Well, this took me a little while to post… I'm sorry everyone.

Syaoran: You should be.

Fordina: Will you hush! I'm a case of major writers block here! I can hardly work on anything!

Syaoran: M-hm…

Fordina: -_-** I'm going to ignore him now. Well, as you know Digimon and Card Captors isn't mine… The Gods know how much I do want them to be though… And you should know who is mine. If you don't… then I should have written it somewhere in one of these chapters… I mean… I do have 33 of them now… :: rambles on… ::

Chapter 33

Losing Control

"Kari you will not believe what Izzy got me for my birthday!" Yolie squealed over the phone.

"He gave you your present already? I thought we were going to do that tonight at your party?" Kari asked.

"I guess he wanted to give it to me before everyone else… And so that I can show it off at the party!"

The two friends continued to jabber on the phone until Kari heard the front door slam shut.

"Yolie? Can you hold on for a sec?" Kari asked. After hearing the confirmed 'sure' she put the phone back down on the cradle after pressing the 'hold' button. "Tai? Is that you?"

"Yeah it's me," Came the grunted reply.

"What's wrong?"

Sighing Tai fell down to the couch. "You'll know soon… Everyone's coming over. Emergency Digimeeting," He wiped his brow.

"Emergency Digimeeting?" Kari asked walking over to him.

"Yeah… Weren't you on the phone?" Tai asked looking up at her.

"Oh! Yolie!" Kari ran back over to the phone. "Sorry Yolie. Tai just came home. Uh huh… Yeah I know he just told me. Joe just called you? So you'll be over here soon then? All right. Okay, see you then. Bring the gift. Okay, okay. Bye," She hung up the phone. "Tai…? Why are we having an emergency Digimeeting? Did something happen?" She sat down beside him.

"You'll know soon Kari."

"What about Sakura and the others? Are they coming too?"

"I don't think it would be a good idea to have them come."

"Why? Oh god nothing happened to Sakura did it?!" Kari asked worriedly.

"No, no Sakura's fine. It's… It's Li," Tai said finally.

"Li? Tai… what happened?" Tai just sighed and closed his eyes.

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Syaoran ran determinedly through the Digital World. Since he had no idea where he was going he was running blindly until he ran into something… It looked like a dark tower of some sort.

"The guys said that the Digital World was a mess… But I didn't think it to be this literally," Looking around him all he could see was destruction and disarray.

Walking up to the tower, Syaoran placed his left hand on it, only to have it almost pushed back from whatever power was coming from within.

"What the…" Closing his eyes he could feel the dark energy radiating from it. "Where's all its energy coming from? There's… There's nothing here, but thousands of these towers… They couldn't be getting the energy from each other…"

"Precisely," Spinning Syaoran found himself face to face with someone he'd hope he would never see again. "Glad you could join us Syaoran."

Ross stood smiling smugly above some sort of flying creature.

"What… what is that?!" Syaoran yelled stepping back slightly.

"This?" Ross said referring to the creature he was standing on. "This is an Airdramon. They do come in quite handy, when you need a lift!" Ross laughed at his own joke.

"What are you doing here?!" Syaoran asked.

Ross sighed, "It is hard to be liked these days… I've tried to make you see dear Syaoran! But you just don't listen!"

"Make me see?! Make me see what? This destruction that you've caused? Well I see it now! And--" Ross cut him off.

"No, no, my dear boy! Not the destruction! That's just an upside!" His smug smile grew. "I need you to see this!" With a snap of his fingers a hole opened up underneath Syaoran's feet.

"What the—?! Ahh!!" He yelled as he fell through.

"If you had only listened…" Ross said shaking his head.

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~^~FiveHoursEarlier~^~

Syaoran lay on his bed clutching his head in agony.

"God… Why… why does it hurt so much!?" He sat up in his bed, only to fall once more because of the pain it caused. "Aaaarrrrgggg…!!!!!" He screamed.

Reaching over to his bedside table he grabbed the phone and dialled a number. "Pick up!"

"Hello? Kamiya residence?" A female voice said.

About to answer all Syaoran got out was a loud scream of pain.

"Who is this? Why… why are you screaming?" Mrs. Kamiya asked.

Before giving up he said very quietly, "Sakura… I'm sorry…"

"What? Did you want to talk to Sakura? Can I ask who's speaking? Hello? Hello?" But the only answer she got was the dial tone.

Getting up slowly he made his way over to the door and walked out, clutching the wall to keep him steady. Finally getting to Izzy's room Syaoran walked over to all his equipment for his machine to get them to the Digital World.

"I'll fix this myself…" Remembering everything that Izzy had told him, he typed in everything, then hooked himself up to the machine. "Okay… here goes nothing," And he pressed enter.

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"Mom! I'm home!" Izzy yelled as he walked into the apartment. He had just come back from giving Yolie her birthday present. He decided it couldn't wait until that evening.

"Can you check on Li? He hasn't left his room since this morning and I thought I might have heard screaming a little while ago… But I didn't know if I should have bothered him or not…" Mrs. Izumi said as she walked out of the kitchen and over to her son.

"Sure thing mom. I need to ask him something anyway," Izzy said as he walked over to his friend's room. "Syaoran?" Izzy asked peeking in the door. "Li?" Not getting an answer he opened the door wide and walked in. "Where could he be…" Walking out of the room he went to his own only to stop dead in the door way. "Oh god… Oh god no!" Running over to the slumped over body that lay on his bed Izzy fell to his knees and began to shake him, even though he knew it would be no use. "Damnit Syaoran! How could you do this?!" He stopped his shaking him and moved away from the still, still body. Walking over to the phone Izzy called up Tai and told him to get over there right away.

"But Iz, you just left, like, three hours ago! You can't miss me that much already!" Tai joked.

"Just get over here!" Izzy hissed hanging up the phone.

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"Uh… Mom?" Tai asked walking into the kitchen.

"Yes Tai?" She asked drying a plate.

"I'm… going to go and see Izzy for a little while…"

"But didn't you just see him this morning?" Mrs. Kamiya asked confused.

"Yeah I did… But I guess he can't be away from me for too long!" Tai joked again. This time he got a small laugh from Mrs. Kamiya.

"I'm sure that's it. Alright, just be home for dinner."

"Okay, thanks," With that he walked out the front door. Walking to the elevator he couldn't help wonder why Izzy sounded so desperate. "I wonder what happened…"

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Sakura and Madison had been walking around the park when Sakura suddenly fell to the ground.

"Sakura!" Madison yelled crouching beside her.

Sakura sat there clutching her chest over where her heart should be.

"Sakura? Sakura what happened? Are you okay?" Madison asked hurriedly.

"Syaoran… Something's happened to him!" Sakura cried getting back up.

"Calm down Sakura! I'm sure nothing has happened to Li!" Madison said getting up after her friend.

"No, no you're wrong Madison. Syaoran is in trouble and I have to help him."

"Sakura, you don't even know that something has happened to Li! You're probably just throwing yourself into danger!" Madison said grabbing Sakura's arm.

"You don't understand!" She screamed getting out of her friend's grip. "You'll never understand that bond that we share! I can feel him! I can hear his thoughts! I know when he's in trouble! You'll never understand!" That said Sakura ran down a path she hoped would lead her to Syaoran.

"Sakura…" Madison said as she watched her friend's figure run out of sight.

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His eyes slowly opened as he tried to get up.

"Where am I?" Syaoran asked, looking around, and trying to remember what exactly he did. "Shit! What the hell was I thinking coming here on my own?!" Syaoran cursed himself.

Standing up, he circled the area he was in. "Nothing but sand…" Reaching down he cupped one palm and piled some sand into it, seeing if it's any different from his world's sand. "Feels the same…" Just then something small and green came out of the sand. "Ahh!" Syaoran yelled in shock. "Wh-what are you?" He asked, carefully coming closer to it.

"Whoa! A human! We haven't had one of those around here in a while! Unless you count the other guy…" The green blob mumbled.

"O-other guy?" Syaoran asked.

"Yeah… Big guy… real big… evil too…"

"So… um… What are you? Are you a… a… a Digimon?" Syaoran inquired.

"Sure am! Numemon's the name!"

"H-hi… I'm S-Li," Syaoran told it.

"Pleasure to meet ya!"

"Yeah… Now… You said something about not having seen humans in a while? What kind of humans have you seen?" Syaoran asked suddenly very interesting in this little green thing.

"Well the Digidestined of course!" He cried.

"The Digidestined? You mean like Izzy, and Tai?"

"Who else would I mean?" It asked angrily.

"I—I don't know," Syaoran said slightly surprised at it's temper.

"Well… Um… I… I should go now… Um… See ya!" The Numemon said as he crawled back into the sand.

"Hey wait!" Syaoran cried. But soon turned around as he heard the angry growl. "Ahh… Hey there…" Syaoran said nervously as he turned around slowly. The giant creature took a step forward.

"You do not belong here. Leave now, before I destroy you," The Digimon said giving fair warning.

"O-of course!" Syaoran said as he got up and started to walk away, then as he felt he was at a safe distance he broke into a run, not stopping until he saw an unusual tower…

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Tai walked into Izzy's apartment and headed up to his friend's floor. Once there he knocked on the door and was started when he was practically pulled in and over to Izzy's room.

"Iz! What are you doing?!" Tai hissed, wrenching out of his friend's grip.

Izzy glared at him; "There's no time for that! Look!" Izzy said frustrated as he pointed to a still body lying on his bed.

Tai looked at it confused, "Why is Li sleeping on your bed Iz?"

Izzy sighed, "He's not sleeping! He's pulled himself into the Digital World!"

Tai looked confused, "But I thought you said you still had something's to work out on that thing…"

"I was nearly finished everything… I just had a few more calculations to do and then it would have been safe… But then he goes and runs off on his own!" Izzy yelled.

"Ah… Iz? How did he know what to do anyway?"

"Because, he's been helping me work on everything, so he knows how to work it all," Izzy sighed, "I just don't know what could have provoked him to do this…" Just then there was a loud knocking on the front door. Izzy sighed once again and walked over to it. Opening it he was bombarded by Sakura who rushed into his house.

"Where's Shaoran?!" She demanded.

"S-Sakura!" Izzy stammered. "S-Syaoran? He… he's not here right now… come back la—" Sakura cut him off.

"What happened to him?! I know something happened to him!" She yelled, clutching at Izzy.

"Sakura, calm down!" Tai said walking up to them from behind. "Yes, something happened to Li, and Izzy is trying his best to find a way to get him back," Tai told her.

"Get him back?! Where did he go?! What happened to him?!" Sakura cried. Izzy rubbed his face in frustration.

"Sakura, for some reason Syaoran went to the Digital World. We're still not sure why… I just came home and I found him in my room… hook up to the machine that I built…" He told her. "I—I'm not sure how I'm going to get him back. But don't worry… we will get him back. No matter what."

Sakura smiled up at him, "Thank you."

"Now," Tai started, "since we're here and have a lot of work to do… Izzy?" Izzy looked over at him, "Where's the kitchen?" Izzy sighed and pointed in the direction of the kitchen. Even though he knew for a fact that Tai knew where it was. Tai knows where every kitchen in every house was.

"Thanks!" Tai said running over.

"Tai? Why do you even ask anymore? You know where it is, and well… you know where it is!" Izzy cried.

"Just being polite," Tai told him. Izzy sighed again.

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"Ken…?"

"Hmm?"

Jordan looked up at him from where she sat, her head placed softly on his lap. "Why do you waste your time with me?"

Ken looked down at her. So it was back to this again, every once and a while she would ask this question. It never failed, "You know why," He told her.

She shook her head slightly; "No I don't…"

"Yes you do, we've been over this maybe a hundred times Jordan… I love you… you and only you," He told her firmly.

She looked at him with flashing eyes, she had tears in them already, "No you don't…"

He brought a hand down to her face and gently pulled lose hairs away from her eyes, "Yes, I do. I love you more then anything Jordan, you have to know that," He caressed her cheek lightly. "I need you to know that."

Jordan sighed and closed her eyes, "I know you do… I just don't understand why."

Why? Ken could answer that in many ways… but he knew that none of those answers would mean anything. Though they meant the world to him… "I don't know how to prove it to you Jordan… I've tried so many times… I—I just don't know anymore…" Ken stammered.

Jordan looked up at him, raised one hand and cupped his cheek, "I'm sorry I'm making being with me so hard…" Ken was about to object but she kept going, "And I'm sorry I make loving me so hard…" She outlined his lips with her thumb. "I don't mean to you know? It just… kinda happens…" She leaned in closer to him, "I've tried to make myself better… for you… for Victoria… But I haven't been very successful have I?" She laughed bitterly, and placed a finger on Ken's lips as he was about to talk. "Don't talk… Just listen. Please." He nodded. She smiled, "That's one of the things I like about you Ken… You're so kind… so considerate. You'd do anything for me if I asked wouldn't you?" Ken nodded again. "I thought so… I still don't understand why though… I mean… am I really worth it? I never thought so… But you seem too… And so does Vicky… the others may too… but I really don't know… I don't particularly care either… I mean… I only do what I do to make you and Vic happy… to be what I think you would want…"

"You are what I want Jordan," Ken cut in before she could stop him.

"I know that's what you say… but is it really what you mean? Maybe you're just trying to spare my feelings… maybe you never wanted me and you were just humouring me when you asked me out that first time… Maybe—" Ken cut her off by leaning in the rest of the way between them and capturing her lips on his own.

Jordan's eyes shot open then closed as she let herself be pushed down. Now lying on her back, Jordan's fingers found their way into Ken's hair, intertwining with his soft strands.

Ken's hands where on her shoulders and moving steadily lower when the phone rang.

Sighing a little Ken decided to ignore the annoying machine and continued on his way…

"K-Ken… Ken you sh-should get the ph-phone…" Jordan managed to get out.

Sighing again Ken gave Jordan a peck on the cheek and got up and walked over to the phone.

"Hello?" Ken asked more then a little irritated.

"Hello? Ken?"

"Izzy?"

"Yeah, it's me… um Ken? We have a problem… I need you to come over to my place as soon as possible. And you should probably bring Eriol with you," Izzy informed him.

"Eriol's not here… I think he's over at TK's… It's just me and Jordan over here," Ken blushed.

"Ohh… well I have to phone TK anyway so I'll see if he's over there."

"What's the big emergency?" Ken asked.

"It's to complicated to explain over the phone… I'll explain everything to everyone once they get here."

"Izzy what's going on?"

"I have to phone the others Ken… I'll see you when you get here."

"Izzy!" Ken yelled, but all he heard was the dial tone.

"What's wrong?" Jordan asked as Ken walked back into his room.

"I don't know… but I have to get over to Izzy's. I'm sorry," He smiled sadly and kissed her once again.

"It's fine… really. Hey Ken?"

"Hmm?" He looked up at her.

"Can I come?"

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"Oww…" Syaoran moaned as he sat up, cradling his head.

"I see you've finally awoken."

Syaoran's head snapped up but he regretted it right after as a throbbing pain shot through him as he did so.

"Now, now… Don't rush yourself," The voice whispered again.

"Where are you?!" Syaoran yelled.

"Careful now… I know how much those falls can hurt."

"You know nothing! Tell me who you are!" Syaoran slowly stood up.

"Now what fun would it be if I just told you when you asked me to…? No fun at all I say," The voice teased.

The voice was familiar… strangely familiar… "Ross?" Syaoran asked quietly.

"Yes?" The voice whispered back.

"What do you want with me? Why did you bring me here!?" Syaoran yelled turning in circles trying to decipher where the voice was coming from.

"I didn't bring you here… you came on your own."

"I fell through a hole that you somehow made!"

"Oh that… well yes, that was me."

"It's your fault in the first place that I'm here! You did something to me!"

"Smart boy…" He teased. "Give this boy his prize!"

"Stop taunting me…"

"But it's fun!"

"I mean it… you have no idea of what I can do!"

"Oh I think I have a pretty good idea."

Growling Syaoran spun in another circle, this guy was starting to really piss him off… "I want to know what you want with me…"

"Well that's easy. You're the main part of my plan!"

"What plan?!"

"This one," as he said that a table popped out underneath Syaoran causing him to fall upon it.

"What the hell are you doing?!" Syaoran yelled as he was suddenly restrained down to the table.

"I'm showing you my plan!" Ross replied happily. Syaoran struggled with the restraints as a shadow made it's way over to him. "Now just calm down boy… this won't hurt… me."

"What are you going to do to me?!" Syaoran yelled, trying to keep a brave face.

"Nothing that you have to concern yourself with…" the shadow said as he walked over. He turned suddenly and made his way over to another table that Syaoran hadn't noticed before, he picked something up, and it looked vaguely like a needle. A needle?

"What are you going to do to me?!" Syaoran repeated, fear starting to slip into his voice.

The shadow walked back over to him, "Nothing you have to concern yourself with…" He repeated as he stuck the needle into Syaoran arm.

Syaoran closed his eyes from the pain and tried not to scream out. He was unsuccessful though when the shadow started to inject whatever it was that was in the needle.

"Sakura!"

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"I bet you're wondering why I've called you all over here." Izzy started as he paced the floor in the Kamiya apartment.

"Some of us were curious yes," Davis told them.

Izzy sighed and looked over at Sakura, who was barely able to keep her tears in, "Well… it's… something happened. When I came home today, my mom asked me to go and check on Syaoran… she hadn't heard anything from him in a while so… I went over to his room, but he wasn't there…" Izzy paused. "When I went over to my room I saw… I saw Li hooked up to the machine that I had made for Sakura, Eriol and Li. He was gone."

"What do you mean 'gone'?" Eriol asked.

"What I mean is… he did the same thing you did. He went to the Digiworld."

"Well then you could just bring him back like you did Eriol couldn't you?" Joe asked.

Izzy shook his head, "Something happened to the machine after he went in… I think it may have blown a fuse. That's not too hard to fix… I just don't know if what happened to the machine would have affected Syaoran in anyway. So… I don't know if I should risk it. But this is a dilemma that needs to be solved soon. Who knows what kind of dangers he could face alone in the Digiworld…"

"Then we'll just have to go to the Digiworld and get him back," Matt suggested.

"Yeah! C'mon you guys! Let's go tot he Digital World!" Davis exclaimed excitedly.

"I don't think that would be a good idea…" Jordan mumbled quietly. The others hadn't even noticed that she was here with them.

"Jordan? What are you doing here?" Kari asked.

Flushing Jordan replied, "I asked Ken if I could come too… I'm sorry if I shouldn't be here…"

"No, no. It's fine. We need all the suggestions that we can get." Izzy told her. "Why don't you think it's a good idea?"

"Well… you don't even know where he is in the Digital World… for all you know you could be walking the Digital World for years and not be able to find him…" Jordan told them quietly.

The others stared at her for a second, which caused her to flush more and turn her head towards the ground.

"You prove a good point Jordan," Izzy told her.

"Yeah, we can't just rush in there either… who knows what that Ross guy will do. If he's even there that is," Yolie added.

Tai stood up and walked over to where Izzy was still standing. "I'll take over Izzy," Tai told him and practically pushed the poor red head over to where he was sitting. "Okay you guys, we need a game plan. Izzy?" Tai asked. The boy in question looked over at Tai annoyed. "Can you try and figure out where Li is?"

"I could try. But since he doesn't have a Digivice or anything, I can't promise that I'll be able to find him though."

"Okay, if we can find him then obviously we'd go and get him. If we can't though…" He sighed. "Well, then we might just have to wonder around the Digital World for years on end. I mean… it would only be a few days here anyway…" Tai joked, trying to lighten the mood.

"Tai's right, we need to get Li back, this isn't his home like it is for most of us. He has a family back in the States," Sora told them.

"His family all lives in Hong Kong," Sakura added silently.

"Hey!" Meilin yelled angrily.

"Well, except for Meilin, and Wei…" Sakura finished.

"Right… then we have to get him back for you," Sora added. Sakura smiled.

"Right then… is everyone clear on what they are supposed to do?" Tai asked.

The others all sweatdropped. "Um… not really Tai. You didn't really explain anything," Matt told him.

"What are you talking about?! All we have to do is see if Izzy can pinpoint Li's exact location and if not we go looking for him! Dead easy!" Tai stated proudly, grinning like an idiot.

"Ah…" Izzy started. "Tai… I don't think it'll be that easy… we should plan how we're going to handle Ross first, then we'll go and try to find Syaoran," Izzy suggested.

Pouting Tai replied, "Yeah, yeah… I guess that's a better plan…" Grumbling Tai sat down beside Matt on the couch.

"Well?" Kari asked, "When do we get started?"

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Well, shall we see how long it takes me to post the next chapter?

Syaoran: Yes.

Fordina: You hush. I don't think we should… with the way I've been going lately… -_-** :: sigh :: I'm going to apologize right now so I don't have to later. Well, 'till next chap! And don't forget to review! ^o^