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Chapter Seven:

Bug Problems

(Day 6)

That morning at the Kamiya apartment, Kari was making breakfast this time while Tai, Agumon, Myotismon, and Gatomon sat around the table and waited. While waiting, Tai had his head down on the table for he didn't get much sleep since the chibi digimon are so active both during day and night. Agumon merely had his claws neatly folded on the table and waited patiently for the food to come; Gatomon and Myotismon were doing some sort of a 'stare-down' for an unknown reason, but it seems they're trying to see who blinks first. What the whole point is to that, no one knows.

After a bit of time, Kari had finally come to the table with plates of bacon and eggs on it; as for Myotismon, he got a plate of bloody, raw meat -- just the way he likes it. The vampire licked his lips and rubbed his hands together greedily for this dish.

"I hope you all like breakfast, I'm not as good at this as Tai, but I still gave it my best," Said Kari in that soft voice of hers, and then she seated herself next to Gatomon.

When Agumon ate a forkful of eggs, he had a disgusted look on his face when he swallowed them. "Kari, these eggs taste like shit!" Just as he said that, everyone stopped what they were doing and eyed him with shocked and horrified eyes. Agumon looked to the right and left of everyone. "What? What did I do?"

"Agumon!" Kari said angrily, "Do you realize what you just said?"

Agumon blinked at her and shrugged, "What, that Tai's an asshole?" Tai heard this and it appeared that the color in his face had suddenly drained.

Kari gasped but still had a stern and angry face. "Agumon! Where did you learn this language? I bet it was Tai who taught you to say such things..." Kari looked across the table and at her brother, who just sat there and had a blank expression on his face.

Agumon shook his head, "No... it was Myotismon."

The young girl gasped again and now her angered face turned to the smiling vampire. "Myotismon! How could you?" Kari cried softly to him, and then she shot up from her chair. "You need to be punished for this you know!"

Myotismon smiled mischievously and narrowed his eyes. "You going to give me a spanking?..." He asked somewhat seductively, "Because me want a spanking from the pretty girl..." Kari raised an eyebrow at him. "Come on Kari, spank me; I've been a very naughty vampire..."

Tai rolled his eyes and mumbled, "Oh brother..."

"Um..." Kari fidgeted with her fingers, but then she put her hands on her hips and leaned in towards Myotismon's direction. "No! I will not give you a spanking, but... um..." Now her mind pondered on what kind of punishment she should give him. She actually was going to give the vampire a spanking, but because he seemed 'turned on' by the idea, now she had to think of something else.

"Make him run around in his underwear for a day," Tai suggested to Kari.

Myotismon continued to smile and now he got up from his chair to pose oddly. "Oh... good idea..." He said while still having that sensual tone in his voice. "So all the ladies can see how sexy I am..." He looked at up Tai and barred his sharp fangs. "Besides, I'm not wearing any underwear..." Then he winked up at Kari.

"Um... I didn't need to know that..." Shuddered Gatomon as she now didn't feel so hungry.

Now Kari's head hurt on trying to decide what to do with Myotismon. "Then -- um... " Her eyes sparkled as she thought of a perfect idea. "No more bloody meats for you, at least a few days. If you need to sink your teeth into something, then go drink those V8 juices..."

Myotismon felt like his whole body had just exploded into tiny pieces. "V8 drinks? No! Not that!" Then the little vampire screamed as he dashed for Tai and Kari's bedroom, and slammed the door behind him.

Kari sighed and started to walk to the bedroom. "I should go in there and try to calm him down, I guess..." then the young girl went into the room after Myotismon.

Tai waited for a moment, and then his attention turned to Agumon, "Thanks for not ratting me out!" He said while feeling very relieved by that fact.

Agumon nodded, "No problem... now give me my money!"

Tai scoffed and went through his pajama pockets. He withdrew a ten-dollar bill and handed it to his digimon. "Here, and you better still not say anything or I'll take it back!"

Agumon nodded and smiled. Gatomon smiled as well. "I usually would go and tell Kari about this, but... I like that Myotismon is finally getting punished. Good riddance to bad rubbish!" She began to laugh as she ate her breakfast once more.


Today on this beautiful day in an Odaiba central park, it was the annual Bug Catching contest, where whoever can catch the most bugs wins the 'fabulous' prize! The little children are welcome to work in teams, but it's hardly recommended since the prize does not come in twos, or threes, or -- you get the picture. While the older adults, which included the digidestined who brought their digimon along for this, would have to sit out and watch since they were... too old to participate in this event.

So... if Myotismon, Piedmon, Tentomon, Patamon, and Veemon are going to be in this event, then that would mean Tai, Sora, T.K., Izzy, and Davis are here to watch their digimon -- or their 'bad' digimon, do this Bug Catching thing.

While the digidestined rested on the grass with the rest of the audience, the little digimon group observed all their other competitors for the prize -- whatever that is. Myotismon scoffed and crossed his arms. "This bug catching thing will be cheesecake, after all, you have me in the party," he then puffed out his chest to make himself more... brave looking.

Veemon jittered and jumped in place, "I wonder what the prize is..." he wondered excitedly.

"Whatever the prize is, we're gonna get it, and not you Halloween costume freaks!" The digimon looked all around themselves, but groaned at who else decided to join in on the bug catching contest: the bully kids of Odaiba; which consisted of Xack, Jason, Billie, KimB, and Treeny. Xack, who seemed to be the leader of the gang, was the one who spoke to the digimon group.

Myotismon growled lowly, "Oh geez, not you humans again!"

Xack and the rest of the bully gang posed, "That's right: us; and we're gonna take that prize!"

KimB cackled and mocked, "Yeah! We're gonna take that prize!" Xack rolled his eyes and glared at him angrily. KimB saw this and chuckled nervously.

Myotismon winked at Billie, who the tomboy girl just had a disgusted look on her face. "Hey girly, wanna join our awesome team?"

"Ew!" Billie quickly shook her head. "I don't wanna join you guys! Boys have cooties!" Xack, KimB, Jason, and Treeny all turned to her and raised an eyebrow. Billie looked at all her friends and smiled innocently. "I mean -- those freaks have the cooties! Not you guys!" She laughed nervously and waited for a reaction from her bully friends. The four boys merely rolled their eyes and crossed their arms.

"Anyways..." Xack turned back to the digimon group, "We're gonna win this bug contest, I mean -- look at them!" The boy gestured his arms out to all the bugs that were flying and skittering around the park area. Bugs ranging from butterflies to little beetles on the ground. "Look at all those bugs, and we're gonna get them all before you dweebs!"

Right before the digimon could retort or even argue against what the bullies had said, a young woman came up to them and had a pleasant smile on her face. "Oh my, aren't you children adorable looking!" She knelt down to get a better inspection on their cute faces.

Myotismon smirked and crossed his arms, "Sorry lady, but you're too old for me... right now..." He smiled mischievously while the young woman backed away and gazed down on him oddly.

"Okay..." But then she clapped her hands together and smiled once more. "You children all know what the prize is, right?" Both groups of children shook their heads, or either shrugged that they were unsure. The young woman squealed with delight and her smile pleaded. "Why... the grand prize -- and only prize, is the new Playstation 3!"

Jason's eyes boggled in his head. "The PS3? The system that's not even out yet?" His jaw literally wanted to drop to the ground.

The young woman nodded, "That's right: the PS3! The volunteers of this bug contest actually acquired one, and it is going to the winner who can catch the most bugs!" She looked to the right and left of herself. "And, oh my, aren't there lots of bugs here today! It should be no problem to get a lot of them!" Her attention then suddenly turned to Tentomon, who the little bug just merely cocked his head and scratched at it with his claws. "Hmm..." She began as if in some thought to the bug digimon. "It seems you look exactly like an insect yourself! How is that?..." She lightly touched the wings on his back and she took a step away from him. "And... your wings! They feel... real!"

Treeny scoffed and shifted the cap on his head, "They're freaks, that's why! We have 'two blue boys', a girly clown, a fat pig, and a giant bug. What more freaks can you ask for?" He shrugged and shoved his hands into his baggy pants pockets.

"Hey!" Myotismon began to protest, "I don't like the sound of that, and besides, I am not a blue boy! I am... uh..." The vampire looked at his skin color and his eyes widened in shock. "I am blue! Huh... when did that happen?" As he continued to look himself over, the five bullies started to laugh hysterically.

The young woman sighed, "Well... good thing it is not catching the biggest bug, otherwise people would be after you, little guy..." she replied as she gestured her hand to Tentomon. "But no, in this contest, one -- or rather, the groups of you are required to catch the most bugs. As I said before, it should be no problem with all the insects around here." Both groups of children glared at one another and looked determined to win this Playstation 3 system. Just then, a volunteer of the contest approached the young woman and whispered something in her ear. She nodded a few times and then the volunteer left else where. The young woman put on a happy face as she walked a few steps to be around all the participating kids. The bullies and even the digimon listened as she spoke once more. "Change of plans..." she began to tell the children around her, "A volunteer has approached me and it seems the rules have changed slightly. Instead of catching many bugs, the volunteers decided that whomever catches the biggest bug, will be declared the winner!" She clapped her hands and squealed with glee.

Tentomon looked all around himself and seemed somewhat determined, "It should be no problem, with all the bugs here, it'll be no sweat catching a big one."

Veemon edged closer to Tentomon and eyed him oddly. "Yeah..." he said slyly, "Should be no problem..."

Tentomon started to feel nervous at the eyes of his friends on himself. "Um... tons of bugs here -- oh look!" The bug digimon pointed out to a large beetle flying past them. "There goes a big bug right now!"

Myotismon was the one to edge closer now, "I think we all have already found a big insect to surpass the one just now..."

"When I count to three, all children participants are to go out there and catch the biggest bug!" Called out one of the volunteers of the bug catching contest. At the same time, another volunteer worker handed all the children a bug catching net.

"Um..." Patamon looked over his net in his tiny paws and mumbled, "I think we're gonna need a bigger net."

Tentomon shrugged and looked the net over, "Why? This net is big enough."

Patamon blinked up at the bug digimon, "Yeah, but you're too big for the net."

"Say what?" Tentomon gazed into the faces of each digimon around him, and the rest of them all starred at him hungrily. "Uh... this ain't good..." he said, and took a few steps away from his 'friends.'

"One..."

"Why you all looking at me like that?" Tentomon asked nervously, and now he started to fidget with his claws.

Piedmon had a wicked smile on his face, "For you are a giant insect. That young lady stated whoever catches the biggest insect..."

"Two..."

"... Will get the PS3..." Veemon finished.

"Uh oh..." Tentomon whimpered.

"Three!"

"The bug's ours!" Xack cried as he and his bully gang lunged forward at Tentomon with their nets. Right before the digimon could swing their nets down on the bug, Tentomon screamed and ran away very quickly into the trees to hide from everyone. Xack stomped the ground in anger, "Gosh dang it! I want that bug! That PS3 is gonna be ours!"

"You're wrong!" Boosted Veemon, "We saw Tentomon first! We're gonna get that PS3!"

Xack scoffed and took off with the rest of his friends into the trees. "We'll see about that!" He called out to the digimon group.

Patamon sighed and looked up to the other digimon, "What should we do now?" He asked quietly.

Myotismon rolled his eyes and threw his arms in the air, "Duh, we go after Tentomon! I seriously don't want to lose to a bunch of punks -- I mean..." the vampire stuck out his tongue in the direction of where the five bullies went. "I mean, they're so immature!"

Veemon, who was just dancing around in circles, suddenly stopped and nodded quickly in agreement. "True dat!" He replied happily.

"I say..." Began Piedmon, "I do think we should go after Tentomon before those five other children get to him first. After all... the biggest insect will get us the grand prize..."

Myotismon nodded, "Yes, then let's go... to the trees!" The vampire walked on ahead and pointed to the trees Tentomon had run to, and the rest of the digimon followed suit with Myotismon.

It has been at least fifteen minutes now, and neither the bully gang nor the digimon group, have captured Tentomon or even come across him! As the digimon group was just about to give up searching for the giant bug, Myotismon halted everyone and hid behind the trees as they all saw Tentomon wandering through tall, grassy plains; unbeknownst to the bug that the rest of the digimon were watching him.

"So... what should we do now?" Whispered Patamon to Myotismon.

Myotismon shrugged, "I dunno..."

"Hey, I've been wandering..." Veemon said slowly. The three digimon turned to him. "If we do win the PS3, who's gonna take it home with them?"

All the digimon wide-eyed each other on this topic. "Well... since I'm the sexiest and bravest digimon here, I should take it home," said Myotismon boldly, and he puffed out his chest to make himself more muscular.

Patamon shook his head, "No! That's not fair, Myotismon! I think I should take it home!"

Myotismon chuckled, "I don't think so, piggy!" After he had said that, Patamon started to cry.

Piedmon crossed his arms and looked at Myotismon, "I think I should take it with me, for you were the one who took the GameCubism from us!"

Veemon growled, "No way! I wanna have it! It's so boring at Davis' place! All he wants to do is sleep! I need something fun to do over there, so I want the PS3!"

"Sshh!" Patamon shushed the rest of the digimon as he gestured his paws in Tentomon's direction. "He can hear you guys." Myotismon, Piedmon, and Veemon looked over to Tentomon and saw that the bug was frantically looking all around himself; probably finding out where the shouting was coming from. Patamon turned to the three digimon and pointed out, "See... I told you."

Piedmon sighed, "Well, we really should decide on what we shall do. Perhaps we will discuss the terms of this PS3 when we have actually won it..." The rest of the digimon nodded in agreement.

As the digimon were just emerging from the trees, they saw the bully kids rush out from behind trees across from them, and now the bullies were dashing towards the bewildered Tentomon! The digimon gasped and ran forward as well. Now the bug digimon was caught between his former digi-buddies, and the mean bullies.

"Hey, we saw him first!" Treeny snorted as he tipped his hat up to get a better look at the digimon around them.

Myotismon crossed his arms and glared at the children, "Did not, we saw him first!"

All Tentomon could do was shake with nervousness. "Oh geez, why me?" He whined. "I'm a bug in distress!"

"Shut-up..." Xack mumbled to Tentomon, but then he turned back to the digimon group, "Look, since we're gonna be nice on this and not beat the crap outta you, how 'bout we settle this..." Suddenly, the little boy went through his baggy pants pockets and withdrew a deck of cards. "We'll settle this in a Yu-Gi-Oh card battle!" The other bully kids cheered and clapped as they saw these -- um, 'special cards.'

"Um..." Patamon scratched his head with his tiny paws, "What's 'Boo-Gi-Oh'?"

Jason rolled his eyes and put his hands on his hips, "Yu-Gi-Oh, you moron! It's the best show on TV since... since..." He thought for a moment, but then answered, "Something else, that was great!" His face was bold and nodded to his statement.

Myotismon scoffed and crossed his arms, "Yu-Gi-Oh? Oh yeah... I remember that show; Tai was watching it the other day..." he slightly chuckled but his face turned solemn. "But that show sucks. It sucks like... a bucket of ticks!"

The bullies gasped and now their expressions were ones of what a murderer would have. "Have you no shame?" Shrieked Billie as she covered her ears, like what she just heard was something so vile.

Xack snorted and retorted back to Myotismon, "You suck!"

KimB snorted as well and mocked playfully, "Yeah, you suck!"

Xack growled, "Shut-up!" He hollered at KimB. KimB immediately quieted down. Xack shrugged his shoulders and leaned towards one side, "So, are you guys gonna play this, or are you out? Otherwise... we're gonna beat you up and take the giant bug for ourselves."

"But... but we don't have Yu-Gi-Oh cards," Patamon whined.

Veemon chuckled as he suddenly held up a deck of cards in his hand. "But I do! I love that show! I always carry a deck in case of things like this!" He posed and smiled proudly as the rest of the digimon wide-eyed him.

Myotismon was confused, "How in the heck did you get that?" He asked sarcastically, but unfortunately, Veemon ignored him as he and Xack prepared to do battle with their cards.

Both Xack and Veemon withdrew five cards from their deck piles, and by the look on Xack's face, it seemed he had good cards in his hands. "I summon... Dark Magician in attack mode!" He called out, and then he put out a Dark Magician card into the 'field.'

Veemon slightly chuckled and called out, "Oh yeah, well I summon Beaver Warrior into attack mode too!"He laughed as he put the card out into the field as well.

Xack let out a loud laugh before he spoke, "Man, that card sucks! My Dark Magician can easily kick that Beaver Warrior's butt -- look! Look at his attacks... and look at my Dark Magician's..."

Veemon nervously leaned forward to look at both the Dark Magician and the Beaver Warrior's attacks. Unfortunately, Xack was right: the Beaver Warrior was weaker than the Dark Magician. "Crap..." Veemon replied as he took his card out of the field and began to grumble. "Ah well... that was a sucky card anyways..." He suddenly turned around to the other three digimon and whispered, "Dang it! That was my best card!" He complained, "What do I do now?"

Myotismon shrugged, "I don't know, but you better figure out something quick before I beat the crap out of you!"

Veemon sighed and levitated a hand over his deck of cards, "I must... trust in the cards. Trust in the cards... so I can get a better one. Trust in the cards..."

"Veemon... just what are you doing?" Piedmon wondered out loud, and raised an eye at the blue digimon.

"Trusting in the cards," Veemon replied, and then he drew a card and formed a wide grin when he saw what it was. He put the card on the field and remarked, "I summon the Blue Eyes White Dragon into attack mode!" He squealed as he added, "That will so take out that Dark Magician!"

Xack slammed his fist into the ground as the other digimon began to cheer and jump for joy over the boy's defeat. "This isn't over yet!" Xack said angrily and pointed a threatening finger at Veemon. "We still have more card battles!"

Veemon smiled, "Well that should be no problem, now that I have the Blue Eyes White Dragon with me! Yup, should be no problem to get Tento--" When the blue digimon looked in the area as to which Tentomon should be, the giant insect was not there. Veemon furrowed his expression, "Uh... guys, where's Tentomon?"

Everyone looked all around themselves, but Tentomon was nowhere to be found. Patamon spoke up, "Tentomon left a long time ago while you all were watching and playing the card battle thing."

Myotismon rolled his eyes at Patamon, "Then why didn't you say something when he left?"

Patamon shrugged, "Because I was busy watching you guys!" He piped up. The digimon, including the bullies, all groaned irritably.

"Oh great... now that big, giant freak got away!" Complained Xack. "Now how are we supposed to catch him?"

"Everyone! Children!" The bullies and digimon all looked around as they heard a cheerful voice in the distance. "We have a winner to the contest! Come back for the bug catching contest is over!" The bullies and digimon gazed at one another, but then they quickly jogged back to where all the bug catching participants were, and everyone gasped as they saw who the winner was. A volunteer for the contest smiled sweetly as she handed the winner a large box containing the Playstation 3. "Congratulations... Tentomon... you are the winner!" The volunteer gestured her hand to Tentomon as a whole heard of children listened to what she had to say. "This little -- or rather large insect has turned himself in as the biggest bug! I have never come across a bug so big, but he was clever enough to do such a thing!"

"Hey... how do you know he's a real bug?" Called out one of the children.

The volunteer giggled child like, "Well, his wings and even his large head feel so real. I have never come across any child to do something like that! Could you?" Most of the children shook their heads. "Besides, this little bug isn't wearing a mask, I tried to pull it off, but it just won't budge; therefore, this 'Tentomon' must be a real insect." The other digimon just looked at one another oddly.

"Um..." Billie cocked her head to the side, "Doesn't that freak you out?"

The volunteer giggled, "Whatever do you mean?" She asked a bit curiously.

Billie sighed, "Never mind..."

Tentomon began to bounce excitedly in place, "Alright! I got a PS3! Boo-yah, Myotismon!" Then the little, happy digimon ran towards Izzy and showed him what he won.

Myotismon growled angrily and stomped is foot, "So not fair! NOT FAIR!" He screamed, and then he threw himself on the ground and started to thrash around widely. "I wanted the PS3!"

As the digidestined watched the vampire cause an uproar to himself, Davis turned to Tai and said, "Wow... it must really suck to have him stay with you."

Tai clasped his hands to his face in disbelief, "You have no idea..." he grumbled lowly.