AN: Wow, I am so sorry. I meant to have this chapter out last week, but my little sister had a dance competition and I was dragged along to Cincinatti -_-;; So... this is a bit later than I had intended for it to be.

Thanks to everyone who reviewed the last chapter! I'm glad you enjoyed it, for those of you who did. I feel really bad about the Milleniumon thing... Um, I'm making no promises, but if someone has a really good website with info they want to rec, I might consider making him the final villain... might. But if I don't know anything about him there's no way I'm going to attempt to write him in. That's just insane.

...however, I think Lavos, The Time Apocalypse was really the only one who was upset about that, and he sounded so disgusted with me I doubt he's still reading this... uum, I'm sorry!! I had no idea it would be such a big deal.

And now for the chapter. It's obviously based off the show- again- but this is the last one for awhile. Probably the last one ever, but I can't exactly guarantee that since I don't have this all written out yet ^^;; So, I hope you enjoy it! It's in Ken's POV again.

~Chapter 3.

They had wanted him to join them. The idiots, the insects, those good- for-nothing Chosen Children had wanted him, the Digimon Kaiser, to switch sides and join them! But then again, they already thought he had turned from evil, the fools!

Two of them, Motomiya and Takaishi, had approached him about a week after the... well, what he liked to refer to as the "Chimeramon Incident." From that, it wasn't exactly obvious what had happened, who had stopped listening to whom, who had been betrayed, who had been stripped of their power and left with nothing, and the like. He wanted, no, needed it to remain that way. The wounds to his pride were still fresh, and stung when his mind sought to torment him with the memories of his... of his... failure...

"Ichijouji?" his main rival, Motomiya, had begun, approaching him as he stood looking at a nearby body of water. "I was... well, all of us, really... we were wondering if you wanted to help us rebuild the Digital World?"

From the corner of his eye, Ken could make out a blonde head, bedecked with an absolutely retarded-looking fishing hat which was, in turn, topped with an even more retarded-looking ball of digital fluff. The two creatures, quite obviously Takaishi and his lame-excuse for a digimon partner, Patamon, were standing some distance above them, the boy's arms dangling from the railing that separated him from the conversation below. Despite that, Ken knew he was listening to every word, just the same.

"I'm no longer welcome in the Digital World," Ken replied abruptly in a clipped tone, but wore a rather wounded expression to appear as if the information was painful to him. "I went back there to get Wormmon, because you said he would be there, but when I got there... they taunted me, and... and said so many things..." He blinked his eyes rapidly and his breath hitched, looking to the world as if he were about ready to cry.

Motomiya snorted. "What were you expecting, a 'welcome back' party with gifts and a giant cake?" The boy clapped a hand to his mouth as if to stop the words from leaving, even though it was already much too late. "I mean- Sorry," he mumbled hastily, just as a frustrated groan was sounded from above. "Hey!" the boy shouted in response. "If you're so worried up there, why don't ya just come down here and help me?" Soon enough, Ken found himself facing not only Motomiya, but Takaishi as well.

"Have you also come here to lecture me?" Ken asked disdainfully. To his surprise, and slight horror, Takaishi only grinned and shook his head.

"Nope," the blonde replied. "We're only here because we believe you're really sorry for what you've done, and we thought you might want to help us rebuild things... you know, to make up for everything?"

Ken couldn't believe his ears, but instead of laughing hysterically like he wanted to do, he managed to keep up his façade and shook his head ever so slightly. "I want to thank you for you concern," he began, "but I don't think this will work out. You two may have forgiven me, but I doubt your teammates have. Otherwise they would be here with you, wouldn't they?"

Both Motomiya and Takaishi were silent, the former also sporting a slightly guilty expression: a dead giveaway Ken was correct. He couldn't stop a slight smile from ruining his somber expression, but neither of the two boys seemed to notice. Ken sighed. "I wouldn't want to be the cause of any strife amidst your numbers, so I will be taking my leave," he murmured and turned to walk away.

"You would do well to forget about me. The support of you two alone will not be a very warm welcome back to the Digital World, and I don't think any of us will be able to accomplish much when we have an entire world to fight off."

And with that said, the Digimon Kaiser left the two boys standing in a mixture of both embarrassment and shock.

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Thanks for reading!! Please review and let me know how you liked it. Things will start to get really interesting in the next chapter, so I hope you'll read it!