Yolei paced boredly in her cell. It was so bitterly ironic that she would meet the one whom she used to have such deep feelings for and he wouldn't even remeber her! Her lips curled upward slightly. Not that it mattered if he didn't know who she was, to the contrary it might actually serve to her advantage. Sighing she glanced down the hallway he'd disappeared down.

Her thoughts began to drift toward a certain blue-eyed, golden-haired boy. Matt. His name rang through her mind like a bell. Was he safe? Did he escape? Was he laying somewhere hurt and alone? Was he thinking about her? More 'what if' thoughts plagued her mind as she paced back and forth.

She loved him, she realized. It wasn't like the love' she thought she'd had when she was younger, but real love. The kind that rocks your every being like a boat at the generous, yet cruel lady sea. The kind that makes you throw all caution to the wind, just to be with him. The kind that burns in eternally within.

'But what if he dosen't feel the same way about me?' She thought sadly.'Last time I saw him he and Mimi seemed awfully comfy with one another.' She felt a pang of jealousy hit her at the thought of him and Mimi together.

Yolei's sighed as she leaned agenst the wall of her cell. Her eyes flickered up as she heard the 'clickity-clack' of boots coming toward her. In moments the Digimon Emperor, appeared in front of her cell.

"I know who you are." Ken's voice echoed loudly off the cold stone walls.

Yolei tilted her head cockily. "Do 'ya now?"

"Don't play games with me! You are Yolei Inoue."

Yolei raised an eyebrow sarcastically. "Good for you, you know my name." She said dryly.

"How did you escape 3 years ago?" He asked, ignoring her dry sarcasm as he began stalk infront of the bars of a cage like a panther before its wounded prey.

Forcing away the feeling fear that rose hard withen her. Yolei responded cockily. "Well you're the man with all the answers, you tell me."

"True, but not to the question that counts. How did you escape, and when you did why did you not return to the real world and reunite with the other Digifools?"

"It's DigiDestined, get it straight. And besides, how do you know I didn't return to the Real World? For all you know, I did."

Ken smirked. "I did some checking. You never went back to the 'Real World'. Besides even if you had hidden out there you would have returned with the other Digimorons to find your Digimon and fight this hopeless battle against me."

Yolei narrowed her eyes. "It isn't exactly hopeless. We will win against you. Light has always triumphed over the dark. Even if you somehow manage to destroy us there will always be others."

"And they will in turn be defeated. Light will not always prevail, you should know that."

"You're still the same arrogent boy from 2 years ago, aren't you? You haven't changed in the slightest."

"Nor have I had any reson to." Ken paused then said silkily, "aren't you in the least worried about your comrade that I captured with you?"

"And what will you do, if I do?"

"I'll...I'll...."

"Relax," he said, his voice clearly showing amusment at her reaction. "He is fine, at least for the moment."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"I do belive you know what I mean."

"You're like a child, you know that? An incredibly selfish child whose suddenly been given all the power in the universe, but without the maturity to know what to do with it."

"I am very mature! I am the only perfect human being, you are merely an inferor being who is lucky that I even grant you the pleasure of seeing me."

"No one is perfect. You most certainly are not. And, I derive no pleasure upon seeing you."

"If you know what's good for you you'll learn to speak to me with respect!"

"I'll speak to you with respect when you earn that privledge from me."

Ken narrowed his eyes. "I grow tired of our game, Yolei. For the sake of your.... friend, I suggest you act more... calm before something unfortunate happens to the Digidestined of Freindship."

Yolei glared and said slowly. "You wouldn't dare...."

Ken leaned closer to the bars. "Are you so sure about that?"

He'd do it, she knew that for certain. People such as him had no scruples.

Choosing a different tactic, Yolei's face became closed off to all expression. "Why are you doing this?" She asked quietly, firmly.

Ken furrowed his brow at this change of tactic. "Doing what?" He asked, curious in spite himself.

Yolei tilted her head slightly. "Why are you taking over the Digital World? What reason have you to do this? It can't be because you wrongly believe you are the only perfect being, because your not. You have a D3, do you not? Do you know what that really symobolizes? The Digivices are given to the DigiDestined. You are a DigiDestined, you are the same as me, Davis, Matt and the others. You were sent to the Digital World for the same reason as we have were, to protect the Digital World. Not to take it over. Now tell me, why are you betraying your true purpose here?"

Ken seemed rather taken aback at her words."I... Well....." He shook his head slightly. "You are just trying to distract me. My only purpose here is to take over the Digital World, and even if I were a protector of the Digital World, which I'm not, why would the Digital World choose a scrawny group such as yours? Well?"

Yolei sighed slightly. "You still don't get it, do you Ken? The Digital World choose us for reasons we may never know. They chose us and that should be good enough for you, it is for us. Though I'm beginning to wonder why they would choose someone like you. If anything else, you should ask yourself why the Digital Forces chose someone like you, that would take over the Digital World, to come here."

Ken opened his mouth to say something, but found he couldn't. Her words rung with a kind of sincerity. A truth that he hadn't ever thought of.

Seeing that she was getting through to him, she countinued. "The Digital World and Digimon are as real as you and me Ken. They have feelings that same as us. When you hurt them, it's the same as harming anouther human being. When you enslave them, you're doing the same to yourself. We fight you, to make you see what you are doing and what harm you are causing. And if you change your ways, we can forgive you. Join us Ken, stop this insanity of enslaving Digimon and the Digital World and join us. We can be your friends."

"Friends?...." Ken whispered. He'd never really had friends. Sure he'd been on a team and there had been people that had acted kind toward him, but he'd always known that they weren't really his friends. They merely wanted to get close to him in hopes that they too could grasp his fame and such. Could she really mean it? Could he really become... friends with the Digidestined?

Wouldn't they hate and despise him for all he had done to them? Shaking his head Ken's eyes grew hard. "You are a very good actress, Yolei; but I am no fool. And I shall not be taken for one. I have no need for friends, and as for the Digimon they most certainly are not real. They are data and data doesn't have feelings."

At that moment the fortress shook violently. Nearly sending Ken and Yolei sprawling to the ground.

"Master! Master!" A high voice squeaked as the clicking of claws revealed him to be Wormmon. "The DigiDestined are attacking! Severel have already made it into the fortress!"

Ken's eyes widened. "Send out my strongest Digimon, these fools cannot defeat me here!" He turned back to Yolei. "Looks like your friends are going to try to rescue you. Make no mistake, they will not succead."

With that he turned on his heel and left, leaving a confused and rather hopeful Yolei behind.

"Maybe... maybe there's still some good in you, Ken." She whispered to his retreating figure.