Me: I'm sorry that I didn't update yesterday. I just started at sixth form and things are pretty hetic at home. My arm feels ready to fall of from all my textbooks...
Davis: We get it, your back at school and wish you weren't.
Me: Yeah pretty much. I mean it's great to talk to people and the like but...I don't mind being alone. Anyway I am sorry once again. Also due to this I reckon I will be able to only write my stories up on a weekend which limits my writing time greatly. I may have to slow my updates down a bit, to say, two a week? I'm not sure but there's no way I can keep up this pace.
Now its the thank you and reply section! (completely made up)
Angelwahalla and Spazwahalla, thank you so much. My first review meant a lot to me and that came from you. So thank you. I'm glad that you like Ken and Sakura's relationship.
Mangagirl18, thank you for your idea. You've really given me a cause to rethink my plans. I had completely overlooked that possibilty and I'm grateful for your help. Don't worry about Davis, Sakura helps anyone who is right. And I agree that Wormmon needs a friend right now. Ken's great, hence this story, but right now Wormmon needs a friend.
Disclaimer: Please review the previous chapters, and leave a proper review while your at it!
"Pepper breath!" Agumon said shooting a fireball at the bars.
"V-head but." Veemon said charging through.
"Lala Screw." Lalamon said cutting through the rest of the bars. Veemon quickly pushed the Gotsumon out of the cell.
"That was easy." Davis panted as we made a break for it with the rescued Digimon.
"To easy." I muttered holding Lalamon securely.
We collapsed in a meadow a good way away gasping for breath. "You guys are officially fugitives." Agumon said cheerily after we'd gotten our breath back.
"If that's the kind of puny defence that the Digimon Emperor's going to put up then this fight will be over in the first round." Davis said happily.
"Something was weird." TK said frowning.
"What was?" Patamon asked moving from TK's head to his arms.
"Well the fact that it was so easy to break out of that prison. There wasn't a single guard anywhere around. It's like he wanted us to do it. I think he's up to something." TK said.
"Your crazy, he took one look at our awesome skills and he hit the road. Isn't that right Kari?" Davis said turning to face Kari.
"Ah, actually Davis I'm going to have to agree with TK." She said to Davis's chagrin. "This guy is not going to let us get away that easy without some kind of reason." Kari said. Tai frowned thinking it over.
"We'll worry about it later. Let's get back to the real world. I'm starving, I can practically smell the cafeteria from here." Tai said as we started walking.
"That's my peanut butter and jelly bean sandwich I've had in my pocket since last week." Davis said.
"Eww." We all said together.
"I thought Matt and TK's dad's cooking was bad." I noted shaking my head. TK laughed knowing exactly what I meant.
"Ah!" Yolei yelled.
"Are you crazy bring the Gotsumon back from the Digital World!" Izzy demanded.
"But we didn't have a choice. We couldn't just leave them there for the Digimon Emperor to make into slaves, right?" He looked to his sister who agreed.
"But how are we going to explain it if Mr Fujiyama happens to come in here?" Yolei asked.
"Don't worry I'll tell him I'm taking a sculpting class and these are some of my early masterpieces. Hit it boys." Cody said. The Gotsumon immediately struck several poses.
"Yeesh, "early rejects" might be a better phrase." Yolei said.
"I think it's a very good plan. Nice job Cody." I said smiling. He smiled back. Izzy walked over to Yolei.
"Yolei I've got a big favour to ask. Would it be alright with you if I borrowed your Digivice?" Izzy asked.
"But what for?" Yolei asked confused.
"Well it's obvious the power from the Digivices opens the gate to the Digital World. Our old Digivices don't seem to work." Izzy explained. I'd noticed that. Matt had tried last night with his and it hadn't worked but when I held mine towards the screen it had turned into a new Digivice with a purple trim. Izzy was rather confused by it but just guessed that I can't have a Digi-egg to find but am a member of the new team.
"I tried using mine but no luck. The only way we can get into the Digital World is if one of you opens the gate for us." Tai noted.
"So I wanted to try and experiment with the new Digivices if that's okay with you." Izzy finished. Yolei nodded and passed him her Digivice.
"Back of Davis you're making me nervous." Yolei scolded.
"Can't you go any faster?" Davis retorted.
"All right the gates open. Shall we go?" Yolei said. Davis raised his Digivice and we entered the portal.
"Gabumon!" Matt exclaimed rushing to join his partner. Gabumon groaned but looked up.
"Oh Matt." He said. Matt grabbed his partner.
"Gabumon are you okay?" Matt asked.
"Lets just say I'll never look at steamed vegetable's the same way." Gabumon said. He was okay.
"Okay I want you to tell me everything that happened." Matt said.
"Good. We never talk anymore." Gabumon replied.
"Hey everybody." Yolei said from the TV. We all turned to look at the screen. "I'm going over to Izzy's to get my Digivice back and then I'll meet up with you there." She said before leaving. Poromon floated to fill the screen.
"Have no fear while Yolei's gone, this place shill be guarded by Poromon." He said.
"Stay in touch." Davis said as the screen clicked off.
"Why do they call those things on top of the TV rabbit ears? Why don't they call them cat ears? After all when was the last time you saw a rabbit sleeping on top of a TV?" Gatomon asked. Kari gave her a look.
"This is what you think of?" She said.
"Okay break's over lets get back to work." Patamon said.
"It's a small village called Santa Caria." Gabumon said as we headed towards the village.
"Cool sounds like it's in California." Davis said.
"It was always a quiet place, everyone minded there own business and then the Digimon Emperor came along." Gabumon continued his explanation.
"Look, there's one of those things that scared the Gotsumon." Gatomon noted. I looked to the top of the till to see one of those black towers.
"The Emperor calls them, Control Spires." Gabumon noted.
"Lets go." Davis said beginning to run off.
"Wait!" Matt yelled. Davis turned to look at him. "We can't just rush in there. For all you know he's in there waiting for us and this whole thing is just some kind of ambush." Matt told him. Thank you Matt. Your good sense of actually thinking before acting comes to the rescue once again.
"All we have to do is Armour Digivolve and blow them apart." Davis said looking at his Digivice.
"It's not that simple." TK said. Davis looked at him. "He might be using some of the Digimon hostages as a shield to protect himself." TK explained.
"TK's right. We have to find a way to rescue the hostages and make sure that none of them get hurt." Kari agreed. Davis made a weak-growling sound of annoyance.
"There being guarded by the Veggiemon watch out for the Digi-sludge." Patamon said.
"Patamon tell us everything you know about Red-Veggiemon." Matt said.
"Well it looks like were not needed around here. Let's go of and do things our own way." Davis said.
"I think we should all stick together." Cody said coming up to my side. Davis made a sound of disgust. We started walking.
"All right I've got a plan to sneak into the prison." Matt said leading the group.
"Wait a minute!" Davis yelled. We looked at him. "It's too dangerous. We can't take the chance that any of us, especially Kari, might be attacked with that Digi-sludge." Davis said sounding reasonable even if he wasn't.
"No big deal." Kari said.
"Yeah we've been attacked by a lot worse things than Digi-sludge right Kari." TK said.
"Yeah." Kari agreed.
"Argh, I can't even believe that your not worried about Kari's well being TA." Davis said. TA? Well it was different to TJ at least.
"TA?" TK repeated confused.
"He forgot how to spell TK." Cody said and they immediately started laughing. I actually cracked a smile.
"Stop right there! Identify yourselves." One of Veggiemon guards said. Gatomon held up the wrist with the fake ring on it.
"It's okay we're one of you. We just captured these Digimon and there friends." She said. We where lead through. Us humans where all tied together.
"Where are you taking us?" Patamon asked.
"Pipe down, your all going to jail where you belong." Armadillomon said acting like he was controlled. The Veggiemon where laughing. We walked further into the village sticking together not that we had much choice.
"Move it, move it, move it." Armadillomon said. Patamon landed on the top step.
"Those guys didn't even notice these rings are plastic." He said.
"Don't start feeling too frisky yet. The first set of guards were just flunkies. We haven't even faced the pick of the litter and even if we get past them we still have to find a way to destroy the control spire." Gatomon warned.
They through us roughly into a cell, I went to Cody who smiled. I nodded and looked through the bars. "Thanks for bringing the prisoners in. The emperor will be pleased. We could of caught them ourselves you know but I guess you beat us to the punch." A Veggiemon said. Then our Digimon removed their rings.
"By the way speaking of punch, lightning claw!" Gatomon said attacking the Veggiemon. Kari laughed while TK gave a V for victory. Veemon started beating up one of the Veggiemon while Armadillomon pinned two down.
"Quiet, there are more guards." Patamon warned. We stopped our running through the streets.
"The exit is blocked. We'll never get out now." Veemon noted.
"I'm tired of hiding anyway. Let's fight" Davis said trying to move forward. Matt caught his shoulder first.
"Easy there junior, you have to learn fighting not the only answer. It should only be your last resort." Matt said. Davis just looked down.
"Let's go back this way. We'll come out on top near the control spire." Gabumon suggested.
"Good idea." Patamon replied flying ahead. We all followed them.
"Davis is such a hot head." Cody noted. I nodded.
"I can't believe I'm saying this but he's worse than Tai when someone's threatening Kari." I agreed.
"No one worse than Tai when Kari's involved." Matt disagreed. I thought about it.
"Davis comes closer than anyone else mind." I noted.
"Hey Davis I almost forgot I saw your sister today." TK said as we walked up the hill towards the control spire.
"Yeah so what." Davis said defensively.
"So nothing." TK replied surprised.
"She probably had a lot of bad things to say about me didn't she?" Davis noted.
"Well actually…" TK began to say something but Davis cut him off.
"I know she said that I bite my toenails and spit them on the floor. That I used to suck my thumb till about a month ago. That I wet the bed every other Thursday-it was laundry day so it was all right! Well she talks to much and when I see her I'll teach her a lesson." Davis ranted. Matt rushed to defend TK as normal.
"Thanks for sharing but she didn't mention any of that!" He yelled.
"Say what?" Davis asked surprised.
"Your sister didn't say anything bad about you in fact she didn't even mention you you're the one with a big mouth!" Matt shouted.
"If you've got a problem with me why don't we settle it right now." Davis yelled.
"Come on Matt don't fight he's younger than you are he doesn't know any better." TK held his brother back so he didn't punch Davis in the face. Matt stopped struggling.
"I don't care how young he is he better learn some respect." Matt said before walking of with TK right beside him.
"Who does he think he is it's my sister and if I want to call her names that what I'm gonna do. After all that's what brothers are here for." Davis said. Kari looked furious as she ran up to him.
"That's enough Davis." She said firmly.
"Huh?" Davis asked looking at her.
"I can't stand anyone who talks bad about their brother or sister." Kari continued.
"Me?" Davis asked alarmed. We started to walk away.
"How could Davis be so cruel?" Cody asked quietly. I looked at him.
"Not all siblings have good relationships like Matt and TK or Tai and Kari. I had a friend once who had an older brother who he was jealous off but he wasn't mean like Davis. Mind he didn't used to be capable of being nasty at all." I said thinking about Ken and Sam.
"How do we get down from here?" TK asked as we stopped by the edge.
"There's no way to do it it's too steep." Kari said alarmed.
"If we only had a rope or something we could climb down." Matt noted.
"No problem I'll go look for one." Gabumon said turning.
"Wait, we'll be the rope. We'll just hang on to each other and you can climb down the bunny slope. Our way of saying thanks" A Gizamon said.
"That be great, okay lets go." Gabumon replied. The moved to go but they were hit by Digi-sludge.
"Ha, no one's going anywhere." Red-Veggiemon said appearing with a bunch of Veggiemon lackeys. Armadillomon and Lalamon moved so they where in front of Cody and me.
"All right Davis it's time for action. I'm going to take that over grown tomato and turn him into vegetable soup." Veemon boasted. Oh no. Davis had been looking down since Kari yelled at him and Veemon was going to do something crazy to cheer him up I just knew it.
"Veemon stop!" I yelled hoping that the former rule of when I say something do it and ask why afterwards still applied. He just ignored me.
"I'm going to make vegetarians around the world proud that ort to cheer you up." Veemon continued. He started to run towards the Veggiemon.
"Veemon!" I yelled again praying that the old rules would come back.
"V-head but!" Veemon yelled. Red-Veggiemon just knocked him back.
"And now for a side dish, Chilly Pepper Pumble!" Red-Veggiemon said. Veemon was hit by an onslaught of red peppers.
"Veemon armour Digivolve!" Davis ordered.
"Yeah!" Cody agreed going forward. They where grabbed by Veggiemon.
"Cody! Veemon!" I yelled. I got caught as well. More peppers hit Patamon and I saw that TK and Kari were captured too.
"Stink Jet!" Red-Veggiemon said. I gagged from the putrid smell. The Veggiemon took their chance and grabbed everyone else.
"Put me down or I'll toss you like a salad." Veemon said.
"Encase you've forgotten I've got the upper hand here." Red-Veggiemon said before banging him into the ground.
"Veemon!" Davis yelled struggling.
"The key to good cooking is to always tenderise thoroughly like so." Red-Veggiemon said before commencing to beat Veemon to a pulp.
"Oh Veemon." I said. I watched as Veemon struggled to stand in a pause of the hits.
"Is that your best shot?" Veemon asked glancing at Davis.
"Are you kidding we're just getting started. How'd you feel about flying?" Red-Veggiemon replied before proceeding to deliver a heavy blow.
"I can't watch this." Gabumon said.
"Veemon doesn't stand a chance against him." Matt agreed.
"Veemon! I'm coming!" Davis yelled.
"Combine all your ingredients into a bowl next stir," He hit Veemon. "Blend. Mix. Frappe." Each word was accompanied with a barrage of hits. I felt myself crying. Veemon. I knew how much it hurt to be hit again and again, over and over. "And voila! The first course! Now the entrée." I gasped. No! Veemon!
"No matter what you do I'll never give up. I have to do my best to cheer Davis up. Whatever the cost." Veemon said. I was right. I knew it. That idiot would do anything just like he said to keep his partner happy. I saw realisation appear on Davis face, as Veemon stood firm against the control spire. "Veemon you can stop now. I'm happy! I'm happy, I'm happy!" Davis yelled. Veemon turned to look at him.
"You are?" He asked just before getting hit by Red-Veggiemon on the noggin. I guess that meant that that hard head would be fine from that one then. Red-Veggiemon overshot and went into the control spire.
"Leave him alone now you hear me! He's had enough!" Davis yelled.
"No doubt he's feeling a little full but he must of saved room for desert and I've cooked up a sweet surprise!" Red-Veggiemon said. I felt my eyes widen in horror.
"If only I could Digivolve." Gabumon said.
"Same here." Lalamon agreed.
"There must be a way." Matt mused.
"What about the control spire! We could Digivolve before they came!" I told them. Veemon was smashed into the control spire causing cracks to appear up it.
"Veemon!" Davis yelled
"And now here's the surprise I promised you. A double helping of spike punch!" I gasped as the Red-Veggiemon moved to hit him again.
"Veemon!" Davis yelled.
"Duck." Matt said.
"Now!" Gabumon ordered. Veemon did and the attack hit the control spire. It started to have electricity running along it and Matt and my Digivices went off. The Veggiemon ran away releasing us. Gabumon Digivolved to Garurumon while Lalamon Digivolved into Sunflowmon.
"Gabumon how did you Digivolve?" Matt asked. Didn't I say the answer a while back? Garurumon scared of the other Veggiemon.
"Howling blaster!" Garurumon said chasing the braver ones off.
"Cactus tail!" Sunflowmon added hitting them with thorns as they ran. Veemon armour Digivolved to Flamedramon. Red-Veggiemon launched some peppers at him but Flamedramon just blocked them and punched him. "Flame fist!" Red-Veggiemon went flying.
"Boy am I glad to see you Flamedramon it's time for a little payback. I think we should give this overgrown houseplant a real cooking lesson! Flamedramon get him!" Davis said.
"You want a piece of me?" Red-Veggiemon asked shooting his vine like hands towards Flamedramon who caught them and proceeded to turn the Red-Veggiemon into a rug. "That hurt." He said.
"Fire rocket." Flamedramon said shooting the attack out. The Red-Veggiemon caught on fire.
"Ah I've heard of grilled vegetables before but this is ridiculous." He said before collapsing.
"You did it." Davis said running up to Flamedramon.
"Davis!" We looked to see Yolei, Tai and Izzy running with their partners and the Gotsumon.
"Garurumon." Tai said shocked as they stopped in front of the giant wolf.
"How were you able to Digivolve?" Agumon asked.
"I'm not quite sure." He answered.
"Sakura said it earlier, when Red-Veggiemon's punch cracked the control spire we where freed from it's power." Patamon saved me from repeating myself.
"Thank you someone listened." I said glaring at both Garurumon and Flamedramon.
"There certainly going to need a lot of glue." Hawkmon noted examining the tower.
"We should destroy the spire once and for all and who better to do the job than Digimon?" Armadillomon asked.
"Yeah." Cody said. It didn't take long of Digmon to take down the tower.
"Nice work you two." I said clapping Cody on the shoulder. He grinned at me.
"Thanks big sis." He said.
"Oh now I see how it works." Yolei said. We looked at her.
"May I enquire as to what you are talking about?" Hawkmon asked for us all.
"The spire, it acted like an electricity rod. The Digimon Emperor set it up to send out power to the dark rings making it possible for him to control all the Digimon throughout the area. Isn't that right Izzy?" Yolei said walking over to Izzy.
"Yeah, I'm quite impressed with your theory Yolei." Izzy agreed.
"I wonder how many more control spires there are scattered around the digital world." Tai noted.
"Well what ever the number is one thing we know for sure is they have to be destroyed. Quite a tough mission for the new Digidestined don't yah think." Matt added.
"Leave it to us we can handle it." TK said.
"You said it." Davis agreed as they laughed.
"I guess someone should take the Gotsumon back to there homes now." Agumon noted.
"I'm all over it." Gatomon said.
"Come on I'll lead the way." Tai said running with the Gotsumon trailing him.
"I'm right behind you big brother." Kari said bringing up the rear.
"Garurumon will stay here and protect you guys from the Emperor." Matt said riding said Digimon over to the Gizamon.
"Garurumon." They cheered.
"Looks like things are getting sorted." I noted.
"Say big sis, do you think we stand a chance?" Cody asked. I smiled at him.
"You bet. I know we do." I told him. Sunflowmon was stood behind us give us a nice shade from the sun. I turned and smiled at her.
"I missed you Sunflowmon." I said causing her to laugh.
"I'm glad the Gotsumon aren't staying here anymore. Every time they touched my Cud's they scratched them." Yolei said in the computer room.
"And they clogged the sink when they brushed their teeth." Cody added.
"They were kind of cool though." Davis pointed out.
"Hey everyone I really think you should take a look at this." Izzy said. We all looked.
"Wow what is that?" Yolei asked.
"I founded when I was examining your Digivice, Yolei. It seems to be a map of the digital world. Do you see this white square?" he indicated one of the boxes. We nodded. "Well it used to be black until we destroyed the control spire. Unfortunately there are a lot of black squares left and they all have spires." Izzy explained. Great.
"Jeez Izzy it's going to take a long time to turn all those black squares into white ones." Cody noted.
"And how do we know he won't build new spires?" Davis had a point for once.
"We don't. We'll just have to knock them down until we win." Izzy said. I sighed.
"For once it would be nice to do things the easy way." I said.
"Yeah but as long as we get the job done who cares." Davis said.
"Your on a roll Davis, you made two who sentences without sounding like a idiot." I noted.
"Hey!" He protested as everyone laughed. "Come on guys it's not funny!"
Me: Well there we go, that's Episode 4 done. Tune in for a frozen adventure with a returning original, Joe! Also, Cody learns more about Sakura's past. All on the next TPOK!
All: See you soon!
Davis: And review so Kal's in a good mood, she works best that way!