Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Mystery Science Theatre 3000: The Unoffical 2nd Movie ❯ Part 3 and A Possible Way home? Hmmm... Nahhhhhhhh ( Chapter 3 )

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"What's a Digi-armor?" Jun asked, walking towards Matt,"Can I see?"

"No," Matt said, placing it behind his back.

"Come on," Jun said, grabbing for it while Matt tried to keep it out of her

reach,"Can I please see?"

TOM: At least Jun is IC.

BRIAN: IC?

TOM: In character.

BRIAN: Oh.

"No!" Matt shouted.

"Give it to me!"

TOM (Matt): KEEP AWAY!

Jun made a jump for the egg, but Matt flung it upward. It flew out of his hands and landed in the center of everyone. When it landed it blasted out a burst of light the surrounded the entire room. Everyone present felt a strange sensation,

TOM (Homer Simpson): I see the light! IT BURNS! IT BURNS!

then the light ended.

CROW (Dizzy Devil): Show over.

Tai was the first to open his eyes. He first saw that everyone was lying around on the ground,

MAGGIE: Drunk.

the egg in the middle lay innocently.

BRIAN (Egg): I didn't do it! I didn't do it!

He stood up and noticed that he was shorter than he was before. "Well," he thought,"I'm not Mimi anymore...I wonder who....." he looked down,"Oh crap."

CROW: He saw that he became… Ross Periot.

ALL: GASP!

He found that he was wearing tight brown shorts, a tight pink and white sleeveless shirt with arm length pink gloves. He didn't need to check his hair, but he did so anyway, as if to double check. Short hair with two strains on either side of his face, held in place by a pink hair clip.

ALL: OH NO!

"This is just great!" he said,"I'm Kari!

CROW: Great, Tai is in Kari.

BRIAN: CROW!

Wait, where's Kari."

"Right here," Matt's body said, standing up,"Wow, hey, I'm pretty tall now. I

can finally look down on you Tai!"

CROW: Kari is in Matt.

MAGGIE: CROW!

Tai ignored her. "If you're Matt, then who's Matt?"

"I'm over here," Mimi's body said.

CROW: Matt is in Mimi.

BRIAN & MAGGIE: CROW!

Tai watched the body that had been his for the past three days walk start to run her hands up her legs,"and while it didn't turn out exactly as I wanted, I will go with this."

ALL: UGH!

TOM: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

"Pervert," Tai thought as he watched the others in the room stand up. "Which one

of you is Mimi?"

"This is worse than I could have imagined," Davis's body said,"At least Tai's

body was a prime example of the male community,

ALL: UGH!

BRIAN: CAN WE PLEASE BE A LITTLE MORE DISCRETE?!

as my original female body is,

I, Mimi Tachiwaka, must now walk around in this delinquents body!"

TOM: Don't forget idiot.

MAGGIE: And an annoyance.

BRIAN: And hard headed.

CROW: And a stalker.

"Hey!" Jun's body shouted,"That's my body your...my body? Holy crap! I'm Jun,

I'm my sister!"

CROW: Davis is in…

(BRIAN gets out the tape)

CROW: Never mind.

(BRIAN puts the tape away)

Davis started to examine his sister's body, when T.K.'s body walked over and slapped the hands away. "I don't want you touching anything on my body, you pre-puberty freak!"

CROW: At least pre-puberty sounding freak.

"I've gone through puberty!" Davis shouted.

BRIAN: Its your voice and personality that's gotta catch up.

TOM (Davis): BUT I'M A TEENAGER DAMN IT! WHY DO I HAVE TO SOUND LIKE A 10 YEAR OLD?!

CROW (God): Because I hate you.

"You're nothing but a pervert!" Jun shouted, making T.K's body cry,"I want my

body back! Get that freak out of my body!"

BRIAN: Woody Allen?

"Oh yeah?" Davis said, sticking a finger up Jun's nose,"Just wait until one of

your boyfriends sees this!"

MAGGIE: She found someone?!

CROW: Worse, more than one someone.

"Okay," Tai said, counting off on Kari's fingers,"Mimi is Davis, Davis is Jun,

Jun is T.K......that leaves Sora and T.K. unaccounted for. Where's T.K.?"

MAGGIE: If he's smart, Mexico.

"This is going to be hell," Sora's body said, sighing,"I've been in some tough situations before, but this really takes the cake!"

CROW (Sarcastic): Oh, but facing Malomyotismon is better compared to this, right?

"That's T.K.," Tai said,"Then where's Sora?"

TOM: THINK for a minute Tai. If TK is in Sora and your body's unaccounted for…

"There's only one body left, yours."

"Oh yeah, "Tai said, turning around. He saw his original body staring back at

him. "Care to explain what's going on?"

TOM: You sure you want Tai to do that? After being in Mimi's body?

BRIAN (Tai): Ok, so like, we were in the Digiworld and I was wearing this god-awful outfit…


CROW (Sora): TAI! You're not Mimi anymore.

BRIAN (Tai): Habit.

"Sure," Tai said,"It all started when....."

"....and that's the whole story," he finished.

MAGGIE: Now if only the fic were like this.

"So," T.K. said, picking up the egg,"We've got to get this thing to activate

again, or we'll be stuck like this forever?"

CROW: Or at least until somebody recharges that egg's batteries.

"Pretty much so," Mimi said, stretching out on the couch,"But, until then, we

can't let anyone else know."

TOM: OH COME ON! NOBODY IN THERE RIGHT MINDS WOULD DISSECT YOU IF ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS USE THE EGG!

(TOM'S shaking gets worse)

BRIAN: Tom, calm down!

TOM: I MEAN, FIRST TAI GETS THIS IDEA THAT PEOPLE WILL DISSECT HIM THE MINUTE HE AND MIMI TELL ANYONE, THEN MATT WANTS TO BE A GIRL, THEN TK, FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON GETS INVOLVED AND NOW THAT THE SWITCH HAS SPREAD TAI STILL SAYS KEEP QUITE?! IT'S ENOUGH TO…

*BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

(TOM'S head explodes)

(BRIAN shakes his head and repairs TOM)

Tai stared at her,"Really. If you had kept your big mouth shut in the first

place, we won't be in this mess to begin with!"

BRIAN: He's got a point.

MAGGIE: Really?

BRIAN: No, but you gotta blame somebody.

"What are you so upset for?" Mimi asked back,"you're still in a girl's body."

"I know," Tai said,"But its my sister's body?"

TOM (Repaired): So?

"So?" Kari asked.

"It wouldn't be right to...you know...in this body."

ALL: WHAT?!

CROW: I MISSED IT?! I MISSED IT?! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

The eyes on Davis's body opened wide,"You little pervert!" Mimi yelled,"What did

you do while you had my body?"

"The same thing you were doing with mine!"Tai yelled back.

BRIAN: Dressed in your sister's cloths while posed in front of a camera and played soccer without a shirt?

Mimi just crossed Davis's arms.

"Listen," Tai said,"We've got to keep this quiet. Now, we've got to live as each

other for a while. Sora is Tai now, and I am Kari, we're going to the Kamiya's

apartment. Matt is Mimi, so he has to stay here and have a slumber party with

Davis, who is Jun. T.K. is Sora, which means he has to go to her house, and Jun

is T.K., so she has to go to his. Understood?"

ALL (Everyone): You lost us on "Listen."

Everyone nodded.

"Okay then," Tai said, getting up,"I'll try to get a hold of Izzy tonight, and

we'll meet tomorrow in the mall, okay?"

ALL: No.

"Yes."

ALL: No.

AND SO ENDS ANOTHER CHAPTER. THERE WILL BE ANOTHER MAJOR SWITCH LIKE THE ONE IN THIS CHAPTER,

CROW: Why do I have the feeling this is "Freaky Friday" on steroids.

I NEED YOUR INPUT. WHO SHOULD SWITCH WITH WHO? ONLY HUMAN

CHARECTERS, AND THEY CAN INCLUDE THE REST OF THE DIGIDESTINED TOO.

BRIAN: Wait, you swapped everyone but Ken, Izzy, Cody, and Yolie, and they're the only DD's left.

BOTS: FANBOY! FANBOY! FANBOY!

Part 6:

TOM: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! IT'S LEONARD PART 6! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

BRIAN: No, no! That's part 6 of the fic.

TOM: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

So, just so you don't get confused, Tai is Kari, Kari is Matt, Matt is Mimi,

Mimi is Davis, Davis is Jun, Jun is T.K, T.K. is Sora, and Sora is Tai.

MAGGIE: Still confused?

ALL: So are we.

Matt examined herself in the full lenght mirrior again.

CROW: The sex change operation was a success.

She had taken her bath, and was now in a pair of tight pink shorts and a white t-shirt. She placed both her hands on her hips and smiled in the way that Mimi always did. "Hello, my name is Mimi,"

BRIAN: Not even five paragraphs into this, and already I think Matt's enjoying this a little too much.

"Would you please stop doing that?!" Davis said, from the floor of Mimi's room, her head under a pound of pillows, the rest of her in a sleeping bag,"I'm trying to sleep here!"

CROW (Davis): I tried sleeping over there, but it was too cold.

Matt smiled. "Aren't you excited? I mean, you get to live as someone else for a

couple of days, isn't that fun?"

ALL: No.

"No."

ALL: What the…?

TOM: Can we predict the future or what?


MAGGIE: Or what.

"Come on," Matt said, pulling the covers off of the sleeping bag,"Don't you want

to practice a little?"

BRIAN: Practice what?

MAGGIE: I don't even wanna know.

"No!" Davis said, grabbing the covers and pulling them back over her head,"I

just want to get some sleep!"

Matt crossed her arms,"You're no fun. What are you so grumpy about?"

TOM (Davis): Oh, I don't know, maybe it's because I'M A MAN TRAPPED IN A WOMAN'S BODY!

"What do you think?" Davis said,"I'm in my sister's body! I am Jun now, that's

what's wrong! I've got to....wait a minute....I'm Jun, and Kari is you, right, I

mean, Matt?"

"Yeah, so?"

"Well, everyone knows that Jun has the biggest crush on Matt....so maybe she'll

finaly go out with me!"

BRIAN (Trying to hold back his laughter): Right.

CROW: Sure Davis. Just keep telling yourself that. Granted, it'll never happen, but keep telling yourself that.

Matt looked at her. "Davis, it wouldn't be you going out with Kari, it would be

Jun going out with Matt."

MAGGIE: Ether way, it'll be a fanboy's and fangirl's worst nightmare.

"Forget you," Davis said, lying back down.

"So," Matt said,"What do girls do at slumper partys anyway?"

CROW: Oh you know, talk about guys, pillow fights, make out…

BRIAN: CROW!

"How would I know? I haven't been studying being a girl, like you have!"

MAGGIE: Too bad, because there's a test in the morning.

Matt smirked at her,"I thought you would be an expert, seeing as how you've been

on so many, JUN!"

Davis throw a pillow on him.

TOM (Shaking): "Davis throw a pillow on him?"

BRIAN: Chill dude.

"I am definetly not going to get use to this!" Tai thought as she reached down to the edge of her shirt. She had all ready taken off her socks and gloves, but now came the hard part. Tai took a deep breath and pulled the shirt over her head. She kept her eyes closed and she pulled off her shorts.

CROW: Tai, you're going to have to see yourself naked in your sister's body sometime. What are you going to do for PE?

BRIAN: CROW!

"There," she thought to herself, still keeping her eyes closed, "That was the easy part."

With a groan, she reached behined her to unhook her bra. Tai had practice when

he was Mimi, but he had never done it in the dark before. After the bra was off,

she did the same with the underware.

MAGGIE: For Kari was out of underwear.

Tai then pulled on the robe, and after she tied it, she opened her eyes. "Whew!"

she thought,"That was hard, but, I got through it. Now comes the

TOM: Day?

MAGGIE: Dawn?

BRIAN: Sun?

CROW: Evening?

bath...."

ALL: Oh.

With a groan she walked into the bathroom. She closed her eyes again before she took off the robe and into the tub. Tai hated taking a bath in the dark, but, he swore to himself that it was some sort of insence or something to look at his sister's naked body.

ALL: We agree.

CROW: All though, its also incest.

She washed herself, glad that Kari's hair was much shorter than Mimi's was.

After she had dried herself off, he put the robe back on and opened her eyes.

"There," she thought, opening the door,"That wasn't so difficult."

TOM: You missed a spot.

ALL: D'HO! Waw, waw, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwww.

She turned off the lights and walked into the hallway.

CROW: Crashing into everything.

"Okay, Sora," she yelled,"I'm finished!"

CROW: Uh, hello, secrete? Remember? You're idea?

BRIAN: I think Tai instead should have told the author "Spaces."

"Jeez!" Sora said, opening the door to Tai's room,"You're lucky your parent's

aren't home!"

ALL: Plot hole.

Tai just shrugged and walked back to Kari's room. She sighed and closed her eyes

again. She undid the robe, got dressed in Kari's pink pajamas and walked into

the t.v. room, where she began to flip through the channels.

MAGGIE: All with his eyes closed.

"Ahh!" she thought, stopping on a violent robot cartoon of some sort.

TOM (Sarcastic): That narrows it down.

"Kari, we're home."

"Oh shoot!" Tai thought, quickly changing the channel to a soap opera.

CROW: And his IQ suddenly dropped like a rock.

She then turned around as if nothing was amis.

TOM: However, the spelling was amiss.

"Oh, hi Mom, hi Dad."

"Did you and T.K. get much studying done?" her mom asked as she placed a bag of

grocieries on the counter.

CROW: "Studying," right.

BOTS: Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh…

MAGGIE & BRIAN: GUYS!

"Oh, uh, sure," Tai said,"Studying." "I hope she really was studying!" Tai

thought.

"Where's your brother?" Mr. Kamiya asked.

"Taking a bath," Tai said,"Why?"

"I was just wondering if he was looking at your Teen Magazines again."

TOM: What?

"What?"

"Oh, I guess I never told you," Mrs. Kamiya said,"I saw him in your room reading

some of the magazine you get." She slightly started to blush,"At first I thought

it was just to look at the pictures of the models in their underware, but I

thought I saw him fill out an order form...."

CROW: And she didn't find any of this at all suspicious, weird, or freaky even for Tai?

"Mimi!" Tai yelled to herself,"What have you been doing when you were in my

body?!"

BRIAN: You don't wanna know.

The next day everyone met in the mall like they had decided. "Well, what should

we do now?" Sora asked. He was wearing Tai's normal brown shorts and blue short

sleeve shirt.

"I don't know," Tai asked. She was wearing Kari's white short sleeve shirt and

her brown shorts,"Perfect time for Izzy to go on vacation, why wouldn' he even

tell us?"

ALL: Plot hole.

"Maybe so we wouldn't bother him," T.K. said. Out of everyone, he was fairing

the worst. Sora's hair was all messed up, and the white blouse and pink skirt

she was wearing was all wrinkled.

CROW: And… he's wearing white after labor day!

ALL: GASP!

"I don't want to sit here and debate this!" Jun yelled in T.K.'s voice,"I just

want my body back!"

"Well, "Davis said,"If I could give it back to you, I would!" She was wearing a

pair of red shorts and a long sleeve orange shirt.

"Would you guys please stop yelling," Mimi said, "You're only making it worse."

TOM (Mimi): You're making this look like Jerry Springer.

"He's-er, I mean, she's right," Matt said. She was wearing a tight fitting white

skirt, a very tight grey tank top, knee high white socks with platform shoes.

Her hair was done up in curls, and she was even lightly wearing makeup. To

everyone preasent, it appeared that he was enjoying this way too much.

ALL: We agree.

"Well," Tai said,"Maybe we can try to use that egg again. I mean, we've just got

to travel to the Digiworld with it. That's what happened the first time with

Mimi and I."

CROW: I smell foreshadowing.

"It's worth a shot," T.K. said.

MAGGIE: No its not.

"Okay," Tai said,"We'll meet at the school computer lab right after school."

TOM (Davis): Actually, I have some indoor soccer practice tomorrow. Gotta keep breaking them windows.

Okay, next, some of the Digidestined switch with their Digimon. Who should switch with who?

CROW: All these questions and more will be answered next week, on "Beating a dead horse fanfic hour."

Part 7:

MAGGIE: The nightmare continues.

So, just so you don't get confused, Tai is Kari, Kari is Matt, Matt is Mimi, Mimi is Davis, Davis is Jun, Jun is T.K, T.K. is Sora, and Sora is Tai.

CROW: I think it'll be less confusing if you stop doing that.

Matt giggled to herself as she walked down the street.

TOM: Singing do-wa-diddy-diddy-dum-diddy-do.

She was wearing a pair of tight fitting jeans and a stripped tank top. Even though she was really a guy, she was starting to blush at all the guys checking her out. "Isn't this great?" she asked, smiling at the guys giving her stares.

CROW: Ok, now I'm convinced that he IS enjoying this too much.

BRIAN: You weren't before?

"I think you are enjoying this way too much,"

ALL: We agree.

Davis said, sighing. "I want to get my old

TOM: Car?

MAGGIE: Toys?

BRIAN: Comics?

CROW: Books?

body back."

ALL: Oh.

"Why?" Matt asked,"Don't you like being a girl?"

MAGGIE (Davis, sarcastic): Oh yes, I love being in my sister's body, ESPECIALLY WHEN I'M A GUY!

"No!" Davis shouted,"I don't like being a girl, and I don't like being my sister most of all! I just want to get to the Digital World so that we can get everything back to normal....and what are you looking at?"

CROW (Kent Brockmen): "What are you looking at?" Words of a drunken boy.

"Oh nothing," Matt said, smiling,"But, you've been getting looks from guys too."

"What?" Davis said.

"Yeah," Matt said, nodding,"Your, uh, uniform skirt is ridding up in the back."

ALL: D'HO! Waw, waw, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwww.

The two 'girls' walked into the computer lab and found all the switched Digidestined as well as Yolei sitting in the lab. The 'older' kids had their school uniforms on.

BRIAN: Wait… everyone's not there.


MAGGIE: Yeah, where's Cody?


BRIAN: He might have had a "Small" role, but he had impact. Like when he tried to stop Blackwargreymon from destroying the destiny stone.


BOTS: FANBOY! FANBOY! FANBOY!

"About time you got here!" Tai said, as Matt and Davis walked in.

"Sorry," Davis said,"But Matt had to check herself out every time we passed a

window."

TOM: Why?

"Matt!" Mimi shouted from Davis's body,"What do you think you were doing?"

"I personally don't think you should talk," Sora said, from Tai's body, crossing

his arms,"I can only imagine what you were doing when you were in Mimi's body."

CROW: Wait, wasn't Tai in Mimi's body?


BRIAN: You were expecting continuum?

CROW: My bad.

"You guys are sick," Yolei said.

ALL: We agree.

"I thought you didn't belive us," Mimi said from Davis's body.

MAGGIE: They got the idea she didn't believe them when she started calling the mental hospital.

"I didn't," Yolei said, calling up the Digital Gate, "but, now I'm fairly certain."

BRIAN (Yolie): That you're all crazy.

"Just be quiet!" Tai said,"Do you have the egg?"

CROW (Matt): Left it in my apartment.

ALL (DD'S): YOU BAKA!

CROW (Matt): What do you expect? I'm a blonde trapped in a ditz's body.

"Right here," Matt said, pulling out the egg from inside of Mimi's purse.

"Okay," Tai said, holding up his sister's Digivice,"Digi-port open!"

TOM: Oh please, my Digiport is way bigger than that.

BRIAN: You have a Digiport?

TOM: Yeah, don't you?

MAGGIE: Well, come on.

BRIAN: We can use the Digiport, take a shortcut through the Digiworld, and go home.

TOM: Really?

BRIAN: If you have a Digiport you should tell me these things.

(ALL exit)

(TOM'S room where BRIAN, CROW, and MAGGIE have a 0_o look because on top of his race car bed and other junk is underwear)

BRIAN: Uh….


TOM: Now, its here somewhere.

BRIAN: Tom? Why…?

TOM (With boxers on his head)

TOM: Yes?

BRIAN: Forget it, the less I know, the better I'll be.

TOM: Ok.

MAGGIE (Whispering): He collects them.

BRIAN (Whispering): Like I said: "The less I know, the better I'll be."

CROW: HEY! MY COMICS!

TOM: Sorry. I wanted to read one.


CROW: BUT THEY WERE IN MINT CONDITION!

BRIAN: We'll worry about them later, we gotta fine…


(BRIAN then sees…)


BRIAN: You do have a Digiport Servo.

TOM: Really? I've been using it to surf the web.

MAGGIE: Better than AOL?


TOM: Isn't everything else.

CROW (Reading a manual): "To enter the Digiworld, you or a friend must have a digivice…"

TOM: Lost it.

CROW (Reading still): "If Digivice is lost, you may use it to communicate with the other DD's and they will provide you with a way into the Digiworld."

BRIAN: Since when?

CROW (Reading): "Digiport V 2.0, establish 2001 by Pineapple head corp."

MAGGIE: Since Izzy tinkered with it.

CROW (Reading): "Punch in the following sequence and a DD should be able to answer with in moments."

BRIAN (removing the boxers from TOM'S head): Will you take those off.

(CROW does so and the screen lights up and we see…)

KEN & YOLIE (Coming out of the shower): She'll be coming around the m…

(Sees the SOL crew)

KEN & YOLIE: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

ALL: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

(KEN pushes a button and a light comes from the new version of the Digiport and…)

*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT*

TOM: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

(…zaps TOM'S head)

KEN (Grabbing himself and YOLIE a towel): You scared us.

BRIAN: We scared you? We had to see the both of you naked and hear her sing.

(YOLIE pushes a button and…)

*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT*

TOM: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

(…zaps TOM'S head)

MAGGIE: Look, the important thing is that it's working. Is Izzy with you by any chance?

KEN: Sorry, we're to join him and the others though for a picnic in the park.

YOLIE: We'll tell him you called.

TOM: Wait, we're trapped in space, can you get us down?

YOLIE: I don't know, Izzy made so many improvements that I'm confused.


CROW: That's not…


BRIAN: She's helping us Crow.

CROW: Never mind.

KEN: Maybe this does something.

(KEN pushes a button and…)

*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT*

TOM: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

(…zaps TOM'S head)

YOLIE (Pulling out the manual): Ok, did you activate the Digiport correctly?

ALL: Yes.


KEN: Assuming you lost the Digivice, did you punch in the communications code?

ALL: Did that.

YOLIE: Are you in the US? Do you need an adaptor?

ALL (Impatient/Angry): No!

KEN: Look, Izzy made to many modifications to this, I don't even know witch end is up. Maybe this does something.

(KEN pushes a button and…)

*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZT*

TOM: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

(You can pretty much guess)

YOLIE: Well, we'll tell Izzy when we see him, bye.

ALL: NO! WAIT!

(The image of KEN and YOLIE fade as we see NED, QB TED, and DAISY)

NED: ANTIE `EM! ANTIE `EM! Surprise! Like who doesn't have a Digiport now a days?

QB TED: I got mine last week.

DAISY: Now get in the theatre you Pokeball brained idiots!

NED: And remember, we know who you are and saw what you did.

(NED pushes a button and lasers fire all over the place)

MADS: Who's the Gods? We're the Gods! Who's the Gods? We're the Gods!

ALL: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

(To be concluded in ch. 3)