"Family Picnic"

Here's the next chapter. I hope you guys all enjoyed your holidays. Please review and enjoy!

So in a surprising event, Cody called me and asked why I had just disappeared yesterday and said I missed out on Kari planning a picnic on Saturday in the Digital World.

I guess you could say I was…touched that someone noticed I left, but also wondered why Kari would want to have a picnic in a place that was overrun with dangers.

I decided to go and packed up a lunch and cooked some food to bring Friday night and placed them in the fried so that they could be eaten Saturday.

The school was easy to sneak into and Demiveemon was playing a game on my DSI as we waited for the others to show up and I was just checking out the news report and it was all about the Ken guy again.

I swear, I feel like I've met him before, but I just can't place it.

His voice was one thing, but also the eyes that looked dead and cruel.

I was interrupted from my thought by the door opening and turned to see the others just arrived with their own bags filled with food.

"Daisuke, you made it." Kari said.

"How did you get in here?" Yolei asked.

"I just asked the janitor to let me saying the computer club was having a meeting and he let me in." I said.

"So we didn't have to sneak in?" TK asked while Yolei gave him a pointed look.

"Nope." Demiveemon chirped as he continued playing his game.

The blonde laughed nervously as the child of Love walked over to my computer and I got up to let her open up the portal.

"All right, I got us in. Am I the best or what?" she asked as she pointed a finger in the air, but then the door was opened making us all turn to see a pink haired teenager had found us.

"I'm sorry, but…are you supposed to be here?" she asked in a sweet voice as Yolei, Cody and their partners all freaked out.

"Mimi!" TK, Kari, Gatomon and Patamon said making us new Digidestinds look at them in surprise.

"Mimi?" we asked.

"Um, TK? Kari?" Mimi asked as she walked into the room.

"Yep!" the children of Hope and Light chirped.

"Daisuke, Yolei, Cody. I want you to meet someone. This is our friend Mimi. She's one of the original Digidestinds who moved to America." TK explained.

"Hi Mimi, Sora told us all about you." Yolei said looking at her in admiration like how I used to look at Tai.

"When I spoke to her, she told me all about you too." The pink haired girl smiled.

"Hello Mimi, my name's Daisuke and this is Demiveemon." I said as my dragon hopped onto my shoulder after he put away my DSI.

"Yeah, she definitely told me about you." She said making me tilt my head in confusion.

"Gatomon, Patamon. How have you been?" she asked the two digimon.

"Other than being stuffed in a knapsack like a wet towel, fine." The white cat said.

"It's so good to see you. When did you get back?" Patamon asked.

"Just this morning. I was passing by the school and just had to take a look for old time's sake. I walked in the front gate. Someone left it open." Mimi said.

"That was Daisuke. She got here before us and asked the janitor to let us in." TK explained.

"Huh?" Mimi asked.

"We all decided to go on a nice Saturday picnic in the Digital World." The blonde continued with a smile.

"Digital World?" Mimi asked.

"Maybe Mimi can come with us." Yolei suggested.

"I haven't been there in so long. Do you think it would be OK?" the pinkette asked.

"Of course!" Yolei cheered.

"Yolei, we didn't bring enough sodas for an extra person." TK pointed out making her pout.

"Oh no." she said.

"It's OK. She can have my soda." Cody said.

"And mine." Kari said.

"Perfecto! Now let's go." Yolei said.

"That's great. Now the rest of us won't have anything to drink." TK said making me sigh and roll my eyes as I pulled out my D-3.

"Everyone can keep their own sodas because I brought an extra one. Mimi can have it. Now let's go." I said as we were all pulled into the gate.

We were in a peaceful forested area, the air around us clear and sweet smelling.

"Hey, take a look around. There's no control spires in sight." Veemon said.

"How cool. I'm back. The Digital World hasn't changed." Mimi said as she looked around the area with a smile.

We all started walking, searching for the perfect place to stop and eat while Yolei told Mimi all about the Digimon Emperor.

"Digimon Emperor?" she asked.

"Yeah, he builds these control spires to take over the Digital World. They act like a receiver to the dark rings. When we break the spires, the rings don't work anymore and free the slaves." Yolei said.

"So if there are no control spires, are we safe?" Mimi asked.

"That's why we picked this spot for our picnic." Yolei said.

"Gee, we never would have thought about having a picnic here in the old days because we'd be too worried about giant digital ants." Mimi said.

"So far, every time we've come here it's been to destroy a control spire, but since it's Saturday, we thought we'd just come here to have some fun." Yolei said.

"We should pick out a spot around here to lay out the picnic blanket and dish out the food." Cody said as I looked at the ground with a frown seeing the grass sparkle with dew.

"Sounds great." TK said.

"No way. It's way too early for lunch. Let's keep walking." I said as the others groaned.

"I am a little hungry." Kari mused making me roll my eyes.

What, did she expect me to roll over and just agree to let them all stop and eat just because of her?

I swear, I think she might be spoiled by the others.

"The ground is still too wet. Let's just keep walking until the sun dries it up." I said.

I glanced behind me and saw that Kari had a surprised look, like she had expected me to actually tell everyone to stop just because of her.

The others seemed just as surprised, except for Mimi; she looked like she didn't care if we continued on for a while.

"But we're hungry!" Yolei whined.

"Then pull out something to snack on while we walk." I said feeling my temples throb as a headache formed.

"But then it'll ruin my appetite." She said as I clenched my fists.

"Not if you just have an apple or granola bar." I said struggling to keep my annoyance out of my voice.

"But I didn't bring any of those." She said and I opened up my bag, pulling out my mp3 and turned it on, putting the headphones on to block out her voice with "Jumpstart" by These Kids Wear Crowns.

"Did she just do that? I can't believe she just did that." Yolei said sounding annoyed and insulted while the others laughed and I turned the volume up.

I felt a tug on my bag and saw Veemon had pulled my DSI back out and was continuing with his game, face screwed up in concentration.

I smiled at him and shook my head in amusement as we all kept walking for about half an hour, the others all talking behind me.

Finally, I pushed my headphones off and bent down to feel the grass, the others stopping behind me.

"All right, we can roll out the mats here." I said.

"Finally." Yolei groaned as everyone got to work setting the blanket out and we all took out our food, Veemon happily taking one of my containers out of my hands and dug into the Caesar and grilled chicken salad I made.

"Try to not to choke." Gatomon said with a grimace.

"But it's really good. I love all of Dai's cooking." He said.

"It can't be that good." Gatomon said only to have a chicken strip shoved in her mouth.

I bit back a laugh as I ate the BLT sandwich I made when she swallowed the chicken and got a dazed look on her face, Veemon giving her a smug look.

"If ya think that's good, you should try her brownies." He said as the cat shared the salad with him.

"I brought these from my family's convenience store. You want some?" Yolei asked holding a wrapped food item.

"Ah, is that what I think it is? A chocolate covered rice ball? I haven't had one since…I was a kid. I just love 'em!" Mimi gushed with stars in her eyes, hands clasped in front of her and a flushed look on her face as she smiled.

Everyone laughed as she eagerly tore off the wrapping and ate the rice ball.

"What'll you have?" Yolei asked her own partner.

"I'll have whatever Armadillomon is having." Hawkmon said looking over to the duo of Knowledge as the armadillo stuffed his face with seaweed covered rice and vegies.

"He's eating sushi." Yolei said.

"Excellent. I'll have one sushi please." Hawkmon said holding up a wing.

"Comin' right up." Armadillomon said with a nod and reared his arm back in a baseball throw making Cody jump.

"No Armadillomon! Never throw food!" he said but the roll was thrown anyway, rolling away from us as Hawkmon got up and started chasing after it.

"Oh, come back little sushi!" he called as Yolei got up and chased after him.

"Wait, Hawkmon, come back. It's just a California roll." She called.

"Yes, but it's rolling all the way back to California." He retorted as they got further away, Mimi watching in worry.

"I'm going to go after them. I'll be back soon." She said as she stood off and went off after them.

A while later, they still hadn't come back and I was starting to worry about them when they hadn't come back.

We all started searching around for them, calling out their names.

"Hawkmon! Mimi! Yolei! Where are you?" I called.

"Hawkmon! Mimi! Yolei! Where are you?" the others all repeated.

I was about to call for them again, but was stopped by my D-3 beeping, so I pulled it out of my pocket.

"I think it's from Yolei, but the signal's kind of weak." I said as the rest all gathered around me to see a dot beeping and there was another one further off, fading out.

The first dot was our group, the other being Yolei, Hawkmon and Mimi.

"They must be nearby. But in what direction?" TK looking around.

"The Digimon Emperor must be blocking the signal." Cody said as we all groaned.

"They couldn't be that far away." I said as I started walking, the suddenly the ground under me move and I fell.

"DAISUKE!" everyone called.

I yelled as I fell down into the ground, landing on a pile of garbage.

I groaned as I got up, disgusted and started wiping the trash off of me as I looked around me and saw that there was a whole other world down here that looked like it was night time.

Who would've thought?

I looked around and gasped at the sight of the control spire while the others all jumped down, landing in the trash pile too.

"Ew, who left this here?" Kari asked as she and the others all got up out of the pile.

"You think this is the place digimon throw away their garbage?" Cody asked.

I let a small grin show on my face before I gasped when my D-3 beeped again.

I looked at it and heard an explosion, looking to where the spire was and saw it tumble down.

"Looks like Yolei took care of the control spire." I said as everyone saw where I was looking cheered.

"Kari!"

"TK!"

We all looked to see these frogs and tadpole digimon running over smiling.

"Look, it's the Gekomon and Otamamon." Patamon said.

"Welcome back." Gekomon1 said.

"It's nice to see you again." Otamamon1 said.

"Thanks. Have you seen Mimi around here or another human girl with a Hawkmon?" Kari asked them.

"They went that way!" three Gekomon said pointing to the place where the control spire once was.

"Let's go." Cody said as we all started heading off in that direction, the large group of digimon following us.

We soon found the two girls with Hawkmon and another digimon that looked like a giant cactus.

"Yolei, Hawkmon, we're over here!" Veemon cheered.

The Gekomon and Otamamon all crowded around the pink haired girl.

"Mimi." The cactus digimon said.

"Togemon?" Mimi asked.

"I'll protect this area now. You can count on me." Togemon said making Mimi smile and pat her red gloved hand, meaning that this was her partner.

"I've always counted on you." She said resting her head on her partner.

"Goodbye Togemon!" we all said.

"Aw, don't make me cry. My eyes hurt too much." Togemon said rubbing the back of her head.

We all went back to home when the sun started to go down, and I was on the bottom of the dog pile yet again.

Man, I better not have any problems with my back.

I have a big soccer game coming up next weekend and if I can't play, coach will freak out.

We walked out of the school to wave off Mimi as she went back to the airport with her parents.

"Bye Mimi!" we said.

"Goodbye everyone. Thanks for a great picnic. Bye." She said waving to us as we started to go home.

"Oh, Mimi, I almost forgot." Yolei said stopping.

"I wanted to say when I get older I wanna be just like you!" she called to the pinkette who looked surprised by the confession.

She smiled and covered her mouth, looking like she was trying to hide her touched look before she looked back at the lavender haired girl and pointed at her.

"Perfecto." She said making the others all laugh.

I slipped away from them and started off for home, ready to take a shower after falling into the garbage that was left from the Roachmon brothers and possibly ice my back.

From now on, we are going through that stupid gate one at a time.

To be continued