Piyomon=Biomon

It was dark. So awfully dark. So deep. So endless.
How could that be? Where was the light? Where was it? It had to be somewhere. Where? Why didn´t he see it?
There was nothing but darkness around. It was wrong, without light it was wrong. He tried to gain awareness of his surroundings.
What was he doing here? What was he supposed to do?
But without light there was nothing he could do, nothing to do but staring into the darkness and hoping for the light to come.

Two weeks had passed.
Two weeks of nothingness. Literally. After the hit on the first day they had found nothing. And after Ken and Davis had lost track of Phelsmon they hadn´t even seen the army again. Villages were still getting grounded, though.
Izzy typed unmotivated some commands into his computer. Was there some place they hadn´t searched yet? Some way to sip by? Some kind of possibility they had overseen? Nothing. They had so few search results that Izzy considered searching the Dark Ocean as well.
One could see it as part of the Digiworld if one wanted.
Gennai said they wouldn´t need to. The Dark Ocean wasn´t really part of the Digiworld. He said it wasn´t possible to enter the Dark Ocean without alarming the sensors. Even after Izzy pointed out that there was a kid with the Spirits of Darkness Gennai persisted that the Dark Ocean was a waste of time.
He sighed.
Even if they decided to search the Dark Ocean the Digidestined couldn´t go there. Only Ken and Kari have ever gone there and both did it unintentional. And Gennai and his lookalikes couldn´t leave the Digiworld. Hence the search would stop before it even began. Plus there was Daemon to consider.
On second thought it was best if they just forgot about it, Izzy concluded.

He sighed again. Izzy couldn´t help but feel that he overlooked something.

Gennai hadn´t been able to contact Ofanimon and the boy hadn´t woken up either. His body was almost healed and the random fires had almost stopped. But he just didn´t wake up.
Gennai had run a scan on him a few days ago but it get any results. Dr. Kido checked on him once, too. No results either. He had only said that some people never woke up from a coma and had wanted to transfer the boy to a hospital so that he could run some other tests, but dropped the idea after Izzy told him about his suddenly-starting- to-burn habit.
The Yagami´s were taking care of the boy right now. His mother had a job and couldn´t watch the boy 24/7 in case he stated a little fire.

Today was the second day of the two days of holidays the Digidestined had allowed themselves.
Worn out one could neither fight nor think. Hence the two days of rest. Today was also the day they would hold a meeting for the first time in two weeks. Izzy had explained the absolute minimum to the others per mail. He didn´t want to confuse them, but today he would explain every detail. Staring by the Spirits, ending by the fortress.
His voice started hurting already.

Izzy sighed again and pressed the enter button. A new program was finished.

Just on time; the doorbell rang. Announcing the arrival of the first of 11 others.

It was dark. Still so dark. Terribly dark.

This darkness was different from before.

This darkness was tight, not wide. He felt cornered. This darkness was evil.

Where was he? Who was he? And where was the light? Without light the evil was going to overtake the darkness. Where was it?

He wanted to look around, but couldn´t. He couldn't move a limb. Compared to before he was nailed in place. He couldn´t even breathe. However he didn´t feel the need to either.

"So they are carrying their partner inside of them?"

"Was that the most important thing you got of this conversation, Davis?" Izzy didn´t even raise an eyebrow at him.

"No, but I just thought that it must be amazing." Davis couldn´t help but imagine what it would feel like to have Chibimon trapped inside of him. He wouldn´t need to worry about getting no breakfast.

"I don´t like your face, Davish." He looked down at Chibimon in his lap. Chibimon had a worried/afraid expression. Davis had to hide a smile.

"Nah, don´t worry about it, Chibimon."Since he wasn´t one of these other children it wasn´t possible for him in the first place.

"If you say so, Davish." Chibimon didn´t seem convinced.

"To answer your question, yes they do."

"Must have been frustrating to watch his partner get hurt." Piyomon voiced. Davis immediately felt guilty for thinking selfishly when he watched the faces of the Digimon fall. Not being able to protect their partners was by far one of the most painful experiences they have had so far.
Even if Chibimon always stole his breakfast he didn´t want to pain his partner.

A knock on the door pulled them out of depressing silence.
Only Mrs. Izumi´s head entered the room. Davis guessed she didn´t want to cramp the room any more than it already was. Mrs. Izumi searched the room until she locked on to Tai.

"Mrs. Yagami is on the phone." She informed their leader. "She wants to talk to you."

Davis heard the leaving Tai curse something about 'damm experiments'; a chill ran down his spine.
Davis had eaten Mrs. Yagamis homemade food only once, and he most certainly didn´t want to try it again. Davis saw equally pitiful expressions on the other Digidestined´s faces .

He finally came to the conclusion that this darkness was wrong. It was evil, limited and lightless. True darkness was always in some way close to light. Like two sides of a medal. But this darkness was nothing like that.
Yes, it was definitely wrong.

He could feel other presences, but where the owners were he couldn´t tell. And he couldn´t move to search for them either.

"My son says he and his friends would like to meet you. Do you think you feel well enough to walk?" The young mother- Mrs. Yagami- asked him.

"I sure do, Mrs. Yagami." Takuya took his empty plate and put it on top of the dishwasher."Your food was delicious, by the way."

"Oh my, thank you.
My children never finish their plate and always say I need to practice more." Mrs. Yagami handed him a coat from the wardrobe."Agumon eats everything, though."

It caught Takuya a bit of guard that she mentioned a Digimon off handed like it was an everyday business. Then again, maybe it was.
After Takuya had awoken a few minutes ago and reconsidered what had happened so far he tended to think that this was a different dimension after all. Plus he had tried to call his home; unsurprisingly the number wasn´t in use.
But what made him believe in a different dimension the most was that Agnimon and Vitramon were still inside him. It was impossible for Digimon to enter his Human World.

Mrs. Yagami locked the door behind them and led the way out of the apartment complex.
Questions were swirling in his head and he decided to get a few answers from the mother.

"Mrs Yagami," he started, not sure how much the mother knew or not knew," is your son Digidestined?"

Takuya saw the mother´s jaw tighten. He didn´t need to hear her speak to know the answer.

"He is. My daughter is, too." Parental worry erasing her usual good mood. "I really wish they would have chosen another hobby." Hobby?

"You are too, right? My son said so."

"Yes."

"Do your parents know?"

"No."

"Do they know where you are? Or at least that you are save?"

"I don´t know." Takuya watched his breath turn white in the cold.
He didn´t want to think what his mother might be thinking. Maybe Lady Ofanimon or his friends had taken care of that. No, wait, what did that clown say?
'Which are you, fire, light, wind, ice, thunder or darkness?' He sighed. So they were here as well. Then only Lady Ofanimon could have taken care of his parents.
Or maybe time didn´t move as fast as it did here. But something said him it did.
Lucemon´s almost-invasion made the Digiworld´s time adapt to the human worlds. Huh? How did he know that?

"We are here. " Mrs. Yagami had let him into another apartment complex and pressed the doorbell. 'Izumi' was written on the door.

A woman with reddish brown hair opened and welcomed him and in. She introduced herself as Mrs. Izumi.
Takuya gapped himself a pair of slippers and added his borrowed shoes to the already huge amount.

Mrs. Izumi showed him to one of the rooms. She said the others were inside and left to make some tea for her guests. Who 'the others' were Takuya had no idea. He hoped the boy who saved him – Matt- was one of them, though. He still had to thank him. Takuya knocked and opened the door slowly.

Way too many eyes were staring at him.
Feeling awkward Takuya did the only thing he could.

What happened? The darkness became wide again. The evil has disappeared. He could move again. His sense of self had returned. But he still didn´t know where he was.

He halted his steps. Something was out there. He hadn´t noticed it before, but looking back he was sure the ever growing presence had been there before the darkness had changed. Only it was stronger now. And maybe…he wasn´t sure…this presence was evil as well.

"Where is light?"

"Hi there." The boy had raised one hand in greeting.

The news of the his awakening had caused chaos among the Digidestined, speculations on his character were wildly popular until Matt burst the bubble of excitement by saying that as a goggle head the boy had to be a third Tai. Kari had seen Izzy create a mental list of things he wanted to know, but now everyone was quiet,looking at a boy who was maybe a bit older than Kari herself. Everything but his khaki hat and square goggles were clothes Tai had out grown. He wore black pants and a brown sweater.

The boy entered the room and closed the door quietly behind him. Of course Kari had seen him already, everyone had, but moving and speaking he gave her a different impression than as a not moving body. She wasn´t sure what to make of the atmosphere surrounding him; it made her nostalgic. Whether that was a good thing or not she didn´know.

"You wanted to meet me?" He finally started because no one else said a word.
"I´m Takuya, Takuya Kanbara, by the way." He said and sat down on the floor next to Cody and Armadimon; feeling awkward as the only one standing, Kari guessed.
He looked around questioning. It was rude not to say a thing, but Kari didn´t know what to say either. She glanced at the two goggle heads at the other end of the room, thinking that one of them or Izzy would break the silence.

"You are Matt, aren´t you?" She heard Takuya ask a second later. "Thanks for saving me back then," He added after Matt nodded.

"Well, I didn´t do much of a good job." Matt answered. To strangers he might sound indifferent but Kari heard lingering frustration in his voice.
Takuya just grinned and waved his hand in an indifferent manner. "Who cares? I´m alive, aren´t I?" It striked Kari as a sign of great optimism.

"If you say so."Matt still didn´t want to forget that failure.

"What´s it like to carry your partner inside of you?" Davis exited voice dispelled the awkwardness completely. Tai gave him a punch to the shoulder. "Wrong question, Davis.

How are you feeling?" Tai added exemplarily.

Takuya smiled. "Good. Better than I have for a long time."

"And your partner?" Kari saw confusion hush over Takuya`s face, but a wide grin replaced it fast.

"You mean my Spirits? Agnimon and Vitramon are fine too, just really out of it because they were stuck watching two weeks ago. Nothing time can´t heal."He continued to smile in a carefree manner.

"You have two? What element besides fire do you have? You are fire right? My name is Koushiro Izumi by the way, but everyone calls me Izzy. We heard from Ofanimon that each of you only represent one element.
And do you have any idea where the other representatives could have ended up? We can´t find them. " Izzy had his computer ready to note down every word Takuya was going to say. But instead of helpful information a frown appeared on Takuya´s face; breaking his smile. A shame, Kari thought.

"Representative? What are you talking about? I only have the Spirits of fire with me. What has Lady Ofanimon told you? " Kari felt as confused as Takuya looked. Wasn´t Ofanimon like Gennai to her and the others? Why would she give Gennai wrong information?"But before we get to that, could someone explain the situation to me? I am kind of lost here." Kari returned her attention to Takuya and felt kind of bad for forgetting about his problems. She had only worried about her own situation. Takuyas was - if that was possible- even worse.
The others traded glances and Tai started to explain and introduce everyone.

He was alone again. Not really alone, there were presences all around him, but a strong presence he had felt was gone.

He drifted off again, he couldn´t move and had nothing left to do but to wait for the light to come.

How did one call this? There was an expression that described his situation perfectly, but Takuya didn´t remember it.

Not only was he lost in a different dimension, but apparently he and his friends were the key to victory for an evil army?
To make things worse Agnimon and Vitramon were seriously depressed because they might have caused him to be dragged along on this crazy trip and get hurt in the process. Nothing he said to them got through. Geez, they were both so terribly stubborn. It didn´t exactly help that Takuya wasn´t going to be able to evolve either. At least not as long as connections to his world were disturbed.
Just great.
And to make the whole thing into a full grown disaster no one but him had been found in two weeks.
That was really nerve wrecking. Every last one of his friends were experienced enough to find their way around in a Digital World and to find out that they were searched for by other Digidestined. Even if Koji would decide not to trust the word that was going around, some of the others would. The only conclusion Takuya reached was that all of them had already been captured. ...Well, maybe Koichi hadn´t, but depending on the situation that might just be the greater of two evils.

Or his friends ripped apart from their Spirits and were lying unconscious somewhere in the Digiworld. Nothing was really promising about either way.

Just now Takuya had explained the whole spirit business in more detail, including the fact that each element had two Spirits that symbolize one entirety, that no Spirit had a physical body and that he was more like a host or a vessel to let them materialize. It seemed that his listeners didn´t understand that part and Izzy had wanted to ask about that in detail, but was out done by Takuya´s question about evil places in the Didiworld.

"What do dark places matter? It´s not like we found you on a burning plain." TK pointed out.
Takuya had to suppress a smile at that. From what he had heard he had been damm close to setting a whole plain on fire. If he hadn´t been so focused on reclaiming his Spirits Takuya had no doubt that he would have burned down the plain in the same way he destroyed a nearly infinite amount of bandages.
But they didn´t need to know that.

"Well, that is true, but Darkness is different," he stated the obvious, ignoring the dark shadows in some eyes. Takuya didn´t need and didn´t want to know what issues this Digidestined had with darkness, Koichi was different from average darkness, after all. In the same way that Takuya was different from an average fire Digimon. "You see, we don´t just represent one element, we are the very embodiment of it." Huh? This was the first time he heard that. "Darkness itself is not evil. It just tends to attract evil. So I´d guess that it is possible that Koichi ended up in some kind of evil place.
Not because he wanted, but because that evil wanted him to land there. "He quickly added when he saw some of the Digidestined´s expressions turn to something he couldn´t identify.
"If there would be dark typ digimon, they could feed of Koichi`s darkness and become stronger,"he explained further. "Or corrupt Koichi, but let's hope that doesn´t happen." Nope, Takuya really didn´t want that. Without Koji he´d kind of be at Duskmon´s mercy. Ah… even with Koji the situation wouldn´t change. There was not a single D-tector to purify him with. But wait, could Koichi even become Duskmon without a D-tector?
Uhhh…he could.

"So, is there a place like that?"

"The first place that comes to mind is the army, but it has kind of disappeared."Izzy had a card of the Digiworld at his screen, searching for a place that would fit the description.

"Why´s that?"

"We don´t know, but other than the army there shouldn´t be any evil places or digimon left. Our world was really peaceful."

The Digidestined became quiet, remembering good old times, Takuya guessed.

Eventually somebody spoke up. "I know a place." Ken said in a low voice. "The place, where…. I recovered Devimon´s data..."

Ken avoided eye contact and looked down at Wormmon in his lap. Takuya wasn´t all that sensitive, but he still felt the depressing silence and sad looks. He would have had to be Koji to not notice. He could almost see it after all.

"The huge whirlpool?" A frown appeared on half of the Digidestined and Digimon´s faces. A deep one, Takuya noticed.

"It really does fit the conditions. Izzy, send a mail to Gennai and ask for confirmation. If he agrees we´ll leave immediately. Does everyone feel good for battle? Agumon?"

"I´m all good to go, Tai." The orange reptile got to his feet and walked to the door. "I´ll just go and eat something, I ´m starving!" A few other Digimon followed. Takuya smiled. The only thing they worried about before going into a possible battle was food. That was the right attitude. No need to become a nervous wreak.

"So, how are we going to the Digiworld?"

The Digidestined stared at him as if he had just announced the end of the world. "You aren´t going." What? Tai voiced what Takuya guessed to be everyone's thoughts. Of course he was going. There was no way he wouldn´t.

"Why not?" There better be a sound reason for that stupid statement. Takuya was definitely not going to sit around doing nothing while his friend might be facing god knows what and possible inner demons.

"Because you are targeted. We´d be stupid to bring you back to where the enemy´s gasp can reach. And you don´t have a Digivice to enter the Digiworld with in the first place."

"Ahm…, I don´t know the conditions of entering and exiting the Digital World here, but your Digimon are here, aren´t they. What makes you think the enemy can´t come here?" The Digidestined traded glances and Tai was about to speak again, but Izzy interrupted him as worry appeared more and more on his face.

"He is right, Tai!
We just assumed that a Digivice was needed to exit the Digiworld. Untill now it had not been possible otherwise. Except the gate in the castle. But maybe we are wrong. There have been cases of Digimon appearing. Remember when we went to the Digiworld for the first time? The weather had been affected by some.
But what´s more, Takuya is here, isn´t he? He exited the Digital World just fine. Even if Gennai had had a hand in this, he still passed through the gate without a Digivice…." His frown deepened as he drifted off into his thoughts.
"No way!" He startled everyone before he turned around and began typing faster than Takuya could see.

Takuya didn´t know what Izzy had found out, but it couldn´t be good. Tai and the others thought so too; this time they traded nervous glances.

"Ahm, Izzy?
Would you mind informing us of the new bad development?" Davis asked carfully, not wanting to interrupt Izzy in whatever he was doing, Takuya guessed.

"…." He didn´t respond.
Slowly, Takuya wasn´t even sure if he wanted to know anymore. The discussion about him tagging along to the Digiworld had kind of disappeared, despite it being quite important. How did the saying go? Ignorance is bliss? It was so very true right now.

Minutes passed. The Digimon returned; some still with leftovers stuck to their mouths.

"…"

"Izzy?"

Said whirled around with a serious and worried face.

"Situation has changed." He announced. "Takuya is coming along with you guys. And from now on we cannot allow him to be left unguarded for even a second." Okay, now what? How bad were the news?

Takuya wished there would finally be an end to the long list. Seriously, what else could possibly worsen the situation?

"What happened?" Kari finally asked.

"I just thought about it, and it is possible that Digivices are no longer needed to pass through the gate.
Hence the only reason that has kept the Human World save so far are the looks that Gennai placed over all the gates. I just mailed him my theory, because then the lock server in the castle could be targeted as well. But even if that is not the case, some evil Digimon might just end up here like many others before.
We cannot risk to leave Takuya unguarded. Thats is why it is safest to take him with you, where you can guard him."

He had lost Takuya after the first sentence, but Takuya still understood that it was really bad news. Seemed like the safety of the Human World was just added to the mix.

"But couldn´t just half of us remain here with him? Surely-" Mimi was interrupted before she could finish her thought.

"No. We are talking about that giant whirlpool and that many evil Digimon. If we split our forces we might end up losing on both sides.
Besides a moving target is much harder to catch. We will resort to splitting up in case Takuya isn´t able to enter the Digiworld. Gennai said that the changes he made to the gate to let him pass the first time have been reset.
Sadly, however, if he is able to enter my theory would be confirmed." He faced his PC again.

"I have the gate set up." He stepped to the side and made a gesture to proceed. Takuya didn´t quite get it.
What had a Pc to do with entering the Digital World? He voiced his question.

"We enter the Didital World through the Pc. How did you guys do it?"

"With a train." They stared at him.

"You enter the Digital world with a train?" Takuya shrugged and ginned.

"Yeah. A Trailmon to be exact. Seems kind of lame compared to this, though."

He took a step. But there was still no light. Nowhere. He was afraid.
When would the light come?
It was not the darkness that was scary. The presence had grown stronger. So much, that he feared it. It was really scary. And twisted.

He looked around. There was another presence…no many other presences. Where did they come from? What should he do? They were scary. So scary. He didn´t dare to move anymore. What if a presence would hear him? What it they would attack him?

It hurt. He didn´t know what, but it hurt. So much. Like his skin was burning. But that wasn´t it. He knew.
Even if he didn´t know where he was. Even if he was forgetting who he was, that he knew; there was no light here. So how could there be fire?
But where was the light if not here? It had to be around somewhere. It always was.

The presences around him had become weaker. And that scared him. What if they disappeared? Would he be alone? He had never been alone. Never. The light had always been there.

Takuya stared down.
He sat on Pegasusmon´s back and stared down. Down into the supposed-to-be whirlpool. Takuya would describe it more like a hole in the planet.
It was huge and black.
His instincts told him to stay far away from it. Unfortunately it was exactly the kind of place Koichi would end up in.
Agnimon and Vitramon agreed with him on both points, knowing the habits of darkness much better than him. Much to Takuyas relief both had momentarily forgotten to be depressed; Koichi, Lowemon and KaiserLeomon were their friends too, unlike Duskmon and Velgemon.
As Takuya looked into the dark hole one part of him wanted to jump right down and drag Koichi out –assuming he was down there and not captured- the second part cursed the from-time-to-time-overprotective little brother for not being here - seriously, who was better for this job than Koji?- and the third part- a part that Takuya soundly ignored- really wanted to run away.

"What do you think of this place?" TK asked, clearly not thrilled by it himself.

"Same as you." Yep, that hole just screamed 'come and I´ll eat you'.

"And you still want to check it out?"

"Wouldn´t you if your friend was in there?" TK didn´t answer.

"So how do I get down there?" He questioned towards the huge number of flying Digimon.

"Kari and I will go with you.
Kari because she is light and I because WarGreymon is a mega." Takuya nodded and climbed over to Wargremon´s second shoulder. Tai was sitting on the first.

"The others will stand guard up here." Tai informed him. "Izzy just mailed us saying that the whirlpool is poison to a normal human mind."

"How very fortunate that I don´t have a normal human mind. Do you?
If I´d pass out Agnimon or Vitramon would take over." After a second of considering he added more to himself, "at least I hope so.

And you should hope that it´s Agnimon. Vitramon can be a little hard to get along with."

Tai just raised an eyebrow at him.
Takuya chuckled. He´d understand in the unlikely event that he would meet Vitramon face to face.

Finally done.

But i´ve run into a little problem now. I caught up with what i have imagined so far.

And i am seriously tiered.
I do need up to 12 hours for one chapter. And that was when i had an idea what to write.

But we´ll see what will happen.

Thanks to 10th Squad 3rd Seat and Sightbent for the reviews. :)