Chapter 3: It can't be!
There was a minute of silence, where hence the digidestineds absorbed the heat. Kari broke away from her brother and stepped forward; with a surprisingly strong voice she stated, "It feels like hope."
As she finished speaking a pink light escaped from inside her and added to the light surrounding them. A wide smile spread across her face, "We're coming Tk."
The digidestineds watched as she began floating up into the air. Tai ran to her but soon found himself floating just below her in the same beam of light. The others followed and one by one they were lifted off the ground.
Once they were almost 200 feet up, the light began twisting and spinning and instead of a slow rising pace, they found themselves going at an exponential speed. Colors began swirling and changing form, then everything stopped.
They hit ground.
They all landed standing up in a perfect line. They blinked as their vision cleared and saw the same beautiful digital world they were use to. The older digidestineds recognized the place as File Island. The trees were big and strong, bright and cheerful.
"Don't come to the digital World," Davis exclaimed in a fury, "why not? From what I can see it's the same as always."
The others silently agreed. "Maybe he was mistaken." Sora offered as an excuse.
"I don't think so."
Ken's voice was shaky and had a severe tremble of fear to it. They others looked at him. As they did, they noticed that he was turned around in the opposite direction as the others. They followed his example and turned. A gasp escaped from 10 pairs of lips.
From a foot behind them and beyond all of File Island lay in rubles. The trees were gone, all signs of life were gone, and basically everything except barren rocks was gone.
"Watch out!" Joe yelped while pointing to the ground. The foot of grass that was there a moment ago had turned into a mere 3 inches. It continued on its fast pace and disappeared under their feet, making them drop down an inch.
"What's doing that?" Mimi asked in panic.
"I'd give my life to bet that whoever has Tk is doing it." Matt said with all needed angst and blame in his voice. It was then that a flying object hit him in the head. He swayed to gain his balance and saw whatever hit him skid along the ground. They ran over to it.
"Patamon!" Kari screamed in glee.
As Patamon's vision cleared he saw the girl who had made the noise. "Kari!" He smiled but then it suddenly cascaded into a deep frown, "You shouldn't be here."
"Why not?" Yolie asked insulted, "We're the digidestineds aren't we. We're supposed to beat the bad guys."
"It's not that simple, Yolie, you're part of the master plan. You're going to make things worse by being here, Go back!" A tear crept down Patamon's cheek and his voice cracked.
"What's going on and where's Tk?" Matt exasperated.
Patamon's eyes widened in fear and another tear escaped his eyes, "Tk's up in the castle sitting on the throne. He's the one that did all of this." Patamon's paw pointed to the destruction.
The digidestineds looked around not believing what they heard, "Tk did this?" Cody asked astounded.
Patamon flew into the air, "I have to go get the others; I'll be back."
Before the digidestineds had time to protest, Patamon was far out of sight.
"That was weird, he left so suddenly." Davis pointed out the obvious but everyone's mind was too busy to respond.
Tk woke up in a comfy bed with satin sheets. He worriedly wondered why he would put him there. He got up and reached for his clothes which were folded perfectly on the bedside table putting them on in a hurry.
His body felt revived and rested.
Suddenly a dark figure appeared in the doorway. "My young king, we've got something of importance to show you."
Tk gave the figure a hard stare, "I'm not going anywhere with you, Devimon."
Devimon gave a devilish smirk, "Actually you will, activate." As soon as the last word was said a terrible pain shot threw Tk, he's body began convulsing and spazzing in every direction. "Stop." With Devimon's words the pain ceased and Tk was on the floor panting.
Devimon walked up to him wistfully and pulled off his shirt. Tk was too out of breath to defend himself in the least. Devimon pointed to Tk's heart. Tk followed his finger and saw what looked like a quarter sized black stone under his flesh. "I had the pleasure of implanting that last night, after you're little uprising. I thought it might be good for keeping the little king under control."
"You little—" Tk tried to reach for his neck but Devimon was too quick for him.
"Now, now, now you wouldn't want me to hurt you again."
Tk began, "I swear I'll get—
"Activate."
Tk's body surged out of control just as before. There were cracks as his arms whacked the floor and began to time Devimon waited for at least double the time before muttering stop.
Tk slumped to the floor his lungs gasping for air.
"If you're ready I actually do have something important to show you." Devimon picked up Tk to his feet but his legs quickly collapsed under him. With a sigh, Devimon picked him up bridal style and carried him out of the room.
When at last Devimon stopped walking they were in a grand room with a giant movie screen. Devimon set Tk on his wobbly feet and instantly an image appeared.
Tk gasped.
The digidestineds were in the digital world and not only that but Patamon was there. He watched as Patamon told lies about Tk, worst of all the others believed him. If possible, Tk felt even weaker; his friends were losing hope in him. There was no way he could stand, all his strength left him and he collapsed to the floor. He watched as Patamon flew away and the other kids sat in thought.
"I think that's enough for now," Devimon said, obviously enjoying himself as the screen went blank.
Tk looked up at Devimon his eyes full of sorrow, "Why don't you just kill me? Why go through all this?"
"It's simple, young prince; you destroyed me, so I'm destroying you from the inside out. Your death won't be easy; it will be full of pain. You will die knowing that your friends hate you, that they think the digital world was destroyed by you. You will die after witnessing their deaths. You are king of the evil that will kill them. That is why I'm showing you this; that is why you'll sit on the throne, so at last when death comes to you, you will be ruined."
Tk looked up at the monster, his hatred doubling; his friends were going to be hurt just so that Devimon could get his revenge. He couldn't let this happen. He gathered up all the hope that still resided in him and sent it along the bond he shared with Kari.
Before his strength completely disappeared Tk watched as Patamon entered the room. He and Devimon exchanged a few words then Patamon changed into his true self: Miragemon, a body morphing digimon. In his back was a silver gear.
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