EVIL Part Four

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DISCLAIMER: I keep writting these. I think everyone knows. I dont own it. Dont sue.

Sora watched Katina as she only made short responses to everything. " Katina?" "Kat." "Okay uh, Kat then, Um.." Sora hesitated, " Where is it you come from anyhow?" she asked, sorting her words carefully.

Katina looked at the red haired girl. " Same as you. Earth. Just in a different time and dimension." she said simply.

Tachi looked over at the mysterious dark haired girl. He could not figure out what was behind those shifting eyes, the color of a storm, in winter.

She looked sick.

" I am sick." she said looking at him with listlessness.

He jerked back in surprise, " Pardon me?"

" I saw it in the way you looked at me. And yes I am. All three of us are." she said shortly.

" Kat!" said Glenn in a short breath. He was a bit surprised she had said anything.

7 only watched his little sister stare ahead. He worried about her. ALOT. She had become so thin, and weary. But then.. it had seemed they all had become such.

The... radioactivity had taken different effects on all of them.

7's P.O.V:

Kat's not really my sister. She was a little girl who was wandering around the city alone and unwanted a long time before the DarkDestined became the rulers.

She was only maybe eight. But there she was wandering alone in the middle of the night. Nevermind what I was doing out. That is MY buisness. But I followed her through most of downtown. Till she ran into a buncha punk teenagers who thought they owned the streets.

They cornered her into a dark alley, and Made an attempt to hurt her.

Something about the way she just whimpered and stood her ground made me wish to help her. Kat is one of those people who is not compleatly helpless... but.. she cannot fight either. She uses her mind to fight.

I marched up behind the guy who was apparently leader, and felt the gratification as he turned and my fist met his face. There was a noce CRUNCH as the bone crumbled under my force.

I am not little. Like Glenn I am a rather big guy. I am only an inch shorter than he is. But that does NOT mean I am weaker then he is. I am just as strong, if not stronger. I can beat him in armwreastling.But at any rate.

The guy staggered back at the force of being punched very hard. The little girl loked up at me and then behind me, there was something in her eyes that made me freeze for a split second, giving one of the guys who was attacking her a chance to get me on the head. but not for long. I fell down to my knees, rolled to my feet and stood in front of the girl ready to kick ass.

The guys surrounded me. They had me on all sides but the one the little girl was on.

Heh. I kicked ass. The first guy jumped me. I sent him packing with a roundhouse to the face. The next two guys ran off. The one who I fist punched.. well he was not so easy to be rid of. He lunged at me with full force, and knocked me to the ground. Something sharp peirced my back. Perhaps it was glass. I think thaat is what Kat told me later it was.

The guy stepped on me, and I threw him off easily, and into a wall. He slid down the wall and into some trashcans. Then he ran off.

The little girl, Kat, Looked at me, and helped me to my feet. She was not much help. But she Tried. I later found out her name, and her story. And after that I could not help but think of her as my little sister. My imotoochan. And I her big brother, as she calles me. Though, truth be known, she is a bit older than I am.

It is just physicly I am her bigger brother. And I take pride in that. After all, she had nooone else.

I wont lie to you, it feels good to have a purpose.

To have a need to protect someone.

It's being alive.

Anyhow. Not long after that the DarkDestined came.

They brought wars. Bombs, and the DarkDigimon.

After the second day of world renouncion... They caused a nuclear halocaust. A nuclear winter.

The radiation affected everyone differently. For me and Glenn it ment strength. For KAt, it ment sickness. She was not very strong inside. physicly anyway. But then. We are all sick from radiation poisoning.

It has been a frozen wasteland throughout most of the world, for the past four or five years. The DarkDestined have redhouse Crops. They have for years now. They have to stay alive somehow, and we live, just barely, partialy by stealing, partially by the small tended garden Kat kept under flourcent lights in the hanger.

I can still remember the blasts. It terrified me.

Kat and I were in my basement at home. The blasts came from above, shaking the whole house.

I ran upstairs to be only met by the collapsing of a wall before me. The concrete fell around me, and I heard Kat screaming out for me.

There was only one problem. I could not get to her in time. I felt the collapsing all around me, and then, nothing as another blast shook the world it seemed.

I remember when I woke up I felt strange. I thought at first I was dead. But the pain in my arms and legs proved otherwise.

I heard crying somewhere, and tunneled myself out of the embedment of concrete and stone. Looking around I saw there was littereally almost nothing left.

There was a faint stench on the breeze that carried through where the walls had been. It smelled of burning and heat, and something unfamiliar. Flesh. Burning rotting flesh, everywhere. It sickened me. I thought for sure I was gonna vomit.

The crying continued not far from me, and I heard them speak.

"... oniichan..." it was faint, and broken by crying, but I knew it was Kat. I ran to the source.

" kat?! Imotoochan!? Where are you?"

Some of the rubble to my left moved, but not much, followed by a cough and a moan. And more crying.

I hurried and moved therubble to one side. Not reasily, but carefully as possible. At which point I saw my imotoochan laying under a steel beam. Her upper body was crimson stained from blood.

She was in a lot of pain. I could see it in her eyes.

Her breathing was short, ragged.

" I.. I think.." she panted, struggling for breath, " I think that my lun..g is.. puntured.." she formed the words just barely. I could barely make them ot over the wheezing. She coughed.

And I could not help but to flinch when what came up was nothing but blood and mucus.

" Kat? Katina!?" I bent next to her.

She loked at me with those eyes.Those mirrorless eyes of hers. She was scared. She knew as well as I did the odds of her living were not good.

I looked at the beam. There was no WAY I could get that thing off of her. I did not have that kind of strength.

But.. I had to try. I kneq there was no way.. but I remembered about some people doing superhuman things in times of great stress.

Kat watched me.

" You have to stay with me." I told her looking at her, forcing myself not to cry, " You have to." Placing both of my hands on the steel beam.

My heart beat so fast and so hard, I though that my chest was going to burst, as I tried to lift the beam from her.

Nothing.

She looked at me with those sad stormy eyes. When she coughed up the crimson and yellow green liquid mixture I knew I had to do this.

PLacing my hands on the beam again, I took a very deep breath and lifted. The beam just barely moved.

I let out the breath as I realised the raspiness of her breath could not be heard as often.

Looking at her I realised she had closed her eyes.

" KAt.." I barely made out " Kat look at me."

She opened one eye and looked at me.

" I need you alive so that I can do this.."

She had her doubts. I could see it as she opened her other one.

I took another deep breath and lifted. I could feel the adreanaline rushing through my veins. The beam lifted.

It came up a good six inches from her and I used all my strength and will to shove to away from her.

It landed inches from her toes.

I could now see the upper half of her body.

The ribs... two of them were stiking up out of her body. They potruded out of her, two twin white bones sticking up in the midst of red blood.

"..no.." There was no way she could survive this.

I heard footsteps, and looked around.

A tall guy, with blonde hair and a muscular build walk making his way through the rubble. I knew him. It was the guy that Kat had liked so much. She called him..

".. oniichan...?" she looked up at me, knowing I had heard something. She also saw me looking at him.

" Its that guy you like......" I said. Then Standing up all the way I waved my arms, " HEY! YOU!!"

He turned to look at me. He had a gash above his eye.

" Hey 7! Have you seen Katchan?"

I looked down in response to his question. He ran to us.

Upon seeing Kat he could only stare for a moment, and then he bent down next to her.

" Kat chan.." he stroked her hair.

She looked at me and then at him, and I SWEAR. Truely, in that moment, Kat smiled.

She mouthed out I love you, and then closed her eyes for a moment.

Glenn began to cry. Not like a sobbing loud whiny crying. Like as in tears slid down his cheeks and onto hers.

I reached up and touched my own cheeks and found the same was happening to me.

Reaching into his shirt, e pulled out.. MiGod.. It was a tag and crest.. but.. it was... different. A sheild, with a cross inside it. And Silver.

" Hold on Katchan.." he saidsoftly as he held it in one hand and her head in the other.

He closed his eyes, and for a moment I thought he was humming as a mist flowed from the crest, and surrounded my little sister.

There was a few moments that I could not see them at all... and then it cleared, and I saw her. She was whole again.. her ribs were no longer broken. though her shirt was still bloody, and she was pale from the loss of blood.

But she was okay! And that was what mattered!

Kat took a deeop breath and loked up at me. " Oniichan." she said crying. " Glenn chan..." she hugged Glenn tightly. He blushed.

I was relieved that I fell to my knees, half to thank God, and the other so that I could hold her in my arms as well.

Between me and Glenn I thought we might suffocate her for a moment.

HEr head shot up. " Something is coming." she said softly. " From the air."

Glenn raised his head to hear. So did I.

at first neither of us heard anything. And then we heard it. A buzzing sound from above. We scanned the skies and finnaly saw it.

An old plane. The kind used to dust crops with.

Something was dropped from it that was not crop dust though.

" Abomb." Kat sighed terrified. She shook like a leaf.

Glenn wrapped his arms around her, as did I. As if to make some sort of sheild that might protect her from the blast that was to follow.

Glenn shouted something inaudiable at that time, but I later found out it was " Sheild of the Protectrate!"

There was an unfathomable boom in behind us. It hit where the park used to be.

I braced myself, making sure to keep myself where I would get the force of the blast. But the blast never came.

The heat however, did. The unimagionable heat penetrated through my very being.

" Hold on!" shouted Glenn through this enormouse buzzing that filled my ears.

I felt Kats hands move to her ears. She told me later that she screamed, because the buzzing hurt her ears so badly.

I had not heard her. The buzzing had filled my ears, and they had vibrated and ached, but not to the point of screaming.

It sounded like a waterfall. A waterfal magnified by twenty thousand more. The.. atomic pressure I think is what the old man in the hanger at one time had told me it was.

It builds so greatly that it affects your blood. Your very genetic structure. It actually tears apart your genes, and mashes them all together again in a mixed muddle. Peice by peaice, causeing it to raise yor blood pressure to so high a level that the average person should have had a heart attack.

But then, the cause of Kat screaming, would probably be that she has very sensitive ears. Have you ever turned a TV on, on mute, and listened carefully? Kat tells me that there is this high ringing sound that comes from it. which is part of the reason, that she can be in a shut room three doors down the hall and hear me turn on mine in the morning. and hear it.

At any rate.

The heat only lasted for a split second, followed by a forceful wind that almost knocked us from each other.

But we both held on tight to Katina.

Glenn and I have our fair share of friendly scuffles. And we dont always agree on things, or ssee eye to eye. But protecting Kat is one of the ones we DO see eye to eye on.

Then the rushing sound stopped. And everything seemed to stop as I looked up from Kat, and opened my eyes.

There was a silvery sheild around us, and Glenn seemed to be concentrating hard on something. Once again, later, I found out he was the cause of the sheild that surrounded us. And probably kept us from being killed.

KAt was shaking.

The world seemed to freeze as the temperature began to drop. Slowly, but it DID drop.

We sat there hugging one another inside this silver sheild for what semed like an eternity, untill Glenn finally opened his eyes and the sheild went down from around us. Looking out of the shield, we saw what was left of our home.

Rubble.

Smoke.

The trees were baren. None of them were standing.

I felt my throat get tight.

Kat said what I am sure we were all three thinking.

" What have they done?!" she gasped, " There is nothing. Nothing!" she shook terribly.

Glenn looked pale. He did not move from his position of holding Kat.

Something moved not far from us, and we hear voices.

We stayed still and watched as Darkdestinds Mimi and Takeru made their way through the rubble. There were two digimon with them.

A Fairy? She was as tall as Darkdestind Mimi, with pink clothes, trimmed in black.

Mimi was dressed in pink and black as well. Her hair was jet black. All in all, between the two of them? Think Barbie: bitch from hell, and "I'll kick your ass" skipper. They had pretty much the same attitude about things too. Bitchy and tough.

Takeru is normally the first of the Darkdestined you notice. For one thing, he is tall. The tallest, I have never been close to him, but Kat was once. She was his personal slave at one time. I think she said he was about 6'7". The next thing you notice about him is the fact that he looks like he could bench press a voltswagon. NOT someone to mess with.

The Angel of death-type digimon was walking with him. They were talking softly.

Mimi and her partner on the other hand, could not be louder.

" WHY did he HAVE to destroy all this?" she whined, " I liked the mall! He COULD have at least left that standing!"

" Mimi, would you just shut up about the mall already? What am I Gonna do? I am a woodland digimon! Where the hell am I supposed to stay?" She flipped her grey green hair back over her shoulder.

" Lillymon there ARE the gardens back at central control!" Mimi said plaintivly, " BUT I WANT MY MALL!!!!" she whined louder then before.

Takeru made a face. Kat looked up at me. The three of us hunkered down low under the rubble so that they would walk by us.

They did walk by us. Though Takeru paused not to far from us, and looked around. We held our breaths as I thought for sure we had been seen. I looked over at Glenn who gave me a look that said, 'Be ready to fight'.

But the big guy just went right back to his looking.

" And WHY Do WE have to look for the surivors? All that happens is we get all dirty and sweaty!" Mimi complained more.

All Takeru said was something that only Kat heard. " Becuase Taichi asked us to." He went back to his searching.

As soon as they were gone from sight, we got up and made our way to the hanger.

Glenn was weak, and so were Kat and I. So the moving did not go very fast. But we finally made it to our secret place.

The DarkDestined had never run across the run down, underground hanger.

Glenn sat down in a chair, and I led Kat were we had made a makeshift set of bunks, just in case we stayed overnight.

Thankfully everything in the hanger was okay.

After putting Kat down into her bunk and making sure she would be okay, I turned to Glenn.

" I only want to know two things." I told him.

" What is it?" he asked looking up at me.

" How did you heal Kat, and how did you make that sheild around us?"

It was then I found out that he was a DarkDestined. Only he had not called it that. He called himself a DigiDestined.

After explaining to me that there were not just the six DarkDestined, but more people, mostly kids, with tag and crests, and digital partners, I was not sure wether to kill him, or to fall over laughing, or to sit down and cry. More enemies? We could not take on more DarkDestined. And for one to claim to be in love with MY little sister!? But then the idea of more seemed laughable at the time. We had only heard of the eight that were there at that time.

At any rate... The world, as we knew it, was at an end.

After a long time, about eight months I think, we fuond that the sun did not shine. Ever, And that is was always snowing or raining.

Another thing we found odd, or at least Glenn and I did. Was that we seemed to become stronger after that. Yes mentally we toughened, Though the both of us have a soft spot for KAt... but physicly as well. It was the oddest thing. But between me and Glenn there was little we could not take care of. And together? Well, together we could probably do anything. Except for, of course, take on the DarkDestined alone.

Kat, on the other hand, Seemed to become sick quite often. Her body became thin, and her skin pale. The only thing that remained the same were her eyes. Those crystal stormy eyes. Her sense of pain had become dull. She could smash her finger in the door and hardly feel it. Or care for that matter. I think that is how the blast affected her. I think it destroyed part of her nerves for pain. It dulled them. ALOT.

At nine months, we found an old man laying outside near the entrance of the hanger. Upon Reviving him, and talking to him, we found out that the day they dropped the bombs where we were, Over a hundred more were set of simotaniously all over earth, throwing us, into the dreaded nuclear winter.

I remember Kats reaction. It was something neither Glenn or I will ever forget.

She stood up from her chair, walked into the bathroom, and shut the door.

We did not hear anything for a while. But then there was a thud, and both Glennand I jumped up to see if she was okay.

Kat was laying in the bathroom floor. Her wrists were cut, an old rusty knife lay not far from her. Glenns eyes widened.

" Kat!?" he grabbed her up in his arms.

HE took out his tag and crest, and I watched, in helplessness again, as the mist flowed out and surrounded her.

When it cleared she was healed.

I felt useless. There was little of nothing I could do for Anyone if they were hurt. And what would happen if Glenn was killed in a battle?! I walked out of the room as Glenn attended to KAt.

The old man looked me over.

" Why do you not use Materia?" he asked me. I wont lie, I hated his voice. It was ike nails on a chalkboard. But he got my attention.

" What?"

" Materia. Magic."

He explained to me what Materia was, and how to use it and where to find it.

I trained with it, against Glenns wishes. He HATES magic, of most any kind. onlythe slight of hand is what he likes. And Kat knows enough of that to last out anyones life.

But even Glenn has to admit, it DOES come in handy.

Still. Kat began to become very very silent. She barely ate, and when she slept it was full of nightmares.

The old man is the one who finally suggested building the time machine, his explanation was, " That way, you can go back, and STOP them from ever doing this."

Kat stood up so fast her chair fell over, " You mean it IS possible!?" she demanded. I think she scared Glenn at the tone of her voice. She certainly startled me!

" Well certainly, all you have to do.." and so we began to make plans.. of course...

The was all ruined when the DarkDestined found us before it was compleate.

Third Person:

7 sighed looking off into space. KAtina looked at him.

" Oniichan?" she asked softly tugging on his cloak, " Are you okay?"

He snapped out of his memories, and nodded, " Of course I am okay." He patted her head gently.

~MeanWhile~

DarkDestined Takeru made his way down the hallway. Jyou was talking and would not shut up. And he was getting irritated.

" So Taichi is on the rampage." Jyou said half talking to himself. Which he may as well have been doing, because Takeru was not listening.

DarkAngemon looked at his partner, and then at Jyou. He rolled his eyes from under his helmet, and looked back at Takeru, who seemed to be in deep thought. He wondered what was going on behind the boys azure eyes. Dark Blonde hair fell before them, covering them partially.

" Takeru." said the digimon. " What is bothering you?"

Jyou kept walking and talking.

Takeru looked at Angemon, " I was just thinking DarkAngemon."

" About what Takeru?"

" The old days."

" What of them?"

" Do you miss them?" the boy asked brushing his bangs back from his face.

DarkAngemon was surprised. Takeru very seldom ever brought up the time before they ruled earth. If ever.

" I.." he wanted to tell the boy yes. HE missed them Very very much. He never wished to be a ruler above all else. HE just wanted the time to go back when he was Patamon and could lay on Takeus hat, or be there to comfort him when he was crying, as he did often in the digiworld.

" Neither do I." Takeru looked up at his friend, knowin that he was not the only one who missed it.

DarkAngemon knew that Takeru missed it. He could hear it in his voice. HE could see it in his eyes. He smiled a bit and Takeru smiled back.

Then they continued walking down the hallway.

" Takeru!" Came a call behind them.

Both the boy and the DarkAngel turned around to greet Darkdestined Sora. Her ears had earings all the way to the top and her tongue was peirced.

Her hair... What little there was left, was redish. She had shaved it but about three months earlier, and it was just starting to grow back in.

She stopped when she reached them, " Koushiro wishes to speak with you." she smirked. And then shoved past the two of them to run up to Jyou.

Takeru raised an eyebrow. Everyone knew that Sora and Jyou hade a thing for each other. Well heaven knew they made a good enough couple. The master of touture, and the mistress of pain.

He sighed and looked at DarkAngemon, " Well?" he said motioning.

The darkdigimon nodded and followed Takeru down the hallway.

~On Our Earth~

Every one was silent as the sun began to set heatedly over the city. Glenn held Katina as everyone though upon the idea of the Evil DigiDestined finding a way there.

Finally Koushiro spoke up.

" You cannot stay here. My parents will be home soon and expect me to leave again with them to go to a buiness dinner." he said pointedly, thinking about ties and suits and little snails.. YUCK!

KAtina nodded.

Matt frowned, " Well. you can stay at my house tonight.. MY dad wont be home till late. He wont care."

" oh Really Matt!" Mimi pipped up, " Like your dad wont care about a GIRL sleeping over?"

Matt turned red faced. " Well like your parents want you to have a coupla guys over!" he said.

Mimi thought about it. " Hm. Good point."

" Well My mother wont mind. She likes company.."

" But your mom is comeing with my mom and dad Sora." pointed out Koushiro.

Everyone looked at Taichi and Kari.

Taichi sweatdropped then put up his hands hanging his head, " Okay okay, you can stay at my house."

He sighed.

Being the leader someimes just plain sucked.

EVIL 5

DISCLAIMER: If I owned digimon or the digidestined, I would not have to bust my ass to get through college. I don't own em, -K-?

Katina walked slowly with Glenn and 7. Her thoughts were closed to everyone but herself. She spoke very little, if at all.

Looking up at the sky she wondered how grateful these Da.. no.. They called themselves something else. Digidestined. She wondered how grateful they were for living in such a beautiful world.

Katina shook her head as the sun set, and she watched the stars peer at her, slowly coming out in the velvet black sky.

She wanted to cry. But tears had not come to her scince the darkdestined had bombed their home. their real world. She only made a pained face in the darkness and sighed.

Kari looked up at the silent girl.

" Is everything really like that where you come from?" she asked innocently.

Katina bit her lip and looked at the smaller child. ~I don't wish to tell her what it is like. The poor girl would have nightmares... Like I have been plauged with for so long..~

" Things are as they have been told. and then some..." she finally muttered, coughing.

Somewhere the scent of someones supper wafted to her nostrils. It smelled like...

" Smells like cornbread." she said suddenly.

Glenn stopped walking and turned to her.

" What?"

" Something smells like cornbread." she said a second time.

7 laughed for a second, " Is that what it is? I have not smelled it in so long.. I had forgotten what it was."

Taichi looked at Kari and then at the still figures who had spoken little.

" What do you mean?" he asked.

Glenn looked at the goggle clad boy and grinned, " Cornbread? I have no idea what they are talking about.. but.. aparently it must be good to catch Kats attention like that."

Katina stared at Glenn, " You have never had corbread before?" she asked in shock.

7 laughed again and grinned, " God Glenn. You don't know what cornbread is?"

Glenn shrugged and shook his head, " Never heard of it."

Katina laughed.

It was something that caught all of them off gaurd. Katina virtually never laughed anymore.

Taichi stared at the dark haired girl before him, as she smiled and took a hold of Glenns arm, " Cornbread.. is bread made of corn mush. sweet. good. and I have not had it in forever...!" she smiled at him and layed her head on his shoulder.

Tachi laughed, " Well.. now we know what she likes Kari." he smiled at his little sister, and 7 watched his own little sister carefully.

She was showing affection. In public. And not even flinching.

This new world made a big difference in her. He could see it. It was not a bad change.. just different.

Katina walked with Glenn looking up at the stars, thiking about how lovely they were.

Reaching the Kamiya residence they all removed their shoes and went inside.

There was a bit of irritation as Tachi spoke to his parents about the guests, but they were not to terribly angry.

In the end Katina and Kari ended up sharing the bedroom, and the three guys slept in the living room.

Laying in bed that night she thought about how different the one named Takeru was from the one she had known.

However... the differences stopped at the physical ones.

~I can still remember being his slave....~ Closing her eyes she thought for a few moments, ~Though it was not as much a slave as to someone to just be there with him. Hell if he needed anything he could do it himself. The big guy understood that I was not very strong. Actually I was virtually useless.~ she coughed and listened as Kari rolled over in the bunk above her, ~I think the only reason I was not excecuted was because he had demanded I be 'given' to him. He liked my voice.~ she remembered.

~FLASHBACK~

I can still remember how I got caught. Hmph. Glenn had told me to be careful. And I was. But apparently not careful enough.

I got caught raiding the redhouses. Dropped the food. Damn clumsiness.

At anyrate, the next thing I knew, I had been caught by the DarkAngemon that belonged with Darkdestined Takeru.

He looked at me, I could feel his eyes peircing me, and his grip loosened, " What is your name."

It was not a question.

I said nothing. Pretended to be mute.

The digimon did not buy it for a second, I could tell by the tone of his voice when he announced I was being taken prisoner.

I was taken before the council of the darkdestined.

Jyou looked at me. He grinned. I only had maybe a thought of what he wished to do He loved to tourture people. I had heard stories from bare survivors.

Though they did not survive long.

I shivered inwardly as the darkdestined pelted me with questions of which I refused to answer, continuing to play mute.

The digimon all eyeballed me suspiciously.

Somehow I knew tha they knew I was not mute, as I had been acting.

My excucution was announced for the morning after, and I was forced down to the cells underground.

They smelled of sweat and dirt and nastiness, and urin.

And they were fridgid.

I remember longing for something warm around me as Darkdestined Sora led me downstairs.

She shoved me into a cell and closed the bars, electrifying them, then turned out the lights, leaving me alone, cold and afraid.

I sat there in the dark. in the cold, crying, for only God knows how long.

Then a light outside my cell came on, and I saw the massive figure of Darkdestined Takeru.

He looked at me.

I'll never forget the way he looked at me.

There was something in his eyes that differed from the other darkdestined. I don't know if it was pity or sorrow.

I was not sure I could have been right.

At any rate he watched me as I shoved myself far from him, and huddled in a corner of the cell, as far from him as I could get.

His eyes... They were, odd. Azure I think. I had never seen eyes like that before.

Blue as the skies before they had come. And bright. Not dark as the others were.

And he had blonde hair.

Though it was tinted oddly under the artificial light.

He shook his head and sighed, then unelectrified the bars.

He muttered something, I don't think he thought I could hear.

" Damn, Sora. She cannot even stand up for herself and you still electify the bars.." he sighed heavily, and irritatedly, then turned his voice to me.

" I brought you food."

He then opened the bars of the cell and walked in. He was not afraid of me. I could see it clearly.

And besides. I think he knew I was terrified of him.

But he sat down not far from me, and set out a tray with some grey glop on it in front of me.

I made a face, and my stomache turned as the scent of whatever it was reached me.

It was rancid whatever it was.

I left it sitting.

Takeru shook his head, and I swear he half smiled.

" They figure scince your mute that you have no sense of smell either." he reached into his jacket pocket and pulled out a sandwich.

" I can see you have still retained it."

I stared at him.

I thought he was going to try and tourture me by eating the thing in front of me, so I turned my head.

" Here."

In surprise, I turned my head to face him and saw he was holding it out to me.

Hestitating I watched him for signs of a trick.

" Ahw.. come on, I ain't gonna hurtcha." he said. I thought I found him being sheepish.. but then again...

I reached out and he let me have it.

Sniffing it carefully, I watched him.

It smelled like tunafish.

I ate it hungrily.

He grinned now, and leaned against the walls. He looked at me again.

I shivered and he shook his head.

" Don't ask why I'm so soft.." he uttered to himself I think, as he shed his jacket and covered my shivering body with it.

I was definitly surprised.

He was being.. nice.. to me.

We sat there in scilence and finally he stood up, looming over me.

Motioning for me to follow, he made his way to the bars of the cell.

" Come on."

I stared.

This HAD to be a trick, or, so I had figured.

Wrong again.

He led me up stairs again and hen we stopped short of the door to the upper floors.

" Answer me now." he said softly.

I looked up at him.

" Can you work?"

I looked up at him in confusion. What kind of work did he mean?

" Answer me."

I shrugged and he sighed.

" Can you clean?"

I nodded, unsure as to why he was asking these odd questions.

" Are you able to cook?"

I wavered my hand a bit. A 'Somewhat' motion.

He nodded.

" Okay. Hold your tongue and do as I tell you and you may be able to survive this yet." he said simply.

Ah. He did know I could speak. Or maybe he had just said that... not realising..

I was led back before the council.

Darkdestined Koushiro looked me over.

" Are you sure Takeru?" he asked.

Darkdestined Takeru nodded, " Yes. Let her be my slave. She cannot speak, and she is not strong or capable enough to escape."

DarkDestined Jyou watched me, eyeing me carefully. " You realise she must go through a medical checkup before we can let you be near her constantly? She may be sick, or diseased..."

" Jyou is right. This girl does not look very healthy." agreed Sora.

Takeru looked at me.

" No pain."

Darkdestined Jyou made a face.

" NO PAIN." he reinforced to the bluehaired boy.

Darkdestined Jyou sighed. " Fine."

" No tourture either."

At this he growled.

" Fine."

I was taken from Takeru and led to a medical lab, where I was poked and prodded and injected and taken from.

After the whole thing I was woozy.

Darkdestined Jyou watched me.

" I don't know what Takeru sees in you. Little weak thing that you are.." he shook his head and looked over the resultes of my blood test.

There was something in his face that made me think that there was something wrong, though I was not sick that I knew of.

Other than radiation poisoning. but that he would not be in surprise of.

This look was of the unexpected.

He looked at me, and then back at the paper.

" I don't believe this. You have a type blood I have never seen before." he blinked and narrowed his eyes through his glasses.

" What is your name." This too, was not a question.

I played mute again.

" Dammit! What is your name!"

I flinched.

He glared.

Then looked as though someone had thrown him a clue.

He shoved a peice of paper in my hands.

" Write it out."

Shakily I worte out a name I had used as a character in one of my stories. Before they had arrived I was a writter. I wrote childrens books and placed them on the internet. But that was a long time ago.

I wrote out ' Brandy-Kat ' and handed the paper back.

He looked at it then back at me.

" Brandy-Kat?" then he began to laugh.

I looked at him blankly.

" Come on! What is your real name wretch!" He shoved the paper back at me.

I stared at him blankly.

" Come on, we both know that name is from a buncha stories that used to be on the internet." he stated matter of factly.

Damn. Busted. Think fast Katgirl.

'I don't remember my real name. I saw it on a peice of burned paper.' I wrote. Okay.. not to bad.. pathetic.. but not bad.

He looked at me.

" You don't remember your real name?" he asked.

I think I almost sensed pity. But DarkDestined Jyou knew no pity.

I shook my head no in agreement.

He made a half smile, " Probably just as well." he muttered.

Just about this time DarkDestined Takeru came in. He looked at me and then at DarkDestined Jyou.

" Well?" he demanded.

" She checked out. All yours." He let me go.

Darkdestined Takeru looked me over, and saw my bandaged arm.

He frowned deeply, and then shook his head, grabbing me by the arm that had not been poked and such.

He led me out the door and looked down at me.

" From now on, you do as I tell you. You understand?"

I nodded.

He made a smug smile and let go of me.

" So your name is Brandy-Kat?" he asked.

I nodded.

" E.. yeah.. follow me."

I followed him, careful to stay close.

We passed Darkdestined Mimi who only watched me carefully with dark brown eyes.

"She's a tramp." she stated plainly.

DarkLilymon agreed. " I've seen Numemon that looked better."

I felt a deep blush reach my cheeks, but hide myself behind DarkDestined Takeru, as he walked off.

We came accross the Angemon that had taken me prisoner. He looked at me and then at Darkdestined Takeru.

" I see she is okay."

He nodded, and I was taken to a room, that was brightly lit.

It was strange. This room in contrast to the rest of Central Control was... almost.. cheerful.. No. That was not it. The room was not cheerful, just a bit more cheerful that the rest of the place.

There were overstuffed bookcases lining the walls. Manuscripts on his desk, on his bed, on his floor.

More than twenty of them.

I stared.

MiGod.

The mess in there was increadable.

No wonder he had wanted to know if I cleaned.

I can still remember being surprised as he took his jacket from me, and I felt how warm the room was. It was nice.

He looked at me.

Then turned his back to me! Talk about trusting..

He slipped a CD into a player that had been buried under a pile of manuscripts.

Loud busy music filled the room in no time and he turned to me. DarkAngemon watched me as I backed up against a bookcase and turned my head from him.

" I ain;t gonna hurt you." he repeated, in a reasuring tone.

I opened my eyes and looked at him, sitting at his desk.

He raised an eyebrow.

" You ever read any works by Katina Ashton?" he asked.

Imagin MY surprise!? He was asking if I had ever read any of my own works! Okay, I admit, if I was not petrified, I would have laughed out loud. But all I could do was stare.

" Well?"

I nodded.

" Brandy-Kat is not your real name. What is it."

I took a deep breath and gulped.

" I give you my word, I will not hurt you, and neither will Angemon."

I could not help but notice he had not added the Dark- Prefix.

The Angemon looked at me, and made clear the remark, " I will not do it. " he said.

" My name is Katina... I have read them. I wrote them." I managed to choke out softly.

He stared at me.

I was not sure wether it was anger at first, or not, but the whole of my body tensed up, even though I knew that if he ever chose to go back on his word I stood no chance.

Then he looked at a manuscript in his hand.

" Why did you never finish."

I shrugged, " I was to busy being hunted down."

He blinked, half in surprise, half in amusement.

" But you stopped long before we took over."

I nodded.

" PLease sit."

The Angemon offered me a chair, and I gratefully slid into it.

DarkDestined Takeru watched me carefuly, as I looked at my suroundings.

" So why did you not finish."

" I told you."

He looked surprised.

At this point something in me remarked before I thought about my words.

" You think that this is the first time I have come near my own execution?"

He laughed, " Ah. You had better watch the tone."

I had already bitten my tongue and feared the worse.

He only shook his head at my fears, " I am not like the others. I wont take back on my word." he motioned around us, " This is your chore. I want this cleaned every day, and kpt that way."

I only nodded.

" I suggest you keep your scilence around the others."

I nodded again.

" You are shy?" he asked.

I looked at him and looked down at the floor as pinkness creeped into my face.

" I see." he then turned back to his desk, " As long as you do what I tell you, you are safe from anyones wrath. The others will not harm you." he remarked.

For some odd reason, and this is the absolute truth! I believed him.

Though Takeru was Darkdestined, and he was, by all rules, evil, I knew somehow deep in my soul that he ment what he said.

And he told the truth, or so it seemed.

I stayed under his service for a very long time.. but let us only begin at the fourth day.

I knew by the time the fourth day rolled around that my oniichan, 7 and my dearheart Glenn had begun to look and worry for my well being.

I had no contact with the outside world.

For the first four days I stayed in Darkdestined Takerus room, cleaning, sorting, arranging... And on the fourth day, he came in and handed me a list of vegitables.

" I want you to go down to the gardens and get these for me. It's my night to supervise cooking, and I need those vegitables."

I nodded.

He explained to me how to get there.

I wont lie, I was terrified to go alone.

Something inside told me that although he had promised my safety that the other DarkDestined may have had other ideas.

Then I would not have put it past them, and even now I would not.

I walked, and found that none of the other Darkdestined even payed any mind to me.

Except Koushiro, who made lude remarks about my body. But he even went about his own buisness in a few moments.

Once I made it to the gardens, there was a man there who looked at me.

He had a hunger in his eyes, that made me wish to flee. (Even more than I had already wished to at that point.)

As I got the vegitables that DarkDestined Takeru wanted he followed me.

Finally he made a move.

He lunged on me, flinging me to the ground, and pulling at my shirt, trying to tugg it from me.

I was to scared to scream.

He pressed against my breasts lewdly and smiled, licking his lips.

" You are.. so lovely.." he rasped out.

I saw a scar on his neck. A remnent of DarkDestined Jyous tactics.

I cried as he bit into my neck, and tried to slip his hands down my jeans.

I struggled and he backhanded me, hard enough to stop my struggling.

I kicked him as hard as I could into his manhood, making him scream out.

Getting to my feet quickly I turned to run, but he grabbed my feet, forcing me back down.

Even now I wish that the memories of what happened next did not haunt me.. but they still do.

In my dreams, in my sleep.

I can still hear his hungry ranting as he forced himself on me and into me.

I could not scream.

He kept his thick hand pressed against my throat.

I coughed out my pains and cries.

I wanted to kill him.

I had never had a will to kill anyone before, but I honestly wished to take his life from him, and his manhood, I wanted to take his manhood and blenderise it.

I could feel it scouring into me.

His body heat overpowered mine, and when he was done, when he was through, he removed his hand and hit me again.

Then he got up and left me,bleeding and half naked and crying.

I can still hear the ranting he spoke while doing this to me.

I can still hear his gruff voice..............

I forced myself to get up and dress myself, despite the bleeding, and the smells that covered me, from that horrid man.

When I fnally reached DarkDestined Takerus quarters with the vegitables he had asked me for, I was shaking terribly and dizzy, and pale I aam sure, I was pale.

He looked at me and took one guess.

" Who did it." he demanded.

I shook my head, unable to speak.

He growled deeply and The DarkAngemon stared at me.

I do not think that he understood what had happed.

I mean, do digimon know what rape is? I still don't know.

Darkdestined Takeru stood up.

He looks bigger when mad. I swear. Though it was not just anger. He was royally pissed off.

I almost pittied the man who had hurt me so.

I would have.

If he had not raped me.

If he had not stolen what small bit of myself I had left.

If I could not have still heard his panting and ranting as he thrusted himself into me, forcing himself to tear me open to his own will.

If he had not been such an asshole.

If the pain had not still been there.

If I had been able to foget it.

THEN I MIGHT have pittied him.

But even now I do not feel sorry for his death.

Darkdestined Takeru was patient though.

He took me gently by the arm, and led me to the baths.

" Get cleaned. Wash yourself. I'll ask for some clothes for you." he said throwing me a towel and soap.

I think he felt sort of bad for me.

Actually.

I think he was the only one in the whole bunch who had feelings. Or a heart.

No. Maybe not.

I still don't know.

I wonder if maybe the Takeru in this new earth that I am in now is not more like him than I first thought.

Maybe not sweetness to an extent. But he cared...

At any Rate.

I got cleaned.

I stood in a towel that covered my whole body, to halfway below my knees.

Darkdestined Takeru came in with some clothes.

He handed them to me.

" Here. Get dressed. Please."

Thenhe left to let me get dressed.

I looked at the clothes that he had brought me.

They were old.

I could tell.

Faded jeans and a brown longsleeved shirt that was honestly to big for me. But I rolled up the sleeves and came out to where he waited for me.

He had been talking to Angemon.

They both turned and looked at me, and the Darkdestined stared at me, frowning a bit. He motioned for me to move to him, which I did a bit shakily.

He nodded, " BEtter now?" he asked.

MiGod. He cared. He had a sense of caring. I could hear it in his voice.

I blinked in surprise and nodded.

" Good. Could you point out the mother fucker who did this to you if I took you to the gardens?"

I held my breath, then let it out shakily trying to calm myself.

Going back to that damn place was the last thing I wished to do.

But I nodded anyhow, hoping that bastard would get what he deserved.

Darkdestined Takeru nodded, " Okay then. Come on."

I stared at him in disbelief.

He looked at me, " He wont hurt you again. Or anyone else for that matter." he muttered the last part, " Come."

I obeyed.

DarkAngemon followed behind me.

I know this is going to sound strange, being as I was with the enemy, but.. I felt safe.

Okay okay, I know, You;re probably thinking, "Safe? You were with the darkdestined! The people who killed your world!"

Yeah Yeah I know. But Darkdestined Takeru was different.

And so was his digimon partner.

It was like when I was walking with them, that the people we passed who would ordanarily have killed me in a heartbeat, were scared of coming near me.

And not only that, but knowing that noone is going to hurt you at all.... It sort of reminded me of Oniichan and Glenn.

They both would never let anyone ever hurt me.

And certainly not let come bastard turn my insides out.

At any rate...

We got to the gardens and Darkdestined Takeru led me inside.

There were not many workers in the gardens...

However. of the few that were there, that man who had hurt me was in there still. I recognised him immedietly by the way he looked at me the first time.

Like, " so you came for more?"

Then he saw Darkdestined Takeru.

And DarkAngemon.

" Is this him, Kat?" asked Darkdestined Takeru.

The man glared at me, as if to threaten more infliction on me if I told.

And I was scared.. but...

I nodded, and pointed to him.

Darkdestined Takeru moved up to the man, who shook.

A wet spot on his pants began to become clear, as I realised he had wet himself.

" So you like to rape people?" demanded Darkdestined Takeru.

The man shook his head no, " N.. nn... no sir!" he gulped.

" Then you deny have ever doing anything to this girl?" The large boy pointed to me.

Yes I realise it is probably wrong of me to call him boy, but he was not much older than me.

" Nno..nno sir!"

" Well have you or havent you!"

At this point the man gulped, and lied, " I have done nothing to her!"

I wanted to scream and murder him with my bare hands. But I held my tongue.

DarkAngemon looked at Takeru.

Takeru made a face, " I hate liars." he stated simply, " I hate those who force bodily pleasures even more."

At this he turned his back on the fearing (And now also wet) man, and looked at me, " Turn your face." he muttered to me.

Had he known all along I had sharp ears?

I don't know.

All I know is that I turned my head as he had asked, and I heard a scream followed by a phhhhttt.. sound.

" You can look now."

I turned and saw that the place where the man had been standing there were two peices of a man.

The right side and the left side, and neither the twin shall meet.

His blood and brains were on the ground, and I could clearly see his entrails.

My stomache turned.

But for some reason in my heart, I was satisfied. Does that make me evil? Does it make me like the darkdestined?

Weeks after tat went by and I was safe.

Sad, and hurt inside and lonely and missing my oniichan and my love, but I was safe.

I did not know wether or not my oniichan and my love were still searching for me.

I did not believe they had given up.. but also I did not believe they thought me to be alive either.

I remember one afternoon I was dusting the books on the shelves and Darkdestined Takeru came in.

He looked at me.

" Come with me."

He sounded urgent.

I stared, but obeyed.

After all, even though I was his servent, he was very very kind to me. Almost even loving.

He led me down a long corridor.

And then we were suddenly standing back at the door where he had taken me from the underground cells.

I looked up at him. No. Certainly he would not take me back there! Ah but.. rather servitude than death and no hope of ever seeing my loved ones again!

He saw the pleas in my eyes and shook his head, " You are not a prisoner. Come with me."

He led me down the dark and frigid halls again, and stopped in front of a cell.

" Look inside."

I did so.

And almost cried out in surprise and horror!There sitting in the cell was my oniichan!

" Oniichan!.." I gasped in shock.

He looked at me, " Kat KAtina! You are okay!" he rushed up to the bars, but did not come to close. They were electrified.

Darkdestined Takeru opened the cell and motioned for oniichan to come out.

He did so hesitantly.

" Come with me, and be silent, both of you."

We did.

He led us outside the sheild that surrounded Central Control, and then looked at us.

" I suggest you leave. now. Before you're missed."

I stared up at him and oniichan glared.

" How do I know this is not some sort of your nasty tricks!?" he demanded.

I looked at Takeru and then back at oniichan.

" I will not let them attack while you leave. if you leave now. But if you do not I cannot stop them. No go!"

" Oniichan.. he keeps his word." I told him, and tugged on his arm, " Come, run.."

And we fled.

The cold, freezing night held us in hiding while we did so.

I only looked back once.

Darkdestined Takeru was watching us. Then he turned his back and walked away.

I ran with oniichan, untill we reacched the hanger, where Glenn was waiting for us.

~PRESENT TIME~

~Yeah... We had alot of close calls after that.. but... I don't know.. maybe I should not call him DarkDestined Takeru... I don't think that in his heart he was... i.. really a darkdestined.~ Katina shifted to her side, and kept her eyes closed, her thoughts ran through her head randomly, ~No.. I never told Glen and 7 about the man in the gardens... They would become worrisome.. and I dont need it. They are already very protective.~ She sighed.

Finally the thoughts turned to blackness, and she slept.

~MeanWhile~

Darkdestined Jyou looked over some old files, and frowned coming accross Katinas.

" Brandy-kat.." he muttered, and frowned. He took the picture of her and held it up to the light.

Then he widened his eyes.

" she looks like..."

Takeru came in, and looked at Jyou who stared at him, " Kakeru, do you remember a girl with dark hair, from back when we fought with Myotismon?" he asked hesitantly.

Takeru made a face, " Well, there was that girl who feel into the digital world.. lets see her name was... Katina.." he said thoughtfully.

Jyou nodded, " Yes, I remember her too. Look at this picture, and then think back to the girl.."

Takeru got a look across his face that ment he finally saw it.

" Are you saying.. that THAT girl.. the one who didn't speak.. is HER!?" he asked in surprise.

If only he had known.

Why had she said nothing about it before?

Did she think he would harm her if she did?

No. There was no way. That girl who had been in the digital world had been.. about his age.. The one who had served him.. had been... younger? No. He had never asked.

She only LOOKED younger.

" If it was her..."

Jyou looked at the boy, " Our asses could be in a sling, with her escape."

Takeru nodded. He didn't want to be the one to tell DarkDestined Taichi.

" But Jyou, if it had been her.. then she could have escaped whenever she pleased." he pointed out, remembering certain talents that she had retained.

Jyou made a face, " I think you are right... but what if she had no intentions of escaping?"

Takeru felt a cold chill run down his spine.

" Are you saying, just to spy on us?"

Jyou nodded.

" But... Jyou.. she was different if it was her."

" What do you mean?"

" She was small. Frail even. And weak. Not strong enough to make her abilities work."

Jyou nodded, " I think you're right. In which case, we may have made a mistake allowing you to let her live."

He grumbled to himself, " We should have killed her and have been done with it right then!"

Takeru nodded, though he did not agree.

" Damn girl.. able to talk to anything alive... ANYTHING! Just think! What if she had gotten near our digimon! Our work! All of it! Gone!"

" Jyou, she would not have done it."

" What?" Jyou turned and gave the blonde boy a look that was of disbelief.

" She wouldn't have. Or rather COULDN'T have."

Jyou put down the documents and watched Takeru.

" Explain this to me."

" She never spoke." He lied.

This seemed to shut Jyou up.

For now.

EVIL 6

DISCLAIMER: Do I really have to write this every time? Gah! It's so boring! Okay okay, so I don't own the digidestined. Erg.. Don't own Glenn and 7 either. OR Cuno'. Their my friends! However I do own Katina! So nyanya!!!

The Kamiya residence awoke to the sounds of screams late in the night. Screams coming from the room that the girls were in.

Yes. Sleep had come to Katina. But it had not been peaceful.

Glenn jumped to his feet with 7 and rushed to the room, and found Katina thrashing about in her bed, Kari trying to wake her up.

7 grabbed firmly onto her shoulders and shook her gently, " Kat... Katchan.. wake up.." he coaxed her.

Katina finally stopped thrashing about and opened her eyes slowly.

Then she began to cry.

Taichi, who had taken a few moments to gather his senses and understand that the world was not coming to an end, and noone was dying stood in the doorway, calming poor Kari, who had been trying to calm Katina before she had started to scream, and telling his parents it was just a nightmare.

Katina looked up at her oniichan and her boyfriend.

" I am sorry..." she said softly, sobbing.

Taichi finally tucked in his little sister, and she fell back asleep.

Soon it was Katina, 7 and Glenn.

She looked at them and sniffled.

" Are you okay Katchan?" asked Glenn worridly.

She nodded.

He took a deep breath and patted her back gently.

Looking at 7 he asked, " Me or you?"

" I'll do it tonight."

Glenn frowned.

" Glenn chan, I'll be okay.." Katina assured him, " Go back to sleep."

" I don't know if I'll be able to.. being worried about you..."

" ONiichan wont let anything harm me.. you know that."

7 nodded, " Yeah, Glenn, go back te bed." he urged, " You look tired."

Glenn huffed, " Fine.. but that don't mean I like it." He frowned deeper and went back out into the living room.

Laying back down on the floor he stared up at the ceiling. Damn nightmares. He huffed and heard Taichis harsh snorring.

For a moment he considered stuffing one of his socks into the sleeping boys mouth to silence him. But he voted mentally against it.

~not tired..~ he thought.

But even though he fought it, and he ws worried about his beloved Katchan, he fell asleep.

Despite his efforts in staying awake, soon he, like Taichi was snorring.

Katina loked at 7, who pulled her blanket up to her chin and smiled at her gently.

" Now.. you go back to sleep. Everything's okay now." he coaxed.

Katina shivered and sighed, " I cannot sleep now oniichan."

7 patted her on the stomache, " I am sure you can. How about if I stay here with you?"

" All night?"

She was so much like the little girl he had saved so long ago. He felt himself laydown next to her and snuggle to her.

She smiled.

Katina layed there for a long time in silence.

7 knew she had not fallen asleep.

" Go to sleep Katina." he said softly.

She sighed, " I will only dream again."

7 frowned. He had never heard her say quite so bluntly before. " Think of the times before them then. Think about the park. You remember how we went to the park in summer and ate icecream till we got sick?"

".. Has it been so long? I was little then."

" Not that long."

" I was eight. "

" I guess it has been that long then."

There was silence again, and then, she spoke up.

" Oniichan?"

" Mh?" He was half asleep himself and wishing that the girl would fall asleep.

"Oniichan.. I miss that time."

This woke him up a bit. Katina NEVER spoke of the times before the DarkDestined.

"So do I Katchan."

" I do not remember what icecream tastes like, you know?" she mumbled.

Ah.. now the girl was drifting.

" You remember.. it was sweet."

".. Sweet.."

" Yeah.. you had uh.. strawberry, and I think I had chocolate."

".. mhmm.."

" and you were.. *Yawn* Sucha mess..*

This time there was no answer. She had finally fallen back to sleep.

He drifted off after a few moments as well.

When 7 awoke the next morning he found himself alone in the room.

Katina and Kari had gone out into the living room to annoy the other two boys. He could hear part of their conversation.

" Kat! What is THAT!?"

" uh... breakfast?"

" I don't think food is suppposed to BREATH." he heard Taichi remark blankly.

Katina muttered something he couldnt hear, and finally 7 forced himself to roll over out of bed.

Going out into the next room he saw Kari laughing quietly from the corner of the living room, and Glenn... well his face was just.. priceless.

" What's uh.. going on? Kat!? What on earth is THAT!?"

She was holding a plate of green stuff in her hands.. and not only that.. it was moving...

He made a face, and Katina tried to look hurt.

" Jello salad." she whimpered in humor.

" J.. Jello salad!? For breakfast Katina?" he asked trying not to laugh.

" Hikari told me that it was good! And I have not had jello in so long oniichan!" she made argument.

Glenn left the room with Taichi, and soon in the next room bellows of laughter could be heard.

Katina turned deep red and turned her face away, setting the bowl down on the countertop.

7 smiled and patter her shoulder, " Kat.. it looks good."

She shook her head and sniffled.

~Oh no.. we hurt her feelings...~ 7 thought hastily, " Oh no Kat, don't cry! They're just playin around!" he tried to calm her quickly.

She coughed and turned to him, " No Oniichan, it is not that. I never thought I'd ever feeel bad for living like this again... but I really do. I feel bad. Here we are, safe from the Darkdestined, and their Evil digimon, while others back home, still suffer..." she buried her face into her hands.

7 stared, " Ah.. Kat.. Imotoochan.. please.. oh no.. don't cry! Please.." he pleaded with her.

7 hugged the small girl gently, and she cried against him.

" Ah Imotoochan, it'll be okay. I promise, you'll see. We'll go back home and defeat those Damned Darkdestined."

Katina sniffed and looked up at him,

" I promise Katina."

".. Oniichan..." she hugged him tightly.

He smiled. ~And we will too Katina.. we'll go back and defeat them...~

~MEANWHILE~

DarkDestined Mimi walked into Koushiros quarters.

" Koushiro." she hissed into the dark.

" Ah. Mimi. You have come, I have been waiting for you." came his voice from further in.

She followed it and found him sitting at his old laptop.

This almost seemed amusing. He had not been on the old laptop in years. Far longer than she cared to remember back to.

Darkdestined Mimi leaned against a cold wall.

" So what are you doijg back on that old thing?" she asked cooly. Almost to calmly.

" Looking up information that Jyou requested." he sounded perplexed, " Though I cannot seem to find it on here."

DarkDestined Mimi sighed heavily, " So when are you going to turn your attention from that tacky computer, to me?" she whined.

DarkDestined Koushiro only grunted.

Mimi frowned deeply, clearly irritated. She moved up behind the auburn haired boy and set her head on his shoulder, kissing his cheek.

He only grunted in response again.

She frowned and jerked back.

" Koushiro! I think you love that damn machine more than me!" she fussed.

Still no response.

DarkDestined Koushiro made a face, " I do not comphrhend this.. I do not understand why it is that I cannot find the information I need... " he was cut short by a mouth to mouth kiss.

His shock pulled him from the computer, to DarkDestined Mimis face.

She kissed him deeply, passionatly, pullng his attention to her.

Soon the two were into a hot and heavy makeout session, only to be interupted by...

" Mimi! Koushiro!?" It was DarkDestined Sora.

" Damn Sora!" Mimi hissed from Koushiros bed.

Sora grinned, " Heh. Shoulda known. But you two have to cut it short today. Taichi wishes to speak with us."

Mimi groaned, and so did Koushiro.. her hand was right on his... " Damn you Sorasan! We'll be there in short time!" he gripped.

Sora laughed and turned to leave.

" Oh.. by the way..."

" WHAT?!" they both demanded at once.

" You need to be in clothes when you come to the great hall."

" MiGod.."

" Whatta bitch..."

Sora left.

A loud moan could be heard from the other side of their door as Sora left.

~Back On Earth~

Yamato looked at his little brother. He smiled and watched Takeru run up to the Kamiya apartment.

" Woah.. slow down there... Someone might think you're in a hurry to see Kari." he joked.

His little brothers deep blush proved his theory right.

Knocking on the door, they removed their shoes and went in to Taichis, " Dozo ohairi kudasai!"

When they went in there was something serious being spoken of. Matt could tell by everyones expression.

" what happened?" he asked.

" We were not told something." said Katina.

Yamato looked confused.

" What do you mean?"

" We were not told that we exsist here as well." Glenn finished.

Yamato was thoughroughly confused. " I.. don't understand."

" Look at Katina. And then think back to Izz's girlfriend Katina.. think REALLY hard Yamato." Taichi said harshly.

Yamato blinked and realised that this was the same girl.. only.. not.

" Increadable.. so the story is true?" he asked, sitting on the floor.

Katina sighed and looked up at 7.

" We told you it was."

" But if this is so then where are you and he at?" Yamato pointed at Glenn and 7.

" You have to remember, even in our world, there are differences, in people, in places.. in times.."

Yamato looked at Katina, who had spoken.

" what do you mean?"

Katina looked at the older blonde boy.

" In our world, you do not exsist. Neither does Hikari. And Takeru there is as old as I am." she said simply, " the others are not much older."

Yamato nodded, " I see."

~MEANWHILE~

" I have discovered the plans of the children that escaped!" announced DarkDestined Taichi. " We must rebuild this machine at once! Then we might find those kids.. and perhaps even find new lands to conquer."

" Oh! shopping!"

Chuckles arose from the group. " Typical Mimi."

Koushiro nodded, " Yes Taichi."

"Also.."

Everyone was silent, " I have heard.. that the girl that escapped a while back.. the one who was Takerus servant, was Katina. That girl from the digiworld. The one who somewhow managed to TAME a devidramon, with her VOICE." he sounded angry, but it did not show.

DarkDestined Takeru remembered the first time.. it was so long ago...

Do you beleve in things you cannot see TK?

Uh.. ike what? Like Santa Clause and the Easter bunny?

No silly! Like.. magic.. like music..

Of course I believe in music! Everone has heard music!

Not like mine..........

Her voice had been.. increadable. It was clear and perfect and a single note. And with that single note she had the Devidramon that had been threatening them, almost purring at her feet.

He was shaken fromhis memories by someone speaking his name.

" Takeru. Did you hear me?"

" Pardon Taichi?"

" I want you to be on the first team to go."

" Yessir."

~EARTH~

Katina looked up. The sky was grey. And thunder rolled overhead.

She wanted to run frm the thunder.

It terrified her.

But she stayed with Glenn and walked with him and 7 to the site where the machine had taken them.

" Increadable.."

" But where is the machine?"

" Here it is Taichi!" It was Sora.

She was pointing up ino a tree.

The metal object hung in it gently, like a little silver ornament.

" So how do we get it down?" asked Katina blankly.

" I c'n take care of this Katchan..." ~Hehe perfect for showing off.~ thought Glenn, holding his crest in his hand.

A silver sheild apeared around the time machine, and it floated gracefully down.

Small beads of sweat apeared on Glenns forhead.

Katina waited untill he was finished and then hugged him gently.

He smiled and blushed. " Aw wasn't nouthin'..." he mumbled, then leaned against another trees trunk.

7 exsamined the machine carefully.

" Would you believe it...?" he was talking to himself.

" Kat? Do you know how to take care of this?" 7 turned to face the girl.

She blushed and nodded.

Koushiro watched her carefully.

She seemed.. familiar..

" Izzy!" someone called him by his nickname.

He turned and saw his girlfriend Katina. She ran up to him, and pushed her glasses up the bridge of her nose, smiling a bit.

She was so.. wait.. the.. " Glasses.." he uttered and snapped his head to look at the other Katina.

" Increadable!" he exclaimed.

Katina knocked her head on the top of the time machine and looked at him, brushing hair from her face.

" What is?"

Koushiros head turned from Katina to Katina, one with glasses, one without... and the one without seemed to know about computers.. His girlfriend didn't..

He looked at his girlfriend and smiled at her, " Katina.. May I borrow the optical peice.." he didn't finish before she laughed.

" My glasses. You wanna borrow my glasses. But for what prayte...?" she looked at the other Katina.

" You look.. like me.." she said softly.

The Katina in the time machine stepped out.

Yes.. it was true! She was a litle more beaten.. and did not wear glasses.. but it was her! She did look just like the other!

Everyone stared.

" Wow. Two Katchans." said Glenn, who, while knowing which one was his Katchan, was not sure what to make of it.

His Katina had been right. There was another her here. Did that mean that he and 7 exsisted her as well? No.. she had said that there were things different about both worlds.

Kat took off her glasses and handed them to Koushiro who took them up to Katina and placed them on her face.

They were twins!

" Increadable!"

Katina took off the borrowed glasses and handed them to Kat.

She put them on and loked at her double.

" This is going to be confusing."

" Not as long as you wear those glasses of yours."

Kat nodded, and pushed her glasses back up on the bridge of her nose again.

Katina turned back to the time machine and tinkered for a while.

~MEANWHILE~

" We have compleated it sir!" A short man in a red uniform stood at attention before DarkDestined Taichi.

He walked around the contraption.

" There is a problem though sir."

DarkDestined Taichi whipped around.

" What KIND of problem?" he demanded.

" Well.. there was a part we could not get or make sir.."

" And what was that!?"

" Uh.. this sir.." The man held out the plans in front of him.

Taichi stared, " What is this?"

" I.. I don't know sir."

The DarkDestineds mechanical hand wrapped around the mans windpipe, " What do you mean you don't know!?"

" sir.. we have never seen anything like that anywhere!"

The evil boy growled and the mans neck was then no more than a tiny bit of much in the metal palm.

He dropped the prone body to the ground, and looked ahead of himself.

He wiped his bloody hand on the table that the plans were on.

" Jyou. Get Koushiro. Tell him I want to know what this thing is. And I want to know within the nxt two hours."

The blue haired man nodded and left to find the evil auburn haired genius.

He was busy.

With Mimi.

And whatever it was it involved alot of noise.

And alot of stupid giggles.

Jyou assumed it was Mimi. Her damn giggling gave him a headache back when they had first gone to the digital world. It gave him a migrane now.

The DarkDestined pounded on the door.

A thud was heard, followed by several swear words.

The door opened a few moments later by a bedraggled Koushiro, wearing a robe. He looked irritated.

" what is it?" he demanded a bit gruffly.

" Taichi needs you to find out what this is imediettly." DarkDestined Jyou handed Koushiro the paper in his hands.

The Auburn man grunted and frowned, " Fine. When does he need it."

" the next two hours."

"Ghr.." Koushiro managed to run his short finges through his hair, pushing it out of his face, and looked at the paper.

" Fine. I'll get right on it."

" The paper not Mimi."

Koushiro blushed a bit and growled, " Oh.. go.."

" Ah ah Koushiro.. I'll leave that to your girlfriend." Jyou laughed, " And Mimi, you need to leave him alone while he works."

The well figured woman made a little noise from her throat from the bed.

She was only covered in a sheet.

After DarkDestined Jyou left, she looked over at a very unhappy Koushiro.

He sighed, " I am suposing that perhaps we had best leave our activities untill a later time." he said turning on a light near his desk and exsamining the plans.

" I guess so." Mimi pouted.

Koushiro sat down in his robe and stared. The little red circle around the thing he had to figure out was messy. and crusty. Blood.

Taichi had killed someone.

He made a face.

~Well. Can't help the wicked.~ he thought inwardly, then mused at the irony in that.

~EARTH~

Yamato looked at Mimi, her once brown, now pink hair hung limply and wetly in her face, over her unchanged, and still lovely brown eyes.

He smiled at her, warming her heart up, though she was soaking wet and cold.

" Oh Yamato.." she siled gently at him, making his insides tighten up and become slushy.

He tried not to blush as she kissed his cheek.

" Thanks for taking me to the mall."

~I hate the mall~ he thought inwardly.

" No problem Mimi-san."

She giggled softly and smiled.

~He still has no clue about the ultimate sport of shopping.~

" Maybe next time we could go to the movies?" Yamato offered.

~Anything but the mall.~

" I'd like that."

~Great.. maybe a nice romance..~

Yamato grined, " Great... I heard the new Godzilla movie is out."

Mimi sweatdropped.

~Okay.. Not what I had in mind.... AT ALL~

" Uher..." Mimi turned pink, " Yeah sure.. maybe Godzilla..."

~She looks disspaionted... But Godzilla rules!~

Yamato made a face, " But then again.. I also hear that uh.." ~Gawd.. I cannot believe I am offering to do this..~ " I hear that watcing an old movie, at home, alone.. is realy romantic and uh.. Casanova.. is uh.. always good..." ~GAH! I sound like sucha moron! If any of the guys ever found out, They'd toast me!~

~YES! Maybe he has potential after all!~

Mimi blushed and smiled, " I'd really like that.."

Koshuiro smiled at Kat, " so.. you hungry? My mother made shrimp and rice."

Kat grinned, " Sure!" she let go of his hand but her took it back.

She blushed behind her glasses.

" I didn't say we had to let go yet." Koushiro smiled and blushed a bit.

Taichi kissed Sora on the cheek, " So what do you think of the company we have?"

" I think we should not have left them alone at your place." she said simply.

" Aw come on Sora! They survived a nuclear bomb! I think they could manage a night at my house alone!"

Sora made a face.

Taichi was not sure of what to say, " Sora. Glenn, and Katina and 7 and TK and Hikari are all fine I'm sure!" he reassured her.

" Yeah I know.. but they just all seem so worried about those DarkDestined following them."

" Sora-chan.. I am sure that those DarkDestined don't stand a chance against us! There are eight of us and only six of them!"

Sora sighed a bit and looked at Taichi.

Taichi grinned a bit stupidly at her, " They needed some time off."

" They got stuck babysiting."

" Katina said she loved kids."

" Taichi you tricked them into babysitting so we could go out."

Taichi sweatdropped.

" Well it was so I could be with you Sora-chan."

Sora blushed. " Well then Tai-kun..." Sora smiled and leaned closer to him, " You'd think that after so long in the digiworld that you'd get more responsibility.."

" I have the crest of courage, not responsibility. That's Jyous department." he said leaning closer to her as well.

" Jyous is Reliability."

" I knew that."

" Sure you did." She pecked him on the lips and jumped back as her mother turned on the outside light.

Both teens turned varying shades of pink.

" Uh.. see you tomorrow Sora-chan.." said Taichi nervously, and then ran off, his umbrella resting on his shoulder.

Sora shook her heaed and removed her shoes in the front hall.

Her mother smiled at her knowingly.

" Kamiya is a very nice boy." she said smiling.

Sora blushed. " Hai mom. He is."

" He called you Sora-chan.. and you two are so cute when pink in the face!" she teased.

Sora turned pink again.

Glenn stared as Hikari brought down a bottle and told every one to sit in a circle.

The doorbell rang.

" Oh! That's my friend Cuno'!" Hikari proclaimed.

" Who?"

Hikari jumped up and ran to answer the door, " I called her over so that it'd be even!"

Glenn leaned over and whispered in Katinas ear, " Hey Katchan.. you know what?"

" What is it Glennchan?"

" I think this girl is sneakier than she is cute."

Katina laughed.

7 listed to the voices in the hall.

He heard Hikari and then he heard another girl. Her voice was quite pretty.

When she walked in though, saking rain from her bluish hair he almost fell over.

This is something both Glenn and Katina noiced at once.

The girl however did not seem to take any notice.

~She's gorgeous..~ he thought blankly.

Cuno' looked at 7 who blushed feircly when he realised his mouth was open.

" Uh.. so lets get on with it." he stuttered trying not to look right at the girl.

" Okay. Who spins the bottle first?" asked Hikari sweetly.

KAtina looked at Glenn who turned red, " Wh!? Spin tha WHAT! NO!? GAH!"

" Your a chicken Glenn." said 7 half laughing. He had known what the girl was up to.

" Then you spin it 7!" Glenn challenged.

7 turned pink. then red. Then crimson.

" Oh you guys are all wimps!" stated Takeru, taking the bottle in his hand and spinning it.

It landed on Glenn.

" I suggest you spin that bottle again." Glenn threatened.

Takeru nodded.

Everyone else laughed at the blushing boy.

The bottle landed on Cuno'.

Cuno' blushed and so did Takeru as the small boy crawled over to her and pecked her cheek quickly.

He blushed feircly and Cuno' took the bottle in her hand and spun it hard.

It landed on 7, who turned so red he could have stopped traffic outside the apartment building.

She moved over and blushed deeply kissing him quickly and lightly on the cheek.

7 had to lean back onto the couch so he did not fall over.

He took the bottle and spun it.

It landed on Glenn again.

7 turned red, " Not a chance in hell."

" Got that straight."

" Why don't you hug him?" asked Hikari.

Both guys turned and gave her a strange look.

" Maybe that's okay for girls..."

" But not guys!"

Glenn looked at 7, " How about a handshake?" he asked, sticking out his hand.

7 nodded, " Far better than kissing."

Glenn laughed.

" HEY!" protested Katina.

Glenn blushed.

He took the bottle and spun it.

It landed on Hikari.

She smiled at him, and he blushed as he took her hand and kissed it.

Giggling Hikari spun the bottle.

it landed on Katina.

" Hey! How did she get so lucky!?" demanded Glenn trying to act upset.

Hikari hugged KAtina and the guys all laughed.

" See you wont catch a buncha guys hugging each other willya Takeru?" asked 7.

Takeru shrugged, " I hug Yamato all the time." he said blankly.

" Uh.. that's.. not quite the same."

" Oh."

Katina spun and it landed on Takeru who turned bright red as she kissed his little cheek.

Glenn turned red.

Half from jealousy.

Takeru spun and got Hikari.

He blushed deeply.

~Ah.. they have crushes...~ thought Katina, ~How sweet!~

He kissed her cheek. But it was not like the little pecks he had been giving out.

Hikari spun again and got 7.

Who looked her in the eye as she kissed him on th cheek.

He spun... and got Cuno'.

Blushing he moved over to her very slowly.

He hesitated.

7 blushed and looked at her, " Pardon me..."

He kissed her cheek.

" That's not a kiss." she said softly.

7 jerked back and blushed as everyone else in the room began to snicker.

" Hey!" he argued..

Katina smiled at him, " Oh oniichan, she was playing.." she said softly.

He sat down and tried to hide his red face by looking at the carpet.

Cuno spun the bottle.. and got herself. She made a blank face, " Uh.. last I checked you can't kiss yourself..." she said confused.

" So spin again silly!"

She did and got Katina.

Glenn made a face as the two girls hugged.

Katina spun the bottle. But this time Glenn got up and sat right where the bottle landed, which just so happened to be in 7s lap.

Everyone started to laugh.

" Heh.. Now whatcha gonna do Katchan?"

" It's pointing to yu and oniichan..."

" HAHA!! you have to kiss both of them!" laughed Hikari.

Glenn frowned, " But it's pointing at me!"

7 shoved the big guy off his lap, " Geez Glenn, stay offa my lap!"

Katina kissed Glennand 7 on the cheek.

Glenn frowned, " But Kaaaaat" he protested trying to get up.

He put his hand on the bottle, slipped and fell on the floor. " Ow!"

Right then the front door opened and in walked Taichi and Yamato.

They both stared at the scene.

Everyone started laughing at one time.

Except for Glenn.

Who blushed feircly.

When everything was over, and Cuno' Takeru, and Matt had all left to go home, Those that were left sat in the living room and talked about good times.

" I would like to know something." said Hikari.

" What is it?"

" Well.. if you cn't get that machine to work.. what happenes?"

Everyone was silent.

It was 7 who finally spoke up, " I guess we're stuck here then."

" Is it really so bad?" asked Taichi, " I mean, you're away from those DarkDestined.."

Katina made aface and turned her head.

Glenn watched her as she layed her head on her knees and sighed, " I wont say that is a bad thing...but I wont say it is a good thing either." she said softly, " To be truthful I feel a bit guilty that we made it, and yet there are others back home who have to deal with the same suffering we have had to deal with." she admited.

Glenn nodded, " Yeah. We were supposed to go back in time and fix everything so that it never happened."

" But instead we landed here." Finished 7.

Taichi nodded, " I see."

" We can help!" said Hikari, quickly, " Maybe we can find out what is wrong with your machine!"

Katina looked at the determined girl, " What we need cannot be found on our earth. And we don't know that it can be found here either."

" How did you get it before then?" asked Taichi.

" 7 made it for us." said Glenn.

Katina shivered and it thundered outside.

" Perhaps we can make it again!" offered Taichi.

" I think perhaps we need to wait untill morning." said 7, " I think we all need sleep right now."

Katina nodded and motioned to the half dozing Hikari.

Taichi nodded and picked his little sister up from the floor, taking her in his room.

7 looked at Katina and Glenn.

she was leaning on his shoulder with her head against him.

He had his arm around her.

7 was a little jealouse. And it was strange. He had never felt that way before this night.

He had never been jealouse of KAtina and Glenns relationship.

No.. not Katina in Glenn... Just what they had. They had love.

~Me and Kat love each other.. but her and Glenn have a different sort of love.~ he thought, ~They are IN love..~ His thoughts went to the lovely girl he had seen that night playing spin the bottle.

" That's not a kiss.." kept echoing through his mind.

~Shoulda kissed her for real...~

~MEANWHILE~

DarkDestined Mimi watched as Jyou walked down the hall. He was sucha spoil sport.

DarkLilymon stood next to her, " What are we doing?"

" We're gonna find out what all this talk about time travl is." said Mimi plainly, " If its true, just think.. We could go back to the old days.. and the mall and the park will still be standing.."

DarkLilymon looked at the blackhaired woman. " You're sure ths is a good idea?" she asked.

" I think that being part of the team, we have a right to know." said Mimi avoiding having to answer directly.

" I FOUND IT!" cxame a shout from the other end of the hall.

" That was Koushiro.. at least it sounded like him..." muttered DarkDestined Mimi in surprise.

Koushiro came running down the hallway waving the plans in his hand, " I know what it is! It's a heating device, to keep this part from freezing!" he pointed, and confused The DarkDestined woman even more.

" Uh.. Koushori-kun? Taichi is down the hall..." she pointed with a sweatdrop.

" I realise that but this is it! and now I know how to find where those damn kids have gone to as well!" he smiled evily.

DarkDestined Taichi smiled brutally, " Yes. You're right.. how ould we not see it before! Can we make this?"

DarkDestined Koushiro nodded, " Affirmitave. We can. That machine will be up and running in no time." He turned and left the DarkDestined leader to his own diaobolical thoughts.

THE NEXT DAY~

Katina and Glenn stood together next to the time machine.

"what do you think?" asked Katina blankly.

" I think that you should stay here once we get it to work again."

Katina stared up at him in shock, " ARE YOU INSANE! I'm NOT LETTING YOU GO BACK!" she protested loudly.

" Katchan.. I can't let you go back to.. to .. that.." he said, trying not to let himself choke on his own words.

Truth be known he did not wish to backwithout his Katchan... but.. he also had to think about her safety.

There was a sudden rush of wind and a high pitched squealing sound.

Suddenly not a foot in front of where the two stood there was a SECOND time machine!

" They.. they found us.." whispered Katina.

" Kat Run!" Glenn shoved her from him and stood ready to fight.

Katina stumbled and sared as the machine opened.

She saw the loming figure of DarkDestined Takeru.

" MiGod they did.." she felt like cying.. no even wore, like screaming..

7 heard the yells and came running.

" MiGod." he uttered, " KAT RUN! Get outta here! NOW!"

She didn't hesitated, Katina ran until she reached the apartments. Banging on Taichis door she yelled, " Taichi! Taichi! Hikari! they're here! They followed us!"

Taichi opened the door.

He looked sleepy. Like she had wokn him from a nap.

" Who's here Katina?" he asked drowsily.

" They're here. the Darkdestined, and Glenn and oniichan are trying to fight them on their own! COME ON!" she grabed the boys arm.

Taichi woke up right then, " WHAT! Those evil creatures are HERE!" He stared at the frantic girl.

Her fingernails dug into his skin, and he grimaced.

" I'll call the others!" he grabbed up the cell phone next to him and dialed Koushiro, and Matt.

Katina ran back to the scene, where Glenn and 7 had seemed to be cornered by DarkDestineds Sora, Takeru and Jyou.

She stared.

Takeru looked 7 in the eyes, " I let you go once.." he muttered, only low enough for 7 to hear. Or so he thought. Katina listened carefully.

" I let you go once, When I shouldn't have. I only wish to know where Katina is."

Katina froze. The tone in his voice made her blood freeze.

7 growled, " I will NEVER tell you where she is!"

Sora smiled evily at Glenn and Jyou grined maliciously.

He forwarded on Glenn, with some sort of energy weapon in his hand.

Glenn held his crest tightly, but he was bleeding bad and could hardly stand.

She gasped.

" Tell me where that little slut of yours is." demanded Darkdestined Sora.

Glenn spat in her face.

The redhead jerked back and swore at him.

Jyou became mad.

He sliced Glenns hand where it rested firmly against his crest.

Katina stared.

The grass was covered in blood.

The hand lay there in the bright green grass.

A macebre relic, it layed there.

Bleeding.

Katina felt her stomache turn.

No.

They were going to kill her friends.. her family, her only loved ones.

" I'm right HERE!"

She stepped out from behind the bushes and glared, " LET MY FRIENDS GO." she demanded angrily.

Darkdestined Sora laughed.

" Very unwise." she stated tartly.

" Sora, get her!" demanded Jyou.

Just then the real digidestined ran up to the scene.

" Holy shit.." Yamato stated blankly.

Glenn stood there, pale. Then turned his head to Katina, " RUN KAT!" he yelled suddenly, his face ashen.

The stump where his hand pulsed with blood.

Takeru kept 7 up, his hands away from his weapons or Materia.

7 struggled in the grasp of the massive boy.

He glared and watched as Katina charged at Jyou. " YOU LEAVE THEM ALONE!" she demanded screaming more than anything else.

" NO! Kat!" several cries filled her ears, including 7 and Glenns.

Jyou watched her maliciously.

He grabbed her up by a hand and pointed the energy weapon to her middle.

" You led me here. Taichi wants you dead. So do the rest of us. Why could you have not just stayed on our side like before?" he demanded laughing, " But no matter now. You can die with this on your concious.. You led us here. To this new world. With new people. More people. More slaves. And more death. YOU did this." he laughed again and Darkdestined Sora smiled.

" yes. this was all your fault Katina. Katina ASHTON. We should have seen it before.." she made a motion with her hand.

The real digidestined stared in fear. Yamato stared up at the tall creature with 7 in his grip. He stared and it clicked in his mind.

" T.. Takeru.." he stutered.

The darkdestined turned to meet his eyes with Yamatos.

" Who are you." he demanded. It wasnt a question.

Glenn fell to his knees, from lack of blood. " Must.. save KAtch..." he couldn't finish. His eyes closed and he used his good hand to balance himself.

"I'm.. I'm Matt.. I'm your brother.. your oniichan.." he said, unsure of what to think.

The darkdestined boy stared.

DarkDestined Jyou smiled, " Well.. Death is a natural thing. It comes to all people." he said warming up the thing in his hand.

His grin didn't last long though.

The real Jyou had had just about enough of this. He charged and knocked his twin off his feet.

DarkDestined Jyou looked at the boy in glasses and stared.

" What in hells name.."

The real Jyou glared and did something he had never thought he'd do. He punched his twin right in the nose, as hard as he could. The bone broke.

Katina fell to the ground and scrambled to get to her feet, only to be stopped by DarkDestined Sora.

She grabbed up the darkhaired girl by the hair and jerked her up. " All of you stop now! I'll kill her right now!" she threatened in a growling tone.

The real Sora was sneaking up behind her.

DarkDestined Takeru stared at his 'Brother'.

" My.. brother.. Yamato..." he stared, " MiGod it is you.... But you died.. in the digiworld.. years ago.." the eyes filled with tears, " I was told you went serching for me when that damned digimon seperated us.. y.. you froze to death.." his voice was soft and trembling.

Yamato stared, " But here, I found you..."

Glenn concentrated all his energy into his crest. " Gotta.. Ghr..."

A silver mist flowed from it, and surrounded him.

Darkdestined Sora yanked Katina in front of her, " Get off Jyou or I shoot her. RIGHT NOW!" she shouted in Katinas ear.

Jyou got up off the evil twin and glared.

The twin groaned, " Well you do have a few guts here..." he growled getting to his feet.

Taichi and the others watched carefully.

DarkDestined Takeru looked at 7 and then at his partners.

Then he looked at Yamato. " So many years.. oniichan.." he whispered.

" Takeru.. look at what is going on around you.. is this right?" asked Yamato.

The azure eyes stared and then looked at the prisoner in his hands.

" I know you can't be all evil." admited 7, " I know what you did." he whispered.

DarkDestined Sora looked at Takeru, " Kill him and then lets get back to Taichi." she said angrily.

Takeru hesitated.

He growled, " Taichi would be more pleased if we brought them to him alive. Along with.. ourselves." he said quietly, " Then You and Jyou could tourture them for information."

Yamato gasped.

" RUN GUYS!" Yelled Katina just before Sora hit her in the head, knocking her out.

The real Sora soccerkicked her evil twin in the back of the knee making her fall to her own knees and drop the weapon.

Takeru glared at 7. " Nothing either of you will say will change my mind about this." he growled, and promptly knocked him out.

7 fell to the ground.

Taichi turned to the ones behind him, " Get outta here guys!"

None of them moved as DarkDestined Jyou threw something at the ground.

The silvery mist dissapeared from Around Glenn. He was healed but he had no strength to fight. He fell to the ground as a fog surrounded everyone but the darkdestined.

" Get them, put them inside and lets go."

The only one who had not been knocked out was the real Takeru, who stared.

He collapsed and pretended o be knocked out.

He was put inside the time machine with everyone else.

When they awoke they each found themselves strapped to a table.

The room they were in was dark.

" Ah... you have finally awoken. You are prisoners of the DarkDestined! Prepare to die!" came the announcement from a voice in the corner.

Glenns stomache turned as he realised that it was Darkdestined Taichi.

" YOU BASTARD!" he yelled from his restraints.

" AH Glenn. Long time. Ah well. I look forward to killing you like you killed me. Though robotics will not bring you back as they did to me." he stated grimly.

The real Taichi stared, " You're.. you're me.." he stammered unsure of what was going through his mind.

He wanted to pretend it was all some nightmare. But knew he couldn't do it. He knew it was real.

".. You're not my brother!" it was Hikari!

" Kari!"

DarkDestined Taichi looked at the small girl and something in him felt compelled to.. no. HE had not cried scince he had lost her .. it had been he who killed her.. even if it had been unintentional.

" YOU, will live." he said stroking her hair gently, with the mechanical hand.

Hikari jerked back, and grimaced, " Who are you?" she asked in a whimper.

" I'm your brother.." he said.

Katina was amazed. He almost sounded.. kind.. Then she shook her head, This was the same man who had tried to kill her and everyone she had ever loved. And people he had not even known! He had killed innocents.

She glared at him, " You murderur." she spat sngrily.

He moved over to her.

" I am not the murderur. YOU are the murdurer." he said slinking over to her.

" LEAVE HER ALONE!" Came a cry from 7.

" Oh shut up. You'll get your turn soon enough." The darkdestined snapped.

" You're horrid!" said Mimi plainly.

" and so are you." he retorted.

Mimi became silent.

" What did we ever do to you?" demanded Sora.

" Yes. In what way did we cause harm to you or your world?" chimed in Koushiro.

" YOU WERE BORN!"

DarkDestined Taichi looked at Hikari.

" However.. you.. wil live, as I promised." he undid her chains andd led her up the stairs, to freedom...

The lights went out and everything was dark.

Scilence.

Someone sneezed.

" God Bless.."

" Oh shut up."

Katina blinked in the dark. " Yamato?" she asked unsure of who it was.

" YEah."

" Who all is here?" asked Taichi.

Everyone but Jyou chimed up.

" Hey.. I don't hear Jyou."

" Jyou?"

He was not with them.

little Takeru made a whimpering sound, " Oniichan.."

" Sh.. it's okay.. we'll be okay Taeru I promise."

The litt boy shivered in his chains.

" So has anyone got an idea?" came a question from Koushiro.

" I do." The light went on.

The looming boy, Takeru came up to them and looked at each one of them.

" YOU! You nasty little Basta..!"

" Oh Shut up. I'm here to save your asses. I needed all of you here for us to defeat the others." Takeru snapped at Glenn.

He undid the chains on each person, from left to right, starting with 7.

He grabbed his materia and glared, " How do we know it isn;t a trap of some sort?" he demanded angry from not to long before.

" I'm not lying. The others may break their vows, but I wont." he muttered undoing Katinas chains.

He watched the girl carefully as she got down from the table and rubbed her wrists.

" You have not changed."

She blinked and looked up at him. " Pardon me?"

" You have not changed. You are the same a you were in the digital world." he repeated.

Katina gasped. " How did you know!?" she asked.

" I was there. I'm still T.K. you know." he said in a low voice.

She stared. This huge boy, was the same little boy who had cried with her when they had found they were lost in the digital orld and alone? This was the same boy who had helped her out of the river?

" You're.. bigger..." she said simply.

" You're smaller." he returned and scilence became one with him again as he undid Mimi and little Takerus chains.

He looked at the little boy.

The little boy looked at him in awe.

" Come on. I know how to defeate them. they each have a weakness." he said, motioning for them to follow.

Katina looked at Glenn who shook his head no. 7 had not put the materia back in his pouch yet.

Katina sighed and walked away with the large boy.

Glenn stared, " But KAtina!" he protested walking up to her. " How do you know he's not lying?"

" He has never lied to me before." she said simply and continued following.

Everyone else followed behind them.

7 walked up on the other side of Katina.

He and glenn stood on either side of her.

It was like a protective shield.

It made her feel safe.

Takeru looked at them out of the corner of his eye and made a grim smile, " I would never hurt her." he said simply. He then continued walking, Katina behind him.

Glenn looked at 7 who frowned deeply and placed his hand no his materia in his pouch.

The walking seemed like forever, but noone complained.

Everyone was to afraid to complain, for fear it was a trap.

Reaching the top, DarkDestined Takeru turned and looked at everyone.

He explained what they needed to do. Each of them had a job.

Glenn looked up at Takeru, " I'm going with you and this Taichi. I have a score to settle with that bastard." he said clentching his teeth. He breifly saw the servant in the garden run through his mind. It made his anger grow inside him.

" You have no weapon."

" I have my crest." he argued.

" Someone has to go with Katina and help her turn the digimon to our side."

7 volunteered.

" I'll do it." he said firmly. Glenn looked at the darkhaired boy. And for the first time realised just how alike the two looked.

Both of them had stormy eyes that seemed to reflect nothing. But he shook his head, " You'd better not let her get hurt." he spoke to 7.

7 gave him a look, " And you had better come back in one peice." he said bluntly, " I don't want to have to comfort her ovef someones death again."

Glenn looked blank. He didn't understand. But her set himself, " Let's go people! We don't have all day!"

" Right."

DarkDestined Takeru handed each small group of kids a map, with their destinations on it.

" Mimi and Yamato and Takeru, you go to the EDU center. You'll certainly find Mimi There." he said frowning, and handing them the sheet of paper.

" Koushiro, and Sora, you guys go here." Takeru pointed to a circled spot on the paper, " You should find DarkDestined Koushiro here, and DarkDestined Jyou here." he pointed to both locations, " You'll probably find YOUR Jyou here as well."

" Katina, 7, you two should find most of the digimon in the gardens. With the exception of Gommamon. He's probably in the waters nearby." Takeru bit his lip and then looked down the hallway and made a whistling sound.

DarkAngemon came out from the shadows, " I'm sending Angemon with you." he looked right at Katina, " I don't want you to be hurt. and I DO want you to be very careful."

Then he looked at Glenn and Taichi, " Sora is probably with Taichi. She is the head of the Gaurd." he said, " And Hikari is probably in the Center somewhere. We'll have to get it ut of Taichi. However, I doubt he will harm her. She reminds him to much of his own sister." he frowned, " Though I have heard little of her."

Taichi looked at the map in his hands and then back up at the DarkDestined, " What garuntees have we got that you are not going to try and kill us?" he demanded, " I mean how do we know this is not a trap?"

" Because I want things to go back to how they were at first."

addmitted Takeru, looking at DarkAngemon, " And if we can just get the others to remember back then, I am sure they will remember and want to as well." he frowned, " Taking over the world was Taichis idea. Noone wanted to oppose him. He's.. He is evil." he finally admited, " And his courage is very strong. That is why everyone here fears him. He is not scared of anything."

Katina gasped, " I know now! I know it! I remember!" she turned and faced the taller DarkDestined, " When I fell in there, he was even showing signs then. That was before I met oniichan and Glenn..."

" What are you tlaking about?"

" A long time ago, my family was killed. They died in a bombing. Well the media called it that.. So I wandered the streets. One day I was behind an old building behnd the bookstore in town and I saw this strange light. It sucked me up in it and the next thing I knew I was sitting in grass somewhere bright." she hesitated, " The digital world.."

" Hush. someone is coming. Runh!" Takeru sounded urgent, " and becareful!"

Everyone scattered.

Takeru watched carefully as a little Gugrimon passed him, looking up at him with small yellow eyes.

It did not ask what the DarkDestined was doing with prisoners from below, all it knew was that it was supposed to be out in the gardens.

DarkLilymon had asked for something called a soccer ball and he had to find one before she got angry.

It kept bouncing along its way, almost findind Katina and 7 who were hiding behin DarkAngemon.

HE loked at them once the little green digi passed, " It is okay now, come with me."

Mimi looked at Yamato and T.K. " Lets go."

A/N: Okay.. oh.. getting exciting. okay this is gonna get a bt more interesting I promise! GAH! it was long this time! Ghr.. oh well.. okay next part coming out soon.

Oh and guys.. Keep reveiwing please!

KATCHAN

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