Chapter 27:
Ten Face of Evil: Part 2
When Tai woke up the next morning, he was happy to find out that he was older then a baby. He walked out of his room and found a mirror in the bathroom. He was twelve years old. Well, it was better then being in diapers.
He walked into the living room and past Kari's room. A sixteen-year-old Kari came out. "Tai, I guess you're my younger brother again, huh?"
Tai nodded. "Yeah. I wonder where the others are?"
Kari shrugged. "I guess we'll find them soon. I'm kinda hungry. Let's get some breakfast."
The two siblings made their morning meal, then sat down at the table and started eating. Their mother came out of her room and yawned a few times. "Good morning."
"Good morning," they both said.
Mrs. Kamiya smiled. "I bet you two are excited about your trip."
"Trip?" Tai asked without thinking.
"Yes," his mother said, "You are Kari are going to beach today, right?" She looked at the calendar on the fridge. "Yeah, today."
"Oh yeah, that rip!" he said, "Sure, I remember."
Mrs. Kamiya smiled. "I guess you're just excited huh? I know you've been planning this for the same day when Agumon and Gatomon went visiting in the Digital World." She walked into the bathroom.
"Agumon and Gatomon are in the Digital World?" Kari asked, "I guess that means they won't be able to help us."
Tai nodded. "Yeah. But should we go to the beach? Is that where our next battle is suppose to be?"
Kari shrugged. "Remember the last world? We just went to the park, and everyone was there, I bet that they'll be waiting at the beach." She looked at the clock. "I guess we'd better leave soon."
Tai nodded. "I hope our others already packed."
Kari nodded. "Me too."
Tai went into his room. Luckily, the other Tai had packed his beach bag, which was hanging next to his dresser. He found his swimming trunks hanging there too. He quickly pulled them on. He pulled on a shirt, grabbed his bag and walked outside. Kari was already there, wearing a yellow bathing suit and a pair of jean shorts. "Ready?"
Tai nodded.
Kari nocked on their mother's door. "Mom, we're leaving!"
"Okay, have fun."
Kari and Tai walked into the hall and into the elevator. When they reached the floor level, they were surprised to see three other members of their group. Sara and Takato were both ten-year-olds, both wearing blue bathing suits; Sam was sixteen, with a black suit. "Hi," Sam waved.
"I'm glad you guys are here," Tai said, "But where are the others?"
"We don't know," Sara said, "We all woke up in an alley, but they weren't with us."
Kari shrugged. "I hope they know to go to the beach."
"We all woke up wearing bathing suits, and carrying duffle bags and sunscreen. Not to mention a key for a certain washroom on the boardwalk," Takato said, "I think the Digimon Queen wants to lead us there."
Kari walked over to her red car. "I think I have room for everyone, but it's going to be a tight fit."
"Who cares?" Sam asked, "Let's just hit the beach!"
They drove down to the beach without any incident. After finding the right beach to match the keys they had, they set up their towels under the umbrella. Sara looked around. "Should we look for the others first, or the Digidestined fighters?"
"I see one," Sam said. She mentioned to the boardwalk where the Tachikawa family was walking onto the beach. Mr. and Mrs. Tachikawa had a five-year-old Mimi wearing a pink bathing suit with a skirt attached with them. "Are there any others?"
"Is that Catherine?" Kari asked.
They turned the other way and saw an adult woman around 25 lying on a beach blanket. She had blond hair and was wearing a green bathing suit. Tai looked hard at the woman. "Yeah, that's her. Is that it?"
"Isn't that Izzy's parents?" Sam asked.
Tai and Kari looked behind them. Mr and Mrs. Izumi were setting up their blanket. Both looked very young, and they had a young baby boy with them. "I guess that's Izzy," Tai said.
"Hey, there you guys are!"
Takato smiled when he saw who was calling out to them. Rika, Ryo, Derwood, and Emperor Tai were walking over to them. Rika was an older teenager, wearing a black suit. Derwood and Ryo were trailing behind her, both around nine or ten. It looked like Rika was either a babysitter or an older relative that had to take the younger kids with her. Emperor Tai was still wearing his normal attire. "Aren't you hot in that?" Rika asked.
He shrugged. "I don't feel the heat that much any more."
"Oh."
Kari smiled. "Come on, let's at least try to enjoy ourselves before Sora sends those Digidestineds after us."
Kari, Rika, and Sam were more then happy just to lie on their beach towels and tan. The younger ones, Tai, Ryo, Takato, Sara, and even Derwood decided to have fun in the ocean. Emperor Tai just sat in a chair under the umbrella with his eyes closed.
Rika turned over and saw him. "Can I ask you something?"
"What?"
"If you're so unhappy, why do you keep going on?"
"Rika!" Kari and Sam snapped.
"No, if she wants to know, fine. I never gave into death because I wanted to bring Matt and Kari back to life. Alice promised me that if I helped Dark Ryo, I could get my wish. I guess there's no way that's going to happen now. Now I want revenge against them, and to save Sora, from herself."
Rika chuckled. "That Digimon Queen wanabe, huh? Well, fine."
In the water, the other 'children' were playing in the water. Tai wanted to know something about Takato for a while, so he was going to ask. "Takato, how did you start as a Digidestined."
"I'm not a Digidestined," he said with a smile, "My partner was Guilmon, and I believe it or not, I drew him. Somehow my card reader became a digivice and the picture of Guilmon merged with it. That's when I got my partner. We were able to get a mega digimon by merging with our partners, but, Henry says that by doing that, we merged together almost perfectly. That's why we're merged together like this."
Tai nodded. "I get it."
"I wish I knew where I was from," Sara sighed, "Sometimes I fell like I don't belong anywhere."
Derwood chuckled. "At least you don't know, I've been to so many worlds, I don't really even remember what my world looks like. "
"I can probably take you there sometime," Ryo offered, "It just make take some time to find it."
Derwood nodded. "Thanks."
While the Tai and the others were busy playing in the water, the five-year-old Mimi walked up the boardwalk and into the nearest women's bathroom. The adult Catherine did the same. Catherine smiled slightly at the young girl as she walked inside. Neither of them was able to make it to the stalls, as they both fell to the ground.
Mimi started to grow older until she reached the age of a 16-year-old girl. Her bathing suit with the small skirt split at the center and shrunk until it became a pink bikini. Catherine started to grow younger until she became a fourteen year old girl. Her suit shrunk into a two piece version.
Both girls stood up and looked at each other and grinned. "We made it," Mimi said.
Catherine nodded. "I know."
"Let's strike at one!
"Now!"
Tai and the others were just walking up from the water when they noticed that the Tachikawas were looking for their daughter. "I wonder where Mimi went," Tai said..
Sara looked over to the other blanket. "Catherine's gone too."
"Wait," Takato said, "Do you think that those two..?"
"They are," Derwood said. He pointed at the boardwalk where two teenage versions of Mimi and Catherine were flirting with two teenage boys.
They started running up to their blankets to warn the others. They weren't in tine as a large vine shot up through the sand. The people started screaming and running from the beach. The only ones there were still left were Tai's group, and Mimi and Catherine.
Tai pointed his finger at them. "Alright, let's get this over with! Who's fighting?"
Catherine laughed slyly and started counting them off. "Ennie, Mennie, mine, moe, catch a tiger by the toe, if he hollers let him go, enni, mennie, inne, moe!" Her finger was pointing on Sara.
Mimi nodded and did the same thing with her finger landing on Tai. "You and Sara will be fighting! Ha!" An image of Lillymon appeared in front of Mimi and an image of Floramon appeared in front of Catherine. Both merged with their partners, turning them into teenage girls with green skin and leaves sticking out from their bodies.
"Wait!" Tai shouted, "I don't have a partner!"
Mimi snapped her fingers and an orange dinosaur appeared in front of him. "Agumon!"
His partner spun around and stared at him "Tai? How are you here? I thought that…"
"What?"
"Shut up!" Catherine snapped, "We're fighting, now!"
"Gatomon warned me about this," Agumon said, "Okay Tai, if we have to fight them, then digivolve me!"
Tai looked at his hands and smiled as his digivice appeared. "Great. Digivolve!"
"Agumon digivolve to Greymon! Greymon digivolve to Metalgreymon!"
Sara's staff appeared in her hands. "I'll take Catherine."
Metal Greymon nodded. "Then Mimi's mine!"
The flower girl giggled. "If you think you can!"
When the fight began, Tai shouted out to his partner. "You've got to attack the dark rings! On her arms!"
"Right!" Metalgreymon nodded. He fired his claw at Mimi's arm, but a whirlwind of leaves stopped the claw. Mimi made a few motions with her hands and a group of sharp vines shop up from the group, which made a cage to trap Metalgreymon.
Sara grabbed her staff and started firing balls of light at Catherine. The French girl used a power similar to Mimi's and made a criss-cross of vines in front of Sara. Another group of vines shot up behind her. She didn't let that stop her, and destroyed the vines in front of her. She ran towards Catherine and fired a blast from her staff at the black ring on Catherine's arm, but another vine came up to block it. Sara quickly fired another blast which did hit the black ring. It cracked and fell from her arm.
Metalgreymon slashed his claw across the vines and jumped free. He fired his two missiles as the floating Mimi, but she fired a version of Lillymon's cannon to destroy the missiles. But that was only a diversion and his claw slashed the dark ring on her arm.
When both dark rings where gone, the vines on the beach disappeared and Mimi and Catherine returned to the five-year-old and the 25-year-old. Metalgreymon dedigivolved to Agumon. They quickly ran and hid between two buildings before the other people started coming back.
"Two more down," Derwood said.
Emperor Tai crossed his arms. "I don't understand why Sora is doing this. Our opponents don't seem to be so tough or strong. Why would she even bother?"
"Sora?" Agumon asked, "What has Sora have to do with this?"
Tai turned to him. "Agumon, what's going on back home? Did Milleniumon make it there yet?"
Agumon was going to open his mouth to reply, but he vanished in a bright light.
"Darn it!" Takato sighed, "How are we supposed to get any information, if they kept vanishing like that?"
"Since Tai and Kari already fought," Ryo said, "I guess we won't get anything until we get there."
Emperor Tai looked around the corner of the building and saw that Mimi was being reunited with her parents, and the adult Catherine just shook her and went back to her blanket.
After Ryo used his power to make sure that no one remembered the battle, the group decided to leave as soon as they could. It was already late in the afternoon, so when they got back to the city, it was already night. Tai and Kari left the others and went back to their apartment. After spending the rest of the night just hanging out, it was time for bed. Both closed their eyes and fell asleep.
Sorry about this one being so short, it'll be longer next chapter, promise.