Chapter Eleven: Tokyo, the Sequel
Some Random Location
Some Unimportant Ward: Tokyo, Japan
6:32 P.M: January 12th, 2010
Tai stood before J.P. as Gaomon slinked out from behind the latter, revealing the newfound futility of Tai's situation. Tai now had to face off against a Digimon: a rookie Digimon, but still, trying to stop him would be-
"Wait, where did he come from?" Tai asked J.P. confounded.
"Um, from behind my back- I thought that was obvious." J.P. replied in a confused tone.
"Yeah but he was completely concealed, and you had to walk up here, so what did he do: follow your every footstep and twitch so he'd be perfectly hidden until you summoned him?" Tai inquired.
"I don't-!" J.P. grumbled. "Don't you think you might have more important things to worry about?"
"Well it's just weird." Tai shrugged.
"Just- shut up!" J.P. barked. "Gaomon get him."
"Ah crap." Tai turned around and started to run away as Gaomon began to chase after him.
"Double Backhand!" Gaomon jumped up and began a spinning attack through the air towards Tai. Tai scrambled to escape while analyzing his environment for something that he could use to defend himself. Fortunately he spotted a pile of 2x4's sitting in a pile near a store under construction. Tai barely dodged one of Gaomon's strikes, leaped down the sidewalk and snatched one of the elongated pieces of wood.
"He's got a weapon Gaomon!" J.P. called to his partner.
"Oh yes, a stick, I'm terrified." Gaomon ceased his spinning attack and switched to a different offensive move. "Gao Rush!" Gaomon leaped forward and rushed his opponent with a fist pulled backwards.
Tai, aware of the full on attack coming towards him, realized he didn't have time to flee. But his wooden plank, conveniently placed behind his body, would provide for an effective defense. He swung the plank forward, hoping it would have some effect.
"Oof!" The plank smacked into Gaomon's face and knocked him backwards.
"Woah," Tai stared at the doubled over Gaomon and the deadly wooden board in his hands in disbelief, "I really did not see that coming."
"Ow." Gaomon stumbled back up to his feet rubbing his forehead.
"Gaomon, how did that happen?" J.P. growled.
"I'm not sure." Gaomon replied. "I'm supposed to be faster than tha- Agh!" Tai smacked Gaomon upside the head once more. "Hey, cheap shot- agh!" Tai jabbed him in the gut and knocked him to his partner's feet. "Okay, I think I'm done." He groaned one last time.
"How did you-?" J.P. began.
"I don't know, but I'm pretty ecstatic about it." Tai smiled as he slung the board above his shoulder.
"I'm glad you're proud of yourself." J.P. then smiled wickedly, much to Tai's dismay, as he grabbed his digivice. Tai then watched uncomfortably as J.P. flipped a small switch on the side of his digivice that wasn't on Takato's or Sora's. "In case you didn't know, that switch on my digivice turns the Dark Beacon on and off."
"Ugh," Tai sighed.
"Gaomon, get up." J.P. nudged his partner with his foot.
"So much pain…" The Digimon sighed.
"Get up now!" J.P. hissed.
"Fine." Gaomon wobbled to his feet.
"Brace yourself Tai," J.P. snarled, and then pressed a button on his digivice. Nothing happened. "What?" J.P. pressed the button again. Nothing happened. "Damn it!" J.P. pressed the button a series of times. Nothing ever happened. "What's wrong with you you stupid piece of sh-!" A 2x4 smashed into J.P.'s hand and knocked the digivice into a wall, where it broke into a few pieces: as did J.P.'s hand. "Agh! Son of a bi-!"
"Are you done now?" Tai laughed as he walked to a position between J.P. and the digiivce.
"Are you kidding me, I'm going to-!"
"Do you really think you have any sort of advantage? Your hand is broken, your partner has a concussion, and I've got this high tech 2x4 that is putting you two to shame." J.P. glared at Tai for a second, and then conceded defeat.
"Let's get out of here Gaomon," J.P. grumbled as he began to back away.
"Fine with me," Gaomon groaned dizzily. The pair of them backed away for a few seconds before turning around and running away down the street.
"Come back anytime!" Tai cheered to them. He waited for a few seconds until they were out of sight, and then let out a large sigh. "Ohmygosh I can't believe that worked!" Tai breathed in exasperation. He then dropped the 2x4 on the sidewalk and picked up the scraps of J.P.'s digivice. "Now why doesn't this thing work: aside from the obvious reason anyway?"
*** Residence
Shinjuku Ward: Tokyo, Japan
6:44 P.M: January 12th, 2010
Tai arrived at the front door of the house that the digivice was located in. This has to be Joe's house, he thought to himself. Tai then pocketed his digivice, practiced in his head how he was going to explain what happened to Joe one last time, and knocked on the door.
"Hello?" A woman opened the door.
"Hello, does Joe Kido liv-" Tai stopped short. "Mrs. Matsuki?"
"Uh," The woman stared at him for a second, "Wait, Tai Kamiya: Takato's friend?" Mrs. Matsuki, the wife of Takato's father's brother, was at the door.
"Yeah, hi." Tai nodded.
"Hey Tai, what are you doing here?"
"I was looking for a friend's house, but I guess I got the wrong address. I didn't realize you, Mr. Matsuki and Kairo-" It dawned on Tai- "lived out here in Shinjuku."
"You know it's really weird because Takato just invited us over to dinner. We were about to drive over there right now."
"Oh, is that right." What the hell are you thinking Takato?
"So, you got the wrong address?"
"Yeah. I didn't remember him saying that he lived in Shinjuku, but I thought I'd try this slip in my drawer that had this address on it. Takato must have left it in our house at some point."
"Well you're stranded all the way out here in Shinjuku, would you like a ride back home?"
"Oh, I wouldn't want to trouble you Mrs. Matsuki." Tai shook his head.
"Nonsense, we were just about to leave anyway. Besides, any friend of my brother-in-law's family is a friend of ours."
"Well thank you, that is very nice of you." Tai then followed the woman to the car in the driveway, thanked her again as she unlocked the door for him, and sat inside. A few seconds later, she entered the front passenger seat and her husband opened the door to the driver's seat.
"Hello Tai, what are you doing out here in Shinjuku?" The man asked as he buckled his seatbelt.
"Oh, I was trying to find a friend's house and I found your house instead. It's kind of a long story." The other back door opened, and Kairo then slid into the car.
"Oh, hey Kairo." Tai gave a knowing smile.
"sonofabitch," Kairo mumbled underneath his breath.
Matsuki Residence
Odaiba, Koto Ward: Tokyo, Japan
7:20 P.M: January 12th, 2010
The Shinjuku Matsuki car pulled up in front of the Odaiba Matsuki restaurant and parked. The four passengers then exited the car.
"Are you sure you don't need a ride to your place Tai?" Mrs. Matsuki asked.
"No, it's not far. Besides, I need to talk to Takato for a second anyway." Mr. Matsuki then knocked on the door to his brother's restaurant. Takehiro Matsuki, Takato's father, opened the door and said hello to his brother, and invited the four stragglers in.
"Tai, what are you doing here?" Takehiro inquired.
"We found him wandering around in Shinjuku for some vague reason." Shinjuku Matsuki answered for him.
"I just need to talk to Takato for a second," Tai continued, "May I?"
"Yeah, he's upstairs in his room." Odaiba Matsuki nodded to the staircase in the back. Tai thanked him, slipped off his shoes, and ran upstairs to Takato's room.
"Hey." Tai barked quietly at the boy, who was lying on his bed.
"Hey Tai." Takato greeted his friend as he got off the bed.
"That wasn't a friendly hello, Takato, what the hell are you thinking?" Tai growled as he entered the room.
"Well at the moment I was thinking that a rice ball sounded kind of tasty." Takato answered innocently.
"You invited your evil cousin to dinner tonight?" Tai whispered.
"How'd you know about that?"
"I was looking for Joe's digivice, but instead I found his! I remember seeing Kairo in the digital world, but I didn't think it was actually him."
"Wait, what's the problem again?"
"What exactly do you aim to get out of this?" Tai grumbled. "He's frickin' evil! Do you think you're just going to have a pleasant conversation tonight?"
"Well I don't think he's in any position to do anything to me." Takato shrugged.
"Takato, I was just assaulted by J.P. and his Dog-mon thing out in the middle of the street. If Kairo gets the chance he's going to make you regret this."
"But I have a plan."
"What plan!"
"Izzy and Yolei are going over to Kairo's house right now. They're going to comb over his room and get a hold of whatever he's using to get to the digital world and any information they can find out about him and the other evil digidestined."
"Oh..."
"…"
"…"
"…"
"Did you give them your key?"
"Of course I gave them my key."
"Ah…"
"Are you satisfied now?"
"I guess so."
"You should probably leave now: I'm going to have to socialize."
"Okay."
"You might want to try to find Joe's house again too."
"Right…"
Matsuki Residence
Shinjuku Ward: Tokyo, Japan
8:01 P.M: January 12th, 2010
"I don't feel right about this Izzy." Yolei whispered as her companion and she slipped out of her father's car and slowly walked up to the door of the Shinjuku Matsuki house.
"You were an evil tyrant in the digital world for generations, and now you're worried about breaking and entering?" Izzy muttered sarcastically under his breath.
"That's messed up Izzy." Yolei remarked with a deadpan face.
"You have to remember Yolei," Izzy began as he pulled the key given to him by Takato out of his pocket and unlocked the door, "We're stealing from an evil villain whose crimes are in another world. What's Kairo supposed to do: call the police and say "somebody stole my inter-dimensional gateway and Digimon torturing equipment?"
"No, but that would make for one hell of a headline." Yolei and Izzy then slowly walked into the main room, flipped on the switch to scan for any unforeseen obstacles, and closed the door. They then searched their way to Kairo's room, a plain door in a hallway across from a closet. Izzy reached for the handle and tried to open the door.
"Crap."
"Learn some grown-up words Izzy. What's wrong?"
"It's locked, and also, thank you for insulting my vocabulary."
"There you go; that's better. Now stand aside." Yolei scooted Izzy out of the way of the door and poised herself in front of it.
"What are you going to do?"
"Living up to the name of breaker and enterer," Yolei replied, and then smashed her foot into the middle of the door, knocking it open with a crack as the wood around the lock broke apart.
"Well that's not noticeable."
"Something tells me that if the door was locked in the first place that Kairo won't really want his parents examining anything near his room." Yolei then pushed the door the rest of the way open and entered with Izzy behind her. "Now what do we have here?" She went to the white sheet over some large object and yanked it off, revealing a human sized metal ring poised on some mechanical equipment.
"Whoa, this boy watches way too much sci-fi."
"This must be his gateway to the digital world." Izzy observed.
"Yeah, a star-gate,"
"I wonder how it works." Izzy pondered as he placed his hand on the interface on the side of the ring.
"Well, let's find out." Yolei wondered over to the computer on the desk next to the ring and turned it on. As it booted up, she began to rifle through the items in his desk drawer. "Did you bring a bag or something?"
"Yeah, for what?"
"Well, we're stealing from Kairo aren't we?" Yolei asked. "We'll need something to put all of our illegally procured items into."
"What good are papers going to do us?" Izzy shrugged.
"How about some backup blueprints?" She held up a batch of blue pages that clearly showed machine parts. "And notes," She pointed to a notebook. Izzy, with a smile on his face, pulled out a plastic bag from his pocket and handed it to her. "Oh, how high tech."
"Exactly how advanced do you need your bags to be?"
"Damn," She swore, "The computer needs a password."
"Not exactly surprising," Izzy replied, "He is a super genius after all. I could probably hack it but it would take me a while."
"Do we have a while?"
"We probably have an hour and a half before they get home. I could probably hack it by then but it's no guarantee that we'd find something of value in that time." Izzy explained.
"Okay, that's fine, time for plan B." Yolei turned off the computer.
"Plan B?" Izzy asked as she rifled through the desk drawer once more, this time pulling out a screwdriver.
"Perfect," She stated as she proceeded to unplug the cords from the back of the CPU and pull it out from under the desk.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm taking out the hard drive." Yolei answered to no response. "What, are you telling me you never thought of that? Can you seriously not fathom hooking Kairo's hard drive up to your computer and getting the information off of it."
"No."
"About?" Yolei raised her head at Izzy's surprising answer.
"About not fathoming it," Izzy replied to her relief.
"Good," She stated as she screwed off the side of the CPU, and then proceeded to slide the hard drive out of its slot and unhook it from the internal wires. "Okay, what's next?" She asked as she dumped the excavated hard drive into the plastic bag.
"Wow, Kairo is going to be pissed when he gets back."
"Eh, he's twelve. He'll get over it."
"You know you're acting awfully cavalier about your criminal affairs all of a sudden Yolei."
"Hey, I may not like being a criminal, but if I have to do it I'll embrace it with every fiber of my being. Ethics are no excuse for spotty workmanship."
"Is that why you were so ax-crazy back when you were evil?"
"Yeah, pretty much."
"I'd really like to take this machine with us," Izzy said as he eyed the interdimensional matter transporter, redirecting the conversation, "But I know it would just take us too long to successfully take it apart and get it into the car."
"Well, we have at least one, probably both, sets of blueprints," Yolei reasoned, "So we can build our own. Let's just make sure Kairo can't use his." She then walked over a box at the base of the machine that seemed to be important, and unscrewed the side. "Ooh, wires and computer chips." Then, with the butt of the screwdriver, she smashed the inside of the box, causing a cascade of static to spew from the hole. "There, all useless. Ooh," She then took the butt of the screwdriver and, seeing the reflective surfaces on the inside of the ring, began to smash said reflective surfaces. "See anything else breakable?"
"Well, there's that huge wire cluster running into a hole in the wall." Izzy pointed to the large bundle of wires that Kairo had sawed a hole into the wall in order to get it to whatever the machine's power source was.
"Good going Izzy!" She then walked into the small space behind the machine where the cord was attached to the machine.
"Don't electrocute yourself." Izzy warned.
"Please Izzy, what are the odds of that happening?"
"Yolei give me the screwdriver!"
"I can't believe you wouldn't let me pull the plug off of all things Izzy." Yolei groaned as she placed the bag of stolen goods into the back of the car and got into the driver's seat.
"Yolei, we just vandalized a twelve year old boy's room and stole his intellectual property: and we're the good guys!" He emphasized.
"Shouldn't I be the one making that argument?"
"The point is I think we've done enough. Besides, the material in that box you smashed up sounded similar to a CPU. That thing probably won't run properly without a computer."
"Ooh, good idea. I'll be right back." She snatched the key to the house from Izzy and exited the vehicle.
"Yolei…!" Izzy grumbled, but remained in the car. She returned a minute later holding the CPU to Kairo's desk computer in her arms. She placed it into the back seat and then returned to the vehicle.
"I should've just done this before: better safe than sorry right?"
"Wow, we really suck."
"Grown-up words Izzy, grown-up words."
Matsuki Residence
Odaiba, Koto Ward: Tokyo, Japan
8:44 P.M: January 12th, 2010
The night had gone smoothly. There had been no significant interaction between Takato and Kairo. Their parents had talked to each other, laughed, talked to each other's kids, laughed some more, ate, talked some more, all the usual things. One might even say it was the most average event that had ever taken place in the world, ever.
Which concerned Takato just a tad considering a) he had just gotten out of the hospital the day before and b) his bastardly evil cousin was engrossed in the laughing and talking and eating. Everything was fine though. They were about to leave, and it would take them nothing short of 40 minutes to get home, which gave Yolei and Izzy (who were in on the schedule) a good 40 minutes to finish up in Kairo's room and exit the premises.
As the talking and laughing continued after dinner, as his mother and father began to prepare desert, Takato excused himself to his room for a moment. He needed to call Izzy and Yolei and check on their progress. He left the superficial joy and merriment and walked upstairs, then turned into his room and went for the phone on his desk.
"What the hell is going on here Takato?" He heard a voice grumble from the doorway. Takato slowly turned around swearing under his breath. He had hoped this part of the evening wouldn't have to happen.
"Hey Kairo," Takato winced, "What brings you up here?"
"What's your plan Takato?" Kairo scoffed, ignoring Takato's faux question. "What could you possibly have to gain from inviting me here?"
"Maybe I just wanted to see my aunt, uncle, and cousin today. Did you ever think of that?"
"Cut the crap Takato, you know as well as I do we're on opposite sides here. There's no fraternization between enemies."
"And why is it that we're on opposite sides?" Takato proposed. "You know the only reason you're evil is because somebody is controlling you, right?"
"I beg to differ. I'm doing what I'm doing because I want to."
"And what exactly are you doing: trying to conquer the digital world? What exactly will that accomplish for you? You don't exactly get a real world bonus for being an evil dictator in another dimension."
"Universe."
"Huh?"
"Nothing. I'm not going to try and argue my perspective to you Takato, but what I am going to do is make sure you and your digidestined friends don't interfere with us anymore."
"Oh really, and how is that? Are you going to attack me in here Kairo? You don't exactly have the advantage. And what would your parents say? What would my parents say? How are you going to justify attacking me?"
"I'd think of something." Kairo smiled wickedly. "But I'm not just talking about you. I'm talking about all of your little Digimon pals. They're here, in the real world, exposed to dangers they wouldn't encounter in the digital world."
"Like what?"
"Like cars, and poisons, and guns." Kairo answered emotionlessly, prompting a horrified look to appear on Takato's face.
"Well then," Takato quickly recovered, "I'm glad you'll find something new to do after your plans for digital world domination fail."
"And how's that exactly?"
"Tell me this Kairo, how are you going to take over the digital world, if you can't even get there?" Takato gave a knowing smile.
"What are you talking ab-?" It suddenly dawned on Kairo why Takato had invited him and his family over. "You sneaky son of a bitch!"
"You'd better get home Kairo. You just might catch Yolei and Izzy in time to convince your parents that they're stealing your inter-dimensional matter transporter that you use to terrorize another dimension."
Kairo grumbled something under his breath, and then quickly left the room. He took a left, deeper into the hallway, instead of a right towards the stairs however. Takato followed him out and saw him go into the bathroom. The toilet flushed, and Kairo came out a second later and breezed past Takato, but not before jabbing him in the shoulder as he went.
"Ow," Takato winced, and then followed Kairo downstairs. Takato then witnessed Kairo feed his mother a story about how he ate some strange tasting catfish for lunch and that his stomach was acting up, prompting the family to take their leave. Everyone said their goodbyes and the family left, but not before Takato shot Kairo a triumphant smile.
"Bastard…"
Odaiba Apartments
Odaiba, Koto Ward: Tokyo, Japan
8:50 P.M: January 12th, 2010
"So, how'd it go?" Tai asked in a high voice as Izzy and Yolei walked up the stairs to the roof. He, Kari, and the Digimon were there waiting for them.
"When did you get here?" Izzy inquired.
"Almost an hour ago: Takato filled me in on what you were doing. How did the grand larceny go?"
"Is it called that in Japan?" Yolei inquired.
"We just stole everything relating to his giant digital world transporting machine and destroyed the machine itself." Izzy explained.
"He had a machine?" Tai asked.
"More like a cheap knockoff of American television," Yolei replied.
"So did anything productive happen of turning two digidestined into criminals?" Kari chimed in.
"Well, with what we stole, I can probably scrap together the parts to build ourselves a portal similar to Kairo's so we can have a permanent gateway to the digital world." Said Izzy.
"Eh…" Tai shrugged.
"Eh? We just cut off the evil digidestined's only portal to the digital world and found ourselves a method to get there ourselves. What did you do today?"
"I beat up J.P. and his partner and stole his digivice." Wow that sounded a lot more impressive and a lot less child abusive inside my head. Tai thought to himself as his inner monologue began to run wild as a precursor to the many conversations between digidestined that were inevitably about to occur.
J.P. was Taichi pwned. If you can think of a better way that J.P. was pwned (Yami pwned and Vegetowned are out of the question!) then review or send me a message. I'll casually mention the best one at some future point in the series.