"Matt! Stop this nonsense! You're crazy. It's me. Takeru. Tk. I love you and I don't want to fight you." Tk cried the pink bubble surrounding him, the Lightbringer, and their digital monsters. He was wearing still the same pair of sweats and sweatshirt yet looked crimson red because of the magic of the unity of faith.
"Listen to him Matt! We want to save you and especially Tai!" Kari yelled at Matt. From the look of things, Matt looked like nothing was hitting him. Kari knew that Matt had been brainwashed like the others, like Tai had tried to do to her but had failed because of the crest of light was still active.
"We have to get them out of here Gatomon!" Patamon whispered to the feline creature. The cat nodded and began pulling Tk and Hikari away from Matt and Metal Garurumon but they wouldn't budge from the spot. They stood there frozen not wanting to move at all and to make everything worse; Tk was walking with Kari towards Matt.
"Taiedmon is the ruler of this world and the digital world!" Matt shouted at the reunited lovebirds. His face shown with admiration for the sadistic world leader. He petted Metal Garurumon's head and whispered before he vanished into some machine "Stop them."
Metal Garurumon grunted, his metallic fur glistening in the darkened hallway. He grunted and silvery ice spikes fired from his fore paws. "My master told me I had to stop you worthless rebels, but he didn't say how, so I should just get rid of you now!!!" and opening his mouth, a blast about to be fired from the pit of his stomach.
"NO!" Kari and Tk yelled the pink glow enveloping the deranged digimon devolving to Tsunomon, the black chip that had been on it's neck or not visible on any part of the in-training digi-monster's body. It looked up at Tk, as if finally realizing who he really was and bounced towards them.
"Tk!! Oh my! Tk!! I am so sorry for whatever I was going to do to all of you," the digimon cried jumping into Kari's arms. Kari and Tk smiled thankful that they finally had done something right in this strange new world. They hugged and kissed again but extinguished the pink glow.
"Kari, I love you." Tk whispered to her, his voice calm and mellow. He took her arm and wrapped his own around her waist making sure she would never leave him ever again. Gatomon peered at Patamon, scrutinizing everything from his wings to his large oval blue eyes. "We have to get out of the towers but how can we do that?" he mumbled as they ran together down the halls of the tower.
"I'm not sure Tk. I've never been rescued." She said almost soft-heartedly. She was so glad he was alive. He had come back to her like he promised when he had died, in her arms. He had said
"I'll come back. Better than ever. I'll save you. Never lose hope Kari. I am always with you, mind, body, and spirit."
And then he had collapsed in her arms, and she had wailed but now her tears were of joy and not of sorrow. She continued speaking rapidly hoping Tk got ever-single word. "Sora, Matt, Davis, and Yolei are under the control of Tai. We have to help them." She said mournfully.
"Wait. Say that again." Tk told Kari. She repeated her words and he noticed "Yolei? Working for Tai? Let's start with her. She always liked me. If we can help her than she can join us in to defeat him." He looked at her as they neared the exit. A cold drawling voice rang through the halls and a glow of pink light blasted from them making sure they were ready for the attack.
"Well. Well. You found the exit hmmm." The voice went on. There was a crackle of static and the voice continued. "Well I don't know who you are pretender but that illusion is very good. Yamato!! Stop the rebels!" and the tall slim young man appeared with...a gun.
"I want Tsunomon back! I want him now!" he yelled and ran at them, twenty bakemon flying from behind him. A voice that Tk loved to hear rang throughout the tower and a blast of gold energy slammed into all the bakemon disintegrating them.
"Hand of Fate!" the angel cried again stopping the Major's advances to get any closer to the lovers. "Stop right where you are Yamato." He announced and Yamato for the first time in years, looked scared. Another angel appeared by Angemon's side, Angewomon. With her silver light arrows and her keen fashion sense she hurled one towards the feet of Yamato causing him to jump back and curse wildly wishing he hadn't treated Metal Garurumon so harshly before.
"Let us leave Yamato or we will hurt you!" Tk said, meanwhile Kari grasped Tk's hand more tightly and the pink aura extended down the hallway and wrapped around Matt but nothing would happen and then he fainted. "Leave him! We have to get out of here." Tk said, breaking the embrace and Kari nodded running off with Tsunomon in her arms as well as Gatomon and Patamon following right behind them.
As they reached the meeting point with Ken they noticed he wasn't there. "Where is he? Could he have been captured by the guards?" Kari wondered out-loud. Tk shook his head in puzzlement.
"He should be back here soon at least I hope." Tk said sitting on the rocky ground of where they were located.
"Stingmon, let's get outta here!" Ken cried out not able to get the entire Gizamon stop their attacks. Their horns were getting ever so closer to his body, which his armor couldn't hold. Stingmon flew towards Ken, and in a flash de-digivolved into Wormmon and Ken ran hoping, that Tk had at least gotten Kari. He held the red disk in his hand hoping that whatever this was worth, that it was truly worth it. He ran to see a feminine figure standing at the entrance of the tower, familiar to a glance. He couldn't believe she had come. He slid the disk under his clothing hiding it from enemies but unfortunately was forced to stop and the large insect could not digivolve and was force to surrender under the power of her robotic toys.
"Well. Let's face it. He's not coming any time soon so let's start on recruiting Yolei back to the digidestined side." Tk said in his unusual chipper mood. Kari nodded but was worried for her lover. What had happened to him to make him this.... cheerful? Tsunomon was teleported back to the base, to Izzy who was surprised of the mission's success and that he would have a mission waiting for them when they returned back to the base and wished them luck for Yolei's rejoining of the light.
"Gatomon? Can you get us to Yolei?" Kari asked sincerely. She knew that Gatomon knew the lay of the land well especially the fish markets. Kari wore that familiar pink shirt along with gray capris. She shivered and when Tk noticed this he removed his sweatshirt and handed it to her. She kissed his hand in thanks and slipped it on her glad to be outside but hated the cold.
"Well. It should be easy enough. The only thing is that her group moves every few weeks because of the sunlight. So all we have to do is figure where the sun' energy rays will be the strongest and we'll have one techno-geek." Gatomon said sharpening her claws dangerously on a rock.
Patamon nodded agreeing with the ferocious feline. "She's right. We figure out where the energy will display itself we find her and her legion of robotic digi-slaves." His wings beating fast so he could keep up with the walking of the group.
"What do you mean Patamon? What are robotic digi-slaves?" Tk asked puzzled never hearing of robotic digimon ever before and he sat down to think about what he had just been told.
"A robotic digimon is more powerful than a normal date virus or vaccine digimon. They can digivolve faster and they don't need food. She has a digimon bodyguard named Hawkmon but no one has ever seen it digivolve." Kari told her beloved and he nodded.
"I have. Its name is Aquillamon. A large bird digimon who's grand horn attack can do pretty good damage. There's also X-Veemon and Akylomon. Those are the champion forms of Veemon and Armadillomon." Tk told the others. With that knowledge and what Kari could tell him would help defeat any threat against his friend and technological genius Yolei. "I wish we knew someway to find her more easier." He muttered under his breath.
"Tk, don't give up. We'll find her. I think she runs the first tower. It's nicknamed the Robot Tower. I guess you can figure out why its' called that. We better hurry if we want to catch up to her." Kari said, neither noticing their crests glowing to a large extent but continued on their trek to have the purple haired maiden join their quest to defeat the Emperor.
It was growing dark and Tk was worried they wouldn't make it to the building (and just because it's called the four towers doesn't mean that they were right next to each other- Tk). Everyone was tired. Their digimon were worn out and they decided to camp out near the tower and then get there in to morning to hopefully not fight Yolei and her robotic digimon.
"You won't win Yolei! The paragon will defeat you! He and his package will defeat you and you will be reverted back to your old self even though you don't wish it! The nimbus of faith will come again and cleanse the land of darkness." Ken ranted and raved while Wormmon tried to calm him down, trying not to let Ken reveal all the information that Izzy had told him.
"Ken, calm...please...listen to me...you can't do this to the group...if you fall...we are lost and the paragon will be unable to have the strength to face his brother and the emperor or anyone else here. We have to pray that someone knows of our capture and frees us. As long as they don't have our package we are safe." Wormmon said sincerely. He kneaded his head into Ken's side to soothe him having worked many times, and soon Ken fell asleep.
Meanwhile in a room above the cell that the digidestined of Kindness was being held in, Yolei stood and mockingly threw the digivice to the ground. She had had no choice going against the Emperor but if what the rebel was saying was true maybe she could trick him to come on her side, on the master's side. She typed in "Takeru Takaishi" Bio and read it again and again to know what she was up against.
The morning sun rose as a welcome to the digidestined of Hope and Light. Gatomon and Patamon gathered food, as Tk made a small fire heating berries and edible mushrooms and it was like the old days. He coughed up desert dust, as they were in the pale desert and he fell down.
"Tk!" Kari yelled at her beloved, running to his side at once. She felt his head, a mellow burning sensation could be felt and she knew he was sick. He tried to get up but could not but he had to save Yolei, in any condition. He had to, Kari knew this but for at that moment she ripped off a piece off her shirt and wet it in the pot and placed it on his head, not worrying about the cold because it was summer and would be a very warm day.
"Kari, thanks." Tk said waking up a few hours later. He was refreshed like a daisy, and he showed this by lightly kissing her on the lips. They did not speak while they ate afraid of the day's events. "We better get going you guys." Tk announced to the miniscule group who were to try to accomplish something very hard to do. They cleaned up their small camp and began on the trek, which were only three-eights of a mile to the tower where they would meet their match.
"Mistress Yolei, four beings, two humanoids 2 digital monsters are approaching the tower." The familiar voice of a bird type digimon replied. She shrieked in eagerness to see this "paragon" and "Lightbringer" for she had not seen them in many months. The digimon were most definitely Gatomon and Patamon. He would have to be carefully because if they could digivolve to Ultimate they might be able to destroy her favorite toys, and most of all, her prized creation "Hawkmon."
"Well we're here. Are we going to wait for a welcome party? Lets' bust in and knock Yolei's head a few times." Gatomon growled, Tk didn't notice much because of the way she had acted in the tower that Kari was being held in. She felt the power return to her.
"Do it Gatomon!" Kari bellowed to her digimon companion. Gatomon had no objection and felt the pink fluorescent light of digivolution spark once again inside her body as she cried out that familiar phrase Kari and Tk had always heard her say.
"Gatomon.... digivolve to.... Angewomon!" The cat had been replaced by a beautiful angel with a ivory colored mask, and six shining wings. She wore pink colored gloves and a billowing robe of the noblest purple appeared on her body. In her hand she carried a bow that would fire her arrows of light. The digivolving was completed. Angewomon cried out "Celestial Arrow!" as a bolt of light slammed into the entrance of the tower and it dissolved into thin air to be replaced by a small robotic bird.
"You are all under arrest under the Emperor of the Earth! De-digivolve and give yourself up or I will attack!" Angewomon did not back down. "Beak Buzzsaw!" the creature shouted as a small disk flew at the angelic creature. The angel reflected it back at the sender, the attack no match for the elegant ultimate.
"Hawkmon transform to mode Aquillamon." And the bird changed in numerous shapes finally becoming the large bird that Tk had always seen serve the side of good and never the side of evil. The bird then flew at Angewomon who fell instantly unable to fend off another attack.
"Patamon!" Tk cried.
"Patamon digivolve to.... Angemon!" and the small pig-mammal digimon vanished to be replaced by a handsome angel, wearing a mask of iron, his clothes that of a true warrior and in his hand a staff of pure gold. Six shining wings also appeared and the shine could show the magnificent power inside him.
"Hand of Fate!" he cried as a bolt of pure energy rammed into the Aquillamon and it was fazed for a few seconds but not hurt. The bird then flew down at Angemon and sent him into the ground.
"Angemon!! Digivolve again!" Tk shouted unable to see his best friend(present company excluded) get hurt.
"Angemon...digivolve...to...Magna Angemon!" and the Angemon changed again. With a blast shied forming on his arm and a brilliant sword forming in his right hand, rightly named Excalibur. Two more wings were added and a ruby shied formed where the iron mask was once was.
"Gate of Destiny!" the Ultimate digimon cried as a doorway opened sucking up anything that was not good. Angewomon fired her celestial arrow, and the robotic digimon vanished inside the gate, it closing instantly after the occupant filled the space needed to be filled.
"So you think by defeating my prized possession you will win me over to your side? I think not. How dare you destroy my most valuable creation! For that you will face my wrath and not live through it." A voice mocked to the beloved and their Ultimates. Tk and Kari turned around not believing what they saw in front of them.
"Yolei!! Please!! Stop this nonsense and join us to defeat Taiedmon!! Please!" Kari yelled at her hoping her friend would come to her senses and join the light again. Yolei shook her head and a blast of energy came from a blaster in her right hand.
"Kari!" Tk yelled and the power of faith was born again. The shot reflected into the sky and Yolei was baffled, her power never has been deflected before. "Magna Angemon go and find anyone in the building who is prisoner." Tk yelled up at his friend who obediently vanished inside the building.
"How is it possible that I was defeated? I did everything the master told me I could do. Please.... show mercy on me. I am still Yolei. Please..." Yolei said disgracefully begging for forgiveness. Tk and Kari walked closer, but to Yolei, it was bad that the barrier of faith still kept its hold around the lovers for then she could not do what she planned.
"Yolei, join us again. Please." Tk said with sincerity but she shook her head again. He went to reach her hand but she jumped back as if he had a virus that was killable. Tears fell down Kari's cheek and Yolei shouted something as they ran for open ground.
"You won't win!! The master will win and you'll all die. I hope to see you in hell digidestined!!" and she vanished in a cloud of smoke. Fortunately, Magna Angemon had returned holding Ken and Wormmon in his hand.
"Takaishi! Lightbringer! You did it Takashi and you made it out alive!" ken said waking up not believing what he was seeing. Kari embraced Ken and kissed him on the cheek thanking him for letting Tk rescue her and Gatomon from the Major General and his hoard of dark digimon. Luckily they were not far away from a transport station and in a few seconds they were safe in rebel territory where Izzy was waiting for them.
" Prodigious! Welcome back Lightbringer. Tk, Ken I have a mission for you. Word is that Taiedmon is going to invade the old world. You must go there with your digital companions and stop him before it is too late."
"I'm going too!" Kari chirped at Izzy, and he nodded.
"You have two objectives. Get to the Old world and find out what the Emperor is doing and second you are to collect someone even if it is against his will."
"What's the Old World Izzy and who do we have to bring back?" Tk asked not having any idea.
"Why its' the digital world and the person you have to bring back...well...it's Joe." The red head answered.
To be continued....