Legal Disclaimer: Guess what

Legal Disclaimer: Guess what! I don't own digimon (sob! I'm so upset by this fact. ) In any case, to the people who created digimon(yeah right! Like their reading fanfics written by pathetic fans like me!) thank you for giving my siblings one more reason to think that I'm completely insane.

Saying Of The Day: "If you don't like who you are, you're probably not alone."

-Dave Broadfoot

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Pain

by Kalika

"Which way should we go now Davis?" the group had been following a straight hallway for the past twenty minutes, but now they had reached a fork in the path. There were three choices. They could go straight, to the right, or they could take the path that was to their left. The odd thing about the last choice was that the hall almost seemed to lead back the way they had come, but only at a slight angle.

"I don't have the slightest idea. But I'm pretty sure that we shouldn't split up. Arukenimon could be anywhere. We'll pick a path, and if we don't find anything we'll just come back and try another. Does that sound good?"

"Yeah, it'll be safer that way." Veemon nodded his agreement. Wormmon was worried about Ken, but if they split up and someone got hurt then there was less of a chance for them to find his partner.

"All right. Let's go." With that Wormmon started down the hall to their right. Davis gave Veemon a quick glance before they both started to follow.

'Oh, thank God. We're finally finished. Now I can go to the Digiworld and help Davis," Kari thought to herself. In fact it was even better then just having the cleaning finished. Kari's family was going to spend the day shopping and hanging around the city. All she had to do was fake sick and she would have the place to herself for the entire day. No one would no that she was gone.

"Kari, we're going now. Are you sure you don't want to come?" Mrs. Kamiya popped her head back in the door.

"No thanks mom. I'll be fine here. I'm sure the quiet will help with the headache." Kari sighed as her mother finally stepped out the door. Kari watched through the window and her family got into the car and drove off.

Quickly, she pulled out her digivice and headed over to the computer. She called up the digiport and after sending an e-mail to TK that she was going, she opened the port and was pulled through.

"Hurry up X-Veemon. You stop those Snimon while Wormmon and I check these doors ok?"

The search had been going well until the guys had accidental walked into a room full of angry Snimon. Since Wormmon couldn't digivolve without Ken. He had suggested that Veemon should digivolve and distract the evil digimon, while he and Davis searched the other rooms. It wouldn't take long to look around. They had almost reached the end of the hall and there were only four other doors to check. Wormmon just hoped that none of the other rooms were filled with dangerous digimon.

"Nothing, in here." Davis closed one of the doors quickly before going to check the other room. It was empty as well.

Wormmon checked the other doors and also found nothing of interest. After catching up to Davis, the two of them headed back down the hall to see if Veemon needed any help. He didn't. By the time they got back X-Veemon had knocked all of the Snimon unconcious and had de-digivolved back to Veemon.

"Wow. Great job Veemon. Let's just lock the door so they can't get out and follow us once they wake up." Davis slammed the door shut and jammed it shut before the group began to head back to the fork to try another path.

Just as TK got in to his bedroom, he head his d-terminal begin to beep. He pulled it out and quickly read the message that Kari had sent:

TK,

I'm heading into the Digiworld right now. I'm going to head for primary village and see if anyone if there. If no one's there in an hour I'm going to start searching around for Ken by myself. Later.

Kari.

TK hurried to his door and told his mother that he was going out for awhile. He didn't even wait for a reply before turning to his computer and entering the Digiworld.

"Hey there are more doors down here!" Veemon exclaimed, pointing down the hallway ahead of them. He was right. There were three large black doors.

"I'll take the first door and you guys can check the others," Veemon offered. Davis nodded before he and Wormmon headed off down the hall to try remaining doors. Veemon pulled open the door and jumped back in surprise. The room was filled with Flymon. There had to be at least 20 of them.

Quickly, Veemon digivolved to X-Veemon. He jumped into the room with the evil digimon and closed the door behind him keeping the Flymon from chasing after Wormmon and Davis.

Meanwhile, Davis and Wormmon were checking the other rooms. There was nothing of interest in either of them. They were just small black walled rooms. There wasn't even any furniture. Sighing the two of them turned and headed back to Veemon.

"Vee-laser." X-Veemon had just knocked out the last remaining Flymon when they arrived. Davis gave X-Veemon a quizzical look. "Don't ask."

"Don't worry. I won't. But maybe you should stay as X-Veemon in case we run into any other trouble."

"All right," X-Veemon agreed as they once again headed back the way they had come. They still had a lot of the building left to search.

"Yolie! We're home! Where are you?"

"In here," Yolie called from the living room. Finally, they were home. Now she could go. "Mom, Dad, now that you're back, I'm going to head out for awhile, ok?" Not waiting for an answer, Yolie grabbed her jacket and disappeared out the door.

She had decided to head for the library, in order to use one of their computers, seeing as how her grandmother didn't own one. It wouldn't be long now. Just another half hour and she would be in the digi world helping the others find Ken. Perfect.

The wounded Flymon slowly and painfully made his was into Arukenimon's control room. It was very dark but he could just make out his masters form. She didn't look happy, but then again she never really did.

"Master. There are intruders in the building. They seemed to be looking for something," the Flymon explained nervously. "I'm not sure, but they might have been digidestined."

"So they have come for their friend. We'll I think I'll set up a little surprise for them," Arukenimon laughed wickedly. The Flymon who had brought the news backed away from her quickly. "How many were there?"

"There was one human boy and two digimon. A Wormmon and a Veemon. We attacked them but we were beaten."

"Hmmm! So only the one kid came. Go get Mummymon. Tell him that we have work to do." Arukenimon was already on her way out the door when she barked this order.

"Well, this is the only path left. If we don't find anything here, I don't know what we're going to do," Davis sighed as they started down the left path. The hall wasn't very long and it ended in a solid wall.

"Oh no! Whewhere else can we look?" Wormmon was on the verge of tears. This had been the best place to look and they hadn't found anything useful. Wormmon watched as Davis leaned against the wall in defeat. Suddenly, he was gone.

"Davis, Davis where are you?" Veemon bounded up to the wall, trying to see where his friend had gone. He was pressing against the wall experimentally when it suddenly slid open revealing a staircase. Veemon glanced at Wormmon before they began heading down.

"Ow! My head!" Davis groaned as he stood up. The moving wall had taken him be surprise and he had fallen backwards down the stairs, hitting his head on the floor.

"Look at this." Wormmon directed their attention ahead of them. There was a small hallway that seemed to branch of in two different directions. They took the left path and soon came to another fork. This time they headed to the right.

"Well, this maze is a good sign!" Davis laughed to himself. "Why would Arukenimon put so much effort into guarding this area if there wasn't something down here that she didn't want us to find. Even if it isn't Ken it must be something very important. So let's keep going."

"I'm going out Auntie. I'll be back soon." Cody slipped into his room and closed the door silently. After making sure that no one could hear him, he turned on the computer and accessed the digiport. Picking up Upamon under one arm he jumped through.

"Hey Cody. Over here." It was Yolie. She was jumping up in the air waving her arms around. "Everyone else is here. Hurry up. We want to go. We're going to head to Giga House. That's were Davis was heading when we last heard from him."

"Does he know that we're coming?" Cody asked.

"Well, we tried to e-mail him but the message didn't make it through. We just hope that he's still there." With that they started off.

To Be Continued

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Well, hope you liked that part. I know I didn't have any Ken in this part(sob) but don't worry, the next part is going to be loaded with Ken. It will be out soon, you shouldn't have to wait long.