"Survival of the Hottest"

OK, I got this idea from an episode of Victorious, so I decided to try it out with a pairing. This will be a Daisaru which is something I made up for Daisuke and Masaru/Marcus, because I don't think anyone wrote one yet. And yes, Masaru Daimon or Marcus Damon is from Digimon Data Squad. This was requested by suntan140, so I hope they and you all enjoy.

It was possibly the hottest day in history.

Or at least it felt that way to the trio of Digidestined leaders that were sitting outside of a café at the picnic table, groaning at the heat.

One was an 18 year old boy with long brown hair, tanned skin and bright green eyes dressed in red sneakers, black pants and a white wife beater.

The next was another 18 year old boy who had wild coffee brown hair, tanned skin and coffee brown eyes dressed in a blue t-shirt, brown shorts and black sandals.

Finally was a mahogany haired girl that was 16 years old with chocolate brown eyes and tanned skin dressed in a pair of jean shorts, an orange spaghetti strap shirt and blue flip flops.

"I'm so hot." Daisuke Motomiya groaned as she leaned on the table.

"Yes you are." Marcus Damon, her boyfriend, said.

Tai Kamiya sent a glare at the leader of the fifth generation of Digidestineds, not finding his comment amusing at all since he was saying it about a girl the child of Courage considered a younger sister.

"Shut up, Damon." He said.

"I feel all warm and wet and gross." The only female leader whined as she tried to fan herself with her hand.

"I'm a guy that normally likes heat, but this is crazy." The street fighter groaned as sweat trickled down his face.

"Why is it so hot, anyway?" Tai asked as he pulled his wet bangs off of his forehead.

"No freakin' clue." Said another tanned boy who had dark chocolate brown hair and coffee brown eyes dressed in a red t-shirt, grey pants and orange sneakers as he took a seat beside Tai, another boy taking a seat between Marcus and Daisuke.

"Hey Marcus, Daisuke-sempai, Taichi-sempai." The boy with crimson eyes, caramel brown hair and peach colored skin dressed in blue shorts and a white t-shirt that had a summer camp image on it.

The first was 17 year old Takuya Kanbara, the leader of the fourth generation and the other was 15 year old Takato Matsuki, the leader of the third generation.

The two boys had once competed with Marcus for Daisuke's affections, but the fifth generation leader had won.

Tai wasn't too happy about his kohai dating anyone until she was thirty or at least until he was dead, but it was Daisuke's choice and he had to live with it.

That didn't mean he had to like it though.

"How the hell can ya still be in a good mood when it's boiling outside?" Marcus asked the Tamer of Hazard.

Takato was in fact smiling, looking as though he wasn't bothered by the heat at all.

"Yeah, even I'm in a bad mood." Takuya said not liking the heat, but he wasn't sweating at all.

Daisuke noticed this and started touching his face, arms and neck, much to the annoyance of her boyfriend.

"Having fun there?" Takuya asked the child of Miracles as she continued to touch his face with a shocked look on his face.

"OK, that's enough." Marcus said moving over to sit behind his girlfriend and pull her hands away from the fourth generation leader.

"Why are you not sweating?" she asked.

"Well, duh, I'm the Warrior of Flame. Unlike you guys, I can take the heat." Takuya said with a smug look making Marcus, Daisuke and Tai glare at him.

"I can't take this." The female leader groaned as she leaned back into her boyfriend.

"Hey, I have an idea." Takato said making them all look at him.

"What?" they asked.

"My dad has an old RV. We can use it to go down to the camp to go swimming in the lake." The Master of Hazard said making everyone perk up.

"Awesome idea, Takato." Tai praised.

"Yay! We don't have to die in this heat." Daisuke cheered as she hugged the crimson eyed boy, making him laugh nervously and blush as Marcus gave him a glare.

It was a very well-known fact that the street fighter was very possessive over her and would personally throttle any guy who wasn't a part of their group for even looking at her the wrong way.

"Hey, I have a pick-up truck we can hook the RV to. We can head out tomorrow." Takuya said with a smile as he really got into the idea.

"Should we tell the others?" Tai asked.

"Screw that. Let them find their own ways to beat the heat." Marcus said as he pulled Daisuke back to him.

"So looks like we have a plan." The child of Miracles said.

(The next day…)

Takuya was in the driver's seat as Daisuke sat in the passenger's seat, reveling in the cool air that blew her hair back from the opened windows and the other three boys were in the RV.

The Warrior of Flame was dressed in red swimming trunks that had orange flames on it, a button down black t-shirt and black sandals.

The child of Miracles was wearing a blue bikini under her jean shorts and white singlet top and she had blue flip flops.

After an hour of driving, Takuya pulled up to the camp grounds that had other people there, who had also taken their idea to go there to swim.

There were even a few other RV's parked around.

"Let's go make your boy didn't kill Tai and Takato." Takuya joked as he and Daisuke got out of the 1999 Chevy truck that was a nice red color.

"Hey, I can get him to behave. Not my fault you guys are too scared of him." She retorted as Takuya opened the door to the RV and the two leaders walked on to see the other three leaders.

Tai was sitting on the couch that was in there watching the little TV and he was dressed in a pair of dark blue swimming trunks that had flames on them and an orange t-shirt and black sandals.

Takato was standing, gathering up his stuff, dressed in a white tank top, red swimming trunks and black sandals.

Marcus was on the couch with Tai dressed in a red wife beater, black swimming trunks and black sandals.

"All right boys, who's ready to cool off?" Takuya asked as Daisuke rushed over to her boyfriend and kissed him on the lips.

"Yeah." Tai said.

"Let's go." Takato cheered.

"I'll beat you all there." Marcus said as he flung Daisuke over his shoulder making her laugh.

"Let's go!" the fourth generation leader said pumping his fist as he turned to the door that had mysteriously closed behind him and he pushed it open.

Or tried to.

"What the-?" he asked as he pushed the door again, forcing his whole body against it to get it to open up.

"What the hell are ya doing?" Tai asked.

"Quit playing around." Marcus said as he set Daisuke back down on her feet.

"Does it look like I'm joking? I'm serious, guys. The door won't budge." Takuya said as Tai and Marcus rushed over to help him move it and Takato looked out the window.

"C'mon you son of a-"Marcus growled as he tried to kick it down.

"Guys, it won't open. There's a huge trailer outside holding the door shut." Takato said.

"Tell me you're kidding." Daisuke said in disbelief.

"Shit, now we can't get out." Marcus said annoyed as he gave the door another hard kick.

"Whoa. Calm down. Look, all we have to do is wait for the owners to move away and we can get out." Tai said trying to maintain peace.

"What do we do until then?" Takato asked.

"We can watch TV." Daisuke said sitting down on the couch as Marcus joined her, still looking very steamed.

The other three boys joined them and the waiting period began.

They just sat down watching TV, bored out of their minds and the temperature was beginning to rise.

"How the hell long has it been?" Marcus asked as he started pacing.

"Relax, man. We've only been here for five minutes." Tai said as he and the others watched him.

"Didn't anyone bring their cell phones?" Takuya asked.

Daisuke reached into her pocket and pulled her square blue phone with gold rhinestones on the back.

"I'll call Ken and see if he can come." She said as she turned her phone on and started dialing the number.

"Why do you always have to call Ken?" Marcus asked with a jealous tone.

"He's my best friend." The only female leader said as she waited for the child of Kindness to pick up.

"See? Everything's gonna be fine." Takuya said with a smile.

"Uh…" Daisuke said making the four boys look at her.

"What?" Takato asked.

"Dai?" Tai asked.

"The line's dead." She said with a nervous smile.

The boys all kept quiet at that.

(Thirty minutes later…)

"Is it just me or is it getting hot in here?" Takato asked with sweat trickling down the side of his face.

The boys had all thrown off their shirts and Daisuke was in her bathing suit, lying on the floor with Takuya.

Marcus was checking the thermostat on the wall inside and frowned as he slid down to the floor.

"The heat's rising." He said.

"Can't we open any of these windows?" Tai asked as he checked the windows and tried to find the latch to open them.

"No, they can't. My dad had the windows made from bullet proof glass." The crimson eyed boy said.

"That's stupid!" Marcus yelled at Takato, making him inch away with a nervous smile.

"I'm killing him." The green eyed male said as he stood up.

"Whoa, calm down." Tai said as he jumped in front of the street fighter.

"Everything will be fine. Just wait and try not to kill anyone, OK?" the child of Courage said.

Marcus looked like he wanted to do otherwise, but turned away and sat back down on the ground where his girlfriend and the Warrior of Flame were.

(An hour later…)

The temperature in the RV had gone up and the leaders were all groaning and whining from the heat.

"This…is…insane." Tai panted.

"For the first time in my life…my tongue…is completely dry." Daisuke sobbed.

"I think my eyes are dried out, too." Marcus said.

Takuya panted as he crawled over to the closed window, turning on his back as he mentally cursed everyone and everything.

Suddenly, he felt something slick slide off of his air, and shot up, touching the place.

"Something's dripping on me." He said making the others look over at him.

Tai dragged himself up from his place and went over to Takuya, holding his hand up above the other boy's head, feeling for anything dripping from above, hoping that it was raining outside and the roof was leaking, but he didn't feel a thing.

"There's nothing." He said frowning.

"Yes there is." Takuya insisted showing his arm to the other boy with a slight look of panic on his face.

"It's on my arms, my chest and my forehead." He said feeling each of these places.

"What the hell is going on here?!" he demanded in hysteria.

"Hey, calm down. You're just sweating." Tai said.

"What? No, no, no. I don't sweat. That's not possible." The Warrior of Flame denied shaking his head.

"You're sweating." Tai said, but Takuya was growing more frantic as he denied it.

"No way!" he said.

"Listen to me." Tai said gently grabbing the boy's shoulders.

"No." Takuya whimpered.

"LISTEN TO ME!" Tai yelled giving him a hard shake.

"WHAT?!" Takuya yelled.

Tai made sure he was looking the other boy in the eyes as he said it, making sure it got through to him.

"You…are sweating." Tai said firmly.

Takuya let out a groan of disbelief and horror as he slipped out of the first generation leader's hold, falling to the floor, sobbing loudly as the others all watched him.

Tai sighed as he leaned back against the wall, Daisuke whining as she leaned her head on Marcus' shoulder and Takato leaned against the couch he was sitting on the floor in front of.

After a few minutes of Takuya's sobs, he stopped and looked up at everyone with a pained look on his face, brushing his bangs out of his face.

"We have got to get outta here." He said making everyone glare at him.

"Thank you, Catherine Obvious." Takato said sarcastically making the other four look at him strangely for a few seconds.

"What?" Marcus asked with a raised eye brow.

"I said 'thank you, Catherine Obvious'." The Master of Hazard repeated.

"Did he say 'Catherine Obvious'?" Takuya asked making sure he wasn't hearing things.

He felt relieved when the child of Miracles nodded her head, but then worried for the youngest male's mental health like everyone else.

"It's Captain Obvious." Tai said.

"What?" Takato asked confused.

"The expression is 'thank you, Captain Obvious'." Takuya said forgetting his misery to explain this fact.

"It's not 'Catherine'?" the youngest male asked in surprise.

"No." the child of Courage said slowly as if he were speaking to a child.

"Who would Catherine be?" Daisuke asked.

"Catherine could be a captain." Takato whimpered with tears in his crimson eyes.

"That's it, I've had it." Marcus said standing up.

"What are you doing now?" Daisuke asked her boyfriend as he walked over to the door.

"What I should have done 93 minutes ago." The street fighter said as he cracked his knuckles.

The others all watched, wondering if he was going to try kicking the door down again or maybe punch it open.

It wouldn't surprise them.

This was the same guy who could take on a digimon hand to hand without Biomerging or Spirit Evolving.

What they didn't expect though was this.

"LET ME OUT!" Marcus cried as he fell to his knees and started banging his fists against the door.

"Please! I can't take it anymore. Just let me OUT!" he begged and they could have sworn he was sobbing as he did so.

"Holy shit, I think he finally cracked." Takuya said as he, Tai and Takato slid over to hide behind Daisuke in case the oldest of them turned on them.

As Marcus continued to bang his fists on the door, it suddenly swung open and he crashed to the ground outside, the other four leaders all standing up in surprise when they saw a familiar head of red hair peak in.

"What the hell are you guys doing?" Rika Nanoka asked.

Tai, Takato, Takuya and Daisuke all yelled happily as they rushed out of the RV, the Master of Hazard picking his girlfriend up and held her above his head for a few seconds to express his joy as the other two male ran to the back of the pick up where the cooler with the water was.

When the leader of the fourth generation placed Rika back down, Daisuke hugged her tightly, Takato catching a water bottle that was tossed to him and quickly downed it as Tai and Takuya poured the water over themselves to cool down.

"What were you guys doing in there?" Rika asked when Daisuke let go of her and was handed a water bottle, guzzling it down greedily.

"We were trapped in there." Tai said as he brushed his soggy bangs from his face.

The red head turned her lavender eyes over all of the leaders that were standing before her.

"Why didn't you just open the door?" she asked.

"Because there is this huge-"Takuya trailed off as he noticed that the trailer that had blocked them in was gone.

"There was a trailer here that had the door barricaded on us." Takato said.

"They must have drove off and we didn't know it." Tai said.

"Whatever, it's done and it's over." Rika said with a shrug.

"Uh, guys." Daisuke said catching the others' attention as she looked around.

"Where's Marcus?" she asked.

The leaders and lone fox looked around, curious as to where the street fighter had gone when they heard grunting from below them.

Takato, Rika and Daisuke looked down to see that they were standing on the green eyed boy's back.

"Get…off." He growled dangerously.

Takato yelped as he quickly scrambled off, laughing nervously as the girls slowly hopped off of him, then the leader of the second generations helped her boyfriend to stand up.

"You OK?" she asked kissing his cheek.

"Yeah." He said rubbing his sore back.

"Well, then let's go. We got a beautiful lake ahead of us with four more hours left to enjoy it. Let's go!" Tai cheered making the others all cheer and stand up, running to the lake with their things, Rika closing the RV door.

This was one summer they were never going to forget and one they would regret for a while.

"Next summer, let's just go somewhere private. You and me, OK?" Marcus suggested to Daisuke as they laid out on a beach towel, both dripping wet from the cool water as the others fooled around in the lake.

"Sure, sounds great." The child of Miracles laughed as she leaned up and kissed Marcus on the lips.

The end.