Finally, Chapter 3!

"Tai! Matt!" shouted Izzy into the hallway. Tai and Matt ran into Izzy's dorm room from theirs. Tai had a soccer ball under his arm and Matt had his guitar.

"Yo Izzy" said Tai, "what's all the hubbub?"

"Tai! Matt!" exclaimed Izzy, "do you remember that kid Willis?"

"Of course," said Matt, "how could we forget?"

"So what about old Willy?" asked Tai.

"Well," began Izzy, "Willis just emailed me that digiports across the United States are opening spontaneously."

"What!" exclaimed Matt, "How is that possible?"

"I don't know?" responded Izzy, "but there has to be someone, or something behind it."

"But…" began Tai, "that Digimon that TK and Kari fought last summer, wasn't that the last evil?"

"I don't know Tai," responded Izzy, "all I know is that the connection over the United States is in danger and the only thing that can be behind it is some force from the Digital World."

"You're…who?" asked Ken.

"I am Gennai," Liu said back.

"But… Gennai doesn't…"

Liu, or should I say Gennai, laughed. "Oh, that's because I took the form of a high school student, not the young man I was last time you saw me.

"But how can this be!" exclaimed Ken. "Why?"

Gennai looked around the hallway. "We need to talk somewhere quieter."

Gennai and Ken ended up in an empty boy's bathroom (for it was still class time).

"Ken, there is something rotten in the Digital World."

Ken, uncomfortable by their surroundings, looked at Gennai uneasily.

"What do you mean?" Ken asked.

Gennai put his hand against the mirror and took a breath.

"After Beelzemon was defeated last summer by TK and Kari, the Digital world experienced a short period of peace."

"…then what happened?"

Gennai looked at the blank wall as if he was reading something.

"After TK and Kari left, the Digital World was plagued by a new evil. The many continents were individually conquered by 'Hell Forces", led by the Six Generals of Hell. These general conquered the continents faster than many a force in the past, the only force that conquered the Digital World faster were the Dark Masters."

"…how did the generals come to be…"

"Do you remember Beelzemon's story?"

Ken nodded. "Yes, he was created from my darkness."

Gennai looked down. "The other six came about in the same way."

"Oh," said Ken, "so it's my fault."
Gennai chuckled a little bit. "Always blaming yourself, huh?" Gennai looked up. "It doesn't matter where they came from, what matters is how to destroy them."

Ken smiled back. "What do we have to do?"

"I was able to amass a small force in my home," said Gennai, "but what we need is someone to lead this force to protect the few sectors of the Digital World that have yet to be conquered."

"The best people for that job," said Ken, "would be Tai and Matt."

Gennai nodded. "I know."

Ken looked at the mirror, then a thought came to his mind.

"Wait!" he exclaimed, "what about Kari?"

Gennai looked up. "I believe that the Hell Generals want Kari to create a path between the Human and Digital Worlds. That way they can be the masters of both worlds."

Ken blinked. "That makes sense. Do you know where she is?"

Gennai's eyes widened. "Oh no… Ken you have to find her."

"Alright…"

"Izzy!" shouted Matt, "do you really have no idea who's behind this?"

Izzy shook his head. "The best way to find out," he began, "is to go into the Digital World ourselves."

""Alright then," said Tai, "c'mon Matt, let's go."

"I'll open the port," said Izzy.

"Digiport, open!" said Tai.

Nothing happened as the three rugged camping men stared at the empty computer screen.

"Izzy, why isn't it working?" asked Tai.

"I don't know!"

"Well figure something out," said Matt, "we have to see if everything is alright!"

"Don't you think I know that!" shouted Izzy. "All we can hope for is that our Digimon can take care of it."

Matt nodded his head. "Yeah…"

Kari was huddled up in the girl's bathroom.

"Why won't the voices stop…" she thought to herself. "What the hell is going on!"

As Kari sat by herself in one of the stall, she heard the door swing open. Quiet footsteps approached her stall. One after another the footsteps came closer, and closer, and closer still. As soon as the footsteps stopped in front of her stall, they stopped. Some figure was in front of her stall, and she couldn't see who it was. Kari shook a little bit as she saw the lifeless feet underneath the door.

"Kari…" she heard a whisper.

She could have died at that moment. She was so frightened; she had never before felt any fear like this.

"Why are you hiding…"

Kari wanted to shout and scream and run all at the same time, and then she froze. She heard the sound of running water followed by the footsteps heading back for the door of the bathroom. Suddenly, she was all alone in the bathroom again. She took a sigh of relief, when she heard something else.

"Ha ha, did you think that pathetic human was me?"

As soon as she heard that, she bolted right out of that bathroom. Kari wasn't one for skipping school, but this narrator believes that in this situation, running out of school may be somewhat acceptable. The only problem I see personally in this choice was that she was running farther away from Ken, Yolei, Gennai, and the other people who love her, and instead headed straight into the black unknown.

As she ran the voices were still as clear as day.

"What do I do…" thought Kari, "Tai's in Kyoto, TK's in China, Mom and Dad are in who knows where…"

"Don't run away anymore…" whispered the voice in her head, "now it is time for me to make the pain disappear."

"Idiot!" Kari shouted at nobody, "you're what I want to run away from!"

"Am I?" responded the voice.

"Am I really what you're running from?"

"If you're not…"said Kari, "then what am I running from?"

"You tell me…" whispered back the voice.

"Look around at your world," continued the voice, "look at your pain, your disease, your loneliness. What have you humans done with your world?"

"Look I'm not really into philosophy."

"Philosophy? No, this is common sense. Kari, you are the child of light, you can create a new world."

"What?"

"Think about it, remember your dream…" said the voice, "a world where digimon and humans live together in peace, a world without war, a world without evil."

"Yes, I remember."

"Bring that place into reality. This can be made."

"How?" asked Kari.

"Join me," said the voice.

"What!" Kari almost laughed.

"Yes, you have the ideology, I have the power, together, we can change this world, then we can change the Digital World. We can make peaceful world."

"No!" laughed Kari, "I could never join you. Are you kidding?"

The voice took a long, deep, ghostly sigh. "Then, I must force you!"

The following scene was not pretty. Imagine a young, teenage girl grasping her head and falling on the ground. The surrounding people tried to help her, but she would respond by growling, and was even foaming at the mouth a little. After the voice took over her body, she cleaned herself up and continued walking on into the vast unknown.