Me: Hi there and welcome to a new episode of The Possibilty of Kindness!
All: Hey!
Me: I'm kind of down to today, I start sixth form tomorrow so my writing time is going to be serverly limited. Ah well, here's the chapter anyway.
Disclaimer: I don't own Digimon and I never will.
I walked to the Kamiya household feeling depressed. I didn't like fighting. I was about to knock when Tai opened the door. "I wondered how long. You'll need to be introduced to the others." He said calmly. I nodded. I followed Kari to school. She didn't try to make a conversation. She knew that my powers had taken their toll on me. In fact I used that as an excuse. Ken was the only one who knew the truth. They all knew that I wasn't safe at home but they didn't know just how bad it was. I couldn't believe I had to fight him. TK grinned when he saw me and waved. Davis Yolei and Cody looked confused.
"Guys this is Sakura. Don't worry about introducing yourselves. She knows more than you do thanks to her powers." Kari said. TK nodded.
"That's right, she can see the future. It's a hard gift but she manages to deal with it." TK explained further. Cody stepped forward.
"Even so it would be rude not to. My name is Cody Hida and I am Armadillomon's partner. I hold the Digi-egg of Knowledge." He said with the traditional bow. I bowed back on instinct.
"Sakura Tenshi." I replied. I looked at the other two I didn't know really. Davis gave me a total Tai grin.
'Hey I'm Davis and I got courage and I'm with Veemon.' He said merrily. I glared at him.
"Veemon. That's Ryo's Digimon." I said harshly and pretending I just found out about it. Davis looked surprised.
"Ryo? I've never heard of him." Davis said.
"He died a while ago." TK said shooting me a glance. I felt my blood boil.
"NO HE DIDN'T! He's still out there. I'm not going to give up until I find him." I snapped. Kari put a hand on my shoulder.
"We know Sakura, but please remember that it's been three years. That's an awful long time. Even if he's out there he might not want to come back." She said softly. I gave her a look that she ignored. What was that supposed to mean?
"Ah, my name's Yolei please to meet you. My partner is Hawkmon although he's currently a Poromon. I meet him in a temple in the Digital World when I lifted the Digi-egg of Love talk about cool right?" She continued to babble on until she realised that it was time for lessons. Kari turned to look at me. "Meet us at lunch time okay." She called. I nodded and waved.
"Excuse me Miss, are you a student here?" A teacher asked. I smiled and shook my head.
"No sir, I'm just staying hi to my friends." I told him. I prayed I wouldn't get kicked out. He nodded.
"Okay, why aren't you at your school at this time of day?" he asked. I looked him in the eye.
"No one would pay the fees." I admitted. He looked started.
"The government has schemes for low income families."He noted. I gave him a slight smirk.
"I never said that my family didn't have money. They just have other uses for it." I told him. He nodded.
"I see, well in that case I guess I'll have to let it slip that welcome around here." He said winking. I giggled and said thank you before running off. I was amazed he hadn't removed me from the property.
I walked with Kari, Davis and TK to the computer room. Davis was talking non-stop about how cool Veemon is. I just had to smile. Davis seemed to really care for Veemon. I guess that they were a good team. Davis opened the door a bit. "Smells like Davis." DemiVeemon said. I struggled to keep a straight face.
"Are you saying I stink?" Davis asked opening the door fully.
"It is, Davis!" DemiVeemon said leaping at the boy. Davis caught him laughing.
"DemiVeemon did you guys have a good day at school?" Davis asked.
"Where's Yolei?" Poromon asked.
"And Cody, too?" Upaamon added. Kari smiled at them.
"Don't worry, they're both on there way over." Kari assured them.
"Ah here's someone now." Davis said looking behind. We all turned to see. Yolei ran up.
"Sorry I'm late, I brought goodies from my families convince store." She said placing a carrier bag down. That wouldn't last long with six Digimon.
"Good idea. In-training Digimon are bottomless pits." TK approved.
"Along with every other level." I noted. The Digimon gathered round the bag.
"If my family owned a convince store, I'd eat candy all day until my teeth fell out!" Davis said.
"It's not that glamorous. I have to pay for anything I eat even when I work there. But the job comes with a great pension plan.' Yo"ei said. Davis just looked confused.
"What is it?" DemiVeemon asked looking at the packets of juice and food. Huh, I guess we never did show them real world food. Budmon looked confused as well.
"Can we eat it, I'm hungry?" Poromon asked.
"Of course you can eat it, watch me." Patamon said going into the bag to get some. Patamon drank some juice to demonstrate.
"The buffet is now open." Upaamon said diving in. "Delicious, this is the best thing I've ever eaten in my whole life all two days of it!" He said bouncing.
"Me too." DemiVeemon agreed eating some chocolate. I smiled as I saw the chocolate all over his face. Poromon cautiously took a sip from a hot and spicy packet.
"Oh it's hot, it's hot, Ow, Ow oh Ow!" He exclaimed flying round the room. We watched him go to one end and then come back crashing into the others who immediately bounced back up and started laughing.
"I hope my first litter doesn't act like this." Gatomon said watching the scene with disapproval.
"Let's check to see if the gates open." Davis said as they quieted down.
"It's open. Perfecto." Yolei said checking the computer.
"Great! Let's go to the Digital World." Davis said. I rolled my eyes. This was just too familiar. Kari held up a hand.
"Wait a minute guys we can't leave yet, Cody's not here." Kari said. Davis looked at her.
"Cody, what's taking him so long?" Davis asked. Despite the irritated tone I knew he was concerned.
"He's still in the lunchroom. Last time I checked he was still chewing the same carrot fifty times!" Yolei answered.
"Does he know we're waiting? He's holding us up." Davis asked.
"Let's watch some TV to pass the time." Yolei suggested going on the Internet.
"Yeah let's see what's on." Kari agreed as we gathered around the computer.
"We interrupt this broadcast to bring you this latest story." A reporter said.
"Aww." Davis went.
"The results of the national computer programming contest are in and the winner is boy genius Ken Ichijouji." The reporter said. I felt the colour drain from my face. Ken appeared on the screen.
"There were many well deserving geniuses out there and I am humbled to think that the judges choose me to receive the top prize." He said.
"Now let's go live to the site of the contest with our field reporter Jerry Rivera. Jerry?" A guy who I guessed was Jerry appeared on the screen.
"Thanks, Jackie. Young Ken wowed the judges by creating a computer program that can actually brush your teeth for you. The rumour is that next year he's planning something with floss. I can't wait. Back to you." He said. The screen changed to show Ken playing chess.
"Ken's talents include being able to play one game of chess while everyone watches. Just last week he actually balanced the world's biggest checkbook. And that's not all. He's a champion in Judo and a star on the all-state soccer team. And girls, he's single." The reporter said. I smiled slightly at that. Even when he was nice he never looked for a girlfriend. Mind he was still a kid back then.
"Wow, he's almost as good as I am." Davis said. Typical, goggle boy, attitude.
"Now let's talk to the proud parents who raised this genius. Mr and Mrs Ichijouji. What are some of the advantages of being the mother of one of the most brilliant children in the world?" The reporter asked.
"Oh it's great in the kitchen. He invented dishes that clean themselves." Mrs Ichijouji said smiling.
"Like father like son. I once guessed how many jelly beans were in a pickle jar." Mr Ichijouji said.
"I heard that this kid is so smart that one time he gave his teachers homework." We all looked at Cody.
"Cody? When did you get here?" Kari asked.
"About a minute ago." He told her.
"Hey maybe Ken knows how to defeat the Digimon Emperor." TK said. I almost chocked. Jeez TK thanks a lot. Ken is the Digimon Emperor. Yolei turned the show of looking seriously annoyed.
"Humph, I know more about the Digital World than that stupid kid." Yolei said.
"He maybe stupid but he's still a genius." …? That didn't make sense at all. Mind it was Davis so… you get the idea. Yolei just made a sound of disgust.
"Hey Kari." Gatomon said. We turned to look at her.
"Yeah?" She asked. Patamon moved forward.
"We're ready to go back to the digital world now." Patamon said. TK nodded.
"All present and accounted for, let's get going!" He agreed.
"The gate to the digital world is open.'"Yolei said.
'"hen what are we waiting for?" Davis demanded.
"Yeah lets forget all this talk about geniuses." Yolei added.
"Next stop the digital world." Davis said holding out his Digivice.
I appeared alongside everyone else. Lalamon Digivolved on the way back along with the other newbies Digimon. "You guys are back to normal." Cody noticed once we got our footing. "Yep." Veemon agreed as they stepped towards us. Lalamon hopped into my arms.
"We change back when we return to the digital world." Armadillomon noted.
"Something good is going to happen close by." I said. They looked at me.
"Be careful, just because a good thing will happen doesn't mean we won't be in a fight." TK warned the newbies. Just then Davis's Digivice started beeping. He looked at it. Everyone else's went of to.
"What's going on?" Kari asked.
"Hey a Digi-egg." Cody realised.
"What?" TK asked. Veemon stepped forward.
"Where is it?" He asked
"The Digivice says it's not far from here. I wonder if that's what Sakura sensed." Cody noted.
"Could be." I agreed confused.
"More Digi-eggs? We already have ours." Davis noted.
"Who are they for?" Yolei asked. She took the words right out of my mouth.
"We'll never know, unless we look for them." Kari said. She had a point.
"I'll do anything you want Kari." Davis said. Oh, so Davis had a soft spot for Kari aye. Interesting. I had a feeling TK wouldn't like that.
We started to walk towards the signal going through the woods. "Hey it's getting pretty dark in these woods. Here Kari I'll hold your hand so you don't get scared." Davis said.
"I'm not scared." Kari said firmly.
"And it's not her hand, it's mine." TK added annoyed.
"Oh sorry TJ." Davis replied. TJ? TK wasn't that hard to remember.
"And that's not his name. It's TK." Kari defended her friend.
"Whatever." Davis said. Huh, I would of thought he would make some speech about 'Whatever you want Kari,' or something like that. "Shh I'm getting something." Oh so that was why. He looked at his Digivice. "It's just up there ahead of us." He said.
"What are you doing here?" We all gasped as a hologram of the Digimon Emperor appeared.
"Look out!" Yolei yelled.
"I'll get you." Davis said charging. "Once and for all." He added as he drew nearer the hologram.
"Davis he's not real!" I yelled as Davis's punch went straight through leaving Davis to fall to the ground.
"It's just an illusion, he's not really there." TK said in shock.
"Who do you think you are sneaking into the Digital World. What do you think this is a movie theatre or something." The Digimon Emperor demanded. The others looked at each other.
"What's he talking about?" Cody asked.
"Ordinary children aren't allowed in the Digital World. Only the Digidestined are." He yelled.
"Huh." Everyone said.
"We are the Digidestined wonder boy!" Davis yelled back.
"You? The Digidestined? That's physically impossible." The Emperor said mockingly.
"Why is that impossible?" TK asked to surprised to even be insulted. I narrowed my eyes knowing where this was going.
"Yeah why can't we be?" Kari added definitely insulted. You were going to regret asking that.
"It's simple, based on the laws of physics I have determined that only perfect human beings can be Digidestined. And of course I am the only perfect human being." He said.
"Oh yeah big shot well what about Kari." Davis said trying to get into the hologram's face. The Emperor just vanished. Leaving a confused Davis gapping at where he'd been. Then there was a crash and we saw the Emperor standing on a Tyrannomon.
"Oh no." Davis said up on seeing the giant red dinosaur.
"You are intruders in a place where you don't belong. You are ordered to hereby evacuate the premises without further notice." He said harshly.
"The landlord told my uncle the same thing." Davis noted. TK was standing in front of Kari to protect her. I gave Ken a pleading look that he ignored.
"We have just as much right to be here as you." TK yelled.
"This world and everything in it belongs to me, now all of you, get out!" He ordered.
"Try and make us." Yolei retorted. Yeah say that to the guy standing on a giant dinosaur.
"Why must everyone question my authority? Does it always have to turn into a great big production? Get them Tyrannomon." The Emperor ordered. The Digimon Analyser appeared.
"He's one of the most powerful Digimon. His blaze blast attack incinerates his enemies." Ken said.
"Blaze blast!" Tyrannomon said powering up a flamethrower. We turned and ran as it landed where we where a second ago.
"Is that all you've got!" Davis yelled. Stop being a hot head for once the Tyrannomon's bad enough, I thought desperately. The emperor just glared.
"Are you ready for me Davis?" Veemon asked.
"Yeah!" Davis yelled. Veemon Digivolved to Flamedramon swiftly.
"See this is why I'm a genius and your not. You keep using the same attacks against me yet I keep coming up with something new." The Emperor said jumping down from Tyrannomon.
"I've heard enough of your babbling let's get to it." Davis said sounding cool for once.
"Fine have it your way." The Emperor said. The Tyrannomon charged towards Flamedramon and knocked him back with his claws. Flamedramon went flying but used a tree as a springboard to launch himself into the air and shoot his 'Fire Rockets.' The Emperor just smirked as they drew closer because Tyrannomon deflected them with his tail easily.
"No way! He blocked it." Davis said startled.
"Tyrannomon uses fire techniques as well, he can defend easily." I told him.
"Now Yolei?" Hawkmon asked. Yolei nodded.
"Hmm. Digi-armour energize!" She yelled holding up her D-3. Hawkmon Digivolved to 'Halsemon, the wings of love.' Yolei hopped on Halsemon and they charged at the Tyrannomon dodging a blaze blast. Halsemon countered with 'Tempest Wing.' It knocked the Tyrannomon back slightly.
"You think you can beat me with a little addition?" The Emperor demanded cracking his whip slightly. "How do you like multiplication?" He continued as four more Tyrannomon appeared surrounding us.
"Huh, how can that be?" Davis asked looking at the new guests we had. The Emperor stood on one of them.
"The more the merrier." He said as they closed in
"There are five of them now." Yolei said panicked.
"You ready Armadillomon?" Cody asked looking at his partner.
"Ready when you are." He replied.
"Digi-armour energise." Cody said pointing his D-3 forward. Armadillomon Digivolved into Digmon but I didn't think it would help much.
"Why not let us Digivolve so we can fight?" Gatomon demanded.
"Yeah, what are you afraid of." Patamon added.
"As long as I have this dark Digivice you'll never be able to Digivolve. And you two are useless I might as well destroy you first." He snapped. Kari gasped.
"Leave them alone!" TK yelled fearfully. The two Digimon barely avoided two of the Tyrannomon's attacks only to be swatted away by a third one. They flew and landed on the ground in a heap.
"I thought that cat's are always supposed to land on their feat." Patamon said.
"Oh shut up." Gatomon replied before they rushed to dodge a Tyrannomon's foot. They ran towards two other Tyrannomon who launched their fire attacks making the duo change direction rapidly. In the smoke caused by the blast Digmon appeared.
"Hello boys, looks like you have some cavities that need filling." He said letting his drills spin menacingly and sounding like the dentist from hell. Not that I've ever been to the dentist but still.
"That's not fair we're out numbered." Davis said alarmed. You know it's bad when courage starts to worry about the odds.
"Remember the old saying, 'It's not how you play the game it's whether you win or lose.'" The Emperor said from his vantage point.
"We don't stand a chance like this. We've got to go and find the other Digi-eggs." Cody said glancing at his D-3.
"But Cody, we don't even know who it belongs to." Yolei protested.
"Cody's right. TK and Kari need to go with him and find the Digi-egg. Trust me on this." I said surely. It just felt right for those three to go after them.
"Listen to Sakura. It doesn't matter. It's worth a try." Davis agreed.
"I'm getting something, this way." Cody said following his D-3's directions.
"Gatomon let's look for the other Digi-eggs." Kari said.
"Patamon come this way." TK called. The two Digimon ran, or flew, as fast as they could to there human partners.
"Open wide." Digmon said to his opponents. Halsemon launched an attack along with Flamedramon and Digmon. They delayed the four Tyrannomon that didn't have the Emperor on them.
"You can run but you can't hide!" The emperor yelled attempting to follow them.
"Going somewhere?" Flamedramon asked intercepting. "You'll have to go through me first to get to them." He said dropping to a battle stance.
"Guys one of them got past!" I yelled counting. Ken grinned from his perch.
"Gatomon and Patamon can handle one long enough for them to get to safety." Yolei yelled from the air. The she yelled again as Halsemon went to the ground hard near a cliff after a particularly strong hit. Halsemon De-Digivolved back to Hawkmon.
"Hawkmon!" She called her partner. He just moaned. I watched as Flamedramon and Davis were driven back to where Yolei was. I turned as I heard something behind me. I saw Ken standing there glaring at me. I gulped and stepped back.
"Your on there side!" He said. I winced.
"I'm sorry, but you know I'm on the right side." I whispered before running to join Davis and Yolei. They hadn't heard the Emperor's comments thankfully. Davis was forced right back to join Yolei next to the cliff as Flamedramon turned back to Veemon and landed next to Hawkmon. I felt a shadow and watched as Armadillomon landed next to the others. I ran past them going next to Yolei and Davis.
"We've got to do something, we just need a little more time." I said desperately.
"Lalamon can't Digivolve can she?" Davis asked. I glared at him. He shrugged before turning to Emperor who penned us in.
"Do you guys give up yet?" He asked viscously.
"Not a chance." Davis yelled. That's right. Get him trading insults. I knew if we just stalled everything would be all right.
"Look behind you, where do you think your going to run to?" He asked. Davis glanced at the cliff behind us.
"Davis we're here." Cody said from above. We looked up to see two flying Digimon carrying Kari, TK and Cody. I laughed. I was right again.
"Huh Cody!" Yolei exclaimed. The Emperor turned to look at the group who landed on the opposite side of the Tyrannomon. They all dismounted from the new Digimon.
The rookie Digimon all looked at the new comers.
"That's Pegasusmon. He's one wild horse. When he attacks with his star shower his enemy will be blasted into out of space." Armadillomon said as the Analyser gathered the data.
"And that's Nefertimon. She is a flying fighting machine with nine lives. And she's quite a shot when tossing those Rosetta stones of hers." Veemon added. The emperor hopped down neatly from the Tyrannomon.
"Don't think Armour Digivolving will save you. It won't belong before I figure out how to stop that to." He said. The Tyrannomon all shot fireballs in succession at the winged duo who just took of and avoided them. 'Golden noose.' They said passing each other. A gold rope appeared between there leg guards that they used to round up the Tyrannomon. 'Star Shower.' Pegasusmon said launching his attack.
'Rosetta Stone.' Nefertimon said launching her attack. Both attacks hit head on and destroyed the dark rings on all of the Tyrannomon. They de-Digivolved seeing that the fight was over and Ken ran. "There dark rings disappeared." Yolei said as the Tyrannomon came to. The Tyrannomon said thank you and started to leave. "I want to get a digital picture of this for my computer scrapbook." Kari said taking a photo with her camera.
"These photo's turned out great except the Tyrannomon all have red eye. Oh wait a minute I forgot they always have red eyes." Kari said as she looked through her pictures.
"I'm so mad just wait until I get my hands on that Digimon Emperor." Davis said punching a fist into his palm. Kari turned to TK.
"You'll defeat the emperor, won't you TK?" Kari said. I almost laughed at Davis's expression.
"I'm not sure Kari but we'll give it our best shot." TK assured her. "The problem is we've never faced an enemy who was human before. How do we fight him?" TK pointed out. The younger Digimon where eating snacks under Yolei and Cody's supervision. I was sat in a chair by the window with Budmon resting on my lap. I wondered why she reverted to In-training like the newer Digimon. It was probably because of the long time I'd spent in the digital world.
"TK brings up a very interesting point that we should all consider." Cody agreed looking over at us.
"Oh yeah what point is that?" Davis demanded rudely. I wanted to point out that he was going to wind up getting beaten by a nine year old but I refrained.
"Well this is quite a little army we've put together so far. We've found our three new Digimon and they've been able to armour Digivolve. And even Gatomon and Patamon have found a way to bypass the Digimon Emperor's dark Digivice as well but even with all our power combined we still haven't had the strength to defeat the Digimon Emperor in the Digital world yet we still keep forgetting the fact that he's human." Cody said. I saw where he was going with this and I didn't like it.
"Yeah but I still don't get it what's your point." TK said. I thought he was smart.
"He means we have to fight differently." Kari explained. I knew she was smart.
"How do you suggest we do that?" Yolei was acting like one of those I'm smarter than you so I'm not going to consider your view people.
"If we find out his human identity maybe we can defeat him from this side where his powers aren't as strong." Cody said. There was silence.
"Cody's right. We need to consider the possibility and look for clues about his identity as we fight him in the Digital World." I said. They looked at me.
"You agree with him?" TK asked surprised.
"Cody don't you think that you're a little young to be thinking about things like this?" Yolei asked. I glared at her.
"Yolei! TK, Kari and myself where the same age as him the first time we did this. Guess who had to rescue the older kids? Us! When you're a Digidestined age always takes a backspace to ability and Cody is a lot like Izzy and Joe. You can trust him to get the facts before suggesting something and to consider every possibility. Cody knows his plan won't work yet but we need to be aware of the idea for it to ever have a chance. The plan is too good to not consider." I snapped.
"Thank you Sakura for defending me." Cody said with a small bow. I smiled.
"No problem but Cody, don't forget you are young so it's okay to act your age occasionally." I told him. He nodded.
"Okay, big sister." He added the last part shyly. I grinned.
"Good, little bro." I replied. He grinned back. After that everyone started to leave. Kari and TK waited till the others had gone before looking at me.
"Matt is going to pick you up with Dad. We'll leave it up to you about telling the new guys but don't think you have to." TK told me. Kari smiled.
"It's good to have you back." She said. I smiled back.
"Thanks." I told her.
Me: About that whole, big sister thing between Cody and Sakura. I did not plan that. In fact I planned for her to be distant from the others but I guess she wanted to be friends. I've always felt that Cody was to serious and not given there due. In my opinion the most important thing is ability. Cody is very talented but he never really shows it because the others judge him from his age to much at the beginning. Sakura got that treatment in the unwritten original series. No one listened to her when she said things like, don't go into that cave/creepy house/forest even though she was always right. Sakura isn't about to let the new team make those mistakes. Kari and TK should help her but they've forgotten what it was like because they didn't feel it as much. Anyway, R&R!