Chapter Two: Kaisers Return
(Author's Note: Sorry! I'm getting writers' block! Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry! I just can't think too straight! GOMEN! If anyone has got idea's, like if anyone who might be reading this I need help!)
The Emperor, yet again, finished his sentence with a laugh. "And he's not coming back so easily. Well, not as the first time, that is." The Emperor sighed. "But, you can't do this! You've made him suffer enough!" Yolei said. "He has suffered, I must admit. But, you don't understand how much pain he went through. You see, temptation was far too strong. He couldn't say no to temptation. But, to be honest, would you say no? He had nothing, and was offered everything, for a small price. A very small price. But you took that away. Being good was the temptation." The Emperor smiled cruelly. "It couldn't have been that hard! Ken could have fought ba- uhh..." The Emperor placed his ungloved hand on Yolei's cheek. She let out a scream. Then, the young Kaiser let go. "What happened?" Kari asked. "I-I-I went into his mind! Into his past! It was h-h-horrible!" Yolei cried. The Kaiser smiled, then his eyes went blank. "Yolei, I had to. I'm sorry . . . " Ken voice mumbled. The Kaisers eyes went blank again, and he smiled cruelly. "Forgot that he could do that..." The young Emperor mumbled. He whistled, and Airdramon came flying through the air. "The Digimon Emperor's back, Digi-Fools! And don't expect such an easy defeat this time!" He slapped a dark ring on Airdramon, and it flew upward into the sky. "Oh my god..." TK muttered. "The Kaiser's back, and stronger then ever..." Yolei said, worried. "We shouldn't have doubted him so much! When he told us that he changed, we should have believed him!" Davis said, absolutely furious. "Listen, it wasn't our fault! This is Ken's fight, not ours! He has to chose which side he will be on!" Kari said. "And how would you know? You never had a Dark Spore, did you?!" Davis Demanded. "No, but-" "I'm going to follow him! We have to get rid of that spore!" Yolei said, pushing TK out of her way. "It's too dangerous! You could get killed!" Kari yelled. "I don't care!"
Meanwhile, the Digimon Emperor was sitting in a small base, not nearly as big as his old one. "Good thing I had this underground base, right Wormmon? Wormmon?" The Digimon Emperor looked around his base. "Oh yeah, he's not with me this time. Oh, that's probably for the best. He broke too many dishes anyway." The Kaiser stared at his computer screens. This base was not as big as the one that the digi-destined had destroyed, but still, it was appropriate for a bad guy to have a base. And this one had more room to hold digimon captive, but less room for comfort. But the Kaiser didn't care. "Let's see here, we have over 800 broken dark rings. And over 100 control spires that are broken. I'll have to make these control spires stronger. Maybe Crom-Digizoid metal. And I'll have to focus on Ultimate and Mega type digimon, not Champion type. Hmmm..." The Digimon Emperor typed on his computer furiously. "OK, by the end of today I should get plan 0341 done, but where did I put those files?" The Emperor looked around in his small base. "Ahhh, yes, plan 0341, new control spires. This is LONG- huh?" The Kaiser looked out of his tiny, 1 inch window. "Digi-Destined." He mumbled, as he continued to look at the ceiling. (That's where his window was.) He decided to not worry about them now, he was underground, and they wouldn't be able to find his base so easily, not this time around.
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"Um, mom, is it OK if I stay at Kari's house tonight?" Yolei asked. "Yes," Yolei stormed through the door. "But take a coat, it's cold!"
"Mom, can I stay at Kari's house?" Davis said, smiling broadly. "Kari? Don't you usually stay at Ken's? He's you best friend, right?" Davis mom continued cleaning the dishes. "Yeah...but Ken's house burned down." Davis said, trying to hide the fact that he was lying. "Tamachi T.M? That place did not burn down. Fine, you can stay at Kari's. I need a vacation anyway." "Thanks Mom, I love you, BYE!" Davis sped out of the house.
"Can I stay at Kari's tonight?" Cody asked. "Yes, but I'll drive you there." Cody's grandad said.
"Can I stay at Kari's tonight dad?" T.K asked. "Oh, your girlfriend, right?" T.K's mom said. "No, she is not my girlfriend. Can I stay at her house?" "Fine, bring back these items from the store on you way back." T.K's mom gave her son a long list.
"Mom, can I stay at Kari's tonight?" Tai asked. "Baka! You live here!" Kari said. "Uhhh, yeah...let's go home." "We are home." "That was fast." Tai sprawled on the bed. DING DONG. Kari went to open the door, frightened that if Tai opened it, he would yell at the person for getting the wrong house. "I got my D-3, D-Terminal, a picture of you, whoops, that wasn't supposed to come out." Davis went straight to Kari's room. "Without Ken, Davis has NO brains." Kari said silently.
A few minutes later, everyone had arrived. "I don't want to fight Ken. I absolutely refuse." Yolei said. "We have to! He's not Ken anymore, he's the Kaiser!" Kari yelled. "It doesn't matter! I think he has every right to change back! We always doubted him! We never trusted him! He tried many times!" Davis said, clearly angered by Kari's remark. "I know, but what are we going to do Davis?! Ask, 'Please change back!'" T.K said. "T.K, shut up! You never helped! Remember when Wormmon died? All you said was 'He's gone Ken' and 'It's hard to argue with you there, you've done some pretty horrible stuff.' I think he KNEW that T.K!" Davis said. "Listen, I know he's your best friend and all-" "DNA DIGIVOLVE PARTNER! HE IS MY DNA DIGIVOLVE PARTNER! WE ARE CONNECTED YOU FIEND!" Davis gasped at saying fiend. Fiend was more of a Ken word. "Sorry T.K. Well, let's go fight the Kaiser! And let's keep this from the old digi-destined, OK?" Davis said, gripping his D-3. "No. We will NOT fight him. He is our friend! He saved our lives many times, and we owe him this much!" Cody said. "Darn Digimon! This is all their fault!" Poromon, Chibimon, Gatomon, and Patamon all sunk there heads. Yolei started crying on Kari's shoulder. "I'm worried about him! He doesn't deserve this! I saw his past!" Yolei started telling everyone what she saw. "...then his brother died, and everything went downhill. It was horrible." Yolei continued to cry. "But the REAL weird thing is that when the Emperor released me, I heard Ken's voice, not the Kaisers. I think that Ken might still be there, but trapped somehow!" Yolei said. "In his own body?" Kari asked. "Bingo!"
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"1 A.M., I should be getting some sleep." The Emperor ripped off his sunglasses, then his cape, which he fumbled with before finally opening it. He took off his shoes, then his gloves. He kept the jumpsuit, he didn't want to change into pajama's, the Emperor was too tired. The Kaiser unruffled his hair a bit. "Great, another two hours for my hair." The Emperor ran his hand through his dark blue hair, which he decided to change the style of. He drifted into a sleep. It was a dreamless sleep, but then he woke up immediately. A little voice in his head said 'Enjoying your return, aren't you?' The Emperor looked around the room. "Who's there?" He asked, his voice stern. He picked up his whip. "How dare you enter this base! This base belongs to the Digimon Kaiser! Leave while you are still able!" 'How can you get rid of me? When it's all in your head?' the voice said. "Shut up! Show yourself!" The young Emperor lifted his whip, and it made a cracking sound as it hit the floor. "I AM you!!! You're even stupider then I remembered!!!! I'm Ken Ichijouji, you moron!" The Kaiser lowered his whip. He believed this person for some reason. "Where are you?" The Emperor asked. "In your head, like I said before! When you changed again, your good and evil side got separated!" The Emperor's smirk grew. "So...your stuck up there? And I have no real good side to change my evil ways?" "Yes, but you don't understand! Your crest is being eliminated! You destroying the digi-destined within!" Ken pleaded. "So? Now, if I turn good again, and that's a big if, I won't feel guilty!" "No no! It's not like that! We could get separated! And you could become a dark capsule! Listen to me!" "Nonsense, I have to original!" "So? The only difference between the original and the copies are that the original doesn't turn you into a stupid tree!" Ken said, inside the Kaiser's head. "Well, I'm will not stand for one of your stupid tricks-" "Look in the mirror. Focus on your dark energy." The Emperor walked to the bathroom. He focused on his dark energy. An orb appeared before him, that was mostly black, but just a bit white. "That's your good and evilness. Evil is winning!" Ken said. "And? No more conscience to stop me now!" The Emperor laughed. "Uhhh, you don't get it-do you? A dark capsule!!! That's worst then a dark tree, for heavens sake!" But then, the Kaiser ignored the voice from then on, and went to sleep.
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Meanwhile, all the digi-destined where talking at Kari's. Davis fell asleep. "Don't wake him, it is kind of late. Whoa! 3 AM! Cody, it's wayyyyy past your bedtime!" Yolei said. "Well, I guess we should be getting some sleep. What will we do with Davis? Leave him on the floor?" Cody asked. "Sure! Why not! He'll get mad if we move him anyway!" T.K said, smiling. "Yeah, but it's not nice-" Davis then woke up. "Ken? KEN!" Davis snapped out of it. "What?" Yolei said. "My dream, it was, strange...Ken was in it...it felt so real, you know? Well, we where in a big white room, and Ken was very far away. I could barely see him. But I heard everything that he said. 'Davis, tell the other digi-destined that I'm sorry, but I won't be coming back. I'm using my last ounces of strength to tell you this. Since you're my DNA partner, I can speak through you. Well, when my evil side arose again, me, the good side, and him, the bad side, got split up. The Emperor hasn't got an ounce of right in him. But do a favor for me, remove his dark spore by any means possible. Even if it means killing him. You won't be killing me cause I'm practically already dead. The spore is winning Davis, it's winning, and I can't stop it! He'll turn into a dark capsule, once that happens, immense levels of Dark energy will rise. The digiworld shall parish. Remove the spore before any of this happens. I'm sorry, that I could not fight it.' Then, the dream got sort of weird. Ken disappeared, and I saw the Emperor. Some black thing was coming out of his neck, and I felt cold suddenly. Then I woke up." Davis said. "Is that EXACTLY what Ken told you?" Kari asked. "Yes, I somehow remembered everything he told me." Davis said. "Wait, I think I know someone who can help us!" T.K said. "Who?" Everyone said in unison. "Azulongmon!" T.K said. "Are you actually planing on killing him?" Yolei asked, a hint of annoyance in her voice. "NO! I just taught maybe we could ask Azulongmon for help!" T.K protested. "And how exactly do we find Azulongmon? Hmmm?" Yolei asked. "Our D-3's can help! I'm sure of it!" Kari said. Davis stayed silent. "What's wrong?" Yolei asked. "My best friend, he doesn't deserve this. He deserves a chance to be normal! He's the nicest kid I know. In the dream, Ken sounded so weak, as if he was fading..." Davis face turned stern. "BUT I WON'T LET THAT HAPPEN! DIGI-PORT OPEN!" Davis lifted his blue D-3, put Kari tackled him. "It's his fight! Not your's! He must fight his own demons!" Kari said. "NO! I'm going to help him! I'm getting Azulongmon's help, whether you like it or not!" Davis went through the portal. "Ken..." Yolei whispered. "I'm going to! He's, well...DIGI-PORT OPEN!" Yolei opened the digi-port, and went through. T.K didn't budge, neither did Cody. "We don't know what we're getting ourselves into." Cody said. "Well, I'm going through. If anything happens, Silphymon will be needed. Shakkoumon could help to..." Kari said. "We're not going." Cody said. "Fine. But you didn't let T.K talk. Are you going T.K?" Kari asked, staring at T.K and hoping that he would help a friend in desperate need. "No. I'll stay here. Ken knew what he got himself into when he changed back." T.K said, frowning. Kari slapped him. "I know you are strongly against the powers of darkness..." Kari glared at T.K even more. "But Ken's not one of them...It wasn't him who took Patamon away." Kari waited for T.K to answer. "Why are you standing up for him?" "Because if my brother suffered the same fate as Sam, I would more then likely do the same thing Ken did." Kari took out her digi-vice. "My dad died, you don't see me ruling the digi-world!" Cody said. "Do you remember it? Do you have nightmares about the look your dad had on his face when he died?" Kari asked. "No, but-" "No buts. I'm going through. DIGI-PORT OPEN!" Kari went through. T.K just stood there, holding his cheek. "She-hit-me! But-were-best-friends-" "DIGI-PORT OPEN!" Cody yelled. T.K watched bitterly as Cody went through the portal. 'I'm not going, and that's that! He deserves what he gets!' T.K thought. But then, a little voice in T.K's head said, "It's hard to argue with you their Ken, you've done some pretty horrible stuff!" T.K remembered when he fought the Digimon Emperor. He remembered the look in the young Kaiser's eyes, full of rebellion, but not an ounce of hope or love. He remembered when he asked Ken, "That's your problem Ken, you can't tell when it's a good time to talk, and when it's a good time to fight. Now is a good time to talk." T.K saw the Kaiser's eye's relax, as if he wanted to hear those words from someone, anyone, all his life. As if he just wanted to talk, for once. But now, T.K hated himself for saying, "But it's also a good time to fight!" The Emperor's eye's saddened for a split second, but then turned fierce again. But only now, when T.K was replaying the fight in his head, did he realize that Ken seemed to move as if by force. The way he lifted his whip and threw his punches... "I just made it harder!" T.K thought sadly. "I never trusted him! If only I did!" T.K heard a different voice this time, Ken's... "It wasn't your fault, and don't you ever think that. I don't want anyone going down the same horrible road I went down. I know that we were never close friends, but I want to tell you something to pass on to Davis and Yolei. Tell them to kill the Emperor! He's not me anymore. I was separated with my evil side. And since now, my evil side is taking over, there's not much I can do. Staying with Kaiser IS an option, but it's heartbreaking remembering everything I went to." "Ken? Where are you?" T.K looked around the room. The voice came from behind him. he looked at the threshold, and saw the frame of a young boy quickly running. T.K e-mailed Davis, and in a second, Davis came through the port. Davis and T.K ran after the figure. They caught up with him, and pushed him on the floor of Kari's apartment. They gasped. "Ken?"
(What's going to happen?!! Guess!! R&R!!!!! R&R!!!!!! R&R!!!!!! PLEASE?)
