Disclaimer: I do not own digimon. I do however; own the plot, and everything about it!
Chapter 2: We're all gonna run, run, run around!
It was two fifty-nine in the afternoon. To most students, including Davis, this last minute of school was the last leg of the race, the 'Final Run', as the students like to call it. But because it's a Friday, to be exact, the LAST Friday of the school term, it's name was changed to 'The BIG One'.
Davis was all psyched up. Adrenaline was being pumped into his bloodstream every passing second. He felt like superman high on crack, invincible, unstoppable, the king of the world. Hell, Davis felt like a god. A god with only a 40 years old mathematics teacher, a beaten down wooden door, and sixty seconds stopping him from unleashing his wrath.
Originally, the digidestined had planed to visit the digi-world again after school to help build a new shelter for elecmon, the guardian and caretaker of primary village. The number of digi-eggs coming in has reached an all-time high in the resent weeks. The village was flooded with eggs of every sort, twice had Davis nearly crush an egg when he lost his balance. In order to protect the newborn digimons from the stormy weathers predicted by Izzy, the digidestined, well most of them anyway, agreed to help build a shelter for elecmon. Even though elecmon was a good friend to all the digidestined, but after awhile he seem to be calling them to help out with every little thing, which is starting to get on Davis's nerve.
It won't kill him just to get other digimons to help out would it? Davis uttered to himself, I wouldn't mind if the storm washed away every one of them, that way we'll have fewer calls and more homework done.
Lucky, the digidestined have families too, which had saved Davis from doing any backbreaking labor. Almost close to a miracle, their parents had wanted all of them to back home early to visit their Grandparents, which means that their plans in the digimon world would have to be postpone. Davis himself doesn't need to visit anyone but is sure as hell not going to come out with that information.
Less than a few seconds left, Davis risk a glance to his right. Kari was beautiful today, Hell, she's is beautiful everyday, smiled Davis.
He had try to ask her out on a date several times before, most of the time she was either too busy or already had plans with TK. Davis had known for quite sometime that she prefers TK over him. He had over heard several conversions between her and Yolei to know that for a fact. It was like a pile driver to the heart. The only one who seems to understand his pain was none other then his mentor, Tai.
Tai had liked Sora for a very, very long time. Even though he doesn't admit it, Davis could see the pain in his eyes every time he sees both Sora and Matt going out together. Davis had never understand why Tai was so willing to 'hand' her over to Matt. Tai was both a best friend and a good mentor to Davis whether be it on the field or in the digimon world, it pains him to see him like that.
Why is it that we champions of courage always have the worst of luck when it comes to love? Asked Davis.
It because we're fighters, Answered Tai, and fighters doesn't need love to fight, only need courage….
Sad but true, said Davis to himself as he lookedat his watch again, only to remember that it was still lying somewhere in his bathroom.
There was still ten seconds left on the clock, but by now the teacher had already give up on trying to teacher anything, since its obvious that their minds are on something else. Davis's fellow students have already gathered their bags and positioning themselves to breach the poor wooden door. Not wanting to lose out, Davis grabbed his bag as well.
Time to show them what this' fighter' can do, Davis caught TK's eyes. This would be a battle between men. With less than a second left, the room suddenly fell silent like a graveyard.
Then like the firing of the starting pistol, the school bell rang. This sets of a series of chained-events. Two thousands over students, kicked backed their chairs, jumped over their tables and stormed through the doors. The teachers, knowing better than to try and stop them, quickly jumped out of the way to avoid being overrun by this unstoppable horde.
Leading this army of killers were the two disputing alpha males of the school, both of them are the best in their individual sports. Davis and TK were running like there's a bomb in the building, ready to go off at any moment. Neither of them said anything to taunt each other as they both knew that it would only cause them to lose their concentration.
Around the next corner was the finishing line, the main gate that Davis flew through early this morning. Coming up to the corner, TK saw the dent in the wall that caught Davis in mid-flight, this surprise had allowed Davis to over take him swiftly. Realizing his mistakes, TK kicked up to full gear, closing the distances between them.
The main gate was just a few steps away. With their pride and five dollars at stake, both boys made a final leaped of faith, literally.
For the second time today, Davis went 'bullet-time'. He could see TK closing his eyes and bracing for the coming impact. He could see the man behind the opened gate with his eyes widening in fear as the two thousand hyper-active student behind them charged toward him. Davis pity this innocent by-stander
Then, just as it suddenly started, the bullet-time mode end, and both boys slammed full force into the man. They hit the ground hard, rolled-over, and jumped up at the same time and declaring," FIRST!"
"What you mean 'first'? I was first!!!" yelled Davis over the cries of two thousand students.
"You wish Davis, it was obvious I was out of the gate before you did." sneered TK
"Not by a long shot dude, I came…huh?" Davis looked down.
The man who they had launched themselves into was now underneath their heels, stunned…or at least waiting for the two morons on him to take this fight elsewhere.
" Oops…hehe, sorry sir! We'll just be on our way…" said TK as he stepped off the man.
"Yeah, real sorry about this…hehe, well you know, 'boys will be boys' right?" continued Davis, as he followed TK.
The man gave them a looked that spelled, Keep walking kid, don't let me find u cause if I do… then he gave them a hand signal that confirmed it.
Davis swallowed, " Well that was rude,"
" What do you expect? You did land on the guy" replied TK
"You mean, YOU landed on him" retorted Davis as he kicked a can away.
" Whatever," TK rolled his eyes," you going anywhere?"
Not wanting to tell him the truth which would have dire consequences, Davis lied," Yeah, grandparents place, you?"
"Same, " answered TK, he looked at his watch" Well, gotta go, we'll call this one even then, see ya!"
Davis watched silently as his rival run off across the street.
Yeah, you just keep running TK…growledDavis, then walked off in the opposite direction himself. Now to get home to play …Davis stopped.
"Wait…" Davis stopped," I think I'm forgetting something here…."
Then as if an answer from the heaven, a blood-curdling scream could be heard from within the school building.
"OH CRAP!!!! Demi-veemon!!!!!" exclaimed Davis, He ran right back into the school yard.
Great, I forgotten to give him a rendezvous point! Thought Davis as he ran passed the remaining students who were left behind from the run.
Knowing that if he enter by the front door, he would have to deal with the man he had just crushed, Davis decided to go by the back. Running along side the school wall, he saw Veemon (Must have digivolve on his own again) on the fourth floor running like a maniac, dodging chairs and teachers at the same time,. The only problem is, the path he is running on is leading towards a dead end.
What the hell is he doing?! Wondered Davis, can't he see a solid wall ten feet from his eyes!?!?!
Unknowing to Davis, Veemon knew what he was doing, or at least what he thought he was doing.
I never knew playing spy was such hard work! Thought Veemon as he ran from the angry mob behind him. Well, at least I don't get shot right? No soon had he said that in his mind, several stationaries on the teachers' desk became live ammunition.
Scratch that, He mutters just as another pencil flew passed him.
Looking down to his left, Veemon saw his partner running along side. He was pointing at the far end of the building, and was trying to yell something, but Veemon can't make sense of it because of the shouting behind him. Then, Veemon notice the concrete wall ten feet in front of him.
You could almost heard the 'ding!' of the light bulb on top of Veemon's head lit up. Veemon looked back at Davis and gave him the thumbs up signal, and accelerating full speed towards the wall.
Thanks Davis! Thought Veemon happily, I would never thought of this great idea myself!!
"THERE'S A WALL YOU IDIOT!!!!" yelled Davis at the top of his lungs, pointing at the wall in front of Veemon
Davis wasn't sure whether Veemon had heard him or not, but he did see his friend replied with a thumbs up and a smile.
Okay, at least he's not a complete bonehead, said Davis as he tried to turn into the corner, and was sadly mistaken of his early remark.
KABOOM!! Was the only thing he could heard when he turned.
What was once the wall of the teachers' lounge, now has a hole the size of a boulder in the middle of it. Launching out of that hole was a very familiar creature that he had just saw a few seconds ago. Apparently, Veemon misunderstood Davis hand signals.
" WHAT THE F…….!?!?!?" was all Davis could say before he was showered by white dust, concrete and oh yeah, Veemon.
The impact of Veemon slamming into his gut caused him to roll over into the bushes of the school garden, blocking from the view of the teachers who were out for Veemon's blood, as well as pieces of derbies. And thanks to screaming of both students and teachers over the sound of the explosion, nobody couldn't heard the cursing of Davis hiding in the bush.
"WHAT THE HELL WERE YOU THINKING!!!!!!" exploded Davis
"WHAT?! Didn't I followed the plan?" retorted Veemon, upset that his genus' escape went unappreciated.
"OH? And what plan was that?!" yelled Davis
"You know, you pointed at the wall and yelled that I jumped through" answered Veemon
Davis stared paralyzed with rage," I was yelling at you to around, and NOT to run, INTO, A FREAKING CONCRETE WALL!!!!!!"
"oh…hehe, sorry….erm, so what are we gonna do about the er… 'Mess'??" asked Veemon, embarrassed at his own mistake.
Right now Davis was overwhelmed with rage. He dare not say anything in fear that he might exploded. He was all ready to strangle the life out of his partner when he finally heard the voices of the teachers that were chasing Veemon a few seconds ago. Luckily for Veemon, those voices of reality had slapped some sense into Davis. Personal Vengeance would have to wait, it's time to split.
"Look! Over there in the bushes! I think I see it!" said a female teacher.
"Damn, we got to go, keep your head down and follow me!" said Davis as he got down on all fours and began crawling out of the bush.
"Erm..yeah, right behind you Davis!" replied Veemon as followed right after his companion.
Both Davis and Veemon were very exhaust. Both of them had been running their hearts out. Davis- to save his pride, money, friend and life, Veemon- just his life, so now they decided to take things easy, so they took a walk in the town's park, to cool their heads off.
The town's park was a place where the digidestined, both new and old, usually hanged out. Over here, there would always be enough space for a soccer match or two. The air in the park never seems to be tainted by the pollution from the nearby roads and the people always keep the park free from litter. This makes the place an ideal spot for young teenagers to hang out. It is also the perfect place to bring your date along, according to Ken and Tai, but Davis doubt he would need to use this information.
"Man…what a rotten day," said Davis as he flopped down on a wooden bench " And people think being a digidestined is all fun and games…boy, they don't even know half of it!"
Veemon sat down beside him," Sign…yeah…."
After a few awkward moments later, Veemon decided to brake the ice.
"By the way," piped Veemon, "thanks for catching me….."
Davis turned and looked at Veemon, who was looking down at his feet/
Davis smiled," Don't mention it, we're buddies right?"
Veemon's face immediately lit up like a Christmas tree, showing both 'surprise' and 'happiness' written all over it, " YEAH! Of Course!"
"Beside," laughed Davis," It was cool seeing you blow a hole through the teachers' lounge, people are going to be talking about it for years!"
The two best friends begin laughing again. Then Veemon asked about Davis' day, which Davis then spoke for an hour straight about how unfair the school system was, and how students should be given more recess time and less homework, not the other way around. After the hour, Davis then asked about Veemon's' day, which was much more exciting than the school's system.
Veemon began his tale of adventure, which include sneaking into the art room in cardboard( "so that was you !?", crawling up the air vent from the girls toilet ("No wonder I heard screaming during math! And I thought it was the heat!") , stealing food from the cafeteria(" Ha! And they said they saw a blue rat!"), to falling from the air vent into the teachers' lounge. He was about to continue his story about the great chase when something caught his eyes.
"Say Davis?" Asked Veemon, " isn't that TK and Kari over there?"
"Huh? What?", Davis turned his head.
Sure enough, he saw the two of them walking close to each other giggling as they go.
" THAT SLIMY SON OF A B….!!!!!!!" ,Cursed Davis.
"Davis?" worried Veemon, "Are you gonna be ok?"
Taking in deep breaths, Davis tried to calm himself down. It was everything he could do to stop himself from ripping that bastard's throat open like a can of peanut butter.
"Yeah…yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine…." Said Davis between clench jaws, " Come on Veemon, we got work to do."
"Work? What work? I thought your on vacation?" Veemon question
Davis got up," Well let me put it this way, It's my turn to play that game…"