Real World, Southern Quadrant, Shinjuku

After finishing up breakfast, the group of Tamers, plus Kari, walked over to the Tokyo metropolitan building, also known as Hypnos. When they got there, Henry used the intercom to speak with Yamaki, and asked if he would let them in to talk with his dad.

"OK. I think Janyu isn't too busy at the moment," Yamaki said.

Henry motioned for everyone to follow him inside. While they were walking around the building, Takato remarked about the improvements that they had made since the D-Reaper incident.

Kari was wondering who or what this D-Reaper was that the Tamers were talking about.

"Who was the D-Reaper, exactly, and what does it have to do with Digimon?" she asked.

"The D-Reaper was a computer program that was used to delete anything that got out of control, sort of like an antivirus program," Henry said.

Kari couldn't believe that something like that would be able to hurt Digimon.

"I can't believe this. your telling me a computer program caused trouble?" she asked

Takato nodded his head and said, "Yeah. That's what we thought until it started to attack the Digital World as well as our own."

The group finally came to the room where Henry's father was working and they strode over to the area where he was currently talking to another Hypnos scientist.

Janyu noticed the group. He went over to them and asked, "Henry, what's going on? This is such a big group."

"Dad, we have a problem. There was a digital field nearby in the park, and this girl who is new to us was lying on the ground," Henry said.

Janyu looked at the group closely and saw the new arrival.

"What is your name, and where are you from?" he asked.

"My name is Kari Kamiya, and I am from Odaiba. My partner is Gatomon," Kari responded.

Takato snapped his fingers. "That reminds me—we should try to find her before a Digimon attacks."

So, the group went with Janyu to see Shubumi to find out what he could do to help them out.

Digital World, Southern Quadrant

Meanwhile, in the Southern Quadrant, the DigiDestined were setting up camp for the day, trying to rest after searching very hard for Kari and Gatomon.

Tai was very worried by now that something major had happened to his sister, and he couldn't eat much, nor sleep, as he was the big brother. Davis was also worried for other more simple reasons; he still had a little bit of a crush on Kari at the time that she disappeared.

Real World, Southern Quadrant, Shinjuku

Back at Hypnos, the Tamers and Kari were waiting to hear the results of the search that Shubumi was doing to find Gatomon. He had been having a tough time since the Parasimon incident a couple of months prior which had made his job more difficult with regards to interacting with the Digital World.

"I'm having a difficult time locating Gatomon. I don't know where to start looking. Kari, can you describe where you were before you came here?" Shubumi asked.

"We were both investigating a disturbance in Odaiba at the time and Gatomon and I were separated from the group," Kari said.

"Is that the last thing you remember before waking up in Shinjuku Park?" Henry asked.

Kari shook her head. "No. I do remember waking up and feeling very cold, and then walking away from some cave before I blanked out again."

Henry wasn't sure what to make of that.

He had some ideas as to who it might be, but none were possible, or so he thought.

"Kari, did it feel like you were freezing inside that cave?" Takato asked.

Kari nodded her head and asked, "Yeah, but why did you ask me that?"

Takato and Henry looked at each other. They were both wondering how it was possible that a former enemy was able to come back to cause them trouble again.

"We had an enemy a long time ago. He called himself IceDevimon, and he kidnapped Rika. He wanted to make her his partner by deleting Renamon, Rika's partner," Takato told her.

Kari was shocked to hear that. She couldn't imagine what it must have been like to have a power crazy Digimon kidnap you and try to make you his own partner. Kari was now very concerned about Gatomon and her own safety.

Takato saw how scared Kari was getting and he said, "Don't worry. We won't let anyone hurt you. We are Tamers for a reason. We protect other people from getting hurt."

Kari was wondering about that. She asked, "Why do you call yourselves Tamers? Aren't you DigiDestined?"

Takato shook his head. "No. We call ourselves that due to the unique Digivices that we have, and also due to the cards that we can use on our partners."

Kari was curious and she asked if she could look at one of them.

Henry showed her his and said, "These are what we call D-Arcs."

Kari saw a card slot on the side and she asked, "What does that do?"

"We can use the cards that we have from the Digimon card game to give extra effects, items and even power-ups to our partners in battle," Rika told her.

Kari was also wondering about the cards. She had never heard of a Digimon card game before.

Henry noticed her looking at the cards very curiously.

"Digimon cards started coming out about 2 years before we found out that Digimon were real," he said.

Kari was still a little shocked by all of this and she was a little bit nervous about being there without Gatomon, her partner.

"Kari, do you want to get some lunch while they search for your partner?" Takato asked.

Kari nodded her head and went with Takato and Rika to the cafe that Hypnos had to get some food for lunch.

Digital World, Southern Quadrant

Meanwhile, in the Southern Quadrant, the Digimon Sovereigns were discussing the situation amongst themselves, seeing as they didn't want to upset the balance of things with the DigiDestined.

"What are we going to do if the DigiDestined find out about the quadrants?" Azulongmon asked the other Sovereigns.

Azulongmon was very concerned about the whereabouts of Kari, the DigiDestined of Light, and her partner Gatomon. Zhuqiaomon was more upset that the humans were in his domain. He still wasn't sure about their intentions towards the Digital World.

The other Sovereigns were just as concerned, but they didn't believe that the humans meant any harm by looking for their friend. The DigiDestined, by that time, had covered a good chunk of the Southern Quadrant to locate Kari and Gatomon.

Meanwhile, Tai was a wreck. He still didn't know what had happened to his sister and if she was OK.

Real World, Southern Quadrant, Shinjuku

Meanwhile, back in the Tamers' world, at Hypnos, the search for Gatomon was continuing and Shubumi was having very little luck in finding any trace of her.

Takato, Kari and Rika came back just as he had finished a search of one area of the Digital World.

"Maybe we need to locate an area of ice or something like that," Takato suggested.

He looked at Henry. They both shared a glance and then nodded at each other.

Kari couldn't understand what was going on, but she was excited that they might be able to locate Gatomon before it was too late.