Okay-here's part 2! I don't own Digimon; don't own the characters-yadda yadda yadda. Hopefully, I'll get more plot out there this time (bad writer, bad writer!) Please R&R.
"Ooof! There has GOT to be a better way of getting out of the digital world than falling on top of me!" Izzy groaned as he tried to get out from underneath the pile of digidestined.
"Well, you're the genius of the group. Why haven't you thought of anything?" Davis laughed.
"Because I don't have time to devote myself to it. Why not have Ken come up with something-he does this more than I do."
"Probably because I was never able to figure it out myself." Ken blushed.
"Can we move? Davis is cutting of the circulation to my leg!" TK groaned.
"Oops. Sorry, TJ."
"That's TK."
"Whatever."
"Hey, guys! You're all coming over to meet Lynn, right?" Yolei asked, as she put Poromon into her backpack. "This way she'll at least see some familiar faces when she starts going to school."
"Sure thing, but what are we going to do about our Digimon?" Kari asked. "We can't exactly carry them around like stuffed animals anymore-we've gotten a little too old for that."
"We can put them in my room. I live right next door to her." Cody offered.
"I wanna meet the new girl, Yolei!" Poromon said, struggling to get out of the backpack.
"So do I!" Demiveemon said, jumping up and down.
"Everyone we meet is not a digidestined. Besides, she might freak out if she saw you guys." TK gently reminded the digimon.
"Maybe. Maybe not." Gatomon said, smoothing out her fur. "Besides, if she's going to be one of us-she's going to find out sooner or later."
"What do you mean, Gatomon?" Kari asked. A strange look crossed Gatomon's face.
"Um, well, I mean..."
"She means, if Lynn is going to be our friend. It's kind of hard to keep this kind of thing a secret." Patamon covered.
"Yeah. That's what I meant." Gatomon looked relieved.
"Um, okay." Kari said. "Well, we'd better get going then."
"Perfecto!"
"You guys be good." Cody said, as he shut his door.
"Yeah, no pillow fights!"
"Davis! Don't give them any ideas!"
"Jeez, TR! Lay off."
"Please, try not to fight. That's all we need to do-give the wrong impression." Izzy shook his head.
"Better she finds out now what they're really like." Kari said, smiling.
"Here goes!" Yolei brushed a stray hair out of her face and knocked on the door. No answer. Yolei knocked again. Still no answer. "That's weird. She said she was going to be spending the rest of the day unpacking."
"Maybe she stepped out for a while." Izzy suggested.
"But she said she was looking forward to meeting all of you!" Yolei pouted. Just as she was about to knock again-the door opened-and Yolei's fist connected with Lynn's head.
"Oh my gawd! I am so sorry." Yolei blushed bright red.
"I just hope this isn't some bizarre initiation ritual that no one told me about." Lynn smiled, rubbing her forehead. "I guess this is what I get for taking so long to get to the door. Sorry about that-I was in the back room and didn't realize that I had trapped myself in a corner with the boxes."
"I really am sorry, I can't believe how clumsy I am!"
"It's okay-really." Lynn laughed.
"Let me introduce you to the rest of our friends, since Yolei has flipped out." Cody spoke up. "This is TK-he lives in the same building as us and goes to Odaiba High. That's Kari-she goes to school with us also. The guy with the different uniform is Ken-he goes to a private school, but hangs out with us almost everyday. The guy with the goggles is Davis; he goes to school with us too. Don't ask about the goggles-we've given up on getting a rational explanation about them from him."
"Hey!"
"And last but not least-there's Izzy. He's a senior at Odaiba."
"Of course, we'll have a quiz about all of our names later." Izzy joked.
"It's nice to meet all of you." Lynn smiled warmly. "Please come inside-I'm afraid it's still a total disaster area, but at least we have the furniture moved in!"
The digidestined stepped across the threshold.
"Pretty cool place!" Yolei gushed.
"Thanks. I tried to get the living room taken care of first. It's kind of depressing to have the first thing you look at when you enter a home be nothing but boxes."
"We won't stay too long. I know how hard it is to put everything the way you want it to be." TK said, stepping over a box.
"It's weird. I never realized how much stuff I actually own." Lynn laughed. "I guess I shouldn't complain about having nothing to do or nothing to wear."
"Your Japanese is pretty good." Izzy said. "Yolei says you're from America-last time I checked, Japanese wasn't something they taught as a regular part of school curriculum." Lynn blushed a little.
"The truth is, a friend of mine got me addicted to anime and I found out I preferred the original voice casts. So, I picked up some words and phrases here and there. I only started actively learning Japanese about four months ago. I can carry on a conversation-but I'm having the hardest time with kanji. Sometimes I don't think my brain works that way."
"I'll help with your Japanese, if you'll help with my English." Ken offered.
"That would be great!"
"Wow. I've never seen so many music records and CD's in my life!" Davis was checking out the shelves on the wall. I've never heard of some of these bands."
"My dad's an executive for a record company. He used to be a talent scout-so he has a bunch of demos and I think he has the records for about every single group he's helped out. He's the biggest pack rat I've ever met. He got transferred to Japan to help re-build the Asian market."
"Don't let my brother Matt know what your father does. He'll be all over you trying to set up an audition. His band's still looking for a corporate backer." TK said, looking at the records also.
"I've gotten used to it. Who knows? If he's any good, I'll see what I can do."
"Who's this in the picture with you?" Yolei said, picking up a photo from the top of one of the boxes. Lynn's face went white.
"That's my mom."
'Oh, is she going to be transferring to Japan also? Or did she stay in America?"
"She died a couple of years ago."
"I'm so sorry...I...I didn't know..." Yolei stammered. Lynn gave a weak smile.
"It's okay. How could you have known?" An odd silence filled the room. Lynn pulled out a locked from under her shirt and began playing with it. Cody decided to break the silence.
"Are you going to be starting school tomorrow? TK, Yolei and I usually walk together."
"Yeah. My dad dropped off the uniform a couple of minutes before you arrived. He said I could wait a couple of days to settle in, but I think it's best to just jump in and worry about sorting things out later."
"We'll meet you by the downstairs elevator then." TK said. "That way we can make sure you get to the right place."
"I appreciate the offer, but my dad's taking me tomorrow. I've got a ton of paperwork to fill out. Maybe the day after."
"Sure." TK nodded.
Yolei turned to check out the view from the living room when she saw Poromon and Patamon flying outside the window. She let out a surprised gasp.
"What's wrong?" Lynn asked-turning to see what Yolei was looking at.
"N...nothing.."Yolei said getting between Lynn and the window. "I just remembered that I have a report due tomorrow and I haven't finished typing it up on my computer yet."
"What report?" Davis asked. "You always finish your homework early... OUCH!" Davis yelled as Yolei stepped on his foot.
"Don't mind them-they're almost always like this." Izzy laughed nervously.
"Well, we've taken up enough of your time." Kari said, pulling Davis towards the door. "We'll be sure to keep an eye out for you tomorrow and tell some of our other friends to look out for you too. Just in case you look too bewildered."
"Thanks, Kari. It was nice meeting all of you. I hope you can come by later when everything's calmed down around here. Maybe I can have a housewarming party or something like that."
"That sounds like an excellent idea." Izzy said as they left the room.
"Okay, I'll let you know when the disaster area's been cleaned up. Thanks again for stopping by. I don't feel quite so alone anymore."
"That's what friends are for." Ken smiled.
Lynn's smile lasted until she shut the door. The smile faded as she looked at the picture that Yolei had been holding up.
"I'm sorry, Mom. If only I hadn't been in the Digital World. You'd still be here." She opened up her pendant and stared at the object inside. A small, iridescent emblem of two people hugging gleamed inside of it. Lynn sighed. "Why is it that everyone I care about seems to die because of me? Mom, and then Harumon. Sometimes I wish I had never found this crest."
"What on EARTH possessed you to fly out in the open like that?" Yolei scolded Poromon.
"It's not like you to do something like that, Patamon."
"I'm sorry, TK. We just wanted to see what she was like." Patamon lowered his head. "Besides, she didn't see us."
"I can appreciate your curiosity, but we don't know her very well. Do you honestly want to risk exposing the Digital World to a stranger?" Izzy asked.
"Well, no. But..." Patamon mumbled.
"Don't be so hard on them. I'm the one that suggested they go." Gatomon stood up for her friends. "You know what they say about curiosity and the cat."
"Give her a chance to get comfortable with being in a new country. Then we can spring this on her." Ken said, picking up Leafmon. "Well, I'd better get back home. I'll see you around."
"Bye, Ken. See you tomorrow!" Davis said, trying to catch a hopping Demiveemon. "Jeez, Demiveemon-did you get into caffeine again?:
Ken walked out of Cody's apartment and stopped at Lynn's door. Something in him wanted to knock on her door. Just to check that she was okay.
"What's wrong, Ken?" Leafmon asked.
"I'm not sure-there's just something about her. It's like I've seen her before, but I just can't place it. It's like the memory is there, but my mind doesn't want me to remember it."
"Maybe it has something to do when you were the Digimon Emperor?" Leafmon suggested.
"I hope not, buddy. That part of me caused enough trouble here in Japan. I'd hate to think it spread all the way to affecting people in America."
"Don't worry about it, Ken. That aspect of your life is over. Just focus on the future." Leafmon snuggled into Ken's arms and yawned.
"It's been a long day, let's go home." Ken smiled at his digimon and walked towards the elevator.
"Ooof! There has GOT to be a better way of getting out of the digital world than falling on top of me!" Izzy groaned as he tried to get out from underneath the pile of digidestined.
"Well, you're the genius of the group. Why haven't you thought of anything?" Davis laughed.
"Because I don't have time to devote myself to it. Why not have Ken come up with something-he does this more than I do."
"Probably because I was never able to figure it out myself." Ken blushed.
"Can we move? Davis is cutting of the circulation to my leg!" TK groaned.
"Oops. Sorry, TJ."
"That's TK."
"Whatever."
"Hey, guys! You're all coming over to meet Lynn, right?" Yolei asked, as she put Poromon into her backpack. "This way she'll at least see some familiar faces when she starts going to school."
"Sure thing, but what are we going to do about our Digimon?" Kari asked. "We can't exactly carry them around like stuffed animals anymore-we've gotten a little too old for that."
"We can put them in my room. I live right next door to her." Cody offered.
"I wanna meet the new girl, Yolei!" Poromon said, struggling to get out of the backpack.
"So do I!" Demiveemon said, jumping up and down.
"Everyone we meet is not a digidestined. Besides, she might freak out if she saw you guys." TK gently reminded the digimon.
"Maybe. Maybe not." Gatomon said, smoothing out her fur. "Besides, if she's going to be one of us-she's going to find out sooner or later."
"What do you mean, Gatomon?" Kari asked. A strange look crossed Gatomon's face.
"Um, well, I mean..."
"She means, if Lynn is going to be our friend. It's kind of hard to keep this kind of thing a secret." Patamon covered.
"Yeah. That's what I meant." Gatomon looked relieved.
"Um, okay." Kari said. "Well, we'd better get going then."
"Perfecto!"
"You guys be good." Cody said, as he shut his door.
"Yeah, no pillow fights!"
"Davis! Don't give them any ideas!"
"Jeez, TR! Lay off."
"Please, try not to fight. That's all we need to do-give the wrong impression." Izzy shook his head.
"Better she finds out now what they're really like." Kari said, smiling.
"Here goes!" Yolei brushed a stray hair out of her face and knocked on the door. No answer. Yolei knocked again. Still no answer. "That's weird. She said she was going to be spending the rest of the day unpacking."
"Maybe she stepped out for a while." Izzy suggested.
"But she said she was looking forward to meeting all of you!" Yolei pouted. Just as she was about to knock again-the door opened-and Yolei's fist connected with Lynn's head.
"Oh my gawd! I am so sorry." Yolei blushed bright red.
"I just hope this isn't some bizarre initiation ritual that no one told me about." Lynn smiled, rubbing her forehead. "I guess this is what I get for taking so long to get to the door. Sorry about that-I was in the back room and didn't realize that I had trapped myself in a corner with the boxes."
"I really am sorry, I can't believe how clumsy I am!"
"It's okay-really." Lynn laughed.
"Let me introduce you to the rest of our friends, since Yolei has flipped out." Cody spoke up. "This is TK-he lives in the same building as us and goes to Odaiba High. That's Kari-she goes to school with us also. The guy with the different uniform is Ken-he goes to a private school, but hangs out with us almost everyday. The guy with the goggles is Davis; he goes to school with us too. Don't ask about the goggles-we've given up on getting a rational explanation about them from him."
"Hey!"
"And last but not least-there's Izzy. He's a senior at Odaiba."
"Of course, we'll have a quiz about all of our names later." Izzy joked.
"It's nice to meet all of you." Lynn smiled warmly. "Please come inside-I'm afraid it's still a total disaster area, but at least we have the furniture moved in!"
The digidestined stepped across the threshold.
"Pretty cool place!" Yolei gushed.
"Thanks. I tried to get the living room taken care of first. It's kind of depressing to have the first thing you look at when you enter a home be nothing but boxes."
"We won't stay too long. I know how hard it is to put everything the way you want it to be." TK said, stepping over a box.
"It's weird. I never realized how much stuff I actually own." Lynn laughed. "I guess I shouldn't complain about having nothing to do or nothing to wear."
"Your Japanese is pretty good." Izzy said. "Yolei says you're from America-last time I checked, Japanese wasn't something they taught as a regular part of school curriculum." Lynn blushed a little.
"The truth is, a friend of mine got me addicted to anime and I found out I preferred the original voice casts. So, I picked up some words and phrases here and there. I only started actively learning Japanese about four months ago. I can carry on a conversation-but I'm having the hardest time with kanji. Sometimes I don't think my brain works that way."
"I'll help with your Japanese, if you'll help with my English." Ken offered.
"That would be great!"
"Wow. I've never seen so many music records and CD's in my life!" Davis was checking out the shelves on the wall. I've never heard of some of these bands."
"My dad's an executive for a record company. He used to be a talent scout-so he has a bunch of demos and I think he has the records for about every single group he's helped out. He's the biggest pack rat I've ever met. He got transferred to Japan to help re-build the Asian market."
"Don't let my brother Matt know what your father does. He'll be all over you trying to set up an audition. His band's still looking for a corporate backer." TK said, looking at the records also.
"I've gotten used to it. Who knows? If he's any good, I'll see what I can do."
"Who's this in the picture with you?" Yolei said, picking up a photo from the top of one of the boxes. Lynn's face went white.
"That's my mom."
'Oh, is she going to be transferring to Japan also? Or did she stay in America?"
"She died a couple of years ago."
"I'm so sorry...I...I didn't know..." Yolei stammered. Lynn gave a weak smile.
"It's okay. How could you have known?" An odd silence filled the room. Lynn pulled out a locked from under her shirt and began playing with it. Cody decided to break the silence.
"Are you going to be starting school tomorrow? TK, Yolei and I usually walk together."
"Yeah. My dad dropped off the uniform a couple of minutes before you arrived. He said I could wait a couple of days to settle in, but I think it's best to just jump in and worry about sorting things out later."
"We'll meet you by the downstairs elevator then." TK said. "That way we can make sure you get to the right place."
"I appreciate the offer, but my dad's taking me tomorrow. I've got a ton of paperwork to fill out. Maybe the day after."
"Sure." TK nodded.
Yolei turned to check out the view from the living room when she saw Poromon and Patamon flying outside the window. She let out a surprised gasp.
"What's wrong?" Lynn asked-turning to see what Yolei was looking at.
"N...nothing.."Yolei said getting between Lynn and the window. "I just remembered that I have a report due tomorrow and I haven't finished typing it up on my computer yet."
"What report?" Davis asked. "You always finish your homework early... OUCH!" Davis yelled as Yolei stepped on his foot.
"Don't mind them-they're almost always like this." Izzy laughed nervously.
"Well, we've taken up enough of your time." Kari said, pulling Davis towards the door. "We'll be sure to keep an eye out for you tomorrow and tell some of our other friends to look out for you too. Just in case you look too bewildered."
"Thanks, Kari. It was nice meeting all of you. I hope you can come by later when everything's calmed down around here. Maybe I can have a housewarming party or something like that."
"That sounds like an excellent idea." Izzy said as they left the room.
"Okay, I'll let you know when the disaster area's been cleaned up. Thanks again for stopping by. I don't feel quite so alone anymore."
"That's what friends are for." Ken smiled.
Lynn's smile lasted until she shut the door. The smile faded as she looked at the picture that Yolei had been holding up.
"I'm sorry, Mom. If only I hadn't been in the Digital World. You'd still be here." She opened up her pendant and stared at the object inside. A small, iridescent emblem of two people hugging gleamed inside of it. Lynn sighed. "Why is it that everyone I care about seems to die because of me? Mom, and then Harumon. Sometimes I wish I had never found this crest."
"What on EARTH possessed you to fly out in the open like that?" Yolei scolded Poromon.
"It's not like you to do something like that, Patamon."
"I'm sorry, TK. We just wanted to see what she was like." Patamon lowered his head. "Besides, she didn't see us."
"I can appreciate your curiosity, but we don't know her very well. Do you honestly want to risk exposing the Digital World to a stranger?" Izzy asked.
"Well, no. But..." Patamon mumbled.
"Don't be so hard on them. I'm the one that suggested they go." Gatomon stood up for her friends. "You know what they say about curiosity and the cat."
"Give her a chance to get comfortable with being in a new country. Then we can spring this on her." Ken said, picking up Leafmon. "Well, I'd better get back home. I'll see you around."
"Bye, Ken. See you tomorrow!" Davis said, trying to catch a hopping Demiveemon. "Jeez, Demiveemon-did you get into caffeine again?:
Ken walked out of Cody's apartment and stopped at Lynn's door. Something in him wanted to knock on her door. Just to check that she was okay.
"What's wrong, Ken?" Leafmon asked.
"I'm not sure-there's just something about her. It's like I've seen her before, but I just can't place it. It's like the memory is there, but my mind doesn't want me to remember it."
"Maybe it has something to do when you were the Digimon Emperor?" Leafmon suggested.
"I hope not, buddy. That part of me caused enough trouble here in Japan. I'd hate to think it spread all the way to affecting people in America."
"Don't worry about it, Ken. That aspect of your life is over. Just focus on the future." Leafmon snuggled into Ken's arms and yawned.
"It's been a long day, let's go home." Ken smiled at his digimon and walked towards the elevator.