This story has some moderate Yaoi content, so be advised. It's Yamashiro. Hold on to something, cuz here we go!
Oh wait, I guess I have to give the disclaimer first. I don't own Digimon. Ok, now we're ready. You'll like this one, it's sweet and honest (I think).
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Again Izzy's computer screen read: UNABLE TO ESTABLISH CONNECTION. Frustrated, banged on his keyboard. It was an hour ago that he had received a message from Gennai that sounded quite urgent. It was halfway through that Gennai's voice started to break up, and his picture suddenly cut off. It didn't appear that it was through any interferance caused by Piedmon or any of the other Dark Masters, but a simple loss of connection.
"Can't you do anything about it?" Tai demanded.
"I'm doing the best I can Tai but I can't seem to establish a connection." Izzy replied as he worked feverishly.
"Well you'll have to try harder Izzy, we have to know what Gennai had to tell us!" Tai shouted. He was in his hot-blooded leader mode now.
"Well I'm doing the best I can Tai but you're just going to have to wait." Izzy replied, feeling very stressed out but trying his best to keep his cool.
"We need you to fix this Izzy, we don't know what kind of danger Gennai, or all of us might be in!"
"Hey Tai, calm down, he's doing the best that he can." Sora said, putting her hand on his shoulder. Tai shrugged it off and sat down next to Izzy. He was looking at the screen like he would try to solve the problem himself, although everyone there knew that he couldn't make heads or tales of it.
"Ok, here's my theory. We just need to get to higher ground where the signal will be stronger. There we should be able to get back online with Gennai and find out what he had to say." Izzy said calmly, knowing that no one was going to completely like his suggestion.
"Um, am I alone here, or does anyone else think that's sort of dangerous?" Joe said nervously.
"What do you mean?" Mimi asked him.
"Well...". Joe proceded. "If we leave our cover and move to a higher point, we'll be sitting ducks. They'll spot us for sure!"
"He's got a point." Sora remarked.
"Well then we all can't go, Izzy will just have to go alone." Tai decided.
"Were you going to ask him what he thought about that?" Matt said. He had been pretty quiet until now but seemed to have had enough of Tai's orders.
"Ok then. I'll go and do it." Tai declared. "Tell me how to work this Izzy."
"It's not that simple Tai. You'd have to run a search for a new dial-up location and the hack into the mainframe. It's just like in our world, you can't just utilize a service without paying for it unless you know how to break in." Izzy tried to explain.
"Well, you're going to have to show me how." Tai said.
Izzy didn't know what to do. This was going to be very complicated but he would have to try. "Ok, you start by opening the control panel and clicking on modems..."
"Whoa! Hey! Slow down Izzy, I'm no computer wiz. What the heck is a window?" Tai laughed. It wasn't funny though since Izzy knew he was being serious.
"Tai, I can't show you how to do this. It's too complicated." Izzy sighed. "I'll have to do it myself."
"No way. You're not going up there, it's too dangerous." Tai said. "C'mon, show me how to do this."
"Tai, I can't..." Izzy said impatiently.
Suddenly Tai grabbed him by the shirt. "Yes you can! Now show me or we'll never know what Gennai needed to tell us and who knows what will happen!?" Tai shouted. Sora and Matt grabbed him and tried to pull him off of Izzy.
"Tai, what's wrong with you?" Matt screamed.
"Hey, don't hurt him!" Sora shouted. They pulled him off and restrained him. A minute later Tai sat down defeated. It must have been hard for him to realize that there was nothing he could do in this situation, Izzy thought.
"Look, there has to be another way." Matt stated to the group. "Just give Izzy a little more time and he'll figure it out, Ok?" He put his hand on Izzy's shoulder. Izzy liked that, it gave him reassurance that at least someone knew he did what he could, and appreciated his efforts.
"Matt, we don't have much more time. We need to get that message and fast." Tai responded to him. He was a little calmer now and more reasonable, but still seemed to think there was only one way to do something: his way.
"It could be any number of things, maybe even the weather. I just don't have enough information right now to tell." Izzy said. It wasn't the weather, in fact it was a perfect day. He just had to tell them something.
"If Izzy has to go up there then I'm going with him." Matt said.
"The more people go the better chance you'll have of being seen." Sora said.
"We should wait until it gets later.", Joe said. "It will be harder to see at dusk." He had a point.
"Ok then, let's camp here for now. We need to do this soon though." Tai said. It seemed like the only thing they could do now so they found some trees and sat down. Joe and Mimi searched their bags for food which they shared with Kari and T.K.. Tai and Sora left the campsite with the Digimon to a small stream to catch fish They had passed it shortly before stopping when Izzy's computer gave the signal that Gennai was trying to contact them. It was only Izzy and Matt sitting where they had stopped, still trying to think of a solution.
"I've just about had it with Tai, trying to be all tough and push you around." Matt told him. He was still fired up after pulling Tai off Izzy.
"Don't worry about it Matt, he's just got our best interests in mind." Izzy told him, still typing on his computer.
"Yeah, I know." Matt said. "What do you think about all this?"
"I don't know. I can't seem to find what the problem is." Izzy answered. He felt like he was letting everyone down. If he couldn't use his knowledge of computers to help them then what good was he?
"Hey Izzy...you look like under a lot of stress. Don't let this get to you, ok?" Matt said. Izzy looked up and saw him staring into his eyes. "I believe in you man, one way or another you'll figure it out, and even if you don't we're still going to get through this, as long as we stick together." Matt was so sincere and always seemed to be there for him, giving him encouragement whenever he was down. Izzy really had strong feelings for him but never knew how to express them. He was getting better at sharing himself with his friends but still, there were certain things he couldn't tell them, things he couldn't share that were always getting in the way.
"Thanks Matt, it...it means a lot to me that you care." Izzy said. He felt uncomfortable being honest like that, but then again, he wasn't being totally honest with Matt. Not with how he really felt about him.
"Hey, we're friends. I'll be there for you whenever you need me. We've been through a lot together and a little computer trouble isn't going to stop us." said Matt. Izzy loved his pretty blue eyes. He was so cute. There was no way he could ever tell him that though, Matt wasn't like that.
"Good friends?" Izzy asked him.
"Yeah man. No matter what." Matt reassured him, slapping him on the back, His hand rested on Izzy's shoulder for a second. That was all he needed. Izzy knew he had to tell him sometime. Why not now?
"Hey Matt?" Izzy nervously asked him.
"What is it?" Matt asked him. He stared though Izzy's eyes.
"I gotta tell you something...ok?"
"Go ahead, I'm listening."
"Matt. I...I really..." Izzy's sentence was interrupted by a scream. It was T.K.'s. Matt took off running to where he had been sitting with Sora, Kari, Joe and Mimi. Izzy could see that from a distance it was only the group holding T.K. down and tickling him. Matt didn't notice until he reached them, at which point he got down on the ground and joined in the torture himself. Izzy watched the group from the stump he was sitting on, unable to make himself get up and join the happy group. How much longer could he go without telling Matt? Everytime he was about to tell him something or someone would interrupt their private moment. It semed like it was destined to happen every time.
Izzy closed up his laptop and slid it back into his backpack. He stood up and looked at the hill. It would take about 15 minutes to reach the top, he estimated, and there was a group of trees at the top where he could seclude himself. He was the only one who could fix the problem, so why was everyone even arguing about it. Izzy looked back at the others, still having their way with Matt's brother, and decided it was up to him. He threw his laptop back over his shoulders and dashed off into the woods.
Oh wait, I guess I have to give the disclaimer first. I don't own Digimon. Ok, now we're ready. You'll like this one, it's sweet and honest (I think).
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Again Izzy's computer screen read: UNABLE TO ESTABLISH CONNECTION. Frustrated, banged on his keyboard. It was an hour ago that he had received a message from Gennai that sounded quite urgent. It was halfway through that Gennai's voice started to break up, and his picture suddenly cut off. It didn't appear that it was through any interferance caused by Piedmon or any of the other Dark Masters, but a simple loss of connection.
"Can't you do anything about it?" Tai demanded.
"I'm doing the best I can Tai but I can't seem to establish a connection." Izzy replied as he worked feverishly.
"Well you'll have to try harder Izzy, we have to know what Gennai had to tell us!" Tai shouted. He was in his hot-blooded leader mode now.
"Well I'm doing the best I can Tai but you're just going to have to wait." Izzy replied, feeling very stressed out but trying his best to keep his cool.
"We need you to fix this Izzy, we don't know what kind of danger Gennai, or all of us might be in!"
"Hey Tai, calm down, he's doing the best that he can." Sora said, putting her hand on his shoulder. Tai shrugged it off and sat down next to Izzy. He was looking at the screen like he would try to solve the problem himself, although everyone there knew that he couldn't make heads or tales of it.
"Ok, here's my theory. We just need to get to higher ground where the signal will be stronger. There we should be able to get back online with Gennai and find out what he had to say." Izzy said calmly, knowing that no one was going to completely like his suggestion.
"Um, am I alone here, or does anyone else think that's sort of dangerous?" Joe said nervously.
"What do you mean?" Mimi asked him.
"Well...". Joe proceded. "If we leave our cover and move to a higher point, we'll be sitting ducks. They'll spot us for sure!"
"He's got a point." Sora remarked.
"Well then we all can't go, Izzy will just have to go alone." Tai decided.
"Were you going to ask him what he thought about that?" Matt said. He had been pretty quiet until now but seemed to have had enough of Tai's orders.
"Ok then. I'll go and do it." Tai declared. "Tell me how to work this Izzy."
"It's not that simple Tai. You'd have to run a search for a new dial-up location and the hack into the mainframe. It's just like in our world, you can't just utilize a service without paying for it unless you know how to break in." Izzy tried to explain.
"Well, you're going to have to show me how." Tai said.
Izzy didn't know what to do. This was going to be very complicated but he would have to try. "Ok, you start by opening the control panel and clicking on modems..."
"Whoa! Hey! Slow down Izzy, I'm no computer wiz. What the heck is a window?" Tai laughed. It wasn't funny though since Izzy knew he was being serious.
"Tai, I can't show you how to do this. It's too complicated." Izzy sighed. "I'll have to do it myself."
"No way. You're not going up there, it's too dangerous." Tai said. "C'mon, show me how to do this."
"Tai, I can't..." Izzy said impatiently.
Suddenly Tai grabbed him by the shirt. "Yes you can! Now show me or we'll never know what Gennai needed to tell us and who knows what will happen!?" Tai shouted. Sora and Matt grabbed him and tried to pull him off of Izzy.
"Tai, what's wrong with you?" Matt screamed.
"Hey, don't hurt him!" Sora shouted. They pulled him off and restrained him. A minute later Tai sat down defeated. It must have been hard for him to realize that there was nothing he could do in this situation, Izzy thought.
"Look, there has to be another way." Matt stated to the group. "Just give Izzy a little more time and he'll figure it out, Ok?" He put his hand on Izzy's shoulder. Izzy liked that, it gave him reassurance that at least someone knew he did what he could, and appreciated his efforts.
"Matt, we don't have much more time. We need to get that message and fast." Tai responded to him. He was a little calmer now and more reasonable, but still seemed to think there was only one way to do something: his way.
"It could be any number of things, maybe even the weather. I just don't have enough information right now to tell." Izzy said. It wasn't the weather, in fact it was a perfect day. He just had to tell them something.
"If Izzy has to go up there then I'm going with him." Matt said.
"The more people go the better chance you'll have of being seen." Sora said.
"We should wait until it gets later.", Joe said. "It will be harder to see at dusk." He had a point.
"Ok then, let's camp here for now. We need to do this soon though." Tai said. It seemed like the only thing they could do now so they found some trees and sat down. Joe and Mimi searched their bags for food which they shared with Kari and T.K.. Tai and Sora left the campsite with the Digimon to a small stream to catch fish They had passed it shortly before stopping when Izzy's computer gave the signal that Gennai was trying to contact them. It was only Izzy and Matt sitting where they had stopped, still trying to think of a solution.
"I've just about had it with Tai, trying to be all tough and push you around." Matt told him. He was still fired up after pulling Tai off Izzy.
"Don't worry about it Matt, he's just got our best interests in mind." Izzy told him, still typing on his computer.
"Yeah, I know." Matt said. "What do you think about all this?"
"I don't know. I can't seem to find what the problem is." Izzy answered. He felt like he was letting everyone down. If he couldn't use his knowledge of computers to help them then what good was he?
"Hey Izzy...you look like under a lot of stress. Don't let this get to you, ok?" Matt said. Izzy looked up and saw him staring into his eyes. "I believe in you man, one way or another you'll figure it out, and even if you don't we're still going to get through this, as long as we stick together." Matt was so sincere and always seemed to be there for him, giving him encouragement whenever he was down. Izzy really had strong feelings for him but never knew how to express them. He was getting better at sharing himself with his friends but still, there were certain things he couldn't tell them, things he couldn't share that were always getting in the way.
"Thanks Matt, it...it means a lot to me that you care." Izzy said. He felt uncomfortable being honest like that, but then again, he wasn't being totally honest with Matt. Not with how he really felt about him.
"Hey, we're friends. I'll be there for you whenever you need me. We've been through a lot together and a little computer trouble isn't going to stop us." said Matt. Izzy loved his pretty blue eyes. He was so cute. There was no way he could ever tell him that though, Matt wasn't like that.
"Good friends?" Izzy asked him.
"Yeah man. No matter what." Matt reassured him, slapping him on the back, His hand rested on Izzy's shoulder for a second. That was all he needed. Izzy knew he had to tell him sometime. Why not now?
"Hey Matt?" Izzy nervously asked him.
"What is it?" Matt asked him. He stared though Izzy's eyes.
"I gotta tell you something...ok?"
"Go ahead, I'm listening."
"Matt. I...I really..." Izzy's sentence was interrupted by a scream. It was T.K.'s. Matt took off running to where he had been sitting with Sora, Kari, Joe and Mimi. Izzy could see that from a distance it was only the group holding T.K. down and tickling him. Matt didn't notice until he reached them, at which point he got down on the ground and joined in the torture himself. Izzy watched the group from the stump he was sitting on, unable to make himself get up and join the happy group. How much longer could he go without telling Matt? Everytime he was about to tell him something or someone would interrupt their private moment. It semed like it was destined to happen every time.
Izzy closed up his laptop and slid it back into his backpack. He stood up and looked at the hill. It would take about 15 minutes to reach the top, he estimated, and there was a group of trees at the top where he could seclude himself. He was the only one who could fix the problem, so why was everyone even arguing about it. Izzy looked back at the others, still having their way with Matt's brother, and decided it was up to him. He threw his laptop back over his shoulders and dashed off into the woods.