Kari was leaning on Ken, her leg still aching. "We have to go back to save
Wargreymon!" Kari heard the sounds of battle from behind them suddenly
stop, and since Wargreymon hadn't returned, it was safe to assume
Cyberkabuterimon won.
"How?" Ken asked. "Gatomon's out of it, and besides, Wargreymon is at a Mega level. We aren't even close to his league. If Cyberkabuterimon defeated him, we don't stand a chance. "
Wormon was carrying Gatomon on his back. "What about if we hide in that building master?" Wormon motioned to the same black building with the gold pentagram TK, Davis, Veemon and Patamon were currently locked up in.
"A good as place as any. And please." Ken smiled at Wormon. "Don't call me master anymore."
Tears welled up in Wormon's eyes. "Of course, Ken." Wormon could see it, his Ken was back. He'd normally be over-joyed if not for the circumstances that surrounded his return.
"Ooohhh." Gatomon moaned, rolling off Wormon's back. "I know I'm alive. I can tell by the pain."
"Cyberkabuterimon knocked you out." Kari picked up Gatomon. "Agumon digivolved to Wargreymon and allowed us to escape."
"I have to help him!" Gatomon cried, squirming in Kari's grip.
"Gatomon, you're tired. And you won't be much help as a champion." Wormon replied from the ground.
Ken opened the doors slowly to the enormous black building. "Wormon's right. But if we can find the other digidestined and digimon, we'll have a chance to fight back." Ken walked into the building. He must admit he was surprised to find them unlocked. Of course, with enormous digimon patrolling the premises, locking doors would have been overkill. The inside of the halls was less impressive then the outside. The walls were featureless, with exposed vents and piping.
"Ladydevimon hasn't really spruced up this place." Kari looked around. All the doors where featureless metal slabs.
Suddenly Ken pulled Kari roughly into one of the rooms. Kari was about to say something, when Ken clamped a hand over her mouth. "Shhhh.." Ken whispered in Kari's ear.
Kari watched in horror as Myotismon walked down the halls. "Move it you pathetic creatures." Myotismon ordered. Hawkmon turned and gave Myotismon a nasty look, wanting to strike. "Don't try anything." Myotismon had one hand clamped on Yolei's neck. "Or the girl suffers."
"How could y'all be doing this?" Armadillomon looked back.
"Just be quiet and do as Myotismon says." Cody was walking next to Myotismon as the group walked down the halls.
Kari watched as they all turned the corner. Something seemed slightly out of place as Cody walked side by side with Myotismon. He still had his sword on him as well. Of course, Cody would hardly be a threat, with or without a weapon. "We should help them." Kari whispered.
"And we would just get captured ourselves." Ken replied. "This calls for stealth." Ken looked down at Gatomon. "You're the obvious choice. If someone spots you, just pretend to be your double."
Gatomon smiled and nodded. Kari hugged Gatomon. "Be careful."
"I will." Gatomon hugged back, before taking off in the direction of Myotismon.
Kari turned back towards Ken, who had busied himself with a computer terminal. "Wait." Kari pointed to a screen. "What's that?"
"It was there when I turned the monitor on." Ken answered as he clicked on the icon.
A room design pulled up. The room was apparently specially designed, with digizoidium walls, electric bars and infallible locks. Kari began reading the room's manifest. "Room 1-0043. Subject - Human. Reinforcement completed as specified."
"That must be Izzy's cell!" Kari exclaimed. It made sense. There would be no reason to keep a human in such a room, unless he had the powers of Mega digimon.
"How do you know that?" Ken asked. "Why would they keep Izzy in a room that could probably keep a Mega digimon contained? Why would they single Izzy out?"
Kari thought to herself for a moment. "I guess Ladydevimon considered him a threat because he's the only one who knows us." Kari decided not to tell Ken the whole truth, that Izzy's biological parents were Ladydevimon and Devimon. The two viral digimon had came to Earth eight years ago and had a child which appeared human, but secretly had the powers of a Mega digimon. The child, who would later be named Izzy, was given into the care of two humans when Ladydevimon and Devimon returned to the digital world. Kari decided it was not her place to tell Izzy's secrets. If Izzy wanted to tell Ken, Izzy would.
"I see." Ken replied. (She doesn't trust me with the whole truth.) Ken thought. (I don't really blame her; I did some terrible things. But I need to find out about Izzy.) "We better rescue him. I guess the 1-0043 stands for first floor, room 43."
"No. You stay here." Kari ordered. "Come and meet me when Gatomon comes back."
"Kari, I don't think this is a good idea." Wormon pleaded.
"Actually, Kari is right. Someone needs to wait here for Gatomon. I have to try and find out where the rest of the prisoners are kept." Ken smiled at Wormon. "And you and I need to talk Wormon." Ken looked back at Kari. "Just be careful."
"I always am." Kari ran out of the room. She began counting down the rooms as she ran down the hall. "40.41.42." Kari whispered as she closed in on her destination. "43." Kari stopped at the forty-third door at the end of the hall. There was obviously no reason to count. This door was obviously digizoidium. Even the walls were different, made out of the same indestructible material. Kari realized the flaw in her plan. "How am I supposed to get in?" Kari looked at the control panel. It was remarkably simple, a red button and a green button. Kari simply pressed the green button. There was a light humming as the door slid up into the ceiling. "I'll be. I guess Ladydevimon thought no one would be dumb enough to try and rescue anyone." Kari walked into the room. "Izzy?"
Izzy turned over in his cot. "Kari?" Izzy quickly sat up. "How on Earth?"
Kari grabbed Izzy's hand and pulled him off the bed. "Never mind, lets get out of here before we get caught!" Kari began to drag Izzy out into the hall.
Izzy bowed his head. "Why did you do this? You've just endangered yourself."
Kari sat down next to Izzy. "Don't worry, Ken is out there, he'll save us!"
"Ken? It can't be this world's Ken. You don't mean your Digimon Emperor Ken?" Izzy looked over Kari. "He tried to kill all of us in the first time line!"
"It's okay. Ladydevimon has his brother. You should have seen the change he went through Izzy." Kari reassured.
"I hope you're right." Izzy looked worried. "But I guess you ened all the help you can get..." Izzy took a deep breath his eyes turning red. "It's not like I've been much help to you."
Kari had never seen Izzy look so frustrated. She placed a hand on Izzy's shoulder. "Calm down, Izzy."
Izzy breathed in, his eyes turning back to normal. "Even if Ladydevimon didn't drain me of most of my power four years ago, I still probably would not be able to do anything. This is all my fault."
"How is that?" Kari sat down next to Izzy.
"If I had deleted Ladydevimon when we first met, none of this would have happened." Izzy answered.
"You didn't know. You could not have stopped her from stealing the digivices." Kari placed a hand on Izzy's shoulder.
"Yes it is. I failed everybody. Especially you." Izzy grabbed Kari's hand. "If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't be dead in this world. Tai wouldn't be mad. Davis and Yolei would still be alive."
"Izzy, hush." Kari whispered as she puler her hand back. "It's not your fault. I know you did everything possible to stop Ladydevimon." "No I didn't." Izzy shook his head as they turned the corner, back to the computer room. "Sorry it took so long." Ken said as he and Wormon looked up. They had just had a long discussion. Wormon looked nervous, glancing at Izzy. Gatomon came in a second later, back from following Myotismon obviously.
Izzy looked over Ken and whispered to Kari. "Are you absolutely sure we can trust him?"
"He wants to save his brother, and so do I." Kari replied. She turned to Gatomon, "Find anything?"
"They went into an elevator, and I couldn't follow them. But I watched the numbers. The elevator made two stops, one to the basement, and the other to the topmost floor." Gatomon described her little reconnaissance to everyone.
"We should split up. It's possible that Sam may be in this building as well." Ken turned to Izzy.
"Is that a good idea?" Gatomon asked.
"No, I agree with Ken." Izzy answered. "Me and Ken will take the elevator and start from the top of this building, while you go to the basement."
"All right then." Ken replied as he walked out of the cell. "Be careful you two."
Kari and Gatomon looked back. "You too." Kari replied as her and Gatomon went down a stairwell.
Izzy, Ken and Wormon walked to the elevator. Ken looked over at Izzy as they walked into the elevator. "Something wrong?" Ken asked Izzy as the doors opened.
Izzy looked Ken up and down as the elevator started its ascent. "The Ken in this world may have been a great hero, but I remember how you were from our time line. I don't trust you Ken."
Ken didn't take any notice of the insult. "I've been meaning to ask you Izzy, how come you can remember both time lines when no one else in this world can?" Ken asked as the elevator stopped at the top floor. "And why were you locked in that special cell? You seem to be getting special attention."
"None of your business." Izzy snapped. "But I have some questions for you."
"Oh?" Ken raised an eyebrow as the numbers counted off.
"I want to know where you stand." Izzy answered as the doors open.
"Does this answer your question?" Ken moved quickly, grabbing Izzy's arm and twisting it behind him.
"What are you doing?!" Izzy screamed as he was thrown into the wall roughly. Izzy turned around quickly, facing Ken.
"Wormon now!" Ken shouted as the small digimon.
"Sticky Net!" Wormon fired a net made of strong silk strands at Izzy, pasting him to the wall behind him.
"Nicely done Wormon." Ken mentioned as he walked to the wall. "Just like we planned. I wanted you alone as well Izzy. I obviously couldn't attack you with Kari around. A nice girl, but very naïve and trusting, wouldn't you agree?"
"What are you doing?!" Izzy repeated the question. His head was the only thing sticking out from the cocoon.
"We have a bit of a problem Izzy." Ken gripped a metal pipe on the wall. With a grunt of effort the pipe came free. There was a spray of water in the halls, drenching both boys, but Ken didn't seem to notice. "You and I have different goals. And you know all about me and I can't have that."
"What about your brother, Sam?" Izzy asked as Ken moved forward.
"First things first." Ken raised the pipe over Izzy's head.
"Don't you want to know why I remember both time lines before you kill me?" Izzy question stopped Ken for a second.
"I no longer care." Ken got ready to strike, but stopped all of a sudden.
Izzy's eyes were blood red. Black energy wrapped around him, destroying his silk confines. Ken screamed and struck at Izzy with the pipe, hitting him on the side of the neck. Izzy didn't flinch as the pipe rested on his shoulder. Izzy smirked at Ken. "You should."
"How?" Ken asked. "Gatomon's out of it, and besides, Wargreymon is at a Mega level. We aren't even close to his league. If Cyberkabuterimon defeated him, we don't stand a chance. "
Wormon was carrying Gatomon on his back. "What about if we hide in that building master?" Wormon motioned to the same black building with the gold pentagram TK, Davis, Veemon and Patamon were currently locked up in.
"A good as place as any. And please." Ken smiled at Wormon. "Don't call me master anymore."
Tears welled up in Wormon's eyes. "Of course, Ken." Wormon could see it, his Ken was back. He'd normally be over-joyed if not for the circumstances that surrounded his return.
"Ooohhh." Gatomon moaned, rolling off Wormon's back. "I know I'm alive. I can tell by the pain."
"Cyberkabuterimon knocked you out." Kari picked up Gatomon. "Agumon digivolved to Wargreymon and allowed us to escape."
"I have to help him!" Gatomon cried, squirming in Kari's grip.
"Gatomon, you're tired. And you won't be much help as a champion." Wormon replied from the ground.
Ken opened the doors slowly to the enormous black building. "Wormon's right. But if we can find the other digidestined and digimon, we'll have a chance to fight back." Ken walked into the building. He must admit he was surprised to find them unlocked. Of course, with enormous digimon patrolling the premises, locking doors would have been overkill. The inside of the halls was less impressive then the outside. The walls were featureless, with exposed vents and piping.
"Ladydevimon hasn't really spruced up this place." Kari looked around. All the doors where featureless metal slabs.
Suddenly Ken pulled Kari roughly into one of the rooms. Kari was about to say something, when Ken clamped a hand over her mouth. "Shhhh.." Ken whispered in Kari's ear.
Kari watched in horror as Myotismon walked down the halls. "Move it you pathetic creatures." Myotismon ordered. Hawkmon turned and gave Myotismon a nasty look, wanting to strike. "Don't try anything." Myotismon had one hand clamped on Yolei's neck. "Or the girl suffers."
"How could y'all be doing this?" Armadillomon looked back.
"Just be quiet and do as Myotismon says." Cody was walking next to Myotismon as the group walked down the halls.
Kari watched as they all turned the corner. Something seemed slightly out of place as Cody walked side by side with Myotismon. He still had his sword on him as well. Of course, Cody would hardly be a threat, with or without a weapon. "We should help them." Kari whispered.
"And we would just get captured ourselves." Ken replied. "This calls for stealth." Ken looked down at Gatomon. "You're the obvious choice. If someone spots you, just pretend to be your double."
Gatomon smiled and nodded. Kari hugged Gatomon. "Be careful."
"I will." Gatomon hugged back, before taking off in the direction of Myotismon.
Kari turned back towards Ken, who had busied himself with a computer terminal. "Wait." Kari pointed to a screen. "What's that?"
"It was there when I turned the monitor on." Ken answered as he clicked on the icon.
A room design pulled up. The room was apparently specially designed, with digizoidium walls, electric bars and infallible locks. Kari began reading the room's manifest. "Room 1-0043. Subject - Human. Reinforcement completed as specified."
"That must be Izzy's cell!" Kari exclaimed. It made sense. There would be no reason to keep a human in such a room, unless he had the powers of Mega digimon.
"How do you know that?" Ken asked. "Why would they keep Izzy in a room that could probably keep a Mega digimon contained? Why would they single Izzy out?"
Kari thought to herself for a moment. "I guess Ladydevimon considered him a threat because he's the only one who knows us." Kari decided not to tell Ken the whole truth, that Izzy's biological parents were Ladydevimon and Devimon. The two viral digimon had came to Earth eight years ago and had a child which appeared human, but secretly had the powers of a Mega digimon. The child, who would later be named Izzy, was given into the care of two humans when Ladydevimon and Devimon returned to the digital world. Kari decided it was not her place to tell Izzy's secrets. If Izzy wanted to tell Ken, Izzy would.
"I see." Ken replied. (She doesn't trust me with the whole truth.) Ken thought. (I don't really blame her; I did some terrible things. But I need to find out about Izzy.) "We better rescue him. I guess the 1-0043 stands for first floor, room 43."
"No. You stay here." Kari ordered. "Come and meet me when Gatomon comes back."
"Kari, I don't think this is a good idea." Wormon pleaded.
"Actually, Kari is right. Someone needs to wait here for Gatomon. I have to try and find out where the rest of the prisoners are kept." Ken smiled at Wormon. "And you and I need to talk Wormon." Ken looked back at Kari. "Just be careful."
"I always am." Kari ran out of the room. She began counting down the rooms as she ran down the hall. "40.41.42." Kari whispered as she closed in on her destination. "43." Kari stopped at the forty-third door at the end of the hall. There was obviously no reason to count. This door was obviously digizoidium. Even the walls were different, made out of the same indestructible material. Kari realized the flaw in her plan. "How am I supposed to get in?" Kari looked at the control panel. It was remarkably simple, a red button and a green button. Kari simply pressed the green button. There was a light humming as the door slid up into the ceiling. "I'll be. I guess Ladydevimon thought no one would be dumb enough to try and rescue anyone." Kari walked into the room. "Izzy?"
Izzy turned over in his cot. "Kari?" Izzy quickly sat up. "How on Earth?"
Kari grabbed Izzy's hand and pulled him off the bed. "Never mind, lets get out of here before we get caught!" Kari began to drag Izzy out into the hall.
Izzy bowed his head. "Why did you do this? You've just endangered yourself."
Kari sat down next to Izzy. "Don't worry, Ken is out there, he'll save us!"
"Ken? It can't be this world's Ken. You don't mean your Digimon Emperor Ken?" Izzy looked over Kari. "He tried to kill all of us in the first time line!"
"It's okay. Ladydevimon has his brother. You should have seen the change he went through Izzy." Kari reassured.
"I hope you're right." Izzy looked worried. "But I guess you ened all the help you can get..." Izzy took a deep breath his eyes turning red. "It's not like I've been much help to you."
Kari had never seen Izzy look so frustrated. She placed a hand on Izzy's shoulder. "Calm down, Izzy."
Izzy breathed in, his eyes turning back to normal. "Even if Ladydevimon didn't drain me of most of my power four years ago, I still probably would not be able to do anything. This is all my fault."
"How is that?" Kari sat down next to Izzy.
"If I had deleted Ladydevimon when we first met, none of this would have happened." Izzy answered.
"You didn't know. You could not have stopped her from stealing the digivices." Kari placed a hand on Izzy's shoulder.
"Yes it is. I failed everybody. Especially you." Izzy grabbed Kari's hand. "If it wasn't for me, you wouldn't be dead in this world. Tai wouldn't be mad. Davis and Yolei would still be alive."
"Izzy, hush." Kari whispered as she puler her hand back. "It's not your fault. I know you did everything possible to stop Ladydevimon." "No I didn't." Izzy shook his head as they turned the corner, back to the computer room. "Sorry it took so long." Ken said as he and Wormon looked up. They had just had a long discussion. Wormon looked nervous, glancing at Izzy. Gatomon came in a second later, back from following Myotismon obviously.
Izzy looked over Ken and whispered to Kari. "Are you absolutely sure we can trust him?"
"He wants to save his brother, and so do I." Kari replied. She turned to Gatomon, "Find anything?"
"They went into an elevator, and I couldn't follow them. But I watched the numbers. The elevator made two stops, one to the basement, and the other to the topmost floor." Gatomon described her little reconnaissance to everyone.
"We should split up. It's possible that Sam may be in this building as well." Ken turned to Izzy.
"Is that a good idea?" Gatomon asked.
"No, I agree with Ken." Izzy answered. "Me and Ken will take the elevator and start from the top of this building, while you go to the basement."
"All right then." Ken replied as he walked out of the cell. "Be careful you two."
Kari and Gatomon looked back. "You too." Kari replied as her and Gatomon went down a stairwell.
Izzy, Ken and Wormon walked to the elevator. Ken looked over at Izzy as they walked into the elevator. "Something wrong?" Ken asked Izzy as the doors opened.
Izzy looked Ken up and down as the elevator started its ascent. "The Ken in this world may have been a great hero, but I remember how you were from our time line. I don't trust you Ken."
Ken didn't take any notice of the insult. "I've been meaning to ask you Izzy, how come you can remember both time lines when no one else in this world can?" Ken asked as the elevator stopped at the top floor. "And why were you locked in that special cell? You seem to be getting special attention."
"None of your business." Izzy snapped. "But I have some questions for you."
"Oh?" Ken raised an eyebrow as the numbers counted off.
"I want to know where you stand." Izzy answered as the doors open.
"Does this answer your question?" Ken moved quickly, grabbing Izzy's arm and twisting it behind him.
"What are you doing?!" Izzy screamed as he was thrown into the wall roughly. Izzy turned around quickly, facing Ken.
"Wormon now!" Ken shouted as the small digimon.
"Sticky Net!" Wormon fired a net made of strong silk strands at Izzy, pasting him to the wall behind him.
"Nicely done Wormon." Ken mentioned as he walked to the wall. "Just like we planned. I wanted you alone as well Izzy. I obviously couldn't attack you with Kari around. A nice girl, but very naïve and trusting, wouldn't you agree?"
"What are you doing?!" Izzy repeated the question. His head was the only thing sticking out from the cocoon.
"We have a bit of a problem Izzy." Ken gripped a metal pipe on the wall. With a grunt of effort the pipe came free. There was a spray of water in the halls, drenching both boys, but Ken didn't seem to notice. "You and I have different goals. And you know all about me and I can't have that."
"What about your brother, Sam?" Izzy asked as Ken moved forward.
"First things first." Ken raised the pipe over Izzy's head.
"Don't you want to know why I remember both time lines before you kill me?" Izzy question stopped Ken for a second.
"I no longer care." Ken got ready to strike, but stopped all of a sudden.
Izzy's eyes were blood red. Black energy wrapped around him, destroying his silk confines. Ken screamed and struck at Izzy with the pipe, hitting him on the side of the neck. Izzy didn't flinch as the pipe rested on his shoulder. Izzy smirked at Ken. "You should."