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Chapter 1

"Phew" Sighed Kari Kamiya relieved that she had survived her first month of college, she had just finished taking her final exam for the week before a long 4 day weekend to be spent with her room mates Yolei Inoue, Mimi Tachikawa, and Sora Takenouchi, and some quality time with her long time friend turned boyfriend TK Takaishi.

Kari lived in a four bedroom apartment not far from her campus; almost all of her friends had decided to attend the same college, Honshu University, all except for the oldest of her childhood companions Joe Kido, his room mate Izzy Izumi, her friend Davis, and Sora's best friend Mimi Tachikawa TK's older brother Matt was just starting his senior year and had spent the last three years living with Tai in what used to be a very nice two bedroom suite, but now the carpets were stained from so many parties, their dishwasher and oven barely worked, the fridge leaked and they had no blinds left in the whole apartment, the two had taken to nailing towels in front of the windows when they wanted privacy, and if it weren't for the fact that Sora and Matt had been together for their fours years of college the place probably wouldn't be standing at all.

Yolei's boyfriend Ken was originally going to go to Tokyo University possibly the best college in Japan, but when all of his friends got accepted to Honshu he decided to apply there instead. He brought along with him Davis who had decided not to go to college, but instead began his first noodle cart that he paraded around campus during sporting events and large rallies. The two agreed to move in with TK in a three bedroom apartment a floor above Tai and Matt, which got the three of them invited to all of Tai and Matt's weekend ragers. Kari hated going to their parties, and probably wouldn't attend at all if Sora, Mimi, and Yolei were always with her. The parties used to be a fun experience when she and TK first began dating, TK would always choose her as his partner in his favorite drinking game Beer Pong, but now desire to win had taken place over affection and TK played almost exclusively with Davis, since the two combined were the only ones who could challenge Tai and Matt.

Mimi had decided to move back to Japan, but she was not able to enter the culinary program at Honshu. Mimi instead chose to attend cooking classes at a nearby Junior College though the drive was a bit long.

Joe was already graduated from college and was attending medical school, Kyushu Medical College, the same medical school his father attended which was not far from Honshu either. He and Izzy rented a house on the outskirts of town. Izzy was going to a school that specialized in the computer arts, and since he did not want to be too far from his closest friends, he made the effort to travel on the subway everyday to his tech school.

The only friend of Kari's who was not yet in college was her youngest friend, Cody Hida. Cody would not be finishing high school for another three years so he was the only one left in their home town of Odaiba Japan. They were frequently in contact of course so not to make him feel left out of the group.

Kari had been so busy thinking about how fast everything around her was changing, that she hardly noticed she was less than 10 feet from her own door. A loud crash was heard from the other side of the apartment's wall which was split on the first and second floors of duplex.

"Oh boy" Kari said to herself, knowing she was going to have a less relaxing weekend than she had hoped. "What's all the commotion about guys?" Kari asked as she cracked open the front door keeping her head outside in case of flying objects.

"Nothing! Don't come in yet it's not ready!" Squealed the gravely voice of a small walking talking plant digimon known as Palmon.

"What's not ready?" Kari inquired as she pushed the door open. "Oh Kari thank goodness its you" said a small cat-like creature called Gatomon, Kari's digimon scampered up to her and leapt into her arms to seek protection from the mess Kari saw spread across the floor. "Biyomon and Palmon were trying to burn our whole apartment down." Gatomon said. It did look like the apartment had been nearly set on fire. A pink, red and white blob Kari could only assume to be Sora's partner Biyomon and Yolei's partner Hawkmon was next to a sputtering fire extinguisher which had sprayed white dust across their whole living room, sitting on top of the large bookshelf in the main hall out of harm was the bat winged Patamon.

"I saw the whole thing" Patamon said. "They tried to burn down your apartment. "Where was TK when all this was going on?" Kari asked the little digimon knowing that if he were here her boyfriend would not be too far away which was good because she wouldn't have to wait to give him an earful.

"He's right there on the couch." The digimon stated quite simply. Sure enough covered from head to toe in gobs of white powder was her boyfriend fast asleep.

"How he slept through all of this is beyond me" Gatomon said.

"What exactly was it that he slept through?" Kari asked.

"Well" started Palmon, "We were hoping to wait until all you girls got home and then set off some fireworks to celebrate the upcoming holiday and all time we get to spend together this weekend!" "Fireworks in the house?!?!?!" "Of course, where else would you be able to see them?" Biyomon asked. "Where did you even manage to get fireworks, you know what, I don't need to know its fine."

Kari couldn't help but laugh, she knew they all meant well. She dusted off TK's face and leaned in real close before yelling in his ear "WAKE UP!" TK sprang right off the couch onto a wet patch of dust and fell straight on his seat. "Owww my ass…Kari what was that for? What happened in here?"

Kari was a bit agitated that TK had just spent all day sleeping instead of going to his morning classes "I suggest next time if you skip class you stay awake to tell our pals that they can't light fireworks inside the apartment." Kari said scornfully already wiping down dust from the television,

"I didn't miss any…" Kari cut TK off with a glare, knowing very well that TK had slept through his first three classes, and that he was missing one more that very moment and had another before 3.

TK started again "I didn't mean to skip class; you just put me in a coma after last night." he said with a sly grin.

Kari smacked him playfully across the face. "We don't talk about that in front of the you-know-whos" She said as she kissed him.

"What exactly is it that you two do at night that you have to lock me out?" Gatomon asked, "I'm tired of sleeping on the couch, TK can go sleep at his own apartment."

"Well don't worry Gatomon because unless TK starts going to class again it will just be you and me sleeping here."

(That will get him moving) She thought.

TK sprinted towards Kari's room to grab his spare clothes "Well I should really be getting up and ready" (called it); "I have my literature lecture soon y'know." And with that TK hurriedly got himself dressed and began heading out the door.

"Come straight back!" Kari said "It's your turn to make me dinner tonight, and no more instant Ramen noodles!"

"Can't hear you hun I've got my headphones in!" Kari watched as TK clamored into the bus that had just arrived at the nearby stop. "He heard me" she said to Patamon. All the digimon giggled. "Well guys lets get this cleaned up, it's a warzone in here and the other girls won't be happy, Gatomon, Palmon grab some dust brooms, I need you guys to take care of those hi hard to reach places, Biyomon, Patamon, and Hawkmon, see if you can't do anything to blow some of this stuff out."

Kari grabbed her vacuum from her room and began sweeping it across the floor. She hadn't even noticed that there were two guys standing in the doorway, when she looked up at them she nearly screamed.

"Oh Ken, Matt, you guys gave me a heart attack, I didn't hear you come in."

Matt stepped carefully around large piles of powder "Hey Kari what happened in here?"

"It's a long story and I'm not even sure I could give you all the details."

"Right, well Ken and I are looking for the girls, we got out of class early we were thinking of taking them to lunch, are they around?"

"No I'm not sure where they went they were gone when I got here. But you guys are more than welcome to wait here, maybe help me clean."

"Oh yeah I mean we would but Izzy wanted to talk to us about something, said it was important, we can't just blow him off."

"But you said you wanted to take Sora and Yolei out to lunch."

"Well yeah but you know what? I had forgotten Izzy called us, so we're gonna head out and meet up with him and I will probably see you later."

As Ken and Matt headed out the door Ken turned and said "You'll never guess who is calling me right now, looks like we may need to meet up with Izzy after all."

Just as Matt and Ken drove away Kari saw Mimi's pink PT Cruiser pull into the drive way with Sora and Yolei inside, Kari watched as they walked up to the door.

"Oh my God!" Mimi shouted "What happened in here?"

"You should ask them" Kari said pointing out Palmon and Biyomon who had quickly scurried into the other room to avoid the wrath of the girls.

Sora and Mimi got the two digimon to explain the story, and they like Kari knew they had meant well, after listening to the tale Sora turned to the other three girls.

"It was obviously an accident, but I don't think we can just let them get away with this, what should we do?"

"We could put them in time-out, that's what my parents used to do to me and my brothers and sisters when we would misbehave." Said Yolei

"Good idea", Sora grabbed a stool and placed it in the corner of the common area which had avoided getting hosed. "Biyomon you stay on this stool until I tell you to come down."

The girls began their long task of returning their home to normal.

Meanwhile Matt and Ken were meeting up with Tai and Davis outside the house of Izzy and Joe.

Tai knocked on the front door. "So do any of you guys have any idea what Izzy called us about?"

"No clue Ken and I just got the call about 15 minutes ago, we headed straight here, do you think it's important?"

"It's got to be, Izzy wouldn't have us drive all this way for something he could have told us on the phone, he must really need to show us something."

Gomamon opened the door "It's about time you guys got here, you're never going to believe what Izzy found come upstairs."

The four boys followed Gomamon to the upstairs room where Izzy and Joe had made what they called the Command Center. It certainly looked like a command center; it was a very large room, and on one far end of the room were all of their combined notes, textbooks, folders, and notebooks they kept for reference from years of classes. Alongside the far fall was where the two of them kept their computers, the wall closest to the door was where Izzy had all of his extra equipment for his tech classes, old computer parts, monitors, and an old green screen MAC Dos that was connected to a satellite communication system. And then on the back wall was all of the research Izzy had done on the digital world, he had compiled everything since their first trip home, and brought it with him, however he had never stopped studying the digital world, he analyzed new symbols, unusual digimon, antibodies, oddities, anything and everything he could.

Izzy was studying the screen of his PC intently with Tentomon hovering behind him, the bug digimon turned and greeted the four as they walked in. "Welcome everyone, you're never going to believe what Izzy has found."

"What has he found?" Davis asked as he stepped up behind Izzy, "Is that some sort of map?"

Without even looking away from his monitor Izzy said "That's correct Davis what you are looking at is a map of the digital world, I've tried to keep up with my knowledge of the digi-world by analyzing the geographic structure and usually the data I get back is pretty consistent, but the last couple days I've been detecting anomalies. Data patterns I haven't seen in almost 6 years."

"Six years, like since I got Veemon?"

"Yes Davis about that time, and the last time these anomalies were present Ken was still the Digimon Emperor." Izzy saw the shame that came to Ken's eyes as he said this. "But that's not the point, the point is we need to investigate, if someone is trying to take over the digi-world again, we need to get in take him down before he can do any serious damage."

The other four nodded in agreement. "You'll go as soon as possible, I even sent Joe to pick up all the digimon to waste less time."

Matt scratched his head, "You know Izzy you could have just asked us to grab our digimon before we came over."