Author's note: The reason that T.K.'s last name is Ishida is because this a different reality, and while their parents did get a divorce, T.K. stayed with Matt and his father.




Part 4:

"So," Sora said, looking around,"This is your base, huh?"

Matt nodded. He had brought Sora and her Digimon to their base of operations. He could tell that she was impressed, and that made him strangely happy inside. He smiled slightly.

Just then, the door to the underground base opened. Matt turned to see the figure in the doorway. He half smiled. "Willis! You made it!"

Sora saw a blond haired boy her age walk down the stairs. "Matt," he said,"I'm glad I made it. How are you, my friend?"

Sora picked up on his accent. "An American?" she asked.

"Sora," Matt said, a smile on his face,"I would like you to meet my good friend, Willis. "

The American walked over and shook Sora's hand. "Please to meet you." His eyes moved to where Biyomon was holding on to Sora's leg. "You must be one of Matt's Digidestined team."

"Yeah," Sora said,"I guess I am."

"Willis," Matt said,"I am glad you're here. There is a spare room upstairs. We'll talk later, right now, I've got a meeting to keep. Make yourself at home."

He turned to his new student. "I will see you here tomorrow and we'll get started, okay Sora?"

The redhead nodded. "Sure, I-I'll see you then."

"I'll walk you to the door," Matt said.


Yolei Inoe sat in the chemistry lab at school. She took an eyedropper and placed it inside a test tube with a black liquid. He sucked some up in the eyedropper, then dropped it in a test tube full of green liquid. The green liquid turned orange. "Yes," Yolei said,"I've done it....uh oh."

The orange liquid turned purple, then shot out a blast of purple smoke. Yolei started coughing as she hit the switch for the exhaust fan. "Oh man," she thought,"I thought I had it that time!"

"Yolei," she heard a voice say,"What happened here?"

"Cody," she coughed, "What are you doing here?" As she watched the smoke from the chemical reaction being pulled through the ventilation system she saw her friend standing in the doorway.

"I forgot one of my school books," he said.

"That doesn't sound like you," Yolei said, removing her safety goggles.

"Well, mistaking a simple reaction doesn't sound like you," Cody said, looking at the bubbling test tube.

Yolei was about to say something else, when she saw someone standing in the doorway. "Can I help you?" she asked.

"Yes," the boy said,"I am looking for Yolei Inoe."

"That's me," Yolei said,"What can I do for you?"

"Hello, my name is T.K. Ishida. I represent someone who is interested in recruiting Digidestined."

Yolei stiffened. "Wh-what are you talking about?"

"Yolei, you are a Digidestined, and my brother is interested in Digidestined. He has a team he is forming. Do you wish to join?"

"I don't know," Yolei said.

"Are you lonely?" T.K. asked,"Do you wish you had more friends? We are a family, you could have friends."

Yolei's eye opened up. "I-ah, only if Cody can come too."

"Yolei," Cody said,"I don't know."

"Please," Yolei asked, "for me? If you don't like it, we'll leave, no questions asked."

Cody sighed. "Okay. I guess we need to get our Digimon then, right?"

T.K. nodded. "Yes, glad to have you aboard."



Tai walked inside the small coffee shop, an arm full of books. He sighed as he sat down at one of the booths. He flipped open the blue book and opened his notebook. "Man," he thought,"I hate Philosophy."

"Hey, Tai right?"

Tai looked up and saw a familiar looking girl standing by his booth. He looked at her strangely, trying to place her. Then it hit him. "Oh, I met you the other day, Davis's sister, um, June, that's it, you're name is June."

The girl nodded, smiling broadly. "Do you mind if I sit down?"

"Um, sure," he said,"Maybe you can give me a hand here."

"Depends on what," she said,"What are you doing?"

"Homework," he said,"I've been busy. If I don't get this homework made up, I'm not going to make it to the next grade level."

"I thought you were graduating this year."

"I am, I mean, at least I hope."

Jun smiled. "I'm hungry," Tai said, getting up,"Do you need anything?"

"No thanks," Jun said,"I'm fine."

Tai got up and started walking towards towards the counter, when he felt something hit him in the neck. He quickly brought his hand up to his neck, and felt a small dart shaped object sticking out. "What the-?" he thought. Suddenly, he felt strange. His eyes closed sharply and he slammed into the ground.

"Tai?" Jun asked, running over to him,"Are you okay?"

She was about to kneel down to check him, when someone from the counter came over. "I'm a physician, let me take a look."

He started moving his hand along Tai's arm. He detached Tai's wrist watch and dropped it on the floor. "This man has had a heart attack. I'm going to call an ambulance in."

He ran over to a phone. Jun knelt down by Tai's side. She held his hand. A few minutes later two first aid people came in. They put Tai on a stretcher and wheeled him out.

"Wait," June said,"Where are you taking him?"

"To the nearest hospital," one of the first aid people said as the put him in the ambulence,"We don't have time to worry. This man will die if we don't hurry."

Jun was too shocked to notice that the doctor had gotten into the ambulance also. "I-I've got to tell Kari," Jun said as she watched the ambulance drive off.




"Excuse me," Kari said, walking into the computer lab,"I'm looking for a Ken Ichijoji."

The yellow haired girl she asked turned around and pointed to a boy in the back of the classroom. "That's him back there with the black hair, you can't miss him."

"Thanks," Kari said, politely. She started walking down the floor between the rows of desk. Each desk was really a long table with four or five students, all working on the software on their computers, each one of them had black hair. "Stupid blond!" Kari thought, "If I didn't have a picture of Ken Icijoji, I'd never find him."

Kari found Ken Icijoji sitting at the back of the classroom alone at one of the tables. His fingers were racing across the keyboard. "Ken Icijoji?" Kari asked.

The boy looked up. "Yes, how may I help you?"

"My name is Kari Kamiya."

Ken's ears perked up. "Kamiya? The Kamiyas?"

Kari nodded. "Yes."

"Wow," Ken said,"I'd never thought I'd be talking to the richest girl in town."

Kari smiled and blushed slightly. "Yes, but, I have something very important to talk to you about."

Ken noticed the drop in the tone of her voice. "How 'important'?"

Kari leaned in closer. "Do you think we can talk back here and no one will hear us?"

Ken leaned back in his chair. He studied Kari for a moment, then leaned forward and said. "Yeah, I think so. This is supposed to be an after school class, but the teacher called out sick and everyone's too busy working to notice us. Now, what is it that's so important?"

"Well," she said, then laughed slightly,"You know, this gets easier every time."

Ken raised an eyebrow. "Really? Tell me about yourself."

Kari laughed again. "Well, you see, its like this, my brother, well, I am too, we're both Digidestineds."

Ken leaned back in his chair. "What does that have to do with me?"

"Because, you're a Digidestined," she said,"And my brother is recruiting Digidestined."

"How did you know that I was a Digidestined?" Ken asked, a little shocked.

"My brother and I have certain......devices, at our disposal."

"You mean like cameras?" Ken asked, disgusted,"You've been spying on me."

"No, no," Kari said, holding up her hands,"I mean like equipment that can track Digital Energy. All we knew was that someone had high traces of Digital Energy in their bodies, and that meant a Digidestined. We tracked it to your house. After checking, we found you were the only child in that house, so you had to be a Digidestined."

Ken crossed his arms. "You mean, you never looked inside my house?"

Kari shook her head. "No, as soon as we found what house it was, we researched, not spied."

Ken sighed, then brought a small smile across his face. "Well..." he started, but was cut off when the bell rang.

"That's the end of this class," Ken said, standing up,"Do you want to continue this conversation outside?"

"Yeah," Kari said, pleased that she had recruited another Digidestined. She was just thinking that maybe she should become a professional recruiter when she got older, when her cell phone rang.

"Excuse me," Kari said to Ken. She lifted her phone to her ear. "Hello?.......Who..? Oh, yeah, I met you the other day. How are you June?......What?! Are you....no, no, I-I'll be right there."

"What happened?" Ken asked, watching the color drain from Kari's face.

"Its my brother," she said," H-he had a heart attack. He's at the hospital."

"Which one?" Ken asked, follow Kari into the hall.

"June doesn't know," Kari said, almost in a trance,"S-she's waiting at the cafe, where T-tai was b-brought to the hospital."

"Then maybe we'd better get there first," Ken said.


"What?" T.K. asked, talking into his phone,"S-Sora, calm down, what happened?"

"Well," Sora said over the phone,"Matt was walking me home, when he suddenly fell to the ground, I had no idea what happened, but, luckily a doctor was walking home when this happened. He said that Matt had a heart attack and he called an ambulance."

T.K. paced up the floor of his room,"Where did they take him?"

"I-I don't know," Sora sighed,"They said they didn't have time to tell me, because if they didn't take Matt to a hospital, he was going to die."

"Hmm," T.K. said,"This sounds...why would Matt have a heart attack? He's in perfect health. Sora, did they drop anything?"

"Yeah," Sora said,"His wrist watch fell off."

T.K.'s hand clenched into a fist. "Someone's taken him. Kamiya must have done this!"


"June!" Kari cried, running into the coffee shop.

"Oh, Kari," June said, hugging her new friend,"I'm sorry. I really am."

"Do you remember anything about the ambulance or the first aid workers?" Ken asked,"Anything at all?"

"Who's this?" June asked Kari.

"This is Ken Ichijoji," Kari said,"Do you remember anything?"

"No," June said, shaking her head sadly,"I'm sorry."

"We've got to search every hospital," Kari said,"Split up, and call my cell phone if you find anything."

The three of them started to leave, when June said,"Oh, Kari, wait, they dropped his watch."

"His watch?" Kari asked. June handed her Tai's wrist watch. The expression on Kari's face changed.

"Go head, June," Kari said,"Remember, call me."

June nodded and ran out. "What is it?" Ken asked.

Kari flipped open her cell phone and hit the first auto dial. It ran for a moment, then a voice came over the speaker,"Hello, Kamiya residence, this Michael speaking, how may I help you?"

"Michael, its Kari," she said,"Listen, Tai's been captured."

"Are you sure?" Michael asked.

"Yeah, June Motomiya just called and said he supposedly had a heart attack, and was taken to a hospital."

"How can you be sure that he wasn't?" Michael asked.

"Because," Kari said, lifting up her brother's watch,"They dropped his tracer. Ishida must have done this."

Michael breathed in quickly. "Okay, we'll have to split up and search..."

"That won't get us anywhere," Kari said,"Look, we need to find a way to trace him."

"Maybe Izzy can find a way to trace him by his Digivice," Michael said.

"Yeah, that's a great idea," Kari said,"Keep me informed."



Tai felt something splash against his nose. He opened his eyes quickly and jumped up. He was in a cell, that much was obvious. It was a small room with three walls, and a set of metal bars. It was dark, but he could see that there was a number of cells in the larger room. He felt something splash against his head. "And I have to get the one that has a leak," he sighed.

"You're here too?"

Tai spun around. Looking out through the bars he could see a blond haired boy his age wearing the same school uniform as him. "Ishida," he said,"What are you doing here?"

Matt laughed slightly. "I could ask you the same thing."

"A sharp, dart object in your neck?" Tai asked.

Matt nodded. "Yes."

The two stared at each other for a bit more. "Why are you doing this Matt?" Tai asked,"Why are you recruiting people to share your view, your belief? Its wrong!"

"No more wrong than you," Matt said,"We can not live in peace with regular humans. You were at the U.N. Senate in Paris. You saw the way that one representative reacted to Catherine. If she gave him any excuse, he would have killed her! I would have been ready to defend her, and she's not even one of mine."

Tai crossed his arms. "My spokesperson does not need your protection. We can live in peace with normal humans. Myotismon is the threat, not the un-Digidestined."

Matt stared at Tai for a bit more. "What do you say we get out of here first, and argue later?"

Tai nodded. "Sounds good to me."

Just then, three humans walked between the two cells. One was wearing the uniform of a doctor, the other two had emergency first aid uniforms on. "What the?" Matt asked.

"Who are you?" Tai asked.

"We're the ones that brought you in," the doctor said. Suddenly, the trios features began to change. They turned pure white, and twisted into a floating object.

"Bakemon!" Tai said.

"But I don't remember any Bakemon that wear dark rings around their shoulders."

"That is how we control them," a new voice said. This one was computerized, and unemotional.

"I've never seen a Digimon like that before," Matt said, watching a square mechanical being float in.

"That's a Mekanorimon," Tai said,"But what are these Digimon doing on Earth?"

"And why are we here?" Matt asked.

"You are here because you are rumored to be the most powerful Digidestineds," the Mekanorimon said,"We are going to determine your strength level."

"We're going to be tested?" Tai asked.

"Starting tomorrow," the Mekanorimon said, as he and the Bakemon exited the room.



"No doubt about it," Izzy said, holding his laptop in his hands,"This is where Tai's signal is."

The Kamiya Digidestined stood in front of the dark warehouse, straining their necks to see the roof.

"This place is pretty big," Veemon said,"How do you suggest we get in?"

"Through the front, of course," Gatomon said.

Michael punched his open fist,"So, this is where Ishida is holding his POW's huh?"

"Guys," Tentomon said,"We've got trouble."

They turned to the left and saw the Ishida Digidestined running up the street towards them. "There you are!" T.K. shouted.

"Shoot," Kari said,"Looks like we've got a fight on our hands."

The two sides stared each other down, Kari was in the front of the Kamiya team, and T.K. in front of the Ishida team. "Willis," Michael said,"Its been a long time."

"It sure has," Willis said, sarcastically," hope you've been well."

"Sara?" Mimi asked, surprised.

The redhead behind T.K. sighed,"Its Sora, Mimi. We've been in the same grade since high school, and you don't even know my name! Its Sora!"

"Why are you with Ishida?" Mimi asked,"Why would a nice girl like you be with him."

"Because, he's going to teach me how to train my Digimon."

"Where is my brother?" Kari shouted, getting annoyed by the useless chatter.

"I don't know where your brother is," T.K. said,"Have you checked the gutter? That's where trash like him belongs, that's what my brother always said!"

Kari shot forward, intending to slam T.K's face with her left fist, but Davis and Ken held her back. "I'm surprised your brother would see Tai there, considering you have to climb up from the sewers to reach the gutter, but your brother never did want to rise above his own filth, now did he?"

This time T.K. jumped forward, but Yolei and Cody held him back. "Open this place up," T.K. said, mentioning to the warehouse,"And let my brother go!"

"You open it up!" Kari shouted back,"And let MY brother go!"

"Wait," Sora said,"Kari, Tai is missing?"

"Of course," Kari said,"You're the ones that took him!"

"No," Sora said, shaking her head,"We thought you took Matt."

"Ishida is missing too?" Mimi asked.

Kari and T.K. finally cooled down and realized what was going on. "If both of our leaders are missing," Kari said,"And neither side took them..."

"Then where are they, and who did?" T.K. asked.

"Myotismon?" Joe asked.

Michael shook his head. "No, its not his style. He likes manipulations and sting pulling, but, he'd never resort to kidnapping."

"How do you know?" Cody asked.

"After Kamiya and Matt split ways," Willis said,"Michael met Tai, and I met Matt. While we were trying to get home, we still fought Myotismon, separately, but, we know Myotismon's m.o."

"Well," Izzy said,"I guess we'll find out soon, because Tai's digivice signal is coming from that building."

"So is Matt's," Yolei said, closing her portable computer.

"Well," Kari said to T.K.,"Why don't we save the fighting for later."

T.K. nodded. "Let's go."

"Okay," Kari said, turning to her team,"Don't forget what Tai taught you."

"Let's go guys," T.K. said to his team,"Let's save Matt."

Both teams busted through the door to the warehouse. Along the left wall was a row of computers, three floating white objects, and a large square being.

"Bakemon!" Willis said.

"And a Mekanorimon," Michael said.

"Why are the Bakemon wearing black rings?" Terriermon asked.

"What are they doing on Earth?" Betamon asked.

"Intruders," the Mekanorimon said,"Get them."

The black rings glowed a black light, then the Bakemon charged forward. "Get them!" Kari told the Kamiya Digidestined.

"You guys too," T.K. said, to his team.

The combined attacks of Tentomon, Palmon, Betamon, Veemon, Wormmon, Gommamon, Biyomon, Terriermon, Hawkmon, and Armadillomon proved to be too much for the Bakemon. All three were instantly destroyed.

"Now," Gatomon said, staring down the Mekanorimon,"You seem to be the one in charge, where is Tai Kamiya?"

"And Matt Ishida!" Patamon asked.

"They are in the cells at the back of this warehouse," the Mekanorimon said, moving towards a computer. He raised his hand and the screen lit up,"I must be going!"

"He's going through the Digital Gate!" Kari shouted,"Stop him!"

Gatomon and Patamon rushed forward, but it was too late. The Mekanorimon was all ready through the gate.

Suddenly, a door on the left side burst open. Tai and Matt came running out. "Okay, Mekanori-what?" Tai asked, looking around.

"Tai!" Kari and Mimi shouted, running up to him,"You're all right!"

"Matt," T.K. said,"What happened here?"

"Someone took us," Matt said,"That Mekanorimon was going to test us."

"But, everything's okay now, right?" Mimi asked.

"No," Tai said,"That Mekanorimon was working for someone, but who?"

END OF PART 4