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A Normal Day In The Digital World
Rika figured that she could possibly allow Davis to live, if pigs were to fly and candy were to grow from trees. Even now her fists were clenched at her sides and she'd hit him no less then a few hours ago for the Red comment. How could there be a living being that annoyed her more then Kazu did? She'd never thought such a thing was humanly possible but this brat had proved that theory flawed. And she couldn't even figure out what it was about the jerk that rubbed her the wrong way but there was just something about him that made her itch to take him down.
"He really gets to you, doesn't he?" Alice said from her left side, Renamon at her right. They'd opted to let Renamon and the other digimon have a break so they were all walking for the first little bit, Davis and Veemon walking on the far left and Rika on the far right.
'Yeah, worse then Kazu or Kenta." Rika said with an annoyed look on her face. "We better kind this Ken guy soon or the moron's going to end up in more pain then thought humanly possible." She added in a completely reasonable voice. "Maybe you should try your laptop again when we stop, maybe it'll work and we can send a message home."
"I'll try but something's seriously interfering, I wish I had kept in contact with Digidestined a bit longer then I did, he was teaching me a lot about manipulating radio waves." Alice said in frustration.
"Why did you stop talking to him, if you don't mind me asking." Rika asked to take her mind off the goggle-headed freak.
"Well we had talked to each other for nearly four months before he suggested we meet, then the asshole stood me up. That was the end of our communication. I don't visit his usual chat area anymore and I changed my codes so that he couldn't email me anymore." Alice said with a sour look. "My pic probably scared him off, the jerk."
"Maybe something came up or one of you screwed up on the meeting place or the time?" Renamon said thoughtfully. She knew that men tended to be intimidated by Alice but if the two had been communicating for that long the boy would have realized that long before they'd decided to meet.
"Not likely, we emailed each other a half an hour before the meeting to make sure everything was in order. He just didn't show." Alice said with a touch of lingering hurt in her voice. "Besides, when I tried to get back into the chat room later to give him a piece of my mind I couldn't get back in, the site was taken down or he blocked me somehow."
"So where are you girls from exactly?" T.K. asked as he moved away from Davis's side to walk beside Alice. He figured Rika had had enough time to cool off and he was curious to find out more about the girls and their digimon. "You're both Japanese?"
"I'm not." Alice said looking over at him with a slight smile; the kid was okay, much less annoying then Davis. "I'm Irish, a McCoy."
"I'm Japanese and we both live in Japan." Rika said figuring to give him enough to satisfy his curiosity on the subject. "I've lived there all my life while Alice lived in Ireland since she was a toddler till she was ten and came with her father to Japan."
"That would be so cool, I'd love to go to Ireland sometime." T.K. said with a smile, glad that they weren't biting his head off. He and the rest had already figured that they'd played nice to get them here but weren't so sweet in reality. "So you two have boyfriends that'll cream Tai if he keeps flirting with you guys?"
"I do." Rika said with a smirk. "Alice doesn't."
"They're friends are coming." Cyberdramon as he flew over from where ever he'd been to hover near the girls.
"Our friends, but why? They were suppose to head home last night and stay there unless we contacted them about trouble." T.K. said with concern in his voice. "Did you tell them to do differently, Yolie?" He asked as he looked over at Yolie who was walking beside Davis but was close enough to have heard the conversation.
"I didn't tell them any differently, T.K. There must be trouble." Yolie replied casting accusing looks in the girls' direction. "You two wouldn't know anything about it, now would you?"
"Well you got here through computer but something's wrong and my computer won't work down here, maybe your lap top won't work either and they couldn't get back." Alice reasoned sending Yolie a hard look in return. "And seeing as we've made it clear we don't want you around what possible reason could we have to want to trap you here with us? Wouldn't we want to do the opposite? Think about it."
"She's right, they have no reason to trap us here." Patamon chimed in from T.K.'s arms. "I'm sure that Alice is right and something is just interfering with the computers."
"The question is what is interfering." Yolie said with a dark look. "Why don't we wait here for them to catch up and find out."
"We could handle a break." Alice said before Rika could Yolie where she could put that particular comment. "Couldn't we, Rika?"
"Fine." Rika said with a look of annoyance. "But they had better hurry it up."
"So anyway then Kazu got the bright idea that they should tell Rika that the reason she doesn't play cards professionally anymore was because she just didn't have it anymore and that she'd quit to avoid the embarrassment of being beaten and losing her title." Ryo said with barely concealed glee. "And her face, oh God but I wish I'd had a camera. Her face went completely blank for a moment and then this look came into her eye and it was like, Kazu's a dead man. Course the moron didn't realize this and was standing there, waiting for her to react."
"Yeah and of course everyone went quiet after the moron said it because they knew he'd practically just asked Rika to kill him." Impmon put in with a grin on his face. "Kenta looked ready to pass out at any moment."
"He did too, but that was only after Rika paid Kazu back for the comment." Ryo said with a grin of his own. "At least he didn't break his glasses, Takato caught him before he hit the ground."
"So what did she do to him?" Wormon asked with an eager nod. Ryo had been entertaining them with stories about his world and his friends, Rika and Kazu stories were becoming his favourite, they got along worse then dogs and cats.
"Well she just froze him there with a look until all the blood drained from his face and then she very carefully put down the drink she'd been holding." Ryo said with an evil look of his own. "Then she smiled at him really evilly and walked over to him, drew back her fist and swung-stopping centimetres from his face."
"And the moron fainted dead away without her even having to land the blow!" Impmon said with a laugh as he broke into laughter along with the other guys and their digimon, the sound making up for the silence of the woods. "And no one caught him either."
"Poor guy, do those two ever get along?" Ken asked with a chuckle and shake of his head. "Davis gets along better with T.K.."
"Well they'd get along just fine if it weren't for Davis's obsession with Kari, otherwise they'd get along reasonably well I think." Izzy said with a smile. "When Davis eventually realizes that he doesn't stand a chance those two will get along a lot better."
"Yeah but when is Davis going to realize that those two are perfect for each other is the million dollar question." Ken said with a knowing smirk, Davis' crush on Kari being a constantly talked about topic. The poor guy, Davis just never seemed to get it.
"Kari, what are you doing here?" Davis said waving his arms wildly as Kari climbed off the back of Nefertimon, Mickey and his digimon following her down.
"We couldn't get back, the computer just went haywire and we haven't been able to do much with it except turn it on." Kari said with a shrug, no idea what had prevented them from getting home. Mickey's mom must be worried sick. "Guess we weren't meant to let you guys go anywhere without us."
"Oh joy and rapture." Rika said under her breath. "Where's Cody and his digimon, shouldn't they have come with you too?"
"They're coming, we would have all been to much for Nefertimon so Cody opted to digi-volve his digimon and ride him here, they should be here any minute." Mickey said with a cheerful look. "So have you found my brother and Ken yet?"
"Your brother?" Alice asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yeah, Izzy, he's with Ken. He's really good with computers too, he's one so many awards my dad had to build his a trophy case." Mickey said with a huge grin. "Izzy likes to hack like you too Alice." He added remembering hearing Rika mention that Alice was a hacker.
"Oh, what's his username, maybe I've heard of him." Alice said with a smile. Since the guy was from this world she would probably have never heard of him but she could play along and pretend she had, give the kid a charge.
"Digidestined." Mickey said with a proud grin. "So have you heard of him?"
Rika actually felt a shiver run down her spine at the way Alice's eyes narrowed, to mere slits in microseconds. She'd never seen that look on Alice's face before and she could safely say that she never wanted to see it ever again. "Ah-Alice?"
"Digidestined?" Alice said through clenched teeth. "The hacker Digidestined is your older brother, Mickey?"
"Ah-yeah, are you okay, Alice?" Mickey asked looking a bit nervous as he looked from her to Rika then back again. "You don't look so good."
"Oh I'm fine, Mickey. Don't worry about me." Alice said as a rather frightening smile took over her features. She'd been waiting a long time to meet with Digidestined and it would appear that she'd be meeting up with him in a few days. And her without a blowtorch and other weapons or torture. Darn.
"Alice, you're scaring me, I don't scare easily. What's going through your head right now and how much of it is R rated?" Rika asked with a weary look.
"She looks like you when you're about to slaughter Kazu at cards, Rika." Renamon said with a slight smirk on her face. Watching the children bicker was proving to be a good distraction from whatever was giving her these strange feelings. She was sure that they were being followed by something but no matter what she did she couldn't figure out where the intruder was or even what the intruder was. She would guess a digimon but then why couldn't she even place its origins. I t was almost as if it were taunting her, letting her know that it was close by but refusing to give her the satisfaction of spotting it.
"No wonder Kazu always looks so terrified." Rika said with a grin though it was a bit stretched. Alice looked perfectly normal now but there was just something about her eyes that made Rika think that Alice was far from normal.
"So do you know Izzy from the web? He's one of my best friends." Tai said moving over to talk to them after they got done going explaining their attempts to get home. He was rather glad that they hadn't been able to get back, he was interested in the two strangers and wanted to know more about them. Especially about those D-Arcs of theirs.
"I've heard of him." Alice said with an easy smile that would have sent warning signals through anyone who knew her at all. It was a smile that hinted she had something up her sleeve and that whatever it was would not be nice.
"Cool, I'm sure he'll be happy to meet you, he loves to talk computer shop but most of us in the group don't know even a quarter of what he does." Tai said with a charming look. "Yolie is pretty good with the things too."
"Oh I'm looking forward to meeting him already." Alice said, thinking of all the pain Black Angel would soon be inflicting upon Digidestined. Before she'd thought to send multiple viruses to his computer before she'd found out she couldn't get into that stupid chat line. Now she was going to get to meet him face to face, how perfect.
"Poor bastard." Cyberdramon said under his breath, though he approved of his temporary tamer's actions. This Digidestined was quite possibly responsible for Ryo's disappearance, it was right that she intended to make him suffer for his actions. Rika should feel the same. Of course Rika was a slow burner, she could be plotting terrible death for Digidestined as well and just not showing it.
"So I guess we're all going to visit Ken and Izzy." Kari said with a cheerful shrug. She had a really bad feeling that something was seriously wrong but were these girls connected in any way? They'd tried to e-mail Ken and Izzy when they couldn't get through for advice but they hadn't been able to get through to them. What if something had happened to them?
"Hey guys!" Everyone turned to see Cody coming on the spiked back of a large digimon, one Ryo's D-Arc recognized as Ankylomon. "Sorry we took so long." Cody added as he slid off his digimon. "Did I miss anything?"
"Rika punched Davis in the face and gave him a black eye." T.K. said cheerfully with a wink in Davis' direction. "You would have appreciated the beauty of it. Do you take martial arts, Rika?"
"No but one of my best friends is really into that stuff and Henry taught us girls some basic moved for self defence." Rika said with a smile. "Plus I did learn a few things in gym class, I'm really good at fencing and boxing."
"Just my friggin luck." Davis groaned, cradling his face as he hoped for sympathy from his beautiful Kari. Maybe Rika punching him hadn't been such a bad thing. Concerned Kari came over to gently take his head to look it over, effectively making this the best day of his entire life.
"You know, T.K., you're a pretty tolerant guy." Rika said with a smirk as she shot him a knowing looking. "If my boyfriend ever caught a guy playing sick to get my attention he would have something to say about it."
"No he wouldn't, he would know that you probably wouldn't care." Alice said with a grin. "Besides, he's not the jealous type."
"Why would I be jealous." T.K. said with a smile that didn't quite reach his eye. "Kari would never go out with Davis and it's not like that between Kari and me, we're just friends."
"Right-and I'm the friggin Easter Bunny." Tai said throwing his arm around T.K.'s shoulder. "And just in case you didn't know, Matt and I give you our permission to date her, once you get up the nerve to ask her. Need some tips?"
Watching her best friend's face go a strange shade of red Kari sent Tai a mad look. "What did you say to T.K., Tai." Completely forgetting about Davis Kari hurried over to stand in front of Tai, shooting him an annoyed look.
"I didn't do anything Kari, I was only talking to him, right girls?" Tai said sending Kari an angelic look that would have fooled anyone but her. His baby sister knew him too well.
"If you say so." Alice said with a smirk.
"Ah Izzy-I have a really bad feeling about this." Ryo said looking towards the woods ahead where bird type digimon were flying out of in all directions. Something had startled them and Ryo had a feeling that they were going to be seeing what really soon.
"You're not the only one." Izzy said feeling like someone had just walked over his grave. The forest was becoming too quiet after being so loud moments ago when the sound of many bodies fleeing had reached their ears.
"Should we keep going or go around it?" Ken said looking over at the two. He had the same bad feeling as both of them and he was definitely not looking forward to a fight, not that they couldn't handle it. But what about Ryo, Impmon wasn't Ryo's digimon, how was he suppose to defend himself if he didn't have his digimon with him?
"I say we check it out. Impmon, you in?" Ryo asked looking down at the digimon. He and the obnoxious digimon might not get along overly well but he was pretty sure that Impmon would do what he could if there was a battle, even if it was only to save his own skin.
"Course I'm in, after the D-Reaper nothing scares me." Impmon said, not exactly telling the truth. He had a feeling that whatever they were about to face was just as bad as the Sovereigns but he'd face them, he could face this.
"I think we should go ahead as well, we won't know what it is we're up against unless we face it head on." Tentomon said with a bravery he didn't necessarily feel.
"Well then, lets go and see what we're up against." Ken said with a nod and picking up their pace slightly the six figures made their way to where the noise had come from before being violently cut off.
"Oh my God." Ken said staring at the destruction visible before them. The trees, ground, everything way black or dead, as though all the life and colour had been sucked out of it. Even when he'd been the Emperor he'd never seen such damage or dreamed of anyone causing it. What could have done this?
"Oh boy." Ryo said whistling lightly under his breath as he looked around with a sense of being in a time warp. The D-Reaper had caused a great deal of damage and had destroyed so much while it had been active; this brought it all back with startling clarity. They were definitely up against something powerful, not to mention deadly.
"Guys." Izzy said pointing to where there were still some hints of green though it was rapidly disappearing to be replaced my grey, lifeless matter. "I think I saw something move over there, let's check it out." Nodding their agreement they made their way in that direction at a run and nearly ran into each other as they stared at the scene being played out in a small clearing. There was a digimon, a mega at least who stood laughing at several smaller, rookie or less digimon who he'd trapped against a rock face. Before the boys' horrified face the mega digimon drew back its fist and from it shot several fireballs, hitting and deleting several digimon with that single attack.
"Bastard!" Impmon called and was in the clearing as quick as lighting with Ryo hot on his heels, digimonless but unwilling to stand by and watch the carnage. From behind him he could hear his friends at his heels and with a smile heard them call out to their digimon.
"Wormon."
"Tentomon."
Bright light engulfing them two digimon had replaced them by the time they'd reached the other digimon who'd turned to face them with a sneer.
"Stingmon."
"Kabuterimon."
"I may not be able to digi-volve but you're going to have to get through me to get to those digimon." Impmon yelled out as flames burst from his fingers. "Impmon Inferno." He yelled, throwing the balls of flames at the Digimon while Ryo scooped up a large stone from the ground and hurled it at the digimon, catching it just under the eye. Attention no longer on them the young digimon ran for cover while the digimon tormentor stared at the calvary with an evil gleam in its eyes.
"You'll be deleted for that." The digimon said in a deep voice. "I'm Frewmon and no one attacks me and denies me my prey."
"Well there's a first time for everything." Ken said with a look of intense anger on his face. The digimon was shorter then Stingmon, black with spikes around its neck and limbs. It's eyes glowed an evil yellow and Ken simply stared back, unwilling it let it gain an inch. "Stingmon, show him what happens to people who pick on those weaker then them and kill for pleasure."
"No problem, Ken." Stingmon said flying into the air then charging, drawing back his fist as he delivered a brutal blow. "Spiking Strike."
"I'm with you, Stingmon. Let's teach this guy a lesson." Kabuterimon called out as he crossed his arms in front of his chest. " Electro Shocker!"
"What!!" Frewmon yelled before the two hits blasted him into the air to land on the ground, his body wavering as he struggled not to delete. He'd used up so much energy destroying this area that he wasn't up to fighting these two digimon who rivalled him in level. "Who are you? Why are you doing this?"
"Because you use your abilities to destroy life, for no reason other then your own pleasure." Impmon called out, disgusted by the very sight of the digimon. What he had been before Rika and Jeri had shown him what he had become. "And if I could digi-volve I'd finish you off myself."
"Ken?" Izzy said looking over at Ken. If they gave their digimon the order they could delete the digimon, but would that make them no better then the digimon?
"Lightning Storm Attack!"
The silver bolts sliced through Frewmon, his data exploding into the air to float away and into the air. Turning their heads to stare at the way that the bolt had come from they only had an impression of a dark shape before it disappeared into the shadows as though it were a part of it.
"Just like Renamon." Ryo muttered as he stared at the spot before turning back to stare at his friends. "Well just what we need, another thing we don't know or understand.
Watching the figures leave he cocked his head to one side. They had hesitated to kill Frewmon even though he would have killed them without a thought. What fools, but then humans weren't exactly known for their intelligence to begin with. Well he'd leave them to whatever they were up to for now, he would head back and continue to follow the group with the Renamon who could sense his presence. How she could sense his presence was a mystery to him, no one had been able to before. He'd go back and watch that group some more, perhaps the redhead would punch the one with goggles on his in the face again.
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