Chapter two: Who Are These Kids?
Matt, Mimi and Joe had left the other digidestined, Matt was hoping to find his purpose in life, Mimi didn't want to fight, and Joe kept Mimi company. After they had left the group, the others, with some help from Matt who walked away right after, had defeated Puppetmon. After Matt had left once again, the rest of the kids plus the digimon headed towards their destination. Suddenly, without any notice, Sora stopped in her tracks and held her head as if she had a headache. She then got a weird gut feeling and saw visions. She needed to be alone but made an excuse so none of her friends would worry.
"Guys, I don't think it was a good idea to leave Mimi and Joe behind." Tai looked at her quizzically.
"There's nothing to worry about Sora; they have Gomamon and Palmon with them." He said.
"Yeah but still if they come across one of the other two Dark Masters even with Palmon and Gomamon in their ultimate level wouldn't be enough to protect them, I think it would be best if I stayed with them." Sora fidgeted a little and appeared as if she wanted to cry. Tai could see what he thought was worry in her face and thought for a moment.
"Alright, if you feel that strongly about it then I won't stop you." Sora thanked him and ran off with Biyomon following after to find Mimi and Joe. As the digidestined watched another one of their friends depart, they felt as if a piece of themselves had been torn off but knew they had to keep going.
"Gee I'm gonna miss Sora," TK said sorrowfully.
"Don't worry TK, we'll see her again." Piped Kari. TK was still a little doubtful but Kari's belief lightened him up a bit.
"You're right Kari, I'll be able to see Sora and Matt again once we've saved the world!" Kari giggled and both Izzy and Tai smiled. Just then a strange vortex appeared and covered the entire sky. The digidestined expected something bad to happen, but instead they saw eight children fall out of the sky, some of them landed in different areas. Tai noticed a young boy who looked strikingly like him falling towards him. He did what anyone would do to try to break his fall, catch him.
"Don't worry I gotcha!" Tai held out his arms and the young boy immediately wrapped his arms around Tai's neck, but Tai had underestimated his weight and fell backwards landing on his butt. Izzy did the same as Tai as he saw a young girl with red hair fall towards him. TK and Kari tried to do the same but the children that were about to land on them were a bit bigger than they were and crash-landed on them.
"Ouch!" TK yelled out. The boy on top of him rose and helped TK up. The other boy who landed on Kari did the same.
"Thank you." Kari said dusting off her clothes. She then gasped at the boy standing in front of her. He looked a lot like her and even had a whistle too. She shook her head 'It's not polite to stare.' she thought to herself and smiled at the boy.
"Hi! I'm Kari!" She said but received an odd look from the boy.
"Did you just say your name is Kari?" Kari nervously answered not knowing what to expect from the boy.
"Uh yes." The boy then grew pale; he then fell to his knees so that he was at eye level with Kari. Gatomon saw how the boy made Kari a bit timid and nervous so she confronted him.
"Hey don't you know it's rude to stare?" She asked with annoyance in her voice. The boy realized where he was and had trouble answering. He started to stutter.
"I'm sorry G-Ga-Gatomon, it's just that..." Kari cut him off.
"How'd you know her name? Are you a digimon?" The boy looked back at her and shook his head.
"No, no I'm not, excuse me but would you happen to be Hikari Kamiya?" Kari and Gatomon grew wide eyes as she tried to answer. Izzy, Tai, TK, their digimon, and the other children watched in astonishment as the two children conversed.
"Well yes I am, do I know you?" The boy stood up and realized what had happened. He ran towards Tai and took the boy who was on him by the arm, he continued this process with the child on top of Izzy and dragged the boy who had helped TK up and got them in a huddle.
"Who are these kids?" Asked Tai. Izzy shrugged and thought for a moment.
"Do you think they could be Digidestined?" TK had asked. Kari stared at the boy she was previously talking to. He looked to be around the age of ten. His hair was the same color as hers, brown but with a boyish haircut. He had brown eyes like hers and wore a yellow long sleeved shirt and jeans. She noticed that he wore a whistle around his neck that was identical to hers. She then turned her gaze to a small girl who looked to be about six years old. She had red hair that stopped right above her shoulders. She wore a white long sleeved blouse and over it was a green dress that stopped at the knees. She also had black eyes, Kari thought she resembled Izzy. Then she looked at the tall blond next to her. He looked to be around the age of ten. He had a haircut like TK's and wore a green long sleeved shirt. He also had blue eyes that made him look a lot like TK. Then she saw the young boy next to him. He looked to be about seven years old and he looked so much like Tai when he was seven. His hair was brown and stood up like Tai's and he had chocolate brown eyes. He wore a long sleeved blue shirt with a star on it and shorts. Kari blinked twice at him. Tai also noticed the boy's features. The digimon had no idea what was going on.
"Tai, who are they and why does that little guy look like you?" Agumon asked. Tai was wondering the same thing.
"Listen I know you guys may think I'm crazy after saying this but, well," The boy with the whistle paused.
"But what?" Asked the blond boy.
"I think we may have gone back in time." The other three children gazed at him.
"How do you figure?" Asked the red head. The boy turned to look at Kari. She stood there flabbergasted. He then turned his gaze back at the three children.
"That girl is my mom." He said softly.
"What?!" Asked all three children at the same time. The boy shushed them.
"Shh, keep it down, I know this sounds weird but it's true." The boy resembling Tai looked back at Kari.
"She's my auntie Kari?" He asked. The boy with the whistle nodded solemnly.
"How do you know that for a fact?" Asked the red head.
"My mom's maiden name is Kamiya and her given name is Hikari, that girl has the exact same name!" The boy tried to say in a whisper.
"Plus Gatomon's with her and she has my whistle!" The three were finally won over.
"So those four kids are our parents when they were younger?" The blond glanced at TK.
"Most likely, I think we might be in the digital world too but what I'm trying to figure out is why there are only four of them here, why aren't the others here?" The red head thought about his question for a moment, she then snapped her fingers with a look of realization on her face.
"I know! They must be battling the Dark Masters! They split up during this period remember?" They agreed with her theory but the next question that puzzled them was asked by Tai's son.
"Can we tell them who we are?" The red head shook her head.
"If we tell them who we are and who our parents are, we might not be born but I think it would be alright if we told them our given names." They all agreed and faced the four digidestined. TK, Kari, Izzy, and Tai looked at them quizzically. Then the boy with the whistle walked up to Kari who trembled a little when he stood right in front of her. She was taken aback when he bowed to her.
"Sorry for landing on you, my name's Dakedo." He lifted his head up and smiled at her. She then returned the smile holding out her hand.
"Nice to meet you!" Dakedo shook her hand.
"Like wise!" Kari giggled. The other digidestined and their digimon stared in awe. The boy with hair that stood up ran up to Tai. Tai looked down at the little boy who was beaming up at him.
"Hi! Thanks for catching!" Tai blinked at him twice thinking how strange it was that he looked just like him when he was younger. He finally smiled at the boy who was waiting impatiently for a response.
"You're welcome; I'm Tai, who are you?" The boy was eager to tell Tai that he was his son but was afraid of what the little girl said.
"My name is Andoru!" The boy replied blithely. Izzy walked up to the red head that glanced perpetually at him.
"Hi my name is Izzy, what's your name?" The little girl timidly answered while twiddling her fingers.
"My name's Nazo, thank you for catching me." She said shyly. Izzy smiled at her but was still trying to figure out where she came from.
"Where'd you come from?" He asked. Nazo dug her foot into the ground afraid of looking at him in the eye. She knew her father was very smart and letting him get a good look at her might give away her little secret.
"Well, me and my friends were playing and then all of a sudden we started falling from the sky." Nazo fibbed. Izzy wasn't satisfied with the answer.
"Are you sure? Is there something else you're not telling me?" She shook her head hoping he wouldn't know she was lying. TK stared at the boy who landed on him. He looked a lot like him, even Patamon thought so as well. TK finally decided to talk to him.
"Excuse me but what's your name?" He humbly asked.
"I'm Hiroshi." He answered smiling.
"I'm Takeru, TK for short!" TK giggled. Hoshi bent down to pet Patamon who was resting on TK's head.
"This is Patamon, he's a digimon!" Hiroshi scratched behind his ears.
"Nice to meet you Patamon!" Patamon smiled up at him.
"Could you scratch behind the left ear? I'd do it myself but I can't reach." Tai then looked around. He knew he saw other children descend from the sky.
"What are you looking for Tai?" Agumon asked.
"I know I saw other kids fall from the sky." Izzy overheard him.
"Are you sure?" He asked. Nazo then spoke up.
"They might have been my other friends; we need to find them so we can find a way to get back home." Tai didn't go for the idea.
"We're trying to destroy the Dark Masters, we don't have time to look for your friends." Nazo frowned thinking her friends might get hurt. Izzy saw the hurt in her eyes and decided to help her.
"If you're not going to help her Tai then I will!" Tai had a look of annoyance on his face. Nazo was a little startled at Izzy's actions but delighted that her father wanted to help her.
"But I can't defeat the Dark Masters without your help Izzy." Now Izzy, TK, and Kari were getting fed up with Tai's attitude.
"Look Tai I know how much you want to get this war over with but if we don't help these kids they'll only be at risk in battle with the Dark Masters and we'll become vulnerable, so I suggest we help them get back to where they came from before the Dark Masters plan to use them against us." Kari, TK, and their digimon agreed with Izzy and soon Tai was left with no choice.
"Alright, you win!" Kari and TK cheered at Tai's defeat and the eight of them with the digimon headed into the forest of the digital world.