Title: What's Mine Is Mine
Characters: Ken, Daisuke, Hikari||Pairing: Ken x Daisuke
Chapter: 7-20||Words: 6,300
Challenges: Diversity Writing: Digimon Adventure/02/tri: Ken x Daisuke: I13: more than 15 chapters; Three-Sided Box Challenge, 900 words & 20 chapters; One Ship Boot Camp, #25, administer; Chapter Set Boot Camp, #21, 20 chapters
Notes: N/A
Summary: The Chosen prevented Kaiser from taking Daisuke once. He won't allow that again. This time, they're going to hand him over personally, and they're not getting him back.

Kaiser's laughter echoed off of the walls of his fortress as he observed what was going on with the Chosen. The Chosen and his very soon to be acquired toy, he amended to himself. Because one way or another, Motomiya Daisuke would be his. He'd gone to too much trouble already not to have him.

First the whole attack on Andromon's city, and getting the information that he needed from Andromon himself: that what Yagami Hikari, who'd denied him his prize once already, treasured most in all the world were her Digimon partner – foolish to care at all, let alone over a collection of oddly shaped data – and her brother.

While targeting Yagami Taichi remained a possibility, targeting Tailmon was much easier and far more convenient. Not to mention interesting; while he knew very well of MetalGreymon's overwhelming power, less had been said about what the small Holy Beast could accomplish, and Kaiser found himself curious to explore.

Not curious enough to target her without an ulterior motive of his own. But he'd technically never said that he wouldn't put a Spiral on Tailmon if Yagami delivered his prize to him. He would let her think that, and even if he had promised, what matter? Keeping one's word was for fools. Not for people like him.

He could entertain himself with that another time, however. He found far more amusement in watching how the Chosen tried to deal with his main plain.

On his view-screen, he could see Daisuke struggling against the Chosen. They'd put him on a sort of travois to carry him without risk of falling, hurrying their way to what they thought was a safer area. It remained 'safe' only because he hadn't gotten around to conquering it yet. He could do that in an hour if he wanted to.

But for now they chose to forget that and waited for one of their elders to appear, this one with medical supplies.

As if any doctor could undo what I've done to him.

He'd worked hard on the drug between the time he'd moved here and now. If all went according to his plan, it was now busily rewriting the data that made up Motomiya Daisuke. To the outside, he would be unchanged once the fever passed and the changes set in.

On the inside however, he would be a much different person: absolutely loyal to his new master and against whomsoever his master decreed an enemy. He would do anything at all the Kaiser asked of him and would not do something as inconvenient as think for himself.

What reason would he have to, when the Kaiser could and would think for him? It would certainly be more efficient thinking than what Motomiya did for himself now.

Until then, the fool would suffer hallucinations and fever, likely unable to recognize his own allies, and too weak to stand up and run away.

It would've been amusing to let him know in more detail, but since he wouldn't be aware of what was going on, not quite as much fun. Kaiser's fun depended to some degree on the ones he played with being aware that they were his tools of amusement.

The hallucinations would have to do. He couldn't control what Motomiya saw, but he had a feeling that it involved him in some way. He'd done all that he could to develop the serum in such a way that it would conjure up all of Motomiya's worst nightmares, and what could be worse for him than the Kaiser?

Watching the others try to deal with what he'd done offered even more amusement. They had no sample and wouldn't have time to develop an anti-venom even if they had. He judged it would've taken days to do so, if not longer. And he would not give them that long.

Nor would he have to. He'd told Yagami that in thirty-six hours they wouldn't like the results of the venom's effects and that he had the antidote. Depending on how one viewed the situation, he might have lied or might not.

There wasn't an antidote at all. An antidote would reverse what he'd done to Motomiya and he didn't want that. But in thirty-six hours, the data rewriting would be complete and he would have his devoted slave kneeling at his feet. He knew for a fact that none of the Chosen would want that.

If they didn't hand Motomiya over, he would come to his new master anyway. He wouldn't be able to stop himself, nor would he want to. He would see himself for what he was or would be then: a captive behind enemy lines. And like any good, obedient slave, he would return to his master.

The look on their faces when they realized that he'd set this up in such a fashion that nothing they did could change him back, that they'd lost their precious leader to the Kaiser forever…

That had to be worth extra points in the final score. He could hardly wait to find out how many. Converting the enemy leader to one's side like this? Flawless.

He might have to do something permanent about V-mon, but that could wait until afterward. A Spiral would take care of him nicely. Perhaps Motomiya could put it on the blue pest himself.

Now wouldn't that be a wonderful sight to see?

To Be Continued

Notes: Just Kaiser being Kaiser. As he does.