"The Circle of the Digidestined," written by Freedom Fighter
Disclaimer: None of the characters, human or Digimon, belong to me, the writer.
Author's Warning: The following fanfic features gruesome character death, both
of the human and Digimon kind, violence of varying levels, some profane language,
and some suggestive situations. Please do not read this fanfic if you're underage
or feel that you cannot handle any of said features.
This particular episode features use of some profanity.
******
"TK! No!"
Matt jolted up, waking from a slumber he didn't even remember initiating. Even
more surprising was the fact that he was lying on top of the sheets of his bed.
"How did I get here?" Matt asked aloud, rubbing his head and finding a small
bump on it. "And how did that get there?"
Checking his surroundings, Matt confirmed that he was in his sleeping quarters.
It wasn't much... all he had was a bed, a lamp, a small closet for clothes and
shoes, and a roundtable. There were two chairs pushed under the table, while
on it were a researcher's manual and a picture of his family. Matt recalled
that the picture of him, his wife Sora, and their two kids was taken last
Christmas, three weeks before he had left them to come to the space station.
"I sure miss Sora and the kids a lot," murmured Matt as he rolled off his bed
and got on his feet. Suddenly, he heard someone knock on his door.
"Matt, are you awake?" asked the voice of a young female. "May I come in?"
"Sure! Come in, Penelope!"
The door slid open upwards, as a concerned Penelope made her way in. Once she
was past the door, it slid back down to the ground.
"Penelope, what's going on?"
"Well, if you must know... you were blinded by the light resulting from the
mixture of the calcium-neon-sodium compound. You were trying to find your way
out of the laboratory when you actually stumbled into the restroom, bumped your
knee against the toilet bowl, slipped on the just-waxed-this-morning floor,
and the result was knocking yourself out when your head made contact with the
ground."
"Really? All that happened?"
"Yep. By the time I found you, you were already unconscious. So, I carried
you back here to your room."
"How could you carry me?"
Penelope pointed to a pair of hover boots, which were set up next to Matt's bed.
"I slipped those on your feet, so all I had to do is tug you along."
Matt scratched his head, careful to avoid the bump on it.
"You sure all of that happened? That sounds so uncharacteristic of me."
"Okay... what if I said that you were walking down the hall when you were attacked
by a pink elephant that continually pounded your head into the ground? I then
dragged your barely alive lifeform to your room, where I resuscitated you back
to life but it took you an extra minute to come to, in which I stepped out to
get you a drink."
Matt sweatdropped. "I liked the first explanation better."
The door raised open again, as this time Gabumon was the visitor. But there was
no need for explanations when he held up Matt's flashing D-3.
"The D-3's flashing?" Matt asked.
Gabumon, nearly out of breath, could barely ellicit a response. "I've been
looking everywhere... for you."
Matt took the D-3 from Gabumon and started pushing a few buttons on it.
"I knew something was wrong when I came to! TK must be in trouble!"
***** Episode Eleven - Convergence in Osaka (06.19.03) *****
TK and Honda were standing on a hill over a Digimon village that was in the final
stages of burning to the ground. Next to Honda was Gizamon, who was ready to
attack once given the command.
"I bet you're the one responsible for that village back there... and the one
here too!" TK yelled.
"You don't approve?" Honda smiled evilly.
"You killed innocent Digimon!"
"I didn't want to, but they kept going on about trying to kill us. So I had
Gizamon here shut them up... permanently."
"If you heard how annoying they sounded," Gizamon said, "you'd want to kill them
too!"
"You need to stop this senseless carnage now! No one else has to die!"
"Sorry, can't do! There's still one person that needs to have his life cut
painfully short."
TK reached into his pocket and pulled out his lime green D-3. He raised it to
the sky and called for his Digimon partner.
"Patamon... it's time to digivolve!"
The power of the D-3 was enough to break through and shatter the forcefield.
Not only is the light beam being emitted from the D-3 now visible, but so is
the smoke that billowed from the village.
======
"Honda? TK? Where did you guys go?"
About a quarter of a mile away, Kari called out for her two former 'flames.' So
far, she was having no luck.
"First I lose TK, and now Honda! And add to that, Davis is off with the Digimon
and I don't know where they are! I can't believe I've been left alone again!"
Kari took a seat on the grass. She had suddenly become depressed as she reached
down to pick a few grass blades from the ground.
"Why am I the one who always has the problems that no one can solve?" she cried.
She continued to sit there and wallow in her own sorrows, as she zoned out
everything around her... including the smoke that had appeared just over the
horizon behind her.
======
Davis and the Digimon are making their way towards the same cloud of smoke rising
from the devastated village. They all could sense the danger that awaited them.
"This feels bad," Gatomon noted, "Really bad."
"We have to hurry!" exclaimed Patamon.
"Are we almost there, Davish?" asked Veemon.
"Almost!" Davis replied. "I can really smell the smoke now!"
But Davis wasn't worried the most about the fire or the Digimon village. He
was worried about the one person who might be trapped there.
"I'm coming Kari!"
======
"Spiral Saw!"
Two data-filled spinning saws were fired by Gizamon and right at TK. He dodges
one, but is unable to avoid the other, which nicks him in the left shoulder blade.
"Aaaaaahhhhhh!" TK yelled, grabbing the place where he was cut with his hands.
In doing so, he unintentionally released his grip on his D-3.
"That's mine," Gizamon sneered as he leaped in and snatched the D-3 off the
ground before TK could reclaim it.
"Give that back!"
Gizamon runs back over to Honda, who kneels down and sticks out his left palm
to receive the D-3.
"So this a D-3 of a Digidestined..." Honda stated as he looked it over.
"I said give that back!"
TK started to charge at Honda, but he quickly halted his assault when the pain
in his shoulder became unbearable. The hand he had covering up where he was cut
was already drenched in blood, right between the fingers.
"I wouldn't take another step. I assure you that the next time Gizamon fires
his Spiral Saw at you, he will go for the kill!"
Gizamon got into position, ready to end TK's life quickly upon command.
"Why?" TK shouted. "Why are you doing this?"
"Pardon me?" Honda mocked, raising an eyebrow in fake interest. "What did you
say?"
"Why are you doing this, you fucking bastard!"
TK ignored all pain and reason as he made another attempt at a charge.
"Finish him, Gizamon!" Honda yelled.
"Right! Spiral Saw!"
Things seem to go in slow motion as Gizamon prepared to fire another round of
Spiral Saws, this time directly at TK's neck. But just as Gizamon fired, he
was blindside tackled by Patamon and Veemon, who had come to the rescue. They
hit him hard enough to mess up the trajectory, sending the saws flying high and
just barely over TK's head.
The surprise attack not only succeeded in knocking Gizamon out, but stopping TK
in his tracks and bring him back to his senses.
"And stay down!" Veemon said, getting off of Gizamon.
"Serves you right for attacking TK!" Patamon added.
"Patamon and Veemon?" TK blinked, surprised to see them there. "Then that must
mean..."
TK glanced to his right, as did Honda (but it was his left). Davis emerged from
the forest with a smile of determination on his face.
"Okay you," Davis began, pointing at Honda, "this ends right here!"
"There's nowhere to go," TK cut in, moving again towards Honda. "You're
surrounded."
TK was right. With Gizamon unconscious, Patamon and Veemon to his right, Davis
to his left, and TK right in front of him, there was no way out. Or was there?
"Curse you all!" Honda yelled angrily as he turned around to run. Unfortunately,
there were now two more individuals blocking his escape... Kari and Gatomon.
"What's going on?" Kari asked, not quite clear on the situation.
"Kari, it's dangerous!" Davis shouted at her. "Get out of here!"
But Kari was too focused on the blood spilling from TK's left shoulder.
"TK!"
Without any concern for the current situation, Kari ran right past Honda and over
to TK. She immediately forced TK to lay down on the ground so that she could have
a better look at the cut.
"What happened?" Kari asked.
"Honda's Gizamon attacked me!" TK replied, lifting his head up to show Honda the
scowl on his face.
"Is that true?" Kari turned to look at Honda.
Honda looked as if he was going to make up a lie, but with all of the witnesses
that were around, there was absolutely no chance of making it believeable.
"Yes," Honda finally answered, bowing his head.
"Why would you do that?" Kari asked.
"I'll tell you why," TK sputtered. "Because he's working for them!"
"Them?" Davis scratched his head in confusion. "Who's them?"
"You mean he's one of the sleazeballs going around and trashing Digimon villages?"
Gatomon shouted, enraged.
"You'll pay for hurting all those innocent Digimon!" Veemon exclaimed.
"How could you be so cruel?" Patamon asked, almost coming to tears.
"Who told you that you could play with life this way?" Kari asked, leaving TK's
side and stomping over towards Honda. "I thought I knew you better than that!"
"Believe me, I have my reasons."
"Well, I'd like to hear them!" Kari was standing right in front of Honda,
practically in his face now.
"I..." Honda said slowly, "I did it... I did it for you."
Everyone's faces lit up with shock. They couldn't believe Honda had just said
that he had done it to impress Kari.
"What were you thinking?" Kari shouted angrily.
"Yeah!" Davis added. "I never even did anything this remotely crazy just to
impress Kari!"
"Ever since the first day I met you, I knew that there was something between us,"
Honda told Kari. "I've always imagined the day that we'd finally be one. But
then came that fateful night at that Digidestined social 13 years ago..."
======
Kari was off in a corner of the room, chatting with some friends, which included
her older brother Tai and his then-girlfriend, an American brunette named Peg,
as well as a light brown ponytail-haired guy who's identity's about to revealed.
Enter Honda, strutting his way over to the group. He's gotten over his nervous
sickness from a few minutes ago, but the butterflies don't look as if they've
gone away. His struts quickly change to cautious tiptoes and even an occassional
backstep.
"I can do this," Honda said to himself over and over again, closing his eyes and
taking a deep breath. "She'll say yes, I know she will!"
Honda opened his eyes... and saw TK tapping Kari on the shoulder.
"Oh, hi TK!" Kari said happily, turning around to look at him.
"TK!" Tai cut in. "Just the man I wanted to see! I want to introduce you to
this fine fellow here next to me."
Tai pointed to the guy with the ponytail, but TK wasn't too concerned with him
at this very moment.
"Not right now, Tai!"
At that point, TK did something no one there expected. As he reached into the
inner pocket of tuxedo, he kneeled down on one knee.
"He's not... is he?" Honda asked himself as he ran over to stop him.
"Kari? We've known each other for 15 years now. We haven't always been
together, but in spirit we've been there for each other..."
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"What does it look like?" TK asked, getting up from the floor. "I'm about to
ask for Kari's hand in marriage!"
"Wait a minute!" Honda shouted back. "I was going to ask for Kari's hand in
marriage!"
"Cool!" Peg exclaimed excitedly. "A real-life reenactment of my favorite reality
show, 'The Bachelorette!'"
"Kari," Tai glanced at her younger sister, "what's going on?"
"I'm as confused as you are," Kari replied.
"I got here first!" TK shouted.
"Well, I saw her first!" Honda shouted back.
"I've known her a whole lot longer than you have!"
"I've been closer to her than you've ever been!"
"Will you two knock it off?" Tai yelled as he got in between the two. "You're
both fighting for nothing."
"Nothing?" TK wondered out loud. "Kari's more than just nothing, Tai."
"Yeah!" Honda added on. "She's everything!"
"I appreciate the gesture you two, but..." Kari pulled the guy that was with her
up to the forefront of the conversation. "I'm already spoken for."
Kari gently grabbed the guy's left hand with her right and raised it up. And on
the index finger of each hand... was a diamond engagement ring.
"TK and Honda, I'd like you to meet my future husband, Ryo Yoshinaga!"
TK and Honda's mouths figuratively fell right to the floor.
"I told you that you should've told them when you actually got engaged," Tai
whispered to her little sister.
Ryo and Kari then shared a small kiss, which effectively ended any of the guys'
hopes of winning Kari over.
======
"I remember now," Honda scowled. "If it weren't for TK and that Ryo character,
I'd be happily married to you right now, Kari!"
"If you think that what you did would impress me, you're sadly mistaken!"
"Like I told TK... I didn't want to delete the Digimon, but they got too annoying
for me to stand. So I had Gizamon take care of them."
"You monster!" TK yelled, trying to get up again even though Patamon was now by
his side, attempting to stop him.
"You've got to do what you've got to do," Honda remarked before pulling his D-3
out of his pocket. "Anyway, I wish I could stick around and chat more, but I've
got to go."
He aimed his D-3 to a spot right under the unconscious Gizamon. A Digi-port
opened underneath Gizamon, sucking him in, much to Veemon's surprise. It closed
up just as quickly, before anyone could react.
"We will meet again," Honda said to the group before aiming the D-3 behind him,
opening yet another a Digi-port.
"Wait!" Kari yelled.
"I'm sorry, Kari, but time waits for no one. Not even someone as beautiful as
you."
With that, Honda turned around and ran through the Digi-port. Kari ran after
him, but the portal closed up right as she got there, denying her passage.
"Come back!" Kari shouted. "COME BACK!"
======
"We need to hurry!" Matt exclaimed. "Something bad's happened, Penelope. I just
know it!"
Back up on the space station, Penelope was typing away at her computer, doing
just about anything to get a Digi-port to open for them. But so far they've had
no success at all.
"The future of the Digital World could be in jeopardy!" Gabumon added.
"Keep your fur on," Penelope remarked, not taking her eyes off the screen. "It's
not exactly easy to create a Digi-port from here. I need time to calculate all
the correct vectors, find a satellite to bounce the signal off of, and find a
computer on Earth to use as a connection point. It could take at least another
hour!"
Penelope types silently for a few more seconds, and then she suddenly stops.
"Done."
"Really? I thought you said..."
"Do you really take everything I say literally?"
"Well, yeah. You're a child genius, after all."
"Teenage genius is the correct term, Matt. Anyway, I've managed to open a portal
to the Digital World via Osaka, Japan. The portal will only be open for two more
minutes, so you have to go now if you're going to make it."
A Digi-port materialized on the computer screen. Penelope wheeled her chair back
and out of the way as Matt took out his D-3 and held it up to the screen.
"Here goes nothing!" Matt yelled as he and Gabumon were sucked right into the
screen.
Once they were gone, Penelope leaned back in her chair, pulled a nail file out
of her blouse pocket, and started to do her fingernails.
"Looks like I'm done working for today," she remarked as she reached over with
her right foot and pressed the shut down button on her keyboard.
======
Meanwhile, at the research laboratory in Osaka, a Digi-port was opening in the
main room. Yoshi was at work stabilizing the portal, while Izzy and Sora, back
from their trek in the eastern quadrant, waited to see who was returning.
"You think it's Tai and Mimi?" Sora asked.
"As long as Catherine's kept them from killing each other," Izzy replied.
The Digi-port opens, but it turns out that it's not coming from the Digital World.
It's coming from a computer in the real world... from Tokyo, to be exact.
"Alright, where is he? Where's Davis?"
Izzy and Sora both gulped as Dora Motimiya stepped out of the portal. Sora
quickly pushed Izzy in front of her.
"Izzy would be glad to explain everything," Sora fake-smiled before running out
of the room.
"Why me?" Izzy yelped as Dora moved in on him.
"I want to know where Davis is!" Dora yelled angrily.
"Help!"
******
Author's Notes:
So, the details of Kari's engagement and the reactions of TK, Davis, and Honda
have now all been document. In addition, not only did we get to learn the name
of Kari's husband, Ryo, but we learned of Tai's wife's name too, Peg.
First off, although I'm playing off the fact that there are fans of the Kari-Ryo
coupling (with Ryo being any version of him that you fancy), this is not the same
Ryo. Doesn't look the same and doesn't have the same last name.
Speaking of last names, Yoshinaga does play some significance, as it was a last
name that I ended up borrowing from a teacher of another anime. Yoshinaga is the
last name of the female kindergarten teacher that teaches a class that has a boy
named Shinnosuke Nohara (aka "Shinchan") from the series "Crayon Shinchan."
Thanks to the latest issue of Animerica for providing the name. Anyway, Shinchan's
a troublemaker in the vines of Bart Simpson, only worse. Imagine a troublemaker
like him in a class taught by Kari, and you have a very reasonable facsimile.
You also now know why Kari switched out of teaching first graders and moved to
fifth graders. Very important, since there'll be a slightly deeper explanation
to this in a much later episode.
As for Peg, Tai's husband, the fact that she's an American draws back a few
episodes to when you saw the flashbacks of Tai and Mimi when they attended college
together. You'll also see how Tai met Peg in a later episode... but this episode
is just a get-to-know-she-exists appearance.
***** Next Episode - Highway to the Danger Zone *****
Regrouping from their battles with the Digidestined, the evil five humans and their Digimon
plot to get rid of our heroes once and for all. Meanwhile, Izzy has the difficult task of
explaining the situation to both Dora and Matt! And finally, Kari spills the beans on how she
fell in love with Ryo as she, TK, and Davis wait for help to arrive.
Disclaimer: None of the characters, human or Digimon, belong to me, the writer.
Author's Warning: The following fanfic features gruesome character death, both
of the human and Digimon kind, violence of varying levels, some profane language,
and some suggestive situations. Please do not read this fanfic if you're underage
or feel that you cannot handle any of said features.
This particular episode features use of some profanity.
******
"TK! No!"
Matt jolted up, waking from a slumber he didn't even remember initiating. Even
more surprising was the fact that he was lying on top of the sheets of his bed.
"How did I get here?" Matt asked aloud, rubbing his head and finding a small
bump on it. "And how did that get there?"
Checking his surroundings, Matt confirmed that he was in his sleeping quarters.
It wasn't much... all he had was a bed, a lamp, a small closet for clothes and
shoes, and a roundtable. There were two chairs pushed under the table, while
on it were a researcher's manual and a picture of his family. Matt recalled
that the picture of him, his wife Sora, and their two kids was taken last
Christmas, three weeks before he had left them to come to the space station.
"I sure miss Sora and the kids a lot," murmured Matt as he rolled off his bed
and got on his feet. Suddenly, he heard someone knock on his door.
"Matt, are you awake?" asked the voice of a young female. "May I come in?"
"Sure! Come in, Penelope!"
The door slid open upwards, as a concerned Penelope made her way in. Once she
was past the door, it slid back down to the ground.
"Penelope, what's going on?"
"Well, if you must know... you were blinded by the light resulting from the
mixture of the calcium-neon-sodium compound. You were trying to find your way
out of the laboratory when you actually stumbled into the restroom, bumped your
knee against the toilet bowl, slipped on the just-waxed-this-morning floor,
and the result was knocking yourself out when your head made contact with the
ground."
"Really? All that happened?"
"Yep. By the time I found you, you were already unconscious. So, I carried
you back here to your room."
"How could you carry me?"
Penelope pointed to a pair of hover boots, which were set up next to Matt's bed.
"I slipped those on your feet, so all I had to do is tug you along."
Matt scratched his head, careful to avoid the bump on it.
"You sure all of that happened? That sounds so uncharacteristic of me."
"Okay... what if I said that you were walking down the hall when you were attacked
by a pink elephant that continually pounded your head into the ground? I then
dragged your barely alive lifeform to your room, where I resuscitated you back
to life but it took you an extra minute to come to, in which I stepped out to
get you a drink."
Matt sweatdropped. "I liked the first explanation better."
The door raised open again, as this time Gabumon was the visitor. But there was
no need for explanations when he held up Matt's flashing D-3.
"The D-3's flashing?" Matt asked.
Gabumon, nearly out of breath, could barely ellicit a response. "I've been
looking everywhere... for you."
Matt took the D-3 from Gabumon and started pushing a few buttons on it.
"I knew something was wrong when I came to! TK must be in trouble!"
***** Episode Eleven - Convergence in Osaka (06.19.03) *****
TK and Honda were standing on a hill over a Digimon village that was in the final
stages of burning to the ground. Next to Honda was Gizamon, who was ready to
attack once given the command.
"I bet you're the one responsible for that village back there... and the one
here too!" TK yelled.
"You don't approve?" Honda smiled evilly.
"You killed innocent Digimon!"
"I didn't want to, but they kept going on about trying to kill us. So I had
Gizamon here shut them up... permanently."
"If you heard how annoying they sounded," Gizamon said, "you'd want to kill them
too!"
"You need to stop this senseless carnage now! No one else has to die!"
"Sorry, can't do! There's still one person that needs to have his life cut
painfully short."
TK reached into his pocket and pulled out his lime green D-3. He raised it to
the sky and called for his Digimon partner.
"Patamon... it's time to digivolve!"
The power of the D-3 was enough to break through and shatter the forcefield.
Not only is the light beam being emitted from the D-3 now visible, but so is
the smoke that billowed from the village.
======
"Honda? TK? Where did you guys go?"
About a quarter of a mile away, Kari called out for her two former 'flames.' So
far, she was having no luck.
"First I lose TK, and now Honda! And add to that, Davis is off with the Digimon
and I don't know where they are! I can't believe I've been left alone again!"
Kari took a seat on the grass. She had suddenly become depressed as she reached
down to pick a few grass blades from the ground.
"Why am I the one who always has the problems that no one can solve?" she cried.
She continued to sit there and wallow in her own sorrows, as she zoned out
everything around her... including the smoke that had appeared just over the
horizon behind her.
======
Davis and the Digimon are making their way towards the same cloud of smoke rising
from the devastated village. They all could sense the danger that awaited them.
"This feels bad," Gatomon noted, "Really bad."
"We have to hurry!" exclaimed Patamon.
"Are we almost there, Davish?" asked Veemon.
"Almost!" Davis replied. "I can really smell the smoke now!"
But Davis wasn't worried the most about the fire or the Digimon village. He
was worried about the one person who might be trapped there.
"I'm coming Kari!"
======
"Spiral Saw!"
Two data-filled spinning saws were fired by Gizamon and right at TK. He dodges
one, but is unable to avoid the other, which nicks him in the left shoulder blade.
"Aaaaaahhhhhh!" TK yelled, grabbing the place where he was cut with his hands.
In doing so, he unintentionally released his grip on his D-3.
"That's mine," Gizamon sneered as he leaped in and snatched the D-3 off the
ground before TK could reclaim it.
"Give that back!"
Gizamon runs back over to Honda, who kneels down and sticks out his left palm
to receive the D-3.
"So this a D-3 of a Digidestined..." Honda stated as he looked it over.
"I said give that back!"
TK started to charge at Honda, but he quickly halted his assault when the pain
in his shoulder became unbearable. The hand he had covering up where he was cut
was already drenched in blood, right between the fingers.
"I wouldn't take another step. I assure you that the next time Gizamon fires
his Spiral Saw at you, he will go for the kill!"
Gizamon got into position, ready to end TK's life quickly upon command.
"Why?" TK shouted. "Why are you doing this?"
"Pardon me?" Honda mocked, raising an eyebrow in fake interest. "What did you
say?"
"Why are you doing this, you fucking bastard!"
TK ignored all pain and reason as he made another attempt at a charge.
"Finish him, Gizamon!" Honda yelled.
"Right! Spiral Saw!"
Things seem to go in slow motion as Gizamon prepared to fire another round of
Spiral Saws, this time directly at TK's neck. But just as Gizamon fired, he
was blindside tackled by Patamon and Veemon, who had come to the rescue. They
hit him hard enough to mess up the trajectory, sending the saws flying high and
just barely over TK's head.
The surprise attack not only succeeded in knocking Gizamon out, but stopping TK
in his tracks and bring him back to his senses.
"And stay down!" Veemon said, getting off of Gizamon.
"Serves you right for attacking TK!" Patamon added.
"Patamon and Veemon?" TK blinked, surprised to see them there. "Then that must
mean..."
TK glanced to his right, as did Honda (but it was his left). Davis emerged from
the forest with a smile of determination on his face.
"Okay you," Davis began, pointing at Honda, "this ends right here!"
"There's nowhere to go," TK cut in, moving again towards Honda. "You're
surrounded."
TK was right. With Gizamon unconscious, Patamon and Veemon to his right, Davis
to his left, and TK right in front of him, there was no way out. Or was there?
"Curse you all!" Honda yelled angrily as he turned around to run. Unfortunately,
there were now two more individuals blocking his escape... Kari and Gatomon.
"What's going on?" Kari asked, not quite clear on the situation.
"Kari, it's dangerous!" Davis shouted at her. "Get out of here!"
But Kari was too focused on the blood spilling from TK's left shoulder.
"TK!"
Without any concern for the current situation, Kari ran right past Honda and over
to TK. She immediately forced TK to lay down on the ground so that she could have
a better look at the cut.
"What happened?" Kari asked.
"Honda's Gizamon attacked me!" TK replied, lifting his head up to show Honda the
scowl on his face.
"Is that true?" Kari turned to look at Honda.
Honda looked as if he was going to make up a lie, but with all of the witnesses
that were around, there was absolutely no chance of making it believeable.
"Yes," Honda finally answered, bowing his head.
"Why would you do that?" Kari asked.
"I'll tell you why," TK sputtered. "Because he's working for them!"
"Them?" Davis scratched his head in confusion. "Who's them?"
"You mean he's one of the sleazeballs going around and trashing Digimon villages?"
Gatomon shouted, enraged.
"You'll pay for hurting all those innocent Digimon!" Veemon exclaimed.
"How could you be so cruel?" Patamon asked, almost coming to tears.
"Who told you that you could play with life this way?" Kari asked, leaving TK's
side and stomping over towards Honda. "I thought I knew you better than that!"
"Believe me, I have my reasons."
"Well, I'd like to hear them!" Kari was standing right in front of Honda,
practically in his face now.
"I..." Honda said slowly, "I did it... I did it for you."
Everyone's faces lit up with shock. They couldn't believe Honda had just said
that he had done it to impress Kari.
"What were you thinking?" Kari shouted angrily.
"Yeah!" Davis added. "I never even did anything this remotely crazy just to
impress Kari!"
"Ever since the first day I met you, I knew that there was something between us,"
Honda told Kari. "I've always imagined the day that we'd finally be one. But
then came that fateful night at that Digidestined social 13 years ago..."
======
Kari was off in a corner of the room, chatting with some friends, which included
her older brother Tai and his then-girlfriend, an American brunette named Peg,
as well as a light brown ponytail-haired guy who's identity's about to revealed.
Enter Honda, strutting his way over to the group. He's gotten over his nervous
sickness from a few minutes ago, but the butterflies don't look as if they've
gone away. His struts quickly change to cautious tiptoes and even an occassional
backstep.
"I can do this," Honda said to himself over and over again, closing his eyes and
taking a deep breath. "She'll say yes, I know she will!"
Honda opened his eyes... and saw TK tapping Kari on the shoulder.
"Oh, hi TK!" Kari said happily, turning around to look at him.
"TK!" Tai cut in. "Just the man I wanted to see! I want to introduce you to
this fine fellow here next to me."
Tai pointed to the guy with the ponytail, but TK wasn't too concerned with him
at this very moment.
"Not right now, Tai!"
At that point, TK did something no one there expected. As he reached into the
inner pocket of tuxedo, he kneeled down on one knee.
"He's not... is he?" Honda asked himself as he ran over to stop him.
"Kari? We've known each other for 15 years now. We haven't always been
together, but in spirit we've been there for each other..."
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"What does it look like?" TK asked, getting up from the floor. "I'm about to
ask for Kari's hand in marriage!"
"Wait a minute!" Honda shouted back. "I was going to ask for Kari's hand in
marriage!"
"Cool!" Peg exclaimed excitedly. "A real-life reenactment of my favorite reality
show, 'The Bachelorette!'"
"Kari," Tai glanced at her younger sister, "what's going on?"
"I'm as confused as you are," Kari replied.
"I got here first!" TK shouted.
"Well, I saw her first!" Honda shouted back.
"I've known her a whole lot longer than you have!"
"I've been closer to her than you've ever been!"
"Will you two knock it off?" Tai yelled as he got in between the two. "You're
both fighting for nothing."
"Nothing?" TK wondered out loud. "Kari's more than just nothing, Tai."
"Yeah!" Honda added on. "She's everything!"
"I appreciate the gesture you two, but..." Kari pulled the guy that was with her
up to the forefront of the conversation. "I'm already spoken for."
Kari gently grabbed the guy's left hand with her right and raised it up. And on
the index finger of each hand... was a diamond engagement ring.
"TK and Honda, I'd like you to meet my future husband, Ryo Yoshinaga!"
TK and Honda's mouths figuratively fell right to the floor.
"I told you that you should've told them when you actually got engaged," Tai
whispered to her little sister.
Ryo and Kari then shared a small kiss, which effectively ended any of the guys'
hopes of winning Kari over.
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"I remember now," Honda scowled. "If it weren't for TK and that Ryo character,
I'd be happily married to you right now, Kari!"
"If you think that what you did would impress me, you're sadly mistaken!"
"Like I told TK... I didn't want to delete the Digimon, but they got too annoying
for me to stand. So I had Gizamon take care of them."
"You monster!" TK yelled, trying to get up again even though Patamon was now by
his side, attempting to stop him.
"You've got to do what you've got to do," Honda remarked before pulling his D-3
out of his pocket. "Anyway, I wish I could stick around and chat more, but I've
got to go."
He aimed his D-3 to a spot right under the unconscious Gizamon. A Digi-port
opened underneath Gizamon, sucking him in, much to Veemon's surprise. It closed
up just as quickly, before anyone could react.
"We will meet again," Honda said to the group before aiming the D-3 behind him,
opening yet another a Digi-port.
"Wait!" Kari yelled.
"I'm sorry, Kari, but time waits for no one. Not even someone as beautiful as
you."
With that, Honda turned around and ran through the Digi-port. Kari ran after
him, but the portal closed up right as she got there, denying her passage.
"Come back!" Kari shouted. "COME BACK!"
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"We need to hurry!" Matt exclaimed. "Something bad's happened, Penelope. I just
know it!"
Back up on the space station, Penelope was typing away at her computer, doing
just about anything to get a Digi-port to open for them. But so far they've had
no success at all.
"The future of the Digital World could be in jeopardy!" Gabumon added.
"Keep your fur on," Penelope remarked, not taking her eyes off the screen. "It's
not exactly easy to create a Digi-port from here. I need time to calculate all
the correct vectors, find a satellite to bounce the signal off of, and find a
computer on Earth to use as a connection point. It could take at least another
hour!"
Penelope types silently for a few more seconds, and then she suddenly stops.
"Done."
"Really? I thought you said..."
"Do you really take everything I say literally?"
"Well, yeah. You're a child genius, after all."
"Teenage genius is the correct term, Matt. Anyway, I've managed to open a portal
to the Digital World via Osaka, Japan. The portal will only be open for two more
minutes, so you have to go now if you're going to make it."
A Digi-port materialized on the computer screen. Penelope wheeled her chair back
and out of the way as Matt took out his D-3 and held it up to the screen.
"Here goes nothing!" Matt yelled as he and Gabumon were sucked right into the
screen.
Once they were gone, Penelope leaned back in her chair, pulled a nail file out
of her blouse pocket, and started to do her fingernails.
"Looks like I'm done working for today," she remarked as she reached over with
her right foot and pressed the shut down button on her keyboard.
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Meanwhile, at the research laboratory in Osaka, a Digi-port was opening in the
main room. Yoshi was at work stabilizing the portal, while Izzy and Sora, back
from their trek in the eastern quadrant, waited to see who was returning.
"You think it's Tai and Mimi?" Sora asked.
"As long as Catherine's kept them from killing each other," Izzy replied.
The Digi-port opens, but it turns out that it's not coming from the Digital World.
It's coming from a computer in the real world... from Tokyo, to be exact.
"Alright, where is he? Where's Davis?"
Izzy and Sora both gulped as Dora Motimiya stepped out of the portal. Sora
quickly pushed Izzy in front of her.
"Izzy would be glad to explain everything," Sora fake-smiled before running out
of the room.
"Why me?" Izzy yelped as Dora moved in on him.
"I want to know where Davis is!" Dora yelled angrily.
"Help!"
******
Author's Notes:
So, the details of Kari's engagement and the reactions of TK, Davis, and Honda
have now all been document. In addition, not only did we get to learn the name
of Kari's husband, Ryo, but we learned of Tai's wife's name too, Peg.
First off, although I'm playing off the fact that there are fans of the Kari-Ryo
coupling (with Ryo being any version of him that you fancy), this is not the same
Ryo. Doesn't look the same and doesn't have the same last name.
Speaking of last names, Yoshinaga does play some significance, as it was a last
name that I ended up borrowing from a teacher of another anime. Yoshinaga is the
last name of the female kindergarten teacher that teaches a class that has a boy
named Shinnosuke Nohara (aka "Shinchan") from the series "Crayon Shinchan."
Thanks to the latest issue of Animerica for providing the name. Anyway, Shinchan's
a troublemaker in the vines of Bart Simpson, only worse. Imagine a troublemaker
like him in a class taught by Kari, and you have a very reasonable facsimile.
You also now know why Kari switched out of teaching first graders and moved to
fifth graders. Very important, since there'll be a slightly deeper explanation
to this in a much later episode.
As for Peg, Tai's husband, the fact that she's an American draws back a few
episodes to when you saw the flashbacks of Tai and Mimi when they attended college
together. You'll also see how Tai met Peg in a later episode... but this episode
is just a get-to-know-she-exists appearance.
***** Next Episode - Highway to the Danger Zone *****
Regrouping from their battles with the Digidestined, the evil five humans and their Digimon
plot to get rid of our heroes once and for all. Meanwhile, Izzy has the difficult task of
explaining the situation to both Dora and Matt! And finally, Kari spills the beans on how she
fell in love with Ryo as she, TK, and Davis wait for help to arrive.