"It was so cool, meeting Ken's future self!" Davis exclaimed. "I hope I get
to meet MY future self."
Yolei glanced at Ken, giggled, blushed and then looked away.
"I wish," Ken said faintly, "That I never asked my future self whether he was married."
"It's okay," said Matt. "Yolei will get over it. She's just overjoyed, I think."
"Look! A shopping mall! It must be new, I've never seen it before back in our time." Mimi cried suddenly, pointing to a big glass building.
It was a very modern building, with all sorts of interesting new gadgets the kids were very surprised to see. Izzy was very fascinated with the computers. The screen would appear magically and the computer would be switched on when you sat down by it, and then when you stood up to leave, the screen would disappear.
"Look, the bookshop is huge." Matt said in wonder.
The kids entered.
TK picked up a book in the Bestsellers section. "Look, guys! This book is about our adventure!" he read out a few lines. "Tai had disappeared, and everyone in our group thought that he was dead. We slowly fell apart. Hey, I think one of us wrote this."
"It's about the time when stupid Tai went back to the real world." Matt said grumpily.
"And everyone realised MY importance." Tai said grandly.
"Let me see who the author is!" TK said cheerfully. "I wonder which one of us it is! I mean, the book got into the Bestseller List. Let's see. Takeru Takaishi." He gasped. "ME?"
"Whoa, TK, you became an author!" Sora cried, awed.
"They've got an Author's Description here." Davis said, grabbing the book from TK. "Let's see. Takeru Takaishi, one of the original digidestined, is a novelist who writes novels on his adventures when he was young. He lives with his son and his wife in Odaiba, Japan. His pen name is Mr. G."
"Mr. G?" TK looked baffled. "I would never give myself such a dumb pen name!"
"It may have something to do with your favourite colour," Matt told him.
"They've got a photo of TK here," Davis said suddenly. He looked at it and burst out laughing. "Oh, boy, you look like a moron."
"What!" TK said indignantly. He looked at the photo. He looked kind of shocked, but said hastily, "I think I look great."
"Let me see!" Tai cried. All the kids each picked up a copy and flipped to the Author's Description page.
"What did you do to your hair?" Kari gasped, shocked.
"You look like a lion with that hairdo. . ." Joe said.
"Your hair is even longer than my future self's!" Ken added.
"Your clothes are awful." Yolei said, shaking her head.
Matt was laughing non-stop.
TK scowled at him. "Shut up. Your future self might look even worse, you never know."
* *
"Hey, they seem to be having some cook show downstairs." Cody said, peering over the railings.
"Smells heavenly." Said Davis dreamily. "I'm starved."
"There're two people down there, one male and one female." Said Tai.
"Who knows, we might get samples!" Davis cried, licking his lips. "Let's go downstairs!"
Davis dashed for the elevator. At least, they now had what looked like teleporters. All the kids had to do was to enter the teleporter, press a button and they were in their destination in less than a second.
"We present Daisuke Motomiya, who has just returned from America for a visit, to cook his special noodles!" The lady said cheerily.
"I don't leave in America," Davis said, puzzled.
Izzy looked excited. "Don't be stupid, Davis! It's your grown-up self!!"
"Wow!" Davis cried, delighted. "Amazing! Look at me. . . I look cool. And I live in another country! I must be a real star to have my noodles so known around the world!"
"I wonder who that lady is," Matt said. "She looks pretty attractive."
"It may be my wife!" crowed Davis. "I'm so lucky!"
"Thanks, Mimi," Grown-up Davis was saying. "And after I'm done, my old friend, Mimi Takaichiwa, will also prepare her special broccoli stew. . ."
Mimi looked as though she was going to faint.
"I hope I'm not your future wife," she said.
"How did you grow up to be so pretty?" Izzy gasped in astonishment.
"Look at me!" cried Davis. "I'm making noodles! No machines, see? Wow! It's always been my dream to be a noodle-seller!"
Davis's noodles really did seem to be quite popular. When he finished cooking, the audience queued up eagerly for samples.
"I became a cook?" Mimi said incredulously. "That's so yucky."
"I don't think so," Kari said, surveying the lady. "I think you became one of those hosts in cooking shows on TV. The kind my mum watches."
"It's still yucky," Mimi sighed, "But at least I get to be on TV."
Davis was jumping around with joy at his supposedly great future.
* * *
The kids left the mall a while later.
"I'm still hungry." Davis said. "I wish I had tried my noodles." He sighed. "But Izzy had to stop me. What's the big deal anyway?"
"Davis, I knew you were dumb all along," Izzy said wisely, "I don't want another hassle when you meet your older self."
"How much time has passed, Izzy?" Tai questioned.
Izzy checked his watch. "Approximately forty-five minutes. Two hours and fifteen minutes left."
"I want to see my grown-up self." Cody said. "Oh, look, a kindergarten!"
"Look at all the little kids! They're so cute." Sora cooed.
The group went over to the kindergarten, which still resembled the kindergarten of the present, but larger. The little kids were playing in a large playground with a long slide and a big sandpit.
"Ooh, aren't they just so adorable?" Yolei sighed. She turned to Ken. "Just like you, darling."
Ken looked miserable.
"Do you think any of us work here?" Joe said.
"It might be possible," said Kari. "I hope I do, I love little kids."
"And you act like one too," Tai muttered under his breathe.
"Hi, dearie!" TK, trying to be friendly, knelt down beside a little boy playing in the sandpit. The boy turned to TK and stared. "Hi."
"What are you doing?" TK asked politely.
"Building sandcastles," said the boy.
TK stared at the lump of uneven sand.
"That? Sandcastle?" TK said insensitively. "More like a lump of ugly sand. There, it would look nicer like this." TK took off his hat and put it on top of the lump of sand. "Now it's cookie monster!"
The boy glowered at TK and stomped on the sandcastle, hat and all.
TK cried out in horror.
"Look at that lady there!" Kari said, pointing, "She's talking to a boy. He's wearing something. It's-it's my whistle!"
Cody stared at it. "How can you tell it's yours?"
"I can tell from anywhere!" Kari said. "I've had it for ages."
"Have fun, dear!" The lady told the boy, "I've got to go back to the staff room."
"OK, mummy," the boy answered cheerfully.
"Hey, Kari!" a man called, coming up.
"Oh hi!" Kari smiled at the man.
"I've come to visit Kenny." The man told the lady, "Let's have lunch after work together, ok?"
"Sure, hubby." The lady said.
"How romantic," said Yolei, "The husband visits the wife while she's at work."
"That's me." Said Kari, shocked. "That lady's called Kari, and her son is wearing my whistle."
"It might not be your whistle!" Tai said.
"It is, I know it is!" Kari pointed at the whistle. "See that chipped bit at the corner? You bit it off last time, Tai, when you were seven. You said you were too hungry."
Tai leaned forward. "Oh. . . I see it now. It is your whistle! Cool! I guess you took it from Gatomon and gave it to your so"
"My husband looks like Brad Pitt." Kari said with a sigh.
"Oooooh. . . lurrrrrrrve." Matt cooed.
Davis looked slightly jealous. "Why can't Kari's husband be me?"
TK stormed up to the group just then, holding a very crumpled and sandy hat. "Let's go," he snapped, "Little kids are terrors. We'll just get into trouble staying here!"
* * *
"We have one hour and thirty minutes left!" Izzy announced.
"Where shall we go now?" Cody asked.
"Let's visit the place where our elementary school used to be," said Joe.
The kids agreed and headed off to Odaiba Elementary.
But it was no longer a school.
It was now a hospital! There was a big sign by the automatic door, and it read, "THE DIGIMON HOSPITAL".
"Where's our school gone?!" Davis cried, enraged. "It's not fair! They tore it down and turned it into a hospital!"
"How interesting," Izzy said, "A hospital for digimons."
"Wow, our secret sure leaked out during this period of 25 years." Ken observed.
"This sounds interesting," Joe said, "Let's go in."
"You might faint at the sight of blood, Joey," Mimi teased.
"Do digimons have blood?" Yolei wondered.
The group entered the large building. It was air-conditioned and very advanced. The computers in the hospital were the same as those he kids had seen in the library. Doctors bustled about, wheeling stretchers with sick and unconscious digimons lying on into emergency rooms; and nurses were tending to digimons who were sick or injured, with their anxious owners standing aside.
"May Doctor Joe Kido please come to ward 29 now." A voice blared over the speakers.
"This place is so cool!" cried Cody. He smiled at an armadillomon. "Hi!"
The armadillomon stared at Cody as though he was crazy. "Who are you?" he snapped before walking off.
Cody looked slightly offended. That was when he noticed Joe wobbling on the spot.
"Are you okay?" he asked, concerned.
"Did you hear that announcement just now?" Joe whispered.
"What announcement?" Izzy asked, not taking his eyes off a bawling Garbagemon as a nurse gave it an injection.
"The announcement. . .May Doctor Joe Kido please blah blah blah blah blah." Joe exclaimed. "I didn't hear the rest, I nearly fainted upon hearing my name."
"You? A doctor?" Tai stared at Joe incredulously. "It wasn't too long ago when you still wet your pants and faint at the sight of blood!"
"I did hear my name." Joe said stubbornly. "I became a doctor. My dad must be really happy."
Yolei glanced at Ken, giggled, blushed and then looked away.
"I wish," Ken said faintly, "That I never asked my future self whether he was married."
"It's okay," said Matt. "Yolei will get over it. She's just overjoyed, I think."
"Look! A shopping mall! It must be new, I've never seen it before back in our time." Mimi cried suddenly, pointing to a big glass building.
It was a very modern building, with all sorts of interesting new gadgets the kids were very surprised to see. Izzy was very fascinated with the computers. The screen would appear magically and the computer would be switched on when you sat down by it, and then when you stood up to leave, the screen would disappear.
"Look, the bookshop is huge." Matt said in wonder.
The kids entered.
TK picked up a book in the Bestsellers section. "Look, guys! This book is about our adventure!" he read out a few lines. "Tai had disappeared, and everyone in our group thought that he was dead. We slowly fell apart. Hey, I think one of us wrote this."
"It's about the time when stupid Tai went back to the real world." Matt said grumpily.
"And everyone realised MY importance." Tai said grandly.
"Let me see who the author is!" TK said cheerfully. "I wonder which one of us it is! I mean, the book got into the Bestseller List. Let's see. Takeru Takaishi." He gasped. "ME?"
"Whoa, TK, you became an author!" Sora cried, awed.
"They've got an Author's Description here." Davis said, grabbing the book from TK. "Let's see. Takeru Takaishi, one of the original digidestined, is a novelist who writes novels on his adventures when he was young. He lives with his son and his wife in Odaiba, Japan. His pen name is Mr. G."
"Mr. G?" TK looked baffled. "I would never give myself such a dumb pen name!"
"It may have something to do with your favourite colour," Matt told him.
"They've got a photo of TK here," Davis said suddenly. He looked at it and burst out laughing. "Oh, boy, you look like a moron."
"What!" TK said indignantly. He looked at the photo. He looked kind of shocked, but said hastily, "I think I look great."
"Let me see!" Tai cried. All the kids each picked up a copy and flipped to the Author's Description page.
"What did you do to your hair?" Kari gasped, shocked.
"You look like a lion with that hairdo. . ." Joe said.
"Your hair is even longer than my future self's!" Ken added.
"Your clothes are awful." Yolei said, shaking her head.
Matt was laughing non-stop.
TK scowled at him. "Shut up. Your future self might look even worse, you never know."
* *
"Hey, they seem to be having some cook show downstairs." Cody said, peering over the railings.
"Smells heavenly." Said Davis dreamily. "I'm starved."
"There're two people down there, one male and one female." Said Tai.
"Who knows, we might get samples!" Davis cried, licking his lips. "Let's go downstairs!"
Davis dashed for the elevator. At least, they now had what looked like teleporters. All the kids had to do was to enter the teleporter, press a button and they were in their destination in less than a second.
"We present Daisuke Motomiya, who has just returned from America for a visit, to cook his special noodles!" The lady said cheerily.
"I don't leave in America," Davis said, puzzled.
Izzy looked excited. "Don't be stupid, Davis! It's your grown-up self!!"
"Wow!" Davis cried, delighted. "Amazing! Look at me. . . I look cool. And I live in another country! I must be a real star to have my noodles so known around the world!"
"I wonder who that lady is," Matt said. "She looks pretty attractive."
"It may be my wife!" crowed Davis. "I'm so lucky!"
"Thanks, Mimi," Grown-up Davis was saying. "And after I'm done, my old friend, Mimi Takaichiwa, will also prepare her special broccoli stew. . ."
Mimi looked as though she was going to faint.
"I hope I'm not your future wife," she said.
"How did you grow up to be so pretty?" Izzy gasped in astonishment.
"Look at me!" cried Davis. "I'm making noodles! No machines, see? Wow! It's always been my dream to be a noodle-seller!"
Davis's noodles really did seem to be quite popular. When he finished cooking, the audience queued up eagerly for samples.
"I became a cook?" Mimi said incredulously. "That's so yucky."
"I don't think so," Kari said, surveying the lady. "I think you became one of those hosts in cooking shows on TV. The kind my mum watches."
"It's still yucky," Mimi sighed, "But at least I get to be on TV."
Davis was jumping around with joy at his supposedly great future.
* * *
The kids left the mall a while later.
"I'm still hungry." Davis said. "I wish I had tried my noodles." He sighed. "But Izzy had to stop me. What's the big deal anyway?"
"Davis, I knew you were dumb all along," Izzy said wisely, "I don't want another hassle when you meet your older self."
"How much time has passed, Izzy?" Tai questioned.
Izzy checked his watch. "Approximately forty-five minutes. Two hours and fifteen minutes left."
"I want to see my grown-up self." Cody said. "Oh, look, a kindergarten!"
"Look at all the little kids! They're so cute." Sora cooed.
The group went over to the kindergarten, which still resembled the kindergarten of the present, but larger. The little kids were playing in a large playground with a long slide and a big sandpit.
"Ooh, aren't they just so adorable?" Yolei sighed. She turned to Ken. "Just like you, darling."
Ken looked miserable.
"Do you think any of us work here?" Joe said.
"It might be possible," said Kari. "I hope I do, I love little kids."
"And you act like one too," Tai muttered under his breathe.
"Hi, dearie!" TK, trying to be friendly, knelt down beside a little boy playing in the sandpit. The boy turned to TK and stared. "Hi."
"What are you doing?" TK asked politely.
"Building sandcastles," said the boy.
TK stared at the lump of uneven sand.
"That? Sandcastle?" TK said insensitively. "More like a lump of ugly sand. There, it would look nicer like this." TK took off his hat and put it on top of the lump of sand. "Now it's cookie monster!"
The boy glowered at TK and stomped on the sandcastle, hat and all.
TK cried out in horror.
"Look at that lady there!" Kari said, pointing, "She's talking to a boy. He's wearing something. It's-it's my whistle!"
Cody stared at it. "How can you tell it's yours?"
"I can tell from anywhere!" Kari said. "I've had it for ages."
"Have fun, dear!" The lady told the boy, "I've got to go back to the staff room."
"OK, mummy," the boy answered cheerfully.
"Hey, Kari!" a man called, coming up.
"Oh hi!" Kari smiled at the man.
"I've come to visit Kenny." The man told the lady, "Let's have lunch after work together, ok?"
"Sure, hubby." The lady said.
"How romantic," said Yolei, "The husband visits the wife while she's at work."
"That's me." Said Kari, shocked. "That lady's called Kari, and her son is wearing my whistle."
"It might not be your whistle!" Tai said.
"It is, I know it is!" Kari pointed at the whistle. "See that chipped bit at the corner? You bit it off last time, Tai, when you were seven. You said you were too hungry."
Tai leaned forward. "Oh. . . I see it now. It is your whistle! Cool! I guess you took it from Gatomon and gave it to your so"
"My husband looks like Brad Pitt." Kari said with a sigh.
"Oooooh. . . lurrrrrrrve." Matt cooed.
Davis looked slightly jealous. "Why can't Kari's husband be me?"
TK stormed up to the group just then, holding a very crumpled and sandy hat. "Let's go," he snapped, "Little kids are terrors. We'll just get into trouble staying here!"
* * *
"We have one hour and thirty minutes left!" Izzy announced.
"Where shall we go now?" Cody asked.
"Let's visit the place where our elementary school used to be," said Joe.
The kids agreed and headed off to Odaiba Elementary.
But it was no longer a school.
It was now a hospital! There was a big sign by the automatic door, and it read, "THE DIGIMON HOSPITAL".
"Where's our school gone?!" Davis cried, enraged. "It's not fair! They tore it down and turned it into a hospital!"
"How interesting," Izzy said, "A hospital for digimons."
"Wow, our secret sure leaked out during this period of 25 years." Ken observed.
"This sounds interesting," Joe said, "Let's go in."
"You might faint at the sight of blood, Joey," Mimi teased.
"Do digimons have blood?" Yolei wondered.
The group entered the large building. It was air-conditioned and very advanced. The computers in the hospital were the same as those he kids had seen in the library. Doctors bustled about, wheeling stretchers with sick and unconscious digimons lying on into emergency rooms; and nurses were tending to digimons who were sick or injured, with their anxious owners standing aside.
"May Doctor Joe Kido please come to ward 29 now." A voice blared over the speakers.
"This place is so cool!" cried Cody. He smiled at an armadillomon. "Hi!"
The armadillomon stared at Cody as though he was crazy. "Who are you?" he snapped before walking off.
Cody looked slightly offended. That was when he noticed Joe wobbling on the spot.
"Are you okay?" he asked, concerned.
"Did you hear that announcement just now?" Joe whispered.
"What announcement?" Izzy asked, not taking his eyes off a bawling Garbagemon as a nurse gave it an injection.
"The announcement. . .May Doctor Joe Kido please blah blah blah blah blah." Joe exclaimed. "I didn't hear the rest, I nearly fainted upon hearing my name."
"You? A doctor?" Tai stared at Joe incredulously. "It wasn't too long ago when you still wet your pants and faint at the sight of blood!"
"I did hear my name." Joe said stubbornly. "I became a doctor. My dad must be really happy."