Dancing in the Darkness
By: Tai Chick
Part Two: Evil Actions
Mimi was just about to pick up her purse and head off to the mall when her D-terminal beeped, indicating an E-mail
"Oh I'll just check this before I go..." She thought to herself. As she opened it and began to read.
Mimi-
Please come to Tokyo as soon as possible! It's an emergency! We'll be waiting in the computer room at the school.
- The Digidestines
"No time for shopping now!" Mimi cried as she grabbed her things and prepared to travel the long distance...but nothing was too far for her friends.
Halfway across the world, hours later, all of the older Digidestines began getting similar E-mails, and each one dropped what they were doing to go to the computer lab...
~ * ~ * ~
Daisuke's stomach was tied in knots. He was scared. Probably more scared than he had ever been in his life.
The young goggled boy was sitting in the computer lab with Iori, Miyako, Takeru, Hikari and Ken. They were having an informal meeting...little did they know what was about to come. Even though Daisuke didn't know either...he knew it was going to be bad.
Chibimon was sitting in his lap, and wouldn't leave to play with the other Digimon, it was almost as if he could sense he needed to spend these few moments with his best friend.
"Are you okay Daisuke?" Hikari asked looking at him curiously.
"I'm fine." Daisuke replied trying to give her a smile...and succeeding quite well. Hikari seemed to buy the explanation and when back to what she was doing.
"Are you sure you're okay Dai?" Ken whispered in his ear...quietly so that no one else would hear. Even though they had been together for quiet a while they still hadn't figured out how to tell the others. So it had stayed a secret between the two of them...and Chibimon and Minomon of corse.
"Hai." He whispered back.
Before anyone had a chance to say anything else, the door to the computer lab burst open and all the older Digidestines...including Mimi stood there looking anxious. They all entered and looks of confusion passed the faces of the younger children.
"What's the big emergency?" Taichi gasped, out of breath from running the whole way.
"What emergency?" Hikari asked, completely perplexed.
"I got an E-mail saying that you were all waiting here and needed help." Yamato spoke up. "So I dumped band practice and got here as soon as I could."
"Same goes for me." Koushirou said.
"I got an E-mail hours ago so I came here as soon as I could...I was afraid I was going to be too late to do anything." Mimi stated.
"We didn't send any E-mails." Iori said, just as confused as everyone else.
'Stand.' Came the voice in Daisuke's ear, but no one heard it but him. It was different this time. It wasn't Hotaru, Daisuke could tell. It was Sealya speaking to him...this was too important for her to mess up.
He stood.
"Daisuke?" Taichi asked.
'Throw the goggles at his feet...look smug about everything you do!'
Daisuke, using every ounce of self control he had, tore his prize possession of his head and threw them. The goggles slid across the floor and hit the feet of a very confused and extremely hurt looking Taichi. Daisuke only looked at him with a look of arrogance.
"Daisuke what's your problem!?" Yamato demanded putting an arm around his crest fallen boyfriend.
"Daisuke please tell us what's wrong!" Chibimon begged, who was still clinging to his leg.
'Kick him off you...make him fly!'
Daisuke panicked...there was no way he could do something like that. 'I can't!' He screamed in his mind.
'DO IT!!!'
His heart breaking Daisuke forced his foot to lash out causing Chibimon to loose his grip and go flying across the room. He hit the far wall and was almost knocked unconscious. When he looked up and Daisuke the little Digimon was crying and bleeding.
'Good...very good, don't let up now...repeat after me...'
"Daisuke what the hell are you thinking!?" Miyako exploded at him. "Do you have any idea what you just did!?"
"I do." Daisuke stated, repeating what Sealya was telling him to say.
"Nani...?" Jou commented, not able to get anything else out.
"Daisuke, sit down and cool off!" Taichi said running at him, for the first time in years he had completely lost his cool.
Daisuke, on instruction, side stepped him. "Think your so hot Mr. All-star-former-leader-of-this-stupid-group! Well I've got news for you...we're on opposite teams now...and you're going to loose. You've got new enemies now...one of which...is me."
"What are you saying?" Sora cried, speaking what was on everyone's minds.
"I'm taking orders." Daisuke said as if it was no big deal. "Didn't think I'd get sick of leading this rag-tag team? Well...it's time to take a new approach, the complete dominance approach. The taking-over-the-world approach."
"Dai you don't know what you're saying!" Ken cried, speaking for the first time.
'I do Ken...I'm sorry...please help Chibimon, don't let him hurt...'
'Exit out of there...come to me...'
"Good bye, we *will* meet again." Daisuke managed a snicker. "You can be sure of that."
He walked out of the room...everyone was too shocked to stop him.
"Dai! Come back!" Ken cried, who had picked up Chibimon and was comforting him. When Daisuke failed to return to them...to explain that his actions had all just been some kind of misunderstanding, Ken sank to the floor, unable to move.
~*~*~
Daisuke looked around him, he was sure that he wasn't in the real world anymore...and he was hurting, so so bad. He didn't think that Sealya could test him like that. He had hurt Chibimon so much, and Ken too. When this was all over, he wasn't sure if he would be able win his friends' forgiveness.
"Daisuke! Excellent job!" Came Sealya's voice. "I'm so proud of you!"
Daisuke didn't say anything. Hotaru came up to him and gave him a big hug.
"You're ours now Daisuke! You can rule with us! Isn't it great?"
"Yeah...great." He looked at Sealya. "What exactly am I supposed to do?"
"All in good time. When things are right you may know all...but for now, how about you start off with stay here with us?"
"Hai, hai! Please stay!" Hotaru begged.
Daisuke looked around again. He seemed to be in a hallway of some kind. It was very big and seemed very luxurious. "Is this your home?"
"It's yours too now Daisuke...agree to stay with us and it can be yours too. You can stay, and rule, and have everything you've ever wanted..."
Thinking quickly Daisuke realized that he didn't have a choice. To keep up with his plan of infiltrating the enemy, he would have to stay. He had all ready done too much to turn back now.
"All right..." Daisuke said. "I'll stay."
"Hurray!" Hotaru yelled, holding him by the arm again.
"Very well...Hotaru why don't you show our new friend to his room...then take him to play. Soon he will have to face his former friends once again..."
'Ken...Chibimon...please forgive me...'
~*~*~
It was a week later. All of the newer Chosen Children had gathered in the computer room after school, all except for Ken.
"So why isn't Ken here?" Takeru asked.
Miyako sighed. "Ken's taking this harder than anyone. I went to his house the other day and he's a mess...not eating, not sleeping...Chibimon isn't doing good either. I think that it has something to do with the fact that Ken used to be the Digimon Kaizer...you know a flashback kind of thing.
Suddenly the door swung open "The next time we have a meeting I'd appreciate it if you told me about it." Came Ken's voice from the doorway. Miyako had been right, he didn't look good. He looked paler than usual, his hair hadn't been brushed and there were bags under his eyes. Chibimon was held against his chest, and Minomon walked beside them.
Hikari got up and got him a chair, which he thankfully took. "We're sorry Ken...we just though that it would be best for you to try and get some rest."
"I've been talking to Chibimon" Ken continued. "He says that Dai had been acting strange the day he...he turned on us. I'm thinking...oh I don't even know what to think!" He put his head down.
"Shhhh...Ken it's okay, we're all going to try and figure out what to do about Daisuke." Miyako said, trying to comfort him.
He shot up again. "But that's just it! *nothing* should have to be done about him! He should be here...with us, trying to fight enemies, not being one!" Ken quieted down. "And I heard you talking earlier...and I'm not upset because of past memories."
Iori bit his lip. "Then why are you upset?"
Ken had wandered over to the window, as though he hadn't heard Iori. He was still holding Chibimon. "I thought he loved me, I thought that he would be able to trust me enough to tell me if something this big was happening. Dai, what happened to you?"
"Ken…" Miyako started, trying to understand what was going through the boy's head.
"Hi guys!" Came Daisuke's voice.
They all whipped around. "Dai! You came back!" Ken exclaimed happily, but before they could run at him in excitement another person appeared behind him.
"Hello Chosen Children…tomentors of our Daisuke." she said shrewdly.
"Daisuke get over here right now!" Takeru yelled. "I don't know what you think you're doing but you…"
Suddenly the portal…in which the other childern had never seen before, opened and sucked them into the Digital World.
"Where are we…what happened?" Hikari cried.
"We're in the Digital World!" Iori cried.
"Daisuke what's going on?" Miyako asked fearfully.
"I told you." Daisuke started. "There is a new threat to the Digital World."
He prayed with all his heart that they would understand what he was talking about. "Sealya, and Hotaru have almost complete control over it, through the Digimon of course."
The lady that Daisuke had called Sealya, placed a hand on his arm. "You do too now, Daisuke."
"Yeah…me too."
"Is that why you turned on us!?" Iori exploded. "You saw a new threat and didn't think we'd win?! So you betrayed us!?"
Daisuke laughed outside, but inside he was dying. 'Yes Iori…I saw an enemy we couldn't beat…so I turned myself over so maybe we, and our worlds might have a chance…and I've lost just about everything because of it.' He looked over at Chibimon. The small Digimon was clinging to Ken like the way he used to him. Ken did not look well either…Daisuke hoped that this wouldn't kill them all.
"Daisuke…" Sealya said. "Why don't you tell your former friends of your turnover…tell them how you now belong to us. Tell them about your sweet Hotaru…"
He glared privately at her. He could pretend to betray his friends…to turn against them…to turn evil…but he could never forget his love for Ken.
"I think that we should go home now…" Daisuke began but Ken cut him off by grabbing his arm…the pale boy was glaring daggers now.
"Who is Hotaru…Dai what happened to you!? Why won't you talk to me!?"
"Ken…I…"
Ken didn't leave his eyes, his expression didn't soften either. "Daisuke Motamiya. Do you love me, or do you not?"
Daisuke looked at Sealya…he could easily tell what she wanted him to do, to say no, to hurt Ken very badly…but there wasn't any way that he could. "I do." he croaked.
"Then talk to me."
"I can't…things…circumstances have changed…"
Before he could get another word out the Chosen Children were sucked back through the portal and into their computer lab. Ken could only stare at the spot when he had been holding onto Daisuke.
"Damn!" Takeru yelled, hitting a desk with his fist. "What the hell is he thinking!?"
"Ken…" Miyako started yet again. "What was that all about?"
Ken bit his lip. "I thought that I would be able to get through to him. I thought that he loved me enough to tell me what was wrong…I guess I was mistaken." Not being able to say another word he ran out of the computer room.
"Ken come back!" Miyako yelled to him, but Takeru put an arm on her shoulder
"Let him go."
~*~*~
Later that night Miyako made her way to Ken's house, hoping to get him to cheer up…even if only a little bit. She arrived at the appartment…at least the one she hoped was his, only Daisuke had ever been there, and knocked on the door.
"Hello, can I help you?" A nice looking woman asked, peaking through the door.
"Yes…" Miyako began. "I'm Miyako, a friend of Ken…does he live here?"
"Oh yes, please come in." She lead the way into the house and Miyako followed. "Ken's been so down lately. I think that Daisuek and he had a fight…Diasuke is such a nice boy, almost always happy…except when his parents have been fighting, then he comes here." Miyako looked at the women she was pregnant, she might be due any day, but then her words sunk in. "Daisuke's parents fight?" she asked. It was the first she had heard of it.
"Oh yes, didn't you know? Poor boy came here quite a few times, a terrible mess…always calms down when he's with Ken though, they're good for each other, I hope they work out whatever mess they've gotten into…" She stopped in front of a door and knocked. "Ken…honey you have a visitor…"
"Come in." came his soft voice. Ken's mother opened the door and then left.
"Ken?"
"Miyako...what are you doing here?" Ken asked, surprised. His arms were around the two Digimon in his care.
She sat down on the bed beside him. "I thought that you could use a friend...you know, someone to talk to."
Ken wouldn't look at her. "There really isn't anything to say."
"Okay then I'll start." She took a deep breath. "The-rain-in-Spain-falls-mainly-on-the-plains."
Ken looked at her in shocked confusion.
"How-much-wood-would-a-woodchuck-chuck-if-a-woodchuck-could-chuck-wood?" Miyako continued rambling off tongue twisters off the top of her head.
Suddenly Ken blinked and then began to laugh, causing Miyako to smile, glad that she could relive some of the tension.
Much to her surprise though Ken sat up and began to hug her tightly. "Thank you Miyako."
She hugged him back. "You're welcome."
Faraway someone was watching this interaction through her mind. "This could prove useful..." she said and gave an evil laugh.
By: Tai Chick
Part Two: Evil Actions
Mimi was just about to pick up her purse and head off to the mall when her D-terminal beeped, indicating an E-mail
"Oh I'll just check this before I go..." She thought to herself. As she opened it and began to read.
Mimi-
Please come to Tokyo as soon as possible! It's an emergency! We'll be waiting in the computer room at the school.
- The Digidestines
"No time for shopping now!" Mimi cried as she grabbed her things and prepared to travel the long distance...but nothing was too far for her friends.
Halfway across the world, hours later, all of the older Digidestines began getting similar E-mails, and each one dropped what they were doing to go to the computer lab...
~ * ~ * ~
Daisuke's stomach was tied in knots. He was scared. Probably more scared than he had ever been in his life.
The young goggled boy was sitting in the computer lab with Iori, Miyako, Takeru, Hikari and Ken. They were having an informal meeting...little did they know what was about to come. Even though Daisuke didn't know either...he knew it was going to be bad.
Chibimon was sitting in his lap, and wouldn't leave to play with the other Digimon, it was almost as if he could sense he needed to spend these few moments with his best friend.
"Are you okay Daisuke?" Hikari asked looking at him curiously.
"I'm fine." Daisuke replied trying to give her a smile...and succeeding quite well. Hikari seemed to buy the explanation and when back to what she was doing.
"Are you sure you're okay Dai?" Ken whispered in his ear...quietly so that no one else would hear. Even though they had been together for quiet a while they still hadn't figured out how to tell the others. So it had stayed a secret between the two of them...and Chibimon and Minomon of corse.
"Hai." He whispered back.
Before anyone had a chance to say anything else, the door to the computer lab burst open and all the older Digidestines...including Mimi stood there looking anxious. They all entered and looks of confusion passed the faces of the younger children.
"What's the big emergency?" Taichi gasped, out of breath from running the whole way.
"What emergency?" Hikari asked, completely perplexed.
"I got an E-mail saying that you were all waiting here and needed help." Yamato spoke up. "So I dumped band practice and got here as soon as I could."
"Same goes for me." Koushirou said.
"I got an E-mail hours ago so I came here as soon as I could...I was afraid I was going to be too late to do anything." Mimi stated.
"We didn't send any E-mails." Iori said, just as confused as everyone else.
'Stand.' Came the voice in Daisuke's ear, but no one heard it but him. It was different this time. It wasn't Hotaru, Daisuke could tell. It was Sealya speaking to him...this was too important for her to mess up.
He stood.
"Daisuke?" Taichi asked.
'Throw the goggles at his feet...look smug about everything you do!'
Daisuke, using every ounce of self control he had, tore his prize possession of his head and threw them. The goggles slid across the floor and hit the feet of a very confused and extremely hurt looking Taichi. Daisuke only looked at him with a look of arrogance.
"Daisuke what's your problem!?" Yamato demanded putting an arm around his crest fallen boyfriend.
"Daisuke please tell us what's wrong!" Chibimon begged, who was still clinging to his leg.
'Kick him off you...make him fly!'
Daisuke panicked...there was no way he could do something like that. 'I can't!' He screamed in his mind.
'DO IT!!!'
His heart breaking Daisuke forced his foot to lash out causing Chibimon to loose his grip and go flying across the room. He hit the far wall and was almost knocked unconscious. When he looked up and Daisuke the little Digimon was crying and bleeding.
'Good...very good, don't let up now...repeat after me...'
"Daisuke what the hell are you thinking!?" Miyako exploded at him. "Do you have any idea what you just did!?"
"I do." Daisuke stated, repeating what Sealya was telling him to say.
"Nani...?" Jou commented, not able to get anything else out.
"Daisuke, sit down and cool off!" Taichi said running at him, for the first time in years he had completely lost his cool.
Daisuke, on instruction, side stepped him. "Think your so hot Mr. All-star-former-leader-of-this-stupid-group! Well I've got news for you...we're on opposite teams now...and you're going to loose. You've got new enemies now...one of which...is me."
"What are you saying?" Sora cried, speaking what was on everyone's minds.
"I'm taking orders." Daisuke said as if it was no big deal. "Didn't think I'd get sick of leading this rag-tag team? Well...it's time to take a new approach, the complete dominance approach. The taking-over-the-world approach."
"Dai you don't know what you're saying!" Ken cried, speaking for the first time.
'I do Ken...I'm sorry...please help Chibimon, don't let him hurt...'
'Exit out of there...come to me...'
"Good bye, we *will* meet again." Daisuke managed a snicker. "You can be sure of that."
He walked out of the room...everyone was too shocked to stop him.
"Dai! Come back!" Ken cried, who had picked up Chibimon and was comforting him. When Daisuke failed to return to them...to explain that his actions had all just been some kind of misunderstanding, Ken sank to the floor, unable to move.
~*~*~
Daisuke looked around him, he was sure that he wasn't in the real world anymore...and he was hurting, so so bad. He didn't think that Sealya could test him like that. He had hurt Chibimon so much, and Ken too. When this was all over, he wasn't sure if he would be able win his friends' forgiveness.
"Daisuke! Excellent job!" Came Sealya's voice. "I'm so proud of you!"
Daisuke didn't say anything. Hotaru came up to him and gave him a big hug.
"You're ours now Daisuke! You can rule with us! Isn't it great?"
"Yeah...great." He looked at Sealya. "What exactly am I supposed to do?"
"All in good time. When things are right you may know all...but for now, how about you start off with stay here with us?"
"Hai, hai! Please stay!" Hotaru begged.
Daisuke looked around again. He seemed to be in a hallway of some kind. It was very big and seemed very luxurious. "Is this your home?"
"It's yours too now Daisuke...agree to stay with us and it can be yours too. You can stay, and rule, and have everything you've ever wanted..."
Thinking quickly Daisuke realized that he didn't have a choice. To keep up with his plan of infiltrating the enemy, he would have to stay. He had all ready done too much to turn back now.
"All right..." Daisuke said. "I'll stay."
"Hurray!" Hotaru yelled, holding him by the arm again.
"Very well...Hotaru why don't you show our new friend to his room...then take him to play. Soon he will have to face his former friends once again..."
'Ken...Chibimon...please forgive me...'
~*~*~
It was a week later. All of the newer Chosen Children had gathered in the computer room after school, all except for Ken.
"So why isn't Ken here?" Takeru asked.
Miyako sighed. "Ken's taking this harder than anyone. I went to his house the other day and he's a mess...not eating, not sleeping...Chibimon isn't doing good either. I think that it has something to do with the fact that Ken used to be the Digimon Kaizer...you know a flashback kind of thing.
Suddenly the door swung open "The next time we have a meeting I'd appreciate it if you told me about it." Came Ken's voice from the doorway. Miyako had been right, he didn't look good. He looked paler than usual, his hair hadn't been brushed and there were bags under his eyes. Chibimon was held against his chest, and Minomon walked beside them.
Hikari got up and got him a chair, which he thankfully took. "We're sorry Ken...we just though that it would be best for you to try and get some rest."
"I've been talking to Chibimon" Ken continued. "He says that Dai had been acting strange the day he...he turned on us. I'm thinking...oh I don't even know what to think!" He put his head down.
"Shhhh...Ken it's okay, we're all going to try and figure out what to do about Daisuke." Miyako said, trying to comfort him.
He shot up again. "But that's just it! *nothing* should have to be done about him! He should be here...with us, trying to fight enemies, not being one!" Ken quieted down. "And I heard you talking earlier...and I'm not upset because of past memories."
Iori bit his lip. "Then why are you upset?"
Ken had wandered over to the window, as though he hadn't heard Iori. He was still holding Chibimon. "I thought he loved me, I thought that he would be able to trust me enough to tell me if something this big was happening. Dai, what happened to you?"
"Ken…" Miyako started, trying to understand what was going through the boy's head.
"Hi guys!" Came Daisuke's voice.
They all whipped around. "Dai! You came back!" Ken exclaimed happily, but before they could run at him in excitement another person appeared behind him.
"Hello Chosen Children…tomentors of our Daisuke." she said shrewdly.
"Daisuke get over here right now!" Takeru yelled. "I don't know what you think you're doing but you…"
Suddenly the portal…in which the other childern had never seen before, opened and sucked them into the Digital World.
"Where are we…what happened?" Hikari cried.
"We're in the Digital World!" Iori cried.
"Daisuke what's going on?" Miyako asked fearfully.
"I told you." Daisuke started. "There is a new threat to the Digital World."
He prayed with all his heart that they would understand what he was talking about. "Sealya, and Hotaru have almost complete control over it, through the Digimon of course."
The lady that Daisuke had called Sealya, placed a hand on his arm. "You do too now, Daisuke."
"Yeah…me too."
"Is that why you turned on us!?" Iori exploded. "You saw a new threat and didn't think we'd win?! So you betrayed us!?"
Daisuke laughed outside, but inside he was dying. 'Yes Iori…I saw an enemy we couldn't beat…so I turned myself over so maybe we, and our worlds might have a chance…and I've lost just about everything because of it.' He looked over at Chibimon. The small Digimon was clinging to Ken like the way he used to him. Ken did not look well either…Daisuke hoped that this wouldn't kill them all.
"Daisuke…" Sealya said. "Why don't you tell your former friends of your turnover…tell them how you now belong to us. Tell them about your sweet Hotaru…"
He glared privately at her. He could pretend to betray his friends…to turn against them…to turn evil…but he could never forget his love for Ken.
"I think that we should go home now…" Daisuke began but Ken cut him off by grabbing his arm…the pale boy was glaring daggers now.
"Who is Hotaru…Dai what happened to you!? Why won't you talk to me!?"
"Ken…I…"
Ken didn't leave his eyes, his expression didn't soften either. "Daisuke Motamiya. Do you love me, or do you not?"
Daisuke looked at Sealya…he could easily tell what she wanted him to do, to say no, to hurt Ken very badly…but there wasn't any way that he could. "I do." he croaked.
"Then talk to me."
"I can't…things…circumstances have changed…"
Before he could get another word out the Chosen Children were sucked back through the portal and into their computer lab. Ken could only stare at the spot when he had been holding onto Daisuke.
"Damn!" Takeru yelled, hitting a desk with his fist. "What the hell is he thinking!?"
"Ken…" Miyako started yet again. "What was that all about?"
Ken bit his lip. "I thought that I would be able to get through to him. I thought that he loved me enough to tell me what was wrong…I guess I was mistaken." Not being able to say another word he ran out of the computer room.
"Ken come back!" Miyako yelled to him, but Takeru put an arm on her shoulder
"Let him go."
~*~*~
Later that night Miyako made her way to Ken's house, hoping to get him to cheer up…even if only a little bit. She arrived at the appartment…at least the one she hoped was his, only Daisuke had ever been there, and knocked on the door.
"Hello, can I help you?" A nice looking woman asked, peaking through the door.
"Yes…" Miyako began. "I'm Miyako, a friend of Ken…does he live here?"
"Oh yes, please come in." She lead the way into the house and Miyako followed. "Ken's been so down lately. I think that Daisuek and he had a fight…Diasuke is such a nice boy, almost always happy…except when his parents have been fighting, then he comes here." Miyako looked at the women she was pregnant, she might be due any day, but then her words sunk in. "Daisuke's parents fight?" she asked. It was the first she had heard of it.
"Oh yes, didn't you know? Poor boy came here quite a few times, a terrible mess…always calms down when he's with Ken though, they're good for each other, I hope they work out whatever mess they've gotten into…" She stopped in front of a door and knocked. "Ken…honey you have a visitor…"
"Come in." came his soft voice. Ken's mother opened the door and then left.
"Ken?"
"Miyako...what are you doing here?" Ken asked, surprised. His arms were around the two Digimon in his care.
She sat down on the bed beside him. "I thought that you could use a friend...you know, someone to talk to."
Ken wouldn't look at her. "There really isn't anything to say."
"Okay then I'll start." She took a deep breath. "The-rain-in-Spain-falls-mainly-on-the-plains."
Ken looked at her in shocked confusion.
"How-much-wood-would-a-woodchuck-chuck-if-a-woodchuck-could-chuck-wood?" Miyako continued rambling off tongue twisters off the top of her head.
Suddenly Ken blinked and then began to laugh, causing Miyako to smile, glad that she could relive some of the tension.
Much to her surprise though Ken sat up and began to hug her tightly. "Thank you Miyako."
She hugged him back. "You're welcome."
Faraway someone was watching this interaction through her mind. "This could prove useful..." she said and gave an evil laugh.
