"Alone But Never Alone"
Here is the next chapter, hope you guys all like this. I never really liked this episode. Poor JP. It sucks being the loner with no real friends. Oh, and to clear up something. When Koichi said that baby sister thing, he meant Koji and Dai getting married and that Dai would be his sister-in-law. Sorry if it wasn't clear to you. Please enjoy and review.
Our group was still on our way to the Rose Morning Star, me holding onto my boyfriend's arm as we went.
Wow, never thought I'd say that before in my entire life.
Tai made a rule that Kari and I weren't allowed dating anyone until he started dating and he had to approve of our dates first.
Yeah, he's still single and had a conniption when he and he nearly murdered TK for dating his sister if Matt and Sora hadn't been there to rescue the child of Hope.
Imagine what the entire group will have to do to stop Tai and Matt from killing my poor wolf.
"Thank heavens you're back together again. So is everybody ready to go?" Bokomon asked.
"But where are we going, Bokomon?" Neemon asked.
"You're going to follow me and stop asking ridiculous questions." Bokomon said as he was pulling on the bunny's pants.
"Next stop, the Rose Morning Star, right?" JP asked.
"And try to keep up." The chicken said as he let go of the pants, both digimon falling down.
"I'm the leader. Follow me everybody." JP said as he walked forward.
"Oh, well." Takuya shrugged as he and Zoe smiled at each other.
After a while we were walking along this path on a canyon wall.
"One, two, three, four. Follow me as we explore. And five and six and seven and eight. I cannot stand in my place." JP sang enthusiastically.
"He's not exactly inspirational as a leader." Takuya joked lightly.
"It looks like he's just showing off to me." Zoe said.
"What if we don't wanna see what he's showin'?" Koji asked making me look down at the ground with a look of sympathy.
"I want a turn being the leader." Tommy said.
"I don't know. Leadership takes independence. Are you ready for that?" Takuya asked as Zoe giggled.
"Hey, JP depends on chocolate and that didn't stop him, huh?" Tommy joked making everyone but Koichi and I laugh as we looked at JP.
He had this obvious aura of depression around him and it made me mad to know that his friends were the ones who caused it.
"Guys, that's enough!" I said making them all stop and look at me in surprise.
"You might be joking around, but it's still hurtful. Stop acting like jerks." I said letting go of Koji's arm, shooting him an Ishida Glare before I walked off to JP, looping my arm with his and leading him away.
"Great, I'm in the dog house and we've only been dating for three hours." Koji groaned.
"You had it coming." Koichi said before the others walked after us.
"Thanks for that, Dai." JP said softly.
"It's fine. I know what it's like to have people joke about you in front of them and not even have them think it could hurt me." I said.
"Huh? I would've thought you had millions of friends." He said looking confused.
"Never used to. Before I became a Digidestind, I never even knew what true friendship was. You only really learn it when you fight alongside others and save the world together." I said with a smile.
As we walked, the ground shook making JP let go of my arm as he fell down and the earth lifted up, separating us from Bokomon and Neemon.
This powerful gale then blew around us, pulling us seven humans up and we landed in some weird sort of place, all of us ending up on each other in a pile.
I have no idea what this is or where we are, but the entire place is giving me the creeps.
"Do you mind? Get off me!" Zoe yelled with an anger blush at JP, who had landed in her lap looking dazed.
"Sorry about that, Zoe." He said getting up quickly as she fixed her skirt with an annoyed look.
"I really am getting tired of falling all the time." Takuya said as Koji gave me his hand and helped me up.
"You OK?" he asked.
"Yeah, yeah. How many times do I have to tell you to stop freaking over me?" I asked spotting Koichi smiling at us.
"Where are we?" the Warrior of Darkness asked as he looked around the reddish pink hallway we were standing in that felt soft and squishy under my feet.
"I don't know how we got here, but it looks like we're trapped." Koji said.
"Are you serious? There's gotta be a way out." Takuya said as he felt a part of the wall.
"Feels kind of spongy. This isn't normal rock." He said.
"Aye, yae, aye. Dead end." JP said before he yelped.
"Zoe, where's JP?" Takuya asked when we saw he was missing.
"I saw him go that way." The blonde said pointing at this huge red eye ball that was at the end of the hall.
"The owner sure got a scary decorator. JP, where are you?" Takuya called.
"JP?" I called.
"We need to find him and fast. I think he's in trouble." Koichi said.
He's right.
Something is wrong with JP.
I can feel it.
Suddenly, Takuya, Koichi and I all gasped when the sound of someone crying out for help came to us.
"Guys, what's the matter?" Tommy asked.
"You hear something?" Zoe asked.
"No, more like a feeling. JP's in trouble." Takuya said.
"And so are we." Koichi said as the hallway moved.
It shook, making us fall as these tile like things fell out of the ceiling and landed on the fleshy floor, turning into the floor and becoming a part of it.
"Gross!" Zoe whined as these arms came out of the walls, floors and ceiling.
They started grabbing at us making us all stand back to back.
"Guess that feeling was right." Takuya said.
"Go away, slimy! Back! Back!" Tommy cried as one came after him and he kicked at it.
Arms started coming after us, making the boys move around and Zoe and I both froze when we both felt one of the hands grab our butts.
Those sick pervs!
We both picked up those tiles and tried to hit the hands, but hit Takuya instead.
"Hands off, buster!" Zoe yelled, then blinked when she saw who we hit.
"Sorry, Takuya." We said.
Another arm reached out for Tommy and Koichi, but Koji and Takuya kicked them away.
We all then pulled out our D-tectors.
"Execute: Spirit Evolution!"
"AGUNIMON!"
"LOWEMON!"
"LOBOMON!"
"KAZEMON!"
"KUMAMON!"
"Execute: Armour Spirit Evolution!"
"Pyramon: the Angel of Courage!"
"Wanna grab something? Grab my Pyro Punch!" Agunimon said as he aimed his flames at the hands.
Lobomon used his Lobo Kendo, cutting them away.
Kazemon used her Hurricane Wave and Kumamon used his Crystal Freeze, but I didn't use any of my attacks because I was getting a bad feeling.
"These things probably attack JP, too." Agunimon said.
"But where is he now?" Kazemon asked.
"The eyeball. My guess is it's some kind of portal and he's on the other side." Agunimon said.
"Guys, we need to go in now. I have a bad feeling that something really bad is going on." I said holding my D-tector as the Crest of Friendship flashed on the screen.
Lobomon came up beside me and hugged me, kissing my cheek.
"We'll help him." He said.
I gave a small smile at him.
"Let's get moving. He's going to need us now." Lowemon said as we all turned to face the eyeball portal thingy.
"Right, let's move." Kazemon said.
"Here we come, JP!" Kumamon cheered.
"We're coming for ya, buddy! Just hang on." Agunimon said.
We all turned back to normal and ran through the eyeball, stopping in shock when we saw the other world on the other side that had copies of us all yelling cruel things to JP as he stood in a stone wrestling arena with an evil version of Beetlemon….after we all landed on each other that it.
What is it with portals and rough landings?
Is it a union thing?
"Are you all right?" Takuya asked Zoe, who was leaning on him.
"Of course I am!" she yelled jumping back and tugged at her skirt with a red face.
"Oh, now that's weird." Koji said as our copies looked back at us.
"What is this? Some kind of evil house of mirrors?" Takuya asked as Tommy hid behind him.
"JP!" he cried to our friend making him look over to us with a smile.
JP then Beast Spirit Evolved into MetalKabuterimon, but the evil dude did the same.
"Aw, man." Goggle head said.
"There's two of them." Tommy said.
The evil one used Bolo Thunder on the original, but there was no damage done thankfully.
MetalKabuterimon was up very close to his copy and then fired off his Electron Cannon, making us all cry out as the light and debris was blown up to where we were all standing.
As the light faded away, our copies were all gone and there was our heavyset friend lying on the ground.
We all ran down towards him, worry filling us all as we ran down.
"JP!" Takuya called.
"JP!" I cried.
"JP!" Zoe called.
"Oh no!" Tommy said.
"You OK, Jeep?" Koji asked.
"Are you OK?" Koichi asked.
"Speak to me." Takuya said as we crowded around him.
The oldest member of our team pushed himself up and gave a small smile.
"Did Koji just call me 'Jeep'? Hey, you really are my friends." JP smiled as he looked around us.
"Course we are, you bonehead." Takuya said.
"Yeah, but don't tell anybody, all right?" Koji joked.
"Wolf boy…dog house." I said.
"Shutting up." He said making Koichi laugh.
"I was worried about you, JP." Tommy said.
"I'm just happy you're all right." Zoe said softly.
"It's good to see you safe." I said hugging the heavyset boy around his neck.
"We all are." Koichi said.
"You mean that?" JP asked timidly.
"Sure." Zoe said.
"I'm sorry." He said looking down sadly.
"Why?" Takuya asked.
"I doubted our friendship. It was terrible. I felt like nobody cared about me." JP said.
"Of course we care about you." Zoe said as Takuya and I helped our friend up on his feet.
"Thanks, I'll never doubt our friendship again. You guys are like family to me. You're the best friends I ever had. Thanks for comin'. I love you people." JP said.
"OK, now I'm uncomfortable." Takuya said rubbing the back of his head.
"Sorry, it's been kind of an emotional day, ta know? I'm just glad the gang's back together again." JP smiled.
Just then the moment was ruined when those creepy hands came out of the ground, making us all cry out.
"Not again!" Zoe whined running off.
Eyeballs then appeared all around us, Zoe accidentally stepping on one that was on the ground and was sinking down into it.
"Zoe!" Takuya cried.
"Where'd she go to?" JP asked.
A hand then pushed Takuya into another eyeball that was behind him, then JP was pushed back into a different eyeball behind him.
Tommy cried as the hand chased after him, Koji getting in the way and was thrown into the eyeball behind him, while Koichi was thrown back into one that was in the ground.
A hand grabbed me by the throat and pulled me into an eyeball portal that was behind me as someone began giving off that annoying, evil laughter that I hated so much.
Great, separated yet again.
Why does this keep happening to all of us?
This sucks beyond belief.
What's gonna happen to us next while we're separated.
Guys, please be safe.
To be continued…