Ken was welcomed into the Yagami residence by Tai's mom, who escorted him to Tai's room and promised to bring snacks.

"Hey Ken, what's up?" Davis was sitting on what used to be Kari's bed playing with a soccer ball while Tai wrote something at the desk. The room didn't look like it was being shared by two different people anymore. There was only one gigantic pile of dirty clothes and all evidence of Kari ever having lived there had vanished when Davis moved in.

"Davis, this has to stop."

"I don't know what you're talking about."

Ken realized this might be harder than he thought. "You kicked Kari out of her own house."

"Is she still living with her boyfriend? 'Cause I don't approve of them," Tai was suddenly standing way too close to Ken for comfort. "I need to have a talk with that boy..."

"Um, they're thirteen. Did you even explain-"

"I'm preserving her innocence as long as possible!"

Ken decided not to comment on the fact that no Digidestined was innocent. "I don't know if TK's in the bunker, but she's staying with Yolei now."

"Oh, that's better. Wait, did you say 'bunker'?"

"Yeah, Yolei made a bunker in her uncle's apartment to keep the puns away-" Now Davis and Tai were both up in his face.

"She made a punker," they said in unison. They were starting to freak him out.

Ken started backing away slowly from his crazy friends. They cornered him. "I just finished helping her move in..." he awkwardly trailed off.

Tai and Davis ran over to a corner and huddled up. The only thing Ken could make out was 'mewling quim', whatever that meant. He wasn't so sure he wanted to find out. But after four minutes of paralyzed indecision, they ran back towards him. Tai was making the weirdest face he had ever seen and sniggering.

"We've decided to recruit you!" Davis said as if it was an honor.

Ken was taken aback. "Recruit me? For what?"

"We gotta fight 'The Man' for our right to make puns!" Tai exclaimed.

Ken still looked skeptical. "Yolei and Kari are girls..."

"It's a metaphor," Tai countered.

"Let me think about this for a second... no," Ken said, moving towards the door.

Davis clasped both of Ken's hands in his. "After all we've been through together, too... but if you don't wanna... and you're my bestest fwend!" Oh no. It was The Face. And now the gogglehead was starting to cry. "I... I understwand... you don' wuv me anymowe!"

Ken sighed. Arguing would get him nowhere. Once again, he'd gotten himself involved in one of Davis's stupid plans because of The Face.

"Fine, I'll join," he conceded, "if you let go of me!"

Davis complied, and his face instantly went from tear-streaked to smiling. "Okay!"

Tai typed out an e-mail and sent it to Yolei. "The challenge has been sent! Now we just need to train you."

"In what?"

"Pun-fu!"

"You've got to be kidding me."

"Avengers assemble!" Yolei shouted.

Kari winced. "It's only us, and we're already assembled."

Yolei didn't seem to notice and pulled Kari close to her. She pointed Kari's face at the screen of her D terminal. "Look at this! LOOK AT IT!"

Since resistance was futile, Kari read the challenge Tai had sent.

Dear traitors to the cause,

I was just going to let you live a sad, punless life, but now you've done the punforgivable. Ken informed us that you built a punker. Punacceptable! Thankfully, he didn't defect. But you! You've cut yourselves off from the pundeniable power of puns! You'd better watch your backs, 'cause this means war!

~Tai, Supreme Pungeoneer of the Coalition

Kari only had one thing to say after that, "What's a 'Pungeoneer'?"

"Don't you know what this means?" Yolei was shaking her head now.

"Tai's finally gone off the deep end?"

"No! Ken's gone over to the dark side! Again! I need to recruit more people. You stay here and hold the fort!" Yolei ran off without answering Kari's question.

"We need more punple," Davis remarked.

"Purple?" Ken was still new at this.

"No, people! You're terrible at pun-fu. I'll go kidnap Izzy." And with that, Tai was off.

Ken and Davis just looked at each other, thoroughly confused. Until Davis noticed that Ken wasn't training.

"Get down and make all the egg puns you can think of!"

Ken started doing push-ups or, as Davis said, 'punsh-ups'. "Um, um, eggcellent! Eggciting! Eggsperience! Uneggceptable!..." the list went on and on. Davis nodded to himself. His punpil was learning fast.

"...so, what do you say, will you join the resistance?" Yolei had just finished explaining the situation to Izzy.

"That sounds like a noble-" he was cut off by Tai bursting into his room.

"You're coming with me!" the pun-crazed maniac growled. He grabbed Izzy by the wrist and dragged him away. Yolei tried to stop him, but was knocked to the ground.

"Here we go again," Izzy said with a sigh.

Tai duct taped his wrists together. "Come on, let's go recruit Matt! I don't need to kidnap him."

"How exactly are you going to convince him?"

He just smirked. "Let's just say I can make aaall his problems disappear."

He dragged Izzy down the street and got on a bus. For some reason they weren't getting many weird looks. Then again, kidnappings didn't look as weird as all the giant monster attacks.

Cody looked around for anything else he could use to barricade the door to his apartment. The pounding kept getting louder and he was terrified that the thing would get him.

"Come on, I know you're in there! Open up!"

Kari had warned him this might happen. From what he knew, Yolei had gone crazy. Well, crazier. She wouldn't leave him alone and was trying to break down the door with her bare hands.

"Open this door or I'll break it down!"

He said nothing as the pounding got even harder. He could only hope she'd give up and go away.

Tai knocked on the door to Matt's room. He had picked the lock on the apartment door with some of the bobby pins he used to hold his physics-defying hair in place. Matt actually opened it fairly quickly. He had probably been trying to gel up his hair since half of it was laying flat. It looked even more ridiculous than usual.

"Hey man, what's up?" Apparently Matt didn't think that it was strange for Tai to break into his apartment. Or drag Izzy with him.

"Nothing much, just declared war on Yolei's punker," he replied nonchalantly, "Wanna help?"

"No."

"I didn't want to help either..." Izzy muttered. Tai ignored him.

"Why not? She's trying to stop the pun!"

Matt had gone back to gelling his hair at this point. "And that affects me... how?"

He had a good point. Tai and Davis were the only ones who made enough puns to be more than mildly inconvenienced by this.

"She turned Kari against me!"

"That sucks, but it has nothing to do with me."

Tai started pacing, still dragging Izzy. "Don't you see? After Kari, she'll infect TK. And then they'll be punited against me! But that won't be enough for their punless-lust."

"Was that supposed to be a pun? It was worse than usual," Izzy spoke up.

"WHO SAID YOU COULD TALK? Where was I? Oh yeah, they'll have so much pent-up hate that they'll turn on you next."

"Me? What did I do?" Now his hair was perfect and he could focus on the conversation.

"You did annoy them for a week and a half. They might hold a grudge."

"Nah, TK loves our 'brother stuff'."

Tai hated talking about his sister as if she was anything less than the embodiment of perfection. But if it would help the cause... he grit his teeth and asked, "What about Kari?"

Matt spent a few minutes thinking over his answer. Then he exploded. "That little..." he censored himself because Tai was right there, "...angel? She'll corrupt my precious baby brother! If we win the pun war, TK won't turn against me..." he glanced at Tai and imagined the benefits of winning. TK and Kari would be separated! Or at least they'd break up.

"Where do I sign up?"

Tai handed him a taco that he had been keeping in his pocket as they started to leave, "Let's taco 'bout this over at my place..."

It was quiet, too quiet. Yolei hadn't tried to break down the door in twenty minutes. Cody didn't believe she was really gone, she was just biding her time and waiting for him to let his guard down. He grabbed a shinnai and started pacing. There was no way she could sneak up on him...

"Hiya, Cody!" a voice called behind him.

"Aaah!" he swung the shinnai as hard as he could and hit Yolei in the stomach.

"Ow! What was that for?"

Cody didn't lower his weapon. "How did you get in here?"

She sat down and clutched her stomach. "You left your window unlocked. That really hurt," she groaned.

"I live on the seventh floor!"

"I climbed the fire escape and crossed over a few balconies. Do you want to join-"

"No. Get out before I call the police," he threatened.

Yolei wouldn't have left if she didn't already know that Cody's never lying thing also extended to never bluffing. She climbed back out the window and set off for Sora's. Maybe she'd listen.

Tai made his way over to Sora's, still dragging Izzy.

"Let me go!"

"No," he said as he knocked on the door, "I'll never let you go! I need all the cannon fodder I can get!"

Unfortunately for him, this was when Sora opened the door. She gestured for them to come in. Right after she closed the door, someone else knocked on it. It was Yolei.

"Don't open it!" Tai frantically yelled, flailing his arms around. Sora ignored him and let her in.

"You each have one minute to explain what's going on. Tai first." Kari had also warned Sora, but she wanted to hear both sides of the story for herself.

"Yolei built a punker and Kari turned against me and I need your help to preserve the art of the pun!" he said in one breath.

Izzy started laughing. Tai punched hm. "Don't disrespect the cause!"

His time ran out, and Yolei started talking.

"Tai is really, really, really annoying, so I made a bunker and invited Kari in. He sent us a threatening e-mail so now it's war. Help stop the puns from crushing us?"

"I've decided to join..." Sora paused for dramatic effect, "Team Sora. For everyone who doesn't care about your stupid war."

Izzy immediately defected. "I'm joining Team Sora."

"You can't do that! You're on Team Tai and we have a no return policy!" Tai pleaded. He tightened his grip on Izzy's wrist. Izzy managed to shake him off and ran over to Sora. She removed the duct tape from his arms and glared at Tai.

"This is why I didn't join your team," she looked over at Yolei, who was nursing her bruised stomach. "What happened to you?"

"Cody attacked me..."

"Why'd he do that?"

"I sorta climbed through his window..."

"You broke into his apartment?"

"No," Yolei replied, "I entered his apartment. There was no breaking involved."

Now Sora was glaring at her. "And that's why I didn't join your team."

Tai and Yolei glanced at each other and decided that the time had come to leave. "Two days, soccer field, noon. Be there or be square," Tai ordered, storming off in the opposite direction of where Yolei was headed. Sora nodded, then turned to Izzy.

"C'mon, let's go save Joe." She was one of three people who actually remembered where his apartment was.

They set off, Izzy muttering "Soccer fields aren't square..." under his breath.

After about half an hour they finally got there. Sora breathed a sigh of relief; they weren't too late. "All right, knock," she said, hoping that Joe's dad wouldn't answer. He scared her.

Apparently, he scared Izzy, too. "No way!"

"I'm team leader..."

"Please tell me you're not turning into Tai..."

"You didn't just go there..." she warned.

Okay, he realized that that had been a low blow. "Still not doing it."

"Please?"

"No!"

"Please?"

"No!"

Joe opened the door, his expression neutral. "Keep it up, some of the neighbors might not've heard you."

"We're here to rescue you and this is the thanks you give us?" Izzy blurted.

"Kari warned me this might happen... let's hear your pitch," the older boy deadpanned, "I just got off the phone with Tai."

Sora saw her opportunity. "We don't care about the war, but since we're getting sucked in anyways, you can help us out."

"Not like I have anything better to do..."

"Then we can go," Izzy said firmly. "See you in two days."

Tai and Yolei both realized that there was now only one person left to recruit. They glared at each other as they waited outside the door to TK's apartment. His mom opened the door and they instantly sprang to attention.

"Can I help you?"

"Is TK there?" they asked in unison, glaring at each other again.

"I sent him to run some errands. He'll be back in two hours."

Tai elected to wait in the hallway for two hours like a creeper, while Yolei walked back to the bunker. When she got there she couldn't decide if she should be laughing or screaming.

TK and Kari were sitting on the couch talking to each other. Kari noticed that she had returned, waved, and went back to her conversation with TK.

"How long have you been here?" Yolei asked in a sickeningly sweet voice.

TK barely looked up. "Oh, I came over a few minutes after you left."

Yolei was frustrated that he'd been in the bunker the whole time. She was also confused.

"Your mom said you were running errands for her."

"That's just a cover story for if Tai shows up. Did he show up?"

"Yes. He's probably still waiting in the hall like a stalker. Now you're on Team Yolei."

Hawkmon spoke up. "I think it should be called Team Kari because she's the one who recruited TK, the only new member."

Before Yolei could reply, TK seconded her partner's opinion. The only reason the new name didn't stick was Kari refusing to have the team named after her.

"Can we Digimon choose teams?" Hawkmon asked.

Yolei considered this. "As long as the teams are even, fine."

"Awesome! As soon as it's safe, I'll go get Patamon!" TK announced as Yolei sent out an official notice.

Tai was still waiting. It had been way longer than two hours, but he wouldn't give up. Not ever. After the fifth hour, a policeman walked up to him. "I've gotten numerous complaints about your loitering in this hallway. Clear out, son."

"But-"

"You're scaring everyone, now go!"

Grumbling under his breath, Tai left the apartment complex, escorted by the police officer.

Author's Note: And that's all we already had written. Spell check on this site is really, really annoying. Especially when it tries to change pretty much every name in the story. Oh well, Open Office corrects all my stuff to Digimon-related terms for no reason, so...