Hey everyone! This is my first fanfic! And since you only got a short summary of this story, here's the full one of Apocalyptic Quest.

T.K. and Kari suddenly vanish, erased from the world as if they never existed. The digidestined search high and low to find them but has no such luck. They are then told by Gennai and the police that they have been arrested for a "crime" they committed. Years later, a new evil begins to brew. They soon learn that they need the power of both hope and light otherwise they can't win. With lawsuits being filed, court cases to attend, drama ensuing, and a new evil to face, what will become of the digidestined?

This story takes place after Digimon Adventure 02, but disregards the epilogue of Digimon Adventure 02. This is an AU. I am including characters from Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 (Rei Saiba and Neo Saiba are two of the characters included in this). Although I'm including those characters, I'm probably not going to go along with the full story line of Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01. Probably just that Neo was evil and the whole thing about the Alias III (Hideto Fujimoto, Mari Goutokuji, and Sigma). This will be the case because I don't really know the whole story line just the characters and bits and pieces. I hope that whole thing didn't confuse you.

The ages of the Digidestined in this story are:

Joe and Neo are 18.

Tai, Sora, Matt, Rei, Hideto are all 17.

Izzy, Mimi, and Sigma are 16.

Yolei is 15.

T.K., Kari, Davis, Ken are 14.

Cody is 12.

As for the couples there will be Koumi, Takari, and a little Kenyako. For the Tai-Sora-Matt love triangle, we'll see :) (Rei might be involved in this as well too).

And there you have it. I hope you all enjoy this story. Please read and review!

Prologue

The sun shone through the curtains of a certain digidestined's bedroom. The birds chirped and the spring flowers blossomed. Children's laughter echoed across the city. The whole city seemed peaceful for once. And for the digidestined, it means a great deal to them. No enemies to face, no world that needs to be saved, just in time for summer and the last day of school. They can finally relax for once without worrying about a war or anything related to that. Of course, since they're digidestined, nothing can ever be normal or relaxing.

"Kari? Kari? It's time to get up. You're going to miss the last day of school if you don't get up," Mrs. Kamiya called. "Where is she? She's usually up by now…."

Mrs. Kamiya looked around in Kari's room. She noticed Kari wasn't there and that Kari's bed wasn't made. She gasped. Where was she? She then proceeded to the bathroom and found that she also wasn't there. She looked around the house in search for her daughter, but she didn't find her; no note or anything. Her worry started to increase significantly.

"Mr. Kamiya! Tai! Come here! Now!" Mrs. Kamiya shouted frantically.

Tai and Mr. Kamiya rushed into the room.

"What's wrong honey?" Mr. Kamiya questioned.

"It's Kari. She's gone. My baby's gone….," Mrs. Kamiya trailed off, wanting desperately to burst into tears.

"What? She can't be!" Mr. Kamiya argued.

Mrs. Kamiya just shook her head. "I looked everywhere in the house for her. And if she left early, you know she would've left a note or something."

Tai gritted his teeth. No, she can't be. It's not possible. His eyes narrowed at the device sitting on her desk. Kari's digivice along with her d-terminal. There's no way she would've left without it. He cursed under his breath.

"Mom, when did you find out?" Tai asked.

"Just five minutes ago, but for all I know, it could've happened hours ago!" Mrs. Kamiya replied and then burst into sobs. Mr. Kamiya shook his head in anger and then went over to try to comfort his wife.

Tai remained silent throughout this whole thing. He started to think. Who could've done this? Not who, but what. He reminded himself. He remained his composure in front of his parents, but then he started to walk to his room. He picked up his phone and started to dial a number he knew fairly well.

"T.K.! T.K! Did you eat already?" Mrs. Takashi yelled from the study room. She was typing her paper that was due for the newspaper today.

When no one answered, she called out again. "T.K.! Are you still here?"

There was still no answer. She got more worried. After all, her son is a digidestined. She wondered if anything was wrong in the Digital World again.

She stood up and walked across the room. She started to look in T.K.'s room, but no such luck. She then proceeded to look around the apartment, but found no one. Although he couldn't have left because his bed wasn't made and she noticed that his digivice and his d-terminal was still on his desk. She gasped. What if….? No Nancy, don't think that way. She scolded herself. She then however, started to panic and she picked up her phone and started dialing a number.

When she heard the person on the other line pick up the phone, she started talking.

"Hiroaki? Yes, come here please. It's urgent. T.K.'s missing," Mrs. Takashi spoke softly through the phone. "And bring Matt."

Just a few minutes later, Mr. Ishida and Matt came bursting through the door.

"Nancy!" Mr. Ishida called out, searching for his ex-wife.

"Mom!" Matt shouted. "We're here!"

They found her in the living room, her eyes red and puffy, with a few tears staining her cheeks. It was obvious that she had been crying.

"Where's T.K.?" Mr. Ishida asked her.

She just shrugged her shoulders and sighed. "I don't know," she croaked out.

Matt's face hardened. Where was he? Who or what could've done this?

"Matt…." Mrs. Takashi started.

"Yeah Mom?" Matt asked.

"Is this Digimon business again? Is T.K. in trouble? Please tell me what's going on," Mrs. Takashi finished.

"I'm sorry, Mom. But I have no idea what's going on. We last defeated the evil almost three to four years ago." Matt replied.

Mrs. Takashi looked away. Mr. Ishida went over to try to comfort her.

"Matt, find out what's going on," Mr. Ishida directed, his face stern.

"Yes, Dad. I promise I'll do whatever it takes to find him," Matt replied, his face filled with determination as he stormed out the door.

"This is bad," Mr. Ishida stated once Matt left. "But I promise we'll do everything we can to find him."

Mrs. Takashi just shook her head. "Yeah…..we can only hope."

Matt punched a wall. He groaned in frustration in anger. Tears were welling up in his eyes. He couldn't lose T.K. Not now. Not after everything he's gone through to make sure that he's safe.

Sora soothed his back comfortingly. Ironic, isn't it? She thought to herself. Just when things were already getting peaceful. It can never be peaceful can it? And now, two of the most powerful digidestined and two of her greatest friends are missing. She scanned the room. Matt was a mess, she could tell. He was doing everything he can not to fall apart right now. Tai was seething with anger. His jaw was locked and his chocolate brown eyes just reflected anger. Joe was worrying, but probably worrying in his head, she supposed. Izzy was furiously typing on the computer, not stopping, probably looking for some solution to where they could have gone. Davis looked pretty pissed off, not because of just Kari, but because of T.K. too. Yolei was crying and Ken was trying to comfort her. Cody kept a poker face, but Sora knew that the gears in his head were turning, trying to figure it out. But overall, the room was completely silent. No one was saying anything.

Her phone started to ring. Everyone, except Izzy looked up at the sound of the phone. She smiled sheepishly and apologetically before answering it.

"Hello? Yeah you heard? We're not really doing good right now on this end either. Really? Thanks for doing that. Hey, don't worry about it. We'll handle it from here. No? Okay then. He's working on it right now. Yeah I'm sure he will figure it out. Don't stress out over it okay? Okay, thank you. Sorry about waking you up from your sleep. Okay, I'll call you if we find anything else. Take care. Okay bye," Sora said and hung up the phone.

"Who was that?" Cody asked curiously.

"Mimi," Sora replied.

Izzy, to everyone's surprise, asked a surprising question. "How is she holding up?" He asked, finally looking up from his laptop.

"She's just as worried as much as we all are," Sora sighed. "She told me that she'll tell Michael and the rest of the American Digidestined to search for Kari and T.K., for that they might've ended up somewhere in America."

"Tell her not to worry too much," Matt gritted though his teeth.

"I did. Of course, you know her. She won't listen. In fact, she's already calling up everyone at like two in the morning there to have a "Digidestined meeting"," Sora explained.

Izzy smirked a little. "No more beauty sleep?"

This emitted a small smile from Sora. "Apparently not."

"Where are they?" Tai growled, finally speaking up.

They were surprised by Tai's outburst. Izzy decided to speak up.

"I'm not finding anything so far," Izzy answered.

"Yeah, and Cody and I went to check the school and the park after you guys called and we found nothing," Davis added and Cody nodded.

"It seems as if they disappeared," Izzy noted.

"Disappeared? They can't just disappear into thin air, Izzy! They're not magicians!" Tai shouted angrily.

"Hey, calm down will you?" Sora said, staring intently at him.

"I can't! This isn't a time to be lazy! We're just sitting ducks here!" Tai countered.

Matt, whose eyes hardened with steel and look as if ice had taken over his usually gorgeous blue eyes, finally spoke. "Tai's right."

"But where would they have gone?" Ken asked.

"And it doesn't help that they didn't have their digivice or d-terminal with them," Izzy groaned in frustration.

"If they didn't have them, they should. So that means they were captured, which most likely means….," Ken started.

"They're in the Digital World," Cody finished.

"No, not necessarily. The gate has been closed for years," Izzy replied, not sounding so sure.

"But what if the enemy who's taken them has some secret access to the Digital World?" Yolei asked through thick tears.

Izzy's eyes narrowed, but he didn't say anything.

"They still might be here in the real world. After all, Mimi and the other American Digidestined are looking and searching for them," Sora reminded them.

"Then let's go out and search. All over the world," Matt stated.

"But won't that take so much time?" Joe asked.

"It doesn't matter," Tai replied, his face and eyes set with determination. "We're not going to stop until we get both of them back."

The Digidestined searched everywhere for T.K. and Kari. They had no luck in finding them in Japan, and according to the other International Digidestined from all over the world, they had no luck in finding them either. Mimi checked in with them every once in awhile, but so far, she found nothing. She even spent that summer going to Canada and Mexico to look for the both of them. She then went to Europe, but had no luck. Matt soon then toured in Europe that summer, but still found nothing. They searched high and low, but it was like T.K. and Kari didn't exist. At least, not to the world. It seemed that the keepers of hope and light have vanished.

It was almost Christmas time when they got the news that shocked them the most.

"They didn't even get to start their freshman year," Sora sniffled, still miffed and shocked about the whole thing, a few months later.

Matt just didn't say anything. His phone began to rang. "Hello? Yeah. What? Okay, we'll be there right away."

Sora looked at him in confusion. "Who was that?"

"Izzy. He said Gennai just showed up." Matt said, his voice cold and emotionless, but still ringing with a bit of hope.

As the ten digidestined soon arrived in the computer lab, they saw Gennai with two guys dressed like police officers.

"What's the problem? Do you have news about T.K. and Kari?" Tai asked, wanting to get straight to the point.

Gennai nodded. "Yes, Tai. I'm sorry it took so long, but I myself have just learned of this."

Tai and the others just waited, motioning for him to go on.

"I don't want to be too rude or harsh. But….," Gennai dragged on.

"Tell us now Gennai," Tai yelled.

Gennai, surprised by his outburst sighed. Finally he started to speak.

"T.K. and Kari have been arrested," Gennai stated simply.

Looks of shock roamed across the digidestined's faces. They didn't know what to say.

"That can't be. They are only what, fourteen?" Matt said, trying to keep his anger in check.

"Yes, but that—," Gennai started to say.

"They haven't even committed one crime!" Tai shouted furiously. "Why in the world would they be arrested?"

"Not for the real world government, but in the Digital World," Gennai replied.

"What do you mean?" Izzy asked curiously.

"They committed a crime against the Digimon Sovereigns. These two are the Digimon Police. The Sovereigns created them to help you guys keep the peace in the Digital World while you guys are away," Gennai explained. "Its unfortunate that T.K. and Kari have been arrested."

"Unfortunate?" Sora now blew up. "Gennai, they didn't even do anything wrong."

"They did to the Sovereigns, and as much as I would like to, I can't argue with them," Gennai answered.

"This is ridiculous," Davis protested.

"What was the crime?" Cody asked. "We at least have the right to know what it was."

Gennai looked at each one of their faces before answering nervously. "They got arrested for being a threat to the Digital World and its inhabitants."

And there you go: the first chapter of Apocalyptic Quest! I know it isn't much yet, but this is just setting up what's going to happen next and everything else! Trust me, there will be more drama and action! There's more to come! I hope you liked this story so far. Thanks for reading! Please review!