The Lost Crests Part 2
The digidestined followed Tai into to the wilderness. Half-way to the factory where they found Andromon, Matt and Tai got in an argument.
"I'm telling you Tai," Matt shouted, "the factory was this way!"
"Wrong, Matt," Tai shouted back, "it's this way! Incase you've forgotten, I'm the leader, here!"
"Yeah, and you always led us in trouble!" Matt lunged at Tai and grabbed his shirt to punch him in the face. Tai grabbed his fist and punched him in the stomach.
"Don't worry," Joe said to Sally, "They were always like this!"
"You should talk Joe!" Izzy joked, "Tai never hit you!" he rubbed his face where Tai punched him when they were running from the 3rd Dark Master, MachineDramon. "Gosh, that hurt."
"I hope you didn't hit him back!" Dawn said, pressing his chest with her finger, "I won't marry a man that was in an act of violence!"
"Dawn, I didn't' honest!" Izzy said, "even when Tai asked me too! I know nothing can be resolved by violence." He put his arm around her, "besides, I don't even know how to throw a punch!"
Sally laughed, "just let them duke it out."
Joe gasped, "duke it out?? They've duked it out for years!"
"Matt, honey, stop!" Mimi begged.
"Tai, cut it out!" Sora cried.
"Come one Tai, not this again!" Agumon said, grabbing his leg.
"Maybe you should go play your harmonica to make you feel better, Matt," Gabumon offered.
Mimi and Sora both try to pull their husbands off each other. It was no use and then Kari grabbed Tai's fist, "Come on Tai, this is stupid!" she said.
Tai, lost in his anger, pushed his little sister. "Stay out of this, Kari!" Tai demanded.
"Hey!" Kari shouted, surprised by her brother's foolish act, "That wasn't very nice!"
Matt kicked Tai in his leg, the bad one. Tai fell to the ground and howled, holding his re-injured leg.
Little T.K, but now being 6'3"and weighing 167, not so little anymore, walked up behind his bigger, but not so mature brother and pulled him off Tai.. "That's enough, Matt!" T.K ordered, "You're acting like Mom and Dad!" He looked at the others as if to say, "Excuse us for a minute as I talk to my immature brother!" He pushed him against the trunk of a tree and kept him there.
Using Tai's words, Matt said, "stay out of this, T.K!"
"I'm already in it!" T.K argued, grabbing his brother's shirt. "What the hell is wrong with you? You want me to tell Mom you were fighting with Tai again?
"You're starting to sound like Dad," Matt shrieked, "and you stayed with Mom!"
"So? This is getting old, Matt. Have you been speaking to giant talking cherry trees again?!" T.K huffed and crossed his arms, "man, where's a mushroom of forgetfulness when you need one?"
"T.K, stop acting like a little kid!" Matt fumed.
"I'm acting like a little kid?!?" T.K shouted, grabbing his brother's shirt. "Look at me," T.K pointed to his buff chest with his thumb in a way to show Matt how big he is, "Matt, I'm not so little anymore and you're the one acting like a little kid!"
"Hey!" Matt shouted, surprised by T.K's remark.
"Good one T.K!" Tai cheered.
"You're acting like a little kid too, Tai!" T.K growled, pointing at Tai. T.K reached behind him and pulled his handcuffs from his belt, "You won't like this, but trust me, this will be for your own good." T.K then cuffed Tai's left hand to Matt's right hand. "You're going to learn to get along with each other, do you understand me?"
"T.K, this isn't funny, let us go!" Matt ordered, pulling his chained arm up.
Tai pulled it down. "Shut up, Matt," Tai snapped, "this is your fault anyway!"
Matt growled under his breath, "Why…you!"
"If you begin fighting again, I'm going to cuff your feet together too!" T.K shouted, pointing as his older, but not so mature brother, "Do ya get me?"
"Yeah, yeah," Matt mumbled.
Mimi and Sora laughed along, "Why didn't we think of that, Sora?" Mimi asked with a giggle.
"Beats me!" Sora giggled back and wrapped her arm around Mimi's shoulders. Mimi did the same to Sora and they stared at their husbands. They laughed hysterically.
"Honey, stop it!" Matt cried, "you're embarrassing me! I felt more comfortable when I had to sing to a million people when my fly was unzipped!"
"Your fly was unzipped?" Tai grinned and mimicked a news reporter's voice, "'Ladies and Gentlemen, Yamato Ishida fell of the Tokyo stage when he realized his zipper was down!'"
Matt bit his lower lip and Tai raised his hand and began slapping him with his own hand, "Quit hitting yourself Matt, quit hitting yourself!" Tai laughed.
The digidestined kept moving, not sure where they were headed. They felt a slight rumble and the ground began to shake. It was an earthquake, somewhat to the same one they felt in Earth, but it wasn't as strong. It didn't last as long either.
"That was strange," Tai said, a bit pleased.
"I wonder what could be the cause of it," Izzy said, letting go of Dawn's hand.
They were standing on a hill, overlooking a large canyon. Dawn and Sally and their digimon walked to the edge of the canyon to look at the bottom and at the other side of the canyon.
"This is quite a place," Sally admitted.
"Almost like Earth, huh?" Dawn asked.
Suddenly, there was another earthquake. It was a little stronger than the one they just felt but not as strong as the one at Earth. Sally took hold of Dawn to hold their balance and the piece of land they were standing on, broke off the canyon. Grazemon yelped and bit on Sally's pat leg to keep her from falling, but she fell down with her, still hanging on to her shirt. Lizardmon gasped and jumped to Dawn and Dawn took her digimon into her arms..
Izzy and Joe shrieked in terror and ran to the edge.
On the way down, Sally and Dawn witnessed something very amazing, their digimon began to digivolve!
Lizardmon digivolve to…Alimon!
Grazemon digivovle to…Antlemon!
Lizardmon changed from a lizard to a giant alligator and Dawn held on to the tough scales on her back. Grazemon took the state of a tall antelope. She flipped Sally on her back and told her to hang on. Sally hung on all right….hung on for dear life! Alimon fell into the water and Antlemon landed on the ground. They looked up to see Joe and Izzy on the back of Kabuterrimon. Kabuterrimon landed on the edge of the water and Izzy jumped off as Alimon began swimming to the shore. Kabuterrimon de-digivolved back to Tentomon.
"Dawn," Izzy said, stepping in to the water, "you okay?"
"Yeah," she groaned. "Thanks, Alimon."
Sally let go of Antlemon's neck and looked up. "Whoa, what a rush," she moaned.
"Let's do that again!" Antlemon shouted.
Sally forced herself to laugh, "Some other time," she got off and began to stumble away. Still in shock, she almost fell her knees. She was acting like she was drunk.
"Sally, you all right?" Joe wrapped his arm around her shoulders and she leaned to him. Gomamon wrapped his flippers (?) arms, (?) around Sally's leg.
"Yeah, I'm fine," she said, walking off still in dizziness. "Grazemon digivolved into Antlemon right in time." She rubbed her head.
The rest of the digidestined came down Birdramon. "Is everything all right?" Tai shouted.
"Everything's fine." Joe assured. "Just a bit shaken up as all."
"After we're through with you," a deep and sinister voice remarked, "you'll be very shaken up!"
"I know that voice!" Antlemon cried.
The bushes shook and twenty digimon (or maybe the aliens?) dressed in black walked onto the clearing. They held katanas and sais and other Japanese weapons.
"Ninjamon!" Antlemon jumped forward to attack. Thrashing her head side to side, she kept advancing to the ninjamon. "Horn laser!" She shot a yellow laser from her horns and it blew them against a tree.
Alimon bore her long teeth and walked forward. She swiped her long tail against half of the ninjamon and sent them flying into the water. "Death bite!" She grabbed one of the ninjamon in her mouth, draining their energy, and shook it side to side and threw it against the other side of the canyon.
The remaining ninjamon converted back to one ninjamon. There was only one ninjamon and he simply was multiplying himself. He jumped to attack Antlemon, but she rammed him with her horns and he fell to the ground.
"You used to be a good digimon," she remarked, "what did the aliens do to you to make you evil?"
There wasn't a black gear inside of him, so how was Antlemon supposed change back?
Ninjamon came to his feet, holding his wounded stomach, "Antlemon?" he whispered. He then screamed and grabbed his head. Someone was controlling him somehow. Who ever was doing this was pure evil. They were speaking to him and Antelmon could hear what they were saying.
"You must obey what we tell you," the voices were saying, "Destroy them or we will destroy you!"
"I hear and obey," Ninjamon chanted. He advanced to Antlemon, but she knocked him down with her hooves. She kept him down with her front legs.
"Fight it, Ninjamon!" she ordered. "Don't listen to them!"
"Destroy them!" the voices shouted.
"What have they done to you?" Antlemon shouted.
Izzy saw something on the back of Ninjamon's neck. It looked like a silver chip. "Hold still," he said and he pulled it off Ninjamon's neck. He was about to step on it and destroy it, but realized he should learn to see how it works. He put it in his pocket.
"What happened?" Ninjamon asked, "I have such a headache!"
"The aliens held you under their control," Antlemon explained, letting him up. She changed back to Grazemon and Alimon changed back to Lizamon.
"Oh--yes, the aliens." He said, "strange looking creatures."
"What did they look like?" Izzy asked. "Little green men? Giant bugs,--oops, sorry Tentomon!"
Tentomon sighed and looked down.
"Actually, they looked like you," Ninjamon said, pointing to Izzy and the others, "They don't look like any digimon I've ever seen."
"They look like us, humans?" Tai shouted. He walked closer, forgetting he was still chained to Matt and Matt almost fell forward. "You mean, they look just like us? Could they be us?"
"No, not exactly like you." Ninjamon shook his head. "Their skin was different and so was their hair. But, they hold great powers and they can communicate telepathically. That's how they brainwashed me."
"Where are they?" Tai demanded, "we're the digidestined and we've come to save the digiworld….again"
"You're the digidestined, the children that was destined to save our world?"
"Well, yeah, but we've grown up since then," Kari smiled.
"So, where are they?" Tai demanded again.
Ninjamon was silent for awhile. He began walking away. "They're everywhere." He put his sais in his belt and put his palms together, "be careful, they're watching you as we speak." And with that, Ninjamon vanished.
Joe shuddered, "They're watching us? I can't stand being watched!"
Sally nudged him, "oh come on, I don't want to marry a wimp!"