A Dark Fate
By Michi&Fruey
Disclaimer: Not ours, nopenope! ^-^v But
we're borrowing them for a bit.
Michi's Note: We're not sure in what direction
this story'll be going. Here's a bit from the
perspective of the other Digidestined.
Yolei looked at her watch for the fiftieth time.
Where was Ken? They were supposed to be
having a meeting of the digidestined. All of the
younger group of digidestined were there with
the exception of Ken, they were all sprawled
out in her bedroom this time. "Where is he?!"
She burst out, standing up suddenly, tossing
Poromon off of her lap. Luckily, Cody caught
the little digimon, sparing it from splatting on
the floor.
"Not here, I think." Cody said, edging away
from the angered girl.
"I know that! But Ken is supposed to be
HERE!" She stamped her foot and crossed
her arms, fuming. She adored the dark-haired
boy, being his most devoted fan and all, but
she took the trouble to plan out a picnic and
NO ONE was going to ruin it.
"I messaged him on my D-3 so we're bound
to get an answer soon." TK put in helpfully, "If
we don't, then one of us can go check on him,
alright?" He turned back to Kari, chatting
amiably about something or other in an attempt
to get the object of his affections to giggle. He
was constantly in a state of war with Davis over
who would get Kari to like them more.
"Relax Yolei." Davis said waving his hands
hoping that somehow it would magically calm
her. "I'm sure he has a good reason for not
being here. I mean he _is_ famous what if one
of those wandering fan hoards found him, and
is currently got him trapped."
Kari, who was in the middle of talking with TK,
stared at Davis with an angered expression.
Telling Yolei that Ken was stuck in the middle
of a mess of raging fans was _not_ a very good
idea. She got up from her seat, and sat down
next to Yolei. "I don't think anything like that
happened. Maybe he forgot that we were
supposed to be here right now. After all it is
earlier then when we usually meet." It was true.
The time was in fact a bit off, but still it wasn't
much of an answer as to why Ken was late.
It wasn't like Ken to forget something that
important.
Davis huddled into the corner pouting. He'd
done something to upset Kari again!! as he
sat there the little scoreboard popped into
his head once again. `Score: TK making Kari
giggle.. Davis making Kari angry... Davis 0...
TK 6,000... waaah!' As he sat pouting
Demiveemon patted him on the head.
Yolei wailed dramatically, latching onto Kari
for emphasis, "WHAT IF ONE OF THOSE
FANS KISSES _MY_ KEN-CHAN?!"
Cody coughed lightly, still holding both
Upamon and Poromon. "I don't think you
own Ke-" He was cut off as Yolei pitched
a pillow at his head with deadly accuracy.
Then she reached for another pillow and
threw it at him just to ensure he wouldn't
refute her totally serious worries.
"Yolei I'm sure nothing like that is happening.
He does have to take the subway to get here,
maybe it was just delayed." Kari said trying to
get Yolei to cool down. For some strange reason
Yolei didn't throw things at Kari. Maybe it was the
fact that they were both girls, and thus, they
could both understand what it would be like to
have a missing boyfriend. Of course Ken _wasn't_
Yolei's boyfriend, not yet at least.
TK watched the scene with mild amusement,
Yolei was very... strange when it came to Ken.
Of course, she did have plans to marry him,
which he wasn't sure if Ken was aware of
those plans. His attention was drawn away
as his D-3, he read it aloud in confusion,
"Message delivery failure... terminal not
operational... What?! Something's wrong."
Davis watched the girls for a little bit. He
wondered if all girls did that. Claimed a man,
and pronounced them their boyfriend without
telling him. `Maybe Kari's said that about you!'
He told himself, and refrained from bouncing
up and dancing around. Actually he was going
to that was until he noticed what TK had
said. "What's wrong?"
"I'm not sure." TK replied, looking at Davis
before looking back at his D-3. "Ken's D-3
isn't working... or something." He walked over
to Kari and sat next to her, looking dumbfounded.
He pulled out his Digivice and tried to get Ken's
signal, but that too wasn't working. "Kari, see
if you can get a signal, I can't..."
Yolei squawked, "WHAAAT?! IT'S BROKEN!?"
That was BAD! VERY, VERY BAD! "Oh, my
god! He could be hurt! Or worse!" Various horrible
things flashed through her mind as she fretted
over Ichijouji Ken.
"I don't think they can just get turned off... This isn't
good..." Cody added, recovering from the barrage
of pillows. "We better go find him."
Kari pulled out her won digivice, and tried to send
a message to Ken. "This isn't good" she said,
repeating Cody's words. She stood up, and looked
at the others. "He's in trouble."
Davis bounced to his feet in a second. "Right!" He
took a moment to take a pose, and grinned. `Kari's
gonna love this!' "Let's go save Ken!" He announced
triumphantly as though he had just won't the Olympics.
Of course someday he was going to do that. It was
one his list of things to do!
TK sighed, "This is serious, Davis, we can't be
playing games. Alright, let's split up and look for him.
Cody, Yolei, and Davis... you three go to the digital
world. Kari and I'll go to Ken's apartment." He sounded
deathly serious, and as if he was just _waiting_ for
someone to tell him they'd do otherwise.
"Alright TK!" Patamon chirped, flying into the boy's
backpack.
"Keep in close contact. And stay safe, if something
got Ken..." He trailed off meaningfully.
Yolei got up and booted up her computer, looking
VERY determined. Nothing would happen to HER
Ken. "We'll do that. Good luck."
Kari waved to the others as she, and TK headed
off on their way to go locate Ken. There had to be
something terribly wrong, and they both knew that.
There was no way that a Digivice just went *poof*
and disappeared off into nevernever land. "I hope
he's alright.." She looked at TK, and smiled a little.
"So what's the plan?"
"Um... I'm not really sure..." TK admitted after a
moment's thought as they made their way to the
subway station. "I guess we tell his mom that Ken
borrowed a book and we need it... for school, or
something?" The blonde was a horrible liar, but he
understood that he'd have to if he wanted to help
Ken. He, shyly, reached over and took her hand
in his when they entered a big crowd. He
rationalized to himself that it was just to keep
from losing her and had nothing to do with the
fact that he adored her.
Patamon and Salamon, Gatomon's rookie form,
were in TK's backpack, peeking out. Patamon
whispered, "Look, look! They're holding hands!"
For the longest time, the two digimon had wanted
their partners to get together, they were just too
cute.
Salamon smiled happily. She had been watching
Kari, and TK for the longest time now. Waiting
for them to finally realize that they both liked one
another.
Kari didn't make a move to pull her hand away
from TK's. They had to stay together, and hang
on to each other in the crowded subway area. She
squeezed his hand a bit. It was just to make certain
that he was there, it wasn't anything to do with the
fact that she had a crush on him.
TK fought to keep himself from grinning stupidly, and
was moderately successful. 'Think about something
else other than how delicate Kari's hands are... and
soft... and.... ACK!' Suddenly, he was feeling really
protective of her, realizing that he wanted Kari to stay
the delicate pretty girl that she was, and for nothing to
ever happen to her.
He hadn't realized he'd kept ahold of her hand until they
were at Ken's apartment. He pulled his hand away
quickly, suddenly blushing. Flustered, he tried to calm
down and knocked on the apartment door. When Mrs. Ichijouji
answered, he told his lie and get them access to Ken's
room. He let Patamon and Salamon out of his backpack.
"Look around... I'll check Ken's computer." He sat at the
desk and turned on the moniter... there was a digital portal...
but Ken's digivice was lying next to the computer.
Kari looked around the rest of the room. Really she was
trying to hide the blush that had formed on her cheeks. She
looked around Ken's room, really trying to find out why exactly
TK had pulled his hand away so quickly. `Maybe because
he sensed your giggly fangirl ways?' While she thought about
TK she failed to notice the lump under the blankets moving
towards her like a missile.
"Ken?!" A hopeful voice called out as a little green head
peeked out from under the covers. Kari had jumped a
bit when she first heard Wormmon's voice. "TK, Wormmon's
here." She said walking over to pick up the little digimon.
"Damn it...!" He wasn't sure what he was mad at, he
wasn't angry at the little insect digimon. At least Wormmon
was safe... but that meant Ken was alone in the digital world...
without his digimon or anything... "You don't know where he
is either?" He hated how resigned his voice sounded, but
right then he was about at the end of his rope. They had a
NEW menace to worry about. "Let's go to the Digiworld..."
It was probably a bad idea to go using Ken's computer...
Mrs. Ichijouji might get suspicious... but they had no choice.
Wormmon looked from Kari to TK. They didn't know where
was. "Ken is in the Digiworld?" He asked worriedly. He
was afraid to be without Ken for even a moment worried
at what he might do, or what might be done to him. Many
of the digimon in the digital world were still seeking revenge
for the work the Digimon Emperor had done while he was
in power. He didn't want to leave Ken alone with them
running around.
Kari looked at TK as he gave his little speech. She
loved it when he got into his macho self. It was.. She shook
her head to get rid of those thoughts. Ken needed
them. "Right! Let's go!"
"Digiport, open!" TK and Kari, along with the trio of
Digimon were sent to the digiworld. The landed in the
sand, the sky broken up in its monotony by black control
spires. TK tensed up, holding Kari to him, as they were
surrounded by vacant eyed Digimon with familiar dark
rings around them.
"Ichijouji..." He growled softly, caught by surprise but there
was no way to mistake this for anything else. The Digimon
Emperor was back in business. A Redveggiemon sent
out whip-like tentacles, cutting into the skin of TK's back as
he pushed Kari down and protecting her. Holding back a cry
of pain, he gritted out, "Patamon... Armor Digivolve!" The blonde
slumped, dazed but still trying to protect Kari after he'd been
hit several more times.
"Patamon, Armor Digimon to... Pegasusmon!" The
winged-horse flew down towards the dark spiralled
digimon, attacking indiscriminately. TK had been hurt by them...
they didn't deserve any mercy.
Kari stared at the enslaved digimon with a horror stricken
face. There was no mistaking the black rings that were
wrapped tightly around the digimon. It was a sure sign that
the Digimon Emperor had returned. Ken was good. That's what
he had said. That's what they all believed. She refused to believe
that Ken would actually betray them, but deep down she knew it
had always been a possibility.
Looking at TK she knew that it was real. The Digimon
Emperor WAS back, and he hurt TK. She hold tightly onto
TK. "Are you okay!?"
"Kari! I think it's time to digivolve" Salamon shouted as she
watched Pegasusmon fighting off the other digimon by himself.
Kari looked at her digimon, and nodded. She pulled out her
digivice for Salamon to digivolve into Gatomon, but nothing
happened. "What?!" She looked at her digivice, then at Salamon,
then at the towering dark spire. "Oh no..."
TK forced a small grin for Kari's benefit. "M'okay..." He wasn't
really, but he'd say he was for Kari. His eyes slid shut and he
rested he head on Kari's shoulder, barely able to keep conscious.
They were surrounded, but Pegasusmon was making his way
through the enemy's ranks. For the most part, these were low
level Digimon. Once a few were released, they even had
something in the way of reinforcements. "Kari-chan..." TK
mumbled softly, having totally fallen unconscious.
Kari held onto TK tightly. She hoped that Pegasusmon
would be enough to keep them safe for the time being. "TK..
TK get up!" She said shaking him ever so slightly. She
looked at her D3, and quickly started creating a message
to send to the others. "I hope they can get it." If Ken's D3
was messing up some then the others might as well.
"I'm getting help Tk. Hold on, okay" She knew TK was unconscious, but
still she tried to reassure him that things would be okay. Really she
wanted to reassure herself as well. Things were not looking too good
for them at that moment.
By Michi&Fruey
Disclaimer: Not ours, nopenope! ^-^v But
we're borrowing them for a bit.
Michi's Note: We're not sure in what direction
this story'll be going. Here's a bit from the
perspective of the other Digidestined.
Yolei looked at her watch for the fiftieth time.
Where was Ken? They were supposed to be
having a meeting of the digidestined. All of the
younger group of digidestined were there with
the exception of Ken, they were all sprawled
out in her bedroom this time. "Where is he?!"
She burst out, standing up suddenly, tossing
Poromon off of her lap. Luckily, Cody caught
the little digimon, sparing it from splatting on
the floor.
"Not here, I think." Cody said, edging away
from the angered girl.
"I know that! But Ken is supposed to be
HERE!" She stamped her foot and crossed
her arms, fuming. She adored the dark-haired
boy, being his most devoted fan and all, but
she took the trouble to plan out a picnic and
NO ONE was going to ruin it.
"I messaged him on my D-3 so we're bound
to get an answer soon." TK put in helpfully, "If
we don't, then one of us can go check on him,
alright?" He turned back to Kari, chatting
amiably about something or other in an attempt
to get the object of his affections to giggle. He
was constantly in a state of war with Davis over
who would get Kari to like them more.
"Relax Yolei." Davis said waving his hands
hoping that somehow it would magically calm
her. "I'm sure he has a good reason for not
being here. I mean he _is_ famous what if one
of those wandering fan hoards found him, and
is currently got him trapped."
Kari, who was in the middle of talking with TK,
stared at Davis with an angered expression.
Telling Yolei that Ken was stuck in the middle
of a mess of raging fans was _not_ a very good
idea. She got up from her seat, and sat down
next to Yolei. "I don't think anything like that
happened. Maybe he forgot that we were
supposed to be here right now. After all it is
earlier then when we usually meet." It was true.
The time was in fact a bit off, but still it wasn't
much of an answer as to why Ken was late.
It wasn't like Ken to forget something that
important.
Davis huddled into the corner pouting. He'd
done something to upset Kari again!! as he
sat there the little scoreboard popped into
his head once again. `Score: TK making Kari
giggle.. Davis making Kari angry... Davis 0...
TK 6,000... waaah!' As he sat pouting
Demiveemon patted him on the head.
Yolei wailed dramatically, latching onto Kari
for emphasis, "WHAT IF ONE OF THOSE
FANS KISSES _MY_ KEN-CHAN?!"
Cody coughed lightly, still holding both
Upamon and Poromon. "I don't think you
own Ke-" He was cut off as Yolei pitched
a pillow at his head with deadly accuracy.
Then she reached for another pillow and
threw it at him just to ensure he wouldn't
refute her totally serious worries.
"Yolei I'm sure nothing like that is happening.
He does have to take the subway to get here,
maybe it was just delayed." Kari said trying to
get Yolei to cool down. For some strange reason
Yolei didn't throw things at Kari. Maybe it was the
fact that they were both girls, and thus, they
could both understand what it would be like to
have a missing boyfriend. Of course Ken _wasn't_
Yolei's boyfriend, not yet at least.
TK watched the scene with mild amusement,
Yolei was very... strange when it came to Ken.
Of course, she did have plans to marry him,
which he wasn't sure if Ken was aware of
those plans. His attention was drawn away
as his D-3, he read it aloud in confusion,
"Message delivery failure... terminal not
operational... What?! Something's wrong."
Davis watched the girls for a little bit. He
wondered if all girls did that. Claimed a man,
and pronounced them their boyfriend without
telling him. `Maybe Kari's said that about you!'
He told himself, and refrained from bouncing
up and dancing around. Actually he was going
to that was until he noticed what TK had
said. "What's wrong?"
"I'm not sure." TK replied, looking at Davis
before looking back at his D-3. "Ken's D-3
isn't working... or something." He walked over
to Kari and sat next to her, looking dumbfounded.
He pulled out his Digivice and tried to get Ken's
signal, but that too wasn't working. "Kari, see
if you can get a signal, I can't..."
Yolei squawked, "WHAAAT?! IT'S BROKEN!?"
That was BAD! VERY, VERY BAD! "Oh, my
god! He could be hurt! Or worse!" Various horrible
things flashed through her mind as she fretted
over Ichijouji Ken.
"I don't think they can just get turned off... This isn't
good..." Cody added, recovering from the barrage
of pillows. "We better go find him."
Kari pulled out her won digivice, and tried to send
a message to Ken. "This isn't good" she said,
repeating Cody's words. She stood up, and looked
at the others. "He's in trouble."
Davis bounced to his feet in a second. "Right!" He
took a moment to take a pose, and grinned. `Kari's
gonna love this!' "Let's go save Ken!" He announced
triumphantly as though he had just won't the Olympics.
Of course someday he was going to do that. It was
one his list of things to do!
TK sighed, "This is serious, Davis, we can't be
playing games. Alright, let's split up and look for him.
Cody, Yolei, and Davis... you three go to the digital
world. Kari and I'll go to Ken's apartment." He sounded
deathly serious, and as if he was just _waiting_ for
someone to tell him they'd do otherwise.
"Alright TK!" Patamon chirped, flying into the boy's
backpack.
"Keep in close contact. And stay safe, if something
got Ken..." He trailed off meaningfully.
Yolei got up and booted up her computer, looking
VERY determined. Nothing would happen to HER
Ken. "We'll do that. Good luck."
Kari waved to the others as she, and TK headed
off on their way to go locate Ken. There had to be
something terribly wrong, and they both knew that.
There was no way that a Digivice just went *poof*
and disappeared off into nevernever land. "I hope
he's alright.." She looked at TK, and smiled a little.
"So what's the plan?"
"Um... I'm not really sure..." TK admitted after a
moment's thought as they made their way to the
subway station. "I guess we tell his mom that Ken
borrowed a book and we need it... for school, or
something?" The blonde was a horrible liar, but he
understood that he'd have to if he wanted to help
Ken. He, shyly, reached over and took her hand
in his when they entered a big crowd. He
rationalized to himself that it was just to keep
from losing her and had nothing to do with the
fact that he adored her.
Patamon and Salamon, Gatomon's rookie form,
were in TK's backpack, peeking out. Patamon
whispered, "Look, look! They're holding hands!"
For the longest time, the two digimon had wanted
their partners to get together, they were just too
cute.
Salamon smiled happily. She had been watching
Kari, and TK for the longest time now. Waiting
for them to finally realize that they both liked one
another.
Kari didn't make a move to pull her hand away
from TK's. They had to stay together, and hang
on to each other in the crowded subway area. She
squeezed his hand a bit. It was just to make certain
that he was there, it wasn't anything to do with the
fact that she had a crush on him.
TK fought to keep himself from grinning stupidly, and
was moderately successful. 'Think about something
else other than how delicate Kari's hands are... and
soft... and.... ACK!' Suddenly, he was feeling really
protective of her, realizing that he wanted Kari to stay
the delicate pretty girl that she was, and for nothing to
ever happen to her.
He hadn't realized he'd kept ahold of her hand until they
were at Ken's apartment. He pulled his hand away
quickly, suddenly blushing. Flustered, he tried to calm
down and knocked on the apartment door. When Mrs. Ichijouji
answered, he told his lie and get them access to Ken's
room. He let Patamon and Salamon out of his backpack.
"Look around... I'll check Ken's computer." He sat at the
desk and turned on the moniter... there was a digital portal...
but Ken's digivice was lying next to the computer.
Kari looked around the rest of the room. Really she was
trying to hide the blush that had formed on her cheeks. She
looked around Ken's room, really trying to find out why exactly
TK had pulled his hand away so quickly. `Maybe because
he sensed your giggly fangirl ways?' While she thought about
TK she failed to notice the lump under the blankets moving
towards her like a missile.
"Ken?!" A hopeful voice called out as a little green head
peeked out from under the covers. Kari had jumped a
bit when she first heard Wormmon's voice. "TK, Wormmon's
here." She said walking over to pick up the little digimon.
"Damn it...!" He wasn't sure what he was mad at, he
wasn't angry at the little insect digimon. At least Wormmon
was safe... but that meant Ken was alone in the digital world...
without his digimon or anything... "You don't know where he
is either?" He hated how resigned his voice sounded, but
right then he was about at the end of his rope. They had a
NEW menace to worry about. "Let's go to the Digiworld..."
It was probably a bad idea to go using Ken's computer...
Mrs. Ichijouji might get suspicious... but they had no choice.
Wormmon looked from Kari to TK. They didn't know where
was. "Ken is in the Digiworld?" He asked worriedly. He
was afraid to be without Ken for even a moment worried
at what he might do, or what might be done to him. Many
of the digimon in the digital world were still seeking revenge
for the work the Digimon Emperor had done while he was
in power. He didn't want to leave Ken alone with them
running around.
Kari looked at TK as he gave his little speech. She
loved it when he got into his macho self. It was.. She shook
her head to get rid of those thoughts. Ken needed
them. "Right! Let's go!"
"Digiport, open!" TK and Kari, along with the trio of
Digimon were sent to the digiworld. The landed in the
sand, the sky broken up in its monotony by black control
spires. TK tensed up, holding Kari to him, as they were
surrounded by vacant eyed Digimon with familiar dark
rings around them.
"Ichijouji..." He growled softly, caught by surprise but there
was no way to mistake this for anything else. The Digimon
Emperor was back in business. A Redveggiemon sent
out whip-like tentacles, cutting into the skin of TK's back as
he pushed Kari down and protecting her. Holding back a cry
of pain, he gritted out, "Patamon... Armor Digivolve!" The blonde
slumped, dazed but still trying to protect Kari after he'd been
hit several more times.
"Patamon, Armor Digimon to... Pegasusmon!" The
winged-horse flew down towards the dark spiralled
digimon, attacking indiscriminately. TK had been hurt by them...
they didn't deserve any mercy.
Kari stared at the enslaved digimon with a horror stricken
face. There was no mistaking the black rings that were
wrapped tightly around the digimon. It was a sure sign that
the Digimon Emperor had returned. Ken was good. That's what
he had said. That's what they all believed. She refused to believe
that Ken would actually betray them, but deep down she knew it
had always been a possibility.
Looking at TK she knew that it was real. The Digimon
Emperor WAS back, and he hurt TK. She hold tightly onto
TK. "Are you okay!?"
"Kari! I think it's time to digivolve" Salamon shouted as she
watched Pegasusmon fighting off the other digimon by himself.
Kari looked at her digimon, and nodded. She pulled out her
digivice for Salamon to digivolve into Gatomon, but nothing
happened. "What?!" She looked at her digivice, then at Salamon,
then at the towering dark spire. "Oh no..."
TK forced a small grin for Kari's benefit. "M'okay..." He wasn't
really, but he'd say he was for Kari. His eyes slid shut and he
rested he head on Kari's shoulder, barely able to keep conscious.
They were surrounded, but Pegasusmon was making his way
through the enemy's ranks. For the most part, these were low
level Digimon. Once a few were released, they even had
something in the way of reinforcements. "Kari-chan..." TK
mumbled softly, having totally fallen unconscious.
Kari held onto TK tightly. She hoped that Pegasusmon
would be enough to keep them safe for the time being. "TK..
TK get up!" She said shaking him ever so slightly. She
looked at her D3, and quickly started creating a message
to send to the others. "I hope they can get it." If Ken's D3
was messing up some then the others might as well.
"I'm getting help Tk. Hold on, okay" She knew TK was unconscious, but
still she tried to reassure him that things would be okay. Really she
wanted to reassure herself as well. Things were not looking too good
for them at that moment.