Me: I don't own Digimon-(turns and sees Davis) What are you still doing here?!
Davis: Since I'm unemployed, could I hang with you for a while? A week? A month?
Me: (sighs) Having a hard time finding work?
Davis: It's hard getting a job when everyone knows you as "Goggle Boy" and sees you as a threat to the team of Takari followers.
Me: Hmm…I see. (rapping at the door) I'll get it; you stay here!
(The door opens to reveal Tai, Sora, Yolei and Kari)
Tai: There he is!
Me: How'd you find me?!
Tai: You did keep me locked up here, remember?
Me: (groans) I've got to get an alarm system-or maybe a dog.
Digimon
The Return of the Evil Clone
Chap. III-The Hunt for missing DigiDestined
"Come on, Agumon. We've gotta go." I shook my partner up at around 2:00 in the morning, and boy, was he moody! He almost burned my hand to a crisp if I hadn't pulled back.
"It's still nighttime! Why are we getting up this early anyway? The fish are all asleep."
"Simple: We're going to save Sora and the others from my clone, but it may be hard to do since by now Taichi probably found the tracer on Davis, so we'll have to track him from the last known trajectory." Agumon looked at me like I was crazy.
"You get more and more like Izzy every day, Tai. That scares me."
"I know how you feel." A small shadow overtook Agumon's by a bit and that shadow had wings in place of arms.
"If you're going to save Sora, then I'm coming with you." I was against it from the start.
"Not a chance. With Sora captured, you wouldn't be much help as a Rookie Digimon."
Biyomon was like Sora in every aspect of the word-I could feel it, Agumon could feel it.
And Sora herself knew that as well.
"Didn't you promise that until we got Sora back safe and sound, you weren't going to let me out of your sight, Tai? That includes at night. So wherever you go, I go."
I sighed loudly. I take back what I mentioned earlier-Biyomon is the Digimon version of Sora-I could tell!
"All right, but stay out of sight. If anything happens, get behind me."
We had met up with Izzy and the others before night fell, but I wasn't hungry, not after losing Sora, then Davis and Ken at the same time. Biyomon had lost her appetite after seeing Sora, then not being able to rescue her at the time. After being persuaded by Kari and Agumon, the two of us finally had something to eat. Then we'd gotten some sleep, but I hadn't slept much, seeing as how my brain was racking up a plan of rescue.
But anyway, back to the here and now. The three of us moved as quickly as possible through Agumon's territory, attempting to avoid the desert portion, electing instead to travel through the forest. It wasn't that easy. Branches kept getting in our way and smacking in our faces-mine and Agumon's; Biyomon wisely flew above us, laughing at our disposition.
"If you guys were a little bit taller, you'd be able to avoid these branches, too!" That gave me an idea, so I pulled out my Digivice and it started to glow.
"Agumon Digivolve to…GREYMON!!!"
Biyomon sweatdropped in shock as Greymon towered over her by quite a lot! I laughed as I scrambled up Greymon's leg and back, finally making it to the back of his head.
"Who's got to be taller to avoid these branches now, huh?" Greymon chuckled a bit as Biyomon reluctantly landed on my shoulder.
"Just you wait-once I Digivolve to Birdramon, we'll see who's laughing then!"
Eventually, we arrived at the last known spot we'd seen our missing friends, so I pulled out my Digivice, hoping to see a blinking dot or hear it going off and shaking in my hand.
There was nothing. It was dark and motionless.
"Great. Just great! Nothing at all. Now what are we going to do?" I asked impatiently, the fatigue of the last few hours finally getting to me.
"We'll just go to where they flew off and continue from there." Biyomon advised. I had to admit-that was good advise. I pulled out my Digivice and it glowed and shook in my hand once again.
"Greymon Digivolve to…METALGREYMON!!!"
My Android Digimon now towered over the forests indefinitely! Biyomon held on to MetalGreymon's hair in an attempt to keep from falling off. A moment later, we took to the skies and flew at an unbelievably fast rate for a Digimon of MetalGreymon's size!
My Digivice started going off and I knew it wasn't MetalGreymon Digivolving to WarGreymon-it was a reaction to another DigiDestined. I looked downward and saw a base that shimmered and faded away as we landed safely to the ground. Moments later, MetalGreymon deDigivolved back to Agumon.
"So, I think we can safely assume we've found the base. Now what do we do?" Biyomon asked calmly.
"We figure out a way to break in. I think there's only one way we can get in. Agumon?"
I smiled as within seconds, my Digivice shrieked and started glowing a fiery orange.
"Agumon Warp-Digivolve to…WARGREYMON!!!"
"Terra Force!!" WarGreymon's attack demolished a part of the invisible forcefield, but a part was all that we needed to get inside. What I didn't know was that my clone was about to try and destroy the rock-solid relationship between me and Sora…
As for the others, well, let's just say that Matt was more than a little ticked off that I'd chosen to "recklessly" go off and do things my way; personally, I think he wanted in on the action but I had to do this on my own.
"How could he just go off in the middle of the night and not have anyone go after him?!"
"Someone did go after him, but she chose to go with him." Yolei responded.
"Are you saying that Biyomon willingly went with Tai? Why would she do that?" Matt was visibly struggling with his anger, and not succeeding-it's not like he ever held his temper back in the old days, right?
"Think about it, Matt-Sora is kidnapped in broad daylight a day or so ago. The following day, Davis, Ken and their Digimon are caught in the Digital World under Tai's watch. Tai and Biyomon both feel responsible for the incidents. Why? Both times, they couldn't help Sora. This time, Tai knew he couldn't find Davis and the others due to the interference of his clone's base, so he and Agumon crept out of camp. Biyomon felt like she had to help with saving Sora, so she convinced Tai to take her along, insisting that she'd stay out of harm's way until Sora was freed."
That's when they heard a voice they never thought they'd hear out of the darkness:
"Thanks. That's nice to know." Seconds later, Izzy and Yolei were knocked out-along with Matt and the others-and their Digivices stolen! Taichi laughed evilly as he used his Digivice to drain the two Digivices of their energies, then dropped them and flew off back to his base.
Davis: Man! Tai, your clone is bad news!
Sora: What's he going to do that damages our relationship?
Me: That would be telling, and I'm not gonna do that. (Sora grabs me by my neck and looks me dead in the eye)
Sora: Tell…me…NOW!
Me: Guys…help!
Davis: I gotta get some food!
Tai: And I'm gonna watch TV!
Sora: (giggles) See? They know when to back off.