Part 13: Formulating a Plan!
"But how---" Koushirou said as he picked up his laptop.
"Hooray, you have your laptop! That means Koushirou-han is going to come up with a plan to help us get my tree house back, and to get Iori-han back to normal!"
"How did it come to the gate all by itself?" Sora queried.
"Wait," Takeru intervened, "how did the gate just appear like that without somebody bringing it up and unlocking it?"
Izzy shrugged as he opened up his laptop, booting it up. Luckily, it worked for him. The battery was fully charged, and there didn't seem to be anything wrong with it.
The boy then noticed that he had an email.
"Hey, I got an email from Gennai-san!!"
A beam of light shined from the laptop, revealing a holographic image of an old man.
"Hey there, Koushirou," Gennai granted. "I figured you could use this, and I also put a new program on it for you. It should show to be quite useful."
"That's Gennai?" Daisuke asked in surprise. "He's one weird looking guy."
"Is he a Digimon?" Miyako asked back at Daisuke. "They never said. He looks like a human…well, sort of."
"I wonder if he always looks like he's asleep," Daisuke whispered to Miyako.
"Now, now, let's not be disrespectful. He's obviously respected by the others," Miyako whispered back. The girl then bowed to the holographic image, and said, "Hello, Gennai-san; pleased to meet you."
"What she said," Daisuke said, bowing just as Miyako had.
"So, this must be Daisuke and Miyako. I have heard quite a bit about you two," Gennai smiled.
"Really?"
"You have?" Daisuke asked after Miyako.
"Well, no, actually, it just seemed like the appropriate thing to say."
Both Daisuke and Miyako nearly face-faulted from the old man's response.
"And no, I am not a Digimon, if that's what you two are wondering."
"H-how?" both asked out in unison.
"Gennai-san, do you understand what's going on? For once in my life I don't and it's killing me!"
"Calm down Koushirou," Gennai said as he laughed slightly over the young boy's eagerness to learn all about their current situation. "I know how you like to try and figure things out. Let's see, you guys are right about the ring thing. Good job, Jyou."
"Doumo, Gennai-san." Jyou thanked him. 'Wait, if he wasn't here, how did he know that it was me who came up with that theory?'
*Note: Doumo is another way of saying thanks.*
"Now, the source of the power, I think that…well…"
"Sorry for interrupting, Mr. Gennai, but everyone, look at my D-3!"
Everyone turned to see why Miyako had interrupted Gennai, and why her D-3 was beeping, as if homing onto something.
"There's another Dark Tower nearby; exactly where Iori was attacking us!" she informed them.
"How come our D-3s aren't reacting?" Daisuke asked, looking down at his Digivice.
Hikari and Takeru looked down at theirs, shrugging to the goggle boy's question.
Koushirou sat himself back onto the ground; his back leaned against the tree. Even though his back was still hurting him some, he ignored the pain, anxious to figure out where Iori currently was. He then typed in a couple of commands to bring up a map of the Digital World.
"Taichi tried that back at school and it wouldn't even work, or pinpoint your location, or anything," Sora informed Koushirou.
"That's strange," Tailmon said.
"Still in the desert, I see," Koushirou murmured.
"Out of curiosity," Miyako asked while looking around, "where are we? We just ran into this woodsy looking place."
"Yeah, it's like we were running in the desert, trying to get away from Iori a while ago, and now we're in the forest or something," Daisuke said.
"I don't even know where we are."
"You weren't with us when we first came here, Hikari-chan," Takeru told her.
"We were so busy trying to get away from Iori, and getting everyone to safety, we didn't even pay attention to our surroundings," Yamato chuckled lightly over the irony of the situation. "We look as if we are in Piccolomon's (Piximon) village. Well, close to it anyway."
"That must be the reason why Iori-kun gave up chasing us!" Sora concluded. "He can't see us if we're here."
Jyou thought for a moment, finding their situation a bit strange. "But how did we end up here? Piccolomon's village is a lot farther away from here. We were in the desert where we encountered Etemon the very last time." He then muttered with a sweat drop, "Well, as his normal bad singing self."
"Who knows, we're just near his village." Takeru then shrugged, unsure of himself, and said, "Maybe there's another way to get through his barrier, and this is the long way around?"
"Hey, maybe there are hidden places like this all over the desert and we just happened to run into one of them," Mimi said.
"Or instead of us going in through the front door," Taichi gave a goofy grin, "we ended up going through the back door!"
"I guess so," Jyou sweat dropped at Taichi's bad attempt at humor.
"Besides, anything is possible in the Digital World, Jyou!" Gomamon smiled. "You said that yourself!"
"Wow!" Takeru exclaimed, coming to a realization. "This is where my brother found his Crest of Friendship and where Koushirou-san found his Crest of Knowledge if we're near Piccolomon's village!"
"But Koushirou and I found our crests in the well outside of the barrier. Koushirou insisted on checking it out when we did. We didn't run past a well on our way here because it was destroyed by a Tyranomon after we found them."
"But niisan, if we're in the barrier, then we must be somewhere close to it."
"Yeah, nice…crest," Koushirou muttered as he typed, not really paying attention to the conversations that were taking place. The boy stopped typing and turned to a certain lavender-haired girl. "Miyako-kun, may I please borrow your D-3?"
She handed him her Digivice. "Sure, but what are you---"
"Thanks," the boy interrupted. "I'm going to analyze this one so that when I get a hold of Iori's, I can compare them." The boy then shyly asked, "Can you help me analyze them, Miyako-kun?"
"Sure can! I'm pretty good at electronics and computers, as you know!" the girl smiled as she sat down next to her mentor.
"Great, now I must show you this program that Gennai-san so happen to put on here for further Digivice Analyzing." Koushirou looked at the slot where he could put in a Digivice to analyze it. His eyes lit up when he saw that there were now two slots. "Wow, he's even made it so that I can use you newer Chosen Children's Digivices!" He inserted Miyako's D-3 into the slot. "It fits! Now, you can use this anytime that you want, if you ever need it that is. My laptop is the only thing we have that can analyze our Digivices and obtain information from them. Also---"
"Now I have seen everything out of my many years!" Gennai dramatically gasped mockingly. "Koushirou is voluntarily letting somebody else use his laptop!"
"Hmph, he's never let me," Mimi muttered in slight jealousy, her arms crossed.
"So, Gennai-san, do you have any other information for us?"
"I sure do, Sora! Loads that will probably help you, but I have to go."
All of the children, minus Koushirou and Miyako whom of which were trying to figure out the upgrade on Koushirou's laptop, who didn't hear, screamed out, "What!?!" in disbelief.
"AOL is messing up again, and I did upgrade Koushirou's laptop before I sent it to you. I'm sure that with all of you together, you'll be able to figure it out.
"See you all later, and believe me, I would help more, but I can't, " his voice lowered some, and he mumbled, "if I were only connected with my other self that knows much more…if I could only find it…"
"Huh, what did you say, Gennai-san?" Sora asked, having thought she had heard something.
Before Sora could get a response, the holographic image of Gennai distorted, and faded out.
"Not again!" Yamato groaned in frustration.
"Is it just me, or does he like doing that to us?!" Jyou asked.
"I honestly think he secretly likes doing that just so we can figure out everything on our own!" Taichi sighed.
"Great, now I have all of the information on your D-3. This new program is amazing!"
He handed Miyako back her Digivice.
"Thanks a lot, Miyako-kun." He then started to look around. "Gennai-san?"
"He lost his connection with us," Sora told Koushirou. "You didn't notice?"
He shook his head and shrugged.
"Put him in front of that laptop and let an Earthquake or Tornado or any other natural disaster occur, he wouldn't notice it," Taichi muttered.
Koushirou took out his Digivice and inserted it into the old analyzer slot. "It wouldn't hurt to have the old model Digivice information too."
'He's always thinking and is so cool!' Miyako thought as she stared at Koushirou in slight admiration. 'He was once president of the Computer Club, until this year since he graduated to Odaiba Junior High. Maybe one day, I'll become just as smart as he is when it comes to computers.'
"Oh no!" the redhead frowned.
"What's wrong?" Miyako asked.
"Computer froze."
"Don't worry, we'll fix it!"
Everyone sweat dropped, 'cept for Daisuke, Miyako, Hikari, and their Digimon who didn't think anything of Tai and Agumon's statement.
Taichi, along with Agumon, rushed over to where Koushirou was sitting, bawled up his right, open hand into a fist, and said, "One good whack ought to do it!"
Izzy grabbed his laptop and rushed off to hide behind Sora before Taichi and Agumon could swing. Miyako, along with Daisuke and Hikari, looked at the computer boy as if he was crazy, but then realized it was probably a good idea with the way Taichi and Agumon looked with their fists raised in the air, about to swing.
"Sora-san," Koushirou pleaded, a slight whining to his voice, "stop them! Tell them to stop trying to hurt my computer!"
Sora sighed as she put her hands on her hips; Koushirou still crouched down a bit behind her.
"Taichi, what did I tell you about that?"
"I can't believe it!" Taichi argued. "You treat that thing better than you do some people!"
"I can vouch for that," Mimi huffed under her breath.
"Computers are not toys!" Koushirou said in defense, stepping from behind Sora, standing upright. "You do not hit them if they aren't working the way that you want them to!" He then muttered, "And you wonder why I never let you touch my laptop!"
"You let me use your desktop at your place all of the time."
"That's because I know you can't run off with it and hit on it just to get it working the way that you want it to!" he retorted. "Besides, I'm always at your place showing you how to use different programs on your computer!"
"You still treat that stupid thing better than you do some people!"
"I do not!"
"You do to!"
"I do not!"
"You do to, Koushirou, and you know it!" Mimi argued.
****
"Can we go through one day with all of us together in the Digital
World without someone arguing!" Jyou annoyingly groaned while holding
his head.
"I seriously doubt it, senpai," Sora said while shaking her head.
****
"I do not! How can you guys say such a thing! That laptop
has loads of important and beneficial information on it! I just don't
want Taichi-san or Agumon messing it up!"
"I bet if some Digimon was to attack us and the attack was headed towards your laptop, you would jump in the way to block it off and take the hit yourself!"
"H-how could you say that, Mimi-san?" Koushirou asked, feeling a bit hurt, and not because of his slight headache or from his constant back pains.
"Because you probably would!"
"We rest our case!" Taichi said while giving Mimi a high five.
"You got that right," Mimi nodded to Taichi. "Koushirou, you never leave that thing unguarded! It stays with you always when you have it around!"
"That's not true! I've left it behind before because of you!"
"Hhmph." Mimi turned her back to Koushirou and stubbornly crossed her arms. "Funny how I don't remember anything like that!"
"Then your memory is somewhat faulty."
"Mimi, he's right," Palmon quietly spoke up.
Everyone turned to Palmon, surprised by her statement. "What?!?"
"He's left his laptop before?" Taichi asked in disbelief.
"That does sound…rather surprising," Sora found herself saying, even though she had planned on staying neutral for this argument.
"Palmon, what are you talking about?" Mimi asked, giving her plant-like buddy a look of cynicism.
"Well, after we defeated Apocalymon, and you all had to leave, he surprised me with something he said, and I fell over, and at the same time, his laptop fell, but he helped me up and didn't dive for his laptop, even though he was probably very tempted to."
"Tentomon, that's not what I'm talking about. Anyway, I didn't know about that."
"Oh."
"Then what time are you talking about?" Mimi asked.
"I do remember this one time how he left his laptop behind to help you. It was the time when you were stuck in that maze in that old ruin with Tentomon. He led you to that dead-end to break you out because he knew that you wouldn't have made it back since Kentarumon (Centauromon) was in the maze with you.
"He left his laptop behind after he gave you those last set of directions, and rushed right out of the ruin! I could barely keep up with him as I tried my best to follow behind.
"When he got to the spot he had led you, he picked up the thing closest to him and started to bang on the wall, which broke it down and he was able to get you out."
'Hmm, and all this time I just thought Koushirou-han didn't want to unplug it.'
"I didn't…know…that," Mimi uttered, feeling like a heel for arguing in the first place with her friend over something so pointless.
"Well, it's true," Koushirou quietly replied while staring at Mimi.
"Gee, I'm sorry for yelling at you, Koushirou. I didn't think about that. I don't know why I blew up in the first place."
He scratched the back of his head timidly. "I guess all of this
heat is getting to us."
****
"Seems that those two have been apologizing a lot lately," Tentomon
observed.
"They sure are arguing a lot, and Koushirou isn't the type to argue, is he?"
"No, he isn't, Gomamon. Normally Koushirou-han is calm, unless
you touch his laptop or harm it in some way."
****
"I still say you treat that thing like it's a human being, or better
yet, a cheap date! He can take it everywhere, never have to worry
about spending too much on it, and never having to hear it complain."
Izzy gave Tai a really annoyed, yet hurt, look as if deceived by a good friend, which Sora noticed.
"Taichi," the girl sighed, "please don't say anything else."
"Hey, it's true! And why are you always taking his side anyway!"
"I am not taking sides!" She then whispered, "Isn't it obvious that it bothers him that you think of him that way, Taichi?"
"Um…"
"Your hair is bigger and you're still no smarter. Just don't say anything else in reference to the comparison of the way he treats his computer equipment to that of other people, okay?" Sora gently requested.
"But, I---"
"Okay!!" Sora firmly demanded.
"Okay," Taichi said with a nervous sweat drop from Sora's tone.
"Good," she smiled.
"I'm sorry, I didn't think of if that way."
'I hate to admit it, but I think he's cute when he acts this way,' Sora thought with a smile.
'Do I really treat my computers as if they were people, my companions?' Koushirou wondered in thought. 'I mean, computers can store so much information and it can help me gain more of it. People can't do that, which is why I like them so much, but do I really treat it better than I do my own friends? Could Mimi-san be right? If the scenario she came up with were to occur right at this moment, would I really go out of my way to keep it from getting harmed? Am I really that insensitive towards others and my friends?'
"Koushirou-han, Koushirou-han!" Tentomon called.
He grew tired of trying to call the boy to get his attention, so he did the next best thing and zapped him using his Super Shocker, which caused the boy to scream from the shocking pain.
"Earth to Koushirou-han," he called after he had zapped him, "are you there?"
Tentomon smirked to himself after he finished, which caused the smoking redhead to yell at the bug.
"Hey!" Koushirou shouted after finally coming back to reality. "You didn't have to zap me like that! I've been hurt enough as it is already!!"
"I'm sorry, but you spaced out, and I was trying to get you back."
He sighed at Tentomon and went back to his laptop.
"Oh, never mind, it didn't freeze. I just input too much information
at one time, I guess," Koushirou assumed. "It was just going a bit
slowly. This laptop could use a faster modem. A DSL cable modem
instead of this slow, out of date regular cable modem I have now.
I'd settle for a Satellite Uplink connection, which would be even better!
I'm sure I could obtain one, and it wouldn't cost me a thing." He
then darkly muttered, "*I've done it before." The boy coughed a bit
before anyone could question him, and saved his work. "Okay guys,
I have all that I need, except for Iori's D-3 info. And as for our
getting it, I think we should all split up when trying to approach him."
****
RP: (Coughs)Movie2.Koushirouhackedintomilitaryfilesusinggov'tsattelitesandwasn'tcaught(Coughs).
:-p
****
"Yes, some of us create a diversion, while some of us go to destroy
the Dark Tower, and then some of us, go after Iori," Gabumon said.
"But if you destroy the tower, why would we have to go after Iori?" Daisuke asked. "The rings wouldn't work if the tower is destroyed."
"I guess to make sure he's all right," Takeru replied.
"We should also go and make sure we get him home safe and sound!" Miyako then pumped her fist into the air, getting a bit hyper. She was now currently in one of her, "I'm going to achieve whatever I set my mind to," moods. "Who knows, maybe he'll even be able to lead us to where the Digimon Kaizer is hiding so that I can personally wring his neck for hurting poor Iori!"
Everyone sweat dropped from Miyako beating her fists together and kicking on a tree.
"Calm down, Miyako-kun," Koushirou responded, a look of amusement on his face. "We will get to him eventually so that you'll have your chance."
"Yeah, and I know exactly how we should split up!"
The goggle boy stood up.
"What are you doing?"
The boy gave Hikari a thumbs-up and a wink.
"I'm going to help split everyone up!" Daisuke then started to calculate in his head as he did a head count. "Okay, there are ten of us, so we can make…either two groups of five, or either five groups of twos, and I'm all for the five groups of twos!"
"And I thought you said you weren't any good with math." Hikari smiled at him. "You just used some basic division and multiplication."
"Hey yeah, you're right! I guess I'm not as dumb as I thought when it came to math after all!" the boy proudly grinned. "Okay, now let's get back to business. Let's see, Taichi-senpai and Sora should be in one group…"
Tai didn't mind the pair up. Sora was one of his best friends, of the opposite gender that is, Koushirou and Yamato were probably his best guy friends. He cared for her a lot and would never want anything remotely bad to ever happen to her.
Sora was okay with the pairing also...Tai was one of her good friends and she truly enjoyed being around him.
"…Miyako and Koushirou-san in another group since they know about that Digivice stuff…"
Koushirou smiled more than what he would normally after Daisuke had said that. The idea of him and Miyako alone pleased him some, yet he couldn't explain why. He was actually considering typing in his symptoms into a search engine to see if he was coming down with something.
Miyako didn't mind being paired off with Koushirou, either. As a matter of fact, she idolized him immensely, especially since he had a love for computers just like herself."
"…Yamato and Takeru since they're brothers and don't see each other much. If they're paired up, that way, they can catch up on all that good brotherly stuff that I wouldn't understand since I'm stuck with an older sister that's totally in love with Yamato, and how that's all she talks about, which makes voluntarily conversing with her out of the question since all of our conversations would end up with her talking about how cute Yamato is…"
Yamato shrugged. It didn't matter to him either way and he really didn't talk to his brother much, even though Takeru had moved back to Odaiba. He was still pretty busy with his band and school.
Takeru got a look of annoyance as he stared over at Daisuke, who was now considering who to pair off next. He was wondering where Daisuke was going with these pair ups and was really curious as to whom Hikari was going to end up paired up with, as if he didn't already know.
Takeru didn't dislike his brother or anything, but he just had the feeling that Daisuke was up to something. Having someone other than Hikari as his partner felt wrong to him. Even when they were younger, they always seemed to be paired off. Even their Digimon, in their perfect (ultimate) forms were perfectly paired when it came to battling. Why it bothered him so much, he couldn't really explain it. He knew that it really shouldn't have mattered, but it still bothered him that he wasn't paired up with Hikari.
"…senpai can go along with Mimi-san since they haven't talked in a long time, I guess…"
Jyou smiled a bit. He hadn't been alone with Mimi in a long time, and he really liked hanging around here, though he would've never admitted to something like that three years earlier when the two were alone before. He wasn't even sure if he would admit to something like that now.
When Yamato left to "find himself," and Mimi decided to do the same since she didn't want to witness anymore fighting and killing, Jyou had offered to stay with her. Up to this day, he still didn't know why he had offered to do such a thing. Was it to be nice, his need to prove that he was the responsible one of the group, and that someone as young as Mimi shouldn't be by herself, or was there more to it?
Mimi didn't mind the pair up either, even though she truly wanted to stay behind with Koushirou due to his injuries, but she figured that everything must was okay since he hadn't really complained much about being in pain, until Tentomon shocked him. Jyou was one of her good friends, so of course she wouldn't mind being paired up with him. She then thought about how nice it was when they were paired up in the Digital World before when she decided to leave the group for a while and how Jyou, pretty much the adult of the group, offered to stay behind with her. She also had learned quite a bit from her time with Jyou, which benefited her in their final battles against the Dark Masters and Apocalymon.
"…and I guess that leaves me with," he looked around, "wow, what a coincidence! Hikari-chan!!"
Everyone sweat dropped, Digimon included after he said that he would
gladly have Hikari as his partner. Everyone knew how Daisuke had
a thing for Hikari.
****
"I bet he did that on purpose," Patamon said.
"Oh yeah," V-mon blinked.
"He never gives up, does he?"
"I don't think so, Tentomon," Tailmon shook his head.
"At least he's determined," Hawkmon sweat dropped.
"Well, since Daisuke and Hikari are paired up, I guess that means that you and I are paired up too, Tailmon!" V-mon smiled.
"I guess," the cat-like Digi shrugged, not caring one way or the other.
****
"Let's see, now to split up the Digimon…"
The cap-wearing one of the group grew a bit angered, and stepped up to the goggle boy.
"You set that up on purpose just so you'd get to have Hikari as your partner!"
"Look here, TE, I would never do anything that sneaky!" Daisuke retorted, stepping up to the taller boy, poking him in his chest with his index finger. "If I wanted her as my partner, I just would've asked her instead of making it look like I set it up so that she'd end up with me! Anyway, this is important! We have to get Iori back to normal and stop the control Ichijouji has over him!"
"First of all, it's TK, and second of all, you would do something like that!"
"Would not!"
"Would too!"
"Would not!"
"Would too!"
"Does it really matter whom I go along with?" Hikari asked in slight frustration, embarrassed over the two boys.
The two didn't hear her, nor did they pay her any mind, as they continued to argue.
"Why do you care so much anyway?"
"Well, I ugh, it's just that Hikari-chan and I…well," he stuttered slightly. He then defensively snapped back, "Never mind! It doesn't matter why!"
The older of the two handsome blonde-haired brothers decided to settle this fight once and for all before Takeru embarrassed himself more than what he currently was. Takeru was starting to turn a bit red in the face from embarrassment and nervousness.
"I think that Daisuke's idea of two groups of five is better," Yamato said, breaking the two younger boys up. "Walking around in pairs is much too risky, especially since we older kids don't have D-Terminals like you newer kids do. It would also be easier to communicate with two groups of us instead of five, don't you think?"
"I agree," Koushirou nodded. "I think I'll stay here, though. I'm still not feeling all that up to walking around just yet."
"We understand," Mimi smiled. "You should rest after what happened to you."
"Maybe someone could stay with me, though. Maybe Miyako-kun could stay with me until you all get back since she knows so much about computers too. You would be able to contact us through e-mail." He then turned to the glasses-wearing girl and asked, "Are you okay with that? If you wanted to go along with them, I understand comeple--"
"Oh no, I'm fine with staying here," the girl responded, much calmer and less hyper than what she was earlier. "No problem."
"Okay, so it's two groups of four now."
"I'll pair it up," Jyou offered. "Sora, Yamato, Taichi, and I guess, Mimi, in one group, while the rest of us are in the other one."
'No fair, I wanted to be alone with Hikari-chan!' Daisuke muttered in thought.
"The group of Jyou-senpai should look for the Dark Tower that Miyako-chan saw," Mimi suggested.
"You know, I'm starting to wonder about that."
"What do you mean, Jyou?" Yamato asked, a look of curiosity on his face.
"How come we're just finding it now? If it was always there, we should've seen it when we were where Iori-kun was, and it's pretty difficult to hide something as big and conspicuous as a Dark Tower in the middle of a desert."
"It takes a while to get those towers up, too," Gomamon responded somberly, remembering the time Ken had forced him and some of the other Digimon of his snowy, icy area to put up his Dark Towers. "I would know, unfortunately."
"It is very strenuous work," Gabumon nodded slowly. "You can't get them up in just mere seconds."
Palmon shuddered a bit. "He also normally only use the smaller and weaker Digimon to put them up as a punishment for their defying or disobeying him."
"Maybe he made some type of an exception and used only the bigger and stronger Digimon!" Tentmon said a bit excitedly. "I know, maybe he could've even used some ultimate (mega) leveled Digimon, or maybe even Digmon!"
"Tentomon, you aren't helping," Agumon said, a stressed out tone in his voice from having to put up with Tentomon's statements ever since they were all captured by Wormmon.
"Well, he could've," the Digimon mumbled as he refrained from saying much of anything else.
"Anyway, I agree with Jyou," Agumon said, ignoring Tentomon.
"Those pyramids are out there...maybe he's hidden it there," Taichi said.
"Who knows, maybe you are right," Jyou said, deciding that he should just get off of the subject.
"Tentomon, I want you to go along with Taichi-san to help them out."
"Alright, Koushirou-han! I wasn't planning on sitting out on this fight!"
"Oh, and Miyako-kun, your D-3 again, please…"
Miyako handed him her Digivice.
"What are you doing now?"
Koushirou turned his head to see a certain, platform wearing girl looking over his shoulder.
"Well, Mimi-san, I am using the D-3 to try and find the exact location of the Dark Tower."
The boy continued to type on his laptop, command after command, trick after trick, receiving an error message every time. The boy then heaved out a sigh and frowned.
"For some odd reason, my computer cannot find the Dark Tower. It can't even pinpoint out a location. I am sorry, but you will just have to try and find it on your own. I can communicate to you with my computer through your Digivices. Well, I'm positive I can with Mimi-san. The tricks and commands I used with her before is still on here. As for you with the D-3s, I'm not sure if I can figure it out. I'll just stick to e-mailing the newer kids through their D-Terminals."
Everyone nodded. "Right!"
"Yeah, let's go!" they all heard a weak, faint voice say.
"Piyomon, are you sure you're feeling well enough to come along with us?" Sora asked, lots of concern in her voice. "We're just going to try to find a way to get Iori-kun back to his normal self."
"Or find a way to keep him away from his D-3 long enough so that Koushirou can look at it," Gabumon added.
"But we need someone like Piyomon because she can fly!" Agumon retorted. "She could probably get the Digivice back to Miyako and Koushirou in no time flat!"
"Piyomon, why not stay here? Hawkmon, you go and help them out. I'm sure you're well rested enough."
"Right, Miyako-san!" the bird nodded. "As a matter of fact, ever since we haven't been near Iori-kun, I feel wonderful!"
"Same here. It's just when I was near him that I felt as if I couldn't evolve. I just didn't have the energy to."
The other Digimon nodded, agreeing with both Tentomon and Hawkmon. They too felt as if they could evolve since they hadn't been around Iori, minus Piyomon who still felt unusually tired and weakened.
"Well, it is settled then," Koushirou stood up. "We already have our plan, now all we have to do is to get Iori-kun distracted enough to snatch his Digivice. Only then we can find the true source of its reaction and power."
Before anyone else could react, Hikari started to tremble a bit as a look of pure terror appeared on her now pale from fright face.
"What's wrong?" Takeru asked, noticing her look.
"Look!" the girl pointed, her arm shaky. "He's going to find us, and have Digmon attack us, and then our Digimon won't be able to evolve since they said they feel weak whenever he is around!"
Everyone looked towards where Hikari had been pointing. They saw Iori, still riding on Digmon's back, muttering loudly, still in pursuit of the other Chosen Children.
"My patience is growing thin!" they heard the young boy say, as loud as can be. "Where the hell are those little shi---"
"What did he just say!" Miyako choked out.
Everyone looked surprised; now the boy was starting to use bad language. That definitely was nothing like the true Iori that they all knew and loved.
Hikari grabbed onto Takeru's arm in fear, since he was nearby.
The goggle boy stared in annoyance, not liking the fact that the two were getting so close. He then ran up to the two and pretty much forced them apart by walking through the middle of them.
"Don't worry, Hikari-chan; V-mon, Tailmon, and I will protect you!"
"Don't bother. He can't see us. Everything will be fine."
"What do you mean?" Daisuke asked, facing the basketball player.
"Well, this is a hideout, pretty much," the young boy explained. "What he's seeing if he looks in our direction is desert, not jungle."
"Say what?" Miyako, Hikari, and Daisuke asked in unison, trying to make sense of what Takeru had just told them.
"It's like mirage." The boy then got an idea and grabbed Daisuke and Hikari's arms, and urged Miyako to come along too. "You stand right there. Watch me."
Takeru stepped right out of the protective barrier and did something incredibly stupid; well, it was to Daisuke, Hikari, and Miyako.
"Hey, midget boy with the Star Trek outfit that's a monk reject from
the planet Vulcan with the bad bowl haircut, we're over here!" Takeru yelled
out. "That ought to get him mad!"
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RP: I don't hate Iori (Cody) in the least; if that's what you all are
wondering. The same goes for the other characters as well.
I like all of them, but my favorites are Koushirou, 02 Mimi, Iori, Jyou,
Miyako, Sora, and my fav Goggle boy is Daisuke. I just have this
strange habit of having my favorite characters dogged, or teased, or possessed,
or whatever. It's sorta like Todd/Snap in my Pokémon fics;
he's one of my fav background characters - I guess you could call him that
- and yet, he was the target for both of my fics that just happened to
have him in it.
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Takeru ran back into the safety of the barrier, where Hikari, Miyako,
and Daisuke were still standing, looks of astonishment on their faces.
Digmon and Iori followed the sound of Takeru's voice, and looked around,
but when he couldn't find anything, he snarled a bit and ordered Digmon
to look elsewhere.
"See," the boy smiled, as if doing some great deed.
Miyako just stared at the boy, a bit surprised, blinking. Hikari, on the other hand, wasn't smiling after Takeru's attempt; in fact, she looked a bit irritated.
"Don't you ever do that again, Takaishi Takeru!!" Hikari yelled at him. "That was dangerous!!"
Takeru's confident smile faded. "I'm sorry, I was just trying to show you that---"
"She's right!" an even angrier Miyako interrupted. "That was dangerous! What if something would've happened! What if he would've found the barrier anyway and came right through it! You know our Digimon have a weird reaction whenever he's around! Takeru-kun, you shouldn't have done something so stupid!"
Takeru lowered his head and stared down at the ground. "I'm sorry," he quietly muttered.
"Yeah, he could've seen you! You could've tripped!" Hikari continued, adding on to what Miyako had said. "Anything could've happened!"
'Wow, Takeru finally did something to get Hikari-chan annoyed, trying to impress her! This is way too good to be true!' Daisuke thought ecstatically. He then calmed himself and crossed his arms, to give off a laid-back impression. "That wasn't the best thing in the world to do, TF…"
"Well, at least he was just trying to show them something to prove how safe they were. Taichi, on the other hand, wasn't! He was actually playing around! Now that was stupid and immature! He could've gotten us all captured by Etemon due to his immaturity!"
"Sora, don't remind me of that," Taichi groaned. "I don't ever want to remember that day. It was awful! Because of my goofing around, you ended up caught by Nanomon, and I ended up losing my courage and couldn't go after you. I'm sorry about that."
"I know that now, Taichi. I'm not upset at you over that."
"I know I would've been," Taichi muttered.
"Not that story again!" Daisuke moaned.
"Takeru-kun, please don't ever do that again! I believed you. You didn't have to try and get his attention just to prove anything to me."
"I'm sorry, Hikari-chan."
The girl's harsh expression softened a bit, and she gave the boy a gentle smile and a small pat on the back. "I just don't want anything to happen to you. You are one of my good friends, and these past months that you've been around have been great. I like having you around, and I don't want to lose one of my good friends."
"Wait, you mean you two didn't really start hanging out together until this school year started?"
Takeru nodded to Daisuke. "I lived in Kawada, so I didn't see Hikari-chan, my brother, or father much. I only met Hikari for the first time when were in search of the eighth child three years ago. Jyou-san and I ran into Wizarmon who had the tag and crest belonging to the eighth child. He explained to us how it belonged to Hikari-chan, and how Tailmon was her Digimon partner. After getting Wizarmon back to Odaiba, that was my first time meeting her. Jyou-san seemed to know of her, though, when Wizarmon was explaining who the tag and crest was for."
"Same school. We all went to the same school, 'cept for Takeru since he lived with mom, even though we all didn't know each other all that well before our adventure in the Digital World. Well, maybe accept for probably Taichi and Sora knowing each other, and their knowing Koushirou, who knew of Mimi. The rest of us were all strangers."
"After our battle with Apocalymon," Hikari continued, "we all went home, of course; Takeru-kun back to Kawada with his mother, and Yamato-san back to Odaiba with his father.
"I never really saw him much after that, unless it was during a summer vacation, or maybe some other school vacation where he would visit Yamato-san, but it wasn't often. We didn't really see each other again until we went back to the Digital World and sacrificed our crest powers to create that seal. After that, it was then the same as it was before, my not seeing him much again."
"Oh."
"Hey, let's go you guys!" Taichi urged. "We get Iori's attention while Jyou and the others destroy the Dark tower!"
"Gomamon, you go along with Taichi and the others. They need as much of a distraction as they can get. At least, that way, you can help them fight, and stay far away from here so that you, Tentomon, Agumon, Palmon, and Gabumon can evolve. Also, if Iori-kun has such an effect on you all, try your best not to get too close to him."
"Okay, Jyou!" Gomamon nodded.
They all took off to go on their assigned tasks. Luckily, since the newer kids had Jyou with them, Koushirou could talk to him and tell them which way to go, to get to the Dark Tower...