so I knew some areas, but that was almost 20 years in the future. There were way too many things that were different. "We should sit down somewhere and see if we can contact Avery."

I looked down at Sunmon, "We already tried that." Sunmon sighed, "I know that. Did you think that I wasn't listening? You called her. On your phone. I'm talking about using the Communication Link on the DigiAssist. It'll connect straight to her DigiAssist." I froze.

Why didn't I think of THAT?

Sunmon smiled as he watched me realize my stupidity. "You didn't think of that huh? We can also use the DigiAssist's list of locations, to help us find out where in Odaiba we are, and to figure out our next step. But first, contacting Avery." I pulled out the DigiAssist and opened the CommLink app, typing in Avery's name.

Please connect. Please, please connect. If anyone can figure out what happened, it's you Ave.

The screen suddenly lit up. Avery's head of red hair was the first thing to appear. She looked up at the screen, "Nik! Thank goodness. I just got in contact with Allie, Edgar, and Ray. You were the only one unaccounted for." Relief flooded through me. "Cecily is okay? Who's she with?"

"Jeez, Mr. Leader. Thanks for the concern over the rest of us."

Rose's voice cut in. Rose Ichijouji, daughter of Ken and Yolei, is my little sister's best friend. As much as I love the fact that my little sister has a strong, stubborn friend, her sass is something I would do without. "Hello, Rose. I'm glad to hear you're okay too." I sighed.

Yeah, I could definitely do without the sass.

The screen updated, showing everyone on a separate screen. "Everyone's accounted for now! Awesome!" Edgar exclaimed to Allie's annoyance. "Quiet down, gogglehead! We don't need the whole world knowing everything. Hmph."

I knew I shouldn't feel relieved, but seeing that everyone was accounted for – that everyone was safe – made me feel a lot better about this situation.

Ending note: That's the end of Chapter Two! Chapter Three will include introductions of the rest of the next generation, as well as their parents and their own digimon partner. My other stories will be updated soon! I'm working on getting a set update schedule ready.

Pairings: Takuya/Kari and Ken/Yolei (so far~)