Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ The Ressurection War ❯ DIGIMON EMPEROR: Love Returns ( Chapter 3 )

It's Kari again. I was having trouble making it to class on time because of my trips to the Digital World. I was always running into Davis, I wonder why he kept oversleeping?

Anyway, a kid from my school, Ken Ichijoji was pulled into the Digital World along with a younger kid named Cody Hida. When I met up with them, they were already on the run from the Digimon Emperor. We made it to a cave where Ken and Cody found their digimon partners and we discovered that Ken was really Izzy Izumi! One Digidestined down, five to go!

Sometimes I wonder about myself………

Wonder why I am the way I am………

I know I can be annoying at times………

And selfish………

But I like to think………

Then I'm a good person deep down………

That I'm a compassionate person………

I know that's confusing and contradicting………

It feels like there are two people inside of me sometimes………

Am the selfish person everyone sees………?

Or the selfless person I want to be………?

Chapter 3:

DIGIMON EMPEROR: Love Returns

The small Koromon charged out of the village as the dark ring-wearing Airdramon fired streams of lasers into their homes. A squad of Monochromons under the evil rings' powers attacked on the ground by smashing what little was left of the buildings. The Koromons and Agumon watched in horror as their home burned to the ground. The Digimon Emperor laughed with extreme delight at the destruction.

One of the Agumon twirled around to stare at the cape-wearing human standing atop a Monochromon. "You find this funny?" he shouted, "you think this is humorous? You destroyed our homes! We've lived here all of our lives, and now we don't have any where to live and it's all your fault!"

He was about to leap at the Digimon Emperor, but two other Agumon held him back. He took a few deep breaths to calm himself. "Why are you doing this, huh? At least answer me that."

The Emperor laughed. "This land now belongs to me, and as such, it is mine to do with as I please." He grinned, "And it's my pleasure to place a dozen of my Control Spires along this land!" He pulled a whip from behind him and cracked the ground in front of the Agumon. "And you'll be building them! Ha!"

Tsukaimon floated onto his shoulder. "Shouldn't you be going?"

The Emperor looked at his watch. "You're right. Make sure these Agumon are organized. I want building to start immediately."

"Yes sir."

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Kari lightly tapped her pencil against her desk as she stared out the window. So much was going through her mind. She now had the Crest of Courage to use against The Digimon Emperor's Crest of Abandonment. All she had to do now was figure out how to use it. Somehow, she figured that it was not going to be easy.

"Hey, you're here on time."

Kari turned and saw her friend smiling at her. "Hi, Yolei."

The purple-haired girl grinned as she sat down next to her. "I'm surprised you're here already, lately, you've been running in at the last minute."

Kari shrugged slightly. "I just got up earlier. When you don't stay up 'till three in the morning, it's easy to get up early."

Yolei chuckled. "What were you doing up at that time?" She grinned slightly, "Was it a boy?"

Kari blushed. "Yolei, I do not have a boyfriend, you know that."

Yolei pushed Kari's shoulder lightly. "Maybe it's about time."

"Like who?" she asked.

Yolei shrugged. "I don't know. How about Davis?"

Kari stared at her. "You're kidding, right?"

"What?" she asked. The two girls looked to the corner of the room where Davis was leaning back in his seat, snoring loudly. "I admit, he's a bit of a doofus, but he's not that bad looking."

Kari shrugged. "I don't know…"

"Come on," Yolei said, "You're sixteen-years-old and you haven't even been on a date yet!"

Kari sighed. "There are more important things in this world then boys, Yolei."

"Like what?"

"Like fighting against a megalomaniac who wants to control a world that my older brother died in," she muttered.

"What was that?"

"Nothing!" she forced a smile.

Yolei just shook her head. "Are you going to the basketball game tonight?"

She slapped her forehead. "I totally forgot! Oh man!"

"Ya know," the purple-haired girl said, "You have been acting…'off' lately. Is something going on at home?"

She just shook her head. "It's too confusing right now."

"Whatever. So, are you going or not?"

Kari hesitated for a second. She was going to test out her new Crest of Courage, but ever since she became a Digidestined, her free time had been cut in half. She figured that a few hours would not hurt.

"Yeah, I'll be there."

Five hours later, she was sitting on the bleachers in the gymnasium, staring at the boys basketball team as it danced into the last minutes of the game. She and Yolei stared with extreme interest as Davis led the team down the court towards the other basket. "See!" Yolei said, "Davis is a great athlete."

Kari just shook her head. "No thank you."

Yolei grinned and pretended to faint. "Oh! Oh!"

"What are you doing now?"

The purple-haired girl pointed to a boy that was on the opposing team. A blond boy who had just stole the ball away from Davis and darted between the Odabia team and scored a three-point shot, bringing his team into the lead. "Wow!" Yolei grinned, "He's amazing!"

Kari moved her head to try and see. "Who?"

Yolei squinted so she could see the name printed on the back of the jersey. "Takashi."

The brown haired girl finally spotted the boy in question. "Wow," she said, "He does look…familiar…"

"Kari!"

She turned her in the other direction and saw a familiar brown haired boy walking towards her, trying not to trip over the other spectators. She smiled and waved at him. She mentioned to Yolei. "Yolei, this is Ken. Ken, Yolei."

Ken bowed politely. "It's nice to meet you."

Yolei waved. "Likewise."

Ken mentioned to Kari. "Um, I've got a message from Geni. There's a problem."

Kari nodded. "Um, Yolei, I've got to go."

The purple-haired girl nodded. "Sure. I'll see ya' tomorrow."

Kari saw the way that she was staring at Takashi. "You're going to talk to him, aren't you?"

"Yup!" she grinned, "I'll tell you about tomorrow."

"Whatever. Come on, Ken."

After the game, Yolei stood by the outside entrance of the boys locker room, waiting for Takashi to emerge. Unfortunately, Davis appeared first. "Oh, hey, Yolei, waiting for me? But where's Kari?"

"Buzz off, Davis!" she snapped, pushing him out of the way, "Where did Takashi go?"

"What?" he asked, "Why do you want to see him for?"

She did not answer as the boy in question walked up the stairs. She ran over. "Hi..Takashi right?"

"Uh, yeah, but I guess you can call me Tk," he said, "Who are you?"

"My name is Yolei. I was watching you play tonight. It was really great!"

"Jeeze!" Davis thought, "She sure works fast! What does she see in that guy anyway? He's just some show off!"

"Really?" he said with a smile, "'cause I was a little off."

"You didn't look it to me.

Tk was taken aback slightly. "Um, s..sure, I guess."

"No, I mean it. You're a great player!"

He smiled. "Thanks. Do you, uh, play anything?"

She frowned and shook her head. "No, I'm…"

"Very clumsy," Davis said, pushing her out of the way. "Hey, the name's…"

"Motomiya," Tk bowed.

"How did you know that?" Davis gasped, "Oh, I bet you studied up on the best player of the opposing team, right? You studied my moves and all of my skills right?"

"He saw your name on the back of your jersey, you idiot!" Yolei sneered, pushing back in front of Tk. Her demeanor instantly changed. "So, Tk, do you want to do anything this weekend?"

"Well, yeah, I guess. Why not?"

She squealed in delight. "Do you want to walk me home?"

Davis cleared his throat. "You know, Yolei, we both live in the same building, so I was thinking that maybe…"

She elbowed him in the stomach, then mentioned to Tk. "After you."

Davis stared at Tk as they walked around the corner.

Yolei smiled as she stared at Tk. He turned slightly and saw her. "W..what?"

"Oh, um, so, do you live around here?"

He nodded. "Yeah, I live with my mother a few blocks away."

"What happened to your father?"

"He's divorced, I mean," he smiled slightly, "They're divorced."

"Oh, do you have any brothers or sisters?"

He shook his head. "Nope. I'm all alone, it's very lonely sometimes."

"You're lucky," Yolei sighed, "I'm the youngest of four kids. I hate being the youngest, I hate having other siblings! Sometimes I just wish that I could be an only child."

Tk looked at her. "You'd miss your brothers and sisters if they weren't with you."

She nodded. "Yeah, you're probably right."

The couple walked past an electronics store that was displaying a desktop computer on the front window. The screen blinked and beeped before a pyramid of light emerged and enveloped the two teenagers. They were both pulled through the monitor before it silently returned to normal.

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Kari followed Ken into the computer lab. "How were you able to get in here after hours?"

He smiled slightly at her. "I help the computer faculty in programming their computers."

"Do you get paid for that?"

He shrugged. "Maybe…"

She grinned. "Alright. What did you want to tell me?"

Ken sat down and quickly logged into his e-mail account. He clicked on a message from Geni and read it for Kari. "Attention..Attention! The Digimon Emperor has attacked a large trading village in the Western Islands. The village is being destroyed right now and more Control Spires are being erected! The citizens need your help!"

"Alright," Kari said, "Where's Cody?"

"He went on ahead, with Armadillomon and Wormmon."

Kari nodded. "I'm going home to get Salamon, then I'll meet you there."

Ken nodded. "Right!"

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Yolei rubbed the back of her head as she sat up. "Wow, what happened?" She glanced around and gasped in shock. She was no longer in the city, it looked like she was in a forest, but how did she get here. And what happened to..?

"Tk?" she shouted, jumping to her feet, "Tk!"

"Yolei, I'm right here."

She twirled around and saw him walking towards her. She looked at him with a confused look on her face. "How come you're wearing different clothes?"

He looked himself over. He was no longer wearing his high school uniform, but a long-sleeved shirt with yellow sleeves and a pair of green shorts. "I wonder how that happened?" He looked at Yolei. "Hey, you'd better check yourself over too."

"Huh?" The purple-haired girl ran over to a small lake and looked at her reflection. Her uniform was gone as well, and she was now wearing a yellow helmet and a red body suit. "How the heck did this happen?"

Tk shrugged. "I don't know. Where are we too?"

Yolei shook her head. "Sorry. I don't have any idea."

Tk quickly looked around the forest, then spied a tall, pyramid shaped building in the distance. "Maybe we can find some answers there?"

She nodded. "Alright, after you."

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Kari ran through her bedroom door. "Salamon!" she shouted, "Salamon!"

Her digimon partner poked her head out from under the bed covers. "Kari," she yawned, "I was sleeping!"

"There's no time for that." She grabbed her digivice from her purse and pulled her partner to the computer that was resting on her desk. The monitor instantly logged to the Digital Gate. The main portal showed an image of the city that was being demolished by the Digimon Emperor. She was about to hold her digivice to the screen when she noticed a smaller box on the side. "Wait, what's that?"

She moved her mouse over to that small box and double clicked. The main portal changed to an image of a forest where two familiar teenagers were climbing the stairs of a pyramid. "It's Yolei! And that other kid! How did they get there?"

Salamon looked at her partner's face. "What are you talking about?"

Kari sighed. "I think I can get there, but what about the city?....Yolei doesn't have a digimon, I can't just leave her there." She lightly tapped her chin, "I'm sure Ken and Cody are at the city by now, but they haven't been fighting as long as us. Oh, Salamon, what should I do?"

The small digimon shrugged. "Help your friends. We can rebuild the city, and digimon are always reborn, but you humans get hurt too easily."

Kari sighed and held her device to the screen. "Digi-port open!" The Gate filled the room with light and pulled Kari and Salamon through the screen. Kari felt her school uniform peel away from her body, replaced by her Digital World uniform. When the light faded, she found that she was at the base of the pyramid that she had seen Yolei and Takashi climbing up. She started running up the stairs. "Come on Salamon!"

When she reached the top, she saw that there was a small stone room resting on the top. She jumped through the door and saw Yolei and Takashi standing inside. They both twirled around and Yolei gasped. "Kari? What are you doing here? And what are you wearing? You look like a pole at a barber shop!"

"And you look like you're about to be shot out of a cannon! How did you two get here?"

"We don't know," Tk said, "What is this place?"

"This is the Digital World," Kari explained, "And if you two were pulled here, then it means that you are Digidestined." She glanced around the stone room until she found a small alter that had a white egg with blades on both sides resting on it. She ran over, then looked over her shoulder at the two teenagers. "This is a Digi-metal, and it's one of yours."

"What do you mean?" Tk asked.

Kari mentioned to Yolei. "Try lifting the egg."

"Me?" she asked, "Well, alright." She walked over to the white egg. She gripped both sides tightly and pulled. The egg come un-attached easily and a geyser of red light exploded upwards. A large red bird appeared in the beam, before flying down at the purple-haired girl's feet.

"Greetings! I am Hawkmon, your Digimon par-what's wrong?"

Yolei was now on the ground, gripping her head tightly. "My head! It's on fire!"

Tk was going to run over to her, but Kari stopped him. "Just wait, she's remembering."

"Remembering what?"

"Her past life."

Yolei screamed in one final burst of pain, then was silent. She stood up and looked at Kari and Tk. "I…I remember! I was Sora Takenouchi!"

"What are you talking about?" Tk asked, "You were who? What do you mean?"

"It's a really long story," Kari sighed, "But we've got to help my friends, and….and…and…." Her eyes rolled into her head and she fell onto the ground.

"Kari!" Salamon shouted. She ran over, but her head suddenly felt heavy and she fell to the ground as well. Yolei, Hawkmon and Tk soon followed, all fainting onto the ground.

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Ken and Cody stood outside of the destroyed city's parameters. "Where is Kari?" Cody asked.

"I don't know," Ken said, "I think she should have been here by now."

Cody sighed as he stared at the scene in front of him. Most of the city was gone, and its in place was a giant black tower situated directly in the center. "They're going to be building more soon. If we get rid of that tower, those digimon that are under the control of the Dark Rings should return to normal." He turned to Ken. "What should we do?"

Ken sighed. He looked at the digimon resting on his shoulder. "Wormmon, we might have to do this without Kari. Could you be ready?"

He nodded. "I'm ready if Armadillomon is."

The digimon that was on the ground, said, "You bet'cha partner!"

"All right, Cody, let's do it."

The younger boy nodded and joined Ken in shouting, "Digi-armor energize!"

"Armadillomon armor digivolve to Submarimon! The Reliable Guardian of the Sea!"

"Wormmon armor digivolve to Searchmon! The Shields of Knowledge!"

The Digimon Emperor's Dark-Ringed servants started scrambling around the city as Searchmon and Submarimon began their attack. "Remember, don't kill them!" Ken shouted, "They don't know what they're doing!"

"Right!" Searchmon shouted. "Jamming Hertz!" He fired a cylinder of electricity from the large shield on his back that swept across the Dark Rings, causing them to malfunction and fall harmlessly to the ground. The freed digimon did not wait for any command; they instantly fled from the scene. Soon, the Digimon Emperor's entire force of enslaved digimon were gone.

The two digimon stared up at the Black Obelisk towering in front of them. "All right!" Searchmon shouted, "It is time to bring this tower down."

"This is too easy," Cody mumbled.

"I know," Ken said. He looked up to watch as his digimon brought the Control Spire down, but shouted out to him.

"Searchmon, watch out!"

Both digimon looked up and saw a large creature slam onto the ground, throwing them backwards. Ken and Cody stared with mouths open. The creature had a large blue body with a small head for a right hand and a massive skull for a right hand. "What is that thing?"

"Greetings humans! I am Deltamon, loyal servant of the Digimon Emperor. You will be destroyed for daring to oppose my master!"

"We are not bowing in front of any false regime," Submarimon said, "Oxygen Torpedos!"

Deltamon swung his small head/hand and grabbed Searchmon and flung him in front of the attack.

"Searchmon!" Ken shouted.

"My apologies!" Submarimon shouted, "Are you okay?"

"I am functional," he answered. He crawled along the ground until he hid behind the black tower. He watched until Deltamon was in range, then fired his Jamming Hertz to try and hit the Dark Ring. Unfortunately, he missed. All he was successful in doing was revealing his position. Deltamon swung to grab him, but Submarimon tried his attack again. This time he was able to injure the digimon, but not enough. The large digimon jumped into the air and slammed into the ground again. This caused both digimon to flip onto their back. He did not waste more time and fired his attack. "Now, I have you!" he laughed.

"Searchmon!" Ken shouted.

"Submarimon!" Cody screamed.

Deltamon stepped closer to attack again when he suddenly stopped. The two humans and their partners watched in awe as the Dark Ring fell to the ground. A teenage boy and a small digimon jumped out from behind a pile of debris.

Deltamon shook his head a few times. "Woa, what happened?"

"You were under the control of the Dark Ring." the boy said," But don't worry, you're okay now."

"I feel so awful," Deltamon said, "Can I do anything?"

The boy pointed to the tower. "Can you destroy that?"

"It would be my pleasure!" He started to pound the Control Spire until it crumbled to dust.

The boy nodded. "Thanks a lot." He turned to his partner. "Let's go." They quickly ran out of the city and into the forest. Ken and Cody tried to call out to him, but he vanished amongst the trees.

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Kari slowly opened her eyes to the sound of someone shouting her name. "Just a few more minutes, Mom."

"Kari!"

She snapped her eyes opened and saw Salamon pushing on her side. "You're finally awake. No wonder your mother is so mad at you for sleeping in all the time!"

"Very funny," she said, sitting up. "Where are we?" She looked around and saw that she was inside of a metal cell.

"K..Kari?"

She spun around and saw that Yolei and Hawkmon were in the cell as well. "Are you two okay?"

"I think so," she answered, "What happened?"

"You were poisoned with sleeping gas. Don't worry, you'll be fine."

The turned to see Tk standing outside the cell. "Thank heavens!" Kari sighed, "Quick, get us out!"

He grinned wickedly. "No."

"No?" Yolei gasped, "Why not?"

Tk just continued to grin as a black skinned digimon with large bat ears slowly descended from the ceiling and landed on his shoulder. Kari lowered her eyelids. "It's you."

Tk laughed as his clothes melted into a familiar costume. "I am the Digimon Emperor!"

"Why are we here?" Kari shouted.

He pointed to Yolei. "I knew she was the newest Digidestined and I wanted her! Then you showed up and ruined my plans!"

He looked at Yolei. "What do you say? You can reign along side me as my queen! What do you say?"

Yolei shook her head. "I don't know you really well, but enslaving innocent digimon is wrong!"

Tk sighed. "I guess there's no way around this then. Goodbye."

Yolei spun to Hawkmon. "Let's do it!"

"Digi-armor energize!"

"Hawkmon armor digivolve to Halsemon! The Wings of Love!"

"Armor digivolution!" The Emperor shouted, "My anti-evolution powers don't work against it!"

"Your bad!" Yolei grinned as she, Kari and Salamon jumped onto Halsemon's back. "Get us out of here!"

"Tempest Wing!" He fired a red blast that destroyed a section of the wall, allowing them to flee. Tk kept his eyes on them until they disappeared over the horizon. "This isn't over yet…This isn't over!"

The digidestined met back on Earth, Ken and Cody in Ken's school's computer laboraty; the two girls in Kari's room. The black haired boy quickly called Kari to give her an update.

"Are your guys okay?" Kari gasped into her phone, "We got sidetrack. I was just about to head to the city."

"We're fine," Ken said, "We destroyed the Control Spire, well, someone else did. I'll tell you about it later."

"All right. See ya' later. Bye." She hung up and turned to Yolei. "Sora, huh?"

Yolei nodded. "Yeah. Thank you for awakening me. You're going to have to get me up to date."

There was a knock on the door. "Kari?" her mother asked, "Is Yolie there?"

"Yeah?"

"Her mother called. She wants her home."

Yolei bowed. "I'll talk to you tomorrow. Bye."

"Bye."

After she left, Kari turned to her partner. "Another Digidestined. I wonder whose next?"\