Kindness and Cruelty

Chapter 3: Busted!

KNOCK!!! KNOCK!!! KNOCK!!! Neomon was knocking on Yolei's door, while looking very tired. He had to look like he had ran for more than an hour. At that moment, Gatomon opened the door and gasped.

"Oh, my god! What happened?" Everyone looked up and saw Neomon, with everyone thinking that he's Ken. Even Wormmon was fooled.

"Even I can't run for more than an hour without feeling it..." Neomon fake-fainted onto the floor, with Yolei catching him before he hit the floor.

"Ken, are you alright?" Neomon slowly poened his eyes and looked up toward Yolei.

"I'm just tired, that's all." That's when Wormmon looked up toward a mirror that showed Neomon's reflection and got a good look at the reflection's eyes. They were neither silver or indigo, but black. Ken's reflection never had black eyes before.

"Are you sure that you're nothing more than tired?" Wormmon had that suspicious tone in his voice. Everyone picked it up, even Neomon.

"What do you mean by that, Wormmon?" Neomon had made a BIG mistake. He had a Kaiser tone in his voice. Wormmon narrowed his eyes at Neomon.

"Give it up, brother. I know it's you." Everyone stared at both Wormmon and Neomon in confusion.

"Wormmon, what are you talking about? It's me, Ken. Remember?" Wormmon pointed toward Neomon's reflection.

"Then explain why your reflection has black eyes instead of indigo eyes." Neomon looked up toward his reflection and realized that he was in major trouble.

"Wormmon, what do you...oh, my lord..." Patamon also saw Neomon's reflection. When Yolei saw the reflection, she dropped Neomon hard.

"Who are you, you imposter?" Neomon snapped his fingers and stood up on his feet. He knew that he wasn't going to be able to convince them that he was Ken again.

"Busted. Oh well..." He looked up toward the Digidestined with narrow eyes. "I am Neomon, the champion form of Wormmon's brother, Durisamon. I was sent here to retrieve the Crest of Cruelty for my master and partner." Neomon raised a hand, causing the the crest to fly into his hand at full force. Wormmon jump-tackled Neomon, causing them to land on the floor.

"Where's Ken, Neomon?" Neomon knocked Wormmon off of him.

"You'll have to figure that one out for yourself. Just follow the trail of evil and/or rampaging Digimon." A black portal appeared behind Neomon as he stood up. He jumped into the portal before it closed itself, not allowing anyone to follow Neomon. Davis punched a nearby wall.

"I can't believe this! First the Shadow Empress, then CrystalEmpressmon and the Shadow Emperor, now this new guy! I want to know what kind of curse was placed upon Ken!" When Kari placed a hand on Davis's shoulder, he ended up swinging his fist at her. Fortunately for both of them, he missed. Everyone dropped their jaw at what Davis almost did, Hawkmon being the first to regain his speaking ability.

"I can't believe you almost hit Kari..." Davis backed up against the wall, not believing what he came close to doing.

"Oh, man. I'm so sorry, Kari. I didn't mean to do that..." He dropped to his knees crying. Kari, Gatomon and Veemon tried to comfort Davis, while the others tried to think of a way to get Ken back.

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"What are you doing to me? You say you're done turning me into a portable Control Spire..." Ken was feeling wierd. Images of a life he never had was floating through his mind uncontrolably. Sam stood back from the computer, just as confused as Ken.

"What the...what are these images? These are not from your past, so why do you have them in your memory?" At that moment, Neomon appeared with the Crest of Cruelty in his hand.

"Here is the Crest of Cruelty, master." Sam took the Crest of Cruelty out of Neomon's hands and put it around his neck, which caused the crest to glow slightly before becoming dormant again. At that moment, Ken started to glow with a grey, dim aura.

"What's going on? Why don't I feel like my..." Ken closed his eyes as the aura around him became brighter. In a few seconds, the aura was so bright, no one could see what was going to. While the aura was blinding him, Sam heard something that sounded like 'Neomon warp-digivole to...' That was all he could hear before he was knocked out cold by the light of the aura.