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A/N: Okay season 2 did happen but since I don't really much care for it, I'm changing a bunch of stuff. Other than that, all things are the same. Just thought I'd add that in now. Also I don't know the ages very well, so I'm guessing.
2110: Digital War
By Dstar504Chapter 1: Dreams of a Faraway Place
Tai's head hit the desk for the third time that day his eyes closing. He hadn't slept well, each time he had fallen asleep he had awoken, head throbbing, his dreams none to pleasant. All he could remember this morning had been a cry for help, of a woman dying. A child in her arms, the child had been crying too. Whatever had killed them had known what it was doing, the death had been quick, but the pain etched on the features of the woman and her baby told him that the death they had been given was a release from what they had been going through. A kick to the back of his chair had his head snapping up and he looked behind him to the scowling face of his best friend Matt, he blinked a few times and looked down at his notes for the day, they were empty. Again. The professor looked up at the clock on the wall and then signaled the release. Tai grabbed his notes, threw them in his bag and snapped it closed. As he stood up and exited the college campus Matt ran after him, "What was up with you today? You fell asleep three times."
Tai turned to Matt, "Remember those dreams I told you about?"
"The ones you were having over break? Yeah I remember them."
"I had another one last night, this time it seemed, as if it was real this time, I could see everything, hear everything. I think my dreams might be trying to tell me something."
Matt laughed and looked over at his friend as if this wasn't the first time he had heard such a thing, or the first time Tai had tried to tell him this, "They're just dreams, and I thought that dreams like those were more your sisters M.O."
They arrived in front of the Art institution and sat down on the cement wall outside of it, Tai turned to Matt, "I know, that's the point, she called yesterday, she's been having the same dreams."
That caused Matt to stare, Tai's sister, Kari had developed an interesting gift, since they had returned from the digital world eight years ago. Ever her trip she had begun having dreams that usually, if they seemed real enough told and predicted the future. They were usually small things, like if some one in her family was going to miss the subway, or if some one was going to break a glass during dinner. And they usually came true, usually. Sometimes she did things to prevent them, but that was only if she had too. So, this declaration had Matt scrambling to say something, "She did?"
Tai nodded, "Not only that, but she says she saw digimon in hers. Said that they were killing people. But that's the funny thing; it doesn't make sense, why would digimon kill people. Sure, the Dark Masters didn't think much of throwing us to the dogs, but that was because we were against them, this seems more like senseless killing."
At that point the door to the art room opened and the class that had been in session walked out, among them a friend of Matt and Tai's. Sora swung her school bag behind her and smiled, "Have you two been sitting out here waiting for a while?"
Tai shook his head and took her bag for her, "No, we just got here."
"Good. I was afraid I would hold you guys up, my class went a little late."
She linked her arms with Tai's and glanced up at Matt, "So what were you boys talking about any way?"
"Kari had a dream."
Sora blinked, "What about?"
Tai shot daggers at his friend, "Sure, if she has a dream it's valid. If I have one it's just a dream."
Brown eyes looked up into brown, "Well she does have her gift, it's just easier to understand her. Don't be so stingy." She looked back to Matt, "So?"
"Digimon, killing humans."
"But that doesn't make any sense, why would digimon kill humans?"
"That's what I asked, but so far I've been drawing blanks."
From across the campus Tai spotted a young girl with bouncing dark brown locks. She came bounding down the field, she was wearing a black top with a red heart in the middle; a white skirt and black sandals topped the outfit off. She skidded to a halt in front of the group panting. "Sorry, what did I miss?"
Sora smiled at her friend, "Mimi, I didn't think you would show up."
"Class got out early, so I thought I would surprise you guys, so again I ask, what did I miss?"
Tai tried to remember just what class Mimi had changed her major to again. She had entered college as a art major with Sora and was now taking a traditional root and following the path her mother and father had taken: baking. He shook his head to clear it, "Digimon are killing people apparently. "
Confusion etched Mimi's features, "But don't you think that we would know about it if it was happening here?"
"That's the thing, I don't think it's happening here. It's happening some place else."
Eyebrows were raised and Matt spoke up, "Well we can't do anything about it right? We gave that up years ago."
He had a point and Tai hated that, he wanted to do whatever was in his power to stop whatever was going on. It was in his nature to do thing such as this, but as Matt pointed out, they couldn't do anything. They had left the digital world and their digimon years ago as children. And now, they were growing up, and things like that were not their business, and yet, why would he be sent these dreams if it wasn't? But still he knew that it was pointless to even consider it, "I still wish we could do something, sitting here, while people are being killed god knows where is not my idea of fun."
Matt scoffed at him, "What? You would rather we be dying too?"
"No, but I bet we could do something, where'd your heart go friendship boy?" Tai spit out, venom in his voice.
It was a direct stab at Matt and every one knew it, "A place where we would be safe, but it's not like you'd care, some times I wonder if your courage and constant need for adventure takes you too far. You say you protect people and yet you almost let your sister die, I would of never have let that happen."
Glances between the two teens told Sora if she didn't do anything and soon, two people were going to be hurt in the near future. Tai had gone from down right pissed to seething, his eyes portraying hurt and the need to squash something, fast. It just so happened that at the moment Matt seemed to be the one he wanted to destroy, "Don't you dare bring my sister into this."
At this point Sora interjected, "Stop it! You're both behaving like a bunch of children. If we could do something we would, but we can't. So it's a moot point. Now, Izzy is waiting for us at Momiji's. Are we going to keep him waiting?"
Of course Sora was right and every one knew it, Izzy was waiting for them in their local haunt. Since he didn't go to the same college as them this was the only time they really saw him. Plus today was special, Kari and T.K. were driving down from Tokyo to see them and hang out. Tai sighed and nodded, "Fine."
The four of them wandered over to the school parking lot and slid into Matt's car. Mimi took shoot gun and Sora and Tai got in the back. About five minutes into the drive Mimi spoke, "I know this is a touchy subject, but we need to tell T.K and Izzy about these dreams."
Matt leaned back in his chair, "T.K. most likely already knows seeing as Kari tells him just about every thing, but your right, Izzy would want to know."
They all knew that once Izzy had heard this, he wouldn't stop from looking into it as thoroughly as he could. In fact it made Tai wonder why he hadn't told him sooner. Izzy would be the one who would know what to do, since the all them seemed to not know, or have any idea what was going on. They reached the restaurant and entered, heading upstairs they saw a sight that none of them had been expecting, "Joe!"
Mimi flung herself at him and he had to pry her off him, "It's good to see you too."
Sora sat down across from Joe, "How did you know that we would be here?"
"I got a call from Izzy, he said that almost every one was going to be here today, I just thought I'd show up."
Tai plopped down next to Sora, "So? What's it like?"
The question, coming from seemingly nowhere had Joe befuddled, "What's what like?"
"The life of a worker of course! I heard from Izzy that you have a job, and working as a assistant to a doctor no less!"
Laughter was heard thought out the room and Joe blushed, "I'll have you know, the sight of blood no longer makes me faint."
A voice from the other side of the room where the door stood, sang through the room, "That's not what I heard."
Tai turned to see his sister leaning in the doorway, T.K. and Izzy right behind her. Both entered behind her and the door shut. Kari grabbed the table next to the other two that were now inhabited and settled down. Her face sobered and she looked at Tai, "I had that dream last night."
"So did I."
"But not the one that I had, something is going to happen Tai. Something bad, and it's going to happen tonight. If we don't stop it, whatever it is, that place is could be in real danger."
A collective sigh came from all the members of the table. Only Sora spoke, "Kari, I wish we could do something, but we don't know where it's going to happen, we can't do any thing."
The table became quiet and as they did so their order arrived. As they all dug in Izzy spoke up, "Well on thing is obvious, some one wants us to know about it. Things always happen for a reason. We are after all the digidestin."
At this T.K who had been unusually silent the entire meal spoke up, "Ex, you're the ex digidestin."
Izzy seemed to look pensive for a while, "But that doesn't explain why were getting the dreams and not them."
"Well that's not actually true, what if you're getting the dreams through Tai, and I'm getting them for the others."
Izzy shook his head, "No, you came to us, not them, destiny lead you here, they're for us."
Since no one knew what to say past that they fell into a different kind of chatter and before they all knew it, Mimi, Matt, Tai, and Sora found themselves in the car heading back to college as the sun set behind them.
When they reached the campus Matt parked the car in his parking spot and they all got out. Sora gave Tai a quick kiss and then waved goodbye and walked across the campus to her dorm. Mimi was gone in a flash and a wink leaving Matt and Tai to walk back to their dorm in comfortable silence. Reaching the dorm Tai pulled out the key and both teens walked into the room, Tai and Matt pulled of their shoes and sat down in front of the T.V. Matt grabbed his laptop and started doing research for his newest school project. It was then that the power went out. Tai blinked, "What was that about?"
But Matt was silent looking on in horror at his still flickering computer screen, "Tai, you might want to look at this."
Tai leaned back and looked at the screen, "So? It runs by charging, what's the problem?"
Matt pointed at the battery gage, "It's at zero percent power Tai, there's no way it should be working, it's not even hooked up."
At this Tai's face paled. "That's impossible."
Suddenly his cell phone rung, causing both Matt and Tai to jump up in complete surprise, it was his sister, "Tai, something's wrong."
"You're telling me?"
The door slammed and Mimi and Sora ran inside and both Mimi, Sora and Kari said the same thing, "Look outside, our places are the only ones without power."
And sure enough all the other dorms, all the other places on campus were alight. Matt's computer flicked twice, once and then went dead. On the other end of the line the phone went quiet and Tai heard it hit the floor. He glanced over at the other three in the room and his eyes went wide, "Guy's, what's…"
His words then were also swallowed up as he too disappeared. Inside the dorm the lights turned back on and the computer flickered once more eight dark shapes silhouetted on it, they too disappeared, before it too went dead again.
A/N: Dun Dun Dun. Review please. Also I've been working on not staring sentences with names and I, She, He, Him or Her. Does it show?