Disclaimer: I dedicate this next chapter to the bitch who hurt me really badly even if we never dated and whose name shall remain anonymous cough Chelsea cough .

Chapter 7:

Busted

"TK are you alright?" Matt asked as he helped his younger brother to his feet once he finally woke up a few minutes later as Agumon started defrosting the frozen digidestined.

"Yeah I'm fine though I feel a little dizzy but I'll get over it," meekly replied TK as he tried o laugh. Kari watched the boy and felt a sudden dense of shame then lowered her head. She then realized that she still had his hat and felt obligated to return it.

"Hey Keru I think you're missing something," she told him with a fake half smile as she handed him the bucket hat.

"No you keep it, after what you've been put through it's the least I can do," Takeru smiled widely but noticed as the brunette avoided eye contact.

"Well at the moment I think that we should find out more about that crest," Izzy said as he began typing on his laptop, "I'm contacting Gennai about it now."

After a few minutes of typing an image of a Jedi-looking man appeared on the screen, "It's been a long time, what is it you need?"

"Your name's Takato, right? Show him the crest," the red haired boy instructed the goggle boy. Takato walked over then held his crest up to the screen.

"Well that's something I haven't seen in a long time, it's known as the Crest of Faith and until today I believed that it had been destroyed," Gennai informed them.

"That brings up another issue, it seems that somehow our old crests have been restored as well," Izzy told him holding out the Crest of Knowledge.

"Hmm that is serious, I believe that there is someone else you should speak with," the man said and then disappeared from the screen. The digidestined waited for a few minutes, though many of the international had already left from lack of understanding, until the room suddenly grew dark and four holograms of the Sovereign digimon appeared on each side of the room.

"Is it true what Gennai has told us, have the lost crests of the digital world truly returned?" Azulongmon queried then turned to see the Crest of Faith in Takato's hand, "I see, then it is as we suspected. Four years ago when Oikawa sacrificed his life to restore the digital world he must have restored the crests as well."

"Pardon me for asking but what exactly happened to the Crests that made them lost?" Sora asked as she clutched her Crest of Love.

"I believe it is time that you hear the history of the digital world," Ebonwumon started, switching heads every few words, "According to the legends of the Digignomes, long before the digital world came into being and consciousness formed within the minds of the first digimon there was nothing but the creators. These creators granted them fourteen gifts of great power but try as they might they were unable to harness the full power for themselves and soon the age of darkness began and they were trapped. After a long time of waiting one creator returned and granted them another gift which granted them the power to control the other powers and used it to create the digital world and we four Sovereign Digimon to watch over it. We then created fifteen humans in the likeness of the creators of legend who were able to turn the powers granted to us by the creators into a solid form, thus creating the Crests of Courage, Love, Friendship, Reliability, Hope, Light, Sincerity, Knowledge, Faith, Joy, Time, Change, Life and Fate. Using these crests we were able to create the digital world you see today along with the digimon inhabitants but soon the digimon became greedy and the four digimon who would later be known as the Dark masters came and attempted to steal the crests. We battled for hours but in the end they sealed us away though by using the Crest of Fate we were able to seal them away as well. In our absence war broke out among the digimon over the possession of the crests and in the process the Crests of Faith, Joy, Time, and Change were destroyed and thus the flow of time in our world was distorted and digimon were sent to the human world to find the digidestined who would restore the digital world to it's natural state. The fighting continued for many years until a digimon by the name of Lucimon appeared and brought an end to the violence but soon he was corrupted as well and the guardian of the Crest of Life used its power to bring life to the ten legendary warriors who together were able to seal away the fallen angel. Unfortunately though a few supporters of Lucimon soon went after the guardian and killed him and destroyed the crest, converting the legendary warriors into simpler forms. Afterwards the crests were hidden by the three great angels and soon they were forgotten by time. That is of course until around six thousand years later when a digimon by the name of Devimon rediscovered the lost legends and tracked down eight of the nine crests still remaining on the surface of the digital world and hid them across the digital world. Sensing this disturbance we contacted our servant Gennai and had him bring the digidestined chosen over five and a half millenniums earlier into our world. They managed to defeat Devimon and recollect most of the crests but when they returned to the human world it weakened the power remaining in the Crest of fate and released the Dark Masters. After a few years the digidestined returned and defeated the Dark masters and using their crests, released us from our prison and returned the Digital world to its natural state. Four years later when we sensed an ancient evil returning in one of the areas of the digital world we realized we needed to hide the Crest of Fate and so converted it into a digimon by the name of Calumon. Once Calumon's mission was completed the data from the crest left it's body and was returned to the digital world."

"I still don't understand, who were the creators and why did they make the crests anyway?" Izzy inquired once the turtle digimon finished its story.

"I think I can answer that," Henry said as he stepped out of the crowd, "When my father was in college he was part of a team that attempted to create artificial life forms on the computer. After many months of working they were successful but realized that their creations were very limited. And so they began writing new programs that would give them personality traits, communication skills, regeneration, the ability to change in shape, and a sense of time and aging but when they tried to launch the programs the creatures were only ably to absorb small portions of the program. They began working on a new program which would be able to decode the programs and release their full power but before they were half way finished with it their project was terminated and they had to shut down the entire system, which I suppose must have been the age of darkness."

"I guess that makes sense," Tai affirmed then raised his voice joyfully, "I guess this means we have a new adventure on our hands, so who in?"

"I'm in." "Same here." "Me too." "Count me in," The digidestined (S1 and S2) chime in as Takuya and Takato had conferences with their teams.

"OK we're in" Takato said.

"Us too, Tai," his cousin told him.

"Well what about the rest of you?" Tai asked the international digidestined but the majority of them who understood what he was saying seemed to avoid their gaze.

"What iz wrong with you all?" the French digidestined asked, "Well I'm with you."

"I'll help out too, I've been looking for a good adventure since what happened four years ago with Kokomon," Willis told them but no one else seemed to join in.

"To aid you in your journey we shall add new information to your digivices," Azulongmon said as a beam of light shot towards their digivices then the four holograms disappeared.

TK pointed his new D-3 (haven't come up with a name yet) at his friends crest and it produced a holographic image, "The Crest of Faith: this crest is along with the Crest of Hope are a one of two pairs of Crests that increase in power depending on the bond between the holders."

"I guess that explained what happened with the crest but I still don't understand how you knew I was being possessed," TK told Takato.

"Well you remember when you told me that you and your brother used to think your Uncle Mitsuo was in the government?"

Three Days Later

"Hey TK, glad to see your back to normal, the punk thing just wasn't working for you," Yolei laughed as TK sat down at his desk.

"Yeah I figured I should got back to normal and lucky for me the earring wasn't in long enough to be permanent," TK told his friends as he brushed back his hair to reveal the now closed up hole in his ear.

"So I guess this means you got rid of the motorcycle too," Davis suggested.

"Are you kidding me? That thing's awesome, though my dad did get the bill Friday and cut up my card then called up my mom," exclaimed the blond.

"Whoa harsh Hope, your mom must have killed you," Takato replied, trying out his new nickname for his friend.

"Actually, uh 'Faith', as soon as I got home she gave me a giant hug and told me she'd never been so proud in her entire life," TK beamed, using his fingers to make air quotes, "But she did make me get a job to pay back Dad."

"I guess that explains where you were this weekend, I was afraid you got possessed again," joked Davis making everyone but TK laugh.

"Yeah well at least the pay is good, look how much I made last night alone," he told them as he took a large wad of money out of his pocket.

"Hey whatcha guys doing?" Kari asked as she went over to the group, TK's hat on her head out of pity.

"I was just telling them how I got a new job," the teenager replied then went to kiss her on the cheek but missed when she turned her head.

Yolei noticed her friend's avoidance and grabbed onto her arm, "Hey Kari do you mind if I speak with you in private for a second?"

"Sure," the girl meekly replied but was already being dragged halfway across the room.

"OK Kari what's up with you?" inquired the violet haired girl.

"I have no idea what you're talking about," Kari lied as she pulled the hat down over her eyes.

"Come on Kari, don't lie to me. I saw what you just did. Now tell me what's wrong with you and TK?" Yolei implored her friend.

"Fine but you have to promise not to tell TK, or Davis either everyone knows he can't keep a secret," the teenaged girl nodded then Kari began her story, "You see last week I went back to TK's apartment and he tried to violate me, well it was really him it was Devimon but I didn't know that and I ran away from him. I was scared and I turned to the only person nearby. I was frightened out of my mind and Kato he made me feel so safe and before I knew it I had fallen for him and we've been dating in secret. But now that I know the truth about TK I'm not sure what to do."

Yolei could seem her friend was deeply upset and wrapped her arm around her, "It will be alright. Hey I've got an idea, I'm going out with Ken tonight so why don't you take Takato along and we could make it a double date. Then maybe we can help you figure it all out," the girl smiled then heard the bell, "Come on Kari we'd better go back to our seats."

That Night

"Woah do you normally go out to such fancy places," an amazed Kari asked her friend as they stood in front of the French restaurant; feeling terribly underdressed in her short skirt.

"Not usually but this isn't the usual date. Today's the one year anniversary of our first date," Ken told them then smiled down at his girlfriend.

"Then maybe we should leave you alone," Takato stated then began to turn around but was grabbed by the shoulder.

"No please we insist, besides I don't think I'd enjoy it as well if Yolei was upset over not being able to help her friends," the blue haired boy insisted then they entered the restaurant. They looked around to find that the place was filled with adults in uncomfortably formal attire.

"How many in your party?" the maître d' asked in a French accent though seemed to have a disgusted look on his face when he looked into the group of underdressed teenagers.

"Just four," Yolei told him the man who then checked his list.

"Yes I believe there is one open," he told them then turned to the nearby busboy and told him in his normal Japanese accent, "Better give them the new waiter, no use wasting good service on these ingrates." The maître d' led them to a nearby table that had four chairs, one on each side, four napkins folded in the shape of flowers and a single red rose in a vase surrounded by two small candles, "Your waiter will be with you in a moment."

"Wow this place is fancy, I never went anywhere like this with Ke…ru" Kari told the, starting out amazed but suddenly depressing herself at the mention of her ex's name.

Takato lowered his eyes then, "Maybe this was a bad idea, maybe we should just leave now and I'll take you home."

"No, I'm sorry, I promise I'll try my best to make this evening TK free," the brunette smiled as the waiter reached their table.

"Bonjour, my name is Takeru and I'll be your waiter this eve… guys? What are you doing here?" the blond teenager asked. The four of them seemed to stare in confusion at their friend who was wearing a pair of formal black pants, a white button up long-sleeved shirt with a maroon vest and a bowtie and cummerbund to match.

"Were we uh… just… well you see," Kari attempted but could seem to find the right words.

"Oh I get it, my mom must have told you where I worked and you came here to support me, thanks," smiled TK as he passed out their menus

They all opened their menus to shield there shamed faces when Takato spotted something on the menu, "Woah 1440 yen for a salad, this place must be fancy cause I'm getting ripped off. No wonder you have so much money you must get paid a fortune in tips, maybe I should get a job here," Takato laughed.

"You could try but I doubt it'll happen, the only reason I got this job was because my mom convinced one of her colleges to write an article on this place for their magazine, though being part French didn't hurt either," the waiter replied but then seemed to stare out into space, "Shoot my manager's watching me again, I'm not supposed to be making conversation with the customers, so I guess I should ask you what to drink."

"I think I'll just have some water," Kari told him along with Takato.

"I guess I'll have a Sprite," Yolei informed the blond.

"Same here," agreed Ken.

"I'm not sure if we have any Sprite but I'll see what I can do," TK wrote down the order then walked off towards the kitchen.

Kari waited until he was behind the doors before letting out a deep sigh, "Something tells me this is going to be a long night."

11:30 PM

"Hey TK, how was work?" Ms. Takaishi asked her son.

"Pretty good, I made a lot in tips and it was fun hanging out with my friends even if it wasn't that long, which reminds me thanks for telling them where to find me," Takeru beamed.

"Your welcome but the truth is I never told them anything, in fact I never even spoke to them," his mother replied.

'But if mom didn't tell them then what? Were they doing there?' TK thought but quickly realized the disappointing truth.

Finally done, I thought I'd never finish. I'm going to add Yolei Ken and Catherine (forgot to do her last chapter) to my profile and please R&R. Last time I only got two reviews though I got over 100 hits and my other fic get around the same when it only gets 25 and it's really not inspiring me to write quickly.