Having unlocked her power from its slumber and created Yin and Yang system keep from getting out control. Datamon then went about creating two more programs that he found was necessary to have installed into her systems. These two programs would deactivate her digivice's and crest's ability to control and limit her powers. There would still be the same light show coming from them but in the end that all that it would a simple light show. For Kari would be ability to supply Gatamon the power to digiolve herself completely under her own power without the need for those boosters/limiters.
Deactivating a digivice and a crest was not that hard to do as he did have a crest for years. He had thoroughly study Sora's crest and how to both use, exploit, and limit power of crest. This later improved upon when he got Sora's Digivice as being a machine he did not need to sleep thus he could work for twenty four hours straight. So while others were sleeping through the night, he was working on creating various things to ensure his plans would be success and back up plans should they fail.
Having done that it was time to test out another feature that his Nano Spores had added to Kari. The problem with his last plan was that it was too depend on controlling the digimon through their partner. While he might have had complete control over his Sora clone there was no telling if he could use her to take control over Biyomon after she Digiolved through force. Judging from the experience of Tai's bout with force digivolution Biyomon would become out of control and become a danger to his clone. So rather then depend on Gatamon to do the fight while Kari supply the power. Datamon simply had his Nano Spore make so that Kari could redirect her power inward towards herself rather then just outwards to Gatamon and others.
Thus Kari entered what Datamon dubbed her combat mode as what the Nano Spore that transformed Kari into her current state did was give her the ability to change into digimon form herself.
Disconnecting her from the computer, the rival of Etemon order her get up and stand before him.
"As you wish, master" K.A.R.I said doing as she was ordered.
"Activate your combat mode" he told her.
A bright light then engulfed K.A.R.I and when it faded away the change was clear for all to see. For the robotic Kamiya was still humanoid in appearance as she did not become animal based digimon or something like that from switching to her combat mode. She did however have cat-like eyes and two wings, one white and feathered, one black and bat-like. Where human ears would be there were two small wings, and on top of her head were cat ears, that matched her brown hair. She wore fingerless gloves with an orange pattern like a greymon, and wore something similar on her feet and two dinosaur-like tails emerged from the tailbone. Also she no longer stood there in her underwear for now she had on long short sleeved t-shirt that went down to its knees. Around her neck was her whistle she normal wore with her usual outfit.
"Interesting" Datamon said as order K.A.R.I to pose so he could get a good look at her combat mode (why do it yourself when you can order you minion to do it you).
"I can tell the majority of the your appearance is based off your own digimon but there are some reference to greymon with the tails, gloves, and feet wrapping" he thought examining these features.
Some would probably think that the reference to greymon would be out place as Kari's parnter Gatomon and her power were Light and Darkness thus cat, angel, demon, or mixture of all three should be the only thing present in her combat form. Normally that would be true however going through her memories Datamon saw that Kari had unofficial parnter before Gatomon. It was rather unquie Botamon that grew into a huge Agumon and later a huge Greymon mostly through Kari's own powers affecting it. Some might aruge that it was mostly Tai's powers that cause the Botamon to digiolve the way it did. However if that were the case why was he the one running after the Agumon instead of the one sitting on his head. Its possible that Kari had bonded with the Botamon more then Tai. Though when it came down to giving them official parnters, Kari ended up with Gatomon instead. For in her rookie form of Salamon, her unstable nature caused her to be at the crossroads of light and darkness, thus she was perfect digimon for the DigiDestined of Light and Darkness. Also Kari overflowing power affected Gatomon making so that she was the only digimon of all the DigiDestined to stay in her Champion form. So the only detail of Kari's unofficial parnter shown themselves in the tails, gloves, and feet wrapping she had in her combat form.
Looking at the clock he found that he still had few hours left before he needed to return her to her family to prevent them from getting suspicious or possibly ruining the image he had build up for himself.
"Deactivate your combat mode and follow me as we are going to give you some actual experience to see just how effective everything I done is" Datamon said.
"Of course, master" the robotic Kamiya said following after him.
A couple of miles away from Datamon's hidden lab…
"Do you think these copies of the crest of Light are really going to lead us to the Eight Child" a Bakemon asked.
"How should I know as the idea is that the Crest and Digivice will resonate with one another thus allow us to find one to find the other" a second Bakemon said.
"However what if the Eight Child does not have their Digivice on them. Then we would just be a wild goose chase as we were order to find the Eight Child not the Eighth Digivice" a third Bakemon asked
Despite the logical approach to the situation, the third Bakemon got strange stare from his companions like he was crazy or something.
"Hey it just a sugges….hey I getting something with my Crest replica" they said looking at for a moment to see that it was glowing.
"Us too" his companions said once they went about looking at their own.
Rushing over in the direction of which the glow the strongest they hoped to find and capture the Eighth Child or at least their digivice (in the case of the third Bakemon who acutally made sense yet was thought to be crazy).
The three Bakemon found themselves in currently deserted park as it was the middle of the night so there were really any people around at the moment. There sitting by fountain with her legs crossed was K.A.R.I looking up at the sky. She was not really looking at anything though as this pose she was currently in was not something of her own idea but one that Datamon had told her to take when they got here as well release her power at high enough level that someone would notice her.
For yet again on the many things Datamon learned from his uploading the informational portion of the Dark Network was a project for creating copy crest as he had planned something like that himself as why stop with just one Sora clone when he could have army of them control an army of Biyomons. That plan was changed as with the way Kari was now she could eventually become one girl army herself or at least very close to it if he played his cards right.
The Bakemon however had no idea just how much trouble they were about to get in and if they ever wonder what happens when you kill an undead digimon they were about to get that answer very soon.
"Hey girl you are coming with us as Lord Myotismon has order for us to find you" the first said.
'This certainly should get some brownie point with the Lord as we managed to find Eighth Child before that little up start Gatamon as we been working for Lord Myotismon longer then her yet she closer to him then us. Plus she a vaccine type as nothing good can come from keeping one of them around' the first two thought
While images of the honors and respect they would get ran through the minds of his comrades the third approached K.A.R.I.
This where things did not go exactly as plan for when the third Bakemon tried moving Kari from the fountain, they found that they could not make her budge not even a inch. However there was something even more strange to them as the first Bakemon noticed. They may not have been a expert on human but if there was one thing he did know was that everything that alive and organic be from the real or Digital world breathes. Yet upon closer inspection he notice that the Eight Child was not breathing. Her chest was not moving in the slight and holding hand underneath her mouth and nose they did not feel any air hit it proving that she was not breathing as if she was then she would be in inhaling and exhaling.
Confused the first Bakemon explained what was going on to his confused companions who were wondering what they were doing. Though as they were talking K.A.R.I finally made a move as she stopping looking at the vacantly at the sky turning her attention to the three digimon in front of her.
A chill was rock through the bodies of the three Bakemon as they were getting stared at by the lifeless gaze of the robotic Kamiya girl.
"This must be some trick as someone must have set up this robot that gives off energy that cause the Crest of Light to react to it" the third Bakemon exclaimed.
"Negative. This is no trick Knowledge Array Repolid I's designation is Unit 08 of 09. Designated Crest Trait is Light (positive) and Darkness (negative)" K.A.R.I replied.
"….." was the thing running through the mind of the three Bakemon who had no idea what to do in situation as the found the Eighth Child but it seem they were not human but actually a robotic human girl.
The three turned to leave yet everywhere they turned K.A.R.I was standing there with her arms spread out wide prevent them from getting away where.
"Department from this area is strictly prohibited under the order of my master Datamon" she told them.
"Datamon…Datamon….wait it he that loser who was nearly killed by Etemon a few yea….uummpphh" the second Bakemon said.
They never completed that thought for before they could Kari buried a fist in their stomach.
"Talking negatively about my master is also strictly prohibited" she said having transformed into her combat mode.
"What the hell are you anyway" the third Bakemon yelled.
"A robot under the command of my master. Prepare for annihilation at the desire of my master" she said as pair of claws appeared from her fingers and toes.
"Yeah right like some freakish robot based off the Eighth Child can kill us" the first Bakemon laughed until their was flash of light and when everything cleared things seem normal.
"What the hell was….." the three Bakemon asked in unison before getting their answer as they had been sliced up like sheet of paper going through a shredder.
"Target annihilation complete" she said before large blue arm came out nowhere pushing her straight into the ground with enormous force causing smoke to be kicked up from the meeting of Kari's body into the ground.
"Foolish whatever you are. You should not have pretend to be the Eighth Child as then you would not have been killed by me…..LORD BAKEMON" the merged being created from the three Bakemon spoke.
"Insufficient damage done. Threat level to do any sufficient damage is at currently at zero percent" K.A.R.I said getting up from the small crater her body made when she jammed to the ground.
"Are you trying to calling Lord Bakemon, a lord of all Bakemons, a weakling" he said angry as used his signature Zombie Claw move aiming directly for the young robot's head.
"Affirmative. Blows of this manner will not cause any sufficient damage as previous stated. Targets inability to know realized their own strength will get them kill. Thus it might be consider good that they are about to die as worse thing can occur" she said.
Lord Bakemon tried to run but were outmatched in speed by K.A.R.I who showed them the 'errors' of their ways by showing them what powerful punch was like. When she punched through their head again and again until they were completely deleted and there was nothing left of them.
While Lord Bakemon was being taught the 'errors' of thinking they were strong enough to take out K.A.R.I. The power she had released earlier was picked up not only by bakemon she then went about killing without mercy but one of the DigiDestined as well. How they were able to was a mystery as Datamon was sure that he had set up so that only Myotismon's minions could pick K.A.R.I's signal with their copies of her crest, while other DigiDestined remained in the dark. For their digivice would not alert them to the Eighth Child's raw power being let out but the controlled and limited bit from her digivice. Something he cut all connection to as it only serve to weaken his robotic minion.
"Sora are you sure that your digivice went off and told you that the Eighth Child would be over here" Biyomon(currently in her In Training form) asked as she been sleeping soundly until her partner shook her away.
"Of couse it just had to be my digivice telling me to come here to this park as what else could have picked the siginal of another DigiDestined" she said pointed to the park in question.
Meanwhile within said park….
Datamon was about to head back to his hidden laboratory with K.A.R.I when her head perked up all of sudden.
"Master, Unit 07 of 09 designation 'Sora' detected coming this" she said looking in the very direction the young Takenouchi girl would come from.
"Really now" Datamon replied.
"Your orders as Unit 07 of 09 'Sora' will reach our current location in appropriately five minutes" she asked.
'Interesting as she can detect when another DigiDestined is nearby though what really amazing is that she calculate the distant and who it is. Unlike the others who can only get rough estimate with no distant given and detect only digivices not person it belong too' he thought.
"Unit 07 'Sora' will be here in appropriately three minutes. Awaiting your orders, master" K.A.R.I said.
"Go meet up with Sora before she can come here to this fountain and keep her from coming here if possible. Also activate your disguise mode now and then your Human Persona with all the modifications the moment Sora come into view" Datamon told her as he activate his own Disguise Mode becoming 'Kastu' himself.
Following his orders K.A.R.I ran off to meet up with Sora
"Kari? What are you doing here" Sora asked as she did not expected to see Tai's little sister here.
Kari looked at Sora and for only fraction of second her eyes were void of emotion but it was only for fraction of second before they full with life again.
"Hi Sora! I am just out of early morning walk with my new friend Katsu. He really wanted to see this park and since the two of us could not sleep I decided it would be good idea to take him here now. I thought I heard someone coming and decided to see who it was without being seen but you can guess how that turned out" she replied
With her human persona back online she was Kari Kamiya again not Knowledge Array Repolid I 'K.A.R.I'. However she was far from being completely normal again as the modifications that were added to her original self were false memories of what happened over night and the previous day.
"So what are you doing out here and is that digimon on the ground" Kari asked curiously
"I was out doing the same thing. Got to keep in shape if I want to continue to play soccer and running is good way to do so as well possibly helping me get to sleep" she lied not wanting to reveal her true reason for coming here.
"Then what this then" Kari asked again running over to where Biyomon (currently in her Yokomon form) was.
"That…its…ummm…my new stuff animal that I got from camp. Me, Izzy, your brother, and four others all got them while we were there" she said.
"Okay, then I be getting back to my friend now see you later Sora" Kari said running off.
Sora went back to her apartment shortly afterwards sighing guessing what she saw was just false alarm after all. If only followed Kari to where Katsu were she would have noticed the craters that Kastu was just finished repairing shortly before Kari had returned. One cause by Lord Bakemon slamming K.A.R.I into the ground and the other from the multiple hit of K.A.R.I's fist against Lord Bakemon's skull. Just like he hoped that Kari was able to keep Sora's attention long enough to allow him to finish.
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