Tai was frustrated. He was grateful the distortion had shown up when it did since no ones digimon were ready for another fight.
"Urg these distortions are really becoming a nuisance." Mimi complained and she put her hands on her hips and stared at Tai.
"So which way do we go?" She asked and Tai looked around,
"erm... Izzy? Any ideas?" Izzy sat down and pulled out his laptop. Tai walked over with koromon and motimon to see what Izzy was looking up.
"These distortions always appear when meicoomon is near right?" He asked and Tai nodded. Izzy then typed on his computer and Tai held koromon back from falling onto the keyboard.
"There has to be away to stabilize the distortions. Or at least find a pattern in where we end up." Tai sighed and put a hand on Izzy's shoulder.
"Don't over work yourself man. You're no good to us brain dead." Tai stood tall leaving koromon and motimon to watch over Izzy. He walked over to Mimi.
"Mimi where were you taken the first time the distortion showed up?" Mimi was thoughtful a moment.
"A cliff slide, me and tentomon were on the side of a mountain." Tai nodded and looked around. They weren't at a mountain. They were in the woods.
"What about you Izzy?" Tai asked his friend and Izzy replied eyes remaining on the screen in front of him.
"Matt, gomomon, agumon and I were in the desert. By train tracks." Tai pursed his lips then moved towards the trees
"Matt! Sora!" He called. There was no answer and he looked to his side to see Mimi join him.
"Why are we always separated?" She said hanging her head. Tai smiled and put a hand on her shoulder.
"Chin up Meems, Izzy will save us. Won't you Iz." Tai looked to Izzy whose face was red.
"I-uh-I mean." Tai and Mimi laughed and then Tai sobered.
"Meicoomon and Genni or whoever that guy is are still out there. We should move" Mimi nodded and bent down to pick up her partner. Tai could hear tanemon purr in Mimi's arms. Tai moved to pick up Koromon.
"Come on Izzy, we can find the others on our own."
The small group moved through the woods. Tai watched Koromon bounce ahead of him. He smiled at his little digimon and then frowned. He stopped and looked back at the others.
"We should find something to eat. Our digimon are no use to us without any food."
"Wow Tai you actually sounded like a leader there." Tai whipped his head to the left and was surprised to see Matt and tsunomon pushing their way through the foliage.
"Matt! Are you guys okay?" Izzy asked and Matt nodded,
"just peachy. Pretty lucky the distortion showed up when it did." Tai stared at Matt while he heard Mimi agree.
"Yeah but have you seen anyone else?" Matt shook his head,
"not yet just you guys." Tai then smirked at Matt.
"Alright then, let's get some food." Matt nodded and joined Tai.
They sat in a circle eating some fruits they had been able to find. Tai barely touched his and koromon continued to snap at the untouched berries in Tai's hand.
"You should leave some for Tai Koromon." Tanemon berated but Tai quickly waved his hand,
"it's fine, eat up little buddy." He said as he pushed the rest of his portion of berries in front of his digimon.
"You need to eat to you know." Matt said cooly and Tai rolled his eyes. He stood up and looked around. He was trying to understand why everything wasn't happening.
What is causing all this disruption?
Tai thought as he looked through the trees. He saw something move and tilted his head trying to gauge if it was a person a digimon or nothing.
"What did you see?" Matt spoke and Tai jumped slightly as the blond stood next to him. Tai frowned,
"I don't know. I thought I saw something move over there." He pointed and Matt followed Tai's outstretched finger. Tai then lowered his arm.
"Why do you think all of this is happening Matt?" Tai could see Matt was surprised and resisted the urge to roll his eyes.
"I know I've been, difficult." Tai said slowly. Matt scoffed,
"difficult?" Tai growled,
"well you're no picnic either." Tai crossed his arms and Matt stood with a hand on his hip.
"I don't know. But we're clearly needed right?" Tai stared at Matt and then looked down.
"Right?" Tai heard Matt say again. That was where Tai was stuck, he wasn't sure they were.
"Tai?" Tai looked at Matt and shook his head.
"I'm not so sure. But it's not going to do anything to do nothing." Matt smirked and put a hand out.
"That's all I've been wanting you to do man. We can't do nothing. Something needs to be done. We need to fight and work as a team." Tai smiled,
"like wargreymon and metalgarurumon." Matt nodded.
"Yeah just like them." Tai grabbed Matts hand.
"Alright. We do this together." The two older teens smiled at eachother and Mimi came up to them.
"Finally you two are over your little tiff! You both are worse than girls sometimes!" She exclaimed and Tai and Matt shook their heads at each other. Izzy stood and Tai looked over at him. He saw the digimon had digivolved and smiled
"alright agumon you got your strength back!" Agumon walked over,
"I think so, I'm still hungry." Tai crouched down and chuckled,
"we'll find you more food little buddy."
"Well I'm glad you two have patched things up. Now maybe we can move and find your siblings." Tai looked at Izzy and then Matt. Matt appeared to have a similar look which made Tai believe his friend was thinking the same thing. They had both forgotten about their siblings. Tai frowned and made eye contact with Izzy.
"Iz, any luck locating any of the others digivices?" Izzy shook his head and opened his mouth to speak but Mimi yelled before he could get a word out
"Sora!" Tai whipped round and saw Sora, Mei, and Joe walking towards them. Tai quickly waved at them!
"Are you guys okay?" Sora jogged over and joined the group.
"We're fine! Gomomon said he saw you guys through the trees. We're lucky we found you when we did." Izzy stepped forward.
"We found some food feel free to help yourself though I think agumon might have ate most of it." Sora smiled and turned to the others behind her
"Mei, come have some fruit. You too biomon." Tai watched Biomon fly over to Palmon and Tentomon who were still sitting by the food. He looked past Sora at Mei who looked miserable. He cringed unsure what to say to her. Fortunately Mimi stepped up to the task.
"Come on Mei, why don't you me and Sora hang out with the digimon." Mimi wrapped an arm around Mei and pulled the shy girl towards the others. Tai then focused his attention to Joe.
"You alright Joe?" Tai asked and Joe had an uneasy look on his face. He didn't look into Tais eyes. Matt stepped towards him
"what's up Joe? Why won't you look at Tai?" Joe then sighed. He turned his head to the woods and called out
"gomomon, gatomon! Come over here." Tai watched as the two digimon appeared through the trees and came closer. Tai quickly stepped forward,
"gatomon? Where's Kari?" He inquired. Gatomon shook her head.
"I don't know." Tai looked to Matt and then to Joe,
"have you seen her?" He asked and Matt stepped beside him and added
"or TK?" Joe shook his head,
"We found gatomon on her own. We haven't seen any sign of Kari or TK anywhere."