"The Island of Misfit Children"
Here is the next chapter. Please enjoy and review!
The warriors of Flame, Light, Ice and Harmony were still falling down the tunnel after an entire night and it was really wearing the girl of the group out.
What was the point in screaming for that long?
So she stayed quiet to rest her voice and clung closer to Koji as they continued to fall.
"Does this ever end?" Takuya yelled.
"Hey, Daisuke, why aren't you screaming?" Tommy asked.
"My throat hurts." she stated, but it came out muffled with her face buried in Koji's chest.
Finally, they came out of a tunnel and saw that they were now suspended in the air.
"OH COME ON!" Daisuke cried.
They all then fell again...into a giant ball pit.
"This looks like more fun than it is." Tommy whined.
"You're not kidding." Takuya said.
They bounced on the many colored balls for a few seconds before they got back on their feet properly and looked around.
"Whoa. Is this big playground? If it is, what needs a playground this big?" Takuya asked.
"We're gonna find out, aren't we?" Tommy asked.
"Well, duh." Daisuke said.
"Keep your eyes peeled for Zoe and the guys." Takuya said.
The four humans were all walking together in the strange place 'Toyland' is what Daisuke called it, looking for the others.
"Something tells me they're not gonna be easy to find in this place." Koji said.
They all heard a weird noise, so looked up to see what it was.
"Hey, maybe that flying guy's seen them." Takuya said.
"Looks like a robot." Daisuke said.
"A flying toy robot? Neat!" Tommy cried chasing after it.
"Wait!" Takuya called, running after him.
Koji and Daisuke just stood together for a few seconds watching the other two run off.
"I don't know which one of them is worse." Koji growled under his breath before he took Daisuke's hand and pulled her along with him.
"Check it out. This is awesome." Tommy said as they came to a pile of toys on the ground.
Daisuke just pouted as she looked around.
"Oh, sure, they have a race track but no soccer balls?" she muttered.
Takuya shot her an amused look since their love for soccer was mutual.
"Hey, where'd he go?" He asked referring to the robot.
"Don't sit down. We don't have time for this." Koji said to Tommy.
Tommy ignored him as he played with a toy car.
"What a baby." Koji said.
"I am not. These are just cool toys." Tommy defended.
Daisuke didn't really agree with that.
They all seemed pretty lame to her.
"Yeah, they are cool, but this probably isn't the best time to be playing." Takuya said.
"Ah, come on, when else can we play with these neat toys?" Tommy asked.
The mahogany haired girl groaned as she massaged her temples.
He was starting to sound like Shinya.
"Is this the flying robot?" Takuya asked, picking up a red and yellow toy robot.
"Hey, maybe the cars can fly too." Tommy said.
"Hey, that is cool. Super robot punch." Takuya said as he pushed a button, making the arm shoot off.
"Not you too." Koji said in disbelief.
How was it that the goggle head's little sister seemed to be more mature than him, that's what Koji wanted to know.
"Ah, well, I...I guess not. Put down those stupid toys!" Takuya said.
Tommy stopped playing and turned around to pout at them.
They all started walking again, Daisuke hanging back with the only one there who was her age.
"These guys are worse than my parents." he whispered to her making the girl giggle.
"I wonder what happened to Zoe and JP?" Takuya said.
"Don't forget Bokomon and Neemon." Daisuke said feeling a bit bad about their digimon friends who are never seen as equals to the team.
"Right, them too." Takuya said.
"I think our only choice is to head for the Forest Terminal." Koji said.
"Yeah, I bet we could meet up with them there, you think? Huh?" Takuya looked over at something behind his sister.
Koji and Daisuke looked back to see Tommy had a toy pig and two balloons in his hands.
He laughed and handed the purple balloon to the girl and he kept the green one.
"Guys, check it out." Tommy pressed on the pig's ear and it started snorting and Daisuke couldn't help but laugh with him because the pig was cute.
"Hey, look, we decided this isn't the time to play around, alright?" Takuya said.
"You decided?" Tommy said, letting go of his balloon and hung his head.
"Calm down. Don't start crying." Takuya said.
Tommy groaned in anger and pouted, looking away making Daisuke slap her hand on her forehead.
That guy was exactly like Shinya!
"Ah, man, I feel bad now." Takuya said.
"Why, because of him? Little baby has to grow up sometime." Koji said.
"Koji!" Daisuke scolded.
"Don't be so mean! I mean, he's only a little kid, for Pete's sake." Takuya said.
"So is Daisuke, but you don't see her causing problems." Koji said.
"Yeah, well, not all kids are the same." Takuya said.
"Whatever." Koji said walking away.
"No, you can't just say whatever, now listen up. I know you're not used to having friends, but you're a part of a team now, so you better show some support." Takuya said.
"Great idea, let's support the useless kid, right up until we all die because of his stupidity." Koji said.
Daisuke noticed that Tommy didn't like the insults, and she could relate, so she hugged him for support making him give her a small grin.
"No wonder no one likes you." Takuya said.
"Big brother!" Daisuke scolded.
"What do you know?" Koji snarled whipping around to face him.
The two older boys scowled at each other, making Tommy feel worse.
Daisuke sighed and let go of the boy then walked over to her brother.
She then punched him in the hip, making him yelp in pain before she walked over to a surprised Koji, who then gasped as she pinched his arm using her nails to make sure he felt it.
"What was that for?" the two boys cried out.
"Stop acting like spoiled brats! I know you both don't get along, but all this fighting isn't getting us anywhere, so why don't both of you just shut up and let's go find a way out of here!" she said.
The two older males stared at her in surprise at how she had spoken to them, but couldn't help but find the glare she had adorable.
"Daisuke is right, guys. If you keep fighting, we'll never get to the Forest Terminal." Tommy said.
They all snapped out of their moods when they heard a train and turned to a black and red train coming towards them.
"Hey, it's a train." Tommy smiled.
"Yeah, some train!" Koji said, holding Daisuke on his lap.
"Some toy train." Takuya teased.
Koji groaned as Tommy giggled and Daisuke bit her lip to quiet any chuckles.
"Yeah, that's very funny, just drop it, ok? It's bad enough I have to ride on this stupid thing." Koji warned his face red.
"Koji's playing with toys!" Tommy and Takuya sang, making Daisuke laugh.
"Wow, that's wild, Takuya, it's a giant walking teddy bear." Tommy said.
"Maybe he knows how to get to forest Terminal." Takuya said.
"Yeah!" Koji said jumping off with Daisuke in his arms.
"Right!" Tommy said jumping off with Takuya.
They all ran off to the digimon to go ask him for some help.
"Hey, buddy! Teddy, wait up!" Takuya called.
The bear stopped walking and looked at the four humans before he giggled and ran over to them.
Once he was in front of them, he grabbed the goggle head and tossed him to the ground, making Daisuke giggle that her big bad brother got his butt kicked by a teddy bear.
"I am still undefeated! Whoo hoo!" the bear cried.
"Monzaemon, a friendly, fun loving teddy bear. Monzaemon loves playing with others and is a kind digimon." Daisuke's D-Tector said.
Monzaemon helped Takuya up.
"Now we wrestle for the championship of the world!" the bear said making the two older males shrink back while Daisuke hid behind the lone wolf.
"Yeah, I'm next!" Tommy cried with his arms in the air.
"Are you crazy?" the Kanbara siblings asked as they began running, Koji pulling the little girl and Takuya pulling Tommy.
"It'll crush us!" they yelled.
They ran away as Monzaemon chased after them, thinking they were playing tag.
Takuya pointed out a ship, so the four ran over to it and boarded, hiding as the bear just ran past them, calling out for them.
"That bear's dangerous." Koji said as they all peaked over to see the bear disappearing.
"And you didn't even get thrown down by him!" Takuya said, making Daisuke giggle.
He turned to her, glaring.
"Oh, is that funny?" he asked.
"Pretty much. Shinya and Jun would have a laugh riot if they heard you were beaten in a fight by a teddy bear!" she giggled.
Takuya growled at her.
They all gasped as the boat began moving upwards, making the older kids grab onto the ship and the younger kids.
"Whose idea was it to hide on this crazy thing?" Koji asked, cradling the little girl in his arms.
"You wanna wrestle the bear instead?" Takuya asked.
The ship swung back and forth, making them all cry out.
"We can turn into digimon, you idiot! We didn't have to hide from him!" Daisuke shouted at her brother.
"Just get us off of here!" Koji cried as the ship swung back very high, making them all cling on to whatever or whoever they were holding harder.
"Hey, we're floating!" Takuya said as the ship seemed to slow down.
"Not anymore!" Tommy cried as it started swinging again, faster.
"TAKUYA!" Daisuke yelled.
"I thought we were!" Takuya defended.
"Is anyone else feeling kinda sick?" Tommy asked.
"Oh, get us off of here before he loses it!" Koji said.
"Sure, I'll just snap my fingers!" Takuya sniped.
"If he vomits on me, you are DEAD!" Daisuke yelled at her brother.
"Uh oh." Tommy said, getting green in the face.
"Don't look in our direction, kid!" Koji said, pulling Daisuke closer to him.
"Don't point him at me!" Takuya said.
"Why not? This is your fault!" Daisuke said.
The ship finally started slowing down.
"I think he's gonna be ok." Koji sighed as the boat stopped.
Tommy the burped loudly making Koji jump back, the girl still in his arms.
"GET HIM OFF! GET HIM OFF!" he said.
Takuya then helped Tommy off the ship.
"You gonna be ok, kid?" Takuya asked.
"Come on, you want a piggy back ride?" he asked kneeling down.
"Give me a break, make the kid walk." Koji said.
"Look, it's no big deal he's not feeling well so I'll help him out." Takuya said standing back up.
"Oh, yeah? And what'll happen when you're attacked while carrying him? You'll be too slow to run away, that's for sure!" Koji said.
"He's got a point." The fox said.
"Why do you always take his side?" Takuya asked his sister since she always seemed to be against him lately and was clinging to the wolf for some odd reason.
"Leave her out of this. You're about the worst leader I've ever seen. You never think ahead." Koji said, stepping in front of the girl.
"Well at least I think about someone besides myself, mister definition of the word selfish!" Takuya said.
Groaning in annoyance, Daisuke shook her head at this while the green eyed boy walked by her making her look at him curiously.
"I can walk." he said.
"Hey Tommy you sure?" Takuya asked.
"Yeah, I mean, I really don't have a choice." Tommy said facing them.
"You always have a choice." Daisuke said, placing a hand on his shoulder.
"I got an idea. Let's see if anyone lives in that house. Maybe they can help us." Takuya said, pointing at a house that looked like a strawberry short cake.
They all walked over and went in, but there didn't seem to be anyone in there.
Just a whole bunch of candy.
"Now I know what it's like to be a kid in a candy store." Takuya said as Tommy went off to grab some cotton candy.
"And it's the best thing ever!" the boy said.
Looking at the stacks of different types of candies, Daisuke picked up a caramel covered apple and started eating it as she stepped back over to the boys.
"I guess we can take a little time to have a snack, right?" Takuya said as Tommy handed his a stick of pink cotton candy and then gave a stick of blue cotton candy to Koji.
"We do not have time to sit around here stuffing our faces with candy! We have to find a way to get to the Forest Terminal. We're not out having fun at a carnival or something." Koji said.
Takuya was munching away on his candy, not seeming to even listen to the raven haired boy.
"You understand? Are you even listening to me? Man, you're infuriating!" Koji growled.
"Welcome to my life." Daisuke said as she took a bit out of the apple.
"What are we supposed to do? We're floating on an island." Takuya said.
Daisuke thought over some different things they could try, like finding an air plane or Kumamon could create a bridge or slide or something so they could get off.
"There's another example of why you'll never be a good leader. You just give up. It's like you don't even wanna help your friends or sister at all! I mean, take a look at what you're doing right now. " Koji said.
They all looked at him, tension growing in the air again which made the kids look at the two older boys in worry about what would happen.
"I don't see you coming up with any ideas." Takuya said.
"At least I'm not just eating; we need to think about the other Legendary Warriors." Koji said.
"Legendary War-What are you talking about?" Takuya asked.
"He means, the others could be bad too, just like Grumblemon. And what about that Beast Spirit thing? We don't know anything about that." Daisuke pointed out.
"She's right. We need a plan. We need to think about the worst case scenario, not just play games and eat sweets, or we might not make it out of this world alive!" Koji said and Daisuke noticed Tommy's depressed mood.
"Look, can we not talk about this now?" Takuya asked, noticing the same thing as his sister.
"You mean not in front of Tommy? I don't care if he's young, Daiske is too, and she has no problem with it. He has to learn to face the truth." Koji said as Daisuke walked over to her friend.
"I'm sorry you hate me so much." Tommy said as the girl put a hand on his shoulder.
"I don't hate you, it's just..." Koji trailed off, not sure what to say.
"He's just worried. Everything here is so different and dangerous. We don't know what'll happen. We need to be more careful." Daisuke amended with a soft smile.
Tommy looked at her, his emerald eyes sad as they looked into her chocolate ones, which were filled with a million emotions.
They all left the shop in a tense silence, Tommy and Daisuke walking out with their arms linked together as the two older boys walked a head of them.
"Does anyone wanna talk?" Tommy asked making Daisuke wince, knowing an argument would happen again.
"Fine. Let's talk about getting to Forest Terminal and what we're gonna do about the Legendary Warriors." Koji said.
"You're unbelievable! I told you I didn't want to talk about it in front of the kids." Takuya said.
"And I told you that you can't treat them differently from the rest of us. Daisuke accepted it, so you should too." Koji said.
Tommy and Daisuke turned when they heard a weird noise and gasped as they were picked up by a creepy looking teddy bear.
"Yeah, but you can respect that they're just kids." Takuya said, not noticing.
"So are you." Koji retorted.
"All right." Takuya said, turning to him.
"Oh, yeah." Koji said as they both glared at each other.
"Um, guys?" Tommy called.
"WE"RE BEING KIDNAPPED BY A FREAKY TEDDY BEAR YOU MORONS!" Daisuke screamed making them jump and turn to see the two kids being carried off by Monzaemon who was now an evil version of himself.
"It's that bear again." Takuya said.
"No, it's different now. It's all funky looking." Koji said.
"Yes, we know, CAN YOU PLEASE STOP TALKING AND HELP US?" the girl screamed again.
"The ShadowToyAgumon turned Monzaemon into WaruMonzaemon. His Heartbreak Attack will really bring you down." her D-Tector said.
Takuya and Koji then chased after them, intent on saving the kids.
"Hey you big fuzzy creep, give our friend and my sister back!" Takuya called.
WaruMonzaemon turned around and sent some black heart shaped bubble at them.
It hit the goggle head and he fell to his knees, crying which made Koji stop and turn to him in confusion of his sudden depressed attitude.
"What's the point? We're never gonna catch them." Takuya sulked and then burst into tears.
"Why are you crying? What happened?" Koji asked.
"I just feel really sad." Takuya said as he wiped at his tears.
WaruMonzaemon fired off another black heart just as Koji turned and it hit him next making him drop to his knees.
"What just hit me, Takuya? I'm so sad. I feel like everything is so hopeless, you know?" he asked as he sniffled.
"It is hopeless!" Takuya called as WaruMonzaemon turned and started running off with a laugh.
"I'm sorry I yelled at you." Koji apologized.
"I'm sorry I yelled at you." Takuya bawled.
"Unbelievable." Daisuke muttered as she sighed in annoyance.
After running for twenty minutes they had arrived at a lavender and blue castle, the black bear running inside and then setting the two kids down, Tommy bawling and Daisuke groaning in annoyance at how he was acting.
"This world just gets better and better. What's next? I'm gonna blow up? Although I don't know what's worse, blowing up or having to tell everyone you were beaten by a giant teddy bear!" Tommy cried.
"Oh, would you just stop!" Daisuke yelled slapping him across the face.
WaruMonzaemon stared in shock at this while Tommy stopped crying and just held his reddened cheek before looking down into blazing chocolate eyes.
"Don't cha think I'm scared too? I don't like this either and Takuya isn't even trying to comfort me. Stop acting like a baby all the time." She said.
"You're scared?" he asked in surprise.
"Of course I am! We just got our butts kicked by a giant lawn gnome and then were thrown off of a mountain and were kidnapped by an evil teddy. What kinda person wouldn't be scared? But crying all the time isn't gonna help us." Daisuke said.
Tommy looked down in thought and moved his hand away from his cheek as he came to realize that she was right.
Getting scared and crying all the time wasn't going to help him because no one was going to be there to baby him all the time.
He chose to stay here so he could be like the Kanbara siblings, tough and fearless, but how would that happen if he was always crying like a baby?
"You're right. We can find a way to get out of here all by ourselves. Thanks, D." Tommy smiled at her.
"No problem, T. I'll do it again if ya want." Daisuke smiled.
They both then laughed at that while WaruMonzaemon just tilted his head to the side at how they seemed to be mad and now were laughing like best friends.
The two kids then turned to him to see that he was holding a soccer ball in his hands, the kids looking around to see two goals and the girl smiled.
"Hey, finally, soccer." She said as she ran over to the harmless bear, Tommy right behind her.
"Can we play?" he asked
WarMonzaemon looked down at them.
"Play? You two…want to play with me?" he asked hopefully.
Sharing a smile as they saw that he wasn't really such a bad guy, the Warriors of Harmony and Ice looked up at him.
"Yeah!" they said.
The bear smiled as he was then covered in data and transformed back into the happy yellow bear that he really is.
"Monzaemon!" Tommy and Daisuke exclaimed.
"Let's play!" Monzaemon cheered.
They all laughed as they ran outside to go play a game of soccer, tag and then went back inside to take a bath and then sat down in the playroom to play video games, Daisuke brushing out her hair as she watched Tommy and Monzaemon playing a fighting game on the X-Box.
As Tommy was getting close to winning, Takuya and Koji barged into the room, expecting some sort of battle, but only saw Tommy cheering as he won and Monzaemon sulking while Daisuke was brushing her hair.
"Tommy, Daisuke, what are you doing?" Koji demanded.
"What does it look like we're doing?" Tommy asked with a smile as he and Daisuke got up and stood side by side in front of Monzaemon, the trio smiling.
"But we thought you were in trouble." Takuya said.
"Well, it's a good thing we weren't. By the time you guys got here, we'd be dead." Daisuke said making Tommy giggle while Takuya fumed.
"I feel just awful about that guys, but these little troopers saw through to the real me and played with me anyway. They're good kids." Monzaemon said as he pet the two kids' heads affectionately.
"So, can we keep him?" Tommy asked.
Koji and Takuya groaned in disbelief before they started down the stairs of the tower, Daisuke and Tommy following after the sulking boys that had fought the ShadowToyAgumon to save them.
"But why can't we keep him?" Tommy asked.
"Ah, fantastic friends." A panda digimon said as he stood there with the ToyAgumon.
"To make up for their monstrous mistakes, the ToyAgumon insist they take you off of the island." Pandamon said.
"Yeah!" the quartet of humans laughed and smiled at each other.
(A few minutes later…)
A ToyAgumon started up a plane and drove off with the kids in their seats.
"Cool." Tommy smiled.
"Hey, Tommy, how come you weren't scared?" Takuya asked.
"Well, I'm really not afraid of airplanes." Tommy said.
"I meant when you were captured by that evil teddy bear." Takuya explained.
"Well to be honest, at first I was so scared of him that I almost wet my pants, but then Daisuke helped me be brave and then we figured out that the big guy only wanted to play with us." Tommy explained.
"Probably only a kid could figure that out." Koji laughed.
"Right and you thought kids weren't good for anything." Takuya smiled back at him.
"Guys, if you look down, you can see the forest." ToyAgumon said.
"Wow!" Tommy exclaimed.
"Cool." Takuya said.
"It's so pretty." Daisuke exclaimed.
"It's just a bunch of trees." Koji shrugged making the goggle head groan.
"As a special thanks, how about a little excitement?" ToyAgumon asked as he started doing loops with the plane making the humans all groan.
"Maybe I am afraid of air-air-airplanes!" Tommy yelped.
ToyAgumon just laughed and turned around to hand them some parachutes which they took curiously.
"What do we do with these things?" Takuya asked.
"Why, you're jumping out of course." ToyAgumon said.
They yelled at that, but then decided to get over it as they put on their parachutes and then looked off as they got ready to jump.
"I can't do this. I'm not crazy enough to do this." Daisuke said as she tried to sit back down, but Koji picked her up.
"Just hang on, I got ya." He said.
She whined at that and clung to him as he jumped off, then Takuya and Tommy followed after them.
As they fell for a few minutes, Koji pulled Daisuke's cord and her parachute opened up making her yelp at the sudden jerk as he let her go.
The boys then did the same as they floated down, then spotted something sliding down the grassy fields.
"Hey, what's that?" Tommy asked.
"It's Zoe and the guys!" Takuya said.
It was indeed Zoe, JP, Bokomon and Neemon who were in a boat that was sailing down the grassy fields with them waving at the floating children.
To be continued…