"Digiarmor energize, huh?" Matt said, cutting right to the point. Matt was T.K.'s older brother, but since their parents were divorced the pair barely ever saw each other. Both had the same blonde hair and blue eyes, and both were part of the original digidestined team which stood in an empty playground.
"It was a form of digivolving I've never seen before," Tai answered, absently staring at the woodchips on the playground floor. "Somehow, Davis's digimon was able to digivolve but Agumon and the others couldn't." "You mean Davis went to the digital world?" Sora puzzled. She was a redheaded girl about Tai and Matt's age who was also digidestined.
"That's right," T.K. explained, "And the two kids from my apartment building Yolei and Cody also got digivices." Joe, the tallest of the digidestined, who was studying to be a doctor, stood up and stated a truth that none of the gathered really wanted to hear. "If they have digivices, they are the new digidestined." "It's just how I thought," Izzy remarked, as Tai slowly nodded his head. Matt appeared disgruntled, his usually smug look replaced with one of grim acceptance.
"But if this Digimon Emperor is out there, will our digimon be O.K.?" Sora was once more intrigued. Kari, who was usually quiet, added, "I got an email from our friend Mimi in America, asking if Palmon would be O.K.". Realizing that none of them knew the answer to this, the group became quiet and began to stare at the ground. All were thinking the exact same thing- What is my digimon doing right now? Are they safe?
"I say we just go back there and do things our way," Matt stated ambitiously. "We can't," Izzy responded quickly, unintentionally ridding the conversation of any sense of hope. "I tried- the gate won't open for our digivices." Once more the shards of wood chips felt the burn of seven pairs of eyes staring at them.
Matt walked off into the late evening fog, heading home. He wished that T.K. was going to the same home, but instead Matt treaded along towards his father's apartment. As he walked out of the park Matt thought of his digimon, Gabumon. Was Gabumon lonely without Matt? As pessimistic as Matt knew he could be sometimes, Gabumon had always been there to brighten things up. Here, Matt's real hope was T.K., who fittingly had earned the crest of hope the year before. But even now Matt's hope was distanced from him.
Smiling, Matt looked at a window in a store. A large stuffed animal was on display in the store, with blue and white fur. It reminded him of- of- Matt had to choke back tears as he made his way through the fog. Just a stupid little kids toy, right? Matt's brain fought for control, clutching to straws. Though he put up a cool front, the truth was that Matt wished he could have hope.
Shaking his head, he smiled. I should've asked to go with the others, and go see Gabumon if I miss him so much. It was a good thing nobody walked these sttedreets at night, because this would be a very embarrassing scene for cool, confident Matt. Keep walking, he thought, as he went on into the night.
Suddenly, a red light appeared down a alley, making Matt freeze in his tracks. It had only been spotted out of the corner of his eye, and then only narrowly, but Matt could've sworn that he had seen a red light. Turning, he wiped a tear off his face and took a step down the alley to discover what this odd appearance was. Was it merely a reflection of one of the many store lights that lined the city at night, or was it something more?
Very cautiously, Matt began stepping towards the light. Slowly a humanoid shape began to appear, with a red dot on where the hand would regularly be. Matt could barely make anything out in the dark, but from where he was, the dot seemed to be coming from this figure's hand. "He-Hello," Matt said into the oblivion, biting his tongue for how timid he sounded. The head of the humanoid figure glanced up, apparently examining something.
Instantly Matt was being held by two elbows, and his legs were lifted off the ground. "Wha-wha?" he said foolishly, realizing the absence of the red dot. The dot was now shoved under his armpit and lifting him up from behind.
"One word about this, and somebody dies," said a masked voice. Hurriedly, Matt nodded. "Oh, and one more thing," added the voice. "Beware Emperor Ichijouji. Beware the Digimon Emperor."
Then, suddenly, Matt dropped to the ground on his knees. The strange had vanished. Matt sighed, puzzled by the stranger's words, barely remembering them only an instance after they were said so clearly.
"Log update: Today contact was made with one member. Serious conflict was avoided. I have threatened him, however, and so he is unlikely to run and tell the others. However… I sympathize with him. I am weak in the sense that I, too wish for…well, I cannot say. However I must remember that any reward comes from Hero. End Log."
"Then I say we get going," Davis blurted. "All ashore that's going ashore." Yolei smiled and nodded as Izzy gave a reassuring 'mmmhmmm'. Tai, Sora, Izzy, T.K. and Kari had been able to meet with the three new digidestined, but Joe and Matt couldn't make it. Nor could Mimi, who was in America. After realizing that the gate wouldn't open for their digivices the older digidestined agreed that Davis, Yolei and Cody should come along.
"Tai Kamiya, is that you?" a booming voice sounded out into the room. Tai tensed and turned around, surprised. "Mr. Fuchiyama," he said, stepping in front of the computer screen to cover up any hint of the digital world. "And Sora and Izzy are both here as well. Didn't you all graduate?" Fuchiyama asked with a smile on his face. He was probably excited to see Izzy again, who had been one of his top students. "Yeah, we did, and what are you doing here?" Tai asked, still mildly surprised.
Mr. Fuchiyama turned, putting his hands on his hips as if the following statement was important. "I'm the head of the computer club," he announced to the digidestined. Sora, Tai and Izzie's eyes widened. All blurted out at the same time, "Huh? But what do you know about using computers?" To which Mr. Fuchiyama responded; "Not a single thing."
"I just remembered, there's something I wanted to talk to you about, Mr. Fuchiyama," Tai stated, pushing the professor out of the room. "Sure, what is it," said the teacher as he struggled to get around Tai. "I've been having trouble adjusting to high school. It's the girls- they're so much older, and so many are bigger than me, and…" Tai continued to ramble on. In the adjacent room the other digidestined concluded that they owed him one.
"Well, Tai, that is just a change that everyone's bodies go through. These girls I'm sure have gone through a major growth spurt that you will hit soon now. It's perfectly normal for your body to change as you get older."
Tai nodded, and thought of what he was missing without agumon.
"For example, you will probably get taller and your voice will get lower."
Again, Tai nodded, wondering what Agumon was doing without him.
"Maybe you should ask somebody else, like your parents about this. It's important for you to become-"
"Greymon," Tai said dazedly, before realizing he had been thinking out loud.
"What is this 'Greymon'? Something out of a card game? Anyways, like I said, talk to your parents about this. I'm sure they can explain things better than I can."
Tai looked at the ceiling, embarrassed. What was Izzy doing right now? Was Kari safe? I wonder how-
"Your brain will go through changes as well. Are you attracted to any of the girls in the class? It's O.K.- You can trust me."
"Sora," Tai said, cringing upon realizing what was happening. He had been thinking of the others and said the first thing that came to mind. He wasn't in the moment. Tai sighed. This was going to be a long and awkward conversation.
Breaker watched the digimon emperor order Snimon to attack the digidestined before blinking out, reappearing near the plain where the digidestined walked.
"Reporting on the digidestined's status, Sir Teth. They appear to be under attack."
Hero Teth sat back in his gray chair and grinned, watching the digidestined search for Veemon.
"And Snimon attacks in 3..2...1…," he commented.
T.K. shoved Sora out of the way as Snimon landed on the spot where she had been standing. All of the assembled digimon began attacking Snimon, but since they were all rookie digimon, Snimon barely flinched. Gatomon, the only champion among the group, couldn't do enough damage without her tail ring. "Time to armor digivolve, right, Davis?" Veemon asked, excited for the upcoming fight. "Right," Davis shouted. And then the earth swallowed the pair.
As it opened beneath him, Davis barely had time to get out anything more than a strangled yell before he fell into the ground. Reaching out, the goggle-bearing digidestined grabbed onto a tiny piece of rock jutting out of the cliff that had suddenly appeared beneath him. His partner grabbed onto Davis's free hand, hanging on for dear life. From below, Drimogemon roared up at him. Above the cliff by the other digidestined, a yeti-like digimon, Mojyamon burst through the trees with a dangerous look in his eyes.
"He-He's gone," Yolei gaped, kneeling on the ground. Cody as well fell to his knees, and a tear dropped from his eye. "Davis… He's not gone forever, right, Izzy? He'll respawn or whatever you do in the digital world. He can't be dead… He can't be…. Both Cody and Yolei burst into tears at their apparently fallen comrade. "Davis will be fined, he has Veemon, but our digimon are only at half strength! We need to protect ourselves!" Sora intruded on to their misery. "We've got to get away!" Cody tried wiping away the tears, telling himself to be strong, but more and more tears came from Yolei's eyes.
"Only a few more steps to go," Biyomon said cheerfully. She was trying to keep the group in good spirits, something extremely hard to do after the team had trekked to a temple in the middle of nowhere and hiked up the lengthy stairs of it.
Much later, at the top of the stairs, stood two pedestals with eggs similar to Davis's on them. "They look like digieggs," Sora remarked. "They must be the reason our digivices were going crazy on the way her," Cody added.
Izzy and Sora both stepped forward to attempt to lift the digieggs, but upon struggling agreed that there was no point to it. Izzie's brain was working at full caliber today, though, and he soon realized that Yolei and Cody would have to be the ones to lift these eggs. If Davis, the new digidestined, could lift the digiegg of courage which Tai couldn't lift, maybe these two could lift the new digieggs. "Cody, Yolei, could you try and lift these?" he asked politely. "Uh, O.K.," Cody accepted.
As soon as the pair began to pull on the digieggs, the eggs went flying off. From the holes where the digieggs once were, two bright lights came, one yellow and the other purple. Two odd creatures burst out, one which looked like a beige turtle and the other which looked like an eagle wearing a Native American headdress. Armadillomon and Hawkmon had arrived.
Davis opened his eyes, his body chained to a cliff face. He tried to force his way out of the bindings, but they held him tight. "Great. I must've been walking in my sleep again," he said to the open air, attempting to lighten his own mood. "Where-where am I?"
"Just hanging out," replied an unknown, cool, confident voice.
"Who are you?" Davis questioned.
The Digimon Emperor began, but was suddenly interrupted by a small red dot and a humanoid figure. It flew across his body, fist extended in a punch. Coolly, the figure landed, still shaded in black even though the sun was shining brightly upon him. "Catch," said his voice. His throw was precise. It hit Davis in the mouth.
Luckily, Davis had fast reflexes and caught the object. Looking down, he smiled, careful not to drop it. Whoever the masked figure was, he was on their side. In his mouth, Davis held his digivice. Demiveemon smiled, though he didn't see his partner. He knew what was happening.
Light burst into Demiveemon's prison. Flamedramon burst out of the cliff, his eyes glowing for the fight.
"Drimogemon! Mojyamon! It's time!" The Emperor shouted arrogantly, apparently angered at being interrupted. Two large creatures burst forward towards the digidestined, who was now on the back of Flamedramon. One's long drill-like nose poked out of the ground as it dug, the other pushing through the trees. "Alright! Let's go!" Davis screamed.
"Wait- Davis!" A voice behind him yelled. Turning around, Davis saw T.K., who was riding on Pegasusmon with the rest of the digidestined and their digimon. "Back off T.P.! We got this!" T.K., of course, didn't listen to Davis, who was being as stupid as ever.
Hero Teth observed the fight, an evil grin filling his face. "They should've known how stupid he was. 'Back off 'T.P.'.' 'We got this!' How pathetic. Quite like you, Breaker."
One of the camera screens in his room flickered on. A small red dot appeared alongside a humanoid figure. "You have failed me, Breaker. You interfered. Never interfere unless I tell you."
"Yes, master," the dot said, "But I couldn't let him die."
"Breaker, you are not one of them. I created you. You are mine. Now do as I say, and never interfere again or you will be punished."
"Yes master."
Upon ending his talk with Breaker, Teth turned. He stared at another screen. "Quaking in our boots Itchijoji? You should be. Not for them- for me. I will take you down. And you will suffer."
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