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A/N: Now we see what T.k. and Kari are up to.

2110: Digital War

By Dstar

Chapter 3: The Lost Children

Kari's eyes fluttered open and she looked around at her surroundings, beside her T.K started to stir as well. She looked up and found herself staring at miles and miles of forest. She looked down at the rising T.K and watched him sit up. They glanced at each other and looks of confusion crossed their faces. Kari stood up, brushed herself off, and tried to come to grips with where she was. But all that surrounded them was trees and trees, making up a on going deep forest and T.K sighed, "So, where are we?"

A look from Kari told him that she had no idea where they were, "You think I know?"

"No, I guess not. But still, I thought that maybe you might of seen something in your dreams."

Sighing Kari bit her lip, "My dreams only foretell the future, they don't give me maps to everything."

They sat there for a while and finally T.K came to a decision, "Well were not going to get anything done sitting here."

"Wherever here is," Kari grimaced, slightly annoyed at their situation "I guess so."

T.K finally stood up and did as Kari had done brushed the dirt of himself. They looked at the deep forest and with heavy hearts started walking in the direction they thought could be north. The trees seemed to bare down on them and after an hour of walking they had still found no end to the deep forest. Disgruntled Kari was about to suggest they stop and rest when she heard voices further on a head. They seemed to be speaking in hushed tones. T.K heard the voices as well and they both rushed up ahead, What they found shocked them, a young girl and a young boy, stood there; both could only be about nine and both were far to young to be out in the forest alone but there they were. They looked up and the boy scrambled back, "Stay back."

Leaning down Kari smiled at the boy, "We're not going to hurt you."

He let out a cold laugh that was devoid of human emotion, "Not going to hurt us? They hurt us, invaded our place, told us lies and then destroyed our home. Our mother saved us, but at what? The cost of her life?" For a boy who was only nine he spoke as if he had knowledge beyond his years.

A look passed over Kari's face and she grimaced, "I promise we won't hurt you."

"The hostiles did."

At this T.K. looked at him, "You have to believe us."

The boy was about to answer when a shrill cry was heard from a far, it resonated throughout the forest and the girl clung to the boy her eyes wide and Kari could see that they had indeed been thought horrors upon horrors. The boy however was looking at the forest eyes hard. But she could tell that for all his talk he was scared, he took a deep breath and then looked at both Kari and T.K, coming to a split minute decision, "Colony 43 is not far. We've been on our way for a while, come on."

Not knowing any other thing to do, and not knowing what the yell that they had heard was. They started in another direction and as they continued Kari noticed that the girl still clung to her brother, "So what was that?"

He gave her a look as if she had gone of the deep end, "You mean you really don't know? That was the sound of a hostile, probably sent by The Masters."

T.K and Kari shared a look both thinking the same thing and then he spoke, "The Masters?"

"They're the leaders of the hostiles. Our mother was part of the Rebellion, one of the leaders in fact. Although not, the leader. The actual leader of the Rebellion stays in the dark. She even hides by working for the people who work for her. Only the higher ups know who she is."

They continued on in silence when T.K spoke, "I just realized, we have been traveling all this way and we still don't know your names."

The boy smiled for the first time since they had meet him, and it seemed genuine, "I'm Chris, and this is my sister, Alex."

"Americans?"

Chris smiled, "Actually yes, our mother moved here a little after Alex was born, after America fell. That's one of The Master's domains now."

"Oh." Was all T.K said before falling silent.

It took them a while but they finally reached a clearing in the woods and T.K glanced around, "This seems a good place to rest."

Kari nodded showing her consent and all four of them sat down. Kari sat down on a stump and leaned her head back on the tree behind it. But their rest was short lived, as the cry once again sounded through the forest closer now, in fact they realized that it came from behind them and only a few feet behind them. They all turned as the trees were thrown aside and the creatures stood in front of them, eyes glinting maliciously.

What stood there confirmed the sinking suspicion that T.K and Kari had been harboring while they were walking. A flash from T.K's pocket took all of the travelers by surprise and T.K reached inside his jacket pocket, pulling out a small cell phone shaped device. He flipped it open and light filtered from it. The light seemed to appear in front of him and take shape. At that moment Kari's pant pocket flashed as well and suddenly became heavy. She pulled an object like T.K's that only differed in color and flipped it open as well.

Chris looked up at the fast approaching hostile and then at both Kari and T.K who seemed to be playing with devices. He looked at them, "We should go."

The light finally stopped and the forms finally finished forming into their shapes. When they did Alex only clung to her brother harder. T.K and Kari however were ecstatic, Kari smiled, "Finally, some good news!"

The approaching hostile seemed to stop for a second, and then let out another shrill cry, that was, Kari suspected, calling for aid. And then they sat there waiting for the aid that they knew was coming swiftly on its way. Knowing that attacking right now would only end in pain for them, content to hold the children hostage by blocking their path.

One of the creatures blinked and then looked up at Kari, "Well I was wondering how long it would take you to free us."

The other one unfurled its wings and then flew up into T.K's arms, who then proceeded to hold him with only one, "It's good to see you again T.K."

Chris however was having none of it, "Hostiles? You know hostiles? I was wrong to trust you."

The pair of digidestin looked down at the devices in their hands, "So do you think that these are them?"

Nodding and then looking at the hostiles that had gathered around them Kari spoke, "Then let's do this."

Patamon flew out from under T.K's arms and Gatomon put herself in between Kari and the hostiles. Chris was simmering, "These things killed our parents! How can you side with them?"

Turning his head to look at Chris T.K looked at him, "First off they're called digimon, and secondly, we do not side with them, we work with the good ones to defeat the bad ones. That's what we do, we are digidestin after all."

Clenching his fists Chris was about to go on a tangent when Alex looked up at him and spoke, "Trust them."

Knowing that his sister didn't speak unless she felt that she had to Chris looked back at the older people in front of him and sighed, "Do what you will."

The digimon took this as their sign to attack and Kari and T.K held their digivices in front of their faces. White light spilled from them and the crests of light and hope appeared before them. Taking them they inserted them into the digivices and cries were heard spilling out of the mouths of the digimon in front of them, "Gatomon digivolve to!"

"Patamon digivolve to!"

"Angewoman!"

"Angemon!"

The light cleared and Chris found himself awed at the two things in front of him, "Angels?"

"No, not angels. These are our friends, these are the good digimon I was talking about."

Angewoman winked as a way to show them at they meant no harm and then Chris watched as a bow of light appeared in her hands, "Celestial Arrow!"

The hand of Angemon started to glow and a cascade of golden yellow light spilled from it, "Hand of Fate!"

The two attacks hit but when they did other digimon seemed to take their place, yet Angemon and Angewomon continued to fight, taking down digimon after digimon. However it wasn't enough. Two against so many others made it so that they soon found themselves with their backs to the woods. Chris looked at them his eyes cold again, "It was a good try, but once again, not enough."

"For a nine year old you sure know a lot."

"Children start their training when they are five. With digimon over ruling Earth we can't afford not knowing. Also I'm not nine, I'm twelve. My sister is the nine year old."

At this point Angewomon looked down at the group of four from her vantage point in the sky, "Enough talk, we must flee."

And flee they did, all four took to the woods running, Kari and T.K taking the lead. Behind them they could hear the shrieks and battle cries of their digimon. But they didn't look back knowing that if they did what little hope they had would be lost. They finally reached a large cave and ducked inside. Chris looked around and then smiled, "Well what'dya know…"

He moved over to a small place on the hard stone wall and started to run his hands over it as if looking for something. Finally a wide grin seemed to spread across his face and he triumphantly started to chip at one of the rock surfaces. Behind them the battle cries had stopped, yet he knew that at some point newer hostiles would come and they wouldn't be able to hold them back forever. Two rock gave way under his hands revealing a metal panel that he quickly pried open. Kari finally looked at him and then at the panel, "What is that?"

Chris didn't stop working, his hands flying over the wires that he found behind the panel, but he did answer her question, "This is the opening to Colony 43. I knew we were close but I didn't know how close. This is one of the safest Colony's since it's underground and has thousands of different entrances. It's also the capital of Earth or what's left of it."

The lights on the panel flashed a few times and the rock facing slid away. T.K stuck his head out of the cave and yelled at Angemon who turned around followed by Angewomon and they headed into the cave after Kari who was the last to enter. The evil bug digimon followed accordingly after them. The two Angel's slipped in and then the rock facing slid shut, the digimon that remained behind them pounding on the door.

They found themselves in a tunnel lit dimly by lights hanging on the walls that were surrounded by amber glass. But there was not time to admire the light fixtures and the children started to run. Faster and faster causing the lights to whip by until they reached the opening and T.K found himself gaping at what was there. Under the earth was another world, grassy hills and small cottages surrounded them. Dotting the hills in front of them they made the hills look like they had freckles. And the sounds that he heard! There were people in milling around, talking and trading food back and forth. However two of the people caught his eyes, "Izzy! Joe!"

In the village Izzy and Joe turned and saw T.K on the hill and the Angel like digimon behind him. And for a second they were over joyed to see their friends, that is until the tunnels behind Kari and T.K started to collapse. And every thing quickly broke into chaos as the strong hold of Earth suffered it's first invasion. The digimon that had followed them in the forest came thundering from the tunnel that Chris had opened for them, "Behind you!"

It was Joe's voice that caused them to turn and look at the red bug digimon. The tunnel collapsed behind the bugs who had been to big to fit through it in the first place, which caused Kari to smile slightly, "The good news is, there are only four of them. The bad news, we're out numbered, out classed, and tired as hell."

T.K looked at Angemon, "You think you can manage one more?"

"We'll see." But even as he spoke he felt his insides clench and his muscles give way, so grimacing he turned back to face the invading digimon.

Behind them Izzy and Joe ran up to them and as they did they felt their pockets buzz and two thing that they had never seen before flew up in front of them. The phone like objects flipped open and light spewed from them. The shapes started to form and what they saw had Kari and T.K sighing in relief, "Reinforcements. Thank god."

Then two chips started to form in front of them, they didn't even have to think about what to do. Taking the chips they slid them into the slots in on the sides of the digivices as if they were memory chips; Izzy and Joe looked at the figures in front of them and smiled, "Let's send them back to wherever they came from!"

Tentomon looked at Izzy, "Couldn't agree more."

There was no thought no hesitation, "Digivolve!"

"Gomamon digivolve to Ikkakumon!"

"Tentomon digivolve to Kabuterimon!"

Chris had to shied his eyes at what was happening before him. But the light seemed to find a way between the cracks of his fingers and its brightness almost blinded him. And it was then that he wondered just who these teens were, the fact that they were crazy enough to go against the hostiles spoke volumes to him, but it had never occurred to him that people like this existed, people who didn't sit back but took a true stand against those around them. And then the thought cleared and he was facing two more hostiles.

And then the two new hostiles attacked, "Electro Shocker!"

"Harpoon torpedo!"

They were followed by the attacks of the angels, "Hand of fate!"

"Celestial arrow!"

The four digimon didn't stand a chance, their bodies turned into data before Chris's eyes and he couldn't help asking, "Who are you?"

This earned an a sigh of exasperation from Joe, "We are the digidestin."

Which then earned an extra eye roll from Kari, "Ex-digidestin thank you. We're doing a fine job thank you."

Which in turned caused Chris to faint. And the four teens ran to him, Joe picked him up and they continued into the village where he and Izzy lead T.k and Kari to a small hut. Pulling back the flap he ushered them inside. Sitting on a small stool was the bent form of a woman and she turned to them as she did Kari noted that her eyes were a milky white, however the woman smiled, her face wrinkling at the presence of children in her hut "More friends?"

Izzy nodded even though it wasn't needed, "Yeah."

"That's nice."

Gomamon giggled, and then spoke, "Who are you?"

"My name is Naibun, but people who know me call me the keeper. And you are the digidestin correct?"

Taken aback by her bluntness T.K could only stutter, however Joe just smiled, "She already knows. When we arrived here she took us in. Some how she just knows."

Kari sat down against the wall of the hut on something that looked like sheep skin and crossed her legs in front of her, "We are. How did you know?"

"There are many things I know. Like the dreams that you have, the dreams that you will continue to have until this passes."

This had Kari looking at the woman with something a kin to mistrust. Age had made her wiser, not to mention that and the dreams that she had every night. So she knew not to trust everything that was around her and something was telling her that this woman was not all that she appeared to be. Her eyes scanned over the woman looking for some way to read her, however as the windows to her soul were misted over she found it near to impossible, "How did you…" but she found that she was repeating herself.

By this time Chris was stirring. When Alex saw him her face brightened and she clasped his hand. It was all he needed to know that everything was alright and that he was alive, he looked up at Joe, "Digidestin?"

"Yeah. We don't know how we got here, or why we're here. We only know that something is wrong with this world. What year is it?"

"2110. Why?"

The digidestin shared looks of surprise and Kari found herself quoting, "I don't think were in Kansas any more Toto."

"No, we really aren't. Well that explains a lot."

It had come from Izzy who seemed to be contemplating their situation, "So, were in the future. Or something like that, where, correct me if I have any facts wrong, evil digimon have taken over Earth and the only way to survive is to hide."

"You forgot the resistance, the small band that's trying to usurp The Masters. They won't succeed but they are trying."

He nodded, "These Masters they are?" After hearing so much about them he wanted to know just what they were up against.

"There are four of them, one of metal, one of earth, one of the sky, and one of fire. Or so they say, not many people have gotten out of their camps alive. The only one who has… let's just say that they say that she's the leader of the resistance."

That seemed plausible to Izzy, "And she is?"

The old woman grunted at that, "No one knows. And it's better that way, if she remains hidden they can't find her so it's for the better."

It seemed that this was all the information they were going to get so Joe settled down on the floor and picked up something that looked edible, but Chris quickly took it from him, "You want food go out to the garden and pick it. No one here eats the food form or in someone else's house unless it's traded to them, that way we won't starve."

Joe put the fruit down and looked out the flap at the people milling about as if nothing had happened, and wondered if they acted this way so that they wouldn't have to worry about the troubles that lay in front of them. And knew deep in his heart that they were not enough to end this threat. They were the digidestin, a faded legend of this time, and yet they had been called. He wondered who though that they were the answers to everything. And suddenly he felt very tired.

The woman looked at him and some how knew, even with out her sight that he was tired, "Sleep. In fact why don't you all sleep, it will be good for you."

Kari eyed the woman, "But…"

She smiled, "For now you will stay here. Until your friends come."

"They're coming? And here?"

Not even glancing at Izzy Naibun smiled, "Yes. Now go to sleep."

They were all tried. Every one of them, and so they found themselves closing their eyes. It had been too long since they had been able to rest, and two days with out sleep did not a happy or good digidestin make. The woman smiled gently, these people her powers told her, would change the world.

A/N: Ah the bliss. We won't hear from them for a while so prepare for lots or some chapters with the others for a while… review!