Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 1 - A Time Honored Tradition ❯ Chapter 7

Chapter 7

Tai, Joe and Izzy sat on a park bench on the west side of Tokyo. They were bored out of their minds. Joe was studying from some thick medical textbook. Izzy had hundreds of thousands of lines of code on his laptop's screen, working on some problem he couldn't tear away from, and Tai was bouncing a soccer ball like a hackey-sack; he had gone for fifteen minutes with out it touching the ground.

"Guys, I'm bored," Tai whined.

"Well, Joe and I brought productive tasks. How long did you think we would be waiting?"

"I don't know, ten minutes?"

"Tai, we've been sitting here for two hours. And even then it's possible that there won't be an attack tonight." Izzy said. Tai responded by whining some more.

"Oh Tai, don't be like that!" A voice said.

"Allura!" Tai whipped around to see a girl he'd known for a few years in one of his classes. He'd always had a mild crush on her, but avoided it being a digidestined.

"Good, now Tai will leave us alone," Joe whispered to Izzy.

"What are you three doing out here?" She asked.

"Well..." Tai thought hard. "Joe here is doing an experiment on night air on human lungs, Izzy is running some astronomical experiment." Izzy was surprised that Tai's explanation was so simple. Joe and Izzy were instantly on board with it.

"Oh, that sounds nice. Tai, can I see you for a moment?" Allura's little request for privacy startled Tai, and got looks from Joe and Izzy.

"Sure." Tai followed her to a picnic table about ten meters from the others. They sat down on opposite sides of the table.

"Tai, I've got a very strange problem. It told me that you or one of your friends would know what to do."

"The problem told you? The problem can talk?" Tai was looking sarcastic. What was she talking about. Even though he liked her, he could tell this girl had flipped out. Allura reached over to her backpack that was sitting on the table, and lifted the main flap. A large green turnip with four feet walked out.

"Hi Tai!" It said.

"Tanemon!" Tai was shocked now. "What are you doing here? Weren't you in America and then killed just a few days ago? And why are you with her? Where's Mimi?" Tai was hyperventilating. This was a very strange development.

"So you do know her?" Allura asked. "She says she's a digimon. Whatever that is. She was telling me about this game that digidestined play. From what she's told me, I think I am one. It was so weird, I woke up one morning and there was this egg by my bed. Just as I touched it, it hatched. When I fed the little thing, it turned into her. Really cool. Have you ever seen anything like it?" Tai just stared for a second.

"Joe! Izzy! Get Agumon, Tentomon, and Gomamon and come here! Quick!" They were there in a flash and were slack jawed. Gomamon was the first to speak.

"Tanemon!"

"Gomamon!" They gave each other a hug.

"So Izzy," Tai said, "you're the genius. Explain that." Izzy just stared. His brain was busy rebooting. Tanemon's appearance had crashed it like Windows 95 on a 286.

* * *

Matt and Sora were on a different park bench on the East side of down. The time alone, and the cool night air soon had them intertwined like the fibers of a sheet of paper. They couldn't talk very well with their tongue in each other's throat.

"Mph..." Matt said.

"Mmmmawd. Mpht!" Sora responded.

* * *

Cody, Davis and Ken were sitting outside Ken's apartment on the north side of down. There could not be a more mismatched set of people. While Davis and Ken were DNA partners, and played soccer, Davis was not up for any intelligent conversations with Ken. Cody could have matched wits with Ken, but preferred to meditate while practicing Kendo.

The evening was a bit relived when Ken's mom asked them if they'd like to join her for a game of scrabble, because Ken's father was working late. None refused. Contrary to their estimates, they enjoyed it.

* * *

The real fun was happening with TK, Kari and Yolei. They were on top of a large apartment building in the inner city. There was only one building taller, just beside them, but they couldn't get to it.

Kari was braiding Yolei's hair while they both watched TK practice his gun handling. He would holster the gun, then whip it out, target something, and holster it again. Soon he would to tricks like flipping it over his head, under his arms, or he'd maneuver himself in all angles and still come out with the gun pointed at its target. He never dropped it once.

"Very nice, TK. I like a man who knows how to handle his gun." Kari's comment had TK blushing, but Yolei missed the pun. "Can you shoot as well as you can dance with that thing?"

"Care for a demonstration?" TK said with a smirk.

"Yolei and I would be very happy girls, knowing we're protected by you, only if you could demonstrate the impossible shot."

"Ahh, a challenge!" TK liked this. He got to shoot, and flirt with Kari. His two favorite pastimes rolled into one. He took a silencer out of his bag and fixed it to the barrel. TK pointed at the red light on top of the antennae of the building. One shot put it out.

"Very nice, but I've seen it." Yolei was playing now, too.

"Hmm..." TK selected another target. He picked up a rock, and hurled it out over the edge of the building. Again, one shot made sand out of it.

"I think you could do one better, TK." Kari was really having TK reach for the limit. He looked around for a few minutes. When it looked like he gave up, looking over the edge of the building, he eagerly called the girls over. He pointed to a pair of homeless men drinking on the roof of a similar building across the ally. The building was about four floors shorter. The pair were happily drinking from a big wine bottle. TK aimed for a second, then squeezed the rigger.

He was rewarded with the sound on glass shattering, then the two men screaming obscenities and arguing.

"Ha ha! Very nicely done!"

"Back off," Kari said with mock anger, "he's mine. Don't be mad cause your boyfriend can't shoot like mine can." They all shared a few laughs.

On that one building a few floors higher near TK, Kari and Yolei, sat Kelryn.

"Kelryn, are you sure about this?" Demireumon asked.

"Of course! Look at her! Everything a girl could want. Sweet, sexy, smart, not a guy, and she's a digidestined." Kelryn was sure of that.

"Yeah, I guess your right," Demireumon agreed. "But what about TK? Don't you think Kari might prefer a different list of qualities to yours?"

"All it takes is the love of a good woman, and my little friend, I am." Kelryn was rarely so smug, but she did it well.

Back on the other roof, TK stopped laughing when he heard his D-Terminal beep. He ran over and picked it up. "Show's on ladies! Let's get to it!"