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KidnappedKidnapped
Gatomon helps the other digimon when she sees Wizardmon go off with Sophia. Now where are they off to? I wonder. She leaves the others and follows them. There's something strange about that Wizardmon, but I can't quite put my finger on it. She gets close enough to get a look at him. He turns and the two make eye contact. His normal kind physic is replaced by a familiar cold hateful stare.
Flash
"Do you really think I'd leave the original lying around for fools like you to find!" Myotismon said holding the real crest of light in his hand. He balled his hand into a fist and broke it in his hand. He scowled at the both of them.
Flash
Her eyes grow wide realizing who he is. "I should have known you'd try something as despicable as this, Myotismon," Gatomon says coming out in the open.
"I'm not surprised you figured me out, Gatomon." Sophia comes out of the bathroom and sees the two glaring at one another.
"What's the matter?"
"Hey Sophia!" She looks over to see Rick. "Aren't you coming? Everyone's going home."
"Oh, ok." She stopped by Wizardmon who picks her up. "HEY! PUT ME DOWN!" she hollers as she struggles. "YOU OF ALL DIGIMON KNOW I HATE TO BE PICKED UP!"
"Rick, do tell your father that I'll be taking her home once I'm done with her," he laughs breaking the window with his staff and flies through. "You my dear have just as bad of a temper as I do."
"CUT IT OUT! ARE YOU TRYING TO GET ME IN TROUBLE!" She continues to struggle as he flies off with her. The two go to the window.
"Oh no." Gatomon runs to the window.
"Man, are those two going to get in trouble." Gatomon runs off with Rick following not far behind holding Leafmon. He goes running up to Ken. "Hey Dad!" Ken looks up to see his son running towards him with an urgent looking Gatomon.
"What's the matter couldn't you find Sophia?"
"Yeah I found her. Wizardmon flew off with her, and boy was she mad."
"Wizardmon's Myotismon!" Gatomon yells getting all the adults attention.
"You mean you didn't know," Rick says surprised, "I thought she told you."
"What? You knew this Rick and you didn't tell us," Ken looks at his son stunned.
"Like I said Dad… I thought you knew. Everyone in our class knows this."
"Yeah Mr. Ichijouji, we all thought you knew," Sisi says, "especially when you gave special permission for her to bring Wizardmon along."
"You mean to tell me every one of you knew about this," Kari says surprised.
"I guess we should have asked the kids first," Joe says fixing his glasses, "I forgot how we kept secrets from our parents when we were their age."
"Do any of you guys know where he might have gone with Sophia?" Tai asks.
"Well, he promised to show Sophia the first place he fought all of you together," Taylor says through the bus window.
"The television station!" they all said together. Ken and the other get on their respective buses and start toward the station. The adults get out on the bus after reaching the television station.
"Ok, you guys wait for us to come back with Sophia," Matt says as the first three buses take off taking most of the children only leaving seven children and their digimon.
"I don't get it. Why are all of them going in?" Thomas asks as they head inside.
"Yeah, they only need one to get Sophia back," Sisi says sitting back down in her seat.
"…Maybe, something's wrong," Jessica says worried still standing on the seat. She gasps seeing something. "Oh no, she is in trouble."
"What do you mean, Jessica?" Max asks going to the side of the bus she's at. Everyone goes to look and sees knows that they're in trouble. "Devimon…"
"We have to help them," Rick says sternly.
"How are we going to get past the bus driver?" Taylor asks looking at his cousin, "Unless we have a distraction."
"Ah man, why does it always have to be me? Why can't it be Jessica?" Li wines angrily.
"Because, she's the only one who knows her way around," Sisi whispers and then grabs him by the shirt, "You better do it or I'll pound you!"
"Ok, ok, but if you guys get caught you can't rat me out, got it!"
"Deal," the sixteen whisper together.
"Wizardmon, put me down already, will yea!" He finally puts he down when she stops struggling. "Why'd you do that? We're in big trouble now. I promised I wouldn't run off anymore."
"Believe me, Sophia. You won't get in trouble since I kidnapped you."
"Huh?" She follows behind him as he takes her hand leading her forward. …what kidnapped? "You're joking right?"
"That's what they'll think since Gatomon now knows who I really am. I'm sure she'll tell them."
"Then why did you take me if they're going to think that?" she asks. He doesn't answer. They make it on the roof. She looks around. "Why are we here?"
"This is where I fought the Digidestined together as a group for the first time in the real world."
"…This place." She looks around again. She turns when she hears footprints.
"Now, don't be upset when I have to defend myself," he whispers to Sophia.
"No, you shouldn't have to fight. I won't let them!" She turns to face the ones that have come to take her home.
"Sophia, get away from him, he's dangerous!"
"NO! You didn't think he was dangerous before!" she screams balling up her fists. "I don't want him taken away from me!"
Just a little bit more. Wizardmon smiles to himself as he sees her dark energy leak from her.
"Sophia, he's not your friend."
"Then why would he save me?!" she screams. "Why would he protect me from Devimon then?!"
"He's just using you for your energy!" Izzy says stepping up. "It's obvious that's what Devimon's after too. I know he's been using your energy to digivolve, and you know it too."
"You don't know what happened the first time with Devimon! That's why I promised to help him!".
"Oh Sophia, if you only know what your doing," Matt says sadly.
"I'm going to keep my promise."
"But my dear, you've helped a lot already." She looks up feeling a familiar hand on her shoulder. She becomes ecstatic seeing him. "You're back!" He kneels down until he's face to face with her and lets her hug him. Myotismon smiles wickedly at Gatomon.
"I'm in the mood for something… sweet."
"Sophia, look out!" Gatomon says running toward her who turns to face her, "Get away from him!"
"Huh?" She looks back. Before she could move, he sinks his teeth into her neck. Her eyes grow wide in surprise.
"Oh no," Gatomon says slows down to a stop, "I'm too late." Her ears droop.
"Sophia!" Ken screams as Myotismon lets her go. She grabs her shirt as she stagers back.
Why did he…? They'll only think ill of him. The smile on his proves Ken and Izzy's theory. …? He used me… then why did he promise to stay with me? She turns taking only one step before collapsing to the ground.
"Sorry about that, Sophia, but I already ate the lunch you made for me." He stands laughing manically.
"GET AWAY FROM HER YOU MONSTER!" Ken screams angrily.
"You can have her back; I'm done with her, now." His words infuriate everyone especially Ken. Sophia feels a pain in her chest as he says it. Her eyes well up with tears.
He promised… he wouldn't leave me. Why didn't I listen? She lets the tears drop from her eyes on to the wooden floor. She balls up her fists and struggles to move away from Myotismon.
"Where do you think you're going, Sophia?" He takes his foot and steps on her pinning her in place.
"Leave her alone, Myotismon! You've done enough to her already!" Tai roars angrily.
"If you want her, come and get her." Ken and Tai start toward Myotismon. "Oh no, I want Kari and TK," he says with a smile.
"No way, Myotismon!" Ken says coldly.
"Really." He takes his foot off her and grabs the front of her neck showing her off like a new kitten or puppy up for adoption. "I want TK and Kari's digivices for her safety." With the same hand, he holds her up with them all to see by the neck close to his mouth. "I doubt she can take another bite from me," he says when they don't come right away. Kari not wanting to hear anymore goes forward. TK follows soon after.
"Kari, you don't have too."
"TK!" The two just look back at their brothers a moment before going forward.
No… this is… The tears start to flow more as they make it to him. She breathes faster with her heart racing. This is not what I wanted. Not what I wanted at all!
Myotismon holds out his hand, "Your digivices please." They reluctantly do as he says. "Thank you very much, and TK I'm glad to see you became a very talented writer. You're very motivating." He closes his hand into a fist holding the devices in his hands.
"Can you guys digivolve yet?" Tai whispers to Agumon beside him.
"I'm afraid not Tai. I'm still drained from Devimon's attack earlier."
"I enjoyed every one of your books. Sophia was so kind as to buy them for me as a present on… lets see the first day we met. She's quite thoughtful," he says with a smile.
Wait a minute. Izzy watches Sophia as Myotismon puts the digivices in his jacket. He's up to something.
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"Sophia, what's wrong?" Wizardmon asked seeing the distraught look on her face. "Your birthmark only shows up when you're worried or upset about something. What's wrong?" she doesn't answer.
Flash
"Kari, TK watch out! He's still using her energy!"
"What?" The two glance back at Izzy and then back at Myotismon only to find that he had digivolved into Piedmon.
"I'm afraid your warning came just a little too late, Izzy!" He throws two small balls at them that instantly suck them in. The balls expand rapidly. "Of course I don't want them to have all the fun," he laughs as their digimon get sucked in with them as they try to help. He throws more balls trapping everyone after Sophia passes out from exhaustion from loss of blood and energy. Last but not least, he places Sophia carefully in one by herself. To his surprise, the other children arrive. They gasp seeing the condition of their chaperones.
"Did you do this!" Max calls angrily.
"Yes, I did," he laughs taking out more balls that resemble gumballs.
"Let them go!" Sisi yells sternly. She steps up returning briefly to her bully side. "If you don't, you'll have to deal with me!"
"Is that so? Well, how about joining them instead?" He throws the balls on the ground like marbles. They watch dumbfounded until a few get sucked in.
"HEY! What is this?" Sisi yells again startled as she thrashes about trying to loose herself from her predicament. The others soon end up like their chaperones.
"Lets have a bit of fun, shall we?" All the balls start to bounce.
"You know what, this isn't that bad," Taylor says happily passing his father.
"You like anything don't you, Taylor," Sisi says annoyed.
"What's the matter, dad?" Jessica asks seeing the stern expression on his face as her ball joins with his.
"I thought I told you guys to stay on the bus until we came back!" Matt exclaims annoyed.
"Well, we uh…" Rick stammers.
"Devimon is-" Jessica stops herself and gasps. "Look out!" It was too late. Devimon had snuck up behind Piedmon.
"AH!" Using his jewel like earlier, he rips Piedmon off of Myotismon like rapping paper on a present. Myotismon falls to his knees in surprise and pain. He looks behind him at Devimon shuttering from the pain.
"I'm sure that hurt, didn't it?" Devimon makes himself bigger. Myotismon scowls at him. "I'm sorry. Did I ruin your fun?"
"I should have known it was you."
"Starting to get careless since you have that little battery," Devimon laughs. "You don't mind if I take her off your hands, do you?"
"Actually, I do! Grizzly Wing!" Devimon evades the attack.
"Touch of Evil!"
"Nice try!" Myotismon says grabbing his arm and throws him over his shoulder. "Sophia taught me a little something about self-defense."
"Oh, did she really?! Did she teach you to defend from this?" Devimon says coldly using his jewel again to resize himself to about the size of an eighteen wheeler.
"We have to help him!" Taylor says watching the fight turn to Devimon's favor as Myotismon is thrown to the wall.
"We can't help until we're out of here!" Sisi says as she reaches over Mimi and tries to push her way out. After a while, a few succeed in breaking out.
"AAHHH!"
"Leave him alone!" Everyone turns to see Sophia run up to Devimon. Devimon turns dropping Myotismon.
"How can you be up? I saw him bit you."
"Believe it or not, I've gotten use to his little snack bits!" She jumps up holding Wizardmon's staff in her hand. She quickly attacks slashing him in the face.
"AAH!" He moves away from where Myotismon lies. "Curse you!" he cries covering his face.
"I'm over here!" she screams luring him away from Myotismon.
"When I get you, brat, I'll make you wish you were never born!" He uncovers his face. He reaches for her, but she moves away.
"Sophia!"
"Don't worry about me! Worry about getting yourselves free and then you can help me!" To her dismay, she soon finds herself backed up in a corner. She moves back nearly tripping over the unconscious Myotismon. I can't move from this spot without him getting caught in the crossfire.
"Don't tell me you still care about that fool the one who betrayed you!" Devimon says with a laugh, "I don't know who's the bigger fool here you or him."
"Of course, I'm going to protect him," she says as Myotismon starts to wake. "I might be pissed at him, but my mother taught me to never give up on anyone you care about no matter what. Wormmon didn't give up on Ken, and Mr. Ichijouji didn't give up on me, so STAY AWAY FROM MY DIGIMON!"
"You're nothing but a fool! Touch of Evil!" She blocks his attack with the energy of her birthmark. It makes a shield around them.
"So…phia," Myotismon manages to say weakly starting to get up. Why is she helping me? After everything I've done to her, she still cares. Foolish child.
"It's ok, Myotismon. I won't let him hurt you."
"That's… foolish… you shouldn't be helping me."
"I never give up on the people I care about, and I'm not going to start now!"
"…" He finally gets up as the shield begins to crack. Sophia continues to hold her ground unafraid. That shield's not going to hold much longer.
"What are you waiting for go!" Sophia calls.
"You fool. You won't get out of here alive!" Devimon says as his hand finally pierces through. Everyone watches in silence as Devimon retracts his hand.
"No… So, Sophia," Sisi cries along with Jessica. Devimon picks up Sophia's limp body off the ground in what seems like slow motion. Shock and fear engulfs the emotions of the adults and children as they watch in silence.
"AAAHH!" Max cries out in anger, "Gomamon, make him pay NOW!" Gomamon does as commanded. "Taylor, Ronnie, Rick, you attack after Gomamon. Sisi and Jessica you attack after them."
"Right!" Tai watches as the children immediately take action. Their digimon all digivolve and attack Devimon.
"Wormmon, go in there and help them."
"No," Tai says stopping Ken, "This is their fight not ours. Just look at their digivices." Ken looks seeing that some had turned into necklaces. "It seems the Digital world has chosen them for this world's battle," Tai says softly. The other adults see that he's right. Most of their digivices have changed.
They're the… new digi-destined. Ken looks at them shocked. Does that mean Devimon's the new threat, or is there another we should be worries about?
"Crimson Lightning!" Myotismon grabs Devimon's arm before he could fly away with Sophia. As the other digimon attack, he drops her. Somehow, Devimon gets away from the children. Slowly, he drags himself to where Sophia is.
"Myotismon, are you?" Black Gatomon asks seeing that he's badly hurt, but as he looks at Sophia, she knows that he's not. The others come over to where he is. He reaches to touch her but hesitates at first.
"Why did you protect me, Sophia? You knew that shield of yours wasn't going to last." He continues to look at Sophia. "Is this how it feels Gatomon… to lose a chose friend…?" He reaches in his pocket and tosses Kari and TK's digivice to her. "I'm sorry Gatomon… you don't have to worry about me anymore." His body starts to glow starting to slowly defragment.
"No, Myotismon," Black Gatomon cries, "Please, don't leave me."
"You found your partner. It's Sisi," he says handing her a pink digivice. I kept it from you when I found you that day." She looks at it quietly.
"I… I still don't want you to go."
"It's not like you to just give up so easily, Myotismon." Everyone turns to see Wizardmon or at least his ghost.
"What do you care?" Myotismon says not even glancing up at him. Wizardmon holds out a digivice. He turns to look at it. "I see, she was your partner."
"Yes she is, but she chose you."
"I don't quite understand," he says confused.
"Don't worry about that right now." He comes closer. "I can't fuse with you without your permission."
"And why would I want to fuse with you?" he says returning somewhat back to normal.
"To save Sophia of course." Myotismon looks up at Wizardmon in surprise. "Because she won't come back without you, you know that. Once she makes up her mind on something it's hard to change. " Myotismon looks at Sophia again. "You have to make your decision now. She's already stopped breathing."
"Yes, of course… I just want to see her smile at me one more time."
"Wizardmon…" He turns to his friend and smiles at Gatomon before turning back to his work reassuring her it was ok.
"I'm sorry Gatomon, but right now isn't the time to talk. I'm glad to see you're doing fine. Don't worry. You'll see me again." The two digimon are now more then halfway defragmented now. "Are you ready?"
"Yes," he says softly. Wizardmon floats into Myotismon and there's a bright blinding light. When the light dies down, Wizardmon stands up. He looks at himself a moment.
"Either I've gotten taller, or you have gotten smaller, Gatomon." Gatomon's eyes light up.
"Wizardmon!" she calls happily jumping in his arms. "You've gotten taller… much taller actually."
"I should be the same size Myotismon was before we fused. This is still his body."
"Wait a minute!" Black Gatomon growls, "Where did Myotismon go?!"
"Now just, calm down. He's just resting for now. You have to remember he was badly injured. You won't see him for a while, I'm afraid," he says looking down at her. The answer he gave, by the look on her face, didn't please her one bit.
"If Wizardmon says Myotismon will be back, he'll be back," Gatomon says getting down.
"Like I can trust you!" Sisi picks up Black Gatomon before she could say anything else.
"Calm down. Gatomon hasn't lied to us before. You'll get your boyfriend back."
"Boyfriend?" The adults look at Black Gatomon in amazement.
"Yes, he's my boyfriend, and if anyone has a problem with it then it's just too bad for them." She crosses her arms.
"Ok…" Wizardmon kneels down where Sophia had been earlier. "Lets see and what do we have here?"
"Hey, where did Sophia go?" Max asks seeing only her clothes and shoes. Wizardmon moves the shirt in such a way to see the baby's face.
"I thought so," he says picking her up after wrapping the shirt around her. "Though, I wasn't expecting her to be so small." Sophia looks up at Wizardmon and the others quietly. "You probably don't remember me at all, do you?"
"How did she get turned into a baby?" Izzy asks curiously. "Does it by any chance have anything to do with that birthmark of hers?"
"Yes it does, Izzy. That birthmark is the key to all of this." He watches Black Gatomon and Gatomon play with baby Sophia. "We definitely need to figure out how to rid her of that mark. I'm pretty sure the digimon who placed that mark on her now wants her back."
"Yes… that explains Bakemon and Devimon…" Izzy says somewhat to himself.
"Isn't that the same as digimon dedigivolving into rookie or in-training forms," Ken says bringing over a bottle for Sophia. She gulps down the formula greedily and finishes it in a few minutes. "Goodness, aren't you ravenous." He gives the empty bottle to Yolei. "I think we might need another one," he says when she starts to cry. Yolei begins to make another bottle. To stop her crying, he sticks his finger in Sophia's mouth. As Yolei brings over another bottle of food, Sophia bites his finger. "OW!" he looks at her surprise, "Since when do you have teeth?"
"She's teething already?" Matt asks curious walking over. As Sophia opens her mouth to receive the bottle, her mouth is almost full of teeth.
"It will most likely take about a month until she's back to normal."
"And her memories?" Tai asks.
"They'll return at the end of the growing experience." Wizardmon watches Sophia finish another bottle. "It seems you two are the most suited for taking care of Sophia, right now."
"I never thought I'd be doing this again," Yolei says with a smile. "We just got done potty training the last one. You never would have thought she was so much trouble looking at her now."
"One thing's the same though… she's still quiet," he says softly watching her doze off. She continues to chew on the nipple of the bottle as she sleeps.
"Looks like she dreams about food in her sleep," Gatomon laughs. "The ways she eats, you'd think she was a digimon."