Disclaimer: Geez, if I owned digimon, then I wouldn't be writing this disclaimer saying that I don't own digimon, would I?! (I'm a confusing entity, aren't I? @_@;;;)

Explanations

Kari woke up drowsily the next morning, and lay in her bed, trying to make sense of what had happened yesterday. Everything seemed fuzzy, like she had amnesia. All she could remember was the cold look in TK's eyes, and that crest. For some reason it looked familiar. Slowly she rose out of bed and climbed down the ladder of her bunkbed.

"How are you feeling today?" Tai asked as she sat down on the sofa with her breakfast.

"I'm OK." she said tiredly. She looked around the room. "Where's mom and dad?"

"They went with Ms Takaishi to find TK, no one's told her yet." Tai said grimly.

"They should know." Kari said briefly. Tai looked at her. "For all you know they might think he's dead, at least this way they know he's not."

"Alright." Tai said, standing up, and walking back over to the kitchen. "I'll tell her tonight."

"Thanks bro." Kari said, looking up and giving the older boy a weak smile.

* * *

School went by slowly that day. Kari sat next to Alysha and Ken sat next to Davis. 'Why was he acting like that?' Kari kept wondering to herself. She tried her best not to think about it, because she nearly cried everytime she thought of TK.

Finally, the end of the school day arrived, and the digidestined headed towards the computer room. When they entered they found someone they didn't expect to see.

"IZZY!" Kari cried, a look of shock on her face. "What are you doing here?"

"Yolei and Cody came over to my house and told me what happened last night." he said simply. "I did some research on what they said about some sort of crest. They heard you mention it." He sat down at the computer and began to load up a program. "I managed to get hold of Gennai and he sent me some information."

"Well what is it then?" Kari asked hurriedly.

"Give me a minute. Right." A series of pictures were on the screen, Kari noticed that they looked like engravings. "They're called anti-crests, and they enable dark forces to make their respective digimon digivolve to their dark ultimate form. Now." He loaded up a picture. "Does this look like the crest you saw?" Kari carefully looked at it. It looked like the Crest of Hope, but different. Instead of the light coloured tag, it was black.

"That's it." Kari said grimly. "But that doesn't answer why TK was acting like that."

"I was getting to that!" Izzy said irritably. "Gennai gave me more than this information. He discovered some data for Psymon, and from that data I think I've figured out what's going on."

"Well tell us already!" Davis said impatiently.

"Apparently Psymon can control dark emotions." Izzy said clearly.

"And what does that mean?" Davis asked, a look of confusion on his face.

"It means that somehow he managed to get TK to think of sad times in his life and managed to control his mind through those memories."

"So now we can get him back by making him think of all the good times, right?" Yolei asked cheerfully.

"It won't work entirely like that." Izzy said thoughtfully.

"Wait a minute." Ken interrupted. "I know I'm going off the subject, but if their was an anti-crest for Hope, then shouldn't there be more anti- crests for every crest that is known about?"

"Yeah, there is one for every known crest." Izzy started. He typed on the computer some more and some more pictures came up. "There are nine anti- crests; cowardice, animosity, hatred, ignorance, unreliability, insincerity, darkness, cruelty, and." He paused for a moment.

"What?" Kari asked worriedly.

"Despair." Izzy said grimly.

"That's definitely the opposite to TK's original crest!" Kari said grimly, staring at the computer screen as Izzy loaded up the all-too- familiar engraving on the computer screen.

"Well, now we know what's wrong, we should go to the Digital World to fix it!" Davis said impatiently.

"I'm not going." Kari said grimly. Davis turned around to face her.

"What do you mean, Kari?" the goggle-head wondered.

"I don't want to go to the Digital World, not if I have to see TK like that again."

"Well, how about you go home and we can handle it!" Alysha suggested.

"OK." Kari nodded weakly. Salamon jumped onto Kari's shoulder and she walked out of the room. The other digidestined and in-training digimon watched her worriedly as she left.

"Well let's go already!" Yolei cried after Kari had shut the door.

"Alright, Digi-Port open!" Davis cried. They were ready and rearing to go.

* * * They arrived in a fairly baron area in the Digital World. Behind them was the beginning of a small forest, but other then that, there was nothing. There was silence as the six digidestined waited for what they knew was coming.

After about a minute, a figure appeared behind them, crashing out of the forest canopy at an alarming speed. The vampire landed, and gently placed the boy with him on the ground. The digidestined stared at the two. They knew who they were; TK and Myotismon.

"Well, aren't you gonna put up a fight?" TK asked provocatively.

"Let's go." Davis replied spitefully.

"Demiveemon digivolve to.Veemon!" "Veemon digivolve to.Exveemon!"

"Minamon digivolve to.Wormmon!" "Wormmon digivolve to.Stingmon!"

"Poromon digivolve to.Hawkmon!" "Hawkmon digivolve to.Aquilamon!"

"Upamon digivolve to.Armadillomon!" "Armadillomon digivolve to.Ankylomon!"

"Pukamon digivolve to.Lynkmon!" "Lynkmon digivolve to.Cougamon!"

"Temamon digivolve to.Dulphimon!" "Dulphimon digivolve to.Alamon!"

"Are you ready yet?" TK yawned at all the digivolution that had occurred.

"Right! Everyone, GO!" Davis yelled and the digimon stormed off towards Myotismon, who prepared himself for an attack. "CRIMSON LIGHTNING!!" the vampire digimon shouted out his attack, and a long rope of deep red energy appeared in his hand. He swung it at the champion digimon, who dodged the attack, after being stronger then they were yesterday. While the battle ensued, TK was walking up to Davis, staring at him unblinkingly.

"What do you want?" Davis asked in suppressed rage. TK smirked at this question.

"Not got your little angel, huh?" he asked maliciously.

"You leave Kari out of this!" Davis shot back. Suddenly TK grabbed Davis by the shirt collar and smashed him into the tree behind him. Davis was sure he heard the tree crack when he impacted.

"Hey, get off him!" Ken cried as he ran towards his friend. TK used his right arm to bat Ken to the ground powerfully, knocking the boy unconscious.

"KEN!!" Yolei screamed as he fell to the ground. She ran up to him and tried to wake him up.

"You see, Motamiya?" TK sneered. "You're nothing, not even with your friends you can defeat me." He hit Davis in the side of the face with his right fist. Davis winced in pain, and quickly tried to recover, only to receive another blow from the other side of his face.

TK let go of him and he fell to the ground instantly. 'I've gotta fight back.' he thought weakly. 'If I don't he'll hurt my friends, he's already hurt Ken!' He slowly got up off the ground.

"You're gonna pay for this, Takaishi!" he spat in suppressed rage. "If I don't do it for Ken then this is for Kari!" He whacked TK in the side of his face, knocking him down. TK quickly got up.

"Is that the best you can do?" he asked tauntingly. "You hit like a girl." Davis tackled TK to the ground, but TK kicked him into the air by doing a backwards flip, landing perfectly on his feet, Davis laying on the ground, having just had the wind knocked out of him. Davis painfully got up slightly and looked into the air after hearing a loud crash. Myotismon had weakened the digimon enough to knock them out of the sky or straight to the ground. They dedigivolved back to their rookie forms, having not been injured that much. "Well, I guess our work is done here." TK said malevolently. Myotismon flew down, picked TK up and flew off as Ken woke up. He sat up, confused.

"Can anyone give a clue here?" he asked everyone in general. He carefully rubbed the side of his head. "Is Davis OK?" Ken stood up and looked at the goggle-head weakly getting up off the ground. The indigo haired boy ran towards him and helped him up. "Are you OK?" he asked worriedly. Davis smiled weakly and nodded. "Davis?"

"Yeah?" young teen replied weakly.

"You're bleeding on your head." Ken noted. Davis held his hand up to the side of his head, removed it and looked at it, seeing that his once yellow glove was now covered in blood.

"I guess I took quite a beating, huh?" he asked to Yolei, who he knew was awake for the whole attack.

"Yeah, but you were only doing what you thought was right. He attacked you and you had to defend yourself." the lilac haired girl told him. "Are you sure you're gonna be alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine." Davis started, but was cut off briefly. Due to his injuries he lost consciousness. Ken caught him as he started to fall to the ground.

"I guess that fight was too much." Alysha said, having just arrived with Gabby and Cody.

"Yeah, TK sure can pack a punch when he's being possessed by an evil digimon." Gabby said, looking at the limp figure being held up by Ken.

"We should get home and get Davis to a doctor or something." Cody pointed out.

"Yeah," Ken said, looking down at Davis.

"At least he's quiet!" Yolei pointed out. Just then Davis started to wake up. Ken placed him on the ground.

"That was quick!" Alysha said, looking quite shocked.

"What happened?" he asked weakly.

"You fainted. It must have been a tough fight for you." Cody said to the teen.

"Yeah, I thought I had an edge over him when I hit him." Davis said, now getting up from the ground, wobbling slightly.

"Well, you didn't. Now, let's get back." Alysha said simply. She and Ken helped Davis towards the TV, where they went home.

* * *

After going to the doctor and getting his injuries sorted out, Davis called home and said he had an accident when playing football. He entered the house at 4:00 with Veemon at his side.

"Hey doofus, where d'ya get those cuts?" Jun asked as he sat down.

"I had an accident during football practice, what's it to you?" Davis shot back, irritated.

"Oh, I was just wondering if your little Tamagochi pet turned against you." she said provocatively. Davis turned on the TV.

"I'll turn him against you in a minute." he mumbled angrily. Veemon watched him worriedly. They were quiet for a few minutes watching Road Runner and Coyote on the TV, until the phone rang. Though reluctant to leave his seat, Davis got up and picked up the phone.

"Hello. Who is it?" Davis asked.

"It's Kari." the caller replied.

"What's up?"

"Tai and me told Ms Takaishi about TK. She glad he's safe but she's worried about him. Did you have any luck?"

"No."

"Oh, right."

"Anythin' else?"

"Well, I was wondering if you were alright."

"How come?"

"Well, Yolei phoned me after she came home and told me that you and TK were fighting."

Davis froze dead. 'Now she'll definitely hate me.' he thought grimly.

"She said that he attacked you first, and you were just defending yourself. Is that true?"

"Yeah, pretty much."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I did hit him, but I wanted him to see sense. He knocked Ken out."

"And you.Yolei also said that you fainted because of injuries. What kind did she mean?"

"Look, Kari, as much as I like talking to you on the phone, how about we meet up sometime with the others and then we can talk about it."

"OK. Bye!"

"See ya."

He hung up and sighed.

"What's the matter? You didn't get a date?" Jun teased as he sat back down.

"No, I missed the cartoon." he said grumpily. He yawned and rested his head on the sofa briefly. "I'm going to bed. Tell mom and dad, 'kay?"

"OK, see ya!" she called as he left the room. Davis entered his bedroom and dumped himself on his bed.

"Veemon?" he asked, his voice muffled by his blanket as he landed on the bed.

"Yeah Davis?" the little blue digimon chirped.

"We're in trouble."

'Will the digidestined be able to help TK now that they know what is wrong? Does Psymon possess anymore anti-crests? Find out next time on Digimon: Digital Monsters.'

Ah, doesn't Davis try his best to get Kari? Well, I'm a Takari girl, so there! Hoped you liked the fight, and there is NO DAVIS BASHING either, just because he gets a little beat up, doesn't mean I'm Davis bashing. Anyway, (I'm getting SO bored of saying this!) NO FLAMES!!! If I don't mention it, it doesn't mean I want flames, 'cause I don't. I don't know what I just said but think it made sense! *o*

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