The Ruler of the Worlds
By WarGreymon01
Chapter V
"Hey! They're back," Izzy shouted as he and everyone else re-entered his room, "and it looks like they're running." Davis and Cody crowded around Izzy when sat down at his computer. "Can you tell what they're running for?" Cody asked calmly. "I don't think I… Wait a second."
~flashback~
'When we first went to the Digital World and Devimon had split us up, Tentomon and I found some Ancient Ruins that turned out to be a temple and a labyrinth…' 'A laba-what?' 'A labyrinth Davis or, as it has come to be known, a maze. Anyway, Mimi had found me…'
"Izzy, any idea how long this is going to take? I mean, can we go sometime before winter sets in?" Mimi asked, "Izzy?" "Izzy your friend is asking you a question." "Yeah and her rear end is getting cold sitting on this stone floor, doing nothing." Mimi complained. "Hmm? Oh wait. Wait. Yeah, yeah. That might work." Mimi stood up looking really pissed off. "Uh-oh. Izzy." Tentomon said. "Are you ignoring me, you computer geek pipsqueak?" Mimi shouted. Izzy kept typing not hearing Mimi, "Ok, so if I make the variable constant and search for follow up patterns… Hey, here's something," a maze came on the screen of Izzy's computer, "Prodigious. These ruins are gigantic a gigantic maze." "I'm leaving! Right now!" Mimi said as she started to cry.
When he heard Mimi crying Izzy turned around. "Huh?" "Oh don't cry Mimi," Tentomon said trying to calm her when Palmon started, "Oh no not you too Palmon? Izzy do something!" Izzy looked at Tentomon funnily, "Do what? My laptop can't do everything." "I don't know. Tell her your sorry." Tentomon returned. "I'm sorry, for what?" Izzy asked.
"I can't take it anymore! I haven't had anything to eat and my feet are killing me and a giant lemon custard tried kiss me and all I wanna do is get out of here!" Mimi screamed and started wailing. "She just tried to leave, is that so wrong?" Palmon ran around to face Izzy, "Honestly Izzy, how can you be so insensitive?" Palmon asked. "Insensitive? What do you mean?" Izzy inquired. "You ignore us while you poke away at your computer." Palmon stated. "I'm not ignoring you, I'm doing something ultra important, like saving this world. If I can just decipher these hieroglyphs that maybe we can…" Mimi interrupted Izzy. "Just keep your stupid hieroglyphs!" she said than ran off. "Mimi wait! Oh dear." Tentomon said and then followed after Mimi. "You just like playing with your computer, that's all." Palmon stated. "You think I'm just playing around here?" Izzy asked shocked. "I almost think you like computers more than people." Palmon wailed. Izzy turned around, "Duwha? Don't look now, but Mimi and Tentomon are gone." Palmon stopped crying, "Now what do we do?" Palmon asked.
Mimi kept running through the maze. "I hate this place, I'll never recommend this resort to anyone." "Mimi, wait!" Tentomon called out trying to stop her from going any deeper into the maze. Mimi, still running with her eyes closed and crying, trips and falls flat on her face, "Oh dear Mimi, Mimi are you alright?" Tentomon asks landing next to her. With her face still on the ground, "I'm not a bad person," Mimi gets to her knees, "so why is all this happening to me?" Mimi asked while crying. "Mimi we've got to bee careful, one wrong turn and we could get lost in here." Tentomon warned. "All I wanna do is get back home. That's all!" Mimi said. "Please wait! I really think we ought to find our way back." Mimi got up and ran off. "I want my own bed, my own bathroom. I'm even starting to miss my baby brother." Tentomon took off after her. "Please stop running off."
Outside of the temple Palmon and Izzy looked around to find Mimi and Tentomon. "I don't see the anywhere. Where could they have gone?" Palmon asked. Izzy looked back at the Temple, "They didn't go deeper into the maze, did they?" "That'd be my guess." Palmon answered. Izzy now looked worried. "These deciphered hieroglyphs tell me that the inside of these ruins is a giant labyrinth. So if that is the case… they could be lost in there forever, oh."
"Hey, uh, Tentomon?" Mimi asked. "Yes." "You get they feeling we're sort of going around in circles?" "Hmm?" "See that sooty smudge on the wall, I remember passing it along time ago." "You're right!" "Could it be that we're lost?" "I realize this is probably a bad time to say I told you so, but…" "Oh Quite!"
Palmon, standing behind Izzy, looked on nervously. "Oh, I can't bear it. I'm going in!" "And get lost too. No Palmon, we have use our heads first." Palmon stopped and turned around, "But we can't just leave them." "We won't. But this is one super complicated maze, I've got to try to get a handle on it, then maybe I can help get them out."
"Well being lost isn't so bad." A rock falls and knocked Mimi's hat over her face. "Great." "Oh dear, are you hurt?" Tentomon asked. "No. I'm fine. I'm getting used to it by now." Mimi said lifting her hat off her face, then mumbling, "If only I'd gone to cheerleader camp, none of this would've happen." "Let's try a systematic approach to this; maybe if we just keep turning to the left or something like that." Tentomon said trying to figure a way out. "Why should I listen to you? It's your friend, Izzy, that got me into this mess in the first place." Mimi said walking away. "Wait, don't be hard on him. Yes, he gets a little wrapped up in his work and doesn't always interact well with others, but he's a good boy."
Izzy and Palmon were looking at the monitor when a red blip appeared in the maze. "There they are!" Izzy said. "That's Mimi? That blinking light?" Palmon asked, a little confused. "Precisely." Izzy answered as he clicked on the blip. 'No no, not that way.' 'Oh buzz off. Leave me alone' "That's my girl." Palmon said smiling. "I've homed in the signal from her Digivice. We can hear her, let's hope she can hear us," Izzy stated as he put the earpiece on, "Izzy to Mimi, Do you read me?" Mimi and Tentomon look around to see where the voice came from. 'Repeat. Do you read me?' "Izzy? Is that you?" Izzy and Palmon smile widely. "Alright it's working. OK Mimi I'm gonna navigate for you so walk exactly where I tell you." 'Uh?' Don't worry it'll be OK," Palmon reassured her 'He knows what his doing' "Is that you Palmon?" Tentomon asked. "Just do what Izzy tells you and you'll be out of there before you know it." Palmon advised. "See, I told you Izzy was a good boy." Tentomon restated. "Mm-hm." Mimi said giggling.
Mimi and Tentomon listened to Izzy and were beginning to walk on. "OK now take the first doorway on the right." Izzy started. "When you get to the end turn left, but be careful of the next room cause there's a big hole in the middle of the floor." Izzy warned. Mimi touched the floor in the middle of the room and it crumbled and fell beyond eyesight. "AH!!" "There should be a narrow ledge you can use to get across." Izzy told a scared Mimi. "Uh Izzy, did we have to take the scenic route." A yellow signal appeared on the monitor. "Uh-oh." Izzy said. "What do you mean uh-oh?" Palmon asked.
Mimi came to fork in the path. "K, I'm ready, which way should we go?" Mimi asked. No response. "Something has happened." Tentomon said.
"I was hoping it was just a glitch, but there's definitely something in that maze with them and it's moving closer." Izzy said looking worriedly at the new blip. "Now I am starting to worry."
Mimi started to get frustrated. "Izzy, what's with the silent treatment?" Hahahahaha Tentomon whizzed around. "Did you hear that? It sounded evil." "Tentomon. It's been such a long time." Centarumon said. "Oh no!" Centarumon leapt across the pit. "AHHH!!!" "Run Mimi! Run!" Tentomon called out. Centarumon started after them. "I like a good chase." 'Left. Take a left!' Izzy called over the Digivices. Mimi and Tentomon were moving fast. "Izzy, we are quite anxiously awaiting your directions, are you there?" "Another left. Through the doorway." Mimi came to an abrupt halt and gasped. "Great job Izzy. It's a dead end." 'Where do we go now Izzy?' No one is at the computer. 'Izzy hello?' No response." We seemed to have lost contact with him." Tentomon said a little scared. "Oh really?" Centarumon said as he entered the room. "He's back." Tentomon said getting closer to Mimi.
Centarumon extended his left arm out towards Mimi and Tentomon. A barrel emerged from his hand. "Solar Ray." He shouted. "Oooooh" Tentomon said as he pushed Mimi to the ground, out of the blast shoots overhead and into the wall. "Look at my skirt." "Forget that now. Get out of the way." Tentomon said as Centarumon Jet Galloped further into the room. "AH!" Mimi squeaked. "Your bravery is noted, but that alone will not gain you any mercy." Centarumon stated coldly. Mimi turned to Tentomon and said, "What are you waiting for? Make yourself bigger." "If you mean you want me to Digivolve, I'm afraid that's impossible." "What do you mean impossible?" Mimi squealed at Tentomon. "I'll tell what it means; he can't protect you, so you have to hold your ground and that's truly impossible." Centarumon said. "Stop talking. Get growing!" Mimi shouted at the two different Digimon. "Oh, how I'd like too, but if I get separated from Izzy, I can't."
Suddenly a loud banging sounded and the ground started to shake. "Ah stop that! Can't you see I'm in the middle of saying something." Mimi yelled. "What's that racket?" Tentomon asked looking around. The wall behind them begins to crumble. "Huh?" Mimi gasped. The wall fell to pieces revealing Izzy and Palmon standing there. "Izzy" Mimi squealed in delight. "Get out of there. Hurry up, come on!" Izzy shouted. "You don't have to tell me twice" Mimi said turning around. Centarumon extended his barrel again. "Mimi watch out!" Palmon warned as she ran to Mimi.
"Palmon Digivolve to… Togemon!"
"Leave my friends alone." said the freshly Digivolved Digimon. "Mimi. Get back!" Izzy called out. "Leave this to me. Tentomon Digivolve to… Kabuterimon!" Kabuterimon had to huddle over as he grew. "Ha ha." "Oh I forgot; when you get bigger, you get a lot bigger, don't you?" Mimi gasped. "Hey watch where you step." "Ah sorry." Kabuterimon apologized. "Oh. Ah" Izzy said while trying not to become shish kebab as Centarumon fired another Solar Ray.
"Mmm. That's one way to get out of there." Mimi said, sitting up. "Yeah, but this is no time for us to start taking it easy. Look who's here." Izzy said looking up to see Centarumon. "Yeah, I see him." "Leave them alone!" Kabuterimon said as he got up. Centarumon fired his Solar Ray, but Kabuterimon took to the air and avoided it.
"Electro Shocker!"
"I think it's time for a Needle Spray!"
Centarumon screamed in pain as the Black Gear imbedded in his back began to spin faster, left him and disintegrated. "That felt interesting" Centarumon said before falling to the ground. "One of those black gears fell out of his body." Izzy said, watching the giant Digimon collapse.
*end flashback*
"After that Centarumon showed us that the maze was really a temple to the Digivice and that the Digivices are Preservers of the Light, A last defense against the Darkness that threatens existence." Izzy finished his story. "Wow. They're really that powerful, huh?" Yolei asked looking at her D3. "Well your D3's are more powerful than our Digivices but they're all Preservers of the same Light." Izzy said turning around to his computer. "Now if I click on this it should work." Izzy said to himself as he pressed on a blip.
'Hurry up, we need to get back to the Digiport.' They heard Kari say as Izzy pressed on the blip. 'I'm slowing you down. Just leave me here.' 'No Sora! I can carry you and I'm not leaving anyone behind.' "Izzy, what's going on?" Matt asked. "Hold on." Izzy replied, placing the earpiece on. "Hey guys this is Izzy. What's happening?" 'We meet him.' Sora replied. "Meet him? Meet who?" 'Tai.'
