Yeah, yeah, I know I said this chapter was gonna be called something else but when I got it typed up I realized exactly how complex the next few events were and figured that ya know what? I'm gonna split this up a little more. The majority of this is battles and complexities… but who's that in the shadows with a… crocodile? Oh well… and thanks those few who reviewed my stories ^_^ ' but hey at least some people did… It makes me feel that life is worth living… I'm sorry I'm just a fairly depressed person over here… I write and draw to escape life… because most of my family is gone and my three best friends ditched me… (starts crying) *sniff, sniff* … And I haven't heard from them in two years… and… and… Alan where the hell are you?!!!!!????!!!???? Okay… sorry about that… ^_^ ' (notices pool of tears surrounding her) oops… there I went again… oh well… ^_^ ''' um… on with the story…?
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Reflection Reflected
By Lyra Kamiya
Chapter 3
Past in Present
"Alright. We have no access to the digital world currently, so we are practically powerless. I say practically because we have the kids. We may not have our digimon, but they do. TK, pass me the phone."
"But Sora, they're all at Ken's house."
"They couldn't *all* be… mine were still home when I left… and they weren't due over there until 2…"
"Sorry Sora, but I saw them run past an hour ago, right before you got here."
"Besides, its 2:30."
Sora, Cody, Kari, and Takeru were all gathered around the Takaishis' kitchen table. "Wait a second… Mimi said she had a photo shoot, right Hikari-chan? Then Erika might be with her," Takeru said, attempting to be helpful.
"Well, you'll have to run fast to get her… the girl *can* powerwalk… woo," Brianna said, looking out the window in the next room.
"*What?!*" the adults all turned and looked out the nearest window. There was Keiji running at top speed down the street, computer in hand, and Erika PowerWalking at an equal pace, both heading towards the apartment building that the Ichijoujis lived in…
"So Mimi's photo shoot let out. But what is Keiji doing out there," Kari said, looking at the phone. "We would have gotten a call if his parents were back from the hospital."
"Well… maybe the kids know something we don't…" Cody said. "It must have always seemed that way to our parents… they had no clue what we must always be up to."
Takeru silently watched the two kids meet at the nearest intersection then disappear around the corner. "All I know is that the neighbors are gonna think that Niru is having a block party… this makes probably 14 kids that have converged on that apartment," he complained.
"Fourteen? Have that many become digidestined? I knew about the first nine, and that Niru and maybe Kori had joined them, but who else?" Cody was stumped to the identity of the remaining two.
Kari nearly burst out laughing. "There was 10 to begin with… a girl named Jennifer, and then there are actually a couple of kids from the US - - Willis' kids - - and there may be another kid, but there was actually *thirteen* last time I checked." Cody continued to stare blankly. Finally, Sora stepped in.
"Cody, I can't believe you don't know that your own son is a destined!" Cody gave them all a look that no one would have seen from his younger self.
"Re'i? *Re'i*? My little 'Ben'? A destined?!" a chorus of blank stares came from the room, followed by a round of laughter.
"Cody, you're kidding, right?" Kari sweatdropped as he shook his head. "You always were used to mysterious things… oh well."
"But like I said," Cody said after a long silence, "maybe they know something we don't… digimon randomly appearing usually starts from the digital end… maybe that's where everyone is." Everyone nodded in agreement. "*sigh*… at least this solves the mystery of what Re'i has been doing every weekend when he says he's going to a study group."
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Meanwhile…
"Oh, man… this place *is* in serious trouble, isn't it?" Niru awed. Their world was currently a mess, but there was something clearly wrong with the digital world.
"What's happening to it…"
"It's like, a hurricane hit the middle of the forest…"
"Let's get moving. We'll figure out what happened if we go to the least obvious place. It's always worked before, hasn't it?" Lyra asked.
"Yeah…" Keli answered. "But sis… where do we start? Everything seems to be destroyed."
"Well… that place looks fairly normal. Conspicuous out here. We might wanna start there." Aaron, of course. *_* he pointed towards a large hill that was still surrounded by a great deal of trees.
Everyone else sweatdropped. "That… might be a good thing to do," Rajamon mumbled.
They all turned and began the trek. Over head the blue midday sky was ripped often by lightning bolts that appeared from no where… they formed the shape of a giant, misshapen dome, centering over the destination of the digidestined… And things from earth would randomly appear as well… A Parrotmon soared towards the edge of the invisible barrier, and, as Re'i and Kori watched while marching silently forward, reached the barrier and disappeared. It reappeared moments later, a few dozen feet further along its path. Another shock spread across the enclosure, outlining it in the shape of a colossal forcefield… The two youngest digidestined and their digimon stared in awe as the disturbance faded away into the rest of the sky, only to re-appear with the next electrical strike. As this bolt raced high over their heads, they nodded to each other before sprinting back towards their companions. There was something wrong here… Deathly wrong…
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Also Meanwhile…
"Hello! Niru?! Dani?! Re'i?! Anyone?!"
"Keiji… it's hopeless. They left without us."
Keiji stood occasionally pounding on the door hollering for admittance into the Ichijoujis' home… but no one was answering. Erika leaned against the opposite wall, applying lipgloss and watching the pathetic-ness that was the young Izumi boy… "C'mon, guys! This isn't funny anymore!" he turned to Erika and sighed. "Mom and Dad were quite upset that I wanted to leave… and now it's for nothing…"
"Hang on a second…" Erika walked over, glanced through one of the windows, and then tried the door. I wouldn't open. She removed a hairpin from her head, and swiftly unlocked the door with it. She then pulled out her mirror and carefully replaced the pin before opening the door casually. "After you…"
Keiji stared in shock. "Girl… you would make one heck of a criminal…"
"Bobby pins. Stylish, fashionable, affordable, and very useful," she shrugged. Kawausomon cocked an eyebrow at her (to the best of her ability.) Last time she had checked, stylish and fashionable meant the same thing. "Hey, look. The computers on and the gates still open." Again he was shocked… before his eyes, Erika had transformed from fashion queen to burglar and back, and now she was all cool about it. He already knew he couldn't understand most girls… he now changed this too *all* as a mental note.
"Well then, don't you think we best go through and catch up?" Erika shrugged and nodded at once as a response, then stepped up too the computer, typed a password, and put her hand to the computer screen. Kawausomon climbed up onto the chair beside the desk and placed one of her 'flippers' to the screen as well. The room seemed to grow dark as the screen glowed then disintegrated under their touch before absorbing them into itself.
Then everything returned too normal. Keiji let his eyes readjust. He was alone in the room. This gave him a moment to think. Did he really want to go risk his life right now? When he returned home, chances were about a hundred-to-one that he'd have a sister waiting for him either there or at the hospital. But if he went into the digital world now… he might not return… "Hello? Keiji, I do believe we should be following her."
He sighed and came out of the corner he had been standing in then typed his own password. "The things I do… You know what, Shadowmon? Kylie Marie and Lyra are right… I am crazy. I risk my life for two worlds every day. I just *love* being important," he said dryly and tapped the screen to join his companions.
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"That's it then. If we can't do anything, then we have to go get the kids so they can!"
"Takeru, I'm all for that… but there is a small problem," Sora sighed.
"Which is…?"
"Take a look at your digivice." He complied. He saw a dot in a location approximate to Ken's apartment disappear. "My best guess is that was Erika. Another person did the same thing in the same location a few seconds ago."
"Well," Cody said. "If they're all in the digital world now, then there's obviously a port there."
"Except we don't know the passwords."
"Right."
"Well… whatever the kids are gonna do, knowing them they'll do it soon," Kari said hopefully. "We always fixed things in the past… and they've managed to do a lot too… I know for a fact that there were some time warps that Izzy and Yolei didn't tell us about a while back, and the kids fixed that."
"The worlds couldn't be in better hands," Sora smiled.
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"What was that?"
"What was what?"
"I heard someone yell."
"Troymon… you're just hearing things."
"No, really Kylie Marie. I heard something."
"Me too," Guinamon agreed. Doki and Kylie Marie, who were walking slightly behind the rest of the group, turned to see what the source of the problem was.
"WILL YOU PEOPLE WAIT UP ALREADY!" Lutramon yelled after them.
"Hey… you guys made it!" Ausimon hopped over.
"Yes… why didn't you wait for us?" Erika demanded.
"A little thing called saving the world," Lyra replied dryly.
"Before bedtime!" Aaron, of course. Everyone else sweatdropped.
"Miki-kun…" Keli used his Japanese name to express her anxiety. "In case you haven't noticed…"
Jared finished for her. "It's been over a decade since that show went off the air."
"So…?"
"You're insane," Jennifer clarified.
"Yep."
"That just proves it," Foximon decided.
"Yo, Keiji… shouldn't you be at the hospital still?" Kylie Marie asked. She seemed just as annoyed as usual with his existence, and clearly wasn't pleased with him coming.
Keiji grinned then replied, "Well, there are some things just as important as being there for it when your family adds a person. Like saving the world and… being around you." Everyone who heard him groaned.
"Are we sure his dad's not your coach?" Bitokumon asked.
"Yeah… hey, don't get me involved in these conversations!" Kamemon snapped at him.
"Kamemon, don't hurt Bitokumon, and speaking of which," Kori turned to the 'anteater', "we should be nice to him even if he is mentally unstable," she finished.
"Say… Erika, you might wanna watch out… looks like Kori is getting a little fight in her… she called someone mentally unstable."
"Other than herself? The girl really should seek psychological help, she clearly is depressed. *sigh*… why did *I* have to have the odd family? One half of us is so cool, and the other is, well, her and dad."
"How do you think I feel? I have Jared!"
"And I have him *plus* Lyra and Karyn!" Keli added. Lyra became fairly annoyed with this then began quarreling with her sister.
"Um…" ^ ; ^' (----- everyone)
"Would you two kindly KNOCK IT OFF!" they halted. "Thank you." ^_^ (Erika… her mom at heart. Like most the of us girls.)
"We should get moving…" Re'i mumbled.
"I'm all for that."
"Let's go!"
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The hill that served as their destination loomed over them. They all stood in the forest waiting for the perfect time… It was late in the day now… the sun lay low in the east, opposite of in the real world. "It sort of reminds me of Mt. Minoaroshi…"
"Except non-volcanic."
"We're gonna need to attack that place… its obvious that it's the source… it's the only place on the ground those lightning bolts have been hitting."
"Maybe it's not lighting. I think it may be the power source to that force field or whatever it is."
"Well, its obvious that the forcefield thing is the problem anyway… it looks like its expanding, and everything outside of it is fine until it reaches it. And whenever something hits it, it disappears for a moment."
"Most likely into our world. Alright then, we need to attack. Most of us should go one way and attack head on, and the rest should attack from behind in a second wave. Any volunteers for the second wave?" four hands went up, followed by the paw or wing of their corresponding digimon. "Alright then. You go around back and wait till we've digivolved and attacked to do anything. Got it?" Everyone nodded. "Good. Let's go."
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"Guys… are you there… Kamemon? Niru? Erika? Re'i?" Kori panicked.
"Kori-ko, is that you?"
"Jennifer! Where's everyone else?"
"Still unconscious I think." Suddenly the faint sound of music went through the air. "Except Chad."
"Where's Foximon… and, and, where's Kamemon?" she started to cry.
"They're over there." Kori looked over and say what might be a dimly lit hallway. The digimon were on the other side.
"Kamemon! Kamemon, are you okay?!" Kori ran towards her digimon, but was stopped by Jennifer.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you… I don't know if they can hear us, but Jared was conscious earlier, then he tried to go over there. Now…" she motioned to him, now collapsed on the floor and barely breathing.
"What happened?"
"It's an electrified forcefield. Not enough to kill him or most digimon, but you're smaller and don't have data like a digimon does… It might finish you to touch it."
"Keiji… you're gonna kill *me* if you don't me next time you decide you're alive," Jennifer complained.
"How'd we get in here?"
"No idea. Last I remember, our digimon digivolved and then someone tried to attack us… I guess they succeeded."
"I'm not completely sure, but I think they have a digivolution detector. Its doesn't work inside the walls of this place or past about 250 meters out of here… I think it runs on the same power as the forcefield… there's a generator not too far from here… in the building… but it seems to have fairly good shielding, would be fairly hard to damage. And once it was destroyed, this building collapsed."
"If you can figure all that out from here? Can you tell any of the kids that weren't trapped? If there were any…" she trailed off.
"I can't send anything out of here, but not all of us got captured. Wouldn't you know, the moment Aaron volunteers for something it saves his life. Oh well…"
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"How are we supposed to get them out of there?"
"No clue. Man, we're just a couple of guys… we need the others to help us." (they finally admitted our superiority!)
"But, they ran off. We need to find them first."
"Fine. Meet you back here in 10 minutes."
"Got it," Aaron said as he and Doki walked off to find the other two remaining humans of the group.
Next Chapter: We'll Find the Answer
Thanx ya'll fer readin' this… I'm in a rather good mood today because it's my (our rather our, Keli & my) birthday! Yes, April 24, 2001… we're turning 14… well, relative to our life… ^_^' We're not gonna be born for another 2 years by time's standards though… oye… stupid time warps. But I'm also quite happy because now that I'm 14 I get to date. No big whoop for me, you'd expect, right? Get ready for the next two or three chapters then… lol, this is gonna be good. Ah what the heck I'll load them now. Oh, and thanx Troymon for reviewing all my stories! Luv ya all! ^_~