Author Note: As promised here is chapter 9!! Again i don't own digimon but i own Yori and all other original concepts used in this story. So enjoy and review!
Eastern Quadrant-Real World- Four Days Before Anniversary
"Tai, Tai wake up." Yori said poking the digidestined of courage repeatedly. After the boy had fainted Yori with the help of Agumon dragged him over to the park where Yori had just come from and laid him on the grass.
"I don't think he'll wake up any time soon." Agumon said pensively looking at his partner out cold. "When he gets like this it takes water or an epic battle to occur before he evens stirs." That gave the Yori an idea.
"Water you say." A small impish smile gracing her features and a mischievous twinkle in her eyes appear as she looked Tai and Kudamon. "No, I will not take part in this." The ferret digimon said leaping off Yori's shoulder.
"Please!" Yori said giving him the puppy dog eye making it hard for the digimon to stay firm. Agumon watched the two strangers interact and found it oddly similar to what Tai did when he wanted his help with a prank.
"Fine, you win." "Yes!" Yori yelled in victory. That got Agumon thinking there was no water nearby, well except for the bay on the other side of the tent. "What are you going to do?" Agumon asked.
"I'm just going to give Tai his yearly bath, just watch I promise nothing bad will come of it except a wet Tai." Yori reassured the orange dinosaur. "And I can only assume that a wet Tai is your favorite part." Kudamon said.
"Shut up." Yori glared at Kudamon briefly before looking at the cards from her deck looking for the right one. "What are those?" Agumon asked curiously.
"Digimon modify cards" Yori replied simply still rummaging through the deck. "And what do they do?" Agumon asked becoming intrigued by the cards. "I've never seen them before."
"Here it is." Yori said separating one card and putting the others away in a leather caring case stuck to her belt.
"Just watch and see." She said taking out a strange white purple and gold device out. Digimodify! Shellmons Hydro Blasters Activate! A ball of water appeared on the Kudamons open mouth and then shot towards Tai effectively wetting him.
"How did you do that?!" Agumon exclaimed in astonishment mouth wide open and eyes the size of dinner plates. "The magic of modify card my friend, it's a beautiful thing." Kudamon said standing on his hind legs next to Agumon.
"Ah! I'm drowning!" Tai shouted waving his arms and legs frantically trying to swim in the air, causing Yori to laugh at the boy's antics. "Help me!"
"Calm yourself before you hurt yourself. You're not drowning but you're also not dry so it's a win lose situation for ya." Tai opened his eyes to realize that she was right and then proceeded to glare at Yori for getting him wet. "It was you." He exclaimed.
Yori smirked placing her hands on her hips in a, what are you going to do about it way. "I tried everything else before and you didn't respond. Agumon suggested it." Yori said pinning the blame on the digimon.
"What?! I only said that it would take water or a battle to wake him up!" Agumon said trying to defend his honor. "I guess I should go home and change, so much for Matt's concert." Not that I had anyone to go with. Tai said, all playfulness gone from his voice as he got up.
"Are you ok Tai?" Yori asked noting the sudden change in his attitude. I wonder what got him in such a mood.
"Just peachy, Agumon lets go home." Tai said wanting the digimon to follow him as he began walking away from Yori.
"You my good man are a terrible liar." Yori said as she grabbed a hold of his wet jacket keeping him from leaving. Tai simply gave his left arm a hard tug to get out of the odd girls grip.
"I don't think so, you need someone to talk to and there is no way I'm letting you go anywhere with how wet you're cloths is." Yori said never losing her grip on his jacket despite the hard tug.
"It's none of your business!" he shot back uncharacteristically at Yori shocking the girl momentarily. "Tai! What's gotten into you?" Agumon asked shocked at his partner's reaction, although he had a really good idea about what had Tai so upset.
What does she care? Sora can go be with Matt for the rest of her life. I don't need them; all I need is Agumon and me. I don't need her help, they'll only get hurt. Tai thought. "I don't care, you look hurt and I want to help. So stop fighting because I am not going to back down." Yori said with determination burning in her eyes.
Tai stood there in silence looking at the ground before he began to cry falling to his knees. Yori kneeled on the ground in front of Tai wrapping her arms around him she pulled him into a hug. "It's going to be ok." She said as the two stayed there in silence only the occasional sniffle from Tai.
In the distance the sound of rock music began making Tai stiffen for a moment before breaking the embrace with Yori. "I need to get changed, and apparently so do you." He said getting up followed by Yori he stood there awkwardly before offering her a small sad smile. "Thanks, I'm sorry about earlier it's just that." Tai trailed off turning towards the tent.
"Here tell you what, you tell me all about it on the way to your house and then I'll tell you my story. And change my shirt since it's now wet." Yori said as she went to pick up Kudamon from the ground next to Agumon. Flashing a sly grin at him she said "And I won't take no for an answer."
--------Back with Takato
"Yori!" Takato yelled as a bright light engulfed him and Guilmon closing his eyes to prevent the loss of sight. The next thing that registered in his mind was of heat on his back and soft cool grass beneath him.
"Huh?" Takato got up quickly looking around him finding Guilmon rolling around in the grass besides him. The red dino suddenly stopped sniffing the air bolting into the tree line without a word. "Guilmon! Get back here boy!"
Taking after his partner into the trees and onto who knows what. "Guilmon! Wait up boy! Aw nuts." Takato yelled as he ran after him disappearing into the trees as well.
----Back to Tai and Yori
"It just hurts to see her choose Matt over me." Tai said as the two walked up the steps leading to the Kamiya residence. The whole walk there Tai told Yori about Sora and his friends, he didn't know why but he felt like he could trust Yori with his life and more.
"It seems to me that she doesn't know what she passed up. Or maybe you two were just meant to be friend I don't know, but like the old saying goes if you love something then let it go." Yori said thinking about the story Tai had re-laid to her.
"Sometimes is all you can do." Yori said trying to hold back tear from falling. Mom.
Using the story that Tai had told her Yori figured that she really was back home in the eastern quadrant were Ryo was. The time by the way he talked sounded like it was shortly after the end of season two. This was a good thing now all she had to do was find Ryo, and Takato and then a way home. It shouldn't be too hard to do, right?
"Any ways here we are, home sweet home." Tai said bringing Yori out of her thoughts. "My parents are out of town for the week and Kari is out with some friends so we have the place to ourselves." Tai said as he led Yori into the house.
"Who's Kari?" Yori asked playing dumb. "My younger sister" He said from the bathroom as Yori walked over to the glass doors leading to the balcony. "Would you like something to drink?" Agumon asked. "No thank you. Do you want anything Kudamon?" shaking his head saying no Agumon left the two and headed into one of the rooms in the apartment.
"Agumon bring me some cloths please." Tai called from the bathroom. "Sure thing." He called back. Yori took to exploring the living room, looking at family pictures and such. She then wondered into the hallway outside of the bathroom and the room Agumon was in.
"So, what about Kudamon and you," Tai asked through the door. "What's your story?" Yori's eyes falling upon a picture of Kari around the age Myotismons attack making her smile. "How about you get out of there with cloths and then we'll talk. Mean while I'll change out here so no peaking."
She put her black messenger bag on the couch Yori started to unbutton the large t-shirt she had on under her white jacket. Wincing in pain as she accidentally brushed against her bandaged midsection Yori bite down a yelp so she would not alert Tai and Agumon. Carful so not to repeat her previous mistake Yori put on a form fitting black t-shirt.
Once she finished she made her way to what looked like Tai's room. It seemed simple enough a bunk bed on the right side of the room, two desks against opposing walls, a closet and a window. There were cloths and random items littering the floor, nothing special. Just as she was about to walk out a vibrant blue and orange bundle caught her eyes.
Yori walked up to the thing, picking it up she realized that they were a pair of goggles just like Takatos only orange with a blue cloth behind like Tai's old goggles. "These are mine." Yori said examining the goggles and sure enough her name was on the inside.
"What are you looking at?" Tai asked startling Yori. "Shit, don't do that!" Yori said Tai spotted the goggles in her hands seeing Tai's line of sight changed she looked down at the goggles.
"Where did you get them?" Yori asked, curious at how Tai of all people came to have her old goggles. "It's a long story for another day, right now you own me an explanation." Tai said raising his left eyebrow.
Nodding her head she gently, as if she was afraid they would break, Yori placed the goggles on the desk. Following Tai out of the room and into the kitchen she couldn't get the goggles out of her mind. Just as they were about to sit down Yori's d-arc began to go off.
"What is that?" Tai asked. "It's my D-arc, hold on let me shut it up." Yori pressed a few buttons and nothing worked, then a compass appeared pointing south rather than north. "What the hell?" Yori asked herself trying to figure out the gizmo.
"A digimon is bio-emerging." Kudamon said looking out the window and into the street were a thick fog mysteriously appeared. "Well looks like we have to take care of this." Yori said headed for the door with Tai and Agumon hot on her tails.
"Where are we going?" Tai said as the four of them reached street level and headed into the fog into the unknown.
"Well you wanted to know more about me, here's your chance at a demonstration." Yori said as they stepped into the clearing with in the fog. Moments later a Gorillamon appeared and began attacking everything within its reach.
"Alright let's see what we got." Yori said pointing her D-arc at the digimon like before the larger holo screen appeared with the digimons picture and stats. "I have got to get me one of those!" Tai said admiring Yoris digivice.
"Gorillamon, Champion lever, Data Nature Spirit type, special attacks are Power Attack and Energy Cannon." Yori read out loud. "Think you can take him Kudamon?" Yori asked as her partner jumped off her shoulders and onto the ground.
"Let's end this quickly." Kudamon said. "Tai stand back and let me show ya how it's done." Yori instructed as she pulled out a card from a leather caring case from her belt. Digimodify! Digivolution, Activate! Kudamon digivolve to….Reppamon!
Tai and Agumon watched in awe as the ferret sized digimon digivolved into a horse sized one with just a swipe of a card. "Go in quick and fast Reppamon!" Yori instructed, Reppamon nodding in confirmation. Rolling Tackle! He yelled hitting Gorillamon in the chest.
Backing up Reppamon prepared another attack. Razor Wind! The digimon didn't stand a chance against Reppamons Razor wind attack and burst into data. "Let it go, hopefully it will be reformatted into this digital world." Yori instructed Reppamon.
"You just destroyed a digimon." Tai said in shock looking at Yori in shock and disgust. "This is how we do it were I'm from Tai, you have to remember that I'm not from here." Yori reminded him.
"A digimon is a living human being you just can't kill them without a second thought!" Agumon outraged by what he had just saw, a fellow digimon destroyed so calmly.
Noting that the fog was clearing up Yori grabbed Tai and Agumon tossing them onto Reppamons back, trying to bite down the pain "Get us out of here before we attract attention, Reppamon." Yori instructed through clenched teeth not responding to Agumons and Tai's accusations.
Two minutes later the four of them reached a familiar TV station. "You picked here?" Yori asked surprised by her partner's choice of location. "Its empty, has plenty of places to hide and it was nearby." He said stopping to allow his passengers off.
"Care to explain what that was all about!" Tai roared as he all but jumped off the digimon. "I'm waiting for an explanation!" he said. Yori turned away her face both from embracement and the other from the pain in her mid section.
"Where I come from digimon are used for fighting it's an instinct that very few ever over come, that fog is called a digital field. A digital field occurs when a digimon comes into the real world. The way that we digimon tamers deal with wild ones is by deleting them since they tend to just attack everyone in sight." Yori said.
"They are living creatures you just can't kill them!" Tai shouted back angry at what she was saying, not only did she destroy that digimon but others.
"Listen Tai were we come from digimon are not the same as here. We fight for our lives amongst ourselves, the tamers and us partner digimon protect the human world from harm. As well as protect peaceful digimon." Reppamon said.
"It's not our choice, but it has to be done. Sometimes they can be reasoned with, other times like now they have to be deleted." Yori said with sadness in her voice.
"If you're not from here, then where are you from?" Tai said a little more subdued. "We come from the Southern Quadrant of the Digital world, under the rule of the fire bird Sovereign Zhuqiaomon and a different real world that is connected to it." Yori said.
"How do you know it's a different real world?" Agumon said already knowing that what she said about the digimon was true if she came from the Southern Quadrant. It was a known fact that Zhuqiaomon was the most ruthless sovereign of the four and as such his section of the digital plain reflected it.
"Those cards that I used are based off a TV show about your adventures in the digital world." Yori said looking Tai straight in the eyes.
"Are, you serious?" Tai asked skeptically. "Yes, from the first time to the digital world to the defeat of Malomyotsimon."
"That was just a couple of months ago." Tai said shocked by what Yori was telling him. "So that explains why you asked Reppamon about picking this place huh." Tai said.
"It's going to be the fifth year anniversary of Kimiyori and Wizardmons passing in four days, you're welcome to come." Tai said thinking back to the other day when he talked with Kimiyori's mother which resulted in him now having those goggles in his room.
"Kimiyori who is that? The show only showed Wizardmons sacrifice. That maybe because it's a kid show." Yori said once again playing stupid.
"I guess I can tell you about that later. Yori I was just thinking do you have a place to stay, because you're welcome to stay at my place." Tai said.
"Thanks, I hope I won't be too much of an inconvenience. How about you go on ahead? I just need to think about a few things and sort them out. I'll meet you back at your place." Yori said giving Tai a smile and the puppy dog look.
"Alright, just don't come back to late. I'd like to get some sleep you know." Tai said as he began to walk away with Agumon at his side. "Fair enough see you in a while!" Yori called out to him.
Once Tai and Agumon were out of sight Yori turned to Reppamon "Care to explain why you haven't reverted back to Kudamon?" Yori asked looking perplexed at her partner.
"Because of this." A light then enveloped Reppamon and after a few short minutes the light faded revealing her partner "Holy crap."
Two minutes after Takato and Yori went through the portal
"You go next." Terriormon said pushing Rika towards the hole and failing miserably. Suzie was holding on to Lopmon watching the others argue about who was next.
"What? How about you go first." Rika shot back the two staring eachother down. Getting tiered of this Henry stood up picking up Terriormon "Let me go!" turned to Suzie and motioned her to come closer.
"Well go next." He said. "Are you crazy?!" Henry gave the bunny a look that said shut it or be silence permanently.
"Ready Suzie?" Henry asked firmly taking a hold of her hand with his left and Terriormon on the right. "Let's go." She said.
With that the two siblings jumped into the portal leaving behind Rika, Ai Mako and their digimon partners. The two siblings ended up in the same multi colored tunnel that the previous quartet had encountered.
Passing though images faster than they could recognize they quickly came close to an image of room before being engulfed in a blinding light.
"AH! Who are you guys?" a voice yelled as Henry opened his eyes to come face to face with a red headed boy that he knew too well.
"Henry I think we got sucked into the TV." Terriormon said looking at the read head too. Even in this type of situation Terriormon still make wise cracks about things.
"Terriormon shut it, Suzie are you ok." The little girl nodded as she held onto Lopmon eyeing the red headed boy. "Henry isn't he from a cartoon?" she asked.
"A cartoon? What are you talking about?" the boy asked. "Izzy! Dinners ready!" a woman said as she opened the door into the room.
"Oh you have guest let me get some extra plates then." The woman soon walked out the door leaving the three kids confused and alone.
"Oh my head hurts." Both boys said at the same time.
Just after Henry and Suzie left
Mako was the first to bolt close to the hole before Rika grabbed him stopping the little kid. "Hold on wait for the rest of us before we take off." Rika said.
Ai and Mako locked hands with Rika Renamon holding onto Ai and Impmon holding onto Mako. "Let's go already!" Mako said impatiently. "Alright already." Rika said as the final group went into the portal.
The second they left the real world the trip was not the normal one Rika was used to, this time they were free falling through a tunnel of colors and pictures to fast to distinguish.
Tightening her grip on the twins she turned to see that the others were still there nodding to Renamon before looking straight ahead again.
"Look at the colors Rika!" Ai said in awe at the sight. "I liked the other way better." Mako grumbled causing Impmon to chuckle. "Depending on the landing I'll let you know which I prefer later." Impmon said.
"Looks like there's a light at the end of a tunnel Rika." Renamon said and sure enough there was a bright white light that was quickly coming closer and closer. The group tensed and closed their eyes to protect themselves from the light.
The group fell out of a computer screen and became a human pretzel on top of some ones bed. "Ow! Get your but out of my face Ai!" Mako said. "Well get your foot out of mine!"
"Will you to stop it!" Rika shouted trying not to kill the children before her as the five untangled themselves from the pile.
Just as they had detangled themselves a couple of kids about Rikas age walked in. One was a boy with blond hair and a white fishing hat, the other was a girl with thin brown hair two people that Rika knew too well.
"How did you get in here?" the boy asked looking at the new additions to his room. "Are those digimon?" he asked pointing at Renamon and Impmon.
"Yes they are I can't believe this is where we end up." Rika said to herself. Just then a small white blur jumped up and attacked Impmon causing the two digimon to roll around in the room.
"Gatomon! What are you doing?" the girl asked alarmed at her partners behavior. "Kari he's probably using these kids to get to the real world you stupid virus." Gatomon said separating Impmon from the group.
"Leave him alone!" Mako spoke up trying to get to Impmon. "No she's right he could be dangerous." The boy said grabbing a hold of Mako.
"The only one who's going to be in trouble is you if you hurt Ai and Mako Toots!" Impmon threatened becoming overly protective of his charges.
"Threatening humans, something only a virus would do." Gatomon hissed at the offending Digimon raising the tension between the parties.
"Alright that's enough, he's the twins partner so let him go." Rika spoke up before the two digimon tear up the room.
"Them partners?" the boy asked shocked. "Yeah see." Ai said taking out the D-arc that her and her brother shared.
"What kind of digivice is that?" he asked looking at the strange device. "It's called a D-arc, names Rika my partner Renamon, and these are the twins Ai and Mako with their partner Impmon." She introduced herself.
"Hi I'm Kari my partner Gatomon this is TK and his partner Patamon." Kari said smiling sweetly causing Rikas stomach to lurch. I hate cute.
"I think we need to call Izzy," TK said "So where are you guys from?" he asked getting the phone. "Not from around here that for sure." Rika said.
Author Note: Hope you liked it! next update will be monday hopefully. I finally got most of the whole major plot figured out i just need to get the whole meeting evreyone and all. So please review and let me know what you think and thats all i got. Ja NE!!!
