"The Detectives Kamiya: The Informant Who Loved Me"
Story Written by Freedom Fighter
Summary: An evil genius begins stealing jewels in order to power up an invention that will destroy Tokyo! Luckily, he has an informant to help him keep one step ahead of the good guys. Especially our heroes, Tai and Kari. Will this genius succeed, or will the Kamiyas stop him in time?
Well, four months later, I finally got around to writing this. You guys all enjoy this! Oh... and the episodes will be shorter now. I hope that you won't mind.
Anyway, read on to find out Tai and Kari's newest adventure!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this fanfic.
Rating: R, contains profane language, violence, and implied sexual situations. Do not read this if you are too young or you are against reading fanfics that contain this type of stuff.
*****
London, England
The dreary foggy morning of this world famous city changes dramatically as gunshots ring out in one of the tiny back alleys.
Here, we'll find a blond haired nineteen year old young man, dressed in a business suit, on the run from three gang members with machine guns. No one knows what exactly started this little chase, but young Takeru "TK" Takashi knew that in order to live to see the rest of the day, he'd have to find a way out of this.
Unfortunately, the worst thing that could have happened to TK did.
He ran into a dead end.
"Drats!" TK shouted out, knowing that his fate was practically sealed. And as expected, the three gangsters appear, with their guns drawn and ready to fire.
"Guys... couldn't we talk this over?" he asked nervously before pulling out his compact digital camera. "Look, I'll just give you my camera and the film inside, and we'll call it even, okay?"
The gangsters ignore TK's offer, approaching him ever closer.
"Geese," TK thought to himself, "I'd better think of something fast or I'm a..."
Too late, as the gangsters open fire on the teen. Bullets start piercing TK's body all over, with only fractions of a second separating each hit. TK immediately falls over and begins to bleed to death as the last of the bullets fly over him. TK tries to mouth out some last words, but the bleeding is too great, as his last breath exits his body.
The gangsters smile as they walk closer to make sure their job is finished. One of them kicks TK, causing the body to switch positions so that it now faces the opposite way that it was originally. They then walk away, laughing maniacally. As they do, the faint sound of police sirens can be heard approaching the alley.
Two hours later, halfway across the world, in the Odaiba district of Tokyo, Japan...
Chief Matt Ishida was sitting at a wooden table in his one-person apartment, eating his dinner of ramen noodles. You would think that a police chief would have at least a decent place to live, or at least a girlfriend. Unfortunately, he has neither, so he has to settle for what he has now.
But this normal evening alone was about to be unexpectedly interrupted, as the phone begins to ring. Matt gets up from his seat and goes to answer it.
It happens to be Matt's mother, Nancy Takashi. After Matt's parents had divorced when they were young, his mom and his younger brother, TK, moved to London. There, his mother was able to pursue her career in journalism and hopefully steer TK in the same direction.
"Matt..." Mrs. Takashi began sadly as Matt could hear her voice from the receiver.
"What's wrong, mom? This doesn't seem like a routine phone call."
"It's not. Matt, I have some bad news."
"Oh boy," Matt thought, "I wonder how bad it is."
"Matt... I hate to tell you this, but..."
Matt waited for his mother to tell him what had just transpired a few hours ago...
"Scotland Yard called me about ten minutes ago. They said that your brother, TK, was gunned down in a back alley by some gangsters. They said that there were at least a couple dozen bullet holes in his body."
"Are you saying what I think you're saying?" Matt asked, beginning to break down.
"Yes... TK's dead, Matt."
That's all Matt needed to hear. He couldn't believe it. His younger brother was dead, just like that. What was worse is that there was nothing he could have done to save him.
But Matt wanted to know why this had happened and if there's was anything he could do to avenge his brother's untimely death.
"Mom, I'm leaving on the next flight out! I've got to see if I can catch these murderers!"
"I understand, Matt. I'll see you tonight then, hopefully."
Matt nodded and then said goodbye as he hangs up the phone. He then runs off to his room and packs his stuff. In minutes, he heads out of his apartment with a big brown luggage bag in hand. He locks the door and heads off to the nearest airport, ignoring the fact that his unfinished bowl of noodles still sits on the dining table.
Later that night, at the Tokyo Cultural Museum, a strange figure in a black suit can be seen sneaking around the perimeter. Moments later, he opens a window on the side of the building and crawls through it.
Once inside, the intruder makes his way to the 'Exotica' exhibit, where he spots a giant red ruby, ripe for picking. Following the exact instructions that someone had given him, he makes his way around the intricate security system until he finally gets close enough to pluck the ruby from its perch.
The intruder makes his way out as the pressure sensitive alarm that was under the ruby when he removed it goes off. He manages to escape before the police arrive, ensuring that the mission was successful. Pulling off his mask, the red haired young man laughs as he holds the ruby up to the night sky, celebrating his accomplishment.
"Finally, the first part of the puzzle is complete! I really have to thank my informant, my assistant, and my co-worker for this. She does so much for me. I think I'll reward her when I get back to the laboratory."
The intruder laughs again as he puts the ruby back inside his suit, slips his mask back on, and then runs off into the darkness... at least, until his next heist.
*****
(Begin theme song - Limp Bizkit's "Boiler")
The siren of an ambulance wails in the background. Younger versions of Tai and Kari
are standing with their father and a hundred other mourners, all dressed in black. A gravestone marked with their family last name, Kamiya, is on it. Kari weeps openly into her brother's arms as a coffin is slowly lowered into a hole in the ground and then promptly buried in dirt.
Now in present time, Tai, dressed in a gray suit with matching pants along with a white buttoned long sleeve shirt and plain orange tie, walks out of a police station. Kari is walking next to him, wearing the same clothes as her older brother, with the exception of a knee length skirt in place of pants.
Meanwhile, the title screen appears...
"The Detectives Kamiya"
Starring Tai Kamiya...
Tai smiles goofily while lying in bed as he reminisces about an old girlfriend.
Kari Kamiya...
Kari walks through the police station as she flips through some papers in a folder.
Also Starring Matt Ishida as the Chief...
Matt opens a steel door and then gasps in fright at the sight of the figure standing behind it.
Fanfic Written and Edited by Freedom Fighter...
Kari dives into a small hole in the side of the building to avoid getting burned. In another scene, Tai motions to punch someone in the face, but he misses.
As the song comes to an end, Tai and Kari stand in front of their mother's grave. Kari sheds a tear as she places a bouquet of flowers next to the tombstone. Tai hugs his little sister as he looks up to the sky, knowing that their mother is now in a better place.
(End theme song)
*****
Episode 4 - "The Informant Who Loved Me, Part 1"
The following morning, Tai and Kari Kamiya enter the Tokyo Police Station, dressed in their detective outfits and ready to go.
Upon entering, they spot an orange afro haired young man sitting behind the front desk. He is dressed similar to how Tai is, except for the fact that his suit is dark blue rather than a gray one. He looks up at the duo and greets them appropriately.
"Good morning, officers!" he said, saluting them.
"Good morning..." Tai responded nervously, not familiar with who this guy was.
"Allow me to introduce myself, mates. Officer Derek Cirrus, from Australia!"
"Australia?" Kari asked before remembering a memo she had received the other day. "You're the guy that transferred from Sydney, right?"
"That is correct, miss. And you are?"
"First Class Detective Tai Kamiya," Tai spoke, before pointing to Kari. "And this is my younger sister, First Class Detective Kari Kamiya."
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Kari smiled, shaking hands with Derek. "So, where's the chief this morning?"
"Chief Ishida? I guess you haven't heard yet, but he went on leave last night for personal reasons."
"I see. So we must be free to relax the whole day, huh?"
"Not exactly," Derek replied, handing Tai a folder. "The higher-ups said they want you two to get on this case immediately."
"I can handle it alone. Besides, Kari won't mind hanging around with you for awhile Derek."
Tai starts to sneak away, but Kari notices this right away.
"Hold on, Tai! I know what you're up to!"
"What could you ever mean?" Tai asked Kari back, pretending as if he didn't know.
"You know what I'm damn talking about! You're trying to hook me up with him, aren't you?"
"So what if I am? You're never going to get a guy to sleep with you if I don't take the initiative and pick someone for you!"
"Tai! How many times have I told you that my sex life is none of your business?"
"And I'm going to make it my business until you're no longer a virgin!"
"Is that all you care about? You won't be happy until I'm just like you!"
"Wait a minute! I didn't mean it that way!"
Kari walks up, snatches the folder out of Tai's hands, and then stomps away.
"Kari! Wait! I'm sorry!"
"Nice going," Derek said sarcastically before turning serious. "But although your sister is quite the looker, I'm not interested in dating her."
"Then why did you just stand there instead of saying something?"
"Well, I've dated enough women to know that you don't mess with one when they're angry."
Tai was a bit confused as to what that statement meant, but he knew that it wasn't anything to smile about.
Over in the office that the siblings shared, Kari was sitting at her desk. She was fuming over what her brother had tried to do.
"Why does Tai always do that? Doesn't he know that good things come to those who wait? I'll meet my prince... eventually."
Kari then opens the folder that she had snatched from her brother. She begins reading the information in it as she tries to decipher what they would be up against next. She then notices one statement in particular that makes her worry.
"It's him again," she sighs. "Tai's not going to be too pleased when he finds out who were up against."
At that moment, Tai opens the door and stumbles in.
"Look Kari, I'm sorry about what happened out there. It's just that I'm worried about you and I wonder if you're normal or something like that, so please don't be mad!"
Kari starts to fume again, but she puts aside beating her brother to a pulp for the time being and pushes the folder towards him.
"We'll deal with that later. For now, I think that you'd better check this out."
Tai opens the folder and begins to examine the contents. At first, he disapproves of the case.
"A jewel thief? Honestly, sometimes I think they just give us the grunt work that none of the lazy bums below us want to take."
But he reads on and discovers the supposed identity of the thief.
"The methods that this thief used... he sounds awfully familiar."
"I knew you would think so. That's why I thought ahead and pulled up his profile."
Tai walked over so that he was standing right behind his sister as he looked at the image shown on the screen.
"Just as I thought. We meet again... Izzy Izumi."
*****
Meanwhile, halfway across the city, in the bedroom of a secret laboratory hidden several hundred feet below an office building, two young individuals are finally getting up after having a busy night together.
"So," began the voice of the female, "did you enjoy that?"
"No one knows so many exhilarating sexual positions than you do!" exclaimed the male.
"And that was just volume one, dear. By next week, I'll be able to do twice as many!"
"I can hardly wait."
Finally, the male tumbles out of the bed. He has his back turned away from the camera and he's not wearing any clothes. But his uncombed auburn colored hair and his intelligent sounding voice easily gives away this twenty-one year old's identity.
"Where are you going, Izzy?" the female asked, sitting up. The purple haired twenty year old female glanced over at Izzy and smiled as he started walking away.
"To work, of course. I have a doomsday machine to finish building, remember?"
The young woman jumps out of bed, uses the bedsheets to cover up her nude body, and then she runs over towards Izzy.
"Wait a minute! I want to help!"
"I can handle it myself, Yolei. I am a genius."
"But Izzy," Yolei pleaded, "there's so much I can do for you! Just wait for me to take a shower, and then I'll be right with you!"
"No! I want you take that shower and then leave right away!"
"You know, I could use a little bit of help..."
"Geese, is that all you think about?"
"Izzy..."
"Yolei, no! We did it eleven times last night! ELEVEN TIMES!"
"Actually, it was an even dozen."
"I don't care how many times we did! The point is... haven't you had enough?"
"Now Izzy," Yolei smiled goofily, "you know I never get tired! And besides, one more isn't going to hurt!"
"I'm lucky that my soul hasn't been downloaded to the hard drive above!"
"What?"
"How can we have sex that many times and still be breathing normally, much less be alive at all?"
Yolei shrugs her shoulders. "You tell me. You're the genius. I'm just the informant, who does anything to get what she wants. Even if it means killing someone, drinking alcohol until I puke, or having sex with every member of the neighborhood gang! I'll get the information I need, no matter what it..."
"Yolei, I asked you why we're still alive after all of that sex! I didn't ask what you do for a living!"
"Sorry," she apologized.
"Anyway, you know we have to keep our relationship under wraps. Because you're an informant, you have to be accessible to anyone at any time. If people find out that we're working together, we'll both be in trouble! No one will trust you anymore, others will start using you to get to me, and eventually, we'll both be killed! Do you want that to happen?"
Yolei shook her head. Getting killed wasn't high on her list of things to do.
"Good. Then take a shower and get out of here. I already have the plans for tonight's heist, so meet me at the usual. Got it?"
"Okay," Yolei sighed giving up. As she tosses the bedsheets aside and heads for the bathroom, Izzy walks out of the room and to the main laboratory.
Once in the laboratory, Izzy spots a red ruby sitting on one of the tables. Next to is a blueprint that has been rolled up. He unrolls it and examines it thoroughly. The blueprint is of the Odaiba Museum of Gems, where he plans to steal once again.
"I can't wait to get my hands on the Yomoto Silver Diamond! Then I'll have two of the jewels I need to power up my machine, which will destroy Tokyo!"
Izzy then resumes his examination of the blueprints. While doing so, he reaches into a nearby drawer and pulls out a notepad and a pencil. He then proceeds to take notes as he plots out how he's going to break in.
Back at the police station, Agumon and Gatomon are in the training room, where they are practicing their attacks.
"Pepper Breath!"
Agumon launches a fireball from his mouth. But Gatomon, as nimble as a cat can be, easily dodges and leaps at Agumon with her claws drawn.
"Lightning Claw!"
Agumon rises his arms just in time to keep Gatomon's claws from scratching across his face. Unfortunately, Gatomon hits Agumon with so much force that the small dinosaur is sent flying to the ground, landing on his back. Gatomon lands at the exact same moment on her feet, smiling.
"It looks like you still need some work, Agumon."
"Work nothing!" Agumon exclaimed as he got back up. "You only beat me because I'm a rookie and you're a champion!"
"Stop making excuses! It's not going to get you anywhere in battle. Do you think a bad guy will go easy on you because you're a rookie? What happens if you end up fighting a mega?"
"That's not going to happen Gatomon and you know it! We haven't had a mega threaten the Digiworld since the Dark Masters appeared ten years ago!"
"And I doubt that you could even beat a human with a gun!"
"I would be able to... if I had been trained to handle a situation like that!"
"And that's why you're assigned to my partner's older brother. He's not even as good as she is, and that's why Kari's got a champion, while Tai has you, a weak little rookie."
"I can take anything you can dish out, Gatomon, champion or no champion!"
"You want a rematch?" Gatomon asked, getting into a fighting stance. "Fine with me."
"I'll win this time!" Agumon exclaims, also getting into a fighting stance.
"On three, we begin!"
"Okay!"
"One. Two. Thr..."
Kari opens the door to the room and immediately calls for them.
"Gatomon! Agumon! Let's roll! We've got another case to solve!"
"We'll be right there!" Gatomon told her as Kari left.
"I guess we'll finish this later," Agumon told Gatomon.
"Looks like it."
The two Digimon grabbed their towels and headed out of the room, with Agumon in the lead.
About ten minutes later, Tai, Kari, Agumon, and Gatomon are on their way out of the station, determined to put their plan into action.
"What exactly is our plan again?" Agumon asked his partner.
"Simple," Tai replied. "We wait for Izzy to show up, we grab him, and we throw him in jail! Case closed!"
"The only problem with that is that we don't know where he'll strike next," Kari stated.
"I've got that covered."
"Huh?"
"You see, I read in the paper last week that this new jewel..."
"Wait... you actually read the newspaper?"
"Yes Kari, I read the newspaper! I'm not the brainless slug people take me to be."
Kari rolls her eyes in disbelief.
"Anyway, the Yomoto Silver Diamond was put on display at the Odaiba Museum of Gems last week. It's worth a lot of money, just like the jewel that was stolen last night."
"You mean the Zuna Red Ruby?"
"Is that what it's called? Yeah, I think that's the one."
"But how do you know Izzy will go after the diamond next?"
"Because it's the second most valuable gem in the city that's not in a private collection!"
"So you automatically think he'll go after the second most valuable one because he stole the third most valuable one last night."
"Exactly! I told you siblings think alike!"
"But wouldn't it make more sense to go after the most valuable jewel in Tokyo?"
"It's possible. But I think he'll go after it only if succeeds in stealing the second most valuable jewel in Tokyo. So we have to stop him tonight so that he doesn't get that chance."
"It doesn't make any sense to me, but I guess I have no choice. It is the only lead we have in the case."
"Then let's head to the Odaiba Museum of Gems!"
Once outside the station, the quarter hops into a squad car. Tai takes the wheel and drives off, with Kari sitting in the passenger's seat, and Agumon and Gatomon in the back.
It takes them about forty minutes to weave through the traffic of downtown Tokyo and make their way to the museum. Once there, the foursome decides to split up.
"Okay," Tai told them, "this is how it works. Kari and Gatomon, you two go inside and explain our theory to the museum curator."
"But it's your theory," Kari said. "You'd be able to explain it better than me."
"Agumon and I will search the perimeter to make sure Izzy hasn't already set up some traps," Tai continued, ignoring his sister.
"Shouldn't you be the one going inside?" Kari asked again.
"Got it? Good. Meet back here in ten minutes."
Tai and Agumon run off before Kari can ask her question once again.
"Why doesn't Tai pay attention to me?" Kari asked Gatomon.
"Because as the older sibling," Gatomon explained, "he decides what to do and we're supposed to follow him."
"Even if he has no idea what he's doing," Kari finished.
Kari and Gatomon head inside to find the curator. At the same time, on the other side of the building, Yolei, now fully dressed in a yellow blouse and a dark brown short skirt, was carrying around a digital camera and inspecting the exterior of the building. Needless to say, her outfit stuck to her body quite well.
"You would think museums would be built more secure these days," Yolei commented to herself as she continued to look around. "But the glass on those windows looks so thin that it would only take a high pitched squeal to break them."
Yolei began walking clockwise around the building, as she attempted to finish her calculations before someone spotted her.
Unfortunately for her, Tai and Agumon were walking counterclockwise as they did their perimeter check.
Even Tai could figure out what happens next.
The two humans bump into each other, sending them both to the ground. Agumon, who luckily was standing to Tai's right at the time, avoids the collision entirely. He runs over to check on his fallen partner.
"Tai! Are you alright?"
"Yeah," he replied, pushing his left hand through his hair as if he was trying to see if he had gotten a bump on the head somewhere. "I'm fine."
As Tai checked his head, Yolei got up from the ground and noticed the grass stain now present on her blouse.
"Oh great," she remarked sarcastically. "Now I have to walk around all day with this grass stain on my blouse."
"I'm sorry about that," Tai apologized, noticing Yolei for the first time. "I guess I wasn't watching where I was going."
"You got that right," Yolei confirmed, before noticing that her digital camera was still on the ground and easily reachable for anyone to snatch. It was then how much more she was in danger when she spotted a Digimon next to Tai.
"A Digimon?" she thought. "The most likely people to have Digimon are..."
"First Class Detective Tai Kamiya," the young man in front of him said, introducing himself, before pointing to the Digimon. "And that's my Digimon partner, Rookie Detective Agumon."
"Is that my position?" Agumon asked, never being introduced in that manner before.
"Yeah. I thought you knew that."
"The chief never tells me anything!"
"Figures."
"I thought so," Yolei told her self, "he's a detective with the Tokyo Police. But what is he doing here?"
"I apologize for bumping into you, miss..."
"Inoue. Yolei Inoue."
"Well, yeah," Tai began to stutter as Yolei noticed the blush on his face. "Sorry about the blouse. Grass stains aren't easy to get out."
"Don't worry about it," Yolei replied, although she wanted to get back at him for getting the stain in the first place. But she couldn't attack a police officer outright, especially if she had no specific reason for doing so.
"I was inspecting the outside of the museum because we've gotten word that someone may try to break into here tonight."
Yolei's face went white with fear. How did the police find out about their plan? She didn't blab about it to the underground officers she knew, especially since she was so close to her current business partner, Izzy. And no one else knew about her whereabouts, so there was no way the other informants she knew had gotten that information. So who could've spilled the beans?
Not wanting to risk getting caught and revealing Izzy's plan, Yolei turns and runs, picking up her camera as she departs.
"Wait! I said I was sorry!"
But Yolei doesn't stop and soon, she's out of sight. Tai sighs as he reflects on failing to get a date once again.
"Man, my luck sucks this week! She's the fifth beautiful girl I've met in the last few days! And I didn't get a chance to ask any of them out on dates!"
"Maybe your luck's starting to change," Agumon remarked, as he spotted a business card on the ground where Yolei had fallen down. Agumon picks up the card and hands it to Tai.
"Yes! Her phone number and e-mail address are on here!" He then notices 'U.I.' is listed on the card after her name. "What does U.I. mean?"
"Tai! We'd better finish our perimeter check so we can go and check the inside!"
"Right. I'll call Yolei and ask her out later. Right now, I have a case to solve."
Tai and Agumon continue their perimeter check, not knowing that Yolei could have helped them stop Izzy's latest plan.
Next Episode Preview: Narrated by Kari...
It looks like Tai's got his eyes on another girl. This Yolei Inoue may be cute, but those glasses of hers mean that she's no dummy. What's even more surprising is that we found out that she's an informant. What's an informant, you ask? Well, from what I know, informants are kind of like spies. They'll do anything to get a hold of top secret information and then they'll distribute it to their client, at a price. That may spell trouble for us if we're not careful! Don't miss the next episode, "The Informant Who Loved Me, Part 2!" That's next time!
Comments, suggestions for future cases, and questions about the series are welcome and recommended! Please leave a review or e-mail me with them!
Copyright Date: 4/7/02
Story Written by Freedom Fighter
Summary: An evil genius begins stealing jewels in order to power up an invention that will destroy Tokyo! Luckily, he has an informant to help him keep one step ahead of the good guys. Especially our heroes, Tai and Kari. Will this genius succeed, or will the Kamiyas stop him in time?
Well, four months later, I finally got around to writing this. You guys all enjoy this! Oh... and the episodes will be shorter now. I hope that you won't mind.
Anyway, read on to find out Tai and Kari's newest adventure!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this fanfic.
Rating: R, contains profane language, violence, and implied sexual situations. Do not read this if you are too young or you are against reading fanfics that contain this type of stuff.
*****
London, England
The dreary foggy morning of this world famous city changes dramatically as gunshots ring out in one of the tiny back alleys.
Here, we'll find a blond haired nineteen year old young man, dressed in a business suit, on the run from three gang members with machine guns. No one knows what exactly started this little chase, but young Takeru "TK" Takashi knew that in order to live to see the rest of the day, he'd have to find a way out of this.
Unfortunately, the worst thing that could have happened to TK did.
He ran into a dead end.
"Drats!" TK shouted out, knowing that his fate was practically sealed. And as expected, the three gangsters appear, with their guns drawn and ready to fire.
"Guys... couldn't we talk this over?" he asked nervously before pulling out his compact digital camera. "Look, I'll just give you my camera and the film inside, and we'll call it even, okay?"
The gangsters ignore TK's offer, approaching him ever closer.
"Geese," TK thought to himself, "I'd better think of something fast or I'm a..."
Too late, as the gangsters open fire on the teen. Bullets start piercing TK's body all over, with only fractions of a second separating each hit. TK immediately falls over and begins to bleed to death as the last of the bullets fly over him. TK tries to mouth out some last words, but the bleeding is too great, as his last breath exits his body.
The gangsters smile as they walk closer to make sure their job is finished. One of them kicks TK, causing the body to switch positions so that it now faces the opposite way that it was originally. They then walk away, laughing maniacally. As they do, the faint sound of police sirens can be heard approaching the alley.
Two hours later, halfway across the world, in the Odaiba district of Tokyo, Japan...
Chief Matt Ishida was sitting at a wooden table in his one-person apartment, eating his dinner of ramen noodles. You would think that a police chief would have at least a decent place to live, or at least a girlfriend. Unfortunately, he has neither, so he has to settle for what he has now.
But this normal evening alone was about to be unexpectedly interrupted, as the phone begins to ring. Matt gets up from his seat and goes to answer it.
It happens to be Matt's mother, Nancy Takashi. After Matt's parents had divorced when they were young, his mom and his younger brother, TK, moved to London. There, his mother was able to pursue her career in journalism and hopefully steer TK in the same direction.
"Matt..." Mrs. Takashi began sadly as Matt could hear her voice from the receiver.
"What's wrong, mom? This doesn't seem like a routine phone call."
"It's not. Matt, I have some bad news."
"Oh boy," Matt thought, "I wonder how bad it is."
"Matt... I hate to tell you this, but..."
Matt waited for his mother to tell him what had just transpired a few hours ago...
"Scotland Yard called me about ten minutes ago. They said that your brother, TK, was gunned down in a back alley by some gangsters. They said that there were at least a couple dozen bullet holes in his body."
"Are you saying what I think you're saying?" Matt asked, beginning to break down.
"Yes... TK's dead, Matt."
That's all Matt needed to hear. He couldn't believe it. His younger brother was dead, just like that. What was worse is that there was nothing he could have done to save him.
But Matt wanted to know why this had happened and if there's was anything he could do to avenge his brother's untimely death.
"Mom, I'm leaving on the next flight out! I've got to see if I can catch these murderers!"
"I understand, Matt. I'll see you tonight then, hopefully."
Matt nodded and then said goodbye as he hangs up the phone. He then runs off to his room and packs his stuff. In minutes, he heads out of his apartment with a big brown luggage bag in hand. He locks the door and heads off to the nearest airport, ignoring the fact that his unfinished bowl of noodles still sits on the dining table.
Later that night, at the Tokyo Cultural Museum, a strange figure in a black suit can be seen sneaking around the perimeter. Moments later, he opens a window on the side of the building and crawls through it.
Once inside, the intruder makes his way to the 'Exotica' exhibit, where he spots a giant red ruby, ripe for picking. Following the exact instructions that someone had given him, he makes his way around the intricate security system until he finally gets close enough to pluck the ruby from its perch.
The intruder makes his way out as the pressure sensitive alarm that was under the ruby when he removed it goes off. He manages to escape before the police arrive, ensuring that the mission was successful. Pulling off his mask, the red haired young man laughs as he holds the ruby up to the night sky, celebrating his accomplishment.
"Finally, the first part of the puzzle is complete! I really have to thank my informant, my assistant, and my co-worker for this. She does so much for me. I think I'll reward her when I get back to the laboratory."
The intruder laughs again as he puts the ruby back inside his suit, slips his mask back on, and then runs off into the darkness... at least, until his next heist.
*****
(Begin theme song - Limp Bizkit's "Boiler")
The siren of an ambulance wails in the background. Younger versions of Tai and Kari
are standing with their father and a hundred other mourners, all dressed in black. A gravestone marked with their family last name, Kamiya, is on it. Kari weeps openly into her brother's arms as a coffin is slowly lowered into a hole in the ground and then promptly buried in dirt.
Now in present time, Tai, dressed in a gray suit with matching pants along with a white buttoned long sleeve shirt and plain orange tie, walks out of a police station. Kari is walking next to him, wearing the same clothes as her older brother, with the exception of a knee length skirt in place of pants.
Meanwhile, the title screen appears...
"The Detectives Kamiya"
Starring Tai Kamiya...
Tai smiles goofily while lying in bed as he reminisces about an old girlfriend.
Kari Kamiya...
Kari walks through the police station as she flips through some papers in a folder.
Also Starring Matt Ishida as the Chief...
Matt opens a steel door and then gasps in fright at the sight of the figure standing behind it.
Fanfic Written and Edited by Freedom Fighter...
Kari dives into a small hole in the side of the building to avoid getting burned. In another scene, Tai motions to punch someone in the face, but he misses.
As the song comes to an end, Tai and Kari stand in front of their mother's grave. Kari sheds a tear as she places a bouquet of flowers next to the tombstone. Tai hugs his little sister as he looks up to the sky, knowing that their mother is now in a better place.
(End theme song)
*****
Episode 4 - "The Informant Who Loved Me, Part 1"
The following morning, Tai and Kari Kamiya enter the Tokyo Police Station, dressed in their detective outfits and ready to go.
Upon entering, they spot an orange afro haired young man sitting behind the front desk. He is dressed similar to how Tai is, except for the fact that his suit is dark blue rather than a gray one. He looks up at the duo and greets them appropriately.
"Good morning, officers!" he said, saluting them.
"Good morning..." Tai responded nervously, not familiar with who this guy was.
"Allow me to introduce myself, mates. Officer Derek Cirrus, from Australia!"
"Australia?" Kari asked before remembering a memo she had received the other day. "You're the guy that transferred from Sydney, right?"
"That is correct, miss. And you are?"
"First Class Detective Tai Kamiya," Tai spoke, before pointing to Kari. "And this is my younger sister, First Class Detective Kari Kamiya."
"It's a pleasure to meet you," Kari smiled, shaking hands with Derek. "So, where's the chief this morning?"
"Chief Ishida? I guess you haven't heard yet, but he went on leave last night for personal reasons."
"I see. So we must be free to relax the whole day, huh?"
"Not exactly," Derek replied, handing Tai a folder. "The higher-ups said they want you two to get on this case immediately."
"I can handle it alone. Besides, Kari won't mind hanging around with you for awhile Derek."
Tai starts to sneak away, but Kari notices this right away.
"Hold on, Tai! I know what you're up to!"
"What could you ever mean?" Tai asked Kari back, pretending as if he didn't know.
"You know what I'm damn talking about! You're trying to hook me up with him, aren't you?"
"So what if I am? You're never going to get a guy to sleep with you if I don't take the initiative and pick someone for you!"
"Tai! How many times have I told you that my sex life is none of your business?"
"And I'm going to make it my business until you're no longer a virgin!"
"Is that all you care about? You won't be happy until I'm just like you!"
"Wait a minute! I didn't mean it that way!"
Kari walks up, snatches the folder out of Tai's hands, and then stomps away.
"Kari! Wait! I'm sorry!"
"Nice going," Derek said sarcastically before turning serious. "But although your sister is quite the looker, I'm not interested in dating her."
"Then why did you just stand there instead of saying something?"
"Well, I've dated enough women to know that you don't mess with one when they're angry."
Tai was a bit confused as to what that statement meant, but he knew that it wasn't anything to smile about.
Over in the office that the siblings shared, Kari was sitting at her desk. She was fuming over what her brother had tried to do.
"Why does Tai always do that? Doesn't he know that good things come to those who wait? I'll meet my prince... eventually."
Kari then opens the folder that she had snatched from her brother. She begins reading the information in it as she tries to decipher what they would be up against next. She then notices one statement in particular that makes her worry.
"It's him again," she sighs. "Tai's not going to be too pleased when he finds out who were up against."
At that moment, Tai opens the door and stumbles in.
"Look Kari, I'm sorry about what happened out there. It's just that I'm worried about you and I wonder if you're normal or something like that, so please don't be mad!"
Kari starts to fume again, but she puts aside beating her brother to a pulp for the time being and pushes the folder towards him.
"We'll deal with that later. For now, I think that you'd better check this out."
Tai opens the folder and begins to examine the contents. At first, he disapproves of the case.
"A jewel thief? Honestly, sometimes I think they just give us the grunt work that none of the lazy bums below us want to take."
But he reads on and discovers the supposed identity of the thief.
"The methods that this thief used... he sounds awfully familiar."
"I knew you would think so. That's why I thought ahead and pulled up his profile."
Tai walked over so that he was standing right behind his sister as he looked at the image shown on the screen.
"Just as I thought. We meet again... Izzy Izumi."
*****
Meanwhile, halfway across the city, in the bedroom of a secret laboratory hidden several hundred feet below an office building, two young individuals are finally getting up after having a busy night together.
"So," began the voice of the female, "did you enjoy that?"
"No one knows so many exhilarating sexual positions than you do!" exclaimed the male.
"And that was just volume one, dear. By next week, I'll be able to do twice as many!"
"I can hardly wait."
Finally, the male tumbles out of the bed. He has his back turned away from the camera and he's not wearing any clothes. But his uncombed auburn colored hair and his intelligent sounding voice easily gives away this twenty-one year old's identity.
"Where are you going, Izzy?" the female asked, sitting up. The purple haired twenty year old female glanced over at Izzy and smiled as he started walking away.
"To work, of course. I have a doomsday machine to finish building, remember?"
The young woman jumps out of bed, uses the bedsheets to cover up her nude body, and then she runs over towards Izzy.
"Wait a minute! I want to help!"
"I can handle it myself, Yolei. I am a genius."
"But Izzy," Yolei pleaded, "there's so much I can do for you! Just wait for me to take a shower, and then I'll be right with you!"
"No! I want you take that shower and then leave right away!"
"You know, I could use a little bit of help..."
"Geese, is that all you think about?"
"Izzy..."
"Yolei, no! We did it eleven times last night! ELEVEN TIMES!"
"Actually, it was an even dozen."
"I don't care how many times we did! The point is... haven't you had enough?"
"Now Izzy," Yolei smiled goofily, "you know I never get tired! And besides, one more isn't going to hurt!"
"I'm lucky that my soul hasn't been downloaded to the hard drive above!"
"What?"
"How can we have sex that many times and still be breathing normally, much less be alive at all?"
Yolei shrugs her shoulders. "You tell me. You're the genius. I'm just the informant, who does anything to get what she wants. Even if it means killing someone, drinking alcohol until I puke, or having sex with every member of the neighborhood gang! I'll get the information I need, no matter what it..."
"Yolei, I asked you why we're still alive after all of that sex! I didn't ask what you do for a living!"
"Sorry," she apologized.
"Anyway, you know we have to keep our relationship under wraps. Because you're an informant, you have to be accessible to anyone at any time. If people find out that we're working together, we'll both be in trouble! No one will trust you anymore, others will start using you to get to me, and eventually, we'll both be killed! Do you want that to happen?"
Yolei shook her head. Getting killed wasn't high on her list of things to do.
"Good. Then take a shower and get out of here. I already have the plans for tonight's heist, so meet me at the usual. Got it?"
"Okay," Yolei sighed giving up. As she tosses the bedsheets aside and heads for the bathroom, Izzy walks out of the room and to the main laboratory.
Once in the laboratory, Izzy spots a red ruby sitting on one of the tables. Next to is a blueprint that has been rolled up. He unrolls it and examines it thoroughly. The blueprint is of the Odaiba Museum of Gems, where he plans to steal once again.
"I can't wait to get my hands on the Yomoto Silver Diamond! Then I'll have two of the jewels I need to power up my machine, which will destroy Tokyo!"
Izzy then resumes his examination of the blueprints. While doing so, he reaches into a nearby drawer and pulls out a notepad and a pencil. He then proceeds to take notes as he plots out how he's going to break in.
Back at the police station, Agumon and Gatomon are in the training room, where they are practicing their attacks.
"Pepper Breath!"
Agumon launches a fireball from his mouth. But Gatomon, as nimble as a cat can be, easily dodges and leaps at Agumon with her claws drawn.
"Lightning Claw!"
Agumon rises his arms just in time to keep Gatomon's claws from scratching across his face. Unfortunately, Gatomon hits Agumon with so much force that the small dinosaur is sent flying to the ground, landing on his back. Gatomon lands at the exact same moment on her feet, smiling.
"It looks like you still need some work, Agumon."
"Work nothing!" Agumon exclaimed as he got back up. "You only beat me because I'm a rookie and you're a champion!"
"Stop making excuses! It's not going to get you anywhere in battle. Do you think a bad guy will go easy on you because you're a rookie? What happens if you end up fighting a mega?"
"That's not going to happen Gatomon and you know it! We haven't had a mega threaten the Digiworld since the Dark Masters appeared ten years ago!"
"And I doubt that you could even beat a human with a gun!"
"I would be able to... if I had been trained to handle a situation like that!"
"And that's why you're assigned to my partner's older brother. He's not even as good as she is, and that's why Kari's got a champion, while Tai has you, a weak little rookie."
"I can take anything you can dish out, Gatomon, champion or no champion!"
"You want a rematch?" Gatomon asked, getting into a fighting stance. "Fine with me."
"I'll win this time!" Agumon exclaims, also getting into a fighting stance.
"On three, we begin!"
"Okay!"
"One. Two. Thr..."
Kari opens the door to the room and immediately calls for them.
"Gatomon! Agumon! Let's roll! We've got another case to solve!"
"We'll be right there!" Gatomon told her as Kari left.
"I guess we'll finish this later," Agumon told Gatomon.
"Looks like it."
The two Digimon grabbed their towels and headed out of the room, with Agumon in the lead.
About ten minutes later, Tai, Kari, Agumon, and Gatomon are on their way out of the station, determined to put their plan into action.
"What exactly is our plan again?" Agumon asked his partner.
"Simple," Tai replied. "We wait for Izzy to show up, we grab him, and we throw him in jail! Case closed!"
"The only problem with that is that we don't know where he'll strike next," Kari stated.
"I've got that covered."
"Huh?"
"You see, I read in the paper last week that this new jewel..."
"Wait... you actually read the newspaper?"
"Yes Kari, I read the newspaper! I'm not the brainless slug people take me to be."
Kari rolls her eyes in disbelief.
"Anyway, the Yomoto Silver Diamond was put on display at the Odaiba Museum of Gems last week. It's worth a lot of money, just like the jewel that was stolen last night."
"You mean the Zuna Red Ruby?"
"Is that what it's called? Yeah, I think that's the one."
"But how do you know Izzy will go after the diamond next?"
"Because it's the second most valuable gem in the city that's not in a private collection!"
"So you automatically think he'll go after the second most valuable one because he stole the third most valuable one last night."
"Exactly! I told you siblings think alike!"
"But wouldn't it make more sense to go after the most valuable jewel in Tokyo?"
"It's possible. But I think he'll go after it only if succeeds in stealing the second most valuable jewel in Tokyo. So we have to stop him tonight so that he doesn't get that chance."
"It doesn't make any sense to me, but I guess I have no choice. It is the only lead we have in the case."
"Then let's head to the Odaiba Museum of Gems!"
Once outside the station, the quarter hops into a squad car. Tai takes the wheel and drives off, with Kari sitting in the passenger's seat, and Agumon and Gatomon in the back.
It takes them about forty minutes to weave through the traffic of downtown Tokyo and make their way to the museum. Once there, the foursome decides to split up.
"Okay," Tai told them, "this is how it works. Kari and Gatomon, you two go inside and explain our theory to the museum curator."
"But it's your theory," Kari said. "You'd be able to explain it better than me."
"Agumon and I will search the perimeter to make sure Izzy hasn't already set up some traps," Tai continued, ignoring his sister.
"Shouldn't you be the one going inside?" Kari asked again.
"Got it? Good. Meet back here in ten minutes."
Tai and Agumon run off before Kari can ask her question once again.
"Why doesn't Tai pay attention to me?" Kari asked Gatomon.
"Because as the older sibling," Gatomon explained, "he decides what to do and we're supposed to follow him."
"Even if he has no idea what he's doing," Kari finished.
Kari and Gatomon head inside to find the curator. At the same time, on the other side of the building, Yolei, now fully dressed in a yellow blouse and a dark brown short skirt, was carrying around a digital camera and inspecting the exterior of the building. Needless to say, her outfit stuck to her body quite well.
"You would think museums would be built more secure these days," Yolei commented to herself as she continued to look around. "But the glass on those windows looks so thin that it would only take a high pitched squeal to break them."
Yolei began walking clockwise around the building, as she attempted to finish her calculations before someone spotted her.
Unfortunately for her, Tai and Agumon were walking counterclockwise as they did their perimeter check.
Even Tai could figure out what happens next.
The two humans bump into each other, sending them both to the ground. Agumon, who luckily was standing to Tai's right at the time, avoids the collision entirely. He runs over to check on his fallen partner.
"Tai! Are you alright?"
"Yeah," he replied, pushing his left hand through his hair as if he was trying to see if he had gotten a bump on the head somewhere. "I'm fine."
As Tai checked his head, Yolei got up from the ground and noticed the grass stain now present on her blouse.
"Oh great," she remarked sarcastically. "Now I have to walk around all day with this grass stain on my blouse."
"I'm sorry about that," Tai apologized, noticing Yolei for the first time. "I guess I wasn't watching where I was going."
"You got that right," Yolei confirmed, before noticing that her digital camera was still on the ground and easily reachable for anyone to snatch. It was then how much more she was in danger when she spotted a Digimon next to Tai.
"A Digimon?" she thought. "The most likely people to have Digimon are..."
"First Class Detective Tai Kamiya," the young man in front of him said, introducing himself, before pointing to the Digimon. "And that's my Digimon partner, Rookie Detective Agumon."
"Is that my position?" Agumon asked, never being introduced in that manner before.
"Yeah. I thought you knew that."
"The chief never tells me anything!"
"Figures."
"I thought so," Yolei told her self, "he's a detective with the Tokyo Police. But what is he doing here?"
"I apologize for bumping into you, miss..."
"Inoue. Yolei Inoue."
"Well, yeah," Tai began to stutter as Yolei noticed the blush on his face. "Sorry about the blouse. Grass stains aren't easy to get out."
"Don't worry about it," Yolei replied, although she wanted to get back at him for getting the stain in the first place. But she couldn't attack a police officer outright, especially if she had no specific reason for doing so.
"I was inspecting the outside of the museum because we've gotten word that someone may try to break into here tonight."
Yolei's face went white with fear. How did the police find out about their plan? She didn't blab about it to the underground officers she knew, especially since she was so close to her current business partner, Izzy. And no one else knew about her whereabouts, so there was no way the other informants she knew had gotten that information. So who could've spilled the beans?
Not wanting to risk getting caught and revealing Izzy's plan, Yolei turns and runs, picking up her camera as she departs.
"Wait! I said I was sorry!"
But Yolei doesn't stop and soon, she's out of sight. Tai sighs as he reflects on failing to get a date once again.
"Man, my luck sucks this week! She's the fifth beautiful girl I've met in the last few days! And I didn't get a chance to ask any of them out on dates!"
"Maybe your luck's starting to change," Agumon remarked, as he spotted a business card on the ground where Yolei had fallen down. Agumon picks up the card and hands it to Tai.
"Yes! Her phone number and e-mail address are on here!" He then notices 'U.I.' is listed on the card after her name. "What does U.I. mean?"
"Tai! We'd better finish our perimeter check so we can go and check the inside!"
"Right. I'll call Yolei and ask her out later. Right now, I have a case to solve."
Tai and Agumon continue their perimeter check, not knowing that Yolei could have helped them stop Izzy's latest plan.
Next Episode Preview: Narrated by Kari...
It looks like Tai's got his eyes on another girl. This Yolei Inoue may be cute, but those glasses of hers mean that she's no dummy. What's even more surprising is that we found out that she's an informant. What's an informant, you ask? Well, from what I know, informants are kind of like spies. They'll do anything to get a hold of top secret information and then they'll distribute it to their client, at a price. That may spell trouble for us if we're not careful! Don't miss the next episode, "The Informant Who Loved Me, Part 2!" That's next time!
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Copyright Date: 4/7/02