Part Three: Bailing Us Out

"She can't be..." Adrian said. "She promised she'd be here..."

"You just saw a whole castle fall on her," Gazimon said, lightly.

"Gazimon!" Gabumon exclaimed. Gazimon cringed.

"Sorry."

"Katrina," Adrian said falling to his knees. "KATRINA!"

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Silence.

Dead silence.

Death.

It seemed like a funeral in the room, only the people in the room weren't wearing black.

They were wearing sad faces.

"When is your dad going to pick us up?" Matt said, breaking the silence. The digidestined were sitting the the museum jail, having been discovered 'invading' the souvenir shop with their 'stuffed animals' by a frightened security-guard.

Adrian shrugged. "I don't care. I'm happy in here, caged with this memory."

"Adrian," Sora said, but she didn't continue.

"It'll be okay," TK said, stroking Patamon. "The digimon made it out. I wonder why?"

"I've been wondering the same thing," Izzy replied from the ground with his digimon. "The portal just seemed to...open up when the castle collapsed."

"You think that..." Yolei said, but she couldn't bring it out.

"Katrina and Kari opened the gate for us?" Mimi finished bluntly. "Probably. Either they did or an evil digimon did."

"Do you still think that there is an evil digimon out there?" TK asked. He looked at Izzy who was deep in thought.

"Definatly," Izzy said, looking at them. "The evil digimon is like a monarchy."

"You mean, like a princess?" Mimi asked. Izzy sighed.

"Sort of, except there are no kings and queens. Only heirs."

"Heir to the throne," Matt said. "That's a great new song for my band."

"Matt!" Sora exclaimed. "This is no time to be thinking about music."

"So, we find the heirs and destroy them?" Adrian asked. "Then what? Peace and harmony reign in the Digital World?"

"'Peace' and 'harmony' are the same thing, dummy," Yolei exclaimed.

"Too bad she's gone," Adrian growled back.

Silence filled the room after that.

The skies outside Tokyo filled with clouds and, eventually, a thunderstorm. Children scrambled home as the fierce lightning cracked the skies with light and the roaring thunder shook tall skyscrapers. The rain patter on the umbrellas of people trying to get home and soon the streets were empty.

Almost empty.

Two cloaked figures walked through the streets; searching, looking, wandering. The two figures had no idea what they were doing; they weren't stupid, they were lost.

Just lost.

"What are we looking for?" said figure #1, the slightly shorter one.

"We'll know when we find it," said figure #2, the taller one. "But for now we keep walking."

"It seems a little...bland, doesn't it?" figure #1 asked.

"Maybe," figure #2 spoke up. "But, I have a feeling we've been here before."

"Maybe we have," figure #1 said. "We don't know what or where we've before."

"We don't remember much of anything."

The two clocked figures continued walking in the pouring rain. Figure #1 looked up and rain fell into the cloak's face.

"It's cold."

"Just like our feelings," figure #2 said. They continued walking.

"Guys!"

"Hey, it's Tai!" Sora said, jumping over to the jail door. "Over here!"

"I never thought my friends would turn out to be criminals," Davis said, running next to Tai.

"I take it you made it to the Digital World?" Ken said, emerging with Jon.

"Did we ever!" TK said, not knowing whether to smile or frown.

"So, what happened?" Tai asked. "Did you get him?"

The other digidestined looked at each other, the air changing.

"You did kill him, didn't you?" Ken asked.

TK nodded. "Yeah, but at a cost."

"What are you talking about?" Tai asked, narrowing his eyes. "All of you are here-"

"Where's Kari?" Davis asked, looking around the jail cell at everyone. "And that new girl, Katrina?"

Everyone's attention focused on Adrian, who sighed. He stood up and walked over to Tai. "She...Kari's a goddess, Tai. She and my sister...I mean Katrina, sacrificed themselves to save us. Demon's castle fell on them, and we're pretty sure we didn't see them escape."

Davis' mouth opened in surprise. "You mean, Kari is...?"

"No," Tai said, gripping the bars so tighly that his knuckles turned white. "No, I don't believe it."

"It was for a good cause," Sora said, walking to him. "She'll be remembered."

"NO!" Tai said, banging the door with his leg. Sora took a shocked stepped back as Tai paced the floor. "She's not gone, she escaped somehow!"

"How, Tai?" Adrian said, angrily. "We saw them die with our own eyes!"

Tai stopped pacing to glare at Adrian, along with everyone else.

There.

He had said it.

Now that Adrian had said it, it seemed real. Kari, Katrina, Gatomon, and LadyDevimon all killed in that castle. Why hadn't they escaped first? Why didn't they let the others help them?

Because goddesses can see the future. Katrina saw it coming. Why hadn't Kari? Kari wasn't ready for...this.

Adrian turned away from Tai to look at Jon. Jon looked choked up, but he didn't shed a tear. Adrian wished he were as strong.

"Let's go home," Jon said, using the keys to free them. "Your parents will be wondering where you are."

The plane ride wasn't as lively, although there were twice as many people on the plane. Matt and Sora were sitting with Tai in the aisle seats, trying to calm him. Adrian and Jon were sitting in the window seats next to them, somber. The only people who were considered 'lively' were Davis, Ken, and TK, who occupied the aisle seats behind Tai, Matt, and Sora. Yolei and Izzy shared the window seats behind Jon and Adrian.

"So, what do we do now?" Yolei asked them. Davis leaned over Ken to look at Yolei.

"What do you mean 'what do we do now'?"

"We're still digidestined," Yolei said. "We still have to save the Digital World."

"How can you think about the Digital World after what just happened!" TK snapped. Yolei bit her lip; she looked as if she were about to cry.

"Give it a rest, TK," Matt said from the seat in front of him. "If you still want friends, stop thinking about Kari."

TK gave Matt a shocked looked before sighing. "Sorry, Yolei."

"I really miss her too," Yolei said before the plane was quiet again. "Are we always going to be like this?"

"Be like what? Davis said before anyone else did.

"Like this," Yolei said, looking at the younger digidestined. "Miserable. Depressed. Saddened by the loss of one of us?"

"Not for long," Matt said. "Sure, it'll be rough in the beginning, but only time can heal some deep wounds."

Yolei sniffed as tears started running down her cheeks.

"Yolei," TK said, trying to shut her up. He felt hot tears burning his eyes. He took a shaky breath to stop them from falling.

"She's not coming back, is she?" Yolei said, her nose running too. Izzy frowned next to her and handed her a hankerchef from the airplane bag. Before TK could stopped them, his own bitter tears ran down his cheeks.