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Ch.26 "CHILDHOOD MEMORIES."



"Thanks, Palmon."

"You're very welcomed, Joe," she said as she used her vines around Joe and pulled him inside. The last Digidestine finally made it inside the pyramid.

"Guess the next bill is on me."

Immediately, a door slid down, covering the entrance and trapping the Digidestines inside the one-room dark pyramid. "Welcome back, my friend," a voice spoke out.

"It seems to be coming from this computer. It's programed to greet the Emperor when he enters," Izzy informed them as he examined the machine. The computer was consisted of reasonably simple, and common hardware. The software programs it contained was another story. On the Start taskbar, wavelengths were being monitored, sound waves, perhaps.

"Of course, it's coming from me, Master."

"You see that? It's like looking at a machine that's monitoring someone's heartbeat," Cody commented.

"Tell us- I mean me. Tell me, who am I?" Izzy asked the computer.

"What are you doing, Iz- " Tentomon started saying when Izzy quickly covered Tentomon mouth from saying his name out loud for the computer to hear.

"Well, you're the Ruler of the Digital World," the computer spoke.

"What is my name?" Izzy asked again, and this time, the others caught onto his intentions.

"Your name? You haven't programmed your name into my system yet," the computer answered.

"I see," Izzy said in disappointment.

"What will it be for today, Master? Building more pyramids? Or perhaps, some ice cream?"

"Ice cream! Ice cream!" Davis shouted. Tai quickly covered Davis' big mouth.

"How many will that be, Master?" the computer asked.

"Well, one, two, three.... Twenty-four please," Yolei mumbled.

"Twenty-four? Wow, Master, you must be having a really horrible day," the computer commented.

That's weird, a computer that has its own comments, Izzy thought.

"Why do you say that, computer?" Izzy asked as he slowly removed his hands from Davis' mouth.

"I made that comment based upon your dessert request statistics over these few months. Ever since you programmed me, Master, I've been keeping statistics, including food statistics. I graphed the data and examined each piece of information. The overall graph with the dessert request stats, indicates a trend. It shows that you request more desserts when you are mad or sad."

"Is that so?" Izzy asked in a very low voice.

Tentomon couldn't resist. And so he asked, "But, will you still bring your master twenty-four ice cream?"

"Of course I will. I'm not programmed to disobey your orders. Accept my apologies, and these ice cream," the computer answered as it prepared the ice cream. "You can go and get them over there on the left as I prepare them."

"Thank you. That will be all, you can go into standby mode and turn your voice-activated program off for tonight," Izzy stated as Davis and some of the others dashed to receive the ice cream.

"Guys!" Sora yelled. "You don't have to run for it."

"Not any more at least," Davis answered. "I got one for me already. And I intend to take seconds."

"Hey! I heard that!" Yolei shouted and ran to get some ice cream for herself and Hawkmon before Davis, Veemon, Agumon, and Armadillomon finished them all.

The others watched in bewilderment. They couldn't believe what they were seeing: Davis and Yolei fighting over a bunch of ice cream. They sighed.

"Okay, let's break it up, guys, girls and Digimon," Tai said to them as he tried to keep them away from the automatic ice cream maker machine.

In his attempt to help, he made matter worse, when their arms and wings flung back and forth, and pushed a button. Immediately, darkness filled the room.

"What happened to all the lights?" Sora asked, her legs trembling.

Without warning, one television screen flashed on. The light it was giving off was bright enough to fill most of the room. "The VCR is turned on. There's a video inside," Mimi informed them.

"One of us probably pushed the play button," Tai said.

"I didn't do it," Davis, Armadillomon, Veemon, Yolei, Hawkmon, Tai and Agumon claimed and pointed fingers at each other.

"Guys, look," Matt interrupted them.

They all turned their attention to Matt, and then to what he was trying to tell them. They stared at the television screen. They were obviously watching a video, but it was more than a video. It was a clue.

"Whom do you suppose she is?" T.K. asked out loud.

"She could be related to the Digimon Emperor. Maybe she's his sister," Ken hypothesized.

"Or maybe she's actually the one who is doing all this. And that would make her the Digimon Empress," Yolei deduced.

"Wait, who's that with her?" Kari asked.

"ARGH! There's NO sound to teh video! But it looks like a little boy," Davis said. "He looks familiar. Oh wait, that's how I look like when I was young without the goggles, that is," Davis said and bursted out in laughter. He couldn't believed that he was the little boy in the video.

"Are you sure it is you in the video?" Izzy asked.

"Yes, I'm sure," Davis said, but this time without laughing in disbelief.

"If that's you, Davis. You must know the little girl in the video," Joe stated.

"I know the Empress?" Davis mumbled. "I guess so. She does look familiar."

"Do you remember her name?" Gatomon asked.

"It was such a long time ago. But I think my parents might know. They probably have a copy of the same video at home and didn't tell me."

"Okay then. Which reminds me, we should head back. It's later than I thought," Cody expressed.

"Wait, how do we get back? I don't want to swim back. The water was freezing," Joe complained.

"We can digivolve and carry you on our backs," Gomamon said.

"All right," Joe said. "You're a pal."



"But before we go, Harpoon Torpedo," Ikkakumon shouted and aimed his attack at the dark pyramid.

"Well, this wasn't so bad. At least we know that the new threat is really a girl, and not Von," Davis commented.

"That could be it, but let's keep our finger crossed, the Digimon wannabe ruler didn't come tonight, it could still be Von," Izzy added, "but we can only be certain when we find out her identity."

"Got the message. I'll ask in the morning. In the meantime, e-mail Von of our findings."



Author's Notes: Hmmm....Who would have ever thought that finding out the new threat's identity would be connected with Davis's past...By the way, thanks for the reviews...And Happy Holidays! *hope you get lots of presents and yummy treats as well as enjoy them with your loved ones.*