Chapter 22: Find That Digivice!
I'm not really sure what I was feeling during those few days. It was pretty obvious what Kari was feeling, but everyone else seemed almost cold. I guess they were trying to put on a brave face. I couldn't blame them; I was trying to act strong as well. Besides, it wasn't like we had never been separated before. Izzy was confident that the signal from Will's digivice meant he had to be alive, and I believed him. At least, I tried to. In all honesty, I really wasn't sure if Izzy was right. We'd certainly be tricked before, and he had no real reason to believe that the digivice's signal meant that Will was alive.
"Cheer up TK! Izzy will be back soon," Patamon said. Izzy had gone into the digital world again, along with Sora and my brother, to try and figure out a way to locate Will within the castle. It was a fairly hopeless mission, seeing as Imperialdramon had already failed to find him actually being in the castle, but Izzy was hoping that he had missed some crucial detail. I guess that's what we've been reduced to. Hope.
"Yeah, but I don't think they'll find anything. They've scoured the castle twice already and still have no idea where he is," I said.
"But we can't give up, TK. We never have before," Patamon replied.
"I know, Patamon. There's always hope. But sometimes it just seems so far away," I sighed.
"It was far away when we fought Piedmon, remember?" Patamon reminded me.
"Yeah, you're right Patamon. As long as there's any hope at all, we have to keep trying," I said, my confidence in Izzy's mission somewhat restored.
It always amazes me how just as soon as I decide that I can't stop believing, something good happens. The words had barely left my mouth when the far corner of the lab started warping and twisting into darkness. The darkness slowly began to take forms, and as the light returned and filled the corner with color once again, I saw Kari standing there with Will and Drakamon. Will was soaking wet, but he was alive.
I jumped up quickly. "Kari, you found him?" I asked, though the answer was rather obvious.
"I guess," Kari said, smiling.
"But how'd you get out of the castle?" Patamon asked.
"My crest can open gates to the Dark Ocean, so I opened a gate in the little room I was in and went through," Will explained. "I found Kari on the beach there."
I suddenly looked at Kari. Had she really slipped into the Dark Ocean again?
"I'm sorry TK, I guess I forgot everything we've learned," she said. "I'll try harder not to let my emotions get to me."
"Don't worry about it, Kari. Right now the most important thing is that everybody's safe," I said. "Tai, Matt, and Izzy are in the digital world right now, but they should be back soon. I'm gonna call everyone and have them come in."
Needless to say, everyone was ecstatic to find out that Will had escaped. The missing digivice was a dilemma, but for now we were just glad to have him and Drakamon back safely.
"This shouldn't be too much of a problem," Tai said. "We located the digivice once, and we'll be able to again."
"Well, I'm not sure it'll be that easy. Myotismon knows by now that Will escaped, and I'm sure he doesn't want to lose the digivice. I think there's a good chance that he's carrying it himself nowadays," Izzy replied.
"So what are we supposed to do, steal it right off of him?" I asked.
"I think we may have to fight him, TK," Matt said.
"In that case, I think I know something that will help," Will said.
"Let's hear it," Joe said.
"Alright. When I was still in the castle, Myotismon told me a lot about the crests. He says that everyone still has their strength, even though the barrier is up. He said that the crests possess incredible powers which none of us understand. I think that if we could learn to use those powers, we'd be able to beat him," Will said.
"What do you mean 'powers'?" Sora asked.
"Well, I'm not sure if I'm right, but I think what happened to Joe might be related. He and Gomamon were dragged into the digital world to save Kari and I, and Gomamon digivolved all the way to Zudomon. I think his crest did all that. But mine's acted funny sometimes too. It can open gates to the Dark Ocean, and close gates to the digital world," Will explained.
"I suppose it's possible that these are manifestations of some kind of power trapped within the crests," Izzy said. "There's no way to be sure, though, and until we're sure, I think we should continue with the previous plan. Obviously we're not sending Will into the digital world again just to close gates, but we still need to gather our strength. Davis, how's the web site going?"
"What web site?" Davis asked. Everyone stared at him. "What?"
"The web site that I told you to check up on every day," Izzy sighed.
"Huh? Oh, that web site," Davis said, turning red. "I guess it kind of slipped my mind."
"Jeez Davis, it's only the fate of the world," Mimi said sarcastically.
"I know, alright! I'm sorry," Davis said.
"It doesn't matter now. I'll fix anything that's wrong with the web site. The next important thing is figuring out how to get the digivice back," Izzy said.
"Well, do you have a plan Izzy?" Tentomon asked.
"Not yet, but I do have a lot of information," Izzy said as he turned to the computer and began to pull something up on the screen. "I've been able to save the map of the castle and link it directly to my computer. Thus, I should be able to get the exact location of the digivice from here," he said as the three-dimensional map appeared.
A tiny blinking light moved slowly through it. "There's the digivice," Izzy said, indicating the light. "As you can see, it's moving, which most likely means that Myotismon is carrying it. It's also important to realize that he'll be able to see us with it if we get too close, so we need to proceed with caution in whatever we do attempt."
"Well we can't get it off of him, he's too strong and too well protected," Sora said.
"Does he ever sleep?" Yolei asked.
"During the day, but he'll probably have guards," Gatomon replied.
A long silence followed. This was going to be an awful lot harder than we'd thought.