Tai was sitting in the park in Odaiba. He couldn't stand sitting around waiting for Izzy to decode Matt's journal. There were pages of it and he just couldn't stand not doing anything. He was glad TK had found the code sheet, now they might actually be able to start unravelling this mystery. There were so many questions that he had and there was no way he could find the answers.

He looked out into the parks pond, the water was glistening with the reflection of the sunlight. The sun was almost ready to set and the scene was beautiful. People walked through the park with happy smiling faces and the birds fluttered their wings slowly disrupting the cool, pristine, surface of the water. Tai's eyes glazed over and the world was a million miles away.

"Breep, Breep." A small vibration and noise from his pocket snapped him out of his daydream. He grabbed the cell-phone from his shorts pocket and answered it.

"Yeah?"

"Tai, it's Izzy. I've deciphered nearly all of Matt's journal, I think you should come back and take a look at this." Tai nodded to himself.

"OK Izzy, I'll be there in a couple of seconds." He clicked the cell-phone off and started running for Izzy's house.

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I close my eyes when I get too sad

I think thoughts that I know are bad

Close my eyes and I count to ten

I hope it's over when I open them

I want the things that I had before

Like a Star Wars poster on my bedroom door

I wish I could count to ten

Make everything be wonderful again

Matt stared at the black crystals on the walls of his cell. He hated this room, the walls screamed at him; they just reminded him of Gabumon. Black, empty, gone. Why did Gabumon have to get himself killed? Damned Gabumon, all he had to do was stay alive.

"They'll pay. I'll destroy everything in the digital world. Nothing will stop me! I'll destroy the place that got Gabumon killed!" Matt screamed at the walls of his cell. His face was screwed up into pure hatred. Nothing mattered to him anymore, nothing. The one thing that he knew he could always rely on was gone and along with it was his heart. He shut his eyes to black out the darkness in the room and his soul.

I hope my mom and I hope my dad

Will figure out why they get so mad

I hear them scream, I hear them fight

Say bad words that make me wanna cry

Close my eyes when I go to bed

And I dream adventures that will make me smile

I feel better when I hear them say

Everything will be wonderful someday

He sat in silence for a couple of minutes. His hatred and rage burned deep inside of his soul. All he wanted to do was destroy, destroy everything that had taken his best friend away from him. He had no friends now; he had no concept of the word love. All of it had been taken from him. Tears started to well from his tightly shut eyelids. He tried to stop them but he couldn't, he couldn't help but feel sorry for himself. Why did he have to go through this by himself? If there was a hell, he was sure this was it.

All Matt could think of was TK … he wanted to see his little brother so badly, give him a hug. Just tell him that he loved him and the world would be OK … but it was never going to turn out like that, now was it?

Promises mean everything when you're little

And the world's so big

I just don't understand how,

You can smile with all those tears in your eyes

Tell me everything is wonderful now

That stupid promise he'd made to TK, did it even matter anymore? No, it didn't. He was going to destroy everything that the digidestined held dear and they couldn't do anything to stop it. He didn't care anymore; reason was thrown out the window. All that filled his mind was wave, after wave, of vile hatred. He roughly wiped the tears from his eyes and sniffled.

"The Digidestined are going to pay for all this, all they helped to save! All of them have to go. All of them." Matt muttered to himself.

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now

I go to school and I run & play

I tell the kids that it's all-ok

I like to laugh so my friends won't know

When the bell rings I just don't wanna go home

Go to my room and I close my eyes

I make believe that I have a new life

I don't believe you when you say

Everything will be wonderful someday

"No more lying. From today on, there will only be the truth."

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Tai raced back into Izzy's small room. Sat in the room were TK, Izzy, Joe, Kari, Sora, Davis, Cody, Yolie and Ken.

"That was quick, what did you find?"

"Yeah, with all of us working we've pretty much got it all now." Izzy replied. Tai was panting from the run back. Izzy held up the translated words in his hand and wafted them at Tai. "That's it Tai." Tai snatched the papers from Izzy's hand quickly and read deeply into the words, immersing himself into Matt's mind.

No one spoke while Tai poured over the sheets of paper the nine other digidestined had translated. Tai stopped on one particular page and his face dropped in horror at the words he read.

"This page. Are you sure it's right?" Tai held it up to show Izzy, he nodded.

"Ken and I checked it three times each. There are no mistakes with that page, I can assure you." Ken nodded to back up what Izzy was saying. Tai couldn't understand how this could be true. Although it explained the mysterious behaviour from his best friend. Tai read the page again just to be sure.

Dear journal,

Hi, it's Matt. Today something … something happened and I need to talk about it. I met a Digimon called Mimicmon and … and he threatened me. He threatened my friends. Tai, TK, Izzy, Joe, Kari … everyone. I don't know what to do, he scares me and … he tricked me into thinking he was Tai. He can change his form to be anyone or anything. It scares me. What if he's here in the real world? What if he attacks my friends and I can't stop him!

He told me that I have to stop seeing them, that if I don't distance myself from them he'll … kill them. I don't ever want to stop seeing my friends … especially Tai and TK but how can I still see them knowing that it will kill them? It would hurt them so much … but maybe hurting them a little is the only way to save their lives. A life without me is better than no life at all.

He said that he wants me to do something, "help him re-write the prophecy's of the digital world" is what he said. I don't know exactly what that means but he said he'd come for me when the time is right. What if it is when I'm 30? Can I really live my whole life in fear of what some whacked out Digimon is going to do? I guess I have to.

I never thought that I'd ever be lonely, the thought sends shivers down my spine but … I guess this is my life now. The crest of friendship is no more…

-Matt Ishida

Tai shook his head at the words. 'How wrong you are Matt.' Tai thought to himself. 'I'd rather die than have you do what you did to us. Stupid jerk! If there was one person you could have told … we would have handled this together, as a team.'

"Well, what do we do now?" Davis asked.

"I … I don't know." Tai stammered out, flopping down onto Izzy's bed. He just felt like lying there and sleeping it all away, maybe it was just a dream.

"He's clearly not in the digital world." Ken said matter-of-factly. Izzy nodded.

"Ken's right. There are no portals from the Real World to the Digital World open right now. No one can get in or out."

"So he's been taken to some other place? Where they can get to the Digital world from?" TK asked, trying to keep a level head in all this mess. He missed his brother greatly and what he read had saddened him but he knew to get him back he would have to stay calm.

"Yep but … I have no idea how to find that place, I mean who knows how many different dimensions there are? It would be like finding an atom in the universe." Izzy replied his voice agitated. Why didn't he have the answer for TK? He looked at the small blond boy, so sad sitting there. Damnit, this was his job in the group, knowledge remember? There really wasn't anyway of finding Matt that he knew of.

"So we wait." Tai said coldly from his spot on the bed. The room looked at him with a quizzical expression.

"What do you mean we wait? Are you crazy, we have to do SOMETHING!" Davis screamed.

"No. We wait. From what Matt wrote it doesn't sound like he knows too much about this thing either, I doubt HE even knows where he is. I have a feeling that whatever this is, it's big. So we wait for something to happen." Izzy gave a small 'humph' in reply to Tai's suggestion.

"Not the best tactical move I ever heard of but Tai's right; we have no way of finding Matt so we have to let him find us." Joe sighed.

"Waiting, great. Wonder what THIS will do to my blood pressure." The blue haired hypochondriac cupped his chin in his hands and rested on his elbows.

"Come on everybody, it's time to go home." Tai said, getting up off the bed. He opened the door and ushered everybody out. TK was the last one walking out of Izzy's apartment with only Tai behind him. Just before he got out of the door Tai put his hand on TK's shoulder and turned him so the two boys faced each other.

TK looked straight into Tai's eyes and they were filled with compassion, Tai slipped his arms around TK's neck and drew him into a tight hug.

"Listen Takeru, if you need anything and I mean ANYTHING, you come and speak to me OK?"

"OK, Tai." TK replied, revelling in the warm safety of Tai's hug.

"Awww TK, I know how hard this must be for you but … Matt will be OK, I prom.."

"Don't promise Tai. I'm too old for promises." TK interrupted quickly. His voice was filled with a cold and bitter tone. Tai squeezed TK lightly then let him out of the embrace.

"OK TK, it's time to go home." Tai opened the door and ushered the small digidestined out of the door.

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"Your plan seems to be coming together nicely master." Centimon spoke in his deep menacing voice.

"Yes." Mimicmon chuckled. "Matt shall soon be unstable enough to perform the ceremony. I'll finally rule the digital world!"

"Master, if you don't mind me asking, why did you choose Matt? I mean out of all the digidestined, why him?"

"Because Matt was the weakest out of them all. He was the easiest to cause self-doubt in. All of the others most likely would of broken and turned to their friends for help and then all would have been lost. Not Matt though, nope, not the bearer of the crest of friendship. It's very ironic really." Centimon laughed.

"Those silly digidestined won't know what hit them." Centimon laughed "I can't believe he bought that his Digimon was gone, what did you do with him. When do you think he'll be ready?"

"Soon. Very soon. It's just a matter of patience and Gabumon? Well … let's just say he's alive but in a not so safe place." Mimicmon laughed to himself.

A/N: Thank you a lot to Matt (PenID: 148974) who keeps reminding me I still have a fic to write ;) Thanks to everyone who is reviewing BTW! :D I love all the comments ^^;;

Oh so everyone knows, the lyrics are from a song called "Wonderful" by the fabulous Everclear and no, that is NOT a Taikeru hint at the end :P Sorry to spoil your fun ;)