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Manipulation is the Key
"So what's so important that you need to see Ken for?" Yolei asked suspiciously as they exited her apartment building with Tai, Cody and the Digimon bring up the rear. She didn't want to help these girls find Ken and she didn't trust them as far as she could throw them. Sure the guys like them but that was only because they were beautiful, if they'd been hags the guys would have had no problem seeing things her way.
"That's between the three of us." Alice said as she lifted her hand to block the sun shining in her eyes. "Hey Rika, do you see them?"
"No." Rika said looking around herself for their Digimon. Renamon was very good at concealing herself but she couldn't figure out why they couldn't spot Cyberdramon, he should've been hard not to miss.
"Who are you looking for guys?" Tai said as he too scanned Yolie's neighborhood as traffic whizzed by them at break-necking speed.
"Our Digimon." Rika said as she shaded her eyes as well. "They were told to stay near the building but I don't see them anywhere.
"Why didn't you bring them in with you, its dangerous to leave them out here by themselves, something terrible could happen to them." Yolie said glaring at them for their carelessness.
"Oh you don't have to worry about that Yolie." Tai said picturing the two Digimon. "I don't think anyone would be stupid enough to try and lay a hand on them. Especially Alice's, he strikes me as the bloodthirsty type." he added thinking of the mechanical looking beast.
"Renamon, Cyberdramon." Rika called out and felt a shiver run down her spine as she heard someone scream from close by. Turning her head Rika saw a woman looking ready to faint as she stared blindly up into the sky. Looking up too Rika and the rest watched as Cyberdramon flew down while Renamon jumped against two buildings alternately as she made her way down from the roof. "Oh, there they are."
"Wow." Armadillomon said as he admired the fox type jumping towards them with blurring speed. The machine like one landed first with the other Digimon landing at his side seconds later, she wasn't even breathing hard.
"I could do that." Gatomon said with a sniff, as she looked up at the huge Digimon who were regarding herself and the other Digimon with detachment. She'd met her share of Renamons in her life and they tended to be really stuck up and egotistic, just because they tended to be stronger then most Digimon their size.
"Were you successful?" Renamon asked as she ignored the stares that they were getting from the other Digimon and several people who were gapping at them from a safe distance. She and Cyberdramon had gone on the roof because they'd gotten tired of being regarded like sideshows.
"Kinda, these guys are maybe going to transport us to the Digital World." Alice said smiling sweetly at Tai who grinned back at her like the guy he was. "You know maybe we should downsize them a bit, Rika?" Alice added as she realized how much space on the sidewalk the Digimon was taking up.
"Renamon should be okay, but it would be a good idea for Cyberdramon. You have his cards and Arc right?" Rika said as she rolled her eyes at a mother who was looking at Cyberdramon like he was Satan; while her son tried to get closer to him. Both were partly right.
"Check." Alice said pulling the D-Arc out of her pocket. Taking out Ryo's deck she sorted through the cards until she found the one she wanted. "Cyberdramon, de-digievolution." On cue Cyberdramon began to glow, slowly shrinking till he reverted to a small purplish grey dinosaur that grinned at them nicely.
"Hello there." He said smiling at the other Digidestined who he didn't know yet but seemed nice looking. "I'm Strikemon," he added with a slight bow before looking up to grin at Renamon. "This is Renamon," he said as he pointed up at the other Digimon who was looking down at him with a smirk. "So when are we going to go now or later?"
"We'll be meeting them later after they talk it over." Rika said with a huge smile for Tai and Cody. She knew where the weakest links were in this group and a good player always exploited them. "So we'll be going now and meet them in two hours."
"We should be going, we'll see you guys later." Alice said as she moved away to stand beside Strikemon. Fluttering her eyelashes at the boys in the group Alice inwardly rolled her eyes as the four of them walked off, leaving the Digidestined to stare after them.
"I'm telling you this girl was repeatedly dropped on her head as a child." Davis continued as he gave a blow by blow of what had happened in the park. I mean me, Veemon and Kage were just standing there, minding their own business when she starts threatening to kill Veemon, for no reason. And I mean she looked meaner then Mummymon on a bad day she was so mean looking. I was like trying to avoid a confrontation but she wouldn't get out of my face!"
"Yea and then her Digimon appeared and it was this huge monster with claws and huge fangs that could have snapped me up with one bite." Veemon added as he made sure Gatomon could hear him from her perch beside Kari.
"They didn't look so dangerous to me." T.K. said with a smirk as he remembered the way the redhead had chewed Davis out. "And I don't think that the girl had any intention of hurting Veemon, just you Davis."
"I'm serious T.K." Davis said with a frown, upset that his friend was trying to make it look like it hadn't been that big of a deal. "That girl was bad news all the way, we should make sure that none of our Digimon run into her again, lord only knows what she might do to them!"
"As I recall she just thought you should stop shoving hotdogs down Veemon's throat." T.K. said as he raised an eyebrow. "And are you sure you didn't say something to make her mad, like hit on her or something? She was really cute."
"Well she wasn't bad looking I guess but what about her friend, the Goth and the Terminator." Davis said with a mock shiver as he pictured the two who they'd met after they'd followed the redhead when she'd gone running off. "There's no way you can convince me that they weren't trouble with a capital T."
"She saved me and George." Mikey pointed out with a childish frown having tagged along with the other Digidestined. He wasn't managing to get any of his emails to his brother Izzy and so he'd written it down for one of the others to deliver for him.
"Who cares." Yolie said as she curbed the urge to stomp her foot. "We met here because we need to decide whether or not we're going to take those girls to the Digital World."
"We already voted Yolie, we're going to take them, you were out voted." Tai pointed out trying to hide a smile. The rest of them agreed that it was the fact that the girls were looking for Ken was the reason why Yolie didn't want them to take them.
"That's only because you told T.K. and Davis how good looking they were, otherwise they would have voted with me and Kari." Yolie said with a death glare.
" Yea well Kari only voted for your side because she didn't want you to feel bad Yolie. And anyway here they are." Tai said as two girls and their Digimon walked into the room with welcoming smiles on their faces.
"YOU!" Rika practically growled when she caught sight of that Davis kid that she'd met in the park. What was he doing here?
"YOU!" Davis said when he caught sight of the redhead who'd costed him ten bucks earlier that morning. "What are you doing here?"
"Tai, Cody, Yolie." Alice said with a huge smile as she placed a calming hand on Rika's shoulder, just in case her friend did what was normal to her and let the goggle head have it in the face. "Have you guys decided yet?"
"Decided what?" Davis said turning around to glare at his friends who'd apparently had betrayed him by knowing the girls who'd caused him so much trouble. "Don't tell me these two are friends of yours."
"I think that they're the girls we just agreed to help." T.K. said with a smile as he tried not to laugh at Advisee's panicky expression. "I don't think we were formally introduced at the park." He added as he walked over with his hand out. "I'm T.K., and you are?"
"Rika." Rika said with a stunning smile as she nodded her head to him with her best impersonation of her mother. "You're the one who talked the child out of battling me at the park. Thanks for that by the way, it wasn't his Digimon's fault he ended up with a preschooler for a trainer."
"Hey!" Davis said as he realized he was the child he was referring to. Charging forward he stopped in his tracks when the girl's digimon moved beside her trainer, looking at him with cool, predator eyes.
"I'm Renamon, a pleasure to meet you T.K." Renamon said as she bowed to the boy with actual manners. So far the people they'd met in this world were not great examples of humanity, it was nice to know there were a few good ones left.
"Nice to meet you too." T.K. said with a smile as he admired the beautiful fox. "This is my Digimon Padmon." He added motioning his Digimon forward who smiled up at her cheerfully.
"Oh he's so cute." Rika said as she got down on one knee to pet the digimon on the head. "He digivolves into Angamon right? He's one of my favorites."
"Yea." Padmon said blushing red at the attention. "This is Gatomon and Augumon, you've met the rest right?" he added as he pointed to the other two digimon.
"You transform into Angawomon." Alice said looking at the cat with the ring around its tail, a very cat like expression on its face. "Does she belong to you too?" She asked smiling at T.K. as well.
"No, she belongs to me." Kari said stepping forward, Rika and Alice recognizing her as the one who'd been with T.K. at the park. "I'm Kari, nice to meet you."
"Oh so you two are a couple and your Digimon are, how cute." Rika said with a warm smile thinking that after this she was never smiling ever again. "You're the brunette that was with T.K. in the park right?"
"Yea but we're not a couple and neither are our Digimon." Kari said with a blush spreading across her face and T.K.'s. Gatomon just rolled her eyes since it was obvious that they were to everyone but them. Padamon just blushed too at the thought of being mistaken for Gatomon's boyfriend.
"Yea, they're not going out, ever." Davis said a bit louder then was needed. Kari was his and not T.K.'s, that was final.
"They will be eventually." Yolie said with a smirk, the closest she'd come to a smile since they'd gotten here. "Anyway we took a vote and we'll take you but we can monitor the Digital World you know. You cause any harm or trouble and you'll be out so fast your head will spin."
"Deal." Rika and Alice said nearly together. "And don't worry, we won't cause any problems over there, we'll be as good as gold." Alice added sweetly.
"Promise." Rika chimes in.
"Well then lets go." Tai said pulling out his Digivice from his pocket. "Rika, you hold on to my hand and your Digimon's arm." Nodding Rika and Renamon stepped forward, Rika taking his hand with a smile while holding onto Alice with the other hand.
"You can take my hand Alice." Mikey said holding out his small hand with his Digivice in the other. Smiling at the kid Alice took the young boys hand and Strikmon's with the other.
"All right then," Yolie said with a sigh. "Digi port open." She said as she pointed her Digivice at a nearby computer. Instantly a beam of light shot out of the computer's screen and they were off.
"Well here we are." Tai said as Rika slipped her hand out of his as she moved to look around at the area around them. "What do you think?"
"It resembles our own in a lot of ways." Rika said as she watched Renamon move away from here to survey the area with eyes that saw all in mere seconds. They'd landed near a former campsite and Yolie had said she'd take them to the boys' last known campsite. "Renamon?"
"I don't see anyone nearby, but they've had time to travel." Renamon said as she looked around with carefully. "We should go and use what light there is left in the day."
"Well thanks for your help getting us here." Alice said smiling one last time as she drew out Ryo's cards so that she could review them on the way. "I hope we met again someday."
"You're not going anywhere without us." Yolie said raising an eyebrow. "Did we forget to mention that little detail?"
"It's really important that we find him as soon as possible, you'd only slow us done." Rika said and Tai raised an eyebrow at her tone. She'd been really friendly before but know there was more then a hint of ice in her voice.
"Its too dangerous out here for you two to be out here by yourselves, at least let us walk with you until its dark." Tai said with a charming smile that was wasted on the girls who know regarded him with detached interest.
"Tell you guys what." Rika said with her infamous Ice Queen smile. "You can come with us, if you can keep up. Renamon, digi-evolution." She called out as she drew a card from her deck and ran it through her D-Arc. Instantly Renamon was surrounding by light and the Digidestined watched in amazement as Renamon began to change before them, growing multiple tails and a strange looking collar.
Renamon digivolves to Kyubimon
"Wow." Mikey said as he stared at Renamon's evolution. Now on all four feet Renamon looked nearly twice her former size and a lot more dangerous. She looked like a cross between a wolf and a fox now with a messed up candy cane around her neck. "Awesome."
"How'd she do that?" Yolie demanded as she stared the transformed digimon, what was the device that Rika had that could not only tell her the digimon's stats but also make them evolve in the blink of an eye.
"Cool." T.K. said with a grin as he watched Kyubimon watch them. "How did you do that, Rika? Can your digimon do that too, Alice?"
"You bet T.K. Let's go." Rika said jumping onto Kyubimon's back with a grace that said she'd done this before. Holding her hands out she took Strikemon from Alice and set him on her lap. Holding her hand out again she helped Alice slide on before turning her head to look at the Digidestined again. "Like I said, if you can catch us. Speed card activation." And like that they were off at a speed that was a blur to the naked eye.
"Wow." Tai said echoing Mikey's thoughts. "How are we going to catch up with them?" he added as he tried to close his jaw. How had she done that? All she'd had to do was run a card through that device of hers and her Digimon had evolved on command, just like that.
Holding out her own Digivice Yolie shook her head at them. "Hello, we have digimon that can evolve too ya know."
"Well then lets do it." T.K. said pulling out his own device and soon the Digidestined and their Digimon were on their way to catching up.
"So do the rest of your friends know about Aracnamon? I would have thought they'd be here to help you fight it?" Ryo said as they stopped for a water break.
"Well you see we didn't know that it was Aracnamon and its minions that were causing the problems." Izzy said sitting down on a rock nearby as the sun beat down on them. "We knew something was wrong but nothing major happened until about two weeks ago. As to friends well most of the original Digidestined are in America right now visiting Mimi who's another destined. Tai and I are the only ones here and were suppose to be going in about a week to join them. We could cal them in but we don't want to unless it's a last resort. As for Ken's generation well we didn't want to bring them in unless it's necessary as well. We only brought you here because Ken thought we could use your take on the situation."
"Well then why'd I get stuck coming?" Impmon said with a grumble as he leaned against a nearby tree. They'd been in the forest walking all day and he was getting tired of it real quick.
"You weren't suppose to come, Cyberdramon was." Ryo said as he reluctant held out his water bottle to the Digimon. Personally he didn't care if the thing collapsed from dehydration but Rika would and he was already probably in her bad books if Cyberdramon hadn't managed to get to her to tell her what had happened. "Drink some of this or you'll get dehydrated and pass out."
"And why would you give me any of your water?" Impmon demanded as he tried to ignore how good some water would go down at the moment. He'd been at his worst all day, why would the kid be nice to him unless he had something up his sleeve.
"Because if you do pass out then I'd have to carry you because Rika would never forgive me if I let anything happen to you." Ryo said with a suffered look. "So take some before I remind myself that you can't annoy me if you're dead."
"Whatever." Impmon said snatching the water from him. Chugging it down he licked his lips then reluctantly handed the water bottle back to him. "Thanks." He bit off before turning his head to look anywhere but at Ryo.
"You welcome." Ryo said exchanging an amused look with Ken who was pouring some water into a small bowl for Wormon and Tentamon to drink from. Both Digimon chimed their thanks and began to drink while the three boys and Impmon watched on.
"Your girlfriend won't really dump you because of this would she?" Ken asked taking a seat beside Ryo.
"Hope not." Ryo said with a grin. "It took me years to make friends with her much less go out with me but there's no way she can blame this on me so I'll be fine. She'll only be really mad if I don't come back soon."
"Well hopefully that'll be soon." Izzy said with a smile as he shut his laptop that he'd pulled from his backpack. "I couldn't get through, I hope they aren't too worried."
"I'm sure they're fine." Ken said as he moved to pour more water into the bowl, which disappeared as quickly as it was poured. "We probably should keep moving, we've pin pointed where a lot of the electrical distortions are coming from and we figure that that's where to look for it."
"Sounds like a plan." Ryo agreed with a nod. "Let's go."
Well I think I'll start updating this fic more often then I did as long as people keep reading since I've had so many good reviews. Thanks to all those who have been reviewing and I hope you'll do it again and keep reading.
Manipulation is the Key
"So what's so important that you need to see Ken for?" Yolei asked suspiciously as they exited her apartment building with Tai, Cody and the Digimon bring up the rear. She didn't want to help these girls find Ken and she didn't trust them as far as she could throw them. Sure the guys like them but that was only because they were beautiful, if they'd been hags the guys would have had no problem seeing things her way.
"That's between the three of us." Alice said as she lifted her hand to block the sun shining in her eyes. "Hey Rika, do you see them?"
"No." Rika said looking around herself for their Digimon. Renamon was very good at concealing herself but she couldn't figure out why they couldn't spot Cyberdramon, he should've been hard not to miss.
"Who are you looking for guys?" Tai said as he too scanned Yolie's neighborhood as traffic whizzed by them at break-necking speed.
"Our Digimon." Rika said as she shaded her eyes as well. "They were told to stay near the building but I don't see them anywhere.
"Why didn't you bring them in with you, its dangerous to leave them out here by themselves, something terrible could happen to them." Yolie said glaring at them for their carelessness.
"Oh you don't have to worry about that Yolie." Tai said picturing the two Digimon. "I don't think anyone would be stupid enough to try and lay a hand on them. Especially Alice's, he strikes me as the bloodthirsty type." he added thinking of the mechanical looking beast.
"Renamon, Cyberdramon." Rika called out and felt a shiver run down her spine as she heard someone scream from close by. Turning her head Rika saw a woman looking ready to faint as she stared blindly up into the sky. Looking up too Rika and the rest watched as Cyberdramon flew down while Renamon jumped against two buildings alternately as she made her way down from the roof. "Oh, there they are."
"Wow." Armadillomon said as he admired the fox type jumping towards them with blurring speed. The machine like one landed first with the other Digimon landing at his side seconds later, she wasn't even breathing hard.
"I could do that." Gatomon said with a sniff, as she looked up at the huge Digimon who were regarding herself and the other Digimon with detachment. She'd met her share of Renamons in her life and they tended to be really stuck up and egotistic, just because they tended to be stronger then most Digimon their size.
"Were you successful?" Renamon asked as she ignored the stares that they were getting from the other Digimon and several people who were gapping at them from a safe distance. She and Cyberdramon had gone on the roof because they'd gotten tired of being regarded like sideshows.
"Kinda, these guys are maybe going to transport us to the Digital World." Alice said smiling sweetly at Tai who grinned back at her like the guy he was. "You know maybe we should downsize them a bit, Rika?" Alice added as she realized how much space on the sidewalk the Digimon was taking up.
"Renamon should be okay, but it would be a good idea for Cyberdramon. You have his cards and Arc right?" Rika said as she rolled her eyes at a mother who was looking at Cyberdramon like he was Satan; while her son tried to get closer to him. Both were partly right.
"Check." Alice said pulling the D-Arc out of her pocket. Taking out Ryo's deck she sorted through the cards until she found the one she wanted. "Cyberdramon, de-digievolution." On cue Cyberdramon began to glow, slowly shrinking till he reverted to a small purplish grey dinosaur that grinned at them nicely.
"Hello there." He said smiling at the other Digidestined who he didn't know yet but seemed nice looking. "I'm Strikemon," he added with a slight bow before looking up to grin at Renamon. "This is Renamon," he said as he pointed up at the other Digimon who was looking down at him with a smirk. "So when are we going to go now or later?"
"We'll be meeting them later after they talk it over." Rika said with a huge smile for Tai and Cody. She knew where the weakest links were in this group and a good player always exploited them. "So we'll be going now and meet them in two hours."
"We should be going, we'll see you guys later." Alice said as she moved away to stand beside Strikemon. Fluttering her eyelashes at the boys in the group Alice inwardly rolled her eyes as the four of them walked off, leaving the Digidestined to stare after them.
"I'm telling you this girl was repeatedly dropped on her head as a child." Davis continued as he gave a blow by blow of what had happened in the park. I mean me, Veemon and Kage were just standing there, minding their own business when she starts threatening to kill Veemon, for no reason. And I mean she looked meaner then Mummymon on a bad day she was so mean looking. I was like trying to avoid a confrontation but she wouldn't get out of my face!"
"Yea and then her Digimon appeared and it was this huge monster with claws and huge fangs that could have snapped me up with one bite." Veemon added as he made sure Gatomon could hear him from her perch beside Kari.
"They didn't look so dangerous to me." T.K. said with a smirk as he remembered the way the redhead had chewed Davis out. "And I don't think that the girl had any intention of hurting Veemon, just you Davis."
"I'm serious T.K." Davis said with a frown, upset that his friend was trying to make it look like it hadn't been that big of a deal. "That girl was bad news all the way, we should make sure that none of our Digimon run into her again, lord only knows what she might do to them!"
"As I recall she just thought you should stop shoving hotdogs down Veemon's throat." T.K. said as he raised an eyebrow. "And are you sure you didn't say something to make her mad, like hit on her or something? She was really cute."
"Well she wasn't bad looking I guess but what about her friend, the Goth and the Terminator." Davis said with a mock shiver as he pictured the two who they'd met after they'd followed the redhead when she'd gone running off. "There's no way you can convince me that they weren't trouble with a capital T."
"She saved me and George." Mikey pointed out with a childish frown having tagged along with the other Digidestined. He wasn't managing to get any of his emails to his brother Izzy and so he'd written it down for one of the others to deliver for him.
"Who cares." Yolie said as she curbed the urge to stomp her foot. "We met here because we need to decide whether or not we're going to take those girls to the Digital World."
"We already voted Yolie, we're going to take them, you were out voted." Tai pointed out trying to hide a smile. The rest of them agreed that it was the fact that the girls were looking for Ken was the reason why Yolie didn't want them to take them.
"That's only because you told T.K. and Davis how good looking they were, otherwise they would have voted with me and Kari." Yolie said with a death glare.
" Yea well Kari only voted for your side because she didn't want you to feel bad Yolie. And anyway here they are." Tai said as two girls and their Digimon walked into the room with welcoming smiles on their faces.
"YOU!" Rika practically growled when she caught sight of that Davis kid that she'd met in the park. What was he doing here?
"YOU!" Davis said when he caught sight of the redhead who'd costed him ten bucks earlier that morning. "What are you doing here?"
"Tai, Cody, Yolie." Alice said with a huge smile as she placed a calming hand on Rika's shoulder, just in case her friend did what was normal to her and let the goggle head have it in the face. "Have you guys decided yet?"
"Decided what?" Davis said turning around to glare at his friends who'd apparently had betrayed him by knowing the girls who'd caused him so much trouble. "Don't tell me these two are friends of yours."
"I think that they're the girls we just agreed to help." T.K. said with a smile as he tried not to laugh at Advisee's panicky expression. "I don't think we were formally introduced at the park." He added as he walked over with his hand out. "I'm T.K., and you are?"
"Rika." Rika said with a stunning smile as she nodded her head to him with her best impersonation of her mother. "You're the one who talked the child out of battling me at the park. Thanks for that by the way, it wasn't his Digimon's fault he ended up with a preschooler for a trainer."
"Hey!" Davis said as he realized he was the child he was referring to. Charging forward he stopped in his tracks when the girl's digimon moved beside her trainer, looking at him with cool, predator eyes.
"I'm Renamon, a pleasure to meet you T.K." Renamon said as she bowed to the boy with actual manners. So far the people they'd met in this world were not great examples of humanity, it was nice to know there were a few good ones left.
"Nice to meet you too." T.K. said with a smile as he admired the beautiful fox. "This is my Digimon Padmon." He added motioning his Digimon forward who smiled up at her cheerfully.
"Oh he's so cute." Rika said as she got down on one knee to pet the digimon on the head. "He digivolves into Angamon right? He's one of my favorites."
"Yea." Padmon said blushing red at the attention. "This is Gatomon and Augumon, you've met the rest right?" he added as he pointed to the other two digimon.
"You transform into Angawomon." Alice said looking at the cat with the ring around its tail, a very cat like expression on its face. "Does she belong to you too?" She asked smiling at T.K. as well.
"No, she belongs to me." Kari said stepping forward, Rika and Alice recognizing her as the one who'd been with T.K. at the park. "I'm Kari, nice to meet you."
"Oh so you two are a couple and your Digimon are, how cute." Rika said with a warm smile thinking that after this she was never smiling ever again. "You're the brunette that was with T.K. in the park right?"
"Yea but we're not a couple and neither are our Digimon." Kari said with a blush spreading across her face and T.K.'s. Gatomon just rolled her eyes since it was obvious that they were to everyone but them. Padamon just blushed too at the thought of being mistaken for Gatomon's boyfriend.
"Yea, they're not going out, ever." Davis said a bit louder then was needed. Kari was his and not T.K.'s, that was final.
"They will be eventually." Yolie said with a smirk, the closest she'd come to a smile since they'd gotten here. "Anyway we took a vote and we'll take you but we can monitor the Digital World you know. You cause any harm or trouble and you'll be out so fast your head will spin."
"Deal." Rika and Alice said nearly together. "And don't worry, we won't cause any problems over there, we'll be as good as gold." Alice added sweetly.
"Promise." Rika chimes in.
"Well then lets go." Tai said pulling out his Digivice from his pocket. "Rika, you hold on to my hand and your Digimon's arm." Nodding Rika and Renamon stepped forward, Rika taking his hand with a smile while holding onto Alice with the other hand.
"You can take my hand Alice." Mikey said holding out his small hand with his Digivice in the other. Smiling at the kid Alice took the young boys hand and Strikmon's with the other.
"All right then," Yolie said with a sigh. "Digi port open." She said as she pointed her Digivice at a nearby computer. Instantly a beam of light shot out of the computer's screen and they were off.
"Well here we are." Tai said as Rika slipped her hand out of his as she moved to look around at the area around them. "What do you think?"
"It resembles our own in a lot of ways." Rika said as she watched Renamon move away from here to survey the area with eyes that saw all in mere seconds. They'd landed near a former campsite and Yolie had said she'd take them to the boys' last known campsite. "Renamon?"
"I don't see anyone nearby, but they've had time to travel." Renamon said as she looked around with carefully. "We should go and use what light there is left in the day."
"Well thanks for your help getting us here." Alice said smiling one last time as she drew out Ryo's cards so that she could review them on the way. "I hope we met again someday."
"You're not going anywhere without us." Yolie said raising an eyebrow. "Did we forget to mention that little detail?"
"It's really important that we find him as soon as possible, you'd only slow us done." Rika said and Tai raised an eyebrow at her tone. She'd been really friendly before but know there was more then a hint of ice in her voice.
"Its too dangerous out here for you two to be out here by yourselves, at least let us walk with you until its dark." Tai said with a charming smile that was wasted on the girls who know regarded him with detached interest.
"Tell you guys what." Rika said with her infamous Ice Queen smile. "You can come with us, if you can keep up. Renamon, digi-evolution." She called out as she drew a card from her deck and ran it through her D-Arc. Instantly Renamon was surrounding by light and the Digidestined watched in amazement as Renamon began to change before them, growing multiple tails and a strange looking collar.
Renamon digivolves to Kyubimon
"Wow." Mikey said as he stared at Renamon's evolution. Now on all four feet Renamon looked nearly twice her former size and a lot more dangerous. She looked like a cross between a wolf and a fox now with a messed up candy cane around her neck. "Awesome."
"How'd she do that?" Yolie demanded as she stared the transformed digimon, what was the device that Rika had that could not only tell her the digimon's stats but also make them evolve in the blink of an eye.
"Cool." T.K. said with a grin as he watched Kyubimon watch them. "How did you do that, Rika? Can your digimon do that too, Alice?"
"You bet T.K. Let's go." Rika said jumping onto Kyubimon's back with a grace that said she'd done this before. Holding her hands out she took Strikemon from Alice and set him on her lap. Holding her hand out again she helped Alice slide on before turning her head to look at the Digidestined again. "Like I said, if you can catch us. Speed card activation." And like that they were off at a speed that was a blur to the naked eye.
"Wow." Tai said echoing Mikey's thoughts. "How are we going to catch up with them?" he added as he tried to close his jaw. How had she done that? All she'd had to do was run a card through that device of hers and her Digimon had evolved on command, just like that.
Holding out her own Digivice Yolie shook her head at them. "Hello, we have digimon that can evolve too ya know."
"Well then lets do it." T.K. said pulling out his own device and soon the Digidestined and their Digimon were on their way to catching up.
"So do the rest of your friends know about Aracnamon? I would have thought they'd be here to help you fight it?" Ryo said as they stopped for a water break.
"Well you see we didn't know that it was Aracnamon and its minions that were causing the problems." Izzy said sitting down on a rock nearby as the sun beat down on them. "We knew something was wrong but nothing major happened until about two weeks ago. As to friends well most of the original Digidestined are in America right now visiting Mimi who's another destined. Tai and I are the only ones here and were suppose to be going in about a week to join them. We could cal them in but we don't want to unless it's a last resort. As for Ken's generation well we didn't want to bring them in unless it's necessary as well. We only brought you here because Ken thought we could use your take on the situation."
"Well then why'd I get stuck coming?" Impmon said with a grumble as he leaned against a nearby tree. They'd been in the forest walking all day and he was getting tired of it real quick.
"You weren't suppose to come, Cyberdramon was." Ryo said as he reluctant held out his water bottle to the Digimon. Personally he didn't care if the thing collapsed from dehydration but Rika would and he was already probably in her bad books if Cyberdramon hadn't managed to get to her to tell her what had happened. "Drink some of this or you'll get dehydrated and pass out."
"And why would you give me any of your water?" Impmon demanded as he tried to ignore how good some water would go down at the moment. He'd been at his worst all day, why would the kid be nice to him unless he had something up his sleeve.
"Because if you do pass out then I'd have to carry you because Rika would never forgive me if I let anything happen to you." Ryo said with a suffered look. "So take some before I remind myself that you can't annoy me if you're dead."
"Whatever." Impmon said snatching the water from him. Chugging it down he licked his lips then reluctantly handed the water bottle back to him. "Thanks." He bit off before turning his head to look anywhere but at Ryo.
"You welcome." Ryo said exchanging an amused look with Ken who was pouring some water into a small bowl for Wormon and Tentamon to drink from. Both Digimon chimed their thanks and began to drink while the three boys and Impmon watched on.
"Your girlfriend won't really dump you because of this would she?" Ken asked taking a seat beside Ryo.
"Hope not." Ryo said with a grin. "It took me years to make friends with her much less go out with me but there's no way she can blame this on me so I'll be fine. She'll only be really mad if I don't come back soon."
"Well hopefully that'll be soon." Izzy said with a smile as he shut his laptop that he'd pulled from his backpack. "I couldn't get through, I hope they aren't too worried."
"I'm sure they're fine." Ken said as he moved to pour more water into the bowl, which disappeared as quickly as it was poured. "We probably should keep moving, we've pin pointed where a lot of the electrical distortions are coming from and we figure that that's where to look for it."
"Sounds like a plan." Ryo agreed with a nod. "Let's go."
Well I think I'll start updating this fic more often then I did as long as people keep reading since I've had so many good reviews. Thanks to all those who have been reviewing and I hope you'll do it again and keep reading.
