Disclaimer: Hello dearies, I don't own digimon. Thought you ought to know!

A/N: Before any of you dudes and dudettes get any ideas after you've read this, I AM NOT TK BASHING!!! I just happen to know TK better then any other digidestined in 02, 'kay? Also, he's like, my totally fave digimon character of all time, so, how can I TK bash? Anyway, enough of my incessant ramblings, on with the show!

Friend or Foe?

TK was the last to look, and as he did, he gasped and nearly choked from fear and shock. There, infront of him, stood a digimon that he hoped he would never have to see ever again.

Devimon.

"No, anything but you." TK whispered to himself. "Please no." The newly transformed digimon flew up into the sky, a few metres above Psymon.

"Behold, the true power I possess!" Psymon said to the digidestined, who where still in shock about the previous events. "Now, Devimon, attack." With that Psymon teleported away from the battle, as the now evil digimon prepared for attack.

"Touch of Evil!!" Devimon cried out. A powerful beam of dark light (A/N: How???) emerged from his now open hand. It covered the digidestined and they were knocked to the ground. It was slowly driving them unconscious.

"The darkness is too strong." Kari said weakly, trying not to faint, Salamon limp in her arms.

"I can't stay awake any longer." Yolei said hazily. She passed out just as everyone else did. TK was the last to faint.

"I'm sorry Patamon." he said weakly, trying to see if Devimon was still there. "I let you down." With that he lost consciousness.

* * *

"TK, hey TK, wake up!" TK could hear a muffled voice. He could feel someone shaking him gently, yet firmly. 'Where am I?' he wondered. 'Was it all a dream?' He slowly opened his eyes, everything around him was blurred, when it came to focus he found that it was Kari who had been shaking him and telling him to wake up. All the digidestined were discussing battle plans in the background, except Alysha and Gabby, who were with Kari. TK suddenly sat up, making the three girls jump.

"Patamon!" he said worriedly. "Where is he?" he rubbed his head with his right hand. "Ow, my head hurts." he mumbled.

"TK, calm down." Kari said sternly. "No wonder your heads hurts, you got up too quickly!"

"What happened? How long have I been unconscious?" the blond asked, now looking at Kari.

"Well, we've been up about half an hour." Kari informed. "We must have been unconscious at least an hour after Devimon's attack."

Harsh reality crept into TK's mind.

"So it wasn't a dream." TK said grimly, realising that his own friend had attacked him and his friends.

"Don't worry TK, we'll get him back for you!" Gabby said happily. She was trying to cheer TK up, but was failing miserably. Alysha continued. "We'll make Psymon pay for this, I promise." The sound of Psymon's name pounded against TK's head. Psymon was the one that did this. Psymon made his friend attack him. It made him feel sick at slightest mention of the name.

By now the other digidestined had realised TK was awake and were making their way towards him.

"You OK, dude?" Davis asked as he stopped.

"Yeah," TK said grimly. "I'm fine."

"So what were you talking about over there?" Kari asked curiously.

"We were coming up with battle plans for how to get Patamon back." the boy said energetically. "I say we start looking for him now!"

"No," TK said, getting Davis' attention. "I think we should go home now."

"But."

"It's getting late, the digimon are tired, and those two could be anywhere." the blond stood up. "Ken said himself, he's a psychic digimon. I think we should go home now, and start looking tomorrow."

"OK," Davis said glumly, he was hoping for a fight. They returned home via the TV.

* * *

"TK? Oh, you're home dear." Ms Takaishi said cheerfully as TK opened the door and walked into the apartment. She saw TK's face. "TK, what's wrong? Where's Patamon?"

"Something bad happened when I went to the digital world today. I'd rather not talk about it." He walked hastily to his room, keeping his head down, once he entered he shut the door. His mother only looked and wondered.

TK slumped onto his bed. He didn't care what time it was, he just wanted to rest, to get away from what had happened, to go to school the next day and to never go to the digital world again. He didn't want to go back. He didn't even want to be a digidestined at this moment in time. The more he thought about it, the more sleepy he felt, and eventually, he drifted of to sleep.

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TK was running through a forest as if his life depended on it. He was being chased by Psymon, who was rapidly decreasing the distance between them. The blond stopped suddenly and smiled. There infront of him in the sky was Angemon. The digimon had a slight white glow around him. He looked down at TK.

"ANGEMON!" TK called to partner. "PLEASE, HELP ME OUT!" TK turned around as Psymon stopped behind him. The psychic digimon smirked and chuckled to himself. TK turned back to where Angemon was, but instead of Angemon was Devimon. "No, not again!" TK said to himself as the digimon moved his right hand infront of him and a dark energy started to gather around it.

"TOUCH OF EVIL!" the digimon cried, more maliciously then the first time. TK covered his face with his arms and prepared for the worse, as the darkness speeded closer and closer.

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TK shot up from his bed, sitting upright. He was covered in a cold sweat, breathing rapidly and was shaking uncontrollably. 'I'm not scared,' he thought, knowing this wasn't true. 'It's just cold, that's all.' He looked at the time. '12 midnight, great, I'm gonna be a wreck tomorrow.' He got back under his duvet, but couldn't stop shivering. 'I can't believe this is all real,' he tried to get to sleep, but couldn't stop thinking about it. 'All I have to do is get it out of my head, and I won't need to go to the Digital World again.' No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't get to sleep, but eventually, he finally managed to get some rest, the last time he looked at his clock being 5:00 am.

* * *

"TK, wake up, you're going to be late!" a voice called from the kitchen. TK blearily opened his eyes, and lifted his head only centimetres above his pillow, before slamming back down onto the soft bed. His mum entered the room.

"TK, you're normally up by now." she said worriedly. "You're going to be late. "After his mum had left TK finally dragged himself out of bed and got dressed. He then went into the kitchen to get some breakfast. "Is anything the matter?" his mum asked.

"No, I'm fine." he said tiredly. "Just didn't get much sleep.

"Do you want the day off?" she asked. The blond shook his head.

"I'm fine, honest." he said irritably.

"OK then."

When he was ready for school he felt even worse then he did when he woke up. 'It's nothing.' he kept thinking to himself. 'Nothing is wrong.' He arrived at school before any of the other digidestined because he walked so quickly on the way. He went into the classroom and sat down. A few minutes later the other digidestined arrived in the classroom.

"Oh, TK. You're already here!" Kari noticed, looking pleased to see the boy. She then noticed that he was looking at the same spot as before and his expression didn't change. "Are you alright?"

"Just a little tired." the blond said, looking up and smiling a little.

Ken sat next to TK, Alysha sat on her own and Davis sat next to Kari.

"Finally, this is my chance!" he said excitedly. Kari gave him a funny look.

"Ken's only sitting next to him because I get upset seeing him sad and you're too insensitive!"

"Sorry Kari." Davis said apologetically. He really wanted to smile though.

All through first lesson, which was maths (A/N: Yawn), TK was looking worse and worse. He kept nearly falling asleep, and Ken had to poke him with his pencil to wake him up. The teacher saw TK like this.

"TK, are you alright?" he asked in his legendary monotone.

"I'm fine sir, I'm just a little tired." the blond replied weakly.

"Maybe you should go to the nurse." the teacher suggested. "You look like you could do with a rest."

"OK sir." TK said as he stood up. He walked out of the classroom as Kari watched him worriedly.

As TK walked down the corridor everything around became blurry and hazy. 'There's no way I can go to the nurse. There's nothing wrong with me!' He decided he wasn't going to the nurse and began sprinting down the hallway, he didn't know where he was going, but he wanted to get away from it all; Psymon, Devimon, everything. Finally he arrived outside school. He started walking again trying to calm down his breathing. He staggered a little, and collapsed. But he disappeared before he hit the ground.

* * *

TK weakly opened his eyes. He slowly got off the ground and stood up, wobbling a bit. He looked at his surroundings. He was stood on a grey beach leading to a grey ocean. There was a deep grey cliff behind him leading a dark forest. TK knew exactly where he was.

"The dark ocean." he said grimly. "But why am I here?"

"You're here because happiness has slipped away from you."

"Who said that?" TK asked loudly. Then he recognised the voice. "What do you want, Psymon?"

"Wouldn't you like to know." the voice said maliciously, then Psymon appeared behind TK.

"Don't take it too personally, Takaishi." Psymon said to the blond. TK jumped slightly, quickly turned around and came face to face with his new enemy.

"What do you want?" TK asked the digimon angrily.

"A word with you." Psymon said, trying to sound innocent. "But first, how about a recap of what happened yesterday."

"You wouldn't dare!" TK said backing off slightly.

"Wanna bet?" the purple-clad digimon sneered at the young teen. With a snap if Psymon's fingers, the dark scenery was gone, and in it's place was a familiar open area. Before TK's eyes he saw Psymon psychically command Patamon to float to the ground, where a black tornado appeared.

"Why are you doing this?" TK demanded to the digimon stood next to him. He had a smirk on his face while watching this scene repeat itself. "ANSWER ME!!" the boy yelled. He tried to grab Psymon, but the digimon put a powerful grip around TK's neck, lifting him a few inches in the air, as he made the current scene disappear back into the lifeless ocean.

"Never, EVER, do that again!" he seethed through gritted teeth. TK had both his hands on Psymon's, trying to get them from around his throat. 'I'm gonna run out of air if he doesn't let go of me soon!" he thought, panicking as he began to feel light-headed. Psymon then threw TK onto the beach, leaving him rubbing his neck, gasping for breath. His hat now roughly 5 metres away from him.

"Now, have I made myself clear?" he asked, mockingly. The blond slowly got up and stood his ground.

"I'll never do what you tell me to." he spat at Psymon.

"You won't say that after I'm done with you." Psymon replied disparagingly.

"And what are you gonna do?" TK asked cockily to his enemy. "Neck me some more?" Psymon glared at him in complete rage.

"You insubordinate little brat!" he spat. TK's face lost it's cockiness and he started to step back a few steps as Psymon powered up for another attack. A sphere formed in the palm of his hand, then, a powerful blast roared it way towards TK. He instantly moved his arms over his face to stop to full effects of the attack. 'Oh no.' he thought worriedly. 'It's over.' There was a bright light and the ocean became nothing.

* * *

"Alright class, you can go for lunch now." the teacher droned as the class were waiting to leave. Everyone left the classroom, and Davis, Alysha and Ken went along with Kari.

"What's the rush?" Davis asked as Kari was nearly running down the corridor.

"I'm going to see if TK's alright." Kari said hastily as she approached to nurse's room. She was extremely worried when she discovered that TK wasn't there.

"Maybe he left." Ken suggested. Kari nodded and the four of them head off to find him.

* * *

TK finally regained consciousness. He didn't want to open his eyes, because they felt like lead. His whole body ached. He finally decided to try and get up. He opened his eyes and painfully sat up. He was sat on a cliff-face on what looked like a mountain. It looked familiar to him. TK looked roughly 10 metres ahead of him. There he saw a little kid about 8 years old, and near him were six other kids that looked about 12 or 13 years old. Each of them had a look of panic on there faces. TK looked in the direction the kids were looking. He saw a sight he never wanted to see again.

"This is from four years ago." he said to himself as he saw Angemon fight Devimon near Infinity Mountain. Psymon appeared beside TK, as the blond was still sat on the ground.

"Let's just call this a punishment for earlier, Takaishi." the digimon said plainly, grinning at the battle being repeated before him.

"What do you want?" TK asked him, looking up to his unblinking face.

"I already told you when you arrived here." Psymon said matter-of- factly. "Because happiness has slipped away from you."

"What do you mean?" TK asked curiously after he had just painfully stood up.

"I thought you were smarter then that, Takaishi." the purple-clad digimon said evilly. "You lost your partner when you were 8 years old, and now your partner has been turned into the same digimon that defeated it four years ago."

"Which you did to him!" TK spat at Psymon. Psymon looked at him for a brief second, turned back to the battle. Angemon was collecting some of the other digimon's energy.

"Don't forget what I can do to you." Psymon teased. With that a sharp blade appeared in Psymon's hand, and he threw it right at TK! TK couldn't get very far away before the blade hit him. It caught his right arm just below the shoulder, slashed through that part of his shirt, and making a deep cut in his arm. TK immediately held his right arm with his left hand, to stop the blood, and he winced in pain. He fell onto his knees, and looked at his blood-soaked hand, arm and sleeve. Psymon ignored him and stared back at the battle.

"And now, witness the moment of truth!" he said triumphantly. TK weakly looked up to see Angemon starting to be deleted alongside Devimon. He evil digimon was laughing as he completely disappeared. Psymon stared down at TK, who now had his eyes tightly shut and was shaking uncontrollably from pain.

"Hope is gone, now only remains Despair, and the power of Despair in this child shall aid me greatly." he said quietly to young teen. TK didn't hear him though. 'I can't believe it's going to end like this. I can't even tell Kari how I feel about her.' he started to feel light-headed, and the voices from the flashback were becoming fuzzy, they began to echo in his mind, then everything went blank.

* * *

'Whe.where am I?' TK thought weakly. He could hear voices. They sounded familiar. 'Wait, Kari? Is she here?' he slowly opened his eyes. Just like before his whole body ached, he had a stinging pain in his right arm and a dull pain in his head. He opened his eyes a bit more and found that he was in the nurse's room. He saw Kari talking with Ms Takaishi, who looked extremely worried. She looked in TK's direction.

"TK! You're awake!" she said happily. She went to TK's bed followed closely by Kari.

"TK, we've been worried sick!" Kari said, feeling relieved. "I came here to see if you were alright, but when you weren't here I started to look for you and found you unconscious just outside the school."

"Where's the others?" TK asked after sitting up slightly.

"I told them to go home." Kari said simply. "We've been here for hours."

"Hours?" TK asked, confused. "What time is it?"

"It's 5:40." Kari answered, looking at her D-3. "We found you at 12:30, and the teacher let me stay here."

"Maybe I should go home." TK suggested after a couple of seconds. His mother hesitated.

"Are you sure your arm's alright?" she asked worriedly.

"Yeah, my arms fine." the blonde said, looking at the blood-soaked bandage on his arm. "Don't worry about me."

"I'll come too!" Kari said cheerfully. "After all, my mum and dad won't mind!"

"Yeah." TK smiled weakly. He was remembering what happened in the Dark Ocean, but didn't want to tell anyone.

"Oh, and by the way," she continued. "our digimon managed to get enough strength to digivolve to their normal level today."

"That's OK then." he said, cheering up a little. "Com'on, let's go."

They left the school and began to walk home. They didn't notice Psymon stood on top of one of the apartment buildings.

"Hope is gone, now only remains Despair." he said to himself with a smirk as the three walked towards TK's apartment.

'What will happen to TK now that he has been to the Dark Ocean, and what is Psymon planning to do with him? Find out next time on Digimon: Digital Monsters.'

What did you think? I didn't go over the top did I? I hope not. Well, I better repeat myself, there is no TK bashing, only his number 1 fan giving him a lead role in grim reality! There's a DigiWorld of difference! (By the way, I know that gag stunk! -_-;;;)

DigiDudette ^_~