"The Prisoner of the Pyramid"
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While wandering the desert the next day, the Digidestineds had stumbled upon what appeared to be some sort of power generator burried in the sand.
There were black cables attached to the square shaped machine that seemed to stretch out through the desert and looked exactly like the ones Etemon uses to attack them with.
Izzy was quick to rush over and observe the machine while everyone else stood back to watch the child of Knowledge finish his observations.
"What is it, Izzy? Some sort of power generator?" Tai asked the shorter boy.
"Even better. Etemon has hardwired the entire, creating an extensive computer network. My guess, this is one of the remote data access terminals." Izzy explained to the goggle head.
"Great, let's crash it." Tai said.
"It could be a booby trap." Sora said as Izzy hooked up his lap top to the machine.
"If it is Etemon's, I say we cross the wires and mess it up good." Matt spoke up.
"Yeah, maybe then he'll stop finding us all over the place." Daisuke mused.
"What are you going to do with that?" Tentomon asked when his human unhooked more of the wires.
"I wonder…it's entirely possible have compatible systems." Izzy said as the wire hooked up to his lap top.
The screen then turned black as white, connecting lines then appeared.
"And if they do, I can tap into Etemon's network." Izzy said as he typed into some codes into his lap top.
"Way to go, Izzy." Daisuke grinned.
If Izzy weren't around, then she was sure that everyone would be lost and unsure of how anything worked.
"Hey, you have mail." TK said pointing out the red box that showed up that said 'Mail'.
"That was quick. Who even knows I've logged on?" Izzy asked.
"Oh no, it's Etemon." Joe said.
"Open it. It's probably just spam." Tai said.
"Right." The child of Knowledge said as he opened up the e-mail.
"Help me! S.O.S. Mayday. I'm being held prisoner! Help me escape and I will guide you to the Crest you seek!" a robotic voice said.
"Do you think he's for real? I mean, who could it be?" Sora asked.
"Wait, how does this guy know we're searching for the Crests?" Veemon narrowed his eyes in thought.
"Who knows?" Biyomon shrugged in answer to the blue dragon.
"I don't like this. I don't like this one little bit. I don't like the look of it, I don't like the smell of it-"Joe was cut off.
"Don't have a brain drain, Joe. You're turning green around the edges." Mimi teased.
The group had started walking after they got the message and were entering a canyon filled area as they tried to search for the person who had told them about the Crest.
"Yeah, somebody asked for our help. We gotta at least check it out, right?" asked Tai.
"According to my lap top, we should be getting close." Izzy said as typed along the keyboard.
Sora and TK, who were the last ones to receive their Crests, were holding up their Tags as they watched to see if they would glow.
"Hey, look!" TK gasped making everyone turn to him.
His Tag was glowing a light yellow color, announcing that the boy's Crest was nearby.
"It's glowing." Matt said.
"Ha! TK, come over here. Look what I found." Tokomon said running over to an opening in the canyon.
"Look, another Crest." Sora announced as everyone rushed over to the opening.
There was a shooting star like symbol engraved onto the stone wall and TK's Tag started to glow stronger the closer the group got to the marking.
"Watch it!" Tai cried as the symbol shone a bright white light down on the humans and digimon as the wall shrunk into a yellow colored Crest and slid into TK's Tag.
"Awesome, my own Crest." TK smiled.
"That's great." Daisuke patted the boy's head making him grin up at the smiling girl.
"Congratulations." Tokomon said to his human.
"Now TK, don't think this means you can stay up any later." Matt chided playfully.
"Sora's Crest is the last one left to find. Maybe if we rescue this guy, he can lead us to it." Izzy theorized.
"Well, what are we waiting for? To the rescue. Dum da da da dum da!" Tai cheered the Calvary tune as he pumped a fist in the air.
"Oh, what's that?" Mimi asked as she pointed ahead of them.
Looking, the group found that the wall where the Crest of Hope had been was now missing and revealed a cave that had different types of code written on the walls.
Curious, the humans and their digimon ventured inside and looked around to observe the markings of numbers, letters and strange symbols that were enscribed on the walls.
"See these hieroglyphs? Look familiar?" Izzy asked as he typed away on his computer.
"This is definitely the same writing we've come across before. Wait a second. This is a new one." The redhead said as he touched one of the markings.
He whipped the mark away and the dark tunnel lit up making it easier to see.
"Prodigious. This is amazing. Do you know what I'm thinking?" he asked.
"I have a feeling you're going to tell us." Mimi quipped.
"Well, you see, it's quite possible that these hieroglyphs are not a form of writing at all, but rather code. Computer code. If you change a piece of the code, then you change the program." Izzy said as he kept whipping some markings away.
A hologram of a map suddenly appeared in front of the group making them gasp in surprise at the sudden change.
"Like that for example." Izzy said.
"Wait, back up. Are you telling us that this whole place is some kind of giant computer game and none of it is really real?" Joe asked ruffling his hair.
"Oh, it's real all right. You know, I'm thinking that everything we see and everybody we meet in this place are actually data that are programing given physical form." Izzy explained his theory.
"Wait a second. If that's true, and this whole thing's one big computer, then how did we get here? Did we squeeze in through the floppy drive?" Matt asked.
"No we're just kilobytes of data too. I mean, the versions of us that are in here." Izzy said.
"Huh? The versions of us? What, are you saying we're like avatars or something?" Daisuke demanded.
When she and her team had gone through the portal, it had felt nothing like that at all.
Their bodies had gone through the portal, not just their spirits or whatever it could be that Izzy meant.
"Something like that, yes." Izzy answered his fellow redhead's question.
"If I'm just data, why do I still feel like I'm flesh and blood?" Tai asked.
"And I still have to go to the little girls' room." Mimi said.
"You don't really; you just think you have to." Izzy explained.
"Oh, well, I hope you're right, 'cause-"Mimi was cut off by Matt.
"Where's the real us? Our flesh and blood bodies." The blonde asked.
"I don't know. I suppose we're back at the camp grounds still. Yeah. We're alive back there. We exist symotansiously with our other selves. We're in a parallel digital universe like the digimon." Izzy informed.
Everyone was glancing at each other in shock at the explanation that was given to them, but Daisuke and Veemon were frowning at each other.
Izzy might be a genius, but this time he was wrong.
They were in their flesh and blood bodies, they could still get hurt and die while in the Digital World.
This wasn't a video game and everyone should still act the same way they have been before they were given this information.
"Does that mean I don't have to worry about brushing my teeth anymore?" TK asked.
"We've got bigger things to worry about now, TK." Izzy said.
"Although, do us all a favour and don't stop brushing." Matt said.
"Yeah, please. Hey, wait a second. I've got an idea. Let me see. If I can just correct this program…" Izzy said as he typed away again.
"Uh oh. He's in computer dork mode. This could take a while." The child of Sincerity teased.
The map changed and became a globe of the earth.
"I've called up a holographic map of the Digital World. You can see how physically similar it is to the planet earth. In fact, there are a lot of parallels to our world." Izzy said as some other images were shown.
"That's terrific, Izzy. Great time for a geography lesson." Matt said sarcastically.
"Pay attention and you might learn something." Izzy said.
"Yeah?" the blonde asked looking at him.
"If I enter the e-mail address of the person who contacted us, I can find his location in the Digital World here." Izzy said as a place of the map started to blink with a red dot.
"Now look, that e-mail address is from a web domain in our world have logged onto it a thousand times." Izzy said.
"Is there a point to this somewhere?" the child of Courage asked and everyone turned to the genius with questioning looks.
"Is the person who sent the message in our world or the Digital World?" Sora asked.
"That's just the thing. He's in both." Izzy said as another map appeared beside the first.
"The Digital World's on the left. The world we know is on the right. And if I overlay them like so…" he said as the two came together, these lines they held looking the same.
"The white lines match up perfectly. What does it mean?" Sora asked.
"That reminds me of the balls of yarn my kitty used to play with." Mimi cooed.
"That's the world's digital network. Through those lines, every computer on earth in connected to every other computer. The Digital World is a physical embodiment of the data passing through them. Guys, we're seeing something nobody else has ever seen. Nobody even knows about the digital shadow world of our own. And they're not just parallel, they're physically linked. Everything we do here will have effects on the other." Izzy said.
"For real?" Matt asked.
"Intense." Tai commented.
"Yeah and here's the coolest part. Wherever this person is in the Digital World, I think I can take us there just by entering his e-mail address and clicking on it, accessing a web page." Izzy explained..
"Hey, all this techno talk is making my head spiny." TK said.
"Computer guys can never just do something, TK. That'd be too easy. They gotta spend all day explaining how they'll do this." Matt said bending down beside his brother.
Joe then sat down with a frustraded look on his face.
"This is depressing. Even as computer data I have allergies." The bluenette said.
"Look on the bright side, Joe. If you weren't here, you never would have met me." Gomamon said cheerfully.
"Sora, does this mean that we don't exist? That we're really not friends?" Biyomon asked.
"Of course not. This may be a make believe world, but that doesn't mean our friendship isn't real. Truthfully I don't get it, but it sounds right." Sora said.
"This is getting really confusing and annoying." Veemon sighed as he crossed his arms.
"Oh well, where ever we are, we're here. So let's figure out what we're going to do next. Come on brainiac, what are you waiting for?" Tai asked.
"Okay, okay. All I have to do is click on the guy's e-mail address and bingo." Izzy told them.
"Oh, I hate Bingo. It's so confusing with all those different letters and numbers. Hey, look. A door." Mimi said as the map faded away and the tunnel opened up at the end to show a door to a new place.
"All right, last one through's a rotten egg." Tai said.
"Our electronic pen pal is right out there." Izzy informed.
"Or it could be a trap." Sora said.
"No way. We're just bits of data, so I uploaded us by-"Izzy was cut off by Sora.
"Okay, okay, I believe you." The orange haired girl said.
Walking out, the group looked over the sandy dunes to see a sphinx and further off there was a pyramid that was upside down.
"Whoa, check this out." Tai said as he pulled out his telescope looking at the pyramid while a trailer being pulled by a Monochromon appeared.
"Heads up. Etemon at 9:00." Tai announced making Matt and Sora look since they were closer to him.
Etemon got out of his trailer with his Gazimon and he went into the pyramid which made the group curious, but they decided to figure it out later on.
(The next morning…)
"Remember, there's one that's important to keep in mind. This is more than a parallel universe. It's a shadow world physically linked to our own. Anything that happens here in the Digital World will have a direct effect on the things in the other." Izzy said to Daisuke and Sora as they stood outside the cave.
"Then…the same thing goes for us, right? We're the shadow versions of our other selves." The orange haired girl said.
"Right, exact computer copies." Izzy said.
"So whatever happens, we have to be just as careful as if we were our physical selves." Sora said with a frown.
"Hey, don't worry about. We'll just act the way we were before we found out about this stuff. I mean, there's no reason for us to change, right?" Daisuke grinned.
"Hey, sometime this year!" Tai called.
"Man, you guys talk more than my mom's book club. Can we go?" he complained as the three humans walked over.
"All right." Sora said seeming a bit down.
"I got into the program and found the most direct route to the center of the pyramid." Izzy said as he typed into his computer showing a map of the pyramid.
"Hey now, let's get this straight. We're only going in there to find this guy and get Sora's Crest, right?" Joe asked.
"Right, right." Tai said.
"That means no fights, nor adventure or dangerous stuff." Joe said.
"You whimper more than my puppy." Tai complained.
Daisuke was about to retort that he didn't have a puppy, but she held her tongue.
After all, no one but Sora knew that the Kamiya family didn't own a dog and had a cat named Miko that they've had for years.
"Matt, Mimi, TK stay here and stand guard. Let's go in." Tai ordered.
"If you really don't think you need me." Mimi smiled.
"I miss you guys already." Palmon said.
"We'll be back in time to eat." Gomamon grinned.
"Or get eaten." Tai joked.
Turning around, Tai, Sora, Izzy, Daisuke and their digimon jumped down the sandy dunes and slid down them.
"See ya guys. Come back as soon as ya can!" TK and Tokomon said as the blonde waved.
The group of ten nodded as they then took off around the sphinx, looking for the secret passage that was on the side of the pyramid.
"Okay, keep together." Tai said as they ran to a sand dune and hid behind it.
"There's a hidden back door to the program that can be used to get in. it should be somewhere up ahead." Izzy said as they snuck over to it.
"That's funny, it should be right here." Izzy said as they stood in front of the wall of the pyramid.
"Where's my friend banana sandwich? You I like to eat after my nap?" they heard Etemon say.
"Tai, what is it?" Joe asked as the goggle head jumped back to the wall out of view from the orange monkey.
"It's Etemon." Tai said.
Joe and Agumon gasped, but then covered their mouths in case Etemon heard.
"Who's there?" the monkey called as he started to come their way.
"What do we do now?" Biyomon asked.
"Quiet, Biyomon." Sora said to the pink bird.
The girls then started walking backwards along with Veemon when suddenly, they found themselves stepping through the wall of the pyramid.
"Hey, look!" Sora whispered.
"We're inside. That was easy." Veemon commented.
Tai, Joe, Agumon and Gomamon then noticed the girls were missing until they spotted Veemon's tail sticking out of the wall and they stepped through just as Etemon rounded the corner.
"Great work." Gomamon said, but was shushed by Daisuke, Sora, Biyomon and Veemon which made the seal cover his mouth his one of his flippers.
"I must be hearing things." Etemon said.
Tai smirked as he stuck his arm out of the wall.
"Whoo hoo!" he called making Etemon jump and then quickly pulled his arm back before he was seen.
"You know, I'm gonna have to have this place completely exterminated because something's starting to bug me." They heard Etemon say.
"We've got him talking to himself." Tai laughed.
"Really funny, Tai. Are you crazy? What if we got caught?" Sora demanded feeling angered that her childhood friend had almost given them away.
"But we weren't, were we?" Tai asked giving a thumbs up.
He then yelped when Daisuke whacked him over the head for an annoyed look on her face and Veemon shook his head at the boy.
"Now that we're in, what do we do?" Joe asked.
"I guess next we try to find a way through these walls. The trick is finding the one-"Izzy was cut off by Agumon.
"Hey, I found one!" the lizard said.
He slammed his head against a wall, but it was solid and hurt a lot.
"As I was saying, Agumon, the trick is finding the weak points. Let's use heads, not hands." Izzy said.
The group then started walking down the hallway, searching carefully for the weakest point in the walls and started going down a staircase.
"Hey, check it out. You can see right through this wall." Tai said as he stopped near a wall that was slightly transparent.
"Yeah, here it is. Another breach in the system security." Izzy said as he looked at his lap top.
"Gazimon!" Agumon gasped making everyone look at the wall to see two of the dog like digimon.
"Be still." Sora said quietly.
The group kept silent as they watched the Gazimon pass by, but they all were stunned when Tai jumped through the wall.
He made a cawing noise which made the Gazimon jump in surprise and Tai quickly jumped back through the wall.
"What's the big idea?" one of the Gazimon asked.
"What do ya mean?" the other asked.
"Don't give me that. Just 'cause the boss likes me." Gazimon1 ranted.
"Have you gone nuts?" Gazimon2 asked.
"Nuts to you!" Gazimon1 said as he punched the second, both getting into a fist fight.
Tai held his hands over his mouth laughing while Sora and Daisuke both glared at him while Izzy and Joe appeared exasperated.
The group continued walking on, wanting to get away from the Gazimon.
"You could have gotten us all captured back there, Tai. You're so immature!" Sora yelled.
"Could ya yell a little quieter, huh?" Joe asked.
"Gee, Sora. Relax, kid. Get a grip. Who elected you the Queen of the Fun Police?" Tai asked.
"Yeah, this is tones of fun. And getting caught will be a blast." Sora said.
"Couldn't you just pass notes? It's much quieter." Joe said feeling very nervous.
The group then came up to a wall that had wire all around it and it made everyone feel a bit uneasy.
"This looks nasty. We don't have to go through here, do we?" Tentomon asked.
"This firewall is the system's last line of defense. There appears to be only one safe way through it." Izzy said.
"And if we pick the wrong way, they'll scoop us up with a spatula." Joe said.
"You're not scared are ya, Joe?" Gomamon teased.
"Maybe I am a little." The child of Reliability frowned.
"Relax, it's not like we're human or anything. We're just bunches of kilobytes, remember?" Tai said with his arms folded behind his head with a smile.
"The weak point should be…here." Izzy said as he walked over and pointed to it.
"Cool." Tai said as he walked right through it, making everyone cry out in surprise.
"Are you comin' in or are you just gonna stand there all day?" the goggle head asked as he poked his head through the wall.
"This guy's trying to get himself killed." Veemon muttered as he shook his head in disbelief.
Everyone then stepped through the wall and were met with the large room on the other side that had an electric pad along the wall.
"This is the host's computer." Izzy said.
"Yowza." Tai exclaimed.
"Do you think it comes with a CD rom drive or is that optional?" Tai asked as they saw a little robot stuck under a glass case.
"And what do you suppose that thing is?" Sora asked.
"I've heard of him. His name's Datamon. A super intelligent, robotic digimon. He disappeared without a trace some time ago. Nobody ever knew what happened to him." Tentomon informed.
"Maybe that's the thing that sent us the e-mail. He kinda looks like he's a prisoner." Sora commented.
"Of course it was. Who else?" Datamon said as his image appeared on Izzy's lap top screen.
"Today is your lucky day. And mine." Datamon greeted.
"I get it. He's communicating with us through the infrared port on my lap top." Izzy explained to the group.
"Oh, hardware fan. Well, listen. We haven't much time. Long, long ago I fought Etemon and lost. One of my rare miscalculations. Anyway, I was severely damaged and he imprisoned me here and forced me to act as his web master, administering his network. Without Etemon knowing, however, I was able to slowly repair myself, restoring my capabilities bit by bit over the years. Eventually I regained control over Etemon's network, not total control, but enough to bring some misery to that blubbering baboon. At last, I'm ready to free myself, but I need your help to break the cyber lock." Datamon told them.
"What about my Crest? You said in your message that you could lead us to it." Sora reminded.
"Um, yes. Whatever you want. Just please, help me out of here." The robot told them.
"Can we trust this talking can opener?" Joe asked.
"I'm with Joe on this one. That guy looks creepy." Daisuke narrowed her eyes.
"Etemon is your enemy as well as mine. That makes us allies. Please, you're my only hope." Datamon said.
"Okay, you're on. What do you need from us?" Tai asked.
"Translating instructions for the cyber lock." Datamon said as Izzzy ran over to a screen in the wall and started working.
"Hey, push that lever for me, would you, Tai?" the red head asked pointing to the lever.
"Got it." Tai said as he pulled the lever, revealing cracks and buttons where Izzy was.
"Quickly, quickly before Etemon returns!" Datamon said as Izzy worked.
"Okay Tai, pull the lever back to its original position. That should be the last step in the process." Izzy said after he pushed the button.
"Hold it!" said Etemon as he came into the room.
"Etemon!" Tai gasped.
"I've been watchin' you on surveillance cameras and you're an annoying little brat, you know that?" Etemon said as the Gazimon from before jumped into the room.
"Kid." Gazimon1 growled.
"Trouble maker." Gazimon2 hissed.
"He-Hey, it's been my pleasure." The child of Courage said nervously.
"Great, why don't you just call them ugly too?" Joe said sarcastically.
"An' all this time I thought it was these snot nosed kids who caused my network to go on the frits, but it was you wasn't it you digital dumpster?" the monkey said to the trapped digimon.
"Well, in a word, yes." Datamon confessed.
"You little rat!" Etemon roared as he went to attack.
"Digimon, help out!" Agumon cried.
"Agumon digivolve too…GREYMON!"
"Tentomon digivolve too…KABUTEIMON!"
"Biyomon digivolve too…BIRDRAMON!"
"Gomamon digivolve too…IKKAKUMON!"
"Veemon digivolve too…EXVEEMON!"
Etemon punched Greymon in the stomach, then grabbed Ikkakumon's horn, ramming him into Kabuterimon and grabbed ExVeemon's tail to throw him into Birdramo, sending the two winged Champions into a wall.
While this was going on, Tai took the distraction to pull the lever and the glass case opened to release Datamon who smirked.
"I'm free! Now let's see how you like it." Datamon cried.
Datamon blasted the glass over to the Gazimon, Birdramon and ExVeemon which hit them all, including Etemon.
ExVeemon and Birdramon then reverted back to their Rookie forms from the hit and groaned in pain.
"Biyomon!" Sora cried.
"Veemon!" Daisuke gasped.
"Hey, we set you free!" Tai yelled.
"And I do appreciate that, you chumps!" Datamon mocked.
The girls ran over to their partners and picked them up to check on the two injured digimon to make sure they were fine.
"Dumb kids. You'd think by now they'd learn to trust no one." Etemon laughed.
"Trust me…this will hurt." Datamon said as his fingers turned into wires and sent out these mini bots to Etemon.
Etemon countered with his Dark Network, an orb of green and black, causing an explosion of green flames.
"Biyomon!" Sora said as she knelt by the pink bird as the roof was blown off.
"This is not good." Daisuke commented as she looked up at the roof in worry.
Etemon then threw Datamon over to where the two girls and their digimon partners were kneeling.
"Tough luck. Looks like I won again." The monkey smirked.
"It's not over yet monkey breath." Datamon laughed as he got back up and wrapped his arms around Daisuke and Veemon who were closest to him.
"Let go of me you trash can!" Daisuke growled.
"Get off!" Veemon yelled as he tried to bite at Datamon's arm.
"Just wait. With their power harnessed for my own, I'll be more than a match for you." Datamon said.
He then flew away with the two, Etemon going to chase after them, but Greymon, Kabuterimon and Ikkakumon stood in his way, not happy.
"Oh no! He's got Daisuke and Veemon!" Sora gasped in worry.
"Come on!" Tai called as he then started running off after the evil robot as Daisuke and Veemon tried to wriggle out of Datamon's grasp.
Sora, Biyomon, Izzy and Joe were quick to follow after Tai while the three Champions stayed behond to fend off Etemon.
Datamon then laughed as he jumped through the firewall while the duo of Miracles continued to try and get out of the evil robots hold.
"You're gonna get it!" Veemon shouted.
The group then stopped when they came to the firewall after they heard the voices of the duo of Miracles.
"Someone help!" Daisuke cried.
"They're gone back out through the firewall." Izzy said.
"Okay, the weak point was here, right?" Tai asked as he started to walk towards it.
"Wait a minute. Let me get back on line so that I can find it." Izzy stopped him.
"We don't have time for that, Izzy. What could happen? This isn't the real me, right?" Tai smirked.
"Tai, stop!" Sora scolded.
"Don't test those theories now!" Izzy yelled.
"Pain still hurts, Tai!" Joe said as he grabbed Tai's arm.
"What are you thinking, Tai? That we're in a video game and nothing can happen to us because we're not our real selves here?" Izzy asked making him stop struggling and look back at Izzy and Daisuke.
"Uh, yeah, something like that." He said.
"Well, that's not true! Tai, anything bad that happens to us will happen to our real bodies too. This world is still dangerous. We've been trying to warn you, but you're acting like such a pain!" Sora yelled.
She was worried for Daisuke.
Who knows what Datamon would do to her?
"You mean…if anything happens to me here, it'll happen to my real body?" Tai asked as he turned to the firewall in fear.
"I can't…move." Tai said fearfully as he went limp.
"The weak point is one meter to your right." Izzy told him.
"No way. Just one false move and it's over." Tai was pale.
"Hey, Tai." Joe said.
"It's safe, Tai. We came through it all right on the way in." the child of Knowledge said.
"Yeah, but I didn't know… that…" Tai trailed off.
"Go on, it's okay." Izzy insisted.
"Tai, are you listening?" Sora asked in worry.
"Come on, Tai. We're wasting time. Daisuke needs us. What's wrong with you?" Joe asked as Tai stood paralyzed with fear.
"Tai?" Izzy asked.
"What's wrong?" Biyomon spoke up.
There was an explosion behind them and the group turned to see Agumon, Tentomon and Gomamon were lying on the ground, defeated.
"Sorry…we held him…as long as we could." Agumon said weakly.
"Now to finish off you kids and put an end to your annoying interference." Etemon said as he stepped through the hole he made.
The ceiling was blasted open and Matt jumped down riding Garurumon with Togemon, who sent her Needle Spray towards Etemon and Garurumon used his Howling Blaster to keep the monkey back as Matt jumped off and ran over to the group.
"Come on, let's move." He said.
"Tai, what's wrong with you? Come on!" Matt yelled as he grabbed Tai and pulled him up.
Looking around, the blonde found Daisuke was missing and he grew worried when he didn't see her around.
Everyone then quickly left the pyramid and ran off to the sphinx where they would be safe and the rest of the group were told what happened.
"I don't get it. When the creep grabbed Daisuke and Veemon, why didn't you go through the firewall after them?" Matt asked.
Everyone had crowded around Tai who was sitting on the sand, his head buried between his knees as he cried and his whole body shook in fear.
"I couldn't…I couldn't move." He whimpered with tears streaming down his face.
In his mind, the face of the little Daisuke he knew appeared with a fearfull look on her face that morphed into the child of Miracles.
"It's not your fault. We're all in this together, Tai. We'll find a way to get him back." Joe said.
"It's all my fault! Daisuke! It's all my fault!" he sobbed loudly.
To be continued...