Chapter two

"Alright! Last stop: digital world, be sure to keep your hands, legs, tentacles, wings and other organs inside the trailmon until complete stop" Said a very thrilled Trialmon to Takuya, Kouji and Izumi who were, in fact, the only passengers.

As they thanked the trailmon and tried to figure out their next move Izumi pointed out "wasn't the ride much longer last time?" the two boys answered, almost simultaneously, "really? Didn't notice"

What Izumi didn't know was that she was right, though neither of the boys could answer her because for both the ride seemed to last for ages. She guessed it had something to do with whatever happened between the two somewhere along the ride when she was sleeping. She woke up and found the two boys sitting as far as they could from each other, each with his back turned towards his friend, to avoid looking at him. Still, there was no hostility between them. She was right, as soon as Takuya realized she fell asleep he told Kouji he needed to talk to him and they moved to another train wagon.

Takuya began talking; feeling awkward and terrified from Kouji's reaction to what he has to say.

"Kouji, I…" his leaps trembled and he could feel his knees shiver in fear "-I'm gay, and I…love you. Ever since the day I met you I thought you are the most beautiful and special boy who ever walked either world" he started crying as he finished.

Kouji was stunned for a minuet, he certainly didn't expect that. When he came back to his senses he replied "I'm sorry you had to hide your emotions for so long, and I want you to know I am ok with it" Kouji paused to take a deep breath and continued "-but I'm sorry , I'll never be able to love you back, I'm not…like you. I hope we can remain friends?"

A hypothetical outsider with a very keen sense of hearing could have heard the sound that was Takuya's heart breaking in two. For a minute he really hated himself for developing such strong feelings to someone who could never love him. After that no words were exchanged between the two, their silent agreement was that leaving the other with his thoughts was the best thing they could do for one another, as well as for themselves, for the time being.

Meanwhile, they sat quietly at the train station, not knowing where to go next. Izumi sensed the tensed silence and concluded it would be best not to break it. Takuya, on his hand, couldn't help but feeling something was wrong, he turned to look at his friends with a confused tone he asked "say, just how did you know to call me?"

Kouji and Izumi looked at each other; Izumi was the one who answered.

"The massage on our phones told us to"

"But then, why didn't it tell you to call Koichi, Tomoki and Jon-pi?" Takuya asked feeling baffled. His friends' silence gave him the answer- they didn't know. The outsider with a keen sense of hearing from before could have heard a different sound now. The sound of the gears inside three heads beginning to turn, leading the three to realize something was wrong, dead wrong. But don't take that literally, plain semantics, honestly.

Takuya felt pissed, as if he didn't have enough on his mind now he had this to worry about. And as if the digital world was conspiring against him, at that exact moment came another massage through their cell phones telling the three to go to "Oasis of Peace" (). Not surprisingly, the massage failed to specify how to get there, which didn't really matter considering the three were not sure if they should go.

Suddenly, three giggling Digignomes appeared from nowhere, as was their habit. One of them pointed towards Takuya, trying to grab him, telling him to follow them. When asked where to the Digignome gestured towards Takuya's cellphone, implying he is taking them to the place mentioned earlier, the three weren't sure if it was a good idea, but who can refuse directions given from a cute digignome?

While transferring Koshiro Izumi an accident occurred, causing his computer and desk to be transferred with him. If it was not for his computer screen which began to spit random garbage in the shape of numbers from 1 to 9 and letters from a' to f' he wouldn't even notice something was wrong. Luckily, he did notice, he also knew the random garbage as Hexadecimal- a computer language, not garbage at all. In all fairness, why shouldn't he? This was, after all, a guy who said "#0000ff" when he meant to say "blue".

What he didn't know was that it wasn't random either, had he taken the time to translate it he would have found the massage means exactly what his trusted digimon told him.

"Koshiro? Koshiro? What is a beetle digimon supposed to do to get your attention?

"Ahh? Tentomon? How did you get to the-", Noticing the change of the scenario Koshiro corrected his unspoken sentence "you're not in the real world, are you, Tentomon?"

"Finally!" yelled the little beetle digimon and jumped with joy, as high as his little legs allowed him to "-and no. I'm not in the real world, welcome to the Oasis of Peace, in the digital world"

"Koshiro? What are you doing here? It's great to see a familiar face" Yamato said upon seeing his friend. "Hi" was Takeru's greet.

"What's the matter you two? You look…distant, even hostile, towards each other. That's not like you."

The poor little digimon tried to signal to his friend and let him know that it would probably be best not to ask anything, subtlety wasn't Koshiro's dominant trait, nor was it the ability to take hints…

"lets just say who ever called us chose the worst possible time to put us together" Takeru bluntly responded and starting looking around, anything to avoid seeing his brother's face.

"I don't get it? What could possibly break the bond between you two?"

Somewhere near a little beetle Digimon was trying to tell his friend that he really should stop, considering if he should electrify him. But he failed to do so before Yamato got the chance to say "yeah, tell him Takeru, tell him what makes you hate your brother so much"

"If you want him to know so much, you tell him, it's your secret, not mine. Though I doubt he'll take your side"

Koshiro was almost about to ask what the secret is when, from nowhere, popped up Gabumon and Patamon and jumped at their friends. The two were already used to this form of greeting, this somewhat painful form of greeting, so all they had to say was "nice to meet you too"

"Ouch, that was brutal, are you alright sweet?" Ryo asked, looking at Jenrya, referring to the fact that they did reach the digital world, except they were a meter above solid ground and fell. When he saw Jenrya's surprised face he thought maybe calling him "sweet" was too much after the first date. He had to ask, "I'm sorry, is it too early for pet-names?"

Jenrya's voice trembled, he mumbled as he answered "n…no, I…I actually like it, a lot, when you call me like that. It…it feels right, with you" he quickly lowered his head and looked down; feeling so embarrassed he wished the ground would open up and swallow him. Tough in this world, it was definitely a possibility…

Ryo wanted to tell him how cute he finds him, but he didn't want to embarrass the young teenager further. He got up and said "well, there's no point in staying here is there?" casually reaching his hand to help Jenrya get up.

Jenrya gladly grabbed Ryo's hand and got up, he quickly looked around him.

"Well, if this is the digital world it has changed a lot since the last time we were here. It makes sense I guess, no one said it should stay the same." He stopped as he noticed a sign that read "Oasis of Peace, 20 meters north". He turned his face to Ryo, "You were here quite a lot, ever heard of this place?" He asked pointing towards the sign.

"'I'm afraid not, wanna go check it out?"

"I think we shouldn't, we were called here for a reason, and Terriermon sounded as if he is in great danger. The faster we learn why we were called the batter"

"I agree, but we are surrounded by miles and miles of desert, and I don't think we have a better place to start. And besides, when you hear about a place called 'Oasis of Peace' you just have to check it don't you?"

"Fine, to the Oasis it is"

Oddly enough, Ruki and Iori happened to be transported to the exact same place. Ruki paid little attention to the boy, her digimon was in danger, or so she thought. Iory, on his hand, was in a bit of a shock trying to figure out how he got to wherever the hell he was, it looked somewhat familiar.

"Wait up!" yelled Iory as he noticed Ruki running. She didn't even bother looking back as she answered "sorry kid, my digimon's in danger, no time to talk"

She suddenly bumped into something and fell back. The something was actually a human sized yellow rock, except unlike most rocks this one had two hands, two legs, and the image of a fox.

"Renamon? What are you doing here? I got a massage saying you are in danger"

"I know, I was told about that, I'm sorry she had to fool you like that but we have no time to lose, we have to go."

"Hold on! Who is she? And where are we going?"

"This is not the time to explain, we have to hurry." Renamon turned her attention to the kid who was standing stunned next to Ruki, after he had ran and caught up with her. "You're Iori aren't you? Come on, I was told to bring you too, Armadilomon is waiting for you.

Iori heard all he had to hear to listen to the digimon and the girl, for now. Ruki, was more skeptical "Where to?"

Impatiently, Renamon replied "Oasis of Peace, it's not too far, and even you will like it"

"Who told you to bring us?"

"You wouldn't believe me if I' told you, lets say she is a tamer, like you, sort of"

"Well, we made it" said the girl to Lopmon as both arrived to the digital world. They quickly found the ten teenagers they have called. By then, most of them were very angry, to say the least, it didn't take them long to figure out they weren't called by who they thought they were.

She turned to her digimon "This isn't going to be easy, is it?"

The digimon only nodded to show she agreed with her warrior, formerly known as her tamer.

The girl put two fingers in her mouth and whistled, as an attention-grabber it definitely worked: the high-pitched sound got everyone's attention.

"Listen up, I know you're all pissed, and rightfully so, but I promise you were all brought here for a just cause and I'll explain everything else if you let me"

Everyone's face turned towards her, looking impatiently, waiting for her to continue.

"Well, you might have guessed by now, you were called here because the digital world is in danger, again, and we're supposed to save it, again"

Something about the way she said it sound impatient, it sounded as if saving the digital world is her day job.

"However-", she continued, "-this case is…unorthodox. You were all called here because you are not strangers to this world; all of you have been here at least once. Now, listen closely because this is where it gets complicated. I took you all from different times so that we are all around the age of six-teen, with three exceptions being Ryo, Yamato and Koshiro, who are around nine-teen"

She pointed at the teens as she mentioned their names.

"There will be time to further introduce everyone to everyone later"

Everyone was listening closely, she had made it clear that they have an important task and she had the knowledge about it.

Hope you liked it. And of cource, the same note from the previous chapter applies here

() Oasis of Peace is the translation for the name of a city called "Neve Shalom", located in Israel