Chapter 16
Plans over Hot Chocolate
Davis blinked, then again, finally after a third time things began to come into focus and he slowly brought his head up and looked across the room. He looked around to see what woke him up though was surprised to see nobody standing over his bed. He looked up and saw his goggles reflecting sunlight from the window across the room. He laid there staring up at his prized head gear and admired them as they slowly swayed across his bed post reflecting the many shades and hues from the sunrise outside across the room. Finally he awoke from his trance and slowly began to look out across his room, looking back and forth to each of his sleeping friends as they littered the floor making his already extremely messy room look just like his mom said "a tornado hit it".
First he noticed Cody who was closest to the door not even in his sleeping in his sleeping bag rather rolled in a ball on top of it almost exactly Armodilomon who was inches from him. Cody had really grown up in Davis's mind he still always was and always will be the little kid, and he did not mind that anymore. He really had matured, and would smile and even (if you were lucky to catch him on a good day) crack a joke. Next was TK who was in the corner sleeping in his sleeping bag with Patamon on his forehead who amusingly were snoring (or well Patamon was sort of whistling) in unison. He was still upset at TK, but that grudge had faded away with the battles and the pain, but more importantly the loss. Kari's comfort at this time meant more than anything, the loss of Gatomon was more important than a silly crush… Finally he noticed Ken and Yolie for that matter, for it was impossible to notice Ken and not notice Yolie for the two of them were so tangled up in each other you may think that one part of Yolie was actually part of Ken. He couldn't be happier that the two had gotten so close so fast, quicker still Hawkmon and Wormon, who before couldn't even be seen near each other now they were almost inseparable friends (slightly to Veemon's dismay) for they sat at the foot of the shared sleeping bag.
Speaking of the little blue devil where was he? It was way too early for either of them to be up. Glancing over to his clock 7:00 am shone back at him in neon green. He blinked again though instead of laying his head back down on his pillow like he always did he got up tiptoeing his way through the room attempting not to wake anyone up. Though as he reached the door he realized someone was missing, he silently turned around and looked for the 6th of the destined, though she was nowhere to be found.
Davis continued down the hallway slowly listening intently for any signs of life, though he did not hear any not that it was to be expected. Everyone was beyond tired exhaustion was so deep they did not even mind sleeping in Davis's pigsty for the night. They had walked over 15 miles to get back into town. A distance the had traveled effortlessly on the backs of their digimon now took many, many, hours to get back for now they were the ones carrying the weight. The trains, taxi's ect. were all out of commission for obvious reasons. Nobody was on the streets, for they were to afraid of the happenings many people still remembered the incidents of years past. Since TK and Kari were already staying at Davis's house Davis opened up his house for all to crash, it was a lot closer than any of the others and nobody was in the mood for MORE walking. The "veterans" chose to crash at Tai's place which was also right there. Nobody wanted to talk everyone except Ken and Yolie had gone straight to bed even though it was around nine o'clock while Ken and Yolie had done some "face eating" as Veemon called it on the balcony. While Cody and Davis joined the already sound asleep Kari and Tk not even bothering to tell them what had happened, things would be explained in the morning.
Slowly Davis made his way to the family room past the hallway. The first thing he noticed, was the sun which dominated the room absorbing every nook and cranny with its pure and golden beauty, even though it had barely risen out of the sky. It was so minimal compared to the over whelming darkness surrounding it, yet it in it's glorious purity had manages to conquer the darkness. It took him a minute to truly appreciate it for he was not a kid who was normally up at this hour. Making his way past the hallway he looked over to the couches, hoping to see Kari, briefly he saw a figure though it took him a second to realize it was not Kari rather his sister Jun, who was sitting on the couch in her pajama's reading a magazine of sorts with some male model on the cover. Slowly she perked her head up over the top of the magazine when she heard his footsteps. She smiled and pointed to the balcony and then pointed to the kitchen counter. Davis followed her finger to the balcony for there stood Kari on the balcony standing there like a diamond at sunrise only more beautiful as the light seemed to swarm turned the sunlight into a rainbow of colors. Not even paying attention to what the second thing was that Jun was pointing too he made his way directly in Kari's direction. Though before he took two steps Jun cleared her throat loudly in an attempt to get Davis's attention. Davis swung his head back towards Jun and did not say anything, but his face said very loudly "WHAT!!"
Jun rolled her eyes and pointed again to the kitchen counter and Davis slowly and grumpily made his way over there. He turned back to see if he was doing the right thing and Jun nodded her head. He made it over there finally and a smile erupted over his face. On the counter top sat two cups of hot chocolate still steaming, he picked up the coco and turned back towards Jun and gave her a cross between a salute and a toast with the coco. Jun just shook her head and smiled putting her head back in the magazine.
'How did she know I was going to get up so early? I never am up this early why did she make the coco now? Did she wake me up?' Thought Davis. Though now he did not really care all he wanted to do is sit out on that balcony with the girl that meant so much to him. He wanted to give her the hot chocolate in his left hand and watch the sunrise with her, his first sunrise in years.
Davis slowly made his way onto the balcony and stood next to Kari not saying anything forcing her to make the "first move". At first she took no notice of him and it slowly got to the point where Davis began to worry something was up. Though then she turned towards him and smiled, her eyes red and puffy, though he could tell she was genuinely glad to see him. Then she took both of the hot chocolates in his hands and slowly put them on the railing next to him, and then she turned back and slowly gripped Davis into a very big, but very delicate hug. Davis stood there slowly taken aback, though he quickly realized it was not a hug of passion or of friendship, but a hug of need, a hug of loneliness a hug of pure pain and with this realization he hugged back. For awhile they stood there, embracing, as Kari silently sobbed in pain, and Davis slowly pulled the hair out of her face. He looked out towards the sunrise and could not help but think that the girl in front of him was so much more beautiful than the sunrise as it twinkled through the city. Kari turned her head as she once again began to take control of her emotions though she still snuggled herself against Davis's chest.
"Are you ok?" whispered Davis as gently as he could.
"No" she whimpered and after some time "I just want to crawl into a ball and die… It's the deepest feeling of loneliness, pain and confusion I have ever experienced."
'Confused…' thought Davis 'What is she confused about? I get the loneliness and the pain, but how is she confused?
"Do you want to talk about it….? Get some things off of your chest…?"
She sort of shrugged in his arms and they stood there a little longer in an awkward silence, Davis was about to give up and break it, but Kari started talking…
"Well I guess I should thank Veemon that was really nice of him…. Where is the little guy you two are usually inseparable?"
"Beats me… I thought he would be with you."
"He's probably fine."
"Ya" which was followed by another awkward silence or awkward in Davis's mind maybe she liked looking at the sunrise this much though he doubted it… Davis decided to gamble and throw in all of his cards…
"I wanted to apologize…" said Davis trailing off taking a second to think of what he wanted to say precisely for this was quite important though before he could say it Kari cut him off.
"For what?"
Davis re-calibrated what he wanted to say "I was wrong to act like a four year old when I saw you guys in the park…I was a real jerk going out to the digiworld to put a lot of unneeded stress on you guys…"
"Davis…" started Kari
"You guys mean so much to me…"
'You mean so much to me.'
"That it was wrong to treat you like that over something that petty." He finished
"We really need to talk about that, things need to be done, feelings need to be brought to the surface…"
What feelings? She and TK know how I feel and we both know how TK feels, so I guess the question is how she feels…' he looked down towards the Hot Coco that still they had not touched. Why can't we share this? Why can't we be drinking this now? All I wanted was to spend time with her drinking the coco and watching the sunset. Now I am just confused.
"What do you feel about the situation?" said Davis sort of abruptly.
Kari was a little taken aback. "Well…. I don't really know, I care about you both so much…" though she was cut off from a loud "AHEM" behind her. Both of them spun around and Kari let go of Davis. Tai stood there in his pajama's surprisingly bright eyed and busy tailed for this early in the morning.
"Black coffee" he said to a confused Davis.
Davis could not help but grin. This was so abrupt, so spontaneous, so
Tai, though Kari really meant the world to him. When
others would have simply called to check in, Tai woke up against his
normal sleep pattern(which was a hard thing to break) and walked over
here in his pajama's to make sure Kari was ok. He looked back to see
them hugging. Tai picked up the coco and handed one cup to Kari. She
took it graciously. They stood there not even talking just enjoying
the sunrise. Davis couldn't believe that what was so difficult for
him was so easy for Tai. Her brother was her hero, and no
matter how much Davis emulated him, when Tai had come Davis had been
let go to make room for the real thing.
I can't be Tai for you, he thought. He didn't want to be
Tai. He had long thought the more like Tai he was the better
shot he had to getting to Kari. Maybe she had seen through that
maybe she hadn't, but if anything had happened he had turned into
another safety net, not nearly the size or strength of Tai, but
definitely a safety net. Maybe that worked for Tai. He was a
brother so he got brotherly love, though Davis was no brother of
hers. He didn't want brotherly love. I can't be Tai, but I
can be me.
Davis took his Ipod
from the table and headed to the laundry room to swap his pajamas for
jeans. He went back and opened the front door waving goodbye to
Jun and turned his Ipod up to max
I wanna love, I
wanna live
I want you to love me
I want you to leave me
I
wanna stand where I can see
I'm watching you love me
I'm
watching you leaving me now
I wish I could be somebody else
I
wish I could see you in myself
Wish there was something inside
me
To keep you beside me and
Say what you really feel
You
know I need something that's real
I wish there was something
inside me
To keep you beside me
I Wanna Know If I Could
Be
Someone to Turn To
That Could Never Hurt You
But
I Know What You Think Of Me
Yea, You Had a Break-Through
And
Now Im Just Bad News For You
I wish I could be
somebody else
I wish I could see you in myself
Wish there was
something inside me
To keep you beside me and
Say what you
really feel
You know I need something that's real
I wish there
was something inside me
To keep you beside me
I
should've told you everything
I never gave you anything
I
should've told you everything
If I could give you anything
You
know I'd tell you everything
I wish I could be
somebody else
I wish I could see you in myself
Wish there was
something inside me
To keep you beside me and
Say what you
really feel
You know I need something that's real
I wish there
was something inside me
To keep you beside me
I
should've told you everything
I should've told you everything
I
should've told you everything
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Izzy sat at his computer furiously typing at his computer, he did not blink, he did not twitch and he did not say a word the only things moving where his fingers and his frantic eyes survey the numerous sub-screens of data pouring into his laptop. Tai stood over his shoulder pointing every few seconds at something that looked pretty bad saying "What's that mean" followed by Izzy saying "Please don't touch the screen Tai" not even bothering to explain the complex algorithms that the computer spit out.
Matt stood behind them pacing back and forth with his Ipod in his ears. He always said he could never think without music and that's why his grades were so poor though now he plugged the little buds in his ears and turned of the volume to the max on his favorite song. Matt started moving his head up and down with the music and began playing the guitar solo in thin air. Until the music abruptly stopped as Sora unplugged his Ipod and threw it on the couch.
"I don't know what your trying to do or why, but your not helping any of us or the situation by blasting that hellish noise and pretending to play the guitar!" barked Sora
"It's how I think! Give me a break!" Matt yelled back and he scrambled over to the couch to get his Ipod back. Though Sora roughly grabbed his arm and pulled him back.
"I don't need music to think and look at me STRAIGHT A's SINCE 2nd grade. LOOK AT IZZY I mean the kids already taking his AP classes for god sakes. We all do fine with out something blasting in our ears why don't you learn to as well"
Matt was about to give a vicious comeback about how girls are to stupid to understand, though thankfully for Matt and his face (for Sora would have certainly slapped it) TK butted in.
"SHUT UP" he yelled as loud as he could "Honestly you two are like 4 year olds please zip it."
Both of them looked at TK who had Kari in his arms and conceded that he was right. Now was not the time to be childish, now was a time for peace and to let old rivalries and angers to go away.
Izzy who had enough with Tai over his shoulder told him to start the meeting already and forcefully turned him towards the group.
"Izzy is right lets start, is everybody here?" which was quickly followed by a series of; yes's and here's.
"Ok well I guess we all…." Started Tai
"Davis's not here we are not starting without him" said Ken very abruptly.
Tai looked over to Izzy again. "Did you get Davis on video chat?"
"Yes an hour ago, he said he was on his way…"
"If Davis has better things to do then worry about the fate of both worlds then screw him we have better things to do then wait for him." Said Matt.
"We are going to wait for him" said Cody who sat in the corner and he looked Matt straight in the eyes which was enough to stop him in his tracks. Cody did not say much, but when he did he meant it.
"Davis said he would come we should wait Matt" said TK
"So while our enemy plans how to kill us we should wait for Davis" Matt barked back.
TK was stung, it had been awhile since Matt had been openly harsh "Davis is a part of the team just like you and if you were at some band practice or whatever you do with your free time we'd wait for you too."
"No we will not wait for him Tai…." But he was cut off when the door slammed behind him. Davis stood there glaring at Matt. "Sorry I'm late, Veemon's gone missing I did not think I'd get such a large outcry if I went to search for him.
"Indeed well he should be fine Davis lets start" said Tai hoping to end this tension. Though Davis was still visibly fuming and upset and having a hard time keeping it in. "Izzy?"
Izzy turned around in his swivel chair and plugged his laptop into the projector screen next to him. Then he plugged in his camera so he could let Mimi, who was back in New York, see everything in the meeting as well.
"Ok here is the deal we have no idea what the enemy is or does all we know that they are strong. They must have a common leader that controls them as well as the towers. The biggest most noticeable thing is obviously they are our old enemies. That we have no idea about, how or why, and until we learn that we are at a significant disadvantage. I've looked at all of the simulations I have run, and if we assume the worst and he or she has the power to bring back every digimon that we have ever deleted we have a serious problem. Our chances of winning our slim…. Very slim…" mumbled Izzy
"What are they?" asked Davis
"Ummm…..1 in 1 Million or so at its best"
Everybody just looked down with fear this was not a good thing.
"What should we doo Izzy poo?" said Mimi over the webfeed.
"Well according to the simulation our best bet is to hunker down. We have a better chance if we lay low, Guerilla warfare if it makes sense… We have a better chance if we use the city which we know to our advantage" said Izzy no longer maintaining his strong sure attitude that he had before.
Davis stood up quite visibly upset an annoyed. He walked over and stood where Izzy and Tai where completely taking there lime light, he was a fantastic leader, the only problem was he had not found someone yet to follow him…
"Our enemy knows us well, according to all the stories I have heard from the veterans these enemies we fought today were close to your toughest fights, the enemies that truly brought our hatred out. Devimon and Lady Devimon were Kari and TK's enemies they were their fights. While during the fight with Puppetmon you guys lost Matt due to unrest. These battles caused stress and anger between the team. Now I ask you to look what has happened to us, look at us, fear has taken over, we are weak. Now we are stressed like we were back then and at our weakest for we are only strong as a team. So here is my plan, when our enemy is at its weakest we strike. We strike for surprise and we strike for victory…"
"We strike to get ourselves killed" barked Matt "You risk all of our lives for a single battle"
Murmurs of "what are you crazy, you'll get us all killed" echoed around the room. Davis looked around for support from someone, but nobody seemed to agree with him. Once again his brilliant leadership was shining bright, but nobody would follow him into the battle…
"Izzy what did your "simulation" say about the battle that we just pulled out, what were our chances?" said Davis with a little bit more than a hint of sarcasm.
"Ummmmm… flat out zero actually…."
"So you all trust a simulation that says that we all should be dead?! That makes so much sense!" Davis growled.
"It's not that we trust the simulation, it's just that we don't want to gamble everything on this one shot… We have a better chance if we learn about what is going on!!" said Sora desperately.
"Now is a time of ACTION!!" barked Davis "AND I PLAN TO FOLLOW SUIT" and he walked out the door slamming it behind him. A series of people calling him back, but he did not listen as the anger once again took over. THOSE IDIOTS HOW CAN THEY BE SO STUPID!! He turned the corner and almost fell as a flash of blue went by him. He landed with a somersault and turned around to see what had almost killed him. And saw in surprise a pair of very familiar eyes looking back at him.
"Veemo…." He gasped…
His digimon was very roughed up scratches everywhere his left ear actually partially missing its tip… He barely got a chance to look him over before he said…
"BlackWarGreymon is in trouble, we need to help him"
"Ken….?"
"No time WE HAVE TO GO NOW!"
"Is he dead…?"
"He may be, but the faster we go the better his chances…"
"YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME…."
"Do I ever kid you?"
"Is that even a question?"
And with that they sped down the hall and out the door, to the unknown just like Davis had asked for…
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I felt really bad the last chapter was well it was awful it really was no getting around it plain sucked and you all waited a long time for it. So I have seriously worked my ass to the bone to get this chapter which is almost 4k words long to you, I hope you like it I think it is well done. I owe everything to my brother (from another mother) beast on this one and I cant thank him enough on this one…. Enjoy and PLEASE REVIEW!!