As the morning dawned over the Kamiya residence, Tai was helping his wife wash the breakfast dishes. "Thanks for that wonderful meal!" he said, drying a dish, "I'm..I'm sorry about last night, but, we'll work it out! You'll see!" Miya was about to say something, but the phone started to ring. "Shoot!" she said,"Could you get that, my hands are all wet!"
Tai picked it up. "Hello!" he said,"What, Izzy? How are you? Its been so long......What? But...how can that be! Its impossible! Yea! I'll be right there!"
"Who was that?" Miya asked as Tai hung up.
"It was Izzy!" he said, without even looking at her,"He needs me to meet him in Tokyo, today!"
"Well, tell him you can't make it!" she said, flatly.
"I-I can't do that!"
"Taichi Kamiya!" she said, clenching the towel she used to dry her hands,"If you walk out that door, don't bother coming back!"
"I'm....sorry, Miya! I have to go!" he said, as he went to pack.
Around lunch time that day, Tai and Agumon arrived at the fanciest hotel in all of Japan. "This is where Izzy and Tentomon are staying?" Agumon asked with awe.
"That's right!" Tai said, getting out of the car.
Once they reached their floor, the elevator doors slid open to reveal a dozen guns pointed at them. "This floors restricted!" one of the gunmen said.
"No, wait!" another said, walking up to Tai and Agumon. "This is the Kamiya guy the boss wants to see! Come right this way, sirs!"
"Thank you!" Tai said, following him,"Whats going on here?"
"Just doing our job!" the gunmen said, opening a hotel room door for them,"Mr. Izumi will explain everything!"
Inside the suite, Tai and Agumon saw Izzy and Tentomon sitting on a couch. "Izzy," Tai asked," What with all the rent-a-cops?"
"Is that any way to treat someone you haven't seen in three years?" Izzy asked. "I hired those guards to insure our privacy! You can't be too careful with all the digi-human haters out there!"
"Where are they?" Agumon asked.
"They're in the next room!" Izzy said,"They've been waiting for you!"
"How much have you told her?" Tai asked, with his hand on the handle.
"Nothing!" Tentomon said,"We left that up to you!"
Very slowly Tai opened the door, and his legs nearly gave way when he saw the sight on the other side. "Oh my God!" he thought,"Its her! Its really her!"
"Tai!" Sora cried, hugging him" I thought they were keeping you from me! I thought I would never see you again!"
"S-Sora!" he said, pushing her away so he could see her face. "Is it really you?"
"Of course its me!" she said matter-of-factly,"Tai, oh Tai, I've never seen you cry before!"
Tai looked over to see his Digimon, unfortunately, he was doing no better with Biyomon.
"Now that we're back together," Sora said," things can go back to the way they were! Even more so, because we're adults now! I have to tell you something Tai, I...I love you!"
"I hope I'm not interrupting anything!" Izzy and Tentomon said as they walked in."How are you two doing?"
"Fine!" Sora said, cheerfully.
"Yeah," Tai said, somberly, "Just fine!"
"Explain something to me!" he said,"I thought Sora died! How can you still be alive?"
"Remember when we fought Datamon?" Izzy asked,"Remember how you got into his lab moments before he was about to clone Sora?"
Tai nodded.
"Well," Sora said,"Here's what happened! Izzy got me to remember! Datamon cloned Biyomon and me, but the clones were so perfect, that they didn't even know they were clones! Datamon thought that maybe if he cloned the clones, they would have no spirit, so he tied my clone to a table and started to clone her. He put Biyomon and me inside two coffins, just in case the clones decomposed! He put us into Etemon's Dark Network Core room. Tai, you saved our original clones!"
"I-I'm at a loss for words!" Tai said."But, you know about Dark Gaurdamon and the Crest of Hate?"
She nodded, sadly.
"How can you love me if your clone did?" Tai asked. He was so out of it, he didn't realize the simple answer.
"Because the clone had my memories!" Sora said," And I had a crush on you since the day we meet! When we got to the Digiworld, it started to blossom!"
"But enough of that!" Sora said,"I've been reading up on news to catch up, do you know what's happening out there? We were the first of a new kind of human, a Digi-human! But the regular humans don't trust them! If you're a digi-human, you can be killed on the street almost! We have to do something!"
"Well," Izzy said,"We've, ah, retired from the super-hero biz!"
"What!" Sora said,"Tai, you're the leader, talk some sense into him!"
"I've, ah, given it up as well!"
"What?" Sora asked,"You guys make me sick! Where's your commitment to our destiny! We were chosen to save this world! Now there are others like us, and you just want to sit back and let them be killed!"
She walked over to the wall. "Let's go, Biyomon!"
"Biyomon digivolve to Birdramon!"
Birdramon blew a hole into the side of the hotel. Sora jumped on her and flew out.
"Sora!" Izzy cried, "Wait! Come on Tai, we have to go after her!"
"I...can't!" he said,"I'm so confused! Nothing makes sense!"
"Well, the heck with you!" Izzy said, hopping on Kabuterimon's back.
Sora hopped off Birdramon's back a few blocks from the hotel. "Great!" she said as her digimon de-digivolved to Biyomon,"What do we do now?"
"Sora!" Izzy said, landing next to her.
"So you found us!" she said,"I've got nothing to discuss with you!"
"Well," Kabuterimon said,"Izzy and I decided that you're right!"
"What do we do?" Biyomon asked.
"I've got an idea!"
Matt looked at his watch for what must have been the hundredth time that hour. He looked at the secretary in the waiting room, she gave no indication of how much longer he would be waiting there. "Gabumon," he whispered to the Digimon at his feet,"I think we'd better go!"
Just then the door next to the secretary opened. A man walked out saying,"Mr. Ishida, I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, please come in!"
Gabumon followed Matt into his office. "Have a seat!" the man said.
"Thank you, Dean!" Matt said.
"Now," the Dean said, holding up a piece of paper,"Your resume is impressive! Including your musical and teaching degrees!"
"Thank you sir!" Matt said, adjusting his tie," I'm really anxious to start teaching music as soon as possible!"
"Matt, let me be frank, I've received a number of, petitions from the other faculty members. It appears that they would not like a Digi-human on the staff! Therefore I must reject your application!"
"Reject?" Matt said, letting his temper get the best of him," This is the fifteenth interview I've been on and all I've encountered are prejudices! Well, you can take your music department and shove it up you butt!"
Matt opened his office window and hopped out with Gabumon in towe. As they ran down the street, a man stepped out of one of the alleys. "Yamato Ishida?" he asked. "May I have a word with you?"
"Unless you're offering a paying job, I've got nothing to say to you!"
"As a matter of fact, this does involve payment! Koushiro Izumi sent me!"
"Izzy?" Gabumon asked.
"Lead the way!" Matt said.
Joe walked down the hall of the hospital, wiping his sweating hands on his surgeon's uniform. He looked at his watch. It was almost time for his shift to end. It was weird, out of all the old Digidestined, he missed the adventure of superheroisim.
He sighed as he plopped down in his office. There was a knock on the door. "Joe Kido?" the man asked.
"Yes?" he replied.
"May I have a word with you?"
Mimi quickly closed her makeup kit. Her boss was returning from the bathroom. She hated being a secretary, but this was the only position in the only office building that really didn't care that she was a Digi-human. "Ah, Mimi!" he said.
"Yes sir?" she asked as politely as possible.
"I want the Baxter Account on my desk pronto!" he said walking back into his office.
"Yes, sir," she replied. The Baxter Account, but that file was buried in the file room. She was about to turn on the answering machine, when the phone rang. "Torichi Accounting, Mimi speaking, how may I help you?"
"What?" she said,"Sure! Tell Izzy I'll be there right away!" She grabbed her bags and walked to her bosses office. "Sir, I quit!"
One hour later, a sleek helicopter dropped off six very bewildered passengers in front of a giant building. "Holy crow!" Palmon said after they entered,"This place is huge!"
"Do you like it?" Izzy asked, stepping out of the elevator.
"Izzy!" Matt said," What is this all about? Did you just call us here to show off another one of your real estate buys?"
"This is the headquarters of our new corporation!" Izzy's father said, stepping out of the elevator, "But we'll explain that later!"
"Yeah!" Izzy said,"Right now, we've got the biggest surprise of your life!"
"What are you talking about?" Gomamon asked, a little annoyed.
"I think he's referring to me!" a voice said from the elevator.
"S-S-Sora?" Matt studdered,"C-Can it be?"
"I-Is it r-r-really y-y-you?" Mimi asked.
"The one and only!" she said, hugging all of them.
After she told them her story, Matt said,"This is great! There's so much to talk about!"
"Later!" Izzy said,"Right now we need your help! Its Tai! He, ah, disappeared a few weeks ago! We now he's still in town because the hotel he's staying at is getting orders for food from him, but we don't know when he goes to his room! Anyway, Sora, Biyomon, Tentomon and I have a lot of work to do here!"
"And everything we're trying to do depends on Tai's participation!"
"What are we trying to do?" Joe asked.
"Never mind that now!" Matt said," If Tai's seen Sora, talked with her, then we get the picture! Come on!"
"Do you have any idea where to start?" Mimi asked.
"I've got an idea!"
They found Tai and Agumon in the old Heighten View Terrace playground's soccer field. "Tai?" Matt asked.
"Leave me alone, Ishida!" Tai snapped.
"Yeah!" Agumon said,"Back off!"
"Guys, what's wrong?" Mimi asked.
"My whole life!" Tai said. "This is where I first meet Sora, you know? Back then I was a moody, cold, seven year old. Then I meet Sora, and she got me to open up! My Sora never even died! It was just that...that thing!"
"Tai,"Joe began.
"What do I tell her about Miya? How can I face her?"
"Do you still love her?" Mimi asked.
"I-I-I.."
"Tai," Matt said," I can't pretend to know how you feel, but do you think that Sora wouldn't understand? She was always the most mature one, she would understand! She was gone, and you went on with your life! That's what she would have wanted for you!"
"Tai, we have a second chance to do something good!" Joe said.
"I know," Tai said," Sora was right."
"Come on them!" the Digimon said, pushing Tai's legs,"Things will work out, you'll see!"
"And we'll be with you the whole way!" Matt said,"That's what friends are for!"
The next day, they were all seated in Izzy's new building's conference room. Mr. Izumi stood at the head of the table. "Now, our problem, simply stated, is that the new Digi-humans are feared because they don't know how to control their gifts of their Digimon! Our mission is to do just that, teach them how to control their gifts!"
"What are you talking about?" Mimi asked.
"Let me explain!" Mr. Izumi said,"Our organization's goal will be to find these new Digi-humans and you guys will teach them how to control their gifts! Since we'll be looking for Digi-humans, we'll shall be called the Digi-Force! The process is quite simple! We'll place ads in all type of publications! Then when someone reports a Digi-human, you'll go in disguise as normal human scientists and psychologists and 'capture them' when in reality, you'll teach them how to use their gifts!"
"Wow!" Matt said. "We're in!" he said, mentioning to Gabumon.
"Yeah!" Mimi replied. "Us too!" she said including Palmon.
"So are we!" Joe and Gomamon said.
"Tai?" Izzy asked.
"Well," Agumon asked, "What about us?"
"Its crazy!" Tai said,"But it just might work! Okay! You'll got a field leader!"
Then the newly formed Digi-Force cheered.
Later that week, up in northern Japan, Miya started at the television set. Although she told Tai not to come back, she missed him deeply and figured he would return. Then she saw the Digi-Force ads. She recognized her husband. She turned her head away to a picture of Tai holding up their child, and she knew he wasn't coming back.
to be continued...