Chapter 15: Calm before the Storm
It was the next day and the Digidestined were discussing what was going on. Normally some of them would have been in school, but it was the weekend, so they were free to help out. They had all decided to relocate their meetings to a park downtown. Matt, TK, and Yolei had been reunited with their Digimon early that morning, but Tai was left out. Agumon was partnered with Chris now, leaving an uneasy silence between the three. All of the digimon were wearing their goofy disguises so not to attract attention, but it may have been counter-productive. The troop of digidestined argued over what their plan of attack should be. Chris and Tai silently struggled against each other for leadership.
"Okay, so the worlds are getting closer and we think Myotismon is here. One digidestined has turned evil and we are racing against time to find the other original digidestined. Have I missed anything?" Tai looked about at everybody who was sitting on the grass; except for Chris.
"No, that's pretty much it." Kristen was lying back on the grass with Tentomon floating about above her. "We just need to figure out which we take care of first." Tai began to speak but Chris cut him off.
"We should get the other digidestined first. If Jennifer was able to digivolve to ultimate with Sora's help, then maybe we could get to Mega levels if everybody was here. Then, we could take out Myotismon easily." Chris pounded his hand with his fist.
"What about James? Do you plan on destroying him too?" Jennifer stared at Chris, knowing well ahead of time that he had no answer. While he struggled with words, Kari spoke up.
"We should probably ask Ken for help on that one. He is the only person that could understand what's up with him. Maybe we could heal him the same way?" Matt looked away towards where he and I had fought the night before as Kari proposed her idea.
"I don't know about that. I don't think he is evil for the same reasons as Ken was." Everybody looked at Matt.
"What do you mean?" Matt turned and looked at Gabumon, who was about level with him when he was sitting down.
"Ken became evil because he was trying to be what he thought he destroyed." Matt was referring to Ken's brother. "I think James is evil for something else."
"And how would you know?" Tai glared at Matt. He didn't like how Matt had forgotten how stuck up he had been so quickly.
"Considering he revived my memory, fired a dark explosion on me that didn't do anything, and that we got in a fist fight, I think I would know more than anybody; especially you." Matt stood up and snapped at Tai. "And don't forget. I went my own way for a while."
"Calm down Matt!" Gabumon grabbed hold of Matt's hand and pulled him back down. "The last thing we need is more fighting between us." Matt hesitated for a moment, spacing out looking at the grass. He breathed a heavy sigh and leaned back.
"You're right."
"I think Chris is right." Kristen stood up and addressed everybody. "We need to find the others. Myotismon doesn't stand a chance against all of us." Everybody murmured and nodded in agreement. "Now who do we bring back first?"
"We should split up. You and I can go get Izzy; Chris and Tai can go get Ken and Davis; Joey, TK, and Matt can go get Cody; and Jennifer and Sora can go get Mimi." Joe designated who was to get who. "Sound good?" Everybody nodded again. "Then let's go. You guys stay here, we'll be right back." Joe whispered to Gomamon and the other digimon before he walked away. Everybody took off in the direction of their person except for Jennifer and Sora.
"I thought Mimi was in America?" Jennifer asked Sora, already afraid of what their only option would be.
"She is." Silence ensued between the two. "We could fly..."
"There's no way I can carry you all the way across the Pacific and then across the rest of the US." Jennifer yawned. "Besides, I'm still exhausted from last night."
"Then we'll just have to get a plane ticket." Sora turned around and began walking towards the street.
"You can't just call her?"
"I lost her number." Sora said without turning around and Jennifer jogged to catch up with the older girl. "Anyway, how would I explain to her that the world is in crisis and we need her to come here to fight for us?"
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"Hi, is Izzy in?" Joe and Kristen stood outside Izzy's dorm. His roommate had opened the door, dressed only in boxers, and yawned. Kristen turned red and looked him up and down.
"No, he's down at the computer center." He turned around and closed the door. Joe began to walk down the hall absentmindedly before he forgot that Kristen was still at the door.
"Come on Kristen, the computer center is this way." Joe stopped and turned around.
"What? Oh! Coming." Joe laughed, realizing what she was blushing about.
They left, walked down some stairs, out the dorm, and across the street to another building. They went inside and took the first door on their left. Inside was rows of computers, most of which were turned off. They looked to the back and saw Izzy typing franticly with a headset on. A web cam was aimed at him while he typed. As Joe and Kristen reached the back row Izzy suddenly screamed out.
"WHAT!? What do you mean you already sent them there!?" On the screen was a very fuzzy picture of a man, as well as lines of programming code. Izzy didn't notice Joe and Kristen. "What if they are dead by now? We didn't even meet him until we had been around for months! How long did you say they had been there, a few weeks at the most?"
"Hey Izzy, somebody mess up in one of your games?" Joe tapped Izzy on the shoulder and he jumped. Izzy quickly minimized the window.
"Talk later!" He hit the escape key; hanging up on whomever he had been talking to. "Joe! Don't sneak up on me like that!"
"Sorry. Who was that anyways?" Joe pointed to the screen.
"Um... just another person playing Everquest. Who's that?" Izzy hastily jumbled his sentence together and changed the subject. He pointed at Kristen.
"She's a good friend of mine. I told her about you and she wanted to meet you."
"My name's Kristen." She had her hands in her pockets and pulled one out to shake Izzy's hand.
"Pleasure to meet you." As Izzy took hold of Kristen's hand, she pulled her left hand out of her other pocket, holding her digivice. She shoved it in Izzy's face, causing him to let go of her hand and stumble backwards. Nothing happened.
"Hey! Why won't this stupid thing work?" Kristen pounded the digivice against the table and showed it to Izzy again. Izzy sat on the ground and looked up in awe.
"What are you doing with a... GENNAI!" Izzy jumped up and sat at the computer again. He maximized the screen he had put away a moment before. Instead of a picture, there was a list of phone numbers. One was odd; a few numbers too long. Izzy double-clicked on it and put his headset back on.
"Wait a minute Izzy. How did you know about Gennai?" Joe glared at Izzy, expecting him to turn around, but Izzy ignored him. A picture flashed to life on the screen. It was a video of a man adjusting a headset similar to Izzy's.
"What is it Izzy? Why did you hang up on me? Is somebody there?" Kristen looked closer at the fuzzy picture and moved into the web cam's line of sight.
"Gennai? Hey! What are you doing? How does Izzy already know about you?" Kristen recognized Gennai and crouched down beside Izzy to show her face. Izzy blushed a bit.
"They're here." Izzy spoke gloomily. Gennai laughed.
"I guess were caught. Sorry I didn't tell you all Kristen, but Izzy never forgot. It is amazing how a little bit of tin-foil on your head can block signals. Have you found any of the others? How is everybody?" Gennai leaned back in his chair.
"Izzy! You didn't wipe your memory! You were the one who convinced us to get it done!" Joe yelled at Izzy as he looked down. He took off the headset and stood up. Kristen quickly grabbed it and sat in the chair Izzy had been in.
"Gennai needed somebody to keep in contact with here! I'm the only one that could secretly speak with him easily like this!" As Izzy and Joe argued, Kristen talked with Gennai.
"We already found most of the original digidestined, but we're in trouble."
"Trouble? How? What kind of trouble?" Gennai sat up straight and sipped on a glass of tea that sat beside the computer.
"James was captured by Myotismon and now he's fighting for him." Gennai dropped the glass cup of tea and choked. It could be heard shattering on the floor.
"Wh... what?" Gennai turned red as the scalding tea went down his throat the wrong way.
"He nearly killed Jennifer, Joey, and Matt. He's evil now. What do we do?" Gennai stared at the screen for a moment and looked shocked. He sighed painfully and looked away.
"Kill him." Gennai spoke coldly and simply. Izzy and Joe stopped arguing.
"Excuse me?" Kristen stuttered a little at what Genai had said.
"Kill him. He can't be allowed to gather any more power through his digivice. He was never supposed to be in this to begin with, you can get along without him." Gennai continued to speak slowly; forcing out words as they came to him. Kristen chuckled a little.
"Ha ha Gennai, very funny. Seriously, what do we do?"
"I am being serious Kristen. You have to kill him. If Myotismon gets the power from James' digivice and gives it to Daemon, there will be nothing we can do." Everybody sat in silence.
"We can't kill another digidestined Gennai. It's wrong and you know it." Kristen spoke softly now, nearly in tears at the idea of having to kill somebody. Not just data but an actual person she knew.
"You have to, or you are in a sense killing every digimon and person in existence."
"There has to be another way! I mean, you didn't kill the other digidestined who turned evil! What about Matt? What about Ken, or Kouichi? You didn't kill them! Why do you have to get us to kill our own!?" Kristen yelled at the monitor.
"I knew that he would be like them when his digivice turned black around the edges. However, I never thought that he would turn completely evil. He has no partner or spirit to help him through this. That is the difference." Gennai was breathing heavily. "I must go. Just do as I have said and try to move on." Gennai reached for the escape key on his computer.
"Wait!" The picture blinked out and the list of numbers came up again. Kristen was left with her hand on the screen. "I can't kill him. I couldn't kill any of them." Kristen began to waver between despair and anger.
"Calm down Kristen." Izzy helped her out of the chair. "We'll find a way, I promise. Nobody will have to kill anybody." Izzy looked nervously at Joe. Joe knew Izzy was lying to Kristen to try and make her feel better. He sighed and nodded slightly. They waited for Kristen to calm down and left the computer center.
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"Are you sure this is where Ken lives?" Chris looked up at Tai.
"Positive. Just because we forgot about the digital world doesn't mean we forgot about each other. I mean, it's only been two years since we beat Malomyotismon." Tai knocked on the door. He waited for Ken's mom to open the door.
"Hi, can I help you?" She stood nervously and looked up at Tai, who was much taller than she was.
"Hi ma'am; is Ken and Davis here?" Tai slouched a little to try and intimidate Ken's mother less.
"Oh! They're in his room. Ken! Davis! You have visitors!" Tai and Chris stepped inside and took off their shoes. Ken and Davis could be heard running down the hall, but stopped with a loud thud.
"That's for shooting me in the back." Ken jumped over Davis who was lying on the floor now.
"I told you I didn't know friendly fire was on!" Davis pushed himself up and grabbed Ken's ankle trying to trip him up. Ken broke free and walked into the kitchen.
"Hi Tai, what are you doing here?" Ken didn't even pay attention to Chris. Davis walked into the kitchen and looked at his soccer idol.
"Did Kari finally decide to go on a date with me!?" Davis began to get excited. "I knew she couldn't ignore my calls forever!"
"Yeah, about that Davis; quit it. You've interrupted our dinner more than any telemarketer ever could. No that's not why we're here." Everybody laughed at Davis' expense. Ken's parents walked out of the den to their bedroom, unable to continue their discussion over the racket that the digidestined were making. "I'd like you to meet a buddy of mine. Chris, Ken and Davis; Ken and Davis, Chris." Tai pointed out who was who and winked at Chris. He understood and put his hands into his pockets.
"Are you trying to copy me or something? What's with the goggles? They look just like my old ones." Davis stared at the goggles resting on Chris' head. Chris began to pull his hands out of his pockets as if to grab hold of the goggles.
"Oh these?" He pulled out his digivice and flashed it at the two. It glared brightly and caught Ken and Davis off guard.
"What's going on?" Ken threw up his arm across his eyes.
"Ow! What's the big idea man?" Davis covered his eyes with his hands and rubbed as if he had gotten sand in them. The light cleared and they lowered their arms. They blinked a few times and looked at the digivice closer.
"That's a digivice." Ken's eyes widened.
"Very good. Now can you spell it?" Chris spoke sarcastically like an elementary school teacher.
"Shut up. What are you doing with a digivice?" Davis snapped back at Chris and stepped forward while Ken mockingly muttered how to spell digivice to himself.
"D-i-g-i-v..."
"I'm a digidestined. Why else would I have it?" Chris stepped closer to Davis. The two were on the verge of fighting. Ken just stood back in awe that there were more digidestined. Tai pushed the two apart.
"Slow down! I swear, you are at his throat faster than you were at TK's!" Tai laughed at Davis as he and Chris took swings at each other. They flailed about, unable to reach each other with Tai holding them at bay from between. "Save it for Myotismon."
"I thought we killed Myotismon." Davis stopped swinging and looked up.
"Yeah, well he's been 'killed' a lot so..." Tai stopped holding Chris and Davis at bay.
"What about the others?" Ken began to look around for his parents.
"We already found them and let them know. We need to get to the park downtown, everybody is waiting."
"Mom! We're going out for a while!" Ken yelled down the hall to his parent's room.
"Okay honey!" They put on their shoes and ran out the door.
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"I'm... ex...hausted." Jennifer devolved and nearly fell over. It was the middle of the night in New York, so nobody had seen her land. "You could stand to lose a few pounds." The two had caught the fastest flight to New York from Odaiba International Airport—Sora had paid for two tickets with some of her savings. The flight was delayed when it was routed through Denver. Jennifer had decided to just fly the two the rest of the way.
"Shut up. Come on. We have to find Mimi." Sora walked towards a pay phone.
"You mean... you don't know... where she... lives?" Jennifer struggled to catch up with her.
"Not exactly." Sora flipped opened the phone book attached to the pay phone and looked at it. She turned red. "Um... here."
"What? Oh." Jennifer realized Sora couldn't read it. She looked at the phone book and flipped through. "What's her last name?"
"Tachikawa." Sora looked over Jennifer's shoulder, trying to help Jennifer find the name. "There it is!" Sora pointed out the last name Tachikawa; it was the only one in the book, strange since New York was such a large city. "Call her."
"It's the middle of the night. She's probably asleep." Jennifer ripped the page out of the phone book.
"It's more likely she isn't even home. She's always up late. Just call." Sora picked up the phone and handed it to Jennifer.
"It has her address here, why don't we just go." Jennifer put the phone back on the receiver.
"Because we don't know where that is." Sora picked the phone back up and handed it to Jennifer. It would have been funny to see the way the two kept repeating the process. The phone went back and forth from the receiver a few more times before Jennifer finally gave in.
"Fine, but if her parents chew me out, it's your fault." Jennifer dialed the number and listened to the other end ring. It rang once before somebody picked up. Music could be heard in the background.
"Hello?" A sweet, yet slightly country-ish sounding voice spoke into the phone.
"Yes, is this Mimi?" Jennifer looked at Sora. Sora smirked in victory.
"Yeah, who's this?" Mimi sounded like she was chewing gum. People could be heard in the background yelling at her to hang up and come party.
"A friend of Sora's. We're in America for a few days and were wondering if we could come over."
"Sora is here with you!? Yeah, sure! Come on over!"
"Okay, thanks! Where do you live exactly?" Mimi gave directions and Jennifer wrote them down quickly.
"Is Sora there now?" Mimi asked again when she was done with the directions.
"Sure. Just a sec." Jennifer handed Sora the phone. Sora and Mimi chatted for a minute before they finally hung up and started walking down the lit street. After a few blocks Jennifer spoke up. "How are we going to do this?"
"What do you mean?" Sora kept looking forward.
"It sounded like she was throwing a party. How are we going to use our digivices if so many people are around?" Jennifer stopped walking and tugged on Sora's arm. Sora spun about and stopped
"I don't know, we'll figure something out along the way." Sora turned back around and started walking again. "Come on, I don't like this place."
They were walking through a dreary neighborhood. A few alleys they passed were filled with homeless people who would stare at the two girls as they walked along. As they walked past another alley, a man jumped out and shoved a gun in their face.
"Now what are two young ladies like yourselves doing out so late?" The man advanced but Sora and Jennifer didn't back down.
"We don't have time for this." Jennifer knocked the gun out of the man's hand and he turned to watch it hit the ground a few feet away. He turned back in time to see Sora kick him in the crotch. He fell to the ground holding himself and whimpered a bit.
"Now what is a young man such as yourself doing out so late?" Sora smirked and kicked him again in the stomach. The two stepped over him and kept walking. "See why I don't like this place?"
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"Mimi better turn it down before the police come for some noise complaint." Sora and Jennifer walked up the stairs from the sidewalk and pressed the buzzer. They waited a moment before they got a response. Mimi leaned out of the window above and looked down.
"Sora!" She waved at Sora, a goofy smile on her face. Her balance was off a little and she nearly fell out of the window.
"Hey Mimi! Can we come on up?" Sora looked up at her friend.
"Sure, jus a minute." Mimi slurred slightly and closed the window. A few moments later they could hear a buzzing sound and the door unlocked. They walked inside and up the stairs to Mimi's apartment. Even over the loud music, they thought they could hear crying in the downstairs apartment. Mimi was waiting at the top of the stairs. "Sora! I haven't seen you in so long!" Mimi hugged her friend when she reached the top of the stairs. Sora pushed away a bit.
"You're drunk!" The smell of beer floated about them. "Mimi! What are you doing drunk!" Sora raised her voice a little, shocked at Mimi.
"I've just gotta little buzz. Come on, I've told everybody about you." She grabbed hold of Sora's arm and pulled. Sora stood where she was. Mimi had closed the door to the apartment when she came out. Sora turned to Jennifer and she understood. Jennifer reached to the belt loop on her jeans.
"No Mimi, I'm not going in there. Where are your parents?" Sora pulled back on Mimi's arm.
"Oh don't be such a drag. They're out of town!" Jennifer pulled out her digivice and held it up. Light shot out of it and blinded Mimi.
"Hey! What are you doing?" The light cleared and Mimi was on her knees, rubbing her eyes. Her digivice lied on the ground in front of her. "What is a digivise doing here?"
"Come on Mimi, we've got to go. We need you again." Sora watched as Mimi picked grabbed the digivice and clumsily got to her feet. She looked at it for a moment and looked up.
"No. Not again!" Mimi threw the digivice down the stairwell. It bounced off the floor. "I don't want to go through that again!" She turned around to run back inside but lost her balance and fell.
"That's not you talking Mimi, it's the booze." Sora helped her friend to her feet supported her. "Come on, let's get out of here."
"I think I'm gonna be sick." Mimi leaned over the rail of the stairway and heaved. Sora and Jennifer turned away.
"I don't know Sora, maybe we shouldn't bring her along. She's in no shape for this. And I know I can't fly both of you back, especially like this." Jennifer looked at the wall of the stairway opposite of Mimi.
"Gennai said to get all of us, didn't he!?" Sora yelled at Jennifer. "Mimi is a digidestined and she's coming with us! She'll be fine! As for getting back, we'll just take another plane!"
"Could you keep it down? It's enough that you have the music blaring above us, but now this!? Can't we just have some peace!!?" A man stood in the doorway to the downstairs apartment. A woman could be heard screaming in the background.
"Move! I can't take this anymore! I'm going to find my son!" A woman raged out of the apartment holding a suitcase. She had long blonde hair that seemed familiar to Jennifer. She walked outside and yelled. "Joey!!! Joey please come home!!! Where are you!!?" The woman looked all around her before seeing a taxi. She waved it down. Jennifer ran after her while Sora finally helped Mimi down the stairs.
"Ma'am, what did you say your son's name was?" The woman turned around and looked at Jennifer, tears running down her eyes.
"His name is Joey. He's only a little boy! What would anybody want with him?" The woman dropped her suitcase and collapsed onto Jennifer. The taxi pulled up.
"Does he have blonde hair? Is he about yeigh tall? Quick, tell me!" Jennifer held her hands about four feet off the ground, trying to match Joey's height.
"Yes! Do you know where he is? Where is he? Tell me!" Joey's mom began to lose her cool, at least in comparison, giving Jennifer a hard shake.
"He's in Japan! Put your suitcase in the taxi, we're going there now!" Joey's mom began to get excited.
"Japan!? What is he doing all the way over there?" She picked up her bags and threw them in the trunk of the taxi.
"They're lying Ana! Don't believe this bullshit! You aren't going anywhere. Look at me when I talk to you!" Joey's dad yanked on the woman's arm, spinning her around. He slapped her and she fell to the ground.
"Get Mimi in the taxi Sora!" Mimi and Sora were running outside; they had just picked up Mimi's digivice off the floor of the stairwell. Jennifer grabbed hold of Joey's father's shoulder. "Who do you think you are?"
"Get the hell off." Joey's father backhanded Jennifer. She didn't fall like Joey's mom, but stood back. "Who do you think you are, pumping her full of lies and hope like this!?" Jennifer could smell beer on his breath even more than on Mimi's. While Joey's father yelled at Jennifer and slapped her again, Joey's mom got in the taxi with Sora and Mimi.
"Go! I'll catch up!" Joey's father slapped Jennifer once again and turned around. Joey's mother slammed the taxi door. The taxi driver slammed on the pedal and drove off.
"God damnit! I'll kill you!" Joey's father took a swing at Jennifer, turning back, enraged that his wife had zoomed away, but she was up and fighting back now. He missed and turned to swing again. Jennifer pulled out her digivice.
"Spirit Code Activate!" She digivolved and dodged another punch at the same time. Kazemon emerged and the man stood back.
"What are you?" He looked at Kazemon in fear and continued walking backwards.
"You have no right to do that to her or anybody!" Kazemon punched Joey's father across the face and he fell to the ground. He hit his head on the concrete steps leading to the door of the building and fell unconscious. Kazemon picked him up. She walked inside Joey's apartment and dropped him on the couch. Beer bottles and other various objects lied strewn about the room; some broken from being thrown. Kazemon walked back into Joey's room. There was a teddy bear ripped open and its stuffing was scattered everywhere. A plush Terriermon sat on the ground, halfway under the bed. Joey's love for digimon was apparent. Kazemon found some paper that Joey used to draw on and quickly wrote a note.
"Dear Mr..." Kazemon realized she didn't know Joey's last name. She looked around and found some homework with Joey's last name on it: Sims. "Dear Mr. Sims, I am deeply sorry that I injured you. Your wife and I will be in Japan, however from the looks of your apartment, I wonder if she will be willing to come back. Please come to your senses and stop this madness. Sincerely..." Kazemon looked up for a second. She didn't want to use her real name in case Mr. Sims filed a warrant. "Sincerely, Kazemon." She took the note and placed it on the kitchen table. She walked outside and closed the door. By now, people from Mimi's party upstairs were out in the stairwell. They stared at Kazemon.
"Dude! Look at that!" One teen pointed at Kazemon, a handful of people behind him murmuring. His hair nearly covered his eyes and he sounded drunk. Kazemon ignored them and closed the door to Joey's apartment. She ran outside and took off down the street in the direction of the taxi. It only took a few moments for her to find it and she landed down the street in front of it. She devolved before it came into sight and waved it down when it came close. The driver recognized Jennifer and stopped. Jennifer got in the back seat and looked around. Ms. Sims was in the front; Sora sat in the back with Mimi passed out against her shoulder.
"How did you get ahead of us? What is going on?" Ms. Sims was slightly calmer now, but still frantic. "Why is my son in Japan?"
"It is a long story Ms. Sims and this isn't a good place to talk about it I'll tell you when we get to the airport." Ms. Sims understood and looked forward with a sigh. Jennifer looked wearily out the window at the passing streetlights.
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"Mom!!! What are you doing here!?" Joey ran up to his mother as she walked into the apartment. Her face lit up and she crouched down to catch her son.
"Where have you been? I've been so worried." She held Joey in an extremely tight hug.
"Mom, you're hurting me!" TK and Matt laughed. Joey had been staying with Matt, who was staying at his father's apartment. He hadn't bought a house of his own yet, too busy on tour, but had been eyeing one in Osaka. TK was simply visiting. Jennifer leaned on in the doorway and smiled. She thought back to Joey's father and hoped he would straighten himself out. Ms. Sims finally let go, but led Joey to a loveseat in Mr. Ishida's living room. They sat down and she hugged him from the side.
"I heard you've been quite the little hero!" She spoke in the usual, overly-cheerful, motherly voice that Jennifer remembered from her mom when she was little. Joey started explaining his adventures to his mom while Matt and TK led Jennifer out of the room. Jennifer, Sora, and Ms. Sims had only just arrived and had yet to be briefed on recent events.
"Jennifer, we have a problem." TK began to speak slowly, the joy from seeing Joey and his mom reunited gone from his face.
"What is it?" Jennifer looked worriedly at the two.
"It is James. Gennai says we should, well... that we should..." TK tried to put it lightly but couldn't find appropriate words. Matt picked up where his brother left off.
"Gennai says we should kill him." Matt spoke blatantly.
"What? How could he say that? Wait... how did you talk to Gennai?" Jennifer looked back and forth between Matt and TK suspiciously.
"Izzy's been talking with him on his computer. Anyways, we know what you're thinking and think the same thing. We all decided we would have to fight him sooner or later, but that killing him was out of the question." TK started talking again now that the hard part was done.
"Okay, so what are we going to do?" Jennifer looked at TK, who was only slightly taller than she was. They were the same age and came about level with each other.
"We fight him until he is weak, than let our digivices do the rest. Once we drive whatever is making him evil out, we destroy it and get him back to our side. We think Myotismon is making him this way." Matt walked back inside to check on Joey and Ms. Sims.
"So when do we fight him? We don't even know where he is."
"Yeah, that's the only problem." TK pulled his Gilligan hat off and scratched his head. "We will just have to wait until he shows up again."
"What if he doesn't show back up?" Jennifer crossed her arms. A phone could be heard ringing inside the apartment. Matt ran over and picked it up.
"Listen, all we can do is wait. We don't know where he is and even if we did, Myotismon would be bound to be near him." TK was frustrated. Jennifer backed off and calmed down to keep from getting in a fight with him. He looked like he had been up for days. Matt quickly put the phone on the receiver and ran out to TK and Jennifer.
"Guys, we gotta go. Myotismon is attacking from the camp." Matt put on his shoes.
"What? What about Joey?" Jennifer looked back into the apartment. Joey and his mom were standing up now, watching Matt quickly put on his shoes.
"They can stay here. Let them have some time together." A tear came to Ms. Sims' eyes.
"No, you take Joey. You need him." Ms. Sims pushed Joey to a chair and helped him put on his shoes.
"Is it just Myotismon?" TK looked at Matt as he hurriedly picked his digivice up from the counter.
"Gabumon! Wake up! We're going!" Matt yelled to his partner. "Wake up Patamon too!" The two digimon came racing down the hall from Matt's room. "No. It's an entire army of Ogremon. Biyomon isn't sure, but she says she thought she saw James too. If you ask me, we're in for a long afternoon. Let's go."
"No rest for the weary..." Jennifer muttered to herself as she walked out the door.