Ok, and here we are, chapter three…nothing that special to say up here, so HERE WE GO!

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Chapter 3 Tai Sense Tingling

Sora

I walked up to the Kamiya's door, and slowly opened the door to let myself in. The Kamiya's had been just letting me into their apartment for years so it was nothing new, especially since I was usually over at their apartment every day. As I entered the apartment, Yokomon sticking out of the backpack I had filled with everything I would need for the camping trip, Kari waved at me from the kitchen table. Both Salamon and DemiVeemon were sitting on the table, digging into the food that had been prepared for them.

With Tai gone it looked like the food was just going to be cereal today. Tai was the cook of the Kamiya family (well for himself, Kari, and Mr. Kamiya, Mrs. Kamiya still attempted to make some of her healthy recipes most days) so with him gone it was either cereal or one of Mrs. Kamiya's breakfasts, which I'd tried to many times.

"Good morning Kari!" I said cheerfully, Kari shook her head at my cheerfulness. She'd never been much of a morning person, much like her brother, so she wasn't that cheerful.

"Morning Sora." Kari said gesturing towards the chair across from her, which I proceed to sit in. Kari gestures towards the cereal next, but I shake my head, I'd gotten food from my apartment before heading down to the Kamiya's apartment. We'd all agreed to meet here since it was the one closest to the bottom floor of our apartment complex, so therefore it was a logical place to meet.

"Where's Davis?" I ask and Kari opens her mouth, just as there is a crash and a rather loud curse from the direction of Tai and Kari's room.

"Why the hell is that in the middle of my floor? When did I get on the floor? When did I get bunk beds? Oh…" Davis's voice can be heard saying all of that and trailing off as he seemed to realize he wasn't in his apartment.

I stifle a giggle, and I can tell Kari is doing the same. "I guess Davis isn't much of a morning person either." I say and Kari nods as she laughs more. Davis comes out of the Kamiya's bedroom rubbing his head. His goggles, the pair he'd bought to replace the one's he'd broken on his first day in the digital world, were around his neck, not in their usual position on his head.

"Why do we have to get up this early again?" Davis asks in a sullen voice as he sits down next to the two digimon and pulls the cereal over towards him.

"Davis, it's already after nine. If we waited any longer to leave we'd get stuck in all the traffic at mid-day and never get to the camp site." Kari replied, and Davis nodded groggily. He really wasn't a morning person in the least.

Well he was doing better than Tai on some mornings, like the time I'd been forced to get the bucket of water to get him out of bed…

"What happened to T.K.?" Davis asked, looking around and interrupting my thoughts.

"Whadya mean? He went to Matt's place last night." Kari said quickly, a little too quickly. I shot a glance at her though she was looking very intently at her cereal.

"I thought the two of you fffffeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllll asleep on the couch?" Davis asked as he opened his mouth for a huge yawn.

"Um…" Kari started almost as if she was looking for some sort of excuse. "He left after you went to bed…"

I looked at Kari suspiciously, but she wouldn't meet my eye, so I had no way of telling if she was lying or not, though the fact that she was burying her face suggested she was lying. I shrugged and pulled out my phone, thinking I should ask Matt if T.K. had made it to his apartment when I noticed a text from Tai.

It was a picture message, with a picture of a sleeping T.K. and Kari, along with a nice little message.

Look what I found on my sofa this morning =) love you, see you soon! =)

I smirk, and decide to have some fun messing with Kari.

"Kari look at this nice photograph that Tai sent me." I tell her, holding my phone up to her face. She gets one good look at the picture and freezes. 'It's such a cute photo don't you think?" I ask her as her face turns a very interesting shade of red.

I can't help but laugh, and the situation only grows funnier as Matt and T.K. walk into the apartment at that very moment. They both greet the three of us, and everyone stands up to leave. I take that opportunity to show Matt the photograph, and Kari's face only gets more red.

I don't know why she was so embarrassed by this little photo, after all it's not like she and T.K. were doing anything, they had just fallen asleep on the sofa. Tai and I had done that hundreds of time just over the last four months. Then I had to remember it was Kari, sweet and innocent little Kari. She probably figured everyone would jump to all sorts of conclusions, or that falling asleep on your boyfriend was dirty.

Silly Kari.

"So this is why T.K. was late getting to your house." I tell Matt, and T.K. seemed to have caught on to what was going on, because his eyes widened as Matt looked at the picture.

"Hmmm." Matt said as he looked at the picture, and then turned to T.K. "Your just lucky Tai didn't have Agumon attack you on the spot." Matt said with a laugh as both of the younger siblings faces turned red again.

Davis didn't really seem to know what was going on, because he still looked like he was asleep, on his feet, but I suppose that was a good thing. Tai would probably want to save that picture to blackmail Kari one day, and if everyone knew, that wouldn't work so well.

"Ok, I think that's enough embarrassment at their expense, let's get this trip started!" I declare, pointing towards the door. Matt laughs again and nods, leading the way out of the apartment.

As soon as we get into the car, Davis immediately curls into a little ball and starts sleeping. The four In-Training digimon all curl up around him and go to sleep as well, while Salamon curls up on top of Davis. Kari, Matt, T.K., and I talk the entire trip out to the cabin.

Matt's dad had arranged for us to use the same cabin that the guys had used during the younger digidestined's final assault on the digimon emperor's base, so it was about an hour outside of town. Despite the fact that we were in Matt's van it didn't take us that long to get out to the cabin, much to the sleeping Davis's disappointment, not to mention the digimon.

"Come on Davis!" T.K. said shaking the goggleheaded boy, trying to wake him up as the rest of us pulled the luggage out of the van.

Davis's only response was to let out a loud snore.

"T.K., just leave him, when he wakes up he'll come in. Come help me with these bags." Matt said to T.K. while he was buried under five separate suitcases.

"You know Matt, if you hadn't brought all of that stuff you probably wouldn't need T.K.'s help." I tell Matt with a laugh as I pick up my backpack. Matt had packed far too much stuff for this trip. Those suitcases really were his. Usually Tai and I would take the time to mock his over packing, and I almost did expect Tai to jump in with a joke about hair care products.

I could almost hear what he would say…"Don't mock him just because he needs three suitcases for his hair products!" Man, I really missed having Tai here with me. This was the first time in nearly four months that we'd spent a good amount of time apart when it couldn't be helped. Usually we spent a couple of hours apart at school and afterwards during our different practices, but that was the extent of our time apart. That was one of the advantages of living only a few floors away from your best friend, and the man you loved, you got to see him all the time.

"Hey! Two of these are T.K.'s!" Matt said indignantly and I had to laugh.

"Geez Matt, you two are the most high maintenance men I've ever met." I tell him as we all walk into the cabin.

The rest of the morning and afternoon was spent unpacking. Kari and I were sharing a room, while the boys were split between two rooms. It actually turned out that Matt only had one suitcase for hair products, and one for clothes. The other was filled with a bunch of movies and board games to entertain everyone for the week we would be spending out here.

After all of our stuff was unpacked we decided to put in a movie to pass the time until Tai arrived, so that's how our afternoon went. I was honestly starting to get a little anxious. I didn't really expect Tai to get to the cabin as soon as he had said, after all he had to find the digimon, then fight it, so I expected it to take a few hours in the digital world, but still we should have heard something from him by now.

Soon after the movie had finished I started to feel very uneasy. I couldn't really explain it, but I felt that something was wrong. Back when we were kids our parents always used to say that Tai and I were connected, somehow we would always know when the other was in trouble. I had the same feeling right now about Tai, so I went into the little kitchen area and pulled out my phone. We actually got service all the way out here, so when I called Tai's phone I was surprised when it went straight to his voicemail.

How can he not even be back yet? I wonder to myself. Maybe I should call Izzy…

"Sora! Come on were going to play Monopoly!" Kari shouted from the cabin's living room, and I looked out there. Ok, calm down, Tai can take care of himself, he's ok. What digimon can mess with him and Agumon anyway? I tell myself to calm my nerves.

"Coming!" I shout back and join in the board game.

~later that day~

I paced around the outside of the cabin we were staying at again, despite the biting cold and the fact that it was getting dark. The fact that it was getting dark was the reason I was pacing outside of the cabin. Tai should have been here by now, and I was even more concerned. Despite what I had told myself earlier he still wasn't picking up his phone. In fact from what I could tell he wasn't even in the real world at all. Not to mention my little 'Tai Sense' was still bugging me.

Ok, just call Izzy and have him check on Tai. I tell myself, pulling my phone out. The phone rings as I wait for Izzy to pick up, and continue my pacing. All four of my friends are sitting on the porch of the cabin watching me. They're not saying anything, but I know their starting to get concerned for Tai too.

Izzy finally picks up.

"Hello?"

"Izzy?"

"Yea, Sora is that you? How's the trip going?"

"Just fine Izzy, look, Tai hasn't shown up yet and we were wondering if you could do a quick search for him in the digital world, just make sure he's ok."

"Yea, sure thing Sora, let me just get to my computer and boot it up."

I'm a little shocked as Izzy says that. Him, not at his computer, and it's not even on?

"Izzy, since when are you not on your computer?" I ask, my curiosity getting the better of me.

"Well, I had Joe, Mimi, Cody, Ken, and Yolei come over and well…" Izzy paused here for a second then continued. "Mimi kinda told me not to get on the computer or else."

I laughed as he said that. I could just imagine Mimi scaring Izzy out of using his computer while she was visiting.

"Well Izzy, at least we all know a way to get you off your computer somehow." I tell Izzy with a laugh, and hear a mumbled reply. A couple of seconds pass where the only thing I can hear is a furious typing of keys, then Izzy gets back on the line.

"Sora, there may be a problem." My heart stops as he says this, and I guess my entire body stiffened, because all four of the others were right next to me in a second. "I've got Tai's digivice located, but it's not moving at all, and from what I can tell of the data in the area it's heavily damaged, like a battle took place there, a really big one."

I swallow and I feel a giant hole in my stomach. A battle big enough for the damage to register on Izzy's computer, and Tai wasn't moving?

"Sora?" Kari asked from next to me, obviously not liking the look that was on my face. I take a deep breath, and hold up a finger to tell Kari one second.

"Izzy, can you tell me the coordinates for that area? We're going to go check it out." I tell Izzy, and see Kari, Matt and T.K. all stiffen. Davis seems frozen for a second, and then goes to Matt's car. I watch him as I wait for Izzy to give me the coordinates, and I see Davis pulling out the laptop we'd brought, just in case we needed to go to the digital world. That caused me to smile a bit, Davis was thinking ahead, which was good to see.

"Um…Sora?" Izzy asked after a couple of seconds.

"Yea Izzy?"

"Are you sure you want to do this, it could be dangerous…"

"Izzy, Tai could be hurt, or still in danger, and need our help; we're going, so give us the coordinates." I nearly shout into the phone. I know that Izzy was just trying to look out for us, but he had no idea how I felt, to not know if Tai was hurt or worse, that he could need my, our, help at this very second, I just couldn't stand that.

"Ok, ok, here's the coordinates…" Izzy replies, giving me the coordinates as Davis holds the laptop for me.

"Thanks Izzy. If Tai's hurt we may have to come to your apartment, there's no hospital out here." I tell Izzy, and I'm sure he nodded on the other side.

"Ok Sora, I'll be monitoring you guys."

"Thanks Izzy." I hang up the phone and turn to the others. Davis has DemiVeemon on his head and is looking at the computer intently, while the others are looking at me.

"Tai, he.." I struggle to find the words to explain everything, or at least to vocalize them. It's almost as if saying that he may be hurt or worse would make it more real. "…He may be in trouble." I finish, and I think that the others understand. I can't actually vocalize what could have happened to him, he had to be ok.

Kari looked like she was about to lose it, actually seeming to know what I was not saying. T.K. noticed this as well and put his arm around Kari. Matt was standing next to me, and looked at me arching an eyebrow, and I just gave him a look. Matt was a great friend, but I didn't need comfort at that moment; I needed to get to Tai. He simply held his hands in the air as I gave him the look, and I smiled, slightly, in thanks for his understanding.

I stepped up next to Davis, who looked at me.

"Tai will be fine Sora, just watch." Davis told me, a small smile on his face, I returned it, and felt Matt stepping up next to me.

"Ok, well, let's go get him!" Matt said confidently, holding his digivice up to the laptop.

"Digiport open!" Davis shouted as Kari and T.K. joined us and we were all transported into the digital world.

Izzy had done almost too good of a job getting us close to Tai's location. We landed in the middle of a desolate landscape. The trees around us were broken and many had fallen over. The ground was covered with craters. There were fires burning in parts of the former forest, where the trees were still standing.

I gasped as I took in the landscape, and I could feel all of the others having a similar reaction. We'd seen the digital world damaged too many times, but never devastated like this.

"What happened here?" Matt asked as he stepped away from the group.

"I don't know, but it couldn't have been good for anyone." Davis replied, taking up a position watching our backs.

"Sora, was Tai here?" Kari asked, very very quietly, and I turned to her.

"I think so Kari." I tell her, and I'm getting more scared the more I look at this landscape. If Tai had been here when all of this damage had been caused what happened to him? Was he fighting something and this was the aftermath of the battle, or did this happen after the battle?

"I've got a signal for Tai's digivice!" Matt suddenly called, and I was at his side in a second, my digivice out as well. The five of us are a single large blinking light, while there is a much smaller one blinking a little ways away from us.

"Let's go." I simply say, taking off in the direction the signal was coming from, Biyomon flying right behind me. Davis was keeping up with me very easily, while the other three were lagging slightly behind. I slowed my pace as I hit the edge of the village, or rather the former edge of the village.

What must have been a rather normal looking digimon village seemed to contain Tai's signal as well as the worst damage. The many buildings that had once been standing in this village were mostly splinters covering the ground. Occasionally there would be a wall or two standing, maybe even a door, but almost all of the buildings were destroyed.

"Oh my." I say simply as I come to a complete halt. When we'd been told about attacks against villages I hadn't imagined anything like this. It was pure destruction, something I'd expect to see in a war zone not the digital world.

The five of us stopped in a small cluster with our digimon, all unable to move because of the sheer destruction around us. Gabumon was the first to notice something.

Sniff sniff "I think I smell a digimon!" Gabumon exclaimed as he sniffed the air.

"Is it Agumon?" I ask quickly, but Gabumon shakes his head.

"No, someone else…" Gabumon bares his teeth in a defensive gesture, towards the source of the smell.

The other four digimon all spread out in a defensive stance around us, when three digimon burst out of some of the wreckage. I immediately recognized them as Poromon, they must have been the inhabitants of this village.

They stopped as soon as they saw our digimon completely surrounding them, and cower down in fright.

"Wait!" Kari and I shout to the digimon, who had already been stopping their attacks. The three Poromon looked around as our digimon stopped.

"It's the digidestined!" One exclaimed, and all three of the Poromon all let out a sigh of relief. Kari and T.K. went up to the three Poromon, who accepted their comforting.

Matt, Davis and I continued looking around the village, and I couldn't help but be drawn once more towards Tai's signal. It led to the center of the village. I couldn't tell if it had been a square, or just a small break in the villages building because the worst devastation I had seen yet was here. One entire quarter of the village from the looks of things had been destroyed by a single attack from here, and it had left the biggest crater I had ever seen. Other portions of the town looked like their buildings had different digimon thrown into them at points, and in the center of the area it looked like a steady series of blasts had destroyed the ground around the center of the open area.

There were debris from all over the town that were scattered in this central open area, and right in the middle of all that devastation I could just barely make out a few patches of blue and yellow.

"Tai!" I shout, running as fast as I can towards the patches, which turned out to be a partially covered Tai Kamiya.

I try not to be sick as I get there. There's blood everywhere, and Tai is covered in cuts, many of which are still bleeding. Not only is he covered on blood, but the ground around him is too. Shit! I think seeing the amount of blood.

I quickly drop down; ripping off the jacket I'm wearing to use it for bandages. Tai had already lost a lot of blood, maybe too much blood, and he couldn't afford to lose any more.

"Davis! Matt!" I shout over my shoulder towards the two boys who were still near the edge of the village center. I could hear both of them come running, but I'm hardly paying attention as I try to clean up Tai.

"Oh shit…" Matt says as he gets a look at Tai. Davis just drops to the other side, removing his jacket for the same reason as me.

"Matt…" I say as Davis and I cover most of Tai's still bleeding wounds. The blood from them is starting to soak the part of our jackets we covered them with. "…Get T.K. and Kari. We need to get Tai to a hospital, and Angemon will be the safest bet for moving him…"

I am completely surprised at the fact that I'm not breaking down. I guess the need to save Tai is just keeping my head clear, but it's still surprising. As Matt runs off, and Davis pulls Koromon out of the wreckage next to Tai, I clear the remainder of the wreckage off of Tai.

I should have listened earlier today… I think to myself as I stare at Tai's broken body. Just please let him be ok, and that'll never happen again….

~Real World~

We managed to get Tai all the way back to a digiport and through it into Izzy's room. Needless to say us arriving there, with a heavily injured Tai and an unconscious Koromon was not something anyone was expecting. Luckily Joe seemed to remember some of his doctor training (and didn't faint at the sight of Tai's injuries) and got everyone down to his car.

Unfortunately only Kari and I could squeeze into Joe's car with him since he didn't have a school bus. The others said they would follow us, but we weren't really worrying about that, we just needed to get Tai to the hospital.

Luckily we were going to the hospital that Joe's father worked at so we were able to head straight into a room rather than waiting hours for something to open up in the emergency room. Kari and I were eventually shown out of the room as several different doctors all worked to help Tai.

The next few hours were some of the worst of my life. Kari and I were kept out in the waiting area as Tai was ushered into one of the back rooms. We couldn't get anything out of the doctors, so we were kept in the dark completely. Even Joe couldn't get anything out of the medical people, which was surprising.

We eventually had to deal with all of the people showing up. Davis had called Mr. and Mrs. Kamiya, and they managed to arrive before any of the other digidestined. They were just as stonewalled as Kari and I and ended up sitting with us in the waiting room.

Mr. Kamiya tried to comfort his wife and daughter, but had very little success at this, and I sat there alone. I couldn't very well intrude on the Kamiya family; they had to feel the same as I did. After a while Mrs. Kamiya started pacing around the waiting room, badgering anyone who came out of the back area where her son was currently being worked on.

The other digidestined showed up at some point, but I'm not really sure when. I was just staring at the door that led to the back area. I don't know how I wasn't crying, because I should have been, but I still had managed not to somehow. That didn't mean I was ok, far from it, I was just shutting everything out, only paying attention to that door. My tears could come later.

Eventually one of the doctors came out of the back area, and actually stopped to talk to the Kamiya parents, both of whom had rushed over the second he exited the door. That snapped me out of my daze in a hurry. I finally noticed the fact that Yolei was sitting on one side of me, while Matt was on the other side, since they both jumped up as I got out of my seat.

I took a couple of steps forward before stopping. This was a moment for the Kamiya's not me, I should just sit back down and wait. Before I can move I feel a hand on my arm, and look over to see Kari. She really doesn't look so good, and her eyes are red from crying. This has to be horrible for her. Tai and she were closer than close, and to see him like that had to be horrible. Of course I did know how that felt, but I still felt bad for Kari, she really was like the little sister I'd never had.

Kari actually smiles at me a little bit, and holds onto my arm, waiting with me. We can't hear a word the doctors are saying, and both of the Kamiya parent's backs are turned, so I can't judge anything from their expressions. I can feel the rest of the digidestined all gathering behind Kari and I, all of them waiting for news, just like us.

Finally Mr. Kamiya put an arm around Mrs. Kamiya, and the doctor turned away. My entire body froze at this exchange. Why would she need to be comforted if that was good news…

That thought had barely passed through my mind when both parents were standing in front of us. I forced myself to look up at both of them. Mrs. Kamiya had tears in her eyes, but Mr. Kamiya forced a smile.

"Tai…we can go see him now."

OH no! another cliff hanger! Well, that wasn't fun at all. The digidestined in general and Tai in particular, just can never seem to catch a break. Oh well, we wouldn't have a story otherwise. So I guess that's it from me…until next week!

But wait! I actually have more! I've decided to bring back…chapter previews! Alright! Ok, so here's the preview for next week!

"What kind of digimon does this?" Davis asked as we followed Sora into what had been the villages central square. The worst damage seemed to be here.

"Is…is…Tai going to be ok?" Kari asked in a broken tone.

The room was almost deathly quiet. The only sounds that could be heard were the faint whirring of the machines around Tai and the beeping of the heart monitor hooked up to him. The room was only dimly lit and I could just make out Tai's shape on the bed.

Ok, that was a really bad preview…sorry, it'll be better next time, I promise!

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Punkagumon: lol thanks! And I'll keep it coming!

TaioraWarrior: Thanks! Other than the almost killing Tai part, I really enjoyed writing this chapter to, so I guess it was good for everyone! I'll try and keep that blend in there, because there is going to be A LOT more action before this fic is over, and I mean A LOT. And yea, I liked all of those scenes, bring back any memory from the show is always a goal for me, so I'm glad you enjoyed. Lol that is weird, I guess it's just that great minds think alike, that's the most reasonable explanation for that lol. The map was probably my favorite part, I wrote that scene that way just so I could get map in there, because map was freaking hilarious lol

Amaramichelle: Thanks! I'm glad you like it, and I will!

Appealtoreason: Yep, more action is this stories game. I wanted to do a bit of that after the first stories almost exclusive emotion/relationship focus. This one will be more rounded with A LOT more action.

Lachelle92: lol thanks, and yea he is, and I didn't even have to make him up! FTW! Lol. And thanks!

OmegaMan133: Hey! And I'm glad you joined. Your reason is a very good one, and the same reason I joined way back when (5 months ago haha). Thanks for everything. I really do feel pretty much the same way as you. I'm not much of a writer(this is my first real experience with writing so I don't know a whole lot about character development and all that other stuff) but I did love the characters as a kid, and felt that more could be done with the,,. And I wanted to be the one to do it. Ok, continuing on…I laughed at the part about wanting to skip class. I usually want to do that to continue writing, but that's just cause I don't like my classes lol. I'm glad you were happy to find the sequel, I tried to make sure everyone could see there was one, I like my readers after all. Um last bit, I'm glad your excited, because honestly I'm excited about this story. Hopefully everyone will keep the excitement, and we'll all have a grand time. Until next time!

DephsXylex: lol well after you felt sorry for Davis, I did have to get you back to Tai…lol and yea, that's what happens when you're an author's favorite character, and the author doesn't want to just over power said character, they get picked on lol, though of course the being a good guy does contribute, at least with Tai…lol