At Guilmon's cave, Dai was looking between Takato and Henry as they stared each other down to see what they would be doing just like Terriermon and Guilmon were doing.
"Ready, set, go!" they all said.
Everyone but Guilmon had drawn scissors and laughed at the dinosaur's loss.
"Scissor's cuts paper." The three boys said while Guilmon moaned in disbelief.
"Ready, set, go!" the four said as they went again.
Guilmon lost again since he wasn't able to shape his paw into a rock or scissor shape.
"Everyone wins but Guilmon." They said as Henry chuckled.
Dai was still a bit depressed so they were hoping this would make her at least crack a grin for them instead of being stuck in this state.
Guilmon looked at them all quickly as he whined and then got dizzy so he fell down.
"Not your game, huh, buddy?" Takato asked as the three males as laughed.
"Dai why don't you join in?" he asked the girl.
She just shook her head as she chose to remain mute.
"I'll play ya for your peanut butter next time." Terriermon said to Guilmon.
Guilmon then got up as he sensed something and growled as his gold eyes turned wild.
"What's wrong boy?" Takato asked.
"Another digimon has just appeared. I can feel it." Terriermon said as Guilmon ran off while Dai got up and ran after him.
This was the most active she had been in a while.
"Hey!" Takato called.
The others all chased after them, Dai close on Guilmon's tail as they made it to a Digital Field which made her pull her goggles over her eyes as Henry pulled on his green sunglasses and Takato pulled on his own goggles.
Rika was there with Renamon fighting a digimon named Allomon, the fox getting slammed into a telephone pole as the dinosaur stalked off to her.
"Come on, get up. If you digivolve, you can beat him." Rika said.
Guilmon hit him with his Pyro Sphere while Terriermon got him with his Terrier Tornado and Allomon stumbled away from Renamon as Rika turned with a glare at the three 13 year olds.
"I knew it had to be you." Henry said.
"This digimon's mine. Why don't you wannabes go find somewhere else to play?" Rika said.
"Wannabes?" Takato asked.
"Hey, if anyone's a wannabe it's you, you stuck up brat." Dai snarled at her making the boys look at her in slight wonder at how her eyes lit up.
"You don't have to be so nasty. Why are you making your digimon fight anyway?" Henry asked.
"You're starting to sound like a broken record." Rika said as she pulled out her D-Power and a card.
"Digi-Modify: Hyper Chip Activate!"
Renamon stood up and stalked over to Allomon with her shoulders hunched over as she passed by Guilmon and Terriermon.
"You shouldn't be here. Stay out of my way." She said.
"But why?" Guilmon asked.
Allomon used his dino burst on the fox, but she countered with frozen wind and won, the wind freezing Allomon into an ice statue as Renamon finished him off with her diamond storm and then absorbed his data.
The mist faded away and it was now sunset.
"Renamon, it's time to go." Rika said.
The girl turned and started walking away as the fox disappeared.
"Hey, wait a minute! Can't we just talk?" Takato asked her making her stop.
"Sure. I've got something to say. Don't ever try that again, little boys and girl. Renamon and I work alone." Rika warned.
"Does that qualify as a conversation?" Henry said placing his hands on his hips as he frowned.
Dai frowned at Rika's back as the girl walked off; wondering why was the way she was.
There had to be a reason for it, right?
After, the group all went back home and Takato took out his Digimon Adventure tapes so that Dai could watch them, not taking her eyes off of them at all as she learned some new things about her friends and boyfriend that she hadn't even known.
Then came the Digimon 02 tapes and the two Digimon movies that had Willis and the return of Diaboramon, Dai blushing when one of the tapes came to the scene where Willis had kissed her on the cheek, very close to her lips before he ran off.
She was frowning sadly though when she heard some of the things her friends thought about her earlier on and saw how Matt had teased Tai about her liking the child of Courage.
Noticing this, Takato cleared his throat.
"Hey, um, did you and Tai ever date? I mean, in the last episode of 02, it showed you with a son and Tai had a son too, but they never showed who they were married to just like the other couples." He said.
"Tai and I are dating. Sora and Matt are together and so are Ken and Kari." Dai said.
"Wow, I always thought you and Ken would get together, but some people thought that maybe you and Tai would get together since they saw how you always blushed around him and stuff. But a lot of people were complaining when Matt started dating Sora. They wanted her and Tai to fall in love." Takato said.
This made Dai pull her knees up to her chest as she felt worst from hearing the fact that Digimon fans didn't approve of her relationship that she had wanted for years ever since she first met Tai.
It was like the universe was trying to tell her they weren't good for each other.
Tai wasn't into their relationship like she was, so maybe they should just break up.
Times like this, she really wished that Veemon was there with her to help her figure things out before she ruined something.
(The next day…)
Dai was walking down the street alone for once without having henry or Takato follow her to make sure she was fine and not stuck in her depression.
As she walked, children of all ages were out laughing and having fun with each other while she just kept on going and then walked passed a group of boys who were her age, one bumping into her.
"Oh, sorry about that." He said.
She looked at him as all of the boys, four of them, stared at her in wonder.
"Whoa, check it out. She looks just like Daisuke!" this boy with black hair and eyes exclaimed.
"Whoa, freaky." The boy with brown hair and brown eyes said.
"She's kinda cute." Said the guy with light brown hair and green eyes she had bumped into.
"She's not interested." Dai said as she turned her back on them.
"Huh, she doesn't act like a hyper idiot like Daisuke does." Said the last boy who had black hair and blue eyes.
Dai's fist clenched as she forced herself to walk away and not break the guy's jaw.
Was it really her fault that she was hyper active?
Oh, wait, it wasn't.
It was the writers of Digimon that were responsible for it.
She had looked it up on the internet and found out that the only reason she was 'created' was because Ken needed a rival that would help him make the change from evil to good.
It hurt for her to know that she had no real reason for existence and that everyone just made fun of her character.
'Well, things are different now. In this world, I'm real and alive. I'm gonna live my life the way I want to. Let's see how the writers feel about that.' She thought with narrowed eyes.
As she walked down the street, she heard yelling and looked over to see a purple digimon that looked like a dog was chasing after a small pink and lavender digimon who was crying.
"Hey, don't run away! What kinda digimon runs from a fight?" the purple digimon taunted as he threw a small red flame at her.
"Please stop! I don't like violence!" she begged as she ran.
He just laughed as he continued to harass her while Dai frowned and ran over to them, lifting her leg up and kicking the purple digimon in the stomach and sending him back a few feet.
Rika, Renamon, Henry, Terriermon, Takato and Guilmon all arrived on the scene to see what Dai had done.
The female digimon, who looked like a rabbit, looked up at the human who had saved her while the purple digimon stood back up.
"Hey, who do ya think you are kicking people like that?!" he yelled.
"Me? who do you think you are chasing digimon around and throwing fire at them?" Dai countered.
"Impmon, picking fights yet again with the wrong person." Renamon said.
Rika pulled out her D-Power as an image of the bunny came onto the screen.
"Lunamon, a Rookie level. This little bunny is gentle and timid, doesn't even like fighting. Special attacks are Lunar Claw, Tear Shot and Lop-Ear Ripple." She said.
Lunamon was hiding behind Dai as she saw all of the people and digimon appear feeling very shy from the crowd.
"Back off. She doesn't want to fight." Dai warned Impmon.
"Well too bad, toots, because I do." Impmon grinned as he jumped at her.
"Dai!" Takato yelped.
Grabbing Lunamon, Dai rolled away as Impmon threw down his tiny fireballs at the two females.
"Henry, let me fight." Terriermon said.
"No, I don't want you near him." Henry said sternly making the bunny pout.
"Takatomon?" Guilmon asked.
"We need to help them." Takato said.
Impmon then went after Dai again while she grabbed a handful of dirt and threw it right into his face making him cough and gag at getting it into his eyes and mouth.
"Hey! What's the big idea?" he yelped as he started spitting at the ground.
Running back over to the Tamers, Dai set Lunamon down where she would be safe.
"You OK?" she asked the digimon.
"Yes, I'm fine. Thank you very much for the help." Lunamon said with a smile.
"Gee, I try to toughen the gal up and she clings to a human for protection. Just pitiful." Impmon sighed.
Growling in annoyance, Dai turned to him while Rika watched her and gasped as she saw that this girl truly was the child of Miracles, but how that was possible was beyond her.
"You're trying to toughen her up by attacking her? What kind of logic is that?" she demanded.
"Not only that, but you got your butt kicked by a human girl." Terriermon teased.
"Shut up! I can take her easy." Impmon said.
Dai then went to go test that fact, but was held back by Henry as he grabbed her waist and pulled her away.
"Why don't you beat it before you get hurt you little mutt?" Rika suggested.
Realizing that he was out numbered, Impmon faked a grin and turned with his arms folded behind his head.
"All right, I'll leave. Maybe this little lesson will sink in to ya digi slaves. See ya!" he laughed as he then jumped off.
"Yeah right. He just got scared and ran off. What a wimp." Terriermon scoffed.
"Terriermon." Henry warned.
"What, it's the truth." The long eared rabbit said.
"Well, this was a waste of time. But still…you. You're the real Daisuke Motomiya?" Rika asked the other girl.
She looked into the lavender eyes, seeing the curiosity in them while everyone looked at the two girls.
"Yep. Somehow, a light shot out of the sky and beamed me here." Dai said.
"Beamed you here? What is this, the Twilight Zone?" Rika responded.
"Ugh, tell me about it." Dai groaned.
Shaking her head, Rika then walked off as Renamon followed her partner back home.
Lunamon looked up at the human who saved her with a curious gaze while Guilmon walked over to her and started to sniff at her which made her blush shyly.
"Guilmon, that's rude." Takato scolded making the dinosaur whine as he pulled away.
"So how did you get here anyway?" Terriermon asked Lunamon.
"Um well…I was just walking around in the Digital World when this voice started calling me. I followed it until I saw a figure standing in gold light." Lunamon explained.
"Gold light?" Henry asked curiously as he rubbed his chin in thought.
"Yes, I followed it and the figure, then I was here in this strange world. I was trying to find the voice again, but I couldn't hear it. Then Impmon appeared and started chasing after me." Lunamon said.
"That sounds awful, but if you were called here, maybe that means you have a Tamer." Takato said making her look at him.
"A Tamer? Who could my Tamer be?" she asked.
"It's hard to tell. We'll just have to wait and see." Henry said.
"But where's she gonna stay? Impmon could still come back after her." Dai reminded.
"She can stay with me, Daimon." Guilmon suggested.
"I'm not a digimon just because I smell like one." Dai said while Takato sighed.
Lunamon was blushing bashfully at everyone around her.
"Thank you all for your kindness. I don't know how I can ever repay you." she said with a bow.
The group then all went off to where Guilmon was living, Lunamon cuddling into her protector's arms as she looked around at her new friends.
(Elsewhere…)
Izzy was at his computer trying to pick up on the child of Miracles' signal, but he just couldn't pinpoint it in the human world or the Digital World which confused him and annoyed him.
"Man, how hard can it be to find her? I wish we had some clue as to where she could be." He said.
Tentomon looked up at him seeing the dark circles under his eyes.
"Izzy, you've been working very hard. I suggest you take a break and get something to eat as well as sleep." He said.
"I wish I could, but knowing that Dai has disappeared without a single trace makes it hard to even think about taking a break. Not only that, but I'm worried about what'll happen to Veemon if we don't find her." Izzy said.
"What do you mean?" Tentomon asked.
"Without Dai around, Veemon could spiral off into a depressive state and it could slowly make him sick and then he could fade away into nothing." The redhead responded.
"Which brings up the question, why did the light reject Veemon and only took Dai? It's not like she's dead. Veemon wouldn't be here with us right now if she was." Tentomon said.
"That's true, but still…" Izzy trailed off.
Veemon had been staying with Ken and Wormmon, the two having to force feed the dragon since he was still worried sick about his partner, but being around them helped him a bit.
There had to be a reason for Dai getting kidnapped like that and not being able to save her, but things just weren't adding up at all.
"If you're having so much trouble then why not ask Gennai?" Tentomon asked making the child of Knowledge gasp and look at him.
"What?" he asked.
"Gennai usually has the answer for everything that goes on. He must know what happened to Dai, so why not ask him what happened?" Tentomon asked.
Smiling at this, Izzy nodded as he stood up from his seat.
"That's a great idea, Tento. I don't know why I didn't think of it before." He said.
"I'm always happy to help." The lady bug said.
With that said, the duo of Knowledge then got up to take a short break and then would get in contact with Gennai to locate the missing female leader.
To be continued…