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LOVE'S TRUE STRENGTH

Chapter Six: Evidence Supporting the Fact

Kari stretched out her arms as she yawned awake. What a horrible dream she had just had? Imagine the Digimon Emperor kidnapping her. She laughed to herself. Then she opened her eyes. Her room was black. She sat up quickly and let out a scream.

"It wasn't a dream," she gasped, her heart pounding.

Her door suddenly opened. Kari jumped in fright and pulled the covers up to her chin. It was Wormon. He scuddled into the room.

"The Digimon Emperor heard you scream and asked me to check on you," Wormon told her. "Are you all right?"

No, she was not all right! She was trapped in a evil base with freaky digimon and a psycho emperor. How could she be all right? Despite that, she nodded.

"Is there anything you need?" He asked her.

Kari shook her head vigorously.

"Call me if you need anything," Wormon told her as he turned and left.

The door remained open. Kari thought escaping would be a nice option at the moment, so she jumped out of the bed and ran into the hallway, which was a lot lighter than it had been the night before. She looked to her left, then to her right. They looked the same. She chose right. Kari only walked a few meters before a door right in front of her opened. The Digimon Emperor stood there. Kari froze. The Digimon Emperor looked her up and down and appeared almost agitated. It was then that Kari remembered that she wore only a short nightgown. She blushed.

"Uh...um..." the Digimon Emperor sputtered. He closed his eyes for a second and regained his composure. Then he continued, "I have to leave the base."

He walked by Kari and started down the hall.

"Where're you going?" Kari asked, following him.

"I have a little business with your friends," the Digimon Emperor told her, but not even looking her way.

"You aren't going to hurt them, are you?" Kari demanded.

"I just might," the Digimon Emperor grumbled.

"Wait! Don't go!" Kari pleaded.

"I know you tried to escape last night, so don't even pretend that you'll actually miss me," The Digimon Emperor shot at her.

"I can't believe you're leaving me here alone!" Kari exclaimed.

"Do me a favor," the Emperor told her. "Just don't burn my base down."

Kari stopped following him and folded her arms indignantly. The Digimon Emperor opened a door at the end of the hall. Light gushed in, almost blinding Kari. She understood now why he wore sunglasses. Kari squinted at his dark figure in the doorway.

"By the way," he called to her, the wind whistling almost too loud to be able to hear him, "don't bother trying to escape again. There's no way out without my authorization code. And I told Getamon to watch you. Don't give her any trouble."

"What am I supposed to do here?" Kari yelled to him.

"I don't care," he shouted back. "Get lost, create a control spire. Do whatever you want to."

With that, his figure disappeared behind the closed door. Kari let out a frustrated breath. Create a control spire indeed! Kari turned and walked back toward her bedroom. When she opened the door that she thought was her bedroom, she found that it was full of dark rings.

She gasped, "Where's my room?"

Kari turned down several corridors and ran for a long time. She couldn't find a thing that was familiar. But what was really different? All these dark halls looked exactly alike.

"Help!" She cried. "Someone help me!"

Kari sat down as tears came to her eyes. She didn't like this place. She wanted to go home.

"Lost?"

Kari looked up to see Getamon.

"Yes," Kari sniffled, wiping her tears away.

"I can show you to wherever you want to get to," Getamon offered, her smile too mischievous to trust, but what other choice did Kari have.

"Can you show me to my room?" Kari asked, standing up.

"This way," Getamon said as she started down the corridor.

Kari followed her, trying to calm her shaking. Getamon led her down several corridors, then passed a large room with the door open. Kari glanced inside. There was merely a chair, a computer console and a giant screen.

"What's that?" Kari asked.

"The master's viewing room," Getamon told her.

"Do you think I'm allowed in there?" Kari wondered aloud.

"If you weren't, I don't think he would have left the door open," Getamon informed.

Kari took a step into this room. She half-expected some booby trap to spring on her. Nothing happened. She walked over to the chair and sat down. The computer screen suddenly lit up and showed what looked like a computer desktop.

"I wonder if he has games on this thing," Kari said as she looked around the desktop icons.

Getamon just stood by and watched with uncertainty. Kari spotted a icon that said "digidestined" by it. She clicked on that. In that folder, there was a list of the digidestined and their digimon. Kari clicked on Gatomon. A large picture of her white cat digimon appeared on the screen, her big blue eyes staring at Kari. She missed Gatomon so much.

"Wasn't I based on her?" Getamon asked, staring up at the screen.

"Yup," Kari nodded.

"Tell me about her," Getamon requested.

Kari smiled down at Getamon, asking, "What do you want to know?"

Getamon jumped up into Kari's lap and looked up at the screen. "Tell me how you met her?"

"Well, it was a long time ago," Kari told Getamon as she pet her soft fur. "Gatomon was actually one of the bad digimon after my brother and his friends. She had been brainwashed by Myotismon when she was young. She didn't remember that she was the eighth digimon who was supposed to belong with me. When she finally realized this, she digivolved to Angewomon and defeated Myotismon once and for all."

"Wow!" Getamon sighed. "Do you think I could digivolve?"

"I'm not sure," Kari mused. "We'll have to ask Ken when he comes back."

"Maybe we could look up my file on Ken's computer," Getamon suggested, reaching over to the keyboard.

"Do you know where it is?" Kari asked.

"I should be under the Kari file," Getamon explained, tapping away at the keys.

"I have my own file?" Kari giggled.

Getamon continued searching until she found the Kari file. She opened it and there were four strange icons inside. One was a regular folder without a name, one was a camera, another was a wrapped box with a bow and the last was a cat face.

"I'm going to guess I'm the cat," Getamon giggled.

"Nah, I think you're the camera," Kari joked.

"Let's click that one then," Getamon laughed, clicking the camera, just out of fun.

The whole screen went black.

"Ah-oh," Getamon said, cuddling close to Kari. "What'd I do?"

Suddenly, Kari appeared on the screen. She was laughing and jumping up and down. Her and the digidestined had just destroyed a control spire. The screen skipped to another video of Kari laying on the ground with Gatomon purring beside her. Kari watched herself sit up and stretch, her shirt coming up to reveal her belly. The screen skipped again to Kari standing with her eyes closed. The Digimon Emperor came up behind her and clasped that necklace around her neck. There was a tenderness in his eyes as he looked at her. The screen went black.

"How-How'd he get all that?" Kari asked, touching the necklace she was still wearing.

"The Digimon Emperor has cameras all over the digital world," Getamon told her.

"But he has all that film of me," Kari went on, confused.

"He likes you, Kari," Getamon insisted, glancing up at her. "Why else would he do all the strange things he's been doing? He's doing it all for you."

Kari bit her lip. It was true. The Digimon Emperor did like her. She couldn't believe it. She kept convincing herself that what she was sensing was wrong, but now she knew it was true. Ken loved her.

A/N: I really wish you guys could see the drawings I've done of Getamon. She's so cute, in an evil-looking way. She's awsome. I really wish you could see her.