Game Over

Chapter 2

Ok I didn't expect to do a second chapter so soon but I just couldn't sleep and I wasn't in the mood to work on my other fanfics. So I went ahead. Consider this your lucky day because I may not write on this fanfic for a while.

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It was Friday afternoon and the school was done for the day. Kari was in unusually good mood for a change and decided to go to a movie. She fished out her cell phone as she exited the school. She noticed she has a message on her cell so she checked it.

"Hi Honeybun! TK here. I'm stopping by an old friend's house. I'll be home shortly. Love TK." And it's followed by some kissing sound. Kari had to blush as one of her friend was close enough to hear the conversation.

"You are so lucky to have someone like TK. He's so handsome!"

"He could melt any girl just by looking at her" another girl added.

Kari nodded "Yes I know!" Then she hit the send button to send a message to TK. "Hi! Come soon! Maybe we can go watch movies tonight! Love Kari" then she kissed the cell a few times, ignoring the giggles from her friends.

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Elsewhere, at an "old friend's house" TK came up to the door and knocked. The door opened to reveal a young man with his trademarked poofy hair.

"TK!" Tai shouted.

"Tai! Hey, I wanted to talk to you about something."

"Sure, come in!" TK walked in the hose as Tai closed the door behind. Sora took a quick peek from the kitchen to see who the visitor was. "Guys, want some hot tea?"

"Sure" TK said.

"Go easy on the honey this time" Tai said. He noticed Sora glaring back in a non threatening way. "We got to save some for later tonight." He growled softly.

Sora laughed "Oh you crazy animal!"

TK went over to sit on a couch. Tai sat on a chair across the room. "How long has it been?"

"Too long" TK answered. "Even Kari misses teasing you when you used to sleep on the bunk above her."

"Have you been good to my little sister?"

"Hey, she's not 'little' anymore. If she heard you say that, she would shave your hair in an instant."

Sora came in with 3 teacups and passed it around before setting on a chair herself. "I'd love to see anyone try to cut his hair. He's hidden all the scissors" she chuckled. "If anyone can succeed in cutting Tai's hair I'd pay fifty dollars."

TK's heart skipped a beat at Sora's generous offer even though it was still impossible to pull off.

"Oh hey TK, guess what!" Tai eclaimed.

"What?" TK was excited. It sounded like Tai would have some really good news.

"Some people from the United Nation were interested in adding a representative from the Digiworld. Tentatively Agumon and I are to be their first representative."

TK was practically hopping. "Now maybe you could boast that you get more coverage than what Matt got."

Sora said "Who do you know represent Japan in the United Nation?" She smiled wryly, knowing that no one really knew anyway. And it's likely Tai wouldn't get much recognization either.

"Ha-ha" Tai chuckled sarcastically. Then Tai's voice lowered a bit and looked to his future brother-in-law. "Ok now what did you want to talk about?"

"It's Kari. Something seems to be bothering her."

"You're sure it's not you?" Tai teased. He was answered by a slap from a throw pillow. Sora told him "You behave. They are old enough to know." She then turned to TK. "What do you think is bothering her?"

"Lately she has been having nightmares that kept waking her in the middle of the night. She hasn't gotten a good sleep for a while. She told me it's just nightmare but I think it's more than that."

Tai frowned. He knew his sister too well that if something's bothering her, be it illness or worse, she often won't tell anything outright. "Do you know what the dream's all about?" he asked.

TK shifted in the couch. "She only told me of the details from the first night. She insists the rest of her dream after that are the same.

"It all begins with all of us back in the Digiworld. Everything was pitch black except for one thing in the middle. She could only describe it as being a hundred times worse than your worst nightmare. And the 'it' was attacking and killing all of us and deleting all of our Digimon."

"Then her dreams were of the two worlds, Earth and Digiworld, crashing together. And then it merged and becoming a blob of black nothing. All living things on both worlds were snuffed out in an instant.

"It ended with some creepy sounding voice that kept saying 'Game Over' over and on."

Tai didn't notice he's been sipping empty cup for the past few minutes. Sora said "That sounds creepy alright. No wonder she'd have some trouble sleeping." She managed to get Tai's attention about his empty cup without embarrassing him. "And Kari has some unusual power that no one could understand."

Of course, they were referring to Kari's power of light that she had used in dark time, and her ability to travel to alternate dimension without the aid of any devices. TK nodded "And she's been having the same thing over for the past week. It's beginning to scare me."

"Has she been playing scary video game lately? Nasty movies? Anything like that?"

"No, she doesn't really play video games anyway. And all the movies we've watched were PG rated. The worse of all those movies was when that little deer's mother got shot. But that was off screen and only in suggestive form."

Tai said "Maybe I should come with you and see if Kari wants to talk to me."

"No." Sora said. "A woman to woman talk is not in your job description. I'll go, she'll trust me more."

"Hey, I resent that" Tai retorted. "When you go, give Mother and Kari my regards."

Sora got up and collected the empty tea cup from TK. "I'll do that. In the meanwhile, you should wash some dishes. And don't let Agumon help you this time."

Tai chuckled nervously. Last time he got Agumon to do the dishes, none of them survived in one piece, including Tai and Agumon themselves

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Later, at the Kamiya's house, TK and Sora came in. Mrs. Kamiya greeted them. "Hi Sora! How is my favorite daughter-in-law today?"

"Just great! And you?"

"I missed you. What have you been up to lately? Did you manage to tame my wild son yet?"

Sora laughed "Yes! Now he's just like a cute little trained bunny with a big mouth." Both women roared in laughter. "I still haven't got him to keep his foot out of his mouth yet but he's defiantly improving."

"What brings you here?"

"Oh I wanted to talk to Kari about something but I didn't want to talk over the phone. Oh, and Tai sends his regards."

She frowned. "Can't he even make a lousy phone call? It's not even long distance."

"I'll be sure to get him to call you more often. Or else he's not sleeping on my bed" she chuckled. Tai have always slept on the couch whenever they had a little tiff so it probably wouldn't do much good anyway.

TK walked ahead "Is Kari here?"

"She just got home. She's in the bedroom."

Upon hearing her name mentioned, Kari peeked out of the bedroom and was delighted to see Sora. "Hi! What brings you here?"

"You" Sora replied, pointing at the girl. "A little private talk if you have the time."

Kari was a little puzzled but she let Sora in the bedroom and the door was then closed and locked.

"What was that about?" Mrs. Kamiya asked TK.

TK settled on the couch and turned on the TV by remote. "I was a bit concerned about her nightmares so I asked Tai for some help. I knew Tai would know his sister better than I do and they also felt it may be of concern. Sora volunteered to check Kari out."

Inside the bedroom, after both had gotten comfortable, Sora told Kari about the reason she was there.

"Was I that obvious?" Kari asked. She hadn't realized that other Digidestined could see through her white lies when her well being was involved.

She nodded. "It's because we all care." Since it didn't look like Kari could talk her way out of it, she decided to start talking about it. They had spent the next few hours talking about the nightmares, what she felt like and what she thought about. It seemed to help Kari relax a bit more.

When they were finally done, Sora looked out into mostly darkened apartment. TK had dozed off in front of the TV waiting for Sora and Kari to get finished. And Mrs. Kamiya had long since gone to bed. "Good night" Sora said to Kari as she quietly left the apartment.

Kari could only look at TK. He was looking rather cute just sitting there. But she was getting a bit tired so she got ready to turn in. She also woke TK up so he could get to the bed.

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"This ends here now" Tai had shouted. All the Digimon stormed forward to something in the center of the area. Other Digidestined joined with Tai including a number Kari didn't recognize before. And a few she had seen only once or twice in passing glance like Michael and Willis.

There were some flashing lights from various attacks by the Digimon. All the Digidestined ran forward and disappeared in the darkness. Then there were some shouting, screaming, and loud moaning. Every seemed to get darker and quieter. The last thing she heard was the loud ground-shaking, bone-rattling explosion. Finally everything became totally black. The only sound Kari heard was the evil sounding laughter. "Game over" it said.

The light finally appeared from the darkness above, as if someone just unzipped across the top and pulled away the black veil. Kari looked up, expecting to see blue sky but only saw twisted mass of land. And not just any one specific piece, but the whole Earth and Digiworld mixed together like in a blender. In the top she recognized half a Tokyo city and the other half some different city that resembled a collection of Stone Age era huts, possibly one of Digimon village. When she looked down along where the horizon would be, she got even more shock. She saw two major building, one from Washington DC, the capitol city of USA and one from Moscow, the capitol city of Russia mashed together. And to one area a piece of land had Eiffel Tower on its side across the river where a suspension bridge should be.

Elsewhere, a suspension bridge spanned the two land masses floating in the air but the bridge was in a corkscrew shape. Looking some more, she found the a half of the White House up close, on it's side and the gigantic Tokyo Tower was standing on top of the White house. Finally an upside-down mountain topped Tokyo Tower. Lots of people and Digimon were everywhere in a complete state of chaos. Pure, utter panic and chaos since most of the human have never actually seen Digimon before and Digimon have never seen so many human either. And none of the population had any idea what was happening at all.

Kari spotted a greenish statue that resembled the Statue of Liberty except instead of torch was a Digivice, and instead of the tablet was a Digi-egg. The face bore an unmistakable resemblance to Kari herself. Parts of the skies were in blue, and part in black as if there was no longer any difference between day and night. The land masses were twisted and tangled around like a ball of yarn after a cat had played with it.

She heard the same dreaded word... "Game over"

She whirled around to see the mysterious entity. The darkness still surrounded 'it' as if the light were afraid to touch 'it'. Kari gasped as she saw bodies of her friends strewn about in front of her. Closest to her was a corpse wearing Tai's clothes but its head had been severed off. Intense fear began to build up in Kari. "Game over..." 'it' said again.

She finally got a really good look at the entity. One that was so mind numbly terrifying nothing could possibly describe it. One so heinous it doesn't even have a name. One so dangerous no one dared to look at it or even think of it. One who was simply referred as the 'One-With-No-Name'.

"Game over, Kari" it said. Then its tentacles lashed out toward Kari and everything went black again.

"NOOOOOOO!" she cried. Then there was a loud crashing sound.

It woke TK up. Her cry had more sense of urgency than usual. He hopped off of his bunk, skipping the ladder this time. At the same moment, Mrs. Kamiya came into their room and turned on the light. Patamon and Gatomon came in as well.

Kari lay sprawled on the floor, completely tangled in her blanket. And she was panting unusually hard, as if she saw a ghost. Her eyes looked as if it would pop out.

"That's it" Mrs. Kamiya said. "I'm going to call the therapist and arrange an appointment first thing in the morning." She left to look through the phone book to find the one that Mimi needed after her first trip to the Digiworld.

TK kneeled next to Kari and helped sit her up. He whispered "I think it's more than a bad dream" Kari started to sob a bit and buried her face into TK's chest.

"I don't think any therapist in the world can help you. Please tell me the truth. It's not just a dream but it's our future, right?" TK may be pressuring a badly terrified girl but it had to stop for once and all. And no one could begin to stop her nightmares if she kept denying her feelings. Kari only shook her head to indicate yes.

Patamon looked to Gatomon. Her eyes were telling him a message so both left the pair alone and went elsewhere to calm down. Kari continued to cry from her terrifying nightmare. In between Kari's whimpering, she managed to say "Be afraid of the 'One-With-No-Name'."

TK didn't like the sound of that. Gatomon, who also heard what Kari said, felt extremely terrified as well. Whether it was from the bond she shared with Kari or if the name conjured images and memories from her nightmarish past, no one would know. But one thing was clear, it was no dream at all.

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To be continued...