Part 8:

The streets of Tokyo were dark and deserted. Only the outcasts lived here now, Digimon and human alike. T.K. and Patamon were trying to avoid them as they searched in vain for their friends. Wizardmon had been taken prisoner, and the other Digidestined were no where in sight.

"Where are they?" T.K. asked as he and Patamon walked down the street. Wizardmon had been taking them to the headquarters he had seen in his visions, but T.K. had no idea where that was.

"Quiet," Patamon suddenly said, pulling T.K. behind a dumpster, "I hear something."

T.K. hadn't hear anything, but he knew that his friends ears were bigger than his. He crouched down behind the dumpster and peeked over to see what had made the noise.

A group of humans and Digimon were walking down the street. They were all carrying heavy loads and two of the Digimon were pulling a cart containing a figure in black armor, and a Meramon. T.K. recognized the human that was near the front. "Matt!" he cried out, running towards his brother.

The blond haired kid looked up at him. "T.K.?" he asked, falling to his knees.

"Of course!" T.K. said, running up to him.

"It...It can't be," Matt said, but it was true. His younger brother was standing right in front of him.

"I can't believe its you!" he cried, hugging him tight.

"T.K.," Kari cried,"It's you."

T.K. pulled away from Matt and looked at her. "Wow." he said. Instead of the cute eight year old he remembered, standing in front of him was a gorgeous 18-year-old.

"Kari, is that you?" he asked.

"Of course," she said, confused,"Who else would I be?"

"Good to see you again," Tai said,"But we need to keep moving."

"What's with him?" T.K. whispered to his brother.

"I'll tell you later," Matt said.


Myotismon growled. "How could you have failed on finding the Eight Child?"

He turned around to face his generals. The Dark Knights of Air, water, and Earth were facing him with the Digimon Kaizer standing in front of them. When the Dark Knights didn't answer, the Kaizer turned around to face them. "Answer him!" he ordered.

"I am sorry, my lord," Air said.

"We believe that she is traveling with the Digidestined," Water said.

"She?" Myotismon asked, curious.

Water nodded. "Yes, before Fire was captured, we got a reaction from the crest at the Digidestined. A young woman with Gatomon was there."

"Do you know her name?"

"Yes, the eight child is Tai Kamiya's younger sister."

Myotismon smiled wickedly,"Interesting. Find her now, and make sure Tai sees you capture his sister! HAHAHAHA!"



"Well," Mimi said, looking around,"Home sweet home."

They had chosen a run down abandoned factory as their new home. It was dark and dank, with a dripping water leak, and a decrepitude stench. It was big though, huge enough for all eight of them to have their own rooms, bunking with their Digimon, of course.

"Tai?" Mimi asked, looking for her husband. She couldn't find him anywhere. She walked past Izzy's lab room. He was there, with Izzy and the Dark Knight of Fire. She felt a lump in her throat. Ever since they found out that the Dark Knight of Fire was Sora, she felt an uncontrollable fear that Tai would leave her for Sora. She started to cry softly as she ran from the door way.

"Did you hear something?" Agumon asked, turning to the door.

"Yeah," Tai said," It sounded like...Mimi? Izzy, keep working, I'm going to see what's wrong with her."

After Tai left, Izzy started typing again. He had his laptop connected to Sora's cybernetic attachments and was trying to find a way to reach her programing. "What's this?" he asked.

"What?" Agumon and Tentomon asked at the same time.

"Hear we go," he said, as a group of numbers and letters appeared on the screen,"Here is the programing that Myotismon installed in her. Maybe I can delete it. That would also revive her."

"How?" Tentomon asked.

"Well, when Megaseadramon blasted her with his Thunder Javelin, it short circuited the armor and a fail safe kicked in. Deleting the program would de-activate the fail safe, and she would wake up."

"Can you do it?" Agumon asked.

Izzy typed for a bit more,"Here we go!" he said as he pressed the enter button.

Sora's eyes slowly opened. She turned her head and saw Izzy, Tentomon, and Agumon. She jumped up and growled at them. "Woa," Agumon said, holding up his hands,"Easy, Sora. It's us."

"A-A-Agumon?" she asked slowly,"I-I-Izzy, Tentomon?"

"Yes, "Izzy nodded,"Yes, its us."

She looked at herself and screamed.


"Mimi," Tai cried, trying to grab hold of her,"Mimi, Mimi, please wait."

She stopped with her back towards him. "What's wrong?" he asked.

"Nothing," he heard her say, funny. "Nothing at all."

He grabbed her and twirled her around. Her makeup was running from her tears."Why are you crying?" he asked.

"Because,"she said,"I'm worried that you'll leave me for Sora."

"What?" he asked.

"Ever since Sora came back, all you've done is obsess over her."

Tai hugged her."Mimi, listen to me. I will never leave you for Sora. I do love her, but I love you even more."

She smiled,"Promise?"

He nodded. "Promise."

That's when they heard the scream.


"Wh-what happened to me?" Sora screamed, looking down at herself.

"Listen to me," Izzy said,"Myotismon did this to you, he changed you into his Dark Knight of Fire."

"Myotismon did this to me?" she asked.

She looked at her armor covered body. Izzy saw this and said,"Sora, you are part machine. That armor is connected to your cybernetic implants. You can pull the armor away. You just have to concentrate."

"O-Okay," she said. She closed her eyes and concentrated as hard as she could. When she opened her eyes, she saw that the armor was gone, instead of the full bodied metal suit, she found she was wearing a metal bikini. "What the?"

"You did that," Izzy said, "You can control the armor."

She thought for a second more and the metal bikini grew and covered her body in armor again. "Cool," she said, making the armor a short sleeve shirt and shorts.

She suddenly remembered where she was. "Where's Tai?"

"He's with Mimi," Izzy said, before remembering who he was talking to.

Sora's face saddened. "Oh yeah, I forgot."

Then they heard the scream.



Tai and Mimi reached the door way of their new HQ. Daisuke, V-mon, Matt, Tsunomon, T.K., and Tokomon were laying on the ground, nearly unconscious. "What happened?" Tai asked, lifting Matt up.

"Kari," he said, weekly "Tai, I'm sorry. They got Kari."

"What?"

"I did everything I could. They used the De-Digivolving blasts. Then Daisuke used Fladramon, but Phantomon slaughtered him. I'm sorry."

Tai gently placed his friend down. "They got Kari?" Mimi asked.

"Yes," Tai said,"And we got to get her back."


NEXT: ELEVENTH HOUR.