-1The New Evil
Chapter One
The Beginning to an Adventure

KEN'S POV

A loud bell rang and Ken Ichijouji sighed with relief, glad that school was finally over, pulling his D-Terminal out of his backpack as soon as he walked out the classroom door. Ken turned it on, noticed he had a message waiting, and brought the message to the screen.

Ken,

When are your soccer games? The other Digidestined and I decided that since we go to Tai's soccer games, Davis' soccer games, and Matt's concerts, there is no reason we can't go to yours.

Love, Yolei

Ken blushed as he read the note from his girlfriend of two years.

"Hey, Ichijouji, what you blushing for? Got yourself a girlfriend?" taunted Jason Cordial, the school bully. He would seize any chance he got to make fun of anyone, including the staff.

"It's none of your business!" snapped Ken as he pushed a round button on his D-Terminal. A message flashed across the note from Yolei stating that the password had been activated before he pressed the power button. It was just in time as Jason snatched it away moments later. Jason tried to turn it on but couldn't' get password verification. As the anger boiled in the brutes veins, Ken was getting more and more amused.

Knowing that it wouldn't help him if he showed his amusement, he asked calmly, "May I please have my D-Terminal back? It's important, and it wouldn't do you any good, you aren't a Digidestined."

"You mean this had to do with Digimon? Then you can take it! I don't want anything to do with that stupid world!" Jason said and tossed the D-Terminal back at Ken before exiting the school. Ken shrugged and headed home as well.

Once he was away from his classmates, Ken typed in his password, 'Yolei,' and started to reply to his girlfriends' message.

Yolei-

I have a soccer game every Saturday for the next three months at noon. Well, I'm almost home, so I will call you as soon as I walk in the door.

Love, Ken

Ken sent the message and closed his D-Terminal, keeping it on him just in case one of the other Digidestined needed to contact him. He walked into his apartment and picked up the phone, quickly dialing Yolei's number, waiting impatiently for someone to answer.

"Ken?" Yolei's voice came across the phone lines.

"Hey, baby, what's up?"

"Oh, nothing. Luckily it isn't my day to work in the store, but I'm bored to death. You know, when you say you'll call as soon as you walk in the door you mean it. I just got home five minutes ago. Did you really want to talk to me that bad?"

"But of course. I love you and I haven't been able to see you in awhile because of soccer try-outs."

"Oh, thanks Ken-kun. I love you too. But I will see you at your game on Saturday with the rest of the Digidestined. We are really lucky, you know, because Matt's concerts are on Friday's, and Tai and Davis are on the same soccer team this year. Their games are on Tuesday's, so we can get to everything!"

"Yeah, we are lucky we have such good friends, like you, baby." Ken couldn't see her, but he knew she was blushing. "You're blushing, aren't you, baby?" he teased.

"Ken, you know me too well. How in the world do you always know I'm going to blush, and why do you say something if you know that will be the result?"

"Because I pay attention to you, of course, love."

"But that doesn't tell me why you always say things to make me blush when you know I will?"

"Angel, it's because I think you are cute when you blush." Yolei blushed harder, and was trying to come up with an answer when she was spared by her and Ken's D-Terminals going off.

"I wonder what that's about," the lavender hair girl commented as they read the message.

Everyone,

The crests are returning, and we don't' know why. We need to have an emergency meeting. If you can make it, please be at my apartment by 4.

Izzy

"Well, baby, I guess I get to see you a couple of days early. I've got to be going though, or I won't be able to catch the subway in time to make the meeting," Ken said as he checked the time.

"Ok, well I will see you in half an hour. I love you, Ken-kun."'

"I love you, too." With the goodbye's said, they hung up and went to tell their parents that they had to go to Izzy's house.

"Mama!" Ken called.

"In the kitchen!" Ken walked into the kitchen to see his mother baking cookies.

"Mama, I need to go to Izzy's house, in Odaiba."

"Is that a friend of yours?"

"Yes."

"Then, of course you may go. Just call if you are going to be out later than seven."

"Ok, thank you, Mama."

Ken walked into his room and grabbed a black backpack. He put his D-Terminal and D-3 in the front pocket and gently picked up the sleeping Wormmon off the chair.

The virus Digimon woke up, and said, "Ken, you're home!" Ken smiled and nodded his head.

"We have to go now, though. The crests are coming back for apparently no reason and there is an emergency Digidestined meeting in half an hour."

"Ok, Ken."

Ken cradled Wormmon in one arm and laid his old baby blanket on the ground. He wrapped Wormmon up in it, placed it into his backpack, and zipped it up, leaving about three inches open for air. Ken then picked it up and put it carefully on his back before walking out the door, headed towards the subway.