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In a flash of light everything around her disappeared and the ground disappeared from under her feet. The light faded and she landed hard on her butt with a loud 'oof'. Blinking twice to clear the blurriness from her eyes, she glanced around. She was sitting in the middle of a large green field.
Kacey pushed herself to her feet, calling, "Koushiro? Victor?" Dusting of her shorts, she continued to survey the landscape. Nothing looked familiar.
'How'd I get here?' She asked in between a cross of annoyance and interest. 'Where's here anyway?'
She stepped forward then halted, causing a cloud of dust to rise around her sneakers. Wasn't the rule that if you get lost you should stay where you are? But did it really apply to this situation? She was just magically brought here.
Then everything started to come back. Dad and the gun. Koushiro in the line of fire. And the gun shot. "IZZY!" She called out. What if he was dead?
A twig snapped somewhere behind, causing her to jump out of her skin. Whipping around, her eyes darted across the field. There was no one there. "What?"
"Hi!" Again she jumped out of her skin, stumbling forward this time only to fall down into the grass. She rolled over into a sitting position, pushing red hair out of her eyes. "Ha your funny!" At her feet a pink ball with a horn sticking out of its head jumped up and down.
"Aaaa-oof!" It jumped on her stomach and continued to jump.
"I'm Katomomon and I like you! So you can play with me, okay?" It hopped and talked through its wide mouth.
Her eyes widened. "Katomomon? As in a digimon?"
"Yeah, silly! What did you think I was, a human?" Katomomon laughed and jumped off of her. "Let's play!"
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'Am I dead? I don't feel dead… How do you feel dead? Should I be in pain?' He traced a hand over his chest then his stomach, then head. No bullet holes, that's a good sign.
He opened his eyes. Blue sky loomed over him. Forcing himself to his feet he surveyed his position. A surge of excitement raced through him.
His thoughts were interrupted by a groan by his feet. He looked down to see Victor, lying on his back. Izzy fought a grin as he helped the older man to his feet. Victor thanked him before looking around. "Where are we?"
Izzy could have laughed. "The Digital World."
Victor's head snapped back towards him. "Say what?"
"Welcome. You've arrived in the Digital World," Izzy snickered, enjoying the look of discomfort on Victor's face.
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"Sorwa, Sorwa, Sorwa! Get up! Some was yelling into her ear. She groaned. "Get up! Sorwa!" The voice whined. "Sorwa!"
"Okay, I'm awake!" She pushed herself up into a sitting position. Connor sat beside her, dirt smudged across his face and grass sticking out of his golden hair. "What happened?" She asked herself, looking around.
"I dunno," he replied, taking it upon himself to answer. "But now we'rwe at the parwk."
"The park?" She repeated as realization hit her. She stood up. "We're in the Digital World!" She turned, looking in every direction. It had to be. The exotic plants, the blue sky that went on forever, the desert/jungle/forest smell. "We're in the DigiWorld!" She was so happy. She hadn't seen Bi all summer.
"The DigiWorwd, awight!" Connor copied, then stopped. "Which parwk is that?"
"Uh…it's a weird one, with lots of animals."
"Wike the zoo?"
"Sure."
He jumped. "Awight, wet's go!" He grabbed her hand and pulled her away from where they had landed.
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Tai stood up and looked around, trying to figure out what had just happened. One minute he's standing in line at El Pollo Loco (the crazy chicken. Yes it's a real restaurant.) then he's in the DigiWorld holding a bag of chicken legs and mashed potatoes. He grinned evilly. He hadn't paid for the food.
"Tai!"
He turned around to see Matt, Gabumon, and Agumon. He dropped the food. "Agumon, hey buddie!" The yellow dinosaur jumped into his arms.
"Tai! I've missed you!"
"I've missed you too!"
"Hey Tai," Matt called from where he stood with his arms crossed beside Gabumon. "Do you know how we got here?"
Tai shook his head. "No idea. I just remember being at the restaurant with you and then I'm here."
"I picked up three signals on my digivice." The blond held up the device with three blinking red lights on separate areas on it. "I think Izzy and Sora are here."
Tai pulled his digivice from his pocket. "Who's the third?"
"I don't know," Matt shrugged. "But we should probably go meet up with them." Tai nodded.
"Tai, what was that?" Agumon asked.
"What was what?" Tai replied fiddling with his digivice while Matt looked over his shoulder.
"What we just ate."
"What you just-" Tai looked up to see Gabumon and Agumon sitting on the floor with empty Pollo Loco boxes sitting between them. "Hey! That's my lunch!"
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He grunted as he kicked his way through the thick underbrush that surrounded him. He had no idea how he got to this place, but when he came to he was washed up on a beach, soaking wet. At least he was alive, lost, but alive.
He shivered slightly. The heat was drying his clothes, but the shade the trees overhead created gave him quite a chill.
"I can fix that if you'd like," a voice suddenly said to him, causing him to jump.
"Who said that?" He demanded.
"You don't recognize me, old friend?" There came a chuckle. "But its been a long time, hasn't it, Yushiro?"
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"Who the hell are you? Show yourself!" He yelled, fighting off a sickening feeling of fear.
"Behind you," came the reply.
He turned around slowly, as if any sudden movements would cause a lash out from the person behind him. When he stopped he met the black eyes of a Jedi-like man. He looked like someone out of the next star wars movie. Yushiro's blood boiled as his lips curled into a sneer. "Gennai," he growled.
The Jedi man smiled. "Youshiro, my old friend."
"I am not your old friend. I am not your friend period." His charcoal eyes looked Gennai over. "Why do you look like that?"
"Like what?" Gennai laughed, unconcerned by the other man's hatred.
"So young. You're my age."
"I can look any age I wish," Gennai answered. "Why eight years ago I appeared to your son and his friends as a withered old man."
"Where am I? You brought me here, didn't you?" He demanded.
"Your in the Digital World. I brought you here a fraction of a second before that bullet hit your boy."
"He's not my boy!"
"Why do you hate me so much? Does what your son and daughter have become bother you so much? Is your hatred so deep you would kill him and ruin her life?" Gennai demanded. "We never did anything wrong!"
"I told you to stay away from Cassandra. You got Koushiro. She was not meant to be a DigiDestined!"
"Yes, she was," he replied calmly. "I can't ignore destiny. And I can't ignore the hell you've put Cassandra through to get your way. She needed her brother and the Digital World needed its last savior." Gennai shook his head. " Came here to try to reason with you." He reached over and pulled the gun from Yushiro's pocket. "Because this isn't the answer." He threw the weapon away and it dissolved upon hitting the ground. "Why do you hate me so much? We were friends.
"We were best friends," Yushiro sneered.
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There was an incessant beeping coming from her pocket. Reaching down Kacey pulled the digivice Victor had pushed into her hands earlier. Four red dots beeped on its screen.
"What's that?" Katomomon asked, jumping up and down at her feet.
"It's a digivice. Don't you ever get tired?"
The thing stopped bouncing. "Well, I suppose I am getting tired." I took a flying jump and landed on her head. "I'll just take a nap!"
"Hey!"
"Mama!" She whipped her head up, knocking Katomomon off her head. Two arms wrapped around her knees. "Mama!"
She picked him up and squeezed him. "Connor! What are you doing here?! Are you by yourself?"
"No," someone called. Kacey looked up to see Sora stepping out from behind a line of trees. A pink bird walked beside her. "He just got away from me for a second."
"Thank you for watching him for me," Kacey thanked her, sincerely. "Sorry if he was trouble. He can be a hand full."
Connor grinned in her arms. "I'm a tewow (terror)!" He giggled.
"No, he was fine," Sora smiled. "Are you okay?"
Connor wiggled out of her arms and walked over to where Katomomon had landed. "Who'wer you?" Connor asked, sitting down beside him.
"I'm Katomomon. Who're you?"
"I'm Connor."
Kacey pulled her gaze away from Connor to Sora. "Is he safe with that thing?" She asked in a half-whisper. Sora nodded.
"That thing's a digimon!" The pink bird announced.
Kacey jumped back. Sora laughed, "Kacey, this is my digimon, Biyomon. Biyomon, this is Kacey, Izzy's sister."
Biyomon extended a wing. Kacey shook it, tentatively. "Don't be scared of me. I don't bite."
Never pulling her gaze away from the pink bird, Kacey finally answered Sora's question. "Well, I'm fine, considering. But what's going on?"
Sora shook her head. "I don't know. Connor and I were in the parking lot of your apartment building then we were here. How'd you get here?"
She thought back. "Pretty much the same. We were at my apartment." She biting her lip, she whimpered, "And my dad was pointing a gun at Koushiro."
"He was what?!" Sora barked. She grabbed Kacey by the shoulders and shook her hard. "What the hell did you get him into?!"
"I didn't know he had a gun!" Kacey choked out. "They started arguing and my dad kept saying all this shit about the DigiDestined being evil." Behind them Connor giggled. "Then he told him to leave and he pulled the gun."
"Did he fire?" She demanded. Kacey didn't answer. "Kacey, did he shoot Izzy?" Kacey nodded. "God damn! I need to get back there! I need to find him!"
"Find who?" A voice asked.
The pair looked up to see Matt and Tai with their respective digimon partners. Kacey instinctively scooped Connor off the ground. "Izzy," Sora choked. "Mizuhara shot him."
"What the hell do you mean Mizuhara shot him?!" Matt demanded. "We left you two in the hotel room! What happened?!"
"Victor came over and told us Kacey needed help with her dad. We went over and I left with Connor."
Matt wrapped his arms around her. "I'm sure he's fine. He probably just got pulled here too. We receive another signal beside you two."
"We should start looking for him," Tai spoke up. Matt nodded in reply.
Connor wiggled out of Kacey's arms again and started towards Agumon and Gabumon. Kacey grabbed his arm. "Connor no!"
"Hey, its okay," Tai grinned. "Come over here buddy." Connor pulled away from Kacey and walked over to Tai. "This is my best friend Agumon."
"Hi Agumon!" Connor waved.
"Hi!"
Connor laughed. "Yourw superw coow wooking! Just wike in my dinosauw book! Yourw a ty-wanna-sorw-us wex!" He roared like a dinosaur. (Translation: Your super cool looking! Just like in my dinosaur book! You're a tyrannosaurus rex!)
Agumon looked at Tai in confusion. "What did he just say?"
Tai laughed. "Don't worry about it buddy."
"Come," Matt cut in. "The last signal is that way." He started off with the others trailing behind him. Kacey trailed behind with Katomomon perched on her head once more.
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Youshiro shivered. "Why don't we get you dried off?" Gennai suggested.
"I'm not going anywhere-" Gennai snapped his fingers and instantly Youshiro's clothes were dried. "With you…"
"No need," Gennai replied. "We can stay right here."
"We aren't staying anywhere! Send me home," the charcoal-eyed man commanded.
"I can't do that, Youshiro," Gennai replied sadly. "Not until you promise to leave Cassandra alone. It's not your place to mess with her or her destiny. As I remember you renounced yourself as her father the same day you did your son!" Youshiro didn't reply, just looked away. "If you want it to be this way fine, you find your own way home. But I can't take you home. And if this proves your point that DigiDestined are evil, so be it. But I'm sick of you." Gennai turned to leave before he stopped and faced Youshiro again. "Tell me why you hate us so much. Or is it just me?"
"It's always been you…"
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"Where are we going?" Victor groaned.
Izzy stopped and glanced over, annoyed at Victor's constant distrust. "I'm not going to lead you over a cliff," he retorted.
"Where are you taking me then?"
Izzy held up his digivice. "You see these four dots? We're going towards them because odds are that's my friends and Kacey."
"How do you figure?" Victor asked, catching up to the red head DigiDestined.
"This thing is a digivice. It picks up the signal of other DigiDestined, as long as they have their digivice," Izzy explained. "That way if we get lost, like we are right now, we can each other."
"That's pretty cool," Victor replied, impressed. "Can I see?" Izzy nodded and handed the device to Victor.
They continued to walk along in silence. "Hey Victor?"
"Hm?"
"How'd you meet Kacey? And how come you're with her?" He asked. "I have to say I'm a little impressed. A girl with a kid would probably scare me off."
"Well, it did when I first met her and I didn't call her for over three weeks. I met her at the club. It was New Years. I was there with a bunch of my friends and she was singing. When I finally worked the balls to get her number, we ended up talking for the rest until three in the morning. I instantly fell for her. I met her two days after because I had to recover from a totally massive hangover and we went out. I met Connor that day and the kid scared the hell out of me." He sighed, "Like I said I didn't call her, but I really did like her so I called her again and begged for another date." He laughed despite himself. "But I really do love Connor, he's a great kid." He glanced at Izzy. "He's my son." A beeping sound rose from the digivice and Victor threw it at Izzy. "I swear I didn't do anything!"
Izzy looked at the digivice. "We're close."
"IZZY!" Izzy looked up to see Sora rushing him. She jumped into his arms and kissed him. "Izzy I was so worried. I thought you were dead!" She cried.
He wrapped his arms tightly around her. "No, I'm alright," he reassured her, his voice soft. "Don't worry."
"Kacey!" Victor called out overjoyed. He ran over to her and scooped her off her feet. "God, I'm so glad your safe." She smiled as she hugged him. "You are alright, right?"
"Yes, I'm fine Victor," she replied, kissing him.
"Me too!" Connor yelled as he jumped up and down beside the two.
Katomomon copied him. "Me too!"
Victor jumped back, leaving Connor bewildered. "What? I'm not scawy!"
Before Victor could say anything, Izzy stepped forward and crouched beside Katomomon. "Who's this?" He asked Kacey.
"I don't know. The hyper little thing just started following me and won't leave me alone," she shrugged.
Izzy laughed. "I think you found yourself a partner. What's your name little guy?"
"I'm Katomomon!" It laughed before jumping off and tackling Connor.
"But I wasn't looking!" Kacey argued.
"So now that we're all here," Matt cut in. "Why are we here and how did we get here?" He looked to Izzy for answers.
"I don't know," Izzy admitted, looking down at Sora in his arms. "But it kept me from getting shot, so I'm just thankful." Sora hugged him tighter. "But I think we should look for a port home. Or maybe find Gennai." He glanced over at Kacey who leaned against Victor with his arms around her waist. "He'll probably want to speak to you." She nodded in response.
"Alright, well now that that's settled, let's walk," Tai suggested, taking over command as he was so skilled to do. "We've got a lot of ground to cover and I want to go home. I'm hungry!"
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Youshiro stared at Gennai, his eyes burning with hate. "It was always you!"
"Why?" Gennai burst out, losing his control. "Youshiro, I never did anything to you!"
Youshiro ground his teeth, biting back all remarks he wanted to scream. "It was you and the damned DigiDestined."
Gennai rubbed his forehead. "We're regressing, Youshiro and this is making less sense."
"You always got it my way!" He yelled. "You we're always there wrecking what I had!"
"What are you talking about?" He cried out, his hands clenched.
"With Cassandra!"
"Your daughter?"
"My wife!"
Gennai stepped back. "Youshiro, you know I never meant to-what happened, that was just-"
"Save it, Gennai. Send me home."
"Youshiro, listen to me," Gennai begged. "Please."
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The group of seven humans and five digimon (they just met up with Tentomon) walked through the forest of the DigiWorld, talking loudly. Izzy walked beside Kacey, talking about digimon while Connor and the digimon ran ahead playing. Sora, Matt, and Tai joked and talked about nothing, as they walked in the lead of everyone else. Victor brought up the rear, spacing himself as much as he could from the digimon.
Matt, Sora and Tai stopped. "Do you guys hear that?" Matt announced.
Kacey, giggling from a story Izzy had been telling, looked up and listened. Her smile disappeared. "That's my dad," she replied in a panicked tone.
"There's two voices," Victor spoke up, catching up to the group.
"That's Gennai," Tai replied.
"Connor!" Kacey called out. The golden-haired child stopped. "Come back here. I want you to stay with us." He ran back, with Katomomon chasing him. Victor scooped him up on his shoulders.
"'Momomon, come up hewe!" Connor called to the pink ball. Katomomon jumped into Connor's arms, leaving Victor anxiously tense.
Matt motioned them forward. They advanced slowly. Through the trees they could see two figures standing there talking. One was a black haired man, Youshiro Mizuhara, and the other was a brown haired man, dressed in a robe, Gennai.
"You always got it my way!" Mizuhara yelled. "You we're always there wrecking what I had!"
"What are you talking about?" Gennai cried back, his hands clenched.
"With Cassandra!" Kacey's breath caught in her throat.
"Your daughter?"
"My wife!" Kacey and Izzy exchanged glances.
"What are they talking about?" Izzy whispered.
"I don't know, but that can't be Gennai," Kacey whispered pointing to Gennai.
"Why?"
"He was my foster agent."
"Your foster agent?" Tai asked.
Kacey nodded. "He handled everything when it came to homes I was living in and stuff along that nature. He made it so that none of the foster families I lived with could make me give up Connor."
"What're they saying now?" Victor asked.
"Youshiro, listen to me. Please," Gennai pleaded. Youshiro turned away with his arms crossed, refusing to look at Gennai. "The things that happened with Cassandra, we never meant for things to turn out the way they did."
Youshiro whipped around and grabbed Gennai by the front of his robe. "Never meant for them to turn out the way they did?!" He punched him in the mouth, sending the other men to the ground. He turned around, refusing to look at Gennai.
"Do you feel better now? Now that you've hit me, does that make it better?" Gennai asked.
"No," Youshiro said softly. "It makes me hate you more."
Gennai still lay on the floor, blood dripping from his mouth. "Why?"
"Because you won't fight back. Because I know you're sorry." He turned back. "I want to take out my aggravation on you, I want a fight!"
"Maybe we should break this up?" Kacey spoke up.
"No," Matt blocked. "This is between them."
"So we just spy?" She snapped upset.
Matt stared at her. "Well, yeah."
Gennai pushed himself off the floor. "What do you want then?" He demanded desperately.
"I want the DigiDestined wiped off the face of the earth."
Izzy caught Kacey's arm. "What are they talking about?"
She shook her head. "I don't know. Dad never talked about what happened before you and me."
With his hands clenched so hard they shook and his teeth gritted, Youshiro stared daggers at Gennai. "Because you, all of you, were physically advanced then everyone else."
"Is that what this is all about? Your jealous?"
Youshiro froze. "I-I guess I am. I never thought-" He shook his head to clear his uncertainty. "You-you always had something more then I did. You always held it over me. You were something more."
"I think he's talking about the DigiDestined before us," Tai said thoughtfully. "Gennai was one."
"So was our mom," Izzy added.
"Okay, so what we had something more?! We risked our lives and nearly got killed repeatedly!"
"But you had her! You had Cassandra because you knew what it was like to risk your life and be in another world. She could go to you for every friggin' thing! God damn you Gennai."
"I'm sorry about what happened! You don't know how sorry I am. I-"
The pair looked up at the sound of screaming. The six in the bushes stared, mortified at Connor and Katomomon who were screaming their heads off. "Connor, what's wrong?"
He stopped. "Nofing. We wewe hafing a scweaming contest." (Nothing. We were having a screaming contest.)
"Cassandra, Koushiro, get out here now!" Their father's voice commanded.
She tensed, Izzy shrugged. "Might as well do as he says." He pulled Connor from Victor's shoulders and they stepped out of the bushes with Tentomon and Katomomon following them. Sora, Matt, Tai and Victor stayed out of sight.
"How long were you standing there?" Gennai asked, wiping the blood from his mouth.
"I don't know," Izzy shrugged. "Long enough to get the drift of the conversation, but not enough to understand it."
"We will finish this later, Youshiro."
"We will finish this now, Gennai! You brought me here, so let's finish it."
"This is between you and me. It has nothing to do with your kids."
"Is that what you really believe, Gennai? Is that what you've convinced yourself?"
Gennai rubbed his face with his hands. "Fine, you can have your way. Let's talk about this. Let's figure out what the hell we're doing." He looked at the two. "Izzy, give Connor back to Victor. The four of us need to talk." When Izzy didn't move, Gennai snapped his fingers and Connor disappeared from Izzy's arms.
"Where's he go?" Kacey demanded.
"He went back to your apartment. I sent all of your friends back." Izzy nodded and gave Kacey's hand a sharp reassuring squeeze.
Gennai smiled. "Hello Kacey, it's been a while hasn't it?"
"What're you talking about 'been a while'? You were supposed to stay away from her!" Youshiro snapped.
"That's between her and me, now isn't it?" Gennai replied, spitefully.
"You want something between her and you? How about between the three of you? Why don't you tell them the truth?" Youshiro was doing his best to provoke him.
"You know I can't do that," Gennai snarled.
Izzy took his sister's arm. "Kac, why don't you and I go over here. Let them talk again." She nodded and let him pull her away. They walked through the trees that surrounded the clearing the two men stood in. Once they were sure they were out of sight Izzy lead her back to where they had been watching them from before.
"I'm sick of doing this for you. I'm sick of hiding for you," Youshiro yelled. "Your a bastard. You take everything from me, disappear and then reappear whenever the hell you feel like."
"Youshiro, I'm sorry."
"Stick your sorries up your ass. I'm through dealing with you Gennai! I'm sick of this." His hands clenched to a point where they were shaking again. "Why do you do this? Those kids, I never wanted them!" He pointed in the direction Izzy and Kacey had gone. "They weren't my responsibility! But I kept them on the assumption that they were not to have any contact with you or become DigiDestined. You lied to me, you screwed me!"
Izzy felt Kacey's hand tighten on his.
"They're your kids, Gennai!" Gennai retained his unexpressive composure, ignoring the blood that ran from his mouth still. "I'm not going to get anything out of you am I? Fine, I really don't care. But I hope your willing to deal with the consequences because they're right there." He pointed to where Izzy and Kacey crouched in the bushes. Gennai stared at them, wide eyed.
Well, what did you think? This didn't turn out the way I planned it, but that's okay I suppose. Please review!
Searching
In a flash of light everything around her disappeared and the ground disappeared from under her feet. The light faded and she landed hard on her butt with a loud 'oof'. Blinking twice to clear the blurriness from her eyes, she glanced around. She was sitting in the middle of a large green field.
Kacey pushed herself to her feet, calling, "Koushiro? Victor?" Dusting of her shorts, she continued to survey the landscape. Nothing looked familiar.
'How'd I get here?' She asked in between a cross of annoyance and interest. 'Where's here anyway?'
She stepped forward then halted, causing a cloud of dust to rise around her sneakers. Wasn't the rule that if you get lost you should stay where you are? But did it really apply to this situation? She was just magically brought here.
Then everything started to come back. Dad and the gun. Koushiro in the line of fire. And the gun shot. "IZZY!" She called out. What if he was dead?
A twig snapped somewhere behind, causing her to jump out of her skin. Whipping around, her eyes darted across the field. There was no one there. "What?"
"Hi!" Again she jumped out of her skin, stumbling forward this time only to fall down into the grass. She rolled over into a sitting position, pushing red hair out of her eyes. "Ha your funny!" At her feet a pink ball with a horn sticking out of its head jumped up and down.
"Aaaa-oof!" It jumped on her stomach and continued to jump.
"I'm Katomomon and I like you! So you can play with me, okay?" It hopped and talked through its wide mouth.
Her eyes widened. "Katomomon? As in a digimon?"
"Yeah, silly! What did you think I was, a human?" Katomomon laughed and jumped off of her. "Let's play!"
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'Am I dead? I don't feel dead… How do you feel dead? Should I be in pain?' He traced a hand over his chest then his stomach, then head. No bullet holes, that's a good sign.
He opened his eyes. Blue sky loomed over him. Forcing himself to his feet he surveyed his position. A surge of excitement raced through him.
His thoughts were interrupted by a groan by his feet. He looked down to see Victor, lying on his back. Izzy fought a grin as he helped the older man to his feet. Victor thanked him before looking around. "Where are we?"
Izzy could have laughed. "The Digital World."
Victor's head snapped back towards him. "Say what?"
"Welcome. You've arrived in the Digital World," Izzy snickered, enjoying the look of discomfort on Victor's face.
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"Sorwa, Sorwa, Sorwa! Get up! Some was yelling into her ear. She groaned. "Get up! Sorwa!" The voice whined. "Sorwa!"
"Okay, I'm awake!" She pushed herself up into a sitting position. Connor sat beside her, dirt smudged across his face and grass sticking out of his golden hair. "What happened?" She asked herself, looking around.
"I dunno," he replied, taking it upon himself to answer. "But now we'rwe at the parwk."
"The park?" She repeated as realization hit her. She stood up. "We're in the Digital World!" She turned, looking in every direction. It had to be. The exotic plants, the blue sky that went on forever, the desert/jungle/forest smell. "We're in the DigiWorld!" She was so happy. She hadn't seen Bi all summer.
"The DigiWorwd, awight!" Connor copied, then stopped. "Which parwk is that?"
"Uh…it's a weird one, with lots of animals."
"Wike the zoo?"
"Sure."
He jumped. "Awight, wet's go!" He grabbed her hand and pulled her away from where they had landed.
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Tai stood up and looked around, trying to figure out what had just happened. One minute he's standing in line at El Pollo Loco (the crazy chicken. Yes it's a real restaurant.) then he's in the DigiWorld holding a bag of chicken legs and mashed potatoes. He grinned evilly. He hadn't paid for the food.
"Tai!"
He turned around to see Matt, Gabumon, and Agumon. He dropped the food. "Agumon, hey buddie!" The yellow dinosaur jumped into his arms.
"Tai! I've missed you!"
"I've missed you too!"
"Hey Tai," Matt called from where he stood with his arms crossed beside Gabumon. "Do you know how we got here?"
Tai shook his head. "No idea. I just remember being at the restaurant with you and then I'm here."
"I picked up three signals on my digivice." The blond held up the device with three blinking red lights on separate areas on it. "I think Izzy and Sora are here."
Tai pulled his digivice from his pocket. "Who's the third?"
"I don't know," Matt shrugged. "But we should probably go meet up with them." Tai nodded.
"Tai, what was that?" Agumon asked.
"What was what?" Tai replied fiddling with his digivice while Matt looked over his shoulder.
"What we just ate."
"What you just-" Tai looked up to see Gabumon and Agumon sitting on the floor with empty Pollo Loco boxes sitting between them. "Hey! That's my lunch!"
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He grunted as he kicked his way through the thick underbrush that surrounded him. He had no idea how he got to this place, but when he came to he was washed up on a beach, soaking wet. At least he was alive, lost, but alive.
He shivered slightly. The heat was drying his clothes, but the shade the trees overhead created gave him quite a chill.
"I can fix that if you'd like," a voice suddenly said to him, causing him to jump.
"Who said that?" He demanded.
"You don't recognize me, old friend?" There came a chuckle. "But its been a long time, hasn't it, Yushiro?"
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"Who the hell are you? Show yourself!" He yelled, fighting off a sickening feeling of fear.
"Behind you," came the reply.
He turned around slowly, as if any sudden movements would cause a lash out from the person behind him. When he stopped he met the black eyes of a Jedi-like man. He looked like someone out of the next star wars movie. Yushiro's blood boiled as his lips curled into a sneer. "Gennai," he growled.
The Jedi man smiled. "Youshiro, my old friend."
"I am not your old friend. I am not your friend period." His charcoal eyes looked Gennai over. "Why do you look like that?"
"Like what?" Gennai laughed, unconcerned by the other man's hatred.
"So young. You're my age."
"I can look any age I wish," Gennai answered. "Why eight years ago I appeared to your son and his friends as a withered old man."
"Where am I? You brought me here, didn't you?" He demanded.
"Your in the Digital World. I brought you here a fraction of a second before that bullet hit your boy."
"He's not my boy!"
"Why do you hate me so much? Does what your son and daughter have become bother you so much? Is your hatred so deep you would kill him and ruin her life?" Gennai demanded. "We never did anything wrong!"
"I told you to stay away from Cassandra. You got Koushiro. She was not meant to be a DigiDestined!"
"Yes, she was," he replied calmly. "I can't ignore destiny. And I can't ignore the hell you've put Cassandra through to get your way. She needed her brother and the Digital World needed its last savior." Gennai shook his head. " Came here to try to reason with you." He reached over and pulled the gun from Yushiro's pocket. "Because this isn't the answer." He threw the weapon away and it dissolved upon hitting the ground. "Why do you hate me so much? We were friends.
"We were best friends," Yushiro sneered.
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There was an incessant beeping coming from her pocket. Reaching down Kacey pulled the digivice Victor had pushed into her hands earlier. Four red dots beeped on its screen.
"What's that?" Katomomon asked, jumping up and down at her feet.
"It's a digivice. Don't you ever get tired?"
The thing stopped bouncing. "Well, I suppose I am getting tired." I took a flying jump and landed on her head. "I'll just take a nap!"
"Hey!"
"Mama!" She whipped her head up, knocking Katomomon off her head. Two arms wrapped around her knees. "Mama!"
She picked him up and squeezed him. "Connor! What are you doing here?! Are you by yourself?"
"No," someone called. Kacey looked up to see Sora stepping out from behind a line of trees. A pink bird walked beside her. "He just got away from me for a second."
"Thank you for watching him for me," Kacey thanked her, sincerely. "Sorry if he was trouble. He can be a hand full."
Connor grinned in her arms. "I'm a tewow (terror)!" He giggled.
"No, he was fine," Sora smiled. "Are you okay?"
Connor wiggled out of her arms and walked over to where Katomomon had landed. "Who'wer you?" Connor asked, sitting down beside him.
"I'm Katomomon. Who're you?"
"I'm Connor."
Kacey pulled her gaze away from Connor to Sora. "Is he safe with that thing?" She asked in a half-whisper. Sora nodded.
"That thing's a digimon!" The pink bird announced.
Kacey jumped back. Sora laughed, "Kacey, this is my digimon, Biyomon. Biyomon, this is Kacey, Izzy's sister."
Biyomon extended a wing. Kacey shook it, tentatively. "Don't be scared of me. I don't bite."
Never pulling her gaze away from the pink bird, Kacey finally answered Sora's question. "Well, I'm fine, considering. But what's going on?"
Sora shook her head. "I don't know. Connor and I were in the parking lot of your apartment building then we were here. How'd you get here?"
She thought back. "Pretty much the same. We were at my apartment." She biting her lip, she whimpered, "And my dad was pointing a gun at Koushiro."
"He was what?!" Sora barked. She grabbed Kacey by the shoulders and shook her hard. "What the hell did you get him into?!"
"I didn't know he had a gun!" Kacey choked out. "They started arguing and my dad kept saying all this shit about the DigiDestined being evil." Behind them Connor giggled. "Then he told him to leave and he pulled the gun."
"Did he fire?" She demanded. Kacey didn't answer. "Kacey, did he shoot Izzy?" Kacey nodded. "God damn! I need to get back there! I need to find him!"
"Find who?" A voice asked.
The pair looked up to see Matt and Tai with their respective digimon partners. Kacey instinctively scooped Connor off the ground. "Izzy," Sora choked. "Mizuhara shot him."
"What the hell do you mean Mizuhara shot him?!" Matt demanded. "We left you two in the hotel room! What happened?!"
"Victor came over and told us Kacey needed help with her dad. We went over and I left with Connor."
Matt wrapped his arms around her. "I'm sure he's fine. He probably just got pulled here too. We receive another signal beside you two."
"We should start looking for him," Tai spoke up. Matt nodded in reply.
Connor wiggled out of Kacey's arms again and started towards Agumon and Gabumon. Kacey grabbed his arm. "Connor no!"
"Hey, its okay," Tai grinned. "Come over here buddy." Connor pulled away from Kacey and walked over to Tai. "This is my best friend Agumon."
"Hi Agumon!" Connor waved.
"Hi!"
Connor laughed. "Yourw superw coow wooking! Just wike in my dinosauw book! Yourw a ty-wanna-sorw-us wex!" He roared like a dinosaur. (Translation: Your super cool looking! Just like in my dinosaur book! You're a tyrannosaurus rex!)
Agumon looked at Tai in confusion. "What did he just say?"
Tai laughed. "Don't worry about it buddy."
"Come," Matt cut in. "The last signal is that way." He started off with the others trailing behind him. Kacey trailed behind with Katomomon perched on her head once more.
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Youshiro shivered. "Why don't we get you dried off?" Gennai suggested.
"I'm not going anywhere-" Gennai snapped his fingers and instantly Youshiro's clothes were dried. "With you…"
"No need," Gennai replied. "We can stay right here."
"We aren't staying anywhere! Send me home," the charcoal-eyed man commanded.
"I can't do that, Youshiro," Gennai replied sadly. "Not until you promise to leave Cassandra alone. It's not your place to mess with her or her destiny. As I remember you renounced yourself as her father the same day you did your son!" Youshiro didn't reply, just looked away. "If you want it to be this way fine, you find your own way home. But I can't take you home. And if this proves your point that DigiDestined are evil, so be it. But I'm sick of you." Gennai turned to leave before he stopped and faced Youshiro again. "Tell me why you hate us so much. Or is it just me?"
"It's always been you…"
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"Where are we going?" Victor groaned.
Izzy stopped and glanced over, annoyed at Victor's constant distrust. "I'm not going to lead you over a cliff," he retorted.
"Where are you taking me then?"
Izzy held up his digivice. "You see these four dots? We're going towards them because odds are that's my friends and Kacey."
"How do you figure?" Victor asked, catching up to the red head DigiDestined.
"This thing is a digivice. It picks up the signal of other DigiDestined, as long as they have their digivice," Izzy explained. "That way if we get lost, like we are right now, we can each other."
"That's pretty cool," Victor replied, impressed. "Can I see?" Izzy nodded and handed the device to Victor.
They continued to walk along in silence. "Hey Victor?"
"Hm?"
"How'd you meet Kacey? And how come you're with her?" He asked. "I have to say I'm a little impressed. A girl with a kid would probably scare me off."
"Well, it did when I first met her and I didn't call her for over three weeks. I met her at the club. It was New Years. I was there with a bunch of my friends and she was singing. When I finally worked the balls to get her number, we ended up talking for the rest until three in the morning. I instantly fell for her. I met her two days after because I had to recover from a totally massive hangover and we went out. I met Connor that day and the kid scared the hell out of me." He sighed, "Like I said I didn't call her, but I really did like her so I called her again and begged for another date." He laughed despite himself. "But I really do love Connor, he's a great kid." He glanced at Izzy. "He's my son." A beeping sound rose from the digivice and Victor threw it at Izzy. "I swear I didn't do anything!"
Izzy looked at the digivice. "We're close."
"IZZY!" Izzy looked up to see Sora rushing him. She jumped into his arms and kissed him. "Izzy I was so worried. I thought you were dead!" She cried.
He wrapped his arms tightly around her. "No, I'm alright," he reassured her, his voice soft. "Don't worry."
"Kacey!" Victor called out overjoyed. He ran over to her and scooped her off her feet. "God, I'm so glad your safe." She smiled as she hugged him. "You are alright, right?"
"Yes, I'm fine Victor," she replied, kissing him.
"Me too!" Connor yelled as he jumped up and down beside the two.
Katomomon copied him. "Me too!"
Victor jumped back, leaving Connor bewildered. "What? I'm not scawy!"
Before Victor could say anything, Izzy stepped forward and crouched beside Katomomon. "Who's this?" He asked Kacey.
"I don't know. The hyper little thing just started following me and won't leave me alone," she shrugged.
Izzy laughed. "I think you found yourself a partner. What's your name little guy?"
"I'm Katomomon!" It laughed before jumping off and tackling Connor.
"But I wasn't looking!" Kacey argued.
"So now that we're all here," Matt cut in. "Why are we here and how did we get here?" He looked to Izzy for answers.
"I don't know," Izzy admitted, looking down at Sora in his arms. "But it kept me from getting shot, so I'm just thankful." Sora hugged him tighter. "But I think we should look for a port home. Or maybe find Gennai." He glanced over at Kacey who leaned against Victor with his arms around her waist. "He'll probably want to speak to you." She nodded in response.
"Alright, well now that that's settled, let's walk," Tai suggested, taking over command as he was so skilled to do. "We've got a lot of ground to cover and I want to go home. I'm hungry!"
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Youshiro stared at Gennai, his eyes burning with hate. "It was always you!"
"Why?" Gennai burst out, losing his control. "Youshiro, I never did anything to you!"
Youshiro ground his teeth, biting back all remarks he wanted to scream. "It was you and the damned DigiDestined."
Gennai rubbed his forehead. "We're regressing, Youshiro and this is making less sense."
"You always got it my way!" He yelled. "You we're always there wrecking what I had!"
"What are you talking about?" He cried out, his hands clenched.
"With Cassandra!"
"Your daughter?"
"My wife!"
Gennai stepped back. "Youshiro, you know I never meant to-what happened, that was just-"
"Save it, Gennai. Send me home."
"Youshiro, listen to me," Gennai begged. "Please."
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The group of seven humans and five digimon (they just met up with Tentomon) walked through the forest of the DigiWorld, talking loudly. Izzy walked beside Kacey, talking about digimon while Connor and the digimon ran ahead playing. Sora, Matt, and Tai joked and talked about nothing, as they walked in the lead of everyone else. Victor brought up the rear, spacing himself as much as he could from the digimon.
Matt, Sora and Tai stopped. "Do you guys hear that?" Matt announced.
Kacey, giggling from a story Izzy had been telling, looked up and listened. Her smile disappeared. "That's my dad," she replied in a panicked tone.
"There's two voices," Victor spoke up, catching up to the group.
"That's Gennai," Tai replied.
"Connor!" Kacey called out. The golden-haired child stopped. "Come back here. I want you to stay with us." He ran back, with Katomomon chasing him. Victor scooped him up on his shoulders.
"'Momomon, come up hewe!" Connor called to the pink ball. Katomomon jumped into Connor's arms, leaving Victor anxiously tense.
Matt motioned them forward. They advanced slowly. Through the trees they could see two figures standing there talking. One was a black haired man, Youshiro Mizuhara, and the other was a brown haired man, dressed in a robe, Gennai.
"You always got it my way!" Mizuhara yelled. "You we're always there wrecking what I had!"
"What are you talking about?" Gennai cried back, his hands clenched.
"With Cassandra!" Kacey's breath caught in her throat.
"Your daughter?"
"My wife!" Kacey and Izzy exchanged glances.
"What are they talking about?" Izzy whispered.
"I don't know, but that can't be Gennai," Kacey whispered pointing to Gennai.
"Why?"
"He was my foster agent."
"Your foster agent?" Tai asked.
Kacey nodded. "He handled everything when it came to homes I was living in and stuff along that nature. He made it so that none of the foster families I lived with could make me give up Connor."
"What're they saying now?" Victor asked.
"Youshiro, listen to me. Please," Gennai pleaded. Youshiro turned away with his arms crossed, refusing to look at Gennai. "The things that happened with Cassandra, we never meant for things to turn out the way they did."
Youshiro whipped around and grabbed Gennai by the front of his robe. "Never meant for them to turn out the way they did?!" He punched him in the mouth, sending the other men to the ground. He turned around, refusing to look at Gennai.
"Do you feel better now? Now that you've hit me, does that make it better?" Gennai asked.
"No," Youshiro said softly. "It makes me hate you more."
Gennai still lay on the floor, blood dripping from his mouth. "Why?"
"Because you won't fight back. Because I know you're sorry." He turned back. "I want to take out my aggravation on you, I want a fight!"
"Maybe we should break this up?" Kacey spoke up.
"No," Matt blocked. "This is between them."
"So we just spy?" She snapped upset.
Matt stared at her. "Well, yeah."
Gennai pushed himself off the floor. "What do you want then?" He demanded desperately.
"I want the DigiDestined wiped off the face of the earth."
Izzy caught Kacey's arm. "What are they talking about?"
She shook her head. "I don't know. Dad never talked about what happened before you and me."
With his hands clenched so hard they shook and his teeth gritted, Youshiro stared daggers at Gennai. "Because you, all of you, were physically advanced then everyone else."
"Is that what this is all about? Your jealous?"
Youshiro froze. "I-I guess I am. I never thought-" He shook his head to clear his uncertainty. "You-you always had something more then I did. You always held it over me. You were something more."
"I think he's talking about the DigiDestined before us," Tai said thoughtfully. "Gennai was one."
"So was our mom," Izzy added.
"Okay, so what we had something more?! We risked our lives and nearly got killed repeatedly!"
"But you had her! You had Cassandra because you knew what it was like to risk your life and be in another world. She could go to you for every friggin' thing! God damn you Gennai."
"I'm sorry about what happened! You don't know how sorry I am. I-"
The pair looked up at the sound of screaming. The six in the bushes stared, mortified at Connor and Katomomon who were screaming their heads off. "Connor, what's wrong?"
He stopped. "Nofing. We wewe hafing a scweaming contest." (Nothing. We were having a screaming contest.)
"Cassandra, Koushiro, get out here now!" Their father's voice commanded.
She tensed, Izzy shrugged. "Might as well do as he says." He pulled Connor from Victor's shoulders and they stepped out of the bushes with Tentomon and Katomomon following them. Sora, Matt, Tai and Victor stayed out of sight.
"How long were you standing there?" Gennai asked, wiping the blood from his mouth.
"I don't know," Izzy shrugged. "Long enough to get the drift of the conversation, but not enough to understand it."
"We will finish this later, Youshiro."
"We will finish this now, Gennai! You brought me here, so let's finish it."
"This is between you and me. It has nothing to do with your kids."
"Is that what you really believe, Gennai? Is that what you've convinced yourself?"
Gennai rubbed his face with his hands. "Fine, you can have your way. Let's talk about this. Let's figure out what the hell we're doing." He looked at the two. "Izzy, give Connor back to Victor. The four of us need to talk." When Izzy didn't move, Gennai snapped his fingers and Connor disappeared from Izzy's arms.
"Where's he go?" Kacey demanded.
"He went back to your apartment. I sent all of your friends back." Izzy nodded and gave Kacey's hand a sharp reassuring squeeze.
Gennai smiled. "Hello Kacey, it's been a while hasn't it?"
"What're you talking about 'been a while'? You were supposed to stay away from her!" Youshiro snapped.
"That's between her and me, now isn't it?" Gennai replied, spitefully.
"You want something between her and you? How about between the three of you? Why don't you tell them the truth?" Youshiro was doing his best to provoke him.
"You know I can't do that," Gennai snarled.
Izzy took his sister's arm. "Kac, why don't you and I go over here. Let them talk again." She nodded and let him pull her away. They walked through the trees that surrounded the clearing the two men stood in. Once they were sure they were out of sight Izzy lead her back to where they had been watching them from before.
"I'm sick of doing this for you. I'm sick of hiding for you," Youshiro yelled. "Your a bastard. You take everything from me, disappear and then reappear whenever the hell you feel like."
"Youshiro, I'm sorry."
"Stick your sorries up your ass. I'm through dealing with you Gennai! I'm sick of this." His hands clenched to a point where they were shaking again. "Why do you do this? Those kids, I never wanted them!" He pointed in the direction Izzy and Kacey had gone. "They weren't my responsibility! But I kept them on the assumption that they were not to have any contact with you or become DigiDestined. You lied to me, you screwed me!"
Izzy felt Kacey's hand tighten on his.
"They're your kids, Gennai!" Gennai retained his unexpressive composure, ignoring the blood that ran from his mouth still. "I'm not going to get anything out of you am I? Fine, I really don't care. But I hope your willing to deal with the consequences because they're right there." He pointed to where Izzy and Kacey crouched in the bushes. Gennai stared at them, wide eyed.
Well, what did you think? This didn't turn out the way I planned it, but that's okay I suppose. Please review!