Notes: I was not planning on naming this chapter. I was originally not even planning on writing this chapter. But I figured that it would be cool if a member of the Lyoko team really WERE a digidestined, and didn't know it. The title is a parody of the movie, "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." (evil laughter)
And so I give thee…
Chapter 4- Yumi's Excellent Adventure pt. 1Yumi hurried home that afternoon to get ready for her date with Ulrich. They were going to see a movie called "Miracle" about an American Hockey Team. It had just recently been translated. Yumi wasn't too crazy about sports movies, but she had picked the last one, so it was only fair that Ulrich pick this one.
Kathy watched from Yumi's computer monitor. Hmm… She thought to herself. Nice thighs. Okay focus Kathy. How… how…howhowhow do I get her over to the digiport without being seen?
Yumi slipped on a pair of black and purple cargo pants and cinched the studded belt tight around her waist. It made her waist seem smaller and her hips seem larger, an optical illusion that had fascinated Ulrich when she first started using it. Yumi then dug through her drawers for a shirt suitable for a date.
Kathy calmly closed her eyes while Yumi pulled on a black lace bra and a black tank top with a starburst made of silver rhinestones. Man, this girl goes for black doesn't she? Kathy thought. I did too once, but that was before I was Gennai's apprentice and had to wear a uniform.
Kathy had been infamous as the "Digimon General." Her outfit was a black and blue body suit with cargo pockets, a cape, and tinted glasses like the Digimon Emperor's. The reason why she had become the Digimon General was because of an enemy invasion of the D-Reaper's forces as they tried to reclaim the Digital World. Kathy had been the leader of a veritable army of Digimon that she had raised so fast that the D-Reaper hadn't even had time to react.
Yumi then picked up her cell phone. "Please tell me that X.A.N.A didn't decide to crash our date." She muttered as she checked the voicemail.
That perked up Kathy's interest. Xana? Who or what is that?
"Good, no voice messages. That's got to be a good sign." Yumi sighed as she holstered the Cellphone in it's belt holster and started brushing out her hair. Kathy watched with lesbian's fascination as Yumi carefully pulled apart snarls in her hair. Finally having enough of struggling she pulled out some spray detangler and finally managed to get her hair to lie flat. "Hmm… should I pull my hair back?" She wondered, looking vainly in the mirror. "Yeah, I think I'll go for the Relena look." Yumi reached for a silk hair tie and tied her hair back, half up, half down.
Kathy watched in silence as Yumi dug through a box of jewelry. "I think I'll wear the pentacle collar with the dragons on it. And then the Slytherin Arm Band and that will do it."
Kathy watched with growing envy over Yumi's wardrobe as she fastened a watch on her right wrist, a Slytherin wristband on her left and a collar around her neck. The collar had a silver pentacle dangling from it. A Chinese Dragon with blue glass jewels for eyes had the pentacle curled in it's coils.
"That's perfect! Ulrich will be over the moons over this outfit!" Yumi hugged the picture of Ulrich that she kept on her bedside table.
Ulch! Kathy thought. Hetai She thought fondly of her mate, Zoe. Oh well, we can't all be gay, otherwise who would continue the human race?
"Yumi?" Yumi's mother called upstairs. "Your friend Ulrich is here to pick you up!"
Kathy calmly switched to the computer downstairs. Ooh, they're Japanese. Japanese people in France. I speak Japanese pretty well after living in Japan. It might come in handy when I initiate Yumi.
Initiate was the term that Kathy often used for training. The reason why she used the term was because a digidestined who's digimon comes to the Real World would not be able to go to the Digital World, would not know what to do, unless another Digidestined who had been to the digital world showed them how to get in.
Yumi pounded downstairs to find Ulrich waiting for her. Yumi happily threw her arms around him. "Ulrich! I've been waiting for you!" She kissed him once on each cheek.
Kathy made a face. And Gennai complains that Zoe and I flaunt! HAH! That last was because the ticket had fluttered from Yumi's hand and Kathy had seen the name and address of the Theater.
Switching to Yumi's computer upstairs, Kathy came through the digiport, opened Yumi's window, crawled out onto a nearby tree, shut the window, and slithered down the tree. She and Blancamon, her intraining digimon, were just in time to see Ulrich and Yumi go around the corner. They followed, listening to Ulrich and Yumi's conversation and always sticking to the shadows with an economy of movement that would have made Koichi sigh in envy. Occasionally snatches of conversation drifted back to them.
"So Aelita says that the first scanner may be finished tomorrow if we work hard enough." Ulrich was saying.
"Just be sure that Jeremy and Odd know that if they try to wake me up before noon like they did last time I WILL kill them." Yumi said with a sigh.
"It was nine a.m. Yumi." Ulrich protested, coming to his friends' defense.
"I was sound asleep and you guys woke me up. I thought X.A.N.A. might have started an attack of some kind! And the stupid phone scared me half to death."
"Sounds kind of like you Kathy." Blancamon whispered.
Kathy shushed him. "Blancamon be quiet or we'll be seen!" She hissed.
Yumi turned around and Kathy ducked behind a bush.
"What's wrong Yumi?" Ulrich asked worriedly.
"I thought I heard something." Yumi shrugged it off. "I must be getting paranoid. Too many attacks."
Kathy followed Yumi and Ulrich to the theater. She stood behind them in line for tickets. She stood behind them in the line for refreshments and bought some candy for Blancamon and Soda for herself. She followed them at an easy pace to the individual theater and sat in line two rows behind them.
The movie started, and Kathy watched, and listened, and waited. Ulrich wrapped an arm around Yumi's waist and watched, enrapt at the story that unfolded. Soon, Kathy realized that Yumi was asleep in Ulrich's arms. "Blancamon." She whispered. "You finished with that Candy yet?"
"Not quite." The digimon sighed. "This stuff is gonna break my jaw."
"That's why they're called Jaw Breakers. Have some chocolate instead." She got her digimon busy on the chocolate and set her into the empty seat next to where she was sitting. Then she closed her eyes, inducing the trance that would allow her to enter her quarry's mind.
Kathy searched Yumi's subconscious. She ignored the part that held memories. She ignored the part that breathed and moved and beat the heart. She ignored the part of her that warned Yumi about first impressions and the part that focused and unfocused her eyes. Then Kathy entered the part of Yumi's mind that dreamed.
Yumi was dreaming, something unusual in a movie theater. The movie must have been awful if she was dreaming in the middle of it. She was in a realm of black emptiness. A circle of dark purple light glowed at her feet. Yumi heard the sound of boots echoing on a floor.
A girl stepped into view. "Who… who are you?" Yumi asked nervously. She took a step back.
The girl smiled. She was dressed in black and blue, with a gray and black cloak swirling around her feet. She had dark blue eyes and shoulder length, curly blonde and silver hair. She was wearing black boots that normally Yumi would have been envious of. But there was something… unreal about this girl. For some strange reason she reminded Yumi of Aelita. It wasn't something that you saw or felt. In fact, by her general expression and physical appearance, she was obviously nothing like Aelita.
"Yumi! You are a digidestined! Come with me! To the digital world! We need you!" The girl said, extending a hand. "Take my hand Yumi! Come with me! It will be fun!"
Yumi shook her head. "I can't! I'm needed on Lyoko!"
"What's Lyoko?" Kathy asked, cocking her head to the side. "The balance of both worlds lies with every digidestined and their digimon! If you had come before now Yumi you would have known that!"
"I can't go with you! You might have been sent by X.A.N.A.! How do I know you're not him in disguise?" Yumi asked.
"I don't even know what a Xana is!" Kathy said, exasperated. "Think about it Yumi, but you WILL come to the Digital World eventually if I have to invoke the Sovereigns themselves to drag you here!" Kathy snarled as she disappeared.
Yumi sat bolt upright. "ack!" She gasped in shock.
"You alright Yumi?" Ulrich asked worriedly.
"I had the weirdest dream. But it's nothing to worry about." She looked back over her shoulder, but Kathy and Blancamon were gone. "I think."
Kathy stalked back and forth in her quarters. She was supposed to be writing a ballad telling about the recent return of the Dark Masters. It was supposed to be a tune to reassure the Digimon that this time, the Digidestined, all the Digidestined all over the world, would stand united. But howhowhowhowhowhowhowhow in the Hells of two worlds was she supposed to concentrate when she couldn't bring ONE LITTLE GIRL to the Digital world to meet her destiny. In the coming battle Yumi might even be the grain of sand that tipped the proverbial scales in favor of the forces of light. She. Was. Needed.
"Kathy, why are you pacing like that love?" Zoe came in and wrapped her arms around her mate. Kathy pulled Zoe over to the bed and pulled her mate into her lap before spilling her guts about what had happened in the theater. "When I came out of the trance Blancamon had finished the candy and we had fifteen minutes left in the movie. I barely got back into the digiport before Yumi got home." Kathy growled.
Zoe giggled and leaned in to kiss her mate tenderly on the lips. "Put it in perspective Kathy. Think how powerful she is if she can resist your mind visions. You and Kari are the most powerful psychics in the entire digidestined. And she RESISTED your mind control! Think how powerful she'll be when she finally joins the fight, and like they say, better late than never."
"Yes." Kathy sighed as she pulled Zoe into bed with her for the night. But at the back of her mind, Kathy left her worry unsaid, 'But what if she arrives too late?'