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Chapter 11: A Pathway To the Digital World

*RING*

*RING*

"UGH SHUT THAT THING UP!" Mimi yelled turning over on Sora's futon and covering her ears with her pillow.

*RING*

*RING*

"SORA!" The girl yelled and Sora sighed getting out of her own bed on the other side of the room and got up to get the non-stop phone. She looked at the clock beside her bed. 7:00 am. It was Saturday; she was going to kill whoever was calling.

"Hello?" She muttered tiredly into the phone while stifling a yawn.

"SORA!" The familiar voice shouted almost taking off her left ear. "Finally! Man I've been calling your house forever!"

"Tai, it's 7am why are you calling? I know you, you should be asleep." Sora mumbled nearly falling back asleep while standing.

"Yeah I know but Izzy called me this morning and told me it was urgent. We have a way to get to the digital world you have to get up now!"

"We have a HYPOTHETICAL way to get to the digital world." Sora heard Izzy say in the background of the phone.

"Yeah yeah yeah. It's gonna work. So get up and get dressed we're almost at your house." Tai told her.

"Tai!" Sora groaned.

"Oh and wear something warm."

"Why?"

"It's snowing."

….

"Meteorologists have no idea where these freak storms are coming from or when they are going to end but it is strongly suggested that everyone stay in their house holds today until this snowstorm ends. We are unsure on whether or not this storm will be brief or turn into a blizzard so prepare for the worst."

Kari sighed as she shut off the TV in front of her. She couldn't stop thinking about Tk. He had seemed to open up to her a bit the previous night but after Yolie had returned with the coffee and Dr. Chung came back he went back to being his cold self and acted like he and Kari hadn't talked at all.

"Kari what are you doing up?" She turned to see her mother in the kitchen in her pajamas.

"I'm not that tired." Kari told her. "There's another storm."

"I know I saw." Her mother said brewing up a batch of coffee. "I hope your brother is okay."

"Wait what? He went out in that storm? Before noon?"

Her mother shrugged. "Yeah he came in this morning and said he was off to some kid named Izzy's house…I've never heard of him do you know anything about this Izzy? I hope he's not one of those type of boys that will get Tai into drugs…"

Kari couldn't help but laugh. "Don't worry Mom, I only know of one Izzy and he's usually stuck behind a computer. I didn't know Tai even spoke to him. He's a year younger than him."

"Hmm well as long as your brother isn't getting into any trouble."

Kari's phone buzzed and she looked down at it. "Hey Mom can I go to my friend Yolie's?"

"Kari it's a blizzard out there!"

"Yeah I know I'll be safe." Kari said jumping off the couch. "I can't stay in this house all day or I'll go crazy. Don't worry I can walk through a little snow." She smiled and grabbed her coat. "See yeah!"

…

Sora watched Mimi brush through her hair for what must have been the sixth time. The girl was not pleased when Sora told her the boys were on their way and she had less than half an hour to get ready.

"I just don't understand why we couldn't have gone in a couple of hours." Mimi said finally putting down the hair brush and clipping part of her hair back. She was wearing jeans and black fuzzy boots with a pink tank top that flowed over part of her jeans.

"Mimi you're going to freeze in that." Sora said rolling her eyes.

"I don't care." Mimi replied as the doorbell rang and Sora went to answer it.

"Tai." Sora breathed feeling herself blush. She quickly turned to Izzy nearly forgetting he was there. "Hey Izzy."

"Hey is Mimi ready?" Izzy asked peering into the apartment. "We really have to try this now."

"I'm ready. Gosh don't be so dramatic." Mimi said walking over with a smile.

Izzy rolled his eyes. "Mimi it's like 10 degrees out and snowing. Why are you wearing that?"

"Because I want to." She said evenly then turned away from him to Tai. "So let's go to this digi place."

They took the bus to their old campsite. Sora had to direct them there as instructed by Izzy because the other three had no idea where it was. It took a while but they finally reached it and Sora could feel her heart beating in anticipation.

"This is it." She said when they finally reached the old cabin. She smiled remembering Tai sleeping in the tree, Izzy trying to find service, and Mimi desperately asking about a mall nearby. It was all so long ago, and she was the only one who remembered it.

"Okay we're here." Tai said taking charge. "So retrace our steps Sora."

Sora looked over at the cabin. "After it started to snow we all came outside. Then there were these lights."

"Lights?" Izzy asked.

"Yeah, I remember you saying they couldn't be the Northern Lights because we'd have to be in Alaska or something."

"Well that's a true fact." Izzy said proudly.

"Then beams shot out of the light. They were our digivices. We grabbed them and then a huge tidal wave came up and took us to the digital world. Guys this is a good try but I don't think just the snow will take us there…" Sora said sadly.

The wind blew and they were all silent as if waiting for an entrance to appear. It felt like forever until someone spoke up.

"Do you think our digivices are still here?"

"Huh?" The other three said turning towards Izzy who was looking at the ground.

"Okay you wished for us not to not to camp that summer so we didn't but the digital world was still around, it still needed help. So maybe the digivices were still sent here, to where we were supposed to be." He explained.

"But even if that's true that would have happened six to seven years ago…the digivices would be long gone. Someone may have found them or they were destroyed by weather or something." Sora said feeling helpless.

"Well let's just look around." Tai told her. "You never know." He bent down and started digging through the snow.

"Hmm Sora where's the people in charge's office?" Mimi asked looking around.

"Umm…" Sora said thinking. "It was down that hill somewhere why?"

"I'll be back." She said heading off.

"Mimi you can't go alone!" Sora yelled. "Izzy go with her!"

"What why me?"

"Just do it." Sora said rolling her eyes and bending down to help Tai search through the snow.

…

Before Kari could even knock on the door Yolie had opened it and was dragging her inside. "Okay did you see the way Ken and I interacted yesterday? It was a sign Kari."

"All you said was thank you…" Kari said confused as they reached Yolie's room.

"And he said he was glad I was okay!"

Kari smirked. "Yolie do you have a crush?" She asked sitting down on Yolie's bed. The walls of Yolie's room were a light lavender color and the bed was white with lavender stripes. There was a laptop with a bunch of random equipment around it on her desk but then a fluffy purple chair in the corner of her room. Yolie really was a mix of girly girl and computer geek.

"Yes!" Yolie said exasperated. "And I want to find him!"

Kari laughed. "Okay and how do you plan on doing that?"

Yolie smirked and stood up and grabbed her laptop bringing it over to her bed and taking a seat next to Kari. "Well I thought I'd look him up on friendworld (random social site I made up) and see where he lives then we could go to his house pretending to sell something and when he sees it's us he'll invite us in and then me and Ken will fall in love get married and have a wonderful life!"

"Yolie that's called stalking…" Kari said awkwardly. "We can't just show up at his house."

Yolie sighed. "Well HOW ELSE are we supposed to find him?"

Kari shrugged. "Maybe you'll run into him again. If it's meant to be he'll show back up in your life."

"Or MAYBE we can get Tk beat up again!"

"Yolie!"

"It was just an option…" She huffed lying down dramatically. "By the way are you and Tk like a thing?"

Kari turned dark crimson and Yoile smirked. "NO!" The brunette said a little too quickly. "Trust me Tk does NOT like me, like at all. He thinks I'm annoying and intrusive."

Yolie sighed. "Boys are stupid."

….

He was going to regret this. This was a stupid idea. Kari was stupid for putting it in his head. All he wanted was to leave well enough alone and go on with his life pretending this had never happened and hating everyone. Why couldn't that be enough?

He shivered as the wind blew another sharp gust. It was freezing outside and the snow was coming down decently but he couldn't pull himself to knock on the door. What would they say? Would they be happy to see him?

Why did he have to say anything to her the night before? Why did she have to act like things could be fixed? They couldn't be…he just had to face that.

The blonde turned away from the door snow falling from his hair and started to walk back towards the elevator. This was for the best. It was better this way. He pressed the down button and waited for the doors to open.

But fate had a different plan for him when the doors opened and he saw his brother standing there.

…

"Mimi, slow down!" Izzy said trying to catch up to her. For a girl walking in snow and ice she could move fast. Then again maybe she just wanted to get away from him.

"I'm walking at a normal rate. Maybe you're just so slow because you're not used to getting off your computer and getting some exercise!" She argued back not slowing her pace.

Izzy rolled his eyes not taking it personally. Mimi's exercise consisted of cheering and walking around the mall, it wasn't like she was running marathons either.

Finally they reached the cabin. It was larger than the ones the campers would stay in and had an old AC in the window, another luxury the campers didn't have. She stepped up on the old welcome mat and tried to nudge the door open. "It's locked…" She said annoyed.

"Gee didn't see that one coming…" Izzy said rolling his eyes.

"Shut up Izzy!" Mimi countered annoyed still trying to open the door. "Do you have a card?"

"A card?"

"You know like a credit card? Like they use in movies to break into places. I left my purse at Sora's so I don't have mine."

"No I don't have one." Izzy said taking a look at the door. "But this is old wood and rotting."

"Meaning?"

"Stand back."

"What why?" She asked confused not budging so he took her arm and led her back with him. "Izzy what are you doing?"

He let go and ran towards the door. And before Mimi could blink he kicked it with all his might and it smashed down in front of them. Mimi stood there with her jaw dropped like she had just seen a unicorn.

"Okay we can go in now." He said turning towards her. "What?" He asked seeing the look on her face.

"How did you do that?" She asked bewildered as she walked towards him.

He shrugged. "My parents made me take a martial arts class one summer because they thought I wasn't getting enough exercise and socialization."

"Well it paid off." She said walking into the old cabin him following.

The place was a mess. It must not have been used in years. There was a ton of junk inside from an old singing fish on the wall to boxes of canned food. There was a desk where the person in charge would have sat covered in old papers and nick naks.

"Well someone forgot to do their spring cleaning…" Mimi said looking around.

"Why exactly are we in here Mimi?" Izzy asked playing with a baseball bobble head.

"Because of this." Mimi said with a smile seeing a box labeled lost and found and picking it up. She used her and to clear some stuff off the messy old desk and put the box on it. There was an old teddy bear with one eye, a yo you with no string, a back pack, and a book but no digivices. Mimi sighed. "I thought they might be in here…so stupid!" She kicked the desk angrily and the bottom draw came out. Both Izzy and Mimi looked down.

"What are those?" Mimi asked picking up a blue device that had four ends and each attached by a curve. There were buttons and a screen.

Izzy smiled. "The digivices! Mimi you found them!"

"I did?" Mimi asked confused staring at the device in her hand. She looked down at Izzy who was grabbing them out of the fallen drawer. "How many are there?"

"Seven."

…

"Tk what are you doing here?" The older blonde asked coming out of the elevator. He was holding a paper bag full of groceries and Tk could see who really took care of the household between his father and brother. "And what happened to your nose?" He added seeing the bandage on Tk's face.

"I was just leaving…" Tk said preparing to get into the elevator but Matt stopped him.

"Wait, please don't. Look, come inside and have something to eat. I'm actually a really good cook." He smiled hopefully at his younger brother who just shrugged.

"Fine I guess."

Matt finished pouring the hot chocolate and handed Tk a glass as he sat down across from him at the Ishida's very small kitchen table. Tk just took his spoon and swirled around the hot chocolate not looking up at Matt.

"So Tk what are you doing here?" Matt asked curiously.

"I don't know." The younger blonde said honestly not looking up at his older brother.

"Well there has to be some reason." Matt said pushing forward.

Tk shrugged. "Kari said that I shouldn't be mad at you for what mom and dad did or something…"

"Who's Kari? Oh that girl you feel asleep with?" He smirked.

Tk glared at him. "We're not together if that's what you're implying. In fact I don't even like her. She annoys me."

"Yet you're taking her advice…"

"I want her to shut up." Tk said going back to playing with his coco.

"Well do you blame me?" Matt asked seriously.

Tk shrugged again. "I don't think you care as much as Kari claims if that's what you're asking."

"I do care Tk." Matt sighed. "This happened to me too. What mom and dad did. I didn't want them to split us up! I fought for you! I begged them to let us stay together but they refused. I wanted to see you but…"

"But what?" Tk asked looking up at him. "You're 18 Matt you could have come and seen me if you really wanted."

Matt sighed. "I know okay. I messed up. But it's not like you wanted to see me. You hated me. You hated everyone."

Tk shook his head. "You know Mom only moved us here because her boyfriend wanted to right? And now she's trying to pass it off like she was doing me some favor by reconnecting our family."

"She doesn't get it Tk." Matt said sadly. "Neither of them do or ever have. They make selfish decisions and don't think about how it's going to affect us. They take us for granted."

"I hate them." Tk said seriously. "I'm not kidding."

"Don't hate them because they're blind to reality." Matt said. "They love us in their weird twisted way."

"It's not like they didn't mess you up too." Tk told him. "I see you at school, you don't talk to anyone."

Matt looked down. "I'm not going to lie and say I don't have trust issues and I'm good at making friends."

"Cause you get it. We don't need friends."

Matt looked up at him with a sad look on his face. "Tk that doesn't mean I don't want friends…I just don't know. It's hard I feel like I spent so much time locking myself away from everyone as a kid that by the time I got to high school I didn't see the point of trying to make friends."

"I'll never see the point. All it causes is drama and pain. Kari says that's worth it because of the good but I don't buy that bull."

Matt smiled. "You know for someone you supposedly hate you bring her up quite often." Tk glared at him and Matt put his hands up in defense. "Fine, no Kari talk, how about instead you tell me what the hell happened to your face."

Tk shrugged. "I got into a fight and broke my nose because Kari butted in."

So much for not talking about Kari. "Butted in or saved your ass?"

"Butted in! I was doing fine then she had to come in with her friend and get involved." Tk said defending himself.

Matt rolled his eyes. "All right Tk."

"Everyone thinks she's so great. I think she's annoying. I mean she needs to mind her own damn business and leave me alone. If I want to beat some guy up then she needs to let me!"

Matt raised his eyebrows amused.

"What?" Tk snapped.

"Nothing." Matt said shaking his head knowingly. "I'm just glad you're talking to me again."

Tk was quiet as he looked down at his still untouched coca. "Yeah…me too." He mumbled.

….

"Tai this is impossible." Sora sighed giving up on digging through the snow. "They wouldn't be here no matter how much we want to imagine they would. Like I said someone probably found them."

Tai huffed and stopped digging. "This is ridiculous where could they be?"

"I wished we never became digidestined…so our digivices never found us. They could be anywhere."

"What made you make that stupid wish anyway?" Tai asked and Sora felt her face go white. She really did not want to tell him that not only did she ruin their life over her relationship problems but that those problems also involved him.

Luckily she was saved by a screaming Mimi.

"WE FOUND THEM! WE FOUND THEM!"

Sora felt her heart beat quickly and a smile break out on her face. She hadn't been this hopeful since before she made this wish. "You found them?" She said barely able to contain her excitement.

Mimi smiled proudly as she reached the pair with Izzy close behind. "Yup there are seven of them. Just like you said seven of us went to camp." She put the digivices down before them.

"Where were they?" Tai asked.

"Well Mimi was mad and kicking a desk and a drawer fell out with them in it." Izzy replied.

"It's a miracle." Sora said happily. "Too bad it's only seven. Kari's is who knows where." Sora told Tai looking up at him. "Her digimon was originally separated from the rest along with her digivice…I have no idea how we'll find that. And the other four didn't even become digidestined until years later…"

"Well don't worry about that now, we have our four digivices and that's all that matters." He put his hands over them all and scanned them. "How do I know which one's mine…hey." He smiled as one turned orange underneath him. "I guess your mine."

"Oh let me try!" Mimi said scanning her hand until a green one came to her. She looked disappointed. "I wanted it to be pink…"

"My turn." Izzy said and a purple one came right to him. Sora followed take her red one.

"Now what?" Mimi asked observing the device in her hand.

"I'll take these." Sora said putting two digivices in each of her pockets. "Tai you take these two." He did the same. "And now to the digital world." She held up her digivice. "Take us to the digital world!"

The other three did the same and a bright light came followed by a large tidal wave. Mimi screamed and Izzy muttered "Prodigious" as the wave took them all with it.

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A/n – longest chapter yet. I'm such a weird writer, I really never plan these chapters out they just come to me as I write…I should probably not do that but whatever lol. Anyway quick update and it's a long one! I'm proud. Please review and thanks to all that do! You guys are awesome .

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AeroAngemon – I hate when it does that! And ya Tk needs to open up sometimes

Digi Yo – Thanks yes they will be there super soon :P

Mousettez – The 02 are planned to be. Like I said I really just write as I go lol.

Vigatus – Yup I decided after some questions to put Kari's illness in the story after all.

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