Author> This story is slightly AU, will have slash in it, its mainly Takari, so if your not a fan of that, get out, and if you have a problem with TK/Davis get out to, cuz that will be in the story as a sideplot...Not gonna takl to much about that thouh P Hope you like it
As I awake from my sleep, I keep my eyes closed trying to hang onto the sweetest dream I've had in a long time. I attempt to keep the beautiful picture of my boyfriend, Takeru "T.K " Takaishi., and the guy who would do anything to be in his spot, Davis Motamiya, lips locked in the deep, love filled kisses that T.K. bequeaths to me whenever he catches sight of me.
"KARI! Get up! You're gonna be late for school! Your brother told you to get ready for school half an hour ago!"
I sigh as I slowly open my eyes and remove myself from the tangle of sheets that I cocoon myself in while I sleep to subconsciously emulate the warm feeling of his arms around me. "I'm 16 and Tai is 18, why don't we have our own room yet?" I think to myself as I walk over to my closet and look in my full length mirror on the open door with Tai's clothes sprawled around the door. "Stupid Tai…" I mutter to myself while I kick his clothes out of the way. I look into the mirror, and see my short brown hair framing my face and wish that it was full, long, and luxurious like Yolei's is. "Bleh, why does she get all the luck? Stupid braniac."
5 minutes later as I walk out of the bathroom after brushing my teeth, and dressing in my school uniform, I'm ready to go.
"Finally, took you long enough. What were you dreaming about that was so good to make you stay in the bed so long?" Tai slyly asks me. Underneath his breath he adds, "Was it of a little brother of a certain friend of mine?" With a raise of his eyebrows he exits our family's small apartment. "Hurry up; I'll be waiting for you in the lobby with Sora."
"I'll be right down, and I'll tell you what I was dreaming about when you cut your hair!" I yell at his back, both of us knowing he'd never cut off his crazy lop sided hair, his pride and joy, second only to his soccer playing ability.
"Took you long enough, hun. Do you want breakfast, or are you gonna skip it and just leave?" My mom asks me as I walk towards our kitchen.
"I think I'll just have a piece of toast, and I'll be on my way." I say to my mom as I hug her, and back away with a piece of toast in my mouth. "Bye Mom, have a nice day."
"You too, Kari. Be back home early, don't go out with T.K. tonight, we need you home, your grandparents are visiting."
"Awww. Okay, I'll be home after computer club. See you tonight" I say as I try to think of a way out of it, and time to spend more time with T.K. And then it hits me, "I can just bring T.K. here. Grandma and Grandpa have met him before and they liked him. That ends that"
"Hey Kari. How's it going?" A girl in a white tennis skirt and polo with bright orange hair says to me as I enter the lobby.
"Hi Sora. I'm fine. Got tennis practice this morning?" I ask one of my oldest friends.
"Yup. I'm gonna change into my uniform afterwards right before school."
"Cool. Tai, we ready to go?" I ask of my brother who looks like he's fallen asleep on one of the benches.
"Yea, sure, you drive I don't feel like it this morning," he mutters as he tosses his car keys to me.
The three of us walk out to Tai's car I get into the front, and notice that both my brother and Sora got into the backseat. "Figures…" I think to myself, as I pull out of the parking lot and drive to school. "Another day of Hell on Earth. At least I get to see T.K…"
My alarm goes off awaking me from the best sleep I've had in ages. I sigh as I think of my dream of her.
"What's with that look on your face bro?" My brother Matt asks me as he towels his blonde hair dry. "Thinking about Kari? Tu quieres mas que besar? Heh."
As I roll my eyes at my brother, "Yes I was thinking about Kari, and no, I was not thinking about doing more than kissing her… At least not right now" I mutter under my breath, so Matt can't hear me. "I guess I should get ready to school, gotta go to that Hell hole once again, I can't wait until school's out so I can just hold her, and we can just be in peace, for the first time in a long time." I think to myself as the dark memories of Malo-Myotismon come to mind, and how even though everyone became digi-destined, no one was allowed to keep them by the digi elders. Even us original's had to leave our digimon in the digital world.
"I'll see you later little bro, I'm off. I'm taking Dad's car, you take mine; my keys are on the kitchen table."
"Okay, later." I mumble as I finish putting on my school uniform, and grab my cd player and put in my Luca Turilli cd, and walk out of the house grabbing Matt's keys on the way, but before I can leave the house my cell phone rings. "Who would be calling me this early in the morning?" I think to myself. I walk over to my kitchen table, take my phone out of my pocket, look at the screen and get instantly excited. Upon the screen there's a picture of a red-headed boy that looks to be the age of 14. In reality he's 18 and one of the smartest kids I know. "He must have finally figured it out!" I think to myself as I answer the call.
"Hi Izzy, did you finally do it!" I ask as my voice cracks with excitement.
"T.K., yes I finally cracked it! I hacked my way into opening a portal to the digiworld! Call all the second generation digi-destined. I'll call the first. I'm considering Kari second generation by the way." He adds slyly knowing what's going on between us, and how hard we were taking it, being separated from our digimon. "Tell everyone to meet in the computer lab after school, and we can all visit our friends again! Oh, make sure to call Davis, even though he is who he is, he still deserves to be able to see Veemon."
"Bleh, okay. And in any case. Izzy! You are the smartest and most awesome person ever!" I say as we say goodbye and both hang up. "Kari's going to be so excited when I tell her this!" I think as I press speed dial 2 to call her.
RING! RING! RING! RING!
"Hmm, I wonder why she didn't pick up. Maybe she left her phone at home. I'll see her at school to tell her then. Who should I call first? Yolei, Cody, or Davis… I'll go with Cody; he's been really down since Armadillomon had to leave."
"Hello, Cody? Izzy did it! Come to the computer lab after school, and we get to go back! I wonder how the elder's are going to react to seeing us again? I wonder how the Digiworld has changed in the 2 years that we've been gone…Well I'll see you at school."
I call Yolei with pretty much the same conversation, but the real fun starts with Davis.
"Yea, what do you want T.S.?" he says as he answer's his phone, with the usual smart ass comment.
"What ever spike-head, Izzy told me to call you or else I'd never have done it, because you're an ungrateful bastard, but Izzy has hacked into the Digiworld, and is telling everyone to come to the computer lab after school today, so we can all go back. Later Jacques." I say in a demeaning voice as I hang up before he has a chance to send a retort. "And to think we almost became friends…He's way too much of a jealous bastard, and even if Kari forgives him, I'll never forgive him for what he said to her…
As I walk into her classroom for lunch, I look for her in her seat, but I don't see her. I walk over to Yolei, who's sitting in a chair next to her desk, and ask her, "Where's Kari?"
"Oh, she went to the bathroom. She should be back in a few minutes." Yolei answers nonchalantly.
"Just wondering, did you tell her already, or did you leave that to me?" I inquire of her.
"Oh I left it for you, I just was helping her with some math, and then I'll be leaving you two lovebirds alone." She replies to me.
"Thanks a lot Yolei. And here comes Kari…"I return to her.
"Well, you seem to have it now, I'm going out to meet Ken for lunch, I'll see you two after school with him, okay? Bye" She says as she turns and sends her purple hair over her shoulder as she hurries out of the room.
"T.K… What was she talking about? Why would she be seeing us after school, and why is Ken coming? He can't computer club…" Kari asks of me with a strange look in her eye.
"Well, babe, I have great news! Well, Izzy really. He finally did it! He hacked a portal into the digital world! We can finally go back! We can see Gatomon and Patamon and all the others today! All of us are coming to the old computer lab to get in!" I blurt out in a rush of words that become jumbled in my rush to get them out. "Aren't you excited?" I question, seeing the dark look on her face.
"Well, I don't think that I can come...It's that…my grandparents are coming to visit today, and my mom told me to be home early, she specifically said that we couldn't do anything after school and to come straight home…So I don't think that I can come…" She finishes with the saddest look I've seen on her face I've seen on her face since the Davis incident.
As a single tear begins to roll down her face, I bring her into my arms, and whisper into her ear, "I'm sure your parents will understand…After all, they did help us when we were battling Malo-Myotismon. She will make an exception. Here, lets go outside and you can call her, see." I finish trying to get person I care most about to be happy as I am.
"Okay…We can try it. I don't think that it will work though.
"Mom? Hi. No…Nothings wrong…I just needed to ask you something. Well, do you remember the Digimon? You do? Good. Well, do you remember how the Digiworld go locked 2 years ago, and we weren't able to see them anymore? Well Izzy found a way and has hacked into the Digiworld, so we can now get back in. And…well…I was wondering if I could come home a little bit later, so I can take a quick trip into the Digiworld and see Gatomon and the others then come home. I'd be…maybe and hour later than if I came straight home. Can I please do this? I CAN? YAY! Thank you Mom so much! I'll be home by 5 I promise! I'll bring Gatomon with me! Then Grandmother and Grandfather can meet her too. Thanks again! Bye."
I let out a huge sigh of relief as I end the call, and close T.K.'s phone, seeing as I had stupidly left mine in my room. I collapse into T.K.'s arms, and I feel trails of tears slowly move down my face, while something wet drops onto the top of my head. As I look up into my beloved's face, I see his eyes, glistening, full of tears, just as mine are.
"Babe, we're finally going to get them back, our other halves. This has been the greatest year. You. Patamon. Gatomon. I never want this to end." He finishes as he slow leans down, and brushes my tearstained lips with his own.
"Okay, everyone's here? T.K., Kari, Tai, Sora, Joe, Matt, Yolei, Davis, Cody, Ken, good…" Izzy said to us all as we stood around the computers.
"What about Mimi? How is she going to get in?" Matt asks Izzy.
"Heh, guess he wants to see his girlfriend" I whisper to Kari.
"What? Are they going out? Since when?" She asks back.
"Even though Mimi's in America they keep in touch, and send tapes back and forth. They started being together a few months ago I guess." I reply as Izzy explains to Matt that he sent her a file that if she runs it will hack into the Digiworld and open a portal for her also.
"Cool, will we all get a copy of that program so we can go into the Digiworld whenever we want?" Sora questions of Izzy.
"As a matter of fact, yes, everyone will, I'll give you all the cd with it on there when we come back from this trip."
"Izzy, everyone, me and Tai can only stay for a little bit, our grandparents are visiting today and we have to go home to be with them. We have to be home by five o'clock." Kari announces to everyone.
"Okay, well, its three thirty right now, everyone synch your watches. We'll all leave at four thirty. Is that okay with everyone? Then after I give you the program, you can go whenever you want. Everyone ready? Good. We're going. DIGIPORT OPEN!" Izzy yells at the screen. "Just so everyone knows, you don't need to say "Digiport open anymore, but since I don't have a D3 I've just always wanted to say it. Sorry, won't happen again…" He adds seeing the looks on our faces.
"Kari!"
"Tai!"
"T.K.!"
"Matt!"
"Joe!"
"Izzy!"
"Yolei!"
"Cody!"
"Sora!"
"Ken!"
"Davis!"
All of our Digimon partners yell as they see us and come running and jumping in our arms.
"Gatomon!" I say into the fur of the white cat in my arms as I begin to cry into her head. "I've missed you so much. Seeing you again just makes me happier than you will ever know."
"Kari! How did you ever get back? I've missed you these past two years just as much as you've missed me. You look great! What's been going on? What's different, what's the same? Fill me in on everything!" Gatomon says to me as we wander towards a log to sit down so we can talk more comfortably.
"Well, first things first, I've got great news and bad news. First the good news. T.K. finally asked me out a few months ago! We've been going out ever since, and I've never been happier with anyone else."
"That's great Kari! I'm so happy for you! Patamon and I got together too. Now what is your bad news?" She said as she hugged me, and wrapped her tail around my arm, silently comforting me for whatever I had to tell her.
"It's nothing huge, but I can't stay that long. I have to go in a little bit. But since I have more good news, you won't mind. I can now come to the Digiworld whenever I feel like again! Izzy found a way to hack through into the Digiworld, so I'll be here all the time. You might even get to live with me again if you want to." I told her, as she began to contentedly purr into my ear. "Tee hee hee that tickles" I screeched as she snuggled around my neck and began to run her face along my cheek.
"Kari, you know I'd love to come live with you. I love you, but we Digimon have something to tell all of you. Everyone, we need to tell our friends what's going on now."
"But we have to wait for Mimi" Matt tells the Digimon.
"And Palamon, what about her?" Gabumon adds right after Matt.
"We're here!" Mimi calls as they walk over a small hill, and enter our eyesight, and begin to run towards the larger group. "So tell us all what you were going to."
"Okay, who wants to start?" Veemon asks to other Digimon. But before anyone can volunteer, a voice rings out.
"I'm very disappointed and happy to see you" Rings out a very familiar voice. "I'm very surprised that you were able to get back in the Digiworld. Me, and the other Elders were under the notion that we had completely blocked off the Digiworld from both you and all humans. It seems that we haven't done as good a job as we had hoped."
"It took me this long didn't Gennai? I've been working on this for two years now. I must say, all the protections you've put up are the most complicated, and hardest I've ever come across. It was tougher than any government on Earth. You can't expect to beat me." Izzy finishes with a very pompous smirk running across his face.
"You seem to have grown an ego in the years since we've talked Izzy. I want you to know, that's a bad thing, you are intelligent, your crest is knowledge, but, always remember, you are not singularly powerful, that you need your friends to succeed. But I'm happy for this reason. Everyone, we have bad news. In the years of your absence, the Digiworld has undergone some not so pleasant changes." Gennai starts as the hologram of him walks around the group of us. "A new Digimon, Sleipmonhas come around, and has now begun to take over the digital world. He already has all of Server, and is trying to take Network also."
"Network? Where's that?" I ask Gennai, as he finishes his short story.
"It's East of Server. You all were there while Ken was the Digimon Kaiser, no one ever told you you were on another continent though, there was no need really."
"What kind of digimon is Sleipmon?" Izzy asks. "Since we've never seen him, he's not in my digimon analyzer, I want some more information on him."
"He is a Royal Knight Digimon. He's extremly powerful. He is one of Azulongmon's guardian digimon. But something has happened and he has become twisted and evil. He will be the most powerful Digimon any of you have ever faced"
"Are you saying that hes more powerful than Malo-Myotismon?" I ask of our mentor.
"Yes, Kari, that's exactly what I'm saying. If not for the rules governing the Digimon Gods and their vassals, we could have just sent him to deal with everyone that you've fought over the last 6 years."
"Then why do we have these stupid rules? If you could have just sent some super powerful digimon to deal with them, why did you need us to deal with them, lose our partners, and force us to kill Digimon against our will? Wouldn't it have been easier for you to just send this Sleipmon to kill them, and been faster, and while we wouldn't have been able to meet our digimon, the world would have been safer in a more acceptable way?" Izzy exclaims at Gennai
"Well, Izzy, we have our reasons, and you will find out about those when the time comes, and the time is not now. For now, you have to deal with the threat that has come upon itself.We fear that the other eleven Royal Knight Digimon might be turning evil, and the Final Battle will soon come about…"Gennai trails off under his breath.
"Final Battle? Whats that?" Gatomon purrs into my ear.
"I dunno, I've never heard anyone mention it before. Its news to me" I reply as softly as I can, while Gatomon's breath tickles my ear.
"You guys need to get yourself to Network. I'll send you there faster than you could get there even ImperialDramon could."
"Cool, how?" Tai asks as a beam of light rises around his feet.
"Like that! And good luck!" He yells as we begin to turn into pure data. "And you'll need it…" He mutters as we disperse and begin to flow towards Network.
"Well, that was fun…" I say to Patamon, as we dust ourselves off in the strange white sand that we've landed in. "So this is Network…I wonder if we'll find more Mega Level digimon as we wander around this place trying to find a way to beat Sleipmon." I say to the rest of the group.
"Don't be so negative, come on, have hope that we'll find a way to beat him." Kari whispers in my ear.
"Oh...By the way…You need to find the sheaths and the weapons of each crest. The sheaths will allow you to Digivolve to the Mega Level like the Creasts did for the ultimate level, and the weapons will allow you to fully digivolve each of your digimon to be powerful enough to fight a Royal Knight Digimon. Tai…Matt…Since Agumon and Gabumon have already digivolved into to Mega level, all you must do is have them digivolve into the Mega level and then concentrate on making your sheaths appear, and they will. Now I'll let you alone so you can continue on, and save the world. Good bye everyone, I doubt I'll see you again…At least in the form you're in right now…"Gennai's voice says as it trails off into the sound of the wind.
"Now what did he mean by "the form you're in right now"? Does he just mean the fully digivolved forms, or will something happened to us?" Izzy voices.
"Who knows, lets just get this over with" I say.
"Wait, before we go on, me and Tai should retrive our sheaths" Matt interupts.
"Yea, your right, and I wanna see them" Sora says
"Well, Gabumon, lets do it!" Matt yells.
"You too Agumon!" Tai adds.
"Gabumon! Warp digivolve to...METALGARURUMON!"
"Agumon! Warp digivolve to…WARGREYMON!"
"Now for the hard part, getting Tai to think." Sora says as everyone laughs, and Tai gets a bit red in the face, and starts to pout.
"Lets go Wargreymon!" Tai shouts as he closes his eyes, and gets a look of concentration so hard, it looks like he might blow the seat out of his pants. A few moments later, a great flash of orange light comes between him and Wargreymon, and the sheath of large broadsword appears in the air between Tai and Wargreymon.
"Take it Tai. Its yours." Wargreymon growls.
As Tai reaches out another flash of light appears, and the sheath has been transported to Tai's back. "Cool, I didn't need to put it on myself. Laziness for the win. I just thought of it being on my back as I reached for it, and that's where it appeared." Tai explains to us, as Wargreymon de-digivolves back to Agumon.
"Well…If Tai can do it, anyone can" Matt says to us as he closes his eyes, and begins to concentrate, but not nearly with the same facial expression as Tai. A few moments pass, and an explosion of light blue light emergesand out of that blue light forms twin sheaths that could hold nothing but two short swords. Then in the same manner as Tai, they dissapper and reappear hanging from Matt's waist, while MetalGreymon returns to Gabumon. "Mine are so much cooler. I'm a dual-wielder, so much sleeker. Cuz of course, I have more finesse than you." Matt says as he ducks a punch form Tai.
"Aww, shut up, both of you." I intervene. "We need to get going, we don't even know where to begin looking for the next sheaths. This is going to be like when we were looking for the creasts, just wandering around aimlessly, looking, hoping," I add with a smile, "for something to point us in the right direction."
"Actually little bro, I think we need to go to that mountain. I have a feeling we'll find something up there." Matt announces as he points to a mountain that looks like it reaches on forever.
"I agree, I have a feeling about that place. Something either good or bad is up there, and we need to check it out." Tai aggrees.
"Well then. Onward!" I shout as I look at my extended family.
Author> Hoped you like it, comments are always welcome, even flames, they let me see who is insecure withthemselves enough to bash someone anonymously