Deja Vu Chapter 12

The Underground Trap

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Yamato looked at the men in front of him, "Questions about what?" he asked. He was sure this was some kind of joke that Taichi would play seeing he did it before.

"What does the FBI want to ask us questions about?" Mimi questioned David and the other man.

"Taichi Yagami sent you didn't he?" Yamato asked.

Mimi gasped at him, "Yamato don't be ridiculous, I'm sure they are the real thing," she said eyeing the two men.

"I assure you that he did not. Is it all right if we could come in for a moment?" David asked.

Yamato and Mimi moved out of the way and let the men inside. Yamato closed the door and they sat down in the kitchen. Anata was sorting out his files and pulled out the one with Takeru's name on it. Yamato saw the folder and looked over a Mimi, "Did you want anything to drink?" she asked.

"No thanks," David said.

"Oh okay...." Mimi said.

"Don't take offense...we are not supposed to accept anything form anyone. Not even if they are the victims," David explained.

"So, why exactly are you here?" Yamato questioned.

"We want to ask you a few questions about Jeff Frasier. We understand that you two never got along. But I was wondering if you have ever notice a change in his behavior...For example if he did something you knew that he couldn't have possibly have done?" Anata asked.

Yamato was beyond words when they asked the question. He frowned and looked at them, "Um....I can't think.... I mean you surprised me. Why are you asking questions about Jeff Frasier? He is dead."

"Mr. Ishida I'll be very brief with this explanation. We have some reasons for this investigation, however for the time being I cannot disclose any information. We promise you that we will tell you everything once we found out for sure," David said.

Yamato looked at Mimi and she nodded for him to go on, "Okay...just give me a minute think about it."

"Mrs. Ishida we understand that you used to date Jeff Frasier. Is that correct?"

Mimi frowned, "It's true...But that was long, long time ago. I have to admit that some of the things he did, like trying to rape Sora and hurt my niece was bad and I couldn't understand why he did them. The Jeff I knew would have never lay a finger on anyone."

Anata raised an eyebrow at her, "So you knew that he possibly wasn't capable of rape and hurting a child?"

Mimi shrugged her shoulders, "I honestly don't know. I would like to think that the person that I once went out with was a decent person. But the stuff he had done was, shocking. He changed a lot since I dated him. When I broke up with him, maybe a few weeks later, I was chasing after Taichi Yagami. What I remember the most was that he wouldn't let me call nine one, one for Taichi when he was laying there unconscious and with a very faint pulse."

"Honestly, he was a jerk...I never liked him and frankly, I couldn't care less," Yamato said.

"Yamato..." Mimi said a little appalled he would talk to the police like that.

"It's okay, Mrs Ishida. If you don't want to discuss this subject Mr. Ishida you can then call us when you feel ready to. If you do by chance have anything to tell us," David said handing Yamato a card with his name on it. Anata handed him his business card as well. He took both cards and set them on the kitchen table.

"I'm sorry that I couldn't help you. It's just Jeff brings back a lot of bad memories that I would rather put behind me," Yamato said.

"It is understandable," Anata replied.

He and David Fisher stood from the table and walked to the door, "Just remember that if you do remember anything...give us a call," with that they left out the door. Yamato and Mimi stood at the entrance way of the door watching them go to the car and then the car reversed out of the driveway. Yamato shut the door quietly and turned to look at Mimi. Who gave him a disapproved look.

"Mimi, I don't want to talk about Jeff and why do they want to know if he changed back then? He is dead remember?"

"They were trying to find out something Yamato. You could help them that would have been great. I mean if I could put aside my dislike of the subject, so can you."

"No, I can't I'm sorry. Jeff was the cause of everyone's problems. He hurt Takeru, Taichi, Sora and Saria and you know how I feel about it all. And if I were in Sora's shoes I would have not regretted it at all. In fact I would have shot him three more times," He said sternly and went into the living room.

Mimi followed him into the living room rather concerned, "I know you hate him Yamato. But if there is still something out there that they are trying to find. Don't you think it is a better idea that the police know so they can fix the problem?"

Yamato glazed at his wife for a moment, "I guess your right. But at the moment I can't think about Jeff, without remembering the night he died and what he did."

Mimi sat next to him, "Whenever you are ready you can call them. I will put the cards on the fridge in the meantime," she said getting up then walked into the kitchen.

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Ravemon's Castle

Digital World...

Hanako turned away from Mateo and look at her digimon, "Fine," she said her back facing Mateo. "Keep me here for how long you like. But so you know my brother will come looking for me."

Mateo dismissed what she said and walked away from the cell. Hanako turned around sensing he wasn't there and was disappointed again, "Great...what do you suppose we do Lunamon?"

Lunamon went to the door and looked at the bars and frowned, "I don't know...I could break us out but most likely there is some kind of reinforcement protecting the bars."

Hanako sunk down on to the ground, "I know who he is...but we have to figure out how to get him to come over to our side," she said.

Lunamon sat in front of her, "How are you going to do that?"

"I have to think about it," Hanako admitted.

Lunamon gave a sigh, "We won't be going anywhere too soon anyhow," she said.

Hanako nodded in agreement.

In the Thrown room...

Ravemon was standing in front of Lilithmon, "I want you to know...that I have succeeded in splitting The Chosen Children up."

Lilithmon looked up from her seat at the thrown and smiled, "Finally it seems you are getting somewhere."

"It gets better, Mateo has kidnapped one of The Chosen Children. We could possibly turn her to our side if everything works out good."

Lilithmon looked over at the boy and his XV-mon and nodded in approval, "Then I guess you are going to work on what I have asked. You are going to bring to life the remaining of The Great Demon Lords."

Ravemon nodded, "I will, however there is a little problem...When Maiko messed up the sequence of calling you all to awaken. It busted the dial quiet badly. As we speak, I have my digimon cleaning and fixing it."

Lilithmon gave a long frown then looked over at Piedmon, "Is it true?" she asked him.

Piedmon gave a nod, "It is."

Mateo looked on as the three mega digimon talked amongst themselves. They kept talking about The Seven Great Demon Lords but he wasn't sure what they were all about. He only knew that Lilithmon was one of them and it looked like to him that Ravemon was quite scared of her. Perhaps it was because that she was much stronger then he was. That was the only thing that he could think of that made sense. Then there was Piedmon who rarely showed any emotion toward them at all, considering he was a clown type of digimon, which was very different then what he was used to. Mateo sighed and looked to his digimon partner, "You know a lot more then me don't you?" he questioned.

XV-mon shook his head and turned to look at his partner, "About what?" he asked.

"I am talking about The Seven Great Demon Lords, XV-mon."

"I do, but now is not the time...I'll tell you in a few hours," the digimon said.

Mateo nodded, "I understand."

Underground The Digital world....

Maiko moaned as she gently pushed her self upwards, "What happened?" she asked. Her vision was blurry at first then gradually it returned to normal. Then everything came flooding back to her. She jumped up from where she was and looked around for everyone but didn't see anyone immediately, "Guys!" she called out as loud as she could.

Piyomon jumped up quickly hearing Maiko voice, "Maiko, I think I'm okay."

"That's good...but what about...HOPE !" she had caught sight of her cousin and ran over to check to see if she was okay, which she was. Hope had a pulse to Maiko great relief, "Hope wake up," she said.

Next to Hope were her digimon who heard Maiko calling. Patamon lifted his ears and or wings up and stood up right and shook himself free of any derby and dust that had settled on his body. "Hope..." the digimon walked up to where Maiko and Hope were. He was followed by Plotmon who was looking a bit wearily herself.

"Hope wake up, your mom is going to kill me for letting something happen to you," Maiko said strongly.

"Maiko, Patamon, Plotmon, Piyomon, Hope!" Reena's voice carried through the underground cave.

Maiko turned to the sound of her voice, "Reena over here!"

Piyomon jumped from Maiko's side and went to find Reena. shortly after she returned with Reena and Coronamon. Hope then woke up after a few minutes of everyone talking quite actively. "Hey, what's going on?" she asked rubbing her head as she sat up right.

Maiko hugged her tightly which caused Hope to start to cough, "Maiko...can't...breath…" she managed to get out.

Maiko let go of her and frowned, "I'm sorry, I thought you were seriously hurt."

"I'm okay," she said.

"You're ignoring me...guys," Reena added.

"Don't look now, but Mamoru is approaching. And it looks like he is carrying someone on his back..." Coronamon said as he strained to see him.

Tentomon was flying next to Mamoru as he carried Lillie on his back and Palmon followed closely after him. "I'm sorry for putting you in this situation," Lillie said feeling truthfully sorry for having hurt her ankle in the first place.

"It's okay," he said.

"Yeah, you can't blame yourself for breaking your ankle," Palmon said trying to encourage her human partner. The four walked toward the others who then joined them halfway.

They had propped Lillie against the wall so Maiko could take a look at Lillie's ankle. Maiko shook her head, "I don't know what I'm looking for," she said with panic.

"Ow! Maiko!" Lillie cried.

"Sorry."

"We should go and find Daichi, he will know what to do. His father is a doctor," Mamoru explained.

"But where are they? Is the question," Reena said looking around at their surroundings. It seemed to her that they were in some kind of water treatment plant. There three large tanks of water and machines were pumping this water into pipes. The pipes went upward into the air and into the ceiling. To their right, there was a wall of brick and it showed no sign of a door of any kind. Reena turned away to look at Lillie, Maiko, Hope and Mamoru, "We're are stuck," she declared.

The four looked at her worriedly, "We can't be stuck...I can't stay down here!" Lillie cried.

"Don't worry! We digimon will find the way out," Coronamon said quickly with his finger pointed in the air.

"He is right lets go guys," Piyomon said. The digimon followed Coronamon and Piyomon and walked up to the first tank of water. "Us three can search for a way out from up here, you three can search on the ground. Okay?"

"Sounds like a plan to me," Plotmon said.

"Good, let's get going," Coronamon declared.

"I'm going to help them too," Mamoru said as he got to his feet and walked forward.

"Me too, it's not only fair that the digimon look without our help," Reena said.

Hope sighed and looked at Lillie, "We are going to get out of here no problems okay?" she held her pinky finger out to her cousin.

Lillie nodded, "I know...but you know how much I hate...the dark," she said with a gulp.

"We know," Maiko replied.

Else Where... underground...

Michael, Li, Daichi and their digimon were wondering around the area they had fallen into. It was large room and from the very top of the walls where pipes three pipes, two small ones and a larger one in the middle, where water cascaded down into a large tank. From there the water traveled through a second pipe to an another small tank then through third pipe that went into the wall. It was all in the middle of the room. The three boys had examined the area throughly. They hoped they could find a possible escape route and to hopefully return to the surface and find the others. But alas there was no such luck.

"This is disappointing," Michael said with annoyance.

"No kidding," Li added he too not was not very amused about their predicament.

Daichi stopped at the base of the large water tank and looked up at the largest pipe in the middle from where the water was pouring out of, "If there was a way to close the water we could escape through that pipe," he said pointing to the largest pipe in the center.

"I don't see how we are going to be getting up there," Agumon said.

"I could send my fish friends up there," Gomamon said suddenly.

"What friends?" Daichi asked incredulously.

Gomamon shook his head disappointed in his human partner, "These ones, Marching Fishes!" an arrayed number of fishes flew into the air and landed into the large tank.

"That was weird," Michael said.

"What ever works. We have to get out of here as soon as possible. Hanako is in danger from that boy in disguise!" Li said strongly.

Daichi turned to them, "We can't do that when we are here...lets think of one thing first and that is getting out of here," he said.

Li nodded, "Your right."

However unknown by the boys they were being watched from the shadows by three dozen white shiny eyes.

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The next day...Real world...

Sunday, July 9, 2027

Hikari was seated on the couch with Takeru who was flipping from the channels. She was in the middle of the couch and Yukki was playing the carpet with blocks and cars. The news was flashing an article about prison and Hikari shivered, "I don't want to believe that he is alive. I want to believe that Sora shot him and he is dead," she whispered to Takeru.

"It makes me wonder what exactly they are investigating..." Takeru said trailing off in a train of thought.

Hikari looked at him, "Maybe they did go question Yamato and Mimi," she said she reached over for the portable phone and picked up. She then dialed Mimi's number and waited for an answer.

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Mimi ran to grab the phone from the kitchen, "Hello?" she answered.

"Mimi, I have a question. Did you get a visit last night?" she asked.

Mimi frowned for a moment. She couldn't tell if Hikari knew something or if she was trying to fish for information, "I don't know what you mean."

"I mean like the police or the FBI?"

"Ohh.... Why do you ask?"

"Mimi...You know something!" Hikari exclaimed.

"So do you!" she said accusing the younger girl.

"Okay, I'll come clean if you do too," Hikari said trying to put out some kind of an even ground.

"Okay, agreed."

"Good, last night the FBI came to the house and they wanted to question Takeru about his accident. The one where Jeff kidnapped him and made him presume dead. They wanted to know if he saw any changes in Jeff. So he answered to the best that he could remember," Hikari explained.

Mimi sighed, "That is the same thing that they wanted to know last night as well. I told them what I could but Yamato refused talk to them he even refused to think about Jeff or anything even closely related to him for that matter."

"I see. I don't blame him. Who would want to think about him after the stuff he has put everyone through. He does have that right after all," Hikari explained as she looked at Takeru.

"Your right, but if they need to know something...then its better he say something. I know ask Tak-"

"No Mimi," Takeru said. He could hear their conversation and she was talking quite loudly over the phone. He took the phone from Hikari and, "I'm not going to force him."

"Takeru, it's important. What if something happens? You know how long it took him to get over the fact that Brittany killed herself. What if Jeff is alive somehow? What if--"

"MIMI! You can't assume that. We know for the fact that he is dead and there is no coming back from the dead at all," Takeru said exasperated.

Mimi furrowed her brow, "Takeru just talk to him, please," she begged.

Takeru rolled his eyes and then passed the phone to Hikari, "I'll think about it, tell her," he said getting up from the couch he walked into the kitchen.

Hikari was confused and put the phone to her ear, "Mimi?"

"I know...I heard him," she said with a sigh.

"Maybe you are worrying for nothing Mimi," Hikari said.

"Well, what about Taichi and Sora do they know?" Mimi asked.

Hikari shrugged, "I haven't talked to them about this yet."

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Police Station in Downtown Tokyo...

10:30am

David and Anata were seated at a desk in a conference room. On the desk was various papers, two manila envelops, both opened up and both had a photo of Jeff. Only the names were both different. One had the name Jeff Frasier and other had the name of, James Frasier.

Anata shook his head as he read the testimony they got from The Takashi's and Ishida's, "It all points toward the fact that Jeff Frasier actually switched spots with his twin brother James. However for what ever reason James kept Jeff's name and used his identity. I mean how come no one ever found out about this? If they took Jeff's finger prints from the crime scene they should have noticed that James and Jeff are two different people. Twins may share the same DNA but they don't share the same set of prints."

"Ultimately...we don't know when they switched spots. It could have even been after wards....I mean what if he used his brother to kidnap Takeru and used him to exact his revenge meanwhile the real Jeff Frasier was living in Northern Tokyo for a very long time," David said as he looked over the reports.

"So he used his twin brother to exact his revenge? First it was about Mr. Ishida: Jeff was angry with him that is for sure. Then all the sudden there was a change in direction? He decided to go after Taichi and Sora Yagami because Taichi did what to him? We don't know the exact reasons. That is why we have to find Jeff Frasier and right now we don't know where he is. The last time they spotted Mr. Frasier was two years ago and that was in The City of Tottori in southern part of the main island," Anata said as he pointed to the map of Tokyo that was on the wall behind David. He took a whiteboard marker and circled Tottori on the map. He then wrote above that two years ago.

"Then the chances that he is in Japan at all are large...I mean he could have gone anywhere in the world," David replied.

"You know he went to America and he caused a lot of trouble there and that's why the FBI is here in Tokyo," Anata said straight out, "or else you wouldn't have cared to come here in the first place."

"Hold on there Mr. Kudo no need to slam us now," David said a little offended.

"I'm not. I'm just pointing out a fact," Anata said.

"Mr. Frasier committed a range of fraudulent activity while living in The United States of America and the FBI deserves to find this guy and incarcerate him," David replied.

"Not before his birth country gets to question him."

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Taichi and Sora's....

Saria came down the stairs ready to go out. Davis was going back to Tokyo U to finish his exams that week. When she came into the kitchen she saw her mother and father sitting at the kitchen table reading, Sora was reading a magazine while Taichi was reading the newspaper and it was quiet which was unusual for their house. Or perhaps it was because there was no younger kids around. She walked up to the table, "Hey, mom, dad I'm going to go see Davis off today okay?" she said.

Sora put the magazine down on the table and stood up, "Sure, just be careful," she said.

"I'm always careful, but why are you so quiet this morning?" she asked the two.

Taichi set his paper down on the table, "I dunno...it is weird isn't it?" he said.

"Oh, dad come on. There is something else isn't their?" she asked.

Sora then pulled her daughter into a hug, "There is more...but I will tell you when you get back form the train station. I promise you that this news will not be very good and I want you to be happy when Davis goes back to the University," Sora pulled away form her hug.

Saria raised an eyebrow at her, "I'll say okay this time. But, next time it will be different," she warned her mother.

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Singapore, Malaysia...small apartment...…

A pair of hands wearing latex gloves was writing on a piece of paper. On the paper the words sprawled on the parchment read....

Yamato, I must say that my brother didn't do a good job as acting as me. You see he wasn't supposed to go after Taichi or Sora they weren't my main targets. It is really too bad that he died for me, of course. I was really sad about it, really. However he went totally against my wishes when he did those things to Taichi and Sora, mind you he did get them good didn't he, well just until Sora shot him. Poor guy he forgot she was a red head right? Ha ha anyhow what I really want to tell you is that don't think you are off free. Because you only just got lucky, oh and tell Mimi that....I'm sorry she married you.

Jeff Frasier

The hands then packaged the letter and placed it in an envelope. From a laptop computer he searched for Yamato's work address and then wrote on the envelope.

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Digital World: Li, Daichi and Michael...

The three digimon and their human partners were still devising a plan to escape but without luck. The six of them sat down on the ground feeling a bit discouraged that they couldn't figure out anything.

Daichi turned to Gomamon, "When are your fish friends returning?" he asked.

"Shortly I would think," Gomamon said as he looked up at the big tank.

"That was about an hour ago," Michael pointed out rather glumly.

There was a loud gooey sound coming from behind very slowly. It grew louder and louder as the unknown creatures approached the unsuspecting Chosen Children.

From the tank emerged the small marching fish's that Gomamon had sent in the water system, "What's the news?" he asked.

The little fish made a few sounds and flicks of their tails on the top of the water's surface and Gomamon nodded, "Okay so in this room there is a valve that will turn off the water flow completely?" The fish jumped of excitedly. "Okay good." Gomamon turned around and was going to say something when he saw digimon approaching them, "NUMEMON!" he shouted.

Gabumon and Agumon turned quickly and saw about thirteen dozen Numemon looking at them with their large eyeballs. "Not so fast you slimy sneaks!" Agumon said.

Li looked at them feeling quite grossed out, "Seriously, do we have to be here?" he asked.

"We have little choice on that matter," Daichi said to him.

"We don't have to listen to you," said the numemon who pointed to Agumon.

"I think you do!" Agumon said.

Gabumon then looked at Agumon and Gomamon, "We have to stick together...because somehow I think they are not on our side."

"You trespassed in our underground village and now you plot to turn the water off? We cannot allow that," said a second Numemon.

"Poop Throw!" one of the numemon shouted and threw a piece of brown feces at the digimon. However it went way over their heads and straight toward Michael who ducked quickly and the poop hit the water tank with a clunk and dropped to the ground.

Michael looked back to where the poop hit and turned around quickly, "That is disgusting! I mean what kind of digimon are you?" he questioned a little angry.

"Poop throw!" said the whole lot of them.

"GAH!" The six of them cried running underneath the large pipe and hid behind the water tank.

"Okay, how do you suppose we get out of this one?" Daichi asked.

"I don't know. But you digimon have to do something, " Li said.

"US!" the three digimon shouted together.

"Just go and digivole!" Daichi shouted and he shoved Gomamon out from the safety of the water tank.

Gomamon ran to safety and was just barely missed by the projectile poop bombs. He looked at his partner angry, "Don't throw me out there like that . It doesn't help me to evolve to my champion level!" he exclaimed.

"Do you have a better Idea?" Daichi asked.

"No, but I can think of another way to deal with our problem," Gomamon said.

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Hanako and Lunamon's prison cell....

The two were seated in the corner trying to get some much needed sleep. Then there was a sound at the cell door. Hanako opened one eye and saw it was digimon that was squeezing through the bars and into their cell. When the Digimon popped into the cell Hanako stood up waking Lunamon in the process, "Who are you and what are you doing in my cell?" she questioned the digimon quickly.

The bowling ball shaped digimon with bat wings looked up at her and then to Lunamon, "I'm just trying to help you is all," said the digimon.

Lunamon narrowed her eyes at the digimon, "Help us in what way?" she questioned.

"Well, you are trapped by that boy...I can be your friend."

"I don't believe you. You have a bad reputation," Lunamon said.

"Your quick to judge, I promise I'm not here to do anything else but help," said the digimon with a huge grin.

"How do you know Lunamon?" Hanako asked.

"Because this digimon is Picodevimon and he is nothing but trouble."

To Be Continued....