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Warning: Yaoi/slash/BoyxBoy. That is all.

Chapter 2. What Are We Waiting For?

Matt's PoV

'What are you waiting for Matt?" Tai's voice called to him through the darkness.

"Where are you?" a strained voice, barley audible escaped Matt's lips. He could feel himself drowning in the darkness around him. A single tear slid down his face. He could feel every thing, but could see nothing. Darkness was the only thing he knew. It had been the same dream every night since being forced to serve the 'Digital Angels'. Tai would call to him, but he would never see him. Matt knew that Tai was closer then usual this time. He could feel the other boy's spirit. There bond was one that neither space nor time could rip asunder. Remembering the words Tai had told him after the battle with Piedmon one more single word escaped his lips.

"Tai..." In the dream state, if that was what it was, Matt reached out his hand, and touched something tangible. "Tai..."

Tai's PoV

Tai was following close to Agumon, seeing as the Digiworld had changed once more since his last adventures. As he was running full out, to avoid any one that my be after them, he heard a voice.

"Agumon, did you hear that?" Tai asked wondering if it had really been who he hoped it was. His second in command, his best friend, his comrade, and the one thing he wouldn't admit to any one else, the only person he had ever fallen in love with. He had told Matt how he felt right before he had assaulted Wunjomon. In his heart, at the very least, he hoped Matt had understood what he had truly meant.

"Hear what Tai?" Agumon said as he was rushing into the forest. "No one said anything." Agumon seemed confused by Tai's question. Then he knew what the voice was. It had to be Matt. Even if Tai's imagination had provoked it. Then something even stranger happened. A hand rested it's self on Tai's chest, covering the tan boy's heart. This time Agumon was already looking at Tai, his mouth dropping like he had just seen a ghost. There before them stood a spirit rendition of Yamato Ishida. And one soundless word passed his lips.

"Tai..." Tai heard it again. This time, though, he knew where the voice was coming from. In his own heart. The other boy's voice was scared, hurt, and most of all, gentle. Tai could feel the pain, the anguish, that resided inside Matt. And there was only one Digidestined to free him, and the others. Taichi Kamiya stood his ground, looking at his Partner Digimon, with tears spilling like a river from his eyes.

"Agumon," Tai said, his voice thick with sadness, "we are the only ones who can save him now. We have to go back for him. Where is he?" Tai's voice took on the sound of a leader. The voice he once had when he had faced Piedmon, alone. Courage was his virtue, and now more then ever he had ever intention to live up to his lost Crest.

"Tai, I wish I knew where Matt was. The 'Digital Angels' pass around the Digidestined like they were community toys. There is no way to know just yet, but we can ask the FreeDigi once we get there." Agumon seemed as ready to rush to Matt and Gabumon's rescue as Tai was. Thus was the bond of Digimon Partner and Digidestined. They were bonded so tightly that what one felt normally the other could feel as well.

"Fine, but I know he isn't far. I just know it." Tai said as he and Agumon started once more toward the FreeDigi. Tai couldn't shake the feeling that where ever Matt was, he needed Tai.

Matt's PoV

Matt bolted up right. A cold sheen of seat on his skin. He was laying on his cot in HQ. He had seen Tai. The boy had been with Agumon, and they were just outside of Sowilomon's domain. Just over the border to Keenazmon's area of the Digital World. Keenazmon had used his power to form his area in a lush forest that lead straight into a desert with an active volcano in the dead center. Some how the 'Digital Angels' had seemed to corrupt the powers of the Crests. Keenazmon was able to use fire through the Crest of Courage. Matt thought about the link between Digidestined, the Partner Digimon, and the Crests.

"Gabumon, have you seen Gennai since after the day we saved the Human world with the new Digidestined?" Matt had been wondering why Gennai hadn't been around to stop the 'Digital Angels' in first place. He ran his fingers through his, now short, hair. After he had been taken by the 'Digital Angels' they had cut it shorter then he had it the first time they were in the Digiworld.

"I haven't seen him since we left Odiba that day Matt, why do you ask?" Gabumon seemed enthralled by Matt's sudden curiosity to the Protector of the Digital World. Matt's eyes gleamed. The strange dream was still fresh in his mind. He got off the cot and walked over to his travailing night stand, merely a small box that held some of his personal objects, to pick up the one thing he had thought he would never need. A digivice that had been engraved with the Crest of Courage.

~Flashback~

Matt had watched silently as his oldest and dearest friend, his companion, the boy who he had always wanted to admit how he felt about, was thrown into a Digiportal. The tear that rolled down his face as Tai's words echoed through his mind.

"I love you..." The whispered words, Matt thought, were probably just a friend thing. But to Yamato Ishida they meant so much more. They mirrored what he felt for the unruly, cinnamon haired, chocolate eyed leader of the Digidestined. Time blurred after that. Days, weeks, hours, seconds, they all seemed one and the same. Until the day he and Izzy were first stationed together under Sowilomon. Matt had been bounced around so much it wasn't even funny. He had given up hope of ever seeing Tai, or any of the original Digidestiend. For some odd reason Davis and Ken had been brought here as well. But then again Ken had been in the Digital world at the same time as them, they just hadn't known it. But it was Izzy who had stolen a moment out of the work day to press an object into Matt's hand. It had been a Digivice. Matt had known as soon as he saw it who's it was. He didn't ask any questions, he just kept on with his duty.

"So you do still have Tai's Digivice." Gabumon said with a pointed look. "I was afraid someone had realized it wasn't yours."

Matt laughed at that. The 'Digital Angels' weren't able to tell one Digivice from another, even if there lives depended on it. "Are you serious? Hell, even Keenazmon thought that T.K.'s D2 was mine at one point in time." That got a laugh out of both human and Digimon. "But we have a Friend that needs his Digivice back. What are we waiting for?" Matt tossed up the Digivice catching it again in the palm of his hand. It was time to rally against the 'Digital Angels'. But first he had to get away from Sowilomon long enough to get to the FreeDigi.

Matt booted up the Com. center with ease. He hit the link up with enough force to almost jam it. He was desperate to get the one thing keeping him from just taking off to go with him. Hopefully he could talk Sowilomon into letting T.K. join him.

"Ishida," the voice on the Com Center said in an almost annoyed voice, "what do you want this early in the morning?" Matt had already thought about the way he was going to phrase the request. He just hoped it worked.

"Master Sowilomon," Matt said trying to stomach the necessary politeness, "I need my brother so I can follow a lead on the Freedigi. Two of there higher ups have been spotted not far from Sector Two. I need T.K. and Patamon so we can look from both earth and sky." Matt wondered if Sowilomon would let T.K. leave the prison of silk and gold.

"Well, since you put it that way, then of course Yamato. You can have your brother's help. Had it not been for the fact that I gave Sora to Ansuzmon then I would of course have sent her instead of Takaru. But that is neither here nor there. He should be able to get there swiftly if Patamon decides to Digivolve for him." Sowilomon looked like this was the best news he had gotten all year.

Tai's PoV

Tai walked into the cave that Agumon had called Freedigi HQ-1. Tai didn't even try to pretend he knew what the hell that was supposed to mean, but he guessed that it was the original base. As they walked in Tai noticed a good many Digimon waiting for there return. It had taken them the better part of a day to get there. They had walked all night and Tai's feet were killing him. As soon as he got inside the cave he noticed a few 'seats' made out of rock, wood, and straw. And there was only one that was cushioned. Tai made a byline for the seat with cushion on it and sat down with a plop. His lanky tan legs falling over the arms. As he looked at the scattered Digimon he realized that they were all ones that had been exposed to the Digidestined during there original adventures. He couldn't belive what he saw. Agumon was sitting there talking to Leomon, Ogremon, and Electmon as if they were the oldest of friends. He didn't know absolutely if they were the same ones as before but he was pretty certain due to the way they all just glanced at him and went back to talking.

"Um, guys, I don't want to sound like a pansy or anything, but should we really be this close to the border of the 'Digital Angels'?" Tai asked with a worried look on his face. They all looked at him as if he was making a sick joke. Finally it was Leomon who spoke up.

"That's just it Tai. We have no choice but to hide on there boarders, because there every where. Groups of us are at each destination, the ones that are most adapted for the climate in a certain area." Leomon used his name as if he had known Tai all of his life. Tai just didn't care at this point in time. Slowly as the Digimon Talked Tai let himself fall into a deep sleep. No sooner were his eyes closed then he found himself surrounded by an odd light.

"Tai, you need to hurry up." The voice said. A female voice he had heard so often it seemed like a part of his heart. "We all need you Tai. You're our leader big brother." With that he realized exactly who it was. His own little sister. How she was talking to him, he would never be able to answer with out her telling him. He looked around but all he could see were distant shapes. Except for two. As these two walked forward, the light around them turned and icy blue.

"Tai, Matt and Gabumon are already on there way to you. You just have to wait for them to get to you. But there is another one coming to. You need to meet Matt before T.K. gets there. T.K. thinks that Matt is going to turn the Freedigi in. Hurry Tai..." With that the dream was ended and Tai slipped into blissful oblivion.

A/N: Sorry it isn't as long as the last one guys but i had some ideas for the chapter after this and that means its going to be about the length of Chapter 1. lol. RnR plz :)