Chapter 13- Homeward Bound

As the Digimon returned to their rookie stages, the DigiDestined laughed, clapped, cheered, and spun each other round in circles in celebration.

"We won! We won!" they yelled in joy. "We did it! We won!"

"Yes, you did," said a familiar voice. "Congratulations!"

They stopped celebrating to see who it was.

"It Gennai!" Izzy announced, spotting him not far away. He and others walked over to listen to their old advisor friend.

"So, I see you've done it again," said Gennai, beaming.

"Yeah, so I did!" Davis laughed, striking a funny heroic pose.

Kari eyed Davis. "He meant the team," she reminded him annoyingly.

Davis blushed. "Oh? Oh yeah! I knew that."

"Sure you did," Kari giggled.

"But, but..." Davis stammered in protest.

With that, everyone laughed. Something's just never change. Davis frowned at them; but no one seemed to notice because they were laughing too hard.

"Excuse me," Gennai interrupted. Everyone stopped laughing and giggling to listen. "Thank you. IceDevimon was the one that closed the portals on you. But now that you've defeated him, they have been reopened."

"So, we can go home now?" inquired Yolei.

Gennai fixed her with a stare and Yolei fell silent. He smiled and continued. "Yes it does mean you can go home. I have found a portal, which will take you directly to your hometown. Have a safe journey home, kids, and once again, Congratulations! Bye now!" With that, he was gone.

"How does he do that so fast?" Yolei asked TK.

"It was his hologram," TK explained simply.

"Hologram?"

TK nodded. "Yep. It's his way of getting around remember? Gennai's always preferred it. Don't worry though, I still can't get used to him traveling like that."

Yolei sighed. "Me neither."

"C'mon slowpokes," Matt called, "or you're going to miss our ticket home!"

"Coming!" everyone called back and ran to catch up.

Soon, they found the portal-television thingy Gennai had mentioned. Kari pointed her D3 at the screen.

"Digi-Port open!" she shouted.

Beep! Blink! Pop! Up came the portal onto the screen. Their hometown's name was marked on the destination plaque.

"Alright!" Tai cheered, pointing to the portal gate/TV. "It's open!"

"Yahoo!" Mimi cried. "Last one home is a stinky sock!"

"Eww!!" said several of the others in disgust. Mimi scrunched her nose in disgust too, wondering why she had said such a thing.

"OK!" Davis interrupted cheerfully. "We're going home!"

"Yay!"

They all pointed their digivices at the screen, and one by one vanished into it. They were heading home!