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Savior
"Every inch of the Kaiser's base is guarded to the very maximum with Apemon, Bakumon, RedVeggiemon, and an assortment of other strong digimon. There is also video camera through every room. Except one room where you will not find an authorized digimon within a twenty-foot radius. His throne room."
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TK watched as Tai gathered all the supplies they would need. Rope, a gag, three first aide kits…
He pulled his attention away from the older boy who walked stiffly around Tai's apartment to the back door. They both were ecstatic to be home, but they had waited for Tai's parents to leave before entering the apartment. No need to get here, explain, and then leave.
The radio buzzed in the background. Tai thought it would be a good idea to catch up on what was happening. "In other news the eleven children missing from Odiaba, Japan still have not been located. Hikari and Taichi Yagami, Takeru Takaishi, Yamato Ishida, Sora Takenouchi, Mimi Tachikwa, Jou Kido, Koushiro Izumi, Daisuke Motomiya, Miyako Inoue, and Iori Hida have all been missing for three months. No ransom note was ever sent to the parents or retrieved from the crime scene, the house of the Inoue's where the eleven children were last seen. All charges against the Inoue's as suspects were dropped. As of tomorrow they will be listed under police records as deceased." (SO I have no idea how police records work, so sue me!)
A 'thud' pulled his attention from the window to Tai. The boy was on his knee's sobbing into his hands and shaking his head. TK bit his lip and gingerly touched the bulge in the waistband of his shorts, under his shirt. (For any sick perverts out there, fuck off. It's not what you think.)
Tomorrow the Kaiser will be sorry for everything he has done.
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Izzy sat at the laptop supplied to him by the Kaiser, typing until his eyes throbbed and fingers became sore. The black notebook glowed with a soft light, lighting his section of the dim room. The majority of the lights were off for Matt and Sora were asleep on one of the beds. Izzy had order them to sleep, their bodies were still not completely recovered.
He pulled his eyes from the laptop and to his friends. They both slept on their sides, Sora's back to Matt's front. Matt had his arm looped over her. On his wrist Izzy could see the dark spiral that had taken over his mind.
The only other light in the room came from a reading light above the cot in the corner where Guvin sat reading a stack of papers. They were medical files on Kari, Ken, Sora and Matt. Plus copies of all the information on the dark spores.
Izzy swallowed hard and rubbed his eyes. Guvin had not talked to him since the dark spore incident. He had watched Izzy put the dark spiral on Sora and Ken do the same to Matt. He didn't believe that was a solution. He hated Izzy.
Izzy turned back to his seat and continued typing. No need to torture himself with a reminder that Guvin loathed him. He needed to work. For Ken and for Kari and… He paled. Could this be real? He finally hit the jackpot and words began to appear on the screen, line after line of black characters, words even he could barely make out. But the ones he could pick out gave him more information then he wanted to know.
He twisted around in his seat and looked up at Guvin. "Mr. Guvin, how do you know Ken?"
Guvin looked up and restrained a glare at Izzy. He hated the red haired boy for what he had done and what Matt and Sora were being subjected to as slaves. If only he had been giving more time…ah who the hell was he fooling, there was never any hope for the pair.
"What?" He asked calmly.
"How do you know Ken? How did you meet him?"
Guvin set his reading material aside. "The Ichijouji's were probably my first loyal patients. When I first opened the Kimino clinic, my clinic, I had no clientele, and they were a poor family. My clinic specialized in families of need, at the time the Ichijouji family could be considered poor. I've known Ken's family even before he was born. I've always been the family doctor."
Izzy's grip on the back of his chair tightened. "So, would you call yourself a close friend of the family?" Guvin nodded. "Then you'd probably be opposed to him being killed, right?"
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TK paced back and forth in front of the glowing computer with the DigiPort pulled up on the screen. Tai sat on the floor beside the door that was open just a crack. The light shone on his face as he stared into space, listening to his parents move around in silence in the living room. He had his arms and knees hugged to his chest as he held back a sob. His parents come home, trapping him and TK in his room, as according to the plan. But then they had listened to them spend the last forty minutes fighting then in complete silence. TK could help but feel sorry for Tai who had forced himself to listen to his parents' conversation. This entire ordeal had really strained their marriage.
Only ten more minutes and they could leave. Tonight they would free they're friends. Tonight the Kaiser would be nothing more the digi-dust. Tonight the DigiDestined would rise again.
The beeping of Tai's digivice erupted through the room. TK locked eyes with Tai as the beeping rattled their ears.
"What's that?" Tai's mother asked. Their footsteps came towards the room.
'Shit.' TK lunged for digivice on the bed and rolled off it onto the floor between the bed and the wall. The door opened and light flooded the room. TK held his breath as he pressed the digivice into his shirt, muffling the beeping. The light shut off again and TK struggled to get out from his hiding spot squashed between the bed and the wall. He was stuck.
The groan of someone sitting down on the mattress made TK hold his breath once more before he felt someone pull him out. TK met Tai's eyes. "That's our cue." They walked over to the computer, Tai pulling a backpack over his shoulder. "Let's go."
TK held up his digivice. "DigiPort open."
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Izzy stood in the hallway just outside the Kaiser's bedroom, taking a deep breath. He had to calm down, he was scared to death. So many things could go wrong on this one chance; so many lives were at stake. Why had Tai coned him into this plan?
He took another breath and knocked on the door to the Kaiser's room. There was shuffling and grumbling heard from inside before the door opened. Ken stood there, hair in disarray and sleep on his face. Over his shoulder, Izzy could see Kari sitting up in Ken's bed. He had to wonder, with slight disgust, what the Kaiser did to her.
"What's wrong?" He asked sleepily. Kari walked up behind him.
"There's something wrong with the system," he forced. "I can't find the glitch from my computer. I was hoping you could-"
"Knowledge, its one in the morning," the Kaiser interrupted, one eyebrow cocked. "Can't this wait until morning?"
Izzy glanced at Kari again. "But…I had a break through. About Kari."
The Kaiser paused. "Okay, let me get dressed." He went back inside, closing the door behind himself. Izzy stepped back from the door, heart pounding in his chest so hard it hurt, sweat rolling down his back and hands shaking. How the hell had he pulled that off so calmly? He slumped against the wall, trying to remember how to breathe.
The door opened once again and Izzy jumped to his feet. The Kaiser stepped out dressed in khakis and a deep purple shirt. Kari stepped out behind him in jeans and a sweatshirt. "Alright," the ruling boy acknowledged, taking a step toward his control room. Kari followed suit.
Wait, no, no, no. She couldn't come!
"Wait, Hikari, why don't you stay here and get some sleep? You really won't be much help."
Kari stopped and looked back and forth between the Kaiser and Izzy. He looked at Izzy. "Its fine, I'm sure she'll be fine."
"But master," Izzy gritted calmly. "It's late."
The Kaiser stared at Izzy with burning violet eyes. "Its fine. There is no reason to question me."
Izzy averted his eyes as his heart pounded in his ears. "Yes…" he forced. "Master."
The Kaiser turned on his heel and strode down the hall with Kari behind him. Izzy followed and fell into step beside Kari. She stared at him with blank brown eyes that only reminded him there was no one there anymore and it made him want to scream. But instead he smiled. She just looked at him as if she didn't know what he was doing.
The door to the Kaiser's control room loomed in front of them. It was a mass of wood, looking to weight a ton, with deep markings and designs etched into its surface. It looked massive, but in truth it was light as a feather.
The Kaiser pulled it open and Izzy held his breath as his stepped in. On instinct he grabbed Kari, holding his hand over her mouth and his arm around her neck as she struggled. Her hands unsuccessfully clawed at him. Two bodies lunged at and tackled the Kaiser. In a blur of brown and blonde the Kaiser was on the ground, screaming as he was sat on.
"YOU!" He raged as he met the face of the lead boy. "Unhand me you stupid oaf!"
"Shut up!" Tai ordered as he punched the Kaiser in the nose. He repeated the action until Izzy had to jump up and grab Tai's fist in mid air. He had dropped Kari, unnoticed by her brother or TK. "Izzy let go of me! Let me kill him."
"No Tai!"
"He deserves to die!" Tai screamed, his voice breaking. His fist dripped with blood as he sat on the Kaiser's chest, pinning his arms down with his knees. Dark red blood rolled from the Kaiser's nose and lip.
"Tai, you can't kill him. You know that!"
"But Kari-" That's when the older boy lost it. Tears bled from his eyes, creating a river down his tan cheeks. He buried his face in his hands, smearing the Kaiser's blood across his face.
"HIKARI, DON'T MOVE!" The Kaiser ordered weakly. The three DigiDestined boys' heads snapped up to see Kari frozen in place.
"Ka-Kari…" Tai started to get up, but TK pushed he back onto the Kaiser. The Kaiser let out a grunt as Tai landed on his chest hard. Kari took another step towards them.
"Hikari, do as your told!" Izzy screamed at her. She froze in step and Tai just stared at her, holding back tears.
"Why won't she look at me? What's wrong with her?!" Tai bawled.
"She doesn't know who you are," Izzy replied. "Tai, forget she's here. We're dealing with Ken."
"But-"
Ken sucked in air in a labored fashion as he felt the Kaiser drift in and out of control, mocking him. "This is why I will always beat you," the Kaiser reared up at full force, mocking Tai. "You can't focus. You can't take advantage of an opportunity. You're a worthless lea-" He was interrupted by a fist to his nose. It cracked. He cried out in pain. Or at least Ken did, the Kaiser sheltered himself from pain, deep inside Ken's head. Tears rolled down his cheeks. He couldn't take this kind of beating.
"You don't know when to shut up, do you?! You smart mouth asshole." Tai slammed his fist into Ken's mouth and the boy began to choke on his own blood.
"Tai fuck, let him go!" Izzy screamed, holding Tai's fists.
The Kaiser jumped to control. "Yeah, let me go. See what happens. I'll kill you; I'll kill all your friends. You'll never make it back."
Tai's eyes flashed and nostrils flared, but Izzy held his fists. "Tai," Izzy whispered, leaning over. "Remember what I told you. This isn't the boy in this body. Something has taken control of him. If there is a way to save him and we find it later, how will you feel to know you killed an innocent boy who couldn't fight back?"
"I know…" Tai choked back a sob.
The Kaiser had disappeared from Ken's mind again, leaving him to take the pain he was going through. His nose was broken, his lip was split at least twice, and his eyes were going to be black tomorrow. And tears rolled down his face. It hurt so much. 'Why?' He asked fruitlessly. 'Why do you want them to kill me?'
"Why won't you kill him?" TK voice erupted through the silence that was taken over by Tai's sobs. He jumped to his feet off Ken's legs.
Izzy looked up at Tai. "You didn't tell him?" Tai shook his head. Izzy looked up at TK who looked exhausted and angry. And most of all with out hope (I know the lines been used a billion times, but come on, this is TK.) "TK, Ken, the Kaiser, he-"
"I don't wanna know. I don't want to know anything until he's dead!" Tears filled his icy blue eyes. They had become so hard after spending those long hours watching Matt and Sora. He pulled a metallic object from the waistband of his pants. Izzy jumped back, letting go of Tai's fist, which dropped to his side. They both stared at the gun in TK's hand. "And he dies now."
Izzy stood up, slowing, fearing the now insane blond boy. "TK, what are you doing with that?"
"I'm sick I've worrying about him being human while we're being beaten by digimon who need target practice. I'm sick of this war that no matter how many wins we have, he still laughs and keeps coming. There are too many causalities, too many live to keep fighting so futilely. He needs to be dealt with." He cocked the gun as he screamed. "He needs to be terminated."
"TK NO!" Izzy screamed.
"Fuck off, Izzy," he growled, as he aimed the gun to level with Ken. Tai still sat on his chest, mouth open in shock. When had TK gotten a gun…they had been together the entire time in the real world. "Tai move!"
Tai broke from his alarm after hearing his name. "No TK!"
"Move!"
"NO!"
"Fine!"
And then gunshot was all they heard before the thud and the grunt of pain. In the seconds that took forever to pass, Tai closed his eyes refusing to see the bullet enter the young boy he sat on. He opened his eyes to see another body on top of Ken, a smaller body, a body lost in clothes.
"KARI!"
His head snapped up upon hearing the name Izzy screamed. 'K-Kari?' His little baby sister, the one he had come to save?
Izzy ran up and rolled the body off Ken. The face of Kari appeared, grimacing in pain as she choked a sob and fingers concealing a reddening hole in her stomach. Tai's eyes snapped to TK who dropped the gun as he stared at Kari, his best friend. His eyes widened as tears ran from them. He just shot Kari.
Ken jumped to his feet, suddenly forgetting the pain that shot through his fists as the circulation restored to his arms and legs. He stared, opened mouth, at Kari squirming in pain on the floor. He looked over at the blond boy who also stared at Kari shock obvious in his icy blue eyes. Ken launched himself at him, anger fueling his aching body as the Kaiser laughed in his head.
'Finally! Give yourself to the hate. Let it consume you. Feed off it!' The Kaiser near danced in his head, but he didn't hear.
He knocked TK off his feet, sending the gun skidding across the floor. TK fell to the floor with a grunt as Ken pinned him down and landed a series of punches to his face. The blond did little to protect himself.
'Kill him…he murder the girl you love…make him suffer…make all of them suffer…' The Kaiser kept fueling him with anger and hate.
In one quick motion he jumped off TK and grabbed the gun. He held it up at the two boys sitting over Kari. "Get away from her!" Tai and Izzy both looked up at him. "Back the fuck away from her now!"
Izzy got up and backed away, but Tai stayed still. "NO!" Tai screamed. "This is my sister!"
Ken backed to the door holding the gun still poised at Tai. "GUARDS, here now!" He screamed out the door. Three Apemon stumbled over themselves to get into the room and stopped before the Kaiser, their eyes falling upon the gun. "Kill the DigiDestined. All of them." 'No, don't kill them,' the Kaiser argued. 'Make them suffer. Show them true pain.' He glanced over at Izzy. "Start with Friendship and Love. Make sure those two suffer the most." He smiled wickedly. Had he been fully conscious and not blinded by anger he would have realized he had not made himself smirk. Nor had the words come from his own mind. "And have these three bozos watch everything."
"NO!" Tai screamed as he jumped to his feet to attack the Kaiser, but an Apemon knocked him to the floor. He was dragged fighting from the room. "Kari! Kari!" His voice echoed down the hall. Izzy was dragged off next. Finally TK was pulled out, still staring at Kari as blood began to pool around her.
Turning his attention to Kari he knelt down beside her. He wanted to reach out and tell her it was gonna be okay, but couldn't. Something stopped him. So instead he picked her up and she cried out in pain as he whisked her down the hall. Oddly it was the first sound he had heard from her in over a week.
He carried her down the hall with his mind on one thing. The DigiDestined would suffer.
He entered the medical room and paused. He had entered just in time to see two Apemon ripping the black spirals off Matt and Sora. Matt fell to his hands and knees sucking in air. Or at least attempting too. Sora just stood there, looking around, looking disoriented. Her eyes locked on Matt as he choked on the ground but before she could rush to his side an arm from a Red Veggiemon wrapped around her neck. It pulled her to the ground, knocking the air out of her. Within seconds the DigiDestined pair were dragged out, leaving Guvin shocked and terrified. A Bukamon had thrown him to the ground.
Ken deposited Kari on the bed and looked to Guvin. "Treat her," he ordered before he left.
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Screams echoed everywhere he went. Cries of pain. Screams of a girl. Sora. He desperately wanted to block them, but the Kaiser listened, fully enjoying the sound. He cried in pain. Why…why had he ordered it?
'I want to make them stop.' He pleaded with the Kaiser. Something had become wrong…so very wrong. He couldn't move, couldn't breath. Almost couldn't think. …The screams were every where.
'Too bad,' the Kaiser cackled.
'You're in my body! Do as I say!'
'No, you are in my body!'
'What?'
'Haven't you realized it? The Child of Light is dying! She was your only connection to humanity! You lost yourself in your anger and hatred. It was so overpowering I was able to take over. You are mine!'
'No! Your lying.'
'Move your hand.' He didn't even attempted, he knew the result. 'You couldn't do it.' The voice was taunting, but drowned out by another scream.
'I want to check on Kari.'
'No.'
'Please!'
His body stood up from his bed and walked faster then normal to the medical room. Anger and triumph radiated through him from the Kaiser. It burned at Ken. He entered the medical room and Guvin looked up from Kari. "KEN!" He screamed. "What the hell did you go? What happened? Where's Koushiro?"
"Dying, I hope." The Kaiser growled.
"Ken," Guvin gasped.
"Don't call me that! Ken is dead. How is the girl?"
"Not well, she really can't take the strain."
"Let her die." Ken felt the last of his strength give. 'No…no!'
Guvin stepped back. "Ken-"
"My name is Kaiser. And I want you to leave my home." 'No!' Ken sobbed. 'Don't leave me alone.'
"No," Guvin growled.
Anger burned through the Kaiser and he leapt at Guvin. The older man struggled a bit, but the Kaiser was stronger, fast, and more determined. One carefully aimed punch caught the doctor on a pressure point in his chest, knocking him unconscious. And the Kaiser laughed.
'Now let's see what Knowledge has been working on all this time.' He walked over to Koushiro's laptop, where papers were spewed. With his back turned he didn't even notice the gun aimed at his head.
Until the bang.
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Savior
"Every inch of the Kaiser's base is guarded to the very maximum with Apemon, Bakumon, RedVeggiemon, and an assortment of other strong digimon. There is also video camera through every room. Except one room where you will not find an authorized digimon within a twenty-foot radius. His throne room."
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TK watched as Tai gathered all the supplies they would need. Rope, a gag, three first aide kits…
He pulled his attention away from the older boy who walked stiffly around Tai's apartment to the back door. They both were ecstatic to be home, but they had waited for Tai's parents to leave before entering the apartment. No need to get here, explain, and then leave.
The radio buzzed in the background. Tai thought it would be a good idea to catch up on what was happening. "In other news the eleven children missing from Odiaba, Japan still have not been located. Hikari and Taichi Yagami, Takeru Takaishi, Yamato Ishida, Sora Takenouchi, Mimi Tachikwa, Jou Kido, Koushiro Izumi, Daisuke Motomiya, Miyako Inoue, and Iori Hida have all been missing for three months. No ransom note was ever sent to the parents or retrieved from the crime scene, the house of the Inoue's where the eleven children were last seen. All charges against the Inoue's as suspects were dropped. As of tomorrow they will be listed under police records as deceased." (SO I have no idea how police records work, so sue me!)
A 'thud' pulled his attention from the window to Tai. The boy was on his knee's sobbing into his hands and shaking his head. TK bit his lip and gingerly touched the bulge in the waistband of his shorts, under his shirt. (For any sick perverts out there, fuck off. It's not what you think.)
Tomorrow the Kaiser will be sorry for everything he has done.
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Izzy sat at the laptop supplied to him by the Kaiser, typing until his eyes throbbed and fingers became sore. The black notebook glowed with a soft light, lighting his section of the dim room. The majority of the lights were off for Matt and Sora were asleep on one of the beds. Izzy had order them to sleep, their bodies were still not completely recovered.
He pulled his eyes from the laptop and to his friends. They both slept on their sides, Sora's back to Matt's front. Matt had his arm looped over her. On his wrist Izzy could see the dark spiral that had taken over his mind.
The only other light in the room came from a reading light above the cot in the corner where Guvin sat reading a stack of papers. They were medical files on Kari, Ken, Sora and Matt. Plus copies of all the information on the dark spores.
Izzy swallowed hard and rubbed his eyes. Guvin had not talked to him since the dark spore incident. He had watched Izzy put the dark spiral on Sora and Ken do the same to Matt. He didn't believe that was a solution. He hated Izzy.
Izzy turned back to his seat and continued typing. No need to torture himself with a reminder that Guvin loathed him. He needed to work. For Ken and for Kari and… He paled. Could this be real? He finally hit the jackpot and words began to appear on the screen, line after line of black characters, words even he could barely make out. But the ones he could pick out gave him more information then he wanted to know.
He twisted around in his seat and looked up at Guvin. "Mr. Guvin, how do you know Ken?"
Guvin looked up and restrained a glare at Izzy. He hated the red haired boy for what he had done and what Matt and Sora were being subjected to as slaves. If only he had been giving more time…ah who the hell was he fooling, there was never any hope for the pair.
"What?" He asked calmly.
"How do you know Ken? How did you meet him?"
Guvin set his reading material aside. "The Ichijouji's were probably my first loyal patients. When I first opened the Kimino clinic, my clinic, I had no clientele, and they were a poor family. My clinic specialized in families of need, at the time the Ichijouji family could be considered poor. I've known Ken's family even before he was born. I've always been the family doctor."
Izzy's grip on the back of his chair tightened. "So, would you call yourself a close friend of the family?" Guvin nodded. "Then you'd probably be opposed to him being killed, right?"
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TK paced back and forth in front of the glowing computer with the DigiPort pulled up on the screen. Tai sat on the floor beside the door that was open just a crack. The light shone on his face as he stared into space, listening to his parents move around in silence in the living room. He had his arms and knees hugged to his chest as he held back a sob. His parents come home, trapping him and TK in his room, as according to the plan. But then they had listened to them spend the last forty minutes fighting then in complete silence. TK could help but feel sorry for Tai who had forced himself to listen to his parents' conversation. This entire ordeal had really strained their marriage.
Only ten more minutes and they could leave. Tonight they would free they're friends. Tonight the Kaiser would be nothing more the digi-dust. Tonight the DigiDestined would rise again.
The beeping of Tai's digivice erupted through the room. TK locked eyes with Tai as the beeping rattled their ears.
"What's that?" Tai's mother asked. Their footsteps came towards the room.
'Shit.' TK lunged for digivice on the bed and rolled off it onto the floor between the bed and the wall. The door opened and light flooded the room. TK held his breath as he pressed the digivice into his shirt, muffling the beeping. The light shut off again and TK struggled to get out from his hiding spot squashed between the bed and the wall. He was stuck.
The groan of someone sitting down on the mattress made TK hold his breath once more before he felt someone pull him out. TK met Tai's eyes. "That's our cue." They walked over to the computer, Tai pulling a backpack over his shoulder. "Let's go."
TK held up his digivice. "DigiPort open."
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Izzy stood in the hallway just outside the Kaiser's bedroom, taking a deep breath. He had to calm down, he was scared to death. So many things could go wrong on this one chance; so many lives were at stake. Why had Tai coned him into this plan?
He took another breath and knocked on the door to the Kaiser's room. There was shuffling and grumbling heard from inside before the door opened. Ken stood there, hair in disarray and sleep on his face. Over his shoulder, Izzy could see Kari sitting up in Ken's bed. He had to wonder, with slight disgust, what the Kaiser did to her.
"What's wrong?" He asked sleepily. Kari walked up behind him.
"There's something wrong with the system," he forced. "I can't find the glitch from my computer. I was hoping you could-"
"Knowledge, its one in the morning," the Kaiser interrupted, one eyebrow cocked. "Can't this wait until morning?"
Izzy glanced at Kari again. "But…I had a break through. About Kari."
The Kaiser paused. "Okay, let me get dressed." He went back inside, closing the door behind himself. Izzy stepped back from the door, heart pounding in his chest so hard it hurt, sweat rolling down his back and hands shaking. How the hell had he pulled that off so calmly? He slumped against the wall, trying to remember how to breathe.
The door opened once again and Izzy jumped to his feet. The Kaiser stepped out dressed in khakis and a deep purple shirt. Kari stepped out behind him in jeans and a sweatshirt. "Alright," the ruling boy acknowledged, taking a step toward his control room. Kari followed suit.
Wait, no, no, no. She couldn't come!
"Wait, Hikari, why don't you stay here and get some sleep? You really won't be much help."
Kari stopped and looked back and forth between the Kaiser and Izzy. He looked at Izzy. "Its fine, I'm sure she'll be fine."
"But master," Izzy gritted calmly. "It's late."
The Kaiser stared at Izzy with burning violet eyes. "Its fine. There is no reason to question me."
Izzy averted his eyes as his heart pounded in his ears. "Yes…" he forced. "Master."
The Kaiser turned on his heel and strode down the hall with Kari behind him. Izzy followed and fell into step beside Kari. She stared at him with blank brown eyes that only reminded him there was no one there anymore and it made him want to scream. But instead he smiled. She just looked at him as if she didn't know what he was doing.
The door to the Kaiser's control room loomed in front of them. It was a mass of wood, looking to weight a ton, with deep markings and designs etched into its surface. It looked massive, but in truth it was light as a feather.
The Kaiser pulled it open and Izzy held his breath as his stepped in. On instinct he grabbed Kari, holding his hand over her mouth and his arm around her neck as she struggled. Her hands unsuccessfully clawed at him. Two bodies lunged at and tackled the Kaiser. In a blur of brown and blonde the Kaiser was on the ground, screaming as he was sat on.
"YOU!" He raged as he met the face of the lead boy. "Unhand me you stupid oaf!"
"Shut up!" Tai ordered as he punched the Kaiser in the nose. He repeated the action until Izzy had to jump up and grab Tai's fist in mid air. He had dropped Kari, unnoticed by her brother or TK. "Izzy let go of me! Let me kill him."
"No Tai!"
"He deserves to die!" Tai screamed, his voice breaking. His fist dripped with blood as he sat on the Kaiser's chest, pinning his arms down with his knees. Dark red blood rolled from the Kaiser's nose and lip.
"Tai, you can't kill him. You know that!"
"But Kari-" That's when the older boy lost it. Tears bled from his eyes, creating a river down his tan cheeks. He buried his face in his hands, smearing the Kaiser's blood across his face.
"HIKARI, DON'T MOVE!" The Kaiser ordered weakly. The three DigiDestined boys' heads snapped up to see Kari frozen in place.
"Ka-Kari…" Tai started to get up, but TK pushed he back onto the Kaiser. The Kaiser let out a grunt as Tai landed on his chest hard. Kari took another step towards them.
"Hikari, do as your told!" Izzy screamed at her. She froze in step and Tai just stared at her, holding back tears.
"Why won't she look at me? What's wrong with her?!" Tai bawled.
"She doesn't know who you are," Izzy replied. "Tai, forget she's here. We're dealing with Ken."
"But-"
Ken sucked in air in a labored fashion as he felt the Kaiser drift in and out of control, mocking him. "This is why I will always beat you," the Kaiser reared up at full force, mocking Tai. "You can't focus. You can't take advantage of an opportunity. You're a worthless lea-" He was interrupted by a fist to his nose. It cracked. He cried out in pain. Or at least Ken did, the Kaiser sheltered himself from pain, deep inside Ken's head. Tears rolled down his cheeks. He couldn't take this kind of beating.
"You don't know when to shut up, do you?! You smart mouth asshole." Tai slammed his fist into Ken's mouth and the boy began to choke on his own blood.
"Tai fuck, let him go!" Izzy screamed, holding Tai's fists.
The Kaiser jumped to control. "Yeah, let me go. See what happens. I'll kill you; I'll kill all your friends. You'll never make it back."
Tai's eyes flashed and nostrils flared, but Izzy held his fists. "Tai," Izzy whispered, leaning over. "Remember what I told you. This isn't the boy in this body. Something has taken control of him. If there is a way to save him and we find it later, how will you feel to know you killed an innocent boy who couldn't fight back?"
"I know…" Tai choked back a sob.
The Kaiser had disappeared from Ken's mind again, leaving him to take the pain he was going through. His nose was broken, his lip was split at least twice, and his eyes were going to be black tomorrow. And tears rolled down his face. It hurt so much. 'Why?' He asked fruitlessly. 'Why do you want them to kill me?'
"Why won't you kill him?" TK voice erupted through the silence that was taken over by Tai's sobs. He jumped to his feet off Ken's legs.
Izzy looked up at Tai. "You didn't tell him?" Tai shook his head. Izzy looked up at TK who looked exhausted and angry. And most of all with out hope (I know the lines been used a billion times, but come on, this is TK.) "TK, Ken, the Kaiser, he-"
"I don't wanna know. I don't want to know anything until he's dead!" Tears filled his icy blue eyes. They had become so hard after spending those long hours watching Matt and Sora. He pulled a metallic object from the waistband of his pants. Izzy jumped back, letting go of Tai's fist, which dropped to his side. They both stared at the gun in TK's hand. "And he dies now."
Izzy stood up, slowing, fearing the now insane blond boy. "TK, what are you doing with that?"
"I'm sick I've worrying about him being human while we're being beaten by digimon who need target practice. I'm sick of this war that no matter how many wins we have, he still laughs and keeps coming. There are too many causalities, too many live to keep fighting so futilely. He needs to be dealt with." He cocked the gun as he screamed. "He needs to be terminated."
"TK NO!" Izzy screamed.
"Fuck off, Izzy," he growled, as he aimed the gun to level with Ken. Tai still sat on his chest, mouth open in shock. When had TK gotten a gun…they had been together the entire time in the real world. "Tai move!"
Tai broke from his alarm after hearing his name. "No TK!"
"Move!"
"NO!"
"Fine!"
And then gunshot was all they heard before the thud and the grunt of pain. In the seconds that took forever to pass, Tai closed his eyes refusing to see the bullet enter the young boy he sat on. He opened his eyes to see another body on top of Ken, a smaller body, a body lost in clothes.
"KARI!"
His head snapped up upon hearing the name Izzy screamed. 'K-Kari?' His little baby sister, the one he had come to save?
Izzy ran up and rolled the body off Ken. The face of Kari appeared, grimacing in pain as she choked a sob and fingers concealing a reddening hole in her stomach. Tai's eyes snapped to TK who dropped the gun as he stared at Kari, his best friend. His eyes widened as tears ran from them. He just shot Kari.
Ken jumped to his feet, suddenly forgetting the pain that shot through his fists as the circulation restored to his arms and legs. He stared, opened mouth, at Kari squirming in pain on the floor. He looked over at the blond boy who also stared at Kari shock obvious in his icy blue eyes. Ken launched himself at him, anger fueling his aching body as the Kaiser laughed in his head.
'Finally! Give yourself to the hate. Let it consume you. Feed off it!' The Kaiser near danced in his head, but he didn't hear.
He knocked TK off his feet, sending the gun skidding across the floor. TK fell to the floor with a grunt as Ken pinned him down and landed a series of punches to his face. The blond did little to protect himself.
'Kill him…he murder the girl you love…make him suffer…make all of them suffer…' The Kaiser kept fueling him with anger and hate.
In one quick motion he jumped off TK and grabbed the gun. He held it up at the two boys sitting over Kari. "Get away from her!" Tai and Izzy both looked up at him. "Back the fuck away from her now!"
Izzy got up and backed away, but Tai stayed still. "NO!" Tai screamed. "This is my sister!"
Ken backed to the door holding the gun still poised at Tai. "GUARDS, here now!" He screamed out the door. Three Apemon stumbled over themselves to get into the room and stopped before the Kaiser, their eyes falling upon the gun. "Kill the DigiDestined. All of them." 'No, don't kill them,' the Kaiser argued. 'Make them suffer. Show them true pain.' He glanced over at Izzy. "Start with Friendship and Love. Make sure those two suffer the most." He smiled wickedly. Had he been fully conscious and not blinded by anger he would have realized he had not made himself smirk. Nor had the words come from his own mind. "And have these three bozos watch everything."
"NO!" Tai screamed as he jumped to his feet to attack the Kaiser, but an Apemon knocked him to the floor. He was dragged fighting from the room. "Kari! Kari!" His voice echoed down the hall. Izzy was dragged off next. Finally TK was pulled out, still staring at Kari as blood began to pool around her.
Turning his attention to Kari he knelt down beside her. He wanted to reach out and tell her it was gonna be okay, but couldn't. Something stopped him. So instead he picked her up and she cried out in pain as he whisked her down the hall. Oddly it was the first sound he had heard from her in over a week.
He carried her down the hall with his mind on one thing. The DigiDestined would suffer.
He entered the medical room and paused. He had entered just in time to see two Apemon ripping the black spirals off Matt and Sora. Matt fell to his hands and knees sucking in air. Or at least attempting too. Sora just stood there, looking around, looking disoriented. Her eyes locked on Matt as he choked on the ground but before she could rush to his side an arm from a Red Veggiemon wrapped around her neck. It pulled her to the ground, knocking the air out of her. Within seconds the DigiDestined pair were dragged out, leaving Guvin shocked and terrified. A Bukamon had thrown him to the ground.
Ken deposited Kari on the bed and looked to Guvin. "Treat her," he ordered before he left.
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Screams echoed everywhere he went. Cries of pain. Screams of a girl. Sora. He desperately wanted to block them, but the Kaiser listened, fully enjoying the sound. He cried in pain. Why…why had he ordered it?
'I want to make them stop.' He pleaded with the Kaiser. Something had become wrong…so very wrong. He couldn't move, couldn't breath. Almost couldn't think. …The screams were every where.
'Too bad,' the Kaiser cackled.
'You're in my body! Do as I say!'
'No, you are in my body!'
'What?'
'Haven't you realized it? The Child of Light is dying! She was your only connection to humanity! You lost yourself in your anger and hatred. It was so overpowering I was able to take over. You are mine!'
'No! Your lying.'
'Move your hand.' He didn't even attempted, he knew the result. 'You couldn't do it.' The voice was taunting, but drowned out by another scream.
'I want to check on Kari.'
'No.'
'Please!'
His body stood up from his bed and walked faster then normal to the medical room. Anger and triumph radiated through him from the Kaiser. It burned at Ken. He entered the medical room and Guvin looked up from Kari. "KEN!" He screamed. "What the hell did you go? What happened? Where's Koushiro?"
"Dying, I hope." The Kaiser growled.
"Ken," Guvin gasped.
"Don't call me that! Ken is dead. How is the girl?"
"Not well, she really can't take the strain."
"Let her die." Ken felt the last of his strength give. 'No…no!'
Guvin stepped back. "Ken-"
"My name is Kaiser. And I want you to leave my home." 'No!' Ken sobbed. 'Don't leave me alone.'
"No," Guvin growled.
Anger burned through the Kaiser and he leapt at Guvin. The older man struggled a bit, but the Kaiser was stronger, fast, and more determined. One carefully aimed punch caught the doctor on a pressure point in his chest, knocking him unconscious. And the Kaiser laughed.
'Now let's see what Knowledge has been working on all this time.' He walked over to Koushiro's laptop, where papers were spewed. With his back turned he didn't even notice the gun aimed at his head.
Until the bang.
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