Masked Angel

A/N: Alright after a month of doing nothing but watching TV and sleeping I'm ready to get going again. But first (inhales) Thank you for reviewing Ovan56, Holyknight5, ZhaneX, Taeniaea, DigimonFan­_08 and special thanks to my new Bleachanime friend Wereu. Whew! Now without further ado lets begin Part 2 of Masked Angel!

Disclaimer: I don't, I repeat, don't own Digimon or Bleach.

Chapter 14: Meet Mr. Hat n' Clogs

Beep…Beep…Bee-

Tai groaned as he shut off his alarm clock, resisting the urge to throw it against the wall. Still half asleep he leaned over the edge of his bed and sighed. The bottom bunk was empty, just like it was yesterday and the day before. Disappointed, he rolled over on his side and tried to go back to sleep. It had been nearly four months since Kari left and yet every morning he still checked, hoping that his sister would be there.

The morning after she'd vanished he was so upset he didn't even find her note until noon. Meanwhile Yolei and TK searched the city from the air and Izzy tried to locate Kari's digivice with his computer. As soon as Tai discovered Kari's goodbye note he called everyone back and showed it to them. Once all the facts sank in they reluctantly called off the search and began trying to cope with her departure.

TK took it harder than anyone else in the group. Even after reading Kari's note he refused to stop searching for her. It took a whole week for it to finally sink in that she was gone. Surprisingly Tai's parents took the news better than everyone else. He couldn't show them Kari's note of course but his mother seemed convinced that wherever she was she was safe and would come back soon. Tai and his father couldn't help but be impressed by how calm she was.

Bee-Beep…Bee-Beep…Bee-Beep

With a growl Tai slammed his fist the clock trying to stop the noise. It took two more punches for him to realize the sound was coming from his phone. He picked it up and read the e-mail he'd just received.

Tai

Izzy wants us all to meet at the school in half an hour. He said it was an emergency so don't be late.

Sora

"Hey, Agumon." Tai called to his partner who, of course, was still sound asleep. "Agumon, wake up we have to get going." He started shaking Agumon's shoulder but the yellow dinosaur just groaned and rolled over on his side.

"No, Meko." He said in his sleep. "That's my lunch. No, Meko you've already had…yours…Zzzz." Tai sighed and leaned closer to Agumon's ear.

"Agumon," he whispered. "Time for breakfast." Agumon sat up so fast he nearly smashed into Tai's head.

"Breakfast! What are we having!?"

"I'll pick up a box of doughnuts after the meeting." Tai told him as he got dressed. "Come on, we have to hurry as it is."

"Okay." Agumon moaned as he climbed down and followed Tai out the door.

A short time later Tai and Agumon entered the school's computer room and found the whole group huddled around Izzy and his laptop.

"Am I late?" He asked as he shut the door behind him.

"Actually, you're just in time." Izzy said as he continued typing.

"In time for what?" Davis asked with a yawn. "I don't function well this early so it better be important." Izzy sighed irritably.

"Davis, first off it's almost noon and second this is important. Take a look at this." With a few more keystrokes a map of the world appeared on the screen. Seconds later several dozen white dots appeared all over the map. As the Digi-crew examined the display Izzy continued speaking.

"Over the past few weeks Gennai and I have been developing a new tracking program that will allow us to locate any Digidestined worldwide. It's basically the same as our Digivices but on a much larger scale." Matt leaned in for a closer look.

"So each of those dots is someone's digivice?"

"Exactly. It can't give us precise coordinates but it does give us a good idea where everyone is." Yolei, while very impressed by the program, realized something was off about the map.

"That's pretty cool an' all Izzy but how-"

"Hey!" TK cut her off excitedly. "Izzy, can you use this thing to find Kari?" Izzy sighed and shook his head sadly.

"That was the idea but for some reason I can't find her signal anywhere. It's like she just disappeared. Sorry TK." TK was obviously disappointed but nodded in understanding.

"Don't worry TK." Patamon said, trying to cheer his partner up. "We'll find her. We just can't let a little bad news get us down."

"He's right TK." Sora added with a motherly smile. "Even if we don't find her she promised she'd come back. You just wait, she'll be back before you know it." TK smiled back but it was clear his heart wasn't in it.

"Uh, guys." Izzy said calling their attention back to him. "That wasn't the 'bad' news." He turned back to the screen. "Do you guys see anything wrong here?"

"Well, yeah." Yolei said remembering what she noticed. "How come there's no signal in Colorado? Willis would've written me if he-"

"It's not just Willis." Izzy said grimly, cutting her off and grabbing everyone's attention. "Over the past three days, half a dozen Digidestined have gone missing."

"What!?" Tai, Matt and Davis shouted at once while the others were to shocked to speak. Izzy remained calm and continued.

"We don't know who's behind it but we do know that they didn't just vanish into thin air. In each case there was a large amount of damage around their last known locations."

"So the ones who went missing," Matt began darkly. "at least put up a fight, right?" Izzy nodded. Mimi took a deep breath, trying not the look scared.

"What are we going to do then Izzy?"

"There isn't much we can do." He with a defeated tone. "Whoever or whatever is doing this seems to appear out of nowhere, grab someone, then vanish again. Gennai and his brothers have contacted the remaining Digidestined and put them on guard but beyond that…" Tai sighed heavily.

"Beyond that we just wait until they come after us." Izzy nodded. There was a short silence as everyone took in all the news.

"My, my. That certainly is quite a dilemma. Perhaps I could be of assistance."

"Why not." Izzy said, not really paying attention. "Considering the circumstances we could use all the help…we can…" He paused, noticing something strange. "Um, who said that?"

As one the Digidestined turned toward the window and saw a man sitting with his back against the windowsill.

"Hello." He said brightly. Yolei, being the closest to him, let out a surprised scream as the Digimon moved between the man and their partners.

Recovering from the initial shock the Digi-crew noticed how, 'familiar' the man looked. He was dressed in traditional Japanese clothes complete with wooden sandals and a flowing green coat. He carried a thin wooden cane in one hand and a paper fan in the other. His blond hair was partially covered by a green and white stripped bucket hat that cast a shadow over his eyes. All in all he look sort of like an older version of TK.

"W-Who are you?!" Tai said shakily. Between Digidestined getting kidnapped and this guys sudden appearance his nerves were totally shot. The man simply smiled politely and lowered his feet onto the floor.

"My apologies. Allow me to introduce myself." Slowly and carefully he lifted his fan in front of his face. He then snapped it open revealing the words 'Urahara Shop' written on it. "My name is Kisuke Urahara. I'm the owner 'slash' manager of a humble sweet shop in neighboring Karakura Town. If you're ever in the area please feel free to acquaint yourselves with it. Here!" He paused for a second and pulled several strips of paper from his sleeve. "These coupons will give you a 10% discount with a purchase of 500 yen or more. Please accept these as a token of my-"

"Now wait just a minute!" Matt said shaking off the confusion he and the others were suddenly stricken with. "You own a candy shop?"

"That's right." The smiling man said.

"So how exactly are you planning to help us?" Urahara smiled even wider.

"Straight to the point, huh? I expected nothing less. Very well." He sat back down and laid his cane across his lap before continuing. "You see ever since the fascinating events that occurred five years ago I've taken an interest in the Digital World, and all of you of course. So when I learned of the mysterious disappearances of several of your allies," He let out an amused chuckle. "I knew that it was an excellent opportunity for me to meet you all face to face and to lend you a hand."

"Wait…" Izzy began accusingly. "How could you possibly know about that? I got the news straight from Gennai this morning."

"Now, now." Urahara said, waving his fan in a dismissing motion. "I'm not sure I trust you all quite enough to share all my secrets."

"You don't trust us!?" Davis yelled. "We should be-"

"Here is my proposal." Urahara continued, ignoring Davis' outburst. "I happen to be an acquaintance of a certain group that has been, shall we say, inactive for quite some time. I'm sure that if you meet with them and explain the situation they would be more than happy to offer you their services."

"And how exactly would you benefit by helping us?" asked Joe, who like the other were very skeptical of him. Urahara simply waved the coupons in front of his face and whistled.

"You're kidding right? Your friends would be willing to help us if we just buy some candy from your store?"

"Of course not." The shop owner said in an amused tone. "That wouldn't be much of a bargain now would it? All I'm offering is to introduce you to my associates in exchange for you lot purchasing a lot of candy from my store. You'd have to be the ones to convince them to help you." Sora stepped forward with a worried look in her eyes.

"So, you mean there's no guarantee that they'd help us."

"Nope. None at all." He responded. His smile didn't even falter. "Well, what do you say?"

No one really knew what to say. On the one hand this guy came out of nowhere and had information no one besides Gennai and the Digidestined had. However, he seemed sincere about wanting to help and the other Digidestined were taken by force, not tricked.

"Um, could you give us a moment please?" asked Tai. Urahara nodded and pulled out a candy bar as Tai and the others huddled.

"Well guys," He began. "what do you think?" Davis scoffed.

"What do we think? The guys a total loon that's what I think." He looked back at Urahara, who simply smiled and waved at him.

"Loon or not," Izzy said quietly. "This guy knows way too much for someone just 'interested' in the Digital World and he obviously knows a lot more than he's telling us." Matt nodded in agreement.

"I'm with Izzy. For all we know he could be the one responsible for all of the kidnappings."

"But if he is," Cody added. "Why didn't he just attack us while we weren't paying attention to him?"

"Good point."

"I think we should accept his offer." Ken said coolly. Sora gasped and struggled to keep her voice down.

"Are you listening to yourself Ken. We don't know anything about this guy, what if Izzy's right?"

"Well like Izzy said before we need all the help we can get. This guy's offering himself and his friends as our allies, can we really afford to pass that up?" While the others considered this Ken continued. "Even if this guy is behind it we outnumber him twenty-two to one. As long as we stay alert we'll be fine."

"Ken's right." said Mimi. "Besides, someone who look's so much like TK couldn't possibly be bad."

"Ah-choo!" Urahara sneezed making everyone jump in surprise. "Sorry." He said as he wiped his nose. "Have you made your decision yet?" Tai looked to the others who nodded.

"Yeah." Tai stepped towards him and held out his hand. "We accept."

"Excellent!" Urahara exclaimed as he shook his hand. "I promise you won't regret it." As soon as his hand was free he lifted it to his mouth and cried, "They're onboard! Time for phase 2!"

Slam!

Once again the Digidestined were caught off guard as a second, much larger, man entered the room through the door. This man wore glasses, had a large mustache and was wearing a blue apron over his white shirt. Urahara quickly introduced him before anyone could react.

"This is my assistant Tessai Tsukabishi." The giant gave them a polite bow.

"Pleasure to meet you."

"L-Likewise." Davis said, in awe of Tessai's size.

"Your attention please!" Urahara called while clapping his hands, tearing everyone's eyes away from his assistant. "In a few seconds Tessai will use a special technique that will send us directly to the people I told you about. However, this particular technique isn't exactly…conventional. So if you feel the need to scream, please feel free to do so."

"What are you-"

"Hmm!" Matt's question was cut off as Tessai grunted loudly and held his hands out towards the group. Before the Digi-crew could say or do anything the man shouted, "Kukanteni!" And with a flash of light the entire group, along with a large section of the floor, was gone.

Less than a second later they found themselves, scared out of their minds, outside in a small street surrounded by several abandoned warehouses.

"Welcome to the Town of Karakura!" Urahara said in an overly happy voice.

Even though everything occurred in the blink of an eye the Chosen Children we fairly shaken up. Joe was the first to recover, at least enough to form words.

"Wh-What…" He stuttered. "W-What was-"

"What was that?" Urahara finished. Joe nodded. "That was spell called 'Kukanteni' or Spatial Displacement, I had thought that it was similar to the method you use to travel to and from the Digital World but," He smiled at them as they tried to calm down. "it seems I was mistaken. You've probably already guessed but this spell allows the user to transport everyone and everything in an area from one point to another instantaneously. As you can see," He pointed his cane toward their feet. "It even transported the floor we were standing on." The Digi-crew looked down and saw that they were, indeed, still standing on the computer room's tiled floor. "Which reminds me, Tessai." The tall man stood a little straighter.

"Yes, boss?"

"Please have Jinta and Ururu go to their school and repair the floor. And have Mr. Abari go as well, I'm sure the school's gymnasium could use a good scrubbing." Tessai saluted.

"Right away!" With that Tessai turned and started running down the street. When he turned the corner and disappeared from sight Urahara clapped his hands, calling for their attention.

"Now then we still have a short walk to my associates, so if everyone would please follow me." Urahara turned and began walking. The Digidestined, who had finally calmed down fell in step behind him.

For a few minutes Urahara led them down the small street occasionally pointing out a warehouse as if he was a tour guide.

"…And to your right, you'll see another warehouse that I think holds inventory for a local electronics store. And to your left-" Gomamon cut him off.

"We'll see yet another warehouse that has absolutely nothing to do with us what-so ever." The Digidestined laughed a bit at his joke as Urahara came to a stop.

"Actually," He said with a chuckle as he pointed his cane. "to your left is our destination."

The group looked at the spot he was pointing at and the first thing they noticed was…

"Umm sir," Cody began. "There's nothing there."

"Hmm?" Urahara turned and saw that he was indeed pointing toward an empty lot. He rubbed his chin for a second before turning back to the others with a perplexed look an his face. "Are you sure?"

"Ahh!" Davis screamed. Finally losing control. "Yes, he's sure! Are you blind, it's nothing but open space!" Urahara just scratched his head.

"But I was certain we were going the right way." Davis growled.

"Well apparently we weren't!" In a rage he stomped toward the lot. "I told you this guy was a loon! Taking us all this way just to-Oof!" Davis stopped short when his face slammed into something very solid. "What the-" Davis said as he rubbed his nose. He lifted his arms and found that there was an invisible wall in front of him. "How in the-" Behind him Urahara let out an amused chucked.

"Still think I'm a loon?" Without waiting for Davis to answer he stepped forward and tapped his cane against the wall several times. "Hello in there!" He called. "It's everyone's favorite ruggedly handsome shop-keep come to visit! Open up please!"

Suddenly the air around the lot began to distort. Within seconds a bright yellow barrier revealed itself only to melt away exposing the warehouse it was hiding. Immediately afterwards the door slowly began to rise.

"Oh, before I forget," Urahara said as the door opened. "one of my associates has some anger issues. But as long as we all remain calm I'm sure we'll be-" The rest was lost as a small blond girl with pigtails, wearing a red exercise outfit, flew out of the building and drove her foot into his face.

"I'll show you anger issues!" she yelled as Urahara was sent flying into the building across the street. "What the hell, Kisuke!? You show up here unannounced and the first thing you do is try to piss me off!" Despite being dropkicked in the face Urahara seemed perfectly calm.

"Come now, Hiyori. After all this time that's all you have to say? You know if you keep suppressing your feelings you'll only hurt yourself." The girl growled, looking absolutely irate.

"Okay, fine!" she screamed as she kicked off one of her sandals and caught it in her hand. "I'll let it all out and beat the hell out of you!" Before she could carry out he threat a boy emerged and grabbed her wrist, stopping her in her tracks.

"Take it easy Hiyori." He said calmly. He had blond hair like the girl but it was cut straight just above his jaw. He was wearing white pants and a black shirt with a white tie. He boy's upper teeth were also exposed. "I'm sure Kisuke come here for a beating."

"Shut up Shinji!" Hiyori yelled. "Can't you see I'm pissed off!" The boy, Shinji apparently, sighed.

"Yes but," he turned toward the Digidestined. "you're scaring them." Hiyori turned to them as well, noticing them for the first time.

"Who the hell are you?" She asked rudely.

"Um," Tai began, taking a step forward. "We're the Digidestined. I'm Tai Kamiya and this is-" His introductions stopped short when Hiyori shook Shinji's hand off and walked toward them.

She stood in front of them for a few seconds and gave each human and Digimon a quick look. She then lifted her foot and replaced her sandal.

"I don't like ya." She said simply before turning around and going back inside. Recovering from the surprise attack Urahara walked over and stood beside Shinji.

"She seems to have calmed down quite bit." Shinji shook his head.

"Not really you just caught her on a good day." He unconsciously rubbed his cheek. "Consider yourself lucky those new sandals of hers hurt like hell." He looked back at the Digi-crew. "So what's with the kids Kisuke? You open a daycare service?" He then looked at the Digimon. "Or a zoo?" A few of the Digimon growled indignantly but Urahara just smiled.

"Actually, these children a friends of mine. Some of their friends are in trouble and I was hoping you'd hear them out." Shinji thought for a second before speaking again.

"Sure. Why not?" He held up his finger before finishing. "One condition though." He pointed at Mimi. "What's your name?"

"Who, me?" She asked. Shinji nodded. "I'm Mimi Tachikawa." Upon hearing her name Shinji smiled brightly.

"Well Mimi-chan." he gave her a polite bow. "Would you like to have dinner with me?" Mimi blushed, taken aback by his forwardness.

"Um, I, Uh," She fumbled with her words but quickly gave him a pretty smile. "Sure I don't see why not."

"All right!" Shinji cried triumphantly. "Now that that's settled come on in everyone. Make yourselves at home and we'll get down to business." With that he went back inside.

"Nicely done." Urahara said, giving Mimi a thumbs up before following Shinji. With a giggle Mimi and Palmon followed him while the others were left speechless.

"What-What-What!?" Datamon cried as he began typing rapidly. "How is that possible!?"

"Is something wrong Datamon?" The machine Digimon turned around and saw that an armored rabbit-like Digimon had entered the room.

"Oh, it's you Lekismon! Excellent timing." He turned back to the large computer he was working at. "You may not believe this but the Digidestined have disappeared!" Lekismon tilted her head.

"What do you mean, 'disappeared'?"

"Exactly that!" Datamon exclaimed. "One second they're in Odaiba and the next they're in a whole 'nother city. Then, several minutes later, they completely vanish!" His companion stepped forward examined the display.

"Are you sure this thing is working properly?" Datamon took offense.

"Of course I'm sure! This system is as well put together as I am!" Lekismon smirked at him.

"Precisely my point."

"Why you-!" Datamon growled.

"Now, now don't tease him Lekismon." The two Digimon look to the entrance of the lab and saw that a large winged figure, completely covered by an ornate red robe, had entered.

"L-Lord Daemon!" Datamon cried as Lekismon dropped to one knee. The Demon Lord stepped closer to the screen.

"This certainly is an interesting development." He turned towards Lekismon. "I believe this warrants investigation. Don't you agree Lekismon?"

"Yes, my lord." she said obediently.

"Very well, then. Go and gather some volunteers, I'm sure there'll be quite a few, and meet me at the portal." Lekismon looked up, surprised.

"My lord? You're coming with us." Daemon chuckled at his lieutenant.

"But of course. Just like the rest of you I am very interested in testing my newfound powers." He turned and exited the lab. "You have twenty minutes." Lekismon rose to her feet.

"Yes my lord." And with a strange electrical sound she vanished as Datamon got back to work.

As Daemon made his way through his fortress toward the portal room he suddenly came to a stop. Without turning his head he looked into a dark hallway to his right.

"Would you like to come as well?"

"Why, not?" a voice responded. Slowly a human boy with dark hair emerged from the shadows. Adjusting his glasses the boy smiled at him. "As you said this may turn out to be quite interesting." Daemon nodded and continued down the hall with the boy right behind him. "Besides," he said with an evil smirk. "I'm sure Kenny-boy would love to see me again."

Radio-Kon! (Baby!)

Jedi: Sorry everyone but there will be no Radio-Kon show for this chapter. (yelling) For some reason my co-host won't get his furry rear back here!

Kon: (over phone) I told you I'm snowed in! I'd love to be there but all the planes are grounded!

Jedi: You're in Hawaii! I can hear the Luau music!

Kon: What?-KSHH!-Sorry I can't-KSHH-you! It must-KSHH-a bad-KSHH-nection! I-(click) Heh-heh! Idiot! Now then, how about we head over to the beach and play some strip volley ball? (girls giggling)

Jedi:…You lucky son-of-a-

(Theme Music; Velonica by Aqua Timez)