Chapter 4- The Attempted Rescue
Everybody (including Mimi, not including Tai) was ready to go, along with their digimon. They were all in the Digital World with "Gennai" ready to go find Tai. Kari hadn't spoken at all the whole week (Yes. Tai has been gone a week). "We'll find him." Tk said, reassuring her, putting his hand on her shoulder. She didn't even look at him, but she just nodded. She had her pink backpack with her, it carried some extra clothes and her cell phone, which she had forgotten to take out when she had packed. When she had left and realized she had taken it, she didn't bother going to put it back so she put it in the front pocket.
Meanwhile Matt and the others were talking to "Gennai." "Are you sure?" Matt asked.
"No, the planet, use to preserve human life and they made a sort of force field around it to keep things like digimon out, they felt like digimon weren't trustworthy." "Gennai" said.
"Why?"
"Gennai" shrugged.
"Sorry buddy." Davis said, looking down at his partner.
"Humph" Veemon said, sticking his bottom lip out, and crossing his arms.
"The portal can only be opened every five days. Otherwise, it and that world will collapse, destroying everything in it."
Davis gave a look, "Oh that's real encouraging. By the way, what happened to that . . . ah . . . raptor that was in your lab."
"Gennai" flinched but recovered, "It disappeared." He said this but didn't mean it. He really knew what was going on. Nobody said anything.
"And also the time is converted. Just like when the Digital World had one a few years ago, So he has been there longer than a week." "Gennai" said.
"Then how long has he been there?" Yolie asked, disturbed about Kari.
He stumbled, "About . . . a year or so."
There were gasps all around. "Gennai" took something that looked like a cigarette lighter and pressed the top open. A little glowing, pink bubble came out of it and floated to a part of the forest. The bubble, suddenly expanded to about eight feet width and length. "You better go now before it closes." he said.
Mimi looked confused, "Aren't you coming?"
"No I have to take care of some things but I'll be waiting here. I can also communicate with you from here."
The others nodded, they had been rather quiet since Tai had vanished. "Gennai" nodded back. One by one they separately walked through the portal. "Gennai" watched the portal close in a calm manner. He glanced down upon the little digimon as their friends faded through the portal. He felt he should get them while they were distracted. He slowly took the lighter and opened again. This time, a glowing, blue ray appeared out of it and coiled its self around the digimon. Immediately, before the digimon could react, metal plates came out of the light and attached themselves to the digimon's mouths keeping them from doing any attacks or screaming for that matter. The blue nose rapped tight around the digimon. He waved a 'good bye' wave at them and the vanished from the nose. The blue ray returned to the lighter and "Gennai" walked away from the area.

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The digimon appeared in the middle of the air and all fell onto each other. They were all at their In-training level and the metal plates were off their faces. They realized they were in a jail cell. The bars were too close together for one of them to get through, so they tried to blast their way through. Even that didn't work.
"That fucking traitor! That bastard locked us up to get the kids!" Demiveemon said, at wits end. Obviously he had spent too much time listening in on Jun's phone conversations about what an asshole Matt was.
"LANGUAGE!" Poromon corrected him harshly.
"I'll language you!"
"Shhhhh!" Tsumon hushed, "Listen."
They all quieted down to listen. Some people were having a discussion. One of the voices could be recognized as the man that had called himself "Gennai." The other voices were unfamiliar. "Gennai": So, I don't care what you do! You make sure they don't get out off that world alive! Man one: Kill them sir? "Gennai": No. Where they are, they'll be hunted down and killed in a matter of days. Just make sure they don't find out about anything. But bring the serum and the boy back! And if you can, bring the others like him back too! Man two: You mean that Tai kid? "Gennai": Yes. (There were footsteps on the floor, meaning they must be leaving) And DON'T forget the serum and especially the kid! I need to finish where I left off with him. Man three: Right boss!
The door closed, and there was silence. Salamon was breathing loudly, scared of what she had heard. She had always had protected her friend, but now she couldn't. Koromon had disappeared, and Tsumon found him huddled up and a corner of the cell. He was shaking violently, had his eyes closed tightly with tears squeezing out of the corners of his eyes.
"He'll be okay Koromon."
Koromon whimpered in response. The door opened to reveal "Gennai." He gave them an evil smile, which gave them all a chill up their spines. Demiveemon hit the roof of his temper, "Jerk off!!"
"Who are you?" Bukamon asked.
He gave another smirk, then his robe dissolved to reveal khaki pants, a blue button-up, long sleeve shirt, and a red bandana (I said Bandana not Banana) tied around the collar of the shirt like a tie. The shadowiness Tai had seen, appeared under his eyes. The look was dark and cold. "I go by my last name: Malone. And your little game" he raised the lighter, "has come to an end." He opened the lighter, and glowing, green needles shot out of it and pierced into the skin of the tiny digimon. It knocked them all unconscious, and into a deep, deep sleep of nightmares.