Digimon: A Bigger Threat
Episode 12-
"Labrynth Island Part 2"
By Shmeilia Rockie
"How many more doors are there?"
"Hopefully, this is it," TK said and went to teleport through the door. He smacked into it with a loud CRACK and stumbled to the ground, rubbing his forehead. He said in a dazed voice, "Did someone get the license plate of the Monochromon that hit me?"
"Huh. Weird." Cody tilted his head and examined the doors. "I bet these aren't even locked." He pushed one of them with all his might, but to no avail.
"Nice try, there, small-fry," Tai told him. Cody glared at him, but because Tai was an elder Digidestined, he didn't argue.
TK growled and feriously kicked one of the doors, refusing to give up on teleporting.
Once again, Tai volunteered, "Maybe you're just tired, TK. Ya know, like a Digimon tires out during battle."
The Digimon glared at him. TK turned around and tried pushing with his back. "Yeah, Tai, and maybe your hair takes up ninety percent of your brain, but I don't quite think so."
Tai patted down his hair, "Sheesh, what's eatting you?"
"Oh, don't worry about it," Cody told him matter-of-factly, "He's just gone into 'All-Holy-TK mode'."
Tai, Izzy, and the four Digimon stared at him like he was diseased. They asked at the same time, "All-Holy-TK?"
TK pounded on the door some more, and roared, "NO I HAVEN'T! WHEN I DO, YOU'LL KNOW IT!"
Cody made a frightened, slightly worried face. He knew All-Holy-TK very well. Normally kind and care-free, TK would sometimes snap into this anti-evil warrior of all that is good. He would become ruthless in his quest to eradicate evil. It was like he would become possessed by the powers of good. And that was always really disturbing to witness. Thankfully, it didn't happen very offten. Unfortunately they were stuck in a realm of evil, so it was only a matter of time before All-Holy-TK took over. Cody groaned, "This is bad. I'll hate to see that day."
Suddenly a voice called, "STEP AWAY FROM THE BIG METAL DOORS AND NO ONE GETS HURT!" TK jumped back like the doors were red-hot.
Two Bakamon poped out of nowhere. One was light blue and wore a police hat, the other was was pink and wore a red jesture's cap.
Agumon burst into laughter, "Well, if you two aren't the weirdest looking things I've ever seen..."
Patamon parked himself on TK's helmet. "Hey, guys, which one of these doors will get us out of this place?"
"Are you asking me? Or him?" The pink Bakamon asked, pointing at his companion.
"Does it matter?" Agumon asked, shaking his head. Tai eyed him with amusement. "Don't look at me like that, I know what you're thinking. But these guys are even worse than I am on my best day!"
"I didn't say a thing," Tai responded, trying unsecessfully to surpress a grin.
"Well? How do we get out of here?" TK stared at the two. He was still really ticked off.
"You can ask," the blue one said mysteriously, "but be warned: one of us always tells the truth, and the other one always lies. So, on that note, one of these doors leads in the right direction, and the other one leads to..."
"Da-da, da, Dum!"
"Certain doom! Mmwahaha!"
Izzy leaned in for a close look at the two. He stared questioningly at them for a long time before pulling away, "I can't tell which is which!"
"I tell only the truth!" Blue declaired. He jerked his thumb at the other one, "He always lies!"
"'ll, that's a lie if I ever heard one!"
They cracked up.
Tai and TK looked down at them grudgingly, and Izzy pulled Cody off to the side. "Any ideas?"
"None, you?" Cody took off his helmet and smoothed out his hat-hair.
"I'm working on it. It's like a riddle, and all we need to do is to think about this logically."
Tai suddenly snapped his fingers, "I've got it! Logic!"
Izzy and Cody traded worried looks. They knew Tai's logic. He leaned casually against the wall and asked Pink, "Okay, if I were to ask you which door he would say leads to certain doom, would he say it was this one?"
Pink looked at his friend and scratched his head thoughtfully, "Um, I guess so."
"Then this door leads in the right direction, and that door leads to death!"
"How 'dyou come up with that?"
"If you said he'd say this is the wrong door, then it must be the right one."
"How so?" Blue asked, looking horribly offended.
"You're lying."
"B-but," Pink studdered, "what if he isn't?"
"Then you're lying, and the answer would be the same anyway!"
Tai went to open the door, but Cody grabbed his shirt collar. "Hold it, Tai, your logic stinks."
"What? Why?"
"That was a fifty-fifty question," Izzy told him like it was the most obvious thing in the universe. "He could have just as easily said no, then this would have been the WRONG door."
Tai pouted, "Well fine, lets see you do any better."
Tentomon hovered close to Izzy and whispered loudly, "You know, if he was lying when he said that one of them tells the truth, then they could both be lying. If that's the case, then we're fried."
Izzy sighed, "Thanks for looking on the bright side there, buddy."
"What? I'm just trying to be realistic."
Tai growled, getting very frustrated, "Which one of you is lying, for Pete's sake?"
"Not me!" they both declaired, giggling.
Agumon pulled on Tai's sleeve, and asked like a little kid, "Hey, Tai, who is this 'Pete' anyway?"
"I don't know, it's just an expression!" he whined, throwing his hands in the air and stalking off in frustration.
After a few moments of careful thinking, Izzy thought he might have finally arrived at the answer. He asked Cody for his fighting staff.
"What do you need this for?"
Izzy didn't answer, but turned to the two off-colored Bakamon. He threw the staff on the ground. "What direction did that fall?"
The blue one said down, but the pink one yelped "up!" and clamped his hands over his mouth. He'd just given himself away.
Izzy handed the staff back to Cody, and thanked him. He suddenly sprang into color, his Megadigidestined armor replacing his normal clothes. His armor looked like Cody's, except it had a purple cape, and no helmet. Tentomon also got his color back.
"Woah, neat!" Tentomon exclaimed. "That was just like in that movie, The Wizard of Frogs!"
"That's 'The Wizard of Oz'," TK corrected. Then he turned to Blue, "Does this door lead to where we need to be?"
"Yes."
They went through the right door, confedent that they weren't walking to their certain doom.
"See, that was a lot easier than you made it out to be," Agumon told Tai in a know-it-all tone.
"Foo. How come Izzy's all in living color, and I'm livin' in shades of grey?"
"Izzy passed his test, but don't worry, you'll get yours."
"Whatever!"
Cody rolled his eyes, "Not one for patience, are you?"
"He's upset because he's not the leader. He feels useless."
"Ouch, TK, thanks for really hitting the nail on the head. How did you know that?"
"You're too much like Davis, and he had that problem."
"Thanks again," Tai knew how Davis had gone evil shortly after that. Then an idea hit him. "Hey, did any of you guys happen to ask Blue why we're here?"
Long pause.
"No," Izzy said slowly, and turned to do just that. The door slammed in his face. He kicked the door in anger and yelped in pain. "NO!"
"Well," Patamon said in an inappropriately cheery voice, "There's no turning back now!"
* * * *
"Grr, I'm hungry!" Yolei growled.
"I'm hot and sticky," Mimi complained.
"I'm both, but let's try not to think about it," Sora told them.
Mimi took off her hat and fanned herself with it. "We've been in this awful forest for hours, and it doesn't seem like we've gotten anywhere!"
"It doesn't help that we don't have a clue where we're going," Kari said, looking about as tired as the others sounded.
"I would sell almost anything I own for a berry bush," Yolei said, stepping around a thorny vine. It tried to grab her shoe, but she quickly got away from it. "Urgh, this place is creeping! Litterally! I'll be SO glad when this is over, so I can go home and TAKE A BATH!"
"None of these plants look the slightest bit edible," Palmon said, looking horrified at the monster plant that had tried to grab Yolei. "In fact, they look kind of HUNGRY. And those that haven't tried to eat us looked poisonous."
"At least nothing else has attacked us," Gatomon said, peering into the darkness of the forest.
"I'm not sure that's such a good sign," Biyomon told her.
Suddenly, out of the dark, black jungle appeared a clearing. And in this clearing sat a tall peach tree in full-blown color. The girls gasped at the sight of it, and stood there staring in disbelief. Slowly they walked up to it in a huddle.
"The Wish Tree," Yolei read a sign hanging from one of its branches. She grabbed one of the soft, fuzzy peaches.
Palmon looked at it for a while, unsure of what it was. "That's no ordinary peach."
"Looks okay to me."
"You really shouldn't eat something if you don't know what it is," Kari told her, fear in her voice.
"But I'm starving! Look, I'll try this one and if I drop dead, you guys 'll know not to eat 'em."
"Don't EVEN joke about something like that, Yolei," Mimi scolded, trying to take it away from her. "I don't like the looks of this thing. It looks too NICE!"
"Aw, come off! Get your own!" Yolei turned around, and before Mimi (or anyone else for that matter) could stop her, she bit into it.
"Don't!"
"Too late," Sora muttered.
Mimi threw her hat on the ground and stomped on it. "Yolei, do you realize how incredibly foolish that was?"
"That really wasn't a good idea," Palmon agreed.
Kari was the only one who wasn't obsessing over what Yolei had done, so she was the only one who noticed that something was wrong. She put her hand on Yolei's shoulder and asked quietly, "Are you alright?"
Yolei stared at the peach and spoke in a dazed voice, "It tastes strange."
"Oh, no! It really was too good to be true. I knew it!"
She dropped the fruit. "What have I done?"
Kari turned to the others, "What are we going to do?"
That was the last thing Yolei heard before the world around her started to blurr.
* * * *
Commercial Break!
Cody, Yolei, and Matt are standing around in the Digital World talking. They're in their Megadigidestined gear.
Suddenly, there's a tremendous rumbling. They look around and spot a heard of digi eggs rolling down the hill. Yolei jumps into Cody's arms and shrieks as the eggs roll harmlessly past them.
Cody: Ha! It's the running of the eggs!
Matt: Well, if that isn't the most disturbing thing I've ever seen...
Yolei (stops screaming and looks calmly at Matt): What about that gaint hot dog?
Matt (slaps his forehead): This is TOO true.
* * * *
Yolei's brother handed her a drink with a little paper umbrella in it and asked, "Is there anything else I can get you?"
"No," she said lazily, waving him away. Her two sisters fanned her with palm leaves. She smiled at them a took a sip of her drink. She didn't quite know what it was, but it sure was good.
Her servant bowed and told her feet, "Princess, there are some suitors here to see you. What should I tell them?"
"Send the first one in, Davis."
He smiled and rushed to the end of the room. He threw open the doors and blew on his trumpet. (Part of the Digimon theme song, actually) "BRING IN THE FIRST SUITOR!"
Yolei giggled. She loved getting suitors. "How do I look?"
"Perfect, as always," her oldest sister told her, and her other siblings nodded in agreement.
"Then LEAVE ME!"
They scurried from her sight.
"You too, Davis!"
Davis bowed and backed out of the room. Yolei ran her fingers through her hair and layed down on her couch.
The first suitor entered and looked nervously around. He was dressed completely in royal blue velvet. The color matched his hair and eyes perfectly.
"Name?"
He bowed at the stairs leading up to her couch, "Prince Kindness, my lady." Then he took her hand and kissed it.
"Well, Kindness, what do you have to offer me?"
He looked up at her with those beautiful blue eyes and spoke softly, "If you were my queen, I'd give you all the knowledge in the world."
Not quite what she'd expected from someone with a name like Kindness.
"Okay, uh, wait outside, please. And bring in the next suitor."
He left, and a few minutes later, another young man approached her. At first glance, he could not have looked more different than Kindness. He wore a simple brown shirt and plumb-colored pants, both completely covered in dirt. He carried a walking stick and his hair looked like he hadn't combed it in weeks.
"Excuse me, WHERE'S my next suitor?"
"I am him, Princess," he responded. He walked up to her with an air of purpose.
"And who are you, to be courting me?"
"My name is Cody, your Highness. I've traveled across the world to meet you."
"Cody? Do you have a title?"
He bowed to the floor, "No, I do not."
She laughed harshly, "Then why should I even give you the time of day, little boy? What can you possibly offer me?"
He stared up at her with striking green eyes that made him seem wise beyond his years. He told her with despiration in his voice, "Love, my queen. I would love you with all my heart. I would take care of you when you are sick, and talk with you when you need a friend."
Now, THAT is what she had expected from Kindness.
He took her hand with surpising gentleness and continued, "I don't have much, but I offer you everything. My protection, my life, my heart."
She stared at him. Could this traveler be a better suitor than the Prince? He had nothing, but still... Would Prince Kindness treat her with the same devotion? Could he really make her happy?
"Rise, Cody," she told him.
He did.
She studied him a little more closely, then called for Kindness. The two looked very similar, dispite their difference in social class. There was something familiar about both of them, but she couldn't recall what it was.
"I have made my decision," she told them.
"Wait!" A high-pitched voice called. A girl with pink hair burst into the room, wearing a green dress with a tear-drop on the front. "Stop, Yolei, none of this is real!"
"Who are you to come barging into my room like this?"
The girl pushed past Kindness and Cody (both looking violated), to shake Yolei violently. "You ate a peach and it's put you under a spell! None of this is real. Cody, Ken, this room, none of it! Remember, Yolei. Snap out of it!"
Suddenly, she did remember. She was a part of the Megadigidestined, not some princess.
As soon as she realized this, her make-believe world shattered into millions of pieces. Only the girl remained in the darkness.
"Thank you, Mimi."
She let go of Yolei, "Good. I was starting to get worried."
Yolei looked at Mimi's dress and recognized the Crest of Sincerity. "You're a Megadigidestined now, aren't you?"
"Yep! Isn't this exciting?"
She looked around, "Uh, where are we?"
A voice called from the mist, "You're certainly not in Kansas anymore!"
* * * *
After climbing the stairs, the 'Silver Group' found themselves in an endless passageway. It just kept going, and going, and going...And going.
"This is so boring!" Gomamon whinned. "I almost wish something would attack us."
Joe looked down at him, worried. "Don't even kid about something like that, you'll jinx us."
"Hey," Matt yelped, and dug around in his jacket pocket. He pulled out his old harmonica. "Lookie what I have with me! Any requests?...No?" The others shook their heads unenthusiastically. So Matt just played the first thing that came to mind, not quite knowing what it was.
After wandering down the passageway for another ten minutes, Matt fell into his zone. "Hey, this is pretty catchy!" Gomamon started a little wiggle. Soon the Digimon started dancing in a line.
"This is just how I made up Turn Around. I was messing around one day, bored out of my mind, and..." Matt changed the tune a little, speeding it up. "You've got a boy and a girl, sittin' underneath a tree. They sit there every day. And even though you may think that's just the way that things should be, it may not always be that way. Hey! Ya can't take nothin' for granted. You've got-ta live life today! I turn around and I can see what's behind me, I turn back around and I can see what's ahead. And if you don't believe that I've been here all along, just turn around. Just turn aro-ow-und!"
"I haven't heard that one in a while," Davis told him. "Not since June stopped listing to your CD."
Matt paused. "That reminds me, I ran into her today."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah. She seems so different from the way I remember her. What happened?"
Davis shook his head, not really wanting to think about it. "Well, she got into a bad relationship. The guy, uh, hurt her pretty badly."
"How so?"
He didn't answer right away. When he finally spoke, he lowered his voice, "He... Beat her."
Everyone stared, the silence thick.
Davis continued, "Their relationship lasted about a year before she got enough sense to get away from him. She's never been quite the same since."
Matt thought back to the dead look in her eyes, her harsh tone 'It's nothing YOU need to be conserned with'. "I had absolutely no idea. When did this happen?"
"She just got the restraning order against him last month."
Matt looked away, suddenly extremely ashamed of himself. "Boy do I feel like an idiot."
"Why are you suddenly so conserned with my sister anyway?"
He shrugged. "I'm not entirely sure. Have...This will sound weird, but have you ever been drawn to a person because somehow you just know you're meant to help them?"
"Yes." Ken threw a questioning look at Davis, who nodded. "I think that sort of thing happens a lot. More than we realize."
"I think that happened today. Kinda like..." He snorted, "Love at first sight, only two years too late."
"You are NOT talking about June!"
"Oh, but I am. Isn't that the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard? I know I can't make any sense out of it. One look in her eyes and I wanted to comfort her, you know? Give her a hug, or something."
Davis shook his head, an amused smile crossing his face. "Matt, you are bold. You do realize she is not going to let you anywhere near her, right? Especially if you're just on the pity parade."
"I don't DO the 'pity parade', thank you."
The passageway ended, opening up into a clearing. Davis put a little space between him and Matt. "She might see things differently, that's all I'm saying."
"Hey, guys, come look at this." Ken pointed to a sign posted on a large pair of doors in front of them.
"One thing in mind if you want to pass,
Remember that music shall soothe the savage beast,
and all you have to do is DANCE!"
"Bad poetry," Matt mumbled.
"So what does it mean?" Davis asked. "What beast?"
Joe swallowed hard, trying not to let his fear show through. "I don't know about you, but I sure don't want to find out."
The ground shook three times, then stopped. Silence.
"Okay, what was that?"
A hole opened up right where the sign used to be.
"Cool!" Davis started towards the opening.
"Wait!" Ken came between him and the exit. "There's something suspicious about this hole. Awfully convinent, don't you think?"
Davis had absolutely no answer, because what he saw looming in the space beyond erased all thoughts from his mind. His eyes went wide with terror. "Ken, move."
A shadow fell over them, and before one can say 'dinner of two', they'd run to the other side of the stone enclosure.
A twenty-foot tall, three-headed canine monster lumbered in through the hole in the doors. Each head acted independently, sniffing the air. Slowly, each one turned to the group that was huddled in the corner and stared at them with hungry red eyes.
"Is that a D-Digimon?" Davis choked out.
"No," Veemon answered gravely. "I don't know WHAT that is."
"It's the three-headed dog of the Underworld!"
Everyone stared at Ken.
The thing barked at them with a voice that shook the walls and bounded over to them in two steps. It would have swallowed them all, but Ken held up his hand and it smacked into the sheild. "Do something, quick, before my energy gives out!"
The other three guys grabbed their Digivices. "Digivolve!"
"Gabumon digivolve to..."
"Gomamon digivolve to..."
"Veemon digivolve to..."
"Garurumon!"
"Ikkumon!"
A funky croaking noise came out of Davis's D-3, and nothing happened. While Garurumon and Ikkumon charged into battle he shook it viggorously. "Come on! Digivolve!"
Veemon twirled around, but the noise happened again and the orange light under him quickly faded. "What's going on?"
"I don't know!" Worry started to show on his face, but he refused to give up. "Digi-Armor Energize!"
Again, no good.
He fell to his knees. "The Digi-Egg of Courage won't respond to me. I really don't have that crest any more."
Ken's sheild flickered and went out. He turned to Davis. "Keep trying. I'll cover for you. Morph Digivolve!" He transformed into a strange hybrid of Ken and Stingmon, then sprouted wings and joined the battle. The others were just slightly creeped out about it, but were glad for the help.
Veemon hopped around impatiently, whinning, "Come on, Davis. Try the Digi-Egg of Friendship. I want to help!"
He lept to his feet. "All right, then. Digi-Armor Energize!"
"Veemon Armor Digivolve to..."
(He merged with the Digi-Egg of Friendship in a burst of blue electricity. Gabumon's Digi-volutions through MetalGarurumon flashed momentarily in the background.)
"Raidramon, the Storm of Friendship!"
Davis pointed to the nasty doggie as it slapped Garurumon, who looked awfully small in compairison. "Go get 'em, Raidramon!"
Raidramon roared a war-cry and lept into battle.
After another ten minutes of fighting, it became appearent that this thing would not be easily defeated.
Matt began to shake with rage. "Ugh, we haven't even phased him! Ken, how do we stop this thing? What's it's weakness?"
Ken narrowly ducked the monster's massive paw. "How should I know?"
"You knew what it was!"
"Yeah, so?" Again, he missed getting mauled. "Wait, MUSIC! Just like the sign said. 'Music shall soothe the savage beast'. Sing to it!"
"Are you kidding?"
"No! I think we have to preform for it."
"'And all you have to do is dance'. Brilliant!" Matt retrieved his harmonica. "Does everyone know the Electric Slide?"
"Uh, not really. I'm not much of a dancer." Joe, of course.
"It's easy, just follow my lead," Davis told him.
"Okay, so when I start playing, I want everyone to start dancing. That goes for the Digimon as well. Just do what you were doing earlier. And pray this works." He took a deep breath a played the new fast version of Turn Around. The Digimon de-Digivolved and they all began their line dance.
Immediately, the beast stopped fighting and sat down to watch them. It tapped it's doggie feet to the beat. Satisfied after two minutes, it moved.
Matt motioned for them to go, and quietly they filed through the exit.
"I'm glad that's over," Ken said. He took a step and a hole opened up under him.
Davis went to dive in after him, but the ground closed back up and he fell flat on his face. "Ken! NOOO!"
Is Ken lost forever?
Will Yolei and Mimi escape their new enemy?
And will Izzy ever figure out where they're going?
Find out in the next episode of Digimon: A Bigger Threat-
"Labrynth Island Part 3"
Episode 12-
"Labrynth Island Part 2"
By Shmeilia Rockie
"How many more doors are there?"
"Hopefully, this is it," TK said and went to teleport through the door. He smacked into it with a loud CRACK and stumbled to the ground, rubbing his forehead. He said in a dazed voice, "Did someone get the license plate of the Monochromon that hit me?"
"Huh. Weird." Cody tilted his head and examined the doors. "I bet these aren't even locked." He pushed one of them with all his might, but to no avail.
"Nice try, there, small-fry," Tai told him. Cody glared at him, but because Tai was an elder Digidestined, he didn't argue.
TK growled and feriously kicked one of the doors, refusing to give up on teleporting.
Once again, Tai volunteered, "Maybe you're just tired, TK. Ya know, like a Digimon tires out during battle."
The Digimon glared at him. TK turned around and tried pushing with his back. "Yeah, Tai, and maybe your hair takes up ninety percent of your brain, but I don't quite think so."
Tai patted down his hair, "Sheesh, what's eatting you?"
"Oh, don't worry about it," Cody told him matter-of-factly, "He's just gone into 'All-Holy-TK mode'."
Tai, Izzy, and the four Digimon stared at him like he was diseased. They asked at the same time, "All-Holy-TK?"
TK pounded on the door some more, and roared, "NO I HAVEN'T! WHEN I DO, YOU'LL KNOW IT!"
Cody made a frightened, slightly worried face. He knew All-Holy-TK very well. Normally kind and care-free, TK would sometimes snap into this anti-evil warrior of all that is good. He would become ruthless in his quest to eradicate evil. It was like he would become possessed by the powers of good. And that was always really disturbing to witness. Thankfully, it didn't happen very offten. Unfortunately they were stuck in a realm of evil, so it was only a matter of time before All-Holy-TK took over. Cody groaned, "This is bad. I'll hate to see that day."
Suddenly a voice called, "STEP AWAY FROM THE BIG METAL DOORS AND NO ONE GETS HURT!" TK jumped back like the doors were red-hot.
Two Bakamon poped out of nowhere. One was light blue and wore a police hat, the other was was pink and wore a red jesture's cap.
Agumon burst into laughter, "Well, if you two aren't the weirdest looking things I've ever seen..."
Patamon parked himself on TK's helmet. "Hey, guys, which one of these doors will get us out of this place?"
"Are you asking me? Or him?" The pink Bakamon asked, pointing at his companion.
"Does it matter?" Agumon asked, shaking his head. Tai eyed him with amusement. "Don't look at me like that, I know what you're thinking. But these guys are even worse than I am on my best day!"
"I didn't say a thing," Tai responded, trying unsecessfully to surpress a grin.
"Well? How do we get out of here?" TK stared at the two. He was still really ticked off.
"You can ask," the blue one said mysteriously, "but be warned: one of us always tells the truth, and the other one always lies. So, on that note, one of these doors leads in the right direction, and the other one leads to..."
"Da-da, da, Dum!"
"Certain doom! Mmwahaha!"
Izzy leaned in for a close look at the two. He stared questioningly at them for a long time before pulling away, "I can't tell which is which!"
"I tell only the truth!" Blue declaired. He jerked his thumb at the other one, "He always lies!"
"'ll, that's a lie if I ever heard one!"
They cracked up.
Tai and TK looked down at them grudgingly, and Izzy pulled Cody off to the side. "Any ideas?"
"None, you?" Cody took off his helmet and smoothed out his hat-hair.
"I'm working on it. It's like a riddle, and all we need to do is to think about this logically."
Tai suddenly snapped his fingers, "I've got it! Logic!"
Izzy and Cody traded worried looks. They knew Tai's logic. He leaned casually against the wall and asked Pink, "Okay, if I were to ask you which door he would say leads to certain doom, would he say it was this one?"
Pink looked at his friend and scratched his head thoughtfully, "Um, I guess so."
"Then this door leads in the right direction, and that door leads to death!"
"How 'dyou come up with that?"
"If you said he'd say this is the wrong door, then it must be the right one."
"How so?" Blue asked, looking horribly offended.
"You're lying."
"B-but," Pink studdered, "what if he isn't?"
"Then you're lying, and the answer would be the same anyway!"
Tai went to open the door, but Cody grabbed his shirt collar. "Hold it, Tai, your logic stinks."
"What? Why?"
"That was a fifty-fifty question," Izzy told him like it was the most obvious thing in the universe. "He could have just as easily said no, then this would have been the WRONG door."
Tai pouted, "Well fine, lets see you do any better."
Tentomon hovered close to Izzy and whispered loudly, "You know, if he was lying when he said that one of them tells the truth, then they could both be lying. If that's the case, then we're fried."
Izzy sighed, "Thanks for looking on the bright side there, buddy."
"What? I'm just trying to be realistic."
Tai growled, getting very frustrated, "Which one of you is lying, for Pete's sake?"
"Not me!" they both declaired, giggling.
Agumon pulled on Tai's sleeve, and asked like a little kid, "Hey, Tai, who is this 'Pete' anyway?"
"I don't know, it's just an expression!" he whined, throwing his hands in the air and stalking off in frustration.
After a few moments of careful thinking, Izzy thought he might have finally arrived at the answer. He asked Cody for his fighting staff.
"What do you need this for?"
Izzy didn't answer, but turned to the two off-colored Bakamon. He threw the staff on the ground. "What direction did that fall?"
The blue one said down, but the pink one yelped "up!" and clamped his hands over his mouth. He'd just given himself away.
Izzy handed the staff back to Cody, and thanked him. He suddenly sprang into color, his Megadigidestined armor replacing his normal clothes. His armor looked like Cody's, except it had a purple cape, and no helmet. Tentomon also got his color back.
"Woah, neat!" Tentomon exclaimed. "That was just like in that movie, The Wizard of Frogs!"
"That's 'The Wizard of Oz'," TK corrected. Then he turned to Blue, "Does this door lead to where we need to be?"
"Yes."
They went through the right door, confedent that they weren't walking to their certain doom.
"See, that was a lot easier than you made it out to be," Agumon told Tai in a know-it-all tone.
"Foo. How come Izzy's all in living color, and I'm livin' in shades of grey?"
"Izzy passed his test, but don't worry, you'll get yours."
"Whatever!"
Cody rolled his eyes, "Not one for patience, are you?"
"He's upset because he's not the leader. He feels useless."
"Ouch, TK, thanks for really hitting the nail on the head. How did you know that?"
"You're too much like Davis, and he had that problem."
"Thanks again," Tai knew how Davis had gone evil shortly after that. Then an idea hit him. "Hey, did any of you guys happen to ask Blue why we're here?"
Long pause.
"No," Izzy said slowly, and turned to do just that. The door slammed in his face. He kicked the door in anger and yelped in pain. "NO!"
"Well," Patamon said in an inappropriately cheery voice, "There's no turning back now!"
* * * *
"Grr, I'm hungry!" Yolei growled.
"I'm hot and sticky," Mimi complained.
"I'm both, but let's try not to think about it," Sora told them.
Mimi took off her hat and fanned herself with it. "We've been in this awful forest for hours, and it doesn't seem like we've gotten anywhere!"
"It doesn't help that we don't have a clue where we're going," Kari said, looking about as tired as the others sounded.
"I would sell almost anything I own for a berry bush," Yolei said, stepping around a thorny vine. It tried to grab her shoe, but she quickly got away from it. "Urgh, this place is creeping! Litterally! I'll be SO glad when this is over, so I can go home and TAKE A BATH!"
"None of these plants look the slightest bit edible," Palmon said, looking horrified at the monster plant that had tried to grab Yolei. "In fact, they look kind of HUNGRY. And those that haven't tried to eat us looked poisonous."
"At least nothing else has attacked us," Gatomon said, peering into the darkness of the forest.
"I'm not sure that's such a good sign," Biyomon told her.
Suddenly, out of the dark, black jungle appeared a clearing. And in this clearing sat a tall peach tree in full-blown color. The girls gasped at the sight of it, and stood there staring in disbelief. Slowly they walked up to it in a huddle.
"The Wish Tree," Yolei read a sign hanging from one of its branches. She grabbed one of the soft, fuzzy peaches.
Palmon looked at it for a while, unsure of what it was. "That's no ordinary peach."
"Looks okay to me."
"You really shouldn't eat something if you don't know what it is," Kari told her, fear in her voice.
"But I'm starving! Look, I'll try this one and if I drop dead, you guys 'll know not to eat 'em."
"Don't EVEN joke about something like that, Yolei," Mimi scolded, trying to take it away from her. "I don't like the looks of this thing. It looks too NICE!"
"Aw, come off! Get your own!" Yolei turned around, and before Mimi (or anyone else for that matter) could stop her, she bit into it.
"Don't!"
"Too late," Sora muttered.
Mimi threw her hat on the ground and stomped on it. "Yolei, do you realize how incredibly foolish that was?"
"That really wasn't a good idea," Palmon agreed.
Kari was the only one who wasn't obsessing over what Yolei had done, so she was the only one who noticed that something was wrong. She put her hand on Yolei's shoulder and asked quietly, "Are you alright?"
Yolei stared at the peach and spoke in a dazed voice, "It tastes strange."
"Oh, no! It really was too good to be true. I knew it!"
She dropped the fruit. "What have I done?"
Kari turned to the others, "What are we going to do?"
That was the last thing Yolei heard before the world around her started to blurr.
* * * *
Commercial Break!
Cody, Yolei, and Matt are standing around in the Digital World talking. They're in their Megadigidestined gear.
Suddenly, there's a tremendous rumbling. They look around and spot a heard of digi eggs rolling down the hill. Yolei jumps into Cody's arms and shrieks as the eggs roll harmlessly past them.
Cody: Ha! It's the running of the eggs!
Matt: Well, if that isn't the most disturbing thing I've ever seen...
Yolei (stops screaming and looks calmly at Matt): What about that gaint hot dog?
Matt (slaps his forehead): This is TOO true.
* * * *
Yolei's brother handed her a drink with a little paper umbrella in it and asked, "Is there anything else I can get you?"
"No," she said lazily, waving him away. Her two sisters fanned her with palm leaves. She smiled at them a took a sip of her drink. She didn't quite know what it was, but it sure was good.
Her servant bowed and told her feet, "Princess, there are some suitors here to see you. What should I tell them?"
"Send the first one in, Davis."
He smiled and rushed to the end of the room. He threw open the doors and blew on his trumpet. (Part of the Digimon theme song, actually) "BRING IN THE FIRST SUITOR!"
Yolei giggled. She loved getting suitors. "How do I look?"
"Perfect, as always," her oldest sister told her, and her other siblings nodded in agreement.
"Then LEAVE ME!"
They scurried from her sight.
"You too, Davis!"
Davis bowed and backed out of the room. Yolei ran her fingers through her hair and layed down on her couch.
The first suitor entered and looked nervously around. He was dressed completely in royal blue velvet. The color matched his hair and eyes perfectly.
"Name?"
He bowed at the stairs leading up to her couch, "Prince Kindness, my lady." Then he took her hand and kissed it.
"Well, Kindness, what do you have to offer me?"
He looked up at her with those beautiful blue eyes and spoke softly, "If you were my queen, I'd give you all the knowledge in the world."
Not quite what she'd expected from someone with a name like Kindness.
"Okay, uh, wait outside, please. And bring in the next suitor."
He left, and a few minutes later, another young man approached her. At first glance, he could not have looked more different than Kindness. He wore a simple brown shirt and plumb-colored pants, both completely covered in dirt. He carried a walking stick and his hair looked like he hadn't combed it in weeks.
"Excuse me, WHERE'S my next suitor?"
"I am him, Princess," he responded. He walked up to her with an air of purpose.
"And who are you, to be courting me?"
"My name is Cody, your Highness. I've traveled across the world to meet you."
"Cody? Do you have a title?"
He bowed to the floor, "No, I do not."
She laughed harshly, "Then why should I even give you the time of day, little boy? What can you possibly offer me?"
He stared up at her with striking green eyes that made him seem wise beyond his years. He told her with despiration in his voice, "Love, my queen. I would love you with all my heart. I would take care of you when you are sick, and talk with you when you need a friend."
Now, THAT is what she had expected from Kindness.
He took her hand with surpising gentleness and continued, "I don't have much, but I offer you everything. My protection, my life, my heart."
She stared at him. Could this traveler be a better suitor than the Prince? He had nothing, but still... Would Prince Kindness treat her with the same devotion? Could he really make her happy?
"Rise, Cody," she told him.
He did.
She studied him a little more closely, then called for Kindness. The two looked very similar, dispite their difference in social class. There was something familiar about both of them, but she couldn't recall what it was.
"I have made my decision," she told them.
"Wait!" A high-pitched voice called. A girl with pink hair burst into the room, wearing a green dress with a tear-drop on the front. "Stop, Yolei, none of this is real!"
"Who are you to come barging into my room like this?"
The girl pushed past Kindness and Cody (both looking violated), to shake Yolei violently. "You ate a peach and it's put you under a spell! None of this is real. Cody, Ken, this room, none of it! Remember, Yolei. Snap out of it!"
Suddenly, she did remember. She was a part of the Megadigidestined, not some princess.
As soon as she realized this, her make-believe world shattered into millions of pieces. Only the girl remained in the darkness.
"Thank you, Mimi."
She let go of Yolei, "Good. I was starting to get worried."
Yolei looked at Mimi's dress and recognized the Crest of Sincerity. "You're a Megadigidestined now, aren't you?"
"Yep! Isn't this exciting?"
She looked around, "Uh, where are we?"
A voice called from the mist, "You're certainly not in Kansas anymore!"
* * * *
After climbing the stairs, the 'Silver Group' found themselves in an endless passageway. It just kept going, and going, and going...And going.
"This is so boring!" Gomamon whinned. "I almost wish something would attack us."
Joe looked down at him, worried. "Don't even kid about something like that, you'll jinx us."
"Hey," Matt yelped, and dug around in his jacket pocket. He pulled out his old harmonica. "Lookie what I have with me! Any requests?...No?" The others shook their heads unenthusiastically. So Matt just played the first thing that came to mind, not quite knowing what it was.
After wandering down the passageway for another ten minutes, Matt fell into his zone. "Hey, this is pretty catchy!" Gomamon started a little wiggle. Soon the Digimon started dancing in a line.
"This is just how I made up Turn Around. I was messing around one day, bored out of my mind, and..." Matt changed the tune a little, speeding it up. "You've got a boy and a girl, sittin' underneath a tree. They sit there every day. And even though you may think that's just the way that things should be, it may not always be that way. Hey! Ya can't take nothin' for granted. You've got-ta live life today! I turn around and I can see what's behind me, I turn back around and I can see what's ahead. And if you don't believe that I've been here all along, just turn around. Just turn aro-ow-und!"
"I haven't heard that one in a while," Davis told him. "Not since June stopped listing to your CD."
Matt paused. "That reminds me, I ran into her today."
"Yeah?"
"Yeah. She seems so different from the way I remember her. What happened?"
Davis shook his head, not really wanting to think about it. "Well, she got into a bad relationship. The guy, uh, hurt her pretty badly."
"How so?"
He didn't answer right away. When he finally spoke, he lowered his voice, "He... Beat her."
Everyone stared, the silence thick.
Davis continued, "Their relationship lasted about a year before she got enough sense to get away from him. She's never been quite the same since."
Matt thought back to the dead look in her eyes, her harsh tone 'It's nothing YOU need to be conserned with'. "I had absolutely no idea. When did this happen?"
"She just got the restraning order against him last month."
Matt looked away, suddenly extremely ashamed of himself. "Boy do I feel like an idiot."
"Why are you suddenly so conserned with my sister anyway?"
He shrugged. "I'm not entirely sure. Have...This will sound weird, but have you ever been drawn to a person because somehow you just know you're meant to help them?"
"Yes." Ken threw a questioning look at Davis, who nodded. "I think that sort of thing happens a lot. More than we realize."
"I think that happened today. Kinda like..." He snorted, "Love at first sight, only two years too late."
"You are NOT talking about June!"
"Oh, but I am. Isn't that the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard? I know I can't make any sense out of it. One look in her eyes and I wanted to comfort her, you know? Give her a hug, or something."
Davis shook his head, an amused smile crossing his face. "Matt, you are bold. You do realize she is not going to let you anywhere near her, right? Especially if you're just on the pity parade."
"I don't DO the 'pity parade', thank you."
The passageway ended, opening up into a clearing. Davis put a little space between him and Matt. "She might see things differently, that's all I'm saying."
"Hey, guys, come look at this." Ken pointed to a sign posted on a large pair of doors in front of them.
"One thing in mind if you want to pass,
Remember that music shall soothe the savage beast,
and all you have to do is DANCE!"
"Bad poetry," Matt mumbled.
"So what does it mean?" Davis asked. "What beast?"
Joe swallowed hard, trying not to let his fear show through. "I don't know about you, but I sure don't want to find out."
The ground shook three times, then stopped. Silence.
"Okay, what was that?"
A hole opened up right where the sign used to be.
"Cool!" Davis started towards the opening.
"Wait!" Ken came between him and the exit. "There's something suspicious about this hole. Awfully convinent, don't you think?"
Davis had absolutely no answer, because what he saw looming in the space beyond erased all thoughts from his mind. His eyes went wide with terror. "Ken, move."
A shadow fell over them, and before one can say 'dinner of two', they'd run to the other side of the stone enclosure.
A twenty-foot tall, three-headed canine monster lumbered in through the hole in the doors. Each head acted independently, sniffing the air. Slowly, each one turned to the group that was huddled in the corner and stared at them with hungry red eyes.
"Is that a D-Digimon?" Davis choked out.
"No," Veemon answered gravely. "I don't know WHAT that is."
"It's the three-headed dog of the Underworld!"
Everyone stared at Ken.
The thing barked at them with a voice that shook the walls and bounded over to them in two steps. It would have swallowed them all, but Ken held up his hand and it smacked into the sheild. "Do something, quick, before my energy gives out!"
The other three guys grabbed their Digivices. "Digivolve!"
"Gabumon digivolve to..."
"Gomamon digivolve to..."
"Veemon digivolve to..."
"Garurumon!"
"Ikkumon!"
A funky croaking noise came out of Davis's D-3, and nothing happened. While Garurumon and Ikkumon charged into battle he shook it viggorously. "Come on! Digivolve!"
Veemon twirled around, but the noise happened again and the orange light under him quickly faded. "What's going on?"
"I don't know!" Worry started to show on his face, but he refused to give up. "Digi-Armor Energize!"
Again, no good.
He fell to his knees. "The Digi-Egg of Courage won't respond to me. I really don't have that crest any more."
Ken's sheild flickered and went out. He turned to Davis. "Keep trying. I'll cover for you. Morph Digivolve!" He transformed into a strange hybrid of Ken and Stingmon, then sprouted wings and joined the battle. The others were just slightly creeped out about it, but were glad for the help.
Veemon hopped around impatiently, whinning, "Come on, Davis. Try the Digi-Egg of Friendship. I want to help!"
He lept to his feet. "All right, then. Digi-Armor Energize!"
"Veemon Armor Digivolve to..."
(He merged with the Digi-Egg of Friendship in a burst of blue electricity. Gabumon's Digi-volutions through MetalGarurumon flashed momentarily in the background.)
"Raidramon, the Storm of Friendship!"
Davis pointed to the nasty doggie as it slapped Garurumon, who looked awfully small in compairison. "Go get 'em, Raidramon!"
Raidramon roared a war-cry and lept into battle.
After another ten minutes of fighting, it became appearent that this thing would not be easily defeated.
Matt began to shake with rage. "Ugh, we haven't even phased him! Ken, how do we stop this thing? What's it's weakness?"
Ken narrowly ducked the monster's massive paw. "How should I know?"
"You knew what it was!"
"Yeah, so?" Again, he missed getting mauled. "Wait, MUSIC! Just like the sign said. 'Music shall soothe the savage beast'. Sing to it!"
"Are you kidding?"
"No! I think we have to preform for it."
"'And all you have to do is dance'. Brilliant!" Matt retrieved his harmonica. "Does everyone know the Electric Slide?"
"Uh, not really. I'm not much of a dancer." Joe, of course.
"It's easy, just follow my lead," Davis told him.
"Okay, so when I start playing, I want everyone to start dancing. That goes for the Digimon as well. Just do what you were doing earlier. And pray this works." He took a deep breath a played the new fast version of Turn Around. The Digimon de-Digivolved and they all began their line dance.
Immediately, the beast stopped fighting and sat down to watch them. It tapped it's doggie feet to the beat. Satisfied after two minutes, it moved.
Matt motioned for them to go, and quietly they filed through the exit.
"I'm glad that's over," Ken said. He took a step and a hole opened up under him.
Davis went to dive in after him, but the ground closed back up and he fell flat on his face. "Ken! NOOO!"
Is Ken lost forever?
Will Yolei and Mimi escape their new enemy?
And will Izzy ever figure out where they're going?
Find out in the next episode of Digimon: A Bigger Threat-
"Labrynth Island Part 3"