Mimi sat in the one of the boarded up buildings crying. She couldn't believe everything that had happened since they had returned to Earth.
When she had returned home, her parents had explained about Creed and everything that had happened. That in itself was a shocker. But when her home had been searched, it was absolutely devastating.
She had been forced to flee from Creed's supporters, not even having the chance to say goodbye to her parents.
But what really scared her was that she had gotten her parents in trouble. Not just the type of trouble where you paid a fine and everything went back to normal. Real trouble.
Creed's supporters had found her during the search. Her parents fought against them, giving Mimi the chance to escape, but they had no chance to flee as well.
Her parent's screams echoed back into her mind. She didn't know what happened to them and was afraid to find out.
Once she had left the building she had run, panicked and confused. Eventually, she ended up in the deserted building, where she had huddled into a corner and cried until her eyes were red.
But now her eyes were dry, the tears spent. Instead she buried her face in her hands, trying to calm down somehow.
The rampant emotions had finally begun to quiet down when she heard a noise coming from the way she had entered the building.
Arming herself with the first thing she saw (a glass bottle) she crept towards the noise. When she saw what had caused the noise, she gasped and pulled back her arm to throw the bottle.
It was a person in black, like the ones who had tried to get them only yesterday.
Mimi threw the bottle as hard as she could, aiming for the person's head and it soared straight and true.
At the last second, the person ducked and the bottle shattered against the boards of the window, raining glass down onto them.
"What a nice way to greet your friend, Mimi," a familiar voice shakily stated.
The person removed the mask. Mimi gasped and cried: "Izzy? What are you doing?"
"Trying to be inconspicuous."
"In-come-what?" Mimi muttered.
Izzy sighed and answered: "never mind. I'm glad I found you. Do you know about everything?"
Mimi nodded and replied: "my parents told me. What can we do? You'll blend in OK, but everyone will notice me if I go back out there."
"I don't know where you can get another set of these clothes," Izzy admitted. "I'd let you have mine, but you're too tall."
He paused before adding: "we should find the others. Nobody is supposed to be out after 6:00, so if we're careful we should be all right."
Mimi agreed and they returned to the street outside the shop.
This is so weird, Mimi thought. It's even keeping Izzy off his laptop!
~*~
Matt struggled to break free of the hold Cin had put on him, but he was unable even to twitch his fingers.
To make matters worse, Cin reappeared directly in front of him.
"Didn't think I'd forget you, did you?" she muttered. "I'm not letting you miss your turn."
Cin balled her hand into a fist, her whole body glowing from the radiant mental light. She smiled pleasantly as the light began traveling to the tips of the fingers in the right hand, melding together around her fist.
The light grew brighter and brighter as it reached her hand. And all the while she continued smiling, making the scene all the more unnerving.
As Cin drew back her hand to send the mental energy at Matt, a bright gold light penetrated the dark hall, blinding her. That same gold light suddenly shot forward, smashing into her. The force sent her crashing into the wall beside Matt.
With Cin's concentration interrupted, Matt was able to move once again and quickly moved away from Cin.
Cin quickly regained her senses and confronted whatever was creating the bright light.
"Do you really think you can beat me? I am so much more experienced than you. But if you want to play…" an arsenal of cutlery from the kitchen slowly floated toward whatever was making the light, glowing purple "lets play."
Matt tried to see his rescuer, but the light was so bright it was impossible to see what was creating it.
The knives all whizzed forward, all very near misses.
Another beam of bright light hit Cin, causing her to stumble.
"You cannot beat me!" she cried, gathering more mental energy. It was barely noticeable, but her eyes were dulling, showing that she was getting tired.
A third beam of bright light collided with the purple beam and the two beams pressed against each other, trying to break through.
Cin strained, trying with all her might to break through the golden light, but the harder she tried, the closer it came.
Finally, she gold light plowed into Cin, knocking her against the wall.
She narrowed her eyes and muttered: "you haven't seen the last of me" before teleporting away.
The blinding gold light finally began to fade and Matt squinted to see who had saved him. It was a person; a small person at that.
When the light faded enough for Matt to see who it was that had beaten Cin, he gasped in surprise.
"TK?" he cried.
Indeed, it was his younger brother. TK smiled a small smile before replying: "hi, Matt."
"What's going on?" Matt demanded.
TK furrowed his brow in thought before admitting: "I don't know. Cin knocked me off the roof and the next thing I know I floated back up to the roof. Then I was in here."
Matt said we have to find the others, TK thought. I wish they could all be here right now.
No sooner had the thought entered TK's mind than another brilliant light filled the hall, bringing with it the six other former Digidestined.
Immediately, the six newcomers erupted into questions such as: "what just happened?" or "How did I get here?"
Eventually, the questions stopped coming and Tai queried: "does everyone know about Creed?"
Seven heads simultaneously nodded.
"What can we do?" Sora wondered.
"Well… He's got supporters worldwide, right?" Joe started.
"Yeah…" Mimi agreed.
"And he's powerful, right?"
"That would be a safe assumption to make," Izzy replied.
Joe paused a moment before stating: "we're doomed."
"There's got to be something we can do!" Kari insisted.
The eight children began to think about the whole situation, trying to think of a plan that had even the slightest chance at succeeding, but they were all drawing a blank.
After a moment of silence, a radiant purple light shot through the wall and blasted into TK, surprising the young boy. He hit the wall so hard he was knocked unconscious.
Before any of the seven other children could comprehend what was happening, the same purple light enveloped them all, rendering them immobile.
Cin casually stepped through the new hole she had created in the wall and said: "I warned him he couldn't win but…"
She turned toward the seven paralyzed children on the ground and stated: "you know, I'd love to destroy you myself, but I believe Master Creed would rather do it himself."
Cin yawned and snapped her fingers, making the eight children disappear before she teleported away herself…