A/N: Some ages may not be affected as time goes on in this story. Remember, Lan Hikari saves the world in all 6 Battle Network games in 5th and 6th grade. If Capcom can bend ages, and the laws of time, and ignore holidays, I can too.

CHAPTER 6:
A Friendly Playdate

Digimon © Toei Animation
Megaman Series © Capcom

The Elementary school now has EM Wave technology all over the place. There are new billboards, with important announcements on them, along with times for certain special events happening in Odaiba. The computers now are incorporating the EM technology, and the teachers now knows how to properly work them…kind of. They still have some problems understanding how to work the menus and all that. Kids comment that this is something out of a sci-fi movie, and to be honest, it is kind of like that. They'll be able to connect their D-Trans into their desk, and save some work on it. It can also serve as a transmitter to send the signal to the screen in their desk. Of course, the teachers worry that the kids would be playing games on their screen, but they can always turn the screen off, or punish them.

Right now, the teacher in Kari's third grade class was trying to calm the students down, as they were excited for something.

"Okay class. Quiet down. Quiet down." The teacher said. "Now, I know you are all excited for the class trip tomorrow, but please, you need to calm down."

"Hey Kari." A girl leaned over to her friend. "What do you think we'll see at the museum? Do you think we'll see Mars or something?"

"Yeah." Kari said.

"I think we can see Mars People through their new telescope, right?" Another girl leaned over to them.

"Noriko, Senri, Kari, please be quiet." The teacher said.

"Sorry." The three girls apologized.

"Anyway, you all know that we are taking a field trip to the Space Museum Wednesday. But, do you know why?"

"Is it because of the Meteor Shower?" A boy guessed.

"Is it because we wanted it?" Another girl guessed.

"Is it because of Mega Girl?" Senri said.

"Huh?" Kari said.

"You haven't heard?"

"No, it's neither of those reasons." The teacher said. "The reason is–" Senri and Kari moved closer to each other.

"Word's getting out of who that pink girl's name is. You heard of who her name is, right?"

"It's Mega Girl, right?" Kari whispered.

"Right. There also has been some rumors going around to who she is. I heard one that says Mega Girl had appeared because of the Meteor Shower last week." Senri whispered. "They said she was one of the meteors that had landed in a park named Yoyogi park."

"Really?"

"Yeah. Me, Noriko, Marie, Kikune, and Emiko were going to go see where that meteor supposedly landed. Wanna come?"

"Erm, I'll think about it…"

"Uh oh. She's looking over here. We'll talk later."

The two quickly paid attention to the teacher now, as she was looking over to their direction.

"Now, we'll talk more about how to behave during our field trip to the Space Museum in Tokyo. First off, don't stray off from your tour guide. The Space Museum is a big place, and you could get lost in there if you don't have your partners with you. Second, don't touch the equipment they have on display, unless they tell you that you can touch them. Some of the equipment is new with the EM Wave technology, and can possibly break easily. Third, just have fun, and be safe."

"Okay!" The class said.


After school, Kari was trying to get her stuff put together.

[Hey, Kari.] Gatomon said from the D-Trans. [Aren't you going to go with your friends? That Meteor that landed in the park sounds interesting.]

"I guess. Hm. I wonder what'll be there."

[A, meteor? Plus, I really want to see what this rumor is all about. Sheesh, there are rumors about us going all around the city. And I can't believe that word about our name spreaded that easily.]

"Well, there were quite a few people at the mall's playground. I guess most of them started spreading around our name all over the place."

[Well yeah, but we also got those other rumors about us too. First it was the rumor about us existing, because apparently, people don't believe in us, and now it's the rumor that we're the good guys.]

"Why are people having such a hard time realizing that we're the good guys?" Kari said, as she got all of her things in her backpack, and leaves the classroom, and headed out of the school.

[I think it's because of the circumstances that had happened. Most of these problems that had happened were EM Wave related, and people are assuming that you may have something to do with all this.]

"Well, as a good guy, yeah."

[I dunno. Maybe we should try to be careful of how we handle things from now on. Who knows? People may be quick to assume that you could be a bad guy.]

"I hope that won't be the case…"

"Hey Kari." Kari's friend, Senri was walking up to her. "Well? Have you decided?"

"Um, I guess I can go. But I need to tell my older brother and mom and dad what I'm doing."

"Don't tell them you're going to a park to see a meteor."

"Why not?"

"Because, this is our little playdate! It's just us five!"

"Uh, I guess I get it? I dunno, what happens if something tries to attack us?...I mean, I'm just saying."

"…You know Kari, you kinda been acting a little weird lately."

"Huh?"

"Are you keeping something secret from me?"

"Um, well."

"Cause, you know we can't keep secrets from each other, right?"

"Uh, heh heh, right. Um, don't worry. You don't have to worry about me. Everything's fine."

"Okay. But, if I think you are keeping something a secret from me, I am gonna find out, Kari Kamiya."

"I-I'm not keeping anything from you. Honest."

"Okay, I believe you. See you at the park, Kari!"


As she left the school, her D-Trans started beeping. Someone was calling her.

[Phone for you.] Gatomon said. [It's from Gennai.]

"Oh." Kari then answers her D-Trans. "Hello? Gennai?"

"Kari, I think I have the signal for one of the DigiCores." Gennai said.

"You found one?"

"Yes. Luckily, I don't think our enemies know of it. You need to get there, pronto."

"Um, where is it, exactly?"

"Well…I don't exactly know yet." When Gennai said that, Kari sighed, and tipped over a bit. "I think pronto might have to be later…"

"Okay…Just tell me or Sora when you find it…"

"Okay…"

Gennai then hangs up, and Kari continues to walk all the way back home.

[He may have gotten younger, but he's still got those moments where you really are like, 'Come on…'] Gatomon said.

"When I get back home, I'm going to relax for a little bit, and then get myself ready."

[Ready for what?...Oh right, the meteor.]

"I hope Tai and mom won't get suspicious of me leaving after dinner."

[Well, we can always Wave Change. And by the way, how do you think those girls will be able to sneak out? Do you think they're able to Wave Change too?]

"No. Don't be silly…" Kari said, sweatdropping. "I really hope I don't get them into trouble. That's what I'm mostly worried about."

[Well, I guess we'll see later tonight.]

As Kari walks inside of her home, she sees Tai talking on the phone. He looks pretty frustrated. She guesses that he's arguing on the phone with somebody, and they were really peeving him. She thinks that perhaps the presence of his sweet sister could cheer him up.

"Hi, Tai." Kari said. "What-"

"Not now, Kari." Tai said, frustrated. "I'm talking to Izzy."

Kari frowns, thinking Tai's getting into another fight with Izzy again, like he did back in the Digital World, until she realized something, in which she starts to get nervous. She remembers Izzy has fast access to the Digital World from his laptop. Or at least, a fast communication channel to the Digital World. She thinks that Izzy and Tai are starting to figure out what had happened to the Digital World. If they ever found that out that the Digital World had been deleted, they're going to start catching on to what's happening around in the city. It may not seem so bad at first, but Gennai had said that this powerful being had not caught on that the Digidestined knows about the events that had happened in the Digital World. If that happens, they could start directly targeting them, and it'll spell trouble for them.

"Uhh…so what about…?" Kari asked, wanting to know more information, just to be sure that she doesn't have to freak out.

"Izzy can't connect to the Digital World, he says. He can't contact Gennai or anyone."

Ouch. Kari really hit the nail right on the spot.

"Um, m-maybe Izzy's having bad connection or something."

"Oh no. Remember Garudamon and SkullMeramon? Something definitely is going on here. We may have to get everyone together sooner than I thought."

"Um…" Kari was trying to think of a way to get her out of this situation, but couldn't find any way to get out. Suddenly, a pink light came out of Kari's D-Trans, and it went into the phone. Only Kari was able to see this, not Tai. As such, the light was making the phone jitter around, and afterwards, all Tai could hear on the telephone was the busy line.

"Huh? Hello? Izzy?" Tai said. No answer. "Agh, the line got cut off…Oh man! What if that means Izzy's in trouble!?" Tai then slammed the phone back onto the holster, startling Kari for a bit, before running to the front door, and putting his shoes on.

"Uh, Izzy's in trouble?" Kari said, confused to what just happened as well. "Should I come?"

"No. Stay here just in case. Tell mom and dad I needed to go to Izzy's apartment. It's an emergency. Hopefully nothing happened to him…"

Tai then quickly left the apartment, rushing down the stairs.

[Heh heh heh…] Gatomon snickered, retuning to Kari's D-Trans, with a satisfied look on her face. [I'm starting to get good at that.]

"Gatomon, you did that?"

[Yep! As an EM Being, I'm no different than viruses. All I had to do was cut off the phone line, and bingo!]

"Yeah, but now we got to get a new phone." Kari said, pointing to the phone that's now sparking. Obviously, this is now beyond repair.

[I had to do that, Kari. It's better safe than sorry to get the other Digidestined involved in all this without the ability to Wave Change. I think it's too soon for them to get involved, right?]

"*Sigh* I guess so…"

[Good. Now work on your homework, so you won't have to worry about a thing about tonight.] Gatomon said, as she was tugging on Kari's arm again, in which she was wincing in the sudden pain.

"Owowowow. I know, I'm going. Sheesh, you're gonna pull my arm out one of these days if you keep this up." Kari said, opening and closing the door to her bedroom to get a head start on homework.


Later, after they ate an early dinner all together because their father needs to get going onto a business trip, Kari lays in her room, watching the clock hands tick, and waiting for a message from Senri.

"Hm…Do you think Senri might have ran into some trouble?" Kari spoke up, watching the clock. It was close to 6:00 PM on the clock. She can't really wait any later. Any later, and her mom won't even let her outside. And her mom most likely would be mad at her anyway, because she'll be coming home pretty late in the night. On a school night, no less. Not to mention, Tai's also home, and he would object to going out in the middle of the night as well. He would go, but only if it's a Digimon emergency.

Kari's D-Trans then beeped, and she answered it in a heartbeat. It was actually an email from her friend, but it was close enough for a response from her friend.

Hey Kari,

We're all set. I'm waiting at Yoyogi Park. See if you can get over here. See ya there.

Senri Hori

Kari sighs, and jumps off her bed. She then looked at herself in the mirror for a bit. She had untied her hair from earlier, and it was flowing down her back. She remembers what she did, and she got her ponytail right back to what it looked like from before, when she first "messed" it up, with the pink ribbon. She goes, and cracks the door open, and takes a look outside. She sees Tai watching TV, albeit, a little bit bored, and her mom walking in and out between rooms. She doesn't know if any of them will allow her to go out at a time like this. Though, she sighs, and will give it a try. Walking out, she then starts going to the front door.

"Uh, I'm going to Senri's place."

"Hm?" Her mother and brother turned towards her. Just as she was about to put her shoes on…

"Wait." Her mother stopped her. "It's getting awfully late, Kari. I don't think it's such a good idea to go out at a time like this."

"But, Senri says it's okay."

"Well…are you sure it's alright to go out at a time like this? Maybe Tai can go out with you."

"Huh? Uh, no. I, think I'm fine." She remembers that Senri does NOT want anybody but themselves at the park, and Kari sort of promised her that she'll come alone.

"No, you won't. Unless Tai goes with you, or you come back before it gets really dark, you're not staying out in the middle of the night, understand?"

"I got it…"

"Okay. Remember, it's a school night. Don't come back when it's extremely late in the night."

"I'm finished with my homework. I'm fine."

"I know, but everyone needs their rest young lady. Don't get to bed late, like your brother."

"Huh!? Hey! I get to bed before 10!" Tai exclaimed, before taking a brief pause to think something over. "…Sometimes!"

Kari giggles. Usually she and her mom like to tease Tai a little from time to time. Of course, they don't really mean all of those things. "I know Mom. I'll try to be back before dark."

"Okay. Be careful sweetie."

"I will." Kari then puts her shoes on, and then left the apartment, and starts walking down the stairs. The sun was already starting to become out of sight, and it was starting to become dark.

Her mother does know that Kari's growing, as evident when she came back home yesterday, dawning her new grown hairstyle. She suggested at first taking Kari to get a haircut, but Kari says she likes it, and Tai doesn't disagree. They were confused at first to why it grew this fast, but their mother said it was because Kari's a growing healthy girl. It is true. Kari's Birthday is coming soon. It's strange. Even though Kari is going to be older soon, she still acts as if she's still 6 or 7 years old. Even though she does have her 'old' moments here and there, like when facing against the bad guys, she still is a child. Though, this doesn't really bother Kari much. Most of the time she likes being a kid, and it does have its advantages.

[Hey Kari.] Gatomon called from the D-Trans. [Why are you walking over there? We can take the Wave Road, remember?]

"Oh, right." Kari realized. Now that she can Wave Change, traveling to place to place has gotten way easier. She had walked down a few floors down, and she was looking around her to make sure no one was coming her way. She then opens the Wave Change app, and starts changing. "EM Wave Change! On Air!"

Once again, she Wave Changes into her alter ego, named Mega Girl, and she teleported onto the Wave Road. Seeing the wave roads during dusk was sort of a pretty illusion. It was like an aurora. You wouldn't see them glowing in the night sky like this during the daytime.

[Hey, Kari.] Gatomon said. [I know this looks pretty and all, but we need to get going. Your friends are waiting for you.]

"I know, I know, but can I at least take the time to sightseeeeeee!" Mega Girl then jumped out of the way of an impending attack, and sure enough, a bunch of Mettenna viruses had appeared in front of her.

[I, think those guys won't let you.]

"Okay, okay, fine." Mega Girl then landed, and dashed over the viruses, and started to get away. "Sorry guys! I need to get to my friends! See ya!" She shouted as she beamed out of there.


Soon, she arrived at the Yoyogi Park, and jumped off the Wave Road. She then hid behind a tree, looking around her to see if there isn't anybody strolling by. Thanks to Gatomon, the visor on her helmet has Night Vision on it. She's able to see people in the dark. She looks around the place, and sees no one, but her friends up ahead. She hides herself, untransformed, and goes back to her human form. Kari then rushes to her friends, and announces that she's there.

"Hey guys! Am I late?"

"Nope." Senri said. "Everyone's here."

"Do you know where this meteor went? I'm really interested in that." Noriko said.

"That's what we're all here for, I know. I think it landed on top of this new fountain they built before the meteor shower."

"Before it?" Marie said. "Wow, they must have been angry when a giant meteor fell on top of it."

"I guess." Kikune said laughing.

"Well let's get going." Senri said. "Otherwise someone's gonna tell us to go home or something."

The 5 girls then started walking on the pathway towards the fountain area. It was dark, so the park's lights were illuminating the path, as well spotlights to light up certain trees. Of course, the park also lights up with the fireflies flying around there.


As they walk on, Senri compliments Kari's hair, for probably the 3rd time.

"Oh, this?"

"Yeah. Your hair looks really cute, Kari!"

"Oh, uh, thanks."

"How did you get your hair to grow like that?"

"Um…Watermelon…?"

"Ah, okay. I really want to make my hair like yours Kari. I really do like it."

"Yeah, I know."

"Oh, and where'd you get those weird looking glasses?"

"Huh? These?" Kari said, pointing to her Visualizors.

"What are they?"

"They say these can see the EM Waves in the sky, but I can't see anything with these on.

"So, why do you have them on?"

"Oh, they, um, look cool. And I wanted something like my big brother's goggles."

"You mean Taichi?"

"Hey, what DOES he use those goggles for?" Emiko said. "He's always got them on his head. Why can't he take those things off? He's not going swimming."

Kari giggles. "No, he has them ever since we were kids. I don't want really want him to take those off his head, like, ever."

"Hey Kari, I also saw you hanging out with that kid in a green hat the other day." Noriko said.

"Oh, you mean T.K.?"

"Who is he?" Senri said, playfully nudging her arm. "Is he your boyfriend?"

"Wha!? Why does everyone keep saying that!?"

"I dunno. That T.K. boy really seems to like you." Noriko said.

"Yeah, as a friend! *Sigh* I don't want to talk about this right now…"

They were already getting close to the meteor crash site anyway, so they couldn't talk that much. As they were walking towards the supposed site, they see yellow police tape. They assume that this was the crash site of the meteor. They looked around them, to make sure no one is watching them. Once they see that they are safe, they go take a closer look towards the meteor.

When they got closer to the crater, they see the meteor was gone. They thought they were seeing it wrong, but they definitely don't see any sort of meteor in the crater.

"What!? They took it out!?" Senri exclaimed.

"So, we walked here for nothing…?" Noriko said.

The 5 girls all got sad that there wasn't any meteor to go see, before hearing somebody walking their way. Worried that it might be the police, they all hightailed it out of there. Though they wanted to see who it was, so they hid behind a tree, and peaked out. They see someone in a business suit, with shades, which is odd, considering the time of the evening it is, checking the site for themselves. Thinking this is another bystander, they disregard this, and start to walk away, but then they start to hear him talk.

"The meteor sir." He said into his D-Trans. "They've already took it to the museum…" The person on the other line was talking, though they couldn't make out what he was saying, or who he even was. "…Yes…Yes, I know…Right, but there are people there and…Yes…Yes, I understand…Understood. Signing off." He hung up, and was about to leave, before hearing some rustles. The girls accidentally stepped over a bush nearby the big tree. "Is someone out there!? Come out!"

(This is bad! We can't get caught!) Kari panicked.

"Gatomon…" Kari whispered into her D-Trans. "Help us out here, please."

[Like what? I'm in the D-Trans.]

"Are you sure no one can hear you?"

[That's what Gennai says.]

"Well, I could use some of that cat persona right now."

[You sure that guy will hear me?]

"Just do it. I don't want us to get caught."

[*Sigh* Okay, it's worth a shot.]

Kari turned up the volume in her D-Trans, and stuck it out a little bit. Gatomon then meowed out loud, to make it seem that it was just a cat roaming by. The stranger stopped.

"Hmm…just a cat it seems…" He said. He then turned to walk away.

"Alright. Good job, Gatomon." Kari whispered.

"Hey, Kari, what was that just now?" Senri said.

"Was that some sort of app on your D-Trans?" Kikune said.

"Yeah." Kari said. "You, can say that…"

However, the stranger stopped dead in his tracks, and looked like he realized something.

"! A cat? And it doesn't sound natural." The person said.

"! Uh oh…" Kari said, as they crept back into the bushes.

"…Mega Girl! Come on out!" The stranger yelled. With that, Kari was surprised. Somehow the sounds of Gatomon made him realize that Mega Girl was nearby.

(Wait! How does he know…!?) Kari thought, panicking.

[Kari!] Gatomon called. Thankfully Kari turned back down the volume. [Well, looks like you were right about people hearing me, but it's only if the volume in this thing is through the roof. And secondly, this guy knows something about us! He doesn't seem like your average businessman.]

"I know." Kari whispered. "Who do you think he is?"

[I don't know exactly. But he somehow knows that Mega Girl EM Wave Changes with a Cat EM Being. And that being is me.]

"Then, does he know about Digimon?"

[Well, maybe EMmons, that Gennai just named, which I still think is a stupid name, but yeah. It would seem that way.]

"What do we do? We can't EM Wave Change out of here. My friends are here…"

She takes a peak out of the bushes, and sees the man walking towards the crater again. At first, she skipped a beat, thinking he was headed for the bushes, where they are, but the man stopped in the crater. He seems to be looking to where Mega Girl could possibly be hiding. He then looked like he touched his sunglasses, and was looking around him.

[Kari! This guy has got working Visualizers!]

"Are you sure?" Kari whispered, as her friends were shifting to be hiding behind the bushes, as opposed of in the bushes, which is where Kari is.

"Kari." Senri whispered. "Come over here. That man will probably hurt us if we stick around any longer." Kari nods, and carefully, and slowly gets out of the bushes, but she slips, and falls onto the ground, with a loud thud. The man took notice, and seem to be walking towards them.

"Ahh! He's coming!" Emiko whispered.

"We need to call the police." Kikune said.

"No, Mega Girl will save us." Senri said.

"H-Huh!?" Kari said, a little bit surprised.

"He said Mega Girl's here, right? Well, maybe she can save us."

"Uhh…"

"What? What's wrong?"

"I'm not sure how Mega Girl is supposed to help us in this…"

"Come out, Mega Girl…" The man said, as he was getting closer.

[That's it, we got to do something.] Gatomon said.

"Like what?" Kari said to her D-Trans. When she said that outloud, her friends took notice.

"Hey, why do you keep talking into your D-Trans like that? Did you call someone?" Noriko said.

"Ack! Uh, no. I mean…"

[Stay here! I'm gonna go distract him.]

"Wait, you can't-"

Too late though. Gatomon jumped out of the D-Trans, and started running away from them. She ran past the man, who was a little bit startled, as she ran by.

"Ngh, a Gatomon." He mumbled.

(He really does know about Digimon…) Kari thought. (Who is he…?)

"Come back here you!" The man started going after the Digimon, and going away from the other girls.

"Hey, he's going away!" Senri exclaimed. "Run!"

The 5 girls all took off running away in the opposite direction. Kari was thinking about Gatomon the whole time as they were running away, but she trusts her. But, as the man was chasing Gatomon, he turned, and sees the 5 girls running away from him. He doesn't see their faces, or what they were wearing though, as they were in the darkness, and not in the street lights.

"Hey! You kids! Stop right there!" The man yelled, shifting his focus on them. That announcement only made them run even faster. "Mega Girl! Stop!" Though when he sees that they are out of sight, including Gatomon, he stops running, and is standing under a park light. "Hmph…this will be trouble. I have to cause some distractions…" The man then turned his attention to the streets. There were some cars driving by, and some parked in the street. It's because of the apartments across the street. "Time to shake them off my tail." He had a weird looking battle card that he got out. It had a picture of a mettenna virus on it, as well as a handful of other viruses on it. He inserted it into his NFCD, and the D-Trans on his arm glowed an ominous purple color.

Gatomon was watching from the Wave Road, and sees that the viruses on the battle card popped out of the D-Trans. It then jumped into the cars, considering that most of them are now equipped with a computer, courtesy of the Shiguma Corporation. The cars then sparked, and started moving on their own. They were driving like crazy down the street, and then into the park. A bunch of cars were now driving all around the Yoyogi Park.

"This guy even has the power to call viruses!?" Gatomon exclaimed. She sees the cars going the direction of the girls. "Oh no! They're in trouble! I gotta get to them!" She then was about to take off, until noticing that the man from earlier was looking directly at her. His sunglasses are visualizers, and he somehow knows about Digimon. Gatomon dismisses this however, and begins to make a run towards the other girls.


The 5 girls were taking breathers on a bench. They had been running for a while, and it already was getting late. It was close to around 8:00 PM. They will all be dead if they don't get back to their homes soon.

"Um, I'm sorry everyone." Kari apologized. "I, kinda gave us away right there, haven't I?"

"No, it's okay." Senri said. "If anything, I should be sorry. I took us all here to see some meteor, but they took it out before we were able to get it…"

"It's okay. It's not your fault. I mean, who would know about that?"

"Yeah, we're not mad." Noriko said. "I mean, our parents might be mad that we came home late, but, we had a fun time."

"Yeah. I sure had fun…but I am kind of nervous of that guy finding out who we are…"

"He won't." Kikune said. "He didn't see our faces, so we're fine."

"Aw, I still wanted to see a meteor." Emiko said. "But, running away from that guy, oh that was really fun."

"Thank you…" Senri said. "You know, I just realized, it's been a while after we all became friends."

"Really?"

"Yeah, I remember that Kari became my first friend."

"Oh yeah. Has it really been a few years?" Kari said.

"Yeah! I remember we became friends after that time you fell into that mud pit at that field trip."

"Oh, you…still remember that…?" Kari said, embarrassed.

"Oh, you were the girl playing with your brother in that field trip?" Noriko said. "Boy, that must have been messy."

"Yeah…kinda…"

"It was after that the first time I ever talked to you." Senri said. "I remember teasing you, and calling you 'Mud Baby' since you were crying."

"Yeah…" Kari was getting a little bit more embarrassed.

"But, after that, you helped me."

"Oh yeah, I think I remember. You got stuck in the barn, after the door got locked, and I was the one who got the door opened."

"Didn't you bust the door open?"

"Um…not with my bare hands. I may have started hitting it with a hammer. But they don't know about that." Kari winked as the five of them started giggling.

"Hahaha, yeah! And the next day, we became friends."

"Yeah. I don't think I could ever forget that day."

"That day reminds me of what just happened a while ago. You pretty much busted us out…well, almost."

"Sorry."

"No, it's okay. I'm glad we're friends."

"Oh! That reminds me, should we all form brotherbands with each other?" Kari said, clicking on her D-Trans. As she does that, she remembers that Gatomon separated from her to lead the man off of their trail. (Oh no, I forgot about Gatomon.)

"Oh, right! Let's do that." They all went into their D-Trans, and started forming brotherbands with each other. Now they were all Brothers (In the friendship sort of term of course).

"There we go!"

"Thanks everyone for coming out here for our little playdate." Senri said.

"I still wanted to see a meteor…" Emiko complained again.

"Well, did you remember what that guy said? He said that meteor was moved to a museum. What museum do you think he was talking about?"

"The Science Museum?" Kari suggested.

"No, that place is still a mess after that weird robot attack. I think they took it to the space museum. You know? Because that meteor is a rock from space?"

"That, does make sense."

"Yep! Okay, so how about it? Why don't we all try to find the meteor when we go on that field trip? We can call each other if we find the meteor."

"Okay. That sounds good."

All the other girls agree to it.

"So, should we all head back?" Senri said.

"Um, I actually have to get something first." Kari said.

"Huh? What do you mean?"

"I, er, forgot my whistle somewhere."

"Kari, you've been missing your whistle since last year. Isn't it like completely gone?"

"Um, no, I mean, uh…"

Suddenly, they heard the sounds of an engine going ROOOM! They all thought a car was coming their way, but it couldn't be, right? No one would be insane enough to drive outside of the road, much less inside of a public park. Though this is after hours, where there are barely any people around.

"That can't be a car, right?" Senri said.

"Erm, it, must be my cousin!" Kari quickly exclaimed. "Yeah! That's right! I was supposed to be waiting for my cousin!"

"Um! Is your cousin insane or something!?" Noriko yelled.

"Huh?"

"Look out!" Senri yelled. They all looked towards behind them, and sees one of the out of control cars roaring their way. Everyone screamed, and jumped out of the way.

"Who the heck is crazy enough to drive in a park!?" Emiko yelled.

"Run! Run for your lives!" Kikune yelled, as everyone started running in random directions. As Kari was running, she sees a car was driving up on her back. She kept on running, before the car was close enough. The car was going to trample over her, until she jumped, in panic, and actually landed on the car, albeit hurting her back from impact. She had landed on top of the car, and was hanging on to dear life. She then tries to see into the driver seat, to see who's driving this death machine, but she doesn't see anyone in there.

"Wha? There's no one in here." Kari said.

"Kari!" A voice called out to her. Kari puts on her visualizers, and looks up. She sees Gatomon barely trying to keep up.

"Gatomon! What's happening!?"

"That guy unleashed viruses all over the place! They're making a bunch of cars in the area going crazy!"

"You're kidding. That guy in that suit did that?"

"Looks like it. Kari, there's no time! We need to stop this before someone gets killed!"

"Right!" Kari tries to stand up, but the car hits a speed bump, and almost made Kari lose her grip on the car. She was about to be flung off the car, before she gripped onto it again. "Ahhh! I'm scared!"

"Don't worry! Just jump! I'll be able to reach you!"

"Jump!? I'll break something!"

"Just do it! Trust me! Trust your Digimon!"

"Ohhh…" Kari steadies herself again, and was able to get onto her knees. One by one, she steps on one leg at a time. Eventually, she carefully stands up, and balances herself. Unfortunately, the car hits another speed bump, and Kari was sent flying, screaming for her mom, dad and brother. "AHHH! Mommy! Daddy! Tai! HEEELP!"

"I Got You!" Gatomon yelled, jumping towards her. Gatomon then forces an EM Wave Change onto Kari, and once again, they transform into Mega Girl, thankfully with no one watching. Kari roughly lands on the ground, though as an EM Human. Like always, being an EM Wave Human softens brutal blows that would normally badly injure someone, or knock them out.

"Oww…A-Am I alive…?" Mega Girl groaned.

"Well, you did scream for your mom, dad, and Tai."

"Oh…right…" She then sees the car was headed towards her again. "Ahh! It's coming towards us again!"

"Don't chicken out this time. Remember, with my EM Wave power, you practically have the strength of a superhuman."

"Um…are you REALLY sure about that? I'm just checking."

"Really! Come on! You can stop that car right in its tracks!"

"Wouldn't it be better if I take out the viruses inside of the Car's Comp?"

"That'd take too long. We need to disable these things now!"

"*Gulp* Well, here goes nothing…" Mega Girl said, standing her ground. She's not too confident in this, but she has to do it. The car comes roaring towards her, and Mega Girl holds out her arms, and manages to stop the speeding car right in its tracks. Right as she did that, the viruses all came piling out. "*Huff* *Huff* That worked!"

"Now get them!"

"R-Right! Battle Card! LongSword!" Mega Girl got the card scanned, and turned her Mega Arm into the sword. She then sliced all of the vulnerable viruses, and deleted them all. "That takes care of those viruses." Then they heard people screaming. "Uh oh!" Mega Girl jumped on the wave road, and hurried to where the screams were.

She sees that there are also people running away from some of the cars.

"Looks like we have a busy night." Gatomon said.

"Mom's so gonna be mad at me…" Mega Girl groaned.

Mega Girl jumps off the Wave Road, and gets in front of a bystander. Like before, she stopped the car dead in its tracks, flinging all the viruses out of it. The man behind her was really stunned and confused.

"Go! Hurry!" Mega Girl yelled at the person, and they took off running. "Battle Card! AirSpread!" She then shoots at the vulnerable viruses, and once again deletes them. "Another one down!" She then proceeds to the next uncontrollable car.


While this is all going on, police cars, and a news van already pulled up to the scene. A reporter ran onto the scene, with the cameraman, with the policemen guarding all of the entrances to the park.

[We are coming to you live from Yoyogi Park, where there are wild and out of control cars!] The reporter said. He was broadcasting the breaking news to Odaiba's regular news station, which is the channel that the Kamiyas were watching. [Police have already closed off all entrances to the park. Most of the citizens have been evacuated already, except for a certain few, police reports.] They heard a crash near them, and the camera took a close up shot to what was happening. [Look! Over there! Is that…who I think it is?] Sure enough, it was the EM Wave Human who stopped the car, and deleted the viruses. She then starts going after the next runaway car. [Yes indeed! That is the mysterious Mega Girl girl! It seems that she's definitely stopping all of the runaway cars.]

"That Mega Girl kid again…" Tai said, as they were watching. His mom was watching the time. It's already 8:30 PM.

"Oh, where's that girl?" She said, worried about Kari. "It's getting really late."

"I could go get her. She's at her friend's home, right?"

[We got more people rescued here.] They then see that some more people were escorted out of the park. Though, what caught their eyes was a little girl. They recognized her as Noriko, one of Kari's friends.

"Wait…isn't that…one of Kari's friends?" Tai said. It only took a second for them to realize where Kari has gone. "WAAH! Kari!"

"Oh no, you don't think that…" Mrs. Kamiya said, fearing the worse already.

"Ngh! I gotta get over there! Yoyogi Park, right? Gotta get going!" Tai then runs straight to the front door, and puts his shoes on in record time, with his parents yelling at him to come back. The parents then hurried up, and started going towards Yoyogi Park.


Mega Girl finishes up another horde of viruses.

"Another one down." She said. "Is that all?"

"I think there's one more to go." Gatomon said. Mega Girl nods, and she jumps onto the Wave Road. She then goes straight towards the trace of the last horde, and jumps off the wave road. She then sees that Senri was still around here. She had fallen onto the ground, and was holding her leg, in pain. She must have sprained it, or worse…

The last run-away car was headed straight towards her.

"Oh no! Senri!" Mega Girl yelled, as she sprinted towards Senri. She looked away in horror, as Mega Girl steps in front of her. Holding out her arms again, she once again manages to stop the car right in its tracks, and that made the virus fling out of the car. As she does that, Senri gasp upon seeing Mega Girl, actually here, saving her. The viruses land right behind Senri. "Get back!" Mega Girl yelled, getting in front of Senri to face the viruses. "Battle Card! Gatling!" She scans another card, and shoots the viruses, deleting them. "Whew…I think that's all of them."

"M-Mega Girl!" Senri exclaimed. "You saved me!"

"Oh, uh, heh heh. Don't mention it."

"There!" Someone yelled, and police officers were running up towards them.

"Uh oh…See ya!" Mega Girl then jumped out of there, in a beam of pink light, and back onto the Wave Road.

"Mega Girl! Wait!" Senri exclaimed. Too late though, to their eyes, she disappeared. "Aww…"

"Are you okay?" The police officers all went up to Senri.

"I am, because Mega Girl saved me."

"That kid again…" Another officer said.

"Let's get her to the ambulance. She sprained her ankle badly." The first officer said.

"What!? But I don't want to!" Senri exclaimed, as the officers start to carry her over to an ambulance. "Wait! My friend is still around here!"

"Who?"

"Well, I was here with 4 other girls."

"Your age? So far, we only found 3. Don't worry, we'll find her." The officer then talked into his walkie-talkie. "There's still one missing. It's a little girl. Find her."


A crowd was gathering up at the main entrance to the park. Some people were being loaded up into ambulances with their D-Trans making some beepings. This is actually an extra function of the D-Trans. It acts as an EKG using, what else, Electromagnetic Waves. These waves pose minor threats on the human body, but powerful enough to obtain correct information. The heart does create the largest EM field in the body, and with the new EM Wave technology, it collects that information by sending wave frequencies from the D-Trans, to the heart, and back. It comes on when the person in question is in critical condition, or if a paramedic manually activates it with a special card that they have.

Someone was pushing through the people to get to the entrance, in a hurry. That's when Senri was brought out of the park with help.

"Senri!" Tai emerged from the crowd, and got to Senri.

"Oh, you're, Tai right?" She said.

"Where's Kari? Why were you here?"

"Don't worry." The police officer said. "We're looking for her."

"I bet Mega Girl saved her, like she saved me." Senri said, as she was carried over to an ambulance.

"That girl again…" Tai said, as that's another time that Mega Girl has appeared to help.

"Yeah, we don't know that much about her." Another police officer said, going up to him. "For all we know, she could pose a serious threat to everyone here."

"What!? No! She saved my sister's friends, and not to mention, a bunch of people here. And anyway, I need to find Kari, right now!" Tai then rushed back into the park, trying to search for Kari.

"Wait! Come back! It's not safe!" The officer yelled after the boy.


Meanwhile Mega Girl was looking around the place.

"So, where was that man at?" Mega Girl said, as they were beaming around, with the Wave Road.

"He was near the cars, but he's gone now." Gatomon said.

They stopped at the spot where Gatomon said she saw the man unleash the viruses. They see the tire marks the cars left behind, and the destruction it caused, as well as police asking if anyone witnessed what had happened. All that they were responding with is that the cars were sparkling, and then going haywire. They then see policemen looking into the cars, and to their surprise, they see nobody driving the cars. The damage that Mega Girl had caused to the cars would have probably killed the driver, and B, would have trapped them in the car with no way out.

"Sheesh, I hope they don't think I'm the one who caused this." Mega Girl said.

"Eh, they probably, wouldn't…I think."

"Kari!" Someone was calling out. Mega Girl looked behind her, and sees Tai running around everywhere, trying to look for her. "Kari! Are you here?"

"Oh no! They found out I was here!" Mega Girl exclaimed.

"You're probably gonna get in trouble." Gatomon said.

"How am I supposed to get to Tai?"

"Hey, why not try transforming back to normal in the crater? The police aren't looking in there."

"I guess. I hope no one sees me." Mega Girl then beams, and then jumps down from the Wave Road, and into the crater of the meteor crash. Looking around, she sees no one is looking. She then untransforms, and turns back to normal.

"Kari!" Tai called out again. "Are you here?"

"Tai! In here!" Kari called out. A few seconds later, as she gets up from the crater, Tai jumps down, and instantly grabs his sister.

"Do you have any idea how worried we were!?"

"Uh, sorry Tai, but we wanted to see this meteor here…"

"Why didn't you tell us that?"

"I swore to Senri I'd keep it a secret for her…"

"Going to something like this isn't something you should be keeping a secret from us…Hmm…Hey Kari, did you get banged up, or something?"

Kari realized there must be something on her face that she must have gotten from all the cars driving all over the place.

"O-Oh, I saw all those cars all over the place, and I was hiding in here. A car almost ran me over, before Mega Girl came and saved me."

"You shouldn't have come here without telling our parents, you know? You could have gotten really hurt if Mega Girl didn't come."

"I'm sorry…"

"Well, they're probably gonna be pretty mad at you for coming all the way here…"

"*Gulp* Yeah, I think they will…"

"Well, come on. Let's get you out of here…"

Kari nods, and tries to stand up, however her legs instantly went numb, and she fell onto her knees.

"Huh? What's wrong? What happened?"

"I-I'm fine…" Kari groaned, trying to stand up again. Though it wasn't ant use. Her legs are dull and numb. She can't really feel much in her legs.

"No you're not. Come on." Tai then grabbed Kari, and hauled her over his back, giving her a piggyback ride, all the way back to the park entrance. "How are your legs? Are they broken or something?"

"No. T-They're just tired, that's all. I've been running away from those cars too much…"

"When we get home, you need to go to bed. School is tomorrow, after all."

"Yeah, I know…"


The two has made it back to the main entrance to the park, where their parents were waiting. They were worried about them, but most importantly, Kari, who they were both relieved and happy to see her well, but also angry that she went to a park in Tokyo, at night without their permission. Kari isn't one to be a troublemaker, but now she knows how it feels to be one, as frankly, she got an earful when they got back home. All she does is apologize meekly, and say she'll never do something like that again. As far as she knows, her friends also got an earful from their parents when they got home. Now they all learned their lesson: Never go out at night without your parents. And the attack of the killer cars solidifies this statement.

Kari was put to bed when they got back home, considering her legs was still tired from "running around" too much. She could walk a little, but only if she was leaning against something as she's moving. She did have some trouble getting her pajama pants on, but, she was able to shimmy it on.

Of course, the "running around" thing was her excuse for her legs. Kari still doesn't know how this happened.

[Psst. Kari.] Gatomon whispered to her from the D-Trans. Kari carefully leans against the ladder, as she climbs down from the top of the bunkbed, and walks to the desk where her D-Trans was charging for the night. Tai luckily wasn't in the bedroom yet. He was getting ready in the bathroom. [Your legs went numb, huh?]

"Yeah. I don't know what happened."

[Must have been because of all the car stoppings we had to do tonight. The shock of impact must have done something to your legs.]

"Are they, broken?"

[Kari, if your legs were broken, you'd be on a hospital bed under extreme pain right now, not in your normal bed, perfectly fine.]

"I wouldn't call this perfect…"

[Well, anyway, we might have to cut back on the fighting for a couple days. We probably haven't perfected fighting yet.]

"But, I haven't been feeling this every time we finish up a fight."

[Well, that's because you're a pretty good dodger, so you're not getting hit as much. Also, what we were doing tonight was really physically stress inducing. It's not like simple Mega Buster stuff. We were physically stopping the cars dead in their tracks, and it must have taken its toll on your legs.]

"I hope I won't be like this when we go on our field trip in a few days."

[Ah, I'm sure you'll feel fine. Just give it a day.] They then hear a door closing. [Just get to bed now, okay?]

"Okay. G'night."

[Night.]

Kari quickly climbs up the ladder, and jumps back into bed, with her stuffed toys. Tai enters the room, with his pajamas on, and closes it.

"Hey, you feeling better?" He whispered to Kari.

"A little, I guess." Kari said. "I never seen mom or dad angry at me like that before…"

"Welcome to my world…" Tai said, as he jumps into his lower bed. "Though I will say, don't stay down here. Seriously Kari, don't go doing something like that again. You could have gotten yourself seriously hurt back there. And what if Mega Girl wasn't there? She couldn't have saved you."

"Well, she did…I mean, she's always around us, huh?"

Tai opened his mouth to say something, before having something cross his mind. Everywhere that Kari has gone, Mega Girl was there. He already ruled out the fact that Kari could be Mega Girl since that seemed impossible, but now that he thinks about it, could it be possible that, maybe…

"What's wrong, Tai?"

"Huh? Oh, just, thinking."

"A-About what?" Kari starts getting nervous. She didn't like where this was going.

"I mean…there's no possible way that, you, by any chance, would be Mega Girl, right?" And, Kari flinches, as he really got straight to the point.

"Uh, n-no. Of course not. Why would I be? Have you seen her fight? She fights with so many weapons, and doing cool tricks. I can't do that!"

"Hmm, I guess you're right…Gah, I mean, no offense Kari! I mean, I'm sure you could do that if you really practiced…and if you really wanted to…and if our parents give you permission…"

Kari then frowns. Her older brother still thinks that she can't really do much by herself. Admittedly, she does think that from time to time. She does sometimes rely heavily on her older brother because, he's her older brother. Whenever she's with him, or their parents, the bad stuff usually goes away. Especially with Tai, considering that he's the leader of the Digidestined. But sometimes, she wishes she can rely on herself more, so that she wouldn't rely on other people, considering they could be risking something in order to protect her.

"Anything wrong?"

"No, i-it's nothing."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I'm fine. *Yawn* I'm tired…"

"Yeah, I am too…Let's get some sleep. G'night…"

"G'night…"

As the two closed their eyes to go to sleep, some figures were walking along the Wave Road above their apartment building. They were watching over each of the nearby apartment buildings in Odaiba.

"So, where are these Digidestined kids?"

"We got reports that they live somewhere around here."

"This is Odaiba right?'

"Yep."

"Then why not destroy the whole place?"

"Idiot, Mega Girl would stop us before we even could do some damage. And even then, we can't make the whole place explode. We're rookies, not champions or megas…"

"Ah, it doesn't matter. Our friend told us an EM Meteor was at a museum."

"Is that important?"

"Of course, it is. There's Digicores in that meteor, and we need to get them for our boss."

"You know, our boss never mentioned his name once to us."

"I know, right? If we're working for him, then at least give us a name."

"Ah well. We got an ace up our sleeve if that Mega Girl kid comes to stop our commander's plans."

"Yeah…It's one of their friends, right?"

"Right…"

TO BE CONTINUED