A group of teenagers were clustered together in the courtyard of Odaiba High school, taking advantage of their free period. Kari, Davis and TK were pouring over their notes and textbooks. Davis looked like he was on the verge of crying. "I hate math, I hate history, I hate French, I hate English, I hate-
"Hate is a very strong word, Davis." Pointed out TK.
"Fine! I really dislike math, I really dislike history, I really-
"Can it Davis," sighed TK.
"You can't tell me what to do. I'm the 02 leader!" said Davis, puffing up his chest.
"Davis." The fourteen year old immediately froze at Tai's voice. Davis' hero worship of the teenager had toned down through the years, but he still held his mentor in high regard. "Be quiet."
"Ok." Davis ducked his head back into his book.
Kari closed hers and rubbed her eyes. "Ugh, break. I need a break." A giant yawn escaped her lips. "Forget a break, I need caffeine." Izzy reached into his bag and handed Kari a neon green soda can. "Jolt Cola?"
Izzy grinned. "Two times the sugar, twice the caffeine. The official beverage for all those late night hacks." Izzy and Yolei looked at each other and pumped their fists in the air.
"Hack the planet!"
The rest of the Digidestined sweat-dropped. "I think you've guys watched that movie way too much." Commented Sora.
"Seriously," said Yolei. "You guys all right? You kinda look wasted."
"The work. Dislike. First year. HS. Toughest. Remember?" said TK. His brain was still working on putting together full sentences.
"We know, said Matt. "We all went through that. You just gotta keep things in proportion and don't overwork yourself."
Yolei tapped Izzy's shoulder. "Hey, lemmie borrow your laptop for a couple minutes. I forgot to ask Cody to check up on Armadillomon. He said he was feeling a bit under the weather lately." Izzy grudgingly handed over his prized pineapple laptop. Yolei booted it up and started tapping away. Izzy fidgeted, eager to get his computer back into his own hands. "Almost done, don't worry your cute little head." Said Yolei. "Done, I'll log out…Hey!" she exclaimed. "Is it supposed to do that?"
Izzy panicked. "What? What happened?" The screen began flickering. "Ahh!" he snatched the laptop away from Yolei. "I don't understand. What's going on?" he looked the info over. "It's a virus!" he moaned.
"How'd it get a virus?" said Yolei. "I didn't touch anything. I swear!"
Izzy frowned deeply. "I'm not certain. I'm sure I scanned it for viruses the last time I was online and I'm not logged in now…wait!" his fingers flew about the board furiously. "I'm linked into the digital world. It must be from there."
"The Digiworld?!"
"Wait." Said Izzy. He read the screen for a moment. "Uh oh."
"What do you mean, 'uh oh'?" Demanded Tai. "'Uh oh' doesn't sound very good."
Izzy muttered a few choice swears, something about the portal being the son of a blender.
"What's going on Izzy?" asked Tai.
Izzy hurriedly tapped at hot keys, trying to regain order to his computer. "It just shut off." The main screen came up and Izzy logged back onto the Digiworld. The screen flickered again, but this time, the colors pixilated and the edges of icons jaggied. The tiny squares of color began to move around the screen, bunching against a colored swirled background.
"Do something!" panicked Yolei.
Izzy's fingers scrambled across the keyboard. Lines and lines of data scrolled past the screen.
"What's that stuff mean?" demanded Davis. He watched Yolei and Izzy's eyes dart side to side on the screen, taking in the information.
"The data! It's being moved." Izzy frowned. " From what I can see, whatever it is is shifting data around, not destroying it."
"That's good, right?" asked Davis.
"Not if the whole Digiworld is data." Said Yolei.
"Exactly why this is classified as a crisis." Said Matt. "Look, can we get into the Digiworld and take a look around?
"How are we going to get into the Digiworld?" said Tai. "The portal is infected too."
"What makes you think that?" challenged Matt. Tai pointed to the screen. The Digiportal icon started to flash red, the universal "out of order" sign.
"A virus?" suggested Tai. "I'm thinking Myotismon and Devimon."
"I don't think it's a virus type Digimon, " said Yolei. "The code's too erratic." She pointed to a line of code on the screen. "That. That's a virus Digimon file. It's being corrupted like all the rest. And virus wouldn't corrupt other viruses, would they? And look! It's being converted from a *.mon file to a *.gif.
"A picture file?" echoed Kari.
"And that!" cried Yolei. That's a vile.mon file! Jeez, it's a text file now."
"There goes the beach we tried to phone home on," said Izzy. "Reduced to a .jpg."
"Permanently?" gasped Sora.
"Hopefully not." said Matt. "Izzy, anyway of reversing it?"
"I don't know! I don't know!" hissed Izzy, whipping his head around to glare at them. "I've never seen anything like this!"
"None of us have." said TK. "Would going into the Digiworld help?"
"It's worth a shot." Said Davis. He yanked his Digivice off his belt and held it out at the screen. "Digiportal activate!" Following Davis' lead, TK, Kari and Yolei did the same. The four of them stood there a full three seconds before realizing they weren't going digital.
"Our turn." Said Tai. He, Sora, Matt and Izzy held out their Digivices. The screen sputtered a little before dying away. "At least we got a reaction."
"Uh, Izzy," Yolei tapped Izzy's shoulder. "There's something flashing here and it's making me really nervous. The Digivice icon is flashing and there's a big circle with a line through on it. It doesn't look very good."
The group became silent, desperately thinking of a way to save the Digiworld again. Their concentration was broken by the shriek of the class bell.
Davis gathered up his papers and tucked them into his bag. "Let's meet after school. At the computer club." They nodded in agreement. "I'll page Joe, hopefully college guy doesn't have a class. Izzy, meet up with Cody after school, will you?"
"Sure."
As they went their separate ways, Yolei walked alongside Sora. With Mimi in the US, Sora turned out to become her surrogate-surrogate sister she double never had. "Sora, what are we going to do? None of us can even get into the Digiworld now."
"I wish we could, Lei." Sighed Sora. "I just don't know."
"So who's left?" asked Yolei.