1Disclaimer: Damn I have no time to write anymore. I just finished my midterms and rehearsals for the school play start this week along with my audition for my new job at coldstone creamery. I'm terribly sorry about any inconvenience this is for you and remember I don't own Digimon.

Chapter 8:

The Crest of Time

"Kari I can't believe you," TK yelled as he slammed his palm down onto her desk.

"TK what are you talking about?" the confused girl asked, fearing that her secret romance had been revealed.

"Kari don't play dumb, I know about you and him," the blond yelled as he pointed at Takato.

"How did you find out?" the brunette sullenly inquired.

"Let's just say your story didn't quite check out. I went home and was shocked to find out that my mother never even spoke to you. After that I began wondering if you weren't there to see me then what could you possibly be doing at a DATE restaurant and of course after that that it was obvious what was going on," the teenager sneered.

"TK listen we can explain…" Takato started but was cut off.

"Excuse me but I think you've already done enough so but out," TK snarled at the brunet.

"Wait what's going on exactly?" Davis whispered in Yolei's ear.

"Kari's been cheating on TK with Takato for the last week," the purple haired girl informed him then tried to listen back in on the argument.

"I can't believe her, how could she do this," the outraged red-head said.

"Yeah well the short version is that last week Devimon who she thought was TK did something horrible to her and she was confused so it's hard to blame her," Yolei hurriedly explain, anxious to listen back in.

"Not that part, the part about her being with Takato, I mean we barely know him and I've been waiting for this opportunity for two years. It's not fair," the disheartened boy complained.

"Well poor you I feel so sorry now if you'll excuse me…"the girl almost yelled but was cut off by the yelling of her peer.

"Fine if our relationship means that little to you then I'm never speaking to you again, either of you!" yelled TK then he stormed out of the classroom.

"Oh great now you made me miss everything," Yolei complained loudly.

"Yolei I can't believe you, can't you see that Kari's hurt," Davis scolded then went over to help Takato comfort the girl.

"Yeah Yolei how could you be so insensitive?" sobbed Kari into Takato's shoulder, "You should try being more like Davis."

"What the heck is going on here?" Yolei yelled to seemingly nobody but the ceiling.

"I'd better go make sure TK's alright," the red head walked toward the door with actual concern for his friend.

Once he was gone the attention went back to the violet haired teen, "Yolei I'm very disappointed in you, I thought you were different," Takato told her as he held his girlfriend close.

"But you barely know me," the girl protested.

"Please you've said enough," he told her as the sound of the door closing was heard.

Out in the hallway Davis ran to catch up with his friend, "Hey TK wait up, where are you going?"

"Anywhere but here," TK answered as he continued to walk toward the front door.

"TK you've gotta be kidding me, I for one am all for ditching class but you can't just walk out the front door, you'll be caught for sure," Daisuke warned but TK just turned back and smirked.

"Who said I'm leaving school, I'm going to the digi world. You're welcome to join me I just need to get away for awhile" he turned the corner and entered the computer lab with Davis trailing close behind.

"So TK where are we going?" asked the boy with crimson hair as his friend booted up the digi-port program.

"Don't know, I guess I'll just let the computer choose for me," the blond unsurely replied then held out his new digivice (still needs a name give me your suggestions), "Digi-port open!"

Once they were in the digital world Davis looked around at an unfamiliar beach, "Hey do you know where we are?"

"Yeah, we're one File Island. This is where I first arrived in the digital world eight years ago," he smiled but quickly turned around when he heard the sound of a voice calling out to him.

"TTTTTTTTTKKKKKK!" Patamon yelled as he fly over to his partner with Veemon running behind him.

"Hey guys where did you come from?" asked Davis after wrapping Veemon in an embrace.

"Where we alwayth do Davith," the digimon lisped.

"Hey TK shouldn't you be in school?" inquired the small orange digimon as it perched on top of the blonde hair.

"Probably but I'm not in the mood, come on let's just do something," the blue-eyed boy replied in a depressed tone.

"Hey well we're at the beach we might as well go swimming," the red head suggested as he lifted off his shirt and kicked off his shoes. TK followed his example and then dove into the water wearing nothing but his shorts. (Though in a lot of animes characters bath together casually )

"Hey Teeks race you to that rock!" Daisuke shout then took a head start. TK swam after him with his digimon still secured to his head and quickly caught up and passed the boy. The blond was just about to touch the rock when his crest began to glow. Davis, not noticing, swam past and touched the rock, "Beat ya TK, I am the greatest!" the teen cheered for himself joined by Veemon who had stayed on shore, being a fire digimon after all.

"Davis shut up, there's something here, I think I'd better check the water," TK told him then dove down into the digital ocean.

"Wait up I'll help you look!" Davis prepared to follow but when he lifted his hand of the rock he noticed that it said something though it seemed to have long ago become illegible though he could still make out some numbers, '8/01/99 12:06.25 I wonder who wrote that?' Davis pondered but quickly dropped it and went to help his friend. Once TK reached the bottom he used his crest as a lantern to reveal a strange symbol carved into the ocean floor. He reached towards it and once he touched it the rock began to shine green and TK, Patamon and Davis disappeared.

Meanwhile in the Human World

"Hikari Kamiya" the teacher called in attendance.

"Here," the girl replied then turned around to face Takato, "I wonder what's taking Davis?"

"I don't know but there about to call his name," the brunette told her. A moment later Takato's crest began to glow then he vanished into air.

"Takato Matsuki." The teacher yelled. When no one answered she marked him absent on her list.

'Oh no Takato disappeared, that means something must have happened to TK and this is all my fault. I'd better get help. Damn I'll need to wait till class is over,' Kari thought as she held back tears to avoid a scene.

Back in the Digital World

The two boys swam to the surface of the water when they became short on breath, "TK what happened?"

"I don't know Davis everything looks the same," he pointed out. Almost immediately though something rose in front of them from the water, "Takato what the hell are you doing here?"

"I don't know I was just in class, and dry by the way, and now I'm out in the middle of the ocean," Takato shot back as he shivered in his damp clothes.

The blond was about to yell at him more when Davis interrupted, "Hey guys what in the world is that." He pointed up into the sky where seven objects seemed to be falling from the sky.

"I don't know I've never seen anything like it," the blond replied forgetting about the argument he was about to start a moment earlier.

"I think I have but I don't remember where," Patamon told them from on top of his partner's head.

"Well whatever it is we'd better go check it out," Takato said as he began swimming to shore, followed by the other two shirtless boys.

"Come on I think one of them landed over there!" TK shouted as he ran over to a bush. He brushed over the branch and was shocked at what he saw, "What the hell is going on here?"

"What did you see TK?" Davis asked as he walked over. He looked through the bush to see a small child laying on the ground, "Oh my God it's a kid!"

"Not just any kid, I think that's TK. I remember him from the picture I saw in his room," Takato whispered to his friends.

"That's definitely TK and hey look there's me!" Patamon exclaimed as he pointed at a Tokomon that was walking over to the unconscious boy.

They closed the bush and sat down in the sand, "What's going on, how did we end up in the past?"

"Wait TK didn't the sovereigns say something about a Crest of Time," the red head asked.

"Yeah and I could have sworn I saw something before that flash from before. It kinda looked like an hour glass," informed the blond boy, temporarily forgetting his anger with the goggle boy.

"Well I guess now we know what we're doing here, so how do we get back?" the tamer asked but received no response.

Back in the Future

"OK Kari I checked in the parking lot, TK's motorcycle's still there," reported Yolei as she panted.

"That means he probably didn't leave the school. Come on let's go check the computer lab, maybe they went to the digital world," the girl said as they raced down the hall. They entered the lab to find a computer with a digi-port booted up onto it, "I knew it, I'd better contact Izzy and send him these coordinates, maybe he can help."

"Good idea I'll contact Takato's friends, I'm sure they'll want to know," the purple haired girl said as she pulled out her D-3.

Once they finished with the contacts the girls held their D-3s up to the computer screen, "Digi-Port open!"

When they entered the digital world they found themselves on a beach, from the nearby bushes emerged Gatomon and Hawkmon, "Kari why are you here?"

"We think something may have happened to Davis and TK, we're looking for some clues to what might have happened to them," the girl explained.

"Well maybe these may help," Hawkmon said in his odd accent as he pointed at a backpack with two shirts on top of it.

"Yeah these are the shirts they were wearing this morning, and this is TK's bag, I wonder why they left them behind," Yolei confirmed. Suddenly she heard a rustling in the bushes and jumped out of fear. What emerged was a blue digimon that they knew.

"I'm tho happy you guyth finally got here, Davis and TK were thwimming in the water near that rock before then they jutht dithappeared in a weird light underwater," Veemon explained to the girls who were taking a minute to try and figure out what he said when four other digidestined appeared.

"Did you find anything out yet?" Izzy asked as he set up his laptop. (apparently he used another computer to enter)

"Yeah whatever happened to the guys happened out there near that rock," the long haired brunette told them.

"Well then I believe we should take a closer look," The red head said as he removed his shirt followed by Henry, Ryo and Rika.

"Rika what are you doing?" her boyfriend asked in confusion.

"What suddenly cause I'm not a guy I can't take off my shirt and go swimming, get over it you could see more skin anytime you go to a normal beach or pool anyway," the read head girl argued then dived in as Ryo shot Henry and Izzy a look that said don't even think about looking at my girl.

The three boys jumped in after her and they quickly swam over to the stone. Like TK, when Izzy reached the rock his Crest of Knowledge began to shine, "Prodigious, there's definitely something down under the water, I'd better go check it out."

"Wait I'll come with you," Ryo shouted as he submerged himself into the water. A moment later Henry and Rika watched as a strange green light spread throughout the water.

"Damn they're not coming up something must have happened to them," Henry worried as he bit his fingers.

"Then I guess I'll have to go in after them, who knows what kind of trouble all those guys will get in without a girl," the red head cockily announced then began to go under but was held back by her friend.

"Don't be stupid Rika, I doubt anything you do could help."

"Yeah well I can't just sit around and hope things turn out ok," the girl snarled then broke free of Henry's grasp. The blue haired boy watched the water, expecting to see the same green flash that appeared earlier but instead all he saw was bubbles followed by the red head who produced them, "What the hell, nothing happened."

"It must be because you don't have one of those crest things," the boy reasoned.

"Or maybe whatever's down there doesn't like girls, Henry go down and try it," Rika joked but her friend seemed to take her serious because the next thing she knew he was gone leaving behind only a ripple in the water and this time the green light returned, "Oh no I was right, now I've lost Henry."

"Hey Rika look what I found," an excited voice said from behind her.

"Ah, what's wrong with you? Wait I thought you disappeared," she said after turning around and seeing the blue haired teen.

"I thought I was gonna to, when I got down to the bottom I saw this strange stone and went to investigate it. When I touched it though it started shining and the next thing I knew I found this hanging around my neck," he explained then showed her a blue-green crest hanging around his neck with a symbol resembling a sand timer in the middle.

"Whoa I wonder what it's supposed to do," Rika inquired as she examined the crest.

"I don't know, I was think I should get a better look at it," He swam over to the stone and began to lift himself onto it but as he did his new accessory began to shine along with the part of the rock under his right hand. When he lifted it up a message had appeared.

"Below lays the Crest of Time, to the future holder of this crest we beg for you to please rescue us, we have been trapped in the past. Below is the time in the human world that we are in:

8/01/99 12:06.25 PM"

"Hey Rika I think I found our first lead."

8 Years Earlier

Izzy rose through the water to see that Henry and Rika were missing from the water along with Yolei and Kari from the shore line. But what he did notice were three boys sitting on the beach, two shirt and shoeless, the other fully clothed and drenched, "Ryo I think we found them."

The two quickly paddled to the shore and greeted the boys, "Hey I heard you went missing, so where've you been hiding?" Ryo asked as he reached the coast line.

"I see the rescue party's finally arrived though I see you got trapped too," Takato softly laughed as he looked at the two.

"What are you talking about, we're still on the beach?" Izzy inquired.

"Yeah unfortunately we're also eight years in the past."

"TK, that's impossible," the computer expert responded in disbelief.

"Well then maybe there's something I should show you," The blond then stood up and lead the eighteen year old a few yards away to the edge of the forest where a cliff was clearly in sight. On top of the cliff they could see the dim outlines of seven children and seven small digimon fighting a large bug shaped one, "Believe me now?"

"Prodigious, this is an amazing opportunity, imagine what we could learn."

"I'd rather not and just find a way home without having to wait another eight years," the child of hope protested as they returned to the group.

"Well then I suppose that we should leave a message somewhere that will still be around in the future for someone to read," the collage student suggested.

"How about that rock out there, after all that's how we found our way here," Ryo said to the group.

"I suppose that might work though we'd have to cut it deep enough so it isn't erased from erosion, TK do you think Magnangemon could cut through it?" Izzy asked.

"Yeah probably, I guess we'll find out." The blond reached into his pocket and took out his digivice, "Patamon digivolve to Angemon, Angemon digivolve to Magnangemon."

"OK now TK you guys go and write exactly what I tell you, if anyone is going to rescue us it should happen right when you finish the message," Izzy instructed then whispered the message in the boy's ear.

TK did as he was told and as his friend had predicted as the final number was written a gateway was opened up and TK could see a blue haired boy holding a crest in his hand, "Izzy you were right it worked. Thanks for coming to rescue us… Henry right? I just need to pick up the rest of the gang and then I'll be back."

The boy flew back to shore on the digimon's back and when it landed the other four boys got on it, except one, "Hey TK what are you doing?" Takato yelled as he was pushed away, "How am I supposed to get there?"

"Swim," the blond snarled then had Magnangemon take of with the Davis on it's back and the other two in his arms.

"Guys wait!"

15 Minutes Later (Back in the Future)

Izzy went over to his computer as soon as they reached the shore, having swam after Magnangemon reverted back to rookie form, and began to boot up a program as TK, Davis, Ryo, Rika and Henry pit back on their shirts and Takato was wrapped in his girlfriend's deep embrace, "I think I should check out the file on that crest to see what other abilities it may have."

Yolei was watching from behind and saw the pained expression on his face as a program came on the screen and he quickly 'X'ed it out, "Izzy what was that?"

"Oh it was nothing, anyway why don't I just get that file now," the red head nervously said.

"No way I wanna see what that was," the excited girl told him as she grabbed his laptop and checked the history and was shocked at what she found when the file was rebooted, "You pervert, you have Baywatch on you computer."

At the word all the boys' ears perked up and they ran over to the computer, "How do they run so slow?" Davis asked in awe as he watched the screen.

"I don't know but I so glad they do," admitted Ryo with a lecherous smile.

"Oh no there's a guy," TK screamed and they closed the program.

"Perverts," Rika grumbled as she watched her boyfriend make a fool.

"You're telling me," Kari agreed then screamed to the guys, "Maybe we should get back to researching the crest."

"Oh of course right," Izzy cleared his throat then brought up the file, "Prodigious, it says here that the Crest of Time is one of four crests with special abilities. It gives the holder the power to travel backwards and forward in time, along with changing the age of any creature or object."

"Wow that's awesome and it's mine," the blue hair smirked as the others glared at him.

"Come on Ryo it's time to go," Rika said as she dragged him by his ear over to the small television set they came through.

"You to Takato," Hikari told him then followed the red head's example.

"TK, Davis we'd better go too," Yolei yelled to her friend.

"OK give us a few minutes we need to dry off," the goggle head answered then wait until she left to turn to the computer expert, "Hey Izzy you think you could bring Baywatch back up, and this time in slow motion?"

Finally done, I think this is the longest chapter I've ever wrote. Oh and good news only one more chapter of AA left. Also I'm putting the info on the Crest of Time into my profile along with a picture and I'll probably do character descriptions later. R&R