"Zerogrowlmon..."

"Silver! What are you planning to do?" Kari asked.

No answer.

"Silver?"

Still no response.

"Armagedonmon is waiting for you. Come with me..."

Silver brought her fists up and put her left leg back. "Hmph..."

Tai grabbed onto Silver's arm. "Don't.. Please, don't..."

"Silver, why don't we just make a run for it? Zerogrowlmon will loose his energy eventually and de-digivolve back to Pangmon!" Kari said.

"Did I forget to mention that?" Silver finally said.

"Mention what?"

"She ate a lot of food tonight. So then, Zerogrowlmon's digivolve can last for at least a day..." Mimi informed them.

"Zerogrowlmon, if you want me, come and get me." Silver exclaimed, grabbed onto Tai's shirt, and kissed him.

"Er...." Mimi and Kari said at the sudden show of passion. "Hey! That's my brother!" Kari said.

"And this isn't the time and place guys!" Mimi added.

Silver and Tai parted lips and Tai turned bright red. "Wish me luck." Silver whispered.

"HOWLING EXTREME!!"

Immediately, Tai pushed Silver over and away from the shot, and dove for Mimi and Kari to get down.

"Get outta here!" Silver shouted.

"Not without you! Silver!!!!" Mimi cried.

Zerogrowlmon looked from Silver over to her.

"Oh crap..."

"Stay out of my way." He said and stretched his legs back. Making it easy for him to pounce on them and attack.

"Tai, get off of me!" Kari shouted.

"I'm trying! I'm trying!"

"Ouch! Now get off of me!"

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Tai said as he tried his hardest to get off the girls, but always failing, or falling on their legs. And when he finally managed to get on his feet, Silver slammed right into him. "I... can't... take.. much.. more of this!"

"Silver, don't do this to yourself!"

Zerogrowlmon's attention suddenly turned toward Kari. "Destroy..."

"Kari!!!!!!" Mimi shouted.

"Somebody help me out!!!" Kari screamed as she ran down the street.

"Silver! Tai! Wake up!" Mimi ordered.

"What? What happened?" Silver asked.

"TTTTTTAAAIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!" Kari called out from the other end of the street.

"K-Kari!!!" Tai responded as he got up. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" He shouted in pain as he felt his knee explode with emense pain.

"Tai!" Mimi knelt next to him. Unknowing what to do and how to stop his pain. Just seeing him like that broke her heart. "PPPPPPPAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLMMMMMMMMMOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!'

"Mimi..."

Mimi looked at the beaten up Silver with a blurry vision.

"Don't worry... I wouldn't let anything happen to her... But that means we'll have to make some sacrifices.."

Mimi shook her head. "Please Silver, anything but that! --- Silver, DON'T!!!!" Mimi begged as she saw Silver get up and trailed after Kari's cries for help.

"What the hell is going on?" Tai asked.

"That's not important right now... We've got to get a hold of the others!" Mimi said and forward a help message to everyone on her D-Terminal.


*~*
Kari gasped as some of someone's blood fell upon her clothing. The person groaned in pain, shook uncontrollably, but yet managed to smirk at her.

"Get going, Kari..."

Kari gasped again. "...J-Joe...?"

"Fool..." Zerogrowlmon muttered.

'I can't believe it.... Joe saved my life?...' Kari thought as she gazed at Joe's bloody clothes and broken glasses.

"Zerogrowlmon!" A pissed voice called. "What have you done? You want me, not them... Why'd you harm them?"

Zerogrowlmon chuckled. "Oh, I'm sorry Silver... I didn't mean to hurt your new friends... Hmph, that's always been your top weakness... Your friends..."

"Shut up..."

"Cork... Lexi... Willis..."

"I said shut up..."

"Jelena... Cork..."

"No..."

"And -TIKE-.."

"SHUT UP!!!!!!!" Silver screamed in a voice mixed with emotions. She ran up to Zerogrowlmon and with all her energy left, she punched Zerogrowlmon right in the rib cage.

"Silver!" Kari gasped.

Zerogrowlmon flew across the grass and stopped when he planted his claws into the hard soil. "Don't be taking it all out on me... Afterall, you did admit that it was all -your- fault..."

Silver collapsed to the grass. "Stop it... Just take me already..."

"It'd be an honor..." Zerogrowlmon said, swung her over his shoulder, and began to walk away.

"Wait!" Kari exclaimed.

Zerogrowlmon looked over his other shoulder, shook his head, and kept on walking.

"Huh?"

A white portal appeared in front of him. He was about to take a step inside, but suddenly Kari punched him in the back.

"Leave her alone!"

"All a bunch of fools." Zerogrowlmon murmured, turned around to face Kari, and looked straight into her eyes. Deep within those pink eyes he saw the dark world she'd gone to and what she saw in the dark ocean. He snapped back into his senses and turned to leave.

"How could you? How could you possibly betray your best friend?"

"The whole world is just a mixture of good and bad things. Joy, betrayal, trust, and sadness.... Not everything turns out fine in the end, ya know?"

Kari grabbed onto Silver's pale arms and tried to pull her off of Zerogrowlmon's shoulder. "Let. Her. Go!"

"Now that I think about it, you can become useful yourself. Come on." Zerogrowlmon said as he grabbed onto one of Kari's arms.


Just at that moment, TK, Mimi, Tai, and Izzy all showed up.

"Joe?" TK asked.

"I'm fine..."

"TK!!!"

"Huh?" TK turned around and saw half of Kari's body being pulled into another dimension. "KARI!!!" He sprinted over to her as fast as he could.

"TK!" Now Kari's right side of her face was pulled in.

"I'm coming!" TK assured her.

"Hurry!! TK!!"

"NO!!!!" TK was too late.