Tai-18
Sora-17
Kari-12
Matt-18
Joe-18
T.K.-13
Sabrina-17
Lance-18
Izzy-16
Blaine-40
Erika-20
Ash-18
Misty-17
Mimi-16
Part 3: Sora watched Tai walk down the dark alleyway. She wanted to thank him, but she didn't know how. She had been silent when they left the restaurant, even when they stopped at her apartment to get her Yokomon. She didn't even know why she was going with him. Well, she needed to get her Yokomon stronger, but, besides that, it was something else. Something inside her heart. No! She just met him, she couldn't have a crush on him, could she?
"We're here." he said.
Sora snapped back to attention. They had stopped in front of an old warehouse. He pushed a sequence on a keypad and opened the door. "After you," he said. She walked inside and to her disappointed, it was only a warehouse. She was expecting a secret room filled with high tech gadgets and special equipment, but there was none. There were, however, tons of cardboard boxes, and three doors on the wall. Tai closed the door. "Kari," he said,"I'm back."
There was no answer. "Kari?" he called again.
"She's asleep."
"Koromon!" Tai yelled at his Digimon as he bounced over,"What do you mean she's asleep? What if someone attacked?"
"That's why I'm awake," he said, mater-of-factly.
"Oh, where is she?" "She's at the map table. Come on."
Sora followed Tai as he walked through the maze of boxes. He stopped when he saw his sister with her head down on a large table, with Gatomon curled up by her head. "She's out like a log," he said.
"She's soooo cute!" Sora said,"She looks just like you!"
Tai gave her a funny look that said she could be out of there in no time flat. "Kari," he said, putting his hand on her head,"Kari?"
She sat up quickly. "Huh? Oh, Tai, its you."
"What were you doing?"
Kari picked up Gatomon and placed her on her lap. She brushed cat fur and hair off a map of a building. "I was looking for a way into the production plant."
"Did you find anything?"
"Well," Kari said, tracing over a pre-drawn red line,"this way seems the safest. Through the air conditioning duct, we should bypass all the motion detectors."
"What about cameras?" Sora asked.
Everyone looked at her. "Who are you?" Gatomon asked, suspicously.
"Oh!" Tai said, slightly embarrassed that he forgot about her. "Guys, this is.."
"Sora," Kari said,"I remember you from Egypt."
"..Kari, right?" she asked with a smile.
She nodded. "That's right. I don't mean to be rude or anything, but about my Yokomon..."
"Right," Tai sighed. he walked over to a metal table with an overhead lamp. Turning it on he said,"Bring her over here."
Sora placed the small radish Digimon on the table. Tai began to poke and prod her. "Hee hee!" Yokomon laughed,"That tickles."
"Hmm," Tai said,"You've never even made it up to Rookie, have you?"
Yokomon shook her head. "No," she said, sadly,"I haven't."
Tai turned off the lamp. "Well?" Sora asked, impatiently.
"I can teach you, but it will take time."
"Yes!" Sora and Yokomon said at the same time.
"Time I don't have!"
"You...you won't do it?" Sora asked.
Tai shook his head. "I'm very busy and.."
"Can she stay, please?" Kari asked.
"Kari?" Tai asked, surprised. "No, I don't have time!"
"Please, big brother?" she said in a really sweet voice.
"Okay," Tai said,"She can stay."
Sora felt a renewed sense of hope. She suddenly felt her arm begin tugged. She looked up and saw that it was Kari. "Come on!" she said, leading her to a door,"You can sleep in my room!"
After she dragged Sora in, Tai said,"Kari, get some sleep, okay?"
"Okay!" Kari said, closing the door.
"You can sleep there, okay?" Kari said, pointing to a bed against the left wall.
"Oh, sure," Sora said, sitting down,"By the way, why did you want me to stay?"
"Oh, " Kari said,"its because of Tai! He's becoming so unemotional! He needs a girlfriend! Little sisters can tell these things."
"What?" Sora thought. "A girlfriend?" Outloud she said,"Well, thank you for convincing him!"
"That's no problem! Its easy!" Kari said, smiling wickedly,"All I have to do is say 'big brother' really sweetly, and I'll get anything! I must be his soft spot!" "His only one!" Sora said.
Kari's face soften. "Please don't think of him like that! You don't know what we've been through. Our parents were killed when Apocalymon entered this world. He would have killed us except Koromon and Salamon got us out of there fast enough. We ran, well, Tai carried me since I was only four, anyway, we ran until a strange man called Geni appeared. He took us under his wing and taught Tai many things about the Digimon and Digiworld, like for instance, do you know what that device that came with your Digimon is called and what it can do is?"
Sora pulled hers out. She shook her head.
"Well, its called a Digivice and helps focus energy so your Digimon can digivovle! He also gave us special tags and crests that help them digivovle too. We stayed with him until I was about six, then we came back one day and found he had been killed. We've been on our own ever since."
"Wow," Sora said,"I had no idea!"
"Hey!" they suddenly heard him yell," Get to sleep in there!"
Pallet Town The city of hopes and dreams, now a desolate town of despair and nightmares. The beautiful blue sky was no full of black smog. The green grass was now gone. In its place was mechanical junk and dripping oil. The buildings were all decrepit and all desolate, except for one.
Inside this special house, more specifically, on the living room couch, Misty slowly opened his eyes. "What time is it?" she asked herself. She looked at the clock on her wall. "Ahh!" she said, totally sitting up. "Ash!" she cried outloud,"Ash!"
There was no answer. Where is he? "Ash!"
"I'm right here," he said, walking in from the hallway.
"Ash!" she cried,"What about the raid?"
Pikachu came in with a rolled up piece of paper in his mouth. "I've got the building plans!" Ash said.
"You what?" Misty screamed."You went alone? You could have been killed!"
"Easy!" Ash said, holding up his hands. "I didn't want to wake you!"
"Why?" she asked, her eyes matching the color of her hair," so I could wake up to you dead? Do you hate me that much?"
"Misty," Ash said, placing his hand on her shoulders,"You know thats not true. I love you more than anything."
"I-I know," Misty said, meekly. "I'm sorry. Its just, I don't want to be in this world all alone!"
"You won't have to." he said, laying down on the coach with her lying on top of him,"This world won't last forever."
"Its the only world I know," she said, kissing him,"Don't let anyone take you away from me!"
Pikachu decided the two lovers need to be alone, so it turned and left.
Across the country at Highten View Terrece another couple was attempting a rest from the horrible reality that they live in. Matt and Sabrina were sleeping peacfuly, went Sabriana suddenly shot up, screaming.
"What is it?" Matt cried, instantly awake.
"I...I saw something!" Sabrina said,"Something horrible, something, I can't explain!"
"What?"
Sabrina started to calm down. "I..I saw you, but you were with your brother, Izzy, Joe, Mimi, and three kids I didn't regognize, a black haired boy, a brown haired girl, and a little girl that looked like the boy."
Matt diddn't understand. "Anything else?"
"I saw a Digimon...a Digimon with a clock on his stomach, and Giovanni's Pokemon, Mewtwo. There's a glowing wall, that fell apart, that's it."
"You are you getting so upset over a dream for?" Matt asked, laying back down on their bed.
"It wasn't a dream," Sabrina said, joining him. "At least, I don't think it was. It seemed so real!"
"You're just nervous about securing the arms shipment to America tomorrow."
"Are you?" Sabrina asked, curious. Matt never allowed himself to be scared. The others would fall apart if he did.
"Of course," Matt said, yawning,"But I'm not letting it get to me."
Back in Tokyo, while the other heroes slept, the othere have of the Defenders were engaged in a battle for Mimi's life. She was nearly having a nervous breakdown as Lt. Surge held him by the throat. "Go ahead, Defenders," he gloated,"try to save her!"
"Yeah, ah huh ah huh!" Etemon said,"You're going to try to save her, and I cannot allow that! Go get them Gazimon!"
A trio of rabbit Digimon jumped out of hiding, much to the surprise of the guests. "We can take them!" Blaine said.,"Go Magmar!"
"He's right!" Izzy said, nodding at Tentomon.
While Tentomon digivolved to Kabuterimon, Erika's Pokemon, Victreebel jumped out of its poke-ball.
"Magmar!" Blaine said," Flamethrower!"
Erika said,"Victreebel, Razor Leaf!"
Kabuterimon shouted,"Electroshocker!"
The three attacks were dead on, destroying the Gazimon.
"No!" Etemon cried. "I'll stop you myself! Dark Network!"
The black ball of dark energy shot for the three Defenders, but Kabuterimon punched it back. "Oh no!" Etemon screamed.
Mimi saw what was about to happen, and kicked Lt. Surge in the shin, freeing herself. "Come on, Palmon!"
She jumped off the stage just before Etemon's Dark Network crashed into the stage, a mighty explosion followed, levealing the entire restaurant.
Lance slowly pushed a wooden beam off of him. He stood up in a pile of wrecadge. "Guys!" he cried.
"I'm here!" Blaine said, standing up, pushing a beam off of his back.
"We're here!" Erika said, from underneath him. "Thank you!" she told Blaine.
"Izzy!" Lance cried.
"Underneath you!"
Lance jumped to the side and pulled up a pile of wires and metal. "Izzy, are you okay?"
"Yeah," he said, numbly as he stood up with Mimi underneath him.
"Thank you!" Mimi said, hugging Izzy,"You sheilded me!"
"Mimi," Lance said,"I think that Apocalymon wants you dead. You'd better come with us!"
NEXT: MATT'S TEAM BATTLES PIEDMON, TAI, KARI, AND SORA FIGHT TEAM ROCKET!