Disclaimer: I'm really depressed now, all that work and all I got was 1 review, now I understand why people put ten review limits, it hurts that no one even cared enough to take three seconds to review and I already decided that I'm starting MB right after this chapter instead of after next chapter cause I feel so unappreciated. Also just to make this clear right now (with the exception of the ending) THIS CHAPTER HAS NO POINT TO IT, IT'S ONLY A FILLER

Chapter 10:

Change is Good

TK walked into his Pre-Calc class and immediately sat down in his seat next to Takato. "Hey Hope I wanted to talk to you"

"Kay, what's up?" TK asked quietly as to avoid the suspicions of his surrounding neighbors.

"Well after what happened this afternoon I kinda realized that none of our teams really seem to be bonding yet. So I was thinking maybe we should all get together, you know for the sake of the digital world," the goggle boy suggested. He waited for a response from his friend but began to blush when TK remained silent for a few seconds, "Ehh, just forget it, it's a stupid idea. Forget I said anything."

"No I think it's a good idea, I just blanked out 'cause… oh never mind it's nothing, let's talk more after class about this," the blond digidestined apologized then stared up at his teacher as he started the lesson, "By the way stop calling me Hope, it's really creeping me out."

45 Minutes Later

The final bell rang and the two boys quickly gathered up their books and walked out of the classroom, "So Takato what did you have in mind?" TK asked as they walked to the goggle boy's locker.

"I don't know, I figured maybe we'd invite some of the guys over to my house and we'd have a party tomorrow night at my house, I doubt my parents would mind," Takato said then approached his locker.

As he entered the combination TK questioned, "Wait you mean a sleep over?"

"Probably, we could stay up all night and talk about our adventures," the brunette answered as he opened the door.

TK was about to speak when a girl came up to them, "Hey Kato," Kari chirped then suddenly noticed the blonde's presence, "Keru? Wait, are you two friends again? That's awesome!"

"Uh yeah, see you tomorrow night after work Takato," replied TK as he walked away.

Kari watched as the boy walked away then turned back to her boyfriend, her cheery mood suddenly gone, "So he's still mad at me?"

"Yeah, I'm sorry. If it makes you feel better, it took a near death situation for him to forgive me," Takato said with a small laugh in his attempt to cheer up the girl.

"Yeah well I doubt we'll have another one of those for awhile… wait a second. When were you guys in a near death situation?"

"Oh this afternoon, you know that message that Gennai guy sent out? It turns out the mission was bigger then he thought. There was only about fifteen of us there and we got attacked after Yolei found a crest and…" the leader of the digimon tamers started before being cut off.

"Wait Yols got a crest? I've missed a lot!" Kari exclaimed in confusion then looked to the boy to hear more. Takato continued his telling of the events that happened earlier that day, pausing from time to time to answer Kari's questions. Once he finished the brown eyed girl wrapped her arms around him and forced a smile, "Well at least I know that all the Takies in my life are getting along. So what was Keru talking about before when he said he'd see you tomorrow?"

"Oh that, I just figured that it might be good if we all tried to bond so I'm inviting everyone over my house tomorrow night," Takato explained then grabbed the girl's hips and kissed her lightly on the lips.

"That sounds nice, what time should I come over?" she asked as she rested her head on his blue cloth covered shoulder.

The tamer suddenly lifted his head and, with a nervous smile, replied, "Well, you see, the thing is that I only meant the guys. I don't think my parents would like it if I invited girls over to stay the night. But I guess you and the girls could do something together."

Kari suddenly pulled away and looked into his pink eyes, "I guess so, I'll go contact the girls now."

"That's probably a good idea, I need to get the message out to the guys before I leave for work," Takato replied then closed his locker, "Seeya later."

The brunette girl sighed as she leaned on the lockers and pulled out her D-Terminal. She sent out a message to the four girls her age explaining what Takato had told her and asking what they wanted to do. It wasn't until four minutes later that she received her first reply. It was from the French digidestined, Catherine, saying that she couldn't make it because of a report she had to write.

She lifted herself from the wall of lockers and was heading for the door when she heard a familiar sounding voice calling after her, "Hey Kari I got your e-mail!"

"Cool so you're in Yols?" Kari asked the purple haired girl.

"Yeah, but what are we going to do?" Yolei asked as a beeping noise came from her friend's D-Terminal.

"I don't know. Hold on a sec, I've got a message," the child of light replied as she flipped open the device in her hand, "It's a message from Taky's friend Rika, she says 'Whatever'. I guess that means yes. Oh wait here comes another; Zoe says she's up for it."

"Okay, well, once again, what are we doing?" the taller girl asked as she scratched her head.

"Well I guess we could have a sleep over like the guys are doing," Kari meekly suggested, making her violet haired friend excited.

"Oh my god that sounds great, then we could do each others hair, and paint our nails and stay up late watching Sweet Home Alabama," the girl shrieked giddily as she jumped up and down, careful to make sure her glasses stayed on her nose.

"That sounds great, Yols. Let me just tell the others," Hikari smiled as she typed out a message.

It only took a few seconds before she received the first response, "Yeah finally someone to do girl stuff with, I can't wait Zoe."

Almost immediately afterwards, the second response came through, "No Rika"

A small frown appeared on Kari's face as she typed her message out on her pink D-Terminal, "Well does anyone else have a suggestion? Kari"

The two girls began walking to the school's exit as they waited for a reply. Kari could feel the heat on her palms as she pushed the door open. The sudden brightness from the sun caused her to squint as she made her way over to the nearby cement wall. The two teenagers were boosting themselves up onto the wall when a message arrive, "Well we could spy on the guys, I've always wanted to see what they do when we're not around Zoe"

"I'm in Rika"

"What do you think Yols?" Kari asked skeptically. It was strange but for some reason the thought of spying on the guys suddenly seemed unappealing to the girl but she didn't want to ruin her friend's fun.

"Yeah, and now maybe I can get the chance to try this thing out," Yolei replied excitedly as she pulled out the Crest of Change from inside her shirt, "Come on Kari tell them yes already."

"Alright, alright," the brunette sighed as she sent out her response then placed the D-Terminal back in her bag, "So how does that thing work Yols?"

It took Yolei a moment before she realized Kari was speaking about the crest in her hand, "I'm not quite sure but I figure I could use it to disguise us as some of the guys. I'm sure some of them won't show up so it'll be easy."

The girl held out her crest as she thought about it and it began to shine bright green. When the light faded her friend was no longer sitting besides her. In Kari's place sat Takato. As Yolei stared a confused expression appeared on the boy's face, "Why are you staring at me Yols, is there something on my face?"

The voice that came from the boy's mouth seemed to be higher then usual and once Yolei heard her nickname she knew something was wrong, "Kari is that you?"

"Yeah who else would I… be?" the teen said then noticed her slightly larger hand. When she looked down she saw that her normal pink tang top was replaced by a dark blue t-shirt and her shoulders seemed suddenly broader, "Yols, what did you do?"

"I must have activated the crest somehow. Cool, now if I could just figure out how I did that," she replied excitedly as she stared at the 'boy'.

"Yeah well I think I just found a problem, besides the fact that my voice hasn't changed," Kari responded as she pulled up her shirt sleeve to reveal that the flesh beneath it was a shining blue stream of data.

"Shoot, this must be what Izzy meant by physical copy. This isn't good, we'll need something more realistic. Wait I've just got an idea," the purple haired girl said then held out the green crest. In her mind Yolei thought of the boy in front of her returning to being her female friend. Once again there was a bright flash and Kari returned to her normal form.

The brunette girl pushed her spaghetti strap slightly to the side to see that she was indeed back to normal, "Ok Yols, what's your idea?"

"Well I was thinking, Izzy's computer said that in order to make an identical copy, you need a sample of the data of what you want to create. So I was thinking that since a human's 'data' is DNA, maybe if I used some hair I the transformation would turn out better," Yolei explained then plucked a long purple hair from her head. She wrapped the string around the crest then pointed it at Kari. For the third time her friend changed and sitting next to her was her twin only wearing smaller clothes.

The Next Evening at the Kamiya Residence

Kari was sitting on the living room couch with Rika and Zoe when the doorbell rang, "I've got it," the hostess announced as she went for the door. She turned the doorknob and saw Yolei's face when she opened the door.

"Sorry I'm late, I just couldn't find a guy who wasn't already going, I guess I'll just have to sit this one out," Yolei apologized then sighed as she walked into the apartment.

"Hey you can use mine, the twins are never very social and it would be weird if 'Koji' showed up alone," Zoe offered as she held out a small plastic bag with a blue strand of hair inside.

"Wow thanks a lot, oh Kari did you find some clothes?" Yolei asked as she sat down on a nearby chair.

"Yeah, it took a few hours of searching but I found some of my brother's old clothes, then it took a few more hours to work up the nerve to touch them long enough to get them into the washing machine," Kari explained as she winced then led the girls into her room. On the bed laid four different outfits. Each girl looked through them all and chose the one they wanted, Kari grabbing hers immediately along with a pair of goggles she bought that afternoon.

Thirty minutes later the four girls were dressed in baggy boy clothes and stood in front of Kari's computer with their different digivices held up to the screen, "Digi-Port Open!"

When they arrived in the digital world, two small digimon came running towards them along with a taller, fox-like one who was slink towards them, "Rika I thought you said you'd arrive earlier, I've got the data you asked for," Renamon told her tamer as she approached.

"Me too Kari," Gatoman said in a cheerier tone then the digimon before her, she held out her paw and showed her partner a blue shining hair.

"So, ready to go?" Yolei asked. The girls nodded and Yolei pulled out her new crest. One by one the girls were transformed, leaving only Hawkmon in his true form.

"Yolei, what am I to do?" the bird digimon asked his partner.

"I'm sorry Hawkmon you'd better stay here, we'll be back later and tell you how it went," Yolei told him, adjusting to her new deeper male voice.

"Hey Yols did you find out where Takato's portal is?" Kari asked as she adjusted the goggles in her red hair.

"Yeah it's not far, but Kari, or should I say 'Davis', make sure not to use those nicknames of yours," she answered making her friend pout a little, "Hey how did you get Davis away anyway, I've never known him to turn down free food?"

Kari perked up after hearing the question and smirked, "Oh that was easy, all I had to was tell him, 'I'll meet you tonight in the park, I've got a surprise for you'. You should have seen the look on his face; in fact I'll show you." A dazed look appeared on her new face and she pretended to drool. The four of them burst out into laughter then Kari turned to Rika, "So how'd you pull it off?"

"Oh Henry's parents go out every Saturday night and he has about twelve younger siblings he has to watch," Rika explained as Renamon adjusted on her shoulder in a style similar to Terriermon.

After fifteen minutes of walking through the digital world, the 'boys' finally reached a small TV set on a grassy hill, "I think this is it, remember guys whatever you do avoid liquids at all cost," Yolei said then held up her D-3.

The others followed her example and opened the portal, "Digi-Port Open!" when they arrived in the apartment most of the guys had already arrived.

Sitting in a small circle nearby, Kari spotted her boyfriend sitting with TK and her cousin. As she approached Takato called to 'him', "Hey Davis, come over," she sat down in the circle and the boy spoke to her again, "TK was just telling us about when he was part of the original digidestined."

"Well technically we were the second group but I guess I'm still the oldest alumni in the room," TK stated embarrassedly then started up his story again, "Well anyway, me and Kari were being chased by Piedmon when we found this grass vase thing…" as the blond boy recapped on his experience he noticed a strange smile spread across 'Davis's' face as though he was actually interested for once and that he wasn't even digging into the bag of cheese puffs next to him. Normal Davis was rude and would have tried to change the subject to himself but he seemed to actually be listening for once, in fact the amount of attention he was giving the blond was beginning to freak him out. That is until he notice the chain hanging around his best friend's neck and he remembered the crest they had found the day before and smirked. TK then noticed that the looks of all three of the teenagers suddenly changed and the blond realized he had stopped talking, "Oh sorry I was just think about something else, well what happened next was Piedmon cut the rope and sent me and Kari hurtling to the ground. I thought we were done for until Angemon finally digivolved to Magnangemon…"

As Kari reminisced in TK's story, Rika made her way over to where Ryo was taking to Ken, "Hey dudes, what's up," she said in a nervous macho tone then lightly punched her boyfriend's arm.

"Nuthin much Henry, you?" Ryo answered with a weak smile at his friend's slightly strange behavior but decided to shrug it off.

"Can't complain, so how's it going with Rika, think you'll make it to home?" the blue haired 'boy' asked curiously, testing the boy in front of 'him'.

"Dude, no. Rika's not like that, sides I'm still waiting. As dumb as it sounds, i want it to be special,' Ryo replied, slightly insulted then once again tried to shrug it off.

"Yes," Rika whispered to herself hen noticed the two staring at them, "I mean, that's cool."

"Okayyyyyyy, well anyway, I get what your saying. I'm not rushing Yolei either. I mean we're only in high school, besides I'd at least like to not be living with my parents in the next room before anything happens," Ken stated wit a lecherous smile and a laugh.

"I hear you," Ryo said then took a drink of the sprite in his hand as 'Henry' stomped off.

'Men,' was all Rika could think when she walked towards Yolei.

"Ready to leave already? But we just got here," Yolei told Rika, knowing from the annoyed look on her new face what she was about to say.

"Men are pigs," she grumbled as she crossed her arms.

"Oh come on it can't be that bad, what did Ryo say?" She asked, being careful that no one around them listened in.

"Nothing at first but until his 'buddy' started shooting his mouth about... well let's just say you should keep an eye on Ken," Rika advised then sat down in a nearby chair with 'Terriermon' sitting on the arm.

"OK come on uh... 'Henry', just try to have some fun. Come on 'Kouichi' let's go talk," 'Koji' said then began looking around the room. Near the TV the two twelve year old digidestined sat watching One Piece. In the kitchen a large boy with brown hair was eating through a tray of cupcakes Yolei assumed were left out by Takato's parents.

It took a few seconds before she finally spotted where Kari was sitting with the three boys and walked over to hear the last of their conversation, "So now that you two are friends again, does that mean you're going to forgive Kari?"

"I don't know Davis, she hurt me so bad. I don't know if I'll ever get over what she did, no offense Takato," TK replied, giving the best acting job he could muster as 'Davis' probed him for information.

"It's ok dude, you know I think that Catherine girl likes you, why not give her a call?" Takuya suggested with a smirk then gave him a light punch on the arm.

"I don't know, I think it's too soon, not that it stopped Kari, once again no offense," the blond answered, trying desperately to hold back a grin.

Kari tried to look away from the boy's face when she notice the 'twins' were waving her over, "I'll be back in a minute Takies," she excused herself as she walked off.

The two goggle heads looked on in disbelief and TK silently laughed, "Did he just call us 'Takies'?" Takato asked his two companions.

"Yup," the blond responded calmly as he nodded his head.

"I wonder why he did that," Takuya stated not truly expecting a response.

"That's because he is a she, don't you remember that crest we found yesterday, well my guess is that the girls decided to spy on us and used it. Didn't you notice the way 'Davis' was grilling me for information?" TK asked with a smug look on his face.

"So that was my cousin talking with us? Then I guess that makes those guys he's, I mean she's, talking to girls too?" Takuya pieced together then waited for the child of hope to respond.

"I think so, and from the chain tied around his neck and the bandana on his head, that one's Yolei," TK told them as he nodded towards 'Koji'.

"So should we rat them out?" Takato asked his cohorts.

"Not just yet, I say we have a little fun with them before reveal them," the blond told them making all three boys snicker.

"Hey do you think they looked well, you know?" the legendary warrior asked nervously.

"I don't know but I'm telling Davis they did anyway," TK answered as he held in a laugh.

"Oh you mean to be on the safe side?" Takato guessed and searched his friend's face for the answer.

"No, I just think it'll be fun," TK snickered which was soon joined by his friends.

While the 'Takies' schemed, the girls were having a conversation of their own, "So Takuya didn't say anything about me at all?"

"Sorry Zoe he didn't. Are you guys going or something?" Kari asked, curious to know what was going on in her cousin's personal life.

"Well not officially but we've sorta had this thing between us for a long time," Zoe told her awkwardly as Kouichi's face began to blush.

"So what you're saying is we barely know anything more then we knew before. This is pointless, let's just go back to Kari's and watch some movies or something,' Rika complained as she crossed her masculine arms.

"I guess you're right, let's go," Kari sighed then led the group towards the computer.

She was reaching into her pocket for her D-3 when a familiar voice called out to her, "Hey Davis where are you going?"

"Oh I was just going to… show the guys something on the internet," 'Davis' lied to TK as he turned around, rubbing the back of his neck.

"Really can I see?" the blond asked, pretending to be curious.

"Oh no, you wouldn't be very interested," Kari assured him nervously.

"OK? Hey why not come back with me, we were just about to swap a few more stories," told TK as he hid the smirk on his lips, "You can bring your friends along too."

Not knowing what to do, the four girls followed the blond boy back to the circle, "Hey guys, I was just telling Takuya here about this one time at school last when Rika had a bowl of chili spilt on her at lunch and she had to where this sweatshirt from the lost and found bin. It was the funniest thing on earth watching her walking around with bunnies and little hearts all over her," Takato said and burst out into laughter along with the other two boys.

Rika could hear the stifled chuckles from her three companions and felt her face suddenly go red, "What the hell, I thought you guys were talking about stories from the digital world. Not this crappy gossiping shit!"

"Henry chill out, were just doing what we always do when the girls aren't around," the tamer lied as he watched the 'boy's' nose wrinkle up.

"Well that's nothing, Davis do you remember two years ago when Kari and Yolei went to the bathroom and didn't realize they were in the wrong one until they heard guys outside the stall. And then they called us on our cell phones and made us go and rescues them," TK practically announced, making "Davis' and 'Koji' shrink in embarrassment.

"Well I remember this one time when Zoe…" over the next ten minutes the boys recapped on every embarrassing moment and began giving each other looks that said, 'any moment their gonna crack'.

"I remember this one time at a party, when Yolei got her hair stuck on a coat hook and stood there the entire night pretending she hurt her foot," the blond boy told them making Yolei stand up in outrage.

"That never happened!"

"Oh really, and how would you know, 'Koji'" asked Takuya with a wide smile on his face.

"I.. I… you know what, fine! The truth is…" as Yolei was about to reveal them two unexpected guests arrived.

"What the hell is going on?" the real Koji said as he stared at his doppelganger.

"Why did you have to come now, he was just about to admit he's a girl" Takuya yelled then clamped his hands over his mouth.

"So you guys knew all along, I suppose your not as stupid as Rika thinks," Renamon replied from on her partner's shoulder.

"Of course we did, there's no way in hell the real Davis would turn down cheese puffs," TK told them then burst into laughter.

"So you mean this entire thing with the stories was just a way to annoy us?" Zoe guessed with a hint of amusement and annoyance in her voice.

"Well we figured if you were going to spy on us we might as well give you something to listen to," TK laughed.

"Can we go now?" Rika complained to the other girls who just seemed to shrug.

"I guess there's no reason to stay, let's go back to my house. I already rented Sweet Home Alabama," Kari smiled as she watched terror fill Rika's face.

"NOOO!"

3:26 AM the Next Morning

TK woke up on the floor to see the cups and plates littered on the ground around him. It took him a few minutes before he remember where he was and the events of the evening before. His throat felt dry and he had a bad taste in his mouth. He got up and slowly made his way to the kitchen using the small amount of light in the apartment coming from the streetlights. TK carefully went through the cabinets, as not to wake the other boys, searching for a glass. Once he found one, TK made his way over to the refrigerator and held the glass against the water dispenser and wait until there was only about half an inch unfilled. As he sat down at the nearby table drinking his what, something caught then blonde's eye… the knife rack. TK's blue eyes went into a daze then the boy put down the glass and walked toward the counter.

He smiled maliciously as he drew out the large cutting knife. TK looked at his human reflection in the metallic knife as he thought out his plan, "That kid will pay for what he's done to me, reducing me to nothing but a powerless mortal hiding in the back of this child's mind. After this is all done it'll just be me and the kid from now on." Devimon smirked as he slinked over to the couch which Takato was sleeping on. He drew the knife high above his head and gazed down at the sleeping boy maniacally. As he readied himself to plunge the knife into the boy, TK's hands suddenly began to shake, 'Come on Devimon, just kill him then you and TK will be one the first plane to America,' he thought to himself as he willed then blade downward with his eyes closed shut. When he opened them, TK could see that he had missed his target and the knife was currently stuck in the couch cushion. The teenager pulled it out and fell to the ground, his eyes starting to water, 'What the hell is wrong with me. I thought this whole thing out, it should have gone off without a hitch. I been so careful, I've even knocked out TK so he couldn't interfere, what went wrong?' The questioned stayed in the former digimon mind as he lied on the ground, then suddenly the answered came to his as he clutched his chest, 'It's this damn heart of TK's, it's corrupting me. I can't go back, I won't, I need to get out of this body. But if I do I'll just go back to that hellhole for all eternity and that would be worse,'

He argued with himself for what seemed to be an eternity before Devimon remembered the dark digivice he found the day before and that he packed it in TK's bag earlier that day before they came to this party along with all of their money and a few more pairs of clothes for the journey he saw ahead of them. He had been lucky that TK didn't seem to give much thought to the extra clothing. Devimon searched through the bag until he found the compartment which the device was hidden. He took the digivice over to Takato's computer in the next room which was still on and held it up to the screen, "Digi-Port Open!" as the words came out of his mouth, a dark energy came from the computer screen an wrapped itself around TK, dragging him into the computer.

When the darkness cleared, Devimon found himself in a dark elaborate hallway. The hallways were lined with torches held by a small evil looking digimon, similar to the one he saw the day before. When he reached the end of the hallway he saw three other separate hallways leading up to an alter that stood in front of him holding four torches, only the closest one lit with a green flame. TK slowly made his way up the alter steps to where a red crest rested. As he reached out his hand toward the crest a voice called out to him, "Why are you in our domain, human?"

"I came seeking aid, I am IceDevimon. I came into possession of this body two weeks ago in my attempt to destroy the digidestined. But there have been some complications and I need to leave this digidestined without returning to Digi-Hell," TK explained to the unseen voice, kneeling down in the direction he heard it. Moments later three digimon, similar to Pestilencemon though each with their own color and symbol, emerged from the three perpendicular hallways surrounding him.

"We can help you if you can help us," the black Digimon answered him, making the teenager smirk.

"Of course, I wouldn't have it any other way, but tell me, will TK, I mean my host, survive this?" Devimon asked curiously.

"Does it matter?"

"I guess not."

Finally I finished, I thought it would never be done. Now I can finally start my new fic. Anyway seeya next chapter and as always R&R.