Digi-Story #4: The Digimon's Revenge

Authors Note: This is EXTREMELY sad. So it's an Angst and rated around PG-Y7 and PG. It's about all the digimon getting their revenge back on the Digimon Emperor. If you like Ken a lot, and don't want to read about him getting hurt, don't read. Also, if you're sensitive about sad stories and don't like to cry, don't read. NOTE: No Ken related relationships Plus, there's a twist!

Disclaimer: I don't own digimon. Digimon is owned by several lucky people in Japan.



"AHHHHHHH!" Ken shot straight up in bed. He looked around the room for the several digimon that had just attacked him. "Unimon? Elecmon? Gotsumon?" Ken looked around his room for the three digimon. "It must have been a dream." Ken said, breathing heavily "It sounds more like a nightmare to me." Minamon said. "Did I wake you up? Sorry about that." Ken said, hugging the cute little in-training tightly. "It's OK. But did you have to yell so loudly? I was having a wonderful dream." Minamon complained. "About snacks?" "How'd you guess?" Ken laughed. Minamon fell asleep a minute after, hoovering above the air. Ken lifted an eyebrow. 'Sleep hoovering?' Ken lowed the digimon. 'I should sleep as well.' Ken closed his eyes, but opened them again. Every time he closed them, horrible images passed in front of his eyes. Images of his greatest fear. Images of him, as the Digimon Emperor, suffering all the pain he gave to digimon everywhere. Tears filled the young boy eyes. 'What have I done? I was a heartless monster. Darn that dark spore. I hate it!' Ken rubbed the back of his neck. 'Why me?' Ken closed his eyes, and realized that his arm hurt. He took off his shirt and looked at his arm. There was a long bruise, from the top of his arm, to the bottom. 'That's where Unimon attacked me! But how . . . ?'

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"Kari! Tai! Wake up! Your friend Ken called! He said to come over right away! By the sound of his voice, it sound really urgent!" Mrs. Kamiya said, shaking her kids, attempting to wake them up. Kari woke up immediately. "It must be very urgent! Tai, wake up!" Kari said, trying to wake up 'The Rock' "He's a lying back stabber. I'm not moving." Tai said, stirring in his bed. "Well, he's a digi-destined, no matter what. He couldn't be lying." Tai still didn't move. "Fine! I'll tell you if he's dead!" Kari said. "Woowho..." Tai said. Kari stormed out of the house, slamming the door behind her. "Hurricane Kari, charging at 85 miles an hour." Tai said, pulling the covers up to his to his head.

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Kari knocked furiously on Ken's apartment door. Mrs. Ichijouji opened it. "Let me guess, you're a friend of his? He sure does have a lot." Mrs. Ichijouji moved out of the way to let Kari go in. Kari ran to Ken's room. She saw every digi-destined, except Tai. Even Mimi was there. She saw Ken on his bed, sleeping. "He seems to be in a coma. Mrs. Ichijouji, was he ever in a coma before?" Izzy asked. "Yes. He woke up with amnesia. He didn't get his memory back for a few days. We where extremely worried. Please, if there's anything you can do, do it. I don't want to lose him too!" Mrs. Ichijouji stared crying on her husbands shoulder. "We won't lose him. Not again. He'll wake up any minute now. You just see." Mr. Ichijouji said. "I already lost Sam, I don't want to lose him too! Especially after how we treated him!" Mrs. Ichijouji said. "What did you do?!" Yolei demanded. "We pushed him too hard. After Sam's accident, we wanted Sam back. We never actually realized that we had a wonderful son still with us. All we realized was that Sam was gone and we wanted him back. So we forced Ken into studying and into...." Her voice after that trailed off. Ken stirred in his bed. He had a frightened look on his face. "No, don't please! I'm sorry! NO!" Ken woke up. "What happened?" Mrs. Ichijouji asked. "Digimon...attacking me...." Ken blinked several times, trying to snap back into reality. His parents left the room. Mimi stared at him. "You look horrible." Mimi stated. "Why, thank you Mimi. I just woke up from a horrible nightmare involving 18 digimon attacking me with there strongest attacks. HOW DO YOU EXPECT ME TO LOOK?" Ken rasped in his cold, cruel Digimon Emperor voice. Ken gasped. "Mimi, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean it. I don't know what came over me." Ken lowered his head. "It's fine, don't worry about it." Mimi said. Ken touched his face. There was blood. "That's where Gotsumon attacked me!" Ken stated. He looked under his shirt. The mark Unimon gave him was still there. "What's going on?!" Ken demanded. "What do you mean?" Davis asked. "Well, ever since last night, I have been getting these horrible nightmares. In all of them, I get attacked by a digimon. I never remember anything else. But when I wake up, I get a new bruise on my body, in an area exactly the same in which a digimon attacked me." Ken explained. Joe got up. "Ken, you said 'Ever since last night,' Correct?" Joe asked. Ken nodded. "You've been asleep for a week, Ken." Joe remarked. "What?! That can't be! I was in the digital world yesterday!" Ken yelled. "Shhhh!" Yolei warned. "But I was." Ken said. "Let me get this straight, you where in the digital world?" Matt asked. "Yes! I was!" Ken said. "I think I know why." Sora said. Everyone stared at her. "Lemme explain. Ken's wounds came from digimon in the digital world, so maybe he goes there in mind, while his body stays here. It's possible since you become data anyway." Sora explained. "How did you know that?" T.K asked. "My mom taught me about the mind and spirit as I fixed up the flower shop." Ken stared at his hands. He was shaking. "The digimon want revenge after all I did to them." Ken finally realized. "Well, you deserve it!" Cody yelled, as he left the room. "Cody! Wait up!" Yolei yelled, chasing after the short boy with the bowl hair-cut. Ken softly shook. He was clearly frightened. He looked at Davis. "If I happen to-" "Nothing will happen to you! Got that?! We will make sure of that!" Davis yelled. "-die, tell Wormmon I'm sorry." Ken finished. "That won't happen." Davis said. "Promise?" Ken asked. "I promise." Davis promised. But even Davis wasn't sure he could save his friend. Ken stared into space for a few moments. He wrapped the covers around his legs, as if he where cold. "So, co-co-cold." Ken said, shivering. "It's HOT! About a million degrees! How can you be cold?!" Yolei asked, walking in the room. She held Cody by the shoulder. Ken suddenly became as pale as a ghost. His lip was shivering. "So, co-co-co-cold..." Ken uttered. His eyes rolled, and he fell back. He then laid straight on the bed. He was asleep. He was blue around the lips, and, so enough, had fallen asleep.

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"Where am I?"Ken stared at his clothes. "Wasn't I in my pajamas? Why am I in my Tamachi outfit?" Ken finally realized that he was in the digital world. He was in the same area where he out the dark rings on his first Frigimon, and when he whipped Gomamon as the Emperor. "Not again." He knew what would happen to him. He knew what was in store. But without Wormmon, he was hopeless. Just hopeless. Gizamon, Frigemon, and Ebidramon got up. Ken stared in horror at them. "Sub-Zero Ice PUNCH!" "Twin Scissors!" "Spiral Saw!" All three digimon attacked at once. "Uhhh..." Ken fell to the ground.

Ken shot out of bed. "No, not again." Ken mumbled. He looked horrible. He had a huge wound from his knee to ankle. He stared at Yolei, then Davis, then Matt, the rest of the group, with lifeless eyes. He realized that Tai was there. He stared at him the longest. Ken stared at his wall. "You didn't trust me, so you didn't come. Am I right Tai?" Ken asked. Tai gasped. "No. I had something to do." Tai lied. "No, you didn't. I can read faces Tai. I've seen that look before." Ken glared at Cody, then relaxed his face and smiled. "I don't blame you Tai. I don't blame any of you." He shook his head sadly. Yolei looked at Ken. For once, she wasn't staring at him because she loved him. She was staring at him because she was sad. "How could Digimon be such JERKS! Gatomon, Patamon, you forgive Ken, right?!" Yolei yelled. Both Digimon shook there heads 'Yes.' "Why." Yolei demanded. "Because he stuck by us every step of the way!" Patamon said. "And it wasn't his fault. And, without his experience, we wouldn't have defeated Malomyotismon!" Gatomon said. "But if I didn't have my dark spore, then those children wouldn't have had it and then Malomyotismon would have never been in the digital world in the first place." Ken pointed out, in a monotonous voice. "How'd you get your dark spore?" T.K asked. "Well, I went to the digital world with my friend, Ryo. We got there, and found Millenniumon. Me and Ryo defeated him, and instead of digi-volving into Moom=Millenniumon, as we had hoped and expected, he had dispersed of his dark spores instead. There where flying everywhere! Then, one headed for Ryo. I pushed him to the ground, and the dark seed entered into my body instead." Ken said. "So you where trying to save the digital world?!" Yolei yelled. "Yes. I never told you guys, but I was one of the digi-destined that protected the digital world after Tai and before Davis. The only other one I know of is Ryo." Ken breathed heavily. "Is it OK if I sleep? I'm really exhausted." Ken closed his eyes, and Yolei slapped him. But he was already in the digital world.

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"The Digital Desert...." Images passed right in front of Ken's eyes, of what he did as the Emperor . He covered his ears, and shielded his face, trying to get away from the memories. Finally, he couldn't take it anymore. "AHHHHHHH!" Ken fell to the ground. "The PAIN!" Ken gasped many breaths in and out. Starmon, Bakumon, and Airdramon approached him. "Please, stop. I understand what I did. I know it was wrong!" "Meteor Shower!" Ken fell to the ground. He slowly got up, wounded. He had blood trickling down his face. He yelled. This time, he fainted.

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"My Base. Davis and the other's destroyed this place." Ken fell back against the wall, realizing the truth. "This is in my MIND! It's memories, and my fears! The digimon did this, so that I would be weak. So I AM in the digital world, but in a dream form." Ken shook his head. His hair fell in front of his face. Ken closed his ears. "No more, no more..." Ken repeated. Then, out of nowhere, Kimeramon appeared. "My creation..." Ken shivered. "Pure evil. I created a monster that was pure evil." Ken said, aloud. Kimeramon stared at him. "Heat Viper!" Ken moved out of the way, but not in time. The edge of the attack hit his side. He fell on the floor. "Heat Viper!" Ken tried to jump, but not in time. The attack hit his chest. "I created pure evil...." He murmured. "I am a reflection of you, Digimon Emperor. Your pure evil, and so am I." Kimeramon said in a low, deep, sickening voice. "You're wrong! I'm good now!" Ken said, moving his arm to the side. "Are you really?" Kimeramon said. This got Ken thinking. 'I'm I really good? Or, will I forever be evil? The dark spore has been in me for too long, so it's dark energy has burrowed itself in everyone of my molecules. And since I have the original, I can't remove it. If I do, I die.' Ken stared at Kimeramon with anger in his eyes. Blood was all over his body, from head to toe. His face, side, leg, chest, arm, everything, was covered in his blood. He stared at Kimeramon. "You're wrong. I have friends that will help me every step of the way. I used to be pure evil, but not anymore. Never again. I am not a tool for evil anymore. Not ever again." Ken glared at Kimeramon. His creation laughed at him. Ken shivered. 'A reflection of you...' Kimeramon's words stuck in his head. 'I have to pull myself out of this. No matter what.' Ken had made his mind up. "I already suffered." Ken closed his eyes. 'When will this end?' Ken thought. "Oh, and this isn't in your mind. It's real, alright. Even though your body is in the real world. It's hard to explain." Kimeramon said. "We destroyed you." Ken said, pointing at Kimeramon. "Heat Viper!" This time, Ken didn't move out of the way in time. He got hit by the blast. He fell to the ground, injured and hurt.

"Where am I?" Ken thought, as he opened his eyes. He was laying on the ground. He quickly remembered and got up. Just as he got up, several Floramon surrounded him. 'I enslaved Gekomon, Otamamon, Floramon, Mushroomon, and - Shogungekomon." Ken gasped. He stared at the eight Floramon that surrounded him. He was scared silly. Ken closed his eyes, and lifted his arms to shield himself. He heard scissor's. 'What are they going to do?' Wild thoughts ran through his head. He slowly opened one eye. The Floramon where simply cutting through bandages. "Huh?" Ken walked back. "Sit down." One of the Floramon said. She knocked him down. Ken fell to the ground. "Careful, now. You, bandage his leg. You, his arm, you his waist." the lead Floramon stared ordering other Floramon around. Ken stared at the Floramon. "We're just bandaging you up. Then, you'll have to rest. You're hardly alive." Ken glared at her. 'No thanks to you...' He thought. Ken got up. He stared at his shirt. The first layer was burned badly, while the second was pitch black. He touched his Tamachi pin, which had melted. He pulled it off. Instead of looking like an upside-down 'L', it looked like a blob of yellow. Ken clutched his fists. He grabbed his dark digi-vice and in a rage, threw it. It landed several feet away. Ken fell to the ground. He was too weak. "Please, lie down on the floor. Your losing to much blood!" But Ken didn't hear that because he already fainted.

"Huh?" Ken awoke. He was in a small room made of straw, and he was bandaged up. His burned up clothes where on a chair beside him, and he stared at his bandages. He was wearing new, loose-fitting clothes. Well, not new, they where a bit tattered up, but still much better then his Tamachi uniform, which was pitch black. He was covered in bandages. There where bandages across his chest, bandages on his legs, arms, and a few on his face. "Where am I?" Ken slowly lifted himself out of bed, but his leg was broken. Then, a Mushroomon walked into the room. "Don't move. You're too weak and lost a lot of blood. Like three gallons or something! Really! We had to change your bandages while you where asleep eight times!" The Mushroomon said. Ken touched his heavily bandaged chest. "Thank you, thanks a lot for all you're help. But I must be going now." Ken slowly got out of bed. "No, you're not. You gotta rest! You're leg is broken, anywho." But Ken ignored the Mushroomon and walked out of bed, using crutches beside his bed for support. He slowly picked up what was left of his old school uniform and left the room. "Wait-I can't let you leave!" Mushroomon said nervously. "Oh, yes you can." Ken said coldly, as he slowly limped his way to the end of the village. "Wait-We want to help you! Please, don't go! We won't hurt you or anything!" A floramon said. "Yeah, right. If you haven't noticed, the reason I'm not in tiptop shape is because of digimon. And what are you? A digimon. So back off." Ken said, pushing her aside rather hard.

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Ken had been walking for days. He was hurt, and was beginning to reconsider the fact that he had left the Floramon town. He sighed. He was in the middle of no where. Suddenly, his energy left out. He fell on the floor. "I'm going to die..." Ken mumbled. "Not if I can help it. and I can help it." said a cold voice from above him. Ken eyes widened in shock. "It-Can't-BE!" Ken shoved himself backward, since he was on the floor. "Oh, yes it can." the Digimon Emperor said. "But, you're me!" Ken pointed out. "Yeah...But it's the digital world and anything can happen, OK pretty boy?" The Emperor said lazily, as if it was a stupid remark to make. "So this is what you get for turning over to the good side. Great reward." The Digimon Emperor said sarcastically. "Listen, can you help or not? I wouldn't be asking, but I'm desperate!" Ken said, staring up at the Emperor. "Yeah, I can help you, just get up! Just the look of you so-so-so feeble is making me sick..." The Emperor helped Ken up. "Now, back to me wanting to help you. O.K., now, it's simple, really. Just become me again. That easy." The Emperor said, smiling cruelly. "But, I don't really want to..." Ken said, staring at the Emperor face to face. "...but I don't have a choice, do I? OK, fine, you win!" Ken finished. "But how am I going to do it without the influence of the Dark Spore?" Ken asked. "Tsk, tsk. You're I.Q. has really gone down, hasn't it? I'm pure evil myself! Come here. I won't bite..." The Digimon Emperor said. Ken walked forward. The Emperor took off his glove. Ken flinched, thinking he would get hit. "Oh, really, don't be so pathetic!" The Digimon Emperor let his glove go. Then he touched Ken's hand. "Uhhh," Ken said, moving back. "Hold on!" The Emperor said, grabbing Ken's hand tighter. Ken felt bitter cold. He felt the cold moving in every single vain, like the first time. His eyes rolled to the back of his head. "Soooo cold..." The Digimon Emperor finally let go. "There, it's done. Bye now." The Digimon Emperor said. Ken opened his eyes, and the Emperor was gone. "Well, thanks for giving me a push in the right, sorry, wrong direction." Ken said, pulling on the glove that dropped on the floor. All his emperor clothes appeared on him again. He looked liked the Digimon Emperor again. He took out his purple-tainted glasses and put them on. "How good to be back to my old self." Ken laughed cruelly.

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"I'm going to the digital world, and I don't care what you say!" Davis said, for the fifth time. "We told you you can't! It's not safe! For all you know, you might get transported right in the middle of it all!" Yolei said, stomping her foot. "But he's not getting any better and, I'm just scared if he, if he'll.... He's my DNA dig-volve partner! Where connected! He can't...or then we won't be able to....you know...." Davis frowned. "We understand Davis, but we can't all go rushing in there! It's not safe! And don't worry, he won't die!" Kari said. But by the tone of her voice, and by the way she kept glancing at the sleeping Ken, Davis knew that she didn't believe that Ken wouldn't die herself. "Well, how 'bout we let him die here! After all that he's done, all that he's been through, we can't turn our backs on him like that!" Cody yelled. Everyone turned and looked at him. "I'm just as worried as you are Cody. And I'm with you!" T.K said. "If T.K's going, I'm going!" Kari said. "Let's just go! Digi-Port open!" Yolei said, holding up her digi-vice.

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"Where is he?" Yolei said. "I don't know. The digi-world is gargantuan!" Cody said. Everyone turned and looked at him. "Learned it from Izzy." Cody said. Kari, Yolei, T.K, and Kari began laughing. "This is no laughing matter! Ken might be out there, alone and hurt! Well, he is alone and hurt, but he could be dying! He could be suffering! He could be-" "-Just fine." The bitter voice of a very familiar someone said behind Davis. "What did you do Ken!" Davis demanded. "Nothing. I am Ken. He changed willingly, due to the circumstances. But if you think about, he never really changed! He was always me! Because I am Ken Ichijouji. I am the mold that keeps him alive." The Emperor said, in a little more then a whisper. "What do you mean?" Kari said. "Didn't you guess it? Pity. Well, the dark spore never actually stopped growing in him. It never did. Why do you think the copies came out successful? Because it-never-stopped-growing. And anyway, he relies on it to live." The Emperor said, the coldness of his voice sending chills to everyone. "Let me explain. He's had the spore too long. Take it away, he dies. It made a nice little burrow in him-sorry-me. He depends on Dark Energy. It fed on all his innocence and is now moving on to more. But Ken needs it. The Dark Spore takes a little, gives a little." The Emperor explained. "And besides, it's all spiky and stuff! Take it out, and his neck wouldn't be so perfect!" The Emperor said mockingly. "You're lying. He wouldn't lie to us!" Kari yelled. "But he wasn't lying, because he didn't know it himself. But I happened to know. And I used it to my advantage at times, like when I happened to trick Ken into changing into me a while ago. But... It was me who saved his life a few times, and he did owe me. Remember when we just defeated Malomyotismon, Yolei asked 'Shouldn't we remove the dark spores?' Ken was about to say yes, but I stopped him. Because if he would have said yes, the spore would have been taken out of him as well, and he wouldn't be here anymore." The Digimon Emperor finished. "How can you trick Ken? You ARE Ken!" T.K blurted out. "No, actually, I'm not. I'm his, how would you say this, 'Alter Ego'. Everyone has one, only his was much stronger, thanks to the dark spore." The Emperor let out a cruel laugh. "And I took over. But you blamed him for everything. You didn't trust him. Didn't think he was good enough? Well, his dark spore started growing, more with each doubt you had. But then it stopped, once you let him join. But, now, his memories still haunt him. Too bad you didn't trust him enough." the Emperor let out a cruel laugh. "Now, he can realize all that he let go, just to be good. What a fool. Getting attacked by digimon. That should teach him." The Digimon Emperor laughed again. "And you won't be getting Ken back, never again."