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Author's Note: I bet you thought I died. This story is dedicated to all those horrible cliché stories that I hate so much.
Izzy tapped several times on his computer, it made several tapping noises as he did so. "Prodigious..." he muttered quietly.
He continued making this tapping noise until a hand tapped him. The hand was attached to an arm; that was attached to the body of a person whom Izzy was quite fond of. It's name was Mimi. "Izzy, this isn't the time." She said, between tears.
A body next to hers, offered her a tissue, the tissue belonged to a blue haired person that was in school to be a doctor. That person's name was Joe. Mimi took the tissue, and made several loud snorting noises, and handed it back to the person of Joe.
It was rainy that day, Tai remembered it was rainy because he felt very wet after standing outside for awhile, and it was all over him, not the occasional accidental ones that only made him wet in one place. And those only happened when people ran down the streets shouting "GOJIRA!" which was probably Japanese for "MONSTER OF ANY/ALL CLASSIFICATIONS!!" although, he knew none of those were true, for he had never heard anyone speak in all capitals.
It was 2:00 PM when he had gotten the call on his cell phone. It was 2:00 PM because that's what his watch said, and he knew it was his cell phone because rarely does his pocket make that ringing sound. Only when there is a bell in it; and that only happened a few times. Normally on the days when there were no people screaming Gojira.
But not anymore. For someone he knew, and loved very much had died. Kari had called him to tell him the news, about how the car had tried to avoid her, and how the flesh was pounded flat against the road, as if a giant car had failed to avoid hitting him.
All of Tai's friends came over to their house and offered him gifts and tried to cheer him up, but it was no use. He was in complete shock. He couldn't imagine how he was going to continue his life without that extra body.
Kari was taking it worse though, every morning she would wake up and put food on his dish, and every night he'd cuddle with her before sleep. But not anymore. Miko was dead.
So began Tai's series of unfortunate events. The unfortunate events that eventually led him to an amazing discovery... but I'm getting ahead of myself.
Mimi took the tissue, and made several loud snorting noises, and handed it back to the person of Joe. Joe looked at the tissue with a look of distaste, and threw it on the ground, which some weirdo later stole to add to a Mimi shrine.
"That cat... was like... a fine fur coat to me..." Mimi said, in between sniffles.
"That cat... was a very inquisitive feline." Izzy said, in between tappings, and being hit on the head by a hand that belonged to Mimi.
"That cat... was... an animal of interest to me." Said Joe, in between looking at the tissue distastefully, wondering what he'd gotten himself into, and trying to remember where the otolith was on a cichlid fish.
But the funeral was over, everyone was mainly quiet, except for the snifflings, tappings, and the sound of someone's eyes looking at a tissue distastefully.
Anyone who knows anything about the Japanese knows that they don't bury their dead, and instead burn it. Tai had burned Miko with a lighter he had found outside in a dumpster. Because as he learned, lighters contain millions of calories that his mother had been trying to avoid.
Miko's ashes now sat within an old food dish labeled Miko, it was sitting above some sort of thing where there were other trinkets. But all this is relatively un-important. The important thing, is what happened next. Ignoring all the above said, erase it from your memory, except for the fact that most of the Digidestined were in the same room.
The city was nuked and everyone died.
I'm kidding! Just making sure you're paying attention!
The door to the apartment room swung open, a bright light blinded everyone in the room, and there stood, an ugly and hideous shadow.
"You guys! You gotta turn on the news!" came the voice of Matt from the shadow, as he quickly thrust off his shoes and ran inside. He threw himself onto the couch where there were a few ashes scattered in Miko's favorite place, and turned on the TV. He pressed a few buttons and changed it to a channel where it showed a bottle of shampoo. An announcer was talking about how well it cleans hair, and doesn't cause baldness.
The scene changed to the back of someone's head, as their hair was washed with the shampoo. "That's my hair!!" shouted Matt.
And of course everyone did an anime fall, just like they do in real life all the time in Japan because Animes are always 100 accurate about the way people talk and behave in Japan.
"Matt you idiot! Watch something interesting for once!" shouted Tai in between wanting to strangle Matt.
"Science Channel!" Izzy said, hoping someone would listen to him.
"Shopping!" Mimi shouted, whilst covering TK's mouth so as to stop some of the competition.
"Live Surgery Channel!" Shouted Joe, although he knew such a channel didn't exist, and got squeamish at the very thought of there ever being such a channel.
Everyone tackled Matt and tried to steal the remote from him. For they all knew that coming to a reasonable agreement was pointless, and that those never come to anything except selfishness.
Matt bit Mimi, and Mimi kicked Izzy. Izzy used his laptop to work as a clamp and crush Joe's head, but Joe was the most intelligent and simply through TK in as his place. TK, frustrated, clawed the living daylights out of someone whom no one ever discovered, for they all had claw marks on them when it was over. Sora, meanwhile, bashed Matt over the head with her helment. Tai watched the whole even taking place, and simply picked up the remote which had fallen on the ground in all the commotion.
He changed it to some random cartoon channel and went into his room to tell Kari about what had happened. The two of them came out of the room with a bag of movie candy to eat while watching TV. Yeah right... TV...
It was pretty entertaining, no one had expected Izzy to whip out a computer mouse and attempt strangling Joe. But then again, Izzy didn't expect Mimi to know Jujitsu either.
"Do you think they still remember what they're fighting about?" Kari asked Tai.
"I doubt it. Not even you and I use gelled hair as daggers." Tai replied, in between getting gooey bits of sugary bear out of his teeth.
But none of this is really relevant to what happened next. It just kind of gave you a backstory. And backstories are always very important to novels, fan fics, and video games. Without backstories, no story would have a spine!
Just as Joe was about to wrap a bandage around TK and prevent him from breathing, the TV went to static, completely silencing everyone. It wasn't just because they had broken the computer (though that was most of it) it was because the white noise was very deafening, something about it was very strange. It burned their ears, made their hair stand on end, and made Izzy close his computer (TK's head wasn't in it anymore).
Tai stared at the TV, wildly pressing buttons, trying to turn the TV off but it wasn't working. Slowly an image began to appear on the television, it appeared to be a news broadcast of some remote city. Down at the bottom some words scrolled by in a foreign language.
"Those symbols look familiar..." Izzy mumbled as he opened up his computer again and started opening documents.
There was a lot of gibberish on the Television and it appeared that there was a lot of smoke in the air. "xxhhzz... italzz... uhshrrxxzz" was the main noise they heard. They couldn't decipher whether it was the static, or the language of whoever was speaking that made it sound so strange.
It cleared up and they could clearly hear the voice of a familiar man they had once met, and Izzy shouted "Prodigious! It's the Digital World Code!"
The voice of Gennai was slowly made clear as he made a news broadcast;
"zzfires are spreading. As yet the "real" world has yet to comment on the causes of these fires, and it is suspected that perhaps they originated here. No monsters have reported seeing any dangerous or suspicious looking Digimon in the area, so it is unlikely that it is caused by any virus Digmon." Gennai's voice finished.
"A news broadcast?" Joe wondered.
"I suppose it is. We haven't heard much from the Digital World lately, perhaps it's time we visit." Izzy said, already packing up his computer and imagining what kind of adventures awaited them now.
The screen faded to static again, and then returned to the cartoon show. Tai was already reaching for his digivice, and Sora was already smiling, she knew that Tai would never pass up a chance to visit the Digital World.
Stay tuned! It gets worse in the next chapter!!