Chapter Nine- The Power of Love

"Spirit Needle!"

"Arukenimon why don't we just go on a nice vacation or something?"

"I want to Digital world to be mine, and I won't stop until it is!"

"But Arukenimon..." Mummymon whined.

Arukenimon was busy creating a new digimon. The strongest one yet. She added control

spire after control spire. Forty, forty-one, forty-two. Soon 50 control spires and been put

together to form a powerful digimon.

"Powerful enough..." Arukenimon said, "to destroy the Digidestined once and for all."



Ken and Jesi sat on Ken's couch watching television. In the past few weeks, they had

grown closer than ever and Ken's mother was now happy to see Jesi at the door every afternoon.

"Oh, at first I was nervous but I'm so happy Ken has a girlfriend." His mother said to

Ken's father. "He's growing up so fast."

Jesi rested her head on Ken's shoulder as she sat with his arm around her.

"Jesi, don't you get tired coming all the way to Tamachi everyday?"

"No, I don't mind."

"How about tomorrow I come to your house instead?"

"Oh Ken that's a wonderful idea, you can meet my parents and I'll make supper for you."

"That sounds nice, Let me go ask my mother" As Ken got up he saw Minomon motioning

him to come into his room. He walked in and looked over at the two digimon.

"What's wrong?"

Flotsymon was sitting on Ken's bed.

"You have an e-mail." Flotsymon said.

"Sorry we read your mail Ken," Minomon said.

"It's from Davis, 'We need you in the Digiworld right away, bring Jesi, It's an emergency'"

Ken looked up from his computer. "This doesn't sound good." Ken walked into the living room.

"We need to go to the digital world right away."

"Why? What's wrong?"

"I don't know, but it sounds bad."

Meanwhile in the Digital world things weren't going so good for the Digidestined.

"Static force!!" Silphymon yelled.

"It's no use, we can't fight with only one DNA digimon!" Davis yelled.

The Digidestined were on top of a skyscraper as they watched their digimon fight the most

powerful digimon Arukenimon had created, DarkSkullMeramon. He was bigger and stronger

than Skullmeramon, and was ruthless since he was made out of control spires. He was nothing but a mindless killing machine, whose only goal was destroying the Digidestined.

The digimon tried their best to fight but couldn't stand up to DarkSkullMeramon without

help. The digimon's attacks just seemed to bounce off him, and when they went in for a direct hit, they were batted away.

"I hope they get here soon..." TK said. TK stood close to Kari as they watched their

digimon fight.

"Hey look!" Yolei yelled. "Here comes Ken and Jesi!" Yolei pointed up at the sky as

Stingmon and Kasurymon flew down towards the building with their Digidestined.

"We're here." Ken said as he stepped down.

"What is that!?" Jesi yelled as she saw DarkSkullMeramon.

"It's DarkSkullMeramon," Kari said. "Arukenimon's newest creation, he's the most

powerful one yet."

"We better help," Kasurymon said. Stingmon nodded.

"It's time to DNA digivolve!" Davis yelled, "Exveemon!"

Exveemon flew over to Davis and he and Stingmon began to DNA digivolve.

"Exveemon!"

"Stingmon!"

"DNA Digivolve to, Paildramon!"

Paildramon and Kasurymon went and began to fight DarkSkullMeramon. DarkSkullMeramon began having trouble against the digimon now. They began to circle around, attacking from every angle. He felt his outer shell started to break away, and his control spire interior began so show in a few places. Desperate to destroy the Digidestined, he changed his focus of attack. DarkSkullMeramon turned towards the helpless children standing only a few dozen meters away.

He fired a huge blast of energy at the roof of the building. The digimon tried to stop him

but could do nothing.

"Watch out!" Cody yelled. The Digidestined tried to run, but it was too late. The blast hit

the roof and rubble flew everywhere.

"Ken!"

Ken turned when he heard Jesi's cry but only to see her get thrown off the side of the

building.

Jesi's breath caught in her throat, and she watched Ken disappear from view as she fell down and down, past the side of the roof.

"JESI!" Ken ran through the debris to the side of the building. He looked over the side to

see Jesi laying on a balcony a few floors below. She was motionless.

Ken ran to the door on the roof leading downstairs. As he ran down the stairs he couldn't

stop thinking of how he had lost his brother, and how he had almost lost Wormmon. When he

reached the balcony he collapsed at the sight of Jesi's seemingly lifeless body.

"No, please no." He bent down and put his ear to her chest.

"She's still alive," Ken picked her up and began walking back towards the stairs.

"Ken!" TK ran down the stairs to Ken. "What happened? Is she alright?"

"I don't know, but she's still alive. We need to get her to a safer building."

"Ken, you're hurt."

Ken looked down and saw the rip in his shirt and the large cut in his arm. He hadn't even

noticed it.

"Here let me carry her," TK took Jesi out of Ken's arms and walked with him. They

walked away from the battle to another building in the city. They went inside and found a bed to

lay Jesi down in.

"It looks like her leg might be broken or something," TK said.

"I wish one of us knew something about being a doctor..." Ken said and he sat beside the

bed.

"Wait Ken, one of us does!"





TK and Joe ran towards the room where Ken was waiting patiently with Jesi.

"I'm glad you could come Joe, we really need your help!"

"I'm always there for a Digidestined in need."

Ken sat beside Jesi's bed and watched her.

"This is all my fault..." Ken thought to himself. "Why did I have to create those control

spires? Everything bad that happens here is my fault somehow..."

"Ken! We're here!" TK rushed into the room with Joe close behind him. "I better go back

up there in case they need me," TK said.

TK went back to the find the other Digidestined.

"Is she going to be ok?" Ken asked as Joe examined Jesi.

"We'll it looks to me like her leg is broken, it's not too severe, but it will take a while to

heal. I need something to make a splint out of."

"I'll find something." Ken walked quietly out of the room to search for something. "Why

did I have to cause all this?" he thought. "It's all my fault..." tears began to roll down Ken's

cheeks.

Ken walked back with two pieces of wood to use as a splint. As Joe put it on, Ken

continued to sit by Jesi's side.

"What are we going to do now?"

"Well you shouldn't move her until she wakes up and--"

"No I mean, when we go back to the real world how are we going to explain how Jesi's

leg got broken? And what about any injuries the others have?"

"Um, well I don't know."

"We'll have to stay in the Digiworld until she gets better." Ken sighed. "Why isn't she

waking up?"

"Well, I can't tell for sure. We really need to bring her to a hospital." Joe knew from experience that Ken was about to snap any second.

"How can we explain this!? Am I supposed to tell her parents I let her fall of a building?"

"Ken, it's not your fault, you need to calm down."

"How can I calm down!? This is all my fault! I end up hurting everyone I love, It's my

fault!" Ken ran out of the room and out into the city, the whole time the same thought kept running through his head, "It's my fault."

Ken stopped in the middle of the street. He looked towards the battling digimon, then in

the other direction.

Ken stood in the street for what felt like an eternity.

"Fight or flight?" Ken thought long and hard, whether to run away from his problems, or

face them.

Ken turned and ran towards the fight. He dashed up the stairs, skipping steps along the way.

He reached the roof and saw the Digidestined standing on the top of the building.

"Ken! What happened to Jesi? Is she ok?" Yolei said as she ran up to Ken.

"Tell your digimon to back off." Ken said.

"What?"

"This is my fight, tell them to back off!"

"Ken! You can't fight them by yourself!" TK said.

"No matter how strong you think you are Ken you can't fight DarkSkullMeramon alone."

Cody said to him.

"Wait Cody," TK said. "Sometimes...You need to take things into your own hands." How ironic that TK was remembering when he stood up to the Digimon Emperor. Anger was so overpowering, but sometimes the power could be used to overcome evil when nothing else would work.

TK called to Angemon, "Angemon stop fighting!"

Yolei was hesitant, but she and Kari called back Silphymon. TK looked at Cody, and

Cody finally called back Ankylomon. Ken stepped up to the edge of the building.

"Hey Ken what about--" Davis said.

"Step back Davis."

"But," Davis stepped back as he saw Ken's crest start to glow. Today, anger was on Ken's side.

"Paildramon!!" Ken's crest began glowing more and a pink beam of light shot out of it

towards Paildramon. He was filled with energy like never before.

"Desperado Blaster!" Paildramon's attack broke through DarkSkullMeramon's outer shell completely and revealed his control spire core.

"I won't let you win Arukenimon!!" Ken screamed at the top of his lungs.

"Desperado Blaster!"

The blast shot into DarkSkullMeramon, and blasted him to pieces. Paildramon changed

back into Leafmon and Chibumon. Ken let out the breath he had been holding, and collapsed onto the roof of the building.





The Digidestined walked into the room where Joe was waiting with Jesi. Ken sat back

down in the chair next to her bed.

"Joe, why isn't she awake yet?" Yolei asked.

Joe stood up and walked over to the others. "I really can't tell. She needs to go to a

hospital but..."

TK walked over and sat next to Ken. "Ken she'll be alright, you just need to have hope."

Ken looked up at TK and smiled at him through his tears. "Thanks TK."

"I guess Ken has a heart after all..." Cody said to no one in particular.

Yolei stood next to Cody. "A heart of stone could never cry like that."

Then of course, Davis interrupted, "Hey Ken, why don't you just kiss her to wake her up?

Ya know like Sleeping Beauty?"

"Davis! Do you always have to say stupid things at the wrong time!?" Yolei yelled at him.

"Wait, Yolei it's alright," she heard Ken say. Yolei turned around and looked at Ken.

"He's only trying to help." Then Ken leaned down over Jesi's face. He gave her a small

kiss, but nothing happened. Ken leaned down and rested his head and arms over her, and sobbed.

But just then he heard a small sound. He looked up and saw Jesi starting to stir, then she

opened her eyes.

"Ken?"

"Jesi, you.. you're awake, you're alright!"

"I think now would be the time to make a silent and unnoticed retreat." Joe said.

"Exit, stage left." The Digidestined crept out of the room.

"Ken, my leg hurts."

"It's broken, you fell off the roof during the battle."

Then she sat up quickly, "The others, are they alright!?"

Ken laid her back down on her pillow. "They're fine, just scrapes and bruises."

Then Jesi saw the cut on Ken's arm. "Ken, your arm, it's bleeding."

Ken looked down, "I know, don't worry about it."

But Jesi sat up and took a ribbon out of her hair. She bandaged Ken's arm up and smiled

at him.

"There, good as new." She brushed a strand of hair out of Ken's face and stared into his

lovely blue eyes.

Outside the door, the Digidestined where talking.

"The last time I saw Ken so upset was when he thought he lost Wormmon." Yolei said.

"He's such a caring person," Kari said. "It's hard to believe he was once the Digimon

Emperor."

Cody sat and thought about everything that had happened.

"I guess the kind Ken is the real Ken after all, but how could he be if he hurt all those

digimon?" he thought to himself. Cody still had doubts about Ken's true personality, but they were

starting to fade. "Maybe...I should start trusting him."

"Hey you know what?" Davis said. "After all this I have something important to say."

"What is it Davis?" Kari said.

"I'm hungry!" The Digidestined all fell out of their chairs.

All the little digimon bounced up and down, "We're hungry too!"

"Come to think of it, I'm hungry too," TK said.

"Me too," said Cody.

Yolei's stomach growled, "Me too, in fact I'm starving!"

"Let's all get something to eat." Kari said.

"Are you coming Joe?" Yolei asked him.

"No, I need to get back to the real world. I kind of left in the middle of a Math test and

my teacher's going to wonder why I've been at the bathroom for about an hour."

"You should get back before they file a missing persons report." Cody said.

The Digidestined laughed and went to get some food.





"Those stupid Digidestined!!!!!" Arukenimon screamed as she and Mummymon marched

back to their car. "Don't they ever give up!?"

"Oh Arukenimon you're so beautiful when you're angry."

"Shut UP!" Arukenimon smacked Mummymon in the face.

"We're just like a married couple," Mummymon sighed from the ground.

They got into the car and began driving away from the city.

"I need to find a way to get rid of those stupid Digidestined. I need to think up a really

evil plan, something so evil...I can't even think of it!"

"How can you think up something if you can't even think of it?"

"Just shut up and drive."

Mummymon and Arukenimon sped away into the distance as Arukenimon sat and thought

how she could get rid of the Digidestined and make the digital world hers.