A/N: So I finally watched Akira... the 2001 dub which featured Joshua Seth, aka Tai, as Tetsuo. And Michael Lindsay, or Joe, as Yamagata. Very interesting. But really weirdly, it gave me an idea for this scene...

Background: Matt had psychic abilities.

Matt was annoyed.

They had somehow ended up getting caught in a conflict between two groups of digimon, one acting from the surrounding forest and the other from a well defended fortress. Now they were stuck in said fortress along with all those in it, with the other side leading a siege on the entire place. In his opinion, neither side of the conflict was correct and they were fighting each other for no good reason.

Tai was trying to figure out how to mediate between the two without getting instantly killed. He had succeeded in getting the fortress group to at least agree to talks. Unfortunately, he couldn't take two steps outside before being attacked.

Matt on the other hand, decided that he had had enough of the whole matter.

Tai dropped his mouth when he heard what Matt was planning to do.

"Are you serious?" he gaped. "And I thought I was the one who came up with stupid ideas!"

"You are," Matt commented wryly as he slung an object over his shoulder. "You're just never serious about them."

Tai bit his lip as he watched his friend head towards the outside wall. "You sure you'll be all right?"

"The entire other side is made up of Rookie and Champion levels. I'll be fine."

And with that, Matt opened the door to the wall battlement.

Things were flying at him, but he didn't particularly care. He already had his shields up; none of the attacks coming at him were strong enough to penetrate them, and he was very confident in his ability to keep it up for a fairly long period of time.

He strode in a leisurely fashion down the walkway, glancing down over the wall towards the ground and the large number of fairly angry looking digimon. Hmm, will that work, or that... aha, there's a good spot.

In one quick movement, he vaulted over the side of the fortress wall and floated himself down.

The digimon had not decreased their rate of fire, and if anything they looked… scared, to Matt's surprise. He gently landed, glancing about at all of them, trying to ignore the fireballs and various beams of energy being aimed at his head. His shield was doing all the work for him, diverting everything away harmlessly.

Then, pretending that it was perfectly normal, he grabbed the guitar off his back and slung the strap around his shoulder, retrieving the pick that he had woven between the strings.

Hmm, what's a good song…guess I can do one of the old band songs, good for nostalgia.

"You got a boy, you got a girl, sitting underneath the tree…"

The digimon were clearly not happy with this.

Wow, they really don't like this huh, he inwardly commented as something released what seemed like machinegun fire on his shield. Well, too bad for them.

He was slightly pleased to see that a fair number of the digimon looked rather confused though, and had stopped attacking. He wondered what the group inside the fortress was thinking.

Probably confused too and now pestering Tai and Gabumon. I dunno. I'm just so damn annoyed by this whole thing.

Something that looked like a laser beam hit his shield and bounced away. Matt just continued the song, pretending that nothing out of the ordinary had happened and that it was everyday life that essentially a small army was shooting at you.

"Will you stop playing that thing and fight us?"

Matt ignored it and blissfully kept singing.

"I turn around, I can see what's behind me…"

"Gaaaaah! Are you even listening to me?"

Not really.