Author's Notes: Hajimemashite and Kon'nichi wa! I'm happy because I get to borrow ".hack/Legend of the Twilight" from my friend…and because we got two reviews! Yay! But more on that after the story. For the most part I don't have much to say except…I can't remember if I edited this chapter or not. I might have done half of it… or none at all! And I don't really feel like editing it 'cause it's boring…I mean, it's been spell checked and all that good stuff but sorry if there's any simple whittle mistakes like they're instead of there. I'll be sure to be a good whittle girl and edit the next chapter.
Disclaimer: Sakura is mine…Yori's Ravyn's…ditto Roninmon but I have Mermaimon (sorta). I feel dumb. I just assumed Mermaimon was one of the ten legendary warriors because of her name: Ancient Mermaimon. But, alas, I was wrong. So let's just pretend she is, k? Any-who…the rest of Frontier is all Hongo-san's. But all plot changes are by me and Ravyn. Ain't that great! Okay, here you go!
Today's Vocab Word for Today: Um, not today! (Unless you don't know what –san is, which is the Japanese's version of Mr.)
Recap: The group was hungry, so we found this place that wanted heroes in exchange for free food. I didn't trust the KaratsukeNumemon that much, which was so clever of me seeing how as soon as they found out everyone had the spirit of the Ancient Digimon in them—except me… I really hate the Gods for this! If there even are Gods—they kidnapped them in their sleep and hung them at the cliff! They didn't do that to me though so I Sprit Evolved to Roninmon to go save their sorry butts! The idiots. The group got free and had to defeat Grumblemon, an Ancient Digimon who has crappy grammar skills! But Grumblemon caused the mountain to collapse and Takuya, Kouji, Sakura and I got separated from Zoe, JP, Bokomon and Neemon! Not that I care…
Chapter Four
The tunnel seemed to go on and on forever. What made it even worse were Tommy, Takuya, Kouji and Sakura all screaming like it was the end of the world. Yori would have screamed at them if she didn't think it would be useless. They probably wouldn't have heard her anyways and she was way too busy trying to figure out a way to stop herself. Unfortunately she was still exhausted from no sleep and then all that jumping around as Roninmon. Plus even before that everybody else had gotten that sleeping stuff in their food and she hadn't eaten. Why did this always happen to her?
Finally a light appeared at the end of the tunnel. Well, that probably wasn't a good thing but at least it was something different. The five kids shot out of the tunnel into mid air and started dropping. Throughout Sakura's yelling of "We're going to die, we're going to die, we're going to die!" they fell down onto… a large pile of bouncy balls? Even while they were bouncing a couple of times Sakura was yelling at the top of her lungs until Yori "swam" through the balls and hit her on the head.
"Oh… we're alive!" said Sakura, blushing a little and looking around.
"This looks like more fun than it is…" moaned Tommy.
"You're not kidding," said Kouji.
As Takuya pushed a large ball off of his head he said, "Whoa, is this a big playground?"
"If it is, who needs a playground this big?" said Yori, looking around.
"We're going to find out, aren't we?" moaned Tommy.
"Of course," sighed Takuya.
"Argh!" Yori cried out, hitting the balls so they flew every which way. "This is so frustrating! I'm tired, I don't want to do more exercise!"
"How about you stop complaining," said Kouji. "You weren't the one fighting Grumblemon…"
"Because I spent my energy saving your sorry butt!" snapped Yori. "And you got to sleep more than I did!"
"Let's get out of this then argue…" muttered Sakura.
Nobody argued with that and, after a bit of argument on how to get out, they escaped the bouncy balls of doom. They must have been on holiday because they weren't being very doom-ish. Once outside Yori wanted to just curl up in a ball and sleep. Except for everybody else wanted to look around.
"Keep your eyes peeled for Zoe and the others," said Takuya.
"Ergh…" moaned Yori, her eyes half opened. Then a sound caught her ears and she looked up to see something red flying. Everybody else noticed it too so she didn't say anything.
"Hey, maybe that flying guy has seen them," said Takuya watching it pass by.
"A flying toy robot, neat!" said Tommy excitedly, chasing after it.
'Maybe JP was right…' thought Yori sleepily. 'We're going to spend most of our time chasing the kid…'
"Hey, wait!" cried Takuya, running after the kid. Sakura glanced at Kouji who seemed to be thinking before he too ran after the others. Sakura followed. Yori just walked on at her own pace. Yori caught up with the group in time to hear Kouji say "What a baby…" when Tommy put a car on a racetrack, laughing.
"I am not," said Tommy, turning around in the middle of his laughing and going back to his toys.
"Hmmmm…" said Takuya, looking around. "Is this the flying robot?" he asked, picking up a small red guy. He pressed a button and the robot's arm flew off. "Hey, this is cool! Super Robot Punch!"
"Not you too," moaned Kouji.
"Why not?" said Yori. "You play. I sleep."
"Well, um… I… uh… I guess not…" stuttered Takuya, looking at Kouji but still holding the toy robot. Then he turned to Tommy. "Put down those stupid toys! Ow!" he added as Yori hit him upside the head. But Tommy still obeyed and followed the group along. Yori, being completely exhausted, hung back with him.
"These guys are worse than my parents…" muttered Tommy.
"I wouldn't know…" murmured Yori.
"Oh… yeah…" said Tommy. "I guess you wouldn't. Hey!" he added excitedly. "What's it like living in an orphanage anyways?"
"None of your business," said Yori dryly, speeding up slightly and putting her hands in her pockets. As she reached the other part of the group Takuya stopped suddenly and looked behind him. Everybody else turned to see Tommy holding a cute little piggy and a green balloon.
"Hey guys, check it out!" said Tommy, grinning. He poked the pig on the ear and it started oinking. Tommy smiled, looking very proud of himself.
"Yay. Piggies," said Yori.
"You sound so excited!" teased Sakura.
"I would if I weren't so tired!" snapped Yori.
"Sheesh, okay!" said Sakura, putting up her hands defensively. "Don't have to bite my head off."
"Hey, look, we decided this wasn't the time to play around," said Takuya, putting his hands on his hips.
"Who decided?" said Tommy glumly, letting go of the balloon.
"Where'd he get the balloon in the first place?" muttered Sakura, clearly forgetting that Yori had yelled at her two seconds before.
"I don't know? Where'd he get the pig?" Yori said back.
"Well he could have found it on the ground I guess," said Sakura. "But you can't find a balloon on the ground."
"Maybe the pig had the balloon," said Yori. "Maybe it's a floating piggy."
"Hey, wait a minute!" said Takuya to Tommy. "Don't start crying!" Tommy looked up indignantly and turned away.
"Oh man, I feel bad," said Takuya.
"Why, because of him?" said Kouji. It took Yori a while to realize they were talking about Tommy. When she did she was going to hit him but he continued. "The little baby has to grow up sometime. Ow! Hey!" he added when Yori finally was capable of hitting him on the head. "Why are you always so protective about the twerp?"
"Because I was a kid too, once!" snapped Yori. "And I had kids making fun of me too. Mostly because of the fact that I didn't know I had a family, but still! And you know what, I don't think we need Tommy growing up to act like me! Or you for that matter."
"Whatever…" said Kouji, walking off.
"No, wait, you can't just say whatever so listen up!" said Takuya, staring after Kouji who did actually stop. "I know you're not use to having friends but you're a part of a team now so you better show some support."
"Um… That's advice I'm not going to take…" muttered Yori, walking past Takuya.
"That's a great idea," said Kouji sarcastically. "Up to the point where we all die because of his stupidity. And don't you dare!" he added as Yori walked up beside him. She hit him anyways.
"If we're going to die it's going to be because of your stupidity," said Yori. "Besides, Sakura is always assuming you're going to die anyways!"
"I do not!" said Sakura.
"Come on guys!" said Tommy suddenly. "If you guys keep fighting we'll never get to the Forest Terminal."
"Why are we going anyways?" said Sakura. "I mean, I know the weird D-Tector things told us to but… we don't know what it is!"
"Something to do?" said Yori with a shrug and kicking Kouji in the shin.
"What, is it national hit Kouji day?" he snapped.
"I know it ain't national pick on Tommy day, that's for sure," said Yori. Suddenly a small whistle caught Tommy's attention. They all looked to see a small black and red train with an engine car and two other cars coming toward them. Tommy looked at Takuya with a grin.
"Great idea!" said Yori, swinging the kid onto the front and getting on behind him. "You guys coming?"
"Yeah!" said Sakura and Takuya together.
"Whatever…" muttered Kouji.
"Yeah, some train," said Kouji some time later as they cruised through the weird toy town.
"Yeah, some toy train," teased Takuya.
"And to think you were acting all mature a little while ago," sighed Yori who was never the less enjoying herself.
"Oooh…" moaned Kouji. "Very funny. Just drop it. It's bad enough I even have to ride on this stupid thing."
"Kouji's playing with toys!" chanted the other four.
As the train kept going they noticed something large, fuzzy and yellow walking a fair distance off.
"Wow, that's wild Yori!" said Tommy. "It's a giant walking teddy bear!"
"Hey, maybe he knows how to get to Forest Terminal," said Takuya, jumping off the train and rushing after the bear.
"Right," said Tommy as he and the rest jumped off the train as well and ran after the bear. Yori paused for a second and watched the train ride away.
"There goes my chance for at least a power nap," she said with a sigh before catching up with the rest just as the teddy ran, grabbed Takuya and threw him down on the ground.
"I am still undefeated!" cried the teddy, raising one large paw in the air.
"Exciting…" said Yori, bending down to look at Takuya. "Bet you're having the time of your life."
"Shut up…" grumbled Takuya, as the teddy picked him up and set him on his feet again.
"Now we wrestle for the championship of the world!" said the teddy, getting into a fighting stance.
"Can we have a sleeping championship?" asked Yori sweetly.
"Yeah!" said Tommy excitedly. "I'm next!"
"Which part, the wrestling or the sleeping?" asked Sakura.
"Sleeping?" said Tommy in confusion, blinking up at her.
"Are you crazy?" said Takuya grabbed Yori's then Tommy's hand and running away. "It'll crush you."
"Uh… WAIT FOR ME!" shouted Sakura, running away from the attacking teddy.
"No wait, the championship!" cried the teddy, running after them. "Oh, I get it. You want to play tag!"
They managed to give Teddy the slip when they climbed aboard a giant wooden ship. It was a little weird because it was hanging from some poles but it seemed like a good place to hide. It seemed…
"That bear's dangerous," said Kouji after the teddy ran past their hiding spot.
"And you didn't get thrown down by it!" said Takuya.
"Who's plan was it to talk to Teddy?" said Yori, flicking him on the head.
"Ow!" said Takuya, clutching at the side of his head. "I like you hitting more!"
"But that takes more energy," yawned Yori.
"I don't know," said Tommy thoughtfully. "He seemed kind of fun to me. The teddy, that is."
"What are you, nuts?" said Takuya.
Before anything else could be said Yori stood up and walked off the ship just as it started swinging. She heard somebody start to say "what are you doing?" but when the ride started moving they were all grabbing for something to hold onto. Yori watched them go back and forth, back and forth for a good five minutes when finally, it stopped.
"I think he's going to be okay," said Kouji when the ship started to slow down. When a belch sounded he cried out, "Get him off, get him off!"
Yori, figuring it had something to do with Tommy, rushed up onto the ship to make sure he was okay. He looked a little pale but other then that, unharmed. Takuya led him off the ship saying, "Are you going to be okay kid?"
"Uh, huh…" moaned Tommy.
"Come on," said Takuya, bending down a little. "Do you want a piggy back ride?"
"Make the kid walk," snapped Kouji. He took a step away from Yori when she started to glare at him.
"It's no big deal. He's not feeling good so I'll help him out," said Takuya angrily.
"Sounds good to me…" said Yori.
"Oh yeah!" said Kouji indignantly. "And what'll happen if you're attacked while you're carrying him? You'll be too slow to run away, that's for sure."
"Well, if a certain person had gotten some sleep she could turn into a Digimon and save him," said Yori airily.
"You're about the worst leader I've ever seen," said Kouji, ignoring Yori's comment completely. "You never think ahead!"
"At least I think about somebody other than myself Mister Definition-Of-The-Word-Selfish," snapped Takuya.
"How about we do both?" said Sakura, glancing from one guy to the other. "A compromise?"
"I can walk…" said Tommy, walking past Takuya.
"Hey, Tommy," said Takuya. "You sure?"
"Yeah," said Tommy, stopping and looking back at him. "I mean, I really don't have a choice."
"Hey I know!" said Yori, pointing at a weird cake house past Tommy. "We can go to that house over there."
"And sleep?" teased Sakura.
"Huh?" said Yori, blinking.
Everybody didn't say anything (they didn't even argue for some odd, unknown reason) as they walked into the house. The weird thing was that the round building… it was square inside. But other than that it was awesome because it was filled with all sorts of candy. Yori registered the lack of beds but for the time being, really didn't care!
"Now I know what it's like to be a kid in a candy store!" exclaimed Takuya.
"Except for technically you're still a kid…" said Sakura. "But whatever."
"It's the best thing ever!" cried Tommy, rushing toward the cotton candy.
"I guess we can take a little time to have a snack, right?" said Takuya, watching Tommy eating the candy gleefully.
"Here, have some!" said Tommy, handing some cotton candy to Takuya, Yori, Sakura and Kouji. Takuya started right in on it, taking large bites. Sakura took a bit with her fingers but then seemed to decide against it.
"We do not have time to sit around stuffing our faces with candy!" snapped Kouji, stilling holding his cotton candy but not eating it. "We have to find a way to get to the Forest Terminal. We're not out having fun at carnival or something."
"Shut…" Yori said, taking a big bite of cotton candy, "up…" Another bite. "Kouji!"
"Do you understand?" said Kouji to Takuya who was still stuffing his face. "Are you listening to me?"
"I read you loud and clear!" said Sakura, touching one of her ears lightly like they hurt or something.
"Man you're infuriating!" said Kouji finally.
"Who you talking about?" said Yori sweetly, finally done with her cotton candy and amazingly very clean.
"What are we supposed to do," said Takuya, pausing in eating his cotton candy. "We're floating on an island!"
"We are?" said Yori, blinking.
"There's another example of why you'll never make it as a leader," said Kouji scathingly, "you just give up! It's like you don't even want to help your friends at all. I mean, take a look at what you're doing right now. And don't think about it!" he added, grabbing Yori's wrist as she attempted to flick him.
"Hey, let go!" she said, struggling madly against his grip. Finally he let go and she turned away teary eyed, nursing her wrist.
"I don't see you coming up with any ideas," said Takuya, ignoring Yori's hurt expression.
"At least I'm not eating," said Kouji. "We need to think about the other Legendary Warriors."
"Legendary Warriors? What are you talking about?" said Takuya blankly.
"What if the other three warriors turn out be on the enemy's side?" said Kouji. "If they are, we'll need a plan."
"I agree…" said Yori, grabbing Kouji's cotton candy and eating it. "With…" Another bite. "Kouji…" Yet another bite and it was all gone. "On this one."
"We need to think of the worst case scenario…. You do?" said Kouji, turning to Yori and then going back to his monologue. "Not just play games and eat sweets. Or we might not make it out of this world alive."
"Can we not talk about this now?" said Takuya, noticing Tommy starting to look depressed.
"You mean not in front of Tommy?" snapped Kouji. "I don't care if he's young he needs to learn to face the truth."
"Argh!" cried Yori, grabbing Sakura's cotton candy but ignoring it. "You're so frustrating! And a jerk!"
"I'm sorry you hate me so much…" muttered Tommy.
"I don't hate you… it's just…" said Kouji.
"That's the understatement of the year!" snapped Yori, clenching the cotton candy so hard the cardboard thing was breaking.
"Why do you care so much?" snapped Kouji, turning to Yori. "On practically every level you agree with me. Then it comes to the point of the kid and…"
"Ergh!" cried out Yori, dropping the cotton candy and punching him. "IT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!"
"What was that for?" snapped Kouji, clutching at his cheek but unflinching. "I wasn't asking anything about your personal life, I'm just wondering why you take such an interest in the kid."
"Why can't you just call him by his name for once?" shouted Yori. "It's Tommy! Not that hard, okay? God, it was people like you that I wanted to escape when I left the orphanage. People like you that made it out that I was less than a person because I didn't have a family, or had a different opinion than everybody else or decided I was going to laugh or cry. How about you stop while you're a head for once and try and not scar Tommy!"
"Hmmmm… I'm sorry…" said Tommy, still staring at the ground. Takuya went over and put his hand on Tommy's head to try and comfort him.
"It's this jerk who should be sorry," said Yori, crossing her arms and looking away.
Takuya managed to make Tommy feel a little better about it and a few moments later the group was out of the candy house and started walking around to no where in particular—just away for the most part. After a while Tommy said nervously, "Um… Does anyone want to talk?"
"Fine," snapped Kouji. "Let's talk about how we're going to get to the Forest Terminal and what to do about the other Legendary Warriors."
"I think someone is very one-track minded," muttered Sakura.
Takuya sighed. "You're unbelievable! I told you I didn't want to talk about this in front of Tommy!"
"And I told you we can't treat him differently than the rest of us!" said Kouji.
"Well, you do have a point…" said Sakura, "but you don't have to be such a stupid jerk about it!" she added, holding up a fist.
"You could respect the fact that he's just a kid," said Takuya.
"So are you…" muttered Kouji.
"All right!" snapped Takuya, stopping and facing him.
"Oh yeah!" snapped Kouji.
"Get a life, both of you…" muttered Sakura, getting ready to hit the two idiots on the head.
"Um… guys?" said Tommy hesitantly. "AHHH!"
The group turned around and found this mean, ugly, dark looking teddy bear kidnap Tommy and run away with him.
"It's that bear again!" cried Takuya.
"No it's not! It's so different looking! Isn't it obvious?" snapped Sakura.
"Yeah, now it's all funky looking," said Kouji.
"Nice vocabulary usage," muttered Yori.
"Ain't it?" said Sakura sweetly.
Their D-Tector's announced that it was Warumonzaemon.
"What a weird name for a stuffed animal," muttered Sakura.
"What's wrong with just plain Teddy?" asked Yori.
The group decided to stop talking about it and instead do something about it. Call it being proactive if you want. So Takuya cried out, "Hey, you big furry creep, give us our friend back!"
"Please?" asked Yori.
Warumonzaemon turned around and waved his free hand as he shouted, "Heart Break Attack!"
This black heart hit Takuya and all of a sudden he collapsed to his knees and moaned depressingly. It made everyone except Yori stop to turn around and glance at him.
"What's the point?" mumbled Takuya sadly. "We're never going to catch him."
"Huh?" said Kouji.
Takuya suddenly burst into tears as Kouji cried out, "Why are you crying! What happened!"
Takuya whipped his eyes and moaned, "I just feel really sad!"
Suddenly Warumonzaemon did another "Heart Break Attack!" Yori got out of the way just in time, but Kouji was weird and had to turn around, so it hit him instead.
"Idiot…" muttered Sakura, shaking her head sadly.
He moaned as he hit the ground, and he asked Sakura, "What just hit me, Sakura?"
"Er…" said Sakura.
"I'm so sad!" said Kouji. "I feel like everything is just so hopeless… You know?"
"Okay…" said Sakura, kneeling down and putting a hand on his forehead.
"It's hopeless!" cried Takuya.
"Oh my God…" muttered Yori. She noticed Warumonzaemon was running away again so she rushed after him.
"I'm so sorry I yelled at you!" moaned Kouji
"No, I'm sorry I yelled at you!" cried Takuya..
"Oh my…" said Sakura, standing up and putting a hand on her forehead.
"Huh?" said Takuya suddenly, looking up with a tear-free face. Was he actually crying to begin with? "That attack is so not fair!"
"You're okay now, right?" asked Sakura, sounding extremely weirded out.
"And now Tommy's gone! What do we do?" said Takuya, standing up. Kouji did so too.
"Well, Yori went after him while you two had a very lame party-pooper-party… thing…" said Sakura, scratching her chin thoughtfully.
So sometime later the three were walking around. It seemed like they were following Warumonzaemon but in Sakura's opinion walking wasn't hurrying to save people. Eventually Takuya sighed and went, "Why do evil things always run faster than normal things?"
"We're walking, that's why!" said Sakura. "Not that I suggest we do any running because… well… I'm too lazy."
"I don't see him anywhere," said Kouji, stopping to look around.
"This is our fault 'cause we were fighting," said Takuya.
Sakura cracked up laughing. "You think you two were fighting? You need a reality check, quick!"
"Oh, shut up…" muttered Kouji.
"This reminds me of the time I lost my little brother at the amusement park," said Takuya. "I've never been so worried in my life until now."
"I know, little kids are always getting in the way," said Kouji.
"But they are cute looking…" said Sakura thoughtfully.
Takuya sighed, turning around to face Kouji and Sakura. "That's not what I meant! You're the most selfish kid in the whole world!"
"You better mean him…" muttered Sakura darkly, pointing a threatening finger at Kouji.
"No… Two worlds!" snapped Takuya, ignoring Sakura. "We have a responsibility to take care of Tommy because he's younger than us! Don't you take care of your own brothers and sisters!"
"Er…" said Sakura, laughing a little guilty.
Kouji said in this monotone voice, "I don't have any."
"Oh, me neither!" said Sakura, raising her hand. "Hey, maybe we could be brother and sister!" she teased, poking Kouji. "But you'll have to start acting nicer or I'll tell daddy!"
"No," said Kouji simply.
"Oh, come on!" cried Sakura, but the other two just sort of ignored her.
"Oh…you don't…" said Takuya, sounding sorry for his outburst.
"See, I don't know anything about having brothers," said Kouji a little sadly.
"Maybe you should get a cat," said Sakura seriously. "Cat's are nice sister-or-brother-replacements! I have this one cat named Amayra and she's so cute! Though my dad doesn't like her too well because he's sort of allergic to cats…"
"Or…" said Takuya, sounding a little weirded out by the cat thing, "you can start by pretending Tommy's your little brother, and imagine what it'd be like for him to be alone and afraid… imagine that you could keep him from feeling that way."
"Feh," said Kouji, running away from Takuya.
"Whoa…" said Sakura.
"Hey, wait for me!" cried Takuya.
"Oh, and me!" cried Sakura.
Eventually the trio stopped running when they noticed that really cool toy robot thing Takuya had been playing with earlier.
"Oh, there's a friendly face!" said Takuya, stopping in his tracks. The other two stopped as well. "Hey, flying robot, we're looking for a little kid and a bear, have you seen him?"
The robot simply pointed to the right and flew to that direction. With nothing better to do the group followed it to…
"In that creepy castle?" said Kouji.
"How can it be creepy?" cried Takuya. "It's lavender!"
"Really? 'Cause I'm having a hard time smelling the lavender," said Sakura. "Oh, I know, Kouji's just secretly afraid of lavender, that's it!"
"Shut up already!" snapped Kouji. "I just meant you should never underestimate your enemy."
"Sure…" said Sakura. But nonetheless the trio went towards the creepy lavender castle.
"It's just so… lavender," said Takuya.
"Are you afraid of it too?" asked Sakura.
"Hey, Tommy!" cried Takuya to the tower.
"Down here!" cried Kouji.
At the tower window they could vaguely see Yori's face suddenly appear, but then it went away just as quickly and they weren't sure they actually saw her at all. But they could see Tommy at the window even if it was difficult to tell so they just went with the idea anyways.
"I guess he can't hear us," sighed Sakura. "Time to be reckless and go inside to save him! Anyone have a sword?"
"What are you going on about?" asked Kouji.
"Well, the prince goes into the castle to save the princess, right?" said Sakura. "So if we're going to act the part we need a sword."
"Let's not," said Takuya. Then he turned around to the toy robot and lifted his hand. "Hey, thanks a lot!" With a nod the robot flew away.
"You just can't stop playing with toys, can you?" muttered Kouji.
"Kouji likes to play with choo-choo trains!" said Sakura in a sing-song-voice.
"Hey, I didn't have much of a choice!" snapped Kouji.
"Nothing gonna stop us now!" said Takuya, rushing across the bridge and beckoning the other two to stop arguing and follow. But halfway across the bridge the trio stopped when some weird creatures that were a dark grey color and seemed to be literally built out of building blocks appeared at the doorway, blocking their path through. "Well, except that."
"I'm telling you, we needed that sword," said Sakura. "Maybe Kouji could find a stick and do some really spiffy Kendo moves with it or something."
"I'm not a dog who goes fetch," muttered Kouji.
"Well, it was a very good idea anyways," said Sakura. "Maybe I should just start playing soccer with them."
"But kicking them would hurt your feet," said Kouji.
"Oh yeah, good point!"
Suddenly the bridge started to collapse together and go back into the castle. The three fell down into a pool of water. Falling into water was not one of Sakura's favorite things to do. Though luckily this weird panda creature grabbed the trio and swam them into this cave, so that was okay.
"Once again I, Pandamon, have foiled my fiendish foes, the sinister ShadowToyagumon," said the panda-like creature.
"Yeah, great, thanks," muttered Kouji. "So you just saved us so you could bring us here and hurt us yourself!"
"Sheesh, buddy, why are you so paranoid?" cried Takuya.
"It's what he's good at," sighed Sakura.
"Pay no attention to him then," said Takuya, facing the panda creature. "Thanks for saving us… Pandamon?"
"Pandamon… the Protector," said Pandamon dramatically.
"Yeah, whatever," muttered Sakura.
"Welcome, great warriors, to my secret lair," said Pandamon, "… the Panda Cave!"
"If you say so!"
Basically Pandamon went on about how the Toyagumon where turned to ShadowToyagumon by Cherubimon. They wanted to get to the real world to get revenge on the children that stopped playing with them, but most of the other toys just want to play with them again. So he led them into the "scary lavender castle" and went back to… well, probably his Panda Cave, or whatever he called it.
"Lavender castle here we come!" said Takuya.
"I think someone's a little obsessive," said Sakura.
"You're just annoying," muttered Kouji.
Not surprisingly some ShadowToyagumon started showing up. At first they didn't do anything and Takuya asked, "Are they just gonna stand there?"
"You jinxer!" cried Sakura, bopping him on the head.
"Hey! It's national hit Kouji day, not hit Takuya day!" whined Takuya.
"Plastic Blaze!" cried one of the ShadowToyagumon, having a plastic chunk shoot out of its mouth. The three collapsed to the ground so the attack missed and hit the wall instead, making a small explosion upon contact with the wall.
"Told you…" muttered Sakura.
Without another word the three decided that the best thing to do would be to Spirit Evolve. Besides, as Sakura liked to put it, they lacked of any swords or sticks.
"Nobody's getting any revenge on any kids!" roared Agunimon, crying out, "Pyro Tornado!" the attack seemed to make all of the ShadowToyagumon to collapse. "Well, that was easy," said Agunimon. "Well, maybe not!" he added when all of these other ShadowToyagumon showed up and started combining together to turn into a tank.
"Cute, but what can a toy tank do?" said Lobomon.
"Never underestimate the enemy!" said Mermaimon cheerfully.
The tank hit an explosive at Agunimon. He jumped out of the way barely, and Lobomon stepped up, grabbed his sword thing and went, "I got it! Lobo Kendo!" The tank dispersed into pieces of building blocks and went away.
"Show off…" muttered Agunimon. "I could have done that."
"I'm the one who did it," said Lobomon.
"So? I bet I still could have done it better!" said Agunimon.
"Hey, guys?" said Mermaimon. When the two turned to look at her she went, "Um, yeah, here's the thing. Those Digi-block things are turning into something else!"
Now the group was faced with a giant blocky robot guy.
"Sure you don't need any help with that one, buddy?" scoffed Agunimon.
"Grow up already…" muttered Mermaimon, rolling her eyes just as the robot thing growled. It punched at Lobomon but it wasn't that difficult to dodge so he didn't get hit.
"Why don't you take me on!" cried Agunimon, but then the giant robot multiplied and the new one went over to Agunimon. "Oh man, you sure look a lot bigger close up!"
"Big-headed people never get anywhere," muttered Mermaimon, shaking her head and sighing. She watched tiredly as Lobomon and Agunimon dodged kicked and punches from the giant robots. She started wondering whether she should bother to help the two idiots but decided it'd be more entertaining to just watch their stupidity than get involved in it.
"So how can we beat them?" said Agunimon.
"Follow my lead!" cried Lobomon, running past the giant robot and jumping up in the air. Agunimon followed, the two met in the air and kicked off one another as the two giant robots who had been aiming at the guys accidentally punched each other. They started getting a bit dizzy and waved side to side before their fractal code showed up.
"Wahoo! It actually worked!" clapped Mermaimon cheerfully.
"I hate it when toys go bad!" said Agunimon. "Fractal code… Digitize!"
"Time to be purified by the light!" said Lobomon. "Fractal code… Digitize!"
"At least Takuya has a new catch phrase whenever he does it…" yawned Sakura (the group was back to their human selves).
"You didn't even do anything," muttered Kouji.
"Whatever, let's just hurry up and get Tommy!" cried Takuya. "Who knows what awful things that bear is doing to him?"
"It's a bear! It can't do a whole lot of evil things!" said Sakura.
"Never underestimate the enemy," repeated Kouji.
"If you say that one more time I'll—"
"Don't even try it!"
"Hang on, Tommy!" cried Takuya as the trio ran up the stairs to the tower Tommy was locked up in.
They could hear from the doorway that evil teddy bear going, "Take that!" Tommy crying out and the two arguing.
"They're fighting!" said Takuya, stopping at the doorway.
"Well…" started Sakura.
"Ready?" said Takuya.
"Let's go!" cried Kouji.
"Sure!" said Sakura.
They kicked open the door and entered the room and found… Tommy laughing?
Tommy and that weird yellow teddy bear thing where giggling about the video game they had just beat—that's right, they were playing video games. Sakura noticed Yori laying down on the floor getting that sleep she'd been whining over the whole trip through this Toy Land-ish place.
"I win! Champion of the world!" cried Tommy, punching the air cheerfully.
"T-Tommy, what are you doing!" said Kouji.
"What's it look like I'm doing?" said Tommy, grinning.
"But we thought you were in trouble…" started Takuya, but then he noticed the sleeping Yori and went, "I thought you were going to save him, not take a nap!"
"Hmm…" muttered Yori, sitting up with a yawn and stretching. "Wow, I just feel so refreshed now! And does the kid look like he needs saving?"
"I know…" sighed the teddy bear guiltily. "I feel just awful about kidnapping him, guys, but this little trooper saw through to the real me and played with me anyway." Putting a paw on Tommy's head, he added slowly, "He's a good boy!"
"So can we keep him?" asked Tommy.
Kouji, Takuya and Sakura all just sighed wearily. Yori said while smiling sweetly, "Where would we keep him?"
"Well, I dunno…" said Tommy thoughtfully.
Sakura poked herself in the forehead irritatingly.
"Why can't we keep him?" whined Tommy.
The group was out of the tower and walking out of the castle. The teddy bear was with them too for some weird reason.
"Do we really need to answer that!" asked Sakura exasperatedly.
Suddenly the group stopped when they ran into Pandamon and those ShadowToyagumon—judging by their colorfulness they were probably just Toyagumon by now.
"Ah, fantastic friends!" said Pandamon. "To make up for their monstrous mistakes the Toyagumon insist they'll take you off the island," he said, pointing to the guilty looking Toyagumon with a paw.
"Yeah!" cheered the boys.
"Does that mean they don't like us?" thought Sakura out loud.
"Who cares? I'm tired of the floating island already, can I get off?" snapped Yori. After that nap she was back to her cranky self…Was it a good thing to be rid of the whiny Yori or not?
So the group got to fly in this giant toy airplane. It was orange and, though a giant toy, just big enough to fit everyone and the Toyagumon acting as a pilot. Even though they were flying above water and she normally wasn't amused with that sort of thing, Sakura was actually having fun. It seemed as though Tommy thought so too.
"Hey, Tommy, how come you aren't scared?" asked Takuya.
"Well, I'm really not afraid of airplanes," said Tommy.
"I meant when you were captured by that evil teddy bear," said Takuya.
"It really wasn't that evil," muttered Yori boredly.
"Well, to be honest I was so scared that I almost wet my pants," said Tommy. "But then I figured out that the big guy only wanted to play video games with me."
Kouji laughed. "Probably only a kid could figure that out!"
"You're right," said Takuya, turning his head to look at Kouji. "You thought kids weren't good for anything."
"We are kids!" cried Sakura annoyingly. "I mean, I guess we're pre-teens… But still! We're still kids!" Then she sighed, resting her chin on her hand. "Oh, I give up…"
The Toyagumon turned around to say, "Guys, if you look down you can see the forest from here."
"Can I just say that even though I sort of dress like a boy I'm still a girl!" said Sakura. "Oh, and Yori too."
No one replied but looked down below.
"Wow!" cried Tommy.
"Cool!" said Takuya.
"It's just trees," said Yori boredly.
Kouji groaned.
"And as a special thanks, how about a little excitement," said the Toyagumon, steering the plane so it went up in the air to do loop-de-loos.
"Whoooa! Ma-maybe I am afraid of ah-ah-air-air-airplanes!" cried Tommy as everyone else cried out.
"Not above the water!" cried Sakura, clinging onto Kouji's neck for dear life. He might have complained if he wasn't freaking out as well.
"This is so… AWESOME!" cheered Yori, putting her hands in the air and crying "Wahoo!"
Reviews: Aww, I feel so special! Two reviews! Thanks, Tangledways and Simply Sakura. Hey, it looks like you have something in common with a character in this fan fic… Sakura's actually a really common name—at least, in anime it is. She's one of those characters where the name just sort of came with her right away, which is rare for me—it usually takes me forever to come up with the perfect name for my characters. I'm so picky! Okay, ja ne! (I have no clue what ja ne means besides some form of good-bye… I think it's "see yah").