Chapter 6

"T.K., if you really like Kari, then you'd ask her out! It's a simple matter, really. You just have to know how to say it, and when to say it. But, if you're too chicken, then Davis might get to her first - before you."

Matt was making the drive home awkward - almost impossible to stand. T.K. was blushing with embarrassment and anger.

"Yeah, but what if she says 'No'?" T.K. questioned him, suggesting that he didn't want to get shot down.

"T.K., life's all about taking chances. If I hadn't risked it, I might not have been digidestined, or have started my own band! So what if she says 'no,' maybe she's not ready!"

T.K. just sighed and looked out the window. He was beginning to feel really awkward, talking about him and Kari. That's when it hit him.

"Well, why don't you ask out Sora! I mean, it's like you said - it's a simple matter!"

Matt quickly blushed, trying to hide the redness in his cheeks.

"Well, I'm waiting for the right time - that's all. For all you know, tonight could be the right time, for either one of us!"

"I still dunno, I mean…. the girl I like telling me 'no'? How am I supposed to handle it?"

"Well," Matt said, turning off the car's engine, opening his door, getting out, and looking for his house keys, "Like a man, if you know what I mean."

"Act like it didn't affect me?!" T.K. asked, obviously enraged by Matt's suggestion.

"Just be tough if you do get turned down - I mean, not every girl you're gonna ask is gonna say 'yes'. It's just a simple fact. Not even I could get every girl I wanted." Matt was now picking up the phone, pushing in the number for some food - delivery food sounded good to him tonight. An hour would give him and T.K. some time to talk and eat, and maybe T.K. could hop in the shower before everyone came over to celebrate.

"Well, I'm gonna go shower - don't wanna be sweaty."

Matt grinned.

"Okay, just be out in about fifteen minuets max. if you want your food!" Matt called out after T.K., who disappeared into his room.

Matt sighed, and walked over to the couch, flopping down on it. He reached forward to the table and picked up the remote, flipping through the channels. It was gonna be a long wait….

//Tai and Kari's house\\

"Tai, how much longer do we have to wait?" Kari questioned, looking towards the door.

"Until Matt calls," Tai replied, pausing for a brief moment to eat his noodles. Their mom wasn't home, to Tai's relief, so he had had the opportunity to order something, instead of having to go to the bathroom. He chuckled at the memory of Izzy running to the bathroom when Diaboramon was trying to take over the world, via internet. He had told Izzy not to eat his mom's cooking…

Kari sighed, and headed towards her bedroom.

"What are you doing now?" Tai questioned her, raising an eyebrow.

"Changing."

"WHAT?! HOW MANY TIMES DOES A GIRL HAVE TO CHANGE?!"

"As many times as she wants to, Tai," Kari responded, closing her door.

"Well, at least it's one way for her to kill time…"

Tai returned to eating his noodles.

//Matt and T.K.'s\\

"Thank you, and here's you're food."

"Thank you."

Matt closed the door on the delivery man, taking his and T.K.'s food back to the living room. He put the food on a table and flopped on the sofa, continuing to flip through the channels.

'If T.K. isn't here in five minutes, I'm gonna eat without him.'

Matt had to chuckle at the reaction he would get from T.K. when he found out that all the food was gone. Of course, his little bro did have a good reason to be concerned. All the food they had in the house was of his dad's invention, meaning that it was inedible.

Not thinking, Matt grabbed one box of noodles and began eating. The way he saw it, it was a matter of first come, first served. If T.K. didn't eat, that was fine by him. After all, he was the one paying for the food, not T.K.

Sure enough, just as Matt was starting to eat the last box, T.K. came out of the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist and his wet hair draped over his face.

"MATT! WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL ME?!" T.K. bellowed as he ran over and snatched the box away. Matt just snickered.

"What?"

"Is that what you're wearing to the party, T.K.?" Matt asked, trying not to laugh. Fuming, T.K. stormed back to the bathroom, slamming the door behind him.

'Man, him going looking like that would have been hilarious.'

"MATT, YOU NEED TO GROW UP!" T.K. bellowed through the bathroom door.

"I told you fifteen minuets!" He hollered back, a small laugh in his voice. He just smiled and laughed, finally picking the remote back up, and resumed flipping through the channels. He stopped on the news when he heard something about a girl named 'Shoushi.' He listened intently to what the reporter said.

"The parents of Satou Fuji have announced that something is wrong with their daughter. She is usually dressed in pink and white, but has now completely changed - darker colors, like purple and black, are what she is currently wearing. She has even dyed her hair black. Yesterday, her parents reported her as "Missing," and really want her to return back. Satou, or, as she has called herself now, "Shoushi," was a young, World Class Champion of making computer hardware, bugs, and programs. We have no clue what she could do with these abilities, but we are looking for her, to stop her before she hurts anyone.

"In other news -"

"Satou 'Shoushi' Fuji, huh?"

Matt had the remote in his hand. He just stared at the T.V. in blank silence. He heard the soft click! of the bathroom door, and heard T.K. walking towards him.

"You okay, Matt?" T.K. asked, walking over to the couch, flopping down next to him.

"Do you know of a Satou 'Shoushi' Fuji?" Matt asked him, setting the remote down on the table.

"Um, no. Why?"

"I think that she might have something to do with the Dark Armor and the Dark Tower we took down earlier."

T.K. just stared at his brother, not sure if he should believe him.

"I'm gonna call everyone tell them to come on over now," Matt said, his thoughts still clearly on the 'Shoushi' person. T.K. just stared at Matt, watching him walk over to the phone and start dialing Tai's number.

//Kit's house\\

"Are you sure Tai's gonna call us?" Katie questioned, looking at her watch. It had been over an hour, and they were supposed to be called in a hour.

The phone suddenly rang, and Katie knocked Kit out of the way.

"Hello, Takanashi residence," Katie said, taking over Kit's responsibility.

"Katie? Why are you answering Kit's phone?"

"Um, well, Kit wasn't able to get -"

There was a loud, "OUCH!" and Kit was talking.

"Hello, Kit speaking," she said, slightly panting.

"Kit, it's Ash! Shoushi was on the news again!"

"What?!" Kit yelled, scaring away Katie, who had been trying to get the phone away from her.

"Yeah, they say that she's missing. You do know what this means, right?"

"That she has more time to work on her armor," Kevin said, suddenly dropping in on the conversation.

"Kevin, did you pick up the main phone?" Kit asked, sounding a bit angry.

"Yeah. I heard Katie screaming, and so, I picked up the phone. Besides, A.J. should know about this."

There was a click! and no more Kevin.

"Yeah, well, I'm headed to Izzy's house. He said that Matt had called him, and that he would take me to Matt's place. Bye!"

There was another click! and then, the annoying buzzing of a line that had been disconnected. Kit hung up the phone,which suddenly began ringing again.

"Hello, Takanashi residence. This is Kit speaking."

"Hey Kit, it's Tai. Matt just called."

"Okay, you want me to stay here, or meet up with you somewhere?"

"How about the park, by the noodle shop?"

"Okay, sounds great. See ya!"

Kit hung up the phone, grabbed her keys off of her night stand, and headed for the steps.

"We leaving?" Katie asked, following Kit down the stairs.

"Yeah, come on, you two," Kit said, looking towards Kevin and A.J. for a split second.

//Izzy and Ash\\

"So, this 'Shoushi' person, you guys call her Kelsey?" Izzy asked, keeping both hands on the wheel, his eyes focused on the road.

"Yeah, but we have a very good reason to believe that she's the D.E. that we've been dealing with - other than the World Class Champion title for a bunch of computer stuff."

Izzy sighed, and looked at Ash for a second.

"Well, what makes you say that?"

"The D.E. that we deal with wears purple and black. Seems to attack all of the places that would be the ideal place for a kid's playground. Where's it's nice and safe."

"Sounds a bit like Ken. He was the D.E. that we dealed with. It was annoying, but we did eventually stop him. Er, well - Davis did, anyways."

"Dark Spirals, he went from Dark Rings to Dark Spirals, right?"

"Yeah, that's right. How did you know?"

"Heard something about a male D.E. from some digimon that had been controlled by him. That's all."

"Well, my guess is that Kelsey will try to team up with Ken. And if she does, it'll be hard to defeat them."

Ash grew quiet at this. It seemed as if she was thinking about something.

"How did Davis defeat Ken? Armor digivolve?"

"Special armor digivolve, believe it or not. I think it was the Digi Egg of Miracles, but I might be wrong."

"Digi Egg of Miracles?"

"Yeah - It turned Veemon into when he armor digivolved, changing his armor gold, changing his attacks - ya know, a lot of things. Made him harder to defeat, so, Davis was able to help defeat Ken."

"Sounds like we'll need more than two Digi Eggs of Miracles to defeat them if they team up. Problem is, we're gonna have to duplicate them."

"Duplicate? But how?"

"You remember that hologram program that I was working on?"

"Yeah, why?"

"I'm trying to turn the holograms into the actual thing."

"What?! But, how are you supposed to do that?"

"I have made a hologram of an apple, and managed to get a piece of the apple - it even tasted like one."

"Well, we'll have to talk about it later - we're here."

Izzy and Ash got out of the car, and walked up to Matt's door.

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A/N : - Gave you some facts about OUR D.E., and we even gave you T.K. fans out there a little something I could swear that I'm scarred for the rest of my life… mentally, anyways. 'Kokou' had to type that, and yes - 'Biryou' is currently typing this. We swap out with typing responsibilities. But, seriously - I'm scarred for the rest of my life.

Written by 'Kokou' and 'Biryou'