Ch 02.
It's one hour after Tai's departure.
The Dark Ocean
Lucemon wake from his slumber along with Daemon, and all dark lords. He smiled that the seal around him had gone weak and he could prepare his army to attack digital world and human world.
Daemon, Dagomon, Myotismon, Piedmon, Metalseadramon, Puppetmon, Machinedramon stood smiling.
"My, it's good to be back." Piedmon said happily.
"It sure is, now where are those digidestined ?" Puppetmon said arrogantly.
"Yes, let us find them quickly so we can rule the world again!" Metalseadramon bellowed loudly.
Myotismon and Machinedramon was silent and just stared to in front of them.
Daemon then said,"Who are you ?"
"I am lucemon. I can control light and dark. All of you will be my general."
Dagomon said," Thank you for supplying some light power to revive them"
Piedmon turned to him," Dagomon nice to see you, thanks for keeping our copies safe and hidden. Lucemon you say... our master must have been slain. Tell me, is it true ?"
"Yes Apocalymon was defeated."
"Wait... light and dark ?" Puppetmon asked.
"I have the power of light and dark. I have destroyed digital world long time ago in another place before the ancient's fusion destroy and seal me." Lucemon told them.
Phantomon, SkullSatamon, Ladydevimon and a few other appeared from the gloom.
The Dark Masters and Lucemon continued to talk when Dagomon told them that their army for invading would be able in several minutes. They thought that they need to destroy all sovereigns so that they could invade real world as well. Myotismon smiled and he told the other that he had a way to lead to attack real world without sovereigns consented.
...
Several hours later
Davis and Ken sat on the couch watching TV in the Motomiya apartment, both of them drinking juice when suddenly...
We are sorry to interrupt our program. But this is emergency in Odaiba.
About a minute ago, the giant monster began ripping apart the Notoma Bridge. At first we have no idea but after we tried to identify, it's a digimon. From the helicopter's camera we can see people jumping off the bridge, car and... we have seemed to have lost contact with our helicopter.
David and Ken were surprised and decided to go to Odaiba. They knew that they would find Izzy for their digimon.
Izzy tried his best so he could summon their digimon to help. Luckily for him, Gennai knew about it and summoned digimon for them to use. But Gennai held Agumon and Palmon. Izzy didn't comment anymore and hurrily let tentomon to digivolve.
Izzy was flying on MegaKabuterimon's back over the bridge while he shouted with someone over the phone.
"MATT! This is not joke. What part of metalseadramon is attacking the harbor! Don't you understand! Well just get here! I have summoned our digimon.
BAM! BAM!
Izzy jumped and then looked to his right. The tower's top half was completely blown away.
"This is bad." Megakabuterimon stated.
"You're right" Izzy then phoned his other friends to come to help him.
...
The restaurant (several minutes before the attack)
"I hope you are having a good time Sora." Matt asked nervously.
"I am Matt, really." Sora smiled.
Just when they want to order, his phone lit up.
"It's Izzy." Matt answered the phone and the facial expression went from happy to something. Sora could only describe as disturbed.
"What is it ?" Sora asked.
"A metal seadramon is attacking harbor and another digimons are attacking around. And I can hear from Izzy phone that the digimon notifies him and attacks him. Sorry Sora, our date can't be continue today."
"It's okay Matt. Let's go!"
"Izzy told me that he brought our digimon with him. So let's go!"
As they drove down to Izzy's location. Their thought was back to their digimon.
...
"Dark Seraphimon, shall we teach these villains ?"
"You're right dark Cherubimon. Let's give order to tankmon."
Dark Cherubimon shouted and a column of Tankmon searched for their target to choose.
...
"Izzy!"
"Matt, Sora, TK, Joe, Davis, Ken, Yolei, Cody!" and their digimon ran to their partner.
Gatomon,"Where's Kari ?"
"Maybe she was on the way here. There is no time for this. Let's digivolve!" Davis said.
Digimon!
Gabumon warp digivolve to... Metalgarurumon!
Biyomon digivolve to... birdramon,
Birdramon digivolve to.. Garudamon!
Gomamon digivolve to.. Ikkakumon,
Ikkakumon digivolve to... Zudomon!
Patamon warp digivolve to... Seraphimon!
Digi armor energize
Veemon armor digivolve to... Raidramon, the storm of friendship!
Hawkmon armor digivolve to... Halsemon, the wings of love!
Armadillomon armor digivolve to... Digmon, the drill of power!
Wormmon digivolve to... stingmon!
They charged forward, a tremendous force indeed. But they saw something coming... and surprised to see the rest of dark masters with armies.
Tankmon were shelling the temple. Raidramon reached them first.
"Attack hard Raidramon!" Davis called.
Thunder Blast!
Due to electric attack, all Tankmon shut down, several of them blew up and was forced to retreat.
Megakabuterimon, Stingmon, Garudamon flew over a horde of Vilemon with their partner on their backs.
Wing Blade!
"Nice job Garudamon!" said Sora. Her celebration was short lived however as Skullsatamon appeared out of nowhere.
Bone Basher!
Garudamon fell to the ground with a thud. Sora fell too and Izzy catched her. Skullsatamon disappeared and "BONE BASHER!" that make garudamon dedigivolve to piyomon and disappeared again.
"We need to help them!" Stingmon declared and dove down.
"Where's Tai and Kari, Izzy ?" Sora asked.
"I don't know about Tai. I can't contact him. I have contacted Kari..."
"IZZYYY! SORA!" Kari shouted.
"KARI!" Izzy, Sora and gatomon shouted.
"Let's digivolve Gatomon!"
Gatomon digivolve to ... angewoman.
Angewoman started attacking the evil digimons and left three of them for little chatting.
"Where is Tai Kari ?" Izzy asked.
"He went..."
"What do you mean ?" Sora asked confusedly.
"... sorry brother, but I need to tell them..." Kari whispered.
"He went overseas to accept the scholarship today and also for running from..." Kari said while eyeing Sora. Sora was surprised about it and decided to ask later.
"Y...you mean that Tai went to overseas school ?" Izzy asked. He knew about Tai's feeling toward Sora and it's best that he didn't point it. He didn't want make Sora felt bad about it. He knew that he would not mention about it especially when there was Matt.
Kari nodded.
Izzy sighed. His thought,'It's bad. No... it's the worst. We will seriously lose this war. Matt didn't have the charisma like Tai had.' and said,"Okay... I will try to help the others. Maybe we can drive their enemy away. You guys stay here. I know both of you want to talk something personal." and left them.
There was silence around them after Izzy's leaving.
"W..why you eye me like that Kari ?" Sora asked softly.
Kari saw around and found out that they were alone and sighed," Tai went overseas not only for accepting the scholarship but also for running from you Sora..."
"Running from me ? Why ?" Sora asked surprisingly.
"Tai loved you wholeheartedly Sora. He can't stand around you while his heart still set on you. He is desperate every night after our last fight. And he told me about your rejection while he wanted to express his feeling toward you before Yamato's concert at christmas event..."
Sora was surprised and her head dropped at this point. She remembered that she had rejected him and had told him that she wanted to be available for Matt. She managed to stammer out." I...I'm so sorry.. I didn't know that this will happen! Why he never act to me when I went date with Matt ?"
"He didn't want too Sora..." Kari said softly.
Her face was lighten up a bit and Kari continued," Tai told me his reason. Even he tried his best to not angry with you. Sometimes I listened about his nightmare several times. When I asked about it.. he said that he didn't want to ruin his friendship and he was willing to sacrifice his own happiness for your happiness Sora... he also told me that he never act to take advantage of you because you act happily around Matt... he also told me that if you are happy with Matt, he will not disturb it...but he can't hold it any longer any of his feeling for you anymore and he decided to move away."
Sora felt her tears fell down. Her head dropped again. She didn't believe that her rejection would be the path which lead the destruction of her best friend and her childhood friend. She thought again about it and found out that Tai ignored her everytime she went on date with Matt.. and tried to act fool around them...
"At first I still can't believe and I don't want to take care about it. And these last months, it became hard to him and i started to see that Tai's inside died.. But... whatever you do will have impact too to me..."
"K...Kari." She managed between her sobbed. "W..hy it impacts to you ? Why you are telling me now ?"
"Sora... I want you to know that I am still dating Takeru. Many times during these three months, I couldn't go date with Takeru. I only told him that I needed to help Tai and luckily he understand about it. Whatever your action will lead me to become your sister-in-law if you are with Matt or Tai. But I prefer to my brother's happiness than Matt's happiness. He didn't have many friends because of me. He has taken care of me very much and I want to help him to find his own happiness because of it. He has sacrificed his own teen time to take care of me. He didn't have any interest for other girls than you. I think that Matt will become popular with girls and he will prefer to date and marry somebody who can lead him to better future for his career."
Kari didn't hear any response from Sora other than her sobbed and added,"Even you don't know. He still dreamed about you was being taken away by datamon... and he sobbed about it nearly every night. I also saw his breaking down when he remembered your rejection.. sorry Sora..I need to talk serious about it since I really want that my brother find his happiness. He has suffered enough bully from his other friends because of me. He was happy when both of you were playing together and these three months he is sad everyday..." Kari sighed and she faced the crying girl and said," I really want his happiness after what he have done to us especially me. He defended me many times in the past and threatened my friends who has bullied me. I am sorry Sora. Maybe I will find another man to date. I don't want you become my sister-in-law if I marry Takeru. Because I can't see my brother become sad every times he sees you and it will be his reminder that you have rejected him."
"S...sorry Kari! I... I don't mean like this." Sora replied between her sob.
Kari shook her head and said,"I just need to tell you because that was happened and it made me cancel many dates with Takeru. And now you know the real reason of Tai's leaving. I don't want to tell anybody even I know Izzy know about it. It's too personal. I really want for my brother's happiness after his suffer to care me and protect me. Now Bye Sora. I want to help the other. Bye!" and left.
Several seconds later, Sora fell to her knees and wept. Her tears fell down profusely. Between her sobbing, She couldn't believe it that her last action had led her best friend's life to the path of his destruction. She thought between her sobbing,'Kari's right. I didn't want any of Kari said to be happened. I saw the love inside Takeru last time. It would crush him if Kari break with him because of me... I had rejected Tai at that time since I didn't know what he would do... but every time I was in great danger from my kid time, Tai was there to save me...'
There was a war between her mind and her heart. She thought again that if she accepted the offer on Christmas event, he would be beside her and the rest to lead us to victory...and something hit her. She couldn't believe that her chest became warm when she thought about Tai... her Tai... her buried feeling started to shine again... 'I..I.. love him totally'. She never felt like this when she went on date on Matt.
She thought again about Matt and found out that what Kari had said could be true. She would be dumped when Matt found out about the top producers' daughter who she thought he would tried his best to attract them who could lead him to better prospect.
She knew now Tai's feeling toward her. She determined that she needed to fix this by breaking from Matt so she could go to find Tai and apologized to him and would do anything even offering her precious one which she saved for 'the right one' for him so he forgive her or become his wife for the rest of her life.
Unfortunately, before she could do anything,
Biyomon digivolve to... Yokomon!
"What ?" Sora gasped between her sobbed as Biyomon reverted to her in training form. "What's wrong with this ?" Sora shook her digivice until she realized no light shone from its screen.
"Sora..." Yokomon said weakly.
"Why ? Why ?" Sora sobbed.
"Sora... your love to Matt isn't real... I become like this because of it... the real power that lead me to digivolve to garudamon was your love to Tai.." Yokomon said weakly.
"W...what ? My love toward Tai ?" Sora sobbed while holding Yokomon.
"Y...es Sora... when Tai was near you, I can feel something powerful feeling from you and I feel more powerful. When I had digivolved to garudamon for the first time, I felt your love towards Tai was the strongest. I didn't want to talk about it since I know it would awkward so I changed to your love toward your mother. I knew that at one time I felt something spark and powerful when you came home with ice cream on your cloth after you went with Tai, I don't know what had happened, but I thought that Tai had kissed you. But I didn't feel anything when you went to date Matt. Even you kissed him... like... today, when you were on date with Matt, I feel weak..." Yokomon said weakly. "I am so tired... so good night Sora..." and slept.
Sora couldn't said anything. She couldn't believe that her partner was also said that she belonged to Tai. She was still sobbing and she couldn't continue to fight. Her crest could glow no more. And Yokomon's speech led her to think again about that and blushed when she remembered about ice cream accident. She knew that she had tried to forget about it. She was angry about Tai's action, but she still could not forget the feeling when Tai accidentally kissed between her lips and her cheek. 'my first kiss...'
Something spark exploded inside her. She couldn't believe it. All her memories, all her feeling toward Tai rushed in a big wave. Her tears fell more profusely. Her guiltily toward him started again but this time bigger than last time. She couldn't hide any longer. She was in love with Tai wholeheartedly. And because of her rejection, he was hurt, destroy and went somewhere else. She would do something to... her Tai ? She wiped her tears and saw from one of the mirrors that her eyes became red because of crying. She determined to correct her mistake and would break her relationship with Matt. She was happy that she didn't give up to her own lust and prevented him to go further than kissing. She sighed and thought that she needed to see the other digidestined.
...
"Giga Missile!"
"River of Power!" the missile was incinerated.
"Ah.. our ice opponent.." Metalseadramon said with insult.
"Don't back down Metalgarurumon! Show him your power!" Matt said with encouragement.
"You think you can beat me ? Giga missile !"
A person called for help and Matt determined to save that person and asked for some time for him to reach it. Metal garurumon nodded and tried his best so Matt could save that person. Matt hurrily went to building near him and caught just in time when Metal garurumon couldn't evade the attack. And shout,"METAL GARURUMON!" Matt was sad about that and carried the unconscious person with bridal carry and went to metal garurumon places.
Metal garurumon tried to woke up and surprised with multiple attack from metal seadramon's gang which led dedigivolve back to tsunomon...
Matt caught in time and tried to pull tsunomon after metalseadramon smirked about his success defeating metal garurumon and "ROAARRRRR WHERE IS HE ?"
"He has run away sir" One of the gang replied.
"Search it, this will become our first step to victory."
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(at the same time)
"Aaaarggghhhhhh!" and almost all digimon dedigivolve to their rookie form.
"Ken, let's DNA digivolve!" Davis shouted. "Okay Davis!"
Davis and Ken held their digivice
Veemon digivolve to...Exveemon
Wormon digivolve to... Stingmon
Veemon wormon dna digivolve to... Paildramon.
"DESPERADO BLASTER!"
Chapter 2 end