Merry Christmas everyone! It's one day late but oh well! XD It's my first time to finish a chapter in one day!
Mystic-H: So sore…
Joe: You okay?
Mystic-H: Finally, someone that cares!
Joe: Actually, I just wanted to know when I can stop acting so stupid.
Mystic-H: -.-' Oh….well…soon…
Joe: Good.
Mystic-H: O.o No one cares…
And Happy New Years!
You Never Know
Chapter 12
"Where the heck did everyone go?"
"Matt-san, be patient. I'm sure they're coming soon…"
Matt tightened his fist with his bangs over his eyes, "I will give him a beating when he comes back! That guy!"
Kari looked at him worriedly, "Are you okay? What are you mumbling about?"
Matt looked to his right, where Kari was standing, "Oh nothing." He laughed lightly, waving it off.
"Okay…" Kari looked around for the fifth, no, tenth time. "They are very late…I wonder what's taking them so long?"
There was a sudden gust of cold wind that made them both shudder. The silence grew.
Kari broke the silence, "Ano…Did the wind sound like it was saying something?" but she succeed for only a few seconds.
"…I don't want to know…" Matt finally replied, feeling sick.
"I think I heard –"
"Gah! No! I don't want to know!"
Seeing Matt like this wasn't an everyday thing, but considering that they couldn't find their digimon friends and TK, Kari understood. She wanted to find TK, and fast. 'But the wind sounded like the time when I was at my porch…except stronger.'
Matt broke into her thoughts, "I can only conclude this to one thing."
Kari waited for him to continue.
"They are lost."
There was an invisible bang on Kari's head. In a spilt second she turned serious again, "I think they are…in trouble."
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'This is bad…definitely.' Joe stared from afar, where he saw two guards, with Izzy and Mimi in front, hands tied. 'What should I do? I can't overpower those two, let alone one. What would the others do if they were in my position? Tai and Matt would probably charge, while Sora, Mimi and Izzy would think of safety and a plan first. Kari and TK would be at lost, or would try to convince them to be on the good side. But how can convincing help here?' He sighed. 'Perhaps I should tell the others first, they will know what to do…but then again, I don't know where they are headed so I guess I should follow them to their destination.'
Joe was not a trained stalker, so considering that he needed to keep his distance, he did fairly well. They were a speck in his vision, not to mention with many trees and bushes in the way.
The scenery started to look a bit familiar. 'Who knows, this is probably where we came from.' Joe stopped. Dumbfounded. He was right, this was near the whole team's meeting place; he saw the pink ribbon fluttering in the wind. Before he lost sight of his friends and the two dorks in front of him, he saw them go to the direction of the mysterious building. "So that is their destination…" Joe waited for a few seconds, just to be safe, before he walked to the meeting place.
When he approached, he only saw Matt and Kari, sulking. "Uh…seems a bit gloomy here, don't you think?"
Matt turned to him, "Joe, you're alive!"
"Eh? What were you thinking about?"
"No one is here!" Kari explained.
"I can see that."
Another period of silence.
"Should we look for them?" Joe suggested.
"But, what if they come back when we leave? We need someone to stay here then." Matt thought out loud. "But who would stay here, alone? If we spilt, someone is going to be alone."
"That's true…" Kari said.
"Let's not spilt then." Matt and Kari looked at Joe. "Argh!" Joe moved his hands frantically, "I mean, if we spilt again, our group will get smaller, and we might get lost again, or someone else might get missing…oh yeah, Izzy and Mimi are currently inside of that." Joe pointed to the grey building.
"WHAT?" The two yelled, and Joe felt a bit diminutive at the moment.
"How do you know?" Kari questioned.
"Because I saw them go in that direction."
"Did you see them go inside?" Matt asked, looking over there.
"Not really."
"…Then we can't be sure…"
"I'm pretty sure they did. That's the only thing that might have humans inside. Oh yeah! I found this." Joe dug into his pockets and produced a red pen with several star clips.
"Well, we did see guards surrounding the building, so I guess we can rely on you." Matt smirked and saw Joe's glaring face. "…what's this? I never knew you had a fetish for star-shaped clips…" Matt raised an eyebrow.
That was it. "No! These are Mimi's! She made a trail out of them so I knew where they were going! The main point is the pen! Look inside!"
Kari had already taken the pen out of Joe's hand, and was doing what he told her to. She read, "Cissalc Incorporations."
"I found this near that ugly clearing we pasted. I think we should've searched through it before." He sighed, before he exclaimed, "Where did you get that gun?"
"You...Are…So…Slow." Matt took the rifle off his back and set it down in front of him, holding it up with one hand so it wouldn't fall. "From a guard that was chasing us. We got lucky and knocked him out with a rock."
"You took the gun without taking the bullets?"
"Well, we weren't planning to use it." Matt paused, deep in thought, then he said, "Now that I think about it…maybe Tai and Sora are inside that place too. We did lose them when we got caught hearing something that we probably shouldn't have."
Seeing Joe's confused face, Kari said, "They are mind controlling the digimons."
"That's –" Joe stopped, lost for words. "Why would they do that?"
Kari just shook her head.
Matt spoke in a serious tone, "So far, we know that they are mind controlling the digimons. Tai, Sora, Izzy, and Mimi are most likely inside the building, and that building probably has something to do with Cissalc Incorporations., right?"
Everyone agreed. Kari had a thought in mind, "Is this why TK came? Would he be inside that place too?"
"…I guess so." Matt said, with a far away look in his face.
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"Hey TK, how did you know that they were…experimenting on the digimons?" Tai asked quietly, while they were looking around to see if there were any guards.
A sick image flashed across TK's mind. There were many lab counters, and test tubes with different kinds of digimons inside each of them. "I saw it…the lab."
"We need to help those digimons!" Sora exclaimed, low enough so only those two could hear.
"Yeah, but we can't do much right now. We need to find Agumon and the others first." Tai signaled them to follow. TK was a bit disturbed, and didn't see. "Oi, TK!"
"What? Oh, sorry." He started to follow them.
Tai looked at him worriedly, and then said, "Do you think everyone inside this place knows about this? Or just the higher ups?"
"I was thinking, maybe they all know about the mind controlling, but not the experimenting, since they would probably want to make it as low as possible. Some people are bonded to say no to it." Sora stated.
"I think you are right…after all, the two people that were leading me to the prison before were a bit klutzy. They led me to a restricted area and saw what I saw. They looked disgusted and surprised. Then a proper guard led me to the right place. I wonder what happened to them. They didn't seem like bad people and were a bit funny too. If I remember correctly, their names were Sugre and Calor." TK got a metal image in his mind of how they were fighting over a piece of candy.
"Maybe we can ask these kinds of people on what's going on."
"Coast is clear again. I wonder why it's so empty?" Tai said.
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"There seems to be a couple of brats that have intruded."
"A couple?"
"Yes, a couple. To be exact, eight."
"I see."
"I want you to eliminate them all."
"…Yes, Colonel…" The officer saluted him. "Proteios."
"Live up to my expectations, or face the consequences, Glucides. Remember what happened to Hydrajt."
"…Hai."
Hope that made you guys fall off your seats! Lo and behold, another okay chapter! Muhahaa!
Joe: What's so special about that? You ARE supposed to make readers like the story.
Mystic-H: What, you too?
Joe: Why am I the one who always seem stupid?
Mystic-H: Well, I got Matt pissed so I couldn't piss him off anymore and Kari is too innocent!
Joe: so you decided to pick on me?
Mystic-H: H-Hey, calm down…and don't borrow-
Joe: Matt, I'm going to borrow your gun.
Mystic-H: No! Wah! Why me?
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