"Two, four, six, eight! Who do we appreciate?"
"Tai! Tai! Gooooo-"
"Ew! No way! Matt!"
"No way! Not even! You're messing it all up!" Emily and Sora put their hands on their hips and glared at Mimi and Katie. Earlier that day, Matt and Tai had decided to have an arm wrestling match. All the girls except Kari volunteered to be cheer leaders. Actually, both Kari and TK had wanted to be cheerleaders, but both brothers wouldn't allow it. Matt didn't want TK stooping to a girl's level and Tai didn't think it would be right to have his sister cheering for him like that. So it was up to the other four girls to cheer each boy on. Unfortunately, Emily couldn't resist interrupting Katie's cheers and messing them up. This caused Katie to interrupt Emily several times, herself.
"Ok! I've got a good cheer!" Emily jumped next to Tai a yelled out, "Who are- who are- who are we? We're the class of '03! No, wait! That's not right!"
"Geeze Emily! You sounded like you got a little lost right there!" Katie giggled.
"Watch a professional!" Mimi hopped beside Matt and pushed her cow-boy hat to the side a little bit. Then she shouted, "Bang! Bang! Choo- choo train! Come on Matt and do your thang! Auoo! * clap clap clap* Auoo! * clap clap clap clap* Goooo Matt!"
Emily rolled her eyes. Sora nudged her and they smiled at each other. Then they both went next to Tai and yelled "This guy right here is Tai! And he's gonna rock this match to a victory! Hold up, wait a minute! Put a little boom in it. Boom! Let's fire it up! Boom boom! Let's fire it up! Boom boom boom! Let's fire it up! Boom boom! Let's fire it up!"
"Hmmm. You got me beat on that one." Katie and Mimi nodded in approval of Emily and Sora's cheerleading skills.
"Are you girls still cheerleading? We finished the match two minutes ago!" Tai said, jumping behind Sora, lifting her up off the ground, and twirling her through the air.
"Tai! Ah! Tai! Put me down!" Sora laughed.
Mimi turned to Izzy. "How come you never spin me around like that, Izzy? Huh?"
"Me? Well, um... how do I put this?" Izzy looked up at Mimi who towered over him. "You're a little... well, big for me to pick up."
"Big? Are you calling me fat?" Mimi almost shouted.
"No! I was just-" Izzy stammered.
"I think what Izzy was trying to say," Sora and Tai joined them. "was that you're taller than him, Mimi. I think it would be awkward for him to lift you off the ground without you two ending up in a weird position."
"Oh." Mimi blushed. "Well, I wouldn't want anything like that to happen, would I?"
"Chain chain chaaain. Chain chain chaaaain. Hmm hmm chaaaaaai aaaai aaaaai aaai aaain. Chain of fools." Emily snapped her fingers as she looked around for her guitar case. "He told me to, leave him alone. My father said, 'she can come on home!'. My doctor said-"
" 'Take it easy!' Oh my lovin' was much too strong!" Katie cut in. "You never do stop singing, do you?"
"There's nothing wrong with that. Especially since I'm the lead singer."
"Yeah, well I'm the other singer! So that means I can sing too!"
"Fine! Be my guest!" Emily walked over to Joe, Candymon, and Gomamon, who were sitting on her guitar case. "Ahem."
They looked up at Emily, then stood up so that she could get her guitar out. In the meantime, Katie went and got out her keyboard. Then the two girls sat across from each other on logs and waited. "What should we sing? Something from our tour?"
"Yeah! Like from the 'Inspirations segment!' "
"Inspirations segment? What's that?" Kari looked at them curiously.
"That was a part of our tour where we did a tribute to our inspirations. You know, sing a couple of their songs and stuff."
"Wow!" Kari smiled. "Maybe, someday, I'll be able to be a GQ!"
"Hey! You never know!" Emily smiled at her, then looked at Katie. "How about Janis Ian?"
"Nah. I think 'At Seventeen' might depress us. Tina Turner?"
"Nope. We had a synthesizer for half her sings, remember? How about the Carpenters?"
"Yeah! I love those guys!"
"Which song? 'We've only just Begun'?"
"Sounds good to me. Ready?"
"Hold on." The girls adjusted their instrument straps, then began to play, with Emily singing lead. "We've only just begun to live. White lace and promises. A kiss for luck and we're on our way."
"We've only begun."
"Before the rising sun we fly."
"So many roads to chose. We start out walking-"
"And learn to ruuuuun."
"And yet we've just beguuuuu uuu uun"
"Sharing horizons that are new to us. Watching for signs along the way."
"Talking it over, just the two of us."
"Working together day to daaaaaay."
"Together. And when the evening comes, we smile."
"So much of life ahead. We'll find a place where there's room to grow."
"And yet we've just beguuuu uuu uuun."
"Sharing horizons that are new to us. Watching for signs along the way."
"Talking it over, just the two of us."
"Working together day to daaaaaay."
"Together. And when the evening comes, we smile."
"So much of life ahead. We'll find a place where there's room to grow."
"And Yet we've just beguuuuuuu uuuuun."
"And yes we've just beguuuun."
Emily and Katie sang the last line together, "And yet we've just beguuuuuun"
"Beautiful. Good job, Katie!" Emily smiled.
"Why thank you Emily! You were quite good yourself!" They shook hands. "Um, is it just me, of is it unusually quiet?"
They looked around to see all the other Digidestined starring at them in astonished silence. "Uh, does this mean you didn't like it?" Emily eyed Tai whose head was cocked to one side as he stared.
"Helloooooooo? Matt?" Katie stared at Matt, who shushed her. "Huh? What are you loo- oh!"
"What! What is it?" Emily spun around to see what everyone was staring at. Joe slowly brought his hand out and pointed to some near by bushes.
A small creature trembled under a branch. It's shiny black nose twitched and it's black eyes glistened in fear. Bunnymon took a step towards it, but it backed away.
"Come on out! We won't hurt you, unless you're involved with GAG, of course." Gatomon semi-coaxed. At the mention of GAG, the small creature shrunk down a little bit and swung it's long fluffy tail in front of it, as if to protect itself.
"Aw! It's so adorable!" Mimi bent down. "C'mere you! Mimi won't hurt you! Come on..." She smiled and held out her fingers.
The creature looked up cautiously. "Eee?" It's tail twitched and it stepped forward slowly to sniff at Mimi.
"Oh! That tickles!" She giggled. "You're a strange looking Digimon, aren't you?"
Izzy typed rapidly on his laptop, then looked up. "I don't believe this! Technically, this isn't even a Digimon at all! It doesn't even analyze on the identifier as anything!" He looked over the laptop. "What are you? Hmm?"
"Eee. Eevee vee eev ee vee eev eevee ee." The creature looked around.
"Um, does anyone know what it just said?" Matt looked at Gatomon. "You're a cat. Didn't it just make a cat noise or something?"
"I'll have you know it didn't!" Gatomon said indignantly. "I think I'd know when something was meowing!"
"Well whatever it is, it's not a Digimon. If it was, it would be in it's baby form, but it's too big to be that." Candymon eyed the size of the creature.
"Hmm. I wonder why it got so afraid when we mentioned GAG?" The creature's ears pricked, and it looked up at Emily sadly.
"Eevee. Ee vee vee ee. Vee?"
"Aw! What's wrong? Why does the name- Wait a sec!"
"What is it?" Everyone turned to Emily.
"Don't you remember, Katie? Doesn't that noise sound familiar?"
"Hmm. What did you say again?" Katie looked down at the creature questioningly.
"Eevee. Ee vee vee ee." It cocked it's head to the side.
"Eevee... Eevee...Eevee...hmmm" Katie and Emily were silent for a minute. Then suddenly, "That's it!"
"The Pokefreak! That's it!" Katie jumped up and down.
"The Pokewhat?" All the other Digidestined gawked.
"The Pokefreak. He was this guy who hypnotized people by shooting these things called Pokemon out of his shirt. Who ever saw them would be hypnotized by their cuteness. I think he shot one of these at us. What was it called again? Quick! Izzy, give me your laptop!"
Emily rapidly logged onto the Internet and typed in pokemon.com. Just as she suspected, there was a icon that read 'Pokemon guide'. Emily hit 'download' and sat back for a second. "When this is done, I can hook it into your Digimon analyzer, and it'll tell us what this is." She explained. "Oh! Done!" She typed for a second, then took out her digivice. "Point that at that thing, would ya?" She handed her digivice to Kari who obeyed, then handed it back. "Ok. Now let's see..." Emily, who had watched Izzy use his analyzer several times, clicked the keyboard. Suddenly, an image appeared.
"Ah ha! This is called an Eevee. It's attacks are tail whip, bite, and take-down."
"Hmm. Odd, I didn't know there were things other than Digimon here." Sora looked curiously at the Eevee. "I still wish that we could understand what it was saying, thought. I don't think any of us speak Eevee, even the digimon. They speak the same language as we do."
"That's not entirely true Sora." Izzy took his laptop back from Emily. "When Tentomon de-digivolved into Pabumon, the only sounds he could communicate with was similar to the Eevee's, except that he said 'pabu' instead of 'eevee'. I'm guessing that other digimon could understand what Pabumon said. Is this possible?" He turned to the Digimon.
"Well, yeah Izzy. How do you think the seven of us communicated before we digivolved into our in-training forms?" Agumon motioned to the others.
"I rest my point." Izzy looked at the Eevee who was being petted by Kari. "Now if we could just de-digivolve one of the Digimon into their fresh stage, we could try to get the Eevee to communicate with them, then they could relay it to one of the other Digimon and they could tell us." Izzy stopped to take a breath.
"But Izzy, in order to do that, one of us would have to de-digivolve. You know how much that take out of us." Palmon tugged at Izzy's sleeve.
"Yes. It was just an idea. I would want to put the Digimon's lives in danger." Izzy sighed and looked back at the Eevee. "I guess we'll just have to find some other way of communicating, then."
"Too bad it's not a cat." All eyes jumped to Katie. "The side effect of my super power is that I can talk telepathically with cats." Everyone sighed. Things were starting to get frustrating.
"I'll do it." Tentomon stood up.
"What? You can't be serious!" Izzy grabbed Tentomon to try to shake some sense into him.
"Izzy, I have a feeling that this Eevee knows things that will be useful to us. Please, it's the only way. Besides, I'm only one digimon, you'll still have the others around to protect you while I'm de-digivolved."
"Tentomon, are you really willing to do this?" Sora looked at Izzy, then Tentomon.
"I've got to. It's the only way."
"Tentomon!" Izzy got tears in his eyes and reached forwards to pull his digimon into a hug. "Be careful buddy," he whispered.