Part 5: Iori's Digivice!
It was early the next morning and Iori, along with Takeru and Miyako, were on their way to school. While walking, he started telling them about what had happened that previous night.
"Hey, did anything strange happen to your Digivices last night?"
"Nope, no trouble with mine," Takeru responded as he walked.
"Uh-uh," Miyako shook her head. "Why do you ask?"
"Well, mine was glowing and vibrating last night right before I went to sleep."
"Did Armadimon evolve to his adult (champion) form, or better yet, somehow skip and go straight to perfect (ultimate)?" Takeru asked.
"Excuse me?"
"I guess not," the blonde muttered.
"Maybe Izumi-senpai and I could take a look at it," Miyako suggested. "Both of us know how these Digivices work, pretty much, so we should be able to figure something out."
"If anyone can figure out what's wrong with it, you two sure can," Takeru laughed.
"I've been wondering, what do you think that weird light was yesterday coming from Hikari-chan?"
"I have no idea, Miyako-san," Takeru answered. "I spent a long time thinking about that last night, trying to figure it out. None of our Digimon should be able to evolve past their adult levels since Hikari-chan, me, and the rest of the older kids, don't have our crest powers anymore so that they'd have that extra energy boost to evolve to the next level. Sure they can evolve, but it would be very difficult for them to do since we don't have our crests anymore.
"Maybe what Patamon said was right."
"What did Patamon say?" Miyako asked.
"He said that maybe, somehow, her light trait is a lot stronger than we all thought."
"Do you think it could happen again?" Iori questioned.
"It seemed like a once in a lifetime thing to me," Miyako noted.
"Yeah, you're probably right," Takeru slowly nodded.
"But isn't it weird how Hikari-chan hasn't mentioned anything about what happened yesterday after we got back from the Digital World? I know I would be asking tons of questions!"
"I guess she was too tired to worry about it," Takeru replied with a shrug, even though Miyako wasn't the only one who had been curious about such a thing. He too had wondered about that himself. Takeru looked ahead of him as he walked and noticed a short-haired girl. "That looks like Hikari."
Iori, noticing that the girl wasn't alone, saw another figure just a few paces ahead of them. "The person beside Hikari-san looks like Daisuke-san."
"I really have to apologize to her," Takeru said aloud. 'Daisuke-kun too for the accusation.'
Takeru ran off, leaving Miyako and Iori behind.
"Apologize?" Iori and Miyako asked in unison, watching the boy run off.
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"…don't you think that's a funny story?" Daisuke finished up with a
laugh.
Kari wasn't really interested since she was a bit preoccupied, trying to figure out all that had happened yesterday.
"Sure…"
"I scored the winning goal!" Daisuke then smiled proudly. "Maybe I'll even do better than your brother some day! He said that I'm already a really good player."
"I don't think anyone is better than Sora-san and my brother," Hikari smiled.
"Well, Sora can't be all that good a soccer player like she used to, since you said that she plays Tennis now, and that she's in the Tennis Club at Odaiba Junior High."
"You never know; she is a pretty good athlete. I bet if you give her a soccer ball and put her out on the field, she'll play just as well as she did a couple of years ago when she and my brother used to play all of the time for Odaiba Elementary's Soccer Club."
"We should challenge them to a match! Me, you, Miyako, and TZ..."
"TK..."
"Whatever, and we play against Taichi-senpai, Sora, and it's hard to believe that Koushirou-san used to be in the soccer club with the way he stays on the computer…anyway, who else plays?"
"Hmm," Hikari pondered, "Yamato-san might, but he's more of a musician than a sportsman, and Takeru-kun plays basketball a lot, not soccer, as you already know. I also agree with you about Koushirou-san. I really don't remember seeing him play much when I used to go my brother and Sora's games, but then again, I think I do remember a redhead as the goalie, so maybe that was him."
"Maybe he was good at computerized soccer," Daisuke joked.
"Sounds about right to me," Hikari laughed. "My brother and Sora were two of the best Soccer players ever to attend Odaiba Elementary and won many trophies for our school."
"Now I'm one of the best, and I hope to win lots of awards for our school."
"With the way you practice, I'm sure you will."
"I'm sure too! No wait, I know I will!"
"Very confident, aren't we?" the girl said with a smile.
"Yeah, I guess so." Daisuke took in a deep breath and decided to get a bit daring and compliment his friend, especially since no one was there to mess him up. "So, um, Hikari-chan, you look very nice today."
"Why, thank you!"
"No wait, I'm sorry for lying to you just now," Daisuke retorted uneasily and almost regrettably. "You don't look nice to day."
"What?!" Hikari asked in disbelief, surprised that Daisuke of all people would literally say something nice about her, and then in the same breath, insult her. "How could---"
"You look nice every day, not just today," Daisuke interrupted before Hikari could get another word out.
"That's very nice of you to say, Daisuke-kun."
'This is my chance,' Daisuke inwardly praised, 'and TC isn't around to mess things up!'
"TK!!" a voice yelled from out of nowhere, which obviously belonged to the tall, blonde male of their new Chosen Children group.
"Whatever!" Daisuke scoffed with his arms folded. He then came to a realization. "Hey, wait a minute!! Takeru's not in this scene, and he can't read minds!"
"It's a bad, onrunning gag used by RP," Hikari explained to the goggle boy. "Read any of her Pokémon fics and you'll see what I mean."
"Um, yeah," the boy sweat dropped with slit-shaped eyes.
After he got over the unnecessary gag thrown in by RP, he started to sweat a bit as he tried to get enough courage to speak up to Hikari in a more serious manner and not as is usual, bumbling, goofy self.
"So, I was, um, wondering, that is, if you would like to, well---"
"HEY, HIKARI!!!" a person called, running up to both Daisuke and Hikari.
"Ooh, Takeru," Hikari responded, happy to see her friend.
"Hey, I just wanted to---" Takeru managed to get out, between breaths.
"Nice timing, TD," Daisuke interrupted jealously, and annoyingly as he crossed his arms.
"TK!!!"
"Whatever. Besides, stop being so rude!" Daisuke argued. "Can't you see that Hikari and I are in the middle of an important discussion!"
"We were?" Hikari asked innocently…literally.
Daisuke face-faulted from the girl's response.
"Hey, what's happening?"
Takeru got a nervous look and then spoke up.
"I just wanted to apologize...for-for yesterday."
"Apologize for what?"
"For being stubborn and rushing right in. You could've been killed if it weren't for me!"
Hikari gave him a look meaning, "What are you talking about?" Takeru continued on.
"You told me to stay back, but I didn't listen," Takeru sighed. "I hit the trigger and I was the one who started the fire because of it!"
"That's okay," the girl smiled. "I know you meant well. You were just determined and anxious to help me."
"Oh really!" Takeru asked in surprise, not expecting the young bearer of light to be so quick to forgive him. "You're not mad at me or anything?"
"Of course not!" Hikari assured him. "Daisuke-kun, Miyako-san, and Iori-kun probably would've done the same thing. You just beat them to it by getting to me first."
"Boy, run off and leave us, why don't ya!" a female voice called.
"Oh, gomen Miyako-san, Iori-kun," Takeru apologized, scratching the
back of his head.
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RP: Gomen means "sorry"*
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"Who invited all of you here!" Daisuke demanded, still annoyed
some. He then inwardly muttered, "I can never get alone with
Hikari no matter how hard I try! They're always around!"
"We're on our way to school," Iori stated as matter of fact like.
"Yeah, see that building over there with the students and the teachers," Miyako pointed.
"Ohh!!" Daisuke grumbled.
Miyako ignored Daisuke's unusually grumpy self, and started to tell him and Hikari what Iori had said earlier about his having trouble with his D-3.
"Way weird," Daisuke said, his temper much more relaxed than what it was a short moment ago. "Did anything happen to Upamon, like a strange evolution or something?"
"That's the strangest thing about it, nothing like that happened," Miyako answered for the small boy, who sighed a bit. Iori hated it when Miyako would constantly talk for him, especially when he was very capable of doing so himself. "I'm going to send Izumi-senpai an e-mail time we get to school to let him know what's going on."
"Can't go wrong there," Hikari said. "He's the perfect person to ask for help from."
"That's exactly what Takeru-kun said," Miyako stated as the group made
their way towards their school doors…
The day went on as usual until the school day ended. They all met in the computer lab, like they always did, along with their Digimon. Koushirou had gotten Miyako's e-mail and came by. He was now looking over the Digivice along with Miyako.
"I don't see anything out of the ordinary," Miyako said as she studied Iori's D-3, comparing it to hers and the others.
Izzy stood up and walked over by the classroom door, looking as if he was in deep thought, rubbing his chin.
"Neither do I," he responded. "I would keep it for further study, but you need it."
"Maybe he pushed a button on it that you missed," Daisuke insisted.
"I can assure you that I didn't---" Iori started to say.
"That must be it!" Takeru unintentionally interrupted. "If the two technological computer geniuses can't figure it out, then it must be nothing."
"Maybe," Miyako shrugged.
"But I---"
"So, what's up for now?" Hikari asked, oblivious to Iori's trying to talk.
"Maybe we better check out the Digital World to see what's going on there and decide on which spot to destroy a Dark Tower in today," Miyako suggested.
"Good idea," Koushirou nodded. "I'll---"
Right at that moment, a pink-haired girl with stars decorating her hair, wearing a white skirt, a pair of platform shoes, and a red, white, and blue mid-driff with a golden star in the middle, ran in the classroom screaming, "Am I too late!" and ran right into Koushirou knocking the both of them down...