"Seriously, Tai, I'm ok, I can wheel myself." Davis said to the older Digidestined of Courage as Tai pushed the wheelchair Davis was forced to sit in.
It had been three days since RustTyranomon was defeated, and the Digital World had calmed down enough for the heroes and heroines to get some rest.
As most resumed their everyday lives, for Davis, he now had bandages around his waist and a cast on his leg, the remains of his injuries after spending two days in DATS' infirmary.
Veemon was doing much better, being a Digimon, his injuries repaired themselves with the data stored in his body, though the little guy never left his partner's side, even walking alongside him as Tai wheeled him down the hallway.
Though everyone had been by to see if he was alright, Davis did find it strange that neither Kari nor Rika had visited him yet, and when asked, his male friends had no idea, while the girls would either try and change the subject or give mixed answers.
"It's alright man, we're almost there." Tai replied with a solemn smile, before wheeling Davis into a room, where the maroon haired Digidestined saw all the main Digi-heroes, along with their partners, waiting for them as they sat around the room.
"Hey guys, what's up?" Davis asked, wondering what was going on.
"Davis, we need to tell you something." TK replied with a serious look, confusing Davis as to what was going on.
-Meanwhile-
Around the time Davis had been escorted into the room, Sora and Gatomon were leading Kari along another section of the DATS headquarters, much to the protest of the Digidestined of Light.
"Please Sora, can't we skip whatever this is? I need to see how Davis is doing!" Kari whined as Sora dragged her by the arm down a hallway, while Gatomon continued to nudge her partner's legs, pushing her along.
"This has to come first, Kari." Sora said sternly, before leading Kari into a room where all the other girls and their partners, minus Rika, much to Kari's delight, were waiting for them.
But hearing a sound behind her, Kari turned and glared to see Rika entering the room, with Renamon standing behind her partner with a regretful expression.
Confused at seeing the girls, Rika faced her partner and questioned. "Renamon, what's going on?"
"Rika, I apologize for my deception, but this was for the greater good. It's time we all spoke rationally and..." Renamon began to say, her tone serious and apologetic, before she was cut off as the sound of the door was locked, causing Rika to look behind the left side of her partner and saw Mimi had locked the door.
"Intervention!" The pink haired Digidestined of Sincerity called with a big smile standing before the door, alongside Palmon, while Sora and Yoshi both groaned at Mimi's peppy attitude at a time like this.
"You two need to stop all this nonsense. It was bad enough when you did it in the Real World, but your latest actions could have costed Davis and Veemon their lives." Sora then said sternly as she turned her attention away from Mimi and toward Kari and Rika.
"It's her fault!" Both girls said angrily in unison as they pointed to one another, before they turned and glared at one another, yelling in unison once more. "Don't you dare blame me!"
"Please calm down, this fighting isn't helping anyone!" Sparrowmon pleaded as she got between the two girls, but both girls ignored the mechanical Digimon and continued arguing with one another.
"I've had it with this witch." Rika snapped, continuing to yell at the brunette, her glaring face turning to Renamon as she then said. "Renamon, I know you don't normally attack humans, but as your Tamer I give you permission to walk all over her."
"I'm sorry, Rika, but I cannot obey that order." Renamon replied, shocking Rika as she continued, saying with a serious tone. "As much as I love and respect you, your attitude has changed you. I cannot serve somebody who acts so selfish."
"Ha! Even your own Digimon cannot stand you. But Gatomon is a true friend. All I have to do is say the word and she'll tear you like a scratching post." Kari said with a smirk as she looked at her partner, only for her eyes to widen as she saw Gatomon glaring at her.
"As much as I love you Kari, I have to side with the others. You are out of control. You are turning into a real jerk." Gatomon told her partner, before adding. "If I wanted to serve somebody who only wanted what they got and cared for themselves, I would have stayed with Myotismon."
Kari gasped at her partner's words, before gritting her teeth when she heard Rika laugh, saying with a smug look. "Looks like you're the one whose partner can't stand them, Lady Myotismon."
Both girls glared at each other and began arguing once more, causing Sparrowmon to put some energy in her boosters to keep the girls at bay, while the other girls mentally sighed as they thought in unison. 'This is going to be harder than we thought.'
-Back with Davis-
"Say what now!?" Davis asked with a great confusion in his tone and expression, not sure if he heard the other guys right.
"Oh for the love of...! Don't you get it, Davis, Kari and Rika are all hot for ya. They both want you." Impmon let out, tired of approaching the subject delicately and wanted Davis to already know what everybody else knew.
"Seriously, what are you guys talking about? They don't like me like that, we're just friends." Davis replied, causing the other guys to groan.
"You might think that, but we all know differently." TK said, causing him to add. "Kari and Rika have feelings for you. If you paid more attention, you would have seen the signs. Didn't you notice the way they would get when they were around you?
"Or that for the last few months, they have been assigned to your team?" Thomas added, where the blond added. "That was no coincidence, both secretly approached Miki and requested the chance to be with you."
"I just though we made a good team so we were always put together." Davis said in reply, shocked that it was because of Kari and Rika that they were always together.
"Don't get me wrong, you three do make a great team, but Kari and Rika also wanted that time to see if you were interested in them, to try and see if there were any feelings you had for either of them, or at the very least, try and win them over." Mikey said, trying to be considerate and not put pressure on his friend.
"Hey man, you're lucky, you got two smoking hot chicks wanting a piece of you, most men can only dream of that." Kazu said with a smirk, before gulping when he saw Tai and a few other guys glaring at him, causing him to shut up and slowly cower behind Guardromon.
Davis, on the other hand, just kept quiet as he remembered the past few months with Kari and Rika, now realizes why they were acting the way they had been, why they seemed to go out of their way to spend time with him, they really did love him.
'Am I really that dense?' Davis said to himself, wondering how he got himself into this situation.
-Back with the girls-
As Kari and Rika remained on the ends of Sparrowmon, continuing to yell and call the other names, with the other girls trying to reason with both of them, Airu just had a calm look on her face as she nonchalauntly suggested. "Why don't you just share him?"
From the sudden idea of the blonde haired Digimon Hunter, all stared at her with expression as though she had gained a second head, especially Kari and Rika, who both looked at the blonde like she was crazy.
"What? I have more than one Digimon." The blonde pointed out as she showed off the various Digimon resting within her Fusion Loader, where Opossumon floated down beside her partner, agreeing with Airu as she asked. "So why can't Davis have more than one girlfriend?"
The other girls just gave the pair a neutral look, before Kari and Rika turned back to one another and resumed yelling at one another, causing most to sigh, while Sora and Jeri made sure Kari and Rika didn't attack as each grabbed them from behind and managed to restrain them.
-Back with the guys-
Still reluctant to believe Kari and Rika had feelings him, Davis changed the subject slightly as he asked. "What happened during the fight with RustTyranomon...?"
"Was their fighting for your attention coming to a head?" Matt explained as Davis was still processing everything, before he added. "And at this rate the two most likely will start getting physical with one another."
"And not in the good way." Kazu spoke up, imagining the image of the two hotties in rather erotic moments as they fought for Davis' attention, which caused him to quickly shut up when even Guardromon glared at him.
Despite being a machine Digimon and not suited for romance or reproduction, he knew his Tamer had gone too far, not wanting to see Kazu in harm, but if it was the only way to teach him to keep his mouth closed, then Guardromon believed he would have to allow the others to lay a few hits on Kazu until he got the message.
As the others continued to talk to Davis, seeing where the conversation was going, Terriermon noticed Takuya's cell phone just poking out of his pocket and decided to play Cupid as he carefully withdrew the phone from the brunette's back pocket and dialed Zoe, glad to see her number had been called recently and redailed the blonde, causing Zoe's phone to go off, which she picked from her jacket.
"Sorry about that." Zoe apologized as her phone began to ring, cutting into the group's intervention, where the Warrior of Wind saw the call was from Takuya.
Bringing the phone to her ear, Zoe answered with an annoyed tone. "Takuya, we are in the middle of something here."
"This isn't Takuya." Terriermon whispered, not wanting the others to hear him, while Zoe was surprised to hear the rabbit Digimon's voice on the other end of the line.
"But you might want to leave your phone out and listen to what somebody has to say next." The small beast Digimon insisted, holding the phone up with his ears and allowed the girls to all hear what the boys were saying.
"C'mon, Davis. Just finish this sentence. My name is Davis Motomiya and I am in love with..." Impmon then said, trying to get Davis to answer, while Zoe's eyes widened at what she was hearing, quickly putting her phone on speaker mode so all the girls could hear.
"I can't alright, just drop it!" Davis replied in an annoyed and frustrated voice, causing Kari and Rika to cease struggling within Sora and Jeri's holds at hearing his voice.
"Davis?" Kari asked, forcing Sora to place her hand over Kari's mouth and gesture to whisper. "If you want to know what Davis thinks, just stay silent and listen to what he has to say."
From Sora's instructions, Kari nodded, allowing Sora to remove her hand from Kari's mouth and remove her arms off of the brunette, who faced Zoe and continued to listen, hiding a smirk as she thought. 'This is it, this is the moment Rika will realize Davis loves me.'
Rika, meanwhile, was thinking along the same lines as Jeri let her go and the redhead listened to the phone, just waiting to hear Davis' voice to confess his love for her and to claim Kari as a mere friend.
"Seriously man, just say which one you like already?" JP then questioned, wanting this fighting to end and for some normality to return to the groups.
"I can't." Davis just replied, looking away from his friends and at his feet, bothering a fair few of the guys, while concerning Tai, Ken, Veemon and the others, empathizing with the emotions the Digidestined of Miracles was feeling.
Why not!" Gumdramon yelled out, annoyed that Davis was stalling, not completely understanding love and just wanted to get back out and fight.
"Because I care about both of them!" Davis yelled back, shocking everyone that was listening, especially Kari and Rika, as he continued, saying. "It's not that easy because I love them both. I have known Kari longer, but she never showed any interest in me. And Rika is so off with her emotions, I don't even know if she likes anybody. But past that, I feel that both hold a spot in my heart. Kari is beautiful and very caring, while Rika is tough, smart and refuses to let anybody push her around. Both are beautiful, inside and out, and If what you guys are telling me is true, then I can't choose between them, I won't be able to live with myself if I chose one and hurt the other."
"Honestly, I expected Kari and Rika to never like in me. I assumed Kari would wind up with TK, while Rika would fall for Takato." Davis then said, calming down a little and continuing to share his thoughts and emotions, while both Kari and Rika paled at hearing this, not sure how anyone could imagine them liking anyone other than him.
Feeling more exhausted than when he woke up from the fight with RustTyranomon and not wanting to have to go further into his conflicting feelings, Davis looked around and asked."Guys, I... I need some time to myself for a bit. Could somebody please wheel me back to my place?"
"I've got you, pal." Ken said with a caring reply, moving behind the wheelchair and slowly pushed it outside the room, followed by Veemon and Wormmon as the group escorted Davis back home.
"Feel better." Matt called, knowing Davis' physical injuries would heal, but the mental ones forced upon him would take further time.
-Meanwhile-
On their end, Zoe hung up her phone and set it back in her pocket, where she, alongside all the girls all look at Kari and Rika with worried expression, who both had broken looks on their faces after everything Davis had said.
"Now we all know how Davis feels." Zoe commented dryly, having not expected this result and felt a pang of guilt at having taken sides in this matter as she thought about Davis.
Kari, meanwhile, was filled with anguish and guilt as Davis' depressed voice replayed in her mind, causing her to think. 'We were so busy thinking about ourselves we never stopped to consider Davis' feelings.'
Rika was also having a similar line of thinking, as she thought to herself with a shamefulness in her thoughts. 'And here I was calling everyone else and idiot, I'm the idiot.'
"This didn't turn out as I imagined it." Sora commented, looking at the two broken girls, wondering what she could do to help, while also hoping that things can work out for them and for Davis.
