Note: This is where the actual plot starts, meaning everything starts coming together... sort of. And Matt and Tai get split up, NOOOO!!! Oh, and if you really like Mimi, sorry but she's kind of a bitch in this. But um... Mimi is stupid anyway ^_^*





Chapter Fourteen- Disaster





When Matt opened his eyes, the first thing he saw was Kari and Davis leaning over him.

"Hey! You're finally awake. Man, when we saw you lyin' there we thought you were dead or somethin'!" Davis said.

"Davis!" Kari scowled and Davis scratched the back of his head nervously. He inched back and sat himself down on the ground and Kari leaned further over Matt.

"I'm glad you're finally awake Matt, how's your head feeling?"

"Huh?" Matt was still confused as to where he was and what was going on, but quickly realized a sharp pain in the side of his head. "What happened?" He asked Kari.

"We're in the digital world, but everything is really messed up. We all fell from up there and you hit your head on the ground." Kari pointed up to a TV floating in mid air above them.

Matt looked up at the TV set, but then past it at the sky.

"Kari, what's the matter with the sky? It's all screwed up."

The sky above them was very strange indeed. All the blue was missing out of it, leaving it colored a light, misty grey. There were sparks and distortions all around, almost as though the sky was short circuiting. Matt glanced around him and saw the rest of the digital world wasn't in very good shape either. There seemed to be chunks of data missing everywhere and all the blue and yellow color was missing from everything, leaving splotches of grey in the midst of greens and reds.

Matt tried to sit up, but Kari quickly pushed him back so he was lying down.

"Don't try to move, your head is still bleeding."

Matt felt the side of his head and realized Kari was using one of her gloves to absorb the blood, and his head was resting on Davis's jacket like a pillow.

Matt sighed. "This is weird, I wonder what's going on?"

"You know what's weird? This one time, I had these sea monkeys and on the box they showed all these happy smiling monkeys dancin' around wearin' bathing suits and sunglasses, but you know what? I put the monkey eggs in water and I didn't get a single dancin' monkey!" Davis said.

Kari and Matt looked over at him for a moment, each with one eyebrow raised.

Then Matt suddenly realized,

"Hey! Wait a minute, where are the others? Where's Tai?"

"We don't know," Kari said. "Only the three of us ended up here, the others must be in other areas. I think this used to be the snowy mountain area, but all the ice is gone."

Matt looked back up at the TV hovering above them.

"Is that why the television's up there? Because it used to be on a pile of ice?"

"I guess so," Kari sighed. She looked down and checked her D-Terminal to see if she had gotten any e-mails, but it didn't seem to be working. "Have you gotten anything yet, Davis?" she asked.

Davis checked his own D-Terminal and then shook his head. "I think the battery's dead or somethin'"

"As soon as Matt's head is better, we should try to go look for the others. That's what my brother Tai would do."

A chilly wind blew and Matt shivered.

"I wonder where Gabumon is," Matt thought. "And Tai..."





"SHUT UP!!!"

"Stop yelling at me! We're going to be lost here forever!!! WAAAAAHHAAAHAAA!!!!"

"If you don't stop crying right now..."

"Tai! You wouldn't hit a girl, would you!?"

"If she doesn't stop crying I'm liable to!" Tai shouted.

"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!"

Tai clenched his fists and looked as though his head was about to explode. He gave Mimi one last dirty look and stormed off to sit behind a tree.

"Why do I have to get stuck with the girls? They're so annoying." Tai said to himself.

Sora patted Mimi on the shoulder and tried to calm her down. She had been crying at the top of her lungs since they had come out of the Digiport and realized the others weren't with them. Tai, Sora and Mimi were in the middle of a dense forest with barely any sunlight showing through. Of course, the digital world was in such chaos, there wasn't much real sunlight shining anyway.

"Mimi, please calm down, we'll find the others," Sora comforted.

"We'll never find them!" Mimi sobbed. "We're stuck in this icky forest, we have no food, my white shoes are scuffed, and my make-up case is broken! Not to mention I broke a nail, and my hair is all tangled, and my mascara is running, and my underwear are riding up, and my knees have grass stains on them! I'm a mess! What's not to cry about!?"

"Mimi...at least we have each other."

"Oh that's just peachy! I'm stuck here with nobody but one of my girlfriends and Mr. I punch anything I can't make cooperate!"

"I heard that!" Tai yelled from behind the tree.

"I don't care!" Mimi snapped back.

"Mimi, Tai! Please stop fighting! We're never going to find the others with you two arguing."

"We're never going to find anything with Mimi crying like an idiot!"

"I am not an idiot!" Mimi stood up and screamed. "At least I'm smarter than you, you dim witted twit!

"Dim witted!?" Tai jumped out from behind the tree and glared at her. "Are you calling me stupid!?"

Mimi got right up in Tai's face and yelled at him. "I sure am! You're so stupid you'd pull on a Push door until the handle broke off!"

Tai growled at her. "Well you're so ditzy I bet you'd forget your own name if it wasn't sewn into your stupid pink underwear!"

Mimi gasped and slapped Tai across the face. Tai put his hand to his face for a second in shock, then dove at Mimi and pushed her to the ground. Tai brought his fist up to punch her but she began screeching at the top of her lungs like someone was about to stab her.

Sora grabbed Tai around the waist and yanked him off her.

"TAI! What are you doing!? You can't beat up a girl just because she insulted you! This isn't like with you and Matt!"

"Hmph!" was all Tai had to say. He folded his arms across his chest and sat on the ground grumbling.

"He looked at my underwear!" Mimi shouted.

"I did not!"

"How did you know they were pink then!?"

"EVERYTHING YOU WEAR IS PINK!"

Mimi just stuck her tongue out and Tai and turned her back. Sora sat down on a rock and sighed, wondering what she was ever going to do with them.





"MY PANTS ARE ON FIRE!!!"

"Quick take them off!!"

"AGH! NO!"

"Here, use this!"

Yolei quickly grabbed the bottle of water from Cody and started pouring it on Joe's pants. The small but still rather painful flames that had started on them were extinguished.

"Ow ow ow ow!" Joe whined.

"Ok, now tell me exactly how you lit your pants on fire," Yolei said.

"I was just trying to start a signal fire like you said and my pants just spontaneously burst into flames!"

"I think," Cody said, looking at the fire, "that a spark must have gotten onto your pants, Joe."

"Well at least you got a pretty good fire going," Yolei remarked, glancing at the fire they had started with some kind of emergency camping log things Joe had packed. "The others are bound to spot this."

"We're doomed!" Joe said, "They're probably miles away, we're lost in the desert forever, never to be found! And all our water is on my pants!"

"He sure isn't setting a good example for the younger generation," Cody said, and started tending to the fire.

"That wasn't all our water Joe, we still have plenty left. And maybe as soon as we've rested we should try to go and find the others." Yolei said. She sat down next to Joe in the sand.

"No! I read in my survival book that when you're lost you should stay put until someone finds you!"

"Well I heard that you can make a compass out of a needle in a glass out water. We'll make one of those and then keep heading in the same direction until we find someone."

"No more wasting water!" Joe shouted. He was being his panicky self, as usual.

"Joe, I think your glasses are on too tight," Cody said.

Joe looked up and saw Cody was offering him some sushi out of a container he had brought with him. Joe sighed.

"Thanks Cody, I guess I can get a little carried away sometimes." Joe smiled and started munching on some of the sushi with Cody.

"Uh oh, that's weird." Yolei said. She brought a little cup of water over and they all leaned over it.

"The needle keeps spinning around in circles. It's supposed to always point north." The three of then looked down into cup and watched the needle resting on the water's surface revolve around and around.

"I'm not surprised," Joe said. "This has happened before. When we came to the digital world for the first time, Mimi had this compass that she thought was a watch, and it did the same thing."

"I guess the laws of physics don't apply in the digital world." Cody said.

"Especially in a digital world as messed up as this one." Yolei looked up at the sparks shooting across the sky. They were in the middle of the desert, with no trees or water as far as they could see, only a few large boulders. Even with barely anything around them, they could see something wasn't right. In some places the boulders were missing pixels so you could see right through them, and there were patches of color missing from the sand. Pieces of sand dunes and rocks floated a few feet above the ground, their bottoms missing.

"It's almost like someone selected a bunch of files out of the digital world and pressed delete," Yolei said.

"But the digital world doesn't work like that," Cody said, but then added, "Does it?"



"How are you feeling TK?" Ken said as he sat down on patch of grass next to him. Ken, Izzy, and TK were resting in the edge of the forest by the beach. All the blue was missing from the water, making it look a sickly greyish green.

TK simply shrugged his shoulders and stared at the ground. He hadn't felt much like talking to anyone for the past few months, not even Kari. Even though Ken was practically his best friend, he didn't have the will to carry on a conversation with him.

Izzy was typing away vigorously on his laptop, as he had been since they arrived. Ken glanced over and could almost see the many wheels in Izzy's head turning as he contemplated the situation, forming new hypotheses and disregarding others.

A million questions were running through Izzy's mind. Unfortunately there was no one there to answer any of them. One thing he had noticed though, is that they hadn't seen a single digimon since they came through the portal. He wondered if the others had come in contact with any, but he was left in the dark since he had no way of contacting them, let alone any digimon.

"Have you figured anything out yet, Izzy?" Ken inquired.

Izzy shook his head and in a moment Ken regretted asking him. Izzy jumped at the chance to tell someone about all the contemplating he had been doing.

"I've been pondering quite furiously since we arrived here, but I haven't managed to reach any definite conclusions as of yet. I wish there was some way I could contact the others, but unfortunately it seems that the D-Terminals are currently out of order. I imagine though, that everyone else is probably as mixed up as we are, and that we've all been separated into smaller groups. It also makes sense to assume that they're in different areas, since we haven't run into them yet."

"I wonder when he finds time to breathe..." Ken thought to himself.

"I'm quite curious as to why the digital world is malfunctioning, however. I can't seem to find any physical cause for these strange occurrences. I wonder if perhaps there's a new enemy causing havoc that we know nothing about, but I was almost sure that we'd defeated everyone by now! And I'd also like to know why Gennai hasn't bothered to contact me yet, it could be that he's incapacitated at the moment and that in itself worries me."

"As long as there's light...the powers of darkness with be there."

Izzy stopped talking for a moment and he and Ken looked over at TK. They were quite surprised to hear him say anything, he hadn't spoken at all yet.

After an awkward silence, Ken turned back to Izzy.

"Izzy I think we should try and find the others."

"That's a very logical idea Ken, and I suggest we act on it immediately." Just then, Izzy heard a low growling sound. "There's only one minor setback."

"What's that?" Ken asked.

"My tummy's grumbling!"





Tai sat with his back to a tree, scowling ahead. He had been exiled by Sora and Mimi and forced to stay facing away from the pond they were currently at.

Mimi had demanded a bath, complaining that she was dirty and starting to sweat. When they came to the grey water, she refused to get in until Sora finally convinced her that it was clean, just missing its pigment. Tai informed her that it was just a pigment of her imagination and got a swift slap across the face again while Sora rolled her eyes and stifled a giggle.

"Stupid Mimi...why did I have to get stuck with her, why not Kari or Izzy or...Matt." Tai sighed and rested his arms and chin on his knees. "I hope he's ok. If it weren't for Mimi's dumb crying we probably could have found them by now!"

Tai's talking to himself was suddenly interrupted when he heard a loud squeal coming from the pond. Instinctively thinking there must be something wrong, Tai turned quickly and looked past the tree.

"AAAAAAHH!!!!" There were Mimi and Sora, completely naked (which Tai had momentarily forgotten about), splashing each other. Tai immediately slapped his hands over his nose which had started spurting blood all over the place. Mimi and Sora screamed and sunk down under the water when they realized Tai had accidently gotten an eye-full.

"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING, YOU PEEPING TOM!" Mimi shrieked at him.

"It was an accident!" Tai's voice was muffled because he still had his hands over his face trying to stop his nose from bleeding. "I heard you yelling and I thought maybe you were getting attacked!"

"We were just having some fun ALONE over here because with you around the fun level goes down to zero!" Mimi growled.

"Oh yeah!? Well with YOU around the stupid level goes up to a hundred!"

"Real mature, you big haired freak!"

"DON'T MAKE FUN OF MY HAIR!"

"STOP IT!!"

Tai and Mimi gasped and looked over at Sora, who hardly ever yelled. She folded her arms and glared at both of them.

"You two are acting like little babies! Stop fighting right now! We're friends and we all need to try and get along so we can find the others!"

"I'm sorry, Sora," Mimi's voice had lowered back to her usual, sweet tone.

"I guess we were really being jerks..." Tai said, whose nose had finally stopped bleeding.

Sora nodded and smiled. "Now Tai, you turn back around so we can get dressed and get out of here."

"Good plan."



"Five hundred seventy-six bottles of sake on the wall, five hundred seventy-six bottles of sake! Take one down, pass it around five hundred seventy---"

"Davis, shut up!" Matt yelled, holding the side of his head. "You're giving me an even worse headache!"

"Hey, I'm just tryin' to pass the time. We've been walkin' down this dumb mountain for hours!"

"Yeah, and you've been singing for hours! You're supposed to start at one hundred bottles not one THOUSAND."

They had been following a rocky path that wound down the side of the mountain for quite some time. Kari had advised they stay put for a while longer on account of Matt's injured head, but Matt insisted they try to find a warmer area and start looking for the other digidestined.

"Well I when I saw the size of this mountain I figured I'd make the song last longer," Davis said.

"No more singing, you're tone deaf anyway!"

"What does that mean?"

Matt just rolled his eyes and shook his head. Kari, who was walking next to Matt, shivered and rubbed her arms trying to keep warm. She was dressed in only her pink dress, which was rather short, and had been freezing since they arrived in the digital world. Even though all the snow and ice had disappeared leaving only bare rocks, the frigid temperatures of the mountains had not.

"Hey, are you ok?" Matt asked her.

"I'm fine..."

"No you're not, I can see you shivering, Kari." Matt pulled off his black jacket and wrapped it around Kari's shoulders.

"Now you're going to freeze," she said.

"Nah, I've still got another shirt on under this one," he replied, straightening out his brown turtleneck.

"I just want to get away from this mountain," Kari sighed.

"And away from Davis's singing," Matt smiled. Davis had started another song but was messing up the words (not to mention the tune) too badly to tell which one it was.

Kari just giggled and started to feel a little warmer.





"I wonder if this is Primary Village..." Jesi thought. She walked slowly through the towers of huge building blocks, each with a letter, number, for cute little picture printed on it. "The way Ken described it I thought it would be a little more...colorful."

Even Primary Village, where baby digimon hatch out of their digi-eggs was being effected by whatever had sent the digital world into such chaos. She peeked into the cradles that were strewn about but there didn't seem to be any digi-eggs in sight.

"Where could everyone be?" she said out loud.

Then she was interrupted by a voice coming from being one of the piles of blocks.

"Who goes there!?"

"I could ask you the same thing, come out and let me see who you are," she said to the mystery voice. It was one she didn't recognize.

"You tell me who you are first," the voice replied.

"I'm Jesi Junryou, I'm a digidestined. Do you know where my friends are?"

"Digidestined?" Then the owner of the voice stepped out into the open. He was a small red and purple digimon that looked like a cross between a frog and a rabbit. "Do you happen to know TK and Patamon?"

"Yes!" she said. "They're some of the friends I'm looking for! Do you know where they are?"

"Well, I can't tell you where TK is, but Patamon's with the others."

"What others? The other digimon you mean?" she asked.

"Yes, after the disaster, many digimon decided to come to Primary Village for safety. All the digimon partners of your friends are here."

"That means Flotsymon is here!" she cried. "But wait, who are you? And what disaster are you talking about?"

"Oh sorry about that, I'm Elecmon, the guardian of Primary Village...or at least what's left of it." he sighed, looking around at the empty cradles.

"What disaster?" she asked again "What happened here?"

"I'll tell you on the way, it's a long story."

Elecmon led Jesi through the rest of Primary Village and into the edge of a forest, taking the whole way. He told her that a few months ago, Jesi estimated it must have been around February break in the real world, the digital world had just started breaking apart. For reasons which no one could figure out, all the ice and sunshine had vanished. The blue and yellow color started to fade out of everything, and pixels just randomly deleted left and right. It was like parts of the Digiworld had suddenly and mysteriously been erased.

"It seems like some kind of power that was holding our world together started to fade away," Elecmon explained as they neared a clearing in the woods. "Then all the baby digimon stopped hatching. Soon after, eggs stopped appearing altogether. Now I'm worried that the powers of darkness are going to come back and start ruining our lives even more."

Jesi sighed and thought of TK, remembering how much he hated what everyone referred to as the powers of darkness. She hadn't known the digidestined yet when they had fought some of their greatest enemies, Devimon, Myotismon, and the Dark Masters. She had only heard about what went on back in the early days, but just thinking about it gave her chills.

"And there is one digimon I think you and your friends should look out for," Elecmon added.

"What? Who's that?" she asked.

"His name is Monomanemon, and he has the ability to trick people into believing he's something else. He can see into our minds, I mean, you could be him right now and I wouldn't even know."

"I'm not! I promise I'm not, I've never even heard of Monomanemon before." She assured him.

"Well just keep your guard up," Elecmon said. Then their conversation was interrupted by another voice.

"Jesi!"

Jesi turned around to see Flotsymon, Patamon, Wormmon and Gatomon rushing towards her.

"Flotsymon!" she yelled happily. She kneeled down and took her digimon into her arms. "It's so wonderful to see all of you! Are the others here?"

"All the other digimon are back in the safe-house," Flotsymon replied.

"Safe-house?"

"We had to build it," Gatomon chimed in, "As a place of refuge for all the digimon that lost their homes in the disaster."

"Any digimon that needs a place to be protected can come here," added Patamon.

"Do you have any idea where the other kids are?" Jesi asked.

"We haven't seen hide nor hair of them," Flotsymon responded.

"You mean you don't know where Ken is either?" Wormmon said sadly.

Jesi shook her head and wished there was some way she could contact her friends.