Only In Tokyo: Chapter 3 - Night on the Town

By Ian Jenkins

I was running pretty fast to find Tai. However, I was met only with defeat. I had lost my targets. If I had joined the army like my dad had suggested, I'd be pretty much neck-deep in trouble. Now that Tai and Augumon were gone, I could only do pretty much one thing: wander. That's right.wander about the streets of Tokyo aimlessly, not a target in sight.

"Where do I go, now?" I sighed to myself as I observed a girl with a nose ring talking on a payphone, "Maybe she's seen him."

Before I could even ask, I saw something.two things. I blinked. They were Digimon, all right.Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon. I widened my eyes at what happened next. The two Digimon, thinking that the girl.erm.I'm sorry. "Teenage thing" was hostile and wanting to put an end to her, pulled her nose ring, thinking it was some kind of power source or.something like that. Next, all hell broke loose as the girl started to chase the two down the street.

I laughed to myself, as the scene proved itself to be funny, indeed. Without hesitation, I followed the teenage girl as she chased the two frightened Digimon. She stopped for a minute to ask some blonde kid where the two went and he pointed left, to which she ran, furiously. However, I didn't follow her and took a look at the blonde kid. I grinned. Yamato "Matt" Ishida stared right back at me with a look that could kill.

"You." he pointed at me, "You're one of the ones Joe was talking about!"

I blinked, "What.? I think you have the wrong guy, Matt."

"How did you know my name?" he looked at me, extremely suspicious, "I'm positive we've never met."

"Ian!" a familiar voice called. Both Matt and I looked up to see Seth running down the street from where I just was. I wiped sweat from my brow. At least he had escaped unhurt. That much was good news.

"Seth! You're alright!" I yelled to him. Out of breath, he stumbled up to us but I could tell he didn't know it was Matt that was standing right there.

"Yeah." Seth gasped, bending down with his hands on his knees, tired, "I think I lost 'em.but when I said I'd follow Sora and Mimi, I didn't expect that to happen."

My face went pale as I spoke, "Seth.uh.shut up."

"No!" Seth still hadn't looked up, "You went after Tai and Kari! You didn't end up any better so don't tell me to shut up!"

"No, Seth, really.shut up!"

Seth stood straight up and glared at me, "That's it! I'm getting sick of your-"

I grabbed hold of his hair and turned his head so that he was now looking straight at Matt, who looked about ready to kill the both of us.

"What's going on, Matt?" I heard a younger voice speak up.

"Nothing, T.K." Matt said, "Just dealing with a two jokers here."

T.K. came out but he wasn't alone. Behind the both of them were Pumpkinmon, Gotsumon, and Gabumon. I gulped and so did Seth. This wasn't good. It would be a two-on-five battle, advantage, theirs. They had three Digimon, a little kid, and a guy who looked like he had experiences in the fistfight section of fighting.

I whispered to Seth, "Situation analysis?"

"Well." Seth began, "Matt's a pretty good fighter and so are we. The three Digimon, however, are what gives them the advantage over us. If they've had experience fighting other Digimon, us humans are no matches for them."

"Then what're we gonna do? Matt's about ready to fight us! And if we do fight, you never know what might happen!"

Matt folded his arms, "Hey! Who ARE you two and why are you following us?"

I glanced back and shrugged, "We would tell you but you'd never believe us."

"You work for Myotismon, don't you?" he glared at us.

The two of Myotismon's henchmen shook their heads.

"No." Gotsumon spoke up, "I never saw him at the headquarters."

"Neither did I." Replied Pumpkinmon.

Seth rolled my eyes, "We're not allied with Myotismon."

I added, "Nor will we ever."

"Then WHO ARE YOU???" Matt practically was screaming.

I blinked a few times and shrugged, "Calm down, man. You're gonna blow a gasket!"

Matt, in reply, slammed a punch right into my face and right into the scabbed cuts that Gatomon had made. I staggered back a few steps. The blood was starting to come from the cuts from before. Seeing my blood on the ground, caused by a human, was something I never exactly took well. Shaking, I raised my face to meet Matt's eyes. Shaking my head, I whispered, "That did it."

Before he could reply, I had tackled the DigiDestined to the ground and was pounding his face with punches of my own. I felt like I wasn't even in my own body while I was doing this. I felt like I had drifted away from my body and I was watching myself beat the living hell out of Yamato Ishida, who was responding with more punches.

"Blue Blaster!" I heard Gabumon yell behind me and I leapt off of Matt and rolled out of the way, as did Matt as the attack rolled past.

"Ian!" Seth called to me, "We're drawing a crowd! Let's scram!"

I nodded to Seth and hopped to my feet, looking back at Matt, "See ya later, Ishida!" I laughed as Seth and I dashed into the darkness.

~*~

When we finally did stop running, we were so out of breath, breathing any type of air was preferable. We felt like fugitives on the run from the law. In a way, we were. I felt sick to my stomach.

"Man." Seth sighed, "I thought we were the good guys! Now the DigiDestined are harassing us and Myotismon's forces are attacking you! What's their problem?"

"We're their problem." I said, stone-faced, "We chose to stalk the DigiDestined and Gatomon decided to provoke me. It's THAT simple."

"Hey, hey, hey." Seth punched my arm, "WHO'S idea was it to stalk the DigiDestined?"

I rolled my eyes, "Ok, so it's kinda my fault they're after us."

"Thank you. That's what I thought." Seth said, a hint of triumph in his voice, "And it's up to you to get us out of this mess."

"And HOW am I supposed to do that?" I shot back, angrily, "I don't even know how we got here in the first place!"

"There's something we can do besides making trouble with the DigiDestined!"

"Or waiting for them to make trouble with us.we wouldn't have been in that fight in the first place if you hadn't blabbed about what had happened!"

Seth was angry. Of this, I was sure, "MY fault? If you hadn't made those smart-ass remarks to Matt, he wouldn't have given you that shot that you deserved!"

I clenched my fist. I was going to fight him. Suddenly, I stopped and realized how stupid we sounded. How stupid did we sound?

"Seth, we gotta stop this and now." I shook my head, "We're starting to sound like Tai and Matt."

Both of us seemed to dislike that thought. Out of the blue, we heard a cat meow. We looked towards the dock to see a cat running away from.something. I cooed it over towards us, which it did, rubbing against my leg in the process. I'm good with cats, ya know. Picking up the cat, I noticed something in it's mouth.

"What d'ya have there, girl?" I asked it.

Going slowly, I took the object from her mouth and looked at it. It was familiar. Looked like some kind of strapless watch. Both of us knew what it was.

"A Digivice!" Seth exclaimed.

"Yeah." I nodded, "Not just any Digivice.this is the Eighth Child's.Kari."

"So." Seth trailed off, "What are we gonna do about it?"

I tapped my chin. How did the Digivice find it's way to Kari in the first place.? Hmm.

I shrugged, "Well, from what I remember, Wizardmon is supposed to find it in a crow's nest and he and Gatomon explain the entire thing to Kari."

"And I'm sure you have no intention of following through on the original storyline, right?" Seth asked, sarcastically.

"Of course but the result will be the same." I smiled, "I read a story in which a man goes back in time and tries to stop John Wilkes Booth from assassinating President Lincoln. But, no matter how hard he tries, he can't stop Booth. From what I've found, you can't change the past."

Seth was listening intently and he was nodding, "So, you're saying that no matter what we do, the same thing is going to happen?"

I grinned, "Right! Right!"

"Then, what are we gonna do differently?"

"Hey! You two!" a voice called from the docks.

We both turned and gulped. "Oh, boy." Seth muttered.