I Meet the Digidestined

By Anime Queen

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A/N: First off, a big thank you to all the people who read and reviewed my story!! ^_^

Joey's Girl - thanks for reading everything!!! ^^ Hope you continue to read this.

Aolani - thanks for reading!

In my opinion, this is kind of an odd chapter... it's funny in some aspects (or at least funnier than my other chapters) I don't know what's gotten into me, but I had to get rid of my writers block, so I just started typing, and this is what came out. Enjoy!

Warnings: This is a Sorato, so there are hints in this chapter. Also this is a re-write of the show, so some things that happen are identical, while I changed some of the stuff around.

Disclaimer: I do not own Digimon or any of its characters. (I'm tired of making it sound more animated... gomen, it's pretty early in the morning too.)

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Chapter 9

I got home after my failed chance to tell my mother, and a hesitant goodbye from Biyomon. The Digidestined were meeting at Jou's apartment, and I couldn't afford to be late. Jou and Tai came by to pick me up in Jou's brother's car later that evening. I couldn't wait to get there, and see Matt again. Tai and Jou were chatting, and I was only half-listening. It was already dark outside, and Jou seemed impatient to get home.

When we arrived, everyone was already there. I searched the room for Matt, but apparently, he wasn't here yet. It was nine o'clock, and he still hasn't shown up. I started to worry a little, but assured myself that he will come any minute.

Izzy was getting ready to leave.

"Sorry guys, but I've got to call it a night. Big test tomorrow, you know," he looked meaningfully at Tai, who shared Physics with him. Tai laughed.

"Someone's got to stay here and protect the younger kids, right?" he smirked, getting a glare from Kari. Izzy shook his head.

"I'm going. Good luck you guys."

He turned and opened the door, almost colliding with the breathless Yamato.

"Hey everyone," he almost panted, and when our eyes met, he blushed. I gave him a questioning look, and he looked away.

"Geez, man, you should watch where you're going," a very flustered Izzy mumbled, sliding past him.

"Sorry..." Matt laughed slightly, and closed the door after the retreating boy.

"Rehearsal running late?" Taichi handed him a glass of coke as the blonde passed by him.

"I guess," Matt replied, sipping on the drink, and glancing at me. "Where's he going?" he gestured to the closed door, meaning Izzy.

"You know how he is about tests," Jou piped in. "He went home to study, I bet."

"Something you should be doing more often, eh, Jou? Then you won't have to go to summer school!" Davis laughed at his own joke, only to be rewarded by stares from everyone present. During the uncomfortable silence, his gaze shifted between Kari's annoyed expression, TK's smirking one, everybody else's nonchalant ones, and Jou's hurt one.

The sound of shattering glass jolted everyone out of whatever they were doing, causing them to look at the now smashed window. A giant spider was hanging in mid-air, slowly swinging inside the room. Once all of the mass was in, the digimon transformed into a human shape.

"Arukenimon!" the younger kids chorused, and got up from wherever they were sitting.

"So that's where you little twerps been hiding!" she bellowed, and then turned back into her true form.

"I can't believe we're stuck here without our digimon!" Kari wailed helplessly. Everyone just stood there, staring in the face of the enormous bundle of ugliness in front of us.

Why does it have to happen now? What if we won't make it out alive? Then not only would I be throwing away all those years of research and preparation for the mission, but I'll be blowing my life, hence my chances with Matt. I couldn't believe I was thinking along those lines...

I had come back to help the Digidestined. But these weren't the circumstances under which they perished, spelling the end of Earth all those years ago. They died all together, in a great battle, not in an apartment, not without their digimon, and certainly not by Arukenimon's hand. Funny how I was thinking about their death, when it hasn't even occurred yet.

But if they hadn't died now, then there was still hope. They must have thought of something and gotten out of this situation alive. But hadn't I changed their future by coming here and revealing Arukenimon's plans to them? Maybe it was my fault this was happening.

I glanced over at Matt, and, surprised as I was, I found some comfort in finding out that he was looking at me too. We held each others gaze, as if it was the last time. It might pretty well be the last time, I added in my head.

I heard a loud crash behind me, and saw what seemed like Taichi vandalizing the Kido's furniture. He ripped off the wooden legs of the chairs from the kitchen, holding them with the spikes of wood towards the evil digimon.

"You freaks will never get a hold of Ken!" he screamed, taking everyone by surprise. He lunged at Arukenimon, his makeshift sword held out at arm's length in front of him. The force of his run gave the wooden stick enough power to pierce Arukenimon's purple-striped belly. The monster roared out in pain, and started thrashing around, knocking a heavily panting Taichi off his feet and flinging him to the other end of the room.

Soon almost everyone in the room, with the exception of Cody (Matt insisted he was too young, earning a pout from the Digidestined-in-question), was armed with any bit of furniture that could even remotely be used as a weapon. The living room now looked as if it was hit by a hurricane.

"On three! One, two, three!" Matt commanded, and everyone darted forward, following Tai's earlier example. Arukenimon wiggled around, trying to shake me off, along with Davis, who held on firmly to one of her legs. Matt arrived with a huge iron frying pan, and used it to knock Arukenimon on her back. The younger kids used pieces of glass to stab at her body if she ever came close to turning the right way up.

"We have to push her off," Matt told Jou and me, looking over the body of the digimon, still struggling to stand up, out of the window.

"I'm not touching it," Jou protested loudly, and Matt shook his head.

"Let's just do this thing, okay?" I walked up to Arukenimon, and, to prove my point, I started shoving, careful to avoid her flailing limbs. Matt helped me, and even Jou, who was a little reluctant at first, carefully prodded with his foot. Arukenimon inched closer and closer to the edge of the window that she broke into, and then, with one last scream, she fell over. I watched as she flew down and disappeared into the dark. The soft thud let us know when she landed on the concrete below.

"Think she's dead?" Jou asked fearfully, stepping cautiously over the broken glass.

"Your apartment isn't high up enough," Matt told him. "But it should keep her out for a while."

I surveyed Yolei, Davis, Ken, Kari and TK still clutching onto the glass bits.

"You guys okay?" I asked gently. They nodded. Cody came out of his hiding place behind the couch, but undoubtedly having witnessed the entire fight.

"I guess I should tell you guys," I said, when everyone walked out into the center of the room. "Arukenimon and Mummymon aren't the real enemies."

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Well that's it. It's kind of like the show, I know, but with a few modifications ^_~ Please review and tell me what you think! ^^ Next chapter should be a little more eventful.