Disclaimer: We do not own Digimon; we just like to write about them.
Author's note: Thank you JJLL for reviewing Part 1 of my story. Part 2 is dedicated to you. I hope you won't be disappointed.
PART 2"Tai!" Kari scolded as he grabbed another wheat germ pancake. "We're going to be late."
"I'm a growing boy Kari, I need food." Tai reminded her as he poured on a generous helping of melted honey.
"That's your seventh pancake already and with the amount of syrup you're drowning it in the only way you're going to grow is sideways." Kari stated as she left her brother and headed for the kitchen. She had already finished eating her usual bowl of bran flake cereal and was now going to pack some fungus cookies and banana muffins for later.
"I'm still hungry too Tai." Koromon informed his digidestined friend from the wooden chair beside. Tai grabbed another pancake and threw it into the digimon's huge, waiting mouth.
"Who knows when lunch will be." Tai whined as he stuffed a large dripping piece into his mouth.
Kari rolled her eyes and packed her big brother a bag of cookies also, finishing just as a knock at their door signaled the arrival of the others. She hurried towards the door as Tai quickly shoveled the remaining pancake into his mouth.
"Hi guys." Kari greeted as she opened the door and moved aside so that Izzy and Mimi could enter.
"Hello Kari." Izzy said as he followed Mimi and Motimon through the doorway. He had his laptop strapped onto his back and was carrying a small picnic basket. "Is Tai awake yet?"
"I've been up for hours." Tai bellowed from the kitchen as he dumped his empty dishes into the dishwater. "Right Koromon?"
"Um, sure Tai." Koromon stammered, looking nervously at his digidestined.
"That's right Tai, you've been up for exactly one hour." Salamon congratulated as she slowly walked past him to where Kari was waiting.
"Ha ha ha." Tai mumbled in annoyance as he grabbed his bag of cookies and followed Koromon and the others out the door.
"Gennai e-mailed me again last night." Izzy babbled excitedly as they headed towards the elevator.
"Did he tell you how we could defeat Isomon?" Tai asked, suddenly interested as he pressed the elevator button.
"No." Izzy replied.
"Did he tell you how many digimon came through the portal?" Tanemon asked from under the sweater Mimi was carrying.
"No." Izzy replied again.
"Did he tell you which digimon came through the portal?" Kari asked.
"Um, no."
"Did he tell you anything?" Mimi demanded angrily as the elevator finally dinged and the doors opened.
"He informed me that no other digimon were present when Isomon and his group crossed the barrier."
"Great." Tai complained as he entered the elevator car. "That is just so helpful."
"Maybe the prophecy will tell us how to defeat him." Koromon responded as he bounced into the elevator after Tai.
Tai smiled smugly as he pushed the main floor button. "Hey Koromon, the last time there was a prophecy Tsunomon and you were able to digivole into mega. Maybe you'll be able to digivolve another step further this time too."
"That's not fair." Mimi cried as the elevator stopped on the main floor and the doors opened. "It's Tanemon's turn to digivolve further."
"I agree with Mimi." Izzy admitted. "It would be prodigious if our digimon could merge together and digivolve like Tsunomon and Koromon did to become Omnimon."
"Maybe we will Izzy." Motimon agreed as Izzy bent over to pick him up.
"Remember guys. You are all stuffed toys if anyone looks at you." Tai commanded as he picked Koromon up. "That means no talking if anyone else is nearby."
"Tai." Koromon asked as he looked up at his digidestined.
"Yeah?"
"What happens if we need the power of Omnimon again?" Koromon questioned. "I can't digivolve above mega without Matt and Tsunomon but they're in the other group."
"Don't worry Koromon." Tai said reassuringly as he opened the door to the building, letting the others out. "We probably won't even meet up with the evil digimon today."
"And if we do meet up with them?" Kari asked her brother as she walked past him.
"Then we'll think of something when the time comes." Tai stated as he followed the other children out into the sunshine. "Now lets go find some digimon."
Isomon studied his troops and nodded in approval. Today would be the day, the day the digidestined were finally destroyed.
"There are eight digidestined so that means there are eight digimon that you must defeat." Isomon informed his six loyal followers. "You will be split into two groups. One group will head into the city to search for the first group of digidestined while the other group comes with me."
"Where will your group be Master?" A little blue digimon asked.
"We will be at the park waiting for the second group to arrive." Isomon explained. "Now group one will consist of our flying troops, Idlemon, Ignoramusmon and MetalVoltmon. I want you to scour the city, find the digidestined and destroy them."
"Yes Master." The three said in unison.
"It is very important that you find them. All eight children and their digimon must not join together. We must keep them separate and unbalanced or our plan will fail."
"Yes Master." They again replied in unison.
"The little fools are not expecting us to attack them today so we will have the element of surprise." He continued. "Their digimon are still at their in-training levels so if you hit them fast and hard you should be able to destroy them and their children easily at the same time."
"We will destroy them for you Master." Idlemon vowed as he flew up into the air.
"Go then." Isomon commanded as the other two digimon followed Idlemon into the air and disappeared above the trees heading towards the unsuspecting human city.
"Hungry already?" Sora questioned in surprise as Matt exited from the little corner store carrying a bag of apples.
Matt smiled as he opened up his blue packsack to stuff them in. "Are you kidding, we just had lunch."
"I know." Sora replied in confusion as she watched the apples fall in. Matt had just treated them to four large chicken salad sandwiches and fries for lunch at the deli across the street.
"I would prefer ice cream but an apple would be nice." Tsunomon piped shyly from Sora's left arm.
"Me too." Yokomon agreed from under Sora's right arm.
Matt laughed as he left out an apple for the two little digimon to share and finished closing the packsack. "Don't worry Tsunomon, I'll take you out for some ice cream before you have to go home."
"You two are still hungry?" Sora demanded as she looked down at them. "Where do you guys put all that food?" Tsunomon and Yokomon had eaten their own sandwiches and fries plus half of Sora and Matt's fries as well.
"It's not often we get human food in the digital world Sora." Yokomon explained to her digidestined friend. "We miss it."
Sora smiled softly at the two little digimon she held. "I'm sorry guys. I guess I keep forgetting that you only arrived through the portal yesterday afternoon."
Matt had his packsack back on and held out half an apple in each hand. "Half for each of you. We'll save the rest for later."
"What is happening later?" Yokomon asked.
"Whenever you digivolve to fight you use up so much energy that you're always hungry after. I thought that maybe if we have some food ready for you then you would be able to stay in your digivolved forms for longer amounts of time. Just in case there are too many digimon to fight." Matt confessed as he popped the apples into the waiting digimon's mouths.
"That's a good idea Matt." Tsunomon agreed as he continued chewing his apple.
"Where should we look now?" Sora asked as she looked down the street, blowing a strand of loose hair out of her face as the slight breeze blew it forward. They had been searching for the past four hours but so far they had found absolutely nothing that would indicate strange monsters had entered their city.
"Why don't we keep heading in the direction we were going before we stopped for lunch." Matt suggested as he took Tsunomon back from Sora. "Then when we reach the end of the street we can look at our map and see where we haven't been yet."
"OK."
They had only walked a few steps when Tsunomon suddenly stiffened in Matt's arms.
"What's wrong Tsunomon?" Matt asked, suddenly concerned as he watched the little fuzzy orange ball.
"It's that sound." Tsunomon replied, tilting slightly in Matt's arms to hear it better. "It's the sound the humans always make on those late night movies you like to watch when they are scared."
Matt blushed and shrugged as Sora and Yokomon turned to stare at him. "So I like to watch late night horror movies."
"What is a late night horror movie Sora?" Yokomon asked as she turned towards her friend, looking confused. The screaming was getting louder and nearer.
Sora paled and her eyes widened in fear as she pointed down the street with her left arm. "That is."
The screaming surrounded them as three strange flying digimon soared down the street, heading in their direction.
Tsunomon and Yokomon jumped out from their humans' lax grips as blue light engulfed them, starting the digivolving process. When the light disappeared, two-rookie level digimon had taken their place.
"Gabumon." Matt called.
"And Biyomon." Sora added.
"Get to Safety." Gabumon instructed, as he gently shoved Matt and Sora towards the store beside them.
"We're not strong enough to beat all three at our rookie level." Biyomon claimed as she flapped beside Gabumon. "We need to digivolve again."
"Gabumon digivolve to..…. Garurumon."
"Biyomon digivolve to…… Birdramon."
The large champion white wolf with dark blue stripes loped down the street as the large flaming phoenix with a bad case of buckteeth took to the air with one flap of her massive wings.
"Howling Blaster." Garurumon shouted as a cold blue blast blew out of his powerful jaws, causing a light blue digimon to quickly dodge out of the way.
"Meteor Wing." Birdramon hollered, sending a spray of red-hot fireballs towards a large Insectoid digimon.
The third digimon landed on the street about two meters from the digidestined children and watched them curiously.
"Who are you?" Matt asked calmly. He had never seen any of these digimon before. Were they new? Were they created after the re-configuration of the digital world or had they always been there hiding in the shadows waiting for the opportunity to take over?
The digimon standing before them was a purple-brown color with shiny golden armor covering his wrists and ankles. He had a small horn at the end of its long thin nose and a row of black razor sharp spikes down his back.
"I am Idlemon." The digimon informed them.
"Lazymon?" Matt asked seriously.
Idlemon's blue eyes narrowed dangerously. "I do not need to exert much energy to destroy the likes of you or your little digi-pets, if that makes me seem lazy to you then so be it for you will not be around long enough to brag about it."
"What do you want?" Sora demanded angrily. "Why are you on Earth?"
Idlemon smiled, showing a mouthful of long sharp teeth. "It is Master Isomon's desire that we rid the Earth of all humans. Starting with you the digidestined."
Before Matt or Sora could reply, Idlemon crouched down low and yelled out his battle cry. "Maroon Typhoon."
Sora felt the air around her start to increase and tried to brace herself against the sudden pressure.
One minute Matt was standing there studying the new digimon, and the next thing he knew he was flying backwards at an incredible speed. His flight quickly ended as he struck something hard with his back, the force knocking the wind out of his lungs. He gasped for air as he slowly slid to the ground, his vision blurring as a dark shape suddenly appeared and hit him from the front, sending him into total darkness.
Malcolm Ishida sat down at his desk and rubbed his eyes tiredly as he finally found a moment in his busy schedule to relax.
"Whoever told me that working at a television station would be easy needs their head examined." He mumbled to himself as he leaned back in his comfortable chair and closed his eyes. He had spent the whole morning in meetings going over some new ideas for the station and the last two hours fixing programming problems. His eyes snapped open and he sighed in annoyance as his office door suddenly swung open.
"You're still here?" Charlie questioned in surprise as he stuck his head into the doorway.
Malcolm took in Charlie's frazzled appearance and immediately perked up. "What's going on?"
"There's been some monster sightings reported."
"Monster sightings?" Malcolm repeated in interest as his journalist instinct took over. "Where?"
"At Odaiba Park."
"What are you waiting for?" Malcolm demanded as he leapt out of his chair, all signs of fatigue vanishing as he headed for the door, grabbing his jacket as he went. "We've got a story to cover."
"Does anyone have anymore money?" Tai asked as he counted the coins in his hand. "I only have fifty cents."
"Tai, you and Koromon have already had three hot dogs each." Kari replied as she searched her pockets for any coins she might have missed. "Why don't you just eat the sandwich that Mimi's mom was kind enough to pack if you're still hungry."
"OK." Tai agreed in defeat as he put his change away and picked up the sandwich.
"They were real good Mimi." Izzy choked out as he finally managed to finish his. "You will have to thank your mom for us."
Mimi smiled in delight as she threw her wrapper into the garbage can. "Thank you Izzy."
"Yeah." Kari agreed as she finished her own sandwich. "I don't think I've ever had a peanut butter sandwich with strawberries and whipped cream before."
"They are the best aren't they." Mimi said as she watched Tai take a huge bite from his.
"Hey this is good." Tai remarked with a full mouth as he took another bite.
"I'm still hungry Tai." Koromon complained from the grass next to his digidestined.
"Here Koromon." Kari offered as she handed him her untouched third sandwich. "I don't usually eat more than two sandwiches for lunch anyway."
"Thanks Kari." Koromon replied as he finished the sandwich in one bite.
"Hey what's going on over there?" Izzy inquired as he looked down the path to where a group of frantic looking people were shouting and screaming.
"Lets go find out." Tai advised as he polished off his remaining piece of crust and jumped to his feet, ready to go.
As they neared the large running group, the kids were able to pick out several shocking words.
"Monsters!"
"Odaiba Park."
"Run for your lives."
"Call the Police."
"They're at the Park?" Mimi questioned.
"I guess that would be a logical place for them to be since that's where the portal is located." Izzy confirmed.
"But they weren't there yesterday." Tai challenged.
"We don't know that Tai." Izzy reminded them. "They could have been hiding anywhere in the park. Maybe we just didn't see them."
Kari frowned. "Why didn't they attack us yesterday then?"
"Maybe Isomon wasn't strong enough yesterday after opening the portal." Motimon suggested, looking up at the humans.
"We can go over the theories later." Salamon interrupted as she started walking away. "Right now we have to get to the park."
"Right." Tai agreed as he took charge. "Koromon its time to digivolve."
The three little in-training digimon jumped forward beside the rookie Salamon as a blinding blue light engulfed them. The light disappeared and three-rookie level and one champion level digimon appeared in their place.
"It's good to see you Agumon but I think you guys better digivolve to your ultimate forms." Tai suggested. "Who knows what kind of a greeting we're going to receive."
"Right Tai." Agumon agreed. "Ready guys?"
The three other digimon agreed and suddenly disappeared in a bright blue light again.
"Agumon digivolve to Greymon, digivolve to MetalGreymon."
"Tentomon digivolve to Kabuterimon, digivolve to MegaKabuterimon."
"Palmon digivolve to Togemon, digivolve to Lillymon."
"Gatomon digivolve to Angewomon."
"OK." Tai stated as the digimon appeared again, fully digivolved. Kari can get a ride with me on MetalGreymon and Izzy can bring Mimi on MegaKabuterimon since we don't want to tire out Angewomon and Lillymon."
"Right." Izzy replied as he headed towards MegaKabuterimon with Mimi close behind.
MetalGreymon put his right hand on the ground and waited as Tai and Kari climbed onto his palm.
"Let's go." Tai ordered as Mimi and Izzy finished sitting down on the large Insectoid digimon.
"They are over that way." Lillymon called from the sky overhead as she pointed towards the left.
"Alright." Tai replied. "We'll follow you."
Angewomon and Lillymon soared off towards the new threat as the heavier and slower MetalGreymon and MegaKabuterimon lifted off the ground to follow.
"There are only four of them." Tai yelled so the others could hear him, as they got closer. "This should be a piece of cake."
"I don't know Tai." Kari warned in concern as she took in the new digimon. "They look pretty tough and scary to me."
"Nonsense." Tai replied, brushing off her worry as MetalGreymon set down on the ground and lowered the children.
"You all stay back here where it is safe." He advised as Tai and Kari stepped off.
"Go get them MetalGreymon." Tai cheered as his digimon flew towards the starting battle.
"Be careful MegaKabuterimon." Izzy called as the giant insect dodged a blast.
"Does anyone know who these strange looking digimon are?" Mimi questioned as she came up and stood beside Kari.
Tai shrugged and shook his head. "I'm just glad Joe isn't in our group."
"Why?" Mimi asked in confusion. Another digimon on their side would be real helpful right about now.
"Because he would take one look at that nine headed digimon over there and faint." Tai replied as he pointed in the strange digimon's direction.
Izzy pulled out his digivice and began scanning the digimon.
"That large green digimon with the nine heads that you're talking about is called Hydramon." Izzy informed them. "He's an ultimate level sea animal digimon which would explain why he is sitting in the kiddy pool. It says here that his attacks are 'Water Rush' and 'Double Attack.'"
Tai shrugged nervously. "That doesn't sound so bad."
"If one of his heads is destroyed then two more appear in its place." Izzy snapped. "Does it still sound like a piece of cake to you?"
"What about those other three?" Kari insisted as Angewomon sent a 'Celestial Arrow' towards a big black, shiny digimon.
"Well." Izzy replied as he consulted his digivice once again. "That little fuzzy grey one with the lavender tail and leg wrappings is named Idiotmon."
Tai burst out laughing, not able to control himself. "Its name is Idiotmon?"
Izzy continued. "It says here that although he is a bit dense you should watch out for his 'Dragon-Tooth Tail' attack."
"Tai this is serious." Mimi bellowed angrily as Tai continued to laugh uncontrollably. "Our digimon are getting pounded out there and you're busy laughing at a stupid name."
Tai quickly sobered as he took in the battlefield, looking just in time to watch MetalGreymon take a powerful hit to the chest.
"Sorry Mimi." Tai apologized, actually looking like he meant it.
"I'm sorry too Tai." Mimi offered. "I'm just a little scared. Our digimon haven't had to fight for over a year and now they're fighting for our lives only the day after they arrive here."
"You're only a little scared?" Kari sputtered. "I'm terrified."
"Maybe we can help them once we've finished scanning." Izzy interrupted as he held up his digivice and continued scanning the next digimon.
"Who's next?" Tai inquired, back in control.
"That large smooth black digimon with the red eyes is called Magmamon. He is a champion level fire type digimon. His 'Magma Knives' and 'Rock Blast' send even the strongest digimon running for cover."
"What about that big silver digimon with the gold body armor that's standing over there in the trees?" Kari asked as she pointed to the last digimon.
"Oh dear." Izzy gasped.
"What?" Mimi demanded, looking frightened. "What's wrong?"
"That's Isomon." Izzy stated, his voice barely audible.
"That's Isomon." Tai repeated as he watched the large digimon. "Why isn't he attacking? He's just standing there."
"He doesn't have to attack Tai." Kari commented as she grabbed onto her big brothers hand, her eyes never leaving the silver dragon. "That's why he brought the others along."
"Ahhhh!" Mimi and Kari both screamed in unison as Isomon turned his fierce gaze their way. His yellow eyes glowed eerily as he smiled, giving the digidestined a view of his large razor sharp teeth. He turned back to watch the ongoing battle totally ignoring the children as if they were of no threat to him.
"My digivice says that Isomon is a mega level dragon type digimon." Izzy added, as he continued to read the new information. "His body is protected by a layer of hard silver scales and on top of the layer he has a layer of impenetrable gold digi armor."
"What about his power and how to defeat him?" Tai quizzed, liking this new digimon less and less with each passing second.
"It doesn't say."
"Great." Tai muttered in frustration as he tried to run his fingers through his big mat of brown hair without getting stuck.
Mimi suddenly paled and let out an ear-shattering scream. Tai whipped around and saw one of the Hydramon's severed heads crawling towards them and joined Mimi in screaming.
Angewomon heard Kari and the other children suddenly start to scream and flew back towards them as fast as her wings could fly.
"Celestial Arrow." She yelled as she sent an arrow straight at the growling head. The arrow hit the severed head and blew it into digi-dust.
"Yay Angewomon." Kari cheered as her digimon waved at them, and then returned to the battle.
Tai's mouth went dry and a worried expression took over his usual jovial face as he watched their digimon fight. The digimon were holding their own but Tai didn't know how much longer they could last. They had never had to fight so many powerful digimon all at once before. "I sure wish that Matt and the others were here."
To be continued.
