Chapter 6:

In the middle of a forest inside the Digital World, a Control Spire was falling down.

Standing near the base of the Control Spire was Daisuke, the Digidestind and their digimons.

"That's the eighth Control Spire we had brought down today. Nice work, I might join you guys at the rate we're going" Daisuke said as she sits down at the remains of the former Control Tower.

"I think we should celebrate by having a picnic here tomorrow, what do you say guys?" TK suggested.

"Sure, but everyone must bring their own food and soda, right?" Yolei said before they all left to go to a Digi-Port.

(The next day)

Daisuke was busy in the kitchen that earlier Saturday morning, cooking various types of food.

A groaned was heard outside the kitchen and a sleepy Jun Motomiya walks inside the room before plopping down onto a chair at the kitchen table.

"Hey Dais" Jun said while rubbing the sleep out of her eyes.

Daisuke grunted in acknowledgement as she cooks some fried rice.

Ignoring her little sister's rude response to her greeting, looked down to the breakfast that was normally premade and set onto the table but to her surprise, there was quite a number of food on the table.

"What's with all the food? Mum and Dad aren't home for a few days, remember?" Jun questioned.

"I'm going on a picnic in the Digital World with the Digidestind, so I thought I'll make a good impression by making my half of the food" Daisuke said while putting the newly cooked fried rice into a container.

"It's nice to see you putting an effort to being friendly to people again" the older Motomiya sister smiled at her sister before eating her breakfast.

Daisuke ignored her sister and finished packing the food for the picnic.

She then created formed a pentagram in the air while chanting "Gate of the eternal divine, hear my call and open!".

A crimson pentagram appeared in mid-air and Daisuke started putting food and some sodas through it.

Once all of the food and drinks were kept inside the mysterious pentagram, Daisuke snapped her fingers and it disappears into thin air.

"Now that the food and drinks are done, I'm going to go take a shower" Daisuke said before heading to her bedroom.

A few minutes later, Daisuke, who was wearing a long-sleeved green sweatshirt over a dark blue turtleneck and a pair of jeans, leaves out of her house and head to Odaiba Elementary.

When the young mage arrive at her school, she noticed that the others had not arrived yet.

Daisuke takes out her holy text and read it while waiting for the others to arrive.

The wait did not take too long as the Digidestind, who was carrying all kinds of bags, and their digimons arrive.

"What took you guys so long?" Daisuke asked as she kept her book.

"Sorry, I had to give Poromon a bath" Yolei said, once they were all standing outside the front gate.

"Whatever, let's get going now" the brunet said before opening the gate.

The group sneaked into the school building and after they arrive at the computer lab, Yolei went to the computer with the Digi-Port.

The computer nerd typed on the keys and the Digi-Port was opened.

"I opened the Digi-Port, I'm the best!" Yolei gloated; making Daisuke rolled her eyes at the older girl.

"Come on, let's get going then" Daisuke said but suddenly the computer lab door slides open.

Everyone froze as they just stare at a girl with pink hair and brown eyes wearing a red and blue blouse and a white skirt, standing at the door.

"Hello, are you supposed to be here?" the girl asked.

Yolei, Cody and their digimons started panicking while Daisuke, TK, Kari and their digimons continued to stare with a calm and slightly confused expression on their face.

"Mimi?" TK, Kari and their digimons asked in unison.

"TK, Kari, Patamon, Gatomon, I'm so happy to see you guys again!" the pink haired girl, Mimi, exclaimed with joy as she runs inside the room.

"Mimi?" everyone else in the room asked, since they have not met the over ecstatic teenager before.

"Mimi is part of the older Digidestind that move to America" Kari explained.

"Oh yeah, we heard a lot about you from Sora" Yolei said.

"And she told me a lot about you guys too, especially you Dais. A human that can fight digimons, that's amazing!" Mimi gushed at the girl.

"I'm just a lower class Digital Mage, so I'm not that amazing. My mentor, Ryoki Tamashi will always be more amazing than I'll ever be" Daisuke said sincerely, shocking Kari.

"Ryoki Tamashi was a Digital Mage?!" the Child of Light gasps in shock.

"W-Well… Uh… Wait, Mimi, what are you doing here?" the young mage stuttered nervously.

"Oh, I was walking by the school and decided to check it out for old time's sake" Mimi explained.

"Hey, we're going to have a picnic in the Digital World today, do you want to come with us?" Yolei asked.

"The Digital World? I would love to go with you guys!".

"But we don't have enough sodas for another person" TK pointed out.

"Don't worry, I have an extra sodas that I can spare for Mimi" Daisuke reassured.

"Then let's go!" Yolei exclaimed with joy before everyone was sucked into the computer.

Later, the group all appear in the same forest from yesterday and started walking around to look for a nice place to set up for the picnic.

"Wow, the Digital World hasn't changed that much since the last time I've been here" Mimi gasps in awe at the surrounding.

"Except now, it's being conquered by the Digimon Emperor" TK informed.

"The Digimon Emperor?".

"He builds Control Spires and tries to control the Digital World. That's basically it".

"Can we set up the picnic blanket now?" Cody asked as his stomach growled in hunger.

"I think so too, how about you Dais?" Kari asked her friend, who reciting her holy text again.

Daisuke closes her book and survey the area before giving a nod of approval.

Everyone puts down their stuff and start taking out its content while Daisuke and TK set up the picnic blanket.

"Hey Dais, I notice that you weren't carrying anything since we got here" Mimi said, making everyone stares at the young mage just noticing that she was not carrying anything.

Daisuke smirked before summoning a pentagram and pulling out the food she made earlier in the morning.

"Did you really think I would carry all that stuff with me or be such an ass to not bring my share of the food?" Daisuke mused as she put her stuff on the blanket.

"Wow you brought a lot of food" Kari said in awe of all the food being placed in front of them.

"Thanks; I had to wake up earlier than usual to make all of these".

"Wait, you know how to cook?" TK asked.

"I knew how to cook just as long as I've known how to use Digital Magic, which was about when I was six years old" Daisuke explained as the memories of the first time she cooked came to mind.

(Flashback Begins)

In the Motomiya apartment, Ryoki was sitting at the living room couch with a ten year old Jun.

Mr. and Ms. Motomiya were away on a business trip and the brunet man had agreed to take care of their daughters for the whole time they were gone.

Right now, Ryoki was busy reciting his book while Jun, who was next to him, was playing with a small black fireball with a face.

Jun giggled every time the fireball let out small black ambers.

Suddenly, the sound of a plate shattering came from the kitchen.

Ryoki, Jun and the fireball, who was sitting comfortably on the young girl's head without burning her hair, walked inside the kitchen to see Daisuke crying over a broken bowl.

Worried for the young girl's safety, Ryoki quickly gets to Daisuke's side.

"Daisuke, what happened? Why was the bowl broken?" Ryoki asked.

"I wanted to try to learn to cook but I accidentally dropped the bowl when I was going to put it in the sink" Daisuke sobbed.

Ryoki turned his head towards the kitchen table and saw a poorly made omelet sitting at the middle of the table.

"Oh, so that's what you were doing" Ryoki mused before Jun and the fireball take a bite of the omelet.

"It tastes awful!" Jun exclaimed as both her and the fireball spat out the omelet they ate.

"If you don't like it, then don't eat it!" Daisuke growled as she picks up the omelet and was about to throw it in the trash before Ryoki grabs it out of her hands.

"Now, now, Daisuke; it's not nice to throw away food. We must never was waste food" he said before eating the whole omelet then he spat it out.

"Okay, so it needs some work but I'm sure you'll get it right if you keep trying" Ryoki reassured, smiling at Daisuke as he puts away the plate and gets a broom to clean up the mess.

As days pass, Daisuke continues practicing on her cooking, she finally was able to cook almost any meal that you can find in a cookbook.

(Flashback Ends)

Daisuke was brought out of her flashback when notice a hand waving right in front of her face.

The hand belongs to TK, who was looking at her with worry.

"Hey Dais, you okay? You kind of spaced out on us" the blond asked.

"Yeah, sorry about that" Daisuke apologized before looking around but notice that Yolei, Hawkmon and Mimi was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's Yolei, Hawkmon and Mimi?" she asked.

"Hawkmon ran off chasing a California Roll while Yolei left to catch him and Mimi left to go get both of them" TK explained to the young mage.

"How long have they been gone?".

"For a few minutes, why?".

"It's not safe for them to wonder off, I'll go find them" Daisuke said before walking away from the picnic.

She walked around the forest for a few minutes but did not find any trace of the trio.

"Urgh, why must things be so damn hard?" Daisuke asked no one in particular as she stood in the middle of a clearing.

She took one step forward but then the floor suddenly collapsed from under her, making her fall into darkness.

Daisuke was lying down on the grass barely conscious.

She groaned in annoyance, when she felt someone trying to shake her awake.

Slowly Daisuke opens her eyes and looked up to see Yolei, Mimi and Hawkmon looking at her with relief on their faces.

"You're awake, thank goodness" Mimi sighed in relief.

"Where are we?" Daisuke asked as she gets up to her feet.

"We're in the Night Forest but that's the least of our problems, look a Control Spire!" Hawkmon said, pointing at the tall black tower in the distance.

"A Control Spire?! But how did we end up here?" Yolei panicked before the heard weird rustling noises behind them.

The group turns around and saw a lot of red eyes slowly emerging from in between the trees.

"Please tell me those are parking lot tail lights" Mimi said nervously as figures came out of the shadows, revealing themselves as green frogs with brass horns around their necks and purple tadpoles.

"Princess Mimi, Princess Mimi!" the amphibious digimons chanted in unison.

"Don't worry guys, those are Gekomons and Otamamons. They're friends of mine".

"With those dark rings they're not" Daisuke pointed out and both Mimi and Yolei just notice the dark rings on the amphibians' arms.

Suddenly, the Gekomons and Otamamons started attacking the group, making them run for their lives.

The amphibious digimons were slowly getting closer and closer until Mimi accidentally tripped and fell.

"Oh no, Mimi!" Yolei exclaimed as the remaining group stopped.

Daisuke was preparing to recite one of her spells on the enslaved digimons before several vines came out from a nearby bush and entangle around the three humans and bird digimon.

The group was pulled by the vines into the bush before the Gekomons and Otamamons got to them.

After everyone came back to their senses, they saw that they were saved by a green plant creature with green eyes and a pink flower on her head.

"Palmon?" Mimi asked with an expectant look in her eyes.

"Mimi?" the plant, Palmon, asked with a matching look in her eyes.

"It is you!" the pink haired teen exclaimed in joy as they hug each other.

Yolei and Hawkmon were watching the reunion with sad smiles on their faces while Daisuke was looking around to make sure that the Digimon Emperor's slaves had not found them.

"Don't take this the wrong way but can you two please stop that? We're still in Digimon Emperor territory" Daisuke pointed out to everyone.

The newly reunited partners separated from their hug.

"Yolei, can you contact the others?" Daisuke asked the computer nerd.

"I'll try" Yolei said as she takes out her D-Terminal and emailed the others.

After sending out the distress signal, the group waited for the others to reply but a moment later, there was no reply.

"There's no answer" Yolei said, sounding disappointed.

"No answer? I didn't even hear a question" said a voice behind the group.

When they turned around, they saw two giant brown cockroaches with light brown wings crawling towards them.

"Eww, what are those things?" Yolei asked in disgusts.

"They're the Roachmon brothers!" Hawkmon and Palmon exclaimed in unison as they and Daisuke got into a fighting stance.

"That's right, and you guys aren't supposed to be here" one of the Roachmon said.

"I'll destroy them with my Garbage Dump attack" the other Roachmon said.

"No, I'll destroy them with my Yard Sale Bombs".

"Wait, I have a better idea Roachmon; let's use both attacks!".

"That's the best idea I've ever heard, Roachmon!".

The Roachmon brothers started fluttering their wings and suddenly, trash started raining down on the group.

Daisuke had a 'are you serious?' look on her face as she takes out a talisman from her sweatshirt pocket and throws it at the raining garbage, incinerating them long before they could reach them.

"Seriously? Garbage?" Daisuke questioned but she then became confused by the smug look on the Roachmon brothers' faces.

Then, out of the nowhere; a black piano falls down from the sky and lands right in front of them.

"You want me to play the piano?" Daisuke blinked before she and the rest of the group looked up to see a refrigerator falling towards them.

They quickly start running away as more junk continues to fall down at them.

"This is getting ridiculous!" Daisuke exclaimed in annoyance, just as Hawkmon armor digivolves into Halsemon and flew off with Yolei riding on his back.

Halsemon fired two red arrows out of his eyes at the Roachmon brothers but they manage to dodge it.

The Roachmon brothers tried to kick the armor digimon out of the sky but missed.

They then tried to tackle him but missed and crashed straight into the ground.

'The Roachmon brothers possess a lot of power, maybe we can use that' Daisuke thought.

"Yolei, lead the Roachmon brothers to the Control Spire!" she called out.

"Why?" Yolei called back before finally catching on at the idea.

Halsemon flies towards the Control Spire and at that moment, the Roachmon brothers flies back into the sky and tries to tackle the armor digimon again.

At the last minute, Halsemon quickly flies out of the way, making the brothers crash into the Control Spire.

"Okay Palmon, now it's your turn!" Mimi cheered before her partner digivolves into a large cactus with red boxing gloves.

The cactus, Togemon, fired a spray of needles at the Roachmon brothers, bring down the Control Spire.

"Nice work Togemon!" Mimi cheered as she hugs her partner.

The group walks towards the remains of the Control Spire to see if the Roachmon brothers were alright.

When they arrived, the dark rings on the brothers' antennas came off and they were slowly recovering from the effects of the rings.

"Now without those dark rings, the Roachmon brothers will finally stop fighting" Yolei smiled at the brothers, but it faded away as the cockroach brothers started fighting with each other again.

"I guess some people shouldn't have siblings" she sighed.

"I think some people shouldn't even have children" Mimi commented and at that moment, the other Digidestind arrive riding on the digimons' backs.

"Hey guys, what took you so long? Halsemon and Togemon already took down the Control Spire" Daisuke mused with her hands on her hips.

"Sorry about that, the Digimon Emperor was interfering with your signal and we only manage to detect you after the Control Spire was destroyed" TK explained.

"Togemon, I want you to protect this place from the Digimon Emperor, okay?" Mimi asked.

"Okay, Mimi" Togemon said.

The group head back to the picnic site and packed up their stuff before going to the nearest Digi-Port to return back to the computer lab.

(In the computer lab)

"Goodbye Mimi!" Daisuke and all the younger generation Digidestind said in unison while waving at the Child of Sincerity.

"Well, I better get going. My parents aren't home and beside me and my mum, there's no one else in my family that can cook; so Jun will be starving if I don't get home" Daisuke said before leaving the computer lab.