Many thanks to saria-the-green-haired for beta reading this chapter. ^^

Translations:

Matte!: Wait!

Kuso!: Shit! (Congratulations! You learned a curse in Japanese! XD)

Chapter 4

A Whole New Game

The Digimon Kaiser whistled. An Airdramon, who had a Dark Spiral on its tail, flew down and landed besides its master. With one crack of the Digimon Kaiser's whip, the ground rumbled and five Darktyrannomon appeared from behind the plateau.

"I wonder if you became stronger." The Kaiser said.

Another crack of his whip and the Darktyrannomon stomped towards the Digidestined. Their Digivices beeped but the Kaiser held up his. Black waves emitted from the dark Digivice and came straight at the group, knocking them down.

"Since when did Ken's Digivice do that?!" Hikari said.

"It must be under the dark influences of the Kaiser." Takeru responded.

"You all make great entertainment but now I need to kill you." The Kaiser smirked.

Before the Digidestined could hold up their Digivices again, their enemy held up his.

"If I'm correct I was able to block the Digivolution with this. So unless you want another dose of the dark shock wave…" He threatened.

"Digi-Armor Energize!" The Digidestined cried out.

"Veemon armor digivolve to…Raidramon!"

"Hawkmon armor digivolve to…Halsemon!"

"Armadillomon armor digivolve to…Digmon!"

"Patamon armor digivolve to…Pegasusmon!"

The Digidestined and Digimon charged towards the Darktyrannomon. The two forces clashed and began the fight. While holding onto Raidramon, Daisuke saw from among the chaos that the Digimon Kaiser jumped onto the Airdramon's back and started to fly off. He's getting away! Daisuke thought angrily.

"Daisuke!" Takeru yelled through the noise. "You want a piece of the Digimon Kaiser, right? You follow him while the rest of us fight off his force!"

"But-"

"Don't worry about us being outnumbered! We can handle it!" Hikari said. "Just go and get him!"

Daisuke nodded. He turned to his Digimon.

"What are we waiting for Raidramon? Let's go!"

"Daisuke, matte!" Miyako yelled to him.

"What?"

"Please…please try and at least find out what happened to Ken." She said.

Daisuke nodded again. He and Raidramon rode off and followed the Airdramon's path. They could see the Kaiser riding on it from a distance.

"Come on Raidramon! We can't let him get away!"

Raidramon speeded up. Within a minute or so, Raidramon and Airdramon were side by side.

"Alright Kaiser! There are a few answers I want to know! The first is where's Ken?!" Daisuke demanded.

"He's gone." The Kaiser smirked. "Soon, you and the others will join him as well!"

"If you're so sure, then why are you running?!"

"Daisuke! Look!" Raidramon growled.

Daisuke looked ahead and realized they were running straight at a large flying metallic ship.

"There's the board my adversary, our game shall soon start." The Digimon Kaiser laughed.

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Ken opened his eyes and found himself lying on the floor. He stood up and groaned. He couldn't remember much of the attack since his own shadow (or at least what looked like his) knocked him out. Ken looked around and noticed he seemed to be in an old library. The shelves were filled with thick books covered in dust as though they hadn't been used for years. He got up and looked.

"Why am I here?"

           He took out a book from one of the many shelves and opened it. More dust had gathered between the pages, which Ken blew away.

"Blank pages?" He said curiously.

Ken placed the book back on its shelf and looked around some more. There was one shelf tucked away in a corner that contained scrolls. Next to the shelf was a desk with a photo of his brother, Osamu, along with a soap dish and a stick used to blow bubbles. Ken found the door but it was locked.

"There must be something in this room that can help me."

Master…

"Who's there?" Ken said in alarm.

He looked around the room and saw light shining from beneath the floor boards a few feet away from the scroll filled shelf. Ken knelt down carefully, dug his nails into the floor board and pulled. The dusty floor burst open like a door and the light disappeared. Ken coughed and waved his hand to clear the flying dust. When it settled he looked down.

"A deck of cards?"

Welcome back, Master Kenamun. Said the whispers from Ken's dream.

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"Raidramon! Try again!"

"I can't, Daisuke! It's too high!"

The Digimon Kaiser had just landed on his new base. Raidramon and Daisuke were trying to get on by jumping and holding onto one of the bars at the bottom of the ship. Unfortunately, the attempts were useless, and Daisuke noticed that they were lagging behind.

"Hey! Need a lift?" said Takeru.

Daisuke looked up. Pegasusmon and Takeru flew down and Daisuke jumped off Raidramon onto Pegasusmon's back. Raidramon followed, dedigivolving to Veemon and also landing on Takeru's digimon.

"You guys managed to get through his forces?" Daisuke asked.

"Yeah…but it seems too easy. You think for someone who wants revenge he would want to kill us as soon as possible." Takeru said.

The group flew high enough to see the whole deck and found it vacant.

"Do you think it's safe to land?" Hikari asked.

"He probably set up some traps on deck. We'll just have to stay up until we find an entrance." Said Iori.

They flew around the ship looking for an entrance. Except for the occasional flap of wings and the low hum of the ship's engines and propellers, not a single sound was heard. The Digidestined and Digimon were too tense to talk to each other and nothing was happening on deck.

"There's the entrance." Miyako said and pointed.

Still expecting an attack on deck, everybody landed carefully and quietly. Again, the uncomfortable silence came between them as they looked at the gigantic metal doors.

"Care if we do the honors?" Nefertimon said.

"Do it." Hikari said.

Armadillomon and Veemon armor digivolved to Digmon and Flamdramon. Along with the other three Digimon they attacked, and broke down the doors. Everybody looked at the large and empty corridor then went inside. When they reached the end, all they saw was a large empty room.

"Hey! What's that?" Daisuke said.

At the back of the room, resting gently on a pedestal, sat a golden pyramid with an eye in the middle.

"It looks perfectly harmless." Miyako said.

Daisuke took one step forward but Hikari put her hand on his shoulder.

"Wait. There's something…odd about that pyramid." She said.

"What do you mean, Hikari?" Takeru asked.

"I-I can't really explain it. It just feels like there's something in it." Hikari said.

"Don't touch other people's things without permission."

Behind the group stood the Digimon Kaiser, wearing his customary smirk.

"What are you waiting for, Kaiser? Have you lost your touch?" Daisuke taunted.

"Funny I was about to ask you the same question." Said the Kaiser. "But since you asked to be attacked…"

The Digimon Kaiser snapped his fingers and three pairs of red and ominous eyes glowed behind him. The creature stomped forward. It was a large blue T-Rex with the skull of a dinosaur on the end of one arm and a mechanical dinosaur head on the other.

"Obviously he needs no introduction so let our game begin! Deltamon! Attack!" The Kaiser ordered.

Deltamon stomped towards the Digidestined. The armored Digimon charged towards the virus Digimon. Hikari, Takeru and Miyako were already on their Digimons' backs and searching for the dark spiral. When they spotted it, the Digimon began their attack. While in the midst of the battle, Daisuke noticed the Digimon Kaiser sneaking around them and heading towards the gold pyramid. Daisuke ran towards the pedestal and blocked the Kaiser.

"So is this some kind of weapon that'll beat us?" Daisuke growled.

"You're certainly a bit smarter than you look but, you're only partly right." He sneered.

Daisuke looked at the artifact out of the corner of his eye. Hikari said that something was in it. Just what could it be? He thought. The Kaiser seemed to have read his mind.

"You're wondering just what it is exactly. I dare you to touch it." He said with a grin.

Not thinking, Daisuke grabbed the object but electric sparks came out, giving him a minor electric shock. He let go immediately.

"Baka." The Digimon Kaiser sneered. "You think I wouldn't put security measures?"

Meanwhile back at the battle, the armored Digimon had managed to get past Deltamon's defenses by tying it down with Pegasusmon's and Nefertimon's Golden Noose and prepared for the final strike.

"Star Shower!"

"Rosetta Stone!"

"Tempest Wing!"

"Gold Rush!"

"Fire Rocket!"

The Dark Spiral shattered into pieces and Deltamon dropped to the ground. The Digidestined and Digimon joined Daisuke and looked at their enemy.

"Where's Ken?!" Miyako demanded.

"Aww…miss your boyfriend?" The Digimon Kaiser taunted.

"Alright Kaiser, tell me where was I when I was pummeling you into oblivion, last time." Takeru threatened, raising his fists.

"I'm so scared." The Kaiser said sarcastically.

The Digidestined's enemy whistled. The ceiling opened and scores of Bakemon floated down ready to attack. Daisuke tried to look where the Kaiser was, but too many of the ghost Digimon blocked his view, trying to attack him. Luckily Flamedramon came in and knocked down a few.

"Daisuke, just go and get the Digimon Kaiser. Don't worry about me!"

Daisuke ran and saw the enemy grabbing the gold pyramid. He was just about to tackle him when the gold artifact glowed and a black barrier surrounded the Digimon Kaiser, knocking him back.

"Here's a taste of our new game!" The Digimon Kaiser announced.

The room became distorted and the walls, ceiling, floor and Bakemon disappeared. All the Digimon ended up in their rookie forms. Daisuke could've sworn he heard an agonizing scream coming right from the pyramid as it glowed. Someone is in there! He realized. The digidestined found themselves in a bleak area. Hikari dropped on her knees.

'T-the darkness…it's…much…stronger…then…the…Dark…Ocean's."

The Kaiser took out a card and a black aura encircled him.

"I summon the Tri-Horned Dragon!"

The card glowed and then formed into an enormous blue dragon with long bronze colored claws and three horns on top of its head.

"What is THAT?!" Miyako gasped.

"It's not any Digimon we know!" said Takeru.

"Show them the Shadow Realm's idea of a welcome!" He ordered his dragon.

The Digidestined ran as fast as possible while the dragon took flight with the Kaiser on its back.

"Burn them!"

The Tri-Horned Dragon aimed a stream of fire at the Digidestined. They barely missed the attack. The Digimon Kaiser was enjoying the chase until electric sparks came out of the gold pyramid he was holding. The shock was stronger than the one Daisuke received because the sparks went through his gloves causing him to let go of the item. Daisuke turned back a bit and grabbed it before it could crash to the ground. He ran back to his friends. The item glowed.

"This could be our way out!" Iori said.

Everybody touched the golden pyramid and disappeared in a flash of light. The Digimon Kaiser was a second too late to catch them.

"Kuso!" He cursed.

"The council is not happy and neither am I." A voice hissed from behind him.

The Digimon Kaiser turned around to see a blue-eyed, brown haired boy around his age behind him.

"You have a lot of explaining to do."

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The Digidestined were back in the Digital World. Daisuke was still holding the item and looked at it.

"I don't get it. How could the Digimon Kaiser do that?" Daisuke said.

"We'll need to rest and figure out a plan once we're home." Takeru said.

They went to the nearest TV and opened the portal back to the real world. They found themselves in Hikari and Taichi's bedroom. Koushirou and Taichi were rather relieved to see them.

"What happened, Hikari? You said you would be in the Digital World for a few minutes but it's about a hour now!" Taichi said.

"Wait a minute, why's Koushirou here?" Takeru asked.

"I found something strange when I was looking at the map of the Digital World and it's not good." Koushirou answered.

"It probably has something to do with the Digimon Kaiser." Daisuke said.

"What?!" Taichi and Koushirou yelled.

"We don't know what happened to Ken but the Digimon Kaiser is back.." Miyako said sadly.

"So what do you need to tell us?" said Daisuke.

Koushirou sat in front of the computer and entered the program containing the map of the Digital World. Black spots dotted some of the areas.

"Look familiar?" Koushirou said.

"It looks just like when the Digimon Kaiser first came along." Said Hikari.

"Well there's one big difference." Koushirou explained.

He clicked on one of the black spots. It was a closer look at the area, which was gray, white and black. Everybody else looked in alarm.

"It's defiantly an area the Kaiser took over." Koushirou explained pointing at the dark spire in the background. "I checked the other areas and it's the same story."

"So you're saying if the Kaiser takers over the Digital World…" Taichi said.

"Darkness will be everywhere." Koushirou finished.

"We can't let that happen!" Daisuke said in determination. "We grabbed something from the Kaiser that might help us."

Daisuke handed Koushirou the gold artifact.

"Looks Egyptian since the eye in the middle is the Eye of Horus. Is there anything else you know about it?" Koushirou said.

"We got teleported to a strange realm when the Kaiser was using it. I thought I heard someone's scream from it." Daisuke said.

"So there is something or someone in there." Hikari said.

"Hmm…I might have to take it apart to know what it is exactly." Koushirou announced.

Before anyone else could say anything, the pyramid glowed and floated out of Koushirou's hands. A ball of light appeared behind the artifact and started to shape into a person. The person had black spiky hair with red tips and blonde bangs. He was wearing an unbuttoned blue jacket over a black shirt and blue pants and boots. He opened his eyes and looked around in confusion.

"Where am I?!" He demanded.

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The Digimon Kaiser was standing in front of a very angry council.

"First day back in the hikari world and already you failed!"

"How could you let them gain possession of the most important Millennium Item?!"

"Now council, Yami no Kaiba and I already have another plan that involves taking another Millennium Item." The Digimon Kaiser said calmly. "What's even better about it is that I can also take the possession of the bearer's God Card."

The council seemed to have figured out who he was talking about.

"So you're planning on targeting the traitor, Yami Ken?"

"Yes. Besides, isn't Yami no Malik long due for a trial? Treason is a serious charge."

Ummm…R&R please? ^^ Sorry that there isn't a random for this chapter. Too sleepy to find one. Zzzz…