Chapter Eight:

The Ultimate Team No More?

All I could hear was yelling.

Blah, blah, blah! Doesn't Sampson ever just shut-up? I thought irritably.

I yawned. Though a feeling of foreboding came over me, I was still bored, and half deaf.

"And furthermore!" Sampson carried on. Kudamon added in a few details, but other than that, it was a lecture befitting a king.

Finally, he shut-up. He dismissed us to our home, leaving Yoshi on guard duty, again.

"Hey, Marcus." I asked as Thomas drove us home.

"What, Loaño?" he replied irritably, he was obviously angry.

"What's wrong?" I pestered.

"Agumon's mad at me 'cause I said something that offended him, apparently." I noticed that Agumon wasn't in the car with us. I looked everywhere. I looked at Kidd, and he just shrugged.

"He's in here." Marcus grumbled, he pointed at his orange digivice. Sure enough, Agumon was there, looking steamed.

"Gosh, what'd you say?" I asked.

Marcus just scowled, but Thomas laughed. "Don't worry, he'll have to come out sometime." He chuckled.

"No I do not!" Agumon yelled back. Thomas laughed again.

NNNNN

I blinked. What the heck was wrong with these two?

"You know, they're acting like doufs." Kristy said to me, voicing my thought.

"Yeah, definitely doufish." Kristy nodded with me. The two were at the dinner table, But Agumon wasn't out of his digivice still, and Marcus wasn't even looking in his general direction.

"Oh, well. The two'll get over it sooner or later." Marcus's mom said wistfully.

"Hope so, I'm supposed to be under surveillance." I said bitterly.

Dinner was a bust.

"Don't worry, I'll talk to Agumon." Kidd assured me. He picked up Marcus's digivice, Agumon still in it, and walked out.

"Pssh." Marcus hissed. He stormed up into his/our (no, not like that,) room. I rolled my eyes. I stormed after him.

"Well, dinner was……interesting." I said.

"Yeah." He replied.

"Look, man. What the freak is wrong with you two? You're both a really good team!" I was almost yelling.

"Well, we aren't now." Marcus said simply, and he turned over.

"Fine, you be stubborn." I grumbled. I heard Kidd talking to Agumon outside.

I just slipped into my cot-thing and slept.

For some reason, I felt guilty. About what, I didn't know. I saw Keenan, or, at least I thought it was Keenan. He stood with Falcomon in front of him, his wings spread wide to protect the little boy. A white bear digimon, which I think was a Frigimon, was also protecting him. I saw the same shadow of that man, and I heard a gunshot. The Frigimon fell, dead. It didn't even turn into a digi-egg.

The boy cried. He sobbed, "Mommy! Mommy!" and Falcomon attacked the man, driving him back.

The dream faded. I woke up, and it was the middle of the night. Marcus's snoring echoed throughout the house. Kidd was beside me.

"You having funny dreams again?" he asked.

"Yes." I responeded.

"Well, if you're thinking what I'm thinking, we have a place to go, and a 10 year-old to see." Kidd stated.

NNNNN

Sneaking into the Dive station was easy, Yoshi had taken a small break to stretch her legs, and she didn't notice us at all.

"The Dive's set." Kidd said. He pressed the button, and ran to the Dive.

"Dive on!" I said.

NNNNN

The Digital World felt and looked the same as before.

But, there was a little boy with black hair standing there, hate in his eyes, with a Falcomon.

"You're back." He said.

"Yes, I'm back Keenan." I said back.

His face looked sad.

"Look, I know what happened to Frigimon…" I started.

"What? The fact that my mom was murdered?" Keenan spat, tears fell from his face.

Falcomon hung his head down low.

"What's going on, Keenan?" I asked.

"The Digital World is in chaos. I have no clue what to do…" he said.

"We'll help you." Kidd promised.

So we did. All we did was stop a few fights between some feuding digimon, though.

"Here," Keenan held out a small bundle. I took it, and unwrapped it. It was a small pink digi-egg, with blue stripes that reminded me of a Biyomon.

"Keenan…you know I can't take this back!" I exclaimed.

"No, give it to someone who'll take care of it." Keenan said.

"Oh…" I said.

NNNNN

No one had discovered that Kidd and I had gone out that night to help Keenan.

I smuggled the bundle into my room, and I decided I'd give it to Kristy on her birthday.

Marcus and Agumon were walking towards me, smiling.

"We made up!" he said.

"Yup! The Boss and I are cool!" Agumon said.

"Aye, do I miss everything?" I said.

"Yes. Yes you do." Marcus smiled.