Chapter Three: Going Crazy
While the four children fell on top of four digidestined, Matt also had a little visitor. As Matt was walking through the digital forest with Gabumon at his side, he heard a scream coming from above him and looked to the sky. Plummeting like a brick was a little girl, Matt panicked as she fell. He attempted to catch her but tripped over a rock and fell backwards. The girl came down on Matt headfirst onto his head knocking them both out. The same thing was happening with Joe and Mimi. Two boys, one with light brown hair and the other with blue hair, were plunging from the air headfirst.
"Heads up!" Yelled a boy who was above Mimi at the time. Mimi turned to her digimon.
"Palmon do something!" She cried. Palmon launched her poison ivy at the two boys wrapping her vines around them and pulling them towards her. Mimi and Joe quickly grabbed the boys before they knocked Palmon down.
"Phew! That was a close one." Palmon said. Both Mimi and Joe put the boys, who were upside down in their arms at the moment, on the ground. The boys quickly got to their feet. The blue haired one dusted himself off and the other ran his fingers through his hair to fix it.
"Hey, are you two alright?" Joe asked. The boy with blue hair recognized his voice and thought his dad had caught him playing around with something he shouldn't have; but then he let out a sigh of relief when he saw a twelve year old boy instead of a forty year old.
"I'm fine but I think I might be getting a headache from being upside down in the air for so long." He answered.
"How about you?" Joe asked referring to the other boy.
"Of coarse I'm not okay, my hair's a mess!" Gomamon ran up to the boy.
"Looks like we've got ourselves another Mimi." He said sarcastically. Mimi glared at him while the boy looked at him with confusion in his face.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Mimi asked. As Joe tried to calm her down, the boy led the blue haired boy to a nearby tree.
"Hey don't you think something weird is going on?" He whispered. The blue haired boy just shook his head.
"They're just a couple of older kids playing in the digital world with their digimon, what's so weird about that?" The blue haired boy stated.
"What's weird is that those older kids look a lot like two people we happen to know, they even sound and act like them."
"What two people are you talking about?"
"Ugh! My mom and your dad!" It was true, the boy with blue hair was Joe's son and the other was Mimi's; but even though he's Mimi's son, he was a lot brighter and sharper. Joe's son still wasn't convinced.
"It's just a coincidence."
"A coincidence? My mom's name is Mimi, that girl responded to that name, her digimon is Palmon, look who she's with, my mom likes pink, look what color she's wearing! I ask again, a coincidence? I think not!" Joe's son shook his head.
"No! I refuse to believe that that girl is your mom and that boy is my dad!"
"What other proof do you need?" Joe's son thought for a moment.
"Your 'mother's' maiden name, my 'father's' name, what year it is, what my father is studying to be when he grows up, and what your 'mother's' favorite thing to do is, you do know your mom that well don't you?" Mimi's son nodded.
"Of coarse, her name is Mimi Tachikawa and her favorite past time is shopping, duh! How 'bout you?" Joe's son felt insulted that he asked that question.
"I know my dad very well, his name is Joe Kido and ever since he was a kid he's been studying to be a doctor and he accomplished that goal too!" As the two boys were having this conversation, Mimi, Joe, and the digimon stared at them curiously.
"Who are these kids?" Mimi asked. Joe, Gomamon, and Palmon shrugged.
"Have you noticed how much those two kinda look like you two?" Palmon asked. This made Mimi and Joe think. They observed the two boys. The one with blue hair had black eyes and had glasses on. He wore a blue vest over a white long sleeved shirt and brown pants. He looked to be around the age of eight. He resembled Joe. The other boy had light brown hair and light brown eyes, he looked similar to Mimi. He wore an orangey colored hooded jacket and shorts. He looked to be about age six. Mimi thought he was adorable.
"That boy is just too cute I can't bear to take my eyes off him!"
"Which one? The one that looks like me?" Joe asked.
"No, the one that looks like me."
"Should've known." Joe said.
"Okay, so you know what to ask?" Asked Mimi's son. Joe's son nodded. They both ran towards the others.
"What were you two doing over there?" Asked Mimi.
"Just talking." Her son answered.
"About what?" She asked.
"Uh, guy stuff." Joe's son replied.
"Oh? Like what?"
"Well nothing that has to do with you, I-I mean, of coarse it's not about you, I mean, why would we want to talk about you? We would never talk about..." Mimi's son put his hand on his friend's mouth to stop him from blabbing.
"That's enough! You've opened your mouth one too many times!" Mimi just giggled. 'Oh I get it, they must have a crush on me! Oh that's so cute! Well who could blame them? I mean when you look this good it's hard not to attract any guy.' Mimi thought. Palmon looked at her strangely as her ego grew. The boy let go of his friend's mouth. He then turned to Mimi.
"If you don't mind answering, we'd like to ask you two a few questions."
"Like what?" Joe asked.
"What are you studying right now?" Joe's son asked.
"I'm studying to become a doctor." He answered. Mimi's son glanced at his friend.
"Can you tell me what your hobby is?" Mimi's son asked.
"Shopping! Something I'd like to do right now if we weren't stuck here." She answered. Her son nudged his friend.
"Who are you?" Asked Mimi. Her son answered.
"I'm sorry we haven't introduced ourselves yet, my name's Makoto and this is my friend Kado." They bowed.
"My name is Joe Kido." Makoto and Kado's ears perked up.
"And I'm Mimi Tachikawa, it's nice..." Makoto lifted his head up. Hearing this, Makoto grabbed Kado's arm and ran off back to where they were previously chatting. Mimi finished her sentence as they ran off.
"...To meet you..." Her voice trailed off as she stared at them perplexedly. The others did the same. While this was happening, Ogremon appeared with his arm in a sling. Following him were Frigimon and Meramon.
"Hey I found a couple of friends of yours!" He bellowed. The two kids and digimon remained staring in the same direction. Ogremon looked at them with a puzzled expression.
"Hello?" They remained silent. Ogremon was getting fed up.
"Answer me!" He then heard Mimi's voice.
"What strange little boys."
"What little boys?" Asked Ogremon.
"Those two." Mimi pointed in the boys' direction but neither Ogremon, Meramon, or Frigimon could see them.
"I think she's flipped." Meramon stated.
"Where do you think they came from Mimi?"
"Both of the humans have lost it!" Ogremon cried. Gomamon and Palmon looked at the other digimon curiously.
"What do you mean?" Asked Palmon.
"Can't you see them?" Gomamon inquired. Ogremon and the other two were becoming frightened by their behavior and backed away a couple a feet.
"Hey maybe you guys should lie down or something." Ogremon suggested.
"Huh?" Palmon and Gomamon said in unison.
"See?! I told you she's my mom! And he's your dad!" Kado just raised an eyebrow and studied Mimi and Joe from afar.
"Well, lots of people have the same first and last name." Kado tried to convince Makoto and himself that it was all just a big coincidence, even though he was starting to believe Makoto.
"A lot of people aren't like my mom."
"Well if they tell us that the year is 1999 then I'm gonna have to believe you." They both ran back to the others.
"We feel fine! Really!" Mimi hollered. Ogremon grabbed Mimi and Joe's arm to try to restrain them.
"For the last time we're sane!" Joe yelled.
"But you're talking about kids who aren't even there!" Frigimon said. Kado and Makoto saw what was going on and thought the digimon were attacking their future parents. Makoto panicked but Kado was boiling mad. Unlike Joe, Kado was a lot braver and confident.
"Nobody attacks my dad and gets away with it!" Kado charged towards the group. Makoto tried to stop him.
"No Kado! You don't stand a chance against them!" Kado ignored his friend and threw a punch at Ogremon's stomach. Even though Ogremon couldn't see him, he definitely felt the blow and released Mimi and Joe to clutch his stomach.
"What was that?!" He asked. Kado triumphantly smiled at him; but the smile faded when he realized who he had punched. His dad had told him he helped Ogremon during the battle of the Dark Masters and became friends with him.
"Kado, why'd you do that?!" Asked Joe with a clear look of anger.
"I thought he was attacking you." He replied quietly. Joe's anger faded away. The pain in Ogremon's stomach disappeared and looked around.
"Okay who punched me?"
"I'm sorry Ogremon I did, I thought you were trying to hurt my friends." Kado said solemnly. Ogremon didn't reply and still searched around.
"Someone better confess or I'm gonna get pretty angry!" Kado, Joe, Mimi, Palmon, and Gomamon looked at him strangely. Makoto ran up to everyone wondering what had happened.
"Didn't you just hear him?" Gomamon asked.
"Who?" Ogremon questioned him.
"Kado, he said he thought you were attacking us and he apologized."
"Who's Kado?" Mimi pointed to the little blue haired boy.
"He is!" Through Ogremon's eyes, Mimi was pointing at the ground.
"Huh? There's no one there." Mimi and the others became confused.
"Well then can you see Makoto? He's standing next to Palmon." Ogremon, Meramon, and Frigimon looked but still didn't see anyone.
"I'm telling you, they've flipped." Meramon said.
"Princess Mimi we've found some food!" Gekomon and Otamamon appeared hauling a large bag of food. Mimi ran up to them.
"Gekomon, Otamamon, can you tell me the names of everyone in this area?" Gekomon squinted and did what Mimi asked.
"Well I see Joe, Gomamon, Palmon, Ogremon, Meramon, and Frigimon." Mimi, Joe, their digimon, and the two boys were speechless, could they really not see Makoto and Kado?
"Isn't there anyone else?"
"Besides you, no." Mimi and the others were shocked. 'Why can't they see them? Are we really going crazy or is it just me?' Mimi thought.