GoggleMaster01- Hi, everyone! Hey, this is a earlier update than usual. In that last chapter, Tai caught a mouse- his first live prey.

I know I've been lazy with those OCs, so I'll tell you about them. You can use them with permission. We pretty much know what Bronzepaw and Lionstorm are like- big jerks who hate Halfborns and like to spit on anyone they consider inferior. Remember that now. Moving on. Sesshoku we probably know about by now, too- he'll do anything to get his way- even kill all the Digimon! What does he want? He wants to help Tai's parents- right? He he, more on that later.

Also in this chapter, we meet Terepo, a guy who works for Sesshoku. He simply delivers messages from Apocalymon to the humans, but, when they need him to get something done, he and his Digimon Gaomon make sure it's done! Also, we meet Neko, a man who works for Sesshoku and hates Tai's cat. (his name is a pun- it's Japanese for cat, and Tai's cat Miko irritates him throughout the story.) There's also an unnamed person working for Sesshoku who has multiple personality syndrome- calm and patient one minute, but hopping mad when someone screws up!

Now that everyone's introduced, on to the story. And yes, all my copyrights are in Chapter 1!!!

Chapter 13

Another Dream

That night, I had another dream. I was back in Highton View Terrace, right outside my house. It was another really vivid dream. I could even see the rust stain on the door where our "Kamiya" nameplate used to be.

Suddenly, two guys carrying a heavy box came by. They went into my apartment. Curiously, I went after them.

My apartment was a hellhole! A lot of our things were missing- our TV, our coffee table, that wind chime that I hated so much. In their place were a jillion computers hooked up in every room in the apartment, in every possible socket in the apartment. Miko and Kari were nowhere to be found, and there were people in black everywhere. There were also a few policemen. My parents were there, and they were talking to Sesshoku. Mom was crying and Dad was yelling at him.

I wished I could help Mom. "Mom, don't cry!" I yelled over the noise of people talking and whirring machines. No one heard me. No one, not even the person closest to me, said, "Hey, it's Tai!" I was nonexistent again.

"You still can't find Tai?" Dad asked.

"They tore up the upper half of the Server Continent," Sesshoku said. "No sign of your boy."

Mom was sobbing out of control. "My little boy- he's-he's gone!!!" she cried. Sesshoku looked at Mom like she was crazy. "Do not cry, we'll find your son," Sesshoku said.

"These computers are getting on my last nerve," Dad said. "I can't go to sleep with their godforsaken lights flashing all the time and all these people here at night."

"Do you want your kid back?" Sesshoku said.

"Yes, Ishida-san, I do. He's a good kid. He'll make a great diplomat."

I sighed. There he goes, with the diplomat crap. "I'm not gonna be a diplomat!" I cried. "I'm gonna be a warrior!" Now that I'd had my first day at Base, I no longer longed for human life- I had to show Bronzepaw and Lionstorm I COULD be a warrior!

But, that didn't mean I didn't miss my family terribly.

The door opened behind me. I turned around to see Kari. She looked stressed out. "Is Gatomon okay?!" Kari asked.

"I can't really say," Sesshoku sneered. "But, she will probably be dead by time Tai returns to you."

Kari gasped in horror. "Kari, choose," Sesshoku said. "Who do you love more? Your brother, or your Digimon?"

Kari looked at her shoes. "My- my brother was always there for me..." she began.

"Kari!" I screamed. I extracted my claws and lunged at the nearest monitor. Maybe, if I shut it down, the Dark Masters would disappear. Kari wouldn't have to choose. But, instead, I went through the machine, though the wall and into my room.

Which was more of a madhouse than the living room!

People had all my stuff in bags. My soccer ball was in one bag, my hidden collection of stuff that Mom cooked for dinner and that I didn't eat in another. People were analyzing all the stuff, looking for my sweat, my blood, my hair, anything to help them find me.

In place of me and Kari's bunk bed, I saw a huge clear tube. It sat on a blue and green stand. A man with blond hair and olive eyes parted from the crowd. He, like the others, was wearing black all over. He tapped a button on the stand. The front of the tube opened up, and the guy walked in. The front of the tube closed up, there was a flash of light, and the guy was gone! Was it some kind of transporter? Weird.

I found Miko- she was in a pet carrier on the highest shelf in my room, probably so she'd stay out of the worker's way. Miko looked down at me from Kitty Prison. Her ears perked with recognition. Could she see me? "Miko?" I whispered. The cat tilted her head. For some reason, she seemed to know I was there. Even though it was just a cat, it was comforting to know someone saw me.

"Miko!" I cried. Miko seemed happy to see anyone from our family. The cat threw herself at the door the pet carrier. The thing fell off the shelf. Miko's olive eyes widened. "MRoOW!!!" she meowed in horror.

"Miko!" I rushed out to get her on all fours. I jumped for the pet carrier- which fell right through me! I listened for the sickening thud. It never came. A guy with black hair caught Miko's pet carrier at the last second. "Bad kitty," he said, putting the pet carrier back on the shelf. "Trying to get out of the cat carrier, meowing for food all night, trying to scratch my face..."

Miko began to hiss at the guy.

Another guy with short brown hair walked up to the first guy. "You okay, Neko?" he asked. I giggled. Neko is Japanese for cat, the very animal that seemed to be causing the guy all kinds of grief. "Yeah, I'm alright," the guy said. "I just can't take that goddamn cat anymore!"

"Well, the sooner we find this kid, the sooner we can all go home," Brown Hair assured Neko.

The tube lit up again, and the guy reappeared. "I have a report from Apocalymon," he said. "Puppetmon seems to have seen a boy with brown hair that looked like something a cat spat up on File Island."

Neko yelled "CAT!!!" and ran away. I chuckled. "Loser," I said.

"Well, looks like we got our kid!" Brown Hair said to Terepo. "Good job, Terepo."

"Not really," Terepo said. "This child had wings. HUGE WINGS! Orange and white wings. And claws! I don't think it's the kid."

I gulped. In this dream, someone saw me while I was out hunting!

"Do you have a picture?" Brown Hair asked.

"No, sir, Apocalymon just told me," Terepo said.

"Then, get back in that Transporter, go to File Island and get one, fool!" Brown Hair yelled, a vein popping on his forehead. "Here's a camera! Go, idiot! Go!"And with that, Brown Hair threw a camera at Terepo and shoved him back into the still-open Transporter. He hit the button on the bottom and Terepo vanished in a flash of light.

I don't really remember what happened after that. My head began to swim. The dream began to blur. And then, eventually, I sank into the warm inky blackness of deep sleep.

GoggleMaster01- Well, there you go! Chapter 13. Next up, I will introduce the Zudomon Oakfur- a guy who wants to see Tai learn, but is loud and impatient and always correcting him! Let's see how Tai fares next time, on Digimon, Digital Monsters!

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