Digimon Revolt:

Summary- It has been three years since the warriors have returned from the digital world. None of the kids have fully recovered from what they have seen and are all the more freaked out when nightmares of the Digital World, both memories and unlived events invade their minds. What could these dreams mean for our favorite Legendary Warriors?

Disclaimer: *sighs internally* no…but damn I wish I did…

Chapter 11: Who's In Trouble Now?

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"Katsuharu?!" Teppei yelled as he ran forward to meet his friend. Katsuharu grabbed him in a light headlock and gave the younger boy a noogie as the two laughed.

"Yeah yeah, it's me," he laughed, releasing Teppei in the process and looking up to face the others, "when did you guys get here?"

"Not too long ago," answered Takuya with a slight smile as he walked forward with the others. While Chiaki, Teruo, and Teppei caught up, Takuya began to look around the empty throne room as his smile fell.

"Where's Zoe and JP?" he asked as he turned his attention back to Katsuharu, eliciting the others to look on at him in concern as well, "and where's Ophanimon?"

"Ophanimon is in some meeting somewhere, the others are in the medical bay," and just like that, the others all went from lightly concerned to extremely worried as the warriors began asking questions and talking all at once.

"HEY!" Katsuharu yelled, "relax, they're both doing fine now, I came here straight from the medical bay to get you anyways."

"We shall go see how long Ophanimon will be," the lead pawnchessmon spoke up from behind the kids, startling them as they had forgoten about their presence in the excitement of it all, "until next time warriors."

"Thank you for your help," Kouichi spoke up for the gang, waving at the retreating digimon.

Katsuharu began to walk down the hallway he had entered from, the others following in silence. The walls here were even more intricate than the ones leading into Ophanimon's throne room. After a while, Takuya grew restless of the silence and had to speak up.

"How did you guys get out?"

"Huh?" Kastuharu questioned as he glanced slightly to his right to look at Takuya.

"You guys escaped, how?"

"Zoe broke me out and JP met up with us later, some old pals of yours broke in and got him out."

"Wasn't Zoe kidnapped herself?" Kouji asked, moving closer to the two talking teens, "how could she have rescued you?"

"She didn't exactly go into all that much detail…," Katsuharu answered pointedly, not really making eye contact with anyone.

"But she got you out," Chiaki stated.

"Yeah, I was only really locked in a cell for a minute or two before she blasted my cage open and got me out, of course" Katsuharu stopped walking, the others following suit, and he kneeled down to roll up his pant legs and show the others the harsh, almost black, bruise he was sporting, "I didn't make it out unscathed, got some nasty floor burns on my back too right now."

"Did the others get hurt?" Tommy asked quietly.

"Yeah," spoke up Katsuharu as he stood up, "JP ain't so bad, and the rebel digimon that saved him are all doing pretty good too…"

"Rebels?" Tommy questioned.

"Yeah, a few old pals of yours, but that's a story for another time," Katsuharu answered quickly, looking straight ahead, clearly not wanting to talk about it anymore.

"And Zoe?" Takuya asked nervously, stepping closer to Katsuharu.

"Ahh…well…I should probably warn you guys about her before we reach them," he said, meeting Takuya's eyes.

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"You could have gone with Katsuharu to meet up with the others you know," Zoe spoke up from behind a curtained bed where a biyomon was currently rubbing salve onto her back. Apparently, her back was all scratched up too, though she hadn't exactly noticed over everything else that had been wrong with her.

"Nah," JP called from another bed not too far away, this one's curtain being pulled back showing the warrior of thunder comfortably stretched out across its mattress, hands behind his head, "I'm comfy, besides, Katsuharu said he would bring the others back here anyways."

"Fabulous," Zoe said, throwing on a simple, long-sleeved, purple shirt over her head and opening up the curtain, "they're gunna flip when they see me."

JP looked over at Zoe and couldn't help but silently agree. She looked awful; she had bandages wrapped straight around her head, a few more diagonally over her black eye. There were more bandages over her wrists, probably a bit bloody as the wounds weren't clotting right, but cleverly covered by the somewhat loose sleeves of her shirt. Cuts and bruises could be seen on her legs below her shorts and small blisters on her bare feet from all the running she had done.

"Maybe they won't notice?" JP said questioningly as Zoe gave him a look.

"Please JP," Zoe said as she searched around under the bed for her socks and shoes, "let's be realistic here, I'm a mess."

JP watched on as she found what she was looking for and sat on the bed, placing her shoes and socks to her right. Compared to Zoe, JP was the picture of good health. Minus some smaller bruises and cuts, all he really had were a few large, dark bruises in the middle of his chest and back from being thrown around, completely hidden beneath his yellow and blue T-shirt. He practically looked untouched.

"They're gunna notice the second they see me. Man, I wish Bokomon and Neemon stayed down here with us, could've really used them to distract the others," she said with a slight grimace.

"Yeah bu-" JP began as the door slammed opened and the rest of the warriors ran into the small square room. The Medical bay was large overall, consisting of many smaller rooms with varying amounts of beds. This particular room only had four beds, one per corner. Katsuharu walked to one of the beds closest to the door, sitting down on it as Chiaki, Teruo, and Teppei held back in the doorway.

The others walked to the back of the room where JP and Zoe's beds were. It was silent and tense…and everyone in the room was staring at Zoe, minus JP and Katsuharu, who were staring at the rest of the warriors instead.

After a while, Zoe began to grow annoyed and couldn't quite help herself anymore….

"Take a picture, it'll last longer," she snapped, biting back at the glares as she began to put on one of her knee-high white socks.

"Did Peidmon do this to you?" sneered Takuya, crossing his arms, waiting for Zoe to answer.

"Mostly," she shrugged, pushing her bangs out of her face and standing up to walk over to Takuya and the others. She gently placed her hands on his shoulders and smiled lightly at him, "I'm fine Takuya, no need to worry."

Takuya just stared and shook his head slightly as his voice softened, "You don't look fine…"

Zoe sighed and walked back over to her bed to put on her other sock, missing Takuya whispering something about Piedmon and ass-kicking.

"Katsuharu said you escaped," Kouji said, giving Takuya a look as he walked over to Zoe to stand in front of her, hands in his pockets, turning to look her in the eyes when he finally stopped, "How?"

"Uh," at this, everyone leaned in closer. Tommy sat next to JP on his bed. The twins grabbed chairs and dragged them over. Takuya set next to her, while Katsuharu leaned onto his elbows, still on his bed. The other three walked closer, Teruo leaned against the wall near Katsuharu, and Chiaki and Teruo stood between his bed and JP's.

Zoe looked around as everyone got closer and comfy, waiting for her to talk.

"It's a long story," she said, pushing her bangs back.

"No worries," Tommy said with a smile, "Ophanimon's busy right now anyways, we have plenty of time to talk!"

"Great…well, I guess I'll start with when I got home from the park…"

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"Everyone here?"

"Yes Tai, we're here, can we start already?" asked an exasperated Matt as he watched Izzy pull up a video chat with Mimi over his laptop and turn it around on his lap.

"Sorry for upsetting you," Tai responded flatly with a blank face.

"Guys, stop fighting," Sora sighed out, turning to face Tai, "now, why did you call a meeting?"

Tai stood up from the bench he was sitting on and walked towards his sister who was sitting on one of the swing set's swings, TK was in the other one right next to her. Izzy was sat next to where Tai had been, Joe on the steps leading up to the slide. Sora was sitting on the other bench next to Izzy's, Matt beside her, sitting on top off the bench's backrest.

"I didn't make the call for this meeting," Tai said as he stopped behind his sister and placed his hands on her shoulders.

"I did," said Kari clearly, eliciting a few gasps of surprise.

"What happened?" asked Sora.

"Piedmon is back."

The others went silent. The statement was especially blunt for the child of light, but concerning nonetheless. She was rarely ever wrong when it came to digital world stuff though so…

"We think," said Tai after a few moments, in shock himself from his sister's unusually stoic and straight forward statement, "Kari had a very realistic dream…he was in it."

"He was chasing me through some sort of library," Kari began, tilting her head down and closing her eyes to help herself remember the scene, "he almost seemed surprised to see me, as if he really wasn't expecting to run in to me…his laugh was too real for it to all be just another bad nightmare. He had on a knowing smirk too; he's definitely up to some-"

BAM!

The others looked over to see TK had stood up and slammed a fist against one of the swing set's support beams. Matt immediately jogged over to him and grabbed his fist, forcing him to relax his fingers.

"If he's back, we'll get him," Matt said, "we're not gunna let history repeat itself."

"And what if those students are all key chains by now, HUH?!" TK yelled, staring up at his brother through his hair, startling the others. He looked around at them and his anger melted off, his face leaving a more desperate look as his eyes watered, "no one else should have to go through the stuff we've been through."

"I agree TK," Matt said, "but all we can do know is try and figure out what happened, figure out how to help, getting angry and freaking out isn't going to do anything."

"Wait!" Joe yelled, grabbing everyone's attention, "we don't even know if any of this is connected, so why does it seem to me like you guys wanna get involved?!"

"Joe," Kari said quietly, grabbing everyone's attention, "we're digidestined, it's what we do. Besides…sigh…have I ever been wrong before?"

"Well, statistically speaking…no…b-but, ugh, if we get kil-" Joe began, but was cut off as the sound of a large bang came from the surrounding woods behind the swing set. The others started to run towards the edge of the woods where the sound had come from, all but Joe of course, causing him to murmur to himself.

"I just had to open up my mouth, didn't I? Good old reliable Joe just couldn't keep his mouth shut this one time."

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"We're sorry about the park Z," JP said softly, "you know that, right?"

"I know," she replied softly, "anyways, I went to bed right after I got home, all I could think about was sleep. I began having the usual nightmares I had come to expect, but that night, they started off a bit differently. Before I knew it, I was in the underground train station. I started down the tunnel and, after a while, I found that my feet weren't hitting the ground anymore. Piedmon had slung me over his shoulder. Before I knew it, he was throwing me in a cage and putting my phone under some glass dome thingy."

"Is that where you called me from?" asked Takuya as he gently grabbed her forearm.

"Yeah," she answered, flinching at his touch, and glancing at him quickly to see if he noticed, "I was there for a few days before I called you."

"So…how did you get to your phone?" asked Kouichi.

"Yeah," spoke up Chiaki, "you said it was locked up too, right?"

"It was," Zoe said smiling lightly as she began to hold out her right hand, palm up, "but I figured out that if I focused just enough…" she began as a small, purple, tornado-like wind formed in her hands, "…I could crack the glass."

The others stared at her hands, the four newcomers jumping back quite a bit. "It was easy; Piedmon stopped coming to feed me after a while. I had time to focus and figure this all out. He caught me talking to Takuya and I was chained up in another cell…got roughed up quite a bit for that one too…"

"That's how you broke the chains," JP said in realization, earning some really confused looks, "Piedmon kept bringing me into this interrogation room to question me about the spirits, he had some sort of live video feed linked to Zoe's cell and…w-well…"

"He'd have his minions beat me if JP didn't answer him," Zoe finished for him, "eventually, I saved up enough energy to cut myself out of the chains, unfortunately, I got most of my arms in the process too…"

Takuya reached over with his other hand so he could roll up her sleeve, exposing the bandages across her left arm. Blood was coming through them in a few spots, and he could feel her arm tensing up as he held it.

"I spent the next day or so hiding and running, trying to find JP…but I couldn't," Zoe looked up at JP apologetically, "I heard Katsuharu yelling and being dragged into a cell, broke him out, and we escaped. JP found us the morning after we got out and we left."

"Do you remember where the base is?" Kouji asked, leaning forward and uncrossing his legs.

"Right where the old Rose Morning Star was," answered JP, turning heads, "bastards must have rebuilt the place, gave it a nice underground extension too."

"But that's impossible," Takuya said, finally looking up from Zoe's arm, "we destroyed it, why would anyone want to rebuild it?"

"Yeah, we'll be able to find it like that," Kouichi said, snapping his fingers at the end.

"I believe that's what Piedmon seems to want," spoke up Ophanimon from the doorway, startling the children, "come warriors, I shall give the rest of you clean clothes and we will discuss your next move."

The warriors looked around at each other, bid small farewells, and began to follow Ophanimon as Katsuharu, JP, and Zoe put their shoes on. After a few minutes, the same biyomon that had bandaged Zoe up led them out of the room to show them to where Ophanimon would be talking with all of them.

"So," Katsuharu said, elbowing Zoe in the ribcage, "you and goggle-head looked quite comfy there holding hands and all, something I should know?"

"Shut up Katsuharu," Zoe said angrily, pushing her bangs back behind her ear, walking further ahead to hide the slight blush forming on her cheeks.

"What did I say?" Katsuharu said, looking over at JP who just smiled and shook his head in response, walking forward to catch up to Zoe.

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"WHOSE THERE?!" yelled Tai, "COME OUT HERE AND SHOW YOURSELF!"

"Are you CRAZY!" Joe yelled, directing his attention to Tai before turning back to the woods in front of them, "God no, STAY WHERE YOU ARE…please?"

"Really Joe?" said Matt, turning to look at him, Joe only shrugged sheepishly in response.

The chosen were standing, clumped together, about ten feet away from the edge of the forest. After a few seconds of nothing happening, Kari began to push her way to the front to try and get closer to the woods. Before she could get too far though, TK grabbed her forearm.

"Kari, what are you doing?" he asked worriedly.

"I'm getting closer so I can talk to whoever it is."

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," growled a voice from within the woods, two glowing eyes soon appeared within the darkness, one green, one red, "I bite."

Kari froze as TK moved to stand in front her, and Tai moved to stand in front of the group. The leaves around the eyes began to rustle. Soon, a small, demonic looking digimon walked out of the woods and towards the kids.

"State your name and your business," Tai said as the creature crept forward.

"So official," the digimon teased, "and right down to business, that's no fun, I'd much rather play with my toys before I break 'em!"

And with that, the small digimon lunged at Tai and pushed him to the ground. Tai grabbed at his wrists so the digimon sitting on his lap couldn't reach his face. Tai began to grit his teeth in the strain to fight back.

"Stronger than you look for a scrawny human," he spat out, "name's Dracmon, and you would be?"

"The scrawny human that's about to kick your ass!" and before Dracmon knew what was happening, Tai flipped him onto his back as Matt and Izzy ran over to hold him down so Tai could stand up and look down at demonic digimon.

"Who sent you?" Tai asked, getting nothing but a glob of green spit to the cheek. Tai flicked it off and reached down to grab him by the neck and lift his head closer to his face. "WHO SENT YO-"

Tai froze. His eyes glazed over as he stared down at Dracmon's open palms, each with an eye embedded in them. Dracmon began to smirk as Tai stood up to face his remaining friends.

"Attack," Dracmon whispered evilly.

Tai ran straight for Kari, fists raised, but fell to the ground as TK tripped him and pulled Kari back.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" TK asked as the others looked on in horror. Tai then shifted his glassy eyes over to TK and began to creep forward. "Don't make me do it Tai."

"Do it, do it!" Dracmon began to chant until suddenly, he slipped his hand free from Izzy's grip, scratching his arm in the process. As Tai went after TK, Matt dove after the short virus-type, missing and skidding along the ground in the process. Sora ran over to help him and slid Izzy's laptop over in the process.

"Contact Gennei!" she yelled as she ducked to avoid a fist to the face.

"Got it, Ah!" Izzy yelled as he opened his computer to a very angry Mimi who began to question what was happening, "can't talk, explain later, bye!"

"Don't you dare han-" and just like that, Izzy closed her window and began trying to get a hold of Gennei.

TK still had yet to throw a punch. He kept ducking, blocking, and averting his attention every time Tai saw Kari. Tai's punches were sloppy, especially for him. He knew how Tai fought, he'd seen it many times before and this was not it. Tai was being controlled.

"I think he's under a spell," TK yelled out.

"No kidding," Kari said back as she ducked out of the way of a swinging fist, "how do we break it?"

"I don't know," he answered, "true love's first kiss?"

"Haha, real funny TK," Kari said dryly, stopping to stand straight and send a look over his way, "Tai, come on, snap out of it!"

Matt had finally grabbed onto Dracmon, grabbing him from behind, when Dracmon suddenly twisted in his arms.

"Undead Fang!" Dracmon yelled, sinking his teeth into Matt's shoulder. Matt screamed in pain until Sora came up from behind and hit Dracmon over the head with a large stone, knocking him out. She then proceeded to pry the unconscious digimon off her friend.

At that same moment, a loud whistling sound rang out over the park and the possessed Tai began to stumble and stop. He looked around confused as TK tripped backwards and threw his hands in front of his face.

"Wha…what just happened?" Tai asked, looking around confused as Kari ran up to hug him, "whoa, you ok Kari?"

Joe walked up to them, hitting a button on his phone to silence the whistling sound, a sound oddly similar to that of Kari's old whistle.

"Well," Joe began, fixing his glasses, "they don't call me old reliable for nothing."

"Something tells me it wasn't the whistle…" TK said, smirking lightly and gesturing at the knocked out digimon, causing Joe to pout.

"Guys, Matt's hurt!" Sora yelled out across the field, causing all but Izzy, too invested in his computer, to run over. Joe began pulling out a first aid kit half way over and went straight for the affected area. Tai walked over to the playground, coming back a few moments later with his backpack, and pulled out a pair of old gloves, planting them on Dracmon before tying him up with his and TK's belts.

"Guys?!" Izzy shouted out, causing the others to turn, "you'll never guess what's happening."

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Look, only two weeks between updates, damn I'm proud of myself. And don't worry either, I finished up all the frontier sections for the next chapter, just got to add some adventure in there and edit. I Hope this week's chapter is ok in term of spelling and grammar, I kept making a bunch of tweaks each time I read it through so I hope I didn't miss anything.

P.S. Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it, if you don't, then I hope you have a wonderfully lovely Sunday.

P.S.S. Anyone heard of Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Chat Noir? No? Well your officially missing out on life, barely a week in a half of me finding this show and I'm already fully invested into the fandom. I highly recommend it.

And as always, stay prodigious my friends.