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Digimon Adventure 02

A New Threat

It's hard to believe how much has changed since that year we went to the Digital World. Tai and Yuuki are married and have a little girl. Matt and Sora are also married and are expecting their first child. Kari and I are getting married in two months while Taiyou went to study over seas and everyone else simply scattered about.

We thought that when we sealed Millenniummon that it was over. However what we didn't know was that the worst was yet to come. –TK

Chapter Ten

Kari walked through the Digital World with Rika, Ryo, Autumn and the other new Digidestined thinking about how it was her and TK that he attacked and not Ryo or one of the others. Confused Tamrie walked over to Kari and asked if she was alright. Kari said she was fine, but Rika could tell that she wasn't and was going to say something about it when they had heard something from behind some rocks.

"What was that?" Ken asked

"Actually, I don't know." Ryo said as he walked closer with Rika right behind him. However, what they saw when they got around the rocks shocked the more than ever. There were five kids no one knew standing there. However, before anyone could say or do anything, one of the kids walked up to Tai and Yuuki, gave them both a hug, then stepped back and waited to see what their reaction was going to be.

"W-what was that for?" Yuuki asked confused as the others turned to them.

"Yuuki? What happened?" Kari asked as the girl walked up and hugged Kari as well as Yuuki answered.

"This girl…just hugged us both." Yuuki said confused as to why this unknown girl was hugging them, just as the girl started giggling.

Just then another started laughing at the confused faces of the group as she walked around and hugged both Rika and Ryo, much to their surprise as well, but Rika spoke up before Ryo could stop and thing as to why she felt familiar to him.

"My name is Tomika." the girl said before Rika could ask. "Tomika Akiyama." she added shocking everyone there.

"Um are you a cousin or something?" Rika asked

"Or something." said Tomika as a fox like Digimon appeared beside her surprising Rika to no ends as to who the Digimon was.

"Wait Renamon?" Rika asked shocked as the other girl who was still giggling, got Tai annoyed.

"So, what is so funny?" he asked using the same tone he used on his daughter whenever she got out of hand. The girl instantly stopped then smiled, while the only boy started laughing hard at the looks of confusion on the Digidestined's faces.

"I guess you figured out who I am."

"It can't be…" Tai said while everyone else was still confused. "Reitou?"

"Hi dad." she said chipper.

"That's impossible." TK said voicing Kari's thoughts.

"Does that mean what I think it does?" Ryo asked the girl that had hugged him and Rika, who nodded, while leaving Rika confused more than ever.

"Ryo?" Rika asked confused

"Think about it Rika, if that's Reitou and this girl hugged both you and me, then…"

"Tomika's our daughter?"

"It's the only possible explanation. Why she has my last name, and why she has a Renamon."

"And why I have powers." she added as Rika just stared in shock, not being able to deal with meeting her daughter when she hadn't even been born yet.

"So that must mean you're Kousei." Kouichi said to the boy who was still laughing and could see the face that's only mirrored by two others. His five-year-old son and his twin brother.

"Bingo, dad." the boy said and then he pulled one of the two remaining girls over and whispered something to her.

"NO!" she said loud enough for them to hear.

"Well this is my cousin." Kousei said surprising everyone. "Or at least one of my five cousins." he added causing Kari to gasp as she realized what Kousei was saying and she sat down beside Rika.

"You already know Reitou." said the final girl, the only one that didn't move. She like her mother, could read emotions and she knew her mother was not ready to hear it. "And that one is Kiya."

"Nice to meet you Kiya." Taiyou said.

"Yeah you too." she said, then she walked back to her rock and sulked, shocking everyone except for Kouji, Takuya, Zoe and Kouichi, who were more than used to the behaviour from one of their own.

"Hey Zoe, she remind you of anyone?" Takuya asked smiling at Kouji.

"Yeah she does." Zoe said smiling as well. "Oh, and your name was?" she asked looking at the other girl.

"Nika." she told them. "Nika…Ishida." she finished and Kari finally looked at the girl after hearing the name. It was then that Kari felt the emotions that Nika was trying to hide her feelings, but Kari had learned how to sense hidden emotions. So, she got up and walked over to her.

"It's nice you meet you. I see that you also inherited my ability to sense emotions." Kari said. "How are you all here?"

"Actually, we don't know." Nika said taking charge with such practice that it let Kari know that she was the leader of their group. "One minuet we're fighting Daemon and the next we're here."

"You were fighting Daemon as well?" Rika asked coming over to join them.

"Yes." Tomika said joining them. "When he returned we joined our parents and were fighting him. I don't know how we got here, but I know it's for a reason."

"Returned?" Kari asked very confused.

"You guys managed to send him to a place called the Dark Ocean and sealed him there. Where he spent fifteen years there." Kiya said sourly. "Suddenly we were pulled into the Digital World and into your fight." then she walked away causing Nika to sigh.

"Sorry she doesn't like that we were chosen." Nika said. "Kiya knew about Digimon but she didn't want anything to do with it, unlike her twin…" Nika trailed off.

"The Dark Ocean?" Kari asked looking at TK a little scared.

"It's a place full of negative thoughts and powers…" Nika explained.

"Sounds like you know it well." TK said before Kari could stop him.

"I don't want to talk about it." Nika said looking away. "Tomika please."

"Yeah okay." she said and Nika walked over to the Lake of Fire. She was so distracted that she didn't realize that Kari had followed her.

"You've been there too, haven't you?" she asked quietly as she sat down beside Nika.

"You could say that, mother." Nika said just as quietly

"You were pulled there and couldn't fight it?" Kari asked thinking of her experience.

"Not quite." Nika said "These is a reason why Kiya and I are so close, and it's not because we're cousins." Nika said shocking Kari. "I don't really want to talk about it." then she sighed. "But I guess you should know."

"Nika if you don't want to talk about it, you don't have to tell me." Kari told her daughter. "I've been there, I understand your pain."

"I know you have, but Kousei is right about one thing. I can't hold it in." Nika said. "It's the reason he chose me."

"Now I'm confused."

"It's my fault that Daemon was released in the first place." Nika said surprising Kari.

"What do you mean?"

"I…I lost someone very important to me." Nika told her. "He meant everything to me, but one day he and I were facing a few low level Digimon when we were attacked from behind and he…he…"

"He didn't even make it to the hospital." Kousei said saving Nika from having to say it. He had originally walked over to check on Nika, but then he heard Nika explaining. Kari sighed as she walked over to her daughter and held her the way only a mother could as Nika sat there and cried.

Rika then started to walk over to her, but Tomika, who knew why Nika was upset stopped her. "Don't, believe me you would understand, mother."

"Why wouldn't I?" she asked.

"Because you didn't lose dad." said Tomika. "I know you came close, but you didn't. Nika lost her love right in her arms."

"Oh." Rika said understanding. "I think Zoe would understand. She came really close to losing Takuya recently and she would have if it weren't for JP and Tommy saving them, and Tamrie stitching his wound up."

"I can't even imagine how that must feel." Ryo said. "To have the one you love die in your arms."

"Hey Z, why don't you go talk to her?" Takuya said. "After all you know better than anyone what she's going through."

"Yeah you're right. I'm lucky that I still have you here with me." Zoe said as she joined Kari and Nika.

"Hey Zoe." Nika said through her tears.

"Hey, how are you coping?" she asked, "I know it must be tough."

"I'll get through it." Nika said. "It's just hard because we were getting married the following week."

"I'm sorry." Zoe said hugging Nika. "I'm not sure what's worse. What you're dealing with or that it took almost losing him for me to realize I loved Takuya. We're so lucky that JP and Tommy saved us from Daemon and that Tamrie already knew how to stitch a wound. I'm also lucky that nothing major was injured or it wouldn't have mattered."

"After the accident, I shut myself up in my room. On our wedding day, I started hearing voices. They promised that if helped them they would help me get revenge on those that killed Kanoi." Nika continued, but Zoe could already tell what had happened as could Kari.

"That's how you got pulled into the Dark Ocean, isn't it?" Kari asked

"Yes." Nika said darkly. "It was there that I found out the truth."

"Truth?" Zoe asked confused.

"It wasn't an accident that Kanoi was killed that day." Nika said her face much darker than before.

"Wait what?" Kousei asked scared of Nika's reaction.

"What was reason?" Kari asked hesitantly.

"It was Daemon that attacked Kanoi from behind." said Nika. "Daemon was aiming for me and Kanoi blocked it."

"Why was he aiming for you?" Zoe asked

"Because he knew I had the power to stop him." Nika said. "See I inherited more than mon's ability to read others, but I got her crest of light as well."

"And that's what he's afraid of." Kari said.

"However, by the time I figured it out it was too late. The seal was broken." Nika said.

"That's why he interrupted mine and TK's wedding, our Crests of Light and Hope." Kari said now starting to get very pissed off, to the point of being scary.

"Yes, see it wasn't the Daemon you all are fighting that interrupted you and dad, it was ours. He knew that if me and Lloyd got our crests…" Nika said before clamping her mouth shut.

"Lloyd?" Kari asked confused.

"You might as well tell her now." Kousei said smiling. "She'll know if you're lying anyway."

"Gee, thanks Kousei, you're such a help." Nika said sarcastically, then she sighed. "Lloyd is my twin brother and Kiya's fiancé."

"Oh, I see. So, I'm going to have twins, interesting." Kari said. "Anyways, back to Daemon, how are there two of them?"

"The one from my time and the one from here." Nika told them. "Ours must have thought he would be able to beat you if there were two of him."

"So, he came here right as Sakuyamon launched her attacked at him." Tomika said.

"Did her attack hit him?" Kari asked

"Yes, but not ours." Tomika said solving the riddle of how Daemon had escaped.

"Interesting, so who are we facing now?" Zoe asked. "Or are we facing them both?"

"Well we don't know. Azulongmon just sent the five of us here when they realized that Daemon was here after the battle we had back home." Nika said before she realized what she had said. She didn't want anyone to know her past or what she could do. She just hoped her mother didn't pry and Daemon didn't provoke her into using her shadows.

"They didn't tell us anything, or where we were going." Tomika said saving Nika. "Believe me when we first saw you guys coming toward s we were surprised as well."

"Well that's certainly unexpected. I think we'll have to talk with them then." Kari said.

"More than likely." Rika said.

"But, if the ones in your time are the ones who sent you here, then how would the Harmonious Ones here know anything?" Autumn asked

"Autumn has a good point." Tomika said, but Rika shook her head and Ryo answered them.

"The Harmonious Ones are universal. If the ones in your time sent you here then, the ones here will know why." Ryo said speaking with the wisdom that came from dealing with them much longer than any of the others.

"Ryo's right and knows more about this place than anyone else. Even the originals don't know everything." Karis said.

"Alright, if you guys think it will help." Nika said still feeling as if she was going to burst out.

"We do, especially when we don't know much more than you guys do." Zoe said. "The Harmonious Ones knew everything."

"No, they don't know everything." Ryo said darkly remembering when he first fought Millenniumon.

"They can't control everything, but they do know everything, or at least almost everything." Kari said.

"You're right Kari." Ryo said as Nika walked little ways away from the others.

"Nika is everything okay?" Reitou asked walking over to her.

"It just hurts, Reitou." said Nika. "I miss him so much and when I see Rika and Ryo, your mom and dad…it just hurts."

"I wish there was something I could do, or that there was some way to go back and change that event. Maybe that's why we were sent here. To this particular time, what do you think?" Reitou asked being hopeful for her cousin.

"You think that's why we were really sent here?" Nika asked

"I think it could be a very good possibility."

"What happened was terrible, but do you really think we can change that Kanoi…?"

"I do think we can change that. By defeating Daemon here, in this time, he won't be able to attack you in our time and Kanoi won't be mortally injured." Reitou said. "I really hope that's why we were brought here."

"Hey you guys!" Kousei called. "Come on, we're leaving."

"Coming." Reitou called back.

"Yeah…" Nika said following Reitou. Kari watched as Nika walked back to them when they heard a voice.

"Hey, you guys!" shouted another boy's voice, causing Nika to freeze. It was one of the voices that Nika never thought she would hear again.

"Lloyd…I thought…"

"Pegasusmon came in at the last moment and saved me." Lloyd said. "Then Azulongmon sent me here; but I don't know why." he added before Nika could ask. Then he noticed Kari and froze.

"Is he okay?" Kari asked

"Lloyd?" Nika asked jumping up to her brother. "You alright?"

"Is that…?"

"Yeah that's her." Nika said smiling at Kari, but Kari could tell that there was something that the two was hiding. Zoe, who also sensed it walked over to them and asked Nika what was going on, but she didn't know how to answer her.

"Something happened to Kari in your time, didn't it?"

"Uh…" Nika nodded then she shook her head. "Zoe don't say anything, but we only knew our father, thanks to Daemon. That's why I didn't know about the ability she had until I started to sense things. That's when dad told me about mom."

"Nika had her power but I never really had anything to connect me to my mother."

"You two must have been really young when you lost her." Zoe said, "I'm sorry."

"We were about five when it happened." Nika said looking back at Kari. "When I learned the truth about Kanoi, I also learned that it was him that-"

"Well, well, so you were sent to stop me."

"Daemon!" shouted Nika as a Digimon that none of the original Digidestined had ever seen before, appeared beside her. It was a lion, but no bigger than a cub. Kari hoped that her future daughter knew what she was doing. "Get out of here, you freak. You won't get her again."

"Again?" Kari asked

"So, you haven't told her." Daemon said looking back at Kari. "Perhaps I should tell her why you were truly drawn to the darkness."

"NO!" shouted Nika as Zoe held her back and Kari just stared at her, then she looked at Gatomon, who nodded and Digivolve to Angewomon.

"Have you come to surrender?" the angel Digimon asked

"So, the light bearer…I had hoped that by getting rid of you I managed to…" he said smiling at the frantic pleas that Nika was throwing out and Kari realized the truth about Nika.

"Getting rid of me? Nika?" Kari asked looking at her. "What are you telling me?"

"I hate you Daemon!" Nika shouted letting loose a blast from her hands shocking everyone, even the others that knew her well. Eyes blazing Nika looked at Daemon with a ferocity that not even her brother had seen in her eyes.

"Impossible…you…it can't be!" Daemon shouted letting another blast at Kari. However, Angewomon picked her up and got her out of the way just in time. Rika then Bio-Merged with Renamon to become Sakuyamon again.

"But I am." Nika said coldly. "You should have never sent me into the darkness." and she shot another blast even though Sakuyamon was there, knocking her out of the sky.

"NIKA!" Kari shouted as she ran to Rika and Renamon, shocked that she could do something like that. There was something different about Nika. A darkness that Kari only caught a glimpse of when she was talking with the girl earlier. Just then Nika launched another attack only for it to be blocked by the other Daemon.

"Not this time Digidestined." he said smiling as he disintegrated. "You won't defeat us this time. Not with her like that."

"We have to get out of here and fast." Lloyd said trying to restrain his sister, who had gone berserk. "I can't hold her much longer." he added confusing Kari and the others.

"Lloyd? What do you mean?" Kari asked

"Uh." Kousei grunted as he knocked Nika out causing all the darkness that had started swirling around her to disappear.

"Kari get them out of here." Ryo said as he and the other tamers along with the four top Data Squad agents, who had join them right as Daemon attacked, held the psychotic Digimon back. "Take Rika and Nika to a safe place" We'll hold Daemon off and meet you later!"

"Alright." Kari said as Lloyd jumped down with Nika on his back and placed her on his Digimon to get her to a safe place. Hopefully once they got there Kari could get an explanation as to why her twins were acting the way they were and why Nika went off the deep end.