Ch. 3: Shocking News

Kendra's POV

My mom always had to pick up my little brother, Mark from school, but today my mom had trouble with her baby brother, Sam. So I walked all the way home, got into the whole dog incident, and walk to the elementary school which was about five blocks away.

Well, at least I got my exercise today. I thought

While I was waiting for the bell to ring I read my favorite book, Maximum Ride: The Angel Experiment from the library. I always liked weird books like that.

When the bell rang, more than fifty three-foot kids burst out of the building. About five minutes later, Sara came out of school, yanking Max's giant mess of hair.

"Sara, let go of that boy's hair!" yelled the Sara's grandmother.

"But grandma, he deserves it!" Sara said in her defense, "He called me a boy!"

"Hey, it's not my fault you look like one!"

Sara yanked his hair like it was a tug of war.

"Sara, let his hair go!" her grandma yelled.

"But grandma,"

"Now Sara or no video games."

Sara let go and Max stumbled forward.

"Freak." Max mumbled under his breath as he ran into the building.

Well, at least I got entertainment while I waited. I thought.

I then felt her D- Terminal vibrate in my handbag. It was a massage from Mark.

Kendra,

Mitch & Mary called so I'm in the digi world. Tell mom not 2 come. B back by 4,

Mark

"Man, I walked all the way here for nothing!" I ranted as she stomped away angrily.

Mitch's POV

Me and my friends, Mary and Mark were on a small, empty beach. I remember the waves were unusually big. It felt good to feel the saltwater brush against my ankles. Don't tell anyone I wrote that sissy line.

Tanemon was grabbing on to my hair, which I don't see why since plants and water should go together. Mark's digimon, Minomon, did the same. Mary was typing random things on her laptop. Well, actually it was her dad's old laptop from when he was ten. She got it as a gift from her dad when she skipped a grade. None of us has the guts to tell her dad how old it is compared to the stuff we have now,

"Is this everyone who came?" Mary asked not turning her head away from the screen.

"Well," Mark said drawing in a deep breath "Max is helping his mom and Aunt clean up their classroom, Sara and Mathew out on their way to their townhouse from school as we speak, Jimmy is the actually almost here, and Kendra, Diane, Kevin, Terrence and Darren mentioned something about being chased by a bulldog."

"A bulldog?" Mary asked confused "How did- wait, did Darren and Terrence bet ten bucks again?"

"Uh-huh." Mark and I said simultaneously.

"Did they learn nothing from the monkey incident? Anyway, I called you here today because we have a problem."

"What kind of problem?" I asked.

"My dad found something in his lab. Did you notice that the waves have been getting bigger?"

"Yeah, you're right. The waves have risen."I said.

"Exactly! These waves get are obviously getting higher and higher every day. We can't leave this ignored or it could start a flood. A really big one."

"This is horrible!" I exclaimed. "How on Earth are we going to save all of the digimon?"

"That's the problem. This is nothing like I've ever seen before! This thing could spread."

Mark and I immediately got paler than the dead.

"H-how far could it spread?" Mark asked shaking, knowing the answer he would get.

Mary turned her head away from her screen, eyes shaking.

"It could spread to Earth."

I gasped. Mark just shut his eyes tight like he expected it.

"Hey, guys!" we heard off in the distance. It was Jimmy running up the beach. He stopped next to us, out of breath. I'm guessing he's not on the track team.

"So, what was the big news you wanted to tell me?" he asked in between breaths.

We all looked at each other. Of all people, why oh why did have to be Jimmy? If you have a nerdy, geeky friend who screams and runs away from a mouse, you'll understand the situation I'm in.

Well, as long as we told him in a calm and reasonable matter, I'm sure he wouldn't have freaked out. But:

"The world's gonna flood and we're all gonna die!" Yes, that sure helped out. Thank you, Mark. Thanks a lot.

Mary's POV

Everyone else showed up about a half hour later. We told them and their faces were momentarily in shock. Jimmy fainted. Thanks Mark. "How could it possibly spread to Earth?" Kendra asked

"People come to the digital world all the time." I said. "When the flood comes and someone opens the portal, who knows what could happen."

"Can't you close it or something?" Darren asked.

"Hey, I may have skipped a grade but I'm no genius!"

"But what about you're dad?" asked Montimon.

"He's doing as much as he can, but it could take months before he could close all of the portals on every computer in the world."

"Months?! Are you joking?" Darren cried, "Who knows how long it's going to be before the flood even comes? We have to stop it before it comes!"

"We can't stop it unless we know what's causing it." I explained.

Terrence was looking down at the beach, looking like he was thinking. This was really surprising to us. His eyes then widened and asked:

"Do you think a digimon could cause this? Maybe two?"

Kendra and I both opened our mouths to say how ridiculous his idea was like they usually are, but then we thought about it and said:

"That actually makes sense."

Everyone (except Jimmy, of course) starred at Terrence in such surprise.

"Well, if a digimon is doing this, it would have to be a pretty big one to make waves this big." I explained.

"Like a fifty-foot tall octopus thing?" Kevin and Terrence said simultaneously (that means at the same time; I have a very large vocabulary)

Everyone starred at them, again (except Jimmy, again)

"Okay, that was random." said Sara's Yokomon.

"Actually, we have a match." I said, typing random stuff on the Digi-Analizer. "Dragomon: Aquatic Virus digimon. They say he's in the…" my eyes grew wide with fear and confusion. I was afraid to finish my sentence.

"In the what?" Max asked.

"He's in the dark ocean, isn't he?" Kevin asked.

"How did you know?" I asked.

"Lucky guess."

"Wait, if he's from the dark ocean, how is he causing this here?" Darren asked.

"That's the thing, we don't even know if it's him. This is just an educated guess." I explained.
"Maybe it's not." Kevin's Salamon said. "Think about it, in the books, Kari, Terrence's and Kevin's mom, was having weird and scary dreams about the dark ocean. Then she went to the Dark Ocean."

"Deja vu." said Terrence's Tokomon.

"What more proof could you get?" Darren asked.

"Well…"

"Guys, it's 4:00. Kendra and I have to get home." Mark said looking at the watch in his D-Terminal.

"Yeah, maybe we should all get home." Diane said picking up her Upamon. "We may be the DigiDestined, but we still have homework."

"Well that basically sucks." said Darren.

"We'll talk more about this tomorrow, okay?" asked Kevin.

I gave one last look at the huge waves and said "Sure, okay. I mean, it's not like the flood's going to come tomorrow or something."

Jimmy slowly got up behind us.

"Uh, what'd I miss?"

Kevin's POV

Terrence, Darren, Diane and I were working on our social studies projects in our room that night. Well, at least Diane and I were working on our project. Terrence and Darren were playing video games.

"Hey, Kevin, can you print me a world map?" Diane asked while painting our globe. "I have no clue what Asia is shaped like."

"Sure."

"Isn't that the one shaped like a boot?" Darren asked.

"That's Italy, genius." said Diane.

"Speaking of geography, shouldn't you guys be working on you're project too?" I asked.

"Yeah." Terrence said as he continued playing.

"And not playing video games."

"Yeah."

"You do know that the project is due in about a week, right?"

"Yeah."

Diane rolled her eyes.

"Terrence, can I have ten bucks?"

"No."

"Darn."

"I don't even have ten bucks."

"What about the ten bucks that you won from the bet this afternoon?" Diane asked.

"How do you think I got this video game?"

Diane's right eye started twitching. After the whole bulldog thing, I could see why. The next thing we knew, I pulling Diane back from killing Darren and Terrence while she was screaming:

"Let me at 'um! Let me at 'um!"

My mom then walked in the middle of the madness. She made no shocked expression whatsoever. Terrence and I could never figure out why our mom never freaks out at the weird things we do like other moms do. I personally think it's because she had a brother so she knows how it feels.

I stopped paying attention for a moment and accidentally dropped Diane on top of Terrence.

"Darren, you're parents just called. The roads are flooded so you're going to have to stay over tonight."

"Cool! Sleepover!" Darren exclaimed. He would have high-fived Terrence if he Terrence wasn't under Diane at the moment.

My mom smiled weakly and walked out. The second my mom left, Diane continued torturing Terrence.

"I almost got attacked by a killer dog!" she yelled, shaking him.

"I'm sorry!"

"You know that dog terrifies me!"

"I'm sorry!"

"I lost one of my favorite shoes!"

"Guys!" I yelled.

"What?" Diane asked as she stopped shaking Terrence.

"Did my mom just say it was flooding?"

Everything got quiet and we all looked at each other. We all quickly squirmed off the ground (and Diane got off of Terrence) and we rushed to the window. All of the streets were flooded like a brook.

"Oh, God." Terrence said flatly.

"This is not good!" Darren said eyes wider than plates.

"Ya think?" Diane said gripping the curtains.

"Guys, call everyone." I said with a more serious face than I ever had. "Now!"