Tk stared at Izzy. "Can you repeat that?" He asked astonished at who they were supposedly supposed to retrieve from the digital world. He was wearing the white wife-beater undershirt still because Kari was wearing his emerald green sweatshirt to protect her from the cold when they had ventured to try to bring Yolei back to the light.
"I said Joe. As in Joe Kido. To make Taiedmon look good he let anyone who wished to not battle in the fight, live in seclusion in the digital world. But because of your arrival he may of revoked that no battling in the digital world could take place. That is why the four of you and your digimon must journey into the old world and retrieve him so he and Gommamon may fight with us." The redhead ended.
"How do you know he'll come with us Izzy?" Ken asked in a soft voice. He was no longer wearing the gas uniform with the name stitched "Gus" in it but instead a black shirt and jacket as well as pants. Tk remembered it well and seemed that now that at least four digidestined were together they had a good chance against the digimon emperor Taiedmon. Ken, in Tk's eyes, anyway had changed. He was no longer the one who was afraid of being rejected by people. Instead, at least the paragon thought, Ken was the rejecter.
"Let's go before its' too late guys." Gatomon told them. The other two digimon as well as Kari, Tk, and Ken nodded. "We have to be careful. There are a lot of ultimate type digimon out there and we can't always be in our ultimate forms." Patamon nodded agreeing with Gatomon.
"Wait. We have to go somewhere before we do anything." Tk said suddenly. He remembered that Kari hadn't received her D-3 version of her digivice or letting Gatomon have the ability of digivolving into Nefertimon. "We have to go to a cave where there is something for Kari, Gatomon, and Patamon." The others agreed yet strangely, but believed in him since he was the paragon of hope.
"Oh no!!" Izzy yelled. His shout alerting the talking digidestined and digimon. "The gateway to the digital world is closed. No one can get in or out of it. There is nothing we can do and the gate hardly ever opens." He replied sadly unable to contain his grief for not being able to recruit an old friend.
"Wait a minute." Tk said walking towards the computer screen that was a deep bloody red. "Digiport! Open!" the blonde headed child cried out and instead of staying the red, it became a bright green and a piece of the old world's landscape came into view. The others' were astonished at this and couldn't believe their luck. They walked up to the screen and Tk whispered something. "We have to hurry. I can't keep the gate open forever."
"Tk, I must analyze your digivice before you leave this planet. Its' amazing. You have the ability to open the gate with that strange digivice. Why was it shaped that way?" Izzy asked quietly and quizzically.
"It's alright Izzy. Sure. It helps Patamon digivolve to a new level he'll need to learn. It will really help us out if my theory is correct." Tk said and Patamon squealed and flew on top of Tk's head like in the old days.
"Let's go!" Ken shouted and the three digidestined and their digimon vanished into the computer screen only to be downloaded in the familiar clothing that Tk was always used to or maybe not enough use to. They landed in a grassy spot. Actually it was only a circle of grass, the rest a pale desert. Ken was still wearing his outfit, but Kari was out of the sweatshirt wearing again a pink and white striped shirt and gray capris. "This is amazing. I don't remember being here in such a long time." Ken told him. Wormmon hopped climbed up his shoulder to see his own view.
"Ken, we have to do what Tk says' before we do anything else. Ok?" The insect digital creature told his digidestined. Ken shrugged as if he didn't really care. Tk lead them to what he thought was the cave (it was) and wasn't surprised when he saw the digiegg of Hope and Light sitting patiently next to each other, each splendid in perfection looking like Faber shier eggs.
"On three." He told the Lightbringer. "One, Two, Three!" he cried as a blast of pink light surrounded Kari and Gatomon and the Green light recognizing the traveler, went to the digimon who had finally learned the art of armor digivolving. "Awesome! Now you can become Pegasusmon!" Tk said nonchalantly. "Okay Patamon. Are you ready?" he asked quietly not to disrupt the silence of Ken or Wormmon.
"I'm ready." The pipsqueak digimon cried happy to be able to be a bigger help than ever before.
"Digimental up!" the boy cried as a flash of green light surrounded the digimon, replacing him with a horse with beautiful white wings and golden armor with the crest of Hope and the power of Angemon and Magna Angemon inside him. He hugged Pegasusmon with all his might have not seen him in a few days. The horse smiled and leaned its' head into Tk's face licking it to comfort him.
"Follow him Kari!" the ferocious feline cried as she was ready to try out this "armor digivolving" and she knew that if Patamon could do than well she could and she would be a cool looking digimon.
"Digi...mental up!" Kari shouted nervously not able to hold the intense of the room. Gatomon shifted in form of going on four legs and a headpiece like that of Cleopatra. She had a feline face but white wings and a long silver tail.
"Nefertimon!" the new digimon cried and went to Kari. "Let's go Kari. You too Ken and Tk. Either you'll have to go on me or Pegasusmon Ken...Wormmon..." the feline spoke as Kari slid into the holster where she would be safe for the time being. Ken got up from where he was sitting and climbed on with Tk onto Pegasusmon.
Ken had to admit. The new digivolutions were quite amazing as he came to think of it. He couldn't imagine that those two, a rookie and a champion had become. Well...Co-Champions who were between a Champion and an Ultimate level digimon. "Takeru.... Tk... I'm sorry about the way I've acted towards you. You've been so good to the people of this world, even though it is not yours."
"That's okay Ken. I feel more important now that I am here and not just because I am a paragon. In my world, I was going to commit suicide just because I hadn't hung out with my brother enough and that had made me really angry inside but at least I know now that he'll always be there for me when I need him." Tk told his story to the intelligent boy.
Ken was shocked. Him? Takeru, no, Tk had tried to kill himself for not spending time with his brother. Well now they had something in common, well they had been in the same boat one time or another he surmised. Something caught his attention removing him from his personal thoughts. "Tk! Look!" he cried pointing in the near distance. A horde of digimon, ultimates by the look of it were attacking a small village of rookies and in-training type digimon. "Wormmon! You better digivolve!" he told the digimon. Wormmon nodded and jumped off his shoulder.
"Wormmon.... digivolve...to... Stingmon." During that process the tiny green creature grew at least 5 feet in height and a green mask covered his face. Two armlets of black formed on his hands and a ravishing pink blade fell from one of them. "Spiking Strike!" he yelled and flew towards a War Monzaemon who was attacking a group of Shumon. The digital bear vanished into nothing and that's when the other ultimates noticed him. Tk looked in the distance and saw a familiar figure, taller, and more muscular than he saw him last but he knew what he had seen.
"Joe!" he cried. And Ken nodded seeing the blue haired figure leading the digimon to the water where another familiar figure waited. Suddenly the figure dived underwater to be replaced by a large white massive beast. "Ikkakumon!" he cried and the beast instead of listening to Joe, looked up baffled by what he saw : A boy riding a horse with wings followed by a girl riding a cat-like horse with wings flying towards them.
"Joe!" it cried making sure his digidestined saw them. Joe nodded and he whispered something to Ikkakumon.
"The Paragon has returned!" he shouted actually (he hated to give it up). The entire camp went quiet hearing the shout and looked up at the paragon, Ken, and the Lightbringer. The flying creatures kneeled to let their passengers off and took to the air. Suddenly everything, the corruption, the war, all started again and Joe wanted to get as many digimon into the water as possible.
"Golden Noose!" the co-champions cried as a golden chain of energy surrounded a group of champion Gorrillamon and sent them flying out of the territory. Even though the Ultimates and champions were losing they cried out something.
"Dark digimon! Dark digimon! We call you!" And there was a blast of dark energy rising from the ground only to form a large mammoth like digimon who looked a lot like Mammothmon but bigger and tougher.
"I am Dark Mammothmon. Who wishes my services?" He cried out as if waiting for this moment for a long time. He looked around and noticed the blonde human being told by his master to destroy any blonde child he saw. He rushed towards the boy and the female human screamed grasping onto the blonde child.
"Turbo Super Tusk Crusher!" and two energy horns more powerful than the original flew at the couple. Five, four, Three, Two, One. Suddenly a blast of light from the darkened sky disintegrated the tusks. The dark creature was surprised. What kind of attack could of destroyed one of the most powerful digimon in world's attack. The elephant digimon got his answer as the familiar Azzulongmon appeared in the sky and a ball of energy flew and hit Pegasusmon who automatically became Angemon as soon as the light penetrated his body. The mega dragon digimon vanished into the darkened nightmare called the sky and Tk couldn't believe what he saw happen.
"Angemon...Warp digivolve to...Seraphimon!" and the digimon vanished into a thick cloud of white silk, only to reappear a true knight in blue armor with a gigantic sword in his right and glowing energy in his left. "Leave digimon who are loyal to the emperor or taste my sword." Some of them vanished without even considering their options, but Dark Mammothmon stayed. "Taste steel vermin!" he cried and flew down at the elephant who charged, but would not help him when the sword went right down the middle cutting him in two and the digimon faded dissolving into nothing.
"Tk? Tk?" a voice called. Was that Matt? He thought. His eyes fluttered open as he looked up to a blue haired man with a goatee. "I'm glad your okay. You fainted right when Angemon warp digivolved. Did you see that other Mega? He was massive? Have you ever seen him before?" Joe said. Joe had changed Tk could tell. He couldn't believe that this young man had run away from a battle he had to fight or the digidestined would die.
"That was Azzulongmon Joe. He's a mega digimon who guards the North-Eastern Hemisphere of the real world and the digital world. I was shocked when I saw him send his orb of power at Pegasusmon. It was amazing to see a mega digimon other than War Greymon and Metal Garurumon. I mean, Seraphimon. Wow. He didn't even use any attacks and he still defeated a Dark digimon."
"I was wondering that too." Ken said out loud. Tk sat up too fast and grabbed his head. Kari held his hand helping him relax with a kiss on the forehead. "I mean how powerful does a digimon have to be and destroy his enemy without using any attacks."
"I attacked him! I slashed him with my sword!" Tokomon yelled up at Ken. Ken jumped hearing the digimon speak. The digimon growled at Ken and jumped into Tk's lap noticing he was finally awake.
"What he meant was that you didn't use any attacks like Angemon's hand of fate or even your own Bubble Boom." Gatomon replied to Tokomon and he nodded finally understanding what Ken had been trying to say.
"Sorry." He mumbled to Ken. Tokomon looked sad. Really bummed. He looked up at Ken, who smiled softly to him. He nodded as if accepting the apology. He then kneeled to Wormmon to make sure he was okay and Tokomon began to speak again his pipsqueak voice ringing in everyone's ears. "I saw him. Azzulongmon and he smiled and I could feel the change without their being a change and then I was Seraphimon. I knew my attacks would be lethal even against all of you so all I did was attack with the sword. I'm sorry." He said to the residential digimon who smiled.
"We're glad we're not under anymore pressure." Shumon said and then finished with "Now we can rebuild." But before any rebuilding could take place a bolt of lighting hit the ground, lightning that reminded Takeru when Myotismon, a evil digimon had attacked and sent Gotsumon and Pumpkinmon back to the digital world. He hadn't seen them since then. A screen formed where the lightning had struck revealing a most hideous yet recognizable face. Hikari screamed and placed her head into Takeru's shoulder.
"Shh. it's okay." Takeru whispered but how would it ever really be okay when there was nothing he could do at the moment but soothe Kari with false promises.
"As I have seen you have destroyed a small part of my army digital revolutionists. I don't know where that digimon came from but I am sure to tell you that when I find him he will be destroyed." Tokomon cowered behind Tk and Hikari picked him up soothing him as Tk had done to her. "Furthermore, I keep hearing everything about...a Takeru Takaishi look-a-like who has been everything but daisies for me. He caused me to lose a treasure. The light of the world you may call it. Now I am offering a reward of removal from the dark spirit and everlasting freedom and Takeru Takaishi when I find you I will rip you to pieces and that's a promise I intend to keep." And the video screen vanished as if it had been turned off.
"Oh Tk!" Kari gasped in horror of what her brother had said. "This is awful. We can't let you get captured. We have to do something Tk but what can we do? We're only 5 digidestined children. How can we battle an army?"
"We don't have the supplies or the power to battle Taiedmon directly. We would need everyone plus a thousand more to battle Taiedmon. The only thing I can do is give myself up to him and he'll let the rest of you all go."
"No! That's not the way and you know that Takeru!" Kari yelled at him. Uh oh. Kari only called him that when Tk was in trouble with her or when she was really really pissed off. "We're not going to give in to him!! I will not let that happen to the one I love!" she said and finished it by giving him a passionate kiss on the lips causing Tk to gasp.
"Wow. Kari. Wow." Was the only thing he could get out of his mouth. Suddenly Tk's digivice went off and his computer appeared with an email from who could only be Izzy. The email read
"Dear Digidestined,
I have great news. This will be a nasty knock for the emperor. I have found an old ally with a new partner. Can't talk long. Tentomon is really reminiscing with me. Good luck with Joe Tk.
-Izzy"
"This is very good for us." Ken spoke softly. Wormmon was lying in Ken's lap asleep from all the digivolving and everything. "Now that we have Joe and this mysterious ally and him or her's new partner. We should be a strong match for Taiedmon. We have Lightbringer, Paragon, Izzy, whoever else this person is and myself. With their help we can hopefully win."
"Yeah. I guess so. Well Joe. Are you really with us? Can we count on you and Gommamon to fight with us the entire time?" Kari asked him in a soft voice. Gatomon was sharpening her claws as she listened to her digidestined. Joe pondered for a moment rubbing the top of his partner's head and spoke out loud.
"Well. I will join you and help by doing whatever I can and I am glad that I can be there for at least some of the digidestined who truly rely on me. How about you Gommamon? What's your take on this?"
This mammal digimon placed a paw through the red Mohawk and he grinned at the small group. "I was getting tired of retirement anyway. Anyway I am with you Joe, like I said years before. I will be where you go and will agree with what I think is right and this is right Joe." Nodding.
"Let's do this then and stop talking about it. We have to fight Taiedmon and rescue the brainwashed digidestined. We have to figure out a way to battle him without him knowing in advance. What can we do?" Gatomon said softly.
"We know what we have to do but how to do it." Patamon said agreeing with the feline digimon and Tk sensed for the first time that the tiny mammal digimon had more than just friendship with the cat digimon. He watched their eyes lock and they were speaking through their emotions not words, afraid of being found out of their love for each other.
"Let's get back to the base and speak to Izzy about all this." Gatomon concluded and the group agreed in full as they traveled to the TV set and the familiar setting of the hidden base in the real world.
"Digi-port! Open!" Tk cried as a blast of light came from his digivice-causing there to be a glow sucking in the digimon and their digidestined partners. They landed again in a pile. "Ow. Joe!!"
"Sorry Tk." He said and the rest of the group got up and looked at Izzy. There were two people behind him. Kari recognized the first immediately almost if not as too soon so did Tk and Joe. Ken had heard of her but had never seen her. A plant like digimon was standing at her side.
"Mimi. It's been such a long time. I've missed you so much." Kari said. She ran to her and hugged her, the pink haired Madonna nodded and smiled in return.
"I've missed you to Kari, Joe, Izzy. But...Takeru...I couldn't imagine. You survived Piedmon." Of course Mimi was still two seconds ahead of her brain before realizing that this was not the same Tk she had known. "I have someone to introduce you to Tk. Someone you know very well. I wish it were Matt but he's lost to us. You can come out of the shadow." She told a dark form who was lying against the wall another small form on his shoulder.
A brownish blonde haired boy about the age of twelve stood against the wall. On his shoulder sat a yellow colored insect-digimon that Tk knew so well as Kunemon. He couldn't believe his eyes. In front of him, the boy who had taught him to truly fight what he wished to protect. Someone who had been a troublemaker, a thief, a boy of pure heart and someone Tk trusted with his life.
It was his cousin Ryo, the keeper of Innocence.
"I said Joe. As in Joe Kido. To make Taiedmon look good he let anyone who wished to not battle in the fight, live in seclusion in the digital world. But because of your arrival he may of revoked that no battling in the digital world could take place. That is why the four of you and your digimon must journey into the old world and retrieve him so he and Gommamon may fight with us." The redhead ended.
"How do you know he'll come with us Izzy?" Ken asked in a soft voice. He was no longer wearing the gas uniform with the name stitched "Gus" in it but instead a black shirt and jacket as well as pants. Tk remembered it well and seemed that now that at least four digidestined were together they had a good chance against the digimon emperor Taiedmon. Ken, in Tk's eyes, anyway had changed. He was no longer the one who was afraid of being rejected by people. Instead, at least the paragon thought, Ken was the rejecter.
"Let's go before its' too late guys." Gatomon told them. The other two digimon as well as Kari, Tk, and Ken nodded. "We have to be careful. There are a lot of ultimate type digimon out there and we can't always be in our ultimate forms." Patamon nodded agreeing with Gatomon.
"Wait. We have to go somewhere before we do anything." Tk said suddenly. He remembered that Kari hadn't received her D-3 version of her digivice or letting Gatomon have the ability of digivolving into Nefertimon. "We have to go to a cave where there is something for Kari, Gatomon, and Patamon." The others agreed yet strangely, but believed in him since he was the paragon of hope.
"Oh no!!" Izzy yelled. His shout alerting the talking digidestined and digimon. "The gateway to the digital world is closed. No one can get in or out of it. There is nothing we can do and the gate hardly ever opens." He replied sadly unable to contain his grief for not being able to recruit an old friend.
"Wait a minute." Tk said walking towards the computer screen that was a deep bloody red. "Digiport! Open!" the blonde headed child cried out and instead of staying the red, it became a bright green and a piece of the old world's landscape came into view. The others' were astonished at this and couldn't believe their luck. They walked up to the screen and Tk whispered something. "We have to hurry. I can't keep the gate open forever."
"Tk, I must analyze your digivice before you leave this planet. Its' amazing. You have the ability to open the gate with that strange digivice. Why was it shaped that way?" Izzy asked quietly and quizzically.
"It's alright Izzy. Sure. It helps Patamon digivolve to a new level he'll need to learn. It will really help us out if my theory is correct." Tk said and Patamon squealed and flew on top of Tk's head like in the old days.
"Let's go!" Ken shouted and the three digidestined and their digimon vanished into the computer screen only to be downloaded in the familiar clothing that Tk was always used to or maybe not enough use to. They landed in a grassy spot. Actually it was only a circle of grass, the rest a pale desert. Ken was still wearing his outfit, but Kari was out of the sweatshirt wearing again a pink and white striped shirt and gray capris. "This is amazing. I don't remember being here in such a long time." Ken told him. Wormmon hopped climbed up his shoulder to see his own view.
"Ken, we have to do what Tk says' before we do anything else. Ok?" The insect digital creature told his digidestined. Ken shrugged as if he didn't really care. Tk lead them to what he thought was the cave (it was) and wasn't surprised when he saw the digiegg of Hope and Light sitting patiently next to each other, each splendid in perfection looking like Faber shier eggs.
"On three." He told the Lightbringer. "One, Two, Three!" he cried as a blast of pink light surrounded Kari and Gatomon and the Green light recognizing the traveler, went to the digimon who had finally learned the art of armor digivolving. "Awesome! Now you can become Pegasusmon!" Tk said nonchalantly. "Okay Patamon. Are you ready?" he asked quietly not to disrupt the silence of Ken or Wormmon.
"I'm ready." The pipsqueak digimon cried happy to be able to be a bigger help than ever before.
"Digimental up!" the boy cried as a flash of green light surrounded the digimon, replacing him with a horse with beautiful white wings and golden armor with the crest of Hope and the power of Angemon and Magna Angemon inside him. He hugged Pegasusmon with all his might have not seen him in a few days. The horse smiled and leaned its' head into Tk's face licking it to comfort him.
"Follow him Kari!" the ferocious feline cried as she was ready to try out this "armor digivolving" and she knew that if Patamon could do than well she could and she would be a cool looking digimon.
"Digi...mental up!" Kari shouted nervously not able to hold the intense of the room. Gatomon shifted in form of going on four legs and a headpiece like that of Cleopatra. She had a feline face but white wings and a long silver tail.
"Nefertimon!" the new digimon cried and went to Kari. "Let's go Kari. You too Ken and Tk. Either you'll have to go on me or Pegasusmon Ken...Wormmon..." the feline spoke as Kari slid into the holster where she would be safe for the time being. Ken got up from where he was sitting and climbed on with Tk onto Pegasusmon.
Ken had to admit. The new digivolutions were quite amazing as he came to think of it. He couldn't imagine that those two, a rookie and a champion had become. Well...Co-Champions who were between a Champion and an Ultimate level digimon. "Takeru.... Tk... I'm sorry about the way I've acted towards you. You've been so good to the people of this world, even though it is not yours."
"That's okay Ken. I feel more important now that I am here and not just because I am a paragon. In my world, I was going to commit suicide just because I hadn't hung out with my brother enough and that had made me really angry inside but at least I know now that he'll always be there for me when I need him." Tk told his story to the intelligent boy.
Ken was shocked. Him? Takeru, no, Tk had tried to kill himself for not spending time with his brother. Well now they had something in common, well they had been in the same boat one time or another he surmised. Something caught his attention removing him from his personal thoughts. "Tk! Look!" he cried pointing in the near distance. A horde of digimon, ultimates by the look of it were attacking a small village of rookies and in-training type digimon. "Wormmon! You better digivolve!" he told the digimon. Wormmon nodded and jumped off his shoulder.
"Wormmon.... digivolve...to... Stingmon." During that process the tiny green creature grew at least 5 feet in height and a green mask covered his face. Two armlets of black formed on his hands and a ravishing pink blade fell from one of them. "Spiking Strike!" he yelled and flew towards a War Monzaemon who was attacking a group of Shumon. The digital bear vanished into nothing and that's when the other ultimates noticed him. Tk looked in the distance and saw a familiar figure, taller, and more muscular than he saw him last but he knew what he had seen.
"Joe!" he cried. And Ken nodded seeing the blue haired figure leading the digimon to the water where another familiar figure waited. Suddenly the figure dived underwater to be replaced by a large white massive beast. "Ikkakumon!" he cried and the beast instead of listening to Joe, looked up baffled by what he saw : A boy riding a horse with wings followed by a girl riding a cat-like horse with wings flying towards them.
"Joe!" it cried making sure his digidestined saw them. Joe nodded and he whispered something to Ikkakumon.
"The Paragon has returned!" he shouted actually (he hated to give it up). The entire camp went quiet hearing the shout and looked up at the paragon, Ken, and the Lightbringer. The flying creatures kneeled to let their passengers off and took to the air. Suddenly everything, the corruption, the war, all started again and Joe wanted to get as many digimon into the water as possible.
"Golden Noose!" the co-champions cried as a golden chain of energy surrounded a group of champion Gorrillamon and sent them flying out of the territory. Even though the Ultimates and champions were losing they cried out something.
"Dark digimon! Dark digimon! We call you!" And there was a blast of dark energy rising from the ground only to form a large mammoth like digimon who looked a lot like Mammothmon but bigger and tougher.
"I am Dark Mammothmon. Who wishes my services?" He cried out as if waiting for this moment for a long time. He looked around and noticed the blonde human being told by his master to destroy any blonde child he saw. He rushed towards the boy and the female human screamed grasping onto the blonde child.
"Turbo Super Tusk Crusher!" and two energy horns more powerful than the original flew at the couple. Five, four, Three, Two, One. Suddenly a blast of light from the darkened sky disintegrated the tusks. The dark creature was surprised. What kind of attack could of destroyed one of the most powerful digimon in world's attack. The elephant digimon got his answer as the familiar Azzulongmon appeared in the sky and a ball of energy flew and hit Pegasusmon who automatically became Angemon as soon as the light penetrated his body. The mega dragon digimon vanished into the darkened nightmare called the sky and Tk couldn't believe what he saw happen.
"Angemon...Warp digivolve to...Seraphimon!" and the digimon vanished into a thick cloud of white silk, only to reappear a true knight in blue armor with a gigantic sword in his right and glowing energy in his left. "Leave digimon who are loyal to the emperor or taste my sword." Some of them vanished without even considering their options, but Dark Mammothmon stayed. "Taste steel vermin!" he cried and flew down at the elephant who charged, but would not help him when the sword went right down the middle cutting him in two and the digimon faded dissolving into nothing.
"Tk? Tk?" a voice called. Was that Matt? He thought. His eyes fluttered open as he looked up to a blue haired man with a goatee. "I'm glad your okay. You fainted right when Angemon warp digivolved. Did you see that other Mega? He was massive? Have you ever seen him before?" Joe said. Joe had changed Tk could tell. He couldn't believe that this young man had run away from a battle he had to fight or the digidestined would die.
"That was Azzulongmon Joe. He's a mega digimon who guards the North-Eastern Hemisphere of the real world and the digital world. I was shocked when I saw him send his orb of power at Pegasusmon. It was amazing to see a mega digimon other than War Greymon and Metal Garurumon. I mean, Seraphimon. Wow. He didn't even use any attacks and he still defeated a Dark digimon."
"I was wondering that too." Ken said out loud. Tk sat up too fast and grabbed his head. Kari held his hand helping him relax with a kiss on the forehead. "I mean how powerful does a digimon have to be and destroy his enemy without using any attacks."
"I attacked him! I slashed him with my sword!" Tokomon yelled up at Ken. Ken jumped hearing the digimon speak. The digimon growled at Ken and jumped into Tk's lap noticing he was finally awake.
"What he meant was that you didn't use any attacks like Angemon's hand of fate or even your own Bubble Boom." Gatomon replied to Tokomon and he nodded finally understanding what Ken had been trying to say.
"Sorry." He mumbled to Ken. Tokomon looked sad. Really bummed. He looked up at Ken, who smiled softly to him. He nodded as if accepting the apology. He then kneeled to Wormmon to make sure he was okay and Tokomon began to speak again his pipsqueak voice ringing in everyone's ears. "I saw him. Azzulongmon and he smiled and I could feel the change without their being a change and then I was Seraphimon. I knew my attacks would be lethal even against all of you so all I did was attack with the sword. I'm sorry." He said to the residential digimon who smiled.
"We're glad we're not under anymore pressure." Shumon said and then finished with "Now we can rebuild." But before any rebuilding could take place a bolt of lighting hit the ground, lightning that reminded Takeru when Myotismon, a evil digimon had attacked and sent Gotsumon and Pumpkinmon back to the digital world. He hadn't seen them since then. A screen formed where the lightning had struck revealing a most hideous yet recognizable face. Hikari screamed and placed her head into Takeru's shoulder.
"Shh. it's okay." Takeru whispered but how would it ever really be okay when there was nothing he could do at the moment but soothe Kari with false promises.
"As I have seen you have destroyed a small part of my army digital revolutionists. I don't know where that digimon came from but I am sure to tell you that when I find him he will be destroyed." Tokomon cowered behind Tk and Hikari picked him up soothing him as Tk had done to her. "Furthermore, I keep hearing everything about...a Takeru Takaishi look-a-like who has been everything but daisies for me. He caused me to lose a treasure. The light of the world you may call it. Now I am offering a reward of removal from the dark spirit and everlasting freedom and Takeru Takaishi when I find you I will rip you to pieces and that's a promise I intend to keep." And the video screen vanished as if it had been turned off.
"Oh Tk!" Kari gasped in horror of what her brother had said. "This is awful. We can't let you get captured. We have to do something Tk but what can we do? We're only 5 digidestined children. How can we battle an army?"
"We don't have the supplies or the power to battle Taiedmon directly. We would need everyone plus a thousand more to battle Taiedmon. The only thing I can do is give myself up to him and he'll let the rest of you all go."
"No! That's not the way and you know that Takeru!" Kari yelled at him. Uh oh. Kari only called him that when Tk was in trouble with her or when she was really really pissed off. "We're not going to give in to him!! I will not let that happen to the one I love!" she said and finished it by giving him a passionate kiss on the lips causing Tk to gasp.
"Wow. Kari. Wow." Was the only thing he could get out of his mouth. Suddenly Tk's digivice went off and his computer appeared with an email from who could only be Izzy. The email read
"Dear Digidestined,
I have great news. This will be a nasty knock for the emperor. I have found an old ally with a new partner. Can't talk long. Tentomon is really reminiscing with me. Good luck with Joe Tk.
-Izzy"
"This is very good for us." Ken spoke softly. Wormmon was lying in Ken's lap asleep from all the digivolving and everything. "Now that we have Joe and this mysterious ally and him or her's new partner. We should be a strong match for Taiedmon. We have Lightbringer, Paragon, Izzy, whoever else this person is and myself. With their help we can hopefully win."
"Yeah. I guess so. Well Joe. Are you really with us? Can we count on you and Gommamon to fight with us the entire time?" Kari asked him in a soft voice. Gatomon was sharpening her claws as she listened to her digidestined. Joe pondered for a moment rubbing the top of his partner's head and spoke out loud.
"Well. I will join you and help by doing whatever I can and I am glad that I can be there for at least some of the digidestined who truly rely on me. How about you Gommamon? What's your take on this?"
This mammal digimon placed a paw through the red Mohawk and he grinned at the small group. "I was getting tired of retirement anyway. Anyway I am with you Joe, like I said years before. I will be where you go and will agree with what I think is right and this is right Joe." Nodding.
"Let's do this then and stop talking about it. We have to fight Taiedmon and rescue the brainwashed digidestined. We have to figure out a way to battle him without him knowing in advance. What can we do?" Gatomon said softly.
"We know what we have to do but how to do it." Patamon said agreeing with the feline digimon and Tk sensed for the first time that the tiny mammal digimon had more than just friendship with the cat digimon. He watched their eyes lock and they were speaking through their emotions not words, afraid of being found out of their love for each other.
"Let's get back to the base and speak to Izzy about all this." Gatomon concluded and the group agreed in full as they traveled to the TV set and the familiar setting of the hidden base in the real world.
"Digi-port! Open!" Tk cried as a blast of light came from his digivice-causing there to be a glow sucking in the digimon and their digidestined partners. They landed again in a pile. "Ow. Joe!!"
"Sorry Tk." He said and the rest of the group got up and looked at Izzy. There were two people behind him. Kari recognized the first immediately almost if not as too soon so did Tk and Joe. Ken had heard of her but had never seen her. A plant like digimon was standing at her side.
"Mimi. It's been such a long time. I've missed you so much." Kari said. She ran to her and hugged her, the pink haired Madonna nodded and smiled in return.
"I've missed you to Kari, Joe, Izzy. But...Takeru...I couldn't imagine. You survived Piedmon." Of course Mimi was still two seconds ahead of her brain before realizing that this was not the same Tk she had known. "I have someone to introduce you to Tk. Someone you know very well. I wish it were Matt but he's lost to us. You can come out of the shadow." She told a dark form who was lying against the wall another small form on his shoulder.
A brownish blonde haired boy about the age of twelve stood against the wall. On his shoulder sat a yellow colored insect-digimon that Tk knew so well as Kunemon. He couldn't believe his eyes. In front of him, the boy who had taught him to truly fight what he wished to protect. Someone who had been a troublemaker, a thief, a boy of pure heart and someone Tk trusted with his life.
It was his cousin Ryo, the keeper of Innocence.