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The fight and Worse

Gatomon slowly opened her eyes before blinking twice and using her arms to help pull herself off the ground. She looked up to see the backs of Tai and TK, pushing her way through their legs, she came face to face with her digi-destined's still body.

"I failed her, I was supposed to protect her but I couldn't. I'm sorry Kari." Gatomon muttered tears trickling down her pure white fur, she felt two long arms wrap themselves around her and lift her little legs off the ground, to her surprise Tai was the one who had lifted her up.

"Your not to blame if anyone is it's me, I should have got to her sooner" Setting one of his hands free Tai used it to wipe away her fallen tears.

There was a groaning sound and everyone looked to see Kari's eyes flicker open "K… Kari! Y… your alive!" TK stuttered before embracing her in a big hug. Davis, Ken and Yolei came running up to see the two Youngest digi-destined hugging, Yolei and Ken sighed at the sight while Davis started turning red in anger that he wasn't the one who was getting to hug Kari but he was just happy that she was ok. Kari pulled away from her hug with TK before asking "Where's Arukenimon?""Who's that?" TK asked wondering who she was on about. "S.. She was here she sent them needles, s… she did this." Kari said gripping tightly to TK's shirt "Andromon told us to come here and he told us about her and her sidekick." Each time she said "her" she gripped tighter to TK.

Later that day after the sun had just gone done, Kari was walking towards the kitchen when Tai caught hold of her arm and pulled her into their room. "Hey what is with you?" Kari asked, rubbing her arm where there was an imprint of Tai's hand. "You have to be prepared for these attacks. You cant get hurt again, what if it was more serious and Joe wasn't around to help?" "Are you forgetting when I was younger and it was your fault I was in hospital? You don't have a right to tell me what I can and can't do. Here have this" Kari passed him her digi-vise before turning and heading for the front door."Where are you going?" Tai shouted at her."Any where away from you" and with that she slammed the door shut behind her and started walking down the street .

As she walked down the road she felt a breeze in the wind pick up, crossing her arms across her body she headed for a deserted alley way, to get away from the coldness of the wind. A shadow emerged from the other end of the alley way, Kari backed away heading for the street before she felt herself thud into some one, she turned around to see Mummymon who grabbed her by the arms, trying to keep her still. Kari struggled against him but gave up as she found she was getting no where. An icy finger touched Kari's cheek making her shudder, looking up she saw the long white hair of Arukenimon. "Well well, I never thought I'd run into you again. I guess we managed to underestimate your powers of recovery." Arukenimon announced with venom in her voice. "W…what do you want with me?" her voice hardly above a whisper. "Isn't it obvious. We want you." Arukenimon's laugh pierced through Kari's ears. "You have the connection with all of the digi-destined and if they are out of the way then we can destroy your precious Earth and no one will be able to stop us." Her laugh even higher pitched this time echoed down the alley.