Chapter Two

"So, Koushiro, are you ready to have some fun?" asked the long blonde-haired teenage girl.

"Who are you? What are you doing at my house?" questioned Koushiro.

"You can call me Shuurai," said the girl. Shuurai reached behind her and grabbed her digicurse. "My vice is Cluelessness. Such a pity. I suppose your virtue is Knowledge?"

"My...virtue? Oh, my crest, do you mean that? Wait a second, if I have a virtue, and you have a vice, wouldn't that make you the opposite of me?"

"Why, yes. It would." Shuurai shot a bolt of electricity from her digicurse, striking Koushiro in the chest. Koushiro fell to his knees in pain.

"Koushiro! Are you okay?" Tentomon asked, coming up behind him. "What do you want from us?" he asked her. "We didn't do you any harm!"

"I want you to perish!" yelled Shuurai as she shot a second bolt. This time, however, the bolt dissipated before it got to Koushiro. Shuurai tried again, and again the bolt dissipated. "What wrong with this thing?" she yelled, shaking the digicurse.

"Nothing. I just set up a barrier around him," said a voice. Shuurai turned around. Beth stood there smirking.

"Who are you?"

"I am Beth Wagner, Digipure of Kindness."

"Which one? The kindness that forms friendships or the kindness that bonds them together?"

"What do you mean by that?"

"Just shut up and die!" Shuurai shot another bolt of lightning out of her digicurse, this time aimed at Beth. Beth dodged it and seemingly disappeared. "Where are you?" Shuurai quizzed. "Show yourself!"

"Right behind you!" yelled Beth as she swung her fist. The impact sent Shuurai to another road. Beth turned to Koushiro. "Are you alright?"

"I—I'm not sure. I think so," answered Koushiro.

"Here, let me help you up." As Beth helped Koushiro up, Koushiro groaned and clutched the place where the bolt had struck him. "We'll have to get that looked at," said Beth. "Call your family. As long as you're alive, they're in danger as well."

"What's going on?" asked Tentomon.

"That will be explained when we get you to safety."

Koushiro called for his family. When the rest of his family came, his adopted mother gave a fright. "What have you done to Koushiro?" Mrs. Izumi asked.

"She saved my life, Mom," Koushiro answered.

"Bethany, locate the Digipure of Logic," commanded Beth.

Eugene's other android popped out of Beth's pocket. "Scanning for Eugene!" she cried as she thrust her index finger into the air. A miniscule device protruded out of the finger and started to spin rapidly. "Eugene is approaching the location of the Digipure of Destiny as we speak!"

"And where exactly would that be?"

"That way!" Bethany pointed northwest.

Beth rolled her eyes. "Why did Eugene program you to act like Sumomo?" she groaned.

"What! Sumomo! Where!" exclaimed an excited Bethany as she looked around.

"Just lead us to him!" yelled Beth.

"You mean Sumomo's not here?" whined Bethany. Koushiro started to laugh.

"No! She's not! Why would she be in our dimension? She's from the Chobits dimension! Now let's go!"

Bethany hopped out of the pocket and started off toward Eugene's location as Beth, Koushiro, and his family followed.

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"Iori, what's going on? Who's at the door?" asked Mrs. Hida.

"Iori, why don't you come out? I'm not going to bite...much," said the young boy with short silver hair. "Come on, why do you hesitate?"

Iori stood at the door with Armadillomon by his side. "Who are you?" he asked.

"Me? I am Doom. I am Zatsuon. You are Destiny, are you not? It's a pity I have to do this," said Zatsuon.

"Do what?" asked Cody.

"Why, kill you, of course!" laughed Zatsuon. Iori started back into his home when Zatsuon's digicurse shot a sonic blast throughout the house, shattering all the glass. Iori's mother screamed and his stepfather came to see what was going on. Iori tried to flee from Zatsuon, but Zatsuon grabbed his arm and held him back. "You're not going anywhere," he said.

"Let me go!" Iori yelled. His ears still rang from the sonic blast. Zatsuon fell limp. Eugene now stood in the doorway.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

"Yes," answered Iori. "Did you do that?"

"Yes, I pressed a point on his body that makes him fall limp for about three minutes. We have to get out of here as soon as possible."

Eugene helped Iori's family out of the house and together they headed down the street. Inju spoke up. "Elizabeth and the Digipure of Knowledge are headed toward us."

"From which direction?" asked Eugene.

"Southeast. Adjusting route... Follow me!" Inju jumped out of the duffel bag and headed towards Beth and the others. Eugene followed with the Hida family and their digimon.

Zatsuon got up. "You will pay for interfering with my mission!" he screamed.

"Let me guess, your mission is to destroy the digipure and have the new digital world be pure evil. Was I close?" said Eugene.

Zatsuon froze. "Who are you? How do you know that?"

"I am the Digipure of Logic."

Zatsuon took out his digicurse. "So then, you, too, must die!" he said as he shot another sonic blast.

"Acid Barrier," said Eugene, his arm stretched out in front of him. The blast stopped dead in its tracks. Confused, Zatsuon called for his digimon, Armordramon. "A mega-level digimon? Too easy." Eugene rushed at Armordramon and reduced it to its in-training form, Blackupamon, with a single punch. "Don't think I haven't trained for several digital millennia for nothing!" laughed Eugene. In a panic, Zatsuon took Blackupamon and fled.

"How'd you do that?" asked Iori.

"I first went to the digital world six years ago. Time flew much differently in the digital world back then. I'll explain the rest later, when everyone is safe."

Eugene and the Hida family continued following Inju. Beth and the Izumi family, led by Bethany, soon came into view. "Eugene sighted! DADDY!" exclaimed Bethany. The android ran up and jumped at Eugene with such force that it knocked him over.

"Daddy?" questioned Beth, the Hida family, and the Izumi family. Eugene looked as confused as they did.

"Since when am I your 'Daddy'?" asked Eugene.

"You built and programmed me, didn't you?" responded Bethany.

"Are there bugs in her learning program?" asked Beth.

Eugene chuckled, stood up, and grabbed his digivice. Bethany held on to his shirt. "Bethany, could you get down now?" he asked. Bethany let go and dropped to the ground. "Why don't you two go back into the bag for a while?" Bethany and Inju went into Eugene's duffel bag. Eugene opened another portal. "Follow me, unless you want to go head to head with another digicursed."