***The usual disclaimer – I don't own digimon. If I did, do you think that I would be writing these fics? No. I would be rolling around in my millions of dollars, having the time of my life in the Caribbean or some other fantastic place. (I've always wanted to roll around in a pile of money. Haven't you?)***

Recap – TK and Kari are engaged. Kari had a dream where someone told her that her and TK would never get married and they would have revenge on them.

Kari opened the door of the apartment to see Tai and Matt. Both looked very worried. "Kari, what is it? Is something wrong?" Tai asked, grabbing both of her arms in his hands and looking at her. Kari had not been very descriptive on the phone. All she said was that there needed to be a digi-destined meeting ASAP. That always meant that there was trouble in the Digital World. Kari was more in-tune with the Digital World than anyone else, and knew when there was bad stuff going on there.

"You'll find out when everyone else gets here, Tai. I'm not going to explain it more than once." Kari answered, letting them in the apartment. "Where are Sora and Mimi?" She had figured that since Matt was at Tai's house (which was not uncommon) Mimi and Sora would be there too.

"Shopping. Don't worry, we called them. They're coming." Matt replied, sitting on the couch. He grabbed the remote and turned on the TV. There were the first ones there, and who knows how long it would take for everyone to get there.

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Ten minutes later, everyone had arrived. Davis was last, of course, breezing in with a grin and a hurried apology. He sat down between Cody and Yolei. After he had settled down, Tai went leader-mode. "OK everyone, let's get started." Everyone stopped their conversations and looked to Tai. "TK and Kari called this meeting, so let's hear it. What's wrong?" Everyone turned from Tai to Kari and TK, waiting for an explanation.

TK, sharing the loveseat with his fiancée, looked at her to see how she wanted to start the explanation. She looked at him, pleading for him to start. Kari didn't want to relive the vision yet. TK complied, never willing to let her down voluntarily. He stood, and faced the group in his living room.

"We've called you here for a very important reason. We feel, no, we know, that the digital world is in trouble." TK started, looking at each digi-destined. Most had worried looks on their faces, but not surprised ones. There were too used to this to be surprised. "Last night, Kari had a dream…"

"No TK, it wasn't a dream." Kari interrupted, lifting her head to look at him. TK saw tears starting to form in her eyes as she remembered the vision. "Dreams don't talk back to you, don't threaten you."

"Whoa! Wait a minute!" Tai exclaimed, jumping up from the chair TK had brought in for him. He went over to Kari and kneeled down until he was eye-level with her. He hated it when she started seeing things. "Kari, are you having visions again?"

"I don't know if you would call them visions." Kari answered, a note of desperation in her voice. "I don't really know what to call them. Let me start from the beginning."

"And no interruptions." TK added, mostly to Tai. TK knew that Tai would not like what he was about to hear. Tai would interrupt and ask questions no matter what part of the dream Kari was in. And he knew that Kari wouldn't want any interruptions. She would want to get it all out as soon as possible. Tai went back to his chair, and TK sat down again next to Kari for support, taking her hand in his. He knew this was going to be hard. She smiled at him, took a deep breath, and began.

"I was standing in this forest. I knew it was the Digital World because the trees looked familiar. I realized that it was the forest that was around Puppetmon's house."

The old digi-destined gasped. Matt looked especially shaken. Davis, Yolei, Cody, and Ken looked at them, surprised. They hadn't heard about Puppetmon, or what he had done.

"Then I heard Gatomon's voice. She was calling for me. I couldn't see her, but I knew that she was in trouble. She said that she needed my help. I called for her, but we couldn't find each other. Then a voice broke into the dream. I couldn't tell where it was coming from, or whom it was coming from. It was just…there. The voice said that it was nice to see me again. I asked who it was, but got no answer. The voice said that there were two of them, wanting revenge. Then the voice said that TK and I would never get married, that…that they would kill us before it happened." Kari stopped here. She had begun to cry again, and TK gave her a hug. He knew that Kari was scared. The rest watched, wide-eyed and silent. These new, or rather old, enemies meant business.

"I said that he couldn't stop us. He then said that he had to leave, but that he would see me again. Then he left, and the dream ended. I woke up." Kari finished. Sora handed her a tissue, which she took gladly.

Everyone looked down, thinking to themselves. Ken spoke up first. "Now the question is, what do we do next?"

"And who is Puppetmon? Why did you guys look so shaken?" Cody asked, looking to the older digi-destined.

Tai, Sora, Matt, Mimi, Izzy, Joe, TK, and Kari looked at each other, deciding who would be the one to tell about the Dark Master. No one really wanted to relive it. Izzy finally spoke up. "Puppetmon was one of the Dark Masters. He was very playful, and liked to play games with us. His forest was like a remote control playground. He could make the ground move any way he wanted. He even had figurines of us, and when he moved them, he moved us. He did this once, splitting us up, and captured TK. TK escaped, of course, and with the figurines, so that he couldn't control us anymore. To make this long story short, the aftermath of Puppetmon was a huge fight between us, and a break-up of the group. Matt went one way, Joe and Mimi another, and Tai, Sora, TK, Kari, and myself a third. Metalgarurumon ended up defeating him."

"Oh." Cody whispered.

Everyone was silent for a moment, until Ken spoke up again. "Back to my question. What do we do next?"

Tai quickly stood up. "That's easy! We find out who these new enemies are, and then we beat them into a pulp! No digimon threatens us and gets away with it!"

"Easier said than done, Tai." Izzy replied. "But I agree with your first step, anyway. We need to find out who we're up against."

"And how do we do that?" Yolei asked.

"Gennai." Izzy answered simple, and went for his book bag. He pulled out his trademark pineapple laptop, and opened it on his lap. "All we have to do," Izzy started, typing away, "is talk to Gennai. He usually knows what's going on."

"But who knows how long it will take for Gennai to answer! It could be minutes, days, maybe longer!" Tai said angrily.

"We don't have another alternative. As you probably remember, we can't get into the Digital World anymore. It's sealed. Gennai is our only help. We don't have another choice."

Everyone was silent as Izzy typed at the speed of light. After about five minutes, he pushed a button and closed the laptop. "Done. I sent Gennai an e-mail, and hopefully he'll respond soon. That's all we can do for now."

Everyone nodded. Everyone was silent again. They were all thinking about what to do.

"Well, if we're done, I'm going to go." Davis said, standing up. "I have to be at work in an hour." Everyone else got up too. Kari and TK walked them to the door. Matt and Tai were the last ones to leave.

"Kari," Tai said, taking Kari to the side, "don't worry. We will find out who is doing this, and we will get them. No enemy has ever gotten away with his plans to defeat us, and no enemy ever will. And no one will ever get away with threatening my little sister. OK?"

"OK, Tai."

"You don't have to worry about Kari, Tai. I'll make sure that she's alright." TK said, coming to stand next to Kari.

"I know you will, TK. OK, we're going to go. I'll talk to you tomorrow, 'k?" Tai said, turning to go. Matt nodded, following Tai out the door.

"Yeah, bye you guys." Kari answered, closing the door behind them. She turned around to be met by TK. She gladly went into his arms.

"Are you sure that you're OK?" he asked her.

"I think so. I'm worried about Gatomon, though."

"I'm worried about Patamon, too. But we won't know anything until Gennai gets back to Izzy, so let's not think about it, OK?"

Kari nodded. "So," she said, trying to get off the subject, "what are we going to do today?"

TK smiled. "I thought you would never ask…"

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"Oh no! What are we going to do now? That wasn't supposed to happen!" a voice moaned, turning from the monitor he was watching.

"That went well. She did exactly like I thought she would." The owner of the second voice said, looked once more to the screen he was watching. On the screen, Kari and TK were talking in TK's apartment. He shut off the screen and turned around, a smile on his face.

"It went well?! Are you nuts, Piedmon? The Child of Light told the others! They are going to talk to Gennai! He's the last one that we want them to talk to!" the first voice exclaimed, a little angry.

Piedmon turned to look at his partner. "Look, Darkbrinemon (a/n thank god for a thesaurus)(pronounced like it's spelled, but make the e sound long), this is what we want. We want them to come to the Digital World. That is the only way we can beat them. We can't get into their world. And the only way they can get here is through Gennai."

"So, what are we going to do next?" Darkbrinemon asked. "I'm getting impatient. I want revenge on the Children of Light and Hope now!" Darkbrinemon is a Mega Digimon, and ruler of the Dark Ocean. Darkbrinemon is a humanoid-type digimon, like Piedmon. However, he also has characteristics of the Scubamon he controls.

"As do I, as do I." Piedmon said. "But we have to be patient."

"I'm sick of being patient! I have wanted revenge ever since the Child of Hope took the Child of Light away from me. She would have been mine if it weren't for the Child of Hope! I would have been the most powerful digimon ever! And the Child of Light hurt some of my minions."

"Master? You called?" a voice interrupted, coming into the room. Teardimon entered. Teardimon (pronounced how it looks) looked like a black leopard, and was about that size.

"Yes, I called you. I have an assignment." Piedmon said, sitting down in his chair again. "Your next mission is to capture two digimon. These digimon will be hard to access, because they are two of the digi-destined's digimon. I want you to capture Gatomon and Patamon."

"Gatomon and Patamon?" Teardimon repeated. Nervousness washed over him as he recalled stories of the two digimon. These digimon were said to transform into angels. Strong adversaries.

"Yes. Get them, and bring them here."

"Yes, sir. I will get them, don't worry." Teardimon said, leaving. He stepped through the hallway. He left the castle, and went in search of the two digimon.

"This is perfect. Now, onto other matters." Piedmon said, going to another monitor. "Gazimon, how are the captive digimon?"

"Fine, sir," a voice said, coming through a speaker. "They are turning evil as we speak."

"Good." Piedmon shut off the monitor, and looked around. "I have to admit, using Myotismon's old castle was one of my more brilliant ideas. I would have loved to use my old hangout, but this will have to do."

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~~~2 days later~~~

"Hello?" TK said. He had just got home when the phone rang.

"TK! I'm glad you're home!" Kari said. "I've been trying to get hold of you for an hour! Izzy called. Gennai got back to him. He wants us to all meet at Izzy's house tonight. Gennai wants to talk to all of us together."

"OK, I'll see you at Izzy' house. Love ya."

"Love you too. Bye."

TK hung up the phone. I hope that Gennai has answers to the millions of question we have, TK thought.

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"So, how is Gennai going to talk to all of us? And when?" Mimi asked, sitting next to Matt. They were all at Izzy's house, waiting for the promised Gennai to appear.

"How about right now?" said a voice from behind them.

"Gennai!" they all said in unison, looking towards Izzy's computer room. There Gennai stood, the Gennai that the original eight remember, the old Gennai.

"Greetings, digi-destined. It's nice to see you again." Gennai said, coming to stand in front of them.

"Gennai! What happened to you?" Davis asked. "You're…old."

Everyone laughed. "Yes, Davis, I know. This is my true form."

"Gennai," Tai said, interrupting them, "do you know what's going on in the Digital World? Do you know who's threatening us?"

Gennai sighed. "No, Tai, not yet. I called this meeting to give you an update. We have found a new prophecy. I am now in the process of deciphering it. But I do know that these enemies are not new. This was proven from Kari's vision, and what I have been told from my contacts scattered through the Digital World. I will tell you more about the prophecy when I get it deciphered. The only thing I can tell you now is to be careful. You may have defeated these foes before, but we have no idea how strong they are now." Gennai looked now to TK and Kari, seated next to each other. "That goes double for the two of you. They are after the two of you."

Everyone nodded. "Is that all, Gennai?" Matt asked.

"Yes. I'm sorry. I know you wanted more information, but I can't give you any. I must go now. I will be in touch with you soon."

"Wait!" Izzy said, and Gennai turned. "Gennai, I thought the gates between the world were closed. How did you get here?" Izzy asked.

"I was waiting for someone to ask that question, Izzy. And I'm not surprised that it's you. The gate is closed to beings of only one substance or make-up, like all human or all digimon data. But for digimon like myself, who have no attacks or attributes, there are exceptions. We seem to have qualities of both humans and digimon, giving us the power to do things that no one else can do, like break though gates."

"Hmm…interesting." Izzy said, sinking into thought.

"I'm afraid I must go. The gate will only stay open for a short while, before even beings like myself will not be able to break it. Good-bye, digi-destined."

"Good-bye." the digi-destined answered, watching him go. A flash of light was seen in the room, and then darkness. Gennai was gone.

Everyone sat in silence, thinking of what Gennai said. Mimi looked around, and decided to liven things up.

"Let's talk about more…fun things. Kari, I loved the dresses that you picked out for us to wear for the wedding!" Mimi said.

Everyone looked at her, a little shocked, and laughed. Mimi always knew how to get everyone happy again. The girls started talking about the bridesmaid dresses. They were a pale yellow, one of the wedding colors. They color yellow was picked for a very special reason. Yellow was the color or light, and the color of TK's crest. It was very special to them, something that linked them, and they wanted that showed in the wedding. The dress itself was sleeveless, with thick straps. The top part was a square neck, but not too low. Along the edge of the neckline were tiny jewels, fake diamonds. The dress was plain, and went down to about an inch above the ground. The pale yellow of the dress looked perfect on all three of them.

The guys looked at each other. "You know, they're going to be talking forever." Tai said.

"Yeah." TK, Matt, Izzy, Joe, Cody, Davis, and Ken said at the same time.

"I know. Let's go get some food for everyone." Davis said.

"Good idea. Let's go." Matt replied, standing up. After explaining to the girls where they were going, they left.

"Good! Now that the guys are gone we can really have some good talking! So…what flowers are you going to have?" Sora asked. Her love of flowers hadn't stopped when she became interested in fashion.

"We decided on pink and yellow carnations and roses." Kari answered.

"That will be so pretty!" Yolei squealed. "What other plans do you have?"

"Well, we've decided that Matt is going to play our song. The song is "Hero." Kari replied. (a/n – that song is by Enrique Iglasias (sp?). I think that this song is perfect for them, and I love that song!)

"That's a great song! And Matt will play it so well!" Mimi said.

"You think Matt plays any song perfect!" Sora retorted.

"So?"

"Is there anyone else in your bridal party?" Yolei asked.

"Well, for TK's side there's Matt, Tai, and Cody. Matt, of course, is the best man. Izzy, Joe, Davis, and Ken are the ushers. For my side there's the three of you, with Mimi being the maid of honor." Kari answered. Kari and Mimi had grown really close, and were best friends. Kari had been Mimi's maid of honor in her wedding. "We decided on a small wedding party, and only our family and close friends and going to be invited. I wish Gatomon and Patamon could come, though. I really miss them."

"I know. I miss them too." Sora said. "Maybe, some day, we'll find a way to go back to the Digital World."

Everyone was silent for a moment, remembering their digimon partners. "We got off the subject again!" Mimi said. "Let's talk about the church, and how we're going to decorate it! I'm thinking…"

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^^In the digital world…^^

Gatomon and Patamon are running through a forest. Not just any forest, though. Puppetmon's forest.

"This way!" Gatomon shouted, turning left. Patamon followed, panting.

"Are you sure (pant) this is the (pant) way, Gatomon?" Patamon asked.

"No, but it's better than running in a straight line! Come on!"

After running for another five minutes, they spotted a cave.

"Let's hide in here!" Patamon said, going in. He is soon lost to the darkness of the cave.

"That's funny…" Gatomon said to herself. "I don't remember a cave around here."

"Gatomon! Help!"

"I knew it was a trap! Patamon, don't worry! I'm coming!" Gatomon ran into the cave, pausing only when no light was visible from the entrance. "Where are you?" she called into the darkness. Slowly, she took another step. Suddenly, two paws grabbed her, one of the paws covering her mouth.

"Hello, Gatomon. It's about time I caught you. I've already got your friend. Now let's go." the attacker said. He tied a rope around her neck, put her on the ground, and started moving forward. Gatomon heard a snap behind her, from her attacker, and then heard two more pairs of footsteps. Stepping out of the cave and into the sunlight, Gatomon and Patamon finally got a good look at their digi-nappers. The one dragging Patamon was a Gazimon. But the one dragging Gatomon was a digimon they had never seen before. The digimon was black, and looked like some sort of large cat.

After about half and hour, they had reached their destination. Gatomon shivered involuntarily, remembering the torture she had underwent there, in Myotismon's castle. Patamon too recognized the castle. Both were led to a room Gatomon remembered as the controlroom.

"Master," the strange digimon said through the door, "I have captured them."

"Good work, Teardimon. Bring them in." a cold yet familiar voice said, and Teardimon opened the door. He and the Gazimon led Gatomon and Patamon in. Only the computer screen showing the different sections of the castle and a chandelier of candles hanging from the ceiling lighted the room. There were two figures sitting in the only chairs in the room. The Gazimon and Teardimon bowed and left the room, leaving the four alone.

"What's going on here? Who are you?" Gatomon asked, stepping forward.

"Gatomon. Patamon. Nice to see you again." a voice said from the right-side chair. The chair then turned to face the two digimon. Both gasped as they recognized the digimon.

"Piedmon…" they both said venomously.

"So glad you remember me." Peidmon replied. He looked exactly like he did in the old days of the Dark Masters. "And allow me to introduce Darkbrinemon."

The second chair turned, revealing the other digimon. This digimon did not look very happy. "You're telling me that these two puny digimon stopped me from getting the Child of Light?"

"They are more than what they seem. Never underestimate your enemies." Piedmon said to him, momentarily forgetting about Gatomon and Patamon.

"What do you mean, stopped you? We've never seen you before!" Patamon uttered.

"Maybe not, but I've seen you. But you may not recognize me, or realize me for who I am. I was not properly introduced. I am Darkbrinemon, Master of the Dark Ocean!"

Gatomon and Patamon gasped again.

"Ahh…" Darkbrinemon said, laughing. "Now you recognize me!"

"What are you up to? What do you want with us?" Gatomon asked.

"What are we up to?" Piedmon repeated. "That's easy enough. Our long-term plan is to take over the two worlds. But before we do that, we have to get rid of your friends, the digi-destined. Starting with the strongest, the Children of Light and Hope."

"You'll never get TK and Kari!" Patamon shouted, angry.

"You can't get to them anyway, Piedmon. No one can go between the worlds anymore. You can't get to them!" Gatomon said triumphantly.

"Oh, we're not going to their world. They're coming to us! Right now, they are trying to figure out how to get here. They've talked to Gennai. You see, we contacted the Child of Light, and told her things that she wasn't too happy to hear. Naturally, she told the other digi-destined, and they are going to come here as soon as they know how. You see how easy it is to get what you want?" Piedmon retorted. He started to laugh. "The digi-destined think they are so smart! Well, I have a surprise for them! They're going to get what's coming to them! Finally, I will have my revenge!"

Both Piedmon and Darkbrinemon laughed. Gatomon and Patamon glared at them, helpless. Both knew that they, and their partners, were in trouble. And they didn't know how they were going to warn TK and Kari.

"Enough of this. Teardimon!" Piedmon shouted, and Teardimon entered the room.

"Yes, master?" he answered.

"Take them to the dungeon. I haven't decided what I want to do with them yet."

"Yes, master." Teardimon repeated, taking the ropes still wrapped around Patamon and Gatomon's necks. They were led out of the room.

"This is going perfectly. Everything is going swimmingly. The digi-destined will be here in no time, and my revenge will happen."

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TK and Kari were asleep, but not for long.

"Oh!" they both said at the same time, sitting straight up in bed. Both jumped, surprised that the other was up also. They turned and looked at each other. "Patamon's in trouble!" TK exclaimed, breathing heavily.

"Gatomon's in trouble too!" Kari said, nodding her head in agreement. "I don't know how I know, but I just know!"

"Me too! This is awful. They're in trouble, and we can't help them!" TK said, banging his fist on the mattress.

Kari took his hand in both of hers and clasped it tightly. He turned his head to look at her. "I know." she stated softly, looking into his eyes. She put her head on his shoulder and sunk into thought. "I know."

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**Finally! I'm done! Sorry it took so long! I thought that I would never get done with this chapter! Well, what did you think? I'm hoping to have the prophecy next chapter.**