"The Singer's Secret"

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As Yoshi and Lalamon walked into DATS, the girl was getting stared at in awe by all of the other digimon in the room.

Why was that?

Because they and their humans had just found out she was seen with a celebrity.

"What's the deal? What? Stop it, get out of my way." Yoshi said as he walked through the gap that was between the digimon.

"Yoshi!" Miki and Megumi yelled making the girl jump back.

"Uh, what?" she asked.

"You're dating Neon?" Megumi asked.

"That ring a bell Miss-Keeps-Secrets-From-Her-Friends? Don't deny it." Miki said as the two girls got up in the Pink Tamer's face.

"We read all about it in the newspaper." Megumi said.

"Well, uh, I…" Yoshi stuttered.

"Start explaining." Miki ordered.

"Leave her alone." Marcus said as he walked by them.

"Who cares who she goes out with? It isn't any of our business." He said.

"It is now!" the two jealous girls yelled making him jump.

Someone else in the room was seething and beginning to lose her patience.

"We've been getting phone calls all morning long asking for Yoshi for interviews." Megumi said.

"Not to mention the mail from Neon's fans. My paper cuts have paper cuts." Miki said as she and Megumi seemed to be growling at Yoshi who was shrunk down.

"And everyone wants to know who Yoshi is." The blonde said.

"WILL YOU SHUT UP?!" Daisuke yelled making the three girls jump.

"I have had it with yelling at those stupid fan brats that have been calling us none stop, but if I have to deal with two more fan brats that are inside of this place, I'm gonna freaking lose it. So shut your petty, jealous traps!" she said.

Megumi and Miki shrunk back as Daisuke walked over and grabbed Yoshi's hand, pulling her to safety from the two rabid fan girls.

"Look." Thomas said as the two sane female Tamers walked over to him.

He had clicked on a link that brought up an image of Yoshi as she had a surprised look on her face from being caught off guard by a photographer.

"All your information has been posted on the internet. You name, phone number. Even your favorite music. Hmm, show tunes." The blonde said.

Yoshi groaned as she placed a hand on her face.

"This is the worst ever." She whined.

"It's a bad picture too." Lalamon said.

"Someone explain what's going on here please." Dorugamon said.

"Allow me." Sampson said as Kamemon gave him some tea.

The man took a sip while everyone looked at him for an answer.

"About a month ago, we started picking up a digimon signal in the RPG building down town." He said.

"Our analysis eventually confirmed that the identity of the digimon concealed in the building is Keramon." Kudamon said.

"WHAT?!" Daisuke yelled.

Everyone looked over to see the look of horror she had on her face, Dorugamon rubbing his head against her leg to help calm her down.

"Why didn't you tell us about this sooner? Keramon may be a Rookie level, but he has the ability to control electronics. Eight years ago Keramon was born with a virus on the internet and started creating mayhem. Phones weren't working, shops registers were on the fritz and two missiles were launched to destroy Japan and America. If it weren't for Tai and Matt who had their digimon WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon fight Keramon, who was in his Mega form Diaboramon, then we would all be dead right now. That missile landed right outside of my apartment building in the lake." She said.

Everyone was staring at her in surprise as they now knew why she had a small freak out when she heard what digimon they were dealing with.

Marcus remembered that scare 8 years ago and he was worried that his family wouldn't survive it and Kristy had only just been born at the time.

"The Digimon Data Squad second division secretly scouted the area and determined that our prime suspect…is the singer Neon." Sampson said as he held up a photo of the teenage new coming star.

"You mean this pop star is harboring a digimon?" Marcus asked.

"To be fair, we aren't certain about that yet, right?" Yoshi asked making Marcus look at her when she had a defensive tone.

"I decided to send Yoshino to go investigate undercover." Sampson said.

"Under what cover?" Agumon asked making his partner smile down at him.

"He means in secret, Agumon. But Commander, if we know there's a digimon in that building, why don't we just arrest him? Why all the secrecy?" Marcus asked.

"Because it's not that simple I'm afraid." Sampson said.

"That's right. The RPG building is very high tech. Its security systems can even keep DATS out." Kudamon said.

"So if we rush in the digimon will know that we're after him." Thomas said as he rubbed his chin.

"And he'll run." Goamon said.

"Despite today's trouble, we don't have a choice. Yoshino will continue her secret investigation." Sampson said.

"This is so wrong!" Megumi whined making him give a curious look.

"Why does Yoshi get to do it?" the blonde girl whined.

"Yeah, I wanna meet the famous singer." Miki whined as Megumi started crying.

Daisuke then picked up her water bottle and threw the liquid at them, making the two girls shriek and jump away.

"Shut up and act your ages. Seriously, you're two grown women and you're acting like spoilt little girls. You're an insult to our gender." The child of Miracles said.

Agumon and Marcus were snickering at the sight while Sampson sighed at this.

Things had gotten far more interesting with the leader of the Digidestinds now a part of their work.

"Settle down. There's a reason why she was assigned to this mission." Sampson said.

"What?" Miki and Megumi asked in surprise as they looked over to the saddened girl.

"I knew Neon when we were children." Yoshi said.

After that Daisuke had gone to the Digital World with Dorugamon so that she could get some peace.

She didn't care for the fact that Yoshi had known this Neon guy when they were kids.

This guy was guilty for housing a digimon that would cause trouble for them all and Daisuke wasn't going to stand for that at all.

She was sitting on the bridge she and her team had built four years ago and had to save it from being destroyed by a control spire digimon.

"Lady Dai, are you all right?" Dorugamon asked.

"Yeah, I'm fine. It's just…I know Yoshi's gonna let her feelings for Neon get in the way of this mission and because of that she's going to get really hurt in the end." She said.

"We wouldn't allow that. We'll be there to protect her from any dangers." The dragon said.

The girl smiled at her partner and gave him a scratch between his wings.

"I meant emotionally. That's a lot more complicated to heal than physical pain." Daisuke explained.

A nice cool breeze blew by them, the two enjoying it as it swept their hair and fur back.

For some reason the wind of the Digital World was sweeter than that of the Human World.

It must have been because there was no pollution or global warming here to taint the air, forest or water.

"Daisuke!" someone called.

The duo looked up to see that Stingmon was flying over to them with Ken on his shoulder.

'I thought you were here. How have you been?' Ken signed to her before he jumped onto the bridge.

"I just found out that we need to fight a Keramon that's being housed by a stupid pop star." She said.

Stingmon and Ken both looked shocked by this news and knew that Daisuke must have had a bit of a freak out when she heard this news.

'How are you dealing with this?' Ken signed.

"Undercover mission. It's mostly because this Neon guy is Yoshi's childhood friend and possibly her first love too." Daisuke said.

The look Yoshi had in her eyes when she tried to defend Neon was obvious enough that she cared deeply for him.

The Pink Tamer knew he was guilty, but still wanted to protect him any way she could.

Ken placed a comforting hand on her should to gain her attention and smiled.

She returned it and gave him a hug while Stingmon and Dorugamon spoke with each other.

(Later that night…)

Kristy was smiling as she watched the TV interview of Neon, Agumon slurping up a freezie while Dorugamon rolled his eyes at the singer and Dai was making a sickened face she usually had when Jun used to be obsessed with Matt.

"You're new song has been downloaded by more than seven million people. So what do you have to say to that?" the woman on the TV asked.

"What can I say except thanks everyone." Neon smiled.

"So rumour has it you've recently gotten a girlfriend. Who's the lucky lady?" the woman asked.

Marcus chose that moment to walk into the room drinking some milk and was in front of the TV, Kristy scowling as she then pushed him.

"Move, Marcus, I can't see!" she said.

"All I'm going to say is that she's a great person and she inspires my music, but please, guys, she's an ordinary person. Keep her out of the press, OK?" Neon responded.

"Oh, man. That Neon is so cool." Kristy gushed.

"Yeah, right." Marcus muttered as he sat down and turned off the TV.

"Thank you." The purple dragon sighed in relief.

"Do you think that I'll ever date some who's as cool and sweet as Neon?" Kristy asked.

"Sure." Marcus said as he took another sip of his milk as his sister walked over with some paper and a pen.

"If only I could meet Neon in person or even get an autograph or something. I would be so grateful. So give this to Yoshi." She said making the two teens give her a confused look.

"What for?" Marcus asked.

"Uh, can't you take a hint?" Kristy asked as Agumon started looking off innocently.

"I heard she's the one who's dating Neon." The girl said making her brother and cousin jump in shock while the dragon gave the dino a look.

"How'd you find that out? You…" Marcus growled at his partner as he continued sucking on his freezie.

"You got a big mouth!" Marcus yelled.

"Just have him make it out to 'Super fan Kristy; the most beautiful girl in the whole world'." She said.

"No." Marcus said.

"Why not?" Kristy asked with a small pout.

"Look, you wouldn't like it if people kept prying into the private details of your life, I mean, if you had any." Marcus said.

"Huh." Kristy blinked her pretty deep green eyes.

"Well, Yoshi's the same. Besides, Neon is probably sick of signing autographs for annoying fans." Marcus said.

"You think I'm annoying, Marcus?" Kristy gasped.

She then went to run away with tears streaming down her face.

"Ah, no, Kristy! I didn't mean…oh." Marcus groaned as he stood up to watch her leave.

He really had to watch what he said.

"You made her cry." Agumon said making his partner growl.

"This is all your fault." Marcus said as he grabbed him in a headlock and started pushing down on his jugular.

"Sorry, I have a big mouth, OK?" Agumon said.

Daisuke groaned as she stood up to go check on her cousin, Dorugamon following her.

They made it to Kristy's room and walked in to find her crying on the bed.

"Kris, you know he didn't mean that. It's just that Neon is famous and he has a lot of obsessive, annoying, whiny and bratty fan girls that if I ever met them, I would gladly beat them to shut them up." Daisuke said as she pulled her cousin into her lap.

"I know, but Marcus still should learn to watch his mouth." Kristy pouted.

"I had to learn the hard way." Daisue sighed, but smiled as cousin calmed down.

"Marcus may say stupid things, but he's your brother and he loves you no matter what." She said as she rubbed Kristy's back.

"Yeah, I know. I love him too. I' really glad I have you here, Dai." Kristy said.

Dorugamon smiled at this, swelling with pride for his partner.

"Dai, get down here now!" Marcus yelled.

The two girls sighed before they hugged one last time and separated.

(At DATS…)

Every TV station, cell phone network and computer were involuntarily showing an ad for Neon's new song, so the Tamers ran off to DATS to see if anything was happening there as well.

"Here too?" Marcus asked as they saw the same ad on the computers there.

"Looks like Keramon's been snacking." Daisuke scowled.

"Hey, Commander, what is going on here?" Marcus asked.

"A web take over." Sampson said.

"Neon's video has been uploaded into every possible distribution stream." Thomas said.

"What about our systems?" Sampson asked.

"I don't know. I can't tell if they've been damaged. The video is blocking out my access." Megumi said.

"Contact Yoshino immediately." Sampson ordered.

"I've been trying to contact her, sir, but I'm not getting any answer." Miki said.

"Try harder." Sampson ordered.

"Marcus!" Kudamon called as the boy ran off.

Dorugamon and Daisuke both groaned as they sat down with Thomas and Goamon.

(The next day…)

Marcus had almost ousted Yoshi, which made her mad, but she was obviously taking her relationship with Neon too seriously.

"Commander, I've been doing a statistic analysis. In the month since Keramon's signal appeared, downloads of Neon's song has increased over 400%." Thomas said.

"Keramon's making it seem like Neon's selling more songs than he is." Sampson said.

"Exactly. He's very ingenious." Thomas said.

"He's tricking the public." Sampson said.

"The more popular people think he is, the more albums they buy." Kudamon said.

"Clearly, Neon's making a fortune through fraud." Thomas said.

"So when do we grab this guy?" Marcus asked.

"Commander, please! He's innocent until proven guilty, remember?" Yoshi said sternly.

"Oh, yeah. Because what happened last night wasn't proof enough that Neon's guilty." Daisuke drawled sarcastically.

"What's Neon's schedule? Quick." Sampson said.

"At noon he's making a talk show appearance." Megumi said.

"Which means he'll be back home at 3:00 pm." Miki said.

"But at midnight, he's supposed to be a guest on a radio show." Megumi said.

"Tonight we'll stage a cooperate search of Neon's apartment. Thomas will be in charge." Sampson said making Yoshi bow her head as her eyes were clenched in frustration.

"One request, sir. Keep Yoshi out of this operation." Thomas said stunning the girl.

"Thomas!" she gasped.

"She's become too emotionally involved in this case." The blonde said.

"You just noticed that? It was obvious when we first heard about this stupid undercover mission." Daisuke said making Yoshi look at her in shock.

"Agreed. Yoshino, you will remain here. Everybody else, go with Thomas." Sampson said.

"Roger." They all said except for a distressed Yoshi.

That night everyone got into position, Miki and Megumi staking out in a van while Marcus and Agumon were inside, Thomas and Goamon were hanging by a rope by Neon's window and finally Daisuke was flying on Dorugamon over the roof.

Everything was going fine until Yoshi was seen walking right into the building.

"What do we do now?" Dorugamon asked.

"Stay out here unless something happens." Daisuke said.

Bad news struck when they discovered that Neon was still home and had caught Yoshi and Lalamon.

He admitted that he made fake schedule to catch them.

The sound of yelling and glass shattering made the child of Miracles bit her lip as she wondered what to do, but Thomas had given the order to stay where she was.

Like she was going to listen?

"Doru, go!" she called.

The purple dragon flew into the building and found that the orange, pink and blue teams were there with Neon and Keramon.

"All right, hand over the digimon now!" Marcus ordered.

"No way! Keramon's my partner, just like your digimon. I wouldn't betray him any more than you would betray them. He's made me rich and famous." Neon said as he stood in front of Keramon.

Marcus jumped forward and punched the star in the face, making Yoshi gasp in worry.

"Your whole career is a giant lie! You haven't actually achieved anything. That digimon of yours did everything for you. You're nothing but a phony." Marcus said.

"Got cha!" someone said.

Everyone turned to see a man holding a camera and was taking pictures.

"Whoa, what a scoop!" the man said.

Before anyone could do anything, the man suddenly fell down unconscious as his camera was taken away by a girl clad in lavender behind him.

"Daisuke." Thomas breathed in relief.

"I really hate people like this." The girl said.

"Dorugamon, take out Keramon now." She ordered.

"As you wish, Lady Dai." The dragon said.

Neon gasped as Keramon was blasted at by a metal ball and was knocked down.

"Keep him away from the electronics!" Daisuke called.

Keramon got up and spat a red ball at Dorugamon, but the dragon evaded it and tackled him to the ground as the two fought.

"No, stop!" Neon called.

Daisuke shook her head as she walked over to the male and yank him back by his hair, making him stumble as he turned his toxic green eyes to meet chocolate brown that were glowing red.

"You have no right to tell us to stop. You've been using a digimon for your own selfish purposes. He's a living, breathing creature with feelings just like you and yet you were using him. People who are tainted at heart aren't meant to have digimon. You aren't a true friend for Keramon." Daisuke said.

Neon stared at her in shock as she was covered in blue light and the mark of Friendship glowed on her forehead.

Everyone watched in shock as the light then hit Keramon and turned him into Kuramon.

The little one eyed jellyfish creature looked around curiously as Dorugamon backed off of it and Daisuke walked away from Neon as the mark and light faded away.

"What happened? Keramon returned to his baby form." Lalamon said.

"His…baby form?" Neon asked.

Daisuke picked up Kuramon as he cooed cutely at the girl as she held him gently with a kind smile on her face.

"The digi egg of Friendship helped purify him of the taint he got from Neon. I'll take him to the Digital World so Electmon can take care of him. You guys deal with Neon and the reporter." She said.

The Tamers nodded as Daisuke and Dorugamon walked pass them, Neon looking down sadly as the girl passed him.

"Will he be happy?" he asked.

The others held their breath as the child of Miracles turned to him, her eyes meeting Neon's to see that he sincerely wanted to know.

She seemed to have gotten through to him and gave him a small comforting smile.

"I promise." She said.

With that, she went off and took Kuramon back to the Digital World, but when Willis heard about it, he requested that he be the one to raise Kuramon to make sure he came out right.

Willis was pure and his power of the Golden Radiance, while not as strong as Daisuke's, would still keep Kuramon on the right path of good.

Neon was decided to be able to keep his memories as long as he kept DATs secret and Yoshi was able to keep her friend.

Daisuke on the other hand was suffering from a massive headache.

She prayed that nothing like this happened again too soon.

To be continued…