Chapter 3:
All of the second generation of Digidestind except Davis and Veemon were walking to Odaiba Elementary.
Even though the goggled boy and dragon were a part of the team, they always woke up late and after waiting for some time at Davis' apartment building, they decided to go to school without the duo of Miracles.
When the group arrives at the front gate of Odaiba Elementary, two of their members broke off to go to their classes since they were from different age groups.
The four remaining members walk to their lockers to put in their backpacks and take out the books they need for their first class.
Once they got what they needed, they headed to their classroom and since TK was ahead of everyone, he slides the door open.
The Digidestind walks to their desk and just as they set their books down, the first bell rings.
Students started filling the classroom and it looked like Davis was going to be late for class again, when said brunet jumped into the room.
Davis walks to his desk and sets down his book before sitting down.
Kari turns towards the goggled boy and was about to asks him about Takato but the teacher came walks into the classroom.
"All right class, settle down" the teacher said as he sets down his books onto the table in front of the class.
"Before we start our lesson, I would like to introduce to you a new student who will be joining us" he added before signaling to the person behind the classroom door to come in.
The door slides open and a person walks into the room but when the students saw his face, they were shocked beyond belief.
"Hello everyone, I'm the new student that Mr. Nigato mentioned just now. My name is Takato Motomiya" Takato said giving the class a polite bow.
Everyone was even more shocked upon hearing Takato's last name and a teal haired girl wearing a light green blouse and brown skirt snapped out her stupor and asks "Are you related to Davis Motomiya in anyway?".
"Of course, I'm his twin brother" the Tamer of Hazard said in a matter-of-factly voice.
"You're twins?!" the students in the classroom exclaimed in shock as they all stare at Davis with gaping mouths.
"Looks like the secret's out isn't it bro?" Davis laughed at the expressions on his classmates faces.
"Okay settle down, class. And as for you Mr. Motomiya, you can sit at the desk next to your brother" the teacher said after writing Takato's name on the blackboard for everyone to see.
Takato walks to his new desk and sits down before giving his younger brother a high five.
Soon class continued like normal with both the Motomiya twins barely paying attention in class as Takato draws on his notebooks every now and then while Davis constantly falls asleep in class.
The bell signaling for lunch had rang and students were now heading to the cafeteria to get something to eat.
But at the school field, the twins were sitting on tree with their lunches in their hands and their tails lazily hanging by their side while their partners were sleep below them.
Digimons were not originally reveal to the public until after the Digidestind had fought and defeated a powerful digimon named MaloMyotismon but even though the Digidestind could bring their partners to school, they were not allowed in the classroom during learning periods.
"So Takato…" Davis started as he takes a bite out of his sandwich. "…What do you think about Odaiba Elementary so far?" he asks, turning his head to see his brother's response.
"Well it's hard to say, seeing as how I hadn't even finished my first day of school" Takato said before eating his lunch.
"You know Takato, it's fun being able to hang out in tree with you again. It's been so long since we last done it" the Keeper of Miracles mused, gently swing his tail.
"I know what you mean Davis; I also miss those days where it's just the two of us".
"Davis, Takato!" called out a familiar voice, that brought the twins out of their bonding moment and hide their tails into their clothes before anyone notices.
The brothers turn their heads to the source and saw the second generation Digidestind walking towards them with their partners at their side.
"Hey guys!" Davis called back while Takato just sat in silence since even though his brother had told him about his team, the Tamer of Hazard did not really know much about the group.
"Hey Yolei, Cody, have you met my brother, Takato?" he asks gesturing to the brunet next to him.
Both Yolei and Cody had already seen Takato along with the members of the first generation yesterday, but they shook their heads as to not give away the fact that they were spying on their leader.
"Well this is my twin brother, Takato Motomiya, and the red dinosaur below us is his partner, Guilmon" Davis introduced for his brother's behalf.
"Hello. My name's Miyako 'Yolei' Inoue, my partner is Hawkmon and this is Iori 'Cody' Hida and Armadillomon" Yolei said while gesturing to said people.
"Nice to meet you, Dais had told me a lot about you guys yesterday" Takato said with a smile on his face.
"He did? What did he say about me?" Yolei hissed, glaring at Davis.
Takato notices how the older girl was acting towards his brother and did not like it one bit.
"He said that he was glad to be working with people like you" he said while giving Yolei a cold look.
The Inheritor of Love and Sincerity seemed to not have notice the look as she gave a prideful huff.
"Anyway…" Kari started, noticing the look that Takato had and decided to change the subject.
"We're going to do patrols in the Digital World today with the older Digidestind. You want to join us Takato?".
"Sure. I've been wanting to meet the older Digidestind ever since Dais told me about them yesterday" Takato smiled and just then the bell rang, signaling that the lunch break was over.
Classes went by like usual and soon the final bell had rang.
At the school hallway, Takato was waiting for Davis to finish keeping his stuff inside his locker.
"Okay, that's care of that" Davis sighed in relief as he slams the locker door shut and slings his backpack over his shoulder.
"Hey Takato, I have to go to the soccer field for soccer practice. So why don't you go and wait at the computer lab with the others?" he suggested to his older brother.
Takato nods at his brother suggestion and left to get his partner, who was waiting for him at the schoolyard.
After getting Guilmon, the Hazard duo head to the computer lab and arrive within minutes.
Takato slides the lab door open and saw all the Digidestind, both young and old, were already there except for Ken, Willis, Davis and their partners.
"Davis? What are you doing here? I thought you have soccer practice today?" Tai asks, confused until he notice the different goggles on the other brunet's head and remembered them to belonging to the person he saw yesterday.
"Wait, who are you?" the Child of Courage asks, attracting everyone's attention.
"I'm Takato Motomiya, Dais' twin brother" Takato introduced himself as he gives everyone a polite bow.
"Davis has a twin brother?" Sora gasps in shock just as the other older generation did.
"Yep and this is my partner, Guilmon" the Tamer of Hazard said in a cheery voice as his partner waves at everyone.
"Wait, if you're Davis' twin brother, then why haven't any of us ever met you before now?" Izzy asks.
"Actually, Kari and I met before when we were younger" Takato admitted, making everyone turn towards the Child of Light.
"We have?" Kari gasps as she tries to remember when had the two met in the past.
"It was when we were seven. I was playing in the park while Dais was going shopping with our mother and Jun; when Kari suddenly walks up to me and called me by my brother's name".
"Oh, now I remember! You then corrected me by telling me that you weren't Davis but actually his brother!" Kari exclaimed, causing everyone except Takato and Guilmon to fall down anime style.
"Kari, why didn't you tell us that you already knew that Davis had a twin brother?" Tai groaned as everyone sat back at their seats.
"Well I only met Takato once and it was a really long time ago, so I guess the memory just slipped my mind" the younger Kamiya said while rubbing the back of her head.
"Hey Takato, since we're waiting for Ken, Willis and your brother, why don't you tell us more about yourself?" Sora suggested.
Takato sat down on a chair and started telling about himself and his adventures in Shinjuku.
It took about more than an hour for the Tamer of Hazard to finish his story-telling, with him cutting out certain parts like his and his brother's tails and powers.
"…And that's how I defeated the Parasimon invasion and saved the Real World for the third time" Takato finished his story before the computer lab door slides open and an exhausted Ken, Willis and Davis walks inside.
"Hey, what did we miss?" Davis asks, plopping down on a chair next to his brother.
"Your brother was just finished telling us all about his adventures" Tai informed to the Keeper of Miracles.
"I can't believe that both you and your brother are leaders of your own teams" Sora mused.
"Neither can I" both Takato and Davis said in unison.
The twins look at each other for a moment before bursting into fits of laughter while everyone just stared at them.
"Man, I missed us doing that" Davis mused after his laughing had died down.
"Okay, I think we should get going to the Digital World before things get a little too weird" Izzy said as he opens the Digi-Port.
Everyone points their digivice towards the computer and got sucked inside it in a flash of white light.
When the light disappeared, the group was now in a clearing inside a forest standing in front of a TV set.
"So this is your Digital World. It's much different compare to the one my team and I have been to" Takato mused as he looks at his surroundings.
"Wait, you're saying that there are other Digital Worlds than this one?" Izzy asks and the Tamer of Hazard nodded in response.
"So how are we going to this, guys?" Davis asks, referring to the reason they were there in the first place.
"Well how about we draw straws and see who gets paired with who?" Tai suggested.
"Nah, I think I'll go on my own. I want to see how different this Digital World is compare to the other one I've been to" Takato said as he takes out his D-Power and brings it to his chest before a bright light engulfs both him and Guilmon.
When the light had faded away, a large knight in red and white armor with a red cape swaying in the wind armed with a lance on his right arm and a shield on his left.
"We'll all meet up here later right?" the knight, Gallantmon, said in a dual voice of both Takato and Guilmon.
"Yeah, before sunset" Tai informed the Royal Knight.
Gallantmon nodded his head in acknowledgement before jumping high up into the sky and disappearing from sight.
"Now that leaves us with an odd number of Digidestind, so who wants to join up with who?" Tai asks the group.
"Well considering that I have two partners, I'll go solo; if that's okay with you guys?" Willis suggested.
"Willis has a point. Since he has two partners; if he was pair with someone, then that group will be unnecessarily powerful when he could help cover more ground as a separate group" Izzy concluded.
"Okay, now that that's decided; let's draw straws to set up the other teams" Tai said as he picks up some small sticks from the ground.
The remaining twelve humans pick a stick from the Child of Courage's hand and compare their stick with the others to see who they will be paired with.
In the end, the pairings went with Tai and Sora, Matt and TK, Yolei and Ken, Cody and Joe, Mimi and Izzy and Davis and Kari.
Everyone digivolved their digimons and left at different direction.
At Davis and Kari's group, they were moving through the forest with Nefertimon flying overhead with Kari on her back and Raidramon sprinting at full speed while maneuvering in between the trees.
The patrol was peaceful and very uneventful when suddenly, a blue fireball came out of nowhere and nearly blown Nefertimon out of the sky.
Raidramon skidded into a stop and tried to find the source of the fireball but he was knocked down by a thick chain covered in blue flames.
Nefertimon quickly lands to let Kari get down before flying back up into the sky to find the mysterious attacker.
What the sphinx digimon found was a large human with blue hair, a metal mask and chains and covered in blue flames on his body wearing a pair of leather pants with red and orange flame patterns at the sides and metal boots.
Nefertimon fires a stone slab at the fire digimon, which did very little except attracted his attention.
The digimon, SkullMeramon, fires another fireball to take down Nefertimon but it narrowly misses her.
Noticing that the flaming ultimate's attention was elsewhere; Raidramon charges at SkullMeramon and bites his arm before unleashing a burst of electricity through his jaws.
The electricity manages to stun SkullMeramon for only a moment but he quickly recovers and throws the armor digimon into a tree, snapping it in half.
Nefertimon dives at SkullMeramon while firing jewels from her bracelets in an attempt to knock him back until Raidramon could get back up on his feet.
The distraction worked as the dragon gets back on his feet and fires a bolt of lightning at the ultimate.
SkullMeramon stumbles back from the double teaming but holds his ground.
He fires a barrage of flaming chains at the two armor digimons and they try to dodge the attack but they got hit in the end.
"Oh no, Raidramon!" Davis exclaimed as he kneels down to his partner, who had de-digivolve back into Veemon.
"Nefertimon!" Kari cried out, cradling her injured and de-digivolved partner in her arms.
Kari was so busy tending to her partner; she did not notice SkullMeramon about to strike her with one of his chains that he was using as a whip.
"Kari, watch out!" Davis exclaimed as he gets to his feet and sprints towards Kari.
Kari looks up to see the flaming chain whip coming down on her at incredible speeds and brace herself for the attack that would end her life but when she felt no pain, she opens her eyes to the most shocking sight.
Davis was standing in front of her with SkullMeramon's chain wraps around his left arm but what shocked Kari was that his whole arm was covered in blue scales and his eyes were almost completely slit.
Davis scowled in pain when he felt the flaming chain tightening around his arm and growled in anger, revealing his teeth that had turned into an array of sharp fangs.
Suddenly a large beam of energy came out from the forest behind them and blinded Kari for a moment but when it died down, SkullMeramon was now a cloud of data particles and Davis was back to normal with a burned away left sleeve and his arm had minor burns.
'D-Did I just image that?' Kari thought before a hand was extended towards her.
Looking up, Kari saw that it belong to Davis, who was looking at her with concern in his eyes.
Putting the issue at the back of her mind, the Child of Light accepted the help and gets to her feet.
"Are you two alright?" a dual asks from behind them and when they turn to see who it belong to, they saw Gallantmon walking towards them.
"Yeah we're fine, thanks for the save just now bro" Davis said while hiding his left arm for some reason.
"Your digimons are too injured to bring you back to the meeting point, so hop onto my shoulders" the knight said as he puts the foursome onto his shoulders.
The journey back to the meeting point was a very quiet one as Davis avoids Kari and Gallantmon's gazes while trying to hide his injured arm from view.
As expected, all the Digidestind and their digimons were already at the Digi-Port, thus it was also expected that Yolei would be the first one to 'point' out that fact.
"What took you guys so long?! Was Davis hitting on you again, Kari?!" Yolei spat in disgusts, making Gallantmon glare at her.
"Actually, we were late because a SkullMeramon attacked us just now" Kari explained, making everyone look at her in shock.
"You were attacked?! Did you get hurt?!" Tai exclaimed with a worried looked on his face.
"Our partners got badly injured and we almost got killed if Da-" Kari said before getting cut off.
"If Gallantmon hadn't come along and defeated him at the last minute" the Keeper of Miracles said nervously.
"Really? Thanks for saving my sister's life, Takato" Tai said as Gallantmon de-digivolve back to Takato and Guilmon.
"It's nothing; a friend of my brother's is a friend to me" Takato said with a goofy grin on his face.
"Come on guys, let's go back home" Matt said as he points his digivice towards the TV set and gets sucked in.
Everyone slowly followed and just as Davis was about to point his digivice, Kari puts her hand on his shoulder and turns him around.
"Davis, I want to talk to you about what happened just now" Kari said but Davis shook his head.
"There's nothing to talk about, Kari. And please don't tell anybody about it, not even my brother" the goggled boy said in a serious tone before pointing his digivice to the TV set and getting sucked into it.
'Davis, what are you hiding and why won't you tell me? We're best friends, right?' Kari thought before letting out a sigh of frustration and points her digivice to the TV.
She would have to keep a closer eye on Davis tomorrow if she was going to figure out anything.
