Chapter 9: Let It Be
6 HOURS PASSED
CURRENT TIME LIMIT: 62 HOURS, 59 MINUTES, 49 SECONDS, 48, 47, 46, 45…..
Back in Solara:
The Digidestined were resting in the recreation area. Well almost everyone…
Davis was in the observation room when T.K happens to walk in out of curiosity.
"Davis what in the world are you doing here?" T.K asked while yawning.
"I don't know I just wanted to come here is all." Davis replied. Then Davis pointed to a seat.
"Care to sit?" Davis asked.
"Sure Davis." T.K replied.
So T.K and Davis were watching the waves of colors that looked like a sea of endless neon. They were still pretty mesmerized by the way it looks.
"You know it's amazing." Davis said.
"What is?" T.K said in curiosity.
"The fact that something so beautiful is also pretty dangerous."
"Yeah it is really quite something isn't it?" T.K replied.
"You know Davis like Yolei we had our fair share of arguments." T.K began.
"Yeah we did that I know for a fact." Davis said. "Mainly we fought over Kari."
"Yeah, you always got pretty jealous when I was around with Kari." He chuckled. "Your face got so cherry red when I am near her."
"Yeah I always did man, I always got on your case."
"Kari loves to tease you; she just can't help it to see you so jealous." T.K replied. "Like I remembered the time when me and Kari went to New York to visit Mimi, I heard from the others you got so jealous."
"Yeah…" Davis said will snickering then there was a short silence then Davis asked a question.
"T.K am I a good leader?"
T.K looked puzzled by the question.
"Davis… this is not like you, you never asked a question like that before."
"The thing is that you were a part of the Digidestined longer than I was, but when Tai was the leader before he showed true leadership, and I was wondering if I show those same principles?"
"Davis…" T.K began. "I understand you look to Tai as an Idol and as a friend but the thing is you two have different styles of leading. Yeah sure you get us into trouble sometimes due to your stubbornness and admit it you are kinda stubborn at times."
"Yeah, I will admit it I am a hardhead."
"The thing is that even though you are one is that you are an effective leader, I mean if it wasn't for you we would not have accomplished the things that we did. After all you are the one that saved us countless times, we owe you big time."
"Thanks T.K I appreciate it." Davis replied. "You know we have never talked like this before."
"Yeah, well that's changed right?"
"Yeah, you're right!"
"Yeah… So Davis do you still like Kari?"
"But of course T.K you know that!" Davis exclaimed.
"Okay Davis calm down." T.K snickered. "I know you still do, but do you really like Kari?"
"As in if I have stronger feelings for her?" he asked.
"Yeah I mean, you always tell us that you had a crush on Kari since Day One, when we first met you were like caught on Cupid's Chokehold, but has that crush evolved?"
Davis understood the question but it is so hard for him to answer.
"I-I really don't know I really haven't thought about that, I mean she is beautiful and I know you agree T.K but if I think that this crush is more than just a harmless crush, well that I don't know."
"What about you T.K?" Davis asked while crossing his arms.
T.K took a deep breath.
"Well Davis…"T.K began. "I knew Kari longer, I know that you know that, from ever since I met her till now like you I always had a crush on her, I will admit it she is so beautiful with that silky brown hair but the thing with love it is so unexpected and puzzling."
"Yet, do you know that you love her T.K?" he asked.
"I don't know, I mean I like her but love her that is something I don't know."
"Davis?" T.K asked. "What about you? Do you love Kari?"
"Like you, I don't know too maybe I do, I mean that every time I am always around Kari my heart just seems to be with bouncing and throbbing with joy, yet whenever I am not around I am not that joyful."
Davis sighed and then looked at T.K
"I was always with Kari from when we just kids till now." T.K replied. "Whenever she got in trouble my first instinct is to go save her or try to do anything to help her because I cared for her and maybe just maybe it could have been something else."
"Ohhh…. Love is really something huh?" Davis said with another sigh.
"Yeah… you know there is one thing that can be agreed upon." T.K replied.
"Well what's that?" Davis asked.
"Kari… is the sunshine in our lives." T.K said with a smile.
"That is for sure." Davis replied.
Then Davis began to yawn and so did T.K so they decided to eventually go back to sleep.
"Hey T.K?" Davis asked before heading to his bunk.
"Yeah Davis?"
"You know, you are a pretty cool guy, it's cool that we got the time to talk about many things."
"You too Davis, and whatever happens with all of this including Kari we won't let it get it between us, right?"
Davis pumped his fist in the air. "That's right."
So Davis along with T.K went back in their bunks and began to slowly drift to sleep.
1 HOUR AND 30 MINUTES PASSED
CURRENT TIME LIMIT: 61 HOURS 19 MINUTES 30 SECONDS
The ship was quiet still; it was like no one was awake. Well no one was awake no one except for Kari that is. She was scooping around the recreation area trying to see if there was anything she could eat. Luckily there was a Ramen can which she heated up. After she heated up she went to the observation room and just gazed out towards Solara.
"It is really beautiful." She said as she was eating her ramen.
"Yeah it is isn't it?" a voice said. It scared Kari so she turned and saw Yolei standing at the door.
"W-What are you doing here?" Kari stuttered.
"I should be asking you the same question." Yolei joked. Then she sat next to Kari, both of them watching the view.
"So what are you doing here?" Yolei asked.
"I was hungry so I decided to eat some noodles." She said while she was slurping her noodles.
"So Kari, what is the reason that you came here?"
"Y-You know my answer Yolei it's a personal gain." She said nervously.
"One thing is having a personal gain; another thing is hiding the reason. By the looks of things it looks like you were hiding your actual gain."
"I wasn't hiding it, it's the truth."
"Come on Kari…. I even realized that you were hiding it." Yolei replied. She then leaned next to Kari and placed her hand on her shoulder."You can tell me I'm your friend."
"Fine but what happens or what is said here is between us okay?"
"Don't worry Kari you have my word."
Kari sighed as she laid the noodle cup aside on the glossy floor. "The reason I came here is because I was worried for someone…. Someone that is here right now."
"…. You mean Davis?" she asked. "Trust me I know, by the way you looked at him."
"Y-Yeah I came here because for Davis, I dreamed about him you see me and Davis were being sucked in that Black Spiral that we eventually held close to each other until we were going to be sucked."
"So basically you came here because you were worried for Davis?"
"Yeah, when I decided to volunteer my instincts just kicked in, my gut was saying you gotta go on this mission, because Davis was going."
"Well Kari, it by the looks of things it looks like that you really care for Davis, and I mean really care, you like him?"
"Yolei!" she exclaimed, she was in shock by the question.
"Come on, Kari by the way it sounds you kinda have a soft spot for him."
"He always said he had a crush on me, but I always made him jealous when I was around T.K, he is so funny and adorable when he gets jealous."
"So maybe I do… yet I always also had a thing for T.K as well, with all the things that we have been through over the years and he is a very cute guy."
Yolei just stood up and leaned on the Observation window. "Well Kari…" she began. "It sounds like you have a thing for the both of them but you don't know who to choose."
"Oh God….." Kari muttered. "I don't what to do Yolei; this is a hell of a situation."
"Well…" Yolei began as she neared Kari. "This is a situation that even I can't help you with, In order for you to solve this problem your heart is the one that has to answer, so follow your heart."
"Yeah I guess you're right I mean with something as difficult as love I guess this something I'm going to have to deal with it on my own."
Kari realized then she has a situation on her hands, she doesn't know who her heart yearns for, all she knows it could be for T.K and could also yearn for Davis. Kari sighed at the thought of it. "Love is Complicated." She thought to herself. There was a long silence, the smell of noodles filled the observation room and the glossy floor was glazed in rainbow like colors.
"Yolei?" Kari began. "This mission is unlike anything we have ever did before in all honesty do you think we will make it?"
"Kari Kamiya!" Yolei exclaimed. "What kind of question is that of course we are gonna make it!"
"I'm sorry is that I just have been thinking about a lot lately, this is a very scary situation knowing that the fate of these worlds lie in our hands."
"Kari we have faced things like that knowing that the Digiworld and Earth is in our hands."
"Yeah, but nothing like this. This doesn't involve a Digimon; we knew how to handle a digimon but this…."
"Kari… we are gonna make it I know we are." Yolei replied she saw that Kari was extremely worried and she hugged her. "We are gonna make it, I swear to you." She whispered.
"Yeah…' Kari whispered back, as she fully regained her composure. She felt that she can breathe better now her confidence has been reestablished.
"What is that smell?" Yolei asked. "It smells like chicken noodles." Then Yolei looked down at the floor and saw that the chicken noodle cup that Kari left on the floor was still there. "Well that explains it." Yolei replied.
Kari then looked down and saw what she was talking about, she then picked up the cup. "Oh man, I totally forgot I had this and it's all cold now, yet I don't feel hungry anymore, oh well.' She then handed the noodle cup to Yolei. "Do you want it Yolei?"
Yolei just shook and her head. "No thanks I'm not really hungry at all."
So for a while they were sitting in the observation room. Just admiring the view until they decided it was time for them to head back to sleep.
"Hey Kari you going back to sleep? Yolei asked as she was beginning to leave the observation room.
Kari then looked back at Yolei. "Yeah, I'm gonna be heading back to sleep I am feeling very sleepy."
So they decided to head back to the recreation room and they went to their own bunks and they slept comfortably.
"You know…" Kari thought. "I wonder how the rest of the Digidestined are holding up."