Tamers: Stuck in Paradise - Season 2
Part 9
by Christian "Sid" Lang
Oh, yeah. The stuff that dreams are made of. Davis thinks and smiles.
A beautiful girl just sank into his arms and sighed.
OK, so this girl has just passed out. But Davis can't help it.
Then he remembers the D-Arc Ruki had shown him.
He looks at it and sees the arrow pointing the way he came from.
Three guesses who it points at, and the first two don't count.
He looks at Veemon, then at Patamon.
"Please check after the others." he tells Patamon with a frown.
"You think that something is wrong?" Patamon asks, his wings flapping nervously.
Davis just looks at Ruki, then at Patamon again.
Patamon nods and instantly flies away.
"And what are we going to do?" Veemon asks, already making sure that there is enough space around him.
"Ruki said she needs a ride." Davis says and presents his Digivice.
Veemon simply nods.
"Digi-Armor, Energize!" he shouts.
The afternoon street is illuminated by a bright blue light. People around them gasp.
Davis knows this feeling. He can still feel the thrill of a Digimon digivolving.
"Veemon armor digivolve to..."
By now, he can make out the armored form inside the blue thunderstorm.
"...Raidramon, the storm of friendship!"
Davis can hear the whispered comments of the people when they see Raidramon.
The four-legged dragon Digimon ignores them and kneels in front of Davis.
Davis gently places Ruki on Raidramon's back before climbing onto his back himself.
He places his hands on Ruki's back so the lying body cannot fall off accidently.
The image reminds him of Western Movies. The cowboy, the horse and the unconscious lady in distress.
"Awright! giddyup!"
Raidramon stiffens slightly when he hears that.
"Not the Cowboy routine again..." he groans and shakes his head.
"So?" Yolei finally asks.
She looks at Hawkmon who is walking next to her.
They hadn't spoken since they left Kari's place.
"So what?" Hawkmon asks with a frown.
"What do you think of all this?" Yolei asks.
Her partner has often helped her to see things from another perspective.
And he told her when she is worrying too much. Or not enough.
"It's a tricky situation." the bird Digimon carefully replies.
Yolei stays silent as Hawkmon thinks of the best way to express his thoughts.
"I can understand Gatomon and Kari. But I think the situation escalated."
"That's a nice way to say it." Yolei mutters.
"They need some time to cool down." Hawkmon then says.
"And then what? Who should do the first step?"
Hawkmon thinks about it.
"Well, either Kari, T.K., Gatomon or Renamon." he finally answers.
"That's no answer. What do you mean with that?" Yolei snaps.
"I mean that we should stay out of this." Hawkmon tells her.
T.K. sighs. He feels like crying, but he somehow can't.
He would have done so if Kari had dumped him.
Which is basically the current situation. he tells himself.
But he knows that this isn't the truth.
Had he resisted Renamon's... charme, this wouldn't have happened.
Yes. Everything would be fine if Renamon had not shown up.
Everything would be better without Renamon.
Oh God! What am I thinking? he asks himself.
He shakes his head.
Renamon can't be blamed for this.
"T.K.!"
T.K. looks up in surprise. He smiles when he sees Patamon above him.
His partner lands on his shoulder and looks at him.
"Hey, Patamon." he mutters.
"Is something wrong? We just met Ruki, and she looked desperate."
T.K. sighs.
"Short story: Kari ended our relationship. Gatomon did the same with Renamon."
Patamon's eyes widen when he hears that.
"Why?" he simply asks.
"Becuase of the night Renamon... spent with me."
Patamon frowns, then his eyes widen even more.
T.K. can see a spark of hope in his partner's eyes.
Yes, Patamon. You have always been there to comfort me. You have given me new hope when-
"Then maybe I can start over with Gatomon!" Patamon shouts.
T.K. stares at him openmouthed. Then he realizes that Patamon isn't even thinking of him.
Patamon flaps his wings wildly now.
"She could need somebody to comfort her in this situation!"
"Bu-Bu-Bu-"
"See you soon!" Patamon shouts as he flies away again.
"But I could use some comforting, too..." T.K. finally mutters.
Then he sighs again.
Raidramon stops as soon as he hears Ruki groan.
He carefully kneels again so Davis can help the girl down.
"Ruki?" Davis asks, holding his friend close to him.
"Davis?" Ruki whispers as she looks at the DigiDestined.
"Are you able to stand?"
"I... guess so." the Tamers answers and nods.
Raidramon is relived when he sees that Ruki is all right.
Finally the girl turns around and faces him. Raidramon is amused to see that she gasps.
"Don't worry. This is Raidramon, Veemon's Armor-Friendship digivolution." he explains.
"Yeah. Yeah. I know. Got the card. Just been taken by surprise." Ruki tries to hide her irritation.
"So, should we continue?" Raidramon asks politely.
Ruki blinks and takes a look around.
"Where are we?" she finally asks.
"An older part of the town. Warehouses, most of them abandoned." Davis explains.
Then he gives the Tamer her D-Arc.
"Have you been following the signal?" Ruki instantly asks and checks the display.
"Yep. And it's getting stronger."
"I don't want to sound like a spoil-sport, but why are we following it?" Raidramon asks.
Ruki sighs and bites her lower lip.
"A lot has happened. Know about Renamon and T.K. already?" she asks.
Davis nods instantly, causing Ruki to sigh again.
"Well, after an... accident, Renamon's memory has returned. And she returned to us."
Davis smiles when he hears that.
"However, Gatomon said that she couldn't forgive her for the night with T.K."
Ruki can hear Raidramon gasp. Davis simply stares at her.
"She dumped Renamon?" he finally asks.
"Worse. She scratched her and made her run away. Again." Ruki mutters.
"What about Kari? Didn't she tell Gatomon to stop?" Raidramon asks.
"Nope. She sort of dumped T.K., too."
Davis smacks his forehead when he hears that.
"and now you want to find Renamon?" Raidramon concludes.
Ruki just nods.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Davis shouts and climbs onto Raidramon's back.
Then he helps Ruki onto the dragon's back.
The Tamer is right behind him now, putting her arms around his waist to hold on.
For a second, Davis forgets about the crisis and simply enjoyes the feeling.
He is startled by Ruki's commanding voice.
"Giddyup!" Ruki shouts, causing Davis to smile even more.
"Not you too..." Raidramon groans and shakes his head.
Patamon flies through an open window into the Kamiya's place.
Gatomon is sitting on the couch, staring at the walls.
"Gatomon?" he carefully asks.
The cat's head whirls around to face him. Her expression softens when she sees him.
"Oh. Hi Patamon." she sighs.
"Everything all right?" Patamon asks, landing next to her.
"No. I guess I ruined the day."
"You didn't. I think you made the right choice."
Gatomon gives him a look. Then she finally smiles.
"Really?" she asks him.
Patamon nods.
This is easier than I imagined it to be.
He gently moves one of his wings onto her back, just like a man would do with his arm.
"She betrayed you." he whispers.
"Yeah." Gatomon sighs and looks at her claws.
"You deserve somebody who really cares for you."
Gatomon just nods and sighs again.
Then her eyes widen.
"Patamon?"
"Yes, Gatomon?" Patamon asks, sensing his big chance.
"What is your wing currently doing?" she hisses.
"Ummmm... Stroking your back?" Patamon answers and gulps.
Patamon is suddenly pressed into the cushion and gasps.
"You're stroking my back?" Gatomon shouts angrily.
Patamon obviously tries to stammer an answer, but she doesn't want to hear it.
"I can't believe it!" Gatomon hisses.
"Gato... I'm sorry!" Patamon weeps, struggling hard not to drown in the cushion.
Finally the cat lets him go. Patamon gasps as he crawls out of the now-damaged cushion.
"Can't anybody around here understand how I feel?" she shouts.
She can see Patamon look at the open window and sneers.
"Just try." she hisses.
Patamon gulps and looks at her again.
Gatomon angrily grabs one his wings, causing the smaller Rookie to groan.
"I just lost the love of my life!" she cries, tightening her grip.
"I'm sorry! Please! It was a mistake!"
"YOUR LAST ONE!" Gatomon yells, grabbing his other wing, too.
"Yes. Break his back!"
Gatomon blinks when she sees a smaller Gatomon sitting on the couch.
The smaller creature has darker fur and has longer claws.
"Come on, he deserves it." the little cat urges her.
Gatomon sneers as she lifts her foot to stomp Patamon's back.
Then she notices... her.
"Rena?" she whispers when she sees the vulpine creature.
She looks like Renamon, but her fur is colored with a very light tone of yellow.
And Gatomon realizes that this creature is smaller.
She doesn't say anything, but simply shakes her head.
Right. There has been enough violence already.
"You're not going ot let him get away, are you?" the evil Gato-chan asks.
Gatomon gulps and looks down at the struggling creature.
"Oh please oh please oh please..." Patamon begs.
"When I needed a real friend, you behaved like a spoiled child." Gatomon hisses.
Patamon is weeping now.
Gatomon looks at Rena-chan again. The fox stares back at her.
"Do it! I bet he's not really sorry!" Gato-chan insists.
Sighing, Gatomon releases Patamon again.
T.K.'s partner sighs in relieve.
For a second, he had actually believed that the end is near.
He turns around and realizes just how near the end has been.
"Out. Before I get really mad." the cat Digimon hisses.
Sensing that he may have lost Gatomon's trust, Patamon retreats.
"I'm really sorry, Gatomon." he whispers.
Then he exits through the window, thinking about this day's events again.
Gatomon sighs. She had almost hurt Patamon. Severly.
But her inner voice has stopped her.
But why has the good voice looked like Renamon? she asks herself.
Then she decides that it doesn't mean anything.
Renamon's history. Period. she tries to convince herself.
Part 9
by Christian "Sid" Lang
Oh, yeah. The stuff that dreams are made of. Davis thinks and smiles.
A beautiful girl just sank into his arms and sighed.
OK, so this girl has just passed out. But Davis can't help it.
Then he remembers the D-Arc Ruki had shown him.
He looks at it and sees the arrow pointing the way he came from.
Three guesses who it points at, and the first two don't count.
He looks at Veemon, then at Patamon.
"Please check after the others." he tells Patamon with a frown.
"You think that something is wrong?" Patamon asks, his wings flapping nervously.
Davis just looks at Ruki, then at Patamon again.
Patamon nods and instantly flies away.
"And what are we going to do?" Veemon asks, already making sure that there is enough space around him.
"Ruki said she needs a ride." Davis says and presents his Digivice.
Veemon simply nods.
"Digi-Armor, Energize!" he shouts.
The afternoon street is illuminated by a bright blue light. People around them gasp.
Davis knows this feeling. He can still feel the thrill of a Digimon digivolving.
"Veemon armor digivolve to..."
By now, he can make out the armored form inside the blue thunderstorm.
"...Raidramon, the storm of friendship!"
Davis can hear the whispered comments of the people when they see Raidramon.
The four-legged dragon Digimon ignores them and kneels in front of Davis.
Davis gently places Ruki on Raidramon's back before climbing onto his back himself.
He places his hands on Ruki's back so the lying body cannot fall off accidently.
The image reminds him of Western Movies. The cowboy, the horse and the unconscious lady in distress.
"Awright! giddyup!"
Raidramon stiffens slightly when he hears that.
"Not the Cowboy routine again..." he groans and shakes his head.
"So?" Yolei finally asks.
She looks at Hawkmon who is walking next to her.
They hadn't spoken since they left Kari's place.
"So what?" Hawkmon asks with a frown.
"What do you think of all this?" Yolei asks.
Her partner has often helped her to see things from another perspective.
And he told her when she is worrying too much. Or not enough.
"It's a tricky situation." the bird Digimon carefully replies.
Yolei stays silent as Hawkmon thinks of the best way to express his thoughts.
"I can understand Gatomon and Kari. But I think the situation escalated."
"That's a nice way to say it." Yolei mutters.
"They need some time to cool down." Hawkmon then says.
"And then what? Who should do the first step?"
Hawkmon thinks about it.
"Well, either Kari, T.K., Gatomon or Renamon." he finally answers.
"That's no answer. What do you mean with that?" Yolei snaps.
"I mean that we should stay out of this." Hawkmon tells her.
T.K. sighs. He feels like crying, but he somehow can't.
He would have done so if Kari had dumped him.
Which is basically the current situation. he tells himself.
But he knows that this isn't the truth.
Had he resisted Renamon's... charme, this wouldn't have happened.
Yes. Everything would be fine if Renamon had not shown up.
Everything would be better without Renamon.
Oh God! What am I thinking? he asks himself.
He shakes his head.
Renamon can't be blamed for this.
"T.K.!"
T.K. looks up in surprise. He smiles when he sees Patamon above him.
His partner lands on his shoulder and looks at him.
"Hey, Patamon." he mutters.
"Is something wrong? We just met Ruki, and she looked desperate."
T.K. sighs.
"Short story: Kari ended our relationship. Gatomon did the same with Renamon."
Patamon's eyes widen when he hears that.
"Why?" he simply asks.
"Becuase of the night Renamon... spent with me."
Patamon frowns, then his eyes widen even more.
T.K. can see a spark of hope in his partner's eyes.
Yes, Patamon. You have always been there to comfort me. You have given me new hope when-
"Then maybe I can start over with Gatomon!" Patamon shouts.
T.K. stares at him openmouthed. Then he realizes that Patamon isn't even thinking of him.
Patamon flaps his wings wildly now.
"She could need somebody to comfort her in this situation!"
"Bu-Bu-Bu-"
"See you soon!" Patamon shouts as he flies away again.
"But I could use some comforting, too..." T.K. finally mutters.
Then he sighs again.
Raidramon stops as soon as he hears Ruki groan.
He carefully kneels again so Davis can help the girl down.
"Ruki?" Davis asks, holding his friend close to him.
"Davis?" Ruki whispers as she looks at the DigiDestined.
"Are you able to stand?"
"I... guess so." the Tamers answers and nods.
Raidramon is relived when he sees that Ruki is all right.
Finally the girl turns around and faces him. Raidramon is amused to see that she gasps.
"Don't worry. This is Raidramon, Veemon's Armor-Friendship digivolution." he explains.
"Yeah. Yeah. I know. Got the card. Just been taken by surprise." Ruki tries to hide her irritation.
"So, should we continue?" Raidramon asks politely.
Ruki blinks and takes a look around.
"Where are we?" she finally asks.
"An older part of the town. Warehouses, most of them abandoned." Davis explains.
Then he gives the Tamer her D-Arc.
"Have you been following the signal?" Ruki instantly asks and checks the display.
"Yep. And it's getting stronger."
"I don't want to sound like a spoil-sport, but why are we following it?" Raidramon asks.
Ruki sighs and bites her lower lip.
"A lot has happened. Know about Renamon and T.K. already?" she asks.
Davis nods instantly, causing Ruki to sigh again.
"Well, after an... accident, Renamon's memory has returned. And she returned to us."
Davis smiles when he hears that.
"However, Gatomon said that she couldn't forgive her for the night with T.K."
Ruki can hear Raidramon gasp. Davis simply stares at her.
"She dumped Renamon?" he finally asks.
"Worse. She scratched her and made her run away. Again." Ruki mutters.
"What about Kari? Didn't she tell Gatomon to stop?" Raidramon asks.
"Nope. She sort of dumped T.K., too."
Davis smacks his forehead when he hears that.
"and now you want to find Renamon?" Raidramon concludes.
Ruki just nods.
"Then what are we waiting for?" Davis shouts and climbs onto Raidramon's back.
Then he helps Ruki onto the dragon's back.
The Tamer is right behind him now, putting her arms around his waist to hold on.
For a second, Davis forgets about the crisis and simply enjoyes the feeling.
He is startled by Ruki's commanding voice.
"Giddyup!" Ruki shouts, causing Davis to smile even more.
"Not you too..." Raidramon groans and shakes his head.
Patamon flies through an open window into the Kamiya's place.
Gatomon is sitting on the couch, staring at the walls.
"Gatomon?" he carefully asks.
The cat's head whirls around to face him. Her expression softens when she sees him.
"Oh. Hi Patamon." she sighs.
"Everything all right?" Patamon asks, landing next to her.
"No. I guess I ruined the day."
"You didn't. I think you made the right choice."
Gatomon gives him a look. Then she finally smiles.
"Really?" she asks him.
Patamon nods.
This is easier than I imagined it to be.
He gently moves one of his wings onto her back, just like a man would do with his arm.
"She betrayed you." he whispers.
"Yeah." Gatomon sighs and looks at her claws.
"You deserve somebody who really cares for you."
Gatomon just nods and sighs again.
Then her eyes widen.
"Patamon?"
"Yes, Gatomon?" Patamon asks, sensing his big chance.
"What is your wing currently doing?" she hisses.
"Ummmm... Stroking your back?" Patamon answers and gulps.
Patamon is suddenly pressed into the cushion and gasps.
"You're stroking my back?" Gatomon shouts angrily.
Patamon obviously tries to stammer an answer, but she doesn't want to hear it.
"I can't believe it!" Gatomon hisses.
"Gato... I'm sorry!" Patamon weeps, struggling hard not to drown in the cushion.
Finally the cat lets him go. Patamon gasps as he crawls out of the now-damaged cushion.
"Can't anybody around here understand how I feel?" she shouts.
She can see Patamon look at the open window and sneers.
"Just try." she hisses.
Patamon gulps and looks at her again.
Gatomon angrily grabs one his wings, causing the smaller Rookie to groan.
"I just lost the love of my life!" she cries, tightening her grip.
"I'm sorry! Please! It was a mistake!"
"YOUR LAST ONE!" Gatomon yells, grabbing his other wing, too.
"Yes. Break his back!"
Gatomon blinks when she sees a smaller Gatomon sitting on the couch.
The smaller creature has darker fur and has longer claws.
"Come on, he deserves it." the little cat urges her.
Gatomon sneers as she lifts her foot to stomp Patamon's back.
Then she notices... her.
"Rena?" she whispers when she sees the vulpine creature.
She looks like Renamon, but her fur is colored with a very light tone of yellow.
And Gatomon realizes that this creature is smaller.
She doesn't say anything, but simply shakes her head.
Right. There has been enough violence already.
"You're not going ot let him get away, are you?" the evil Gato-chan asks.
Gatomon gulps and looks down at the struggling creature.
"Oh please oh please oh please..." Patamon begs.
"When I needed a real friend, you behaved like a spoiled child." Gatomon hisses.
Patamon is weeping now.
Gatomon looks at Rena-chan again. The fox stares back at her.
"Do it! I bet he's not really sorry!" Gato-chan insists.
Sighing, Gatomon releases Patamon again.
T.K.'s partner sighs in relieve.
For a second, he had actually believed that the end is near.
He turns around and realizes just how near the end has been.
"Out. Before I get really mad." the cat Digimon hisses.
Sensing that he may have lost Gatomon's trust, Patamon retreats.
"I'm really sorry, Gatomon." he whispers.
Then he exits through the window, thinking about this day's events again.
Gatomon sighs. She had almost hurt Patamon. Severly.
But her inner voice has stopped her.
But why has the good voice looked like Renamon? she asks herself.
Then she decides that it doesn't mean anything.
Renamon's history. Period. she tries to convince herself.