Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Digital Trilogy - Episode 7 - Journey Through the Darkness ❯ Chapter 12

Chapter 12

"My God man, look how pissed off Sora is," Izzy said.

"I know. She wants to take him apart. But Tai's just as pissed off. I don't think either will give in this time," Joe replied quietly.

"Should we do something?"

"No, best to stay out of the way and just let them fight it out." Sora glared at Tai with all the hatred any female could gather. Tai stared back at her with an equal level of contempt. There was no way out of it this time, a ferocious battle would ensue and there wasn't a force on Earth that could stop it.

"You have dishonoured me for the last time," Tai said. "You have disgraced me and men everywhere. For that you will pay dearly."

"A man," Sora said. "Is that the word you use? I always thought that whiny little boy was more appropriate." Sora put an emphasis on 'boy' that made it sound erotic in a 'naughty spanking' kind of way, despite being an insult.

"Hey, that's not fair," Joe said, and Izzy was instantly on him keeping him out of the conflict.

"Quiet you," he said in a French accent sounding like Jacques Cousteau. "We are safe in ze safe-tee of ze cage. But you must not go into ze shark waterz, or all will be lost, Phillipe." Joe heeded the warning and stayed back.

"You walk around here all sweet and innocent, but you are just a cold cast-iron bitch who loves to tease us, aren't you?" Tai asked.

"And proud of it," Sora said.

"I will have my revenge," Tai said. "Start it." Sora reached to the table leg beside her and triggered the air hockey table that separated her and Tai.

"Very well, it begins," she said. Tai pulled the plastic puck from the release spot in front of him and set it on the air cushioned table.

"It does, and I will finish it!" With his last syllable Tai smashed the puck with his paddle and sent it flying towards Sora's goal. The puck hit the edge of the table and ricocheted back at her. Sora's own paddle made contact and send it back at Tai. Hit knocked it back and they started a furious back and forth death-match with the puck fading into streaks of colour instead of its normal circle. The puck fell into Tai's goal and he sighed.

"Aw. Did the little circle-thing go into the hole?" Sora mocked.

"I'll give you a demonstration," Tai yelled and fired the puck back at her letting it bounce around at near light speed. Sweat was forming on their brows and a crowed had gathered around to watch the fury take place. Bets were being made and cheers were going out for the gladiators. Sora's arm twitched and the puck dropped into her goal. "You best get used to having it in there. You going down!" Sora growled like a lion on the Savannah and sent the puck flying back.

"I don't think so there little boy!" She yelled.

"Check this out!" Tai yelled and hit the puck as hard as he could, it ricocheted off the side and flew into the air sailing out into the room. A tall man in the back caught it. He was wearing a dark brown suit with equally dark black sunglasses. He walked to the table and the crowed dispersed thinking it was a cop. "I'm sorry about that," Tai said. "Can we have it back?"

"Not right at the moment," he said. "The four of you are invited to meet some friends of ours." He lifted his left hand and let a watcher tattoo come into view briefly.

"You know we're not digidestined anymore, right?" Sora asked.

"That's irrelevant. Yagami Taichi, Takenoushi Sora, Izumi Koushirou and Kido Jyou. Are you the four?"

"Yeah, we are." Joe said.

"Then we have to go," he said. "The helicopter is waiting outside." That drew their attention. Who would be ordering the watchers to send a helicopter for the four of them. They left the movie theatre's game room and came out into the dusk twilight. A black ops helicopter was indeed landed in the middle of the roundabout. Two police cars were also driving up. "Hurry, we don't need this much attention."

"They why land a helicopter in a parking lot?" Izzy asked.

"It wasn't my choice," he replied and opened the door. The four climbed in just as the cars came to a stop. They closed the door and the vehicle started to lift off with the dumbfounded police left behind. They flew high and the night made it impossible to see where they were going. After thirty minutes of the four demanding to know where they were going they landed in a field in the middle of nowhere. "We're here," their friend said and opened the door. "Watch the blades."

"Where's 'here'?" Sora asked. They had to cover their eyes from the floodlights of a dozen jeeps. They all could make out two dozen figures standing in front of them, and they appeared to be armed and in military uniforms.

"What's going on?" Tai asked. Two of the figures, the smallest two began advancing.

"It's quite simple," one figure said. "We need your help." They came closer and into view and they all saw that it was Ken and Yolei.

"You four have waged a lot of campaigns back in the day," Yolei said. "And since we need to launch a couple now, we were hoping for the benefit of your experience."

"What kind of campaign?" Tai asked.

"Nothing less than to save the world," Ken said as he and Yolei turned back to the jeeps. The new four followed them and were whisked of to places unknown as the helicopter took of to where ever it came from and the only evidence of the meeting was some tracks in the trampled grass.