Note: Hello to all. I am sorry about how late this is. It's been a hell of a ride of life. Here is your next chapter! I will not waste your time recapping, this is not Inuyasha.

Cody sat down on his bed in his PJs, getting relaxed, when his phone went off. He grabbed it. 'Oh it's only a text message' he thought as he clicked through. A message from Izzy:

I want all of you to turn your phones off. I will explain tomorrow at 10am. Meet at the park, our usual place. Good night.

Cody did as he was told and went to bed.

Yolei's father opened the door to view Yolei's room, wondering where his daughter was. He was really keeping his fingers crossed for her to be in the company of the genius, Ken Ichijoui. Yet, Yolei could be found sprawled out, face down and half off of Izzy's bed. On the other hand, Izzy was fast asleep at his desk; his head resting in the crook of his arm. Near him was a now old, cold cup of coffee. Yes, he started to drink something with caffeine to keep him keep awake for the past couple of nights.

The light from the computer screen showed a configuration being run. A small screen appeared in the right corner of his screen, Tentomon gazed downward at his sleeping friend. "HEY IZZY!" Izzy jumped and heard a thump behind him. He glanced over to see that Yolei had fallen off the bed. A groggy voice escaped Izzy's throat as he rubbed his eye, "You okay, Yolei?" She nodded while she fixed her glasses which were askew on her face. Izzy brought his attention to the voice that had awoken them. Tentomon's head slowly tilted to the left, as a sign of curiousness, blurting out, "Izzy, I mean this in the most caring way possible… you look like shit." Izzy narrowed his eyes for a seconded, lifted his hands to fix his hair, before he could process anything. Suddenly his brain caught up to him, "How is it over there?" Tentomon shook his head, "There is no sign of them anywhere." Izzy sighed as he thought it was worth a shot. "Thank you for trying. I was thinking, I would feel better if you guys came to our world for a while." Tentomon saluted him, "I shall gather the troops!" And the small screen disappeared.

Izzy turned himself in his swivel chair to face Yolei, who was apparently lost in thought. He softly asked, "Would you like to get anything to eat?" She snapped out of it and looked at him as though he just appeared out of thin air. "Yeah… yeah, sure." Izzy packed his bag, laptop and all. As they left the apartment, they squinted in the sunlight. Both had realized they only had time to grab something at Yolei's store before heading to the meeting place. And each had forgotten to set the alarm clock, since they used their cell phone for that feature. Izzy would have been late to his own meeting.

At that time, TK was also headed to Yolei's store to grab something to eat before the meeting at the park. He had been at the hospital with Kari the whole night. Mimi and Willis relieved him of his duty to be there for the meeting, the next shift could fill them in about the meeting.

TK heard his cell phone beep out of his back pocket. As he snatched it out and thought, 'Damn it, I forgot to leave this off.' He checked his new text; it was nothing but a message from his cell phone company updating him about something unimportant, in other words, "Just spam." He sighed and turned it off; he took notice that he was passing the park where he and Davis had their encounter. For a moment, his mind flashed back. TK's eyes glistened with sorrow. He walked into the park where he had pinned Davis down. There had been no time to think about this whole thing, to digest this was all really happening. Before he knew it, a surge of anger replaced the sorrow. He felt the rage rise up into his throat; it spread to every nerve ending in his body. He wanted to yell at the top of his lungs. His brain kept pouring salt on the wounds: flash backs to their childhood laughter in the digital world combined with the recent quiet reserved, never smiling Kari. Why did it have to happen to her and Tai?... Her own fucking father? Why could their team save them sooner? If only -! His hand went up and he slammed his cell phone down into the concrete with greater force than he thought he could muster. Needless to say, he watched it shatter into a bunch of pieces.

He stood there. It didn't matter to him, he would have cared about a month ago before this all happened. It seemed so insignificant- his mind went blank. He snapped out of his anger/hopelessness/self hatred episode, alert. He looked around. The hair on the back of his neck felt like it stood up. The odd feeling as though he was being watched, washed over him. Taking a couple of steps, walking away yet keeping alert, as he approached the edge of the park he heard, "Looks like you left something hear, TK." TK spun around. It was Tai standing before him. "Why would you do such a thing?" Tai's voice was eerily monotone- his eyes were stone cold. It was not the fact that Tai was still sporting the blood stained clothing from the night of the second incident that made this scenario so creepy. TK could sense the aura that Tai was wielding, the cold darkness.

TK's mind was racing. It calculated that it was best to act normal to assess the situation further. Maybe he would answer what tugged at him the most, "Tai, just let me know, is my brother okay?" Tai had kneeled down to inspect the remnants of the broken cell phone. "Why, he didn't go home last night?" That was a clue, this was Tai, but wasn't him at the same time. He would never fuck with TK like that. When Tai stood up, their eyes meet, instinct kicked in and TK ran for it. Before he could even make it out of the Park, he was face first in the grass. Of course Tai had to be the one to get him, the talented soccer player. Tai aggressively flipped TK over. TK was able to grab onto Tai's collar as he was getting pinned down, yanking Tai's neck, forcing him to look into his eye. "Kari, she is okay Tai! Kari's okay. Still out of it, but okay. She asks for you all the time. She's worried about you Tai!" Suddenly Tai's grip loosened, than tightened. Yelling out in pain and internal agony, he slammed TK harder into the grass.

Half a block away, Izzy and Yoeli stopped dead in their tracks, without another moment hesitation- ran toward the sound. They came upon the scene of TK struggling to get out of Tai's grip. Yolei with all her body weight and strength, tackled Tai off of TK. TK gasped, "He's not right, RUN!" It all happened to fast: Yolei felt Tai's arms wrap around her, grabbing her wrists, yanking them back behind her. She yelped out in pain. However, Izzy knew that TK was their number one priority at this point, and took a stance in front of TK in order to protect him. It was then they saw Matt come into view. "MATT!" TK blurred out as he went to run towards his brother, but Izzy grabbed him as he tried to run by. While inspecting his brother to see if he was okay, TK noticed the white noise starting to form around Matt's ankles. Tai stood up with Yolei still struggling in his unusually strong grip. Matt started to sprint toward TK. Izzy stood his ground as TK started to run for it. The tackle made Izzy slam on the grass hard enough to wind him. As Matt tried to get up to continue the hunt on TK, Izzy bear hugged him around the waist to hold him down, "He's your brother Matt! Leave him alone!" For a few moments Matt didn't move. Izzy heard Matt start to mutter under his breath. He let go a bit as Matt rolled off him.

"What, Matt?"

"Spore, spore, spore…" He grabbed onto Izzy's shirt. "Help Tai. Get him out!" He let go, grabbed his head, shaking like mad. The white noise was getting thicker. "Matt, where is it?" Matt's lips moved but nothing came out of them. Then he was gone. Izzy looked up, the Dark World reclaimed Tai, taking Yolei along with him.

Ken lay in his cell, motionless. He body was in too much pain. He could feel his hands tied behind his back as he was lying on his side. Where ever he was, it was chilly. When he was able to open his eyes, blurry as they were, he was able to make out an outline within the darkness. With a couple of blinks, he could recognize his spiky haired friend on the other side of the bars. Davis was sitting there with his head down. "Hey Dai," he uttered as though Davis never beat the crap out of him.

It seemed it was Piedmon's duty to get Ken to release the current secrets of the Digidestined, by any means nessessary. On the contrary, Ken made him frustrated, for nothing came out of him.

Ken asked, "How are you feeling over there?" Davis started to shake. As Ken slid toward the bars, he noticed Davis was running his finger up and down the scar Susumo had given him- starring at it. A shaky voice responded, "Badass?" Davis looked up at Ken. His eyes seemed like a battle was being fought inside them. Ken smiled, he understood Davis was still fighting, and in the moment that's all that mattered. He was still there. For a second, he could not conclude wither that was a good thing or a bad one. Good that his friend was still with him, bad for the fact he was aware of everything that he was doing and what was going on. Ken surmised that Piedmon could see every event that went on by tapping into the neurons of brain- what they were thinking and how they were feeling at any given moment, past and present. Ken was only able to come to this assumption when Piedmon spit out things that happened within the Kamiya residence, things that only Tai, Kari, and Davis could know.

Ken kindly replied to Davis, "I will let you know when this is all done. It will be at that moment when I decide if you get an award for badassery." Davis' mouth twitched into a smirk at Ken's attempt at a joke. Suddenly, Davis looked off into the distance, "Kari?" This alerted Ken. He pushed himself up and attempted to look where Davis was. Davis reached out into space as though he could reach her, at that moment Ken realized the spore was starting to take on a real hold. Davis' memory perception and reality were starting to meld together with Piedmon's intrusions. Davis slammed his back against the wall.

"Don't give up Davis. I don't care what you do. You have the courage to get through this. Does this moral speech sound like anyone to you?"

Davis smiled, "Me."

Pain, as though he were thrown into a fire, spread through his body from the back of his neck. He wreathed on the floor in agony. Piedmon's footsteps drew near as he spoke, "I would think you would have learned by now, dogs learn tricks faster than you… according to the internet. Stop fighting..." He ended in a bored tone. "My magic trick takes the stage, you can't even play." Ken saw Piedmons face appear as he craned his neck, his beady eyes peer down at his inmate.

Ken could not stand his fucking face. Piedmon's body came into full view. "CLAP ON!" He clapped twice and the lights lit up. "If humans can do that trick, I thought I should learn too!" Piedmon grabbed Davis by the collar and throw him toward the bars, "Now get your bestest friend" he clasped his hands together, toward his chest, in a dreamy like state and continued, "in the whole wide world," he throw his hand out and pointed to the door, "and put him BACK into the chair."

Soon enough Ken was in the chair where the monitors were. Instantly he noticed Tai and Matt were missing. His stomach dropped as he assumed the worst. "WHERE ARE THEY?" He never thought a Digimon could ever be capable. How could they if they themselves were programmed by humans?

'They were not kidding about TK,' he thought. His outburst made Piedmon chuckle. "Like you are in a position to talk- though ironically that is what I want you to do." Ken analyzed the room more than he had before. He could see that Tai's memories where playing on one monitor and Matt's on another, and Davis's on yet another. There were images with parts of the digital world as well, just as he, as the Digimon Emperor had done from his control spires. 'But if he could see the memories, what information is he going to keep trying to get out of me?' Ken wondered.

Piedmon stepped closer and noticed Ken glaring at him. "Oh look the pussy Emperor is pissed. Now that's not nice, I am going to give you a gift, a wonderful show!" He threw the white sheet into the air and before it landed on the floor he pulled it back up, revealing Tai holding onto a struggling Yolei. Words escaped Ken as Yolei stopped struggling taking notice of Ken and her surroundings. Ken launched forward, not caring about the pain the medal cuffs were causing to the pressure he was putting his wrists. He tried with all his might, he was significantly weaker, he could not remember when he had a meal last. "LET HER GO!"

Piedmon responded, "Okay."

"Really?" Yolei interjected.

"No." Piedmon starred back at Yolei. He looked to Matt and pointed at her, "This isn't a boy. Where's the boy?" There was no response from Matt. Piedmon walked over to Matt grabbed the back of his shirt and pushed him to one of the monitors. "What happened?" As Piedmon tried his trick, it was all white noise. His anger rose. Matt fell to his knees grabbing onto his head. Yolei went to run toward him but was yanked back by Tai.

Yolei turned her head toward Ken, noticed all the bruising on his wrists, arms, and check. Even though he was in a poor state, she was glad he was okay, and that she was not alone. Even with the others there, it seemed as though they were not in a weird way. Tai the leader was like a mechanical robot.

She looked to Davis and tried Izzy's approach, "Davis, Kari is okay." His eyes flashed toward her. Ken watched Piedmon intently. "Yeah, according to TK, she is still a little out of it but I am sure she will make a full recovery." Davis looked down, his hands were shaking but a smile appeared on his face. Piedmon didn't seem to notice. 'He can only control one at a time.' Ken thought. "What have they been doing to you?" Yolei asked. Peidmon turned around, able to get the images of the failed attempt of TK's capture out of Matt. "Davis, take our new visitor back now and shut her up!" With that Davis approached her, she tried to step away, but Tai was standing like a wall behind her. Ken struggled to free himself, "Leave her ALONE!" Davis pulled back his arm and pushed her straight in the gut, knocking her out. He took her from Tai, and dragged her back to the cell. Now Peidmon could keep his full attention on Ken.

Yolei woke in the dark cell. She felt cold; a shiver ran down her spine. As her eyes adjusted, she observed there was no bed or blanket near her; also that she was not alone. Ken was lying on his side, his hands tied behind his back. She quickly went over to him, untied him and turned him around. His head was bleeding, but not too bad. She took off her vest and cautiously lifted his head to rest on it. She laid down next to him, used her own arm as a pillow, and carefully put an arm around him, in an attempt to keep him warm. She felt a hand meet hers, she looked up to see

Ken's eyes gazing over at her. He whispered, "It's good to see you again." She smiled as he continued, "Speak low, you never know when he is watching us through them," nodding his head in the direction of the bars. He squinted his eyes shut, apparently moving his head like that was not a good idea. "What really happened to Kari?"

Yolei muttered, "She lost the baby, she is really weak at the moment, but she will be all right." He took his hand and tugged on his arm to pull her closer. He turned over and explained everything he had assessed so far to her. She told him about what Matt asked Izzy to do with Tai. After they small information gathering they laid there in silence. Yolei drew even closer, putting her head near his chest. Yolei noted, "None of this explains what is going on with the defragmentation of the Digital World…" His heart beat was soothing to her, she let out a sigh. He did his best to wrap his arms around her. He did not know what the future held anymore. He could not calculate a certain plan for victory. Their world and the digital world had turned upside down. So what the hell, he took his finger and lifted her head up, took the chance and kissed her deeply. She responded at first with shock, but then melted into the moment. A few moments later, they put their foreheads together and laughed. What a strange place, what a strange time to have a moment like this. If everything was going to be so unpredictable, he would play into the unpredictability game and took a chance. If anything were to happen to either of them, he wanted to make sure he never regretted not sharing a moment like that with her. He smiled as she also wrapped her arms around him, proceeding to fall sleep in a cold place but within warm arms.

(To be continued…more action next time)