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Lethal Evil-Part I



Kari sat gazing out her bedroom window at the street in a solemn silence. She had a feeling that something was about to happen and she wanted desperately to find out what it was.

If it had been a normal day, she would have just dismissed the uneasy fluttering in the pit of her stomach as nothing and ignored it, but her experiences in the Digital World had forced her to consider her feelings seriously. It was her feelings that had delivered her from many of the dangers in the Digital World.

Miko, the family cat, glided into her room and brushed lightly against Kari's legs, making her jump. The cat easily leapt onto her lap and gave her a "pet me" look.

Kari absently stroked Miko's soft fur with a feeling of dread. The something that was going to happen was going to occur soon. That much she knew.

The room suddenly whirled around her. Kari bolted up from her chair, dumping Miko onto the ground. A cold feeling like nothing she had ever felt before penetrated her being and she gasped for air when it seemed to be forced from her lungs. She didn't notice that she had dropped to her knees on her bedroom floor.

Her world went abruptly dark and she felt consciousness slipping away from her. Fighting to keep her eyes open, she felt as though she were moving at an incredibly fast rate. Finally, she could no longer stay conscious and her eyes slipped shut.

~*~

The telephone rang at the Ishida household once... twice...

Matt raced for the telephone as it rang an insistent third time and answered it: "hello, Ishida residence."

"Matt?" a barely recognizable voice quivered on the other line.

"Tai? What's going on?" Matt inquired, hardly able to believe the terrified voice he was speaking to belonged to his friend.

"Kari's disappeared," Tai muttered.

"What do you mean 'disappeared?'" Matt wondered.

"Just what I said! And that's not all. I tried calling Sora and she disappeared while we were talking," Tai breathed.

"Did you call anyone else?"

"I tried calling Izzy and Mimi. Both of them were missing."

Before Matt could say another word, a clunk signaled that Tai had dropped the phone. He heard Tai gasping as though he couldn't breathe and suddenly he heard nothing at all.

"Tai?" Matt ventured.

No answer was returned and Matt shakily hung up the phone thinking: maybe I should call the hospital or something.

This thought was quickly driven from his mind when a cold sensation stabbed through him while the room spun about him. Quite unexpectedly, he felt like somebody had punched him in the stomach and the room disappeared completely.

Matt felt as though he was traveling very fast and he saw something that looked like a gigantic shadow. As he drew closer to it, the cold feeling intensified and he realized that he was heading directly for the shadow.

He drew closer and closer to the cold darkness and consciousness began slipping away from him. Just as he hit the edge of the shadow, he passed out.


~*~

Joe opened his eyes to penetrating sunlight. He sat up and looked at his new surroundings in puzzlement. It seemed as though he was in the Digital World once again.

His suspicions were confirmed when a multi-colored hologram materialized from the ground bearing a familiar figure: Gennai.

"Hello, Joe!" Gennai cheerily said.

"Uh... Hi, Gennai," Joe answered, not nearly as enthusiastic as Gennai was. "Why am I here again?"

The cheerful look immediately dropped off of Gennai's face and he replied: "well, it turns out that Apocalymon wasn't the last evil. There's a final evil that has just risen to power."

"You mean there's something more powerful than Apocalymon?"

"Well... Yes," Gennai bluntly confirmed. "And it has a lot of supporters."

Joe stared at Gennai's hologram in pure shock as he continued: "it's called Tobnamon. You must find the other Digidestined and the Digimon."

"But what-"

"Be careful about Tobnamon's supporters," Gennai warned.

"How can I-"

But Gennai had already disappeared.


~*~

Kryptmon crept from his hiding place clutching a syringe filled with a serum that was a poisonous green color.

He couldn't believe his luck. Tobnamon had told him to find one of the Digidestined and inject them with the serum; well, here they were.

He surveyed his find with interest. It was a girl wearing what appeared to be a large blue helmet over light brown hair. She was wearing a bright yellow shirt and blue jeans with red gloves.

Quietly, he injected the serum into the girl's arm and stalked away with her slung over one of his broad shoulders.


~*~

TK woke with a start and spit out a mouthful of sand. He observed his new surroundings with anxiety. He was in a vast desert much like the one he had traveled through with his friends long ago.

What am I doing here? He wondered.

The sun glared down on him and TK looked around him, hoping to find a tall cactus, a large rock-anything that would provide some shade in this sweltering heat. To his dismay, there was nothing.

He trudged through the sand hoping to eventually encounter some sort of civilization. If he had looked behind him, he would have caught a glimpse of something burrowing under the sand quickly after him...