After the whole portal fiasco, Dai had gone back to the campsite with her friends while Tai, Matt and Izzy gave her concerned look as they saw how down she truly looked about getting her friends stuck here with her as well.
Takato, Takuya and Guilmon dragged the duo of Miracles into the hut to change into bathing suits that Dai had brought since she was never able to choose which one she wanted, so she had four with her.
Takuya was wearing a red bikini while Takato had one a pink bikini with a red flower on the right breast and on the bottoms and finally Dai wore a bikini that was light blue.
The three girls swam in the lake for half of the afternoon while the males got to work setting things up, Ryo and Koji taking over everything and making it presentable in half the time it would have taken Hiroaki and the older boys do to it.
"So what happens between Dai and the others that made her run away?" Tai asked when the males were all sitting down.
Koji tensed up as his hand nearly crushed the soda can he was holding.
Ryo saw this and placed a hand on his friend's shoulder to calm him down.
"Let's just say it wasn't something good." The Tamer said.
"I'll tell you." V-Mon said as she came over.
Matt, Tai and Izzy all turned to her to hear what she had to say.
"You see, it went like this; Dai was busy with Marcus and his Agumon, so she was late to meeting up with TK, Kari, Cody and Yolei." The dragon said.
The mahogany haired girl was walking happily up to the door of the computer lab with Chibimon in her arms.
They were both in a good mood after hanging out at the movies with Marcus and Agumon, especially when the older boy agreed to buy them all ice cream.
"Oh, I'm really late. I hope the others won't be mad." Dai said as she checked her watch.
"But we're not the only ones who are late. TK and even Yolei have been late before. They even skipped sometimes without telling us." Chibimon pointed out.
Dai nodded with a smile as she reached out for the door, but stopped when she heard her name mentioned.
"Daisuke is late again!" Yolei growled.
"Calm down, I'm sure she'll be here soon." Cody said trying to get the older girl to not go on a rampage.
"But this is the third time this month!" Yolei continued on.
"No kidding. She needs to stop hanging with those others teams and focus more on this one." TK said.
"Being late all of the time…it's so unprofessional. It's like she's asking for trouble." Kari said sternly.
The duo of Miracles just stayed where they were, listening in on what their friends were saying.
"Maybe she's at soccer with Tai." Cody suggested.
"She'll probably just gloat about it when she steps through the door and we'll have to listen about it whether we want to or not." TK said as Kari giggled at that.
"She's pathetic." TK said.
That shot a pain right in Dai's heart and also made her angry.
She was pathetic?
At least she never fell prey to the darkness once or let her fears consume her that she started lashing out at someone, even if they were the enemy.
"You can say that again. Why did Tai even bother making her the leader of the team?" Yolei asked.
"That's a little mean. True, Daisuke may have her times of immaturity, but she has some through for us many times." Cody pointed out.
"Oh, please. I never needed her to come help me out. Tai and TK could help me out just fine or if they weren't around, I can save myself." Kari said.
She was the one that made the tears start to fall from two chocolate orbs.
How could Kari of all people be so mean?
"I hardly believe that considering how many times Daisuke actually saved you." Cody said.
"Daisuke is weak and nothing but a pest! We don't need her around here. We would have handled things fine without her." TK snarled.
"Way better even. Without her, we would have saved the Digital World a lot sooner without her screw ups." Yolei said.
Was that all she was to them?
A screw up?
Sure, her friends had insulted her and laughed at her expanse before, but they were never this bad before.
"Not to mention; I think she may be obsessed with you two. I mean, she always follows you around to try and split you up." Yolei said to the children of Light and Hope.
"She's like a whiny puppy." TK said.
"That's not right to say! She's our friend." Cody said as his anger was finally coming out.
"No she's not." Kari said.
That was the final straw.
Dai turned and ran away, escaping from the perfect world she used to have that was crashing down around her.
Chibimon hung on tightly as her partner ran.
As she went, Dai didn't see the blonde haired male dressed in a black t-shirt, pants and shoes with a blue short sleeved sweater over it.
"Hey!" he yelled when Dai bumped into him.
He was about to chew her out, but stopped when he saw the tears flowing down her face and the pain that was in her eyes as she looked into his icy blue eyes.
"Oh, h-hey, Kirihia." She greeted with a forced grin.
Kirihia was shocked beyond belief to see the usually happy child of Miracles in such a state that it took the words from his mouth.
"What happened? Are you all right?" he asked placing his hands on her shoulders.
"Mm-hmm. I'm great. I just need to get home." She said.
"Dai…" he trailed off with worry evident in his tone.
"Just please let me go home." She begged as more tears fell.
Now, normally Kirihia was a cold person, but this was not something he could stand to see.
So he let go of her and let the girl run off, her eyes glowing gold as she ran, her steps getting quicker as if she was moving in sonic speed.
"When she ran, she was covered in lights and we both passed out and soon woke up in this world. You know the rest." V-Mon explained with her ears down.
Izzy looked very disappointed in the others kids for the things they had said while Tai and Matt both looked very angered.
But Koji on the other hand…he was murderous.
He didn't know the full story, only that the second generation save for Willis, Ken and Cody had brutally insulted Dai so bad that she ran away to escape it and then disappeared from their world and crossed over into another.
"If Dai hadn't come here…then would the others have turned on Davis like that too?" Matt asked softly.
"Who knows? I mean, Davis and Dai are the same person just like the people from our world are the same in this world. It's possible that this would have happened to Davis too." Ryo said.
Monodromon then popped his head up.
"Dai must have accidentally sent herself here with a mission she didn't know she gave herself. To stop Davis from feeling this pain." The purple dragon said.
The males nodded at this, after all, it seemed like a perfect explanation for why Dai would have been sent here of all the other dimensions she could have accidentally sent herself to.
(The next day…)
Hiroaki was taking a nice hike in the woods with Ryo, Takato, Guilmon and Monodramon while Dai and V-Mon stayed at camp talking with Takuya, Koji, Tai, Matt and Izzy.
They were also eating some pudding and drinking juice, Izzy explaining what had happened last night when Cody called about Kimeramon and entering the Emperor's base.
"The base is where I found the golden digi egg of Miracles. Davis will find it too, but since he has already used the power of the Golden Radiance, who knows what'll happen." Dai said.
"Maybe it'll make Veemon more powerful when he becomes Magnamon." Takuya suggested.
"He might be able to kill Kimeramon without Wormmon having to give Magnamon his strength to do it and be deleted." Koji said.
"And then Ken might not have gone through that stage of depression of killing his own partner because of the evil that was controlling him and turned him into the Emperor." Dai said.
"OK, back it up. Explain this to those of us who are clueless, please." Matt said.
"Well, you see, when Ken was six and he was dragged into the Digital World, he met Wormmon and then he was pushed back home. Ken used to have an older brother named Sam who Mister Perfect. They had an argument and Ken wished that Sam would just disappear. Sadly, his wish came true and Sam was killed in a car accident." Dai explained with a sad look.
Koji also seemed to be sad of this since he had almost lost his own brother.
Takuya took his hand, the warmth from her hand making him smile at her.
"Wow, that's really tough. But that still doesn't explain why Ken became this psycho." Tai said.
"His parents were depressed and Ken felt just awful because he felt like it was his fault that his parents were suffering. The Dark Ocean held a monster there that pulled Ken into that horrible world and planted a Dark Spore in the back of his neck so that this evil digimon could use him to act out all of his ideas like the control spires. When Ken gets rid of his Emperor attire, he doesn't even remember anything about why he made those things." Dai explained.
"So Ken is innocent." Matt said in surprise.
"He's just being used as a pawn. That's awful, but the question is; who would do something that is so…" Izzy trailed.
"Sick!" Tai growled slamming his fist on the picnic table they were sitting at.
The two Warriors, V-Mon and Dai shared a look as they wondered how to tell them about who it was that is going to cause them problems in the next few months when Christmas comes around.
"Hey, Matt! I made it!" a cheerful voice called.
Tai tensed up as Izzy turned around with him and Matt to see who had arrived, the three males looking on in disbelief and shock while Takuya and Koji smiled.
Dai felt a horrible constricting feeling in her chest as she saw the magenta haired girl running over to their table with a wave.
"Oh, no! She followed us. She's like a boomerang that keeps coming back!" Matt whined with his face in his palm.
"You're just pathetic." Koji stated as Jun stood in front of the table.
"It's funny, but when you drove off with your tires screeching, you didn't realize you left me standing there." Jun said.
"My bad. Sorry about that. I must have forgot." Matt said as Takuya, Koji and Dai all glared holes in his back and he nearly jumped in fear from the intensity.
"Oh. Where are Davis and the others?" Jun asked curiously as she looked around.
The Warriors and Keeper all shared amused looks as Takato, Ryo, their digimon and Hiroaki all arrived to see what was going on.
"I'm just going…to go have a smoke." The man said as he walked off to the lake.
"This will be fun." Ryo smirked as he looped his arm with his girlfriend and walked over to the table while the digimon hid.
"Um, I think Tai knows. Hey, Tai, do you know where the others went?" Matt asked as the child of Courage looked very nervous as he sweated bullets as he was stopped from running away.
"Let me think about that for a sec. uh, Izzy, weren't you the last one to see them?" Tai asked as he turned to the redhead.
Izzy stumbled over his words and he shot up nervously.
"Of course! I-I'll go find them right now." He said as he stood up holding his laptop and ran off to the woods.
Jun watched him go with a curious look on her face; she knew something was up and if she didn't see her sister soon enough, she was going to murder someone.
"Why don't you join us? We were having a nice snack." Takuya offered.
"That sounds great. Thanks." Jun said as she took a seat beside Dai.
She gave the girl a strange look at how much she looked like Davis and wondered how they knew each other.
"Is something wrong?" Dai asked.
"No, nothing." Jun said as she was handed some pudding by Ryo.
The group all then heard the sound of yelling and what sounded like a crash.
"Did you guys hear that noise?" Jun frowned as she took a bite of her pudding.
"Uh, it could be a wild animal." Tai said as he and Matt shared nervous, crooked smiles.
"Yeah, the woods are a dangerous place. You better leave, quick." Matt said as he turned to point at the woods for emphasis.
"I'll tell Davis you stopped…by?" Tai said as he saw Izzy walking out of the woods with Davis and the others.
Ryo and Takuya were trying very hard to not laugh at that moment at the looks that were a mixture of relief and disbelief on the children of Courage and Friendship's faces.
"There they are." Matt said.
"Hey, Jun, who invited you to come out here?" Davis called.
"Matt did!" Jun cheered.
Tai and Matt grabbed each other's shoulders as they breathed out in exhaustion while Takuya and Ryo laughed at this.
"Huh? Takuya and Takato? How did you two get here?" Davis asked as he walked over to the female goggle heads.
Koji and Ryo looked him over, already seeing that he may have matured ever since he received the Golden Radiance.
His arms were a bit more toned as if he had been lifting weights and his chest was thicker while his legs looked stronger and he was taller while his hair seemed to have grown out a bit.
"Did you get better looking from the last time we met?" Takuya asked making the Warrior of Light growl possessively.
"Uh, thanks…I think." Davis sweat dropped.
"Huh? Davis, you changed." Jun said as she walked over to observe him.
Dai shook her head at this.
She had gone through changes when she first received the Golden Radiance as well.
Her hair had grown out longer while her legs were more curved and her breasts swelled to make her seem her mature.
While Jun was fussing over her brother, TK led the group over to the table to tell them what had gone on.
"Hey, so who are these guys?" TK asked.
"Friends from my world." Dai said as Takuya glared at the blonde and Takato wrapped her arms around Dai's shoulders.
"Huh? How did you guys get here?" Yolei asked.
"My brother and our other friends who happen to be genius tried to open up a portal to this dimension and it worked. Sadly, it was overpowered and shut down so we couldn't get back." Koji explained.
"That's awful." Cody frowned.
"It's fine, besides, we know another way to get back home. All we need is the power of the Golden Queen and King." Ryo said as he pat Dai's head and then looked over to Davis as he assured his sister he wasn't taking steroids.
"The Golden King?" Yolei asked with a raised eyebrow.
"The true rulers of the Digital World are the Keepers of the olden Radiance. In our world, Dai is the Queen since she has the power of Miracles. Then the King would be Willis since he has the power of Faith." Takato explained.
"Wait a minute. Willis Stewart? As in my pen pal from America? He's a Digidestind and is one of the Keepers of the Golden Radiance? He's also the King of the Digital World in your dimension?" Izzy asked.
"Yeah, you would-a thought the King and Queen would be TK and Kari, the children of Light and Hope, but they're not." Takuya said with a little bite towards the so called angels of the group.
"So in our dimension Davis would be the King, but what would that make Willis?" Cody asked.
"The Prince maybe." Kari said as she looked thoughtfully at Davis.
(Later that day…)
It was then told that Wormmon had survived this time, but Ken was still miserable about what he had done to all of the innocent digimon and walked off to go home to his family.
At the moment, everyone was packing up the van to go back home while Dai was going to ride back on Lightdramon while Takuya flew in her Beast Spirit form and carried their friends with them.
"Hey, guys, wait for me!" Jun called as she ran over to the van.
"Ugh, that was a close one." Tai sighed tiredly.
"Would it be OK to get a ride home with you guys? I don't wanna ride the bus alone." Jun said.
"No way, not in a million years. Take the bus. It's not my fault you came all the way out here." Davis said as he sat down in the van beside Kari with Demiveemon in his arms.
"It's not fair!" Jun pouted.
"Come on, kids. That's not nice. Someone take the bus with Jun." Hiroaki said as everyone exchanged looks.
"That's very nice of you, sir and I've already volunteer in mind." Jun said.
"And the absolutely perfect volunteer is TK." Matt said as he rushed over laughing nervously.
"Matt, you take the bus with Jun." Hiroaki said stunning his eldest.
"Huh? I'm broke!" Matt exclaimed.
His father then reached into his pocket and pulled out some bills that were wrapped together.
"There's more than enough here." Hiroaki said as Matt helplessly took it.
How could his own father be against him?!
"Have fun you two." Tai teased with a V sign.
"Have her home before curfew." Izzy teased.
I'll trade for your seat." Matt begged.
"Don't be silly, you'll sit with me." Jun smiled as she closed the sliding door while Matt jumped out of his skin and screamed.
"Come on, hunk. We'd better catch the bus." She said as she linked her arm with him.
"Please, TK, I'll give you my college money." Matt begged as the van took off.
"See you in four hours!" Kari laughed.
Jun giggled as she still had a hold on the blonde, who slumped over in misery.
"I give up." He groaned.
Dai, Ryo, Takato, Takuya and Koji all laughed at this as they ran into the forest, then took off on their digimon to go back to Odaiba.
To be continued…