"You three …you are such idiots!" said a deep voice far off in an underground area unknown to others in the digital world.
"S-sorry master," Goblimon and Gazimon stuttered, bowing down low.
Hayaimon rolled his eyes, "Those digidestined are nothing. So what some of the Digimon are looking for us …not like they ever WILL find us."
"Oh yes they will, they will. They are rather smart, I hate to admit, but a lot of them are very overprotective," said the dark Digimon, with a hissing sound in his voice.
"So, we'll just get rid of them one by one," Hayaimon said.
"Hm…" the snake like Digimon thought to himself, "First, we'll get rid of the ones that are around her the most."
"Oh! Oh! Let me tell him! Let me tell him!" Goblimon said, jumping up and down and waving his arm around.
Gazimon rolled his eyes, "Fine."
"Yessss! Ok, first there's that stupid wizard, Wizardmon; and then the digidestined of light, courage, and love. Oh yes, love is pregnant too."
"I don't care about human babies, they're too bitter."
"Master," Gazimon started, "We have one issue, and the one of courage has the partner Agumon."
"Agumon, pfft he's an idiot," Hayaimon said, rolling his eyes again.
"Yes! But he can digivolve to mega stage, even stronger than you master," Gazimon said, and bowed again.
"Hm…" the large Digimon and rubbed his chin, "Well I have an idea. We'll have to get rid of the males first."
"What?" the three Digimon said out loud.
"The digidestined of light is hopeless without her partner, who cannot fight because she is bearing a child, and the digidestined of love…well her partner is weak, am I right?"
Goblimon and Gazimon nodded.
"Good, so all you two will have to do is give this sort of…virus to the digidestined of courage and Wizardmon. They will all be too worried about their health that they will forget about us. And the time is near, I can feel it."
"Sir?" Hayaimon said.
"Wait, I will tell you when I am in need of you. For now, the rest I lead to these two."
Goblimon stuck his tongue out at Hayaimon, who in response grabbed out his kunai and was ready to attack.
"Hayaimon! That is enough!"
Hayaimon stopped and bowed, "I am sorry master, I lost my temper."
The snake Digimon grunted and turned, "Don't fail me Goblimon and Gazimon." And with that he tossed a small bottle, with an odd liquid in it, over his shoulder and Gazimon caught it. Goblimon looked at it, then at Gazimon and the two grinned evilly.
-2 days later-
"That snow is coming down hard!" Gatomon said as she and Wizardmon walked in.
"Welcome back, enjoy the walk?" Kari asked, bringing her head up from homework.
Gatomon nodded and Wizardmon only coughed and walked into the bedroom.
"What's with him?" Kari asked as she watched him.
Gatomon shrugged, "I don't know…maybe he's cold or something?"
Kari and Gatomon looked at each other and then shrugged again.
"School getting hard on you?" Gatomon asked as she sat down next to her partner.
"Yeah, since the holidays are coming up the teachers are just pilling up the homework."
"Well soon you'll be homework free for a few months," Gatomon said and smiled.
"Yeah, probably by then you'll have your child and I can play with the cute little thing," Kari said, trying her best not to squeal. Gatomon laughed.
-Later that night, at the college-
Sora looked through all her cabinets frantically, searching for something. She searched three times in her medicine cabinet, and whatever she was looking for, she couldn't find anything.
"Sheesh, this is sad," Sora said to herself and put her hands on her hips, "I don't have any cough or fever medicine anywhere."
She looked up at the clock with a worried look, "Damn, the pharmacies are closed already. I might as well go see if Kari or any of the others have anything."
With that she walked out to the car and drove off. She replayed what happened later that day.
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"Hey Izzy! Matt!" Sora called out during lunch. Izzy looked over and so did Matt and walked over to her.
"Hey, what's up?" Matt asked.
"Nothing much, I've been worried, I haven't seen Tai at all today," Sora said.
"Yeah, I heard he's come down with something," Izzy said.
"Really!? I'm going to go check on him!" Sora said and ran over to the boys' dorm. Even if she knew she wasn't aloud there, she went there anyway…not like anyone stopped her either. She opened Tai's door to his room, and once it was open she could see him lying on the couch asleep. Although he didn't look very well. She tip toed over and slowly placed her palm on his forehead, he seemed rather warm. Tai woke up from the feeling.
"Sora?" he asked, his voice croaking.
"Oh my, you even SOUND horrible," Sora said.
Tai coughed and sat up, "Yeah, I think I've come down with some kind of cold or something. And I can't find any medicine anywhere."
"I'll look for some, maybe I have some," Sora said.
Tai looked up at her and smiled, "That'll be nice, thank you."
Soon Sora was searching a lot, and once she went back to check on Tai. His illness was starting to get bad; he had a fever at about 101 degrees F. It was then that she decided to get others' help.
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"I can't believe no one has cold medicine on them! And during this time of season!" Sora said out loud to herself and was soon at the apartment that the Kamiyas stayed in.
The doorbell rang.
"I've got it," Kari said, getting up and heading for the door.
Gatomon nodded and stayed where she was.
"Sora, what're you doing here!? And at this time too," Kari asked and stepped aside to let her in.
"I was wondering if you had any cold medicine," Sora said.
"Cold medicine? What for?" Kari asked.
"Your brother, he's come down with something and it's gotten pretty bad."
"Onii-chan!? How bad is it?" Kari asked, getting worried.
"His fever is around 101 degrees. I'm afraid to take him to the hospital because they could say it's something bad."
Gatomon perked her ears up, now that she was reminded of this she remembered Wizardmon coughing a lot lately and had gone to bed early.
"Oh no…" Gatomon said and quickly went into the bedroom.
"It's alright, I…where'd Gatomon go?" Kari said.
Soon her name was called from Wizardmon and Gatomon's bedroom, and Gatomon sounded really worried too. So Kari and Sora quickly ran into the room, "What is it!?" Soon they gasped; Wizardmon wasn't in very good shape.
"He's got a fever," Gatomon said with her paw to his forehead.
"I'll get a thermometer," Kari said and left the room quickly and soon returned.
"102," Kari said, looking at the little stick that measures temperatures.
"Digimon temperatures are the same as humans," Gatomon said, getting really worried.
"That's one degree higher than Tai's!" Sora said, "This is really weird! Tai and Wizardmon are in the same condition; they keep coughing, a fever, a cold sweat, sore throat. It must be some kind of epidemic or something."
"Or maybe they caught it when they had that snowball fight that one time," Kari said, rolling her eyes somewhat.
"This is no time to be sarcastic, Kari!" Gatomon yelled, "Tai and Wizardmon could be in danger, we really need to help them."
After that there was a noise of a door closing and keys jingling then came Mrs. Kamiya's voice, "I'm back. Kari? Gatomon? Wizardmon? Where are you all?"
"Mom!" Kari said and rushed over to her.
Sora and Gatomon could here them talking and soon Mrs. Kamiya came into the room.
"Oh my! Is he alright!?"
"No, and Tai is in the same condition," Sora said.
"My baby!" Mrs. Kamiya screamed.
"Mom, we need to get Wizardmon to Joe, can you take him there?" Kari asked.
"Of course honey," Mrs. Kamiya said nodding, her face showing a concerned look.
"I'll take Tai to the hospital, good thing Digimon and humans share the same hospital," said Sora, and rushed out of the door and into the car.
"Come on, let's get him up," Mrs. Kamiya said and went into the living room to get her shoes and jacket back on so she could get the car started.
Joe was really starting to get irritated. He picked up the phone quickly and yelled, "What!?"
"Uh-um, I'm sorry but this is an emergency."
"It's always an emergency! Ugh! Is a little ToyAgumon stuck in a tree an emergency!? NO!"
"I'm sorry, but I'm serious. Your friends are here, it seems one of them have a very high fever."
"Who?"
"The wizard one."
"Oh god," Joe quickly hung up and walked out of his room.
"Where is he?" Joe asked as he walked over to the waiting room. There waiting for him were Mrs. Kamiya, Gatomon, and Wizardmon, who was leaning on Kari.
"He doesn't look good either," Joe said and went over to them, "Come, let's get him to a bed."
Soon Sora walked in with Matt and Tai, Matt was helping Tai walk since he was so sick he could barely walk on his own.
"Him too!?" Joe asked.
Sora nodded, "They both caught something alike."
"Really?" Joe asked, and then sighed, "Call Izzy for me."
The woman at the desk nodded and called Izzy. It may seem weird that he knew who Izzy was, but she did.
-Hours later-
"Sorry that I took a while to get here," Izzy said, huffing a little bit.
"Did you run here?" Joe asked.
Izzy nodded.
"Wow…ok anyway we need your help. Wizardmon and Tai have come down with some sort of flu, and it's effected them both in the same way. So I'm suspicious, do you think you might find something?"
"Let me look at them," Izzy said.
"Hey," Izzy said, whispering somewhat, as he walked into the room they kept Wizardmon in.
Kari and Gatomon had chairs pulled up next to him.
"Wow, I've never seen him sick before. Poor guy looks like he's suffering," Izzy said.
"He pretty much is," Gatomon said, her ears drooping.
"It's alright, I'll figure out what's wrong and we can find a cure for this!" Izzy said smiling, trying to cheer Gatomon up. Not like it worked.
Izzy sighed, "I'll need some help." He then grabbed out his digivice to get Tentomon over here.
Tentomon soon came and dragged Gomamon along.
"He wanted to see Joe and help," Tentomon said once he saw the questioning look on Izzy's face when he saw Gomamon.
"Oh, ok," Izzy said and nodded.
"You examine Wizardmon," Izzy said to Tentomon, who nodded in response, "And I'll look at Tai."
With that the two split up, and Gomamon headed over to Joe's office.
In there Joe was flipping through books, trying to see if he can figure out what kind of fevers can be caused for Digimon.
"Finding anything?" Gomamon asked, noticing the look on Joe's face.
Joe sighed and sat the book down, "No."
"You seem really upset about this."
"Yeah, I don't know why. He's just, important to us. Mostly Gatomon, if any of this goes on any longer…he and Tai can die. We can't replace Tai and Wizardmon…well I don't want to see him die again."
Gomamon nodded, "I know what you mean."
Hours later, Izzy and Joe were up late; sitting at a desk full of books and candy wrappers.
Gomamon yawned, waking up from needing a potty break. When he woke up, he looked up and saw the two humans still awake.
"Wow, you guys should take a break. It's unhealthy, next thing you know YOU two will be sick."
"We really don't have the time for this, Gomamon," Izzy said, keeping his eyes on his laptop and was typing away.
Gomamon sighed and walked out of the room. He soon passed by the room Tai was in, it was cracked open and he could hear Sora saying something to him.
"Tai?" Sora said and then sighed, "I know you can't hear me, but I'll tell you this anyway. I love you, I love you dearly. You're my future husband, and you're a future father. You can't die like this. I need you. Your CHILD needs you. You can't leave like this." Soon Gomamon could hear her crying, he sighed and slowly waddled toward the bathroom. Which was near the room Wizardmon was kept in, he didn't really want to open up and see what Gatomon was most likely saying, but he opened up the door a bit anyway.
She, like Sora, was still awake and only kept her eye on him. It was just the look on her face; it was just eating at him. He really wanted to help now. Gomamon nodded to himself and was fixing to head back to Joe and Izzy when he remembered…he reaaaally had to go.
"God these books tell you nothing! It's the same thing over and over again either it came from some kind of plant, a plain cold, or if there's a deep wound. They don't say anything else about Digimon having fevers," Joe said loudly, and slamming a book which woke Tentomon up with a startle.
"Hm," Izzy thought, "Wait, you said plant right?"
"Yeah, but it's not like there's nothing around here that can cause illnesses like this. And if there were, none would be growing."
"I know, but normally they leave marks right?"
"Yeah."
"I saw this odd mark on Tai's chest, do you think maybe…?"
Joe's eyes widened and he got up quickly.
Joe startled Gatomon as he quickly went into the room, turned on the light, pulled down the blankets and undid some of Wizardmon's clothing so he could see his skin.
"What ARE you doing!?" Gatomon shouted at Joe.
Joe didn't answer, but soon found what he was looking for.
"Izzy! Is this it!?" He yelled, and soon Izzy entered the room.
He looked and nodded, "Yep, same thing that Tai had."
"Hm, I wonder what it could be," Joe thought to himself.
"I'm on it," Izzy said.
"I'll just, experiment with it, maybe whatever got them sick is in the blood near this mark," Joe said and then pulled out what he needed to draw blood from his lab/doctor's coat.
"Careful," Gatomon said.
"Don't worry, it's just like a shot," Joe said.
"But, he doesn't like shots much," Gatomon said as she watched Joe stick the needle into her lover, who woke up from the feeling.
"What? What's going on? Where am I?" Wizardmon asked, looking around frantically.
"Shh, it's alright," Gatomon said, placing her paw on his mouth to shut him up, "You're at the hospital. You and Tai have come down with something really bad; Izzy and Joe are now starting to figure it out."
Wizardmon sighed and then coughed, laid his head back and went back to sleep.
Gatomon sighed too, and slowly rubbed his cheek, "You'll be alright, I know it."
"See anything?" Izzy asked, looking over Joe's shoulder, whom was looking through a microscope.
"Not sure, it looks like there some kind of…venom in this though. But then again, it's kind of odd looking at Digimon blood and human blood, it's very different," Joe said, and switched to the slide with Tai's blood in it.
"But, is the venom the same?" Izzy asked, trying to look.
Joe sighed and moved out of the way, "See for yourself."
Izzy looked closely, "Yeah and it seems it must be venom from some kind of Digimon."
"But what's weird is that they're not poisoned, they're just…sick. It's like some Digimon that has strong venom used his/her venom to make this illness."
"Well we don't know many venomous Digimon; we can have the others look. But for the time being, do you think you can reverse the effect?"
Joe thought for a moment, "Probably, I'll need your help of course."
"And my help you sure will get," Izzy said, winking and got up.
By the next day, Tai and Wizardmon were up and well again.
"Ah this feels great," Tai said, breathing in and out non stop, "No more illness."
Wizardmon only smiled, and felt Gatomon squeeze his hand and in response he squeezed it back and looked down at her. She looked back up smiling.
"Well, you've got a lot of work to catch up on Tai," Sora said.
He stopped stretching and moaned, "Stupid college." All the others laughed.
"Damn!" Gazimon said up in a tree, which was hard to hide in since all the leaves were gone.
"Boss sure is going to be mad," Goblimon said.
"No duh, stupid!" Gazimon said, raising his voice and raised his fist.
Goblimon flinched, but Gazimon retrieved his hand and went back to his bonoculars.
"Oh well, look at her…the time is coming," Gazimon smirked.
Goblimon blinked, "How can you tell?"
Gazimon sighed, "I can just tell ok! It's like…instinct or something."
"Well, I have instinct and I can't tell if she's near labor or not."
"That's because you're an idiot!"
"Oh……..hey!!"
"Shush, they're coming this way," Gazimon said, putting his paw to Goblimon's big mouth and watched the walk by.
Gazimon smirked, "In about a week, it's coming."
"A week?" Goblimon said, muffling because Gazimon still had his paw over his mouth.
"Yep, you can tell by the way she's acting. She can feel it too. It IS her 6th month anyway."
"So her baby will be born in December?"
"No duh, god you're so stupid."
"Aww and it's so close to Christmas," Goblimon had a goofy smile on his face.
Gazimon smacked his forehead, "Why do you even work for the bad guys anyway!?"
Goblimon only smiled.