Part 5 - Fading innosence
"I'm going to soccer practice
Kari, see you later." Tai said as he was leaving the apartment.
"Ok Tai, see you later" She
responded. I wonder what happened last night....that couldn't have been a
salesman... Tai knew his name. I'm going to call Izzy back and see what is going on.
She walked into the hall where the phone was and just remembered that she forgot the
number. His phone number has got to be in the phone book. Sure enough she found the
number after 30 minutes of searching through the hundreds of people with the last name
Izumi. "Never thought there could be some many people with the same last
name..." she said as the phone on the other line started to ring.
"Hello?" A feminine voice
spoke.
"Hi, can I please speak to Izzy
please?" Kari asked politely.
"Oh, I'm sorry. Ever since
last night he locked himself in his room and hasn't come out. He hasn't been
himself lately." She paused. "But I will let him know that you called, um.... by
the way, who are you?"
"Tell him Kari Kamiya
called."
"Ok ill let him know."
"Thank you, bye." She placed
the receiver pack on its hook.
***********
"How can you be a Digidestined?? I
thought there were only eight of us?" Tentomon asked, quite perplexed by the latest
tidbit of news.
"You are only half right. There
are only eight in the second generation of Digidestined."
"So what does that make you,
Mr." He paused for a name
"The names Robert, and I am one of
the first generation Digidestined. But where are the rest of you? Weren't there other
humans with you?"
"They went home, because they had
to." Gatomon answered, a little withdrawn.
"And you didn't go with
them?" Rob asked in shock
"We were told we weren't
needed anymore"
"By whom?"
"Gennai told us." Agumon
burstd in
"What!!?? You met up with Gennai??
Where did you find him?"
"I think he lives a long ways from
here, we sent Gomamon there to get help."
"You need to take me to him, first
I have to get a few things."
"Umm, what about him??"
Byomon asked, clearly nervous of the Giant Tyrannomon.
"Oh yeah, I forgot to introduce
him. This is my Digimon Ax" He said as the Tyrannomon de-digivolved into an Agumon
slightly bigger that the one standing opposite it. It had four fingers instead of the
three claws Agumon had and had a slightly darker yellow coloring.
"Hey" Ax said. After greeting
each other they followed Rob and Ax towards the campsite. After a few minutes of fumbling
with his equipment Rob emerged with a backpack, what appeared to be A M-16 with some sort
of augmentation. His belt was littered with ammo clips and a hunting knife. Ax came out
similarly dressed only with a large tube on his back as opposed to a backpack.
"What is that stuff for?"
Tentomon asked slightly unnerved by the magnitude of the weapons.
"Hopefully we wont have to use it,
but its the only way me and Ax can defend ourselves."
"Can't you have Ax fight for
you?" Gatomon asked this time proud of herself that she can protect Kari.
"Last time we did that, we lost
one of our group. Our Digimon were too involved with a fight, we didn't notice
another coming from our left flank. It took Cory out. We had to move, we couldn't go
back for him, he was already dead." He started to break but caught himself and wiped
his face. "That's why.." He replied in a deeper voice this time. "Lets
go, Agumon, lead the way."
"Alright but I'm not a
walking map, so if we get lost I don't want to get yelled at."
"Fair enough, lets go."
Following that the group departed in the direction that Agumon thought was correct.
************
"Izzy.....Izzy dear..." His
mom said while knocking on the door. "I just wanted to let you know that Kari Kamiya
called just a few minutes ago and was asking for you. I'm going out to the store, ill
be back in a hour of so, bye." Izzy on his bed had pretended to sleep, but he had
gotten the message. After hearing the front door close he got up and hit a speed dial on
his cell phone.
"Hello, can I please speak to Kari
Kamiya.........."
Part 6 Beginnings
"Alright, lets rest for a
while" Rob said to the relief of the group whose feet
We are growing sore from all the
walking.
"So how far are we from Gennai's
house Agumon?" Ax asked unloading his equipment.
"I'm not sure, but we should be
close"
"So what is that stuff anyway
Ax?" His interest shifting from some small insects.
"Most of it makes a TOW-2 missile
launcher." He paused to create an explanation for the Digimon who didn't
understand a word he said. "Just think of as a very big gun."
"Doesn't seem that simple to
me..." Agumon replied expressing his confusion.
"Rob taught me how to use this
stuff, its really cool"
"Where did you get this
stuff?"
"I can't tell you, and Rob
wont like telling it twice.."
"What do you mean twice??"
"Isn't it obvious? We are
going to Gennai's home to contact the rest of your group. Then he will explain
everything"
"Sorry to butt into the 'Agumon
bonding hour' but we're leaving" Byomon announced.
"Right, lets go" Ax packed
back up his gear and followed Agumon towards Gennai's house.
*************
"May I ask who is calling?"
"Tell her its Izzy"
"Ok, just a minute." A few
minutes later Kari picked up the phone
"Hey Izzy, I need to ask you
something..."
"Ok, sure what is it?" Izzy
answered hoping that she would ask about the Digivices.
"What were you and Tai talking
about the other day? After he hung up he broke down on the floor and was crying for a half
an hour. What happened?"
"You may not be able to believe
this, but I got my Digivice to work, Tai thought I was lying to him..."
"That's not like Tai at all,
but then again this whole thing has made him really weird lately."
"Yeah, I know. I need to prove to
him that I can fix them. Can you drop by over some time?"
"I'm not sure, but I will
have to check with mom first. Hold on a minute ok?"
"Sure."
"Mom? Would it be ok if I went to
a friends house?"
"When now? Well, I guess it would
be all right. But only if you call me when you get there"
"Sure thing. Thanks!" Kari
went back to the phone she picked up the phone and immediately announced that she could
come over.
"What?? What do you mean come over
Kari?" Tai asked bitterly.
"OH hey Tai, what are you doing on
the phone?"
"Practice ended early so I wanted
to call mom and let her know. But who are you talking to? Whose house are you going
to?"
"I'm just going over to a
friends." She said nervously, worried that Tai might figure out what is going on.
"Ok, just tell mom that I'm
on my way"
"Ill do that, bye" She hit
the hang up switch with a sigh of relief
"Hey Izzy, sorry it took so long.
I can come over now."
"Ok Ill meet you outside my
apartment in a few minutes."
"Alright, see you then. Bye"
After she hung up the phone, she got her digivice and left for Izzy's apartment.
************
"Wake up!" A voice from the
darkness said. "Dammit, I said wake up" It screamed at the body in a cage
nearby. A small gesture from the cloaked figure caused the enclosure to be charged with
electricity. The jolt brought the imprisoned creature to consciousness.
"Ow! Talk about a rude wake up
call!" Were the first words to come out of Patamon mouth. He looked around the
cramped space in his cage. "Whoever you are let me out!"
"Why of course ill let out, we
have much work to do..." The voice said again from above the roof of the cage.
"Who are you anyway, locking me in
like this?!" He didn't answer. Instead the top opened up just enough for Patamon
to see the face of the person responsible for imprisoning him.
The face was featureless, dark and
barley visible. It was truly petrifying; Patamon had an easy means of escape but just
froze in place. A mechanical minion appeared into view and restrained Patamon without
order from its master.
An invisible force lifted him up
slightly above the dark figures head. Now he saw the place he had been taken to... Endless
rows of caged Digimon stretched into eternity lighted dimly from an unknown source.
No way in or out was seen. A quick scan
over some nearby cages presented the location of his companions. He tried to call for any
of his friends; most of all TK but his mouth was unable to call forth a voice.
Now the dark figure started to move, as
did Patamon. A shock of electricity filled the invisible enclosure that gave him support.
A flash of bright light and a howl of some nearby Digimon was all he heard and saw before
everything faded to black.