Chapter 29: The Worst Good News Ever
It wasn't until her second night in the hospital that Kari was finally fully conscious again. Sora and Joe were there to greet her, but because it was two in the morning when she awoke, the rest of us didn't make it there until later in the day. Most of us, including me, had to wait for school to get out, and so it was the middle of the afternoon before I finally got a chance to see her again. Yolei, Davis, Cody, Ken, and I went after school.
She couldn't sit up, but she seemed to be completely fine otherwise. The only major problem we ran across is that she wouldn't be able to leave the hospital for a few days, much less go to the digital world. Izzy had already been making trips back there to visit Gennai and try to figure out what was causing the digimon to go crazy, but we knew that we would have to take a larger group if we wanted to fix the problem. Gatomon promised to go anyways. She was a champion, so she wouldn't need to digivolve in order to be helpful, but without Kari she couldn't DNA or armor digivolve, which also weakened Hawkmon's fighting ability.
She told us not to worry about her, and that she would be better off knowing that we were getting closer to figuring out the problem of the crazy digimon. Because of the return of Metalgarurumon and Wargreymon, Myotismon had been pushed to the back of our thoughts temporarily. We figured that he wouldn't attack us when we had so much strength.
"Are you sure you're going to be alright here?" Yolei asked.
"I'm sure," Kari said with a smile. "You should all go help Izzy. I'm sure he needs it a lot more than I do right now.
"If you're sure," Davis said reluctantly.
"I'm sure," Kari assured him.
"Alright then. We'll come back later tonight to check on you, okay?" Davis persisted.
"Okay Davis," Kari said, giggling. My D-terminal started beeping.
"That's probably Izzy now, wondering where we are," I said as I took it out.
"Well we promised to meet him five minutes ago," Cody reminded us.
"No, it's from Gennai!" I said, as I read the email message.
Everyone save Kari jumped up in surprise.
"What does it say? Why would he send this to you?" Yolei asked.
"Hang on, let me read it," I said.
Dear TK,
You're probably wondering why I sent this message to you instead of Izzy. Well, I knew that you were probably visiting Kari so I wanted you to tell her that I hope she's feeling better.
"That's what he wanted to tell us?" Davis asked.
"Hold on, there's more," I said.
You're probably wondering if that's all I had to tell you. Well, I'm afraid I have some good news and some bad news. I'll start with the good news. Myotismon has been destroyed.
"What?!" Everyone yelled simultaneously.
"That's got to be a mistake," Cody said.
"How could he have been destroyed? Who would have destroyed him?" Kari asked.
"Let me finish the message," I said, returning my attention to the screen.
I bet you're wondering if that was a mistake. Well, it wasn't. Myotismon is dead and gone. He won't be troubling you again. However, his army will be. It was Daemon that destroyed Myotismon. Daemon has taken control of Myotismon's army. He is doing some very strange things which some friends of mine are looking into right now. Now for the bad news.
"How is Daemon not the bad news?" Davis asked.
"Just let TK finish," Yolei said.
Just before Daemon found him, Myotismon managed to find an open gate to the real world, and he has locked it open so that it can be used any time. Daemon himself is now amassing digimon near the gate, but not normal digimon. He is gathering the crazy ones that have been causing so much havoc. You need to go to Izzy right away and relay this message to him.
"I thought we had locked Daemon away in the Dark Ocean," Ken said. "How could he have gotten out of there?"
"He was able to freely pass between the real world and digital world, maybe he found a way to freely pass out of the Dark Ocean as well," Cody suggested.
"Well this changes everything. Myotismon was only an ultimate, but Daemon is a mega, and a powerful one, too," Davis said.
"I think you guys are overlooking the most obvious problem," Yolei said. "The fact that he has a digital gate which he is going to use to bring digimon into this world!"
There was a brief moment of silence as everyone contemplated this, and then we all bolted for the door.
"Sorry to run out, Kari, but this is really important!" Davis yelled back to her.
"Don't worry, I understand!" Kari called after us as we rushed down the hallway to the elevators.
We ran as quickly as possible to Izzy's apartment. As soon as he opened the door, we all rushed inside.
"What's going on guys? Why the rush?" he asked.
"It's Daemon, and Myotismon, and the gate, and . . ." Davis started choking out random words.
"Davis, slow down, I can't understand you," Izzy said. "Now, just try to explain what the problem is, nice and slowly."
"Daemon somehow escaped from the Dark Ocean, and he's managed to delete Myotismon," I began. Izzy's eyes grew wide.
"I've got to talk to Gennai about this, tell me the rest while my computer boots up," he said as he walked into his room and turned on the machine. We all crowded into the room.
"Well, Daemon has now taken control of Myotismon's army. But before Myotismon was defeated, he managed to open a digital gate. Now Daemon is gathering up the crazy digimon near the gate," I explained.
"How'd you find all of this out?" Izzy asked.
"An email from Gennai," I replied.
"Hm, I see," Izzy said. He opened up his email. "Well, there's nothing from Gennai, but what's this?" he said, moving the cursor of the email in question. "I don't recognize that name, but my computer didn't filter it out as spam." Izzy thought for a moment, and then opened it. The email came up, and Izzy quickly began to scan it.
"It's from someone named Ricky, in America," Izzy told us. I took a closer look at the screen as Izzy began to read it, and I was surprised when Izzy began to read it to us.
Mister Izzy, I know you don't know me, but my name's Ricky. I know Will and Shark, who I hope made it there safely by now. I have some things I have to tell you about Daemon. Michael and Laura, two of my friends, have managed to discover his plans. He is using the digimon to farm very powerful herbs that, when eaten, cause digimon to go insane. He is then grinding them up and dumping them into rivers, so that when digimon drink from the rivers, they begin to go insane. We've discovered a way around this, however. Plant digimon absorb abnormally high quantities of the herb when it is around them, but they are not affected by it. This means that a plant type digimon would be able to cure another digimon by touching them and draining the herb out of them. Also, machine type digimon are immune to the herb's effects.
Thanks for listening to me. If you see Shark, please tell him that Jesse misses him. And if you see Will, tell him that I'm sorry. I didn't get the chance to before he left.
"If this kid is right, then that explains why Palmon was able to cure Gatomon and why Gatomon went crazy in the first place," Izzy said. "We'll need to tell everyone, and then we need to go to the digital world and take out these farms that Daemon has. If we can do that, then I think . . . Why are you guys staring at me?"
"Izzy, that email isn't in Japanese," Cody told him.
"What? What are you talking . . ." Izzy started as he turned back to the screen.
"It's English, Izzy," Ken told him. Izzy continued to stare at the screen.
"Prodigious," he said, coming to a conclusion. "I can't understand the letters any more." Izzy leaned back and smiled. "This must have something to do with my crest," he said.
"What do you mean, Izzy?" I asked.
"Well, I think I've developed a theory about what the hidden powers of these crests might be. You remember what Joe said, about when he and Gomamon were sucked into the digital world. His crest is reliability, so it reacted unconsciously when Will and Kari needed him to save them. My crest of knowledge just did the same thing. The email was important, so my crest let me understand it even though I can't actually read it," Izzy explained.
"That's incredible," Cody said.
"That's not the only example. TK, do you remember five years ago, when we were in Machinedramon's city?" Izzy asked.
"Yeah, of course I do," I said.
"Kari got sick, and you guys stayed to guard her while Tai and I went out to look for medicine. But then that spirit possessed Kari, and she got better instantly, as well as being able to empower the Numemon and give a weak and hungry Agumon enough strength to warp digivolve into Wargreymon. Looking back, I think that this was a manifestation of her crest's power, possibly the strongest manifestation we've seen, and we didn't even realize it. We've also seen some of the power of Will's crest. The ability to close digital gates and pass effortlessly into the Dark Ocean are, I think, manifestations of the Dark crest's power." Izzy finished his analysis and leaned back.
"So if we can figure out a way to control this power, then we can do amazing things with our crests," Davis said. "Perhaps Veemon will be able to digivolve to ultimate!"
"That's an accurate summation," Izzy responded. "But believe it or not, I think Will is the closest. It helps that he still has the physical tag and crest; because it lets him more easily channel the power of his crest. He can control his passage to and from the Dark Ocean, and that means that he's controlling his crest's power, whether he realizes it or not." Just then, the phone rang.
Izzy picked it up. "Hello . . . are you sure? . . . Alright, we'll be right there!" Izzy slammed the receiver down. "That was Matt. We've got a big problem."
