Authors Notes: Hey, this is a "what if" series. It involves mainly TK and what would happen if Ken got his hands on Patamon. It takes place during "The Storm of Friendship", with an alternate storyline.


AlterCrest: The Crest of Hope
Chapter I: "Lost Hope"
Jolly Trolly, 4/8/01

"Let him go!" TK demanded.
"Metalgreymon Attack!" Was the Digimon Emperor's only response. Metalgreymon did as told, blasting the digi-destined with his Giga Blaster attack. A cloud of smoke appeared across the desert battlefield, and screams and yells could be heard from within the dust. Ken didn't need to see to know what was happening. He was winning, finally. After so many losses to the pesky DigiDestined, he was finally victorious.
"Garurumon!" Matt called as the dust cleared, and he ran towards his fallen comrade. The blue wolf lay on his side, badly bruised. "Matt..." Garurumon choked, "Go, quickly!" Matt turned to see Metalgreymon's foot directly above them.
"Blue Thunder!" Raidramon roared, blasting Metalgreymon's leg, buying Garurumon enough time to get Matt and himself out of the way.
"Good job Raidramon! Now, get rid of the Dark Spiral!" Davis yelled over Metalgreymon's roars of pain and anger. Raidramon nodded and leaped into the air, landing on Metalgreymon's arm. "Blue Thund-" Raidramon started powering up his attack, but not quickly enough. The black and blue dinosaur bit into Raidramon, picking him up with his teeth and then hurling him into Halsemon.
TK screamed again, "Put Patamon down RIGHT NOW!"
Ken smiled, "Ooh, thanks for reminding me about him I almost forgot." He turned towards Flymon, as well as the small, orange, winged hamster he was holding. The Digimon Emperor held up his newly invented Dark Spiral, and hurled it at the Patamon. Patamon gasped.
"Nooooooooo!" TK yelled, falling onto his knees.
"Lightning Paw!" Gatomon called as she leaped through the air, seemingly out of nowhere. Knocking the Dark Spiral out of its course, it landed about 200 meters away from where the battle was ensuing. Without a word, TK began a mad dash towards the resting spiral.
"NO!" Ken yelled in disgust. In fear of losing, Ken turned to his final resource. "Wormmon! Make yourself useful!"
Wormmon started back at his "friend", "But-but Master-"
"No Buts! Get him!" Ken scowled.
"Uh, uh, Sticky Net!" Wormmon sprayed out a thick stream of webbing towards TK, as he grew closer and closer to the Dark Spiral.
"Ugh!" TK groaned, as the webbing hit him, knocking him to the ground with a loud thud.
"TK! No!" Kari screamed. Ken ordered his Airdramon to lower itself to ground level.
"TK! Help!" Cried Patamon. He had tears running down his eyes.
TK lay on the ground, helpless and afraid, as Ken walked calmly towards him. "Patamon, I-I can't help you! I wish I could, but there's no way!" TK called to his friend, while attempting to squirm his way out of the net.
"Hang on little Bro!" Matt yelled. He rode atop of Garurumon, faster and faster towards the fallen digidestined.
"Matt, look out!" Tai yelled from the distance.
"Huh?" Matt turned, just in time to see a battery of Giga Blasters heading his way. "No!" But it was too late for Garurumon to do anything about it. The blasts hit them dead on, throwing Matt several feet into the air, and then back onto the ground, onto his back. Garurumon was likewise thrown into the air, lying on his side, letting out a tremendous groan of anguish.
Ken smirked as he knelt down in front of TK, picking up his precious Dark Spiral and dusting it off gently, as if to taunt TK. He laughed to himself, and walked back towards his Airdramon. He paused when he found himself next to TK. TK turned and stared at him in the eyes, and Ken frowned back at him.
Ken delivered a swift kick to TK in the ribs, and then another one. TK flinched from kick, but failed to move, on account of the stick net. "Fool," Ken muttered, before walking back towards Airdramon.
TK winced, "Is that all you got? I'll kick your ass Kaiser-boy! Get back here!" Ken stopped and turned around, facing TK again.
"What's this? You want a fight? Well be careful what you wish for! Flymon!" The slave Flymon responded to Ken's call and flew towards him. The remaining Digidestined stood far off, unable to get past Metalgreymon to do anything to help the others.
Patamon looked around him. To his right, Matt and Garurumon laid unconscious in the sun. To his left, stood Gatomon, Kari, Tai, Davis, Raidramon, Halsemon, Digmon, Cody, and Yolei, poised and ready to do anything they could do, also there was nothing they could do at this point. Metalgreymon in his viral form stood above the Digidestined and let out a victorious roar. Everything seemed to move in slow motion, and in black and white. TK's tears wet the sand underneath him. Matt and Garurumon's blood mixed together in a pool of blood between them. Raidramon was limping up towards Metalgreymon, just to get his butt whipped again.
Unable to move in the Flymon's grip, Patamon drifted towards the ground, until landing directly in front of TK, and Ken.
"Now, watch closely Takeru, you may be interested in this little activity, I hear it involves a little friend of yours. Go, Dark Spiral!" Ken hurled the spiral at Patamon.
Patamon turned to TK, hoping he had a plan. "TK..." he cried.
TK just shook his head while tears streamed down his cheeks. "There's nothing that I can do now Patamon. There's no hope. I'm sorry..."
"No hope." It echoed through Patamon's mind, as the spiral snapped shut on his front arm. Patamon's mind turned black and cloudy. Like a spinning, neverending vortex, and he was being sucked into it.


"What does he mean no hope? There's always hope. TK's always believed in hope. What's so different about now? Has TK lost all hope?" Patamon thought to himself.
"Mwahahahaha!" Evil laughter could be heard coming from Patamon's own mind. "What? Who?" Patamon called out. A figure appeared in the vortex. A black figure, with wings, and long arms. The figure of-Devimon.




DISCLAIMER: I don't own digimon, but I think it's cool. Feel free to mail me at dc_voila_jt@hotmail.com