"Alright everyone, thanks for coming on such short notice," TK began the meeting.  All of the Odiba Chosen were seated in various spots throughout the room, waiting for TK to tell them what the important news was.  "I might as well start at the beginning.  Izzy, Ken, Yolei, do you remember right after Kari and I lost our digimon, you were called to the digital world by Andromon because as virus had broken out among the Guardromon?"  Ken and the others nodded.

            "Yes, they'd been infected with some kind of variation of the programs that controlled the dark rings.  Why?"

            "Last week, Catharine of the French digidestined sent me an email.  During a routine sweep, her team was attacked by an Ogremon.  After subduing it, they discovered that it was infected with some kind of virus.  Catharine was suspicious and sent the virus's programming to me so someone could check it over.  I had a few suspicions about it, since I'd been receiving similar reports from all over the digital world.  Finally, I emailed Willis the program and asked him to look into it, along with another, know virus.  He confirmed today that the virus that Catharine's team encountered is a beefed up version of the virus that had infected the Guardromon.  He also confirmed something else I had been afraid of.  There's no way this virus could naturally appear in the digital world.  Someone has created a massively virulent digital mutator, similar to the virus that creates Dark Digimon."  Silence hung in the room as everyone tried to process the information.

            "But, what about the seals?" Cody asked.  "Can't they stop this thing?"  Kari answered before TK could.

            "The seals are designed to stop mega-level virus's from doing too much damage.  Essentially, they stop demon-digimon and evil-digimon from becoming too powerful."

            "What about the Host?"  Everyone looked at Ken oddly.

            "What's the Hosthost?" Davis demanded.  TK sighed.

            "I've got that one.  The Host is something that Azulongmon and the other three set up as the final line of defense for the digital world after Seraphimon and Magna Dramon were deleted.  Essentially, it's all angelic and holy digimon, rookie through mega.  Every Angemon, Magna Angemon, Angewoman, Seraphimon, Orphanimon, any Holy Knight, Holy Beast, Holy Dragon, Angel, any of them.  That's the host.  Goldramon, Magnadramon, GallantmonDukemon, Magnamon, Rapidmon, all of them.  I think it numbers about fifteen thousand by now."

            "Who commands something like that?" Joe asked in awe.

            "Us," Kari answered, taking TK's hand.  The room was deathly silent for close to a minute.

            "To answer Ken's question," TK finally spoke up.  "The Host can't deal with this because the Host is mostly made up out of normal digimon.  The only digimon we've discovered who are immune to this thing are partnered digimon.  The bond between the digimon and the human creates some kind of barrier that the virus can't deal with.  It basically just shrivels up and dies when it tries to infect a partnered digimon.  Of course, it still tries.  My plan is basically this.  Izzy, Yolei and I are going into the digital world.  We're going to meet up with other digidestined there, including Willis.  We're going to try and hunt down an infected digimon and try and find a cure.  Then, we're going to try and figure out who created this thing and stop them from doing it again."

            "And what are the rest of us supposed to do?" Matt demanded.

            "I need you guys to stay here.  It's entirely possible that this virus is the work of some evil digimon who's trying to create a fast, cheep army to attack either the digital or real world.  I sent out a message to all your digimon.  They're going to be coming back to the real world for the duration of this.  If the worst comes and there is an attack, Ken and Davis can bring Imperial Dramon up and Matt and Tai can bring up WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon.  If it gets tight, then we've got Omnimon and Imperial Dramon's Paladin mode.  Also, Kari can call up parts of the Host if it gets that bad."

            "Why are Yolei and Izzy going with you?" Ken asked.

            "I need Izzy and Willis to work together on this virus.  I need Yolei there to keep them on track and offer different ideas.  Also to translate."  This elicited a chuckle out of everyone.  "If I thought she'd do more good here, Ken, I'd leave her.  But only she and you could fill this job…"

            "And you need me here for Imperial Dramon," Ken finished.  "Alright, but why not any of the other Odiba."

            "We can get to mega," Sora said.  "That's it, isn't it?  We're the only digidestined who can reach mega besides a few others like Willis, and he will be going with you.  Even besides Imperial Dramon and Omnimon, we've got my Phoenixmon, Joe's Preciomon, Mimi's Rosemon, and Kari's Magnadramon."  TK nodded, although he seemed somewhat hesitant about.

            "In addition, Gennai told me that Armadillomon can now under go normal evolution."  Cody's eyes lit up.

            "You mean he doesn't have to DNAdigivolve anymore?"

            "He can, but he can also digivolve normally.  Same for Veemon and Hawkmon."

            "What about Wormmon?" Davis asked.

            "Wormmon could always digivolve normally," Ken answered.  "Didn't you ever think about how the DNAdigivolves worked?  Kari and TK's digimon had already reached Ultimate when they DNAdigivolved.  Didn't you wonder about that?"

            "Cool!" Davis exclaimed.  "So what's Wormmon's Ultimate digivoluton?"

            "I'm not sure," Ken admitted.  "It's been a while and my memories of that time are still sketchy."

            "Actually, he can go up to mega," TK commented.  Ken stared at him for a second.

            "What makes you say that?" he asked, cautiously.

            "I've done my homework Ken.  I managed to find some digimon that still remember your battle with Milleniumon.  Wormmon can go all the way to mega.  Why do you think Paildramon could go up one more level?"  Ken paused to consider this and the rest of the room was fairly quiet.

            "Alright," Tai finally spoke up.  "We've got our assignments and we know what needs to be done.  When are you going to leave?"

            "In a couple of days; I'm not sure exactly when," TK replied.  "I need to hear back from the others first to see who can go and make adjustments accordingly.  Kari and I also have to take care of some things in private."  Tai nodded and stood, followed by everyone else.

            "Good luck, TK, and take care of yourself."  The two clasped hands and shared a brief hug.  "You've grown a lot from the frightened young boy who got sucked into the digital world with us.  For what it's worth, I'm proud of you."  TK beamed as he nodded.

            "Thanks Tai, that means a lot."  Tai grinned back at him and turned to leave, the others following him out, including Davis.

            "Where are you going, man?" TK called after him.

            "Over to Ken and Yolei's," Davis replied as he pulled his jacket from the closet.  "I figured you guys might want some time alone at the moment."  TK nodded and smiled.

            "Thanks."  Davis grinned and followed Ken out the door, leaving TK and Kari alone.

            TK held open his arms, and Kari graciously accepted the offer and enfolded herself in his warm embrace.

            "What now?" she murmured.

            "We need to run a couple errands before I leave, but they can wait until tomorrow," TK breathed into her hair.  "For right now, I just want to hold you."  Kari snuggled closer to him.

            "Let's go to bed, TK," she commented.  "I just want to hold you for a few hours.  I want both worlds to go away, even if only for a few hours."  TK simply nodded and they made their way back to their bedroom, still locked in their embrace.

            Several hours later TK awoke to the sound of the door opening.  He snapped awake and whirled to see who it was.

            "Gennai?"

            "It's me, TK.  I'm afraid that we need both of you in the digital world, right now."  Kari had awakened at TK's movement, but had remained silent.

            "What do you need?" she demanded.

            "This isn't a good time, kids," Gennai replied, hotly.  "This comes right from the four.  Get up, get dressed and meet me at the computer."  With that, Gennai left, allowing the pair some privacy to get dressed.

            Minutes later, TK and Kari came out into the living room, to find an impatient Gennai tapping his foot.  "I'm ever so glad that you two could work me into your busy schedule, now if you don't mind, we have a world to save!"

            "Calm down, Gennai," TK growled.  "What's the big emergency?"  Gennai simply turned towards TK's computer and waved his hand, opening the digital gate.  TK, Kari and Gennai were pulled through the gate and landed a moment later on a massive golden platform.  TK gently helped Kari to her feet, and away form the edge of the platform.

            "Alright, we've given you plenty of room, now why are we at the Host?  And what's the big emergency?"

            "I'll answer that one," a massive voice rumbled.  The couple turned to see the four guardians waiting.  TK briefly bowed to Azulongmon, who had spoken, and then to Baihumon, Ebonwumon, and Zhuqiaomon in turn.  "The virus you have been witnessing is a part of a larger plan.  The forces of Darkness have somehow managed to get someone from the human world to create a virus and infect the digital world with it.  They plan on using the chaos from the virus to cover their activities."

            "And those would be?" TK asked, slightly impatient.

            "They plan to find and release the First," Ebonwumon replied from her perch above the others.

            "First what?" Kari demanded.

            "The first Evil," Baihumon replied.  "When the digital world was still young, the most powerful digimon were the four of us, and we ruled all digimon in peace, until, one day, a virus appeared.  It was incredibly powerful and it digivolved rapidly, until it reached it's mega form.  Ghoulmon.  Ghoulmon encouraged rebellion among the digimon and began a massive war, rallying most of the virus digimon to his cause."

            "Ghoulmon's power is increadible, children," Zhuqiaomon picked up, his doubled voice rumbling around them.  "He is massive and the incarnation of evil in the digital world.  The Dark Masters were nothing compared to him.  It took the four of us and most of the digimon alive to stop him, and the digital world has yet to truly recover from the war he caused.  But virus and evil digimon consider him to be their savior, and they have planed to resurrect him for years.  Before, we thought we were facing a group of malcontented hot heads, who were loosely organized, if at all.  The truth is far worse."

            "We face an army," Ebonwumon continued.  "There are generals and troops, almost enough to make the digital world once more run with blood.  You have already destroyed one of their generals."

            "Demon," TK whispered.  The massive bird-digimon nodded.

            "But there are others.  Other evil and demon and undead digimon who have willingly joined their cause.  Your quest to find a cure for the virus can wait.  You must stop the Darkness from resurrecting Ghoulmon.  If you do not, stopping the virus will mean nothing.  Everything in the digital world will be destroyed, and evil will reign supreme."