"Hey TK..?"

"Yeah Kari?"

"Thanks…"

"For what?"

"For stayin' by me" It had been three whole days since Kari and TK were sent to the Digital World. None of the others had traveled with them.

"Not a problem, Kari." They couldn't find either of their digimon. And they were each keeping a secret.

"Hey, TK, Do you think we'll find our Digimon?" Kari asked quietly. Both Kari and TK were now sixteen. Kari had the figure of a still developing girl (and she hated it with all her heart) but T.K. had developed the broad shoulders and the deep voice that most girls would easily fall for. Kari would often watch TK (when he wasn't looking) and daydream about how his blonde, messy hair would feel between her fingers, how his bright, innocent, blue eyes would make her feel when they gazed back into her own. She would think about how being wrapped up in one of his teal and yellow shirts after a rainy day would feel and even what was below those teal shorts- though it would make her blush when the thought even brushed against her mind. Kari had felt so secure around TK and why not? They'd know each other since they were eight or so, when the world was first in peril and the digidestined and their digimon had to save it…they'd practically grown up with each other. So why shouldn't she be so comfortable around him. So what if she liked him a whole bunch. So what if she wanted to marr-

Kari's thoughts were suddenly scattered when her Digivice went off. "I'm sure of it." TK winked and held up his own Digivice to show Kari that he was getting a signal as well. "Think it'll lead us to Patamon and Gatomon?" TK stood and Kari fallowed suit.

"I suppose it will…" Kari said aloud, half to reassure herself. "We could see, after all it's better to check it out then leave it be." She smiled encouragingly at TK and then headed in the direction that her D-3 (as the new kids called 'em) was telling her to go. Unfortunately for them they would be intercepted by another force. "RAWR…I am Leomon…hear me…roar?" Leomon is a lion like digimon with the head and appendages of a lion but the stature of a human. He is a very prideful and loyal animal and will risk his life doing what he believes is righteous.
"Ahhh?" TK and Kari looked from Leomon to each other and then back again. "TK! Watch out!" Kari tackled TK just before Leomon's sword came down with what would have been a sickening thud over TK's head.
"Pathetic Digidestined! You'll never defeat me!" Leomon began to charge at Kari who at the moment was laying over TK from the tackle she had just displayed. She was defenseless and at a lack of time to get up and run. With a yelp she ducked and covered her head, waiting for the impact of whatever would come.

"GATOMON DIGIVOLVE TO: Angewoman!" Angewoman dived into the scene and grabbed the two humans just before Leomon could hit her. "Are you okay Kari?" She asked in her angelic voice. Angewoman had the greatest figure Kari had every seen (and hoped to one day achieve). She was beautiful with her long blonde hair and pure white wings. Her body suit was a bit…showy, but at least it covered all the important parts. She had a pink sash that looked more like a ribbon and flowed over one arm, behind her back and to the other.

"Yeah! Good to see you and all but could we get out of here?" Kari shifted more comfortably into Angewoman's hold and poked at TK who was hung over Angewoman's other arm, knocked out. Apparently TK had hit the ground harder then Kari had intended to push him with…and, well, you can figure it out. Angewoman responded to Kari with a nod and began to fly away from Leomon who only shouted about how he would get the angel of light, and her little digidestined too.

"Now then…" Kari brushed herself off once Angewoman had set her down, miles away from where Leomon had attacked. "A formal reunion!" Kari leapt at Angewoman and hugged her tightly just as she started to dedigivolve. "Oh, Gatomon! I've missed you so much!" Kari was now holding a white feline in her arms with a long tail that had a purple swirl around it and at the end a purple puff of fur. The digicat's ears were larger then most cats and also had purple tuffs at the end. Also, over Gatomon's front paws were yellow gloves with black stripes on each side. "You feeling well?" Kari asked her partner softly, hoping that Gatomon hadn't dedigivolved from lack of energy.

"Don't worry about it. Remember, since your crest was destroyed I can't stay in ultimate form as long as I used to. Plus it didn't help for the control spires to have been around for so long." Gatomon comforted, hugging Kari back with a tight embrace. It'd been a year since they'd seen each other. Not too long, but long enough- in Gatomon's eyes- to miss each other.

"Where's Patamon?" Were TK's first words when he finally came to. It was just starting to get dark and Kari had wandered off to get some fire wood while Gatomon cooked what she had captured earlier. Yummy Digital Fish. Gatomon looked at him from the corner of her eyes and then sighed.

"Why don't we wait for Kari to return first." She said softly as she returned her gaze to the cooking fish.

"Because I'd like to know now" TK said. He seemed a bit annoyed and even more so worried. Gatomon's comment had thrown him off. It wasn't like her to delay news or answers to questions.

"Like to know what now?" Kari asked as she came through the wooded area surrounding their little hide-away-camp spot. TK looked over at her and smiled softly. He'd always loved her. Since the moment they'd first met. He adored how she kept her brown hair just at chin length and loved to watch her facial expressions, how her eyes would light up when she made a new friend and how they would laugh for her when she politely tried to keep the noise inside. He'd wondered why her colors were yellow and pink. When they were little it was a pink shirt and yellow scarf, now it was a pink and white shirt and yellow shorts. They looked good on her, but…he often wondered if she had any other colored clothes. To TK, Kari was the girl. The girl he would want to spend the rest of his life with, the girl he could get married and have kids with, the girl he would die for.

Gatomon looked from Kari to TK and then back again. "The reason you two were brought back to the digital world is because Patamon…has made a very grave decision."

"What?" Kari and TK said at once.

"He has turned all our allies against us." Gatomon continued. "Leomon was just an example. Guys.." Gatomon let out a heavy sigh and looked down into her furry lap. "Patamon has revived a part of the darkness that we'd once fought so hard to defeat. He's no longer one of us."