Well here's the next part. This part had Takari hints and more. So If you like Takari then you just might like this part. Well on with the story. Oh yeah. I don't own digimon.
"What do you mean 'The last city on Earth'?" Asked Izzy hoping he wasn't hearing what he did. "I mean, there were thousands of cities and just to have them all gone like that. It just doesn't seem possible."
"I told you. There is a World War going on. It's possible. If you don't believe me then just look out the window. I've been other places around the world. I've seen it. Massive forests are turned to ruble. Trees ripped out of the ground and burned black. Even the soil is black and a yellow mist is over it.
"I've seen cities where the streets are covered with blood and dust filling crack in the walls and there are gray thick clouds just two feet of the ground.
"I've been places where I needed air masked and special suits just to walk through. Trust me Izzy. The world as we new it is gone and all that are left are its remains."
The kids where all silent. But it didn't last long for the General then spoke to all the men in the room, "MEN!! TODAYS FIGHT WAS WELL FOUGHT! BUT WE ARE LOOSING! TODAY 5 HUNDRED AND 62 MEN WERE INJURED AND 19 HAD DIED! FIVE OF THEM DIED IN THE LAST TEN MINUTES! AS YOU KNOW WE WILL BE HEADING OUT FOR UTOYTON SOMETIME IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS! I WILL RECRUIT OTHER SOLDIERS WHEN WE GO! A FEW OF YOU WILL BE SELECTED TO GATHER THEM AND PREPARE THEM FOR THE FIGHTS THAT THEY WILL GO INTO! BUT FOR NOW, I THINK YOU SHOULD ALL REST SO BE AT EAS FOR NOW! AND HAVE A PLEASANT NIGHT! DISMISED!"
The soldiers started clearing out of the room into a hall on the opposite side that then they came out of. After a few minutes the room was cleared and all that were left was the DDs and the General who was walking towards their group of eight.
He came up in front of them and stood. The children all faced him. They seemed to form a line. "I hear that you all haven't a place to stay." The Man said. The children nodded. The general liked kids and it helped a lot for Matt who kept stepping out of line. "I'm sure that my soldier here," he signaled to Matt, "Had explained what had to be done in order to give you a place to stay. And I'm sure not all of you like the idea. But be told that it had to have been done. You will be given rooms while you're here. And that is where you will report after everyday. You will be all settled within the same area. I just had one of my men locate the rooms you will be in." He then turned to Matt. He took a paper out of his upper shirt pocket and handed it to Matt. "Take this," he said. "Show them where to go. This paper has all the rooms of where they will sleep, understand." Matt nodded.
"Well, let me show you then." Matt said and signaled then to fallow.
"My feet hurt." Mimi whined.
"Why does that sound familiar?" Asked Izzy.
"'Cause it is." Said Tai.
"Oh Mimi." Sora spoke. "We've only been walking for twenty minutes."
"And in that twenty minutes my feet started hurting."
Kari got a scowl over her face as she read the numbers on the doors as she passed them, "One thousand nine hundred and six. One thousand nine hundred and five. 1904. May I ask, what might are room numbers be?"
"I bet it's a low number." Joe said pessimistically.
"Um-" Matt said looking at the paper. "Well, Tai. Yours is one."
"What?!!" He exclaimed as he stopped in his tracks, "I'm not walking that far. Are you nuts? You must be-"
"Chill man. I'm just joking." Matt defended. "It's actually not that far from here. Tai's room is the closest. It's nine hundred eighty two. And Joe's is 981. And then Mine. Then Izzy's and so on like that. TK will stay in my room and Kari will be with Tai. Mimi will stay with Sora and Joe and Izzy will have their own rooms, k?"
Tai wiped the sweat from his brow and continued walking.
"Nine hundred and ninety. Almost there." Said Kari in a cheerful voice. Each of the chosen counted down the number of doors until they came to 982.
"Well. Tai, Kari, this room is yours." Informed Matt. Tai and Kari both stopped in front of the door. Tai went forwards and opened it. They walked in slowly. They saw one bed in the room with gray blankets on top. The rooms walls were white with small cracks but seemed clean other for that. A bathroom was attached on the far side.
Tai, unimpressed with the appearance of the place, walked into the bathroom. It was small. A sink was there immediately there as soon as he walked in. A toilet was placed not even a foot away. And a half wall with a curtain that filled in the rest of the wall. He pushed a side the curtain and saw a showerhead. He realized that was the shower, an even smaller place with cement walls and a steel drain in the floor.
Tai scowled at the place where he would have to live. "Don't worry. You won't be in here much." Tai nearly jumped out of his shoes when he suddenly heard a voice behind him. He turned around to see ocean blue eyes that are at the same height as his.
"Matt!?"
"Yeah. But I thought we already settled the pleasantries."
"No. It's just that I wasn't expecting you." Matt shrugged.
"Well," he began, "I already got every one else settled and they reminded me of my first night in my room. But, like I said, you won't be in here much."
Tai finally calmed down. He turned around to further evaluate the shower. "Where'd Kari go? I thought she was out there."
"She went to meet TK in my room." Tai turned around to face Matt.
"Oh. Ok. I guess they can do that, right?"
"Yeah of course. There just a young boy and girl."
"Yeah, a young boy and girl alone in a room."
"Yeah." They stood there silently for a moment… before they both dashed out of the bathroom, to the door and out of the room then down the hall where they passed Joe.
Wonder what that was about. Joe thought as he saw Matt and Tai head into Matt's room. Joe shook his head as he remembered that when Matt and Tai are together it's best not to give it too much thought. So he continued walking to Izzy's room.
He knocked on the closed door twice but no one answered. He then remembered that the doors have locks on them so he checked the door handle. It wasn't locked so he opened the door and walked in. He closed the door behind him and looked around. He saw Izzy sitting on the bed with his laptop opened as he used it. So that's why he didn't hear me. He walked over to Izzy and placed a hand on his shoulder.
Izzy tensed up for a moment and looked over his shoulder. His muscles relaxed and he said, "Oh. Hi Joe."
"Hi Izzy." Izzy looked back to his laptop and started tipping furiously on it. "Um- Izzy?"
"Yes?" Izzy answered.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm trying to email Genia If my hypothesis is right then Genia will be able to get us back to the real world. My theory is that Genia or someone that Genia knows sent us here. Remember when that being took over Kari's body and told us that many people, like Genia, were all at work for us, 'the digidestined'. They are the ones that created our digivices. Well they might have sent us here to help save the world. So, if that's the case, Genia will be able to answer all of my questions. And perhaps help send us home again." Joe nodded in understanding. He sat on the bed next to Izzy and watched him work magic over the computer.
"But what if Genia can't answer your questions? What if Genia doesn't understand either?" Joe asked.
"Hmmm…" Izzy thought about that for a moment and said, "Well lets not think of that right now. I just want to get this message through."
"What message Izzy? What's it say?" Joe asked as he peered over Izzy's shoulders in order to get a better look.
Izzy clicked on a box at the bottom of the screen and a window came up on the screen then Joe read the message in side the window. 'Genia, if you get this. Something happened that we need your help with. Please e-mail back ASAP. *Izzy*'
"Well that will get his attention." Joe said. Izzy clicked again and the window, once again, redeemed its place at the bottom of the screen.
After that Joe just sat quietly beside Izzy staring at the screen.
"Well," Mimi said trying to think positive after looking around the place she would have to sleep. "Maybe I will be staying in Utoyton." Sora shook her head at her friend's way of thinking.
Well all this place needs is a women's touch and it shouldn't be that bad, right? "Yeah, right." Sora said aloud as she through her self onto the bed and buried her face in her hands. Mimi saw this and walked over to her friend.
Mimi sat down beside her and placed her arm around Sora's shoulders to comfort her. "Don't worry Sora. You heard what Matt said. You won't be in the room that often anyways."
"No Mimi," Sora corrected as tears welled up in her eyes. "It's that everything is all wrong now. My mom and I were getting along real well now and my dad have been visiting more often and he was real proud of me when I told him about saving the digital world and now… Now it's worse. We are sucked into another world. But it's not like it was before. This world is already demolished and Biomon isn't here with me and my best friend, you, will be leaving and… I just can't take it. Why does this stuff always happen to us?"
"Sora. It's ok. We will be able to go back home because we're all together now. And when the chosen children are all together miracles happen. Prophases come true and dreams become reality. That's what Palmon told me the night when Myotismon first showed up. I told her that I didn't think we could defeat him and she told me what I just told you.
"And Kari told me that when times feel it's darkest that, that's usually when light shines through." Sora smiled up to her friend who had grown up more then Sora had knew. Sora remembered back in the digital world a time when darkness was overcoming her and just as she thought she was through and the darkness was about to swallow her up she saw the light and she made it. But she wouldn't have made it if her friends weren't with her… and, right now, her friends were with her.
"Thanks Mimi. Wow. You really did grow. That crest really does suit you, Mimi." Mimi glowed with joy.
"Well, just doing what I can." Mimi's smile was from ear to ear as she stood up and helped Sora stand. "So what should we do now?"
"Well, lets see how the others are doing?" Sora suggested. Mimi nodded to that so the headed out of the room. As soon as they left the room they heard Kari shouting.
"God Tai! What's with you?! Did your hair finally reach your brain or were you born like that?
"How was I supposed to know?!"
Mimi and Sora exchanged looks. "That sounds like it's coming from Matt's room." Mimi said
"Yeah."
"Well it might be kinda rude to barge in there during an argument, right?"
"Yeah. It might."
"So… you want to barge in there during an argument."
"That's what I was waiting for." And with that Sora and Mimi walked to room 980. They went up to the door and opened it.
Kari in a frustrated hushed voice said, "Tai, TK and I are only nine. You didn't seriously think that we were…" Kari saw Sora and Mimi, "You know my brothers a bone head." Sora and Mimi nodded as they rolled their eyes.
"So, what's going on?" asked Sora.
"Don't ask." TK said flatly.
Kari and Tai were standing face to face on one side of the room while TK and Matt stood on the other side watching the scene silently, knowing that it could be hazard to there health to interfere.
"Why do you have to be my brother? Errr." And with that Kari stormed out of the room.
Tai stood there for a moment thinking about what just happened till Matt spoke up. "Uncool man. Really Uncool." Tai sighed and left the room with out saying a word. The other four just exchanged looks.
11:43 at night
Tai wondered through the halls lost in thought. He was having a hard time sleeping. He got up about an hour ago. Matt had got a chair for Tai's room. At first Tai didn't know why but when Kari took the bed and wouldn't let Tai in he realized why the chair had been presented to him. Before he left the room he had checked on Kari and, unlike himself, she was sleeping silently.
Tai sighed. Why did I have to act like that? I knew she wouldn't do anything. Man, is Kari right! I am a bonehead. But Matt thought that they were too. But he did believe them as soon as they said that they were just talking. He sighed yet again.
I was just confused. I'm sucked into this world where I know no one except… poor Matt. When he was brought here he couldn't say 'except'. I wonder if he ever got hurt. I hope not. And to think of it I'm glad he's still alive. 'This is a war. People die. There's nothing we can do about it'. He said those words. What if his name was on one of those tiles? 'In remembrance of Yamato Ishiba'. Tai shuddered at the thought of that.
He didn't even want to think of what it would be like if he lost his best friend. And TK… TK would be traumatized. Man I would feel awful if I lost Kari.
The year and half that Matt wasn't with them was better then to know he had died. Because at least there was hope. Don't think like that Tai. Matt's still alive. Don't worry your self…
But yet in the back of Tai's mind he asked himself, for how long would that last.
"Couldn't sleep?" Tai turned around to see the General walking up to him.
"No, sir. I just have a lot on my mind." The general signaled for Tai to walk along side with him.
"Like what?" the General asked. Tai looked up at him. He looked like he was genuinely interested.
"Well," Tai started, "I'm just thinking about my sister. Earlier she was alone in a room with TK, which I think they like each other but they won't admit it. Anyways, I thought that maybe they shouldn't be alone together so…"
"So your brotherly instincts came into play." The General finished
"Um-yeah. But now Kari's mad at me for not trusting her and she won't even let me sleep in our bed. It's just so frustrating."
"Well, you are her brother. You only want what's best for her so you try protecting her from everything that going to hurt her, right?" Tai nodded. "But you have to remember that she isn't going to do something that will hurt her either. And even if she does it won't be as bad as you think. And when she falls you will be there to catch her but until then you should just let her know that you believe that she will make the right decisions and that you trust her enough to let her breath. If you don't then she will push you away. Then when she does fall you won't be able to catch her on time." The General stopped to let what he said sink in.
Tai thought about it. It was true. It had started. She already started to push him away. And he was too much of a bonehead to see it until now. He has to change that. "Thanks sir." He said anxiously as he turned around to head back to his and his sisters room. He started walking but then realized he didn't know which way to go. He looked over his shoulder and saw the General walking way. He opened his mouth to ask which way to go but before he could say something the General said, "Go straight down this hall and turn right when you come to the third intersection of halls and that's were the rooms will start. Just look at the numbers on the doors."
Tai stood awed for a moment and turned around, "How'd you know what I was going to ask?"
The General looked over his shoulder and grinned, "Because you and Matt are a lot alike… and that's what he asked when he was supposed to go back to his room on his first night." And then the General turned left down an indifferent hall. Tai just stood for a sec and thought about that. He then shrugged it off and once again headed to his room.
5:29 in the morning.
The kids were all sleeping peaceful in there rooms. Sora and Mimi were dreaming of seeing their digimon and enjoying a peaceful picnic. Mimi was holding here pillow as if it were a toy.
Izzy fell to sleep typing on his computer. It was still open and it cast a dim light over the room. Izzy lay on his side with both his hands still on the keys of the keyboard.
Matt and TK lay still in there beds. TK had a smile on his face as the picture of Patamon was plastered in his mind. Matt just lay peaceful knowing that TK was safe.
Joe was lying in bed. The covers were everywhere and his arm was hanging over the edge of bed.
Tai slept in the chair that he managed to sleep in and Kari laid in bed that still was neatly tucked all around her as if she hadn't moved once.
But this was all disturbed as all the lights in the entire place came on at once. "GET UP!! GET UP!! WE HAVE A BIG DAY AHEAD OF US MEN!! GET UP!! GET UP!!" General shouted down the halls.
All the kids jolted up in their sleep and immediately shielded their eyes from the powerful light.
"AHHH!1" All except Matt shouted. Matt bolted out of bed and ran to the switch on his wall. He flicked it on then off and the light in his room turned off. Matt ran into the hall and to Tai's room.
He opened the door and saw the two siblings holding their eyes shut. Matt flicked their switch on then off and there light went off. They took their hands away from their eyes and tried to make out what was going on.
"Sorry-'bout-that.-forgot-to-warn-you-about-the-five-thirty-mornings." Matt rushed an apology. He shut the door and rushed to Joe's room.
He opened his door and flicked the switch twice and did the quick apology and left for Izzy's room
He did the same and heard Izzy complain about leaving his computer on all night and that he would have to recharge it now and won't be able to use it for a while.
Matt just ignored it as he came to Mimi and Sora's room. Matt flicked the light switch, yet again, twice and the light came off. He apologized and finished hearing Mimi's hushed complaints. "'Get up. Get up.' He says. Like at five in the morning anyone can actually get up. God." She said with a sigh. "I didn't even know that such a time existed."
"Oh Mimi." Sora said as Matt left the room and headed back to his own.
The doors of the rooms across form his and his friends were swung open and men, not much older then himself, walked out.
"Hey kid. Tough night?" One asked.
"Nah," Matt said. "Tough morning." The other men laughed and walked off. Matt wiped the sweat from his forehead and cleared the sleep from his eyes. He opened his door and saw TK was sitting up on the bed waiting for him to return.
"Uh, hey TK. You should get some sleep." Matt said as he shut the door behind him.
"Are you going?" TK asked as he rubbed his eyes.
"I have to go. Part of the job and all." Matt explained.
"Can I come?" TK asked. TK, as tired as he was, didn't want to leave his brother's side.
"No. Sorry TK but you need your sleep. If you don't want to be alone then I could…"
"No it's not that it's…"
"TK. Say what?" Matt walked over to his bed and sat down beside TK. "You go to sleep now and later when the sun is up or around eight O'clock I'll come here and check on you and then you can come, k? But only if you sleep." TK nodded enthusiastically.
"But what if I'm not awake at eight?"
"Then I'll wake you up, k?" Not another word was said. TK just hopped up and went to the top of the bed where he tucked himself in and closed his eyes to show that he would sleep. Matt smiled to himself. Matt stood up from the bed and said, "Good night, squirt."
Matt walked to the door and walked out. Then TK whispered, "G'night big bro." And then he was fast a sleep.
6:00 am
Matt ran through the halls in to the CS room where he had been the day before. He saw a multitude of soldiers standing perfectly in line. There were four rows of men. The General was talking to all of them about something that Matt couldn't quite make out just yet.
He crept up to them and found a place to stand in the fourth row. A man that stood in the third row looked over his shoulder and said as quietly as he could, "Your late Ishiba. The General already started explaining the assignment for today."
"Yeah. I had to attend to some business." Matt explained as he pretended as if he weren't talking. "By the way Jack. When did you become someone who actually cared about being on time."
"Since you came in late."
Then some one else piped into there conversation. "And you'll go right back to not caring in three minutes. That's about how long it takes you to change your mind." Matt and two other people laughed.
"IS SOMETHING FUNNY BACK THERE!?" The General yelled as he walked to them. Matt, the guy next to him that joined into their conversation and Jack were signaled out as the other men around them backed away to allow the General to get to the three. Jack backed up to where the fourth line had originally been to stand by the other two. "NOW SOLDIERS! WILL ANYONE OF YOU LIKE TO TELL ME WHAT'S SO HUMEROUS!?"
"Well," Jack spoke up, "Matt had come in late, sir."
The General looked at Matt for a moment then looked back at Jack. "WHAT'S SO HUMEROUS ABOUT THAT?! MIND TELLING ME SOLDIER?"
Jack shook his head. "No-nothing sir."
"WHAT WAS THAT!"
"Nothing sir. Nothing was humorous" Jack repeated.
"LOUDER!!" His throat had now gone dry so he swallowed hard.
"NOTHING!" He practically shouted.
"THAT'S RIGHT! NOTHING IS HUMEROUS ABOUT BEING LATE, AS YOU FOR SURE KNOW! AM I RIGHT!?"
"YES SIR!"
"VERY GOOD!" He then averted his attention to everyone else in the room. "NO ONE IS TO EVEN JOKE ABOUT BEING LATE FOR IF YOU DO YOU SHAL BE CHASTISED! UNDERSTAND!"
"YES SIR!" Everyone in the room echoed each other's response. He gave a look to the three that he signaled out then regained himself in the front of the room. A stampede of feet was heard as the four rows of men were created once again.
"NOW IF YOU
THREE WERE LISTENING INSTEAD OF TALKING YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD THAT TODAY WE WILL
BE GOING TO UTOYTON. THIS GROUP IS THE
CHOSEN TO GO THERE TO FETCH SUPPLIES AND, FOR THIS TIME, YOU WILL BE RECRUITING
NEW SOLDIERS! WHEN THEY GET HERE THEY
WILL BE TRAINED ON THE RULES AND TOMORROW WILL START THE REST OF THEIR
TRAININGS! YOU WILL BE DOING THE
TRAINING! NOW GO PREPARE THE PLAINS FOR
DEPARTURE. WE WILL BE LEAVING AT ELEVEN
HUNDRED HOUR! DISMISSED!" The men then departed except for Matt. "MATT!
Not you. Not yet."
Matt waited for the crowed of
men to depart. And when it did the
General started to talk to him. "Well
Matt. I talked to my superior about
your friend Mimi, Your brother and Kari staying in Utoyton. He had no problem with the two youngest but
Mimi was rejected of citizenship. I
guess it only shows how bad the times are when you can't even trust a eleven
year old child to stay in a city. But
there's nothing I can do about it for the time being. You are allowed to bring your friends to Utoyton today. And, I imagine, you already know where TK
and Kari are going to stay?"
"Yes sir." Matt said. "I just have to make the reservations now. Which, I believe, I will have no trouble with, sir."
"Very good, soldier. Dismissed." Matt turned and walked away to help the other men prepare the plane.
