Digimon Fan Fiction ❯ Undersea Master ❯ Return of the Psycho Psychologist ( Chapter 7 )

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Return of the Psycho Psychologist



"I'm running out of room on my cast," T.K. commented, as Cody searched for a place to sign it. Not only did it have the entire basketball team's signatures, and the DigiDestined, AND T.K.'s whole class, but almost everyone T.K. ran into in the halls had signed it.

"Found a place," Cody said, and scribbled his name in it. The white plaster was now quite colourful.

Kari was watching T.K. as they sat in the computer lab, waiting for Davis and Yolei to show up. He didn't notice it though. She was thinking... 'Oh great... I have to see the psychologist today.' Kari let out a sigh and T.K. looked over.

"You okay Kari?" he asked.

"Yeah... Except I have to see the psycho today," she answered.

T.K. made a face. "Is that what you're calling him now?"

"That's what I'll call every psychologist I ever meet," Kari grumbled. "I really do think that guy is Dragomon in our world. You wouldn't know... that look..." Kari shuddered.

"Hey, if he is what Dragomon would be in this world, wouldn't he be dead or something?" Upamon suggested.

"Perhaps," T.K. mused, "but wouldn't we have heard about it by now? It's been almost a week."

"I don't know," Kari said, "but I'm a little afraid to go see him today. I mean, he knows about DigiWorld. What if he's got some evil plan and makes me take him there or something? I really don't want to do that."

"You shouldn't be scared Kari," Gatomon told her. "He's just a human. Well, you are too, but you're DigiDestined. That makes you a whole lot more powerful."

"I guess so."

~*~**~*~

--Later, at the Psycho's office--

"Anything... interesting happen this week Kari?"

"Not particularly." 'Just saving the world, that's all,' Kari thought.

"I suppose you'll be happy to... know our sessions are almost over," the psychologist said. "I'd like to think we got... somewhere over these past few weeks."

"You'd be thinking wrong then," Kari muttered.

"Perhaps you'd like... to show me DigiWorld," Psycho asked.

'I knew it!' Kari's mind exclaimed. "No."

"No? Why not?"

"Because I can't."

"Why?"

"I CAN'T. You know, can not. Unable. Not possible. I can't."

"Can't or won't?"

"Both. Why do you want see it anyway? It's not all that wonderful," Kari said.

"Just interested, that's all."

"You shouldn't have asked. I think one of the things you should've learned is that it's a secret," Kari grumbled. "Nobody really believes in it anyway."

"You do," Psycho pointed out.

"That's because I know for a fact it exists. My friends and I are 'special'," she said, using her fingers as quotation marks at the word special. "You and the rest of the world aren't. Face it."

"Has keeping the Digital World... a secret been difficult?"

"Not particularly. People assume it's a computer game or something."

"What about the Digimon?"

"How do you know about them?" Kari snapped.

"That's not important."

"It most certainly is!" Kari exclaimed. "How do you know about them?"

"I..."

"I think I know," Kari said, leering at Psycho accusingly. "You are one. That's how."

"What would make you think that?" Psycho asked, almost defensively.

"You glare like an evil Digimon I once defeated," Kari said. "It's too creepy. And your hands... you always wear gloves, but I can see you're wearing a silver chain bracelet. That same Digimon had chains on him."

"That could be... coincidence." The psychologist's voice was becoming more and more similar to Dragomon's, and his left hand began to shake.

"And you're starting to sound like him too."

The left glove fell off of the psychologist's hand, and the first thing Kari did was look at his fingers. Tentacles... dark, slimy tentacles... with chains... Kari bolted for the door and found it locked.

"You're smarter than I thought, Kari," he said, his voice the same distinct kind as Dragomon's. "But not smart enough. I told you that your friends wouldn't be able to help you defeat me, and they won't!"

"But I thought... the beach..." Kari stuttered, her voice thick with fear as the other glove dropped off revealing more tentacles. Soon the psychologist was a gruesome mix of half Dragomon, half human. She pressed her back against the door, as if trying to push herself through it.

"Oh no. You only got rid of me in that world. In this world I'm still very much alive," Dragomon said, almost tauntingly. "You can't escape Kari."

A light went on in Kari's head. "Oh yes I can."

Dragomon laughed threateningly. "Then let's see you go."

Kari concentrated, focusing her powers on the place she wanted to be most. To her delight, she saw her hand begin to fade out. "Bye bye," she said sweetly, waving as she dissolved from the room.

Dragomon lunged for the girl, but got there too late. "You may have escaped me this time," he growled, "however, it won't be that easy next time."

~*~**~*~

Kari landed at her front door with a thump. Her first instinct was to run, and she burst into the apartment and slammed the door behind her, breathing heavily. "Safe," she whispered, closing her eyes.

"Kari?"

"AH! Tai, don't scare me like that!" she yelled.

"Sorry," Tai said, "but aren't you supposed to be at the psychologist's?"

"Tai, I am NEVER going back there again. Nothing in this or Digiworld could make me go back," she said, kicking off her shoes and going into the living room. "Ever."

Tai raised his eyebrow. "Why not?"

"Not only did he never help me in the first place, he's not even a human!" Kari exclaimed. Tai cocked his head, confused. "He's Dragomon, Tai! Dragomon!"

Tai nearly choked. "What?"

"I swear, Tai, he was Dragomon. And he tried to take me away again," she said. "It was so... strange."

"Kari, you know what else this means, don't you?" Tai asked. "Dragomon can move between the worlds."

"Not this time Tai. Dragomon said something about only destroying him in that particular world," Kari explained. "So that would mean that I would have to destroy him in our world too."

"And in any other worlds you might go to." Kari gave Tai a funny look and he shrugged. "You never know."

"I don't intend on going to any other worlds right now Tai," Kari said. "And right now, I'm calling the other DigiDestined. They'd better know about this."

~*~**~*~

"Kari, you're crazy," Yolei exclaimed.

"I'm not crazy. It was him, I swear it," Kari said, irritated.

"I believe you Kari," T.K. offered gently.

"Thanks T.K., but I'm still upset," she said.

They were back in the computer room, but nobody was thinking about going anywhere. Kari's news had shocked all the DigiDestined, and Kari and Tai had wound up telling their parents about the whole thing. Their mother had fainted dead away and their dad wanted to get involved. They'd convinced their parents to stay out of it as long as possible though, and Kari didn't have to go to the psychologist again.

"So what are we going to do about it?" Davis asked, always thinking about a plan of action.

"I don't know," Kari muttered. "We can't do anything right now..."