Prayer
By Ryan Bodle
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or any associated characters. I write this for entertainment purposes only and not for copyright infringement. The song is written by 'Disturbed.'
'Another dream that will never come true Just to compliment your sorrow.'
Davis snapped his eyes wide open after another perfect dream. The one where took Kari to the prom, the perfect evening he planned, went right in every way, Davis didn't screw up once. It was perfect, and she made it that. Then he woke up. He was still in class, he sighed and sat back, drifting his eyes to the front, turning them away again.
Meanwhile.
The caretaker was on all fours looking under the boiler in the recesses of the school, he knew something wasn't right with it, but not being an expert, he couldn't figure what. He stood up again and turned the main valve off, cutting the gas supply off to the school and opened the furnace to look there, there was a whistling sound coming from the back of it, he smelt a feint streak of gas. Stepping back, he tripped over something, it startled him but that wasn't what scared him. A tinder box he used in emergencies was catapulted across the dark room into the back of the furnace.
It sparked. Instantly, that room was engulfed in flames, that being the least the worries. The caretaker had no chance of survival. The repercussions were something instant and terrifying.
'Another life that I've taken from you A gift to add on to your pain and suffering.'
"So x differentiated comes to," the teacher stopped as the entire building shook. Kari paying eager attention looked up to the ceiling. She thought the worst fears of a digimon. They surged deeper than that. The plaster on the walls, exploded off the structure, covering the class, Kari fell over instinctively covering her head and going to the fetal position.
Davis was at a standing position at the first quake. "What's going on?" he asked aloud.
The gas sped around the pipes of the school, the flame from the tinder caused a chain reaction around the entire pipe work of the building, as the flame burst through the walls, taking the structural integrity with it. It quickly began to collapse.
The floor caved beneath Davis' feet as windows shattered and walls became nothing. Rubble began to come down on top. Davis, slammed through one floor and hit the ground floor hard. He saw the debris coming for him and rolled out the way under shelter of a desk. Everything went black.
'Another truth you can never believe Has crippled you completely.'
He remained conscious and saw nothing but black. He coughed violently. 'What the hell just happened?' He asked. He lay in a void of the rubble. Somehow, the desk stood up pretty well, two legs buckled but the other two stood firm, creating a pocket for him to lay in. The rubble had slid in underneath making a stable wall for now, he was safe. He coughed again. The dust was every where.
A low voice grumbled, "Who's there?" Davis leapt round on his side.
"Hello?" he asked back, he thought he faintly recognized that voice.
"Hello? Who's there?" the harmonics changed, it wasn't her. He must have dreamt it. Hoping it would be her. He cursed himself for wishing her to be in that situation but he'd want her more than anybody else.
"It's Daisuke," he answered. "Motmiya Daisuke?"
"Davis? I know you, you're the grade above me."
"What's your name?" The was a silence. "You still there?"
"Yeah, sorry, my name's, it's," another pause, "Anna." Davis peered through a gap to his side but saw nothing.
"Anna, huh? You ok in there?"
"I guess, I hurt my leg and my chest is hurting as well, but I feel ok, what happened Davis?"
"I have no idea." More stirring in the rubble, Davis covered his head and closed his eyes. Nothing. He opened them again.
"Maybe we should talk quietly," Anna said in a whisper.
"Yeah."
'All the cries you're beginning to hear Trapped in your mind, and the sound is deafening.'
"Are we in trouble?" Anna asked. Her breathing was heavy.
"No way, we're alive now right? If we hold on, someone will come for us," Davis answered.
"How do you know?"
"How many people are going to miss an exploding building? Someone is going to have to clear this up, and when they do, they'll find us."
'Let me enlighten you This is the way I pray.'
There had been silence for a good few minutes now, Davis checked the time on his D3. He spoke again, "Anna, are you there?" There was no answer. "Anna!" He heard her stir, she was about to drift to sleep.
"Yes Davis, I'm here, still," she groaned. "My head hurts."
"Hey, don't go to sleep!" Davis burst. "You could have concussion, you have to stay awake."
"I know," she answered disappointed. "Didn't figure you to be an all knowing guy. Thought you were just the soccer obsessed hunk from the grade above." Davis blushed unknowingly.
"How do you say that?"
"You don't know? I take it back," Anna answered. "Didn't you know, you have any girl in the school. I'd jump at the chance to go out with you, well, maybe if I didn't have a crush on someone else."
"Oh yeah and who's the lucky guy?" There was silence. "Anna?"
"I don't want to say."
"Aw come on, I won't tell, who is it?"
"Promise?"
"On my goggles," he answered.
"Well, he's a friend of yours, Takeru." Davis was stunned.
"T.K? Over me?" He heard her laugh. He then got upbeat. "Hey, maybe I can hook you up."
"Huh? No wait Davis."
"Come on, you haven't got anything to loose and it would cut me some slack with Kari."
"Kari? You have a crush on her." Davis' heart panged at that. What did he say?
"Well, yeah, feels more than a crush though."
"I know what you mean."
"So tell me why you like T.K."
"You really want to hear?"
"Sure I've got time to kill."
'Living just isn't hard enough Burn me alive, inside Living my life's not hard enough Take everything away.'
Tai, Izzy and Sora stood at the edges of the school grounds. All in disbelief. There was just a pile of concrete where it used to be. Tai snapped to his senses.
"Kari?" He ran forwards. "KARI!" The other two followed, their digimon in their bags. Tai was frantically removing clumps of debris, digging his way through.
"Tai, calm down!" Izzy said running beside him. "She could be anywhere, think this through." Tai grabbed Izzy by his collar.
"We don't have time to sit on our asses and think Izzy!" He threw him down and started digging again. Sirens were sounding, the emergency services were sounding.
"Izzy, we have to help Tai, God knows who else is under there," Sora spoke up. Izzy nodded and got to his feet.
"Well then we need big hands to help, Tentamon, time to digivolve," the bug didgimon hopped out and stood ready.
*Tentmon digivolve to.....KABUTERIMON!*
The champion digimon stood tall and strong. "Ok Kabuterimon, lets clear this mess up and take from the top, else they'll all cave in."
"Right," Kabuterimon spread his wings and went above the wreck. With two hands he grabbed the rubble in a huge clump, and relocated it far from the disaster site. Sora pulled out her digivice.
"Ready Biyomon?"
"You bet!" The bird chirped.
*Biyomon digivolve to.....BIRDRAMON!*
The larger fiery bird took flight to assist Kabuterimon. Meanwhile the three older Digidestined dug from the side.
'Another nightmare about to come true Will manifest tomorrow Another love that I've taken from you Lost in time, on the edge of suffering .'
"And that's it pretty much," Anna just finished going on about T.K and there was a lot to here. Davis almost felt jealous. "Davis?"
"Yeah?"
"Why don't you tell me about Kari?"
"Uh, well, I, uh, you know she's a great girl, great personality and that," he passed off.
"Oh no Motomiya, I just spilled my guts to you, lets hear it," she sounded pressured. So he gave in straight away, like he always did with any girl.
"Well she's really smart, I mean really smart. I should ask her to tutor me sometime. Hey! That's a great idea! Why didn't I think of it before? What else? Oh yeah, she's just so great looking, I mean I feel my knees buckle when I see for the first time every morning, and her smile, it's like so amazingly..wow." There was a giggle from Anna. "Huh?"
"Oh, nothing just keep going," Davis was stunned for some stupid reason. He shook the cobwebs.
"Where was I? Oh yeah, she's got deep brown eyes, they're like chocolate swirlies with this kinda shine to them, they just go on forever, I can get so lost in them."
"Call the military! We have monsters here!" Lieutenant Masako shouted down the radio, coming from his unit car. He drew his 9mm and aimed at Kabuterimon, firing twice. They ricocheted off his tough shell. Kabuterimon turned and went back to his work. Unseen to the brash police officer, ambulances had arrived already and were tending to casualties that had already been pulled free by the digi-destined and other volunteers who ran to help.
"Get back people!" Masako shouted through the megaphone, "this monster threat will be dealt with properly, keep your distance and come away from the wreckage.
Tai turned to the police officer. "Who are you calling a monster? They're digimon and they're helping us!" He carried on digging.
'Another taste of the evil I breed Will level you completely '
Sora was with the ambulances, running medic errands with blankets and other small pieces of equipment she could handle safely. Whenever free, she would kneel beside someone, and look after to them in her own way. She didn't know how she held back the tears. She figured it was too busy.
Izzy studied the area with his laptop, his home made sensors flaring information all over his screen. "It was started by the gas?" His eyes widened. "And it's still flowing?" He made a run to the nearest pay phone, he had to run to the edge of the block. He plugged his laptop in and dialed quickly.
'What number please?' the text wrote. 'Gas suppliers.' 'Define, please.' 'Gas suppliers to Odaiba High School.' 'Connecting, please wait.' Izzy tapped his fingers impatiently.
His speaker activated. "Odaiba Gas switchboard."
"You have to shut off the gas to the Odaiba High school right away!" Izzy shouted straight away, almost cutting the lady off.
"Is it an emergency?"
"Yes! There's been a 911 distress call there and the gas is leaking, it could cause several deaths!"
"One moment," how could she sound so calm. There was complete silence for a good two minutes. "911 distress confirmed, we have turned the gas off, anything else?"
"No thank you," Izzy terminated and rushed back.
'Bring to life everything that you fear Live in the dark, and the world is threatening'
"Leave them alone!" Izzy had gotten back to see Lieutenant Masako hadn't given up on his attempt to stop the two champion digimon. He now saw Tai trying to wrestle the gun form his hand. "They're trying to help! Can't you see that?"
"For all I know, they caused this scene son," Masako fought back. "They're a threat to society."
"You're wrong!" Izzy interrupted. "The explosion was caused by the gas ignited wrongly inside, it spread through the pipes tearing it up from the inside!" Tai pushed the Lieutenant away and bawled his fists. "Tai! Isn't you're sister more important?" Tai glared at the policeman.
"Yeah," he growled and turned away.
'Let me enlighten you This is the way I pray.'
Davis hadn't run out of things to say yet. "Her favorite color is pink, she always has this camera with her, we got a lot of pictures of great times in the Dig," he stopped himself. "Well just of good times we've had together."
"Just you two?"
"I wish," Davis sighed. "Me, Kari, T.K, Cody, Yolei, Tai, Matt and the others. All kinds of stuff."
"Sounds like you like a lot, you know almost everything about her," Anna cut off.
"Yeah and I've tried almost everything to be with her."
"Like what?"
"Well I always try hard at football and."
"You play football too?"
"Huh? Oh, I guess you don't know. Ninety percent of the countries in the world call soccer football. The name has kind of worn on me."
"Wow, ok so you always try hard."
"Yeah and this one time for the spring dance, I went to lessons to learn how to dance so I could impress her, but when I got the chance to ask her to dance, Tai, her brother stopped me and T.K slipped in behind and got there. Tai didn't even realize, but like he'd stop him."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, Kari and T.K have been friends since little kids, they pretty much grew up together, and they must be so perfect for each other," Davis went downbeat.
"You're beating yourself up over nothing Davis."
"Yeah, you should see 'em, it kills me."
"Have you ever seen them go out?"
"No, don't think T.K ever asked her out," Davis replied.
"Have you?" His mouth fell open. It was so simple, he always went out to be the best, so she could have the best, and after all that attempting to impress, he never thought about it simply, despite the fact he was simple himself. "You never actually asked her?"
"Well, uh, erm, I, uh," he stammered uncontrollably. 'How embarrassing.' Just when he couldn't get any denser. It happened. "No," he hung his head. Anna laughed. "What's so funny?"
"You, silly," she answered. "After all that, you did everything for her and done it all wrong from step one. What was you thinking?"
"I don't know, I can't think around her, I'm just taken over and, well I don't think." She laughed again. "Yeah ok, laugh it up." She did, eventually he smirked. "I am pretty stupid huh?"
"Yes."
"That's our secret ok?"
"It's not common knowledge already?"
"You know what I mean."
Living just isn't hard enough Burn me alive, inside Living my life's not hard enough Take everything away.
The mess had half cleared and many had been dragged clear. No ray of hope was wide. Over a hundred dead already. Tai's arms burned as he picked up rock after rock. He tossed them aside, elbows worn hardly bent, but he carried on. He wouldn't stop, not until he found her.
He would find her, the pile got less and less and he tore his way through. One rock just wouldn't move. Judging by the pile he figured if he got rid of this one, he'd clear a huge gap. He wasted no time trying. Pull, it wouldn't budge. He tried again, feeling his hands tear and blood became vacant, his cut started to sting.
"Tai, you'll hurt yourself," Matt Ishida walked up beside him. Tai let go.
"I have to find Kari, you've got to start digging!" Tai shouted in a pleading tone.
"I will, Tai, but you've got to stop, you'll hurt yourself badly, and then how will you help her?" Tai was silent. "Show me your hands." Tai held them out, they were covered in dirt and blood vaguely stained them. It was caused by the top layer of skin being ripped off in places. Matt produced a bottle of water and washed them over. With nothing else to use, he tore his school shirt at the sleeve and used the rags to tie up the wounds.
"Now, lest try moving that rock together ok?" Tai nodded and pulled his hand into a fist. The two bent down grabbing the rock firmly.
"One three, one, two, three!" They both pulled with everything they had.
'Return to me Leave me no one Turn to me Return to me Cast aside.'
"Ok, so I ask out for dinner?" Davis asked Anna, to himself he was planning it out, hoping she would say what was wrong.
"Why always dinner? Or lunch? Or coffee? It's been done before don't you think?" Davis thought hard.
"Ice-cream!" he answered. "She loves ice cream. I'll ask her to go out for ice cream one day after school."
"That sounds nice, and you can walk her home, then ask her out again sometime," it all sounded pre-ordained now.
"Uh, wait, if this is going to be a date, what should I do, besides buy her ice cream?"
"What?"
"Hey, I've only ever wanted to date Kari, I never thought about it," he cowered. She laughed again.
"Well at least you didn't ask a guy, you'd get the completely wrong idea. Well you should talk to her, find out all about her I guess."
"But I already do," Davis butted in.
"So pretend that you don't, and ask her things, you might even find out things you didn't know before."
"Talk, check, treat her nice must be a comes as standard feature, man I'm gonna have to try extra hard not to turn into a mega blow-hard," he cringed. Every minute, he seemed to make an ass of himself, this in result made Anna laugh. "Hey, maybe you should ask T.K out."
"But I'm a grade below, not to mention a girl."
"That never stopped Yolei before, isn't this meant to be some kind of new era for girls or something?"
"Well I guess," there was another awkward silence. Davis was going to say something, when small bits of rubble scattered. He covered his head again. The school wasn't coming on top of him again. His eyes beamed, it was being moved, somebody was digging through. "They found us!" He shouted to Anna.
'You've made me turn away.'
"I heard a voice," Matt started as they gradually pulled the large boulder off together, Izzy had joined the effort, whilst not as much as the other two it still made a difference. They all together, chucked it aside.
"Hey! Who's down there!?" Tai shouted looking down on his knees through gaps of cement and snapped planks.
"It's me Davis! I'm down here!" The three elder digi-destined dug together.
"Davis! Have you seen Kari?" Tai asked, scurrying through the debris. Davis was about to answer.
"I'm here too, Tai," that came from Anna, Davis spun his neck.
"Kari? Huh?"
"You expected me to tell you upfront? How would I talk to the real you Davis," she answered.
"But-but."
"You better ask me out for ice cream soon, before they find us." Davis was still in shock, he shook the cobwebs.
"Erm, Kari, would you like to join me for ice cream someday?"
"I would love that Davis."
"Why did you go through all that?"
"If you knew it was me, you'd have been you're same old blow-hard self, and I was scared Davis, you were the last thing I wanted right now."
"So you don't want to go out with me?"
"Then when we talked, I found out how such a sweet guy you really are, and I think we should have time talk. For one thing, you don't have to worry about T.K, you should be more worried about Tai."
Light appeared for the first time in hours over Davis. Tai peeped through the hole, which was big enough to fit through.
"Why should he worry about me?" Kari from the other small pocket answered.
"Davis just asked me out."
"Oh no he didn't!" Tai thrust his arms forward to grab Davis' neck. He was pulled back and chucked away. Matt appeared.
"That's great Davis, what's the answer?"
"It better be no!" Tai shouted from a distance.
"I said yes," Kari answered. Matt was pulling Davis out, who was on top of the world. Tai was now too busy digging her out. Finally she emerged. Face covered in soot, her leg had a gash in it.
"Kari you're hurt!" Tai exclaimed, picking her up. She slapped him playfully on the chest.
"I'm not dying, I can still walk!" He still didn't put her down.
"Davis, we have to talk," Tai said as he walked off with her in his arms. Davis stood petrified. Matt patted him on the shoulder to wake him. He grabbed him in a headlock and noogied him.
"Wait to go Doofus," they all left the scene, now the rescue teams had arrived to help out.
'Living just isn't hard enough Burn me alive, inside Living my life's not hard enough Take everything away.'
Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or any associated characters. I write this for entertainment purposes only and not for copyright infringement. The song is written by 'Disturbed.'
'Another dream that will never come true Just to compliment your sorrow.'
Davis snapped his eyes wide open after another perfect dream. The one where took Kari to the prom, the perfect evening he planned, went right in every way, Davis didn't screw up once. It was perfect, and she made it that. Then he woke up. He was still in class, he sighed and sat back, drifting his eyes to the front, turning them away again.
Meanwhile.
The caretaker was on all fours looking under the boiler in the recesses of the school, he knew something wasn't right with it, but not being an expert, he couldn't figure what. He stood up again and turned the main valve off, cutting the gas supply off to the school and opened the furnace to look there, there was a whistling sound coming from the back of it, he smelt a feint streak of gas. Stepping back, he tripped over something, it startled him but that wasn't what scared him. A tinder box he used in emergencies was catapulted across the dark room into the back of the furnace.
It sparked. Instantly, that room was engulfed in flames, that being the least the worries. The caretaker had no chance of survival. The repercussions were something instant and terrifying.
'Another life that I've taken from you A gift to add on to your pain and suffering.'
"So x differentiated comes to," the teacher stopped as the entire building shook. Kari paying eager attention looked up to the ceiling. She thought the worst fears of a digimon. They surged deeper than that. The plaster on the walls, exploded off the structure, covering the class, Kari fell over instinctively covering her head and going to the fetal position.
Davis was at a standing position at the first quake. "What's going on?" he asked aloud.
The gas sped around the pipes of the school, the flame from the tinder caused a chain reaction around the entire pipe work of the building, as the flame burst through the walls, taking the structural integrity with it. It quickly began to collapse.
The floor caved beneath Davis' feet as windows shattered and walls became nothing. Rubble began to come down on top. Davis, slammed through one floor and hit the ground floor hard. He saw the debris coming for him and rolled out the way under shelter of a desk. Everything went black.
'Another truth you can never believe Has crippled you completely.'
He remained conscious and saw nothing but black. He coughed violently. 'What the hell just happened?' He asked. He lay in a void of the rubble. Somehow, the desk stood up pretty well, two legs buckled but the other two stood firm, creating a pocket for him to lay in. The rubble had slid in underneath making a stable wall for now, he was safe. He coughed again. The dust was every where.
A low voice grumbled, "Who's there?" Davis leapt round on his side.
"Hello?" he asked back, he thought he faintly recognized that voice.
"Hello? Who's there?" the harmonics changed, it wasn't her. He must have dreamt it. Hoping it would be her. He cursed himself for wishing her to be in that situation but he'd want her more than anybody else.
"It's Daisuke," he answered. "Motmiya Daisuke?"
"Davis? I know you, you're the grade above me."
"What's your name?" The was a silence. "You still there?"
"Yeah, sorry, my name's, it's," another pause, "Anna." Davis peered through a gap to his side but saw nothing.
"Anna, huh? You ok in there?"
"I guess, I hurt my leg and my chest is hurting as well, but I feel ok, what happened Davis?"
"I have no idea." More stirring in the rubble, Davis covered his head and closed his eyes. Nothing. He opened them again.
"Maybe we should talk quietly," Anna said in a whisper.
"Yeah."
'All the cries you're beginning to hear Trapped in your mind, and the sound is deafening.'
"Are we in trouble?" Anna asked. Her breathing was heavy.
"No way, we're alive now right? If we hold on, someone will come for us," Davis answered.
"How do you know?"
"How many people are going to miss an exploding building? Someone is going to have to clear this up, and when they do, they'll find us."
'Let me enlighten you This is the way I pray.'
There had been silence for a good few minutes now, Davis checked the time on his D3. He spoke again, "Anna, are you there?" There was no answer. "Anna!" He heard her stir, she was about to drift to sleep.
"Yes Davis, I'm here, still," she groaned. "My head hurts."
"Hey, don't go to sleep!" Davis burst. "You could have concussion, you have to stay awake."
"I know," she answered disappointed. "Didn't figure you to be an all knowing guy. Thought you were just the soccer obsessed hunk from the grade above." Davis blushed unknowingly.
"How do you say that?"
"You don't know? I take it back," Anna answered. "Didn't you know, you have any girl in the school. I'd jump at the chance to go out with you, well, maybe if I didn't have a crush on someone else."
"Oh yeah and who's the lucky guy?" There was silence. "Anna?"
"I don't want to say."
"Aw come on, I won't tell, who is it?"
"Promise?"
"On my goggles," he answered.
"Well, he's a friend of yours, Takeru." Davis was stunned.
"T.K? Over me?" He heard her laugh. He then got upbeat. "Hey, maybe I can hook you up."
"Huh? No wait Davis."
"Come on, you haven't got anything to loose and it would cut me some slack with Kari."
"Kari? You have a crush on her." Davis' heart panged at that. What did he say?
"Well, yeah, feels more than a crush though."
"I know what you mean."
"So tell me why you like T.K."
"You really want to hear?"
"Sure I've got time to kill."
'Living just isn't hard enough Burn me alive, inside Living my life's not hard enough Take everything away.'
Tai, Izzy and Sora stood at the edges of the school grounds. All in disbelief. There was just a pile of concrete where it used to be. Tai snapped to his senses.
"Kari?" He ran forwards. "KARI!" The other two followed, their digimon in their bags. Tai was frantically removing clumps of debris, digging his way through.
"Tai, calm down!" Izzy said running beside him. "She could be anywhere, think this through." Tai grabbed Izzy by his collar.
"We don't have time to sit on our asses and think Izzy!" He threw him down and started digging again. Sirens were sounding, the emergency services were sounding.
"Izzy, we have to help Tai, God knows who else is under there," Sora spoke up. Izzy nodded and got to his feet.
"Well then we need big hands to help, Tentamon, time to digivolve," the bug didgimon hopped out and stood ready.
*Tentmon digivolve to.....KABUTERIMON!*
The champion digimon stood tall and strong. "Ok Kabuterimon, lets clear this mess up and take from the top, else they'll all cave in."
"Right," Kabuterimon spread his wings and went above the wreck. With two hands he grabbed the rubble in a huge clump, and relocated it far from the disaster site. Sora pulled out her digivice.
"Ready Biyomon?"
"You bet!" The bird chirped.
*Biyomon digivolve to.....BIRDRAMON!*
The larger fiery bird took flight to assist Kabuterimon. Meanwhile the three older Digidestined dug from the side.
'Another nightmare about to come true Will manifest tomorrow Another love that I've taken from you Lost in time, on the edge of suffering .'
"And that's it pretty much," Anna just finished going on about T.K and there was a lot to here. Davis almost felt jealous. "Davis?"
"Yeah?"
"Why don't you tell me about Kari?"
"Uh, well, I, uh, you know she's a great girl, great personality and that," he passed off.
"Oh no Motomiya, I just spilled my guts to you, lets hear it," she sounded pressured. So he gave in straight away, like he always did with any girl.
"Well she's really smart, I mean really smart. I should ask her to tutor me sometime. Hey! That's a great idea! Why didn't I think of it before? What else? Oh yeah, she's just so great looking, I mean I feel my knees buckle when I see for the first time every morning, and her smile, it's like so amazingly..wow." There was a giggle from Anna. "Huh?"
"Oh, nothing just keep going," Davis was stunned for some stupid reason. He shook the cobwebs.
"Where was I? Oh yeah, she's got deep brown eyes, they're like chocolate swirlies with this kinda shine to them, they just go on forever, I can get so lost in them."
"Call the military! We have monsters here!" Lieutenant Masako shouted down the radio, coming from his unit car. He drew his 9mm and aimed at Kabuterimon, firing twice. They ricocheted off his tough shell. Kabuterimon turned and went back to his work. Unseen to the brash police officer, ambulances had arrived already and were tending to casualties that had already been pulled free by the digi-destined and other volunteers who ran to help.
"Get back people!" Masako shouted through the megaphone, "this monster threat will be dealt with properly, keep your distance and come away from the wreckage.
Tai turned to the police officer. "Who are you calling a monster? They're digimon and they're helping us!" He carried on digging.
'Another taste of the evil I breed Will level you completely '
Sora was with the ambulances, running medic errands with blankets and other small pieces of equipment she could handle safely. Whenever free, she would kneel beside someone, and look after to them in her own way. She didn't know how she held back the tears. She figured it was too busy.
Izzy studied the area with his laptop, his home made sensors flaring information all over his screen. "It was started by the gas?" His eyes widened. "And it's still flowing?" He made a run to the nearest pay phone, he had to run to the edge of the block. He plugged his laptop in and dialed quickly.
'What number please?' the text wrote. 'Gas suppliers.' 'Define, please.' 'Gas suppliers to Odaiba High School.' 'Connecting, please wait.' Izzy tapped his fingers impatiently.
His speaker activated. "Odaiba Gas switchboard."
"You have to shut off the gas to the Odaiba High school right away!" Izzy shouted straight away, almost cutting the lady off.
"Is it an emergency?"
"Yes! There's been a 911 distress call there and the gas is leaking, it could cause several deaths!"
"One moment," how could she sound so calm. There was complete silence for a good two minutes. "911 distress confirmed, we have turned the gas off, anything else?"
"No thank you," Izzy terminated and rushed back.
'Bring to life everything that you fear Live in the dark, and the world is threatening'
"Leave them alone!" Izzy had gotten back to see Lieutenant Masako hadn't given up on his attempt to stop the two champion digimon. He now saw Tai trying to wrestle the gun form his hand. "They're trying to help! Can't you see that?"
"For all I know, they caused this scene son," Masako fought back. "They're a threat to society."
"You're wrong!" Izzy interrupted. "The explosion was caused by the gas ignited wrongly inside, it spread through the pipes tearing it up from the inside!" Tai pushed the Lieutenant away and bawled his fists. "Tai! Isn't you're sister more important?" Tai glared at the policeman.
"Yeah," he growled and turned away.
'Let me enlighten you This is the way I pray.'
Davis hadn't run out of things to say yet. "Her favorite color is pink, she always has this camera with her, we got a lot of pictures of great times in the Dig," he stopped himself. "Well just of good times we've had together."
"Just you two?"
"I wish," Davis sighed. "Me, Kari, T.K, Cody, Yolei, Tai, Matt and the others. All kinds of stuff."
"Sounds like you like a lot, you know almost everything about her," Anna cut off.
"Yeah and I've tried almost everything to be with her."
"Like what?"
"Well I always try hard at football and."
"You play football too?"
"Huh? Oh, I guess you don't know. Ninety percent of the countries in the world call soccer football. The name has kind of worn on me."
"Wow, ok so you always try hard."
"Yeah and this one time for the spring dance, I went to lessons to learn how to dance so I could impress her, but when I got the chance to ask her to dance, Tai, her brother stopped me and T.K slipped in behind and got there. Tai didn't even realize, but like he'd stop him."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, Kari and T.K have been friends since little kids, they pretty much grew up together, and they must be so perfect for each other," Davis went downbeat.
"You're beating yourself up over nothing Davis."
"Yeah, you should see 'em, it kills me."
"Have you ever seen them go out?"
"No, don't think T.K ever asked her out," Davis replied.
"Have you?" His mouth fell open. It was so simple, he always went out to be the best, so she could have the best, and after all that attempting to impress, he never thought about it simply, despite the fact he was simple himself. "You never actually asked her?"
"Well, uh, erm, I, uh," he stammered uncontrollably. 'How embarrassing.' Just when he couldn't get any denser. It happened. "No," he hung his head. Anna laughed. "What's so funny?"
"You, silly," she answered. "After all that, you did everything for her and done it all wrong from step one. What was you thinking?"
"I don't know, I can't think around her, I'm just taken over and, well I don't think." She laughed again. "Yeah ok, laugh it up." She did, eventually he smirked. "I am pretty stupid huh?"
"Yes."
"That's our secret ok?"
"It's not common knowledge already?"
"You know what I mean."
Living just isn't hard enough Burn me alive, inside Living my life's not hard enough Take everything away.
The mess had half cleared and many had been dragged clear. No ray of hope was wide. Over a hundred dead already. Tai's arms burned as he picked up rock after rock. He tossed them aside, elbows worn hardly bent, but he carried on. He wouldn't stop, not until he found her.
He would find her, the pile got less and less and he tore his way through. One rock just wouldn't move. Judging by the pile he figured if he got rid of this one, he'd clear a huge gap. He wasted no time trying. Pull, it wouldn't budge. He tried again, feeling his hands tear and blood became vacant, his cut started to sting.
"Tai, you'll hurt yourself," Matt Ishida walked up beside him. Tai let go.
"I have to find Kari, you've got to start digging!" Tai shouted in a pleading tone.
"I will, Tai, but you've got to stop, you'll hurt yourself badly, and then how will you help her?" Tai was silent. "Show me your hands." Tai held them out, they were covered in dirt and blood vaguely stained them. It was caused by the top layer of skin being ripped off in places. Matt produced a bottle of water and washed them over. With nothing else to use, he tore his school shirt at the sleeve and used the rags to tie up the wounds.
"Now, lest try moving that rock together ok?" Tai nodded and pulled his hand into a fist. The two bent down grabbing the rock firmly.
"One three, one, two, three!" They both pulled with everything they had.
'Return to me Leave me no one Turn to me Return to me Cast aside.'
"Ok, so I ask out for dinner?" Davis asked Anna, to himself he was planning it out, hoping she would say what was wrong.
"Why always dinner? Or lunch? Or coffee? It's been done before don't you think?" Davis thought hard.
"Ice-cream!" he answered. "She loves ice cream. I'll ask her to go out for ice cream one day after school."
"That sounds nice, and you can walk her home, then ask her out again sometime," it all sounded pre-ordained now.
"Uh, wait, if this is going to be a date, what should I do, besides buy her ice cream?"
"What?"
"Hey, I've only ever wanted to date Kari, I never thought about it," he cowered. She laughed again.
"Well at least you didn't ask a guy, you'd get the completely wrong idea. Well you should talk to her, find out all about her I guess."
"But I already do," Davis butted in.
"So pretend that you don't, and ask her things, you might even find out things you didn't know before."
"Talk, check, treat her nice must be a comes as standard feature, man I'm gonna have to try extra hard not to turn into a mega blow-hard," he cringed. Every minute, he seemed to make an ass of himself, this in result made Anna laugh. "Hey, maybe you should ask T.K out."
"But I'm a grade below, not to mention a girl."
"That never stopped Yolei before, isn't this meant to be some kind of new era for girls or something?"
"Well I guess," there was another awkward silence. Davis was going to say something, when small bits of rubble scattered. He covered his head again. The school wasn't coming on top of him again. His eyes beamed, it was being moved, somebody was digging through. "They found us!" He shouted to Anna.
'You've made me turn away.'
"I heard a voice," Matt started as they gradually pulled the large boulder off together, Izzy had joined the effort, whilst not as much as the other two it still made a difference. They all together, chucked it aside.
"Hey! Who's down there!?" Tai shouted looking down on his knees through gaps of cement and snapped planks.
"It's me Davis! I'm down here!" The three elder digi-destined dug together.
"Davis! Have you seen Kari?" Tai asked, scurrying through the debris. Davis was about to answer.
"I'm here too, Tai," that came from Anna, Davis spun his neck.
"Kari? Huh?"
"You expected me to tell you upfront? How would I talk to the real you Davis," she answered.
"But-but."
"You better ask me out for ice cream soon, before they find us." Davis was still in shock, he shook the cobwebs.
"Erm, Kari, would you like to join me for ice cream someday?"
"I would love that Davis."
"Why did you go through all that?"
"If you knew it was me, you'd have been you're same old blow-hard self, and I was scared Davis, you were the last thing I wanted right now."
"So you don't want to go out with me?"
"Then when we talked, I found out how such a sweet guy you really are, and I think we should have time talk. For one thing, you don't have to worry about T.K, you should be more worried about Tai."
Light appeared for the first time in hours over Davis. Tai peeped through the hole, which was big enough to fit through.
"Why should he worry about me?" Kari from the other small pocket answered.
"Davis just asked me out."
"Oh no he didn't!" Tai thrust his arms forward to grab Davis' neck. He was pulled back and chucked away. Matt appeared.
"That's great Davis, what's the answer?"
"It better be no!" Tai shouted from a distance.
"I said yes," Kari answered. Matt was pulling Davis out, who was on top of the world. Tai was now too busy digging her out. Finally she emerged. Face covered in soot, her leg had a gash in it.
"Kari you're hurt!" Tai exclaimed, picking her up. She slapped him playfully on the chest.
"I'm not dying, I can still walk!" He still didn't put her down.
"Davis, we have to talk," Tai said as he walked off with her in his arms. Davis stood petrified. Matt patted him on the shoulder to wake him. He grabbed him in a headlock and noogied him.
"Wait to go Doofus," they all left the scene, now the rescue teams had arrived to help out.
'Living just isn't hard enough Burn me alive, inside Living my life's not hard enough Take everything away.'