Did you know I wrote this mid-January, I just never edited it till now?

Disclaimer: Chaos theory is quite amazing. One subset states that whatever you have no physical proof of at any given time you don't know. By applying this to international copyright laws until you check the official documentation, for all you know I do own digimon. However, every time you check for the foreseeable future, I don't own digimon.

When Izzy awoke, he felt a slight pounding in his head, a feeling that was accentuated by the hushed murmurs and other oddly distinct sounds of people trying to be quiet around him. When he finally opened his eyes he found himself on a beach. It took a few seconds for him to remember what had happened. The anti-crests, the battles at the camp grounds and the lake, and lastly the typhoon….The typhoon! That thought got izzy up like a rocket. He quickly glanced around, while he was still at a lake, this one was undoubtedly bigger than the one he left behind, the surrounding trees were also unlike any he had seen on earth before, logically there was only one place he could be.

"The Digital World" Izzy muttered, he did not expect a reply, so was surprised when Tentomon landed beside him.

"Izzy your awake" the beetle exclaimed "how do you feel?"

"A bit of a headache but otherwise fine, how are the others?"

"All the Digimon were fine after passing through the gate," Tentomon had correctly assumed that Izzy had deduced the true nature of the typhoon, "Cody and the two girls were the only humans awake though. The girls took their Digieggs and ran. Cody decided to nurse you guys back to health, TK woke up first, and Kari woke up a few seconds before you did. Yolie and Joe are still out."

"Interesting" the bearer of knowledge said while he booted up his laptop. Know the imminent questioning he decided to explain "It's so we can find the French girls; I can use my computer as an amplifier of the digivices signal and home in on them."

"Does that even make sense?" Izzy turned as he herd the question, apparently he and Tentomon had woken Yolie.

"It does, trust me I've done this before." Izzy answered, at this point his computer had finished loading and Izzy began to scour the screen. Instead of finding eight signals – six from their group and two from the francophones – he found eighteen, indicating everyone at the camp had been brought here. "At least now we know it probably wasn't Magnaangemon's fault"

"See" said Patamon to no one in particular.

"Quiet you'll wake Joe" Cody scolded, apparently the eight had only just noticed Izzy's recovery.

"Too late" came a groggy voice, indicating Joe had indeed awakened.

"Well since everyone's up anyways, I received some mail from Davis, that say's that they think they're in the Digital World too." Kari said

"As is Tai, and everyone else at camp." Izzy responded showing everyone his monitor, "it's getting late, ask them if they can get Imperialdramon and we can wrap everything up tonight."

"Right," There was a semi-awkward pause as the group awaited the response, "Davis said that's not an option tonight."

"What?" Izzy was stunned before he reviewed the wording "Can they do it tomorrow?" Another pause before a nod; "okay tell them to get some sleep and contact us tomorrow morning."

"Wait" Kari asked, "why can't we just jump through the television and go home that way?"

"Doesn't work I'm afraid, the televisions take you back out to the computer you entered in, but we didn't enter a computer so it won't work."

"So we're stuck here?" Yolie whined "Great now were never going to get back and…"

"Calm down Yolie" Joe said "we've gotten out before, we can do it again, and it's just a simple matter of contacting Genni"

"Who according to my calculations is on the other side of the world, small potatoes for Imperaldramon, but far too much for anyone else." Izzy finished.

"Regardless shouldn't we be look for the others," Cody asked.

"Don't worry Cody, their tough and have three Megas, they'll be fine" Gatomon answered.

"Not them, I mean the international Digidestand, especially the ones WITHOUT digimon" he shot this last comment at TK, who seemed to withdraw a bit.

"Not worth it" Izzy explained, "if we try to round them up tonight they'll just try to escape again" seeing the younger boys determined look he softened up "don't worry, by now no digimon are going to attack humans, were heroes here, as long as they don't provoke a fight everything should be fine."

Cody was not very happy with Izzy's explanation, but was compliant nonetheless. The group split up to find an adequate camp site for the night, as they were searching, Joe made his way beside Izzy.

"Hey" the blue haired boy said.

"Hey" Izzy replied, waiting for the other to initiate the conversation.

"It's a shame" Joe continued.

"What's a shame?"

"Those two, TK and Cody, they get along almost all the time but when it comes to killing evil digimon they disagree completely"

"You can't expect the two of them to agree on everything" Izzy reasoned "look TK lost Patamon when he was fighting the darkness, it's obviously a touchy subject. Similarly Cody modeled his life after his father, who believed that you should never kill a man, no matter what. Whichever way you're trying to go, it's going to end badly."

"I'm not saying we choose a side, I'm just saying we should help them see some middle ground, after all neither of them are going to come straight out with it, and that resentment is going to build up."

"This isn't the time to practice your psychology skills Joe, right now we have to be focused on getting everyone out of here alive."

Seeing that he wasn't going to win, Joe changed tactics "And what if it affects their teamwork? What if we need Shakkoumon, and for whatever reason they can't DNA digivolve."

Izzy was about to retort that they didn't need Shakkoumon when they could pull out both Ankylomon and Magnaangemon and have both more quality and quantity when he stopped himself. He never was and advocate of a one-track attack strategy, and for all he knew there could very well be a point where Shakkoumon made more sense. "Fine, but I'm talking to Cody, you can deal with PMS TK" Izzy said, recalling a term Matt had once used to explain exactly how TK acted when pushed about Patamons death.

The genus then moved over to a cliff where Cody was standing leaving a bemused Joe behind. The younger boy was facing the cliff wall, and appeared to be inspecting it. Izzy shushed Tentomon's questions about how he was going to approach the subject, and then proceed to ask Cody what he was doing.

"I was thinking about getting Digmon to make a cave, but I don't know if the rocks are strong enough"

Izzy inspected the cliff a bit before responding "looks pretty strong to me, but we should get Digmons opinion, still it's probably where we're sleeping tonight. Look about the battle…"

"Their no need for you to tell me I'm wrong, I already heard that enough"

"You know how I taught Tai how to spell assume?" seeing Cody's confused look he continued "when you assume you make an ass out of u and me"

Cody glared at the attempted joke before taking the bait "so what were you going to say."

"I was going to say that the first time we came to the Digiworld, we had no clue what we were doing." Cody's expression didn't change but interrupted again.

"If this is about Devimon then-"

"You assumed again, this isn't about Devimon OR TK" he paused for Cody to calm down before continuing, "anyway, the first time we were just kids, and yet we were forced into this dog-eat dog world. Often times, we ended up in fights with digimon not because they were evil, but most likely because we wandered onto their territory. Living in that world we learned – all of us – that sometimes violence is the only way."

"So you see" Izzy continued ignoring the glare Cody sent him "when we ended up fighting the real bad guys things only escalated. But to be completely honest I envy you."

At this Cody's glare turned into a look of confusion, "When we were kids, all this stuff just impressed itself into our heads, sure we may be smart enough not to kill someone who insults us in class, but when it comes down to the digimon, were relatively simple minded. If we think they're going to kill us, we kill them first. Since we were kids this stuff just seems natural, and since TK was the youngest it made more firm an impression on him, that combined with the Devimon incident makes him more pigheaded than Davis when you get down to it."

"Look I know you don't want anyone to get hurt, and I respect that, but you're going to have to be patient with the rest of us. As for me, remember Cody I take everyone's opinion into consideration before acting. So does Tai, so does Davis, your voice is heard, even if you don't always think so."

When the group once again collect, they found that Cody's spot was indeed the best. The next step was to locate food and firewood for the night. The jobs were divided evenly; Izzy and Cody would see to the newly-excavated cave, insuring it's stability and livability, Kari and Yolie would fly on Aqualimon to where Kari had early located some palm-like fruit, and Joe and TK would collect some firewood. However after fifteen minutes of walking aimlessly through the forest, Joe knew it wouldn't take TK long to figure out his ulterior motive. His suspicions were confirmed when the younger of the two spoke up.

"Joe I think we'd better head back now, if we collect any more firewood we'll need Zudomon to hall it back to camp."

"Yeah I guess," Joe said weekly "actually I wanted to talk to you."

"Okay, what about?"

"About earlier today with Cody" as Joe said this he began to clean his glasses – an old nervous habit.

"I don't see what the problem is, Cody's got a good heart but because of that he isn't quick to violence. It's actually a good thing when you think about it."

"That's not what I was going to say" Joe briefly wondered why he always had to explain himself, "here try this; remember back when we first came to the Digital World?"

"I am writing a book about it, aren't I?" TK zoned out for a second, lost in memory. He quickly snapped out of it and asked "What's this got to do with Cody?"

"Humor me okay," Joe replied watching TK put aside his firewood and started to lean on a nearby tree "now when we first came to the digiworld what was the one thing you always complained about?"

"The 'mean monsters' trying to eat us for lunch?" the blonde paused, but after seeing the serous look from Joe he responded seriously, "I guess the fact that everyone was treating me like a little kid."

"And how did that make you feel?"

"I don't know, undervalued. Wait is that what this is about." Joe gave a small nod "that's stupid Cody is one of the most sensible guys I know."

"And that's why when he makes a point you instantly dismiss it?"

"When have I ever done that?"

"Earlier today, when we were riding Ankylomon." Joe resisted the urge to roll his eyes, he really thought that was implied.

"I wasn't trying to, we just didn't have time talk about meaningless stuff" TK defended.

"Obviously it wasn't meaningless to Cody" the blue haired boy said, then after receiving no reply he continued, "look I know most of the time you're a considerate guy but there are times you act, regardless of how it affects others, including Cody"

TK didn't answer for a while, but when he did his voice was rather strained. "You know Joe, that whenever I see an evil force, I just can't help but picture Devimon in it's place, and then…"

"I know, but Cody did have a valid point; those were girls we were fighting, not the source of all evil."

TK shook his head, "just because they were one doesn't mean they're not the other."

"Don't you think you're being a little harsh? It's not like…"

"NO" TK nearly screamed "if they were let free the damage they could have done would be massive, this isn't the time for mercy. If we let them continue to grow their strength then none of us stand much of a chance."

Against his better judgement, Joe decided state his mind "don't you think that maybe your just using this whole Devimon thing as an excuse to act aggressively and ignore the consequences?"

"Are you saying that I asked for this? That I wanted that to happen?" Joe vigorously shook his head, kicking himself for bringing up the topic as the blond continued, "good, because what I went through, it was hell, understand. No one, but no deserves to go through that."

"But TK," Joe said meekly, "isn't that what you just did to those girls?" Joe braced himself for a blow, although he himself had never seen TK like this before, if the Matt was any indication, he was about to receive a strong punch in the face.

It never came, instead TK's entire body seized up, his eyes went wide in shock, and he fell to his knees. "Oh God" the blond repeated over and over. Joe cautiously moved to comfort the boy, and soon after their digimon returned TK began cuddling Patamon. It would be quite a while before the two made their way back to camp.

"Hey Izzy do you think TK and Joe are okay?"

"Probably, they both have their digimon and crests, so I imagine not much would harm them."

"I guess" Kari's tone didn't sound very convinced "but how long does it take for them to get firewood?"

Izzy momentarily lost his composure remembering exact what the two were doing, "Well for those two apparently very long." 'Well that was weak' the boy thought to himself.

"If anything was wrong TK would probably message you on the d-terminal." He reasoned. "Look if you're that concerned you can go wait for them, it's probably better to have a lookout anyway."

The Izzy replied and then he released a sigh, not only had he managed to calm the girl but also remove her from the cave. Don't misunderstand, it wasn't like Izzy was going to undress or anything, but for his purposes it was better if no one else with a crest was around. The genius then pulled out the four crests he had in his possession. The first was his crest of knowledge, which always had its faint glow, next was the golden one he received from Tai back in the real world. The final two originated from the French girls, a dark green one from Lucy and a pink one from Gabrielle.

The boy then booted up a program on his laptop, it was one he had received from Genni and it could tell how much each crest was reacting. Originally it was supposed to be used to tell if each crest was ready to be used in digivolution, but by the time he received the program Patamon was the only one who hadn't digivolved to ultimate and Izzy never bothered to use it. Now however he could think of a different purpose.

Looking at the monitor he saw four bar graphs and a horizontal line across the middle. One of the bar graphs was well above the line, while the others were far beneath it. By moving the crest of knowledge away Izzy watched as the corresponding bar graph plummeted. Of course even placing the crest away from himself the bar was far higher than the others, but Izzy knew all he needed to. The line was probably the digivolution point – basically how much of the trait needed to be shown to attain digivolution, and the crests got weaker as the distance between them and a human show that trait got larger. Logically if he removed two of the crests from the immediate area, and then exhibited the correct traits he could find spikes in the bar graph representing each trait.

The child of knowledge allowed himself a smile, before watching as one of the bar graphs began to spike. 'Already?' he thought, but wasted no time isolating the crest. He found that this spike came from the gold crest.

'So this is the crest what's the trait?' he thought to himself 'there was sloth, gluttony, greed, lust, pride wrath and envy.' He settled on pride, deciding that he was proud of his strategy to determine the identity of the crests. He also made a mental note of the other traits and how to test them. Eventually he decided he would leave sloth for last, mostly because he didn't know if he could trick the trait out. The only problem was that that meant he had to exhibit some of the other traits, namely lust.

Not that the boy had never felt lust before, but he was still extremely uncomfortable about it, and even more uncomfortable about trying to experience it out in the middle of the digiworld. Nonetheless, he decided to test that trait first when no one else was around; it just made him less awkward. Izzy grabbed the pink crest first, hoping that the colour might suggest that it was indeed the crest of lust.

After a few minutes of running through the popular girls in his class, Izzy began to give up. No matter how hard he tried he just couldn't force himself to feel – well – 'that way'. That was until he looked at the mouth of the cave and saw Kari. Izzy had never thought about another team member in anyway other than friendship before, he knew others did; Matt was dating Sora and Ken was dating Yolie, but his current state of mind was going crazy when he saw the younger girl.

Kari wasn't fully developed quite yet, but she was definitely on her way. The Digidestined of light was rather athletic and it showed as her entire body was – what's the word? – Ah yes, toned. At this point Izzy could clearly see why TK and Davis both competed for her, and why they chased off other potential suitors too. The thought crossed his mind that the two of them would probably kill him if they knew what he was doing – not to mention Tai – but he ignored it as he watched the girl bend over, and gave him a perfect view of her long legs and tight –

Izzy forced himself to look away. A certain part of his anatomy was defiantly signaling that he felt lust right now, and he decided it was best if he kept this experience as short as possible. He found his suspicion correct, as the bar for the crest he was holding was defiantly higher than normal. Izzy was glad; he didn't want to go through all that for nothing. The boy then placed the crest to the side and grabbed the last one, the green one. Izzy wondered if this one would be just as easy to place.

'Let's see green, green, envy is the green eyed monster?'

Izzy immediately tried to feel envious, but after all the lessons he learnt in the digital world it was kind of difficult. After when you learn everyone has a place and individuality makes a team, it's a little harder to be envious. Still the Digidestined of knowledge was never one without a plan, he decided to pick the person most different from him, and then see what he was envious of.

The person most different was easy; it was obviously Mimi. What to be envious of was harder; Izzy hardly cared about his fashion sense, and, having a close group of friends like the digidestined he didn't feel the need to be overly social. There was one thing though; Mimi had the ineffable ability to bring out the good in people. Not just insist they could change but help them change as well. While Izzy was exceptional at giving advice in a classroom-like setting he never had people coming to him asking for real advice, just tutor like questions. The more he thought about it, the more Izzy could feel a small resentment building up, he decided he needed to vent these feelings, so he would do wrath next.

There was no need, as his computer indicated that he had been correct, and that this was the crest of envy. Izzy smirked, he had just figured out three crests in two guesses, he quickly released the smirk as he saw the crest of pride was activating again. The boy started to close his computer as he heard Kari re-enter the cave.

"I'm getting worried, their still not back yet." She said.

"If you're that worried then just look at your digivise," Izzy said, "you should be able to hone in on their location and just fly there on Nefertimon"

Kari did as Izzy suggested, and immediately looked up afterwards. "Someone's coming this way."

Izzy looked to confirm this on his own digivice, but stopped as the three anti-crests began to react, and then – to Izzy's surprise fly out of the cave.

"Stop them!" Izzy declared, and watched as Tentomon, Hawkmon, Armadillomon Yolie and Cody tried in vain to catch the allusive crests. Every time they came close to grabbing one, it would dive out of the way, even in the rare case that someone managed to grab a crest, they released a bright light and forced whomever grabbed it to let go. Gatomon had a different strategy in mind altogether. She quickly digivolved to Nefertimon and destroyed the crest of envy.

"What are you doing?" Izzy asked incredulously.

"Better destroyed then in the hands of the enemy" the armor Digimon replied. Nefertimon didn't wait for conformation of her actions as she immediately destroyed the crest of lust as well.

Her third beam however, missed its target as a moment before impact the crest dodged and headed towards the opposite shoreline.

Izzy looked watched in slow motion as the crest of pride escaped, he knew that even if one crest got through it could be deadly but at this point there was nothing he could do. The crest was too far away for a rookie, and Digivolving would take too much time. Nefertimon was their only option and she was recharging and wouldn't be able to fire in time, so all he could do was watch.

And watch he did as the crest continued to fly into a comically oversized rocket before Izzy was forced to shield his eyes. When he recovered he looked for the source of the blast and found a cyborg-dinosaur flying towards them

"You sure know how to make an entrance." The bearer of knowledge quipped.

"Whatever." Tai responded nonchalantly, "what happened, and why did the crests start acting up, you know you're lucky the two I had did too or Metalgreymon probably wouldn't be who he is right now."

"I don't know what happened to the crests, just like I don't know why were in the digital world," Izzy half lied, he had hypotheses, but one was rather vague and the other didn't account for why the crests acted up. "But if you said that two of yours acted up, then there's a good chance that the two in Davis' group will as well."

"Too late for that," Yolie supplied "I just got a message from ken saying their anti-crests went all haywire and they had to destroy them."

Tai just nodded in confirmation "so what's your plan?"

"We're going to sleep tonight, and then tomorrow when Imperialdramon is back were going to collect the international digidestined and go to Genni's"

"Hey are you guy's okay?"

Izzy and Tai turned to see Pegasusmon land beside them with Joe, TK and Gomamon.

"We heard explosions and went to see if there was a battle."

"No everything's fine" Tai said as Pegasusmon reverted back to Patamon. He and TK solemnly went into the cave to prepare for the night.

"Anything I need to know about 'collecting firewood'" Izzy asked Joe

"Relax; he'll be fine, just give him a day." Joe said.

Tai's gaze quickly switched between the two, "What did I miss?"

"Nevermind." They said in unision.

Part of this chapter was to show that at any time two people can believe two very different things and still both be right, but I think I demonized TK a little. Which is odd, because I like TK.

Also, this chapter ended up way longer then I thought it would, not because more happened than I thought would, it just took longer. And no, I didn't originally plan on the IzzyxKari scene, but as I was writing the idea popped into my head and I found it rather humorous

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