Kaiser: Uh, what happened?
Sylvyr: What do you mean?(blinks like she doesn't know what he means)
Kaiser: Look at this, it doesn't make any sense.
Sylvyr: It will Kaiser-chan.
Kaiser(leaving room looking confused): Whatever, it's not like I care or anything anyway.
Ken(walking in): What's wrong with him this time?
Sylvyr: He doesn't understand this chapter.
Ken(looking over chapter): I can see why. Something seems to have changed drastically which you haven't told us about yet.
Sylvyr(looking mysterious): Maybe.
Ken: I don't like it when you do that to me.
Osamu: Sylvyr, can I please be in this one.
Sylvyr: I don't think so Sam. I don't really have room for you in this one.
Osamu: You just don't like me do you?
Sylvyr: No, not much. You hit Ken, I never had much patience with guys who knock their younger siblings around.
Osamu: Hey it was in the script.
Ken(holding up a piece of paper): It looks like you're in this one Sam.
Osamu: Really? You're really going to put me in one?
Sylvyr: Yes, although I'm not going to post it 'till tomorrow. It was an entry in a contest and I want to find out if I won or not.
Vegeta: Are you through shamelessly promoting yourself?
Sylvyr: Yeah, I think so.
Vegeta: Good, you have something to say I think.
Sylvyr: Are you ever going to stop pestering me? I don't own DBZ or Digimon.
Osamu: What a bossy jerk.( Sylvyr and Ken are both gesturing for him to shut up. Vegeta begins to glow and turns blonde.)
Vegeta: What did you call me? You better take that back squirt.
Osamu: Make me. (Ken and Sylvyr duck as Vegeta blasts Osamu)
Sylvyr(looking at wreckage of her house): You see Sam there is a reason we don't upset him.
Crisp Osamu: I noticed. Make the pain stop please.
Sylvyr: I can't, but I'll upload this and then find you a Tylenol. Oh, I don't own Tylenol either.
Chapter 6: Deal with the Devil
Kari looked at the message on her D-terminal in disbelief. She looked at the others; from the looks on their faces it was obvious they had also received the same e-mail.
Digidestined: I am quite certain that you know by now of this usurper who calls herself the Digimon Enchantress. I know for a fact that you have lost several battles to her. I also have suffered defeat at her hand. On our own we are too weak to stop her. I suggest we call a truce until she is defeated. If we don't stop her soon, we will all be eliminated by her forces.
The coordinates of a sector followed this where they could meet him."I don't believe it." Whispered Daisuke, "Even though it's true, I never would have expected him to admit it."
"He's lost a lot of control spires to this Enchantress recently. He must be getting desperate, though to contact us." TK had a point.
"I don't trust him. It could be a trap."
"You're right Iori, I think just the three of us should go. You can be our back up. Stay in the real world and if we don't come back or e-mail you, get the older kids and come rescue us. OK?"
"Alright TK." They all knew how much Iori hated the Kaiser; now that they were going to meet with him it would be better if Iori stayed behind. Iori and the Kaiser both had hot tempers and their personalities really clashed; it would not be wise to have them together while they were trying to negotiate.
Iori headed back to the digiport so he could return to the real world. He noticed that the e-mail had only been sent to the four of them. None of the older Digidestined had received a copy of it. On a hunch he sat down on a stone and forwarded a copy to Izzy, just in case something prevented him from returning to the real world.
"Why'd you do that, Iori? We'll be back in the real world in just a few minutes."
"I don't know Armadillomon. Call it a premonition."
"Don't you just hate premonitions." A soft voice whispered in his ear.
He jumped as the Kaiser wrapped an arm around him from behind; something touched the back of his neck. He cried out as electricity coursed through his body, then collapsed, unconscious, into the Kaiser's arms.
"Diamond She-"
"I wouldn't try anything like that if I were you," said the Kaiser, gesturing with the device he had used to incapacitate Iori; sparks of electricity ran up and down the inch long prongs at the end of it. "This little toy pumps enough electricity into a person to knock them out. Of course, it was designed for adults, and it only takes one dose to knock someone out. It might be dangerous for little Hida here if her were to accidentally receive a second shock from it. You wouldn't want that to happen, now would you?"
"You...you monster."
The Kaiser shifted Iori so that he lay across his shoulder. A controlled Monochromon ambled out of the trees, carrying a cage in its mouth. It set the cage down at its master's feet. Ken kicked the door open, "Get inside."
Armadillomon hesitated, so he lifted the device in his hand. After considering the device for a moment Armadillomon did as he was told. Ken kicked the cage closed again. The Monochromon picked the cage up in its mouth again; Ken slung Iori over its back.
"Wormon, ride with him make sure he doesn't wake up or fall off. I expect him to be at the base when I get back."
With that he stalked off towards the digiport.
Tai entered the empty computer room and looked around. "That's odd," he told himself, "Kari e-mailed me to meet her here." He looked down at the computer noticing that the gate was open.
"Huh, for the gate to be open one of the new kids would have to be in the room, but I know it's empty."
"Not quite," said a voice behind him. Before he had a chance to turn around he was unconscious."
The Digidestined finally managed to make it to the clearing where they were supposed to meet the Kaiser. He was sitting on a boulder in the center of the clearing looking rather impatient. Wormon and several of his slaves were there with him. Circling overhead was one of his captive Airdramon. He looked over the group without any trace of emotion on his face.
"Where's the little boy?"
"He couldn't make it," said Daisuke. "He had Kendo practice."
The Kaiser jumped down and stood in front of them, his whole attitude said 'It's your move. What now.'
Wormon also dropped to the ground, unnoticed by Ken, and took up a defensive stance behind his master. He was ready if they decided to suddenly attack.
They stood facing each other for several minutes, no one moving as they faced off. It was Kari who broke the silence, "So you think we should work together to defeat the Enchantress. That's great!"
"Don't get too comfortable. I'm only calling a truce until she's out of my hair. Then I will eliminate you fools."
Kari instinctively took a step back at his hard words, "Well excuse me for trying to look on the bright side."
"I wouldn't have called you at all, but she has a new weapon which even I can not defeat on my own. I believe this new weapon will enable her to control humans as well as digimon."
The Digidestined talked this over among themselves and decided to help the Kaiser find the weapon and destroy it.
Tk turned to face him, "Alright Ken, we'll help you find and destroy this weapon of hers. We'll see what happens then. We won't make any promises further than that."
"Done. Let's go. Airdramon!"
The Airdramon came down and they all got on. I feel a little bit like a traitor, thought Daisuke. I mean we were called to the digital world to stop him. Not to make an alliance with him.
Half an hour later they reached the sector where the Kaiser's spies had reported that the Enchantress was keeping her weapon.
Sure enough, in a large clearing they found one of her dark trees, but it was larger than any other, and unlike the other trees, had several large violet blossoms.
"It's huge," whispered Kari. The tree would have easily dwarfed any of Ken's control spires."
"That must be some weapon," said TK. "How are we supposed to take that thing out?"
"I didn't expect to find this here. This is more than just a weapon, this must be her base of operations."
"You mean she lives in that giant tree?!?" Daisuke seemed to find the idea of an evil ruler living in a tree funny. He started laughing.
The Kaiser looked at him as if he had lost his mind.
Ken took several shiny black balls out of his pocket and tossed them at the base of the tree.
"Uh, no offense Ken, but I don't think this is a good time to be playing with marbles." The Kaiser ignored TK and depressed the button on a small remote control. The balls sprayed out jets of some type of gas. When the smoke had cleared Ken walked over to the tree. He was just within reach of the lower branches when Daisuke tackled him to the ground.
"Have you lost it? These trees are alive, the branches wrap around you and you get stuck."
The Kaiser kicked Daisuke roughly off him. "I know that Bubble-brain. The gas immobilizes the branches."
"Huh."
"It freezes them, so that they can't move."
Daisuke noticed for the first time that the branches of the tree were coated with a thin coat of ice. "Well, you could have told up what you were doing."
"Hhn." The Kaiser got up and started for the trunk of the tree again. He climbed up onto the frozen branches, his soft boots finding purchase on the frozen branches. The others followed him. No one heard the soft clink of shattering crystal as a piece of the ice dropped from a branch.
They had probably gone about twenty or thirty feet up when they were attacked. Several controlled Geckomon leaped down at them from higher branches. The Kaiser, who was in the lead, took the brunt of the first attack wave.
He was knocked into the tree trunk, smashing his shades. They hit him again, knocking him off of the branch he was precariously balanced on. He fell hard, hitting several crystalline branches on his way to the ground.
"Ken!" Kari climbed rapidly back down to see if he was all right. TK and Daisuke stayed in the tree to fight the Geckomon. Kari could see fire shooting out of the branches from Flamedramon's 'Fire Rocket" and a crisp Geckomon came flying from the tree. He was joined seconds later by several others, blown away by Pegasusmon's 'Star Wind'.
She turned her attention to Ken. He was undeniably unconscious. His shades had been shattered in the fall, a shard of the rosy glass embedded in the flesh of his forehead. Blood trickled from the wound, the dark crimson contrasting with the pale ivory of his skin. She felt over his limbs; she was no expert but nothing seemed to be broken.
She gently removed what remained of his shades, then tore a strip of cloth from the edge of her shirt and dabbed away some of the blood. She gingerly tugged at the glass embedded in his skin; it was wedged tight. She pulled more firmly and managed to dislodge it. Immediately the wound began to gush blood; she tried to stem the flow with the cloth.
He suddenly opened his eyes; he looked dazed and confused. She was surprised at the deep vibrant blue of his eyes; she realized she had never seen them before because they were always masked by the shades.
"Ken, are you alright?" He seemed to suddenly remember where they were.
"Yes."
"How many fingers am I holding up?"
"We don't have time to play ridiculous games." She took this as a sign that he must be feeling fairly well...for him anyway.
He tried to sit up but fell back again with a moan. His world was swimming; he closed his eyes in an attempt to make it stop. He could hear her talking but she seemed to be far off.
"You need to take it easy. You can't just get right back up after a fall like that."
"Where are the others?"
"I don't know. They stayed in the tree to fight the Geckomon. I haven't seen them or our digimon since. I'm afraid they may have been captured while I was doctoring you.
"Help me sit up." He opened his eyes and tried to push himself off the ground.
"Ken, you can't get up yet!" A wave of pain washed over him but he kept pushing himself up. He could feel her wrap an arm around his shoulders to steady him.
"I have to, we're still in danger."
"I don't see anything coming. Just relax for a minute."
"You've forgotten the tree."
It was true; she had. She looked up to see that the branches were breaking free from the ice. His gas had worn off. She scrambled to try and find more balls in his pocket.
"It won't work. Operating them from this distance would make us freeze too."
"What do we do?"
"Leave me here and run. Go get help!"
His advice came too late. With a final loud crack the branches of the tree came completely free of the ice and entrapped the children at it's base. They were passed up from one branch to another until they reached the very top of the tree.
The Enchantress was waiting for them. She was sitting with her legs crossed on one of the uppermost branches. She was wearing a black dress, it was cut low in the front, had criss-cross straps over the back, and was slitted halfway up her thigh revealing her long slender legs. Underneath her ringlet of dark wood her pale hair blew softly in the wind, her garish make up contrasting with her skin. She looked like a dark temptress, beauty concealing a deadly trap.
She smiled cattily, "Well, well, well. What have we here? Two more intruders. Hmm... I wonder what I should do with them?"
"Let us go you witch." Kari shrieked angrily.
"Why? What's the matter little girl? Aren't you having fun? Don't worry, you'll have plenty of fun before I'm done with you." She patted Kari on the head patronizingly.
The branches lowered Kari a few feet and raised the Kaiser to her eye level. She studied him with contempt, "So...we finally meet 'little-boy-blue'. You think you can rule this world. That's funny, 'cause I from where I'm sitting it looks like I'm the only one who's going to rule this world. That's just too bad, don't you think?"
Ken told her, in no uncertain terms, exactly what he thought about her, as well as where she could spend eternity. She slapped him, almost knocking him out.
The branches of the tree lifted him closer to her; he hung like a rag doll in their grasp. His head rolled limply back as he was jolted roughly when they stopped.
The Enchantress trailed her fingers over his face, tracing his delicate features. She leaned over and kissed him, pushing her tongue into his mouth. He tried to pull away from her but she was too weak to even turn his head away from her. She kept him in this position for several minutes, as she kissed him she traced the veins in his neck with one slender finger.
She pulled back and tilted his head up so she could study his face, "You know, you're kind of cute. Maybe I won't kill you. You would be fun to play with. What do you think of that?"
Ken did not speak this time; instead he spit in her face.
She slapped him in the face, "Of course, you can be rather rude, but I will break you of that."
She tilted his head from side to side noticing the cut on his forehead, "What's this? Is my new toy hurt? We can't have that now, can we? You belong to me from now on."
Kari shuddered in disgust as the enchantress licked the blood from his face, lapping it up like a cat with a bowl of milk. She ran her tongue over the cut and he whimpered in pain.
She grinned cruelly, "What, did you like that?" She licked the cut again, pushing her tongue forcefully into the cut and causing him to cry out in pain.
She stood up and pushed him back with one hand.
"Take that one to the dungeon with the other's." She ordered, pointing to Kari. "Take him to my quarters, I'm going to have fun playing with him."