"So that was just his childhood? I can't even begin to imagine what his adult years were like."






"Well, he and the other digidestined were constantly pulled into the digital world to help save their world, many times over. He was extremely busy with his band and also trying to just be a teenager."







"Were there any girls in his life?"







"Yes actually, there is one girl in particular."








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We see Sora and Biyomon waiting outside of a door. "Wow, this is so exciting. People are already lining up for Matt's concert."






"Don't worry Sora. We'll be sure to get good seats. Especially once you give him these homemade cookies."






"I hope."





"Sora, wait up." We see Tai walking with Agumon towards Sora.






"Oh Tai ... uh."






He looked at her oddly and Agumon said, "Something smells good." But he was interrupted by Gabumon opening the door.







"Matt's busy getting ready, but I'll take those to him."







Biyomon yelled, "I bet you will. NO WAY! You'll eat the whole thing yourself."







He replied, "Wait. I resent that. I'm on a diet."






Tai interrupted them, "So umm, Sora. Are you going to the concert with anybody? I mean not that it matters to me ... Just wondering." He said quickly.







"No, I want to be available in case Matt is free afterwards."





Tai looked upset and said, "Oh, I see. Matt, huh? It's okay," he said.





"Your not mad at me, Tai?"






He replied, "No, of course not...Now get in there and say hi to Matt for me."






"Thanks Tai."







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"So that girl from before had a crush on him?"






"Yes, she did."






"Did he like her back?"






"Well let me show you the next scene from his life of importance."







We see Sora and Matt walking through the park.






"Sora, thank you so much for those cookies." He smiled at her.








As she was blushing she said, "Your welcome Matt. You're my friend ... I would do anything for you. I want your complete happiness. The same applies to Tai. By the way Matt Tai asked me out. What do you think I should do?"




Matt's face went white. After awhile he looked at her and answered, "Well do you like Tai in that way?"






She looked at him, "Well...."





She was interrupted by her cell phone ringing... "Hello." She answered it. Matt could here a male voice on the other end, talking very loudly. "I'm at the park, with Matt."







Matt looked away so as not to be listening to the call when Sora said, "Matt, Tai wants to talk to both of us."






Matt and Sora put their heads together to listen to the phone call, "Guys, the government is asking us to be ambassadors to the digital world from Japan. We'll make a ton of money if it all works out right ... What do you think?"






He was so excited, but Sora and Matt weren't paying attention to the phone call but were looking into each other's eyes. The cell phone dropped and Tai could be heard asking what was going on.





Matt pulled her into his arms, "Sora ... you know how much you mean to me ... but I've never really told you what you REALLY mean to me. ..." He paused for a few minutes and then continued on, "I love you Sora, and I have loved you for years now. If you will let me then I'd like to be your boyfriend."






Sora looked at him with tears in her eyes, "Yes Matt, I would let you be my boyfriend, I love you too." They pulled together and started kissing each other with a reckless abandon, not even listening to what was going on the phone. Needless to say, Sora didn't go out on a date with Tai.






We see a flash and then suddenly we are at a candlelight dinner. Sora and Matt are a few years older and we see him take her hand in his and kiss it.






"Sora all those years ago when I asked to be your boyfriend, I really meant to ask you something else, but I felt we were too young. But now that we are older I think it's time to ask."






He gets on a knee and bends before her. "Will you marry me?"






She gets down on her knees in her nice dress and looks at him; "Did you ever doubt that I would?"






They kiss and the scene fades to their wedding day.






Walking down the aisle in a dress of white silk we see Sora, smiling as tears stream down her face. At the front of the church we see Matt, attended by TK, Tai, Izzy, and Joe. But his eyes are only on Sora as she walks down towards him, to become his.






We see them recite their wedding vows and we can see the love that they hold for one another.






Again we are transported, but this time we see Matt in a hospital waiting room, pacing the room. The digidestined are all they're, waiting patiently, but we don't see Sora. Finally a nurse enters the room and we see her say something to Matt and Matt runs out of the room, with the others soon behind him.







Matt runs into a hospital room and we see Sora with a baby in her arms. She smiles at Matt and he runs and kisses her. She hands him his son and he smiles.







The transportation begins anew and we are taken to the hospital once again. Matt is in the delivery room this time and we see him cut the umbilical cord to his new daughter. He kisses Sora again and holds their daughter out to her.






We see their toddler son being brought to the room and Matt taking his son in his arms to show him his new baby sister.













"So he got the girl! That's great! They make a fine couple now don't they?






"Yes, they are a match made in heaven ... in a manner of speaking."






"So his teenage years did pan out well. Did he become a rockstar? What happened next?"




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The scene fades into Matt in a jumpsuit floating around a spaceship. Along side him is Gabumon. They are chatting as they float around and we see Matt float to another part and sigh.







"I miss her Gabu ... I miss her and the kids terribly. I don't know how I make it through the days."






"Well I miss Biyomon and our kids, but I know that I'll see them again."







"I'm sure that Biyomon is doing great. Sora is there to take care of them after all."







"I heard that T.K. and Kari were going to be married soon."






"Yeah, T.K. wants to wait until we get back from Mars. It's only three more months, and compared to the last three and a half years, this is nothing."






"Yes I know."






"I can't believe how long it's been. But the money is good. I think, though, that I want to retire after this - as long as I get that government pension that they are supposed to give me."






"Yes, I'm sure they will."






"I'm relying on it, otherwise the kids won't have a future, Gabu ...."






"Well Sora has her designing job with Biyomon. It will help you out."






"Yes, but we bought that house, and we have to pay the payments. I just hope everything is okay when I return."






"I have faith in Sora, that she kept it going. After all she had Tai and all of them to help her out."






"That's what I'm afraid of."






"You don't mistrust Sora do you?"





"No ... I just don't trust Tai all that well. He is my best friend after all."







"Don't worry Matt, after all of this, Sora will just be glad to have you home, not about all of the material things that you promised."






"Yeah I guess your right."




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"He became an ASTRONAUT? Where did that come from? And Sora became a designer? That seems a little off base from their personalities."






"Well wonders never cease, Isaac. You should know that by now."







"So he was gone for four years, away from Sora and their kids? I bet their reunion was a big hit."






"Well the reunion is what brings us to today. The day that everything changed for Matt. The reason that he...."





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Matt sighed as he and Gabumon were let out of the depressurizing chambers of NASA headquarters. He knew that in a few minutes he would get to see his now eight-year-old son and six-year-old daughter. He had missed them terribly, but they weren't allowed to come to the headquarters, so he had to be taken home
to them so that he could finally see them.


The doctors had wanted him to stay at the center for another day, but it was Christmas Eve, and he wanted to spend it with his family. They had to understand that. They kept going on and on about how things were going to be different, but he just ignored them. They gave Gabumon a talk about how he needed to watch Matt because of depression. But Matt was out the door before they could warn him a fourth time.



He rushed to the car out front and he and Gabumon got in the car as they were driven home. They had gotten home just in time for Christmas, and he had been so thankful for that. He got lost in his thoughts as he looked out the window.... He looked at the green grass on the earth and it almost hurt his eyes due to the
color. He remembered the vibrant colors of so many things over the last four years, but nothing compared to actually getting to see it.






Green - He had remembered the foliage of the digital world ... the vast green of the jungles that were there.






Blue - The sky had always been a rich blue during the afternoons when he and Sora had laid on the ground and looked up at the clouds at night.






But the most important color that he had kept in his memory in the darkness of space was red. Red was the color of her hair, the color of her eyes. The color that their children both held in either their hair or eyes. He loved that color so much, and he missed her so. It had been four years since he had seen her, held her ...






The fifteen-minute car ride could not be over soon enough...






Finally they pulled into the driveway of the house that seemed so familiar, yet so distant to him. He jumped out of the car when the front door opened to reveal Sora. She was running out the door and in an instant he was running to her.






When he caught her in his arms he spun her around and kissed her. The feeling of her in his arms almost made him leap with joy again as he kissed her harder. She was kissing him just as hard back and it was a long time before either of them realized that they had an audience.







On the front porch stood their children, with Tai holding both of them. One was at his leg, hugging it hard as they looked at the stranger, and the other one was in Tai's arms.






Sora looked at Matt and then looked back at the children, "They are happy to see you home, it will just take awhile to get re-accustomed to you, darling."






He looked at her with doubt in his eyes, "They don't know me, Sora. It's not like with you."






"Then get to know them Matt. They think of Tai like a second father, but you'll have to spend enough time with them so that they can get to know you better."






Matt sighed as Sora took his hand and led him up to the porch. She took the child in Tai's arms from him and their son went to her as Tai smiled at Matt.






"Matt, it's so good to have you home. I know that I am personally tired of hearing Sora complain that you aren't home. She hasn't been the same without you."





Sora blushed as she turned to Matt and said, "This is your daddy. Why don't you give him a hug."






The children just looked at him and then the four-year-old in Sora's arms started crying. Sora looked at her daughter and then went straight to Matt. She held out their daughter for him to hold and he took her into his arms. She did not want to be held. She kept kicking and screaming for awhile, and yet Sora just let him hold her.






Matt did not know what to do. Sora let him handle their daughter and she led them all inside the house. His son just kept staring at him and Matt could do nothing but stare back at him. He didn't know how to handle the screaming child. Sora finally took the child and went to comfort them as Tai took a heartbroken Matt aside. "Don't worry buddy. It'll get better. She did that with me at first too." And with that Tai left the house.






Sora mouthed at him ... "Its okay. Everything will be okay."






But Matt wasn't so sure...







Later that afternoon, Matt was still baffled by all that had changed since he had been gone. There were so many new technologies that had come about for the home. His home had changed as well, and he was just upset by it all.






Tai seemed to know his family much better than he did, and it really upset him that Sora and Tai had a sort of communication with Tai that he, himself, should have held with Sora.






Finally, later that night as they were preparing for a Welcome Home/Christmas part, he snapped.






Their son was playing the piano non-stop. He kept banging and banging on it as Sora hung decorations on the Christmas tree. He loved watching her move, so graceful and loving. It was as if each decoration hung on the tree was full of love for everyone she knew that would view it.





She had handed the four-year-old back to Matt before she had started on the tree and she immediately began to scream. Sora seemed oblivious but the screaming seemed to grate on his nerves. Gabumon and Biyomon seemed oblivious also as they watched their kids snuggle up to Matt and Sora's kids.




Matt was not used to the screaming and it was really beginning to grate on his nerves. "WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" followed by the "PLUNK, PLUNK, PLUNK, PLUNK" of the piano seemed to continue on and on and on, and the images of Sora and Tai holding his kids and everyone being happy finally made Matt snap.



"STOP IT!!!!"






Sora looked at him and then at Gabumon, "Honey, what's the matter?"






"This.... This is what is the matter." He pointed around at the room. "I don't know where I am or what I am doing here. I don't know my own kids, and yet Tai does. He knows all about you, and the way our house is ... and everything. Why is it like this?"






Sora looked at him in the eyes the way she had always done and said, "You did this. You wanted to go away for four years and yet I supported you, just like I have supported you in everything that you have done. But I knew it was going to be like this. Tai has been here for us, yes, but he hasn't replaced you in our hearts. I have ached everyday for you, the need to have you here has been unbearable. I know things are hard now, but it is going to take time ... you can handle it. You're a man now, Matt. You'll have to get over it."






"I'm not the one who has changed, it's you Sora! Why did you let this happen?" He ran his fingers through his hair and looked at her and the kids. Then he got a mad look on his face and stormed out the door.






Sora tried to go after him, but he had the car and was gone before she knew it. Gabumon came over and put one of his arms around her as she cried. "The doctors said that he might go through a depression of some sorts, its just hit harder now."







"Gabumon, I have to go after him." She threw on her coat and then went out the door.




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Matt drove and drove until he got to what looked like a bar. He walked in and sat down at the counter and yelled out to the bar tender that was turned around. When the bar tender turned he saw it was a familiar face...






"Davis! You own this joint? It's a far cry from a noodle cart." He smiled at Davis, the former digidestined.






"MATT! Yeah it is. Good to see you. But aren't we having a party tonight for your return? Why aren't you home? Did Sora send you out to get you out of the way?"






Matt frowned, "No, give me your best whiskey!"






"Are you sure you should be drinking tonight? Sora might get mad."






"Who cares what Sora thinks, I'm the man in the family, not her, and certainly not Tai!"







Davis frowned, "What is all of this about Tai? You know nothing has gone on between them ... that's what it is ... isn't it? You think they've been having an affair don't you? Well, let me tell you.... "





"I don't want to hear about it, Davis. Either give me my whiskey or I'm leaving."







"I'm not going to give it to you Matt, because you don't need any. It won't help you all that much. Go home to Sora and talk it out, then we'll all be there later."






Matt got up and stormed out of the room ... He was infuriated by the fact that Davis said anything about Tai and Sora. Those two names did not belong together anymore ... that had been a long time ago. Now it was just Matt and Sora, her last name was Ishida. She belonged with him ... or did she?






He was behind the wheel of his car, driving to no one knows where when he wasn't paying attention and ran off of the road. He looked up from the steering wheel and saw only white. A thin stream of red flowed down his forehead, but he ignored it. He got out of the car. He kicked the tire and started walking.






"Maybe she doesn't love me anymore ... Maybe I'm not good enough ... The kids love him, and not me ... Maybe It's better off if I'm not here at all...."






It was then that he came to it, a bridge covered with snow. It had begun snowing again and he wasn't paying attention again as he came up on it. Looking at it he frowned and walked to the side. He looked down and saw an icy river below. He looked up at the blackness again and sighed.






"Yes ... it's better if I'm not here at all.... She'd be happier.... They'd all be happier...."






He looked down again and out of the blue a man jumped down into the river. Not thinking about himself, Matt stripped off his coat and jumped in after the man to save him. Ignoring the icy waters and the sharpness of the cold, Matt pulled the man to safety and out of the water.






He caught his breath and pulled the man up to the toll bridge nearby. The toll bridge operator let them and they began to dry their clothes.






"What were you thinking there! You could have been killed." Matt said to the man







"I was trying to save you." The man said to Matt







"SAVE ME! You are insane!"







"No I'm not, I'm an angel ... second class.... The name's Isaac."






Matt just looked at him and tollbooth operator looked at them both and walked out the door shaking his head, mumbling something about homeless crazy folk.







"Ummm ... right ... What's this all about saving me?"






"You were going to jump to try and make things better for your wife."






"What do you know about my wife?"






"I know a lot about you, Matt."






"Well then you know that everyone would be a lot better off without me then."






Isaac looked at Matt and then got a gleam in his eyes, "That's it! That's what is going to convince you..." Isaac looked up at the ceiling and said, "Okay, you've never been born."