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Revenge of the Kaiser

Chapter Two: The Dark Spores

He set her down gently on the stone ground, waiting patiently for her to awaken. The effects of the alcohol were beginning to fade and movement was viewable beneath her closed eyelids. Finally, she opened her eyes. "Kaiser," she whispered fearfully.

He smirked and placed his hand on her cheek. She pulled away and sat up. "What's wrong?" he asked with fake sympathy.

"Don't touch me," she warned.

"Or what?" he asked, moving himself closer to her. "What could you possibly do to stop me?" The Kaiser cleared his throat and raised himself to his feet. "Stand up," he commanded.

Staring up at him, Kari refused to move. He grabbed her arms and pulled her to her feet. Dragging her forward, the Kaiser made his way over to the computer. He had taken her back to the base.

Using one hand to type in coordinates, the Kaiser set up a digital gate. "Where are we going?" Kari asked.

"You'll see in just a second," he replied. "Dark portal open!"

Kari covered her mouth to silence her scream. "No!" She tried to run, but the Kaiser grabbed firmly onto her wrist. "Let me go," she begged.

The Kaiser laughed dryly. All of Kari's suppressed fear and anger exploded at that instant and she thrust her palm up against his nose, catching the Kaiser by surprise. He grabbed onto his face, pain surging through him.

Kari tried to run, but the Kaiser quickly regained his senses and tackled the terrified girl. He pinned her down. "Get off of me!"

"You should know better than to provoke me," the Kaiser hissed. "You know I don't have a problem being stern with you when I have too."

"Stern? Stern!" Kari repeated the word as if it were foreign to her. "You nearly killed me!" Twisting her body sideways, Kari nearly succeeded in forcing him off of her. Nearly.

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"So where do we look?" Tai asked.

"My guess would be the base," Ken stated flatly. He hoped that he was right; he could only image what the Kaiser had in store for Kari.

"Shouldn't we find the digimon first?" Izzy asked nervously. They certainly didn't have the power to stop the Kaiser, he had beaten all of them collectively.

"We don't have time," TK growled, taking the lead. He knew the location of the base better than anyone, having been there both spiritually and physically.

"We can't handle him alone. We need the digimon or we won't have enough power to beat him and save Kari." Everyone stared at Davis for a second. Had he said something intelligent.

"I'm afraid that if we don't get to her soon, it might be too late to save her," Ken whispered.

"Do you really think that he'd kill her?" Tai asked. He couldn't handle that.

Ken really didn't know, but he couldn't take the chance. "I don't know… that was his original intention."

TK grabbed Ken by the collar. "You mean your original intention?"

"NO!" he screamed, pulling TK's hand away from his shirt. He could put up with TK hating him, he would get over TK trying to wring the life out of him, but he would not stand there and let TK accuse him of that.

"Stop it, both of you," Matt yelled. He put himself between the two younger teens and stared at his younger brother. "Get a grip, we're going straight to the base."

TK glared at his brother before returning to his spot in the front of the group. Ken fell back towards the end with Davis. "It will be alright," Davis insisted. "Kari's going to be alright." Ken could tell that his friend was trying to convince himself more than anything.

"That's just it, we don't know. You saw what he did to her before; what makes you think that he won't do it again?" Ken picked up the pace and Davis had to jog to catch up.

"I don't think that he wants to kill her, and I refuse to believe that we won't save her." Davis gave his friend a small smile before walking straight into Tai. "Ouch!"

"Shhh," Tai scolded, holding a finger up to his lips. "We're here."

Davis and Ken stared at the mountain-like base. "We should have demolished it," Ken whispered regrettably.

The group snuck inside the secret entrance on the ground level. They tried their best to remain quiet as they ran through the corridors, Ken now leading the way to the Control Room.

The room was dark and empty. Trying to decide where in the base the Kaiser would have gone, Ken didn't see the computer screen turn on.

An image of the Kaiser appeared. "Hello Ken, and… the rest of you. I was fairly certain that you'd come first to the base, so I thought I'd leave a message with you. Do you honestly believe I would come here, where you'd look first? Not quite the genius you used to be, are you, Kenny? I'll give you a hint to where we went though, it's where you and I first met." The screen went black and a disk popped out of the hard drive.

"It was a recording," Izzy commented.

Ken ran over to the computer and began typing in coordinates. "What are you doing?" Tai asked.

"I'm setting up a portal to where I first met the Kaiser; the Dark Ocean."

Yolie gasped. "He took her there? Oh my God! She's probably more afraid of that place than anything else."

"She is," TK affirmed. "I'm going to get her out of there."

Ken glared. Why was TK trying to be the lone hero? Like everyone else was just going to stand around and wait for him to save her. "Dark Portal Open," he said through clenched teeth.

A fierce wind whipped up sand around their faces and hindered their ability to see. Ken tried to cup his eyes with his hands so that he could see. Looking towards the horizon, he searched for signs of movement.

"Over there!" Cody shouted.

Ken whipped around in time to see what looked like Kari punching the Kaiser in the face. She ran from him, but he tackled her and pinned her down. She struggled to get away, but it was ineffective.

The Kaiser could be seen leaning down and pressing his lips against Kari's. Ken's eyes narrowed and his blood began to boil. "How dare he touch her," he hissed.

The distance between them was significant and climbing the steep hill to reach them proved to be difficult. Ken tried to run faster as the Kaiser and Kari disappeared down the other side of the hill.

She hadn't seen her friends, but the Kaiser had felt Ken's presence. He picked up his pace to get to their destination. The water wasn't far from the bottom of the hill and the Kaiser practically dragged Kari towards the water's edge.

This spot was where the dark spores were found.

They circled around Kari as the Kaiser backed away. "Do you know what these are?" he asked.

Kari shook her head fearfully. She looked around only to find that she was completely surrounded. Looking up, she saw as Ken, TK, and Tai reached the top of the hill.

The Kaiser noticed as well, but he wasn't worried that Ken would disrupt his plans. "These are dark spores," he explained. "I started off as one of these." It seemed strange to him to refer to himself as a bundle of dark energy, but it was the simplest explanation.

"Kari!" Ken yelled, racing down the hill, "hang on!"

He stopped just short of the circle, the others not far behind. The spores seemed to increase their speed, hissing warnings to the young teen to stay away.

The Kaiser was beginning to grow impatient with the spores. A few had gotten closer to Kari, zooming in towards her but flying back out. They were unfamiliar with her purity and were afraid to try to pierce through it. They weren't about to lose their prey, however.

"We have to break through," Ken began.

"I'll do it," TK asserted.

"No, I'm going to do it," Matt intervened. "Both of you need to calm down before you do something stupid." Matt slowly stuck his hand through the encirclement of spores. He retracted it quickly, though, screaming in pain. Blood ran from wounds on his hand and wrist.

"Are you alright?" Yolie asked.

"I'll live, but I think we need a new plan."

The sound of Kari screaming pierced through their ears. She stood there, clutching the back of her neck, biting her lip to prevent any more screams. The spores parted to let the Kaiser through. He grabbed onto her as her knees gave out and she fell unconscious. He flashed Ken a triumphant smile. "That's two to none, isn't it?"

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Yeah, I should make this longer, but I can't right now. I should be updating soon, depends on how nice my teachers want to be after the APs, they might just pile up the homework to make sure we don't forget anything.

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Quick note to nutjob. Thanks for the info about the gate. I don't think I'll plan an alternate ending, but I have an idea for a VERY dark Kenkari that does not have a happy ending. If I ever have time to start it, of course. Rants appreciated.

Very recently I've started to understand just how annoy it can be to switch between Japanese and American names. I've tried to kill off that habit.

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