Thanks to Maddie, who sent in some pretty neat ideas regarding this fic. Also, to Salamon2, who sent me an e-mail a little while ago, basically giving me a kick and said "Hey! Someone likes this stupid thing! Write more, would ya?"

When it comes to future chapters on this, I'll say it like Bugs Bunny: "WE NEED YOUR HEEEEEEEELP!" (Space Jam) The reason? After a bit of an idea for the next Ch. Or two, I'm blank! E-mail, review, whatever you have to do! Just tell me what to write!!!

You know what? It's really weird in this fic to write 'T.K. was sitting on Patamon's head' instead of the other way around. Feels strange.

Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon and I probably never will. To bad though, this is entertaining.

Grass Is Greener

Chapter 2: It's No Joke

Tai hurried down the hall towards Davis's apartment. He'd been soccer practice, but the message had said 'Emergency Meeting' so he'd had to hurry over.

He rang the bell. Davis answered. "Hey Tai." he greeted the older boy. "Come on in, you're the first one here."

The two kids quickly slid back to Davis's room. Tai had expected to see all the younger DigiDestined, but instead he was met by Yolei, Ken, Cody, and two new kids he'd never seen before, while T.K. and his sister were no where to be seen.

"Who're these guys?" he asked.

The kids already in the room glanced at each other uncertainly. "So we don't have to tell the story over twenty times…" Yolei began

"Maybe we should keep the introductions until after everyone gets here." Ken finished for her.

So Tai sat on the bed and waited patiently. Slowly the older DigiDestined trickled in a took their places. They were all impatient to know what was happening.

"Alright then." Yolei sighed, shutting the door behind Joe when he hurried in from class. "That's everybody."

"Hold on a sec." Sora said. "Kari and T.K. aren't here yet."

The younger DigiDestined glanced at each other nervously. "Well…" Ken started.

"Actually…" Yolei muttered.

"They are." Cody finished.

The older DigiDestined glanced around. "Where?" Tai asked. "Are they hiding in the closet or something?"

"Down here Tai."

Tai looked around. "Where?" he finally asked.

A brown cat with brown eyes pushed its way up into his lap. "Right here." it muttered in his sister's voice.

Tai looked down in surprise. The cat grinned at him sheepishly. He picked it…her…up. "Kari?" he asked.

There was a bit of shocked silence, then Matt laughed. "Okay, okay, great joke you guys." he said with a grin. "Now where's the microphone?"

"It's not a joke, Matt." sighed the new boy. He glanced down at his partner, sitting in his lap, then back up at the older boy. "I'm…Patamon."

The reaction was…to be expected. I suppose we should just about leave it at that, because it consisted mainly of a lot of yelling, fighting and disbelief from all the DigiDestined, until the younger ones finally got the story out.


"So let me get this straight…" Joe messaged his temples. "You were hit by that attack, and then switched places?"

Gatomon, Patamon, Kari and T.K. nodded. "This is wild." Sora shook her head. "Gatomon and Patamon are human…Kari and T.K. are Digimon…"

"Any ideas on how to switch us back, Izzy?" T.K. asked. He was attempting to get used to the ears-as-big-as-he-was part and finding it very tiring.

Izzy shook his head. "We'd have to get the exact opposite frequency of the one used to switch you in the first place. And even then we'd have to be extremely careful." he brushed his hair back, talking more to the others than to the subjects at hand. "Even if a mistake didn't kill them, we could switch them permanently, or, rather embarrassingly, do something like turning Kari in a boy and T.K. in a girl…"

The two Digimon both blushed deep scarlet. Matt quickly made an attempt to change the subject. "So…what can we do?"

"Nothing right now." Izzy sighed. "I'm afraid we'll have to find Sorceressmon and get her to reverse the effects somehow."

"In the meantime?" Gatomon asked, and even as a human she purred slightly as she talked.

"In the meantime…" Izzy sighed. "We'll just have to let do. I suppose Gatomon and Patamon can work the Digivices because they're sitting here, so we'll just have to search until we find…"

Kari suddenly let out a gasp, sitting straight up in Gatomon's lap. "How're we ever gonna explain this to our parents?!" she cried.

"Oh, shoot!" T.K. was suddenly alert too. "I forgot about that! Mom's gonna freak!"

Tai and Matt had both gone slightly pale. It was obvious they'd forgotten about the fact that it would probably be up to them to explain exactly why their siblings were stuck like this.

"Well…" Tai swallowed slightly. "I guess…we'll handle it…"

~ * ~ * ~

"Sorceressmon." the dark figure hissed. "Have you done your work?"

"As you commanded, my lord." the Digimon was knelling. "The whole group is in a state of mass confusion."

"Excellent." her master hissed. "I so do love watching such an entertaining show. I hope they enjoy themselves."

"Your orders, sir?" Sorceressmon asked, standing.

"Yes…Tomorrow, as soon as you see them. Send your slaves. That should take care of them, once and for all.."

~ * ~ * ~

Kari awoke early in the morning. She and Gatomon, as well as the boys, hadn't had a very good night. Her mother had fainted on the spot, while it took Matt an hour and a half to calm Ms. Takaishai down. After that came a long time of explaining and scolding and yelling and crying. By the time they finally got to bed, none of them could figure out how to sleep right.

Gatomon still wanted to curl up on top of the bed, and often knocked her partner to the floor. Kari wanted to stretch out under the covers, got too hot during night, and sometimes scratched Gatomon's legs up with her claws. Patamon's head felt cold the whole time, and T.K. kept rolling over and getting caught in his own ears. Sum it up to say that none of them got a very good night's sleep.

Restless, Kari jumped to an open window. She had no idea Digimon had this much untapped energy in the Real World. She didn't like being cooped up. She wanted to get outside.

She checked the clock. It was 6:25. Gatomon wouldn't miss her for about half an hour or so.

Kari pushed the window open and jumped to the ledge just beneath, then after a few more leaps, landed on the fence that separated an alleyway, and finally onto the ground.

She yawned and stretched as she began around the neighborhood. It was a beautiful morning, with crystal clear blue skies and only a couple of small clouds crossing over. So calm…so peaceful…

Until she ran head-first into a small pack of stray dogs.

~ * ~ * ~

T.K. yawned widely. He sat on the rail of the apartment's balcony, gazing over the city. He was bored. 6:45 PM, and he'd been lying around after a sleepless night. But he wasn't really tired, just bored out of his skull. Maybe Digimon didn't need a lot of sleep. Maybe it was just because he'd never Digivolved. Whatever. He was wide awake.

There was the loudest commotion from down below him. From the sounds of it, a bunch of dogs were casing some poor cat around the neighborhood.

He glanced down, and nearly fell off his perch. "What the…That looks like Kari!" he gasped, and indeed it was. She'd stumbled into the gang of dogs and they'd chased the little cat around mercilessly.

"Hang on, Kari!" he called, hoping she could hear. He then glance up, and tried to compose himself for flight.

There was just one little problem…He hadn't quite gotten the hang of his ears yet. He'd practiced the night before, while Matt tried to get their mother to calm down. First he'd gone backwards for quite a bit, then run into the walls for a while. Now he was going forward, and had a pretty good sense of direction, but he was still a weak flier and at the mercy of every stray wind. Of course, he didn't pay attention to any of this, and simply jumped into the air and hoped for the best.

First off, he plummeted two stories down without doing much of anything. Then he finally caught a cross breeze and went tumbling forward, head-over heels. Then flap… flap…flap…and finally going in the right direction, while bouncing up and down quite a bit.

"Okay." he muttered to himself. "Maybe we take the stairs next time…"

Meanwhile, Kari was cornered in the back of an alley, facing the pack of snarling, snapping, barking dogs. She back up against the wall, and automatically her fur bristled all over.

Okay, okay…just think. she urged herself. I'm a Digimon, not a cat. I've got to have some sort of strength or power or something. Just what is it?! Oh, come on girl… Think think think think think think think……

With a sudden rush, a ball of clear air burst through the dogs and hit the wall above Kari's head. The dogs and Kari were more surprised then scared at the odd spectacle. "That looked like…Patamon's Boom Bubble…" Kari muttered to herself.

With a loud cry, something that looked like a ball of gold came barreling into the dogs, crashing into three of them. The dogs, not knowing what exactly this thing was, decided not to risk it for a cat and bolted, as the yellow ball hurled into a stack of boxes with a disgruntled OOMPH!

Kari blinked, then hurried over and peeked inside the mountain of collapsed cardboard. "T.K.?" she called uncertainly. "You still in one piece?"

The blonde creature sat up, shaking the dust out of his ears. "Did I get'em?" he asked dizzily.

"With the Boom Bubble? No." Kari grinned. "But your flying scared 'em off."

T.K. stood on his fours and shook everything off. Kari giggled at him. "Okay, okay, I need a little more practice." he grinned sheepishly.

"Anyway, you got me outta a tight spot there." she said, smiling. "You saved my life."

"N-No problem…" he muttered, turning red under his fur.

My gosh, he's shy. she thought with a giggle.

He took to the air a moment later and hovered above her. "Need a ride home?" he asked, grinning again.

"I think I'll walk, thank you."

T.K. perked his ear up a moment. There was a faint call from a couple of streets over. "T.K.! T.K., where are you?!"

Patamon. And he felt fairly certain Gatomon was calling the same thing out Kari's bedroom window at the moment, so they split up and went back to their partners.

~ * ~ * ~

"I do not believe you two!" Yolei exclaimed when she heard the morning's fiasco. Kari and T.K. grinned sheepishly at each other. They were in the Digital World, searching for Sorceressmon.

The others were quiet enjoying the little story, although Gatomon and Patamon were rather vexed by it. They'd already told Kari and T.K. they'd been worried to wake up and find no one, although it was quiet obvious.

But before anyone could mention more, an explosion sounded from over the hill. With a crash, a Drimojimon leapt out from behind the grassy mount, roaring and growling.

"What in the…?!" Davis gasped, leaping back.

"Maybe it's having a tantrum!" gulped Yolei nervously.

They ruled out that idea as the Drimojimon crashed one of his paws into the mountain side, missing Gatomon and Ken by a couple of inches. In about ten seconds, Hawkmon, Armodillomon, Veemon and Wormmon had Digivolved to their Champion forms, leaving Gatomon, Patamon and their partners to watch.

After a bit of battling, however, the Drimojimon implied a tactic that including burrowing below the hills, then popping up unexpectedly.

"You can feel the tremors underground!" Ankylomon said. "He's moving that-a-way!"

"I bet he's from Sorceressmon!" Cody called. "Which means if we follow him, we could capture her!"

"Then let's get moving!" Stingmon buzzed, scooping up Ken.

Davis, Yolei and Cody either climbed on or were carried by their partners, respectively. But as they hurried off, the two remaining humans and their partners ran after them. "Wait a sec!" Patamon shouted. "What about us?!"

"You guys stay here!" Ken yelled back at him. "You could get hurt if you come along like this!"

The group of four slide to a stop. Gatomon glanced at Patamon out of the corner of her eye, then tossed her white hair back angrily. "He could've just said 'you'll just get in the way' and it would've sounded better."

About half a mile away, the rumblings underground finally stopped. The kids slid off of their partners and glanced around, but they saw nothing. "Where do you suppose he…" ExVeemon started, when the Drimojimon burst out of the ground and threw him into the air.

"ExVeemon!" Davis shouted, but the Champion landed on his feet.

The Drimojimon roared back. "Drill Spin!" he shouted, and fired the attack for Ankylomon.

"Tail Hammer!" shouted the yellow Digimon, an attack that would have easily overcome the Drimojimon's. But this time, the Drill Spin not only made in through, but destroyed the Tail Hammer and threw Ankylomon to the ground.

"What?!" Yolei gasped.

"Something's very wrong here!" Cody gulped.

~ * ~ * ~

Meanwhile, despite all warnings, the four that had been left behind were trudging across the hills. T.K., sitting on Patamon's head, suddenly perked up his large ears. "I hear it." he muttered. "Doesn't sound good."

"What'd you mean?" Kari asked. Gatomon was carrying her, and she was looking up at T.K. "What's the matter?"

T.K.'s ears were raised, listening and trying to put it into words. Patamon tried to put it more spessificaly. "What do you hear T.K.?" he asked. "What kind of attack blasts, how often and how strong?"

"There's one big one." T.K. explained. "Then several small ones, very weak. I think the strong one's Drimojimon."

"But that's impossible!" Gatomon insisted. "Drimojimon just aren't that strong!"

"Well, whatever's happening." Kari muttered. "I have a feeling they need help. There's got to be something we can do."

Trying to pick up the pace a bit, they all had the same wonderings through their minds. Then finally, T.K. got an idea, and he jumped so suddenly he almost fell off Patamon's head. "I've got it!" he shouted, flapping his ears to hover near his partner's head.

"Got what?" Gatomon asked.

"You two have our Digivices, right?" T.K. was so excited he wasn't listening to much else. Gatomon and Patamon nodded. "Well then, I think we can Digivolve!"

Kari hit the ground in shock, then sat back up. "What?!" she shouted. "T.K… We're not really Digimon!"

"So?" T.K. grinned and landed next to her. "We're still in Digimon bodies! I bet we could do it! All we have to do is share energy, just like we always do! Only this time we'll be the ones that change!"

Patamon knelt down so he could look his friend over. "You've wanted to do this a long time, huh?" he asked.

T.K. just gave him a look. Patamon nodded. Gatomon and Kari locked eyes, and they both knew it too.

"Alright then." Patamon stood. He gripped the green Digivice in his palm. "Let's go for it!"