Here ya go. Chapter five! This one gets a bit more suspenseful.
"Tell us where she is!" Paildramon boomed as he slammed Yukamon into a tree, holding him fast in the throat with his claws.
The silver goat struggled harshly, pounding his fists against the arm choking him in vain. "I have to tell you nothing!" he gasped.
"Tell me where he took Kari now!" Ken spat through clenched teeth.
"Over my dust and bones!" he snarled back.
"Paildramon!" Ken ordered.
He tightened his grip around the goat's throat. "Do what he says."
Yukamon's struggle grew weaker, his eyes drifting down and around in fury from lack of options. "Do as you wish...to me!" he growled and choked. "By the time you are through with me...Cachumon...will have had his way with her!"
"You take that back, you scum!!" Paildramon roared as he shoved him against the tree harder.
"Paildramon, no!" Ken said. "Just let him go. He's not talking."
"What?"
"Are you crazy!?" yelled Cody. "You can't just let him go!"
"Yeah, crunch him, Paildramon!" Davis said.
"No, Paildramon, don't!" Ken argued.
"Yeah, do it!" Davis grunted.
"I..." the confused digimon glanced from child to child.
"Do it, Paildramon!" Cody encouraged.
"No, he's a living digimon!" Yolei countered.
"With an evil black heart!" T.K. snapped.
"Stop!" Gatomon caused them all to silence. "Kari wouldn't have killed him."
Ken looked up at Paildramon and nodded. The answer was clear. He released his grip and let the choking digimon fall to the ground. "Mark my words, you have not seen the last of me!" he barked before vanishing into the woods.
Davis angrily shoved Ken. "What was that all about!?" he yelled. "You just let that evil digimon get away!"
"What would we have done with him?" he asked, pushing him back. "Murdered him in cold blood?"
"Something you'd know all about!" Cody stepped in.
"Hey-"
"He could have told us something about Kari!" Davis continued.
"No, Ken's right!" Gatomon scampered over. "There's nothing we could've gotten out of him."
"What is it with your evil people turned into good guys agreeing on this stupid stuff?" Davis grumbled.
Gatomon let a fierce snarl emit from the depths of her being. "Maybe I just know what he's going through!" Gatomon heaved her chest up and down in anger. "Look at you all! I forget sometimes you're all a bunch of KIDS!" the digidestined looked shocked.
"What makes you so special?" Davis argued.
"Experience!" she hissed. "Maybe none of you others see it, but death is much more real then you'll ever know!" she looked around. "Everyone of you, children! I had a friend once! His name was Wizardmon. He died for me, me! Just so that I could live a better life! Don't any of you know what that means, to give your life away? It means no more laughing or playing! No more talking with the ones you love! It means you're gone! Yukamon might have been a confused digimon, but his death would've hurt someone. If you don't care then why come here? You won't be saving anyone."
Ken lifted Gatomon and Leafmon off the ground. "If you guys won't help me, I'll find Kari myself!"
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Kari slowly drifted into conciousness as her vision blurred into focus. She was on hard, dirt ground and a figure was coming towards her. "It's about time you awoke!" it muttered.
"What? Where am I?" she grabbed her head and looked up as Cachumon focused into her view. "Oh no..."
"Quiet! Now, hand over your pathetic digivice so that I may destroy you."
"Can't the bad guys ever come up with better lines?" she mumbled. "You can't have my digivice! Just as soon as Davis gets here, you'll be sorry!"
He threw his head back in an amused cackle. "You really think that purple-haired idiot will save you? What a joke!"
"They'll come for me!"
"Aye, that may be so." He snarled and grabbed Kari by the shirt. "But if you don't give me that digivice I'll have to take it!"
Kari struggled wildly. "Get...your hands...off me!!"
He ignored her cries, searching through her pockets. "Where is it?"
Kari's fighting suddenly broke the string around her neck, and her camera fell to the ground, going off and sending a flash into Cachumon's eyes. "GrrAAAH!!" he immediately dropped Kari, grabbing his face.
Kari scuttled away quickly, stumbling over herself and still at the mercy of Cachumon. He furiously belted her across the face with a hand and picked her up once more. "Let me go!" Kari yelled desperately.
"Shut up!" he finally found her digivice and tossed her to the stone ground like a useless wrapper.
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"Kari!" Ken called.
"No, like this." Gatomon stepped forward. "KARI!!!" silence greeted them. "Now what?"
"Wormmon, give us a hand?" Ken asked.
"Sure. Wormmon digivolve to.............Stingmon!" Stingmon picked up Ken and Gatomon and took to the air to get a better scan of the area.
"How are we supposed to find her?" Gatomon peered through the trees.
"KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Stingmon bellowed.
"Warn us next time!!" Gatomon growled. "Ouch. I've got a hangnail."
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"How are we gonna find Kari?!" Davis complained.
"How should I know?" Yolei grumbled. "You guys didn't have to chase Ken off like that!"
"Who needs him?" Huffed Cody.
"He's the one that got Kari lost in the first place!" Davis agreed.
"I wouldn't be surprised if he were part of this." Cody said under his breath.
"Cody, how could you say something like that?" Yolei said, shocked.
"Let's just find Kari and leave him!" Davis said.
"No." Said T.K., putting a hand on Yolei's shoulder. "Yolei's right. We were too hard on him, all of us were. It's no one's fault, but Kari's in danger. We can talk about his later."
"What would you know, T.Q.?!" Davis raged.
"Cram it, Davis." Yolei led the group onward.
What will Cachumon do to Kari? Will Ken and the others resolve their differences? Will Gatomon get rid of her annoying hangnail? Find out...uh...later!