Chapter 4:
Impmon Leads A Quest
The next week was pure torture for Impmon and the Tamers. They wanted to do something, but getting into the Digital World was easier said then done.
The portal they had gone through five years before was closed and their friend's father, Izzy, was unable to help them out as well.
In the meantime, Impmon was becoming more and more of a menus, taking out his anger on kids and other Digimon that happened to cross his path.
Renamon, Terriermon and Guilmon watched as Impmon Bada-Boomed a group of kids and laughed at their terror.
"Why is Impmon acting even worse then before?" Guilmon asked, looking up at Renamon.
"Because. He's going through an ordeal." At Guilmon's confused expression on his dinosaur face, Renamon sighed. "Ordeal means that he's going through a hard time. And he has no other way of expressing his anger. Give him a couple more days and he'll calm down."
"Momentiz." Terriermon said, feeling sorry for Impmon as well.
Calumon appeared behind them and asked, "Why is Impmon acting worse the before?" he had repeated Guilmon's question and, once again, Renamon had to explain.
"Poor, Impmon…Maybe I can cheer him up! Although he seems happy enough now…" Calumon said.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you, Calumon." Terriermon said, stopping the little Digimon in his tracks.
"Why not?"
"Because; you may cheer him up, but you certainly won't be in a good mood!"
"Oh…" Calumon's ears shrank again as he pouted.
~~~~~~Meanwhile…
Nabiki was getting tired of sitting in a dark and wet cell and being fed old bread and water.
She did the same thing she had been doing for the past week, which consisted of her bashing the sleeping Digimon guard beside the door with her fist as she shouted, "Lemme outta here!! Do you hear me?!"
The guard yelped as Nabiki pounded him on the head. She may act nice, but that didn't mean that she didn't have a temper.
In his hurry to run away from the screaming human, the keys tumbled out of his pocket. She stopped in mid scream when she saw the keys and got an expression much like Joey Wheeler's from Yu-Gi-Oh! and said, "Yes!" she knelt and started to stretch her arm as far as she could, her fingertips brushing against the keys.
"Just…a…little farther…" she said through clenched teeth.
~~~~~~~Meanwhile, in the Real World…
"Haha! Bada-Boom!" Impmon shouted, hitting a bunch of crows and roasting them with a fireball.
Takato and Guilmon watched this and sighed. "Boy…I hope that girl is okay…" Guilmon nodded.
~~~~~~~Meanwhile…
Rika sat at her computer, wondering what was with Impmon and this girl.
There has to be a way to get into the Digital world…By time we get there, she'll either be dead or just caged up…Renamon thought, watching through the window as her Tamer worked. She vanished and reappeared beside Rika and asked, her blue eyes locked onto the computer screen, "Anything yet?"
Rika shook her head. "Nothing."
"…" Renamon said nothing, just vanished again and reappeared in the park next to Takato and Guilmon, making them jump.
Takato recovered and whispered, "She find anything?"
Renamon shook her head and looked at Impmon as he sat on the ground and ate the Pocky he had stolen from a kid that had crossed his path.
"…Wonder if she's okay…?" Takato asked, turning his gaze back to Impmon.
~~~~~~~Meanwhile…
Henry and Terriermon sat at the computer, neither one speaking for several minutes. Henry glanced at the clock next to him. Twelve o'clock…he yawned and glanced at Terriermon. His Digimon was asleep and had been since ten.
He sighed and was about to shut down the computer when the screen flashed to his Email account. He stopped and looked. A new message. Deciding that he'd go to bed once he checked the message, he clicked on it and read the contents:
"It a letter from Izzy…" Henry said.
It read:
Hi, Henry! It's me, Izzy! Anyways, I figured out how to get into the Digital World! Go to this URL: Dig.hskp/he.co.jp (I made up the URL. Please do NOT try it!)
I forgot about the Digital Portal Davis and the others went through! Gomen (sorry)! Anyways, hope you guys can work it! And I hope its still there! See ya!
Izzy
Henry grinned and replied to the email, sent it, then wrote one to Rika.
Once he had finished the letter, he sent a copy of it to Takato and shut down the computer. He yawned and said as he laid down next to Terriermon, who woke up, "Izzy found a way into the Digital world…we'll check it out tomorrow…"
"Right…*yawn*…night…"
~~~~~~~After school the next day…
Henry led his friends and their Digimon to the park, searching for Impmon. It wasn't hard to find the trouble-causing Digimon, because he was, as usual, throwing fireballs at kids and laughing at their misery.
"Bada-Boom! Haha! Huh? Whaddoya want now, ya Tamer wimps and slave-Digimon?" Impmon asked, pausing as Takato led his friends toward him.
"We found a way into the Digital World…Erk!!" Takato bit his lip as Rika and Henry double-teamed him with hard kicks to the shins. Impmon laughed at this and said, "So?! What makes you think I wanna go?!"
"Because of that girl." Henry said, making Impmon stop laughing. Impmon raised an eyebrow at this.
"Why would I wanna save her? I told ya. She was nothin' but trouble and I hate humans anyways so…Bada-Boom!" he threw a fireball, which whizzed past Rika's head and smashed into a tree, leaving a soot filled hole the size of someone's fist.
"Fine then. We'll do ourselves. C'mon, Renamon." Rika said, turning on her heel and walking away. Henry and Takato looked at Impmon, who had turned his back to them, then followed Rika, leaving Impmon and Guilmon alone.
"Why don't you want to save her, Impmon?" Guilmon asked. Impmon whipped around and glared at the red dinosaur.
"Because! I dun wanna!" Guilmon knew something was wrong with Impmon's eyes and finally placed his claw on it.
"Your eyes are leaking." He said, making Impmon quickly wipe his eyes before anyone else saw the tears, ruining his bad-boy attitude.
"What business is it of yours?! Huh, dino-breath?! Get away from me!!" Impmon started to run off but stopped when Guilmon said; "I…know it must be hard…but…Takatomon and I will help!"
Impmon burst into a fit of not-quite-sane laughter and whipped around, his eyes shining and a smirk appearing on his face. "What do YOU know about what I'm going through?! You're nothin' but a @#&%! retard!" He shouted, making Guilmon flinch. "I don't want your pity! I just want you and your 'Tamers' outta my life!!" Impmon then, without stopping, ran off, silently wishing that he had excepted their offer, but his ego just wouldn't allow him to "stoop to their level".
Guilmon watched after Impmon, the purple Digimon's tears etched in his mind. He ran after Takato and told him what happened.
"He was…crying?! About what?!" Takato asked.
"…Maybe about that girl? He seemed to really care about her. Maybe…we should…go on without him…" Henry said, leading his friends back toward his house.
~~~~~~~Meanwhile…
Impmon, having ditched Guilmon, sat in his favorite tree and cursed himself for letting his emotions get the better of him. He punched himself in the arm, hoping that maybe it would tell him if it was some kind of nightmare. It hurt, so, it wasn't and it made Impmon curse himself even more so.
He mentally kicked himself as he said, "She's nothin' but a lousy human…" he pulled the Impmon card out of his crimson three-fingered glove and looked at it. He turned it over for what must've been a hundred times, until he finally jumped from tree to tree, heading toward the house he had seen Nabiki enter day after day.
~~~~~~~A few minutes later…
Impmon peeked into windows of the small house. Finally, he looked into a room filled with anime items and stuffed animals. He guessed it was Nabiki's room.
He silently opened the window and climbed in, leaving the window open incase he needed to make a quick escape.
He opened drawers and dug through papers, not really knowing what it was he was looking for until he found it. It was an art tablet. He picked it up and flipped through it. Useless sketches of characters from animes but the last few pages caught his emerald eyes.
They were newer, this he could tell by the date written in the corners of every one. They dated back to the day they had met. They were sketches of him. And very good ones at that. She had colored drawings of him and black and white ones. The last one, a sketch of him Bada-Booming another Digimon, wasn't finished being colored yet.
After marveling at the artwork of Nabiki, he set the book down and started to dig through her other items, feeling very embarrassed when he started to dig through her dresser.
When he finally reached her nightstand, he heard someone coming toward the room. He stiffened and looked around. Just as the door started to open, Impmon dove under the bed.
All he could see were a pair of human feet and all he heard was a woman crying. The bed creaked as the woman sat down and sobbed, "Where is she? Where is my little girl? Oh, Nabiki!"
Yeah…I know what your feelin'…Impmon thought as the woman was led away by a man as the human man said, "Its okay. We'll find her soon."
"Why did she run away? Why? We're good parents! Where did we go wrong? Was it because of her baby sister? That must be it! She thought we'd forget about her!" the woman sobbed as the man led her out of the room.
"She'll be back, Kari. She'll be back." The man said as the door closed behind them.
For what felt like five hours, but was really only five minutes, Impmon laid under the bed, staring at the carpet, wondering why he felt so sorry for them. For humans, the creatures he despised. It appeared that Nabiki had brought out something that he had thought he had lost fifteen years before; his love of humans and his more human emotions.
He crawled out from under the bed and looked around. He grabbed up a red kerchief and laid it out the blue carpet. Impmon grabbed up the four boxes of pocky he had found under Nabiki's bed and an empty bottle he found by the computer. After setting the pocky in the red clothe, he tied it around his neck so that it looked like he had a small sack and jumped out the window, the bottle in his hand.
~~~~~~~Later…
Impmon finally caught up to the three Tamers just as they reached Henry's house. He landed in front of them, his green eyes shining.
The six (Digimon and Tamers) jumped when Impmon landed before them. Terriermon was the first to speak up. "What is it now?" Terriermon asked, standing protectively in front of Henry.
"…" Impmon lowered his head, threw his pride and ego out the window and said, looking up at the humans, "I'll…go. But! Only if I lead!" Impmon said as the Tamers looked at each other, confused.
Guilmon bounded over and put Impmon in a bone-braking hug and said, "Yay! You came!"
Impmon was gasping for breath and finally choked out, "Le…*choke*…lemme go, ya…*gasp*…retard!"
"Sorry…" Guilmon dropped Impmon, who went into a coughing fit.
After getting rid of the many sweat drops the others had, they entered Henry's house and managed to slip their Digimon, Impmon included, into his room without his parents noticing.
After Henry had closed his bedroom door behind him, he turned on the computer and asked Impmon while he waited for it to boot-up, "What changed your mind?"
Impmon looked up from the book he was flipping through and raised an eyebrow. "It ain't none o' your business." He said hotly, throwing the book behind him.
Terriermon picked up the book, whacked Impmon over the head with it and put it back on the shelf. Everyone sweat dropped as Impmon growled and chased Terriermon around the room as he made threatening gestures with his hands.
Henry sighed as the two continued to chase each other while throwing threatening gestures and comments between them. He loaded the internet up and decided to ignore the two Digimon, who were now in an arm-wrestling match, which ended with Impmon as the victor.
"Alright, you two. The site's loaded. Lets try this." Henry stood as the group gathered across from the computer. The Tamers held their D-Arcs out toward the screen and said as the screen and the D-Arcs glowed, "Digi-Port, Open!"
The group vanished from the room.
