Author's Notes: Hi!!! I'm back, and I must say wow! I guess you people really like the first fic! So, here's the sequel to "Hypnotism For Dummies". I hope you like it, and I'm still taking questions for "Dial Up The Digidestined" in case you're interested. This story happens a couple days after the first one and stars Tai and Izzy! Enjoy! ^_^

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon, the digidestined, the "For Dummies" books, Napster, or the Shaggy song "It Wasn't Me", etc...

Computers For Dummies

Tai Kamiya sat at his father's computer, downloading MP3s from Napster. He sat back, waiting for the song to finish downloading. The download was almost complete when the computer began to beep and a little message box popped up.

Tai leaned forward, looking at the screen. "Diagnostic error? Hmmmm... click here to see details... Okay." Tai clicked the details button. On the screen appeared a computer code consisting of back slashes, colons, commas, and binary. Tai stared at the computer, completely perplexed. "How am I supposed to understand this junk? It's like Martian or something."

He reached for his book, "Computers for Dummies." He picked it up and began to leaf through the pages, looking for a section on how to read computer language. Frustrated, he threw the book down.

"That's no help!" he sighed exasperatedly. "Who in their right mind would actually understand this stuff?!" He thought for a moment, then it occured to him. "Izzy!" he exclaimed, jumping up. "He's a computer genius! I'll just log off and give him a call."

Tai went to log off, but found that the mouse was frozen. After several forceful mouse movements and much cursing, Tai resorted to the good old fashioned method. He gave the monitor a good hard smack. The screen went blue with more binary. Sighing, Tai pressed the restart button on the computer tower and went into the hallway to pick up the phone.

"Izumi residence."

"Hi, can I please speak to Izzy?"

"Yes, just a minute." Tai waited while Mrs. Izumi fetched Izzy.

"Hello?" Izzy had picked up the phone.

"Izzy! Hi!" Tai said. "Could you come over to my house right away? I need a little electronical assisstance. And bring your laptop!"

"Couldn't you ask Matt?" Izzy asked. "He knows a few things about computers, like NOT to kick them!"

"How did you know-?"

"Tai this is the fifth time in the past two weeks you've called because you crashed your computer. It's kind of obvious. Why don't you get Matt to help you? I heard he was coming over today."

"Uh, he's not coming, Izzy," Tai replied. "He's sick, came down with the stomach flu last night."

"Oh, poor him," Izzy said. "I guess I could come over then. I'll be right over. Bye." Izzy hung up.

* * *

A few minutes later, Izzy had arrived and was hooking up his laptop in Mr. Kamiya's office.

"So Matt got sick, huh?" Izzy said, while hooking up his laptop.

"Yeah," Tai nodded. "Really bad stomach flu."

"What did he eat?" asked Izzy. "Maybe it's food poisoning or something."

"Oh, he didn't EAT anything," Tai answered. "He got sick from the water he drank. Of course that's what happens when you drink from the toilet."

Izzy dropped the cable he was holding. "What?! Matt drank from the toilet?!"

"It's a long story," Tai shrugged. "One I'd prefer not to tell, but anyways. You gonna help me fix the computer?"

"Yeah, all hooked up," Izzy said. "So what exactly happened?"

"Well, Matt was babysitting TK and Kari-"

"Not that! What happened to your computer?"

"Ohhhhhh," Tai nodded. "Well I was on Napster downloading songs when a little message thingy came up saying there was an error or something. I clicked on details and the computer froze."

"Hmmmm," Izzy mused. "Let's try it on my computer."

Izzy logged onto the Internet and typed in Napster's site. Tai showed Izzy which song he was downloading.

"You were downloading the Shaggy song?" Izzy said. "Tai, you're disgusting! That's a bad song!"

"No it's not, it's cool," Tai argued. "'It Wasn't Me' is an amazing guy song!"

Izzy sighed and began the download. Now all they could do was sit back and wait for either the song to finish or for the error to come up. It was only a matter of minutes before the laptop beeped and the "Diagnostic Error" message came up.

"That's it," Tai said, "and then when I clicked details it froze."

"What did the details say?" asked Izzy.

"I don't know," shrugged Tai. "I don't know how to read computer language."

Sighing, Izzy clicked the details button. He examined the code carefully. He looked at Tai.

"The file's virused," Izzy concluded. "Didn't you run virus scan? By downloading the file, you've infected your dad's computer."

"And yours," Tai said. "You do know that it's on your laptop."

Izzy froze and looked back at his laptop. Sure enough it had frozen.

"I can fix it," Tai said, whacking Izzy's laptop. "There, good as new."

"Tai, you idiot!" Izzy yelled. "How many times must I tell you?! YOU DON'T HIT COMPUTERS!!! Now look what you've done!"

"What?" Tai asked.

Izzy pointed at the screen. It had gone completely blue and wasn't responding. Izzy glared at Tai who just shrugged.

"Just reboot it," Tai shrugged, hitting the reset button. "It's easy as that."

The computer began to restart, but stopped while it was starting up Windows. It had detected an error, but the system wasn't responding. Izzy was told to insert the system disk.

"Thanks to you, I have to rewrite my entire hardrive," Izzy grumbled.

"Just give it a couple of whacks to get it going," Tai said. Before Izzy could stop him, Tai hit the laptop again. This time the screen went black. Izzy frantically pressed the on/off button again and again but it wasn't responding.

"Tai," Izzy moaned. "Look what you've done. You completely trashed my laptop. Now I have to take it in."

"Can't you fix it?" Tai asked. "You ARE a computer genius."

"This far surpasses my capabilities," Izzy grumbled. "From now on, Tai..."

"Yeah?"

"FIX YOU'RE OWN COMPUTER!!!"

Izzy picked up his laptop and stormed out of Tai's apartment. Tai turned to his father's computer. He tried to turn it on. It wouldn't respond. He hit it. Nothing. Tai gulped. His dad wasn't gonna like this...


So that's it! Personally, I don't think this one was as good as the first one, but since when are sequels better than the original? Read and review please, I really appreciate it! I hope you liked this fic, the next one coming up is..."First-Aid For Dummies." And I'm still taking questions for the digidestined if you want. Put them in the review or email them to me at
crest_friendship7@hotmail.com