Rest, Relaxation, and Romance (Part 2)
By Firenze
When this last left off: Tai & Sora hopped onto a ride with swan boats... Joe threw up on Matt in the spinning teacup ride, leaving Izzy with Mimi... And our two favorite young ones were driving the go-carts when Kari crashed, and the cart is ready to explode! (Yeah, this is kinda gay, but I'm just refreshing your memory if yours is as bad as mine) Now read to find out what happens next!
"Hey, look at that smoke over there," Tentomon observed. "What do you suppose it could be?"
As they were whooshing away on the roller coaster, Patamon got a strong gut feeling. "It's TK! He's in trouble!"
"Whoa, that was weird," Tai commented.
"What?" Sora asked, distantly trying to peek into the cave they were heading into.
"I just felt like Kari was in trouble for some reason." He looked worried.
"Hey, she has TK and Patamon, remember? He'd never let her get hurt. Plus, we're at an amusement park! Fun, right?"
He shook his head a bit. "You're right." The swan boat headed into the cave. "So what is this ride? It's dark. Is it Pirates of the Caribbean?"
"With swan boats, Tai?" Sora asked skeptically.
"What, the land of duckies and bunnies?" he joked.
Eyes wide, she shook her head. "Worse."
"What's worse than duckies and bunnies? Those funny mechanical Dutch kids singing 'It's a Small World'?"
"We're not in Tokyo Disneyland, Tai," Sora said, looking a bit stiff. "We're in the Tunnel of Love."
A sweet, romantic love song began to play, as the cave dimmed and hearts glowed all around them. Tai blinked once…twice…and then fell out of the boat and into the water.
"Well, Joe? What now?" Matt asked, wringing out his soggy shirt over a bunch of mushrooms.
Joe surveyed the park around them, and spotted something. "Hey, look, there's one of those swan boats like the one you were in before…"
Izzy's head was still sort of spinning when he got off the small model of an airplane. "I never liked airplanes."
"Don't throw up, okay?" Mimi said. "After all, this is a really expensive dress…"
The redheaded boy grinned, realizing that Joe had gotten a very big minus in Mimi's book. And Matt…well, his shirt was covered in puke, so he didn't have to worry about him either. He was on top of the world.
"Go-carts!" Palmon said excitedly.
Agumon looked hesitant. "Does anyone smell smoke?"
Mimi sniffed the air. "Nope. Come on, I want that pretty pink car!"
"Tai!" Sora fished the boy out of the water. He came back onto the boat, looking like a drowned rat, and then he coughed up a whole bunch of water. He was also shivering like mad. "Are you all right?" she asked, as he wrung his hair.
"Yeah, I'm in the Tunnel of Love and I just fell into the freezing cold water," he said dryly (the only part of him not wet!).
"The Tunnel of Love isn't as bad as you think. It's just a long tunnel with music and glowing hearts. You know, love," Sora said.
"Well, of course you don't mind, crest of Love holder. Is there such a thing as the Tunnel of Courage?"
"Don't be stupid, Tai. This isn't so bad if it isn't even romantic at all."
He looked at her. "Exactly what do you call romantic?"
She paused to think for a while. "Well, fine, I guess the Tunnel of Love is sort of romantic. The music adds a really nice touch, and if it were under the moonlight with candles… Especially if you were with the one you loved. Oh yeah, one more thing."
"What?"
Sora looked down. "I can show you…"
At the same time… "Well, Matt, what do you think this ride is?" Joe asked, trying to look into the cave, but it was pitch black.
"My guess is we'll be seeing a bunch of funny mechanical Dutch children singing 'It's a Small World' very soon," he said, crossing his arms, angry that he wasn't sitting next to Mimi in this awfully cramped boat.
Joe laughed. "That sounds like something Tai would say."
"Are you kidding me? That is totally not something Tai would say."
"Well, Tai, what do you say?" Sora whispered, looking at him right in the eyes now. "Interested in the least?"
"It would be nice to see the crest of Love's complete idea of romantic. I can use it when I'm old enough to date or something," he replied.
"Well, remember you said that."
Tai looked surprised. "Why-?" But then he was cut off as Sora moved her face closer to his. He closed his eyes, and their lips were about to touch, when-
"Aaaagggghhhh!!!! The Tunnel of Love!!!" Tai and Sora instantly moved apart, blushing furiously, when they heard the yell.
"Move! I have to get out of here! I'm not staying with you, Joe!"
"How can I move, Matt? There's no room is this boat!"
"MAKE room!" the second voice shouted loudly. There was a strangled yell, a loud splash, and then another. "I have to find Mimi!"
Mimi got in the pink car like she wanted, but she was having a lot of trouble driving it. She kept bumping into the rails and other people's cars.
"Mimi, can you stop hitting me?" Gatomon asked, from a purple cart.
"If you wanted to go on the bumper cars, why didn't you tell us?" Agumon asked, swerving, as Mimi nearly crashed into him.
"I did, but Joe stopped me!"
Izzy grinned. Joe had another X in Mimi's book. He was going to get Mimi!
"Izzy, if you don't pay attention, you'll get in an accident just like Mimi!" Palmon said.
"Uh oh, speaking of accidents," Mimi said, screeching on the brakes and leaving a skid mark. Gatomon and Izzy both slammed into her, but they didn't care. They approached the smoking vehicle.
"That's Kari's whistle!" Gatomon said in shock.
"Isn't this TK's hat?" Mimi asked, pulling the green hat out of the rubble.
They all looked at each other. "Uh oh."
"Kari…Kari…wake up," TK said softly, gently shaking her shoulder. They had narrowly escaped the explosion. With Kari in his arms, TK had leaped over the fence and luckily landed in the sandbox of a playground area.
"Am I in heaven?" she asked weakly, blinking an eye open. "I thought I saw an angel…"
TK turned around. "Angemon!"
The digimon de-digivolved back into Patamon. "Are you all right, TK? I suddenly got a whole lot of energy…were you in trouble?"
TK nodded vigorously. "Kari crashed and the car exploded…"
"My head hurts," Kari whispered. "I - I'm so tired." Still sitting in TK's lap and snuggled in his arms, she rested her head against his chest, wrapped her arms around his neck, and fell asleep.
"I feel like I just jumped off a cliff," TK said, and also dozed off.
When Tai and Sora got off the boat ride, they couldn't talk to each other, let alone look in the other's eyes.
"Can I beat you at the ring toss yet?" he asked lamely, trying to break the awkward silence.
"How about we try to find Matt and Joe?" she suggested. "Their conversation sounded very interesting." So the two friends walked back to the exit of the Tunnel of Love.
"So…very…cold…" Matt said, his teeth chattering.
"You jumped in!" Joe yelled. "And took me with you!"
"I don't really think Mimi will go for us anymore," Matt said glumly. "I'm soaked and was previously covered in puke, you're also soaked, and you're the one who threw up. Does Izzy win?"
"Wait a minute, listen to that!" Joe cried.
"It's a cheesy love song, what about it?"
"We can sing to Mimi! She really likes music! That way we can win her heart!"
Matt stared at him blankly. "You mean we have to work together?"
"As long as it isn't Izzy!" Joe said.
"So we can sing!" Matt said excitedly. "And I can play my harmonica!" He pulled it out of his pocket, and water poured out the holes. "Or not."
"Joe singing?" Sora said with a snigger. "That'll be something to see."
Tai laughed. "You should have seen him when we had to sing to wake up that great ugly brute." He coughed and his voice was a very good impression of Joe's. "I'm attempting to sing a song…"
Sora giggled. "And I'm sure you wooed Mimi with your voice?" she asked teasingly.
"Hey, I'm not in this Mimi love web," he said. (That's right, so no one better vote for him to be with Mimi! Michi is evil, remember that, people! Yeah, you can still vote! NOTE: Mimato is HUGELY in the lead. If anyone ever wants to see a Mimoe from me, you better vote for it! As I said, the Koumi is in progress and I've done a Mimato and will do more.)
"Why not?"
Tai rolled his eyes. "You know how I love the color pink and our little princess. Actually, I have another girl here in mind…"
Sora whipped around. "I do hope you don't mean Kari!"
Tai was beating himself up for even saying what he did. "Of course not Kari!" He kept hitting his head repeatedly.
"Yes, keep doing that and it'll erase what you just said," she said sardonically.
"Hey, Joe and Matt are coming out!" he hissed, obviously trying to avert her attention.
But even though Sora was looking, she couldn't stop thinking. *Does Tai really like me?* Then she heard Matt and Joe's voices. They were coming! She just couldn't miss this!
"Come on, we have to find Matt and Tai," Izzy said urgently. "Then we have to find TK and Kari as soon as possible."
"What if they're - they're-" Mimi began.
"Kari's not dead, I can feel her," Gatomon said.
"Let's go find Matt!" Mimi cried. "And - and Tai, of course!"
Izzy looked a bit hurt, but then he ran with her. "Tai and Sora started at the bumper cars. I'll go that way."
"Matt was with us, but then he went to the bathroom with Joe. Let's just search the entire park!" Mimi said. She looked in every direction, when something caught her eye. "Look, swan boats! I think Matt would have noticed those. Let's go there, Palmon!"
"Joe, if you don't stop singing that dumb song in my ear," Matt said, "I'm going to kill you before you can sing it to Mimi!"
But Joe still didn't stop. "And I…eeiiiiii…will always love you ooooooo…."
"Maybe that's a good thing if I kill you! You're busting my eardrums! Joe, shut up!" he cried, putting his hands over his ears.
"You're just jealous because I can sing way better than you!" he yelled.
"Are you crazy? I'm obviously the only good singer here."
"Yeah right," Joe said sarcastically.
"I'll show you, Joe, one day I'll be in my own band. I'll be the vocalist, and I'll play the bass to top it off!" Matt said stubbornly.
"Yes, of course, and I'm actually going to study medicine." He shuddered. "Needles and blood give me the creeps."
"Whatever…hey, look! Light! It's real, actual sunlight! I can't take it in this boat anymore, I'm jumping out! I don't care how cold the water is…" He jumped out and began to wade through the shallow water, which was up to his waist. "I'm free! I'm free!" he yelled, running out of the tunnel. "FREEEEEE!!!!!" He jumped onto land, and started spinning and twirling around, water splashing everywhere. A few 'clicks' were heard, but he wasn't sure what it was and continued to jump around.
"Matt, are you okay?" Mimi asked, peering at him, while he did a strange pirouette in midair.
He blushed bright crimson. "Oh, Mimi! I was just -- I was...ummm...errr...that is to say -- hehe..." This time he heard another 'click' and whipped around in surprise. The clicks were from a camera; Tai had taken his picture, and he and Sora were doubling over in laughter.
"Maybe you should do ballet, not singing!" Sora giggled.
The swan boat finally emerged from the tunnel. "Mimi!" Joe exclaimed. He jumped out of the boat, ran to her, fell to the ground, grabbed them hem of her dress, and starting belting out Jessica Simpson's "I Wanna Love You Forever" at the top of his lungs and horribly off-key. "I wanna love you forever…and this is all I'm asking of you-"
"Joe!" Mimi groaned. "Get off, you're wrinkling my dress and wetting my shoes! I came here for Matt."
"WOO HOO!!!" Matt did another strange jig, Mimi raised her eyebrows, Sora couldn't stop giggling, and Tai took a few more pictures.
"Good thing I brought this camera," Tai said with a smile. "I was supposed to give it to Kari, but it's not like she's going to take up photography as a hobby!"
"Matt, forget ballet, you can join Michael Flatly, Lord of the Dance!" Sora said, and then cracked up. She was laughing so hard that she had to lean against Tai to keep her balance. He wasn't objecting.
"EXCUSE ME!" Mimi shouted. Everyone stopped to look at her; Matt tripped and fell flat on his face, Joe ended right in the middle of a high note he was attempting to reach, and Sora turned so suddenly that both she and Tai fell. "Thank you! I came here for Matt and Tai!"
"Why?" Tai asked, standing up and helping Sora up too.
"Because Kari and TK were in an accident," Palmon said. "We think they're in trouble."
"KARI!" Tai yelled. "Where is she?!"
"We don't know," Mimi said quietly. "I say we should split up and look for them."
"I say we stay together," Matt disagreed, because he wanted to stay with Mimi, but then covered his mouth that he even argued with her.
"Well, I vote that we split up," Sora said. "It's only an amusement park, we're not searching the whole Digiworld for Tai or something."
"In which case you were first to leave," Joe said. "Well, I say stick together. Tai, you vote chooses all and you're the leader, so we have to listen."
Tai thought for a minute. "It's the boys or the girls. I'm really surprised that the girls want to split up, but Sora's right, this is an amusement park. We'll find them a lot faster, don't you want that, Matt?"
He nodded, finally looking horribly worried that TK was missing and could be dead.
"All right then," Tai said. "The groups are Sora and I; Mimi, Joe, and Palmon; and Matt, you can go by yourself. Settled?"
"Settled," Joe cried. He and Mimi ran off in one direction, and the group could hear Joe's not so romantic croons of "Sweetheart" by Mariah Carey. "Won't you be my sweetheart? We could share a story book romance…"
"When will you three stop arguing over Mimi?" Sora asked, covering her ears with her hands and running in the opposite direction.
"When I win!" Matt called back, running another way.
"Hey, we'll find Kari right?" Tai asked Sora softly.
"Of course!" she said, grabbing his hand, supposedly to make him run faster with her, or most likely as a caring gesture. "Don't worry, I'm positive they're all right."
And, as Sora predicted, the two youngest children were in no present danger at all, sleeping peacefully in each other's arms. For the time being.
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A/N: Okay, that last part? (Hehe, from the movie 2GE+HER) I'm not even sure what that line means as if yet or what's going to happen next, all right? It's just a nice cliffhanger-ish thing, which I shouldn't be using, but it works. Sorry for all the Joe bashing in this, but wouldn't that be interesting to hear him belting out ballads? I'm starting to add a bit more Taiora and some Takari, but you can still vote for who Mimi will end up with! You knew, of course, I'd never let Kari and TK die, let Tai and Sora kiss that easily, or let Mimato win right away before giving the others another fighting chance. I know lots of people are sick of Mimatos, and others are begging for it, but I'm letting you guys pick because I don't want to have people's anger directed at ME, I like to have other people to blame it on.
Oh yeah, about the title! Someone named Raisin e-mailed me and suggested "Digidestined Just Want to Have Fun." I'm horribly indecisive (sp? Partially why I let you choose who Mimi gets), so you tell me if I should change it to that. So vote, review, and look out for the next part (possibly under another name)! Thanks so much for your huge response to the last part!
An interesting note (I'll have these in all my fics now, just so you can get to know some of what goes on in my crazy mind): I was going to make Joe sing Backstreet Boys or Hanson songs, but that was just too scary. It's a lot funnier to hear him singing ballads from Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Jessica Simpson. Maybe Christina Aguilera will be next... Don't worry, Izzy will do something embarrassing in front of Mimi to make it fair. Sorry if everyone is a little OOC, but hey, it's my fic. Also, I added a lot of stuff from season 02 in this just for fun. Matt in a band, Joe studying medicine, Kari taking up photography, the land (actually valley) of duckies and bunnies...
Disclaimer: Digimon? Mine? Are you serious? Whew, what are you on? Man, if anyone believes a wacky, little twelve-year-old girl like me owns it, you are really, really crazy and must get serious medical attention immediately. I forgot the title of Whitney Houston's song, but it's hers, all right? "I Wanna Love You Forever" belongs to Jessica Simpson, and Mariah Carey owns her song (I'm not sure if that's the title either, all right? I've gone entirely brain-dead!) Oh yeah, Michael Flatly (sp?) belongs to himself and no offense to him, it's just sort of an inside joke my friends and I have. I don't steal songs and cartoon characters, just to clear that up. I steal people's pencils and erasers and bracelets and other little things they don't notice...
By Firenze
When this last left off: Tai & Sora hopped onto a ride with swan boats... Joe threw up on Matt in the spinning teacup ride, leaving Izzy with Mimi... And our two favorite young ones were driving the go-carts when Kari crashed, and the cart is ready to explode! (Yeah, this is kinda gay, but I'm just refreshing your memory if yours is as bad as mine) Now read to find out what happens next!
"Hey, look at that smoke over there," Tentomon observed. "What do you suppose it could be?"
As they were whooshing away on the roller coaster, Patamon got a strong gut feeling. "It's TK! He's in trouble!"
"Whoa, that was weird," Tai commented.
"What?" Sora asked, distantly trying to peek into the cave they were heading into.
"I just felt like Kari was in trouble for some reason." He looked worried.
"Hey, she has TK and Patamon, remember? He'd never let her get hurt. Plus, we're at an amusement park! Fun, right?"
He shook his head a bit. "You're right." The swan boat headed into the cave. "So what is this ride? It's dark. Is it Pirates of the Caribbean?"
"With swan boats, Tai?" Sora asked skeptically.
"What, the land of duckies and bunnies?" he joked.
Eyes wide, she shook her head. "Worse."
"What's worse than duckies and bunnies? Those funny mechanical Dutch kids singing 'It's a Small World'?"
"We're not in Tokyo Disneyland, Tai," Sora said, looking a bit stiff. "We're in the Tunnel of Love."
A sweet, romantic love song began to play, as the cave dimmed and hearts glowed all around them. Tai blinked once…twice…and then fell out of the boat and into the water.
"Well, Joe? What now?" Matt asked, wringing out his soggy shirt over a bunch of mushrooms.
Joe surveyed the park around them, and spotted something. "Hey, look, there's one of those swan boats like the one you were in before…"
Izzy's head was still sort of spinning when he got off the small model of an airplane. "I never liked airplanes."
"Don't throw up, okay?" Mimi said. "After all, this is a really expensive dress…"
The redheaded boy grinned, realizing that Joe had gotten a very big minus in Mimi's book. And Matt…well, his shirt was covered in puke, so he didn't have to worry about him either. He was on top of the world.
"Go-carts!" Palmon said excitedly.
Agumon looked hesitant. "Does anyone smell smoke?"
Mimi sniffed the air. "Nope. Come on, I want that pretty pink car!"
"Tai!" Sora fished the boy out of the water. He came back onto the boat, looking like a drowned rat, and then he coughed up a whole bunch of water. He was also shivering like mad. "Are you all right?" she asked, as he wrung his hair.
"Yeah, I'm in the Tunnel of Love and I just fell into the freezing cold water," he said dryly (the only part of him not wet!).
"The Tunnel of Love isn't as bad as you think. It's just a long tunnel with music and glowing hearts. You know, love," Sora said.
"Well, of course you don't mind, crest of Love holder. Is there such a thing as the Tunnel of Courage?"
"Don't be stupid, Tai. This isn't so bad if it isn't even romantic at all."
He looked at her. "Exactly what do you call romantic?"
She paused to think for a while. "Well, fine, I guess the Tunnel of Love is sort of romantic. The music adds a really nice touch, and if it were under the moonlight with candles… Especially if you were with the one you loved. Oh yeah, one more thing."
"What?"
Sora looked down. "I can show you…"
At the same time… "Well, Matt, what do you think this ride is?" Joe asked, trying to look into the cave, but it was pitch black.
"My guess is we'll be seeing a bunch of funny mechanical Dutch children singing 'It's a Small World' very soon," he said, crossing his arms, angry that he wasn't sitting next to Mimi in this awfully cramped boat.
Joe laughed. "That sounds like something Tai would say."
"Are you kidding me? That is totally not something Tai would say."
"Well, Tai, what do you say?" Sora whispered, looking at him right in the eyes now. "Interested in the least?"
"It would be nice to see the crest of Love's complete idea of romantic. I can use it when I'm old enough to date or something," he replied.
"Well, remember you said that."
Tai looked surprised. "Why-?" But then he was cut off as Sora moved her face closer to his. He closed his eyes, and their lips were about to touch, when-
"Aaaagggghhhh!!!! The Tunnel of Love!!!" Tai and Sora instantly moved apart, blushing furiously, when they heard the yell.
"Move! I have to get out of here! I'm not staying with you, Joe!"
"How can I move, Matt? There's no room is this boat!"
"MAKE room!" the second voice shouted loudly. There was a strangled yell, a loud splash, and then another. "I have to find Mimi!"
Mimi got in the pink car like she wanted, but she was having a lot of trouble driving it. She kept bumping into the rails and other people's cars.
"Mimi, can you stop hitting me?" Gatomon asked, from a purple cart.
"If you wanted to go on the bumper cars, why didn't you tell us?" Agumon asked, swerving, as Mimi nearly crashed into him.
"I did, but Joe stopped me!"
Izzy grinned. Joe had another X in Mimi's book. He was going to get Mimi!
"Izzy, if you don't pay attention, you'll get in an accident just like Mimi!" Palmon said.
"Uh oh, speaking of accidents," Mimi said, screeching on the brakes and leaving a skid mark. Gatomon and Izzy both slammed into her, but they didn't care. They approached the smoking vehicle.
"That's Kari's whistle!" Gatomon said in shock.
"Isn't this TK's hat?" Mimi asked, pulling the green hat out of the rubble.
They all looked at each other. "Uh oh."
"Kari…Kari…wake up," TK said softly, gently shaking her shoulder. They had narrowly escaped the explosion. With Kari in his arms, TK had leaped over the fence and luckily landed in the sandbox of a playground area.
"Am I in heaven?" she asked weakly, blinking an eye open. "I thought I saw an angel…"
TK turned around. "Angemon!"
The digimon de-digivolved back into Patamon. "Are you all right, TK? I suddenly got a whole lot of energy…were you in trouble?"
TK nodded vigorously. "Kari crashed and the car exploded…"
"My head hurts," Kari whispered. "I - I'm so tired." Still sitting in TK's lap and snuggled in his arms, she rested her head against his chest, wrapped her arms around his neck, and fell asleep.
"I feel like I just jumped off a cliff," TK said, and also dozed off.
When Tai and Sora got off the boat ride, they couldn't talk to each other, let alone look in the other's eyes.
"Can I beat you at the ring toss yet?" he asked lamely, trying to break the awkward silence.
"How about we try to find Matt and Joe?" she suggested. "Their conversation sounded very interesting." So the two friends walked back to the exit of the Tunnel of Love.
"So…very…cold…" Matt said, his teeth chattering.
"You jumped in!" Joe yelled. "And took me with you!"
"I don't really think Mimi will go for us anymore," Matt said glumly. "I'm soaked and was previously covered in puke, you're also soaked, and you're the one who threw up. Does Izzy win?"
"Wait a minute, listen to that!" Joe cried.
"It's a cheesy love song, what about it?"
"We can sing to Mimi! She really likes music! That way we can win her heart!"
Matt stared at him blankly. "You mean we have to work together?"
"As long as it isn't Izzy!" Joe said.
"So we can sing!" Matt said excitedly. "And I can play my harmonica!" He pulled it out of his pocket, and water poured out the holes. "Or not."
"Joe singing?" Sora said with a snigger. "That'll be something to see."
Tai laughed. "You should have seen him when we had to sing to wake up that great ugly brute." He coughed and his voice was a very good impression of Joe's. "I'm attempting to sing a song…"
Sora giggled. "And I'm sure you wooed Mimi with your voice?" she asked teasingly.
"Hey, I'm not in this Mimi love web," he said. (That's right, so no one better vote for him to be with Mimi! Michi is evil, remember that, people! Yeah, you can still vote! NOTE: Mimato is HUGELY in the lead. If anyone ever wants to see a Mimoe from me, you better vote for it! As I said, the Koumi is in progress and I've done a Mimato and will do more.)
"Why not?"
Tai rolled his eyes. "You know how I love the color pink and our little princess. Actually, I have another girl here in mind…"
Sora whipped around. "I do hope you don't mean Kari!"
Tai was beating himself up for even saying what he did. "Of course not Kari!" He kept hitting his head repeatedly.
"Yes, keep doing that and it'll erase what you just said," she said sardonically.
"Hey, Joe and Matt are coming out!" he hissed, obviously trying to avert her attention.
But even though Sora was looking, she couldn't stop thinking. *Does Tai really like me?* Then she heard Matt and Joe's voices. They were coming! She just couldn't miss this!
"Come on, we have to find Matt and Tai," Izzy said urgently. "Then we have to find TK and Kari as soon as possible."
"What if they're - they're-" Mimi began.
"Kari's not dead, I can feel her," Gatomon said.
"Let's go find Matt!" Mimi cried. "And - and Tai, of course!"
Izzy looked a bit hurt, but then he ran with her. "Tai and Sora started at the bumper cars. I'll go that way."
"Matt was with us, but then he went to the bathroom with Joe. Let's just search the entire park!" Mimi said. She looked in every direction, when something caught her eye. "Look, swan boats! I think Matt would have noticed those. Let's go there, Palmon!"
"Joe, if you don't stop singing that dumb song in my ear," Matt said, "I'm going to kill you before you can sing it to Mimi!"
But Joe still didn't stop. "And I…eeiiiiii…will always love you ooooooo…."
"Maybe that's a good thing if I kill you! You're busting my eardrums! Joe, shut up!" he cried, putting his hands over his ears.
"You're just jealous because I can sing way better than you!" he yelled.
"Are you crazy? I'm obviously the only good singer here."
"Yeah right," Joe said sarcastically.
"I'll show you, Joe, one day I'll be in my own band. I'll be the vocalist, and I'll play the bass to top it off!" Matt said stubbornly.
"Yes, of course, and I'm actually going to study medicine." He shuddered. "Needles and blood give me the creeps."
"Whatever…hey, look! Light! It's real, actual sunlight! I can't take it in this boat anymore, I'm jumping out! I don't care how cold the water is…" He jumped out and began to wade through the shallow water, which was up to his waist. "I'm free! I'm free!" he yelled, running out of the tunnel. "FREEEEEE!!!!!" He jumped onto land, and started spinning and twirling around, water splashing everywhere. A few 'clicks' were heard, but he wasn't sure what it was and continued to jump around.
"Matt, are you okay?" Mimi asked, peering at him, while he did a strange pirouette in midair.
He blushed bright crimson. "Oh, Mimi! I was just -- I was...ummm...errr...that is to say -- hehe..." This time he heard another 'click' and whipped around in surprise. The clicks were from a camera; Tai had taken his picture, and he and Sora were doubling over in laughter.
"Maybe you should do ballet, not singing!" Sora giggled.
The swan boat finally emerged from the tunnel. "Mimi!" Joe exclaimed. He jumped out of the boat, ran to her, fell to the ground, grabbed them hem of her dress, and starting belting out Jessica Simpson's "I Wanna Love You Forever" at the top of his lungs and horribly off-key. "I wanna love you forever…and this is all I'm asking of you-"
"Joe!" Mimi groaned. "Get off, you're wrinkling my dress and wetting my shoes! I came here for Matt."
"WOO HOO!!!" Matt did another strange jig, Mimi raised her eyebrows, Sora couldn't stop giggling, and Tai took a few more pictures.
"Good thing I brought this camera," Tai said with a smile. "I was supposed to give it to Kari, but it's not like she's going to take up photography as a hobby!"
"Matt, forget ballet, you can join Michael Flatly, Lord of the Dance!" Sora said, and then cracked up. She was laughing so hard that she had to lean against Tai to keep her balance. He wasn't objecting.
"EXCUSE ME!" Mimi shouted. Everyone stopped to look at her; Matt tripped and fell flat on his face, Joe ended right in the middle of a high note he was attempting to reach, and Sora turned so suddenly that both she and Tai fell. "Thank you! I came here for Matt and Tai!"
"Why?" Tai asked, standing up and helping Sora up too.
"Because Kari and TK were in an accident," Palmon said. "We think they're in trouble."
"KARI!" Tai yelled. "Where is she?!"
"We don't know," Mimi said quietly. "I say we should split up and look for them."
"I say we stay together," Matt disagreed, because he wanted to stay with Mimi, but then covered his mouth that he even argued with her.
"Well, I vote that we split up," Sora said. "It's only an amusement park, we're not searching the whole Digiworld for Tai or something."
"In which case you were first to leave," Joe said. "Well, I say stick together. Tai, you vote chooses all and you're the leader, so we have to listen."
Tai thought for a minute. "It's the boys or the girls. I'm really surprised that the girls want to split up, but Sora's right, this is an amusement park. We'll find them a lot faster, don't you want that, Matt?"
He nodded, finally looking horribly worried that TK was missing and could be dead.
"All right then," Tai said. "The groups are Sora and I; Mimi, Joe, and Palmon; and Matt, you can go by yourself. Settled?"
"Settled," Joe cried. He and Mimi ran off in one direction, and the group could hear Joe's not so romantic croons of "Sweetheart" by Mariah Carey. "Won't you be my sweetheart? We could share a story book romance…"
"When will you three stop arguing over Mimi?" Sora asked, covering her ears with her hands and running in the opposite direction.
"When I win!" Matt called back, running another way.
"Hey, we'll find Kari right?" Tai asked Sora softly.
"Of course!" she said, grabbing his hand, supposedly to make him run faster with her, or most likely as a caring gesture. "Don't worry, I'm positive they're all right."
And, as Sora predicted, the two youngest children were in no present danger at all, sleeping peacefully in each other's arms. For the time being.
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A/N: Okay, that last part? (Hehe, from the movie 2GE+HER) I'm not even sure what that line means as if yet or what's going to happen next, all right? It's just a nice cliffhanger-ish thing, which I shouldn't be using, but it works. Sorry for all the Joe bashing in this, but wouldn't that be interesting to hear him belting out ballads? I'm starting to add a bit more Taiora and some Takari, but you can still vote for who Mimi will end up with! You knew, of course, I'd never let Kari and TK die, let Tai and Sora kiss that easily, or let Mimato win right away before giving the others another fighting chance. I know lots of people are sick of Mimatos, and others are begging for it, but I'm letting you guys pick because I don't want to have people's anger directed at ME, I like to have other people to blame it on.
Oh yeah, about the title! Someone named Raisin e-mailed me and suggested "Digidestined Just Want to Have Fun." I'm horribly indecisive (sp? Partially why I let you choose who Mimi gets), so you tell me if I should change it to that. So vote, review, and look out for the next part (possibly under another name)! Thanks so much for your huge response to the last part!
An interesting note (I'll have these in all my fics now, just so you can get to know some of what goes on in my crazy mind): I was going to make Joe sing Backstreet Boys or Hanson songs, but that was just too scary. It's a lot funnier to hear him singing ballads from Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and Jessica Simpson. Maybe Christina Aguilera will be next... Don't worry, Izzy will do something embarrassing in front of Mimi to make it fair. Sorry if everyone is a little OOC, but hey, it's my fic. Also, I added a lot of stuff from season 02 in this just for fun. Matt in a band, Joe studying medicine, Kari taking up photography, the land (actually valley) of duckies and bunnies...
Disclaimer: Digimon? Mine? Are you serious? Whew, what are you on? Man, if anyone believes a wacky, little twelve-year-old girl like me owns it, you are really, really crazy and must get serious medical attention immediately. I forgot the title of Whitney Houston's song, but it's hers, all right? "I Wanna Love You Forever" belongs to Jessica Simpson, and Mariah Carey owns her song (I'm not sure if that's the title either, all right? I've gone entirely brain-dead!) Oh yeah, Michael Flatly (sp?) belongs to himself and no offense to him, it's just sort of an inside joke my friends and I have. I don't steal songs and cartoon characters, just to clear that up. I steal people's pencils and erasers and bracelets and other little things they don't notice...