Betamon: Just a note about Suzie. She still talks slightly funny, so some of her words are purposely misspelled, mostly just the one's that end in y though.
Chapter Nine Sora's Storee (Story) LOL
Part I (or 1, haven't decided)
Takeru sat next to his brother with Patamon in his arms. Gabumon was by Matt's side as well. T.k was slowly drifting off to sleep when Kari came in again.
"Hey T.k." she said.
"Yeah."
"Tai's going to leave, and I'm going to go with him." T.k nodded and hugged her.
"Go Hikari," he said "you've done all you can for me. I'll be fine."
She kissed him on the cheek, "be careful T.k, I don't think I could lose somebody else."
"Then you know, about you're parents I mean."
Hikari nodded. T.k wiped a tear from her eye, and gave her one last hug before she departed in silence.
T.k turned back to Matt after watching Kari leave. "Way to go. Took you long enough though. You know, you two have gotten pretty far for not having even been on you're first date."
"Matt…" T.k looked at his brother. For as much as he had wanted him to wake up, he had been dreading this moment as well.
"T.k, forget it, Tai and Sora have taught me a lot in the past three days."
"Matt…" What could you say to brother who had just forgiven you of hating him and disowning him. "Thank you Matt, thank you."
Matt nodded, or tried to nod, he cringed in pain from his three broken ribs.
"Careful Matt, you don't want to hurt yourself anymore then you have to." Gabumon told him.
"Thanks Gabumon, I'll keep that in mind," he said in his old cheery voice.
"You sound younger Matt." T.k noticed.
"Well, that could be because the healing process is taking some data from him, making him younger." Patamon said in his high voice. "Then again, I could not have a clue about what I'm talking about.
Matt started to fall asleep again, "oh and T.k"
"yeah Matt."
"Sora says Hi, and to make sure Agumon doesn't press Piyomon to hard into mating."
T.k laughed, "I'll make sure to do that." Matt fell asleep. T.k was lost in thought for a little while when Rika appeared beside him, sitting down of course with no pressure on her legs.
"Rika?" he asked astonished.
"My room was getting boring, so I decided to come over here."
"What about you're legs."
"They're healing. Even faster with a shadow trick Renamon showed me." Rika said giggling.
Wait, giggling? "um Rika, are you alright."
"Yeah," she said giddy, "just as long as I don't pressure these," she said pointing to her legs, "and I get lot's of food of course, lots and lots food. I need energy to heal faster with by using shadow technique. Yes, Shadow heal faster, but require lots more energy." She giggled again.
"ummm," T.k said. He had only known Rika a few days, but even he knew this wasn't her at all. "Rika, did you somehow switch brains with some really preppy girl?" he asked.
"me, Prep, Never." She said harshly, but still giddy. "you and winged girl getting well along I see. So we have new little angels everywhere."
T.k stared at her, Kari and him were only fourteen. He knew something was wrong with Rika. "Rika, you should probably head to back to bed."
Rika wasn't listening however, she was staring off into space.
"Hey T.k," Patamon asked, "why is Rika acting so weird."
T.k shrugged his shoulder, "honestly I don't know." He turned back to the girl only to see her grinning manically.
"He's back." She said, then burst into giggles. "He-he-he, Hazard Master has awoken the beast. And the hand eye doesn't like it one bit." She burst into giggles again. "He send stupid metal monkey, stupid metal monkey no stand up to gogglehead." Rika burst into another fit of giggles and shadow shifted back into her room. At least he hoped she went back into her room.
"What did she mean?" Patamon asked.
"I don't know Patamon." T.k told him.
"and hopefully we'll never have to find out." Gabumon said finishing his unsaid thought.
Sora looked at where she was. This place looked familiar, almost as if she's been here before.
"Why hello, I didn't know the destined had gotten past the reformatting stage a yet." A small red dragon told her.
"What? Reformatted?"
"Yeah, it's one of the advantages to being a Tamer or a destined. When you die you just reformat like digimon do."
"Then why am I here, and what is here anyways?" She asked.
"You're Sora?"
Sora nodded.
"Well then, let's see. This is what I call pleasurable hell."
"Pleasurable hell? Isn't that an oxymoron." Saying hell left a bad taste on her tongue.
"Yeah, but perhaps I should explain before you jump to conclusions. My name is PyroDragmon. Technically I'm not a real digimon as I lived in you're world initially. I'm a mistake of a group called DATS. Now don't get me wrong at all, the new DATS is great and all, but back in the day, they made mistakes."
"One being you."
PyroDragmon nodded, "they tried cloning a dragon fossil using digital matter and data, and ended up with me. Somebody had messed up in that equation, and what should have been a exact clone of a dragon down to exactly the genetic make up of the cloned fossil… instead was me."
"I understand that you were a mistake, but I don't understand what made this such an oxymoron." She couldn't bring herself to say the word again.
"Just listen. DATS has always had the right mind, but their were a group of people within DATS who had wanted to do more then to protect the world, but become Master's of it. Their were several proposed projects in which these people tried to manipulate things, but no one ever noticed that all the shot down proposals came from the same group of people."
PyroDragmon sighed thinking about the old days, "Four projects finally received funding though. The cloning of a Dragon using Biomergence and digital data. Making "copies of digimon". These copies had the same data makeup as a digimon, they just had no core and so relied on basic instincts."
He remembered the last two, and spoke of them softly, "the creation of soldiers that were bioengeenered for winter combat, and soldiers that could stand heat better and be able to travel through more harsh terrain. The only project that was actually successful was the copies of Digimon."
"What of the other projects?" Sora was full of questions, and it wasn't like they were going anywhere, "You were obviously the cloned dragon, but what of the winter and desert soldiers, why were they cut off."
PyroDragmon pictured the image of Takashi perfectly, "There was only one for each. Takashi, a boy who was only three was grown up in the most rugged of rooms were the average temperature was minus twenty. A warm day would be five above, and the colder days would be seventy below. Takashi was always constantly left in this room to force him to get used to the weather. It helped a mutagen make him the ultimate cold weather operative.
"When Takashi was seven, he finally struck back. The mutagen had gone far past the expectation's of what it should have done. He killed three guards, all the scientist that specialized in the mutagen and murdered a digimon in cold blood. Takashi was declared unstable, and that it was the mutagen that did it to him. He's the only person of his kind to have a core body temperature below sixty degrees." He remembered this all far too well.
"At that time I had been around for about a year and was declared an anomaly of the project. It was then that they decided to try and make a new dragon and stopped studying me. I was then about to be deposed of and sent out into the wild when Yoush came and saved me. Yoush was ten at this point, but they had allowed him to take me." He shuddered.
"Is something wrong?" Sora asked.
PyroDragmon nodded, "it was Takashi. His eyes, me and Yoush we're the sole survivors in the room when Takashi snapped. His eyes, the hatred that filled them. If you had seen them, he would have frozen you on the spot. Even the guards who have been trained not to be intimidated couldn't move. It was then that Yoush dedicated his life to not letting things like that ever happening again. He would never let what happened to Takashi happen to anybody else. To be forged so hard and so cold that you felt no remorse slaying people without a second thought. That time will forever be burned into my memory. I don't think anybody but Gomamon could get rid of it." He shuddered. Takashi…
"I'm sorry, I… it's hard."
Sora shrugged her shoulders, "it's alright. I understand." She had her own experiences that she didn't want bring back.
"Sora," The red dragon told her.
"Yeah?"
PyroDragmon was silent for a moment, "you've grown a lot, haven't you."
"Losing you're partner does that to you." She told him after a few seconds.
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When Kari and Tai got to the soccer field, the coach had just smiled at his star player and told him he had already told the press that Tai was going to be taking a few weeks off, in light of recent events. Tai had smiled and thanked the coach.
"Hey Tai."
"Yeah Kari."
"Would it be alright if I went back to the hospital." Tai was about to say no, when a certain red head girl came into his mind.
"Sora," He said to softly for Kari to be able hear, even with her increased hearing.
"Tai?" Kari asked after a minute of silence.
Tai shook out of his thoughts. "Yeah, go ahead." Kari was surprised, she thought he was going to say no, "on one condition though." Kari smiled, this was the overprotective Tai she knew. He placed thirty dollars in her hand, "I want you to get something to eat and to grab T.k something as well."
Kari's jaw dropped as Tai headed back to the apartment. This was definitely not the Tai she knew. What had really happened to him three nights ago. She went and grabbed a bite to eat at a Chinese restaurant. She just felt like Chinese food at the moment. All the stares started to bother her, and she unconsciously reached back just to make sure the strap still camouflaged her wings. She grabbed what she ordered for T.k and went out the door.
When she rounded the corner she ran into somebody, "Oh, sorry, excuse me." She said and started to walk by them, when the teen grabbed her by the arm.
"So, where are you're wings." He asked mischievously.
"What are you talking about." Kari asked confused.
He held a syringe in his hand, "you'd be an interesting person to test about the ability of flight, now wouldn't you." Kari looked frantically around for her partner, or anybody. Nobody was in the street at all. The man smiled when he saw this, and jabbed the syringe into her.
Or should I say, tried to jab the syringe into her. As he brought it close a hammer smashed it into pieces. "I dear say, you weren't planning on kidnapping my friends little sister here, now would you?" Joe took a look at the syringe? "You even tried to use an old syringe, don't you know anything."
The man was stunned, of course he was, how often does a tall scrawny guy swing a massive hammer to foil you're perfect plan. "What the heck." Joe smiled.
"Joe?" Kari said realizing her savior.
"I'm responsible for you Kari, do you really think that I would let you get kidnapped." Joe said hefting his hammer over his shoulder. He looked back at the guy, who had a gun pointed at his face.
"You lose hammer boy."
"On the contrary, Kari now has time to run. Even if you do kill me, I think that it's worth the sacrifice."
"Well, let's see exactly how much time you bought her." He said cocking the gun.
Gomamon dove from his hiding spot, snatched the gun out of the man's hand and turned it towards him when he landed.
"Took you long enough." Joe told his partner.
"Ahh, I just like to see you sweat." Gomamon replied back in a joking tone.
Joe rolled his eyes and turned to the man, "now leave."
The man stared Joe down for a moment, until Gomamon cocked the gun, with a grin far to wide to be safe. He got the message and left.
"Wow Joe." Kari told him, "I didn't think you had that in you."
"Theirs a lot you don't know about me." Joe said half joking.
Kari laughed, "Joe, holder of the Digivice of Reliability, man of mystery." She said mockingly.
Joe smiled and shook his head, "well, shell we go. You're brother will have my head on a silver platter if I let anything happen to you."
Kari laughed knowing that's exactly what her brother would do. But then she stopped herself, but what about now, would he still do that now?
They walked to the hospital.
Joe had left when Kari had entered, she went up to Matt's room. "Hey T.k." she said smiling the best she could. Matt was still asleep "I brought you some food." She said handing him the container.
T.k smiled, "Thanks Kari." He saw her eyes glowing with worry, "don't worry, he woke up awhile ago when you were gone." He said. It seemed to take some of the worry out of Kari's eyes. "You alright?" He asked.
She shook her head, "theirs just too much going on in the past few days. It's like that since Rika got here, everything's been nothing but trouble."
T.k smiled, "you think she brought it here?" he teased jokingly.
Kari relaxed a bit, but didn't answer, "hey T.k."
"Yeah,"
"Would you mind watching me." She asked.
T.k got up and shut the shades and locked the door. "That answer your question?"
Kari hugged him, "Thanks T.k."
"Anytime."
T.k sat back down and watched as Kari got up. She began to glow slightly and hovered in the air, her wings started flapping noiselessly, keeping her hovering their. She was really quite beautiful to him before the incident. When the incident happened she became something else to his eyes. When she used her abilities though, it seemed as if she was something so sacred it was almost blasphemy to look at her. This was through his eyes though and that was all she wanted.
Kari experienced the usual drain of energy as she entered the "pleasurable hell" as PyroDragmon called it. She had been here often enough to keep PyroDragmon updated, and she heard his whole story about Takashi, Yoush, Amber and himself. The poor thing had had a rough life. When she finally hit her full transfer, she couldn't believe what she saw.
"Sora?" Kari shouted looking at her brother's love.
"Kari?" Sora said twisting around instantly recognizing Tai's little sister's voice.
"Sora, it is you." Kari said not being able to comprehend how.
PyroDragmon interrupted their little reunion. "I don't suppose you brought it with you Kari?" He asked.
Kari turned to the red dragon, "sorry, I've just been so busy," She turned to Sora, "how is this possible, I mean, you being alive and all. It just shouldn't be happening." Kari was hysterical. Calm down girl, think, wait that's it. "Wait right here." She said and disappeared.
Sora shook her head, "if Kari could come up here, why didn't you tell me?" She questioned PyroDragmon.
"I had just assumed you knew, but I guess they keep more things in then I had guessed."
Sora thought for a moment, now that she thought about it, was she the only one who didn't have any secrets. Well, maybe Cody as well, did she have any secrets. She shook her head, "What do you want Kari to bring you?" She asked.
"Hmm, oh, I wanted her to bring me a handheld system. It can get kinda of boring up here waiting for something to happen." The red dragon told her.
"Wow," was all she could say.
"Sora?" T.k shouted seeing his best friend, "but how."
Sora turned around, "got me."
T.k turned to PyroDragmon, "hey Teeks," He said, "been awhile since you came up here."
"yeah I guess so, but do you know how Sora got here?"
"Not exactly sure," the red dragon said.
"But you do have a theory," Kari said seeing the red dragon's eyes.
"you're two observant Kari." He said to her, "but yes I have a theory."
"And?" T.k questioned.
"Well, it seems to me as if Sora is just stopping here for a little while until she can be reformatted."
"Reformatted?" Sora said surprised, "I thought that only happened with digimon."
"No, it only happens to data. Very few of the things in the Digital world are new. Almost everything and digimon has been around since the dawning of the digital world." The red dragon told them.
"And because we Digidestined have become part data as we've entered the digital world," T.k started.
"we're also reformatted." Kari finished.
"and because I was killed in the Internet, my data had a harder time finding the origin of which it came from." Sora asked.
"That's my theory, and what's here, really isn't you, but just you're data core."
T.k nodded at this, then a thought came to him, "You don't want us to tell anybody about this, do you." Sora shook her head.
"You know me to well." Sora said smiling at her young friend.
"Hmmm?" PyroDragmon said looking at a stream of data coming through.
"What is it?" Kari asked. She was pretty used to seeing data streams coming through, Digimon that had just been destroyed and their data hadn't gathered yet to be reformatted.
"This can't be right." He said looking at the three data streams coming through, "all three are digi-eggs. You can't purposely destroy a digi-egg."
"Why not?" T.k asked.
"It's a rule of the digital world, like gravity is to your world." He looked at another few streams of data, "their's another four digi-eggs, how could all these accident's be happening at the same time, unless." He shot his eyes at Sora. "Of course! T.k, Kari, you need to get to primary village NOW!"
"What?" T.k said astonished.
"Their after Sora!" the red dragon snapped. T.k and Kari came to the same realization as PyroDragmon, and looked at Sora, who had started to fade. "Her core is already starting to go back into the egg, you have to get their now!"
They both disappeared. He looked back at Sora, who had completely disappeared. "Hurry please."
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Michael grabbed a tux he liked and put it up to him, "what about this one Mimi?" he asked.
"it's nice, but?" Michael sighed, she hadn't been able to choose out her dress, and now she wasn't satisfied with any of the tux's.
"Mimi, if you don't want to do this," Michael swallowed, this was hard to say, "but if you really do love Joe more then me, you should be with him."
Mimi was almost taken back, "no, it's not that at all sweety. I just don't know if I want all this glamour and flashy stuff. I mean, I want to be with you, but I just don't want this to be such a big thing."
Palmon's jaw dropped, "but Mimi, this is what you've wanted this entire time of growing up, to be a princess and have all the glamour and paparazzi and everything that goes with it."
Mimi shook her head, "maybe it's what I wanted at one time, but being with Michael and seeing how this life really is, it's not what I want. It's overrated and it's almost a requirement to be a total jerk to everybody. I don't want to live that kinda of life, I want to just be able to live."
Michael nodded, "so, now that the wedding are parents made is canceled, do you have any suggestions."
"Please make it someplace warm and tropical and has lot's of water." Betamon pleaded, "I am an amphibian type digimon after all." He tried to look as cute as possible. Palmon laughed at her soon to be mates face."
"Actually," Mimi said grinning, "I do have an idea." Michael smiled knowing that she had something really good planned, "It'll just be us and the digi-destined."
Michael raised his eyebrows, "that's it."
"Well, the digimon as well, and about twenty or so staff." Mimi turned towards the two digimon, "I was wondering, can Patamon do legal ceremonies."
Palmon thought for a second, "as long as he digivolves he should be able to."
Mimi got a large smile on her lips, "well, that should take care of everything."
"Alright Meems." Michael demanded, "what do you have planned and how long have you been planning it."
"oh, for about a month now." She said giving him a mischievous smile.
" I take it neither of our parents are very happy with it?" he asked knowing the answer.
"you know how they are, if we do anything our way and not theirs they get mad."
Michael nodded, "so exactly how soon are you planning this."
"Well, we leave in three days. I've already sent out the invitation's."
"all of them?" Michael asked.
"Yes, I did send one to Derek and CrAbmon as well."
"Three day's eh."
Mimi shook her head, "Four days and we'll be married." She said mischievously.
Michael laughed knowing exactly what she meant.
Sora felt herself slipping from "pleasurable hell" and into an unknown spot, which she assumed must be her egg to which she would be reformatted. She felt weaker, and smaller? When she finally knew she was in the egg, but something buried resurfaced to her mind, "please no." she muttered, "I don't want to live that again, please no."
Kari fell as she came out of her trance, "ahh," she cried as he knees couldn't hold her up from lack of strength..
"Kari! Are you alright?" T.k said worried, coming out of his own trance, luckily nobody had tried to come into the room.
"I'm just weak," she stared up into T.K.'s caring eyes, "maybe I shouldn't have tried that twice in a row."
"Yeah, probably not." Patamon said.
"I'll kill you myself next time you try to do that Kari." Gatomon said licking herself.
T.k looked around, "hey Kari, I'm going to find a computer and see what I can do, you stay here and rest."
"T.k, whatever's there is probably pretty powerful, you're going to need some help." She said worried, still on the floor.
"I'll be fine Kari, right now it's Sora we need to worry about." He said binding up her wings, noticing a blue tint to them.
"You'll need help." Rika told him bluntly.
T.k spun around, "when did you get here Rika?" he asked surprised.
"Just a second ago." Rika grabbed her laptop, (the same one she had used when she and Tai first went into the digital world.) She opened a port, "this is as close to Primary village as I can get you guys."
Kari tried to get up, but her legs just wouldn't hold her, "Kari…" T.k said, "stop, you'll just hurt yourself."
Kari turned to Rika, "can you go?" she pleaded.
Rika shook her head, "my legs are injured far to badly, however." Rika shadow shifted to a seat next to Kari.
Rika knew this was going to take a lot out of her, she gathered what little control of shadow she had, and what little control of light she had, and interwoven them together.
Kari's eyes widened as she saw Rika control both light and shadow. Was that even possible? The glow around Rika was gray, neither light nor shadow, but a mix that was in between. Was that even possible. The gray glow transferred into Kari, and she felt a huge surge of energy.
"That's all I can give you," Rika said tiredly, "it'll keep up for about six hours, but after that you're going to need one long sleep."
"What did you just do, I didn't recognize that power at all." Kari said reenergized.
"I just used shadow and light."
"You lie," Gatomon told her, "shadow is black and light is a white. What you did emitted a gray energy."
"I just interwoven them," Rika said very energy drained, "you guys better go, otherwise you may not be in time." T.k nodded and stood next to Kari and they pointed their digivice's at the screen.
"Digi-port open"
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Henry lowered himself let his body spin around and knocked a Goblimon too the ground. As it got up he nailed it with the back of his foot, sending it flying and bursting into data.
Lopmon stared around and launched a ball of ice at one of her opponents. The Goblimon burst into data, she noticed the Goblimon were holding back. She fingered the Shurikens she still had in her ears, six of them to be exact. "Henry, they're holding back." She told him.
"yeah, I noticed." He told her.
"But why?" Terriermon asked.
"A final assault perhaps, their's only between twenty and thirty of them left." Lopmon replied.
"Theirs twenty seven within viewing distance. Problem is we don't know how large this field is or how many Goblimon actually appeared." Henry told them, he looked at them, they we're diffently coming for an attack. He grabbed a card and swiped it through his D-ark. "Magnum activate," he said.
Terriermon held a six barreled magnum in his ear. "Umm, Henry, I think I'm going to need something with a few more shots."
"It's all I have right now. I don't even have a digivolution card on me." He said.
Suzie went through her deck, "wwhat about his Henwee?" she asked giving him a card.
"A scythe," Henry looked at Terriermon, "it's too top heavy, he couldn't wield it for very long." Suzy looked at the card and understood it.
"Here," she said getting another card, "it's all I have. I'm sorreee, Henwee, I just don't have the wweaker won, and this won wight be too strong."
Henry looked at the card and his eyes widened as he looked over at the magnum. His little sister came up with this plan? He was going to ask her about it later, but right now it wasn't the best time. However she was right about it being to strong. He pulled out another card
"DIGIMODIFY DOUBLE CARD SLASH" He shouted swiping both cards through.
"STIFFEN"
"ANTI-TANKMON MINE ACTIVATE"
Henry tore off his belt and sweat bands, he tied his bands together with his belt and stuck one of the bands on each of Terriermon's now rock hard hears. He placed the Anti-Tankmon mine in the belt, aimed towards where most of the Goblimon's were, and launched, it fell short, but it was far enough away. Henry put his wristbands and belt back on.
"You mind warning me before you use me as a slingshot." Terriermon complained.
"Quit griping and just get ready," Lopmon told her mate, "theirs more and their coming."
Henry got back into position. Both of the twins were armed with clubs, and Suzie had a few cards ready for Lopmon to use. He didn't even bother checking what they were, if she could come up a plan like the anti-Tankmon mine, then he wasn't worried at all what cards she had.
"Here they come," Henry said.
Terriermon saw them coming closer, very slowly, and he smiled, they didn't even know what the mine was. He fired a few shots into the left of the group, hearding them even closer into the mine. Lopmon did the same by swinging her head forward and taking out a little more then a few of the Goblimon. They huddled closer together, near the mine.
As they got into the perfect position, Lopmon heard two shots fire and the mine went off. All that's was left in that spot was an impassable crater, and whole lot of free floating data. The other Goblimon froze when they saw this. Henry smiled, the more time to prepare, they better chance Guilmon and Takato got here.
Lopmon launched her final three Shurikens splicing four Goblimon that were running towards them.
"BLAZING ICE!" she shouted launching her attack at the enemy. The large ice flaming ice ball froze two Goblimon as it flew past and deleted the one it hit.
"Digi-modihy" Suzie said cheerfully, "let's do this Lopmon, Bunwee Blades." She said as Lopmon's ears became the same kind of Blades as Antylamon's.
"Suzie, Ai, Mako," Henry said quickly, "you three get into the crater," he dropped his body, took a step forwards and threw the Goblimon over the knee, in which Mako bashed it's face in with the club, shattering it into a million data particles.
"Are you crazy," Terriermon said, "TERRIER TORNADO!" He shouted knocking back a few Goblimon and shattering one. "That's about the worse place for them to defend themselves. The Goblimon will have high ground advantage. BUNNY BLAST!" He shouted knocking another one back.
"I know, but it'll be easier to guard them!" he shouted snapping a Goblimon's arm and slamming him in the face with his fist.
Ai and Mako hadn't bothered to listen to the conversation, but got quickly into the hold, "I-I'm-m-m s-c-ca-red, Mako," Ai stuttered out.
They had hid behind a crevice, "it'll be alright Ai, Henry and Terriermon and Lopmon will protect us. And I'm sure Takato will be here soon with Guilmon as well. And Impmon wouldn't abandon us." Mako said trying to sound as confident as possible, he was failing miserably, as he wasn't even sure if they were going to get out of this.
Lopmon jumped and slashed with both of her ears, the Goblimon blocked it with his club, but Lopmon used this force to flip herself over the club and landing on his shoulders, the momentum carried her ears right into the back of the Goblimon. "BLAZING ICE!" she shouted letting her attack fly striking a Goblimon deleting them.
Henry sidestepped a swing of the club, grabbed the Goblimon by the arm and threw him into another group of Goblimon knocking them all down. This was bad, he was tiring already and they hadn't even defeated half of the Goblimon. He swung his fist as hard as he could, through the Goblimon. His fist collided and launched the charging digimon back into another group of them. He really wasn't going to last much longer.
Suzie swiped another card through her Pink D-arc, "Digi modihy, ADDRENALIN RESTOCK." She shouted. Lopmon felt her dwindling supply of adrenaline start working on overload. She let out a roar, and dove into the Goblimon striking left and right, becoming a whirlwind of bladed ears, "WHIRLWIND CUTTER!" She roared, Goblimon fell left and right being cut down in their tracks, most not even seeing anymore then a blur of brown and pink.
Suzie put the card into her left pocket, feeling the four cards in her pocket scared her. To haft to use four cards and not even have beaten their oppenent, and all the cards were fairly good one's too. She turned back to the battle to see Henry throw a bad digimon into another group of bad digimon. "Henwee," she cried as a Goblimon jumped over him, "turn around." The Goblimon flew farther then she had expected, no, not Suzie, she thought seeing that the Goblimon was not trying to hit Henwee from behind, but to hit her.
Henry had turned at Suzie's plea, "SUZIE WATCH OUT!" he shouted as he watched in horror as the Goblimon swung it's club landing it directly on Suzie.
"AHHHHH!" she cried in agony as she flew back into the crater. Henry could only watch in horror as his little sister's injured body fell to the rocks below, which would kill her instantly.
Suzie slammed up against something cold and hard, but she felt herself slide down next to Ai and Mako, she felt herself slowly slipping into unconsciousness as the twins screamed…
Henry saw his sister fall, and then slam into a piece of ice that had appeared out of nowhere, and slide down it next to the twins. He ducked and slammed the Goblimon that had tried to catch him while he was unaware. He then launched a kick into the Goblimon's face sending it flying. A shadow raised a club behind him.
The Goblimon had thought himself pretty great to take out the little girl, but he knew the green striped one was behind him, so as soon as he extinguished the pink light, he turned around to face the green one. To his astonishment, he had turned around back to face another Digimon. The Goblimon smiled and silently stood over him. He raised his club to strike, and burst into a million pieces of data as he saw a blue sword run through his tiny skull.
Takashi turned towards Henry, "Well, I guess that's two you owe me." He said jokingly.
Henry smiled, then remembered his little sister, "Suzie," He said running to the edge. Takashi grabbed his arm,
"I know you're worried, but she'll be fine for now, we have to take care of these guys first." He said calmly.
Henry nodded and turned back towards the Goblimon, only to see another familiar face coming through the hordes of Goblimon.
Takato ran through the crowds with his claws going full slashing and dashing. The three foot blades coming off the back met many a surprised Goblimon. Takato tore through the crowd like paper, the hazard sign glowing and flashing a bright red.
Guilmon came charging through the crowd as well, next to Takato. He jumped, tore the head off of a Goblimon. "PYRO SPHERE!" he shouted jumping off the headless Goblimon. His attack landed into a group of three, destroying all of them. He landed claws full bearing completely demolishing the poor Goblimon. His tail lashed out and drove its spikes into three different Goblimon in less then a second. His Hazard sign flashing full. He leapt on top of the end of Takato's blades. Takato drove his claw down into a Goblimon, sending Guilmon flying into a hoard. Three seconds later, all that was left was a bunch of data. Takato continued to slice his way through tell he came next to Takashi and Henry.
"Hey." He said cheerfully.
"Are those, and was that?" Henry asked, stupefied.
"Yeah, these are his claws, and that was his tail he used." Takato said casually.
"Took you long enough though." Takashi said jokingly lightening up the mode, "I mean seriously, we've got like three hundred or so Goblimon left and all we have is my blade, Henry's Jujitsu, a rookie and a dog that's trying to be a bunny."
Terriermon glared, "hey, I wouldn't be talking ice boy."
"Better then having my species mixed up." Takashi shot back.
"Momenti guys" Lopmon interrupted, Terriermon stuck his tongue out at her, "we can always insult each other later, right now Suzie's hurt pretty bad we have no way out of this mess.
Takato looked at the Goblimon, "what are they doing?"
"Their, self-destructing." Henry said, amazed, "but why."
"No, their not self-destructing, all their data is going into one source." He said pointing to a glowing entity.
"Well, isn't this just the best time to be alive, hey hey hey." A metallic voice sounded, "I mean how often do you get to take out digi-destined. Cause MetalEtamon is here for his comeback tour, and guess what guys. You all have front row seats." The metal monkey said coming out of the woods and into the clearing grinning largely.
"MetalEtamon eh," Takashi said, "comeback tour, give me a brake. You couldn't even get you're first tour going before MetalGreymon wiped you off the planet, then you fell to SaberLeomon."
"yeah, but this time it'll be you who are going to fall as I show you my best performance yet, Banana Slip."
The banana peel flew towards them, and fell to the ground. Takashi stood on the other side his sword out full. "Look's like you're opening song wasn't very impressive, I hope you're performance provides at least a little entertainment, for however short it may be."
Takato handed Henry a card. Henry nodded and swung it through his digivice, "DIGIMODIFY DIGIVOULTION ACTIVATE"
"Terriermon Digivolve to
GARGOMON."
"Well, so the talking piece of metal over there is a Mega. Hmm, I thought they were supposed to be strong." He taunted.
"They are, but you know, theirs always exceptions to the rules." Takashi joined in the taunting.
"Hey Takatomon," Guilmon asked, "can we go grab some peanut butter banana's when we beat him. His attack makes me hungry.
"You want a banana, eat this, Banana Slip!" a now very annoyed Mega said.
"Pyro Sphere!" The attack's collided throw dirt and dust everywhere. Takashi put up a wall of ice to block the attack. Takato jumped in front of Henry with his claws in a protective stance.
Henry got back up, and heard a cough. "Suzie," he said, realizing just how little time she might really have. His eyes narrowed.
"Suzie's in trouble," Henry's stripes started to glow a green, "and I need to get her some help."
"Well, sorry to stop you, but I've got a show to perform, and no one is stopping me," MetalEtamon noticed Henry running towards him, "what do you think you're doing kid, I'm Pure ChromeDigizoid. You'll just injure yourself if you try to attack."
"I know," Henry was moving at triple the speed he normally was. He jumped over a thrown banana.
"MONKEY PUNCH" MetalEtamon shouted as Henry jumped in front of him. Henry had been counting on this and lowered his body at the last second, MetalEtamon's fist flew over him. Henry stood up three times as fast as he normally would and launched the Metal monkey forward.
Takato leapt forward, "oww, you're hurting my beautiful body" came the reply as Takato slashed an X with his claws on the front of his chest leaving deep gashes.
"It's been to long for you to be back now!" Takashi snarled as he slammed his sword into MetalEtamon as Takato flipped over him. Takashi sword shattered like shrapnel and dug a thousand bullet proof ice splinters into MetalEtamon. He flipped over the mega.
"GARGOMON, NOW!" Henry shouted.
"You think that hurt me, you got to be kidding." MetalEtamon laughed, "wait, what's your bunny doing." He said with a tinge of fear in his voice.
"Do it." Henry said sharply.
Gargomon was glowing green. "DIGIFORCE!" he shouted channeling all his power into one attack. The green light struck MetalEtamon square in the chest, shattering him into a million pieces.
"Dude, I rock." Gargomon says before falling on the ground unconscious as Terriermon.
Takato couldn't help but laugh as his claws formed back into his regular hands, and his Hazard D-arc was clipped to his belt, "ah, come on, at least have some originality." Takato said laughing his head off.
"What, I like the show, what's the matter with that?" Henry protested as everybody's marks stopped glowing or flashing.
"That just goes beyond obsession though." Takato said stilling laughing his head off.
Takashi just shook his head at those two as he grabbed Suzie very carefully. When he got up out of the crater with the twins following him, the monster maker's were their. He handed the unconscious Suzie to her father, and Mr. Wong and the other monster makers took off for the hospital with Henry and Takato.
"you kept them safe?" Yamaki asked as the twins came out of the crater.
Takashi nodded, "as well as I could, but Henry was the one that kept them safe for most of the time. If you're to thank somebody it would be him."
Yamaki nodded and knelt down next to the twins, "are you two alright?" he asked compassionately.
They both nodded, Yamaki stood up and shook both of their heads playfully. He turned to Takashi, "you know?"
Takashi nodded, "so does Yamshowzu and Takato."
Yamaki nodded, "yes, Riley told me this morning of Takato's discovery." He said thoughtfully, "I know I haven't been very fatherly to them at all, but I would ask you as a concerned dad for his kids…" Yamaki stopped.
Takashi bowed to him, "of course, you don't even need to ask."
Yamaki smiled, "thank you, it's good to know there in the hands of somebody who can take care of them." Yamaki started to walk off.
"hey Yamaki," Takashi called out. He paused for a sec, before finishing, "I assume I'll be staying at you're place now."
Yamaki smiled and tossed him some keys, "depends, only if you can find the right key." Their was like twenty eight of them.
Takashi nodded as Yamaki left, "So, what were you going to ask Papa," Ai questioned.
"You notice too much, anybody ever tell you that." He replied.
"No, so what was it." Ai persisted.
"I found a blue card today, except this one was made for somebody, and not just to fuel the Matrix code.
Piedmon smiled, the Elecmon was being very persistent, but he could tell he was fading, "so, I'll ask one more time, where is her egg."
Elecmon stared at him, " I won't ever tell you."
"Very well, I guess I'll just have to call Gigadramon and tell him this area is of no use anymore. Of course the eggs will survive, but all the little one's might not make it," he said with mock sadness, "our entire future Generation might be wiped out with one blow. Even sadder is that with their homeland destroyed, the newborn's might not make it." He said sounding really saddening.
"yeah right," a voice came from behind, "you really should keep better contact with you allies. Gigadramon won't be hurting anyone for awhile now." Piedmon turned around, "hmm, angels, I thought you were extinct. What joy to tell my master, I'm sure if I brought you in, he could find some use for you. What joy it'll be to have a few more angel digimon key chain's as well." He said. He looked at the two angels, "why do you look so familiar?" He questioned.
The male angel looked around, "so, I take it by you're conversation, you really do want Sora's egg. Why?" He demanded.
Piedmon stared at them still trying to figure out were he knew them, "it doesn't matter what my master wants with it, all that matters is that he does. He has his own reasons, now please, refresh my memory. Where have I seen you before."
The female angel whispered something into the males ear, she flew a little bit above him. The two angel Digimon were flying on either side of the male one. For some reason the female angel above the male one looked very vaguely familiar.
"The Rope!" Piedmon stated remembering where he'd seen them, "it's you're fault," he said acidly pointing to T.k. "I Had EVERYTHING, AND YOU TOOK IT AWAY FROM ME."
"No, you let your own self fall by getting to cocky." T.k told him.
"I will not make the same mistake again." He snarled. "TRUMP SWORD!" He shouted sending his four swords flying, catching both of the angel digimon in the wings pinning them to the walls.
"T.k, Catch." Angemon said throwing his staff. The Digidestined of Hope caught it with ease, and just in time to block an on coming sword.
"Look's like you're going to haft to do better then that to take me on." T.k mocked him.
Piedmon smiled, "well, well, look who's the cocky one this time. TRUMP SWORD!" He shouted bringing out his two blades swinging them at T.k. T.k dropped a little and parried the blow over him with the staff.
(Start Music)
Takashi headed to the dock with the twins. They had been chattering quietly among themselves, while Takashi had been behind them watching everyone and everything.
"The Ice Gauge has now docked, please move off quietly to the left, and be reminded, all animals must be…" Takashi heard over the intercom. He pushed the twins to a bench, and waited. It took about thirty minutes, but he finally saw what he had been waiting for.
"Takashi" Riley said joyfully, "been awhile."
"Only if you consider a week awhile. It's really not all that long, especially when you're really working on something hard and that's a pain in the but to do." Gomamon said still typing on his computer.
"Like?" Takashi asked not even wanting to know what the computer freak had been doing while he wasn't under his supervision.
"like trying to figure out if that pain in the but twin of mine actually survived or not. Theirs some sort of barrier that's in the way from me sending transmissions." Takashi looked at him, "yes, I have tried hacking it down, but it would be a lot easier if I knew what I was actually up against and was at the scene of where the barrier is, but I'm not, so I've just do what I can."
"So, is Betamon alright?" Riley asked.
"It would take a lot to take down DMB, but…" Gomamon said still typing like a mad man.
Takashi raised his eyebrows, Riley translated the question so the two little kids could understand.
"He went up against a Mega, otherwise he wouldn't have called for so much power against it." Riley told them.
"Exactly," Gomamon said, understanding why Riley translated, "the thing is, that much energy would have left him weak in his in-training form. Unless he took whatever he was up against out in that one blow, or he had some help. He would be done for.
"Keep seeing what you can do to contact him," Takashi said giving the seal his D-arc, "but right now, we got to go, Suzie was hurt pretty bad… and part of it's my fault. So we need to go and see what we can do to help."
Riley raised his eyebrows, Takashi was caring for somebody else besides himself. Well, he usually just made sure the person would survive and moved on, but there was actual concern in his voice. It was weird, did he really change this much, he's only been separated from Gomamon for a week. Riley stared at the white seal who was still typing while pushing the Laptop. He couldn't believe that digimon, he couldn't even walk someplace without using his laptop.
Henry sat outside the room, his sister had been in their for awhile now. He looked up at the clock, two hours since she had entered that room. He got up and paced. He felt a hand on his shoulder, and turned to see the smiling face of Takato, "she'll be alright," He told him.
Henry nodded, but still paced. He looked up at the clock again, "two and half hour's," he muttered. He looked at Lopmon, he had completely forgotten about her. She was probably in just as much pain as he was, maybe even worse. He knew what happened to Jeri when she lost her partner, but what if, Lopmon lost her partner. Would it be harder for the Digimon? Lopmon was uneasy.
Takashi came around the corner, with another boy, the Imp twins and a Gomamon typing on a computer.
"Riley," The boy said sticking his hand out.
"Henry Wong," he said shaking it.
"and I'm Takato Matsuki." Takato said also shaking his hand.
"how is she?" Takashi asked softly, sitting the twins on the seat, and noticing their unusual lack of energy.
"I don't know," Henry replied truthfully, "she went in two and a half hours ago, nobody's came out since."
"It's my fault." Lopmon said from her seat, her head hung down, "I should have been their for her. I should have protected her."
"Yeah and you would have gotten both of you killed for sure." Gomamon told her sharply. "Look here," he told her pointing his laptop towards her. On the screen there was a club made up of different kinds of data. "This is the club that the Goblimon were using. You see this here," he said pointing to a small area of data, "this right here isn't in you're average Goblimon's data. This was inserted into it."
Takashi looked at it, "pull up the code," he told Gomamon. The young seal did as he was told.
Gomamon pointed to a part of the code, "this right here is made to screw up this code," he said pulling up another one.
Henry looked at them, "what's Lopmon's code?" he asked.
Gomamon brought it up, "here," he pointed to a point in it, "this is were it is in Lopmon." The code made up a fair of amount of Lopmon's total data. He exited out of the window that held Lopmon's code.
"you didn't get that code originally from Lopmon, did you?" Riley ask pointing to the code that the club was supposed to screw up.
"No," Gomamon said shaking his head. He brought up a wire frame of code, like he had done with the club and Lopmon's earlier.
Henry stared in horror, the outline of data was Suzie, "you mean?"
Gomamon nodded, "the whole point of this attack was to take out Suzie, then the data would form MetalEtamon afterwards and try and wipe out the rest of you guys."
Lopmon looked at the code, "I got that code from Suzie, didn't I. That wasn't part of me originally."
Gomamon stared at her, "that's a possibility." He started typing like a madman. He brought up another wire frame of Lopmon, "let's see, here's your code before you met Suzie. You're right, Lopmon. Somehow you Suzie shared this code with you, but how. I mean, when Henry and Terriermon biomerged, their data became mixed, giving each a bit of the other's code."
"But Suzie never Biomerged…" Lopmon said thoughtfully.
"Well Momenti guys," Terriermon interjected, "I'm sure we'll figure out why later. Besides this is Suzie we're talking about, would anybody actually miss her anyw…" Terriermon didn't even get to finish his sentence.
Lopmon held Terriermon by throat up against the wall, "you insensitive clod!" she said angrily tears forming down her cheeks. " How can you say something like that." She dropped him as his face started to turn purple.
"I was only trying to lighten the mood." Terriermon gasped out.
Gomamon was still typing like mad. Takashi was lost in thought, Riley had sat down next to the twins and Henry looked back at the door.
"How different would you let Suzie become if she could live." Takashi asked without any emotion in his voice.
"What…" Henry questioned said turning towards him.
"Gomamon, pull up my data stream," He told his partner.
"Alright?" Gomamon said questionlly, "but I don't see how that could help…"
"no, my old one. Also, run a scan for any data that matches the line of code of the club." He thought for a sec, "bring up Suzie's current code status as well."
Gomamon did as he was told, but he was perplexed, until three new window's popped up on the screen, "how did you know?"
Takashi looked the codes, he pointed to Suzie's current code, "she's taken to much damage, unless we can seal of that piece of code, she's gone."
Henry was still perplexed, "but how can you do that?"
Gomamon started typing up faster then a madman, "let's see, it may just work, we'll need another energy source, however." He looked around.
Takashi stared at Takato, "you have control of it now."
Takato nodded, "I take it you'll need my help."
Gomamon looked back up at his partner, are you sure about this. You know what kind of problems could come about with Hazard.
Takashi looked back at his partner, Trust me, I know what I'm doing.
Gomamon stared back at his computer, Takashi knew the risks, he was just going to have to trust him on this.
Takashi turned back to Henry, "you may not be understanding what's going on, but I need you're permission to do this Henry."
"I want her to live." Was all he could say.
Shibumi looked at the group, "so, Takashi, you do realize what you're going to do."
Takashi nodded.
Shibumi smiled, "Then let's get in you their."
"Are you sure about this Shibumi?" Mr. Wong asked. It had taken fifteen minutes to get everybody but Takashi, Gomamon and Takato out of the operating room. It had been Henry's barking for everybody to get out that finally got them the room.
"I know what I saw in that code that was brought up." Shibumi told him.
"This is my daughter's life you betting with." Mr. Wong told him.
Shibumi sighed, "Takashi observes everything and remembers it as well. Gomamon knows more about computer's, digimon, Tamers then anything or body in all four quadrants and Takashi would not bring Takato in their just for no reason. We don't know enough about what happened to Suzie, how she's changed or how to fix it. They do. All we can do is trust them." Shibumi looked over at Henry, "you son trust's them, why can't you."
"But your own child's life next time." Mr. Wong said sharply before walking off.
Lopmon sat there with worry, but she knew those two knew what they were doing, she was just scared. Lopmon, she heard in her head. She looked around.
Good, now this may hurt a little bit, Lopmon freaked out, what was this voice going to do, then she recognized it, Takato. Here, I'm going to put you to sleep, please don't fight it too much, and I'm sorry if it hurts, I just got control of Hazard, and I'm not very good at it." Lopmon understood and she let herself fall into a deep sleep.
Terriermon saw Lopmon fall off her seat, "Lopmon.." he cried as he kneeled next to her, "Lopmon, wake up." He said shaking her. He looked around, nobody else had noticed Lopmon fall. "Henry," He cried.
Henry turned around, "what happened?" he said nervously as he scooped up Lopmon.
"I don't know, she was just sitting their, then she fell over." Terriermon said worried.
Henry checked Lopmon's breathing, "she's alive Terriermon, she's just asleep. She's probably just exhausted from everything." He said placing her under a seat wrapped up in his coat.
Terriermon looked worried, "are you sure?" Terriermon asked.
Henry nodded. Terriermon sat down underneath the seat as well and stayed by Lopmon's side for the next ten hours.
Takato came out of the room five hour's after going in. Henry was the first one to him.
"How is she?" He asked.
Takato sighed, "she'll live, she'll live…" he said out of breath.
"Then we can go see her?" Mrs. Wong asked scared.
Takato shook his head, "The rooms too cold for you to stand. I stayed in their as long as possible, but it just got too cold."
"Hmmm?" Mr. Wong asked.
"Takashi has to keep the room at forty below, minimum. He's going to get it colder as Suzie get's used to it, but they have to stay in their for probably twenty four hours. Gomamon said he would send us some emails from time to time.
Shibumi's laptop beeped, "Look's like here's the first one." He said, "hmm, he says everything's alright and that she'll survive, their going to have to keep that room cold thought so there won't be any complications. Let's see he has a list of items he wants us to email him."
"Email him?" Yamaki asked having just arrived. He shook the twins head playfully.
"That's what it says." Shibumi tells him, "looks like theirs an attachment. It's instruction's on how to email the stuff to him."
"Well, what do they need?" Yamaki asked. Henry looked at the old man, how much did he already know about what was going on.
"Let's see, She's going to be hungrier then Guilmon at a buffet line, so we need everything frozen you can send us that doesn't require any cooking. About sixty pounds of frozen fruit should work. Also, plenty of ice cream, about 25 gallons should work. You should also probably send a few loafs of bread. Yes I know frozen bread is a pain to eat, but carbs will definitely help. You should also send a few blankets, just a few light things, oh and could you send a forty below mummy bag for me, it'll get pretty cold here as the process goes on and just because Suzie has to freeze and Takashi has to as well because he needs to know how cold the Temperature is doesn't mean I have to so if you would. Anything else, oh yeah, current temperature, -48 degrees below Zero."
"Ok, well let's go and grab the stuff," Yamaki said, "theirs a warehouse not to far from here, we'll just buy everything directly out of their. Besides, it'll take everybody's mind's off of things."
Mr. Wong smiled, "well, I guess theirs nothing else we can do."
Takashi stared at the sleeping bag that held his Digimon and the laptop, "any luck?" He asked.
Gomamon shook his head from inside the bag, "nothing, Suzie's doing fine though, that's at least good news."
Takashi shook his head, he had hoped that nobody else would ever have to live like him. But their was stress relived off of his chest, now he wasn't the only one to exist with a cold body temperature, and Suzie didn't have to go through all the torture he did. He also saved her life, so that was another plus.
He heard a noise from the bed and smiled, "here," he said tossing her a few frozen strawberries.
Suzie caught them with ease. She shivered, "where is Suzie?" she asked.
Takashi smiled, "so you are alive, you were hurt pretty bad in a fight, you almost died…" Takashi stopped, she was so young and innocent, "you're different now, changed."
Suzie looked around, "I'm cold," she said biting into a strawberry.
"You should be." Takashi told her, "it's a hundred and eighty seven degrees below zero here."
Suzie looked at him, "but shouldn't wwe be frowzen then?" she asked.
"Welcome to my world Suzie, like I said you've changed, you will now be more used to the cold, and shy away from hotter things." He looked at her, she had two pink stripes on her cheeks, matching Henry's green one's exactly, "and you and Lopmon are more apart of each other then ever before."
Suzie didn't fully comprehend this, "I'm tired, wake me up when it's not so cold." She said.
Takashi grabbed a blanket and threw it over Suzie. "you're life's just changed forever Suzie, I hope you can handle it.
Betamon: Why were we supposed to start music?
F.t: What I'm sorry, I wasn't able to get the Lyrics for T.k's theme song.
Gomamon: Theme Song?
F.t: yeah, almost every Destined and Tamer has their own theme song.
Betamon: Interesting, well
Gomamon: Here's the list.
Betamon: Ok Reader's here's the deal. If you can name everybody's theme song that has been put up and guess at least two more destined/Tamer's songs, then you'll get recognized in our next chapter.
Gomamon: if you do guess Two theme songs that haven't been shown yet, then not only will you be recognized, but you also get to choose a theme song for one of the remaining people. Only if it's good though.
F.t: (shakes head) what are you two doing?
Gomamon: well, we're kinda of tired of the Reviews that just say, update quick, and that's it. So we figured we'd have some fun.
F.t: Anybody want a trade partners?
Oh, and Happy New Year's, This is my start of the year present to all of you. (Hey, it could be worse, you're sister could be a Numemon…)