I don't own Best Friend by Toy Box... haha I just couldn't resist...

Beginning of week two! :)

Week Two

Monday

TK launched his backpack over his right shoulder with a content smile on his face. For once, he wasn't going to be late for school; in fact, he was early. Fifteen minutes ahead of schedule, he completed his homework, ate breakfast, and was dressed appropriately in his uniform.

He strolled towards the door ready for a stress free morning. That is of course, until after school when all of this pill business would come up. He still couldn't believe someone didn't take the pill, but he also couldn't stop Joe's words from echoing in his head.

"One of you probably didn't want to turn out like the 02 team."

TK knew Kari, and she'd never lie to them, let alone him. She said she took the pill, so she took the pill…. But she had been mad at him for taking the pill, and she's always bringing up the 02 team. Thinking about that, it's hard to believe she would take it.

TK let out a frustrated sigh and pushed those thoughts to the back of his mind. All he needed to worry about now was getting to school.

"HOO HA HOO HA!

NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA-!"

He frantically searched for his flip phone to silence it. He grabbed it and then checked around the room. He obviously knew no one was around, but if someone heard his embarrassing ringtone…

He flipped open the phone to find he had received a text from Izzy.

Need your help with the computer. Mind coming over?

TK gave the phone a strange look hoping that in some way it would transfer over to the sender. By 'computer' Izzy meant the Digital World, and by 'coming over' he meant traveling to it. He has always been paranoid about someone reading through their messages, but with this Mori guy around now who could blame him?

TK skimmed the message once more before closing it to check the time. 'Fifteen minutes, huh?'

You can count on me.

TK never really bothered to ask questions because Izzy always had a reason for everything he did (and often a long, wordy one), but he couldn't help but wonder why he was needed. Their digimon are capable of handling just about anything that's thrown at them. They could digivolve to ultimate on their own, so what was so powerful that they'd need more strength than that?

Taking his backpack with him, TK went into his mom's at home office. He could just imagine how much trouble he'd be in if she knew he was using her work computer, but it was the closest portal.

It didn't take him long to find his digivice and pull it out of his backpack. He looked at the contraption fondly. He found it funny that it was still the newer model even though four of the six with that model weren't around.

Yet again, he shook away the thoughts and focused on what was happening at the moment. He hit a few buttons, clicked the mouse a couple of times, and got a Digi-port up and working on the computer.

His phone began playing his embarrassing ringtone again, and he opened it to find instructions from Izzy.

Meet up with Pata. Not sure if you'll have to do anything or just check things out.

TK scrunched up his nose. What was the point of going to the Digital World if Patamon might not need his help to fight? He held up his digivice to the portal anyway knowing that no matter what there was probably some sort of information Izzy expected him to earn from this trip.

The portal sucked him in, and before he knew it, he landed hard, facedown, into a grassy terrain. He forced himself to stand up to find himself coated in dirt. 'I just got here, and I already messed up my uniform.'

TK spent a few moments surveying the familiar area. It had been awhile, but he knew he was somewhere in Server. He stood in a grassy plateau surrounded by intimidating, steep mountains.

He set his backpack down next to the television he'd just come out of and took out of it his D-terminal. He used the tracker on it to search for his partner, but it wasn't necessary.

Out of nowhere, a larger-than-life angel and a scarred unicorn with tainted black wings and a red helmet came tumbling towards him.

"Unimon…" TK whispered shocked to see Angemon fighting the usually so docile digimon.

The duo continued tumbling down the mountain. Angemon had a tight grip around the other but that didn't stop the digimon from trying to squirm away.

Just as the angel began to lose his grip, Unimon stopped squirming and opened his mouth wide as a new light emitted from it.

"Aerial attack!" The light came shooting out, and Angemon tried to dodge too late. It impacted his shoulder causing him to cry out in agony at such a close attack.

He shoved the digimon away from him and into the rocky mountain. He continued sliding alone the rest of the way down finally giving TK a good chance to look at him.

Angemon looked exhausted but pumped on adrenalin at the moment. His wings were tattered, and he was covered in dirt and scratches. On closer inspection, TK couldn't see anything too serious, but this was by no means Angemon's first fight of the day judging by how beat up he was.

As Unimon came charging at him, head down and horn aimed directly at him, the angel digimon focused his hands together and began charging right back.

"Hand of fate!" he screeched as they collided. Angemon's attack had hit right under the horn causing the horn to miss him entirely as the Unimon was flung back to the base of the mountain.

Unimon had stopped and was taking a breather. Angemon's eyes narrowed and he summoned his power knowing this might be his only chance to end this.

From a distance, he spun his rod before throwing it above his head like a javelin at the resting digimon.

"Angel rod!" The rod slammed into the side of the Unimon causing it to call out in pain. It kept crying out even after the rod boomeranged back to Angemon.

Unimon flailed its armor clad head about unsure of what to do. It finally decided the pain was too much to keep fighting and galloped up the mountain as fast as its throbbing form could carry it.

The angel, leaning over and breathing heavily, watched Unimon retreat all the way over the mountain. Once it had disappeared over the top a good minute ago, only then did Angemon de-digivolve to the still weary looking Patamon.

TK watched his partner a few seconds, still not making his presence known. Patamon flew to the ground and lay down ungracefully. He closed his eyes, and if TK didn't know any better, he'd say he wasn't only sleeping.

TK approached him cautiously with an unsure, "Hey."

And just like that, the digimon's round, blue eyes came back to life. He shot back into the air as if going on the defense until he noticed the owner of the voice and froze minus his still beating wings.

Patamon couldn't take his eyes off his partner, but he made no attempt to move. Part of him expected it to be some sort of trick and this wasn't TK at all, another wanted to embrace his partner he'd so long been deprived of but still another part argued that even if this was TK, Patamon had no reason to want to see him.

TK, feeling awkward and guilty to not have been there for his partner, tried to break the ice, "So I guess you, uh, didn't need my help with whoever that was."

"I don't know who it was. A lot of digimon have causing problems for no reason…. What are you doing here?" It was supposed to be an innocent and curious question but came out a bit harsh and accusing causing TK to rub the back of his head guiltily.

"Izzy asked me to stop by."

"Oh, right," the digimon replied with obvious disappointment. The only time he ever got to see TK in the past few years was when it was necessary, to fight, to plan, never just to visit. This more business like relationship coupled with the fact of how separated the two worlds were now had caused the humans and digimon to slowly drift from their friendships and bonds as children.

"It's been awhile," TK stated knowing his partner must be thinking something along those lines.

"Ever since I could digivolve to Magnaangemon without you, you haven't been around," Patamon added with a hint of resentment hidden in his voice.

"I know…. I am really sorry about that." TK's words were sincere. He wished he could see his digimon more; it was just hard. He didn't need him like when he was a dependent, little child, and Patamon didn't need him to fight, and sometimes when one of your double lives becomes unnecessary, it's hard to hold onto.

"So are you gonna visit more?" Patamon asked, eyes shining with a new hope while TK tried to hide his even guiltier emotions.

'I've only got a month left,' he thought desperately wishing he could tell his digimon about the pill, but he couldn't bring himself to do it. The human stayed silent unable to come up with a good response that could qualify as the truth.

"You know," TK finally spoke, "I should be going to school."

The digimon paused disheartened. "…If you think that's what important," Patamon replied solemnly causing another pain of guilt and even regret to surge through him.

He took one more look at Patamon before swooping down to grab his backpack and diving through the television. It took moments for the portal to dump him out in the desired location: the high school's computer room.

With a loud grunt, TK landed awkwardly on his side with arms and legs spread wide. He paused a moment, trying to compose himself before launching upright and surveying the room carefully. From past experience, he knew no one used the computer room first period, but that wasn't always the case. He shivered thinking about the grief he received from Izzy after popping in on a teacher's meeting.

He shivered again thinking about the grief he received from Patamon, but he knew he couldn't focus on that now. What's done is done.

Once deciding the coast was clear, TK looked over himself. His uniform was ruffled, brown slacks wrinkled and the front of his dark blue shirt still had a light coating of dirt. He tried to brush off at least some of it and spent some time flattening down his hair before catching a glance at the clock that showed he had about 30 seconds to get across the school to first period.

TK sprinted down the almost barren hallway and stopped right outside the door, got himself together, and walked casually into his first period, the dreaded Health class, just as the bell rang. He let out a sigh of relief and walked to his seat on the edge of the classroom. As usual, on the way he stole a glance at Davis who was entertaining himself quite well with a few paperclips.

He wished he could say he knew why Davis was in this class. Kari and he had to retake it thanks to the Digital World, but why did he? TK would probably never know considering, as far as Davis was concerned, they'd only ever talked on rare occasions in the past few years.

The blonde slipped into his usual seat to Kari's left and plopped his backpack on the floor only to be met by a disappointed but concerned frown.

"What?" TK asked innocently. He ran his fingers through his hair a couple more times to better smooth it down.

"You were in the Digital World." It was a disappointed statement, not a question. She didn't need to ask; it was the only reason he'd be walking in so close to the bell and looking so disheveled.

"What's wrong with that? Weren't you the one who didn't want to give it up?"

She paused contemplating. "Well yeah… but it's too late now. We'll have to leave the Digital World behind."

TK squinted slightly and rubbed the side of his head. What had happened? Did she change her mind on her own or perhaps there was more to it? "What if it's not too late?"

He froze having no idea why he would say that, but Joe's words kept snaking through his head.

"One of you…"

"What do you mean?" She asked curiously, but the end of her words was layered by the shrill, booming voice of their pre-historic hipster teacher.

"Let us begin class! We will be doing an out of class group assignment for the next couple of weeks."

There was a chorus of disapproving groans from the class that went unnoticed as the teacher readjusted her bedazzled glasses to better see her class list. "Now Mr. Takaishi… Ms. Kamiya, Mr.… Motomiya, you seem to be the only juniors in this class, so why don't you work together?"

Davis sat in the back of the class, completely unaware of what was going on since he'd been occupying his time stringing paperclips together.

"Mr. Motomiya!" she snapped causing the brunette to drop his paperclips and let them fall to the floor with a small series of tings.

"What!" He shouted louder than necessary as if he'd just been awoken from a day dream.

"You'll be with Kamiya and Takaishi for the next project," she ordered.

"Yes, Ma'am," he replied obediently. Satisfied, she began speaking to the whole class about the assignment again leaving Davis to discreetly pick up his paperclips.

Kari gulped and shot a panicked look at TK whose eyes popped slightly out of his head.

Well this should be interesting….

"Well this is interesting…" Izzy trailed off as he looked over his notes all clamped messily onto his clipboard.

"Your version of interesting or everyone else's?" Matt questioned lazily allowing his head to be propped up on his hand.

The redhead ignored the comment and continued studying the clipboard. He thought aloud, "I knew this would happen."

Joe looked over to Izzy. "That we all forgot things? Isn't that the point?"

"No, it's more than that…. As expected, you're all forgetting information about the Digital World, nothing major yet, a few digimon's names, a couple of events, but you've all forgotten information about each other as well."

Sora, from her seat on the couch between Matt and Joe, spoke up, "But aren't we only losing information about the Digiworld?"

Izzy finally let his eyes wander away from the clipboard to properly address Sora. "Yes, but with that, goes everything that comes with it. Think about it: how much would you know about the people sitting here if you hadn't been stuck with them for months in some computer dimension? Forget the dimension, forget everything in it, forget the people surrounding it. It makes perfect sense, but I didn't exactly predict it happening this early on."

Kari looked concernedly over to TK who sat attentively at the Izumi's kitchen table listening to Izzy's explanation. She used her elbow to tap him slightly causing him to shift his gaze to her. She whispered, "Just like 02."

TK nodded slightly unable to think of any way to reassure her things would turn out differently.

"Guess what, everybody!" Mimi called appearing in the doorway to the hallway she had been talking on the phone in. "I just finished talking to my parents, and I'm here to stay!"

"But I thought your spring break was over this week?" Kari questioned.

"It is, but Izzy doesn't want me leaving until we're done with this whole pill thing."

Matt smirked. "Yeah, I'm sure that's his reason."

Izzy shot him a cold stare before continuing with his recap. Mimi took a seat in a chair opposite the sullen Tai.

"The reactions to the pill have varied greatly. Kari, you've only forgotten a couple of miniscule events which is understandable considering you were questioned on both our adventures and the next generations, but Joe is at the other extreme forgetting several key points of the adventures."

Joe stuck a finger in the air. "In my defense, I never knew anything about 02 I wasn't there for."

Izzy had an incredulous expression. "Joe, you weren't able to tell me who Etemon was."

"I said he's not a good guy," the eldest replied triumphantly as if that was all he needed to know.

"Describe him," Izzy challenged.

Joe stopped to collect his thoughts. Whenever he thought of Etemon no picture would immediately pop into his head. His mind would go foggy, and he'd have to try and whisk away the fog, so he could see the figure hidden past it. "…He's, uh… a monkey." He glanced over to Sora who sat on his right. She gave a small nod, so he attempted to continue, "Who's yellow-"

"Orange."

"Oh same thing," Joe grumbled irritably slouching back in his seat.

"How much have we forgotten about each other?" Kari questioned obviously much more concerned about that than who Etemon was.

Izzy skimmed through a few papers and shrugged. "Enough to make a noticeable difference. Some people's addresses, middle names, Matt forgot birthdays-"

"I never remembered anyone's birthday!" Matt defended.

"Actually last time you could recall six out of eight, and now you only know yours."

Joe raised an eyebrow. "…You forgot your girlfriend and your brother's birthdays?"

Matt rubbed his temples unwilling to meet Sora's eyes that were undoubtedly directed at him. "It's been a long day…"

"What'd you forget, Izzy?"

Izzy snapped his head over to Tai. That was the first time he'd talked besides when he was forced to answer questions.

The leader sat in the corner, feet up on an ottoman, with a devious smirk. He still hadn't given Izzy a chance to explain himself and wasn't planning on it. He wanted everyone to find out what happened from the liar himself, so Tai was just going to sit back and wait for the genius to screw up, so he could call him out on it.

"Come again, Tai?" Izzy asked hoping he'd somehow heard the question wrong.

"I asked what you forgot." His voice rang innocent and curious. The only clue of his true intentions was the ever-present smirk.

The redhead gulped nervously and pretended to look through his notes as he held in a giggle. "Well… I forgot some dates and… basic… recognition."

"Which would be?"

"…Things we all forgot." He kept his teeth clenched tightly together to keep everything in.

Tai's smirk grew suggestive. "Oh, really? Like the rest of us?" He couldn't resist letting out a dark but melancholy laugh.

"Yes," Izzy hissed defiantly. He'd grown tense hoping that the brunette wouldn't give him up, not here, not now, not yet.

Tai merely shook his head and stood up while grabbing his jacket that lay over the edge of the chair. He began pacing slowly to the door and didn't even bother to turn around as he threw the words over his shoulder, "Good luck with being like the rest of us, Izzy."

I'd like to point out how at the beginning, I just kind of through Koumi in there, and now I'm dropping all of these random hints about them... Oh how my mind strays...

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