Disclaimer: digimon is not mine.
Chapter 3
"Vexilmon?"
"Yeah." Ken said straightening himself and wincing. "He's a mega and a very mean one at that. His attack is venom explosion, but he doesn't need that because he can control almost any digimon, anywhere."
"Is he the one who did this to you?" Kari asked gently
Ken stared at her for about five seconds before deciding to reply
"Yes. And he may just as well be after you too."
"Ken? Do you mind filling in a few blanks for us?" Davis said walking over to the group surrounding Ken with Cody.
"If I must."
*Flashback *
The wind whipped the Kaisers face, but he didn't care. The digi-brats had just gotten into the digital world and the Kaiser wanted to make sure they got a pleasant welcome. He had five Airdramon surrounding the sixth one that held the Kaiser. They were suppose to be going to East Server, which was known for it's many deserts, but when the Kaiser looked down, all he saw were foreign trees.
"YOU FOOLS!!! Get back on track and head to our destination. I have no time for your stupidity!" Ken yelled at the digimon. Instead of turning, the Airdramon simply ignored him. Ken looked at his D-3 to see if he may have lost control of them, but everything was working perfectly. Ken took out his whip and promptly cracked it in front of the Airdramon's eye, no reaction, by the ear, no reaction. When Ken whapped the Airdramon's body with the whip, the only reaction he got from it was that it seemed to be slowing down. The Kaiser looked around as the digimon came to a complete stop in midair. What he saw was something humanoid coming toward him. As the thing got closer, Ken could see that the thing was actually a liquid that somehow was holding a shape. When it stopped, the Kaiser could see it's body pulsating with what looked like acid, but the weirdest thing was when it spoke, the voice was only heard in his head.
Hello little Kaiser. How wonderful to see you for the first and last time. The voice said
"You are so confident that you will defeat me, yet you do not know my power." The Kaiser smirked.
I will defeat you, and then the digital world will be under my command. There will be no opponents once they feel MY POWER The voice said. Do well to remember my name, Kaiser. Vexilmon will be the last thing you will ever hear. HAHAHA, VENOM EXPLOSION.
With that, four of the Airdramon were shot with the acid from his body and immediately vanished. Then, the Airdramon that didn't hold Ken shot at him, even though the Airdramon still had a dark spiral on. Ken ducked the first eye beam, but Wormmon took the second, giving him a huge gash. After that, the Airdramon that was holding Ken flew very fast and did a barrel roll, dropping Ken and Wormmon from his head. A Tyranamon looked up and shot at the falling Kaiser, singeing his clothes and arm. This was followed by both Airdramon shooting at Ken with their eye beams. If it wasn't for the fact that Ken was falling, all four beams would have hit dead center, but only two were able to hit, one on the shoulder and another in the side. Then, for the finale, the Airdramon used its tail to slap Ken and Wormmon into the trees fifty feet below them.
*End Flashback*
"I completely blacked out after that, so I have no idea how I survived the fall." Ken said finishing up his encounter with Vexilmon.
"That's incredibly lucky." TK said
"You're sure he's going to try and destroy us." Cody asked
"You're going to fight him, right? He said that there will be no opponents, so it's pretty obvious he's going to destroy whoever fights him." Ken said evenly.
"Then I guess we're allies" Kari stated
"What?" Everyone said looking at her as if she was insane
"It's logical." Kari defended. "If we're going to get back home, then we need to defeat Vexilmon. Five digimon won't cut it. We need more and Ken has it. The more digimon, the harder to control all of them. It's a distraction and the only way we're going to defeat a mega with a bunch of champions."
Davis started pacing. Not only was there a new, more powerful enemy, but now Ken was allying with the group. Davis needed a scapegoat, and the easiest one was Ken.
"This is all your fault you know, Ken." Davis said angrily
"My fault? How is it my fault?" Ken asked now just angry
"If it weren't for your stupid towers, we wouldn't be in this mess."
"First of all, you have no right to comment on my strokes of genus. And second, Vexilmon is an independent, unrelated to our little battles"
"Maybe, but if you weren't here, our digimon would be able to digivolve and fight this blob thing."
"Ha, your digimon are so weak they can barely handle armor digivoloving"
"Oh yeah? If that's so then how come we keep..."
CRACK
Kari, who had foreseen a major fight in the making, decided to take Ken's whip that was lying by their other bags and whack it against the ground. The whip was hurled at such force that it created a small crater where it hit and made such a loud noise that even Kari jumped. Both Davis and Ken immediately stopped yelling at each other and turned to look at Kari.
"We are not here to talk about politics." Kari said in a very low, angry voice. "We need to work together."
Ken, who was now using Yolei for support, and the other digidestined stared at Kari for around a minuet. She looked extremely vicious with the whip fully extended in her right hand and a scowl that didn't seem to fit her usually gentle face. As Kari started to yell at the two arguers, Cody heard a soft moan. It seemed that the whip's sound had woken Wormmon from his comatose state, and now all the digidestined's digimon were crowded around him. Veemon, who must have picked up some of Davis's rudeness, stuck his face in front of Wormmon's and said
"Hey buddy, you OK?"
Wormmon stared at Veemon for a second blinking. None of the other digidestined saw Cody walk over to Wormmon because Kari, who had just stopped yelling at Davis for trying to make the situation worse and was now screaming at Ken about why he was talking back to the obviously provocative keeper of courage, was keeping everyone preoccupied. Cody kneeled down on one knee to talk to their worst enemy's digimon, thinking to himself how Ken looked as though he had never been yelled at before now. Which, Cody thought, is probably true.
"Nice to see you up, Wormmon. Feeling better?" Cody said nicely
"Where's Master?" Wormmon said worriedly
"Ken's fine. It seems you guys took a bit of a fall." Cody said
"Mm hm, I know. I tried to protect Master, but he just fell through the net I created." Wormmon cried
"So that's how Ken survived, Wormmon slowed his fall." Cody thought
"You need to rest some more, so why don't I get you some food" Cody said
"OK"
Kari was just finishing up with Ken, whose eyes were wide open in shock, and decided to address everyone.
"Look, it's getting late. Let's make camp for the night and we'll think of what to do tomorrow. Yolei, can you get the packet of matches out of the survival kit you brought with you? TK, you and Davis can see what food you can catch and find from the stream nearby, OK. Now go."
Davis, who had been almost cowering in terror at Kari's wrath, now went with TK happily. Yolei went over to her backpack; therefore handing Ken over to Kari, who helped him get himself situated by leaning on a tree. Cody saw what was going on and built a small fireplace, while the digimon went looking for branches to feed the fire.
"Fish and berries, what a lovely combination." Yolei complained "The food from my parent's store is much tastier and more edible."
TK and Davis did have success, bringing back twelve fish and some brightly colored berries that the digimon said were OK. The digimon had gobbled up their portion, and were looking at their partners for more. Ken picked at his burnt fish and gave most of it to Wormmon, who hadn't left Ken's side once since the digimon got up on his feet. When darkness came, everyone was anxious to get to sleep and not worry about the day's trouble.
It must be around eleven, Yolei thought to herself. Davis's snoring was becoming increasingly louder with every minuet. She had been trying to get to the real world, but no response. Bypassing the firewalls was harder than she thought and the digivice was getting her nowhere. She tried one more time to open the gate by pulling out her red digivice and pointing at the TV.
"Digiport open." Yolei said quietly. When it did nothing, she became fed up and slammed her fist into the side of the TV.
"That won't get you anywhere and you might wake up the others." A voice to the right of her said
Yolei looked up and walked to the source of the voice. When she got there, she was just able to make out the thin figure of the Kaiser propped against a tree in the darkness.
"What are you doing awake?" Yolei asked in a whisper
"Can't sleep with pain in my side and my shoulder." Ken said quietly "and you?"
"Can't get to the real world. Hey, would you like company? It must be pretty lonely." Yolei said looking down at the four sleeping bodies and their respective digimon.
"I guess." Ken sighed. He moved over to allow Yolei to sit next to him and winced slightly from the pain stabbing his shoulder. He looked at her standing next to him.
"Pull up some grass." Ken said. "It's going to be a long night."
