Author's notes:

Let's all be grownups here, this is just a fanfic, and I'm not trying to get on people's nerves or anything, but I've wanted to do this kind of a fic for a while now. To let off some much needed steam

So, don't be giving me any guff about OOC or junk!

CHAPTER ONE

The gang were all in high school now, except for Cody who was still in Elementary school.

Yolei was in her second year at High School and she and Ken had been dating for a whole year. Ken was had practically regained half of his lost genius IQ, but he was still pretty much a bit of a depressed downer at times, but being with his friends and Yolei really helped him keep his spirits high.

TK was on the high school basketball team, and helped his team get into the junior playoffs, and Kari was a member of the student-body council, and in charge of photography for the yearbooks and organizing school events.

Davis was on the high school soccer team, and he still wore the goggles Tai had given him. His grades were improving somewhat, since he usually wasn't the homework and school kinds of guy. The only times school was cool to him was when it was canceled.

However, things had not been going too well for him lately. Even after when Maylo-Myotismon was defeated, and the Digital World was soon restored, there would always be some manner of business for the gang to attend to. Davis was starting to feel that his friends didn't respect him as a leader.

Very often they would not be interested in his ideas to include all-out attacks, busting through the front doors, and if necessary, destroy the evil attacking Digimon to prevent them from achieving their monstrous goals which would bring disaster to others, even though it was fully understood that they would just be reconfigured and reborn again, as long as they didn't completely destroy the data, in which case the Digimon would die and not return; but the others were not keen on Davis' ideas, and would discuss their own strategies, leaving Davis totally in the dark.

Usually these ideas backfired and the gang would, as usual prefer to run and regroup instead of stay and fight like Davis and Veemon did, and even after Davis and Veemon always would succeed, they were often thanked by other Digimon whom they saved, but the others were not quite as thankful and would often give them lectures and scolding of always taking such risks. To which he was always reply "If I hadn't, everyone would have been killed. Is that what you want?" but the others were still not as sympathetic.

Even in real life, things were not going all that smooth. He was struggling to try and keep up with high school and whole new classes, not to mention soccer practice, and even his new job as a paper-boy he got to earn money for college. All this running and around and all this work to keep track of, he was often very late, and would get detention in school, which was becoming very frequent with him.

But the worst part was Kari! He still had feelings for her, and tried to ask her out several times while he had the chance, only for she refuse saying that she just didn't think she was ready for dating. He would ask her again, and again, only to be given the same answers each time.

Then finally one day, he wasn't willing to take no for an answer and was going to try to convince Kari to give him one chance. That was all he wanted just one chance, only for him to not only be shot down again, but for Kari to inform him that she and TK started dating weeks before he came to her that time. Kari also openly admitted that even if she hadn't dated TK "Davis… you're my friend but, well… I just don't have those kinds of feelings for you. I'm sorry."

Davis then looked at her grimly and simply said "Forget it." and he turned to walk down the hallway to class. The others passed by him.

"Hi, Davis…" Yolei would say.

"What's up, Davis." Ken would say, but his best friend just turn and said "Yeah right." To which they figured "He's found out." They knew about Kari and TK, and didn't tell him not knowing what to say, and when he out about that as well, he really took it personally.

One day, while most of them were meeting at a coffee and doughnut shop in town, as was one of their hangouts outside of school. TK and Kari weren't with them. Davis arrived but when the others tried to talk to him he would respond simply by saying "Yes" or "No" or just plain not be interested.

Even in the school cafeteria!

Davis could see Kari and TK sitting privately at a table a few seats down from them. It really annoyed him the way they looked together, talking and laughing, and even casually feeding each other food. The high school dream team, that's what some called them. "He should feel so lucky." He complained in his mind "That should be Me with her. I've known her since Kindergarten; you only met her because of the Digital World."

Even his friends couldn't help but talk about them in his presence. "TK and Kari are sure cute aren't they?" Yolei said, and finally, Davis starting going far with his behavior. Kari invited him to her15th birthday party, but knowing TK would be there and obviously people would talk about how cute they were. He rudely snatched the invitation and sneered coldly but calmly "Sorry, I've got other plans." and he would leave, but Kari saw him throw the invitation into the trash.

"Fine, be that way." she muttered to herself. It wasn't like she was trying to hurt him, but she really was starting to get angry with him the way he was always in such a miserable mood and always looking at her like she was some kind of virus.

Even in Literature class, Davis sat alone behind Kari and TK who usually sat together at the same desk-table. They were casually talking about their dates and fun times and plans for after school. TK even gave Kari a huge smooch on the cheek.

Davis really didn't like this a bit. It was worse than all the times Kari flirted with TK for the sole purpose to make him jealous. "TK…?" Davis said "Can you proofread my report for me? I don't think I spelled everything right."

He handed his paper to TK and read the first and only sentence Davis had written:

"Do that in front of me again… AND I'LL SMASH YOU TO PIECES!"

TK and Kari both slowly turned to gaze at Davis and her glared at them with straight and cold eyes. "Did I do it right?"

Rather than make a big scene and stoop to Davis' level, TK calmly handed him the paper back saying "Yeah, it looks good." The second Davis took the paper back and went back to his book, Kari and TK turned round and TK whispered "What a jerk!"

"Let it go." Kari whispered back "If he wants to be a whiny dick, let him. Just don't let it bother you." But actually she was getting fed up to teeth with Davis she was finding it hard not to come right out and really give him a piece of her mind.

…

Then, one day, things were about to get way heated up! The gang had gone to the Digital world and met up with the Digimon, as they were asked to help clean up a mess around the Primary Village that was caused by a hurricane. None of the tiny Digimon was hurt for they had all been in shelters during the time, but some of the buildings had crumpled, and trees had fallen over, and even the new dam by the river was cracking.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Davis said "Let's get busy."

"Yeah, I'm with you, Davish." said Veemon, but that's when they noticed they were both standing on their own and the others had already set off without them, not listening to a word he said, as usually. "Ugh!" Davis growled "I can't take this…!"

Kari and TK, along with Angemon and Angewomon were clearing the fallen trees out of the way and plant new saplings to become new trees.

Still, they got work. Yolei and Ken helped fix up with the broken buildings along with Aquliamon and Stingmon, and Cody got what he deemed was the best job; he and Armdillamon were playing with all the tiny Digimon and keeping them busy while the others worked. He enjoyed teaching them about kendo, and how to achieve inner peace from all he had learned from his grandfather, but best of all… getting to share prune juice from juice boxes he brought for them all.

This left Davis and Veemon to work on the dam, alone, patching up the cracks and replacing loose stones. They had just placed the last stone and Veemon sighed as he wiped his brow. "There, that should keep it good and strong, huh Davish? Davish…?"

Davis hardly took notice of him and kept on gazing over at Kari and TK working so well together. Veemon sighed softly; still unable to believe Davis still hadn't patched things up with the others. "Davish, you can't shtay mad at them forever."

"What do you mean?" Davis finally responded, and it was in vain that Veemon tried to convince him to drop his mean attitude towards them. "Look at Angewomon. I shtill have feelingsh for her, but I know she's happy Angemon. All I want is her to be happy."

Davis understood Veemon's feelings, but he just didn't feel the same as he did, not when it came to Kari. "Veemon, it's not just about Kari and TK; it's about everyone. I'm really starting to think they take me for granted."

Veemon already knew the story and, again in vain, tried to convince Davis that the others were not trying to be mean to them both. "Davish, you have the Digiegg of Friendship, right?"

"Not this again." Davis sighed softly, not wanting to hear the same story again about Davis learning to be a good friend to possess it. "Veemon, I know all that." he said to his little friend "But don't you see the problem…?"

Veemon blinked once.

"Veemon, friendship goes both ways. I can't do all the work myself. I can't be the only friend." He then cast a look at all the others again "No, they have to do their share as well as me."

"What are you shaying?"

Davis hesitated for a long moment and finally let it out "I'm thinking I should quit the team."

Those words struck Veemon hard in his little heart. "You can't be sherioush?" but that look in his friend's eyes told him he couldn't be more serious. "But Davish, they're our friends; they need ush, and so does the Digital World."

Davis sighed again "I just don't know if I can handle it much longer, Veemon. Let's get back to the village."

Soon, thanks to teamwork the village was standing tall again, and all the fallen trees were cleared away and the new saplings were freshly planted. The little Digimon were all very happy and thankful, and the kids and their Digimon were all taking a break on the hill by some rocks with some sodas Yolei had brought. They just couldn't take anymore prune juice.

"I guess Davis and Veemon are still working on the dam." Ken said.

"Oh, he's probably already finished and just sulking some more." TK said "He is such an attention seeker."

"Come on TK, that's not very nice." Ken said.

"Uh, sorry Ken, but I actually agree with him." Yolei said.

"You mean he's still acting like a big sourpuss?" asked Gatomon. Kari confirmed it and even told the gang the message he gave her and TK in class. "Gee, he's really taking this hard." said Patamon. "Well he's got to get over it." TK said "I'm tired of looking at him scowling at me all the time."

"Ah, come on y'all…" said Armadillamon "Davis has done lots of good things for all of us, hasn't he?"

"That's not the point, Armadillamon." said Cody "Davis may have helped a lot but, that doesn't give him an excuse to act like a loudmouth jerk all the time."

Ken suddenly bolted upright "I can't believe you guys!" he said sharply "How can you keep talking about Davis like he's some kind of idiot?"

The others were all starring wide-eyed at him. "Gee, Ken, I don't remember the last time you ever used that voice."

Ken was suddenly trembling "Me either… I'm… I'm sorry." he sat down again. "Ken, we're just trying to tell you we don't like how Davis is acting." said Yolei.

"Um, actually, Yolei, I believe I'm inclined to agree with Ken." said Hawkmon "While I admit Davis' actions are rather inappropriate, did you ever stop to think maybe we are playing our own roles in making it worse?"

Gatomon didn't like the sound of that "Are you saying it's our fault he's acting like this?"

"I am simply pointing out that nothing is truly generated without reason or cause." replied Hawkmon, but most of the others completely disagreed with him. "Let's face it, he's a jerk." Kari suddenly said "And if he can't accept I made my choice, he can go to hell for all I care."

"Kari?!" snapped Ken "…That's cold!"

"I agree with Kari." TK said. Patamon and Gatomon agreed too, and so did Cody, but Kari was the only one doing all the talking or rather criticizing… completely unaware that Davis was standing on the other side of the rocks and heard everything she said.

"He foolishly risks his life, and always goes for the all-out attack. While I admit, it works sometimes, but when the day is done he always acts like he's the most important guy there is, but half the time he acts like such a kid, expecting us to praise him and worship him like he's some kind of golden god. He's not even worthy to lick their sandals clean."

One knife after another right through his heart, Davis slowly reached up to his head and was about to remove his goggles, when suddenly there was a loud booming sound, followed by the cries of the little Digimon in Primary Village shrieking and running in panic.

Three champion Digimon; Golemmon, Minotarumon, and Gorillamon had shown up with a lot of digging tools and equipment. Their intentions were to mine for digital ores and believed they would find large qualities of it under the Primary Village.

Minotarumon, the leader of the three said to his companions, "All right guys, first we get rid of the village. Then we start digging."

His companions agreed and headed straight for the village, scarring the tiny little Digimon half to death so they would run away. Suddenly, the Digi-Destined and their evolved Digimon stepped out in front of them. "Hold it right there!" snarled Davis.

"Get out of our way, punks!" growled Gorillamon "This is our turf now! We're going mine this whole area of every Digi-Ore we can find."

"There aren't any ores around here." said Yolei

"We don't believe that." sneered Golemon "Now beat it, or we'll beat you!"

"Just try it!" growled Ex-Veemon.

"Yeah, we're not afraid of you big blowhards!" added Davis "Come on, let's show em-" but he suddenly got cut off by TK yelling for everyone to "Charge!" and they all zoomed right by Davis and Ex-Veemon leaving them in a cloud of dust. "Well… uh… I guess we go with them." Said Ex-Veemon, Davis clenched his fists angrily and growled, he couldn't believe everyone just followed TK like that as if he was the team leader.

Nevertheless, the fight was on. The gang was hoping to stall them long enough so the village could be completely evacuated and all the un-hatched Digi-Eggs were taken to safety, but they were all about to be in for a nasty surprise.

"We can out number them." shouted TK.

The Digimon all agreed and ganged up on the three bullies. Angewomon felt she had the best advantage, being an Ultimate level, and she prepared to fire a warning shot "CELESTIAL ARROW!" but the three bullies didn't even run or even move out of the way and they each got hit by the shot, and the smoke had cleared Angewomon couldn't believe her eyes. "What? That hardly even scratched them?"

"How is that possible?" Kari wondered.

The others were just as surprised, but they weren't ready to give up. "Let's rush em!" shouted Ankylomon.

"Yeah!" added Aquilamon, and all the Digimon charged at the big brutes. "Go for Stingmon!" shouted Ken.

"SPIKING STRIKE…!" Stingmon dove straight at Minotarumon only to suddenly be grabbed by the arm and flipped down hard onto the ground. Just that one hit seemed to really damage him. "Stingmon!" cried Ken as he rushed over to help his friend "Are you okay?"

"Uhn… Ken… something's wrong!" cried Stingmon "They're stronger than they look!"

The others soon discovered the same, as one by one they tried to attack the three bullies. Most of their attacks did hardly as much damage as they would usually, and when the bullies fought back the other Digimon were bashed about like bumper cars. Even Angewomon could feel they were strong. "Truth hurts, doesn't it?" mocked Minotarumon. "You need to realize that levels don't mean that much of a difference to some of us anymore."

Goriliamon then launched his "ENERGY CANNON!"

"Look out!" cried Ex-Veemon and everyone was barely able to dodge the huge explosion from the shot. Angewomon's arm got hurt in the blast. "Angewomon, No!" cried Kari as she ran over to her.

"I'll be fine… I think."

Angemon and TK saw the whole thing and tried to attack the brutes back, but Angemon got struck hard.

The three bullies then approached Kari and her fallen Digimon, pounding their fists eager to beat them up, when suddenly "VEE-LASER!" POW! They all got blasted from the side, really hard which actually did them damage.

"You leave Kari alone!" growled Davis.

Ex-Veemon concurred, and gazed over at her, and even Angemon "You guys okay?"

Angemon thanked him and Angewomon smiled.

The three bullies didn't understand how they got hit so hard by Ex-Veemon. "Hey, you don't think he's just us do you?" said Golemon.

"Never mind!" growled Minotarumon "We don't need to deal with this. They can't stop us anyway. Let's trash this village." And all three of them decided the quick and easiest way was to destroy the dam, which would ultimately wash out the village and everything else in its path in a huge river rush.

The others saw no other alternative and decided to quickly help evacuate the rest of Primary Village before the brutes would flatten it, but Davis refused. "We can't give up now, we have to stop them."

"Davis, we can't beat them!" Cody said "Most of our Digimon are already hurt."

Yolei agreed with Cody "We've got to at least get all the little Digimon to safety."

Soon, all the others agreed with them, but Davis still refused insisting there wasn't enough time to get everyone clear, and there was no way he going to let the village they worked so hard to fix up as well as the lands beyond be flooded and destroyed. "Fine then, looks like I'm on my own again!"

"Don't be an idiot this time, Davis." TK scolded "We've tried our hardest, and it didn't work, so quit acting like a big shot and do the right thing for once in your life." But finally he had pushed Davis too far. "THAT'S IT…!" growled Davis, and he turned swiftly and socked TK hard in the face, knocking him down.

The others all gasped.

"Davis!" Kari thundered as she rushed over to help her boyfriend. TK looked up while rubbing his sore cheek "What's your problem?!"

Davis didn't answer and just ran off. "Davis, wait for me!" Ex-Veemon hollered as he chased after him. TK was angrier than hurt "JERK!" he shouted at Davis "I HOPE YOU GET MAULED!"

Kari was very angry as well, and the others couldn't believe what Davis had just done either, but they had to put their personal feelings aside and try to get the evacuation going, and would deal with Davis later.

The three brutes had reached the dam. "A few good punches and blasts ought to bust it open." said Minotarumon.

"Well, what are we waiting for, let's get busy." said Gorillamon.

"Yeah!" hollered Golemon and he began to climb up the dam and began to punch at the super solid stones along with Minotarumon, while Gorillamon prepared his cannon for a huge blast. "Ready, aim…!" and before he could fire he was hit from behind and knocking into the quiet river.

"Back off!" Davis hollered.

"We spent all afternoon fixing that!" added Ex-Veemon, and another fight began. The brutes all ganged up on Ex-Veemon, but strangely he didn't do as badly as the others did and managed to punch, kick, tail-swipe, and blast the brutes hard actually damaging them better than the others did. "Yeah…! You go, Ex-Veemon!" Davis cheered.

Ex-Veemon scoffed, "I don't know what the others were complaining about; you guys are just above lightweights for me!"

The brutes all looked like three hotheads. "You're gonna be digitized for that!" growled Minotarumon, and the fight continued, but suddenly Davis could see the dam was starting to crack and the water was leaking through. "Look out!" he cried "She's gonna blow!"

The others all looked and could see the water starting to gush through followed by loud rumbling noises. Ex-Veemon gave one final punch, hitting the three brutes hard into he rive and flew out to safety and grabbed Davis just as the dam burst wide open and the water began to gush out hard and fast and sending the three brutes hard up stream, and they shouted "WE'LL MEET AGAIN!"

The others were barely finished with the evacuation when they could feel the ground rumbling and they could see the water coming straight at them. "We've got to get everyone out of here!" cried Kari, but most of their Digimon were still hurt and couldn't help much. It really look like the water was going to get them and wipe out the village, and all the baby Digimon would get pulverized by the waves… had Davis and Ex-Veemon not come up with a last-second plan.

Ex-Veemon carefully positioned himself at the base of a huge rock-mountain outside the boundaries of the village. "Go for it!" shouted Davis.

His partner nodded "VEE-LASER!"

He fired multiple shots at the rocky walls causing it to shatter in huge boulders that fell down the hills, piling up and forming a small wall strong enough to block the water off from going any further, saving the village.

"Everybody all right...?" Davis shouted, and all the tiny Digimon hollered with joy that their home was safe, but the others were just speechless by what just happened. Even TK was shocked.

Soon, the waters calmed down and the Elders of the village agreed to build a new dam, a much stronger one. Davis had never received so many thanks from the Digimon and the elders. "You got it." Davis said, and then he turned to face all the others who were gawking at him awkwardly. He gruffly approaching them, preferably TK, looked him deep in the eyes and scolded "Somebody could've been hurt out here today because you. You want that to go on your filthy conscience as well?"

While TK was willing to admit Davis was right, he was still plenty angry with him for punching him, but it was Kari who spoke first "That's enough, Davis!" she scorned. "You had no right to punch my boyfriend like that, and you owe him an apology." But finally, even she had driven him too far. He could feel every last existing ounce of love he felt for Kari shatter inside him, and was replaced with unspeakable amounts of anger and hatred.

"Apologize… to him?" Davis said as he looked Kari dead in the eyes like a big giant "I'm not apologizing to this creep ever, Kari, or to you, and you want to know why I will tell you… you two are nothing but a couple of selfish, arrogant, nasty tempered little brats!"

Kari gasped hard as such an insult, and tried to speak back, but Davis continued to insult her and TK "And as I now see it, it would be better off for this whole gang if the two of you were locked up in cages and fed with sticks!"

TK felt his anger boiling and would have loved nothing more than to tackle Davis to the ground and beat him to death for all those horrid things he just said to his girlfriend.

"How dare you, Davis Motomiya!" growled Gatomon "You had no right to say that about Kari!"

"Or TK either!" growled Patamon.

"That was cold, Davis!" added Yolei.

"You should be ashamed of yourself!" Cody sneered at him. Ken and Wormon said nothing, but all the other Digimon angrily glared at Davis obviously siding with Kari and TK for Davis' actions. Finally TK spoke "You've got ten seconds to apologize to me and to Kari."

Davis clenched his fist and would have loved to pound this jerk again, but finally he realized just how unworthy TK really was. "Fine then, I'm sorry …" Davis said, and he reached up and yanked off his goggles, slamming them onto the ground hard. "… Sorry I ever joined this miserable excuse of a team!"

"Davis!" cried Ken

"No!" Davis shouted and he began to walk away "I've had my fill of this. I've had my fill with all of you. Find someone else to kick around, because from now on we are no longer a team!"

Veemon called out "Davish! DAVISH?!" but Davis had already gone out of sight leaving all the others in a mixture of feelings but the two they felt most were anger and shocking at what just happened.

Author's notes:

...To be continued on my Deviantart. Go to my FF profile for further information