D3 3
It's been
a day since Tigermon attacked us, but Matt is in the hospital for inhalation of
too much water.
"Get out of my classroom."
"Did you hear me?"
"What?" I said.
It was the
teacher. Class was long over.
"Get out. It's your
lunch period and mine."
"Sorry."
I picked
up and walked out of the room. That was
my first time falling asleep in class, but I had a reason. The rest of the group probably left without
me, since I was five minutes late. I
ran into the computer lab to find Yo Lei standing there.
"What took you so long?"
"I fell asleep."
"How likely of you, Izzy. Everyone else is already inside the digital world. I'm trying to keep in touch with them, but
they're all wondering where you are.
"All right. Send me
in."
Transporting
to the digital world feels kind of strange. You can feel your body stretching, but it's not enough to notice. Your eyes get clouded, like you've jumped
into a pool of Jell-O.
"Ouch."
Landing is
strange, too.
"Guys, I'm here."
The place
was completely deserted. I walked
around a little, but there was no sign of anyone.
"No one's here."
"You dropped off far away for the rest of them," Yo Lei
responded over the D3's intercom.
I wired
our D3s to be able to communicate between each other.
"How much time do we have left?"
"Lunch ends in 25 minutes."
"How's the port?"
"The one you came from is stable. The rest are reacting questionable."
"Where's Motimon?"
"Section A-24."
I started
towards the coordinate. After a while,
I reached Motimon.
"How much, Yo Lei?"
"10 minutes."
"You okay, Motimon?"
"I'm close to digivolving. I need more nutrients."
"Sure."
I gave him
my 5th avenue bar that I bought last week and left in my jacket.
"How's it now?"
"Not yet."
"It's time. Walk
four paces south so I can pick you up." Yo Lei Said.
"See you later, Motimon."
Going back
into the Real world is strange, too. It's like a million hands reach out from the sky and grab you, surround
and then engulf you, and then you are thrown out of the computer screen semi –
violently. Davis was there already.
"Nice job, T. G.! You messed up my Digivice."
"That's not a Digivice, that's a Game Boy," TK said.
"Where were you?" Sora said.
"I took too long, so I was dropped off from a different
port.
"I got a new Digivice." She pulled it from her pocket and showed it to me. The outer edges were a dull pink, as mine
were purple, Matt's was a sort of dirty blue, and Tai's was a Dark red.
"Let me see it for a moment."
I took it
from her and opened a lid on the back.
"What are you doing to it?"
"I'm programming in an intercom feature to allow us all to
communicate when separated. Everyone
has it."
I handed
her the digivice and left. I was very
tired and bored.
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School seemed to last for a long time after lunch, and by the time I got home I was starved. The phone rang.
"Hello?" I answered.
"It's Tai. Matt's
better."
"Okay. That it?"
"Meet us at school in ten minutes."
"Sure."
Matt
probably wanted to visit Gabumon. I
stuffed a fig Newton into my mouth and walked to school, my stomach still
aching."
"Alright guys, I have to be home by seven or else my
parents will think I fell in another river again."
"What did I miss?" I said.
"Just a routine check."
"We usually don't do them at this time."
I knew
something was up, but Yo Lei didn't really know, either.
"Digiport Open."
"Izzy! How glad I
am to see you."
"Hey, Tentomon."
It was
just me, Tai, Matt and Sora. Joe
transferred to a different school somewhere else in the city, and Mimi's in New
York. See anything, Yo Lei?
"Head south."
"What's this?" I said.
It looked
like a lava pit, but there was a strait stream going high into the sky.
"The lava isn't cold," Tai said.
"Why did you put your hand in there?" I said.
"It didn't feel hot."
I stuck my
hand in. It was not hot, but cool, like
ocean water on a hot day.
"This is weird."
"Let me try." Matt
stepped next to me and stuck his hand in.
"Ow!" He yelled as he quickly pulled his hand out.
"What?"
"There's like and electric current in there."
"No there isn't."
"Feel over here."
I put my hand
in and pulled it out quickly.
"You're right. But
how would it be isolated in this area."
"Um, I don't think it is." Sora stepped back and pointed to the lava stream, which was now swinging
down at us.
"Run!"
We dodged
from it, and then the pool began to rise out of the ground. It was a brain. The electric charges were the neurons. The warm lava was the liquid. It was an exposed brain.
"That's gross." Sora said.
"Agumon! Let's go!"
"Agumon, warp digivolve to, WarGerymon!"
"C'mon, Gabumon!"
"Gabumon, Warp digivolve to, MetalGarurumon!"
"Izzy, what is that thing?"
"Good thing I have my laptop. Let's see…It's called Briashmon. It dwells underground and is known for its large, exposed brain.
The rest
of its body was horrendous. It looked
like a giant mutilated human body with its arms stretched out of
proportion. There were several wounds
on it, but I think that they were meant to be there.
"Tentomon, can you warp digivolve?"
"I don't have enough energy, but I can still help out."
"Tentomon, digivolve to, Kabuterimon!"
WarGreymon
did its Tera Force attack towards one of Briashmon's wounds, and although he
made the gash even larger, allowing us to see its insides, it did not seem
phased by the attack. It then squirted
out a reddish liquid which I hoped was not blood at WarGreymon that apparently
was so hot it melted his armor, causing him to revert to Agumon.
It was
MetalGarurumon's turn. He shot what
seemed like fifty ice missiles at Briashmon, but they were absorbed by the
opened wounds. The digusting sight of
his killer T cells (white blood cells) engulfing the ice and squeezing it back
out through the wounds, striking MetalGaruromon on his left wing and forced him
to crash down into the river.
"Izzy! We need a
weakness!" Tai shouted.
"Biyomon's too weak to digivolve!" Sora shouted.
"From what?"
"How would I know?"
"Kabuterimon, try and hold him until I can figure something
out!"
"Kabuterimon digivolve to, Megakabuterimon!"
Matt dived
into the river after Gabumon.
"Matt! Come Back!"
"Horn Buster!" Megakabuterimon lunged himself at the monster's eye and struck it. Briashmon fell back, grasping its eye.
It quickly
got up and lunged an energy ball at Megakabuterimon.
"Ball of fury!"
I plugged
my old digivice into the laptop and searched 'ball of fury'. The ball went through Megakabuterimon,
causing him to revert, and fell into the ocean, causing Matt and Gabumon to fly
miles high in the air.
"Biyomon, you have to catch them!"
Biyomon
quickly digivolved into Birdramon and flew up out of sight to catch Matt.
"We have no way to fight back. Run!"
I picked
up my computer and ran, carrying tentomon. Tai and Sora followed me. Matt,
Gabumon, and Birdramon were still missing.
"Yo Lei, get a port open!"
"Head southwest so I can pick you up."
We were
going to have to leave Matt behind for now. Hopefully Birdramon would be able to keep him safe while we were gone.
"This sucks. Matt
is left behind. His parents are going
to think he almost drowned again." Tai
said frustratingly.
"Should I call the others?"
"No. Their digimon
are too weak to take him on."
Yo Lei
looked at me angrily.
"It took out two Mega digimon."
She still
looked angry.
"What about DNA digivolve?"
"Not powerful enough."
"Call TK. Tell him
what happened, but not to worry. And tell
him to tell his parents that he's sleeping over at my house." Tai Said.
"Every call their parents."
"Hey, mom. This is
Izzy. I'm sleeping over at Tai's
tonight. Yes, I still hang out with
him. Yes, mom. I do. Okay. Bye."
"What was that about?" Tai said.
"My mom thought I didn't hang out with you any more."
"Well, you don't."
"It doesn't matter."
"Hey mom. I'm
staying at Matt's tonight. Okay. Bye." He hung up. "See? Easy as pie."
"Okay Sora, call your parents."
She
dialed.
"Hey mom, I'm staying at Tai's tonight. No, not with Tai, with his sister. Yes. Yes. Bye."
Sora
wasn't 11 anymore. Her mom found it
suspicious that she wanted to go to Tai's.
"Yo Lei, go home." I said.
"But who's gonna monitor the digiport?"
"We'll manage on our own."
"But.."
"We'll manage it own our own." I interrupted. "Plus, we know how your parents are strict."
Yo Lei
walked out.
"She'll understand." Tai said.
We
approached the computer and held out our D3s.
"Just like old times."
"Digiport open."
It took a few
minutes to transfer to the digital world. There must have been an enourmous lag. We were dropped off in an area we had never been to before.
"Okay, Izzy. Where
do we go?"
I opened
my laptop and logged into the digiworld map.
"There's no sign of anything."
"What about Matt's D3?"
"There's too much interruption and the signal has been
weakened. It could be anywhere around
here."
We began
to walk around, looking for Matt. It's
a good thing today is a Friday.