It did not take long for Datamon to find his target as Tai sure enough lead him right to her as she was home alone apparently she was suppose to be with the others yet getting sick at the last moment cause her to miss the trip. This was of course what Datamon heard as he was easy dropping on them from the adjacent building to their apartment. Being digimon especially a machine type gave him incredible hearing and eyesight at long distant which he used to spy on his enemy to learn their weakness or gain information that could be useful to him later on.

Time passed as Datamon kept watch over the Kamiya household as he wanted to claim the Eight Child for himself yet did not want to have to deal with Tai and his digimon. Though Agumon was in his In-Training mode, he was not to be underestimate. Augmon was the digimon that almost killed Etemon with just two hits shortly reaching the Ultimate level after all.

Then an idea came to him as Tai seem to be settling down back into normal life completely forgetting that oldest friend and five other he been with for weeks were still trapped in the digital world. So all he had to do was give him an remainder of what he had left behind by hijacking his TV signal to make look as if enormous version of the various digimon Datamon killed in the past appeared on the screen as ghostly images. His plan got some unexpected help when he started seeing them on his own and from another DigiDestined, the one with the laptop, giving him message not to come back. Cluing Tai in that the others had come back yet as if none of them trying to get in contact with him after he found himself back in the real world was not big enough clue to him being the only one to arrived here. Even if they were complete stranger before the camping trip, he should have known that at least Sora or Izzy would have tried getting in contact with him if she and all the others had come back as well. As for how Datamon knew so much about the DigiDestined, well he did make a clone of Sora after all so he had access to her memories while she was unconscious. For what good would clone be if it did not have the memories of the original in the regards of how to control her power. The rest was just so that she past off as the original if needed.

Seeing how this effecting him, Datamon noticed weakness in the barrier between this world and the Digital World. Guessing this ability to detected this was just one the many thing he had gotten during his 'upgrade'. Using his Data Crusher on the weaken area, an Tyrannomon and Orgemon come pop out landing in the street with giant crash shaking the ground for mile around them. The rift he created quickly repairs itself however Augmon manages to reopen it after digivolve back to his rookie form. Though the original plan was to have the two digimon take out Augmon the rift reopen instead sucking them back in along with Augmon and Tai, so he consider his plan a success. As both Tai and his digimon were gone leaving Kari completely open for the taking.

His plan to capture her would have to be quickly as possible for their no telling when he would come back. Time flowed differently between this world and the Digital one as according to the accounts of both Sora and Tai it had been weeks going on to months since they had arrive in the Digital World. However barely a day had passed in the real world so this might be his only chance to get Kari under his control. Wait too long and Tai could return with the other six DigiDestined looking for Eighth Child unaware she is right under their nose. For in the time Kari had spent just walking more like running to avoid getting connected with what happened just now with two digimon that came to the real world, a week could have past in the Digital World.

So if he was going to get her under his control he would have to use the round about away as he at least had three days before anyone would try to come looking for her. For that the amount of time it would take for the seven DigiDestined to get back here from that summer camp as exit to the gate they need to use for all of them to get back is located there. As for how Datamon knew this it was once again from the information he stole from the Dark Network.

'Time to put phase one of the plan into action' Datamon thought as made sure his cloaking feature was activated.

He did not have much to worry about though as while she might know of digimon the only ones she had even seen with her own two eyes were an Augmon from their In training to Champion Form, a Parrotmon, and the two digimon just now.

Appearing before the young Kamiya's path when she take a second to look behind to make sure she was not being followed as she still recovering from the flu thus was not suppose to be outside. Getting caught on the evening news would most certain show that she was following her parent's instruction to stay indoors. Kari crashed into Datamon (currently appearing as normal human boy).

"I am sorry I was not watching where I was going" Kari said as she offer him a hand in getting up.

"No problem I was not watching where I was going either" he lied as took her hand with his to help get up.

What looked like friendly gesture of helping someone that you knocked down was far more then just that. For the moment Datamon took Kari's hand, he injected five dozen specialized Nano Spores into her body from seemly harmless exchange of taking her hand in getting help up.

"My name is Katsu. Thanks for helping me up" Datamon said as he decided to use 'Katsu' as the name for his human disguise.

Kari just stared at him with blank expression on her face for awhile before shaking her head and introducing herself.

"How about we met up sometime" Katsu suggested as Kari quickly agreed to this before heading back home.

As he watched her run off he had small smirk on his face for the Nano Spores were already doing their job judging from how she reacted shortly after being injected with them. This how he should done it with Sora from the started then again if he succeed in attempt to control her, then he would have miss out on a number of things. For his new form, abilities, knowledge, and the chance at a even stronger DigiDestined were all something he had because of his previous failures with attempting to control Sora.

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