"Family Picnic"

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Inside of the computer room were TK, Kari, Yolei and Cody who were standing around the computer to open up the gate while the digimon were waiting on their humans.

"All right, I got us in. am I the best or what?" Yolei gloated.

"I wonder if Daisuke would like to join us for our picnic." Kari mused.

"She could really use a break just like the rest of us." Gatomon said.

"Yeah, it'd be great to see V-Mon again." Patamon blushed while he, Poromon and Upamon all envisioned the female dragon.

Everyone looked at them curiously, then TK and Kari laughed at the fan boy attitude the male digimon were displaying.

Just then, the door to the computer room was slid open making everyone cry out in fear that they had been caught sneaking into the school on a Saturday.

"I'm sorry, but are you supposed to be here?" a pink haired girl asked as she poked her head in.

"Mimi." The duos of Hope and Light said making the others calm down.

"Mimi?" they asked.

"Um, TK? Kari?" Mimi Tachikawa asked.

"Yep." TK and Kari chirped.

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

Mimi at the group, Mimi walked further into the room, closing the door behind her and then walked over until she was standing with the group.

"Hi, Mimi, Sora told us all about you." Yolei greeted.

"I spoke to her. She told me about you too. Gatomon, Patamon, how have you been?" Mimi asked.

"Other than being stuffed in a knapsack like a wet towel, we're fine." Gatomon said.

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

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

"That was us. We had to sneak in since the school was closed. We all decided to go on a nice Saturday picnic in the Digital World." TK said.

"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 okay?" Mimi asked.

"Of course." Yolei chirped.

"Wait yolei, we don't have enough sodas for her." TK said.

"That's okay. She can have mine." Cody offered.

"And mine." Kari smiled.

"Perfecto! Let's go. Digi Port; Open!" Yolei cried.

The group was then all pulled through the gate and came out in a forest that showed off the blue skies and mountains.

"Hey, look around guys. Not a control spire in sight." TK smiled.

"How cool. I'm back. The Digital World hasn't changed." Mimi looked around, her eyes landing on a large burgundy flower.

(A few minutes later…)

"Digimon Emperor?" Mimi asked as the group were walking.

"Yeah, he builds control spires, tries to take over the Digital World and he can bend fire." TK explained.

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

"Yeah, that's why we picked this spot to go on our picnic." Yolei told her.

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

"We should pick out a spot around here to lay out the picnic blanket and dish out the food." Cody said.

"Sounds great." TK smiled.

"Would you just leave me alone?!" someone yelled.

The Digidestineds all turned around and found Daisuke and V-Mon jumping into the clearing, both looking quite annoyed as they glared behind them.

"Daisuke, what are you doing?" Kari asked the girl who looked over at them.

"I'm getting annoyed to death by a cherub." The mahogany haired girl growled.

"Huh? What are you talking about?" Yolei asked.

The pink haired girl stepped up to the Bender and gave a friendly smile.

"Hello there, you must be Daisuke. I'm Mimi, Sora's told me about you." she said kindly.

"Nice to meet you." Daisuke accepted her offered hand.

"Anyway Daisuke, what or who were you yelling at?" TK asked.

"That's a long story. You see…" V-Mon trailed off.

Walking out of the bathroom freshly showered and changed, Daisuke found V-Mon was sitting on the bed trying the red ribbon on.

"What do ya think?" the dragon grinned.

"Looks good on you." Daisuke complimented.

Looking down, she found a white feather was on the floor, so she bent down and picked it up.

"Hmm, what is that?" V-Mon asked.

"I'm not sure." Daisuke said inspecting it.

Hearing something land on the balcony behind her, she quickly stood and whirled around, surprised to find a humanoid digimon standing behind them dressed in a white toga with gold arm bands, purple markings on his body and had a red glowing heart marking on his left breast, his eyes were ice blue and his curled hair was bleach blond.

He had two white wings on his head and had eight wings on his back that folded back so they wouldn't be in the way.

"Who are you?" V-Mon asked jumping over to her partner's side.

"Don't worry, I'm not an enemy. I just needed to come speak with Princess Daisuke." He held his hands up in a peaceful manner.

"I remember you. You came to this castle to speak with my father with all those other digimon." Daisuke said.

"Exactly. I'm glad to see you remember me." he smiled.

Walking up to the Bender, he took her right hand in his and kissed the top of it making her blush at the sudden display of affection while V-Mon blinked curiously.

"I am Lucemon, one of the Demon Lords." He introduced.

"Demon Lords?!" the two females yelled in shock.

"And after that, we jumped out the window and started running away." V-Mon finished.

"How can an angel digimon be a Demon Lord?" TK asked.

"Lucemon was rumoured to be the child of an Angewomon and Devimon." Gatomon explained.

"So there are Demon Lords after you now? Why though?" Yolei asked.

"Allow me to explain." Someone called.

Looking up into the sky, they saw Lucemon was flying above them and he slowly descended upon them, smiling kindly as he did so.

Everyone stared in awe at the sight of the angel as he landed on the ground beside Daisuke and V-Mon.

"That's Lucemon?" Yolei asked.

"He doesn't appear very frightening." Hawkmon said.

"It's wise to never judge your opponents just from their looks. After all, you could destroy innocent digimon because of that." Lucemon lectured.

"Excuse me, Lucemon, why are you after Daisuke?" Kari asked.

She confused about trusting him since she could sense the powers of Darkness inside of him, but she also felt the powers of Light.

"I'd like to explain, but there are eyes watching us." Lucemon said as he narrowed his icy eyes and glanced off to the side.

"Eyes watchin' us? What does that mean?" Armadillomon asked.

"He must mean we've being watched by one of the Emperor's slaves." Hawkmon explained.

"Precisely. It would be best to speak somewhere no one can spy on us." Lucemon said.

"Like my castle." Daisuke realized.

"Or the Dark Zone." Lucemon smiled.

Everyone then frowned at this which made him sweat drop and give a nervous grin.

"Calm down, I'm not saying you have to go there. Anyway, I'll talk to you all again when we have some privacy. Good bye for now." He then flew off.

"What a strange digimon." Cody said.

"So, what are you guys doing here?" Daisuke asked.

"Oh, we came here for a picnic. Would you like to join us?" Kari asked.

Blinking at the offer, the dragon and mahogany haired girl shared a look and shrugged.

"Sounds like fun." V-Mon smiled.

The group then all got to work setting the blanket down on the ground and everyone helped pull the food out of the bags and set them down and then they started eating.

"Here, try this." Kari handed Daisuke a container that was wrapped by tinfoil.

"Um, thanks. What is it?" she asked as she pulled the wrapping off.

"It's fried shrimp and rice. I hope you like it." the child of Light smiled.

"Hey, V-Mon, why don't you try the egg sandwiches? They're really good." Patamon offered.

"Nah, try the sushi. It's great." Armadillomon insisted.

"The two bean salad is quite tasty." Hawkmon said.

The blue dragon, who was wearing her partner's red ribbon around her neck as a bow, looked at the males and blushed at the attention.

"Um, thanks. It all looks so great." She smiled.

"What is with them?" Yolei asked.

"It looks like someone has some fan boys." Mimi giggled.

"I wondered about that." Daisuke said as she began eating.

"Whaaat?" Yolei gaped as she looked at the digimon in disbelief.

"I wonder which one she'll pick." TK mused.

"Pretty girls like us always have fan boys. It's the ones that don't annoy us that we'll choose." Gatomon joked.

"I brought these from my family's convenience store. You want some?" Yolei asked Mimi.

"Ah, is that what I think it is? A chocolate covered rice ball? I haven't had one since I was a kid. I love 'em." Mimi gushed.

"Humans have such strange food." Daisuke commented as she continued eating.

Everyone laughed at this as they all gathered up their picks of the meal and started eating happily.

(In Republic City…)

Korra was stuffing her bags, ready to take the next boat to Japan as soon as possible.

Mako was standing at the door, watching her hurry around the room.

It had been two weeks since Bolin's call and the couple had been waiting impatiently for the next boat to come to port to take them to Japan.

Tenzin wanted to come along with them to find the little girl who was now a 12 year old young lady.

"Do you have everything?" Mako asked.

"I think so. I just can't believe it. After all these years of searching, everyone telling me to give up, we finally have proof that she's alive." Korra smiled.

"We don't know anything about her, though. It'll be strange to see her." Mako said.

"Who cares? We're finally going to see our baby. Now get your stuff!" the Avatar ordered as she grabbed her bags and rushed off to the port.

Shaking his head at thus, Mako gathered up his bags and let a small smile grace his lips as he thought of seeing his daughter again.

He knew she would be quite the beauty and there was a great possibility that she had her mother's attitude.

Letting out a sigh, the Fire Bender then walked out of the room to follow his wife to the port to meet Korra and Tenzin so that they could go off to Japan to visit Bolin.

(In the Digital World…)

"I knew this would happen." Daisuke said.

"Knew what would happen?" Cody asked.

"That when I met up with you guys, something bad would happen. I knew it. The only reason you guys ever need me is to bail you out of trouble. Now Yolei, Hawkmon and Mimi are missing." The girl complained.

"And all this over a California roll." Gatomon sighed.

Armadillomon had thrown a California roll at Hawkmon and it wound up rolling away from the blanket, so the bird chased after it as Yolei ran after him and Mimi followed since she was worried they would get lost.

After they hadn't come back after a while, the group decided to go search for the missing trio.

"Calm down, we'll find them." TK said.

As they walked along, Daisuke felt vibrations under her feet from the earth and frowned as she bent down and felt how hollow it was under.

"What is it?" Cody asked.

"I think there's something under here." She said.

Stepping back, she stomped her foot down on the group and the ground opened up like two doors, revealing a nighttime version of the Digital World.

"They must be down there." Kari gasped.

Moving her arms around, Daisuke created an orb of air that surrounded the group and lifted them all down into the new area and moved it off down the forest path.

"Now this is the way to travel." Kari smiled.

"Hey, look, it's a control spire." Patamon gasped making the group look over.

They saw the spire and then a beam of light hit two figures flying in the sky and they swerved into the spire making it crack.

The orb picked up speed as it went to the area of the control spire and they found Mimi, Togemon, Yolei and Halsemon near the destroyed spire as two Roachmon flew off arguing.

There was also a large group of Otamamon and Geckmon standing around, smiling and cheering.

"Nice job." Daisuke commented as the orb dispersed and the group easily landed on their feet.

"Hey guys, you found us." Yolei smiled.

"Mimi." Togemon said making the girl look up at her.

"Togemon?" she asked.

"I will protect this area now. You can count on me." the cactus said.

"I've always counted on you." the child of Sincerity smiled as she hugged her partner's red gloved hand.

Seeing everyone was safe now, Daisuke began walking off with V-Mon on her back, Mimi watching them go curiously.

She gasped when she saw the trees move to hide the duo form sight and a large blue flower was left in their wake.

(At the castle…)

"What do you think Lucemon wanted to talk about?" V-Mon asked as she settled down on the couch in the living room.

"I don't know, but I really don't want anyone coming into my home uninvited." Daisuke said as she created a stone wall in front of the balcony.

The girl had been doing this to all the balconies and windows since she got home to keep out any unwanted visitors.

"Do you think we can trust him and the other Demon Lords?" the dragon asked.

Her partner remained silent because she didn't have an answer to that question at all.

Ever since she was little, she was taught to never judge a person or creature for their race and gave everyone she met a chance, but she wasn't sure if the Demon Lords could be given the same chance.

To be continued…