A/N & Disclaimer: Well, I'm back and this time I wrote the chapter. Yes I did. Zeemon is happy that he got to write. Yes I know I'm really sorry about not really writing part of it, but my fic, my rules. So Flip you if ya don't like it! I don't own Digimon, if I did it would be just a little different. Oh and this '~' the squiggly thing, marks singing. I am sooooo sorry it took so long, but it was promotion preparations at school sooo, it took a little longer than planed! I am now a freshman!!!! Waahoo hooo!!!!! Wait let me check something. Nope I didn't purchase or receive the rights to Digimon so. enjoy what I do own and that's the story!



Lia and Teresa sat on a couch in the Ichijouji apartment with their Digimon on their laps. "So you guys just went into Ken's room to check out the noise, right?" Izzy asked the girls. They shook their heads in response as Minomon came bouncing up to sit on Lia's lap. She welcomed him by scratching him behind the ear.

"Lia, You're gonna spoil him, if you haven't already," Ken said to his cousin.

"He deserves it. Me and Teresa wouldn't have made it without him. Thanks for coming after us though, Ken. You too, Matt. Thanks a lot." Matt just nodded and asked to talk to Ken a minute.

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"Is there something wrong, Matt?" Ken asked when they got to his room.

"Not really, but I thought I should clear this with you first."

"Clear what? Matt what are you talking about?" Ken leaned against desk and looked at Matt utterly confused.

"I'm in love with your cousin and I don't know how to tell her." Ken shook his head. "And don't even start in on how 'I'm the famous rock star and I can't even tell one girl how I feel' 'cause TK got there first." Ken stifled a laugh at how nervous his friend was.

"I think you've got nothing to worry about. I give you the go ahead. Good Luck."

"Thanks Ken."

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"Hey do you think we should call the others and have them come over?" Izzy asked when they came back into the living room.

"We'll tell them to come over tomorrow. I think we should-" Ken was cut off by a loud thunder crash. "Then again, they should come over before the streets are flooded." Izzy grabbed the phone and started to dial the older DigiDestined while Ken emailed the younger ones. Lia quietly excused herself from Teresa and went to her room.

"What's wrong with Lia?" Matt asked Teresa, with a very concerned look on his face.

"Nothing at all!" she said a *little* too quickly.

"That's real convincing. So what's wrong with her?" Teresa shook her head. "Then I'll just have to ask her." Before Teresa could tell him not to, Matt was at Lia's door knocking.

"GO AWAY! Leave me ALONE, T!" came a voice through the door.

"I'm not Teresa and I just wanted to know if you were ok."

"Fine! Go AWAY who ever is there!" came a muffled reply.

"Not until I know you're ok."

"Just Go!"

"Not a chance Lia. Either you tell me or I come in to find out! I'm really worried about you, please tell me." The door opened a crack and one watery, blue-green eye peeked out through it. The eye started to grow wide when she recognized the blue ones staring back.

"I'm fine. Your concern is noted and appreciated, Matt. Just leave me alone for a while." her voice trailed off as her eye showed that she really didn't want to be alone.

"You sure?" He looked at her and his eyes showed pure concern that had only seen from her friends back in America and her family.

"No. Come on in." She opened the door and let him in. "I'm never ok," she said as she sat down by the window and drew her knees to her chin.

"Why not? Is it because you miss your friends and parents?" She nodded.

"I miss Momma and Papa a lot. I was. was. I was." She broke down in tears. Matt put his arms around her. She turned threw her arms around his neck and sobbed in his arms.

"It's alright Lia. Everything's gonna be ok. I'm here for you. Ssshhhhhhhhhhh." He whispered soothing words to her as she cried. When she was done, she still sat there, taking in the wonderful feel of his embrace. "You ok now?"

"Yes. Thanks a lot. I really needed someone, and I still do, but thank you for being here now." He pushed some hair back from her face.

"I'll always be here for you Lia." He looked into her eyes. "I promise."

"Thank you, Matt. You don't know how much that means to me." She gave him another quick hug. "Figure I should tell someone."

"Tell someone what?" he asked. The look on her face was serious, but still confused.

"I have this. well its sort of a sixth sense I guess you could say." Matt's jaw dropped as she continued. "I mean its, well, I know when things are coming and going, good or bad, and whether someone is ok or not. I can also tell who it is to certain extent if I concentrate." She looked over at Matt who was still next to her. "I know you probably think I'm some freak now, but that's really the one thing about me that only six people know. My family doesn't even know."

"You really should tell Ken. He needs to know. I think you're very special, Lia, and *I* would have to be some kind of freak not to see you're still the kind, loving, beautiful person you were before you told me. I'm gonna go back to the living room, and, no, I won't tell. I'll see you when you come in." He leaned over and kissed her already rosy cheek.

"Ok, Matt. Thank you." She stood up and watched him leave. 'He likes me. He likes me! Oh My God!!!!!! Matt Ishida Likes Me!!!!!!!!!!!!' Lia felt like singing, but didn't. She fixed her hair, straightened her clothes, and walked into the living room, a slight smile on her face.

Lia sat down next to Matt and Teresa and slightly smiled at everyone. Matt smiled back warmly and nodded. Teresa gave her a look that said 'You told him something, do I know?'

"Are you okay Lia?" asked Izzy.

"Yes, Thanks for asking." Ken looked uneasy and Teresa cast him a worried glance. "Are the other DigiDestined coming?"

"Yeah. They should start arriving soon," Ken replied. Suddenly the power went out and thunder crashed loudly. Lia inhaled sharply and got a death grip on the couch. Teresa turned towards her, but couldn't see a thing. Matt tried to take her hand, never could quite find it. Ken started to look for a flashlight. Lighting flashed and everyone saw Lia. She looked as if she were staring a ghost dead in the face. She was definitely scared of the raging tempest outside. Matt and Teresa immediately tried to calm her down. The doorbell rang and she screeched, jumping into Matt's arms, sobbing wildly. Tai, Sora, TK, Kari, and Yolei walked in very confused and worried. Teresa and Ken tried to find some sort of light and came up with an old camping lantern and some candles. The power came back on to reveal Lia walking towards her room and Matt following her.

"What's wrong with Lia?" asked Sora.

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"Lia, You're as white as a sheet. What's wrong?" Matt asked as they entered Lia's room. "Is it this storm or something else?"

"I don't know anymore Matt. I just don't know. The night was a lot like this one except, we were on our way to a Christmas Eve party." Lia looked out the window and then leaned against it crying.

"Who is 'we' Lia? You and your parents?" He walked over to her as she nodded. "What happened?" She nodded.

"We were on our way to the party, when this monster came out of the trees. My dad swerved to avoid it. That's when I saw my first Digimon, I guess, since living in Hollywood could start to warp a person's mind. Uh lemme think. Teresa and Taylor were in my car and Trista, Bunnie, Rei, Willis, and Ami were in the other."

"Did you say Willis? Does he live in Colorado?"

"Yeah, he's pretty smart and really nice. My family was out there buying horses when I met him. Why?"

"Well don't you just know damn near all the original DigiDestined?"

"I do? Well, anyway we all saw it, but our car crashed. Taylor was really banged up. Then, it was also storming when Sam died, when Kayla died, and when our car crashed the second time."

"Second time?"

"This was the one that killed my parents. We were on our way home, to Hideaway, from a dinner party, when there was something on the road. Papa tried to stop, but we started to skid. I ducked down behind the seat and the next thing that I knew we hit something, *hard*. I felt two sharp pains, it's almost like a needle poking you in the heart, and I knew they were dead. That's what happened when Kayla died, I felt those pains. It hurts worse depending on how close to the person I am." Matt hugged her tightly. "I felt so alone. They left me all alone." Lia broke into fresh tears.

"You're not alone, Lia. You've got Ken, your Aunt and your uncle, Teresa, your other friends, the rest of us here, me." Matt trailed off. He wasn't sure he wanted to go any further than that.

"Please Matt for your own good, don't get too close to me. I don't want anything to happen to you." Lia had worked her way out of Matt's arms and got a picture frame off the wall. It was a collage of pictures. "They've either been really hurt or died because they got close. I don't want to add anymore pictures to it, especially yours." Matt looked at the picture she held out. One picture was of two little girls of about six sitting next to each other on a swing. One was in a Tae Kwon Do outfit and the other was in a ballet outfit. Another picture was of Lia and a boy dressed in all black. They were definitely backstage somewhere. They were wearing Korn shirts and flashing horns at the camera. Another was a picture of Lia, Teresa, and a girl with pink hair on horses. The last one was Lia and her parents.

"Who's the one with pink hair?" Matt asked as Lia was getting a big picture album out.

"Bunnie. She is one of the best martial arts students I know. And I know some of the best from all over the country, I mean USA." Matt smiled. Lia was turning to a certain page in the book that had a picture of seven girls and three guys standing in a big park huddled together, laughing like crazy. Matt's eyes grew wide as he recognized the second pink haired girl that was hanging onto a tall blond; her back was to Bunnie's.

"That's Mimi. You never said you knew Mimi!"

"Yeah, who do you think is in charge of costumes when we compete?"

"How can you say that you're alone when you have so many people there for you?"

"It just feels that way." Matt hugged her again.

"Never feel alone, Lia." Matt kissed her cheek. "You have me here for as long as you want me."

"If you get hurt, I warned you." she said as she turned and hugged him back. "You understand?"

"Yes ma'am!" Matt joked as he pulled her close.

"Maybe we should get back before Teresa kills someone for looking at her wrong."

"Tai wouldn't be that stupid would he?" Lia raised an eyebrow. "Point taken. Okay, just don't gossip with Teresa too much when we get in there." She flashed him an innocent look and pulled him towards the living room.

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Teresa sighed and looked at everyone and noticed that they were all looking at her. "What did I do?" she asked.

"What's wrong with Lia?" asked the tall boy with brown hair.

"Well, it's just. umm. it's." Teresa turned her head and said, "Why should I tell you?"

"Tell Tai what, Te?" asked Lia as she and Matt came back into the room.

"What was bothering you," was Teresa's response.

"It's nothing now, but thanks for caring."

"Are you sure?" asked Yolei.

"Yes, I'm sure." Lia sat down next to Teresa and elbowed her in the side. "So is this everyone?"

"No, and your not at all shocked by this?" asked TK.

"Well after Ken and your brother nearly gave me a heart attack in the DigiWorld, nothing will probably ever surprise me again." Lia closed her eyes and smiled. Teresa was giggling like mad.

"Really? Now that's a new one!" exclaimed Joe as he came in followed by Cody and Davis.

"Ack!!!!!" Lia jumped.

"You evil liar! Lia how can you lie to us like that?" asked Davis in mock disbelief. He sat down hard on the floor laughing.

"Well if I was lying to you Davis, easily."

"Ouch! That was harsh." Kari flinched at the words.

"She roasted you, boy!" exclaimed Teresa.

"Roasted? When she put me in an oven?" Davis looked very confused, as well as almost everyone else. Lia laughed and Teresa blushed and looked down quickly trying to hide it.

"Not literally, Davis. It's a slang term used commonly in America. It's like saying I. insulted you." Davis looked thoughtful for a minute, then shrugged it off.

"It wasn't that insulting." Lia smiled and nodded. "You must be Lia's friend Teresa from America." Teresa nodded.

"And you're Davis. Tai, TK, Joe, Cody," Teresa, who had been pointing at everyone when she said their name, was stuck so she glanced at Lia.

"Sora, Yolei, Kari. That's everyone that's new to you."

"No, it's not," said Cody. "There are still five more." Lia looked lost then it hit her, as well as her hand.

"Your Digimon! How dumb of me." The five Digimon came out of the two duffel bags.

"Hi, I'm Poromon. Yolei and I are partners!"

"Isn't he adorable?" asked Yolei as she gave him a hug.

"Hi. I'm Patamon, TK and I have been friends since the first summer."

"When the original DigiDestined went the first time, right?" asked Teresa. TK nodded as Patamon flew up and sat on his head.

"I'm Gatomon. Kari and I are the eighth DigiDestined and Digimon," said a catlike Digimon.

"I'm DemiVeemon. Davis and I are a team." The girls laughed as a beige Digimon was bouncing around the room, obviously happy to be out of the bag.

"Really Upamon." Cody shook his head.

"He's adorable!" cried Lia as she picked up the Digimon. "So, your name is Upamon. I'm Lia, and this is Teresa."

"Ohhh, he is sooo cute! Ahhh.." Cody blushed as the two girls poured over the small Digimon. Suddenly, Horsenamon, Spritemon, and Minomon came running in.

"Something's happened!" cried Horsenamon. This got everyone's attention and they looked at the three Digimon that just came in.

"Someone's entered the DigiWorld!" Spritemon declared her eyes wide.

"Come and take a look, Ken!" Minomon said. Ken got up to go and Lia followed her cousin and stood at the door ready to relay any messages.

"Lia, ask Izzy if there's a way to see who it is."

"Izzy, is there any way to see who, or what it is in the digital world?"

"Not without going." Izzy stated.

"Then let's go!" cried Davis. The whole team looked at each other.

"Well gang? What do you say we join the fight again?" asked Tai.

"When do we leave?" Sora asked gripping his arm and leaning against him. The others agreed and they all transported to the DigiWorld.

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"Where are we?" asked Bunnie as she climbed to her feet, She had just awoken. 'The last thing I remember was Tris, Rei, and I checking that program the main computer downloaded.' She turned around as she heard a groan behind her. She got in the fight stance out of habit, and because it could be anything. 'I don't know where I am or if they came with me. The best thing I can do is defend myself and stay low.' She was right because she was in the middle of a mountainous forest. There was very little light and even less flat land. There were rocks jutting up almost everywhere. "Great," mumbled Bunnie. "All terrain practice with an unknown opponent. Just how I want to spend my weekend."

"Don't jump me or I'll drop my computer and you won't have an opponent for very long." Rei stood up, fumbling with her laptop. "Now let's see all systems are.. Not ok.. What the bloody hell?!?!?!? What is up with this?"

"With what?" Trista pulled herself from the rocks she fell between as best she could. Bunnie walked over and offered her hand as their friend was going frantic above her laptop. "Rei?"

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"Yo! Computer Wizardess!"

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"Do you have any idea where the bloody hell we are? Hello? I know you heard me! Do you even know what's wrong with your laptop?" Trista was trying to be patient with the dark haired girl, but she just wasn't cooperating.

"Hello you wanna be Washuu freak! We are trying to make contact with that brain of yours that is in another dimension! Hey, even the pink haired weirdo in the series pays more attention to her surroundings than you do! REI!!!"

"Yes?" Rei looked at them as if she was just hearing them. "The compass is whack, so is the temp radar, AND so is my link with the main computer."

"Does that mean we're pretty far from Hideaway? Or that the area is screwed?" They had no idea that they were stuck in another world.

"Very articulate, Bunnie."

"Thanx. I think." Trista shook her head.

"Okay you two enough of this lets just try to find a way out of here, Ok?" Trista put her hands on her hips in frustration. "Huh?!" Trista felt something on her belt. 'Belt? I was wearing a dress suit.' She glanced at the girls. 'And weren't they like in their pajamas still?' "Girls take a look at your clothes." The two younger girls glanced down.

"Wow. I love this shirt! Ohhhh.. And I got these cool hip-hugger jeans and Yippee! New combat boots!" Bunnie was practically drooling over her shirt that was Sailor Moon, hip-huggers that had the signatures of famous anime and manga characters all over them. She also had her over the elbow finger- less gloves.

"Interesting. I wonder who changed us and if it was even human." Rei was in a pair of jeans and a T-shirt, combat boots were on her feet also. "Well I do know we are not in California. This territory is way too mountainous to still be in California."

"Then where are we Miss. Genius?" asked Bunnie.

"Does it really look like she knows?" asked Trista. Bunnie shook her head. "Now, Rei. What is this?" Trista held out was attached to her belt. Rei put down her computer.

"Do I look that smart? Wait, don't answer that cause I know you'll both say yes," Rei said as she put her hands on her own hips. "Huh?! I got one too."

"Yeah. Two whatchamacallits and three girls stuck in BFE." Bunnie sighed and pulled herself up on a rock to sit. As she did, her hand grazed something on her own waist. "Well, What do ya know? Then I'll correct myself. Three Whatcha- OHMYGOD!!! What the hell?!!!?!?!?!?!" she yelled as three things came bounding out of the trees at them. One was blue, silver, and black. It looked like a bouncing head with a silver crescent shaped horn on her head and her hair was black. The rest was a light, furry, sky blue. Another was a grayish blue, with a seal like texture, and bat wings on the side of its head. The last one was an orange head with a lot of feathers, kinda like a peacock on its butt area. A/N: sorry but there was no other ways to describe the damn thing.

"You're here, you're here, you're here, you're here!" the three things chorused.

"Huh?!?!?!" The three girls were looking from the three 'things' in front of them to each other and back to them.

"What are you talking about, 'we're here'?" asked Trista.

"We're your Digimon partners! I'm Ejyaimon, and you and I are to be working together Trista," the orange Digimon replied.

"I'm Beebomon!" cried the grayish blue one. "You and I are gonna be BEST friends! Forever, and ever, and ever, and ever! Is that okay with you, Rei?" The small Digimon was bouncing around her feet, but stopped and looked up at her awaiting an answer.

"Well. I already have a best friend, many actually, but what's one more?" asked Rei as she bent down near the Digimon.

"Yippee!" it cried as it started to jump around again, while Rei watched fascinated.

"So, you must be my partner. What's your name?" Bunnie asked the remaining Digimon.

"I'm Crescentmon. I think that we will be friends than partners. Partners is more of a forced short term project buddy thing, but friends trust each other and are lifelong companions."

"Yeah. even when they are far away." Bunnie whispered, thinking of Teresa and Lia. "Do you guys know where we are?" Bunnie asked her voice raising.

"Yes. You're all in the Digital World, a world parallel to your own. You are also DigiDestined, but that is sorta a long story, and what we really need to do is find a way to get home," Ejyaimon said from Trista's arms.

"But don't you live here?" asked Rei who had also picked up her Digimon.

"Our home is with you, cause we are to protect you!" said Beebomon.

"Protect us? From who, why, and how did you know our names?" asked Bunnie, who didn't like to feel like she needed protection. She liked the feel of freedom, of independence.

"We've been waiting for you. Our whole purpose in life is to fight by your sides in battle and protect you from the evils of the DigiWorld." Crescentmon explained to them. She looked up at Bunnie to see the girl looking really down.

"Why don't we find a way home and try to figure more of this out when we get there?"

"Okay." The three girls walked next to each other, each of them in their own separate world.

"Do you humans always act so quiet?" asked Beebomon as he hovered in between Trista and Rei.

"No. Hey I know why don't we sing one of our old numbers to lighten the mood Bunnie?"

"Great Idea Trista! Which one?" Bunnie perked up slightly.

"Here's to the night?"

"Sure!"

"That's a great one you guys, we were all together then and we were all happy." Rei was pulling up the file with just the music. The two girls began the song trying to lift their spirits and keep their hopes up.

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"Okay, we've got mountains all around us and forest to the north and to the east. We've got a cliff to the west and a huge river to the south. Izzy where does the digivice say the three 'things', and I use the term loosely, are?" Tai took charge as soon as everyone was with it.

"Dude, the only way we can really go Tai!" said a very annoyed Lia.

"She has a point Tai." Izzy was trying to hold back a snicker as Tai shoot Lia a look. She responded with sticking her tongue out at him. They began their hike north after a little more arguing. Soon, the joking was boring and everyone was just walking quietly. Lia couldn't stand the silence started to hum some songs she remembered from America. Teresa soon joined in. The two were lost in their music as everyone else started to glance at them and smile.

'I can understand why she likes music so much, it always helps one to just get away from life when it's hard.' Matt was looking at the back of Lia's head, thinking random thoughts about the brown haired girl. Their Digimon had caught up with them just a bit ago. Most were talking with their Digimon and catching up on events in both worlds. During all this Lia and Teresa were walking a little ahead of the group.

"Hey! Teresa, do you hear that?" Lia asked stopping short.

"Hear what?" Teresa asked continuing to walk forward.

"Listen, stupid," Lia whispered. The other DigiDestined had come to almost a complete stop behind them, totally oblivious to the conversation-taking place in front of them. "Do you hear that?!?" Lia was almost excited.

"It's. Oh My God. That's got to be them. We have been with them this long if we didn't know their voices we'd be."

"Dumb," the two said together. They listened closely again to see where the song was coming from.

"This way," Teresa said pointing northeast. The two girls took off not saying a word to anybody about where they were going, their Digimon silently trying to keep up.

"Hey! Teresa, Lia! Where are you going?" Joe saw the two take of and called after them. Ken, Matt, Tai, Davis, and TK took off after them running as fast as they could. Leaving the rest to bring up the rear more slowly.

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There they were, just walking and singing. They were oblivious to the fact that Lia and Teresa were there, let alone heard them.

~".. Here's a toast to all those who hear me all too well

Here's to the nights we felt alive

Here's to the tears you knew you'd cry

Here's to goodbye tomorrow's gonna come to soon,"~

"Don't Let me let you Go!!!" came a cry from the forest. The two girls stopped singing as they recognized it as the next part of the song.

"Hey! Who said as soon as we get here to stop?" asked Lia as she crashed through the trees.

"LIA!!!!!!" The four met in a hug.

"Don't leave me out!" Teresa jumped out the trees and joined in the hugging.

"TERESA!!!!!!" The girls were so happy it was meaningless gabbling with no real words that could be deciphered. The guys had stopped and were watching the girls from the trees. The rest of the group came up in a noisy rush.

"Hush!" hissed Matt, Tai and Ken. TK and Davis were just looking at the five girls very confused. The girls were starting to giggles as Lia and Teresa jerked their heads in their general direction.

"They caught on," Matt stated simply.

"Yeah. Lia's got that look in her eyes when she knows one of my secrets," Ken added.

"Alright y'all gigs up! Come on out! Ken, Matt, Tai, Davis, do I have to go through everybody?!?!?" Lia called over her shoulder, while Teresa was laughing along with the other three girls.

"How do you do it Lia? You never told me," Ken said as he emerged from the undergrowth.

"Do I ever explain myself?"

"Not even when you get in trouble."

"Lia? In trouble? Never!!" cried Bunnie, laughing hysterically.

"Whatever, Bunnie! Like you are an angel? Ha, now that one is funny!"

"I never said that Lia!"

"Didn't have to, pinky!"

"Pinky!!!??!?!? You wanna rumble or somethin' Devereaux?!?!! If so, bring it on! I'll kick your ass any day of the week!"

"So that's how you lost the competition? It was on the weekend?"

"Oh come on you two! You haven't seen each other in over a month and all you can do is fight?" asked Trista stepping in between the two. The rest of the DigiDestined had emerged and watched wide eyed as the two clashed.

"Yes!" they answered the oldest girl as one voice.

"Li, Bunns come on! It's so not like we were on bad terms when we left or anything," Teresa was surprised at how her friends were acting. Then Rei interrupted by saying,

"Hello!!!!!! We are still lost and you two are fighting??!!!!?!? Save it for the ring ladies! Oh and by the way I use that term loosely."

"That's it get back here Rei Jones so I can shove that laptop right-- mmmppphhhmmm!!!!!" Two people grabbed from behind Lia, and her mouth was covered. "Lia, I know America is like a little more open about some things but that is just uncalled for," Matt's voice was behind her.

"We do support your endeavors in most things but not this time." That was Izzy's voice. "We would release your mouth now but we fear the outpouring of words and phrases we'd hear." Lia hung her head and mumbled something that sounded like 'sorry guys. I lost it. bad' anything else was too hard to figure out. The hand was removed from her mouth.

"Hey Rei! I still think you're a bitch, but that's why I keep ya around, ya know?" she called to the girl who had ducked behind Teresa for protection.

"S'all right! Apology accepted!"

"American girls are more confusing than normal girls." Davis muttered to TK. "I used to wonder which was weirder, DigiDestined girls or just normal girls, but there is now two new categories. American DigiDestined girls and American girls. Life is difficult."

"Nope, it's just love and girls." TK said.

"Hey at least you got Kari."

"Huh?" TK's eyes got big and he blushed.

"Come on EVERYBODY knows you got Kari. you know you are gonna ask her out, right? I mean you guys click, as Lia has so often pointed out in the last month she's been here."

"Sure, Davis. me and Kari." his blushed deepened as he said the words. Davis was heading toward everyone else, not knowing TK was now incredibly amazed that the maroon haired boy had figured out that he liked Kari.

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"Okay, this is Ken, my cousin," Lia smiled as she smacked his shoulder.

"Nice to meet you ah." Ken realized that Lia hadn't introduced her friends.

"Trista, and this is Bunnie and Rei. We've heard a lot about all of you," informed Trista.

"Wish we had heard more about you." Joe said with a dazed look on his face, while looking Trista over.

"Probably woulda preferred pictures." Bunnie muttered, and got pinched on the shoulder from Lia. "Ouch!" she cried as she shot Lia a look of death.

"Can it, ya pink horned devil," snapped Lia as Trista starts to blush.

"Isn't that the net name given to Rini?" Davis asked getting some very confused looks from his friends.

"You like anime, too?" Bunnie asked, with stars in her eyes.

"Maybe. Hey, you're cute." Both blush.

"You're kinda cute, too," she's says then gives him a full once over. "Skip that you're very cute." Davis blushed even harder. She smiled, as he turned his back and muttered something in Tai's general direction.

"Maybe he'll stop going after Kari now." Matt whispered to Lia, who smacked him.

"Gods! How uninformed are you Matt?!?!? That stopped about three weeks ago!" Lia whispered back. Matt looked at her very surprised. "Obviously, very uninformed. Anywho, okay this is Joe, Izzy, Davis." As Lia said his name he almost fell as she yanked him into view from his conversation with Tai, which caused him to blush again.

"Uh.heh, heh.. Hi?" Davis was obviously nervous about something.

"Hi, I'm Tai, and this is Sora," Tai put his arm around her as he said her name. "Yolei, my little sister Kari, TK. You all know each other." The last part was more of a statement rather than a question.

"She didn't tell you about us?" asked Bunnie as she glared Lia down.

"Of course I did!" exclaimed Lia. "Just not many pictures."

"That's okay. We don't flaunt pictures either," said Trista, still looking at Joe out of the corner of her eye.

"Trista, at least to us, you are being a little obvious." Rei stated never looking up from her laptop.

"What? Obvious about what? What am I doing?" Trista asked, with the beginning of a blush crossing her strong, beautiful features.

"Sure." Lia, Rei, Teresa, and Bunnie said at the same time, rolling their eyes.

"That's just a tad frightening." whispered TK to Yolei, Kari, Davis, Ken, and Cody. They nodded as they looked back at the girls. Lia and Teresa were leaning over Rei's shoulders as Trista started to talk to Joe. Bunnie had sat down across from Rei. She looked at them, smiled warmly and winked. Davis blushed and turned around to the other second round chosen children. Kari and Yolei started to giggle and TK and Ken started in on how he was being almost as obvious as he had been with Kari.

"Well, I guess this time I'll ask you guys for help so I don't make a fool out of myself. You guys will help me right?"

"Of course! What are friends for?" asked Ken. TK nodded. Kari was about to say something when Yolei grabbed her shoulder and pointed toward where Lia, Teresa, and their friends were. Izzy was now talking to Rei, his face full of animation. Occasionally he would point at the screen of her laptop. Every so often she would nod and say something, Izzy would be listening intently. Tentomon and Beebomon looked back and forth between the two humans before shrugging their shoulders, as best they could, and starting their own conversation. Lia and Teresa were standing with Bunnie, Trista, Cresentmon, Ejyaimon, Joe, and Gomamon, the girls staring in disbelief. Lia nudged Teresa and gave her a look. Teresa in turn nudged Bunnie, who nudged Trista. Trista just nodded absently, as Joe raised an eyebrow at the two and shrugged. Everyone seemed to notice the two computer geniuses, but themselves.

"They make a cute couple." giggled Lia to Teresa and Bunnie. They nodded and giggled themselves. The three of them getting into a conversation that was a lot of 'what if' situations. The conversation had gone on almost unnoticed until Bunnie exclaimed,

"That would be wiggy, Lia!!!! What a great idea!!!!" The three girls noticed that everyone else was pretty quiet and probably looking at them. They leaned in and started to whisper again.

"Not that talking to friends or making friends is a bad thing," Tai said suddenly, placing a hand on Sora's shoulder, which she took. "But I think we should all be getting home, wherever that is." Trista nodded in agreement as she got up from the rock she had been sitting on talking with Joe.

"How exactly do we get home, I mean, WE don't even know how we got here. We just looked up this program that the computer uploaded it's self. Next thing we know we're waking up here. Where ever here is.." Trista commented.

"Well, here is the digital world, getting home is a question of finding the right portal," Joe started to explain.

"And if we find the wrong portal?" asked Trista.

"I hope you can speak whatever language is spoken where you end up." Izzy said as he helped Rei up from her seat.

"Oh, that's not good." Trista muttered.

"Not really, but getting here was the portal, and are you guys okay, since you all were knocked out when you came here?" Joe looked Trista over, concern in his eyes.

"We're all okay, Joe. It's nothing more than a few bumps and bruises. Nothing we haven't had before." She smiled at him warmly as Everyone started off towards the portal that they knew about.

"Hey Lia, why can't we all just go with you guys and you fly us home?" asked Bunnie.

"I can't." she responded, a fake smile on her face.

"Why not? Any other time you'd."

"Bunnie. I can't is I can't."

"But Why?"

"Because."

"You haven't told them, then?"

"Told us what?" Davis asked.

"Nothing important." said a very nervous Lia.

"The fact that she's.."

"Bunnie, shut up, please." said Lia.

"Why? Shouldn't they know? They are all your friends right? So why haven't you told them?"

"Different times," Lia muttered.

"Bull shit! That's is such a lame excuse!! You should just tell them that you're loaded and get it over with!"

"Thanx Pinky.. Such a great way to put it."

"Wait a minute.. Loaded? Lia is loaded? As in rich?" Matt asked, looking at Lia wide eyed for the second time that night.

"Heh heh heh, well um. ah.. umm. well. uh.. ah.." Lia muttered nervously, looking at the ground.

"Just say yes. I mean, the Maranello for Trista B-Day, the new equipment for the brand new studios, the gym and it's equipment, the trips to NYC, Colorado, and France, the house in the LA suburbs, the Swiss Bank account, the ranch, and paying for about seven people to live in your house in LA with servants, are all dead give-aways." Lia looked at Bunnie, very pissed.

"Fine, now that the whole world knows what the hell? But it's coming out your expenses," sighed Lia in defeat. Before Bunnie could reply, Lia became stiff, her eyes wide. Matt rushed to her side, as did Trista, Teresa, and Rei. Matt took her hand trying to comfort her. Someone started laughing.

"Really, it's not funny," Teresa said, not turning away from her friend, who was mumbling something about 'he's coming'.

"Uh. Teresa, that wasn't any of us." Ken told her, laying a hand on her shoulder.

"It wasn't?" she asked turning to him. He shook his head.

"Well, if they are all panicking too, what do you think?" sneered a male voice from above. They all looked including Lia, who seemed to be ok again. "And to think, you are the ones that were chosen." he smirked.

"Who is this guy, Matt?" Lia whispered. Matt shook his head, his hand never leaving hers. She squeezed it a little, getting a reassuring squeeze back. The boy was dressed in a poet's shirt and dark pants. He also bore a flowing cape of a green with a flame design.

"If you have a question, ask someone who has the answer!" said a female voice from behind the boy. "Revealed Secrets!!!!!" The attack came at Lia, Matt, Trista, Rei, and Bunnie. Trista, Rei, and Bunnie dove out the way.

"Matt, look out!" Lia said as she pushed him out of the attacks way, quickly trying to force herself out of the way, too. Only to be caught in the wave of power and thrown against a tree, out cold.

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"Where am I? Is this the digital world? It's so dark.." Lia woke to find herself alone and far away from any mountains. "Wait a minute. This doesn't feel. right.. I. could I be. dreaming.? No. This feels too real for a normal dream. What did Rei warn me about many people with psychic abilities.. Something about extra sight or something... Dreams that revealed secrets were called. come on Lia.. This deals with you. Visions!!! They're called visions, but what is this one about. And why should I have one? Rei said that either I would have had them already or I would have to be an advanced psychic in order to have them. this is too much." Lia got up and looked around to see a huge black tower. 'Control Spire.' she thought. "What? How do I know that? It seems so. different.. This can't be now. is it the past.?"

"You worthless excuse for a Digimon!!!" there was a yell of rage from the other side of the Control Spire, followed by the crack of a whip.

"I'm sorry m-m-m-aster.." Lia walked around to see Wormmon kneeling as best he could in front of a boy with purple hair. He wore a cape and bodysuit. His eyes were hidden behind purple tinted glasses in gold frames. 'What's he doing to Wormmon?' Lia thought angrily. 'And where is Kennie? What did he do with my cousin? I know that he wouldn't let anything happen to Wormmon or visa versa.. What is going on here?..' Lia thoughts were interrupted as the picture changed and she saw TK, Patamon, Kari, Gatomon, Armidillomon, Cody, Yolei, and Hawkmon tied, hanging helplessly from a horizontal pole. "Oh my gods. Guys are you okay??" They didn't respond. 'Stupid. this is a memory, it's not happening now.' Lia scolded herself, as she started to look around some more.

"What luck you all dropped by. You see it's Deltamon's lunchtime, and I think eating your friends will make a well-balanced meal, don't you?" the same boy from before laughed. Lia saw him on a cliff near the frightening sight of the DigiDestined. Something about that voice sounded so familiar.

"Oh, no you won't! I'll never let you get away with this, Kaizer!" 'Davis,' Lia thought as she saw him standing up to the 'Kaizer'. Davis was very upset.

"It appears you have no choice. If you want mercy, you must beg for it."

"What the fuck?" asked Lia. She looked at Davis who looked utterly confused.

"Huh?" Lia heard Veemon from beside Davis. He was just as confused as they were.

"You heard me, you pathetic loser! Now on your knees and beg!" Lashed the cold voice. "Please Master, spare my friends."

Lia heard Veemon's yell as he told Davis not to, but the keeper of friendship's digimental was doing so anyway.

The picture before her changed once again to see TK walking up and saying something to the 'Kaizer'. The Kaizer yelled something at TK and used his whip to hit the blonde's face. "Most impressive. Tell me something," TK was saying, as he touched the wounded cheek. "Do you solve everything with violence?"

"Yeah. I guess so." said the Kaizer, very shaken.

"Well, you have no idea about how strong the powers of darkness are or what they can truly do! They listen to no one especially a boy like you!" TK exclaimed as he leapt at the Kaizer, sending them both to the ground. As they started to fight the scene was over taken in a bright light.

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Lia moaned as she opened her eyes slightly under the light. 'Was that really a vision.. My first one.. Was of a boy who was evil, but an important part of the digital world's history, but was in connection to me? Somehow I know him. but how?' Lia was starting to sit up when her head started pounding. 'Than again maybe not. I need some major painkillers..' She laid her head back on the pillow and looked at her surroundings. She noticed that she was at home in the apartment, in her aunt and uncle's bedroom. 'How did I get here from the Digital World?' she wondered. She lay quietly and started to hear parts of the conversation-taking place outside in the living room.

"We can't ignore the fact that she said 'control spires' while she was out. That is something that can't be over looked like it was nothing!" Tai's voice floated to her ears. They had heard her say something, the name of the black towers. 'What will they do about it?' she silently asked.

"Tai, we don't know if that's what she said she could have said anything for all we know! She was mumbling, for God's sakes!" Matt's voice was what came next, a small smiled played her lips. 'He doesn't know it but he's covering for me. I wish that they hadn't heard me.' she listened and heard a voice say something like 'Even if we aren't sure, we should ask her about it, shouldn't we? I mean just in case.' It might have been Cody, but she wasn't sure.

"We should be focusing on whoever this new guy is! His Digimon hurt Lia, if you guys haven't noticed that point yet! We've only dealt with something like this once before, with the Kaizer, but we knew more about him since the Digimon were able to contact us and tell us about what was going on. This time it seems he's not after the Digimon, or he was waiting to see if was to have any problems while doing it. All that we know about him is the name of his Digimon's attack and the fact that he's male and it's female." Matt was talking again obviously upset, because his voice seemed to contain that hint of poison in it.

"With a bad taste in clothes." Teresa's voice reached her ears, she was trying to lighten up the mood. 'Good old Teresa, always trying to keep everyone together and happy.' Lia was listening intently when she noticed that she felt someone safe come closer to the door. The door opened and Matt came in with Joe.

"Hey Li, how are you feeling?" Matt asked as he sat down next to her.

"Like I was in another car crash," she said, her voice a little scratchy. Joe nodded and left, but returned with a glass of water and some aspirin, which Lia took thankfully. "Thanks Joe."

"It's not a problem. Will you let me take a look at your shoulder, though?" he asked. She looked at her right shoulder and noticed that it was wrapped, so she absently nodded her head in consent.

"Well, since you've been out, your friends are all home safe and sound. Teresa has been threatening to put Spritemon in a cage if she didn't stay with Horsenamon and Gatomon in your bedroom. And we've been discussing that," he looked down at her, his eyes showed that he felt her condition was his fault, "boy and his Digimon that did this to you."

"It's not your fault," Lia said gently. "I should have tackled you out of the way. As Rei would put it, it was a slight miscalculation." She smiled a smile that held a bit of a wince. Her shoulder was obviously hurting her. 'Don't blame yourself Matt. I can't bear to see the inner torture that you give yourself when you are upset like this.' Lia thought as she took in a sharp in take of breath as Joe applied some medicine that caused the wound to sting.

"Well, the good news is that your shoulder isn't in that bad of shape. It is scraped a good deal, but there seems to be no infection or broken bones. There also is no sign of anything else that could cause any problems later on except maybe a small scar here or there. Now if you don't mind, I have to get a hold of your friend Trista so that she knows you are okay." Joe was about to leave the room when he turned around. "And don't use that shoulder for a while to be on the safe side, okay Lia?" She smiled and nodded as he left her alone with Matt.

"He is crushing bad.. And so is she, but that's beside the point," she giggled. She looked over when he didn't respond. He brought a chair from the desk next to the bed.

"Lia, I am so sorry. I should have reacted to what was happening.. I was so stupid, and you got hurt because of it, this is all my fault," Matt poured out as he brushed some hair away from her face.

"Matt, I already told you this isn't your fault! You were in shock, it's okay. I wasn't hurt that bad," she took one of his hands," and I don't regret anything. The only thing that I have a problem with is." She trailed off and Matt gave her hand a reassuring squeeze. "I think I had my first vision." She looked at Matt her eyes full of worry and fright.

"Hey, it's okay. Whatever it is, I know that you are stronger than it is. You just need to remember that you aren't alone." He smiled at her, "I'll help you in any way that I can." Part of the conversation in the living room was heard.

"Matt has a point, we haven't had a fight like this since the Kaizer." TK's voice said.

"Sorry about that guys.. I don't know what-" Ken was interrupted by Davis at this point.

"It's not your fault Ken! None of it is! It wasn't you! We can't help you put it behind you, until you forgive yourself. And none of us can do that. We've forgiven you as much as we can. The rest is up to you." Lia was listening to this as Matt awaited her acknowledgement of trust, by telling him what was in her vision.

With tears in her eyes she said, "Tell me about the Kaizer."

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Matt came out a few minutes after Davis had given his little speech to Ken. "Teresa, Lia wants to talk to you," he said. Teresa nodded and left her spot next to Kari and Yolei. "She thinks she had a vision of the past," he whispered to her as they entered the room. She looked at him in surprise, 'So that's what she told him.'

"I should have guessed that you told him that Li," Teresa said as she sat on the bed by her.

"Yeah well, I am surprised he hasn't told anybody else, but thankful." She smiled at him and took a breath. "All I know is that there was this Kaizer guy and that he was mean to Wormmon and was just an ass towards the DigiDestined, but I think that was before Ken joined the DigiDestined cause I never saw him.. I also know that your brother has a mean left hook." She saw Matt raise an eyebrow. "He stole the Kaizer in the jaw once. I just want to know why I find him so familiar and it seems I know him well ya know? It's just confusing, I mean I felt awake, but asleep." Lia looked at Teresa, who had placed a hand on her good shoulder.

"It's okay, we'll tell Rei tomorrow and ask her help. She always seems to have an answer," Teresa smiled at her friend, who yawned and nodded.

"Aspirins kicking in," Matt said. "See you tomorrow Lia," he said as he gave her hand a squeeze, turned and left. Lia snuggled under the covers with her friend's help.

"Now, Lia, do you want me to stay in here in case you need me?" Teresa asked, putting hands on her hips in a look that said 'you know I will anyway so just say yes.' Lia nodded as she rolled onto her left side. She watched as her friend disappeared and reappeared after a few minutes, followed by her cousin.

"Lia; Matt, Joe, and Trista have seen you and know you're okay, but I'm left out of the loop? I am your older cousin-"

"By a month."

"But still your elder and family, so good night and glad you are feeling better." He kissed her forehead and then flicked it. "Next time think of me when you get up!" he teased.

"Maybe, but hopefully there won't be a next time!" she mumbled as she drifted off, to attain some much-needed slumber, in peace.



A/N: So, do you like it? I know, I know, I know! I should have had this up months ago, but I recently discovered that I have a life other than my fanfics! I really do! Did I tell you that I am a freshman in High School now? Anyway Zee and I are working on the next chapter so keep a look out!