Real World, Southern Quadrant, Shinjuku
Shubumi was still taking his time to look over the Digital World, but he was not having much success. Takato and Henry were discussing something while Rika and Jeri were playing the card game.
Kari was curious as to what could be so interesting, so she asked, "Takato, what are you and Henry talking about?"
"We were thinking there might be another motive behind what happened to you, but we aren't sure," Takato said.
Rika and Jeri were concerned, as well, since this might be another attempt to capture Calumon or Rika. Rika was remembering the time that she was kidnapped by IceDevimon. The whole thing scared her to death.
Kari noticed this and was wondering about what could have happened to Rika to cause her to be so concerned.
"What happened to you Rika?" she asked.
"Rika was taken by one of our most dangerous enemies and we had to rescue her from him," Henry told her.
"He was a very bad Digimon by the name of IceDevimon," Takato added.
Kari remembered hearing about a Digimon called Devimon which T.K. had run into when he was in the Digital World for the first time. She couldn't believe that there was another Digimon out there that might be responsible for separating her and Gatomon as well as kidnapping them both.
Shubumi finally found something in his search; he called everyone over to tell them that he had a possible location of Kari's partner.
"Is there any way that we can create a digital field to help Gatomon get back to the real world?" Takato asked.
"There is, but I'm not sure how long it will last since the defeat of those Parasimon a couple of months ago really destabilized the Digital World," Shubumi said.
"Is it possible for us to use the Ark program to help us get her Digimon partner back?" Henry asked.
Shubumi looked at Henry and said, "Henry, you may have just given us the answer that we need to solve this problem."
Takato looked at Kari and saw how excited she was. He couldn't help but smile at her. Takato, over the short time that he had known Kari, had developed a friendship with her.
Kari noticed Takato smiling at her and she wondered what the cause was. She couldn't wait to get her partner back, but his smiling made her wonder if that was the real reason? Was it something else? She decided to ask him about it later when Gatomon was back.
Digital World, Southern Quadrant
Meanwhile, in the Southern Quadrant, the DigiDestined were still looking for Kari and hadn't found much of anything in their search. They were sure that some clue would have been found by then to indicate where Kari and Gatomon might have been, but there was still nothing.
Tai and Davis were very worried by now. Something horrible might have happened to Kari and Gatomon.
"Guys, can we take a break? We've been at it for a couple of hours now and there's still no sign of her," Tai stated.
"Sure, Tai. There isn't a whole lot that we can do right now if we're worn out from searching for those two, anyway," Izzy said.
Matt was just as concerned since it could easily have been his brother, T.K.
Matt came over to talk with Tai about the whole situation since it seemed like he needed a shoulder to cry on or something similar.
"Tai, how are you holding up?" Matt asked.
"Not so good. My sister and her partner are out there and could be in serious trouble and I can't do anything about it," Tai answered worriedly.
Sora and Mimi were also concerned and came over to comfort Tai and maybe help him to relax about the situation. Azulongmon flew over to the group after talking with his fellow Sovereign Digimon and told them that he had heard of a possible location, but it was near the entrance to the Southern Quadrant of the Digital World.
The other DigiDestined decided to eat lunch as there was nothing that they could do for a while until they had rested and gotten themselves ready to resume the search.
At the hideout of IceDevimon in a cave made of ice, the Digimon was talking with some Icemon about the whereabouts of Gatomon and her human friend.
"Where could they have gotten to?" he asked.
The Icemon there weren't sure about where they could have gone.
Real World, Southern Quadrant, Shinjuku
Back at Hypnos, the Tamers were waiting for Shubumi to get things set up so that they could help to get Gatomon back safe and sound to Kari. Kazu and Kenta were still playing the Digimon card game the whole time that the Tamers plus Kari were there.
Kari decided to watch a little bit since she had never seen the game before. Takato was watching her and came over to see if she was OK.
"What are you so interested in?" he asked.
"I've never seen a game like that before, even growing up," Kari said.
Takato nodded his head and said, "Yeah. I know what you mean. I was playing the card game a long time before I met Guilmon and I had no clue that Digimon were even real." Kari was shocked. She couldn't believe that someone whom she had just met didn't know that Digimon were real.
"Takato, when did you realize that they were real?" she asked.
"After I was done with a game and getting ready to go to school, I found this blue card and I was curious as to what it would do, so I swiped it through my card reader and it made the reader go haywire. After I got back from school, a storm was brewing. I went to check on my card reader and then, when I took it out, it changed into my first D-Arc. Then, I knew that it was possible that Digimon were real," Takato said.
Kari couldn't imagine what that must have been like to know for the first time that something you only heard of or imagined now became as real as day and night. She wanted to ask more, but Shubumi came in and announced that he had all of the preparations in place to get Gatomon back. The group waited until everyone was there, and then they began to try to rescue Gatomon.