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New Threats--Part VIII
Only a quarter of an hour had passed, yet much had happened once again for the former Digidestined. Tai had tried to make the wings return, but he was too tired from the first transformation to endure a second and so he lay exhausted on the hard floor.
TK had gone from bad to worse. Matt had noticed with horror that his younger brother's lips had turned a bluish color and his skin was looked waxen. At one point, TK had began to shiver violently, chilled, and Matt had removed his gloves and put them on TK's hands hoping that they would help a little.
He was relieved when TK had stopped shivering, but felt horrible when his eyes rested on the two puncture holes in his younger brother's arm. Already the flesh around them was swollen and red.
"We've got to do something to help him!" Matt insisted.
Joe sadly shook his head and replied: "I don't think there's anything we can do."
"Couldn't we suck the venom out?" Sora queried.
"I doubt that would work," Joe responded. "It's been too long and the venom has had time to spread, plus that would only get the venom into our mouths."
TK groaned in his sleep and Matt looked worriedly in his direction.
"I wish there was a way out of this cage!" Mimi quavered, on the verge of tears.
"But we already tried all the bars. They're not moving an inch," Kari sadly whispered.
Izzy gasped suddenly and his eyes lit up as realization struck him. "I know how we can get out!" he announced.
"How?" six eager voices demanded.
Izzy took a deep breath and explained: "well, everything is made up of billions of particles, all too small to see without a powerful telescope. The air, water and solids, they're all really just tiny bits of life glued together."
"But what does that have to do with--" Mimi started, but Izzy was already continuing: "all of the particles are moving, even the ones that make up solids, making it entirely possible for them to be moved in a certain way if you know how."
"So you mean the bars of the cage aren't solid at all?" Tai questioned, sitting up with a bit of effort.
Izzy nodded. It was strange, but it felt as though nothing was impossible for him. He felt as though he could make rocks crumble just by touching them if he wanted. The knowledge had just popped into his head.
"Then that means…" Sora trailed off and at once all the conscious children besides Izzy were trying to break the bars apart, but to no avail.
"But it won't work," Mimi forlornly stated.
Another sudden burst of knowledge for Izzy and he quickly stated: "that's because the attraction between the particles is too strong. But if you could somehow reverse their attractions, the bars could be shaped into whatever you pleased."
With that, Izzy walked over to one of the thick bars and laid his hand on it. Warmth spread from his fingertips and he felt as though his energy was moving into the bar. And then the bar began to twist and bend, back and forth as though it was made of rubber. Then it shrank in size until it was nothing more than a tiny ball of metal.
Izzy bent down and picked up what had only moments ago been a solid bar and smiled.
"Let's go," Tai stated, getting to his feet…
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Escaping from the prison was easy now that Izzy could change solid walls into whatever he wanted. Whenever they got to a sealed off hallway or obstruction, Izzy simply changed it into something smaller.
Matt was carrying TK, occasionally casting a worried glance at his younger brother. He saw that TK's skin had changed from a waxen color to a sickly yellow tint.
"Hold on," Matt muttered to his unconscious brother. "Just hold on."
The walked through yet another large hole that had once been a sturdy wall and came to an entryway.
"This is it! We made it!" Mimi happily cried.
Izzy looked at the door and saw that there was no doorknob. So he reached forward and changed it into a small sphere of wood.
Sunlight flooded into the dark hallway, making the seven children blink.
"Leaving so soon?" a drawling voice questioned.
In less than a second Ruki had leapt across the room and landed directly in front of the door.
"I don't think so."
She glared at the children before muttering: "I wish I could get you all, but I can only take one."
Izzy tried to push past Ruki, but she roughly pushed him back before taking Mimi by the arm with one of her clawed hands and shouting: "see you later!"
Tai tried to grab Ruki, but Ruki leapt with lightning-quick reflexes back over the other Digidestined, then bounded up onto the raftered ceiling.
Mimi didn't even have time to cry out before Ruki had agilely jumped from the rafters, shot through a small hole in the door of an elevator and shimmied up the cables of the elevator with her free hand.
The six other Digidestined cried after her, but Ruki was already gone.
"We've got to get her back!" Kari wailed.
Tai thought for a moment, then muttered: "we'll have to come back. It's too dangerous to stay here right now."
And so the children walked from the building, each lamenting over their captured friend and each worried for TK, but all were free for the moment…