And 'ere we are in chappy four! I'M SOOOOO SORRY I HAVEN'T UPDATED!!!!! I get distracted too easily..... ^-^; But anyway, how's everybody do'n? do ya like the story? Is it good? Is it bad? Does it make ya happy? Does it make ya sad? Lemme know how ya like it, savvy ? Can't make it better unless ya tell me what sucks ya know! (by the by thanks for all the reviews ^-^ ) Hm...don't have much else to say 'cept that I don't own digimon, though if anyone knows how, I would like to own tai and davis...and matt....and t.k.....eh...that can't be healthy can it? Anyway, here's the next chappy...enjoy ::bows::

After soccer practice (a few weeks after the BIG game) Sora, Tai, Izzy, and Matt headed for the elementary school (...or are Davis, Yolie, Kari, and T.K. in middle school...) to head for another fun day in the digi-world.

"Ok everyone's here can we go now?" whined Davis as soon as the older digi- destined arrived.

"Only to stop your whining. Digi-port, OPEN," yelled Yolie as she activated the portal.

Once they landed the group got up off the ground from their rough landing and looked around. "Um...where exactly are we anyway?" questioned Matt.

"Yolie where did you set this stupid thing anyway??" whined Davis (again).

Yolie looked like she was about to kill Davis, but remained calm, "Well, Davis unlike you I actually did some research and I found a spot near Ken's castle so I figured we could try to stop it from flying which would leave him immobile long enough for us to do some damage to his army and what not" she stated before turning away from him.

"Um...Yolie, I hate to get all soccer-nerdish on you but while it sounds like a good plan we're on his territory so he'd have an advantage, with all of his army on the castle and all..." Sora explained.

"Oh....that's a good point, I never thought of that! Maybe we should-"

"You never think! That's what makes you digi-destined infeior to me...Except for you." Ken said as he appeared out of the dense forest. He was starting at Sora.

"Me? What did I do? I just beat you at a game of soccer why the grudge?" she asked a bit surprised that he was still that angry.

"No one beats me and gets away with it! You are all incompetent!" Ken yelled with rage at her comment. (why? Who knows he is evil ya know)

"If they're so incompetent then how did Sora and Tai manage to beat you?" Davis taunted.

"Yea I do recall beating you just yesterday and if it weren't for us you wouldn't have a digi-world to attempt to take over!" Tai said angrily.

"I never lose!!" Ken ranted. (geeze I made him a little nuts didn't I?...sorry bout that...)

"Not anymore Mr. I-think-I-know-everything" countered Matt.

"What an insult," T.K. laughed.

T.K.'s comment was ignored by the older boys, "Just leave this battle to us old digi-destined. I feel like give'n this brat a piece of my mind" Tai said as he and Matt started to make their way towards Ken.

"Hm...," Ken smirked, "I don't feel like fighting you today. I just want her." He pointed to Sora.

"Oh yeah, I'm just gonna waltz over there for ya," Sora rolled her eyes.

"Fine, if you wont come quietly, we'll do this the hard way. It's more fun anyway." Ken laughed and sent out a dark ring that was headed straight at Sora. She barely dodged it before yelling "RUN!!!"

Everyone ran for the digi-port. The Dark Emperor shot another dark ring and this time it hit his target. Sora screamed as she fell to her knees, clutching the dark ring that had wrapped around her neck.

"SORA!" Tai cried out as he saw her fall. "Sora come on, you have to get up!" he said as he tried to help her up.

Ken smirked as he stood in front of the two. "I wouldn't take her through that portal if I were you. The ring will short circuit and...well, I think even you could figure out what would happen"

"What do you...want from...me" gasped Sora, the ring was starting to make breathing difficult.

"Well, I was just going to destroy you, but I get quite lonely in my castle all by myself. You would make a beautiful queen. You shall be my Dark Empress."

"Over my...dead...body...," she wheezed as the ring tightened even more.

"Oh that wont be necessary," Ken said w/ an evil smile, "if you don't do as I say your little pink friend will die." (I know that's very OOC...but I mean come on...it's gonna help the plot ^^;) with that one of his winged digimon came floating down with a cage that held Biyomon inside. Then he did something to the dark ring around Sora's neck and she fainted.

"NO!!!" Tai tried to stop him, but Ken picked up Sora and flew away before Tai could even stand up.

He watched in horror as Ken carried the unconscious Sora away, "Come on Tai, we can't help Sora right now. We don't even know where he took her. Right now we need to come up with a plane and it's not safe here," Kari said softly as she helped her brother get up.

"How could this happen?" Tai asked softly.

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"How could this happen?" Tai ranted as he paced back and forth.

"Tai stop acting like it's the end of the world. Sora maybe kidnapped but you of all people know she can take care of herself. She's no damsel in distress ya know," Matt said angrily.

Back in the computer lab Tai was fuming as Izzy typed away trying to locate Sora's digivice while the others tried to calm Tai down.

"Guys this is gonna take a while and we need to make an excuse for why Sora can't come home." Izzy said matter-of-factly.

"I'll take care of that, be back in a flash!" Kari said as she raced out the door. She didn't want Tai to have a panic attack. (poor tai...I should give him a hug...or 5...or 9876278345698274356......anyways...back to the story...) After what seemed like hours (to Tai anyway) Izzy finally stopped typing, "Ok, I have a plan-"

Tai cut Izzy off, "Since when do YOU make the plans? IM THE LEADER THAT'S MY JOB!!" he yelled.

Izzy looked at Tai like he was a five year old who wanted candy before dinner, "to be correct Tai, DAVIS is the leader seeing as this Dark Emperor is their mission, and I know you're upset but that's no reason to yell at everybody. It's not our fault." he said exasperatedly (is that a word?).

Tai sighed and ran a hand through his spiky hair (how he did I'll never know ^^;), "You're right, I'm sorry Izzy...so, what's your plan?"

~In Ken's Floaty Castle Thingy~

Sora slowly woke up to find herself in a huge room on a canopy bed (the kind w/ the curtains around the sides). The entire room was black; black sheets, black curtains, black floors, and black walls. The bed was on a circular platform that was floored with black carpet but the rest of the floor was a shiny black tile. Her school uniform had been replaced with a crimson tube top that exposed most of her torso and a skirt of the same color that that came to a point at her knees with black trim on it (ya know the kind of skirt that kinda looks like a triangle at the bottom?...well it's that). Her feet were bare except for a small black anklet which she supposed was another black ring, 'a little paranoid are we?' she thought to herself.

She took a look at her surroundings, "Where the heck am I?" she asked to no one in particular as she rubbed her sore neck.

"You're in my castle my dear and you look absolutely stunning," the digimon emperor answered as he looked at her while opening the curtains around the bed (OOC for Ken I know I know....like I already said I had to make Ken evil...don't hut me).

"Where is Biyomon and my friends?" Sora asked franticly when she realized that she really was Ken's prisoner and this wasn't just a dream.

"Oh don't worry, your little pink friend is fine for the time being. However your cowardly friends deserted you and went back to the real world without you. Some friends they are," he smirked.

"Well everyone is save and that's all that really matters to me," she answered as she sighed with relief that everyone had gotten away from harm.

Ken stared at her in shock, "you mean you don't care if they abandon you or not?!!"

Sora shook her head, "No, I don't mind that the left. They needed to regroup and make sure everyone else was ok. And they didn't abandon me, they'll come back and defeat you." she said more to assure herself than Ken.

~The next day back on good ol' Earth~

"Ok so does everybody know the plan?" asked Izzy.

Everyone answered "yes" in unison.

"Good, we only have to wait a couple more hours, then the sun will be down and Ken will be gon. Yolie do you have the coordinates set?" he asked.

"Yep, I got them as close to Ken's castle as I could without us being seen right away," she answered proudly.

"Tai, Matt? Did you call everyone's parents?" asked Joe, who was worried as always (yes he IS there, I just hadn't given poor Joe anything to say yet ^^:;)

"For the thousandth time yes!!!" Tai answered exasperatedly. He couldn't take just sitting there for much longer. Sora could be in real danger. The dream flashed though his mind, 'I have to help her' he though to himself.

Kari looked sadly at her brother, she knew how much he liked Sora and that he was in a hurry to save her, "Calm down Tai, it's time to go anyway," Kari said calmly as she glanced at the clock.

"Oke then let's go get Sora and teach Ken never to mess with the digidestand!" said T.K. "Digiport Open!"

With that they were on their way to the dig world, "Ow! We really have to get some pillows to land on or something or else I'll never be able to sit down again," Yolie complained as they landed.

"Maybe we could find a soft digimon to land on," suggested Cody as he rubbed his now sore bum (I'm SO SORRY!!! I completely fogot about Cody!!! I feel really bad now ()

"Oh stop complaining you two, we have a castle to find," said T.K.

"You're right T.K. I'm sorry," apologized Docy, "but shouldn't we make sure Ken's not here first?"

"Don't be a worry wart , Cody, you're start's to sound like Joe," Tai joked.

Joe wasn't too happy with that comment and glared at Tai. Tai sweat dropped and before he could say anything Izzy interrupted, "This way! I'm getting a reading off Sora's digivice!" (...the old dig destined still take their digivices w/ them right?).

"Well let's go then! This place is starting to freak me out" said Kari as they all began to pick up the pace and follow Izzy.

"Just wait 'til we get IN the castle," smirked Matt.

"MATT!" everyone groaned.

"Don't worry, Kari. I'll protect you!" exclaimed Davis.

Everyone rolled their eyes and sweat dropped. After following Izzy's directions they finally made it to the castle, "Ok there are a few guards but nothing our digimon can't handle," Cody said after scouting the front of the castle.

"Let's hurry up and take them out before they call for re-enforcements!" T.K. said. And with that the new dig destined went off to take care of the guard problem.

After they got in, Izzy set up his laptop and tried to find a map of the castle and a signal from Sora, 'Hold on Sora, I'm coming!' thought Tai as they started to walk down one of the many long, dark corridors. After climbing many stairs and going down many hallways, they came to one that was heavily guarded.

"Well that's just a little suspicious," commented Patamon.

"I'm guessing Sora's in one of these rooms?" Matt asked Izzy. "Yep, but we have to find the right one. We want to cause as little attention as possible" Izzy explained as he tried to locate Sora on his laptop.

T.K. rolled his eyes, "I could be wrong but I hitnk it's the one with the 10 veggimon in front of it,"

"Wow T.K. is so smart. Why didn't you notice that Davis?" Veemon asked.

Davis fell over anime-style, "I...uh...was uh....just gonna point that out but T.A. just said it first." he stuttered.

The others narrowed their eyes (like this -_-...'cept w/ the little dot eyes too). "Riiiiight. Can we just attack them now?" Gatomon asked, slightly annoyed.

"Let's go!" said Agumon as they charged at the unsuspecting veggimon.

They defeated all the guards rather quickly and were about to go try to open the door when Cody noticed something, "...hey T.K. didn't you say there were 10 guards?"

"Yeah, why do you ask?" T.K. questioned.

"Well...there's only 9 here..."Cody answered as everyone looked around.

"Oh no! One of them is getting away!" Yolie shouted as she saw the last guard dissapear around the corner.

"We can't worry about that now. Let's just get Sora and Biyomon and get out of here!" T.K. said as he headed to the door the veggimon had been guarding.

"T.K.'s right, let's go!" agreed Kari as she followed T.K.

Tai knocked on the door, "Sora? You in there? It's me, Tai...the others are here too..."

"Well it's great to hear from you guys but there's a slight problem, ya know the metal Metal Edamon (is that his name?) was made out of? Well the door's made out of that....nothing can knock it down...I've tried..." Sora answerd from behind the door, even though she was glad Tai...and her other friends where here, she knew the door wouldn't budge.

"I can think of one way! Veemon do your stuff!" Davis shouted triumphantly (I mean come on he finally thought of a good idea....how often does that happen?).

"I'm on it! VEE-HEADBUTT!!!" no sooner had it been said then the door fell down in pieces.

Sora appeared from the dust as it cleared, "Ok...that's ONE way to break it down I guess...." she sweat dropped as she looked at Veemon who seemed to have gotten a large bump on his head in the process.

"Ok anyway 2 things, number one, WATCH IT!!! You almost hit me with the door! And two, shhh!!!! Someone'll hear you!" Sora said as the dust started to settle.

"Is that anyway to thank your rescueres?" Tai started to joke until her saw Sora's new "look." He looked away so no one would see him turn beet red.

"Well sorry Tai, but I've been trying to get these stupid dark rings off and I'm not really in a peppy mood." Sora frowned.

"Nice duds , Sora," Kari said sarcastically.

"It's not like I had a choice in the matter ya know" Sora answered, smiling down at Kari.

"Um...I hate to break up this reunion but we should find Biyomon and get out of here...and um..what do you mean by 'dark rings' I thought you only had one?" Joe said with worry.

"Well there's the one on my neck as you can see and there's also one on my foot," Sora answered as she showed them the little black ring on her ankle.

"Why are there two?" asked Yolie.

Sora shrugged, "I dunno maybe Ken's worried that you guys will come and get me. I dunno the way that sicko thinks. But hey, I can't complain, at least he doesn't know about black gears," she joked.

"Well at least you look on the bright side," laughed T.K.

"Okay okay, let's get out of here before we get caught" Joe said as he looked uneasily around the dark hallway.

"You got it! Follow me, we should go destroy the controls first so the ship/castle wont be mobile for a while." Sora said as she started walking down the hallway in the opposite direction of the exit.

"You know where the control room is?" asked Cody.

"Ken spent the whole day showing me his stupid castle so I figured it might do me some good to know where things are...so I can get out of here."

They battled their way down each hallway as the made their was towards the control room.

"Are we there yet?" complained Joe, "I don't think this is good for me," he wheezed.

"Don't worry we're almost there," Sora said as she hopped over a couple of unconscious guards and broke into a run.

"Geeze Sora slow down. For being in a skirt you're moving REALLY fast!" Tai said as he tried to keep up.

"Oh stop complaining Tai, you can never keep up with me anyway," she smirkled as she turned the corner. She stopped so abruptly everyone everyone fell over like dominoes.

"We're here....Gomamon, move your flipper willya?" Sora said as she ried to stand up.

"Hey Veemon get the door will ya?" Davis asked.

"You got it!" he head butted the door and Sora peaked through and stopped in here tracks.

"What is it?" asked Kari.

"Nevermind...just follow me," she said as she went into the room. She had seen a movement on one of the moniters that had stopped for a second and then disappeared. JShe had a bad feeling about that figure.

"Izzy, tell me you can give this thing a virus or something." Sora pleaded as she showed them the panels that made the ship operate. "I could blast it," offered Augumon.

"It would blow up in our faces," Gatomon answered flatly.

"Oh yeah..."

"I can try to put a virus into it but I don't know how to get into his mainframe," Izzy frowned as he tried to hack into it.

"Izzy maybe we should just go.." Tentamon said worriedly.

"Yeah Tentamon's right maybe we should just go..."Sora said nervously as they went out of the control room.

"Care to show us the exit Ms. Tour Guid?" Matt asked sarcastically.

"Not a problem, let's get out of here." she said as they ran off towareds the exit.

They ran until they found the closest gate to get back home, "alright now we have to figure out how to get this THING off me so we can go back home," Sora said as she tugged at the ring around her neck.

"Going somewhere my empress?" Ken called from the flying digimon he was on.

"As a matter of fact I was just on my way out," Sora answered wryly.

~That's all for now ^-^

HAHA!!! A bit of a cliff hanger no? I hope you like it ^-^ um...hm...don't really think I have anything else to say at the moment.....so um....yeah...until next time I guess ::bows::