A Distrust Between Digi-destined
[Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, terms, concepts, etc. I made up Shinji Shazaki and her Crest.]
Prologue: The Digi-destined found the 9th child Shinji, and they found out that her digimon was Myotismon, a formerly evil digimon, like Gatomon. Now they have to find the new evil in the Digiworld. But who could it be…?
Note: Even though Venommyotismon never appeared, I'm still going to say that all the digimon can reach their Ultimate levels, except Angemon, and Agumon and Gabumon can warp-digivolve.
Tai glared at the 9th child, Shinji. He still didn't trust her, even though she was going to help them defeat the new menace to the Digiworld. He didn't trust her for two reasons. 1.) Her digimon was Myotismon, a, in his opinion, pure evil digimon. 2.) When Shinji and Myotismon first met, she was able to immobilize him without use of a digimon. If his glare could kill, Shinji would be dead about fifty times over. He and his orange digimon, Agumon, had the same views on everything and Agumon was glaring right along with him.
His little sister, Kari, trusted everyone, unlike her stubborn brother. So she was walking almost next to Myotismon. Tai wanted desperately to pull her away from him. Matt was fairly trusting of people, so he didn't mind. TK was like Kari, so he trusted Shinji. Sora trusted everyone, like Kari. Mimi, Joe, and Izzy trusted her as well. So one out of eight kids and digimon didn't trust Shinji. And she had absolutely no idea that they didn't trust her.
Myotismon knew that the Digi-destined other than Shinji basically hated him. But he didn't care. He was more worried about the children trusting his partner. He could see Tai glaring holes in Shinji's back and snarled under his breath. They continued through the dense forest when they came across a chasm. A rickety bridge spanned the gap. Everyone walked carefully across it except for Tentomon, who flew everywhere. Kari looked down, stupidly enough. She was scared of heights! She froze in fear. Shinji was just ahead of her and they were the last two people on the bridge. "Kari, give me your hand!" Shinji said sticking her hand out.
Tai turned around and ran back onto the bridge. He shoved Shinji hard in the chest so he could reach Kari. Shinji fell back and rolled off the bridge, bumping into Myotismon's legs. Tai ran to Kari and grabbed her hand. The bridge's ropes snapped from Tai running on it. Tai and Kari fell into the deep chasm and Tentomon digivolved. Kabuterimon dove after the two kids and soon returned, holding them in his hands. Shinji stood back up with an angry look on her face. It was late afternoon when this occurred and the sun set just as Kabuterimon digivolved back to Tentomon. Agumon lit a fire and everyone sat down except for Tai and Shinji. "Why did you shove me Tai?!" Shinji shouted, "If you hadn't, you and Kari wouldn't have been put in so much danger!" "She is right Tai." Kari said, backing Shinji up.
"I don't trust you at all!" Tai retorted. "What? Why not?" Shinji asked angrily. "First off, your digimon is him!" Tai shouted, pointing at Myotismon, "And you were able to stop him from attacking him the first time you met!" "So you don't trust me because of that?" Shinji asked. She growled under her breath and turned around. Myotismon walked over to her. "He-" he tried to say. He started to put his hand on Shinji's shoulder, but Shinji ran into the forest. "Hey wait!" he called after her. He glared at Tai before running after Shinji. "What did you do that for?" Matt asked, "Why don't you trust her?" "Because I don't!" Tai shouted, "Anyway, she can take care of herself, she doesn't need to be around us!"
"Matt's right Tai!" Sora said. The digimon looked on, this seemed to happen a lot so they just watched. "Let's see what Genni says about this." Izzy said opening his laptop. As if Genni knew this was going on, he sent them an e-mail. "I see that you're all back in the Digiworld!" he said, "Did you find the 9th child?" "Yes we did." Izzy said, "But Tai doesn't trust her." "So what's your opinion on this Genni?" Tai asked. "So where is she?" he asked. "She ran off because Tai said that he didn't trust her!" Mimi cut in. "YOU MADE HER RUN AWAY?!" Genni yelled at Tai, "DON'T YOU KNOW THAT IF YOU ARE NOT TOGETHER WHEN THE TIME COMES, BOTH WORLDS WILL BE DESTROYED?!" "So?" Tai asked. "YOU FIND HER OR ELSE!" Genni said. The mail ended and everyone glared at Tai and Agumon. "What? What?!" Tai yelled. "You idiot!" Matt shouted. "Look, we already made one friend run off, we don't need anyone else to rip another's throat out!" Sora said. She said friend directly at Tai. "Let's just go to sleep!" she said. Everyone agreed and laid down, except for Joe and Gomamon, who were on guard duty first.
"Do you think Tai's wrong about Shinji Gomamon?" Joe asked. "Whatever your decision is Joe, I believe in it!" Gomamon said. Even though Joe and Gomamon argued sometimes, they were the best of friends. Joe checked his watch and woke Sora and Biyomon up for their shift. "Hey Joe?" Sora asked. "What is it Sora?" Joe responded. "Do you think that Tai is wrong?" she asked. "Well, he is a little overprotective of Kari and everybody else." Joe said, "But I'm sure he means well." "Yeah. I hope he realizes that Shinji is a nice kid." Sora said. "Well goodnight." Joe said. He and Gomamon lay down and fell asleep. Sora and Biyomon sat down near the fire and stared into it.
Shinji was still running through the forest. Myotismon finally caught up with her and stopped her. "Why are you running away?" Myotismon asked. "Do you trust me Myotismon?" Shinji asked. "Of course. What kind of a digimon would I be if I didn't trust my own partner?" he answered. "I don't understand why Tai and Agumon don't trust me." Shinji said looking away. "Shinji, it's alright." Myotismon said putting his hands on Shinji's shoulders, "You know that it's only Tai and Agumon. That doesn't mean that everybody else doesn't trust you." "Whatever Tai says, they follow." Shinji said, "Tai's their leader. They trust him. They don't trust me." "Of course they do." Myotismon attempted to cheer Shinji up, "We should go to sleep, it's very dark." Shinji nodded silently and they fell asleep under the moon.
After they had woken up, which was actually early, they walked through the forest. The sun in the Digiworld did not effect Myotismon and Shinji had her hands in her pockets. They came across a large lake. "Where are we going?" Myotismon asked. Shinji didn't answer. A large shadow fell upon Shinji and Myotismon. Shinji looked up and saw a giant tree. "Be careful Shinji." Myotismon warned, "That's Cherrymon and he's the best reason for the existence of termites. I know who he works for. The new evil here, the Dark Masters!" "The Dark Masters?" Shinji asked. "It's a group of four evil digimon that controls the Digiworld on top of Spiral Mountain." he explained. "Very astute Myotismon!" Cherrymon said, "But I don't work for them anymore." "Get lost before I turn you into a very large pile of firewood!" Myotismon said moving in front of Shinji.
"So you're the 9th Digi-destined." Cherrymon said to Shinji, "And no one trusts you." "How did you know?" Shinji asked. "The trees just can't seem to stop talking." he said, "But I know how to solve your problem. There is one way to solve this. Look into the lake over there." Cherrymon pointed to the lake and Shinji walked over to it. "What's the point?" Shinji asked. "You will see the person you need to defeat in order to be trusted." Cherrymon said. The lake shimmered and an image appeared. It was… "Tai!" Shinji shouted, "I have to defeat Tai?!" "That's right." Cherrymon said. Shinji laughed. "That's a good one!" Shinji said, "You almost had me fooled! Nice try!" "The lake of truth doesn't lie and you should always listen to your elders!" Cherrymon said, "Or is that redwoods? I can never get those two right. Comrades, allies, friends, these are just words."
A gust of wind blew hundreds and hundreds of leaves off of Cherrymon and at Shinji and Myotismon. Shinji dropped to her hands and knees. "What do I do?" she asked. Myotismon stooped down on one knee and put his hand on her shoulder. "I don't understand this." Shinji said. "I do." Myotismon said, "Cherrymon is trying to trick you into thinking that you have no one to trust or for them to trust you. And you understand, no matter what, you always have someone that trusts you and is your friend, comrade, and ally. Now come with me. We shouldn't listen to Cherrymon." Myotismon stood Shinji up and they ran into the forest. "That girl is very strong. It took every trick I had to undermine her." Cherrymon thought after Shinji and Myotismon disappeared.
The eight other Digi-destined were walking through the forest, looking for Shinji. "Why do we have to do this?" Tai asked. He still didn't trust Shinji. "Knock it off Tai." Matt said. A blue beam of energy shot into the ground just before the children. A sea dragon made of metal flew overhead. Izzy quickly checked his computer. "He's Metalseadramon! It says that he's one of the Dark Masters and is a Mega digimon." he said, reading the screen. "Dark Masters?" Tai asked. "It must be the new bad guys!" TK said. "I've been waiting for you Digi-destined!" Metalseadramon shouted, "River of Power!" Another blue beam of energy shot at the kids. They ran away. Agumon warp-digivolved into Wargreymon and flew at Metalseadramon. They had run to the edge of the sea and were battling it out there.
"MEGA CLAW!" Wargreymon shouted. He turned into an orange tornado and glanced off Metalseadramon. "RIVER OF POWER!" Metalseadramon shouted. "TERRA FORCE!" Wargreymon shouted. He turned into a tornado once more and cut through the beam. He tore through Metalseadramon. He turned back into Koromon and fell into Tai's arms. "You did it Koromon!" he shouted. Koromon's eyes were spinning from being dizzy. "Who are the Dark Masters?" Matt asked. Just on time, Genni sent them another e-mail. "I suppose you've now heard of the Dark Masters?" he asked, "Just for clarification, the Dark Masters are a group of evil digimon. They relocated the entire Digiworld on Spiral Mountain. The four digimon are Metalseadramon, Puppetmon, Machinedramon, and Piedmon." With each digimon he spoke of, the analyzer showed them on the screen.
"Shinji and Myotismon don't know about them!" TK shouted. "We have to find them!" Kari shouted. "You guys can go ahead then." Tai said, "I'm not going." "Oh shut up Tai!" everyone shouted. "TK, you're coming with me." Matt said. "I want to go with TK and Matt." Kari said. "Izzy and Mimi will come with me." Joe said. "OK then, Tai and I will go with each other." Sora said. "Let's go!" everyone shouted except Tai. They went their separate ways in the Digiworld, hoping to find each other and their new ally soon.
Epilogue: Tai was beginning to think that he was wrong about Shinji. But unfortunately, the Dark Masters were making sure that they would not be able to get back together…
Next: A Dark Pit of Self Pity and Sadness.