disclaimer: I don't like being sued, so I'll just know the characters here belong to their respective owners.
Oh, and for Matt, Sora, and POkemon fans. You might not like this.
SomehowOFF (part 3)
"Rrgh!" Izzy griped in frustration.
"Yeah, the news dazed me too. I never liked that game."
Referrring to the new Pokemon Teal in the arcade Tai had mentioned as "BIG News", TK looked over to the waste of space.
"No, I didn't mean that!' Izzy griped further. "He didn't wait for me to come! What the f...? I interrupted a business meeting for him!"
Izzy's TentoTech Corporation was in the midst of a multibillion-yen deal. Annoyed to some extent, lynch Tai. Besides, he hadn't had coffee all morning.
"Anyways, where is he?"
"He went off with Steve." TK paused in annoyance, and worry. Thinking, "Hope he doesn't kill her," he sighed.
Tai was rotten with electronics. He obviously forgot to hang up when he called TK, muttering the specifics of his "original BIG new" and huge angst.
"How could you do this SOra?...I trusted you Steve! (the later mentioned word "crossdresser" connected everything.)
It's not like he hated Tai, but he wasn't too sorry. The info shocked him as well; he'd been Steve's friend just as long. Figuring out Steve was Sora (in disguise) wasn't fun. He once; heard Tai talk of setting "Steve" up with Kari, like two months after Tai met himm.
"Rrrgh!" TK fumed. It was a year since Kari was with him and ever since, he had to live iwth Tai mentioning her new boyfriends. The extra blind dates from Tai's doing didn't help either.
TK fumed in frustration, much to Izzy's notice.
Seeing Tk's genuine sympathy, Izzy smiled, "hey, it's okay. I still have plenty of multibillion-yen deals this week."
Taking out a cell phone, Izzy called his chauffeur to pick him up early. Walking off to play some arcade games, Izzy returned his cell phone to his suit pocket, which bulged with extra cash.
TK pondered Izzy's supposed "loss" as he walked off. An everyday suit of Armani-quality, a modelesque female driver, weekly supermodel girlfriends...
"Sorry for what?!"
"You see, Mimi, the point of the game is to shoot the bad guys," Joe watched as Mimi perfectly targetted and got rid of EVERy person on the arcade screen. "...only the bad guys."
"Like this?"
As Mimi adjusted her game style to target ONLY the bad guys on the screen, a crowd drew around her. As the game progressed, Joe found himself pushed aside by spectators. "Man, she's a natural 'John Wayne'!" and other "wows" were noted.
Walking elsewhere, Joe sighed and spotted a vending machine. Taking out the usual cola, he set some quarters aside for the most stimulating game in the arcade! Tetris.
Chugging down some cola as he played, Joe soon came close to the high score. Noticing a figure sit beside him, he shifted his eyes for a sec to see who it was. Matt.
"Joe, can I talk to you for a sec?"
"Um, sure." Joe sipped some more cola as he steadily approached the high score.
"It's kinda personal, though. You think you can keep a secret?"
As Joe gained a thousand more points, he inwardly sighed. Keeping Sora's guy-dom (G-U-Y!) a secret was a pain enough, but Joe agreed.
"Thanks, man!" Matt smiled cheerily, then paused, turning silent a moment. "You see, have you ever thought of dating guys?"
What luck, Joe was sipping more cola as Matt said it. Spitting it out towards the screen, Joe nearly gagged. "What?!" He then calmed down to note, "Um, Matt, you know I'm married, right? To a wonderful woman, and it's not like I'm not flattered, but..."
Huh? Matt then realized what he said specifically. "No, I don't mean you, I mean, you're as good guy, but I meant, someone else."
"?"
"Who's the lucky guy?" Was he sounding too corny, or not into girls or something? Joe turned from the arcade screen, which was covered in soda, to listen more attentively from Matt.
"Steve."
Good, he didn't have soda in his mouth that time, cuz' Joe was ready to puke. "Oh, Steve?...He's, he's a he, and you're a guy, right?"
Matt turned to the ceiling slightly dreamily. "Yeah, I know, but he's already agreed to go to the movies with me." Turning back to Joe, he noted, "You know, I've never had feelings for anyone like this, especially not for a guy. Besides Mimi of course. Um, I mean your wife, no that's not it. I mean, way long ago, before she got old, no, I mean...Forget I said all that, kay' Joe?"
Unlike Tai, who lifted Joe earlier in anger, Joe neatly decked Matt across the chin. Once Matt had regained consciousness, like five minutes later, Joe smiled, "I've already forgotten."
Seeing Joe back to his normal calm tude' as he played Tetris, Matt suddenly thought of Steve and Tai. "Where'd they go?"
Mimi had just set a high score for eight of the nine major games. Drawing crowds, she had only one game remaining: the "Pokemon teal game!" "?" Mimi sighed and sweardropped.
"Oh no, I can't!" she noted to a spectator.
"No, really, I'd RATHER NOT!" Had she shouted too loudly?
"What? You're not into...Pokemon?" a spectator gasped.
Nearing the tension of pitchforks and tarring and feathering, the crowd around Mimi soon turned hostile.
As Mimi sweatdropped further, she spotted Izzy, who was quickly boring from one of the arcade games. When he turned to look at the crowd and finally her, she gave a specific look, which seemed to say, "Help me!"
Izzy nodded, and proceeded towards her. Pushing through the crowd, he shouted, "Out of the way! Out of the way!" Pushing over the woman next to Mimi, he noted, "This woman has a serious case of...Pokephobia!"
Bad answer1 iN a group of Pokemon fanatics, Izzy and Mimi looked for a way out.
"Look! Is that a new POkemon Snapping game?!" Mimi pointed somewhere else.
As the crowd turned to look, Izzy and MImi turned to run like heck.
"Hey! That's just a vending machine!"
While Mimi and Izxzy rushed away from the crowd, a figure in front of them that yelled "Stop" was soon trampled. Speeding past the unidentified person, they soon sought reguge at the most desolate areas of the arcade: the Tetris machine!
"ugh!" TK picked himself up from the arcade room floor. Wondering why he had footprints on his clothers, he sighed. Thinking of a sage area, he spotted the line of Tetris-type games, seeing Joe. "Better go there!"
Approaching the Tetris machine, he sighted Izzy and MImi near Joe, catching thei r breaths.
Aas Joe feverishly neared the high score (again), Mimi looked to TK worriedly. "What in the world happened?"
TK shrugged. "Don't know! One second, these two blurs of people are rushing towards me, the next, I'm on the floor with these!" He noted his shirt's footprints.
Raising a brow to each other, Mimi and Izzy gulped.
"this place is unusually dangerous!" Joe exclaimed, before noting, "But I'm sure those hooligans won't get too far."
"Yeah, anyways, who knows? It could've been...the wind!" MImi fished for words.
"Ha, only if you could make the wind seem like two extremely have figures!:
Heavy? Extremely? "excuse me?!" Mimi shouted, "I am not!...I mean, those figures weren't very...."
Izzy shook his head and interrupted once more. "Look, let's just forget about it" Gazing at his watch, he noted, "My driver should be arriving just now. How about seeing a movie?"
Mimi picked up the idea. "Ooh, I hear 'Screaming Movie's a huge hit!"
"Then it's settled?" Izzy asked, being soon replied to with oversall agreement.
"Screaming Movie' it is."
Matt walked over to Mimi, Izzy, Joe, and TK. Thinking of his date later that night, he smiled to them. "Hey, guys!"
Receiving the usual "Hi!"'s and "Hello"'s, he noted, "Hey, um, guys, I think I'll have to bail. Something's come up."
"?" TK asked, "We were about to drag you to the movies with us. 'Screaming Movie's come out!"
"S...sc...Screaming Movie?" Matt's eyes widened.
"Yeah! You sure you don't wanna' come?" Mimi smiled. Usually, Matt would agree with whatever Mimi requested, only that time...
"No, I have...plans." How could he explain his planned viewing of "screaming movie" with Steve, as a date?
With disappointment showing in his eyes, Izzy sighed, "Well, anyways, what of Steve and Tai?"
Matt gulped, then responded. "Steve...also has...plans. As for Tai, I'm sure he'd come also."
Walking somehow closely, Tai and Steve approached the group of past digidestined.
"Hey, where were you? I was looking all over the arcade for you two." Matt exclaimed, especially to Steve with a wink.
"...WE were..." Steve felt wordless.
"...looking for you guys!" Tai finished the answer.
"That's great," Matt quietly raised a brow. "Anyways, I have to jet. Steve, you coming?"
"?" Tai turned to him, "Going where?"
...uh oh. Sora remembered her date with Matt, as Steve, of course. Looking for a solution, Sora quietly ansered, "Ummm..."
"...I'm dropping him off at, the place...where he's going!" Matt quickly replied.
"That's right!" Steve answered. 'Matt's going somewhere, and I have to go...somewhere else!"
"?...Are you sure you need to go now?..." Tai quietly urged Steve to stay.
Matt sensed something...weird. Turning to him, he noted, "Actually, we should get going. Isn't that right?" He then turned to Steve.
that time, Tai noticed something strange, but before he oculd reply, steve interrupted.
"...Matt's right." Steve looked to arcade exit. "We should be going now."
As Matt and Steve left, or more specifically jetted, Izzy turned to tai, inviting him to se 'Screaming Movie'.
Tai sighed. "Sure, why not?"
Nearing the parking lot, Sora faced a huge challenge. If she rode on Matt's motorcycle, he'd most-likely notice...that she wasn't really a...guy.
"you're...afraid of motorcycles?" Matt worried, but seeing Steve in the light of the sunset, he sighed.
"It's okay. HOw bout' we take the bus instead?"
everything was going great! Buying the movie tickets and entering the theatre as pals, their date started off well. Going up to the snack counter, Matt ordered two popcorns and soda.
"Coming right up!: the woman winked to Matt.
Smiling alongside Steve as they entered the dark screening room, Mattt noticed the movie was just beginning. Looking for the perfect seats, he noticed at the right side of the aisle, his worst nightmare! Tai, Izzy, TK, Joe, Mimi, and Izzy's driver all sat in a row to his right!
Whispering, Matt exclaimed, "I think there's some seats in the front!" Leading Steve to where they couldn't be seen, Matt tensed.
Seeing Matt suddenly grow worried, Sora squeezed his hand in reassurance. She wan't sure what was bothering him, but she wished to help.
It was weird,\. In a way, his smile, gaze, and voice was like...a field of flowers (sounds corny, right?). He was calm, yet absorbing and determined. Even though Matt had called her "Steve", she was comfortable with him. It was just as much as with...
"Tai!" she thought aloud.
"...what?" Matt turned to Steve palely.
"Um, I left my backpack at his place..." Steve quieted quickly.
Suddenly worried, Matt thought back to the acrcade room. Remembering how Tai wished steve to stay at the arcade, he sighed. Were they rivals again, after such a long time?
...Nah. Tai's interest remained on Izzy's female driver and models that were...not men. Up until meeting Steve, Matt had the same feelings. Turning what was confirmed as yaoi, Matt realized, itwas for the right...guy.
Putting his arm round' Steve's shoulder, Matt calmed as he realized Steve's willingness. The movie they were watching suddenly seemed enjoyable.
During the beginning of the movie, Sora felt connected with Matt. From laughing, to tensing, to all the emotions from the movie; they both responded together. The only problem that was upcoming was the large pepsi she'd gulped down earlier.
"Um, I need to, uh...well, I think I drank too much soda."
Matt nodded, but paused. Remembering Izzy, Mimi, and Joe, and the rest of the bunch, he whitened. "Okay, just be...careful," he whispered back.
Entering the guy's bathroom, Sora noticed it was empty and sighed in relief. Going to one of the stalls, since she was a girl, she was glad no other guys were in.
Opening the stall door, she spotted a brown-haired figure coming in. Tai!! She closed the stall door. What was he doing at the theatre?
What rotten luck! Some dumbkid in back stuck a melting chocolate bar in his hair! Thinking "brat!", he recalled a time when he spitballed a substitue teacher's back hair. "Hmm," he smiled. "semibrat!"
getting most of the chocolate out, he sensed someone else neearby. Finally shrugging, he exited.
Re-entering the screening room extremely carefully, Sora wondered where Tia was sitting hoping she wouldn't be spotted.
Sitting next to Matt again, se suddenly tensed.
"what am I doing?" she thought worriedly. "I like Tai!" Lookng to Mattt, though Sora fell into a deep gaze as he smiled back. Her worries increasing, she watched the movie less enthusiastically.
As the credits rolled and the lights came on, her eyes widened. Spotting Izzy, JOe, Mimi, TK, and Tai, she sunk to the floor.
"Um, Matt, can you help me find my...gum wrapper? I dropped it on the floor somewhere."
Turning to what Steve had been looking at, Matt gasped, "Oh yeah!" He remembered what he'd been hiding from. Dropping to the floor also, he pretended to look for Steve's...gum wrapper?
A few minutes later, he realized Steve was hiding, like Matt had been, by searching for a gum wrapper.
Seeing the theatre empty, he chuckled.
"what's so funny?" Steve whispered.
"Haha! Relax, they're gone!" Matt smiled.
Noticing that Matt meant exactly who Steve wished to hide form, Steve got up. "so...you were..."
"Just as scared."
Nodding, Steve smiled nervously. Finally alone, the two both tensed before nearing each other.
"You know,...I...never dated a guy before...Much less felt this way about..."
"Hmm..." Steve nodded, though in slight guilt. "So, before me, you never dated..."
"Have you?"
"No, not really." (not in this fashion)
Sora was unsure. If matt turned yaoi, because of "Steve", it was a huge mess! HOw'd he feel if the "steve" he knew was actually a female?" Whethere good or bad, Sora realized she didn't want the risk. Absorbing Matt's eyes and gaze, she simply let her head turn to kiss.
"Darnit!" Tai shouted as he exited the theatre. Turning to Izzy a second, he noted, "be right back! I forgot my wallet!"
Running through the theatre, up a flight of stairs and opening the screenroom door, tai gasped for air. He leaped, like meters per second! Catching his breath, he looked into the screenroom door.
....And he swore.
Author's note: No, Pokemon fans aren't all fanatics like in this fic (just most of them). If you really hated this story, MST's are welcome. Comments and suggestions welcome.
Next part: Matt finds out, leaving Sora to make a huge decision.