Hi Everyone. I am SO SORRY for this long time. I believe my muses had gone on vacation but I think they're back now so hopefully I will be updating more regularly now. I just hope this chapter was worth the wait.

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN DIGIMON OR ANY CHARACTERS IN THIS CHAPTER.

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Tommy, Yolei and Ken had their arms wrapped around their bodies.

"Who's idea was it to get off here?" Yolei asked.

"You chose to get off here." Kumamon reminded her. "We didn't force you."

"And you should have realised it would be cold." Tommy added.

"Well, obviously I didn't think this through." Yolei snapped.

"Yolei, just focus your rage on Korikakumon." Ken said in his soothing voice.

Yolei nodded and looked around. "So, where do we start?"

"May I suggest we find some shelter?" Hawkmon made his opinion known.

"I second that." Wormmon shivered.

Kumamon led the group through the field of snow. "Are sure you know where we're going?" Tommy asked.

"Well, it helps that I can feel it getting colder as we go this way." Kumamon replied.

"So it's going to get colder?" moaned Yolei.

Kumamon nodded it response.

Ten minutes later, Yolei fell to her knees. "It's too cold. I can't go on."

Ken picked up his girlfriend. "Yolei, we have to keep moving."

"I can't." she whispered.

"You have to." Ken insisted.

Tommy looked back. "Kumamon, can you see anything that might give us some warmth?"

Kumamon looked around. "I can see one place but it's not advisable."

"Why?" Tommy asked, looking at his partner.

"It's a giant ice palace in the middle of a snowy land." Kumamon answered. "Korikakumon is going to be there."

"I don't care." Yolei shivered. "I'll take it."

Yolei sped off to the ice palace. The others followed Yolei close behind. Yolei, summoning what strength she had, pushed the doors open.

It was surprisingly warm inside. Ken closed the doors with ease. He turned around and found that it looked just like Originus House. Only made out of ice.

"Let's get this over with." Yolei decided.

"Where do we start?" asked Ken, walking to the dining room, Wormmon on his shoulder.

"Ken, I think we should look where Lillymon would be." Wormmon said.

"What do you mean?" Ken asked his partner.

"Well, if this place is a copy of Originus House, wouldn't it make sense that Korikakumon would be in the owner's room?"

"He has a point Ken." Tommy agreed.

Ken nodded. "Ok, where is her room?"

"I'm not sure." Yolei remembered. "I don't think we even went upstairs."

"Of course not." Tommy sighed. "That would be too easy."

"And of course it would not be as easy as 'Hey Korikakumon, can you be good again?' because that would be just weird." Kumamon added.

"Well, I'm going upstairs." Yolei said, making her way up the fragile stairs.

Tommy and Kumamon ran up the stairs to follow Yolei. As Ken took his first step on the staircase, cracks began to shape and spread. Ken looked down and turned to Tommy and Kumamon. "Hurry up! The stairs are breaking!"

They turned around and saw that the stairs were indeed cracking. Kumamon jumped to the top in one go. Yolei held her hand out for Tommy as the stairs finally broke. Ken called out as Yolei grabbed Tommy's hand and pulled him to her floor as the last remnants crumbled away.

"Is Tommy ok?" Ken called.

Yolei nodded. "Yes, just a little shaken."

"I'm going to explore around down here." Ken told her. "You look around up there."

"Be careful." Yolei told her boyfriend.

"I will." Ken said, picking up Wormmon and walking away.

Yolei looked at the situation. "Come on."

"Where are we going?" Kumamon asked.

"We're just going to look around up here." She told the warrior of ice. "But we have to stay together."

They walked to one room and Yolei slowly opened the door. Peering inside, she saw an empty room.

"It's just an empty room." she told the others.

Tommy looked inside. "What's that in the corner?" he stepped inside.

Walking slowly, he saw that there was an ice sculpture huddled in the corner. "Hello?"

"Tommy, it's just some ice." Yolei said.

"I don't think so." Tommy said slowly.

He placed his hand on the sculpture. The sculpture shook. Tommy backed up to Yolei, Hawkmon and Kumamon. Bright yellow eyes looked at the group.

"Did Korikakumon send you?" it asked.

"Nope." Tommy smiled. "In fact, we're here to stop Korikakumon."

"But he's so strong. Nothing can stop him."

"Well, we're going to try." Yolei stated.

"Well, I suppose I could help you." the digimon concluded. "I'm Icemon."

Ken and Wormmon had found themselves in the basement.

"How did we get here?" Ken asked.

"I'm not sure." Wormmon replied. "Can we leave now?"

"No Wormmon." Ken told his friend. "We have to find Korikakumon."

Wormmon was upset but knew his partner was right. He jumped from Ken's arms and began looking around himself. He found a small box. "Ken, come look at this."

Ken turned around and walked to Wormmon. "What is it?"

"A box."

"I mean what is in the box?" Ken asked. He opened the box and saw an object encased in ice. "What is that?"

"Ice?"

Ken sighed. "Come on Wormmon. Let's try to get to Yolei. Hopefully she's had some luck."

"What happened to the stairs?" Icemon asked.

"They kind of shattered when we were walking up them." Yolei answered.

"So how are we supposed to get down there?"

"Why would we want to go down?" Kumamon asked.

"Because Korikakumon's throne is in the basement." Icemon replied.

"Then, we're getting down there as soon as we can." Yolei realised. "Ken could be in the basement!"

"I got it." Kumamon stepped forward. "Crystal Breeze!" Kumamon created a slide for the group to get downstairs.

Icemon led them to the basement where there was no sign of Ken or Wormmon. "Where are they?"

"Yolei, look at this." Hawkmon instructed, pointing a wing to a silver device on the floor.

Yolei picked it up. "It's Ken's D-Terminal." Yolei opened it up. "It looks like he was trying to send a message. He only wrote my name and then something or someone made him drop it."

Ken's D-Terminal began beeping. A wireless connection had been made. The Digi-Eggs of Courage and Love had been copied to Ken's D-Terminal.

"Well, that was unexpected." Yolei stated.

"There should be a hidden panel here." Icemon said. With a small click, the wall swung open to reveal a hidden room. "I knew it."

Ken stood by a large throne staring blankly at the new arrivals. Yolei ran and hugged her boyfriend. "Ken, I was so worried." When Ken didn't return her hug, she looked him in the eyes. She saw a blankness she had seen once before. A look of fear erupted. "Ken?"

Ken sneered. "My name is the Digimon Emperor."

"Ken. Please listen to me." Yolei pleaded.

"My name is the Digimon Emperor." Ken shouted.

Yolei backed away behind Hawkmon. "Where's Wormmon?"

"That little insect has been sent to my partner."

"What partner?" Hawkmon asked. "Wormmon is your partner."

"He is not worthy of my attention." Ken answered. "Behold, my new partner!"

Large footsteps sounded throughout the room. They looked around and saw Korikakumon approach and stand at Ken's side.

"You've got to be kidding me." Kumamon said.

Tommy stepped forward. "Korikakumon, listen to me. You're a good guy. Please, come back to us."

"I'm sorry, but he only obeys me." Ken inputted. "Korikakumon, attack them!"

"Frozen Arrowheads!" he roared.

The braids of Korikakumon rose into the air and flew towards the small group. They dove to the side. Yolei grabbed her digivice and D-Terminal.

"Let's try a different egg." Yolei panted. "Digi-Armour Energise!"

"Hawkmon Armour Digivolve to…Harpymon! Shrieking Light!"

Hawkmon had changed into a humanoid creature. It had a woman's face, white wings for arms. Birds claws for feet and a long white tail. "Wind Seeker!" Harpymon flapped her wings as hard as she could. The resulting attack was enough to knock Ken back a few feet but Korikakumon stood strong.

Yolei ran to Ken. "Harpymon, try to keep him busy!" Harpymon lunged at Korikakumon.

Yolei knelt at Ken's side. "Ken, baby, please wake up."

Tommy dodged an arrowhead from Korikakumon, landing at Ken and Yolei's position. "Ouch."

Yolei looked up. "Tommy!"

She crawled to Tommy and saw the cut on his leg. On instinct, she ripped her sleeve for some bandages. She wrapped it up as best as she could. "This should hold."

"How's Ken?"

"Still knocked out." She sighed.

Tommy looked at the laying form of Ken. "What's that?"

"What's what?" Yolei asked.

Tommy carefully crawled to Ken. "This in his hand."

Yolei looked at the icy lump. Icemon was thrown clear across the room and crumbled to pieces. The ice shower startled Yolei. She dropped the icy rock and lost sight of it. "Oh no. Which one is it?"

The ice rocks began to glow. They all suddenly sunk into the ground. Only one rock remained. Yolei picked it up. She held it tightly.

She turned and looked at Korikakumon. She began to breath heavily. Seeing Kumamon and Harpymon be hurt so easily began to make her blood boil. She stood up.

She screamed in fury and threw the rock at Korikakumon. Making contact with his head, he turned to Yolei.

"Avalanche Axes!" he called.

Two spinning axes fell from the sky out of nowhere and dug themselves in the ground. Korikakumon picked them up and threw them at Yolei. Yolei ducked her head down and heard the air be sliced by the passing axes.

She slowly raised her head. Korikakumon was laughing. She took some deep breaths.

"That's it!" she screamed. Korikakumon just looked at Yolei. She walked slowly to Korikakumon, showing no fear. "I've had it. Listen here you big overgrown dust bunny! Tommy and Kumamon are trying to help you!"

Korikakumon looked at Yolei, awestruck at her boldness. "I don't need help!" he argued.

"That's baloney and you know it!" Yolei interrupted. "Your friends are trying to help you and you're attacking them! Who do you think you are?"

"The beast of Ice!" Korikakumon roared.

Yolei raised her arm and smacked Korikakumon on the face! "I don't care who you are! We're trying to help you and you're not even willing to be helped!"

"I already told you that I don't need help!" Korikakumon said.

He roared louder than he had before and swiped Tommy from the ground. Kumamon just stood there, not wanting to attack for fear of hurting Tommy in the process.

"Let him go!" Kumamon shouted.

Korikakumon began to laugh. "Finally, I have something to bargain with."

Soft sounds drew Yolei's attention. "Ken?"

"Yolei?" he asked.

"What happened to you?"

"Korikakumon tried some kind of spell on me but I don't think it worked."

"It did work, just for a little while." Yolei answered. "You became the Emperor."

"Well, I say I get in touch with my past." Ken replied, standing up.

He slowly walked to Korikakumon. "What do you think you're doing?" Korikakumon looked at Ken. "I gave no such order to take the boy. Put him down and bring back Wormmon." Korikakumon looked at Ken, not moving a muscle. "Now!" Ken bellowed.

Slowly, Korikakumon did as Ken demanded. Tommy was lowered to the ground as Kumamon rushed to see if he was alright. Korikakumon reached to the wall and put his hand through it, pulling out a small green digimon.

Wormmon crawled to Ken and rested on his shoulder. Yolei handed his D-Terminal back, showing some eggs.

Ken pressed a button. "Digi-Armour Energise!"

"Wormmon Armour Digivolve to…Shadramon! Swarming Courage!"

Wormmon had changed to an insect version of Flamedramon. The armour was similar, the only difference was the wings.

"Get him Shadramon!" Ken called.

"Flash Buster!" Shadramon called, coating himself in flames. He charged at Korikakumon, hitting him in the chest. "Come on guys, a little help!"

"Crystal Breeze!"

"Wind Seeker!"

The combination of attacks knocked him to the ground. The rock by Yolei's feet began to warm. She looked at Korikakumon. She had an idea. Not what she would usually do but it was the only thing she could think of. She picked it up, ran and threw it at Korikakumon's chest. The rock melted into his body.

Korikakumon opened his eyes and sat up. He looked around himself. Everyone stayed on guard. Korikakumon layed eyes on Tommy. He reached a hand out. Shadramon jumped in front to defend. He swore he saw a small smile. "Was that a smile?"

Tommy walked around Shadramon. He stood by Korikakumon. He raised his hand and rubbed Korikakumon's arm. Tommy looked up as he felt a drop of water hit his head. He looked up. "Don't cry. It's not your fault."

"But I…" he started.

"Don't talk." Tommy interrupted. "I know it wasn't you so that's good enough for me." Korikakumon looked at Tommy's sincere smile. He wrapped his hand around Tommy as a pseudo-hug. "Come on, let's meet the others."

Outside, the armoured digimon had changed back into their rookie forms.

"Tommy?" Ken asked.

"Yes?"

"Not to be a pain but judging by how big the train is, Korikakumon is not going to fit in." Ken replied.

Tommy stopped. "Oops."