A/N: Cheers all! Time for the start of arc 2! Enjoy and let me know what you think!
2-1
Taichi has never been to the Digital World before, so the fact that they fall from a rainbow is a new fun experience only tempered by the fact that they are, well, falling. He clutches to Koromon like he'll somehow be a parachute and the others are screaming because it's really high up and-
Taichi is having the time of his eight year long life.
As the ground looms closer, he thinks he sees something soaring through the sky that is nothing like a bird, with no weird wing flaps, but instead a crimson light carries them like a bullet out of a gun. But Taichi remembers television shows of guns. Bullets go in a straight line most of the time. That shape is looping and spinning and it looks like it's doing that just because it's fun and it knows how.
He swallows the lump in his throat. Before, his sister did things because she had to do them. Now, she's doing them because she can.
Taichi goes the wipe his tears but before he can, there's a pain in his knees because they've hit the ground and ow. At least he wasn't a splatter on the ground, but still! That hurt.
"Ya cool, Taichi?" Koromon asks as he hops from Taichi's grip to the ground. Taichi nods, rubbing his legs. The others are doing something similar, but it's a less-focused gesture. They are all looking around, each horrified and confused in the same way.
"Koromon, does your world normally have all these cracks everywhere?" At his question, they all look down and Mimi jumps back, clinging to Palmon.
The ground looks like a spiderweb, brittle as stale cake that will crumble at what shouldn't be much weight.
"Run?" Yamato croaks, and they all nod.
And just like when their adventure began, they're all off and fleeing impending death. The land cracks and steams and almost seems to yawn, and through it all, Koromon manages to say:
"No, Taichi, this is bad."
They all want to shout how much of an understatement this is, but there is no safety to be found in the middle of an earthquake in a forest, so they just focus on breathing, focus on running, and they all forget about Hikari.
That is, until she drops down in front of them, smiling and blocking their path, scythe aglow with fire.
"You sure got here quick," she chirps. "Miss me already?"