Ken sighed as he walked with the others in the digital world. he noticed that the moment they walked into the Digi Town the others suddenly separated themselves away from Ken. He wondered why.

Yolei, being the only one who was close to him noticed too, and whispered into ken's ear, "Doesn't this place look familiar to you at all?"

It had been a week since Yolei had been sick, so it was safe for them to be close.

Ken shook his head, wracking his brain to try and remember. Everything from his emperor days were fuzzy and blurry. he couldn't remember anything. All he could remember was the beatings and cruelty towards everyone and Wormmon. He couldn't remember any places, battle strategies...anything that was important. He looked down at the little digimon in question and gave him a reproaching look.

"Trust me Ken, you don't want to remember" said the critter with sad eyes. Ken sighed. Yolei hugged him arm and decided that perhaps it would be best if she told him so that he knew why the others were acting the way they were.

"Ken, this is one of the many towns you destroyed with the help of Kimeramon. You destroyed all these homes" she said sadly.

Ken looked around at him in wide-eyed shock. he had known that he had done damage to the digital world, but this kind of damage.

Buildings were in ruins. What looked to be stores and houses wrecked. Destruction everywhere. And he caused it all.

He pulled away from Yolei and hugged Wormmon, who was in his arms, tighter.

"Ken..."whined Yolei.

Ken shook his head, making Yolei know that he wanted to alone.

Davis, who was in the lead, stopped in the middle of the Digi town and turned around, facing everyone.

"Okay you guys, you know what to do. Let's make this place back to the way it was!" he said in an all too cheery voice.

"Before I came and ruined everything" mumbled Ken. Even though he mumbled, everyone heard. They looked at him but said nothing.

"Look Ken, we know you're sorry. You can't change what's in the past, but-" Ken cut him off.

"But you can change what's in your future. I know. Wormmon here has said that a million times" Ken said, trying to laugh. He hugged Wormmon one last time before letting him on the ground.

"Ready Wormmon?" he asked, getting out his black digivice.

"I was born ready" replied Wormmon triumphantly.

"Wormmon digivolve to...Stingmon!"

Moments later, everyone else's digimon had digivolved and were ready to get to work.

It was about two hours later that things started to heat up.

Cody and Ken were currently both working on a small store that was crushed in. The two were silent, never saying a word. Ken was painting the door out on the road and Cody was painting the railing of the door while Digmon and Stingmon worked inside.

"Hold it Stingmon!" he heard Digmon cry. Cody looked into the store and saw that they were trying to get a beam that had fallen back into place.

Cody looked back at Ken and saw that he was busy painting. He got back to work. Ten minutes later, Ken ran out paint. He stood up and walked over to Cody.

"Cody, I've run out of red paint, do you know where's there's anymore?" he asked innocently.

Cody nodded. "Yeah, it's inside on the other side of where Digmon and Pingmon are working."

Ken nodded. He was about to go in when he turned back to Cody. "His name is Stingmon, not Pingmon. Just in case0 you didn't know" he said.

"I knew" snapped Cody curtly.

"Then why did you call him Pingmon?" asked Ken, ignoring Cody's resentful glances at him.

Cody didn't reply, so Ken walked in to get the paint. Stingmon and Digmon were still trying to get the beam to stay into place.

"Excuse me" called Ken as he ducked under them.

Ken found the paint sitting on a block of wood. He grabbed it, made sure it was the right color and started making his way back. Ken was about to walk underneath them when he heard Cody call out.

"Digmon, help!" he called.

Digmon, worrying about his partner, let go of his part of the beam, making Stingmon hold the whole beam. "Wait!" he called. Ken, who was already underneath the beam, didn't have time to even react when the beam came crumbling down on him.

"Aww!" he cried. Ken landed on his stomach, the heavy beam on top of his back. He fell unconscious.

"KEN!" cried Stingmon. With all his strength, Stingmon was able to move the beam off ken. The giant bug scooped his partner into his arms to see if he was alright. He cradled Ken his strong green arms, wondering if he would be okay. That was when the anger settled in. Stingmon looked up and saw Digmon and Cody outside. It looked as though Cody had stupidly stepped into some quick drying cement without realizing it. Digmon was currently trying to break him free with his "Rock Cracking" attack.

Cody was free by the time Stingmon said anything.

"Look at what you did" he hissed at the two.

Digmon and Cody looked up to see a seething Stingmon holding a knocked out Ken.

"What happened?" asked Cody.

"You two is what happened" snapped the bug. "When you left me in charge of the beam it made me drop it and making crash down on Ken!"

"Well don't blame me for your mistake" Digmon retaliated.

"My fault? It was yours! You just had to leave me in charge to see Cody" replied Stingmon.

"Yeah, cause he was in trouble. You'd have done the same thing if things were the other way around" snapped Digmon.

Stingmon just glared at the pair for a moment, and then flew off.

He had to get away from the two of them. Just thinking about Digmon and Cody made him sick.

He laid Ken down on the ground next to a tree a ways off. he looked around. Davis and Yolei were not very far off, and neither were Kari and TK. Stingmon decided that Davis and Yolei would be the best two to help. They knew Ken better than the rest.

He flew over towards them, leaving Ken alone.

"Yolei?" he asked timidly. Yolei, who had been hammering, looked up and saw Stingmon.

"Yeah?" she asked.

"Its Ken" was all the digimon had to say.

"W-What happened to him? Is he okay?" she asked frantically.

"I don't know. I was hoping you could tell me. Come on" he said, and with that showed Yolei the way, Davis, who had been listening, followed.

"Something happened. A beam came down on him when Digmon and I were working. Cody called for Digmon's help when he and I were putting the beam up and I dropped it, and now Ken's unconscious. The beam had fallen on top of Ken" explained Stingmon.

Davis and Yolei gasped. "You think he's going to be okay?" asked Davis.

Stingmon shrugged. "I don't know."

When they reached the tree ken wasn't there.

"ken?" called his digimon. "ken? Where are you?"

"Right here Stingmon" came Ken's voice. He voice was filled with moaning pain.

The three looked around the tree to see ken lying there. His eyes were closed. "What happened to me?"

"A beam fell over you" answered Stingmon. Seconds later Stingmon de-digivolved to little Wormmon, who crawled onto Ken's lap. Ken, surprised, pushed him off.

"Sorry! S'just that my chest and back hurt. Hard to breathe" whispered Ken.

Yolei and Davis kneeled next to Ken and looked him over.

"You should see a doctor man" suggested Davis.

"yeah" Yolei agreed.

"Okay. I'll just go home. The doctor was supposed to come and check on me anyway. I'll say I tripped down the steps at school today" replied ken, trying to stand. With the help of Davis and Yolei, Ken was able to stand.

That was when Cody walked up.

Yolei saw him and scowled.

"Cody!" she yelled.

"What?" he asked. He ignored Ken and Wormmon completely.

"Because of you and your stupid Digimon, Ken may now have a broken rib and is having problems breathing!" cried Yolei.

Cody looked over at ken, who was still trying to gain his balance on standing.

"That wasn't my fault" he said quietly. This only made Yolei more mad.

"YES IT WAS! I'm blaming you Cody Hida! Now get away from me and Ken!"

"Yolei, please calm down..." begged Ken. He tried walking over to them but lost his breath. He grabbed his chest in pain and tried taking deep breaths. He winced.

"Like I said, it wasn't my fault Ken was the emperor" began Cody, not really knowing what he was saying due to all his anger towards Yolei. "I wouldn't have planned to get my foot stuck in the cement if it wasn't for him!" Cody put his hands over his mouth in shock from what he just said, his eyes wide.

"You planned this?" demanded Wormmon. "You planned for Ken to get hurt?"

"Not get hurt like that! It's just...I HATE YOU KEN! You're not one of us! The others may think and say so but I never will! No matter what you do, you'll always be the Digimon Kaiser in my eyes!" Cody screamed, he then picked up Armidillomon and left.

Yolei growled, balling her fists in anger as she watched Cody leave. "Ohh...If I could jut get me hands on that guy..."

A hand grabbed her by the arm and she looked back. Ken was smiling at her. He gave her a kiss on the cheek before speaking.

"Forget about him Yolei. There's nothing we can do to make him like me, like he said. I'm tired and in pain and I just want to go home" ken turned to Davis. "You guys can keep working, but I'm going home. The doctor wanted to see me today anyway. Tell Kari and TK what happened. Later."

"I'm going home with you Ken, I'm not letting you out my sights" said Yolei, kissing him back.

"That's right Ken. Yolei and I will take care of you. Along with Wormmon" said little Hawkmon, tugging on ken's pant leg. Ken smiled and picked Hawkmon up.

"Thank you" he mumbled. Wormmon crawled up to Ken's shoulder as they walked off to go home to the real world. Hawkmon in Ken's hands, Wormmon on his shoulder, and Ken's arm wrapped around Yolei.

"Well, we seem to have a fractured rib" said the brown haired doctor an hour later. Ken sighed. He knew it. He could tell by the sound of his breathing.

"Ken honey, how did you do that?" asked his mother. Ken looked at his mother straight in the eyes. He was currently on his bed. He hated lying to his parents, but he just couldn't bare to tell them about the digital world. Not after what he had done as the emperor. It would break their hearts.

ken took a gulp and answered. "I fell down the stairs at school. Someone tripped me. His name was Cody, he doesn't like me very much." Well it wasn't a complete lie. This was Cody's fault.

"well, you'll just have to be more careful next time son" said Mr. Ichijouji, giving his son a pat on the back. Ken winced in pain. "sorry!"

ken smiled. His parents loved him so much, he didn't understand how he couldn't have seen their love before.

Ken watched silently as Yolei and Davis fought over a doughnut. He watched back and forth as the two of them fought and made themselves look like complete idiots in front of the entire lunchroom of Odaiba school.

Yolei had wanted the doughnut first, however, Davis, being Davis, said that it was he who had wanted it first, and so the fight began.

"It's mine!" cried Yolei. The two fought over it and Ken hated to see them fighting. His chest still hurting from the day before, he carefully reached between the two of them, grabbed the doughnut with a small yank and took a large bite of it as he sat back down into his seat.

Slowly, Davis and Yolei turn to glare at him, sweat dropping. Ken only smiled what they called his 'poker smile'. It had been the first time Ken had genuinely smiled. It was at Christmas a week ago.

Ken swallowed and laughed. "Sorry, but it didn't look as though it was going to be eaten anytime soon the way you two were going."

Davis sighed and grabbed an apple out of his lunch sack. He scowled. "Great, Ken gets to eat a doughnut while I'm stuck with an apple."

Yolei did the same. "Ohh, strawberries!"

That was when Kari and TK walked up and sat down at the table.

"Has anyone seen Cody?" asked Kari.

Ken looked up at the ceiling while Yolei scowled at the name.

"What?" asked TK.

"You didn't tell them Davis?" asked Ken. Suddenly everyone's attention was on Davis, who sweat dropped.

"Well, no. I was kinda busy doing other things, like helping rebuilding' the Digi world!" Davis retaliated.

"What? What happened?" asked Kari, concerned.

Davis explained to the two of them what had happened the day before. By the end, Kari and TK understood why Yolei and ken had acted the way they did at the sound of Cody's name.

"I'm sure he didn't really mean it" reasoned Kari. TK nodded.

"What are you talking about? Cody said so himself it was his idea and he meant to do it" argued Yolei. She would have continued, but the sound of someone clearing their throat interrupted her. They all turned around to see Cody, holding his tray of food.

"See" he hissed. "Before Ken came around, none of this would ever have happened. This is why I hate you Ken, you cause problems!" and with that he took his tray and dumped it on top of ken's head. mashed potatoes dripped down Ken's face, along with green beans, peaches and chocolate milk.

"Nice" mumbled ken sarcastically.

Ken walked into his room later that night after he had finished his homework. He had a lot on his mind right now. He wanted to be friends with the digidestines, but it was clear that if he continued to be friends, there would only be more problems. So there was only one thing for him to do.

Breezyhope: Yolei, I know your offline right now, but I have to tell you this...I think you and I need to break up.

Ken didn't press the send button, but he didn't delete it either.