Digimon 3: Lost Prophecy
Part Five: General Chat
""Do you think it means something?"
Izzy looked at Jon who shook his head and sighed.
"Dreams are what we want to come true-"
"Are you saying Izzy's the only one that can have 'special' dreams?"
Tai asked angrily. Without an answer, Tai stormed out of the house."
"Are you going to his party?" Sora asked Matt. Matt looked up from the guitar catalog magazine up at Sora who was lounging on TK's bed. Ms. Takaishi, Matt's mother, had asked Matt to come over and cheer his brother up. Mr. Ishida was estatic to have Matt out of the house to visit his brother. Sora just so happened to be visiting Matt. TK was currently in the kitchen, trying to keep a microwavable burrito from burning his fingers.
"Who's party?" Matt said. He was sitting on the floor in front of TK's bed, letting Sora stroke his blonde hair. "Izzy's?"
"Yeah," Sora said, smiling. "His Sweet 16. Well, I dunno what guys call it, but we need to hire cators, dancers, get plenty of appetizers, entertainers, and a car!"
"A car?" Matt said, flipping through the catalog again. "We can't drive until we're 18."
"Mimi can drive," Sora said. "And she just turned 16."
"In the States you can be 16 to get your liscense."
"Oh," Sora said. "Well, let's go to Florida or California for summer vacation and get our liscense there."
"What's the point?" Matt said, dropping the catalog again to look at her. "We can't drive when we come back here."
"So?" Sora said, sitting up. "No one has to know."
"But I do," Matt said, a sly grin on his face. Sora sighed.
"You don't count," Sora said. Matt jumped to his feet and tackled Sora off the bed and onto the ground.
"Ow!" Sora said, gggling.
"I don't count, huh?" Matt said. Sora looked at Matt. He had the most beautiful blue eyes ever...WHAM!
The door flung open and whacked Matt in the back of his head as TK walked in with a hot plate of food.
"Hey, no frisky stuff!" TK said. "And sorry bro, didn't see you there."
"No prob," Matt said through gritted teeth, clutching his head. Sora gave a small giggle.
"You heard the man, no frisky stuff," Sora said, getting to herknees and helping Matt stand up. "Are you going to Izzy's party, TK?"
"Am I invited?" TK asked, handing the plate of burritos to Sora and Matt.
"Sure," Sora said. "We'll having the entire gang there. Izzy, me, you, Matt, Joe, Mimi, Ken, Davis, Cody, Adrian, Tai, Kari and Katri-"
Silence filled the room. TK sighed.
"We can go to San Fransisco for summer vacation," Sora said, changing the subject. It was too late to change it.
"One month and you're still in a slump," Matt said, shaking his head. "Davis snapped out of it three weeks ago."
"He has Ken," TK said. "And besides, he doesn't know the meaning of true love."
"He was Kari's biggest fan," Matt said. "And I didn't know you loved her this much."
"No, I don't love her," TK said, blushing.
"Then what are you trying to say?" Matt almost shouted angrily.
"Matt," Sora hissed as TK slumped to the ground. "TK's confused and not sure what she feels. What if it had been me or him that died instead of Kari? TK's doing the right thing."
That was big sister Sora for you.
"There's a funeral," TK said softly. "On Friday."
Matt and Sora looked at each other.
"Friday's the day after tomorrow," Sora said slowly.
"Funeral? You're joking!" Matt shouted, getting to his feet. "What the hell's wrong with these people?"
"Matt, lower your voice," Sora snapped. "Let them do what they want! We could at least go and pay our respects! Look out for TK for once, where's the overprotective brother?"
"I am," Matt said, angrily. "If there's a funeral, it proves that they're dead."
"TK needs closure," Sora said, arguing back. "He can't wallow in the little false hope that Kari's still alive!"
"I've had it with you, Sora!" Matt said. "Every action or idea I come up with to help out TK, you squash it like a bug!"
Sora grabbed Matt's arm and pulled him out of TK's room into the living room, shutting the door behind her.
"What the hell are you doing?" Matt said, curious but also angry.
"If you want to look out for your brother, we could at least break up away from him so that he doesn't feel it's his fault we broke up."
"There you go again!" Matt said, throwing his hands up. "You assume what I'm going to do!"
"I know what you're going to do, Yamato Ishida! You're so preditable!"
"Now you're saying I'm common?" Matt said angrily.
"You obviously have to be," said Sora as Ms. Takaishi came to inspect the noise. "Since I picked you up at summer camp!"
That was it. Matt snapped. He pulled his fist back and punched Sora in the cheek. It wasn't until his fist collided with her face that he realized what he was doing.
"Sora!" Matt said as his mom gasped and ran to the girl. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-"
Sora fist struck Matt in the middle of his nose, he heard a crack, and he fell backwards, his eye smacking the sofa.
"Don't ever hit a girl!" Sora said, her cheek was scratched and bruised. "Especially if one fights back."
"Oh Sora, honey, are you okay?" Ms. Takaishi said. Sora nodded.
"Yes, I'm fine. I think I'll go home now."
"Okay," Ms. Takaishi said, getting up to go to her son. Matt sat up, pinching his nose to stop the blood. Ms. Takaishi raised her hand andslapped Matt's arm.
"Ow, is being beat up by one girl enough?" Matt said. By the way he talked, his nose wasn't broken. His eye throbbed though.
"Never hit a girl in my presence," Ms. Takaishi said. "TK would never do that. What has your father been teaching you?"
"TK's a big pansy who's crying over a dead girl," Matt said, preparing for another whack. Instead, his mother just shook her head and went to the freezer. She pulled out an ice pack and placed it on his eye.
"That's going to be a black eye in an hour. Your girlfriend can punch."
"She's not my girlfriend," Matt said, moaning as the cold ice sunk onto his eye.
"Yes she is," Ms. Takaishi said. "TK is always saying how you guys are holding hands and hanging out with each other. You're even changing a little bit. Not as selfish or closed-minded as you used to be. Except for just now, but you just have to accept things."
"She's always telling me how to treat TK," Matt said.
"Well, listen to her opinions," she said simply. "Your father was always questioning my ideas, too. Just, let her speak, and try to compromise. It's good if a woman can make decisions for herself, and you. We need another smart woman in this family."
"Mo-om!" Matt said as she giggled.
"And besides," Ms. Takaishi continued. "You're not TK's mother, I am. You can't always tell TK what to do. You're not a summer camp anymore."
"Yeah, summer camp," Matt said, remembering the times in the Digital World that Matt had picked TK's choices for him. "Mom?"
"Hm?"
"Thanks."
"No problem Matt. Oh, and remember to say sorry to Sora. You might want to find something to cover your eye with. Not too pretty."
"You think there's some kind of prophecy lying around?" Cody Hidaasked surprised, huddled under a blanket with a freezing Yolei.
"It's February!" Yolei shouted, making Davis roll his eyes and Ken laugh. "Why is it still so freakin' cold?"
"Anyway," Davis said. "What's the deal with Tai, Izzy? And what's so special about this prophecy?"
"Well," Izzy said from the floor in front of Cody and Yolei. "Mr. Jon and I thought that the prophecy was probably filled with information to get them back."
"You think that we can get them back?" Yolei said, hope in her tone. Izzy shook his head.
"No. No matter how powerful a human is, she cannot get back."
"Wait," Cody said, thinking. "Let's consider this: Kari and Katrina are sent to the data realm to be regrouped, like digimon are after they die,and they're highly fragile data. Let's say that Katrina's powers lie in her data, won't she be able to teleport out of the Digital World?"
"Or into the Digital World," Ken said. He and Davis were sitting on Izzy's bed. "But if Izzy's right about the process taking over a century to do, then Katrina's data hasn't been able to completey reestablish itself. She's lost a lot of data, and now she's probably a feelingless being or a morbid blob. It depends on what was saved and deleted."
"Or it could be the other way," Izzy said, his eyes lit up the way it always did when he came with a 'prodigious' conclusion. The younger kids gave him a weird look. "Okay, picture this: Katrina and Kari realize the castle was going to fall on them. Katrina and Kari realize they were going to be crushed, so the grab each other's hands or something, and Katrina's powers act on her feelings-"
"Her teleportation," Yolei said, following along.
"Yes," Izzy continued. "So, since they're joined together, Kari's hidden goddesspowers add a boost to Katrina's powers."
"And they teleport out," Yolei said, slowly rising to her feet. "But, wait. Isn't the teleportation linked by the data realm?"
"And the area was slowly being depleted," Ken put in.
"But, didn't Kari's boost bring them through?" Davis asked him.
"Affirmitive," Izzy said. "But, at a cost. As Kari and Katrina were passing through the data realm, some of their data was deleted as they were passing through."
"But only a little bit because of the extra boost, right?" Cody said.
"Hang on," Yolei said. "Our world and the Digital World are alternate universes, but they rotate in different directions. Katrina's teleportation powers are also linked by the universes."
Davis gave her a confused look and Cody and Ken were lost. "Huh?"
"Let's say this," Izzy said. Yolei gave him a 'thanks for paying attention' look and let him continue. "Her teleportation power isn't like in the movies, where you can teleport to the grocery store or Texas by will. Let's say if she were in this room right now, and she were to teleport, she could end up somewhere in the Digital World, like Primary Village. She can't pick and choose where in the Digital World she wants to go, she just goes there depending on where on Earth she is."
"And since our Earth rotates differently," Ken continued catching on. "If she were to go back to Primary village two hours later, she could end up in the apartment two doors down."
"Exactly!" Izzy said.
"But, wait," Yolei said, sitting back dow. "If they did teleport out of the Digital World, we have no clue where they are."
"The world is big," Davis said. "Is it possible they could be on Saturn?"
Ken shook his head. "The Digital World is only linked to our Earth. So, let's link Izzy's dreams to the goddesses feelings. You say inyour dreams you're confused and lost?"
Izzy nodded.
"So, Kari and Katrina must be lost," Yolei said. "What are the chances that going through the data realm only gave them ammesia?"
"A 90 chance," Izzy said. "Since the area wasn't deleting itself too quickly, and their powers gave them a great boost."
"So we look for them," Yolei said. "We'll use your dreams as a map to locate them."
"Yolei," Ken said. "And everyone else. Don't tell Adrian, or Tai, or Jon, or anyone else until we locate them."
"Or at least until after the funeral," Cody said.
"Are we done with business?" Davis asked.
"I guess so," Izzy said, standing up. "Meeting adjourned."