"Battle Begins"
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Mom offered us some drinks and Izzy took them while Tai dragged him into the study, me trailing after them to find Miko at the computer.
"Thank you for visiting ." the computer said.
"Miko, get down from there." Tai said as the cat ran off and we slid down in front of the computer.
On the orange screen was Keramon while these strange symbols were heading towards him.
"The guys should be on the internet by now, right?" I asked as Izzy started typing away.
Soon enough, we saw them and were able to speak with them as we saw them moving along what appeared to be a tunnel.
"You're gonna need a password." Tai said.
"You can use mine to get on the internet. Prodigious." Izzy said.
"Prodigious." The three digimon repeated.
"They're in." Tai smiled.
The three digimon entered the internet and when I touched the screen, I could see where they were which was a white area with different shapes around them.
"So, this is what the internet looks like. They need new wall paper." Agumon said.
"This is weird. Why do humans find this entertaining again?" V-Mon asked.
"I hope this doesn't take too long. Tonight is my bath night." Tentomon said.
Keramon was below them, munching on a stream of data with such concentration that he didn't even notice the trio at all.
"There he is, go get him." Izzy said.
"He doesn't know we're here yet." Tentomon whispered.
"Let's sneak up on him quietly." Agumon whispered and V-Mon nodded as they floated off.
Tentomon used Super Shocker, electrocuting Keramon who spat out the data looking stunned.
"You call that quietly?" V-Mon quipped.
He then flew down and punched Keramon in the face, then jumped away as Agumon used his Pepper Breath.
"That should've worked, but it didn't." Tai said.
"Maybe he's stronger from all the food he had." I guessed.
"Hey, Keramon's sending us an e-mail." Tai said as the message appeared on the screen.
"'So you like to play games, huh?' I've got a bad feeling about this Agumon." Tai said.
"You better digivolve. The three of you. Now." Izzy advised.
"Agumon digivolve too…"
"Tentomon digivolve too…"
"V-Mon digivolve too…"
With my hand on the screen, I could see the surprised faces of many kids from all over the world who were watching this at the moment and wondered what they were feeling or thinking of this.
"GREYMON!"
"KABUTERIMON!"
"XV-MON!"
The three Champions pushed off of the side of the wall and went after Keramon who turned around and used Blood Blaster on them, but they separated.
Kabuterimon used his Electro Shocker while Greymon fired off his Nova Blast and finally XV-Mon used his V Laser.
"You guys make this stuff look easy." Tai smiled.
"Um, hold that thought." Izzy said.
"Oh, cripes. He's digivolving again." I groaned.
"Keramon digivolve too…INFERMON!"
As the smoke cleared, I felt chills go down my spine at the sight of the insect digimon or maybe it's an arachnid.
I don't know or care, but all I know is that thing is freaky.
"I've never seen this before. Now he's at the Champion level like Greymon, Kabuterimon and XV-Mon." Izzy said.
Infermon chuckled as he jumped back and clung to the walls, then kept jumping around as our digimon watched him in worry.
He then jumped at them, but they quickly moved out of the way and fired off their own attacks at Infermon.
It looked like they hit him, but Infermon chuckled as he pushed himself off the wall at them, his head and legs moving inside his body as he became a chrysalis or something.
Kabuterimon, XV-Mon and Greymon kept blasting off their attacks at Infermon, but the hard shell protected the little sicko who sailed right by them.
"He's stronger than a Champion." Greymon said.
"How's that possible?" XV-Mon asked.
Infermon pushed himself off the wall and back at him, using his Spider Shooter on them, managing to hit Kabuterimon.
"Kabuterimon!" Greymon cried, but was then hit.
"Greymon!" XV-Mon called as he was hit next.
"Greymon, no." Tai whimpered with wide eyes.
"V!" I gasped in worry.
"I think I've got it figured out now." Izzy said making us look at him.
"He's bypassed the Champion level and digivolved straight into the Ultimate level. He's too strong for our digimon now." Izzy sweated.
"Then we're just gonna have to digivolve again." Tai stated.
Our digivices glowed orange, purple and gold as our digimon began to transform into their Ultimate forms, Infermon watching them with an intense gaze.
"Not so fast." He growled as he jumped at them.
"Greymon digivolve too…METALGREYMON!"
"Kabuterimon digivolve too…MEGAKABUTERIMON!"
"XV-Mon digivolve too…V-DRAGOMON!"
"You've got to digivolve faster!" Izzy cried as Infermon got closer.
MetalGreymon and MegaKabuterimon were both hit by Infermon's Spider Shooter while V-Dragomon flew off and used his Sun Beam, an orb of gold energy, on the other Ultimate, stunning him.
"This guy is really getting on my nerves." V-Dragomon growled.
"Yeah, you go, V!" I cheered.
V-Dragomon was then attacked by Infermon head on, knocking him back into a wall while an Exit door opened up for Infemron who escaped through it chuckling.
"That's it. That bug's getting squashed." V-Dragomon groaned as he shook his head.
Agumon and Tentomon were floating off safely, but looked a bit tired.
"Agumon, say something." Tai begged.
"Don't take me out, coach." Agumon requested.
"Tentomon." Izzy gasped.
"I'm fine. Just one question. Whose Tentomon?" the ladybug asked.
"V, are you okay?" I asked.
"I'm fine, Dai." He waved at me.
"They'll be okay, guys. They just need to rest for a while." Izzy assured.
"I can't believe that three digimon of the Champion level weren't enough. We're never gonna be able to defeat this thing." Tai hit the floor.
"Check it out, guys. We're getting e-mails from all over the world. Here's one from that kid Willis." Izzy checked his laptop.
I moved over to find the message was up along with a picture of the blonde haired, blue eyed American boy my age, but he had a guilty smile.
"He's kinda cute." I commented.
"What?!" Tai yelled making me roll my eyes.
Geez, he does know that Kari and I are going to become interested in boys one day, right?
Over protective brothers, honestly, what are ya gonna do with them?
"Anyway, it says 'Izzy, I'm sorry. This is all my fault. Find a way to slow him down.'" Izzy read in confusion.
"What's he mean his fault?" Tai asked.
"And slowing him down? How can we do that?" I asked.
"I don't know. Hey, Infermon is e-mailing us too." Izzy said as he clicked on the message.
It showed the freak's face along with the word 'Hello!' written in rows all over the page.
"Why's he saying 'Hello!' over and over again?" Tai asked.
"Look at the address. He's at the telephone company taking over the phone lines. If we lose our phone connection, we're finished. That's the only way we have access to the internet." Izzy sounded worried as he pointed at the number.
"We're doomed!" I yelped tugging at my braids.
"I've gotta warn everyone." Tai grabbed the cordless phone and started dialing.
I looked at him, seeing the frustrated look of my brother's face.
"Oh great, it's busy. Mimi." Tai dialed another number.
He looked more annoyed on this call too.
"Come on, how could that be busy too?" he asked as he dialed another number.
Geez, he needs he give up.
"Don't tell me." Tai whined as he dialed yet another number.
"Didn't you hear me?" I heard a woman's voice over the phone.
"What?" Tai whined with a defeated look.
"It's busy!" the woman screamed in anger.
"I'm sorry lady." Tai groaned as he hung up and looked at us slack jawed.
"All the phones are dead." He moaned.
"That digimon did it." Izzy glanced over as he worked on his laptop.
"Not a single call can get through." Tai whined.
The phone then rang making us jump and stare at it in surprise.
"You were saying?" I quipped.
"Hello, this is Tai." He greeted as I placed my ear next to the phone to listen.
"Hello, did you program me?" a raspy voice laughed making Tai pull the phone away in fear.
"It's Infermon." He said.
"What did he mean by program him?" I wondered.
Talk about speed dialing, he's calling everyone in the world.
Infermon is looking for someone, but who is it and what for?
"His long distance bill will be enormous." Tai said.
Izzy then gasped as his laptop started beeping in a way that made me worry since it sounded like a warning of something blowing up in a movie.
"What?" Tai asked as Izzy slowly turned his head, looking pale.
"Connection…terminated." He moaned.
"What…next?" Tai went pale as he slowly turned his head to me.
"Would you two knock that off? You're creeping me out." I glared.
"Wait, I have an idea." Izzy said as he got up and gathered his stuff up in his bag.
"What idea? Izzy?" I called as he ran out.
Tai slowly stood up, whining as he started stumbling out of the room.
"Oh, I'm getting a headache now." I groaned, then sneezed.
Great, I almost forgot I was sick from this whole mess.
I followed our fearless leader out of the room and saw Mom was watching TV on the chair as Tai groaned loudly.
"What's the matter with you?" Mom asked him.
Tai just groaned and his top half slumped over the couch.
"Drama Queen." I muttered.
"Hey, have you heard? The phones are out." Mom said.
"We know." I said sitting on the couch and patted Tai's mess of hair.
"We interrupt this program for a special bulletin. The phone company has set up an emergency voice mail system." The announcer said.
Tai then moved back up as he stared at the TV.
"Simply dial 171 for easy instructions." The announcer said as Tai grew determined.
"I doubt it's easy." I muttered.
"Perfect, voice mail." Tai said as he started dialing again.
I'm not really sure that this will work, but, I'll let him try anyway if he wants to.
It's not like he'll listen to me if I tell him not to do it.
"Matt, TK, this is an emergency. Call me right away! Oh, by the way, this is Tai." He said, then hung up and dialed another number.
"Kari, if you ever want to see any of your toys again, get home right away." Tai warned.
Mom had moved back to the kitchen, checking on the cake that she was cooking in the microwave.
"Sora! Sora, listen, I'm sorry about the hairpin. But I need to talk to you right away. Call me or just come over!" Tai said a little desperately.
If she doesn't come over because she's still mad at Tai, I'm gonna be really mad at her.
"Hi Mimi. It's Tai. Please come over to my house as soon as you get this message. Goodbye." Tai groaned as he hung up.
"Oh, that reminds me." Mom said as she reached into her pocket and walked over to us.
"You got this postcard in the mail from Mimi." Mom said showing it off making us gasp.
Tai took the postcard and looked it over in shock.
"What?! She's on vacation?! In Hawaii! Oh, Mimi." Tai groaned.
I swiped the postcard out of his hand since he was frozen in shock and read the writing and saw a chibi drawing of her head on it.
"'Hawaii is paradise. I don't have a care in the world. And I wish you were here.'" I read.
That is so Mimi.
Izzy then came back, walking into the apartment.
"Hi Izzy, welcome back." Mom greeted.
"Thank you. So, uh, when's everybody coming over?" izzy asked.
Tai groaned loudly yet again and he slumped over the couch as Mom and Izzy watched him and I sweat dropped at my melodramatic brother.
To be continued…