Betamon: Last time on Digi-modification, Sora, having died went to a place to wait to be reformatted, a digital Purgatory if you will. Anyways, their she met a small strange digimon named PyroDragmon, who told her of a place called DATS and how it caused Takashi to snap and go on a rampage. Kari, using the power of light, went to visit PyroDragmon, in which she learned that Sora was still alive and was going to be reformatted. She and T.k quickly went to meet her, but when they got there, they met an old enemy, Piedmon.
Gomamon: Back in the Tamer's world, while Henry, the Bunny and Dog wantabe bunny.
Terriermon: madHEY,/mad
Betamon: Come on Terriermon, you're interrupting the recap.
Gomamon: grinning evilly Momenti Terriermon /grinning evilly
Terriermon: Hmmph.
Gomamon: anyways, Henry, Terriermon and Lopmon were holding off a bunch of Goblimon, when one leapt over the group and hit Suzie into a crater, in which she would have broken her back if she landed. Takashi had just arrived luckily, and was able to make a slide of ice down into the crater. Unluckily, Suzie still slammed against the ice pretty hard, injuring herself horribly.
Betamon: As Henry watched in horror at his injured sister, Takato and Guilmon slashed and stabbed their way through the hoard of Goblimon. The six warrior's now stood a better chance against the mass, but something was wrong.
Gomamon: All the Goblimon combined their data to make MetalEtamon. Due to the fact that MetalEtamon's body hadn't completely solidified into ChromeDigizoid, Takato was able to open a large gash in his body with MegiDramon's claws and that Henry had modified Gargomon's guns, they were able to take him out.
Betamon: Make note though, Neither me nor Gomamon authorized F.t to be able to make Gargomon Metabee.
Terriermon: What's so bad about it,
Twins: (sweatdrop)
Gomamon: anyways, after the battle, Riley and Gomamon, Takashi's hacker of a digimon, arrived in Japan. Going to the hospital, Gomamon showed them a few strange things. A. Suzie's has more data in her then you're average human who hasn't Biomerged B. The clubs the Goblimon were wielding were meant to take out Suzie directly. C. Her data is far to screwed up to heal normally, or have somebody fix it.
F.t: (just now coming into the room) what are you guys doing?
Betamon: were just giving a recap of the last chapter, theirs nothing wrong with that.
F.t: Not really, but why are you guys trying to take over my story.
Gomamon: were not taking it over. You're readers are probably just bored to death, so were providing a little bit of entertainment for them.
F.t: Ummm, Any non-tamer out their who wants to become one? These two are worse then Gomamon and Terriermon DNAed Digivolved.
Terriermon: Dude, we'd be ultimate, nobody would be able to do anything but bend over laughing their buts off.
Gomamon: he mean's Joe's Gomamon, not me. Me, I'd just hack myself out of that and then write up a code that would prevent it from ever happening.
Betamon: Eww, Terriermon's drooling.
F.t: (Sweatdropped) I'll go get a mop. And oh, I use the Song Higher by Creed,
Betamon: Yes Yes, that IS T.K.'s theme Song
F.t: and I don't own it, Creed does, just incase you didn't get that
Gomamon: Well, now that the recaps over, onto to the preview.
Takashi: Looks you've got more talent then I ever had…
Gomamon: Suzie's Data, is, Adaptable…
Piedmon: The egg, where is it
T.k: (Groan's and looks at Piedmon)
Piedmon: Kari! You tricked me, and now she will pay…
Sora: It started when we were young, when Tai threw up in my hat…
Steven: I'm… a Tamer? (Turns around) Tyrannomon?
Sora's Story Part II
Takashi watched Suzie eat, they had been in the cold box for twenty eight hour's now, and he was slowly lowering the temperature, it was currently thirty five below zero. When he started lowering the temperature in the room four hours ago, Suzie had stirred, a few hour's later when the temperature reached seventy below, she had awoken, and like he had predicted, very hungry. He sliced another frozen strawberry up into pieces small enough she could just swallow.
"How come you don't slice up the strawwberrwees for you?" She asked as Takashi bit into a whole one.
He smiled, she had an even worse time talking now, but he knew that would heal, "it's a trick I learned a while ago. I sharpen my teeth with a bit of ice."
"ill I be able to do tat?" She asked curiously.
"Not for awhile, but eventually…"
"Can I see Henwee?" She asked.
Takashi felt the temperature, it was around ten below, "when the room warms up a bit more." He told her.
"But it is orm," she complained.
"Maybe to us, but your definition of warm is different now." He was worried, could something have happened, a factor he hadn't thought of? He looked at the area around Suzie. "hold up." He said getting up from off the frost covered ground. He went over to the bed, and was surprised, it was probably a good forty degrees warmer here.
"ut is it?" Suzie asked confused.
"look's like you have more natural talent then I had," Takashi said smiling. "I want you to expand what you're doing to this room…"
Suzie was confused, "what am I doing?" she asked.
Takashi thought for a second, she knows she's doing it, but she can't see what she's doing, she's doing it all be feel, interesting. "Here, I want you to relax you're eyes, close them, and then open them relaxed."
Suzie did as she was told, and she looked around, Takashi had a bright light blue aura around him. She looked at the bed, and saw a pink glow covering a small area around her. There was another glow surrounding the entire room, it was the same blue as Takashi, but it had lines of a blue tinted white mixed in it. "iy does evething look prety?" she asked.
Takashi smiled, "what you're seeing is the glow of energy that is required to do something. You see the glow around me and You?" he asked.
She nodded, "uh huh,".
"That glow you're seeing is data of a sort, anybody who's been to the digital world have it, and so do all digimon." Suzie nodded not completely understanding.
"Any way's, here, you see the pink glow that's encompassing the area around you?"
Suzie nodded.
"I want you to expand that,"
"lrite, I'll ry…" She said, she concentrated trying to push the glow, and to her surprise it expanded.
"Suzie tired," she said laying back on the bed. Takashi handed her a piece of bread,
"here, eat this, it shouldn't be to hard." He told her.
Suzie bit into it, and grabbed the next piece and wolfed them both down. In a matter of one minute forty six seconds, two of the six loaves were gone.
"yeah, sorry about that, I forgot how low on energy you were, or how much it really takes out of you when you first try it." Suzie nodded, and fell back asleep.
Within the hour, they had warmed the room up to fifty degrees and Takashi woke Suzie up.
"hmmm?" she yawned.
"the room is warm enough, I'm going to bring you're family in." Suzie nodded and got up.
Gomamon had come out five hours before the Takashi let the family in, "Brr," He said shaking his body, "it's cold in their. Two hundred below is not something that anybody should haft to experience," he said. Takashi suffered it and colder for up to ten hour's a day. A voice told him in the back of his mind making him feel guilty.
Henry watched as in surprised as the rookie digimon warmed up really fast, "What?" he said questionlly.
"Takashi just ran a heat card for me," Gomamon told him. He walked over to the seats were Lopmon was sleeping, and Terriermon was sitting next to her.
"How is Suzie?" Henry asked. Henry was the last one to stay there, as it was eleven in the morning, the next day. His family and everybody else had gone home to get some sleep, only Henry stayed. He sighed.
"She'll live, I'm surprised though, that should have killed her, and there should have been nothing anybody could have done, not even MagnaAngemon." The seal told them.
Takato came around the corner and tossed Henry a few pastries. "Their fresh," he told him. He turned to the rookie digimon, "then how did she survive?" he said.
"Because of the reason they aimed to kill her… her, data, is unique…" he said.
"What do you mean Unique?" Henry questioned.
"Meaning that she's very adaptable… yet they coded the club to use that against her, why they cared so much though, I don't know." He told him.
"Takashi's data was also adaptable, wasn't it?" Takato asked.
"Yeah Hazard, that's what I don't understand, if they knew Suzie's code was so adaptable, why didn't they try to kidnap her instead? It doesn't make to much sense."
Something stirred underneath the seat, "hmm?" Takato said bending down, to see Lopmon sitting up.
"What happened?" she asked dazed.
"Sorry about that Lopmon, we needed to copy some data from you to save Suzie, it looks like it took a little bit more out of you then we thought it would." Takato told her.
"No… I think you don't have quite as much control of Hazard as you think." She said getting out from under the chairs, leaving Terriermon still sleeping.
"That's probably more likely it…" Gomamon said typing something into the computer, "yep that's it, looks like your going to have a bit of Hazard code in you for a while, it shouldn't cause to many problems, although I would try anything with Terriermon in the next few days as it could end up badly." Gomamon said all of this as it was just casual talk as he typed away at his computer.
Takato and Henry looked at each other and started laughing as Lopmon blushed
Henry and Takato were still the only one's their when Takashi opened the door, Henry ran right to his sister, "are you all right Suzie?" he asked squeezing the life out of her.
"I ould be if u idn't eeze so ard," she tried to say.
"Her speech problems are a little worse, and she's going to have a harder time with hot temperatures." Takashi told the two.
"How cold did you reduce her core?" Takato asked.
"Eighty four, it was enough to be sure that she would survive, but also warm enough that she wouldn't have too much trouble with room temperature." He told them.
"That's weird," Gomamon said retyping some things in. "umm, Takashi, I think we have a problem…" he started retyping.
"ut's the atter?" Suzy asked starting to sweat, Takashi checked the temperature of the room, seventy degrees, he put a small layer of ice on Suzie's exposed skin.
"You're core, it's dropping," Gomamon told her. "it's already down to where Takashi's is at sixty three."
"What?" Takashi said astonished, what factor did he miss? Was she still going to die because of a mistake he did.
"Her temperatures already at sixty now, if it hit's thirty two…" He said sharply
"Suzie will be a frozen Popsicle," Takashi finished…
Takato stared at the now frightened girl, "why is this happening, you shut off cooling her core over eighteen hour's ago, why is it starting to cool down again," Takato said realizing the situation.
Takashi could only stare in horror as Suzie's temperature continued to drop, "I… I don't' know…" he said, "I… must have made a mistake…I…" Takashi lost his voice completely.
"Relax Takashi, it was something you could never have predicted in a thousand years. It seems as if Lopmon had a bit of Sovereign data still stuck in her. This data acted like life-force… Suzie's had four years of development in twenty four hours…" The white seal told him.
"You mean, Suzie's really fourteen?" Takato asked.
Takashi shook his head, "no, it mean's that she's had up to three years of puberty pushed into her in the past twenty four hours…"
Gomamon typed a little bit more, "she'll survive, her Core temperature will stop at forty two…"
Henry smiled hugging his sister, "I don't know what I would do without you Suzie." He said.
"i'm ot oing anywere Henwee," She told him. Takashi felt something disturb the air.
"Gomamon…" he said unsure of himself.
"yeah?" The white seal asked.
"How many people can you get to Rika's house," he said, as Takato's eyes narrowed.
"Three plus myself why?" He asked confused.
"Yamshowzu. I'll stay behind, you guys get going, and keep Suzie cool."
Gomamon nodded and brought up a screen, after a few seconds of typing, he brought up a screen, "good luck," he said as he pressed a button. In a flash Henry, Takato, Suzie and Gomamon, along with his laptop, were all gone.
(Start Music)
When dreaming,
T.k slammed the sword down with Angemon's staff, " why do you keep pulling that trick?" He asked, "you waste more energy then me."
Guided into another world
"Because, it's fun to see you try and stand up against me," Piedmon grinned evilly.
As sore eyes I fight to stay asleep
T.k swung his staff forward, which was easily blocked with the swords of the still grinning Piedmon, which was wiped off as T.K smashed the hand he hadn't had on staff into the face of Piedmon sending him flying.
"I already lost Sora to darkness once, I'm not going to lose her again." He scowled.
cause I don't want to leave the comfort of this place
"I'm sorry, have we put a damper on you're life," Piedmon mocked.
T.k's eyes narrowed, "you killed Patamon and Sora, and you tried to take Kari."
Cause there's a hunger longing to escape
Piedmon swung his swords in downward fashion, T.k met with the staff sending both of their weapon's flying. "Why Can't you just leave us alone," T.k snarled.
from the life I live when I'm awake
Piedmon was silent not being able to say anything, he swung his fist at T.k's stomach. T.k grabbed it and held it down bringing his feet up and landing his shoeprint's on Piedmon's face.
They backed off from each other, "why does it matter…" Piedmon asked,
So lets go there
"Why does it matter why we do it, isn't power enough, to rule everything isn't that enough?" The clown digimon asked.
Lets make our escape
"You don't even know why you do it?" T.k said astonished, dodging a thrown punch.
Come on lets go there
"Isn't enough to be twisted and sick and crazy?" The mega asked seriously.
Lets ask can we stayT.k slammed his foot into the stomach of the clown, "Their just excuses, Rationale's, thing's you force yourself to believe so it won't seem as what you're doing goes against everything you've been taught."
Can you take me higher
(Music)
To a place where blind men see"How about fear," The mega asked flipping over T.k and slamming him in the back with his foot, "is that good enough of a reason for you."
Can you take me higher
To a place with golden streets
T.k staggered in the air, and turned to face Piedmon, charging forward, he went to slam his fist into Piedmon's face, and at the last second, kneeing him in the stomach sending him flying up a few feet and slammed him in the chest knocking the wind out of the Mega pushing him back. "fear, more like pride," T.k shot back.
Although I would like a world of change
it's helps me to appreciate those nights and those dreams
T.k slammed his foot into Piedmon's knee, ducked under a punch, and nailed a kick into the Mega's chin.
But my friend, i'd sacrifice all those nights
"What's it like to fly?" the clown asked mockingly swinging his fist and launching a kick at the same time.
if I could make the earth and my dreams the same
"it's like being with Kari constantly," he says slowly getting blown back a little bit by the attack"
The only difference is
to let love replace all our hate
"it's the same as being able to talk with Sora, to be able to unload myself… to be free," he says blocking a barrage of punches.
So lets go there"true flying is the physical form of the presence love…" T.k said flying up to avoid an attack.
Lets make our escape
T.k smiled at the clown's face, "what, you don't get to enjoy true flying, just some rip off…" he mocked landing a fist on Piedmon's shoulder
Come on lets go there
"SHUT UP" Piedmon Roared flying a dagger towards T.k, "I'LL TAKE YOU'RE FLIGHT AWAY FROM YOU!
Lets ask can we stayyyyyyy"Ahhh," T.k cried as the dagger pierced his chest
(Music)
"So, you know were love is," Piedmon said sadistically, "if you tell me, I'll let you survive…" he said jamming another knife into T.k, who he had pinned up against the wall.
Can you take me higher
T.k winced in pain, "what, you want to actually fly?" T.k mockingly gasped
To a place where blind men see
"Kari! You tricked me… Now she will pay," he grinned evilly, he leaned up against T.k's ear and whispered a few words,
Can you take me higher
Piedmon flew back a few feet, leaving T.k to fall to the ground, "You took everything away from me, now I'll take everything from you…" He took off.
To a place with golden streets
T.k tried to raised his head, "k..a..ri?…run…"
Kari was pumping her wings just as hard as she could pump them, the egg she was carrying was making it harder,
So lets go there
"T.K?"
Lets go there
Piedmon threw three knives at the Angel,
Come on lets go there
Kari heard the knives before they even left Piedmon's hand and maneuvered out of the way
Lets ask can we stay
Kari barrel rolled to the side, her wings protecting her as a few more knives were thrown, they bounced harmlessly off her wings
All high and I feel like I'm alive for the very first time
Kari launched herself into the air as Piedmon dove at her,
Sailed high i'm strong enough to take these dreams and make them mine
"Hang on T.k, Hang on," she muttered going still higher with Piedmon on her tail…
Sailed high i'm strong enough to take these dreams and make them mine"Drop me, I'm the one he's after, Kari, you haft to go to T.k, he's injured badly…"
Can you take me higher
"Sora…, I can't, he'd never forgive me,"
To a place where blind men see
Piedmon tackled Kari into the ground
Can you take me higher"You have to let me go Kari, for your own safety…"
To a place with golden streets
Kari let go of the egg, taking all of her strength to do it
Can you take me higher
Piedmon smiled, and whispered a few things into the young angels ear before slamming her into the ground
To a place where blind men see
Piedmon picked up the egg and examined it, it was completely white, with the crest of Love in a mix between red and pink in color.
Can you take me higher
"don't worry, my master will take care of you,"
To a place with golden streets
"Very good care of you," Sora shuddered inside of her egg…
(End music)
To have a digimon is something that very few actually get to really experience, to have a crest? Even less, so why would somebody throw all of that away?
When did it start? Good question, first grade? When we first met? When my dad dated his mom? All are very possible, but when did I realize it, the night that changed our lives.
Sora sighed, she had just finished playing soccer with everybody, meaning, herself, Tai, Rick, William. Her best female friend was going through her accessories for her dolls, she sighed, "Hey Mimi," Her friend looked at her, "what's so interesting about that stuff…"
"It's a girl thing Sora, you wouldn't understand" Mimi told her. William smiled sitting down next to them all sweaty.
Sora snickered to herself, "what about cooties, William?" She asked.
"You're between me and Mimi, I think I'll be alright, besides, you need to be a girl to have cooties." He said… then was knocked off the bench. William landed on his rear.
Sora smiled and shook off the pain of her fist "next time, I won't be careful on the soccer field," she told him. William nodded thinking about wearing a cup next time and sat back next to the bench,
"rough game," he told them, "where'd you get that kind of stamina?" he asked her.
"I don't know, I just felt like the energizer bunny, I just kept going and going and going and going…" She said laughing
"alright, we get the point," Mimi said distressed, "Sora, can't you act like a proper lady for once?"
"I don't know, it's just not as fun" she told her looking up at the sky, she was really hot and took off her hat placed it next to her, "I'm going to go get a drink," she told them.
She passed by Tai on her way to the water fountain, "you alright Tai, you look sick…"
"What, oh, yeah sure," he said completely worn out, "I…just have been feeling sick, so that's why I had a hard time keeping up with you today." He told her.
"Really, you didn't seem sick before the game,"
"Well yeah… my mom wouldn't have let me play if she had known." He told her rather quickly.
Sora shrugged her shoulder's and went to get a drink from the water fountain. As she started to walk back, she saw a little girl, "hi, I'm Sora, do I know you?"
The little girl just blew her whistle and nodded. "So you've met my sister?" Tai asked coming up behind her.
"I didn't know you had a little sister." Sora said surprised.
The little girl blew her whistle and nodded. "Her name's Kari," Tai told her, "she's only two, but we need to go, see you same place tomorrow?" he asked her.
"Sure, all be here."
"Great, Rick and William said they should be able to play tomorrow as well, well see ya." Tai said walking off with his sister.
Sora walked back to were Rick and William were talking and Mimi was still playing with her doll. She grabbed her hat,
"Sora, Stop…" Mimi tried to tell her as she put on her hat. Mimi just cringed.
Sora felt something wet and liquidy and just down right gross slosh on top of her head. "EWWWW," She yelled throwing her hat on the ground, to see barf fly every where.
"Ewwww," Mimi said as a little bit splattered onto her clothes.
Rick and William looked at the hat, looked at Sora, looked at the barf that was all over the ground, and started bursting out laughing.
Sora spun towards them, "YOU!" She yelled diving at them. She landed in a face full of grass as the two boys started sprinting away.
"Sora, it wasn't them," Mimi shouted.
Sora turned around, "what?"
"it was Tai, he came over here looking pretty sick, then he grabbed your hat and spewed all over the inside, I tried to tell you, but" she broke off.
Sora sighed. She went and grabbed her hat very carefully and dumped it into a trash can. "I'll get Tai for this…" she muttered.
She went home and explained to her mom what happened, her dad had laughed and her mom then proceeded to scold him. Sora went into the bathroom and started to take a shower. She washed out all of the stomach acid juice out of her hair, and bit's of what she supposed were pizza particles.
When she got done with her shower, she got on some new clean clothes. Then picked up the phone and dialed Tai's number.
"Hello," Came a familiar voice.
"Tai, Mimi told me that you were the one that barfed in my hat and," she shrieked as the phone started to cut out and went dead. She stared at it, "Stupid Tai," she muttered.
It was later that night when she woke up to her alarm clock going nuts. She sighed and unplugged it from the wall. She went out to the balcony and looked down, to see Tai's little sister and an orange dinosaur breaking into the Soda. She stood their amazed.
It was a few minutes later, when Tai also went through the soda. She watched in surprise as a large egg formed over the city and the orange dinosaur changed to protect Tai and Kari from a flying bird. "Thank you," she whispered, not knowing what she would do with out her soccer buddy. The dinosaur and parrot fought once again, and the dinosaur lost once again.
"Come on Tai…" she said softly as he blew as hard as he could on his sister's whistle, "YOU CAN DO IT TAI…" She shouted from the balcony as loud as she could.
She looked to her right, to see a kid with a younger brother also watching the scene. The little kid handed his brother a harmonica, and he played it as loud as he could matching the blow of the whistle. She saw in awe as the dinosaur's eyes opened and launched a devastating flame towards the parrot, in a flash, they were gone…
Sora woke up the next morning not sure if she really saw what she saw. She got up and had breakfast. She looked at the clock in surprise, it was already 9:20, she had really slept in, she grabbed her things and went down to the park where they were going to play soccer. Tai was standing their, watching an ambulance go.
"Tai, what happened," she asked.
"Kari… she's sick… and I forced her to come play with me," he bawled in front of her "she's going to the hospital because of me Sora, if she dies it's going to be my fault."
Sora didn't know what to say, "is she sick because of last night?" she asked slowly, "that's why you were blowing the whistle for the dinosaur to get up, it was because Kari got sick from the cold." She muttered to herself. It was right there and then that she knew what to do. She grabbed and held the small bawling Tai…
Sora had moved away a short while after that, she saw Tai occasionally but their friendship faded, yet Sora thought of him every day. It was three and a half year's later when she saw him again.
Sora looked around at the camp, there were a few other girls here, but mostly guys. She walked up to the instructor, "Sora Takenouchi checking in."
"Alright, here's you're key, and you're in cabin 31A. You're old enough to handle the only boy/girl mixed cabin…"
Sora nodded, "alright."
"Practice starts in thirty minutes, so get yourself changed and be ready." Sora nodded and walked up to her cabin.
"31A, huh, the only girl boy cabin in the camp. Oh well." She said opening up the door, inside were two set's of bunk beds, on one side the girl had taken the bottom bunk and was setting up a poster, on the other a boy was playing his game boy. He was also on the lower bunk. Up on the top bunk was, "Tai? Tai Kamiya?" She said astonished.
"Sor, wow, haven't seen you in a while, it's been what,"
"three year's three months and sixteen days." She told him.
"umm, you know that's pretty freaky Sor," he told her.
"not really, I've just been keeping track of the day's since I moved," She told him throwing her stuff onto a shelf.
Tai shook his head, "it's still strange," he looked around, "theirs only four people staying in this cabin, right?"
The kid playing his game boy nodded, "yeah, hey Sora, been awhile, hasn't it." He asked her.
"Do I know you?" she asked.
"Yeah, here, let me think, something to refresh your memory, ummm, you tried to kill me after Tai barfed in your hat."
"William," she questioned, he nodded his head, "oh, yeah, I remember now, you were always saying I wasn't human."
"You're not, A. You kick like a demon, B. You've got more rage then a rhino on a rampage and C. You do all of this, which would be normal for an awesome boy, but you're a girl." He finished.
"What, you have a problem with a girl kicking your but." Sora asked jokingly.
William shrugged. "Not when I was younger, but now, I'm top of the game," He boasted.
"Wait, Sor's a girl?" Tai asked, "since when did this happen."
Allison, the other girl she now recognized from her team two year's ago, spoke up, "what land have you been living in. Sora's one of the best out there, are team took first two year's ago because of her.
"You're not to bad yourself, Allison," Sora told her.
"I'm good enough, but you Sor, you're awesome… I'm really glad we have a girl here who can really show the boy's what girls can actually do." Allison told her.
William sighed, "like I said, Sora's not a girl, no girl is that good." He said smugly. Allison stuck her tongue out at him.
Tai was still confused, "wait, is Sora a girl or not, I'm confused?"
William looked up at his friend, "ummm, the joke's over Tai, it wasn't even all that funny in the first place."
"I'm dead serious," Tai said, "I mean, when did Sora do anything girl like back in the old days."
"How could you not know?" Sora asked him, "My voice was fairly high compared to even some of the girls."
"I had just thought that you had gotten hit with the ball a few two many times…" Tai said as Allison gave him the "gross" look. Sora was amazed at his ignorance and William couldn't stop hanging his head in shame at knowing Tai. "Wait, Sora's a girl, and she always beat us?"
"Well, when it was her against you and me or you and Rick, because one of the other's was sick, she would lose occasionally, but yeah, we got our buts whooped by Sora back then…" William told his very confused friend.
"You… mean… I lost…? To a girl…?" Taichi said unable to grasp the concept.
"Theirs a problem with that," Sora demanded as she went near his top bunk.
Tai, he just fainted. Right their, he just fainted.
Sora watched her friend fall and caught him as he fell of his bunk passed out. "ummmm?" she said.
William jumped off his bed, and Sora put the passed out Tai on the bed.
William sighed, "Now what, practice start's in ten minutes, and Tai's passed out on the bed."
Sora grinned, "well…" She said looking around. She found what she needed, and filled it up with water from a faucet outside.
Allison chuckled to herself, "I'll tell coach you three will be a few minutes late," she told them.
"Thanks," William told her, Allison shut the door behind her. "you want to do the honor's Sora?"
"Actually, the water is just to clean up the mess…" Sora said, "it's been too long that I've kept this stuff, even worse that I brought it."
William was confused as she dug into her bag, "what do you mean?" he asked cautiously.
Sora knew her grin was far too evil, "well, let's just say, a little revenge is going to be sweet."
"that's not…" William stuttered, Sora nodded her head, "you mean…"
"I've kept it all these year's? Yep, now it's time to return Tai there a little gift he left me." She said opening the bag, a horrible reek entered the room, horrible enough to start and wake Tai.
Sora watched Tai stir, and start to get up, "what?" he said confused. She couldn't help but grin as she slammed the bag of three and half year old barf onto his head
"Here, have you're little gift you left me back…" she said laughing her head off as the horrible smelling vomit spewed all over Tai's massive hair.
He was still facing the bed, "if this is what I think it is, you are so dead Sora."
William smiled, "relax Tai, we got practice to go to, we'll rinse your hair out and head to practice." He led Tai outside and dumped the water over his head getting all the gunk, but not all of the smell, out of his hair. He grabbed a faucet and started running the water threw his hair. It was about fifteen minutes later when even the smell was gone. They got to practice twenty five minutes late.
Sora was surprised, "why is everybody just now getting here?" she whispered to William, she had noticed nobody was sweating.
William got in line, in between the redhead and the brown eyed boy, not even wanting to know what he had already planned as his revenge. "You will run three miles, and you will do it in twenty minutes," he heard the coach shout, "TAICHI, WILLIAM, SORA… you three will stay behind for now. On your mark's get set GO!"
The three walked up to the coach, "I understand you three are a few minutes late, eh."
Sora knew that all three of them were in deep dodo, but, she was the one with the guilt trip. She stepped forward, "I'm sorry sir, it's my fault, I pulled a prank" she knew she at least wouldn't be punished as hard as the other two, being a girl and all, but she couldn't help but wonder why none of the other kids were sweaty.
"Interesting Tai, very interesting, I had kinda figured you'd be a Pro Soccer player instead of a politician." The coach told him.
Sora was confused, what did he mean, obviously the other two also held perplexity on their faces as the coach explained, "you take the credit, but send out your assistant to take the blame."
"My assistant?" Tai said looking strangely at the girl.
The coach frowned, "surely you had figured it out by now…"
Sora looked at her bunkmates, "you put the best into one cabin."
"Wrong, I put the team captain's and their assistants in one cabin…" the coach said.
Sora was appalled, "you mean you're letting Tai have more power then me?" How bad she wanted to wipe Tai's smug grin off his face.
"Yep, so I seriously hope the prank you played wasn't too bad, cause you're now assistant team captain." The coach said, "here's what I've planned for you team captains. The other player's at this camp will have a "try out." You will decide who you want on your team from the try out's. You will pick six more people beside yourselves. These will be you're teams. Three forwards, two Dee's and goalie. Two people will be subs. You will scrimmage against each other for the entire time, and at the end of the camp, the winning team will receive Five-hundred dollar's to be split up among the team."
Sora glared at Tai as he told the coach his problem, "What? Why do I have to be with Sora, why can't it be me and William?"
"You have a problem with Sora?" The coach asked.
"Yes I have a problem with her, she's a girl, come on, why do I have to have a girl on my team." Tai complained.
"Because, you're the best two at this camp… now that you have learned how to play, you need to learn how to lead." Tai sighed as the coach told them this, "now, when the kids get back, we will have them go through a series of drills, in which you will observe and take notes, you then have tell tomorrow to decide on twelve player's for your team."
"Twelve?" Allison questioned.
"yes, as your opponent may choose your player before you." The coach handed them some clipboards with all of the player's names, and the kinds of drills, and a spot for them to mark stuff about it.
Sora sighed, grabbed her board, and started marking the player's as they came in from the run.
It was several hour's later as she and Tai had sat down in the woods, as Allison and William had already claimed the cabin. Coach had also told them that Al and Will would have first choice, this wasn't so much of a bother, except how the coach said it, it started to make her think. She looked back over her list, "well, we know Allison and William will go for Ken first."
Tai nodded, "yeah… probably"
Sora looked at him, "are you alright Tai?" she asked.
"what… yeah, of course…" Tai said half-heartedly, " why wouldn't I be."
"ummm, alright," Sora said confused, "any way's, we know they'll go for Ken first, so we probably shouldn't even put him on the list, what do you think."
"what… yeah, sure, go ahead" Tai said awkwardly.
"Taichi Yagami, you will tell me what the heck is going on this instance…" she said half freaked out, half pissed, "whatever happened to the carefree leader of our small soccer group who played pranks and got us all into trouble. We've been away from each other for a while now, but you haven't changed that much!"
"umm, Sora?"
"Yeah Tai?"
"Well, it's, I've just, never, really… had any girlfriends…" Tai told me, then he must have realized what he said, "I mean friends that are girls." He said quickly.
Sora laughed, "just consider me one of you guys, I might as well be."
Tai nodded, but still didn't completely relax. "yeah, your right about Ken, he's definitely going to be the one that they choose first, so what do you suggest, get Ren to try and balance out the teams?"
"Maybe, I was thinking more along the lines of getting Hight (pronounced Height).
"Him, why?"
"Because, he's the anti-ken if you will. An assassin for the general leader of the army. And, it'll be the last person for Al and Will to expect us to get first."
"So now they grab Ren tipping the favor of natural player's on their side." Tai told her.
"Which is when we grab our goalie, Zach. We have completely defense right their."
Tai nodded thinking, "now, for the next five, normally a team would grab the top five players, but the leader's aren't much of team players."
Sora smiled, "right, I was thinking a combination of Ted, Hailey, Josh, Blake and Savanna."
"Hmmm, I don't know, I like the idea of putting josh, he's the game clown and will relieve a lot of stress, Blake? No, he get's along with everyone, but he's too into the game. Hailey's too preppy, and Ted, we need some of his friends for him to work well." Tai said thoughtfully
"So, we pick Josh first, and Savanna. Hmmm, how about Edgar, and maybe Lewis."
"Edgar and Lewis, their good, but I just don't see why you would pick them over some of the better kids."
Sora grinned, "well, it appears to me that both Edgar and Lewis have crushes on Savanna. They'll play their tails off to impress her, and their both best friends and they're not too uptight."
Tai rolled his eyes and muttered something under his breath, she caught something about impressing and girls, but that's all she could make out of it. "Fine, whatever. So that's are team."
"Yep, that's about it."
Tai sat up and stretched, "Finally, I can leave, I don't know what was worse, spending time with you or not being able to go swimming."
"Tai,"
"What?" he asked annoyed.
"That was uncalled for."
"What, I didn't ask for this, blame the coach," he said walking off.
"I can't believe I have to assist that spoiled jerk." She said getting up. She went to her cabin in a huff.
She climbed onto her bunk and grabbed her book and stuck her nose in it.
Allison put her comb down, "so, what did Tai do?" she asked.
"What?" Sora said.
"You're crying silent tear's to yourself, I understand if you don't want to talk about it, but it does always help to unload. I know, I've had a lot of problems with my family." She said very casually.
"It's, just… when I saw Tai, I thought it would all be like the old days and we would be playing pranks and enjoying watching not only each other, but also our other friends fall into them. Now… Now he's just a big jerk." Sora spat out.
"You can't ever return to the old day's, can you." Allison told you.
"I guess not," Sora said facing her eyes to the ground.
"here, just give him some time, he'll come around, besides, it's Tai… he may be thickheaded, but this his chance to prove that he's made of something, do you honestly think that he's going to pass this chance up?"
"no… I just don't know, he's not the same… I thought this was going to be fun being team captain's, but all Tai's done is told me how much he disgust's my presence." How could he be so inconsiderate, didn't he know how much she had been looking forward to seeing him again, to hear his laugh as she pranked him, and see his eyes grow in fear as she let loose her fury upon him for pranking her. How she wanted those old day's back, how she longed for them… and here, she could have them again, cause he was here, but, he hated her. He hated her, so what was the point, why should she care for what Tai thought, who needed him…
"I'm going to come swimming, want to come or are you going to dream of day's long gone that obviously aren't going to happen again." Allison said grabbing her towel.
Sora stared up at the ceiling, Allison was right, she needed to get over it, what made it so important that she hung out with Tai? She could pull pranks and all this stuff with her friends… "no thanks, I think I'm going to go for a run." She hopped down from her bed.
"Allison?"
"yeah?"
"Thanks, you know how to get me thinking straight."
Allison shrugged, "hope everything goes okay with Tai."
Sora sighed and put on her shoes, she went and grabbed her jacket, why do I care so much? Hmmm?" She sighed, what did it matter, she went out the door and started to jog. She could here the kids playing, and was almost tempted to go join them, but the thought of Tai insulting her again was just to much.
What had happened to make him such a jerk, was she really that ugly that he didn't want anything to do with her? She heard her feet land on the soft dirt as she ran through the forests. It took her about fifteen minutes, but she eventually completed two laps of the course, also know as two miles.
She looked at her watch, the kids still had half an hour before dinner, and the pool was still open for another fifteen minutes. Inside the cabin she looked around, she grabbed a piece of paper and pencil and started to write.
She looked up as Tai, Allison and William walked in, "you guys have fun?" she asked.
William was grinning hugely, "you kidding, I don't think I've had that much fun since Kari put strawberry milk in Tai's Raisin Bran."
Tai was grinning at his friend, "you know how she is, she was just trying to be helpful… she felt bad for giving the last of the milk to Miko. She still loves that cat more then me though, it's really annoying."
Allison laughed, "the great Taichi Yagami, second only to a fur ball with claws." Will laughed. Tai grinned.
Tai yawned, "dang, that took a workout," he dried his hair with his towel, "well, let's go grab some chow."
Sora nodded, "sure, but could you look at these first Tai, I was wondering if you could point out any holes in them." Tai looked at the piece of paper, "their play's I thought we could try out, I tried to make use of each player's abilities as much as I could."
"You do realize it's just a game," he said coldly dropping the paper's and walking out the door.
Sora had expected something like this, but William and Allison were caught completely off guard. " I see what you mean by jerk." Al said after a few minutes of silence.
Sora hopped down and grabbed her papers and tore them in half, "what's it matter." She went off to dinner.
The next day went by fairly smoothly, Sora got up, went to breakfast, ate as far away from Tai and William as she could, Allison came and sat by her and they had a pleasant conversation. Next come the drills, she did them just like every practice, then they choose their teammates. She said nothing at all at this time, and they were able to get everybody the had wanted, which she could tell freaked out both Will and Allison. The teams then went and got some practice, Tai just had them do a bunch of drills, which she did, then gave them the rest of the time to scrimmage. It was easily defined that Tai was the best player. Sora's heart wasn't into it, so she was actually the worse player on the team.
That night when the kids were giving some time to go and do things before dinner, she went and ran the same route she had last time, expect she ran right up to dinner time, scarfed in something, ran again and went to bed.
The next day the routine was the same, they now only had one more day to practice before their first game against Will and Allison. The next day passed like the other one's.
The day of the first match, Sora could tell the team had no heart. They knew their captain's moods about each other, and everyone seemed down. The final score ended up being nine to three, Will and Al's favor. She went running with this heavily on her mind.
She was on her third lap when she stopped as a man came out of the woods.
"you Sora Takenouchi?" the man asked.
"what's it too you." She said. She felt two man step behind her.
"Well, it seems your father has info that he isn't disclosing, so we need, a bargaining chip." The man smiled.
Sora was freaked out now, their was no way she could out run them, they were two far away from the camp for her to actually be heard if she screamed, and she really didn't want to be hurt.
She burst forward as the man was flown forward a few steps, "Tai?!" she said. Standing next to him, the three men now facing them.
"Run!" he said, "run…"
"You can't handle these guys by yourself." She said freaked out.
"Neither could the both of us, but I can buy you some time, NOW RUN!" He said the last part so fiercely and commanding, she don't think it would have been possible to disobey him.
"you think you can beat us?" the man laughed.
"no," she heard Tai reply as she was sprinting down the path, "but this is a soccer camp." She heard somebody sing a very, VERY, high note.
She sprinted her as hard as she could come on, can't you run any faster, Tai's getting the crap beat out of him and this is as fast as you can run. Come on, you can put more speed into it. She ran into camp and tore open the coaches door. "Tai… ON THE PATH… BEING ATTACKED, LET ME ESCAPE." Was all she could frantically say before she passed out on the ground.
She woke up the next day in a bed in the hospital cabin in the camp, she felt exhausted.
"oh, your awake, that was quite the run if I do say, I don't know how you did it." The nurse told her.
She sat up, she was running frantically for some reason, "TAI! Is he alright?" she asked worriedly.
The nurse looked at a place next to them, their lay Tai with a lot of bruises and cuts, "he'll be fine, but theirs not much left on him that's not black and blue. He'll be out for most of the camp if not all."
Sora sighed and a tear crept to her eye to see him injured so badly. She ate the food mechanically and the nurse left to tend to the practice's. She was half way through when she heard a voice.
"you know, it's not a crime to enjoy the food." She heard a familiar voice say.
"Tai," She said looking at him, "oh, Tai. I'm sorry, this is my fault,"
"Sora forget it," he told her, "it's what I deserved. I'm… sorry, for the past few day's, I've been a jerk to you. This was my punishment. I… I didn't know what to think when I found out you were a girl… I thought it would change everything, that we couldn't pull pranks on each other anymore, that all carefreeness was gone. So I did the only thing I could, I tried to push you away so I wouldn't have to be reminded about the fact that we couldn't do that." Tai grinned his mischievous smile, "I don't know why though, especially since you kept that barf this entire time just for me."
Sora laughed, "yeah I guess so." She was silent for a second, "Tai… Thank you."
Tai smiled, "hey, I couldn't have my best player go missing? Now could I?"
Sora shook her head, then something occurred to her, "hey Tai?"
"Yeah?"
"What were you doing out their anyways?"
"ummm….errr…eeto…I plead the fifth?"
"Tai, you do realize this is Japan?"
"Aw crap…"
The next day the practice for the team was a little different, a bit more light hearted, and a bit more fun messing around with plays. Josh was hilarious when given the chance, and Savanna knew that both Edgar and Lewis were trying to show off, so she encouraged them, and laughed as Lewis actually tripped over the ball, it was hilarious. Zach, well, he was given the name of the brick wall and Hight was dubbed the assassin, Savanna? Well, she became the temptress and both Edgar and Lewis became the Royal knights. Sora? Well… she wasn't "given one" as at Josh's encouraging, the group voted to wait for Tai to give her a nickname. Sora wasn't too happy, so she dubbed Josh the Soccer ball kicking pile of Sewer Mold. He took to it far to quickly.
The next day went by pretty much the same as usual, except that it was missing Tai. Sora now went and swam instead of running and enjoyed herself. The next day was the second match. It was a good game, all the player's were doing awesome, but the skill level of their opponent's was definitely having it's effect. But Zach kept true to his name and the Brick wall was never scored on during the entire game. The final score ended up being 3 to 0. Sora had scored one, as well as the "assassin," but Sora did have Hight go up against Ken yet, as their was still one more game to play. It was Savanna who had scored the last one taking it all the way down the court, passing it to Lewis, who passed it too Edgar, who had a killer kick. He launched the ball at the goalie. The goalie was able to block it, but sent it flying and wasn't able to block it as Savanna slammed her head into the ball scoring the last point of the game. The best news of the day? Tai was going to be their tomorrow, and for some reason, Sora felt this was the start of something big…
The game the next day was pretty intense, Tai leading the group in the play's, Sora giving small hints to each person, modifying a play just slightly, but enough so that Al and Will couldn't catch on. The Brick Wall was true to his word, blocking a whole 2 shot's the entire game. Ken met his match up against the assassin, and fell on his but a million or so times. The funniest thing The Soccer ball kicking pile of Sewer Mold did was while laughing at his own joke, Edgar shot the ball, it bounced off the goalies hand's and right into Josh's face, nobody could stop laughing. Of course the Assassin took advantage of this and scored a goal as a time out hadn't been called. The Temptress definitely did her job, both of the Royal knights were so worn out from impressing her, that they both told each other that the other had won at the same time. Tai passed the ball to her once, and she head butted it in, getting the classic, "Theirs no Eye in team," line. Josh then went on about how Tai is now using cheesy cliché's, it was so funny. All in all, the game ended up being 15 to 0. The biggest shut out the coach had ever seen. It was a few month's later at a different camp, that Tai and Sora went to, that ignited the spark that had been made here…
Betamon: alright, since nobody took the challenge, it looks like nobody will be recognized, oh well. The offer is still up if anybody want's to do something.
Ummm, yeah, about the ending, I was kinda of getting tired of this part and wanted to move on, so Sorry. I don't do this too often, so sorry about this, I just really want to get to Mimi's Wedding, or I should say everything I'm planning around those Ten Days…
Gomamon: and sorry about getting it up so late, let's see, first we had Parents, then Computer problems, then Laziness, then School, Then
Betamon: I don't think we need to tell them all of our excuses.
Gomamon: probably not.
Terriermon: well, technically it's not a Frontier, but
Lopmon: you did kinda of leave it hanging earlier in the chapter.
F.t: (shrugs shoulder) ehh, you'll see next chapter, or and PLEASE REVIEW AND TELL FRIENDS ABOUT MY STORY IF YOU LIKE IT. I'm getting desperate for reviews, otherwise I don't feel as motivated.
Betamon: let's see, we would also like to Give our Thanks to the Authors RockBane (Twisting Paths of Twilight) and Marie Darkholme (Digitaru Ikusa: Digital War), as they have the second and Third best stories here, only to be outdone by The Games By Minwolf. So, STOP READING AND GETTING WRITING YOU THREE!!!!!!
F.t: Having a dark master for a digimon isn't always the greatest thing…
Betamon: oh shut it you.