EMO TAI ALERT EMO TAI ALERT!

Author: I'm not too proud of this chapter myself.


16

"Reunion Lost, Rebirth of Death"

TK returns to the digidestend with Sakuyamon and Dianamon holding Agumon and Gabumon.

"Gabumon!" Matt rushed to his weakened partner.

All three degenerated back to their human and rookie level forms. Barbara handed over Gabumon to Matt and Rika gave Agumon to Sora.

Sora was clearly worried, "Are they…?"

"They'll be fine," Rika assured them. "They just need some rest."

"Thank goodness…"

"Now that the Dark Masters are history," TK began. "Let's do introductions."

TK moves over to Rika and Renamon, "This is Rika and her partner Renamon. Their Mega form is called Sakuyamon."

"And I'm Barbara," the redhead took the initiative. "This is my partner, Lunamon. Our Mega form is called Dianamon."

"HEY!" Beelzemon called out from the sky, he lands right in front of them.

"Whoa, cool!" Davis smiled.

"Name's Beelzemon, nice to meet you."

"Don't forget us!" a green giant falls towards the group. It splits up into Henry and Terriermon and lands on their feet.

"I'm Henry, nice to finally meet you."

"And I'm Terriermon! You'll never find a more cuter digimon then me!"

Veemon steps forward, "You wanna bet?"

Justimon land in the middle of the group, "Hiya."

"Stop trying to look cool Ryo," Rika sighed.

"What are you talking about?" Davis cried. "He is cool!"

"You're my kind of guy," Justimon told him before splitting up.

"I'm Ryo, and this is my partner Cyberdramon. Together we become Justimon!"

"Yeah!" Davis yelled.

"Sheesh Davis," Yolei spoke. "Can you keep your stupidity down a bit?"

"Seriously," Cody agreed.

"Hey!"

Mimi catches something headed their way, "What's that?"

"That," TK started. "Is Gallantmon, the fusion of Takato and Guilmon."

Gallantmon joins the party and splits up into two. "Hello everybody!"

"Oh wow," Mimi adored. "He's got goggles on his head."

"Does that make you the leader of these digidestined?" Izzy asked.

"Takato?" Henry laughed. "Our leader?"

"Normally," Rika started. "He can't lead anyone out of a paper bag."

"What's that supposed to mean?" Takato fought back.

Rika smiles, "But when it comes down to it, he's the one that always pulls us through."

"He is?" Terriermon acted surprised.

"Just ask Jeri," Rika replied.

"Hey," Ryo snuck up closer to Rika. "You're not getting soft on us are you Rika?"

"In your dreams."

The group laughs together. The Tamers have completed their mission, the digidestined has been saved. Now is the time to plan a counter attack against NightmareMyotismon.

Sora looks around, but she doesn't find what she's been looking for.

Matt walks up to her, "Is something wrong?"

"Where's Tai?"

TK overhears them, "That reminds me." The entire gang turns over to him and listens. "After we defeated Omnimon, we saw this tremendous fire not too far from here."

Takato jumps in, "Hey I saw that too. Just I defeated Piedmon."

Henry spoke out, "Same here, after we finished off Machinedramon."

Ryo joins, "After Puppetmon fell, we ended up seeing it too."

Beelzemon adds, "When I was done frying eels, I saw it too."

"So that's the heat wave we felt," Izzy had his hand on his chin. "So Tai's power is fire based is it?"

"More importantly," Matt interrupted. "Where and how did he get that power?"

"Even he doesn't know," TK explained. "He just says he got it as soon as he was transported to their world."

"Is that how you got your digivolving power too?" Tentomon asked curiously.

"I don't know," he answers honestly. "I didn't even know I could do that until it happened."

"I'm telling you it's looooove," Mimi joked.

TK and Kari blushed a bright red. Ken, Yolei, Cody and their digimon had to hold and gag Davis from doing or saying anything. TK and Kari just quickly peeked at each other before shyly turning away.

"Ahem," Joe interrupted. "I'd like to chat too but there are other things we need to be concerned about."

"I agree," Matt told them. "We need to talk to Tai first."

Barbara takes out her digivice, "Tai? Come in Tai."

"Barbara?" Tai's voice came in.

"Where are you?"

"Resting, I'm beat."

Matt gave Gabumon to TK and moved over to Barbara and took out his hand, asking for her digivice. Barbara nods and gave it to him.

"Tai… It's me."


"Matt?" Tai put his digivice closer to his face.

"Yeah," Matt confirmed. "Listen Tai, we've got a lot to talk about."

"I've already spoken with TK, I'm up to speed. I'm sure that he and the Tamers can fill you in themselves."

"I'm well aware of that."

"Tai…" Tai hears Sora's voice in the background. Alice feels his heart skip.

"Listen," Matt started. "Agumon and Gabumon are seriously injured and-"

"Are they alright?"

"They're fine, just resting."

"Then take them to the Tamer's world, there's a digimon there that can heal them up in no time."

"Oh yeah," Tai hears Takato. "I completely forgot about Kenta and MarineAngemon."

"Tamers, take everyone back to your world. I'll catch up with you guys later."

"Tai-!" Matt sounded irritated.

"I need to make sure I got all of them. I was fighting Diaboromon here and he did his multiplication tactic. I'm hoping that if there are any of them left, they don't find me first."

Silence from the other side.

Do you really think he bought it?

"Not likely. Matt isn't stupid, but he knows that Diaboromon shouldn't be underestimated. I just hope I'm wrong myself."

TK said he's been leading the digidestined since your disappearance.

"He's a lot more careful then I am. I tend prefer rushing in to take out the bad guys as fast as we can. Matt doesn't like the chances of anyone getting hurt, we're kinda like opposites. Which is why we can work together so well."

But right now you're using that to your advantage.

"I just… don't want to see them right now."

Everyone? Or just Sora?

Tai fell silent at that. Alice knew him well. Considering that they've been together all this time, and the fact that she has to fuse with him in order to unleash his power, he shouldn't be surprised. Even he did try his best to hide his feeling about Sora from her, he couldn't hide from them himself.

"Alright Tai," Matt sounded displeased. "You win, this time. We'll see you later then."

"Later."

The radio fell silent and Tai just sat back and sighed. That was a close call, but still, Alice can see right through him.

Why?

"…"

I don't know if we can work together like this Tai. Please, tell me what going on.

"… Alright, I'll tell you." Tai stood up and looked around the scorched earth, he flew in one direction. It took a while but he finally found a bench he can sit down on.

He and Alice separated so that Alice can sit right next to him, she wanted to see his face as he talked, believing that she'll get a better understanding like this instead of merely feeling his tangled emotions from within.

"You were with me when we watched the entire Digimon Adventure series," Tai started.

"How can I forget?" the ghost smiled. "You were all over the place while we watched. From laughing to spitting out your drink to screaming your lungs out. It looked like you were having a blast."

"Heh," Tai smiled. "Guess I was, watching our memories. Though, there was some that I would like to forget."

"Like what?"

"During that Christmas," Tai lifted his head, their eyes met. "That day when I finally pulled myself together to go and ask her to come with me."

Alice stood in silence. She knew what he was talking about,

"Wow," Sora exclaimed, nervously holding a present in her hands. "This is so exciting, people are already lining up for Matt's concert!"

"Don't worry Sora," Biyomon reassured her. "We'll be sure to get good seats, especially once to give him these homemade cookies."

"I hope…"

"Sora," Tai and Agumon walk in. "Wait up!"

"Oh Tai," Sora shyly tries to hide her embarrassment and the present.

"Something smells good!" Agumon cries.

Gabumon opens the door, "Matt's busy getting ready, but I'll take those to him. Mmm…"

"I bet you will!" Biyomon yells at the dog. "No way! You'll eat the whole thing yourself!"

"Why I resent that! I'm on a diet!"

"So umm…, Sora…?" Tai nervously begins. "Are you going to the concert with anybody? I mean, not that it matters to me, just wondering."

"No," Sora quickly answers. "I want to be available in case Matt is free afterwards."

"Oh…" Tai sounds disappointed. "I see… Matt, huh?"

"Uh…" Sora couldn't think of anything to say.

Tai walks closer to her and places a hand on her shoulder, "It's okay…"

"You're not mad at me Tai?"

"No, o-of course not." Tai pushes Sora towards the door. "Now get in there and say 'Hi!' to Matt for me."

"Thanks Tai."

Agumon raises his claws into the air, "The least you could do is leave us the cookies!"

Sora giggles, "Tell you what, I'll make some special ones for you." She turns around and walks through the door.

"I'll be waiting, thanks."

"I never did get those cookies," Tai complained.

"Why? Did she forget?"

"No, Agumon ate them all."

Alice could've sworn she heard a little 'heh' after he said that.

"I should've taken that as a sign," Tai looks up into the black sky. "I was never meant to be with Sora."

"What's wrong with you!?" Alice angrily exclaims. "Don't you remember that you were the one that saved her from Datamon?"

"I was just fooling myself," Tai closes his eyes. "All I really wanted to do was to find my own courage then."

"DON'T LIE!" Alice slapped him. "You don't really believe that do you? What were you crying for when Sora was kidnapped? Those tears you shed were for her! You even called out her name! Don't you know? It was because of Sora that you gained your courage!"

Tai faced his partner again, "I've… lost those feelings on that day…"

"No you haven't!" Alice stands up and angrily looks at Tai. "You haven't lost hem at all! You've just hidden them, pushed them aside, hiding them from yourself! You can still regain them! You can still-"

"What's the point!?" Tai stands up and looks at the ghost. "Didn't you see the epilogue? Sora and Matt, they-" Tai's voice dropped drastically. "You saw the resemblance they had with their children. Matt's daughter looks like Sora while Sora's son looks like Matt. There's no mistaking it."

"How can you say that?"

"The entire anime series follows our adventures exactly, word for word. There's no reason to believe it couldn't be wrong."

"But it is."

"How?"

"I'm here," Alice puts her hand on her heart. "You're here, talking to me. Did any of this happen in the anime?"

"…"

"Don't you see?" Alice moved closer to him. "You can still change things, the future isn't set in stone."

"It never is…" Tai looks up to the sky once more. "I guess I've just forgotten. Or I'm just afraid…"

"I don't like this side of you Tai," Alice walked even closer to him. "You hold the crest of courage. Since our time together I got to know you, inside and out. Your power runs on courage, that's your strength. I've always seen you looking to the future without looking back, pushing through whatever comes your way."

"Heh," Tai smiles. "Except for crazy fan girls, they're a lot more dangerous then some of the digimon I've faced. I'd rather fight the Dark Masters again instead of trying to run through a crowd of crazed fan girls."

Alice giggled, "There we go. That's the Tai I know and-" Alice caught herself before she finishes.

Tai looks at her curiously, "Were you going to add some thing to that?"

"No," Alice blushed. "I just got carried away, that's all."

"Now who's all scared?" Tai giggles and puts his hand on her head and messes up her hair.

"Hey, quit it!" Alice takes Tai's hand off of her and holds it. "You knew?"

"Yeah," Tai answered softly. "Just as you can feel my emotions, I can feel yours."

Alice blushed even more, "This is embarrassing."

Tai smiles, "Wow, this is a side of you I've never seen before."

They couldn't find the words to continue their conversation, a long silence hung over them. Alice's face was flushed red while Tai just smiles.

The ghost girl suddenly reaches for him. Startled, Tai steps back as Alice grabs his digivice.

Tai feels an explosion behind him. He turns around and looks through a courage crest to find a Diaboromon looking straight at him.

"You know you could've warned me."

There wasn't any time.

Tai places his hand behind him and creates a giant crest, "You picked the worst time to attack us." The crest begins to spin and fire ignites all around it. "Fearless Disc!" The disc flies, Diaboromon tries to jump out of the way but is hit by an orange beam of energy. The courage disc cuts right through it and the demon dissolves into data.

"That better be the last of them."

Tai and Alice look at the floating data. The data flies to a point in the sky, where something awaits.

What is that?

"It can't be…"

Diaboromon's data floats towards the giant object in the sky. The data fuses with the object, and it lowers itself below the clouds. A gigantic digi-egg. The egg hatches and a great spider like creature falls from it towards the ground.

"Armageddemon"


Author: Juuust when you think it's over BOOM another enemy appears.