During the battle with Gatomon's army, TK was separated from Matt in the fog. He stumbled wildly in the haze until he found Kari. He was excited to see a friendly face in all the confusion, but before he could even gasp a word, an enormous white hand flew out of the fog and wrapped around Kari's body. TK followed the hand to its owner, an enraged Frigimon. The snowman digimon hadn't noticed TK, who was on the ground, petrified. He could see Kari turning blue in the digimon's icy grip. Adrenaline rushed into his tiny body. He remembered on old line from a movie he and Matt where watching, and weren't supposed to. "He could be the biggest guy in the world, but if you hit him in the knee he'll go down like a ton of bricks."

TK ran forward as fast as he cold and tackled Frigimon in the back of his back left knee. The digimon's knee snapped forwards involuntarily, causing him to lose his balance as well as his grip on Kari. Kari fell to the ground and TK rushed to her side. TK picked up Kari with an almost super human effort, but the enraged Frigimon had risen to his feet. "Sub-Zero Ice Punch!"

Quickly, TK pulled Kari to side and rolled. The ice digimon's fist collided with the rock, forming a long ice path down the hill into the fog. Thinking quickly, TK threw Kari on a log and pushed the log with all his strength. Frigimon came up behind him and just before he threw his second punch, the log started moving down the ice slide. TK jumped on as the makeshift sled picked up speed, leaving their enraged former friend in the fog behind them.

The sled was still picking up speed as it traveled down a snow-filled valley. Finally, the ride came to an abrupt halt as the log sled collided into a snow bank. TK and Kari both went flying and landed in the soft snow. TK picked himself out of the bank, spitting out a mouth full of snow on to the ground. He wiped the snow from his eyes, looking for his friend. "Kari? Are you all right?"

TK crawled over to Kari's form. She was shivering hard and her lips were turning blue. Her contact with Frigimon as well as the sub-zero temperature now had taken their toll. She was semi-conscious, and deliriously mumbling to herself. TK picked Kari up and carried her to a small cave he noticed in the side of the mountain. Shoving as a hard as he could, he pushed a rock in front of the entrance so the wind wouldn't blow from outside.

When the entrance was completely blocked up, he noticed then that there was a red glow on the side of the cave. A fireplace had been built into the rock; a small fire was just barely burning. TK picked up some wood that was lying in the cave and threw it on the dying fire, hoping to get the blaze going again. He blew on the red coals, until a few pieces of kindling began to catch fire. TK turned his attention back to Kari. Kari was still blue, her fingernails had the most sickening shade of the colour he had ever seen.

Gently, TK picked up Kari's hands and began to blow on them lightly. He then rubbed her hands in his palms in order to try to get some of the circulation back in them. The fire was slowly warming up the place, and he could see the colour slowly coming back to Kari's face. A wave of exhaustion finally ran over TK as the adrenaline cleared from his system. A small table and chair sat in the room with a pitcher of water, so he had a quick drink of water to refresh himself. He made sure Kari was close to the fire, and then he curled up in a ball and fell asleep.



A little while later, TK was awoken from a deep slumber. He heard crying from the in the cave. He got up and saw Kari had awakened, but she was sitting cross-legged on the floor in front of the fireplace. TK didn't know what to do. He first pretended he was asleep but he decided he needed to do something. He got up and quietly sat next to Kari. Kari continued crying for a few minutes as he placed his arm on Kari's shoulder. Kari finally stopped crying hard enough for her to speak. She turned towards TK and whispered, "Do you hate me?"

The question left TK completely dumbstruck. He had expected her to say a thousand different things, but this was not one of them. "How could you even ask that?" he shouted with a surprised tone in his voice.

A sniffle came from Kari as she continued. "Gatomon was my digimon. I thought she changed when she left Myotismon, but she was just pretending." Another sniffle. "I was sure she was good! I trusted her, and look what happened. She turned on us, scattered our friends, and Frigimon nearly killed me." A thought dawned in her mind. "How did I get away from Frigimon?"

TK blushed, "I sort of tackled him and he dropped you. I picked you up and I threw you on a log and we sledded to safety." He tried to sound humble, but it still made him sound like a hero.

A strange feeling came over came over Kari. TK had done this before. He had protected her from Piedmon, and now he had taken on Frigimon all by himself. "You risked yourself for me again?" Kari smiled, "Your always there for me, like Gatom..." Her voice trailed off and she began crying again. "She can't be evil! She just can't!"

"She's not!" TK screamed. Kari looked at him. "You and I both know that's not Gatomon, or at least the Gatomon who stood up against Myotismon for you and all of us."

Kari just sat there, silent. After a few minutes of awkward silence TK suggested that they both get under the covers together so they could keep each other warm. So they snuggled up and went to sleep.

TK and Kari had been asleep snuggled in one another's arms for hours, basking in the glow of heat from the fireplace. Suddenly, they where awaked by a knocking outside. TK and Kari quickly got up in a heartbeat. "Who's there?" TK asked.

A voice came from the other side of the rock. "Little human, little human let me in." A giggle came from the other side.

TK resisted a huge urge to reply not by the hair of my chinny-chin-chin, and instead replied "Who's out there?"

His reply was a loud crack as the rock shattered into pieces. In the dark they saw two red eyes coming from the darkness. The eyes stepped forward and their eyes adjusted to the small form in front of them. Kari had tears in her eyes when she announced the form, "Gatomon?"

Gatomon walked forward so she was clearly shown in the glow of the fireplace. Her red eyes scanned the scene around her. "The one and only."