CHAPTER 7

Attack of Monsters

Sirena Beach

Holding Kari, with Gatomon on his shoulder, Sora was looking a safely place avoiding the monsters. But in the center of Sirena Beach Sora then sees more of the Digimon, but also the Heartless that were accompanying it.

"Heartless and the Digimon things?" Sora said. "Oh boy. Kari, hang on tight." Sora shifted Kari's body so that she was hanging onto his back, while he got out his Keyblade. Kari and Gatomon on his back was a little heavy, but they both weighed about the same weight as Luigi, so this wasn't really any problem. If Yoshi was put on there too, then he would collapse from under the weight.

The Vilemon fired out Nightmare Shocker towards Sora, but he dodges the attacks swiftly, and struck back at the flying Digimon. The shadows also charged forward, and tried scratching him, though before they were able to do that, Sora sliced through most of them with his Keyblade.

He jumped back when he was going to get rammed by another type of heartless that Kari and Gatomon hasn't seen yet. This type of heartless looked more like a noble knight-type warrior, but that's only from a distance. Otherwise, these things looked just as monstrous as the heartless or even a Digimon no less.

"Great. Now there's Soldiers."

"Soldiers?" Kari said.

"Yeah. These aren't your typical Shadow Heartless."

"So, there are more types of these things?" Gatomon said.

"Yeah." With a few swings of his Keyblade, Sora managed to destroy one Soldier, but the rest remained, and more of them started appearing before them. "There's WAY too many of these things. There must be someone controlling them."

"You mean, like a commander?"

"Yeah. We need to find them. Hang on." The three then were going towards the Pinna Park from there, considering that there was a track to the warp pipe in that can lead them all the way towards the place, however, when Sora was in the beach, they were greeted to the sight of more Vilemon, Soldiers and Shadows. "Uh, okay, maybe not this way."

"Wait, what about over there?" Kari said, pointing the red warp pipe straight to Pinna Park. It really wasn't that high for Sora to climb over, and he remembers going through there once.

"Yeah, right! That leads to the Pinna Park. By Delfino Plaza I bet my friend Leon's keeping things safe over there."

"Leon?"

"Yeah. He's a good friend of mine." Sora then ran towards to the red warp pipe, while avoiding the attacks from the Digimon and Heartless, and jumped towards to the warp pipe. Kari and Gatomon held onto Sora tight as he does so, and he entered in the pipe, and they were making their way on over to Pinna Park.


Pinna Park (Beach Zone)

T.K., Patamon and Luigi and Yoshi all walked out of the door with the kanji on it, and into Pinna Park. They walked into the entry to the park, as they were going to the Hotel Delfino to see Kari. As they walk through the entry, T.K. was getting this ominous feeling. He looks around him, wondering if something was going to happen.

"What's the matter?" Patamon said.

"Just this odd feeling I got." T.K. said. "It's nothing…I think."

"Nothing?" Luigi said.

"Sora whenever gets those feelings, something bad do tend to happen next." Yoshi said. When Yoshi said Sora, both T.K. and Patamon were surprised.

"Wait, you know Sora?" T.K. said.

"Yeah."

"Do you?" Luigi said. "Are you from his home?"

"Of course I am! Sora has been so nice to me, she-"

"Wait, 'he'?" Patamon said, noticing that Yoshi said he instead of she.

"Yeah, because, T.K. knows, Sora is a boy." Yoshi said. Now the two were confused, as they looked at each other awkwardly.

"A boy?" T.K. said. "No, the Sora I know is a girl."

"What! A girl?" Luigi snapped.

"Yoshi have always thought Sora was a boy." Yoshi said.

"He is!" Luigi then turned back to the child and the Digimon. "Are you talking about the Sora who can use the Keyblade?"

"But I thought my friend could use the Keyblade." T.K. said.

"Well yeah."

"But our Sora is able to use the Keyblade before your friend, um…Kairi." Yoshi said.

"It's Kari! Not Kairi! Kairi is Sora girlfriend."

"Kari has a…girlfriend?" T.K. misinterpreted the name Kairi as Kari when Luigi outright said that.

"No!" Luigi snapped. He then groaned while holding his head. "Come on, we'll talk about this later when we actually find Sora."

They all nod, and the group of four started rushing out of the entry of Pinna Park, however, many monsters of the crippled white bodies that were moving sporadically with zippers in the mouth.

"Whoa! What's going on?" T.K. said.

"Freaky Fettuccine! We are surrounded!" Luigi exclaimed.

"Are these more of those Heartless things?"

"They're not Heartless, that's for sure kid." Luigi said.

"Huh? So, are they Digimon?"

"I don't think so, T.K." Patamon said. "I've never seen these things before or ever heard of a Digimon just like these guys."

"These are the white bad guys that attacked us back in Twilight Town!" Yoshi exclaimed.

"So, you know how to take care of these guys?"

"Uh…maybe?"

"What?"

"Look out! Here they come!" Patamon yelled.

The monsters with the white bodies all floated down towards them all, slithering like a snake almost, and landed on the ground, where they were going to attack them all.


Pinna Park (Park Zone)

Sora carrying Kari, with Gatomon running by his side, was getting away from the hordes of Heartless and Digimon. Thankfully, it looks like they lost them when they went into the entry of the park, as they don't see any sign of them behind them.

The park has many different types of rides. There is purple octopus ferry wheel, spinning ships ride, a merry-go-round with other dinosaurs like Yoshi, a ride made with clamps and a red roller coaster track above the island.

"Good, I think we shook them off." Sora said. He then gently sets Kari down onto her feet, in which she thanked him for doing so. They then walked into Pinna Park where his other two friends had met by first time. So far, there doesn't seem to be any sign of them anywhere. "Now, where are those two…?" Sora mumbled to himself.

"What's the matter, Sora?" Kari said, walking up to him.

"Huh? Oh, I said to my other friends that we'd meet up back here."

"I don't see anybody around here." Gatomon said. "So far it's been an empty ghost town."

"Yeah, that's kinda how it is in this place."

"You've been here before?" Kari said. "Or, is this place your home?"

"Huh? Oh, no, it's not. I live in a different world."

"A different world? Do you mean you come from another world like Gatomon does?"

"Huh?"

"But, you don't, look like you live in the Digital World."

"O-Oh, you mean you know about the other worlds?"

"Other worlds?"

"Wait, you mean to say that, there are other worlds than ours out there?" Gatomon said.

"Yeah, actually." Sora said. "I don't entirely know everything about these other worlds but, I do know that they've been kept secret for a while. And I heard it was meant to be that way."

"What do you mean?" Kari said.

"Well, it's something that we do a horrible job with, but, it helps to keep world order."

"Order?" Gatomon said.

"Yeah. It's actually a rule that you don't tell anyone that there are other worlds."

"Uh…if it's a rule, then why are you telling us that there are other worlds?"

"W-Well, Kari's a Keyblade's Chosen, right?"

"What do you mean? Do you mean, I'm some sort of exception?" Kari said.

"Yeah, of course."

"Is that bad?"

"No. Of course not. Having a Keyblade is a pretty special thing."

"Really?"

"Yeah. I mean, this thing can open any lock."

"Any lock?"

"Yeah. Let's just say, you're locked out of your house." Sora then raised the arm that Kari was using to hold her Keyblade. "You can use this to open it up, just fine."

"Wow, really? That's so cool!"

"It is, isn't it?"

"Yeah. What else can it do?"

"Well…uh…" Since Sora was basically talking to someone younger than him, he didn't want to overcomplicate things for her. If anything, the Millennium Star might help describe how to properly use the Keyblade to her better than him. For now, he's just thinking of the simpler things the Keyblade can do, other than unlock any lock. "Well…it, can disappear in thin air."

"It can?"

"Yeah." Sora, in a flick of his wrist, made his Keyblade disappear in thin air.

"Whoa! You mean, I don't have to carry this thing around everywhere?"

"Well, in your hands, not really."

"Wow, how can I do that?"

"Uh…" Sora trailed off, not knowing how he should describe how to do the disappearing act. "Um…well…"


Pinna Park (Beach Zone)

Meanwhile, the group of 4 was trying to fend off of the horde of monsters that were attacking them. The white figures were too slippery for any of them to get a beat on, and they were getting more exhausted the more they try to hit these things. One of the white monsters flicked their legs forward, and Luigi got whipped away, and fell onto the ground on his bottom.

"Leapen Lasagna! Where the heck is Sora!?" Luigi snapped, getting up. "We need his help!"

Then, coming out of the pools of darkness, Soldiers appeared before them. So now there was mysterious white creatures, and heartless to fight off.

"They just keep on coming!" Patamon exclaimed.

"If only Kari was here…" T.K. said.

"Well, looks like we're gonna be one angel short. T.K., you need to Digivolve me!"

"Right." T.K. then checked his pockets, and got out his digivice. He then held it towards Patamon. He expected beepings, and Patamon to yell out who he was going to Digivolve into, but to their surprise, nothing was happening. There was beepings, but this beeping was lower toned, like a buzzer. "Huh? What?" The boy checked the small screen on his Digivice, and it has a red X on it. That's all it showed. It was very vague. He thought this was some sort of error message, but then again, this wasn't so much of an error message, but more like an error picture. T.K. was so confused by this, and so was Patamon. They don't know why the Digivolution wasn't happening.

"Hey, I'm not Digivolving." Patamon said.

"I thought I changed the batteries in this." T.K. pointed the screen back to Patamon, and again, the error buzzing displayed. "What's happening to this thing?"

The more that they try the more heartless and white enemies appear out of nowhere.

"There's too many of these monsters for Yoshi!" Yoshi exclaimed.

"I don't know what you two are doing, but we need to focus!" Luigi snapped. "This is our last stand!" He and Yoshi look like they were getting ready for one last ditch effort. "It's time for our special move! Let's go get them Yoshi!" He and Yoshi both charged at the hordes of enemies all at the same time, determined to beat them all.


Pinna Park (Park Zone)

"Oh, so that's how you do it." Kari said, as Sora was nonchalantly teaching her how to summon her Keyblade at will. With practice, at the flick of her wrist, her Keyblade disappeared, and another flick, she summoned it into her hands again.

"There. You got it." Sora said.

"Yeah." Kari said, with a bright smile on her face. "Thank you, Sora."

"Ah, it was no problem. Anyways, we should get going. We need to get back to finding-"

Suddenly, they heard a crash, and screaming from afar. The three of them all looked up, and they see a flying green plumber and dinosaur rocketing towards them, screaming. Sora shouted in panic, and tried running away, but the two fell on top of him, crushing him. Suddenly a wave of déjà vu flowed through him, and the plumber and dinosaur. Kari and Gatomon could only look at the pile awkwardly, and look at each other.

"Um, Sora, are you okay?" Kari said, walking up to Sora, and the other two. The plumber and the dinosaur of course were Luigi and Yoshi, who apparently were launched out of the beach zone of Pinna Park after their 'Special Move.' Luigi and Yoshi regained their sight, and the two of them sees Kari and Gatomon. Their line of sight immediately focused on the Keyblade Kari has.

"Oh! Luigi! Yoshi found the Keyblade!" Yoshi exclaimed.

"Huh? Wait a minute. The Keyblade wielder's her?" Luigi said, in disbelief that the Keyblade wielder that they were looking for was just a little girl.

"Y-Yeah. Kind of…" Sora groaned from under Luigi and Yoshi, letting the plumber and the dinosaur know that Sora was under them. The two looked at each other awkwardly, and then rolled off of their friend. The human groaned, and held his head in pain until the pain subsided.

"This fell brings back old times from Yoshi and friends, doesn't it?" Yoshi said.

"Pretty much kid." Luigi said.

"Um, Sora?" Kari said, letting everyone know that she and Gatomon were still standing there. "Who are these guys? Are they your friends?"

"Yeah." Sora said. "This is Luigi, and this is Yoshi. Luigi, Yoshi, this is the next Keyblade wielder, Kari and her friend Gatomon."

"Hi."

"Good to meet you." Gatomon said.

"And good to meet Kari and Gatomon." Yoshi said.

"Just, don't get any funny ideas, got that?"

"Huh?"

"So, how come the two of you, uh, flew over here?" Sora said.

"We didn't fly! We got blasted here!" Luigi snapped.

"Huh?"

"That Heartless and those white creatures attacked Yoshi and Luigi back in the beach of Pinna Park." Yoshi said.

"They did?" Sora said, surprised.

"And a boy and another one of those Digimon things were there."

"Wait, a boy?" Kari said, quickly walking up to Yoshi. "Do you mean T.K.?"

"Yeah."

"Oh no! Yoshi, did you say in the exterior of Pinna Park? Where do we go!? How do we get there?"

"Through that door." Sora said, pointing to the big door to the beach. "Easy."

"Relieving Ravioli! Then let's go." Luigi said.

"Hurry, please…" Kari said, starting to get very worried for her friend.

"Don't worry. We can arrive on time." Sora said, reassuring everyone. "Let's hurry."

"I hope the others are with him."

"Well, we won't know until we look." Gatomon said. Kari nods, and they started taking off toward the Giant Door.


Pinna Park (Beach Zone)

Patamon was starting to get tired from all the enemies that they were fighting. He slumped onto the ground, very tired, and they couldn't fire any wind anymore. The enemies grew closer, as T.K. grabbed Patamon out of an attack. This wasn't like before where he had a weapon to defend himself. This was real. He keeps takin steps back, as his back hits the wall.

(Not yet…I need to get to Kari…) T.K. thought in his mind, as the enemies walked up close. (Gatomon can't hold these things out on her own, and Tai…Kari's gonna be so mad at me if I can't get to her…Kari…)

"T.K.!" They all heard a voice coming out from somewhere, and they looked all around them. Even the heartless and the white creatures got distracted by the voice. They looked towards the entrance from Pinna Park, and looking over the wall was Kari, who looked very well awake.

"Kari! You're alright!" T.K. exclaimed, relieved to see that Kari was all well and good. Luigi and Yoshi were right behind her, and looked over the wall as well.

"Alright you stinking heartless! Is time for the second round!" Luigi shouted. Then Gatomon came along, and finally Sora, holding his Keyblade. T.K. and Patamon was just as shocked to see that Sora has another Keyblade in his hand.

"Wait, what's that thing?" T.K. said. "That looks like…"

"Hey, hang on you guys!" Sora shouted. "Help has just arrived!" He vaulted over the door, and ran onto the field, grabbing the attention of the heartless and white creatures. "Hey, remember me?" He swung his Keyblade sideways when they leapt at them, and destroyed some of them. He then jumped up into the air, and slashed downwards, and then after, swung a full circle around him, striking many enemies away. While he was keeping the enemies busy, the other four dropped down safely from the higher area. Kari and Gatomon ran to T.K., relieved to see that T.K. was safe.

"I'm so glad you're not hurt." Kari said, walking up to him.

"Yeah. Those things almost got me and Patamon." T.K. said.

"It was rough…" Patamon groaned.

"So…" T.K. then paid attention to Sora, who was fighting the monsters with his Keyblade. "Who is that?"

"That's my new friend Sora." Kari said.

"So he really is named Sora?" Patamon said.

"Yeah. I know. I was kind of shocked when I first heard it too."

"So that means there really ARE two Soras!" T.K. exclaimed.

"How weird." Patamon said.

"Yeah, but it's funny!" T.K. exclaimed, laughing for a bit.

Sora, Luigi and Yoshi just struck the last Soldier heartless down, and they had cleared out the entire area. They sighed in relief, and looked at the field. There wasn't another enemy in sight. It was just all 9 of them.

"Alright, we got them all." Sora said. The trio then turned back to the children and the Digimon. "You guys all okay?"

"Yeah. We are. Thanks Sora." Kari said.

"So, is this your other friend?" Sora said, kneeling down to the two kids.

"Yep! This is my best friend T.K., and Patamon."

"Hi!" T.K. said.

"Nice to meet you!" Patamon said.

"And nice to meet you too." Sora said. "Okay, so, is that everyone?"

"But, we don't know about Tai and the others." Kari said.

"I haven't found them yet." T.K. said. "And I've looked all over for this park."

"Maybe we should all get out of here first." Sora said. "We can talk more about this there."

"Okay, but, how we can arrive to Delfino Plaza?" Gatomon said.

"Uh…maybe…"

Yoshi then gasped when he looked up into the sky. "Look out!"

The Digidestined and Digimon all looked up towards the sky, and they saw something falling towards them. They could make out what appears to be a giant monster, on four legs, with loads or armor on it, and it was falling towards them as fast as a meteor. They all freaked, and jumped out of the way. When they all took a look at the monster, they could see that it was a sort of mix of a centurion, and someone you would see in a special ops line of work. This monster also looked like he was a cyborg, as it has metallic parts everywhere on his body, and his arms were literally gatling weapons. The Digimon all recognized this monster from the looks of it.

"Huh!? Assaultmon!?" Patamon exclaimed.

"Assaultmon?" T.K. said.

"Who's that?" Kari asked.

[Assaultmon is one big cyborg Digimon with big weapons on him! Trust me, this guy isn't someone you should mess around with, especially when going against his Justice Strike!]

*SHROUDING DARK CLOUD*

Assultmon then started shooting towards Sora, Luigi and Yoshi, but they ran out of there quick, before they got shot. They then got near Assaultmon, and Sora and Yoshi got to attack his legs, while Luigi kept his distance, and raised his P3000 up into the air. Moments later, lightning came down, and struck Assaultmon. The Digimon then pointed his weapons at the trio, and fired, and they got blasted away!

"Oh no! They don't stand a chance against him! He's an Ultimate Digimon!" Gatomon exclaimed.

"And we can't Digivolve for some reason…" Patamon said. "So that means, we're really in a tight situation!"

"Really?" Kari said.

"It's true." Gatomon said, speaking up. "I can't Digivolve either."

"Not you too, Gatomon." T.K. said. Gatomon could only sadly shake her head. She had tried Digivolving into Angewomon, but it didn't work. Something was preventing the Digimon from Digivolving for some reason. They heard another explosion, and they saw that Luigi was trying to avoid most of Assaultmon's attacks. Yoshi can eat some of the projectiles with his tongue and spat them that the Digimon was shooting at him, though he couldn't get up close enough without the Digimon shooting at him. Sora also blocks some of the projectiles, but he manages to get up close to Assaultmon, and was able to strike his legs. That caused the Digimon to topple over to its sides.

"Alright! Let's go!" Sora exclaimed, running forward, and the trio starts to attack the fallen Digimon.

"Hey, you heard the guy!" Gatomon exclaimed. "Let's take this chance!"

Gatomon ran towards the Digimon, and started attacking its body with her claws, while Patamon shot at the Digimon with Boom Bubble. They all attacked at the Digimon, but soon after, Assaultmon got up, and span around 180, knocking everyone away. His sights then turned towards the Digidestined, who was standing there, not knowing what they should do. The Digimon then pointed his weapons at the children, and they took some steps back, until their backs hit the wall behind them.

"Oh no! Get out of there!" Sora exclaimed. "Run!"

T.K. quickly took Kari's hand, and they started to run. As they were running, Kari looks directly at Assaultmon. There was something about him that looked strange. It was probably because he has the same two purple line of text in an X, with the dark smoke rising from him. This again…It was the second time Kari has seen something like this. She was getting a dark feeling from this Digimon, and it felt really evil. Sort of like what she felt from the Heartless.

Unfortunately, while running, the two kids tripped and fell onto the ground. Assaultmon looked like he was getting ready for another type of attack, and he sped on towards them, and aimed his weapon towards them. Sora, Luigi and Yoshi couldn't react to that speed, and they weren't close to the others when Assaultmon got over there.

Everything then happened slowly for Kari. She didn't know what happened for the next few seconds, but she saw that her instincts took in, and she got up quickly, and swung her Keyblade towards Assaultmon. That was perfect reaction time, as she deflected the one projectile that he shot at them, and it pierced through Assaultmon's body. He grunted in pain, and he stepped back. Though he looked like he was still going to attack him. However, the young girl tightens her grip on her Keyblade, and jumped up, and performed a down slash on the Digimon.

*ENDS*

Assaultmon then fell to his knees, and something was shining on his chest. Coming out of his chest was another glowing heart that was covered in coding. The Digimon then dissipated into data, and it wasn't there anymore.

Kari just stands there, amazed at what she just did there. She had split-second reaction timing, and she just showed off interesting fighting capabilities. Even the others were amazed. Once again, Kari had saved everyone when they were all in a tight situation. Sora then broke the silence, and congratulated Kari.

"Way to go, Kari!" Sora congratulated, kneeling down, and patting her shoulder. "I knew you had it in ya!"

"You really saved us, Kari." Luigi said.

"Yeah! Kari weren't even half bad." Yoshi said. "Kari just got your Keyblade, and already you're doing some fancy tricks with it."

"Uh…thanks?" Kari said.

"That's nothing!" T.K. shouted, running up to them, while the others still stood there, still in shock of the fighting abilities Kari showed off there. "You should have seen Kari when there was one GIANT Heartless attacking us! She was so awesome!"

"O-Oh, it, wasn't all that great."

"Not all that great?" Gatomon said, walking up to her. "Kari, you basically just defeated a giant heartless and Digimon without most of our help. You're becoming more and more impressive with that Keyblade you have."

"Yeah, I mean come on!" T.K. said, still encouraging her. "You're so awesome with that thing."

Kari then looked all around her. She didn't see any signs of anyone wearing goggles, nor does she hear a hot-headed voice calling for her name. Or any signs of a small orange dinosaur. Tai and Agumon weren't there. Kari starts to worry about them.

"Tai! Tai!" Kari called out, trying to see if Tai was anywhere close by. She then turned to T.K. "T.K., have you seen my big brother around here?"

"No." T.K. said. "I haven't even found my big brother either…"

"Tai…" Kari said, looking down to the ground. She was worried for her big brother. Where could he be? Is he hurt? Does he need her? All these questions went through her mind. She was scared. Something might be happening to him, and she isn't there to help him out. For all she knows, Tai might be…

She usually trusts her big brother, and that showed when he had to go back to the Digital World, though she was sad that he had to leave her. And she was alone for a while, until Tai had made it back home later that day (Because the Digital World's time was out of sync with the Real World at that time). And she was alone right now. She wanted her courageous big brother by her side, to know that he is safe, and, admittedly, she needed him. She doesn't feel safe and reassured without him.

"Kari…" T.K. said, worried for his friend.

"Aw, come on, Yoshi no likes that face" Yoshi said.

"Tai's Kari's big brother." Gatomon said.

"Her big brother?" Luigi said with understanding. Because he remembered Mario, your big brother.

"Yep."

"Oh." Sora then knelt down to Kari. "Hey Kari, come on. Cheer up." Though Kari looked down, sulked, and ignored him. She has too many thoughts in her mind right now. "We'll find your big brother. And your friends." Still, Kari was thinking about her big brother.

"How…? We don't know where he is…" Kari mumbled.

"Well, if Kari's friends are not around here, they have to be on other worlds." Yoshi said. T.K. and Patamon raised their heads towards the trio.

"Other worlds?" T.K. said.

"Wait, there are other worlds than the Real World and the Digital World?" Patamon said.

"Yup!" Yoshi nods.

"How? I've never heard of any other worlds than our own."

"Well, it's because they've been secret for a while, and they stayed that way."

"Wow. Other worlds that I don't know about." T.K. said.

"Yeah, and we can get to these other worlds in our plane first class."

"Yeah, we can use that to search for your friends." Sora said. "Well, after we go somewhere first."

"You really mean that?" Kari said, as she raised her head, looking like she's interested.

"Yeah! Of course!" Luigi exclaimed.

"Tai…" Kari said, thinking about Tai and the others again.

"Hey Kari." Gatomon said, as Kari turned to look at her. "I think we can trust them, do you?"

"I trust them." T.K. said.

"Even after that plumber shot fire at me?" Patamon said.

"It was a misunderstanding!" Luigi said a little upset.

"So, you trust them, right?" Gatomon said.

"Yeah…I guess…" Kari said, still looking down.

"But you can't come along with us with that face." Luigi said.

"Huh?" T.K. tipped his head.

"We don't like to have downers in our group."

"Yeah, we always like to stay positive." Sora said.

"You gotta be funny, like us." Yoshi said.

"This ship runs on happy faces, not sad faces."

"Happy…?" Kari said. Everyone was now looking at her, as if they were expecting her to do something. All she was doing was standing there, with the same depressed face she had for the last few minutes. They've been waiting for some form of movement from her.

Though she lowered her head even more, until raising it back up towards the trio, with the biggest, toothy smile she could ever make, with her eyes closed. Kari is known for her playful attitude as well. She then opened her eyes again, looking at the trio for a reaction. Her eyes scanned Sora, Luigi and Yoshi, who were still looking at her with the same faces. They didn't change their expressions at all. She then dropped the big smile, as she thought she didn't impress those good enough, and she bit her lips. Though after doing that, apparently, Luigi and Yoshi started laughing.

"That's one funny face!" Yoshi exclaimed, while laughing. Sora also got a few chuckles out of this as well. Everyone else, except Kari sweatdropped at this.

"So, a grimacing face is a funny face?" Gatomon groaned, while T.K. was awkwardly smiling.

"I thought it was funny." T.K. said. Kari then sweetly smiled after being able to at least make Luigi and Yoshi laugh.

"Okay. Why not?" Kari reanswering Luigi's question from earlier, this time with more positivity. "We'll go with you guys, as long as you keep your promise, and search for our friends, got it?"

"You got it." Luigi said.

"Yeah! Now Yoshi happy family is bigger!" Yoshi said, gathering everyone near each other.

"Haha. Yeah." Kari said, with a lot more positivity in her. Now that she made a promise with her new friends, and that is to stay positive, and keep smiling until they find their friends and her big brother, she is a lot happier now. Like her usual kind, sweet and innocent self.

"Alright, let's get going." Sora said, pointing to the cannon straight to Delfino Plaza. They all nod, and they start taking off, until Gatomon stopped Sora.

"That was something to be proud of." Gatomon said.

"Huh? What?"

"You actually got Kari to listen to you and be brave. Only a few of us is able to do that, including Tai."

"Tai's her big brother, right?"

"Yeah. And you certainly got that 'Tai' flare on ya. That's good. Now I know that I can trust you."

"Uh, thanks?"

"Heh, you're also kinda clueless, you know?"

"What?"

"*Snickering* Come on, let's get going." She then took off, with Sora nodding, and he follows.


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*VILLAINS OF A SORT*

Unknown to anybody, a group of familiar creatures were watching the heroes through a green monitor on a table where the monitor was. The room was very dark, and was hard to tell of the surroundings. The first creature is was a blue devil with red eyes.

"Who would have ever though that young Digidestined would defeat Assaultmon." The digimon like devil called Devimon said.

Next to him was an orange monkey with black sunglasses. His hands pounded the table with frustration.

"But it doesn't explain it!" The orange monkey sounding like Elvis Presley known as Etemon said. "How could one Digidestined defeat an ultimate level digimon? It's unforgivable!"

Next to him was a vampire like digimon.

"It's not just the power from Kari." The vampire digimon Myotismon explained. "The power of the Keyblade gives her that extra strength."

Next to him was a metal snake like digimon.

"Why don't we just turn the Digidestined into Heartless?" MetalSeadramon the metallic digimon suggested. "It would make things a lot faster."

Next to MetalSeadramon was a giant machine like digimon.

"Remember that the enemies of the Organization are also our enemies" Machinedramon the digimon like fusion from others said. "Therefore we must work as a team."

The next it was digimon made of wood, with a giant hammer besided him.

"And as for the Digidestined friends, they're lackeys of the fat plumber man." Said the evil digimon Puppetmon. "They all look little splinters from where I see them."

"You're not exactly Mr. Fun yourself." Laughed the evil clown like digimon called Piedmon and leader from the Dark Masters.

"You, how dare you…!" Puppetmon yelled at Piedmon, offended by his word.

"Enough!" snapped a sinister voice. The villain digimons turned to see Apocalymon in front of them. The same digimon defeated by the Digidestined and the Rainbow Hero. "Remember, that the Chosen Children and Rainbow Hero are destined to be Keyblade wielders. But it's not match for us and the Organization revived me. As for the Digidestined, will they conquer the darkness, or will the darkness swallow them? Either way, I've been able to absorb the Human World and the Digiworld in the darkness, as part of my revenge, now that they are separated, it will be easy eliminating them one by one." He grinned evilly as he looked back at the group.

*ENDS*


Delfino Airport

The group of 7, used the canon straight to Delfino Plaza, and returned in the same boat used from Delfino Airport to the Plaza. In that place is where the three had parked their vessel, the Toad Express. It was a giant plane pink colored, with an interior of first class… They think.

"What's this?" T.K. said, as they walked up to the ship.

"The Toad Express, kid." Luigi said.

"What's Toad Express?" Gatomon said.

"Does it have food?" Patamon said.

"Oops, I forgot the food!" Luigi exclaimed facepalming. "That's our plane first class to travel from world to world!"

"Aww…"

Toadsworth, Tails and R.O.B. left the plane from meet the new members.

"So, you are the new Keyblade wielder, my name is Toadsworth." Toadsworth said introducing himself.

"Hi, my name is Miles Prower, but you can call me Tails." Tails introduced.

"I'm a Robot Operational Buddy, but call me R.O.B. from short." R.O.B. said.

"Nice to meet you, my name is Kari; these are my friends T.K., Gatomon and Patamon." Kari said introducing herself and her friends.

"Hi." T.K. said.

"Nice to meet you." The two digimon said.

"Now let's just get on board so we can take off." Sora said. "But, I don't think we have enough seats for all of you."

"You don't?" Kari said.

"Aw, Master Tails and R.O.B. could install new seats while we're at Millennium Star." Toadsworth said. "And also, more sleeping quarters."

"Just, try to hold onto something tight, until we get there, okay?" Sora said.

"We know." The two 8-year olds said. They then turned to get onto the Toad Express. How they get on is that they beam into the ship. When all of them boarded, they started up the Toad Express, and it then starts to rise from the ground. The thrusters were warming up, as the Toad Express rises over Delfino Island. The ship's computer pinpointed the way back to the Star Haven, and the ship leaves the atmosphere of Delfino Island, and blasted off into the Ocean Between.

TO BE CONTINUED

A/N: I used Delfino Island, because happen the same events like in the first KHTNV.