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Ch. 5 Welcome to Winter

Turning to Kari, TK looked into her worried brown eyes. "Wait…? We need to go." TK replied as he emphasized on 'We,' as he reached for her hand. As a small smile appeared on her face, she followed him to the door of the coach bus.

"Hold on We're coming to!" Patamon and Gatomon shouted as they started to run after them.

"Stop for one second!" Matt yelled causing everyone to freeze. "You guys can't go out there it's a full fledged blizzard." Then pointing out the window it was pure white as the wind blew the falling snow horizontally through the air.

"We haveto go…"

"TK, you don't have to go." Matt barked at TK, while he tried to reach for the door handle.

Bowing his head TK tried to collect all of his thoughts as everything seemed to happen all a once. "Matt you right…" TK replied as a shock filled Kari's face along with the Digimon's. "I don't have to go…" Then retracting his hand from the handle of the door, he turned to his older brother. "This isn't the case of haft to… No Matt this is the case of need to go."

Reaching for the doorknob, Matt shouted back trying to plead with his brother, "Come on TK… You don't need to be the hero…"

"No I don't, Matt… but I do have hope that we'll be all right." TK calmly said back, looking his brother in the eyes.

"TK!" Matt replied with a sense of desperation in his voice. "I don't care if you have all the hope in the world that all of you will be alright. You're still my younger brother and I don't…" Suddenly a hammering gust of wind slammed into the side of the bus, causing it to shake even more violently.

"Matt." TK said in the same desperation his brother was. "You've read the script to Chasing the Perfect Strom, right?"

"Yea, why?" Matt answered confused by TK's comment.

"How… how is this any different…?" TK said back to his brother in anguish to let it go.

"TK is this worth loosing your life over someone we don't even know is still alive?" Matt replied as he walked over by the door.

"Matt some times friends are worth chancing life for." TK said as he turned back to the door. Then squeezing Kari's hand tight, he twisted the handle and opened the door. All of a sudden, a blast of wind caught the door, pulling TK and Kari with the Digimon clinging to her arms out of the bus aggressively and into a blur of white snow. Slowly as TK tried to regain his bearings in the rush of snow, he readjusted his grasp on Kari's hand while pulling her close behind him. As he began to walk to what seemed to be the direction of the car, faint shouts from Matt skirted randomly through the howling winds. Reaching into his pants pocket, TK slowly pulled out the set of keys to his car, while snow began sticking and stinging to his raw bare arms. "I think we're almost there." TK said as he forced his way head on through the prevailing winds and snow. Forcing his eyes to peer open against the stinging snow, TK tried aimlessly to see the few inches in front of him.

"Do you see anything?" Kari tried to yell through the roar of the wind, as she stayed close behind TK.

Trying with all of his strength he finally made out the shape of his car. Slowly and carefully, he shuffled the keys around in his hands until he finally got his numb fingers around the keyless entry remote. After a bit he hit the red panic button, then instantly the vehicle in front of him began blearing its horn and flashing its lights. "I think we found the car." He shouted back while a mouth full of snow filled his mouth.

Before reaching the car, he quickly unlocked the doors. Then reaching it he quickly opened the driver side door letting Kari climb over the driver seat and into the passenger seat, along with the freezing Digimon.

Climbing into the car, a relief from the biting cold winds and snow helped, until unyielding piercing stings filled his face as the snow began melting away.

"Are you ok?" Kari asked as TK began moaning from the pain, and she picked chunks of frozen snow from her hair and face.

Rubbing his hands over his face, it felt completely raw, as he removed the remaining patches of snow. "I think I'll be alright," TK answered as he slipped the keys into the ignition. "how about you?"

"Cold." Kari replied as a chill ran through her body.

Then putting his arm around Kari, TK began trying to start the car. Turning the key the only thing he heard was a piercing whine from the frozen engine. "This thing almost new, now why doesn't it start?" TK remarked as he tried a few more times. With a few more sputters from the starter, the sedan finally turned over. "Ok let's go." He replied turning the climate control in the car to hot.

Looking up at the rearview mirror a few small digits near the far left displayed the outside temperature. "Is that right?" Kari asked, shocked to see the dramatic drop in temperature from earlier.

"10 degrees, it… it was in the mid 50's earlier." Then looking at the perfect whiteout just out the windows TK continued. "Factoring in the wind chill it's probably 19 or 20 below or colder." Shifting into gear a loud clunk rattled the car as the wheels began spinning in place. With a small jerk, the tires finally caught on the heavy and wet snow.

Slowly as the engine began warming up, heat crept gradually into the vehicle. "Ah… heat." Patamon replied as he crawled close to an air vent in the backseat of the car.

"Heat…?" Gatomon weakly replied as she just lay on the leather backseat. Before crawling over by Gatomon, Patamon adjusted the air vent so it blew in her direction. As he crawled up next to her, slowly the frozen chill melted away from her body. "Ah… that's perfect." She replied putting her arm around Patamon and snuggling with him.

Looking up at the dash TK reached over and tapped a button, suddenly a LCD screen popped out of the dash. After a few seconds, the screen lit up and displayed a map of the area along with a column of different menus. Tapping a one of the menus, TK said "Highway 46 and Cots Avenue" to the screen. With in a few seconds the screen blinked up a map of the short route. Pulling out of the parking lot and onto a frontage road that parallels Highway 46, the car crept only a few miles an hour though the zero visibility. "We're about a mile away from where he crashed…" TK said as his voice trailed off. Trying to keep concentrated on what seemed to be the road, TK relied heavily on the onboard navigational system to keep them on the road. Out of the blue a bright blue flash of lighting illumined through the darkened snow blind.

"Just try to stay on the road." Kari calmly remarked as she rubbed her hands together in front of the air vent.

Suddenly the LCD screen began blinking and beeping as they approached a small intersection. "Ok we're here." TK replied as he pulled onto what seemed to be a shoulder of the road. Unfastening his belt an unsettling feeling rattled his stomach as the fiercely blowing winds shook the midsized sedan. Swallowing some of his fears, TK turned to Kari, "Ready." He asked as his matured voice cracked.

"What's wrong?" Kari replied concerned, as she looked into his trembling eyes.

"No… nothing," TK stuttered as he reached in back for a jacket on the floor.

"Ok…" Kari replied as she did the same.

Opening the car door a blast of a winter welcome filled the warm interior of the car. The cold reminder froze TK instantly as the door slammed shut by the power of the wind.

"TK, are you OK?" Patamon asked as he looked at TK's ghost white face.

I… I can't go out there. TK thought to himself as he sat paralyzed by the mesmerizing blowing and swirling snow.

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