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Rescuing Serena



Chapter Two

Searching



"So, Ken, how do you s'pose we'll cure her?" Davis asked as he and the other digidestined left the DigiGods' palace. They headed to Jennai's.

"I'm not sure," Ken started.

"What? Then she'll be waiting for help forever!" Davis said.

"Let me finish. I'm not sure HOW but I have a vague idea. We need Joe and Izzy here pronto," Ken said. "Oikawa used some kind of mechanical device, so we could maybe make our own to destroy the signals it's sending to her brain. But it'll get stronger while she's at the Dark Ocean so we have to make our device stronger, or we'll have another monster on our hands."

"What do you mean, Monster?" Kari asked.

"Me," Ken said. "Well, enough of that. We have to get to Jennai's. Azulongmon said his place was straight ahead of this place right?"

"Well, we could be looking straight at it. Let's keep moving," Yolei said. The six walked forward andappeared in some sort of garden. They crossed a bridge that went over a small stream and saw Jennai in front of an old fashioned chinese style palace.

"Hello," Jennai said.



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"So that's why we need your help," T.K. finished for the group as they took turns explaining what had happened.

"Well, Ken, your plan's a bit tricky, but we could pull it off," Jennai said. "We need to get those digidestined here, and fast."

Yolei pulled out her D-terminal. She emailed Izzy and Joe. Within ten minutes, the two were there, Izzy with a bag of small high-tech machinery parts.

"What's in the bag, Izzy?" Davis asked.

"Parts. I've been thinking about this and maybe we could use the power of the spore against itself, then we scan it sort of like how the other's were scanned. It might work, but it if doesn't, she'll probably go mad and we should leave her in the Dark Ocean. But... that's not going to happen." Izzy dumped the contents of his bag onto the table. "These are a few parts we could use to create a scanner or reconfigurer of some sort."

"A few?" T.K. repeated.

"I don't understand a thing, but I'm not going to ask," Davis said.

"For once, I agree with you," T.K. said.

"I don't get it, either," Kari said.

"It's simple," Yolei spoke. "We're going to create a device similar to the one Ken said Oikawa had. and we're going to create a device that will reconfigure the signals that are being sent to Serena's brain and cause the spore to send the signals to itself."

"I get it," Kari said.

"That's good. You mind clueing me in?" Davis asked.

"I do," Kari said. "It's really hard to get, but I think I understand it. Either way, I'm leaving this one to them."

Yolei, Ken, and Joe started rummaging through the parts. Izzy started furiously typing on his laptop, creating a program compatible to the hand-made device. The other three walked around outside and found themselves outside the digital barrier. They walked around for a while, then an explosion was heard, followed by screams, and the digidestined were blown into different directions. T.K. crashed into a tree and fell onto the ground from the rebound. He got up slightly, his injuries not bad, and started looking for the others. He spotted Kari laying a few yards away and ran over to her.

"Kari!" he said, slightly shaking her.

She opened her eyes and sat up. "T.K.? What was that? Where's Davis?"

"Davis can take care of himself. As for the explosion, I have no idea. I wonder what happened," T.K. said.

"Well, let's go find Davis then go back to Jennai's," Kari said.

"Kari, why do you want to go look for Davis? He's a big boy. He can take care of himself," T.K. said.

"Well, if I had found Davis and you were missing, we'd go look for you, so why can't we go look for Davis? And anyway, he's part of our team and not looking for him would just create another enemy." Kari walked over to T.K. and put her arms around his shoulders. "Anyway, I'm glad I'm with you."

T.K. smiled. Kari kissed his cheek, then let go of him and turned around. "But we're still looking for Davis," she spoke, ruining the mood. So, they went off to find Davis. They walked around in the forest, and accidentally left it. The ended up finding Jennai's place. "Well, he probably beat us here," Kari said. The two walked in to Jennai's house and saw Cody, Izzy, and Ken working on a scanner-like device a bit bigger than a digivice. Yolei was sitting on the couch in the room, her head in her hands. Davis wasn't there. The digimon were playing Tag.

"Where's Davis?" Ken asked.

"We don't know. There was an explosion and Davis wasn't around," T.K. said. "We thought he already came back here."

"Okay, Cody and I'll stay herre, the rest of you go find Davis," Izzy said.

Wormmon, Veemon, Gatomon, Hawkmon, and Patamon came over to T.K. and Kari. Ken got up and walked over to them. T.K. glanced over at Yolei. "Yolei, are you coming?" Ken asked.

Yolei looked up at them, then stood. She nodded slightly and followed them out of the house. They crossed the barrier and walked back into the forest. They bame to a spot where there was a small crater in the ground.

"This must be where the bomb hit," T.K. said. He and Kari walked and stood at one place. "We stood here," he said. "And Davis was there." He pointed to a spot a yard away.

"Then Davis went that way," Ken said. "Let's go see."

The group followed Ken to where he thought Davis went.



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Davis was awake. He groaned as his head pounded. He felt a warm liquid dripping from his temple and lifted his right hand to touch it. He looked at his fingers, which were now covered with blood. It was painful to move around, so he stayed right where he was, just listening for sounds, but only hearing his own shallow breathing. He closed his eyes, hoping someone would find him soon.

He heard a rustle in the bushes and waited. A person in a black long jacket appeared and picked Davis up. The stranger pulled a small perfume bottle out of his jacket and sprayed it in Davis's face. Davis yelled for help, but soon fell asleep.



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"Did you hear that?" Yolei said, looking around.

"It sounded like a scream," Kan said.

The four ran towards the noise and saw nothing, but there were a few drops of blood on the grass, and they looked fresh.

"Someone's been here," Ken said.

"Let's keep looking," Kari said.

The four looked around for a while. Yolei leaned on a tree closing her eyes, as a wave of dizziness swept over her. "Yolei, are you okay?" Ken asked.

"Yeah," Yolei said. She opened her eyes. "Well, let's keep looking."



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Serena cried, not knowing any other thing to do. She didn't know what she was doing when she was in the digital world, she thought she was dreaming. But it was real, and the DigiGods just got rid of her, without even giving her a chance. 'They didn't do that to Ken Ichijouji,' Serena thought angrily. 'He was a mastermind, and had fun watching them suffer, but he was one of their best assets in fighting off the evil digimon. I can be a good asset, too. Genomon is powerful, and I bet I could destroy the DigiGods if she could digivolve to Ultimate.'

"Yes, you could," a voice said. It was cold and eerie, the Dark Ocean being the perfect place for it.

"Who are you?" Serena yelled.

"You could do great things with your digimon partner. You could be better than Ken, you're stronger."

"Tell me who you are!"

"You don't need to know. All you need to know about me is that I can help you rule the digital world. Revenge for the DigiGods banishing you to this horrid place."

Serena plugged her ears. "I'm not hearing this, I'm not hearing this..." She stood up.

"Fine, suit yourself. But I'm going to have fun with you here," the voice said.

A wave from the Ocean splashed Serena hard, knocking her down. She got back up and stomped around the Ocean shore pouting and cursing everyone, including the voice, the DigiGods, and the Digidestined for not being there already. But some things were were telling her to do different things. One said she should drown herself in the ocean. The second said she should dip her black and purple digivice in the ocean. A third said she should walk around and scream until she collapsed. A fourth said find a way out. A fifth said cry more. Serena shook her head, trying to get rid of the voices. She laid on the sand and tried to sleep, a way of forgetting her problems.



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"We've checked almost every inch of this forest and there's no sign of Davis!" T.K. said. "Let's head back. He probably found his way back."

"That's what we thought the last time, remember?" Kari said.

"He's got to be somewhere," Ken said. "He couldn't have just vanished into thin air."

Yolei leaned on a tree and closed her eyes again. Ken, T.K., and Kari all exchanged glances, then looked at Yolei. Something wasn't right; Yolei wasn't herself. Since she didn't want to say anything, they decided they wouldn't either. After a minute, Yolei took a deep breath and said, "Let's go find Davis." They continued walking.



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