By Zombie
Tai and Sora walked briskly throught the woods, they had been elected to attempt to find a hospital and make it to the town they had seen eairler. Agumon and Biyomon were scouting ahead, so Tai ad Sora were by them selves. Tai glanced over at Sora, she was one of his best friends, but yet something more. He had never really thought that way about her, even when they were playing soccer together back on the real earth. But for the past while in digiworld, they had grown closer. Tai sighed, but he was sure she had never liked him back. She probally liked Matt more.
" Tai?" asked Sora, startiling him. " Did you notice that Mimi, seems to be, um, taking care of Izzy alot?" Sora blushed.
" Yeah, I guess, do you think they like each other?" said Tai with grin.
" I think Mimi likes Izzy, but just never shows it." replied Sora.
" Oh just great, someone else with with the same problem." thought Tai.
"I think they'ed Make a great couple, To tell you the truth Mimi told me before that she had liked Izzy for some time now." said Sora.
" Really?, I never would have guessed, they bicker more than me and Matt."Said tai with a grin.
"Yeah, but I think she said that she had liked him ever since they were trapped together when the Island broke apart and he had saved her from that Centuromon."
" I hope that Izzy will be ok so that they can be together." said Tai, realtity hitting him.
" Yeah, don't worry though, we'll make it and he'll be fine." Said Sora in her usual caring voice. That was another thing about Sora, she cared alot about every one. " But does she care about me?" Tai asked himself in his mind.Biyomon was flying towards them,Agumon was huffing as he ran shortly behind.
"So what did you find?' asked Sora.
" There is a city!," cried Biyomon is her shrill voice, it is still a ways off, we may not make it tonight though."
Agumon trotted up. " There is a small clearing ahead, we could camp there."
" Well it is almost dark, so mabey we should." said Sora.
" Yeah, I'm kinda tired my-self." yawned Tai. " I don't think we all got much sleep last night."
" Lead the way Agumon!" said Sora.
"Mimi, come have something to eat." said Joe as he walked over to Mimi. Mimi was sitting next to Izzy.
" Oh, Joe, no thanks, I'm not hungry." said Mimi somberly.
" Mimi, you've been watching Izzy all day now, mabey you should eat something and get some sleep,hmm ?" said Joe as he handed her an apple and the canteen,
" I-I'm ok Joe, really I am!, but thanks anyway." said Mimi with a weak smile. She did take the apple and canten though. Joe went back to his sat with a sigh.
" Mimi, you have to eat sometime." said a worried Palamon.
" Oh , I'm just not hungry I supose."
" Mimi, you've been like this ever since Izzy was hurt, is something wrong?"
" Palamon, I-I," Mimi sighed " I don't really want to talk about it."
" Ok, but you know you can tell me anything right?" said Palamon.
" Thanks Palamon, your a good friend." Mimi managed a weak smile. Palamon sat down next to Mimi.
" I'll just keep you company ok?" said Palamon as she ploped down next to Mimi and Izzy.
Mimi, smiled a little more.
The fire crackled warmly in the night air, Tai,Sora,Agumon and Biyomon sat and looked up at the night sky. Sora gazed over at Tai, he sat slouched like always. Sora had liked Tai for a long time now. Ever since they had met at soccer practice, Sora and Tai had always known each other. They didn't really hang out much, but they saw each other at school and played soccer frequently.
"Hey look at that!" said Tai suddenly as he sat up and looked into the night sky.
" What is it?" said Sora as she craned he neck to look up.
" If I'm not mistaken, thats the North Star!" said Tai as he pointed to a bright Star in the sky.
" Hey, I think your right!" Sora grinned.
" So this IS earth!, then that was a town, and we can find a hospital!" Tai was grinning like a kid on christmas. " First thing tomorow we head out!"
" You said it!" replied Sora. " I say we get some sleep, we're going to need it tommorow."
" Yeah, your right, I'm pretty tired." Tai sat down and attempted to get comfortable. Agumon curled up next to him like a puppy. Sora sat with her back to a large rock, Biyomon huddled next to her, sound asleep already. Sora began to drift off, her last thoughts about Tai, and wondering about if he had liked her at all.
" This has been one bad week." Thought Officer Jenny as she looked at the ruble of the hotel wall.First there had been the incident at the station, she had been locked in her clothes locker by some tall man in a trench coat. She finally got out an hour later only to find the station surounded by the fire department and dozens off people. The security cameras showed a blond haired boy walk into the station and ask somthing to her empty chair. It didn't make sense. He then backed suddenly away from the chair and then every thing was dark. Then a few minutes later it all went back to normal, except the ofice was now empty, the boy that had been there eairlier had vanished.
What was even more weird was that the people said that the whole building had gone dark and could not be broken into. All of the other deputys on duty said that they never remebered a thing. The kid inside was with Those kids Ash and Brock, the ones that she saw frequently during their travels. The kid had apparently vanished when coming to find his brother, Takaru, the same lost boy she took care of earlier that day. Nurse Joy said she had phoned during the time when the power was gone, and gotten no answer. She had apparently sent T.k along with Misty, who it turns out was a close friend Of Ash and Brock. The part that had really bothered her was the fact that the room destroyed was rented by a M.Waterflower.
" Here are the security camera photos you asked for sir!" said a Deputy as he stepped carefully over a toppled wall.
" Thanks, see if you can get the Clerk to tell us a little more on what happened here." said jenny as she began to leaf throught the photos.
" Sir!" the deputy scrambled off.
The photos were off two large men and some kid dressed in black entering the hotel and roughing the clerk up a bit. Jenny looked closly at one of the pictures, the kid looked a bit like the kid from the ploice station. Now it was getting interesting.
She walked outside to the two piles off rocks. Bits of a trench coats were found in the dusty piles. Wittnesses say there was an Onix and some other Pokemon fighting to men. A few blocks away people were claiming to have seen a bright light and a glowing Angel talking to another boy. Jenny read the police reports. One of the kids was dressed in black and was seen with a young boy, aprox. age 7. All the different stories she had herd from eye wittnesses difered greatly, but all of them had mention the two boys, and a Girl.
" I'm going back to the station, i have to check the records again." Jenny said as she walked past a Crime scene photographer.
Ash, Brock , Matt, T.k and Misty were all sitting in a small grove of trees in Viridian Park. They were all trying to figure out there next move.
" Devimon wont stop until he has won, we've delt with him before." said Matt. T.k was close by his side, as he had been all day.
" So, you think that if we can find your friends, you can defeat Devimon?" asked Brock, with a puzzled look on his face.
Matt nodded, "We did it before and we can do it again, our Digimon have grown much stronger and can fight longer that before."
" I know that Angemon will help us! he did back during the fight!" said T.k proudly.
" I remeber hearing a strange voice, but how did Angemon appear and help us if Patamon wasn't around to digivolve?" said Matt.
" I don't know, but I think he used my crest." said T.k as he held up his crest.
" I think I'm lost on this whole digi-world thing." said Ash as he scratched his head. Pikachu looked at Ash with a confused look.
"Well none off us really understand it as well, but one things for sure, its as real as you or me." sad Matt with a frown, " And from what we've found out it can affect the real world as well."
"So earth is in as much trouble as the digiworld?" said Misty
" But then if you said that you came from earth, and this is a new world to you,but yet it is earth to us and- boy do I have a headache!" moaned Ash.
" Well , I guess there can be sepearte worlds, perhaps another demension or something." said Brock.
" Yeah, I guess so, but how do we get back to the Digiworld, or me and T.k's earth?"
" This is confusing!" said T.k.
" Well, time also seems to pass slower between the two worlds. In the digi-world, we were there for about a month or so, when my friend Tai returned shortly he said that it had only been an hour in earth time." said Matt.
" Wow, but yet you still age in the digi-world?"said Brock, very intrigued.
" Yeah, we could be old geezers in a few days." said Matt somberly.
" I don't even want to think about it." said T.k
Officer Jenny sat at her desk. She still had the names written down that T.k had given her before.
All the names came up blank. For a few of them, their last names came up, but no one had the same name, or had kids who did. Mabey all the names were fake, but the poor kid couldn't make up all these names, and remeber them perfectly. Suddenly Jenny's mind clicked. She went back to the computer and brought up the records of Newspapers. She ran a search on all the names. Her heart skipped abeat when several clips came up.
" Tachikawa family mourns loss of Daughter:read one of the clips. Jenny scrolled down.
The text read:
The respected Tachikawa family mourns as Aug.1-1999 marks the fateful day when Their eldest Daughter Mimi Tachikawa ( aged 14) Went missing along with six of her camp mates in one of the most bizzare missing persons case ever.
"Hmm, but this is from over 50 years ago, they wouldn't all be kids." Jenny scrolled down the rest of the article was on the history off the family.
jenny opened the file containing the Camp headline.
Search contiues for missing kids: Rescue units continued to search today for the Seven Missing kids who went missing 3 days ago. The Seven kids ( T.Kamiya, S.Takenouchi, M.Tachikawa, J.kido, M.Ishida,T.Takashi, and K.Izumi) were all attending summer camp and had vanished without a trace on Aug.1 1999.
Jenny could not belive it, but all names had matched up with missing persons from over 50 years ago.
"But who would have access to police databases?" jenny asked herself.
Another headline read: Victim's family's hope dwindles as search turns up cold.
" But yet no bodys have yet to be recovered." said Jenny as she read the last line out loud.
This made no sense at all. She needed to find T.k again to find out the truth.
" I'll be back in a little while," said Ash as he picked up his backpack. " I have to go pick up Charizard, and the rest of my Pokemon from the Pokecenter.
" Do you want some company?" asked Misty. They had made camp just out of town, and were all resting. T.k was asleep in one of the tents while Matt talked with Brock on cooking secrets.
" Sure, If your not to busy." replied Ash.
" With what?" said Misty jokingly. "Go on ahead, we'll pack up here and meet you two at the fountain by city hall ok?" said Brock.
" Sure, see you guys later!" said Ash as he jogged down the path to catch up to Misty.
"Hurry up Tai!" called Soar from the top of a hill. Biyomon and Agumon already were on top, and for once Tai was lagging.
" I-*huff* I'll be right there!" puffed Tai as he climbed.
" You were right." siad Sora with a smile. Before them lay a huge city, houses and buildings shimmered in the Afternoon light." It is earth!"
" Wow, thats much bigger than any digimon village!" said Agumon as he gaped down at the city.
" Well what are we waiting for?, lets go get help!" cired Tai as he started towards the city.
" Wait, we forgot about one thing." said Sora.
" What's that?"
Sora pointed at the digimon. " I don't think that we should bring something they've never seen into town.
Tai thought back to koromon when he was back on earth. " Mabey your right, but what do we do with them?"
" Are we that much of a bother?"said Agumon in a hurt tone.
" I didn't know that we got in the way." said Biyomon with a sigh.
" NO, no it's nothing like that,"said Sora as she waved her hands in protest "It's just that the people that live there may never have seen a digimon, and we don't know how they would react."
" We would not want you guys to get hurt." said Tai appolgeticaly.
" But what about Etamon?" said Agumon. " What if he finds you?"
" Yeah then theres that..." said Tai as he scratched his head.
" Well, mabey one of us should go, and the other stay with the digimon." said Sora.
" Well thats odd," said Tai as he looked through his telescope into the town.
" What?,are you listening?" said Sora annoyed at being ignored by Tai.
"Sora, look at this!" Tai handed his telescope to Sora.
The city came into focus. Peolpe could be seen walking the streets, but the weird part was that most were all walking with weird animals!
" Are those digimon?" she Asked.
" I don't know, but they are all over the place." replied Tai.
" Should we walk on in with them then?"
" I guess it's worth a try."
The foursome walked quietly towards the town, not wanting to attract much attention.
" So far so good."
Every one else walked by as if not even noticing them and their digimon. People walked by with weird little animals and birds, just like it was normal.
" Hey kid!" said a man who was walking with a red Agumonlike creature.
" How did you get a yellow charmander?"
" Huh?" asked Tai.
" Your Pokemon, how'ed you get it to be yellow?"
" Umm, you mean my digimon right?"
" Your what?"
" You mean my Agumon?" said Tai
" Wow, it must be a new Pokemon, an Ah-goo-mon you called it?" The man knelt down and Looked closly at Agumon.
" Hello!" said Agumon in a friendly voice."
"Guahh! , and it talks!" siad the now esstatic man. "How much do you want for it?"
" Hes not for sale!" said Sora.
The man looked at Sora and then at Biyomon.
" Wow, and a Pink Pidgy!, are you guys breeders?"
" We got to go now!" said Tai as he pulled Sora, Agumon and Biyomon away.
" Hey, wait you got to tell me where I can find one!"called the man as the four heros ran off.
Tai and the gang hurried through the streets, many other people buging them to see their rare "Pokemon". After finding directions from another crazed fan, they found the hospital. Suddenly Their two digivices went off.
"Hey, somones here!" exclamied Tai.
" You go find whoever it is, and I'll go to the hospital, meet back at the hospital when you find them ok?" said Sora.
" Ok!, good luck called Tai as he and Agumon ran off in the direction of the signal.
Sora turned to the hospital and Jogged in.
The waiting room was empty,a lone secretary sat at the desk.
" Can I help you?" asked the secretary.
" yes, my friend is hurt real bad!"
"If you mean your Pokemon, the Pokecenter is that way." the Secretary pointed to the south.
"No my HUMAN friend!"
" Oh, where is he then?" asked the secretary, now paying attention, as she punched some info into the computer.
" We were climbing, and he fell, I'm not sure where it is though." Said Sora , she had to make most of this up as she went along. " I think it was a quarry a few miles out of town."
" Theres only one quarry, so it must be the Viridian Quarry." said the secretary. " We have a helecopter on the way, please have a seat Miss." said The secretary.
" That was unusually easy..." thought Sora as she sat down,Biyomon hopped up next to her. " Hang on Izzy." said Sora softly.
Several ambulace crew members ran by her carrying Doctor bags and equpment. They ran to the elevator and headed to the roof, a minute later they were airborn and on there way.
Tai and Agumon walked through the crowds off people in the market square.
" No, theres one, no two signals...this way!" said Tai as he did his usual mediocre job at leading.
" Tai, I'm pretty sure we've been down this street before." said Agumon.
" Shhh, your not suposed to talk!" snapped Tai.
" Oh yeah, I forgot!" said a blushing Agumon.
" We should find them right about..."
" Tai!" cried T.k as lumped up from the bench.
" Hey it's Tai!" Matt got up too.
T.k wrapped himself around Tai's waist as Matt high-fived him.
" Good to see ya guys!" said Tai.
" Agumon, your here to!" cried T.k as he hugged the small Digimon.
" Where were you man?" asked Matt.
" I was about to ask you the same thing." said Tai.
" Is anyone else with you?" asked Matt, " Did you find the digimon?"
" Yeah!,I'm with Sora and every ones back at camp." said Tai with a grin. Then he remebered why Sora was here,and what the had come to do.
Tai's smile faded.
" Whats wrong man?" asked Matt.
T.k looked up to hear what was going on.
" I-I got some real bad news Matt," said Tai lowly.
" You and me both." said Matt.
" Why?, what happened to you guys?"
Just then Brock, Ash,and Misty walked up.
" But before that I want you to meet Ash, brock and Misty, they helped me and T.k so much." Matt turned to the Ash & co.
" Guys, this is my friend Tai, he's from the digi-world too."
" You told them?" said Tai surprised.
" Well its a long story, but I do have to tell you the bad news."
"Let me guess...Etamons back?" said Tai.
" Yeah, why did you guys mess with him?"
" You might say that." said Agumon.
" It gets worse," said T.k suddenly. " Devimons back, and he almost took my brother."
Tai's face turned white. " Devimon!?!" gulped Tai. " Are you serious?"
" 'Fraid so." sighed Matt. " Well whats your bad news?"
" Izzy's been hurt, real bad." Tai looked crestfallen.
" No... is he ok?" Matt demanded.
" Me and Sora hiked here to get help for him, she went to the hospital, while I tracked you guys down." said Tai.
" Oh my god, where did this happen?" asked Misty.
" Well lets just get to the hospital, and hope for the best." said Matt.
The gang headed to the hospital.
" Mimi, do you hear somthing?" asked Palamon as she nudged Mimi awake. "Mimi, you slept by Izzy all night long!"
" Oh, I must have dozed off." exclaimed Mimi as she yawned. " Listen Mimi." said Palamon as she cocked her head to listen.
" It sounds like, like a-"
" Heli-copter!" cried Joe as he jumped up.
" They made it!" said Mimi as she stood up.
" hey quick all you guys hide in the woods!" said joe as he shooed all the digimon ibto the woods. Mimi waved her hands trying to signal the chopper.
" We're down here!" she cried. the chopper dropped down and landed in the quarry. Two paramedics jumped out.
" Here, over here!" cried Mimi as she waved to them.Mimi, knelt down next to Izzy and whispered to him : Hang on, please!
" We can't take you guys to town, you may have to hike, is that ok?" said One of the Doctors.
" That will be fine, just make sure that hes ok."
The doctor nodded and ran back to the helecoter to help his partner. Izzy was put onto a strecher and placed in the back. As the helecopter lifted off, Mimi and Joe watched as it shrunk to a speck.
"Mimi, we should go, if we wnat to make it tonight." said Joe as he put his hand on her shoulder.
" Your right," sighed Mimi, " I just hope he makes it, I never had a chance to talk to him like a real friend for once." a Tear rolled down her flushed cheek. " All I ever did was yell at him for using his stupid computer and never paying any attention to us!" another Tear slid off her chin into the dirt.
" Mimi, he'll be fine , just you wait and see!" said Palamon.