I Know The Color of Pain

by Bret Zender

It has been one year since we have killed MaloMyotismon. But since then all chaos has broken loose. A person's sanity seemed to be torn apart in minutes. You could only run from it if it was after you, but even that didn't help much. Although MaloMyotismon's body was destroyed, his soul still remained. That was the fatal mistake that none of us bothered to cover up. If the soul is still left, it will find another body to take over, but this time it didn't need to find one. The soul of MaloMyotismon (Let's just call him 'Myotis' for short, okay?") is actually quite solid from all the darkness gathering inside it. It need only to suck up other souls for it to become solid. You can't fight, you cant destroy it, you can't change it, your only hope is too run, run, run, until it is far behind.

It has been preying on digimon and people for a year now, and is not feeling sorry about losing them. More than 93% of the world's population has been slaughtered by the menace, and we are losing our minds. When it sucks you in, it literally drills a hole into your brain and sucks out your sanity, then ripping it to shreds. Your skin turns white, your eyes turn black, and you lose all sense of reality. Many of my friends have been killed by it, since most don't survive when it catches you. And even so, if it does catch you, you usually wish you died anyway.

But now some of us our taking a stand against it, even though we know we can't win, we think we can slow it down long enough for the others to escape. The digimon have taught us how to do attacks of our own, however, we need to actually learn how to do it. They have given us special blood that will enable us to do our own attacks.

TK finished going over the plan in his mind.

TK fished out a small mirror in his pocket and pointed it towards the last ray of sunlight. A bright light filtered off of it and nearly blinded TK so he shut his eyes closed.

That was the signal. The soul was just coming over the ridge, they could tell because of the shockwaves coming through the ground.

"Are the Gargomon ready?" TK whispered in his pocket.

"Ready!" Yuffy voice came out of the transmitter chip in his jacket.

"Okay, I'll say when" TK said and crept over the ridge, looking very carefully for even a sign of darkness.

"Talk about your needle in a hay stack" he said at the same time a shadow went flying across the ground and into the ledge below him. The cavern was huge and it would be easy to lure out the creature. He slowly clipped his cable on to the ledge and lowered himself down. As soon as he touched the ground he released the cable and it shot back up like a lightning bolt. He looked forward as the shadow looked left, then right. He curled himself behind a rock, then gathered his courage and screamed like no tomorrow. Then he stopped abruptly.

A blood-curdling shriek filled the cavern right after that which caused TK to immediately duck with fear with his hands over his head. He looked up above the rock again. The creature wasn't there. Becoming very nervous, he began backing out of the cavern behind himself.

Suddenly the rocks behind him erupted with sound and flew overhead. He whirled around with record speed and ran between the creature's legs, fear creating adrenaline for himself. He could hear the creature gaining and he automatically pumped himself harder. Looking ahead he slid off a cliff, falling about four feet before stopping and crashing op top of a log. He smashed into the cliff side and tumbled down onto a flat surface. Hie face smashed onto the concrete and he spit out a line of blood. He got up and ran forward, diving off the cliff and luckily landing in a pile of bushes. TK leaped off the bushes and saw a refuge ahead.

The briar patch was definitely his bet to escape and he curled himself up and crawled into a tunnel.

"Watch out" Yuffy warned. She was in the briar patch too. She was under a large branch with thorns all over it.

The phantom came through, a large tunnel, sniffing its way through to them. It reached the branch that Yuffy and TK were under and it pressed the branch down against them.

"Go!" TK whispered loudly. The crept through the tunnel, avoiding the large spikes sticking up everywhere. They were like daggers, pointing in all directions.

They soon came to a fork, right or left.

"This way" TK said gesturing towards the left.

"Mm-mm" she shook her head and went flying off to the right.

"Come back! Your goin' the wrong way!" TK shouted, chasing her and trying to warn her. She ran straight out into the open and the soul of Myotis dove on her. She barely past through its snapping jaws and it now turned to TK who was in its path.

TK ran the way Yuffy had gone but his shirt got snagged on a piece of thorn in the tunnels. The phantom lunged forward, smashing its way through the tunnel, desperately trying to reach TK.

TK looked behind him. The huge jaws were closing in. He flew forward and gave a fantastic pull. The thorn sprang backwards and smashed the phantom right in the face.

The soul smashed its head upwards and burst out of the briar patch. The tunnel that TK was in burst apart and thorns went flying everywhere landing dangerously close. It began clawing madly at its face, trying to pull the thorn out, its drool flying everywhere in the process. TK and Yuffy ran forward, trying to escape. The creature gave a loud roar and lunged onto the ground in front of them sending pieces of rock everywhere. It opened its mouth and breathed on them, sending them flying to the earth from the gust it sent. The creature pulled back its jaws and lunged forward. TK grabbed Yuffy and they both rolled to the side. The phantoms head went smashing into the ground.

"Now!" TK shouted.

"Go!" Yuffy shouted in her jacket.

At least twenty Gargomon came flying up from the other side of the cliff about twenty feet away.

"Gatling arm!" they all shouted in synchronized rhythm. They raised their arms and bullets began flashing past them and slamming into Myotis. It threw up its arms to cover itself the least bit but was unsuccessful. It began backing away as more and more bullets slammed into it. Blasts erupted all over it ad it backed off behind the ridge.

"Whew, that was a close one" Yuffy remarked.

"Yeah, I'm glad Kari came up with that plan" TK commented.

"Well it will take him awhile to heal, I think we should prepare for the next attack" TK said. They both walked back to camp.

"It worked!" TK said and ran over to Kari.

"Yes!" Kari said and raised her hand. TK slapped her a high five.

"Great plan Kari, congratulations!" Yuffy remarked.

"Thanks"

"C'mon, lets celebrate!" TK said. They all walked inside their bunker and sat down getting out a few food packets of noodles and rice. TK turned on the heating unit that he had and began to heat up some water.

"How about a bag of noodles?" TK said cheerfully.

"In America they don't call it noodles, I think they call it 'Top Ramen' I think" Yuffy corrected.

"Whatever" TK said and dumped the pack of noodles in the pot of boiling water and began stirring them. Kari walked over to the corner and set up a table. Yuffy flicked the generator on and the TV turned on. TK finished with the noodles and began heating up some rice. While it was baking he began sprinkling some peppers all over it.

Yuffy got out the sleeping bags and they all laid down to watch a movie.

"So what'll it be?" TK asked when they were ready for a movie.

"How about the Final Fantasy movie?" Kari suggested.

"Hey that's a good idea, none of us have seen it yet" TK said and pulled it out of the cabinet and put it in. (A/N the best trailer for the final fantasy movie can be found at http://www.apple.com/trailers/columbia/final_fantasy/trailer_hi.html ).

As the movie played TK and Kari began moving closer together. Towards the end when Doctor Ross and Grey began kissing Kari and TK fell asleep next to each other. When Yuffy turned off the TV she looked at TK and Kari and smiled. She went into her room to sleep.

Sometime after one in the morning TK's eyes slid open as the ground vibrated a small bit. He passed it off. But then it happened again. He silently lifted his head up and listened. A rumbling sound was coming from the distance. He pressed his hands against the floor and felt it again. A cup of water near him began rippling back and forth.

"Wake up!" TK hissed. Kari sat up.

"TK, stop it" Kari groaned.

"No! Listen!" TK whispered.

The rumbling noise was getting closer.

"Yuffy!" TK said. Within a minute, Yuffy came out of her room, looking drowsy.

"What?"

"Run!" TK shouted and headed for the door.

"He'll eat us, he'll eat us!" TK shouted.

"TK come back!" Kari yelled.

The huge creature came flying over the ledge and landed nearly twenty feet from their cam and began chasing digimon out of their homes. Digimon went flying in all directions. Chaos was everywhere. Digimon were being sucked in its mouth.

"Hurry!" Yuffy shouted and pointed towards a go-cart. TK and Kari both dived in.

"Go! I'll distract it"

"We're not leaving without you!" Kari said sternly.

"Get goin!" Yuffy shouted and pushed the clutch forward so that TK and Kari went zooming forward. As they sped off into the distances Yuffy turned to face her opponent.

All of the digimon in the area had been eaten. She seemed to be the only one left.

"Alright you ugly overgrown miserable excuse for a piece of dirt! Come and get me!" Yuffy shouted, then turned and ran like hell. Hiding behind a rock, the creature had a tough time finding her. She reached for a rock about the size of her hand. Tossing it up and down in the palm of her hand a couple times, then she threw it hard at the creatures head. It smashed it squarely, just below the temples. The creatures had dropped a couple feet from the impact, then roared and lunged to where the stone came from. The rock she was hiding behind burst apart and one of the pieces cracked her solidly on the head and she remembered no more.

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"Look out!" Kari yelled as a huge, flaming, part of their camp was hurled towards them. TK jammed the steering wheel to the left and landed about one foot away from it. The flaming wreckage smashed into the stone and went spinning away behind them.

"Go left, LEFT!" Kari shouted and TK went veering off to the left.

"Go to top speed" Kari ordered. The creature was right behind them. Rocks and gravel were pelting their backs because they were getting thrown up from Myotis's footsteps. Every step seemed to have a small circle of blackness spread from it. The thing that Myotis left behind was a wasteland, part of a horrid badlands. Nothing remained except for a few broken twigs or pieces of rocks.

Kari reached over to the back of the cart and picked up a flashlight.

"Hey you! Over here!" Kari shouted and flicked the switch. Light burst out of the front of it and pelted Myotis right in the face. It howled in pain and tumbled forward, its jaws snapping randomly wherever they could. Dirt and dust filled the air.

"HOLY SH-" TK was cut off abruptly as the jaws snapped less than a hair away from the cart and they were sent flying forward straight towards the edge of the cliff.

They went flying over the side, the engine was nearly out of gas from the trip. TK began pressing buttons randomly. He knew there was something that could save them.

"Kari, is there a control panel behind you!" TK shouted behind himself. He was frantic.

"Yes!"

"Look for a large green button!" TK shouted. Nine seconds to impact, a mechanical voice on his ship said.

"Which one!"

"PICK ONE!" TK shouted desperately. Kari smashed her hands on the keyboard in front of her. Four seconds to impact. Buttons were everywhere, she looked left and right, what could she do?! Kari gave a loud cry and pounded her fist on the keyboard.

The top of the go-cart flew off and was suddenly replaced by some clear ceiling thing. The wheels on the bottom disappeared and were replaced by a strange blue light. Four holes on large plates went flying out of the sides. Blue flame spurted from the holes and they went flying forwards at over 170 miles per hour and blasted right through the cliff wall.

Bursting up from the ground about 5 seconds later they went flying forward at uncountable speed. The wind that was behind them as they left the place behind was getting left behind at an enormously fast pace. Anything that got in there was seemed to be burned to a cinder as they went through it. It was a good thing they had a glass window in front of them.

"Well I guess you hit the right button" TK remarked.

"I guess I did"

"Thanks Kari" TK said softly coming over and hugging her. Kari hugged back.

"I hope Yuffy is alright" Kari said.

Think what you want TK thought. Reality isn't so kind, as long as you don't get your hopes up, you'll be fine. For some reason, TK didn't want to say that it wasn't likely.

"I hope so" TK remarked. Kari kissed him on the cheek.

"Thanks for saving me TK" Kari said quietly.

"Anytime" TK said, sitting down at the pilot seat.

"So where exactly are we going?" Kari asked.

"YOU ARE HEADING TO THE SATURN V CAMP" a huge mechanical voice said.

Saturn V camp?

"How much longer 'till we get there?" Kari asked.

"43 SECONDS" the voice shouted. In less than 10 seconds a huge metropolis had come into view. Buildings towered over others the size of the Chrysler buildings. There was no movement, no sounds, nothing. Something was wrong. As soon as they had arrived, TK was sure that something had happened.

"Is it alright?" Kari asked uncertainly.

I don't think so.

"Make sure your geared up" TK reminded her.

"Why?"

Thats a stupid question.

"We don't know what we might find out here, we have to make sure were fully prepared" TK said.

TK stepped outside with an orange scanner top help him see through the darkness coating their world. Stepping outside, his boots made a crunching sound on the asphalt. The size of the city was considerably more than they had seen it before. It seemed as though they could fit one thousand hotels in just a campsite here.

TK kept walking but tripped on something and fell over. Looking around for what he fell on, he scrambled up and looked down. He gasped. There was a dead body down there with white skin. TK rolled the man over. His eyes were black, and there was a large hole in his head.

"Hes already gotten here" Kari said sadly.

"Oh well, we might as well clean the place up" TK said, but he had some sort of uneasy feeling about this place.

Why do I get the feeling that we are walking right into the lion's den? TK thought silently.

His answer was soon proved right. TK was sure there was something watching him. He immediately turned his around the right side to look but the presence moved to the left. He furiously turned his head to the left but the presence moved to the right. He immediately turned around but it suddenly disappeared from view with reflexes like a cat. As a matter of fact, TK was almost sure it was a cat.

TK could feel the presence moving all around him, somewhere in the rock.

"Stay here" TK said to Kari then stopped, looked at a rock, the turned towards Kari and walked backwards over towards it. There was nothing there, but TK felt the presence the most here. But there was no movement anywhere near the cracks.

"What are you doing?" Kari asked in a faint voice. TK suddenly jerked his hand into a crack in the rocks and pulled out a hissing and spitting human. It actually looked more like a cat than a human. Whoever it was had an unnatural dark red hair. She had smooth skin on her body and appeared to be wearing tossed aside rags practically.

"May choony so cala!" she yelled with a pause between each word. She hurled herself off of TK's arm and went flying into a brick wall. Dust and cement went flying everywhere.

"What'ed she say?" Kari said in a squeaky voice.

"Something in a language I've never heard before" TK said and started forward cautiously. When the dust cleared there was no one there. But TK knew he could hear some sort of sound here. It was very soft and was coming from behind TK. He slowly turned around to see the little girl in a corner. They finally got a good look at her. She had large cat ears sticking out of the top of her head and a tail was poking out of her rear that was swishing left and right. She had bright yellow eyes but every time they blinked they seemed to switch color. They were about as large as tennis balls right now thought.

"Are you alright?" TK asked the shivering, whimpering girl. What is she?

She looked up at them but didn't say anything. She looked at them for a long time, as if studying them for some weakness or if they were enemies or friends. While she was looking at them her eyes also darted left and right, as though seeking some way of escape.

"Amongu, selale echo gambit?" she question in a quivering voice.

What does she mean?

"Are you alright?" TK asked her. She was covered with scratches from an obvious fight she had earlier.

"It doesn't work so well but...Revitalize!" Kari cried. As Kari said the word blue and red beams of power radiated from her covering one foot of ground around her. A white light began zooming all around the girl in front of them at incredible speed. Wherever it went though, her wounds began to disappear. The girl stumbled backwards in fright but didn't get very far since there was a wall in front of her.

"It's alright, it's alright!" TK remarked to stop her from running away.

"Uh, what is your name?" TK asked. The girl hesitated.

"Samanachoonigalatirra" the girl said shakily.

"So...that whole thing's your name, huh?" TK muttered. Kari snickered.

"Do you have a-a shorter name or somethin..." TK said pushing his hands close together to emphasize what he meant.

The girl stood up shakily, never taking her eyes off either one of them. She had to make sure they didn't try anything.

"Leelou" the girl said quietly. Her eyes flickered and she began to lose energy.

"Terra-hyin wye" the girl said. Her eyes closed and she slumped over backwards. She was still breathing, but it was difficult to see. TK reached down two fingers and felt the pulse on her neck.

"She's still alive, let's hurry back" TK said, picking up her unconscious form in both hands and began to run back to the go-cart. They ran not a moment too soon. For at that second, a huge force crashed through the wall. Bricks and rock went flying everywhere. A cloud of concrete dust flew up and blinded them all.

"Clear!" Kari shouted, bringing her hands outward. The smoke was immediately sent away and everything became as clear as before.

"We don't have a choice, we have to fight!" Kari shouted. Myotis rose upwards, preparing to crush his opponents.

TK gently set down Leelou and took up a fighting stance.

"Red Destroyer!" Kari cried and her hands flew upwards. She began to make a large red ball of energy above her head. It looked like a beach ball being blown up except it kept getting brighter and brighter. When it was large enough so that TK was sure Kari couldn't carry it without getting crushed, Kari reared her arms back and flung the huge ball at their enemy.

Myotis put his hands up to catch it. The giant creature caught the ball and flung it back at them. The red ball of energy was suddenly turned around and it's course was reversed.

"Aaaahh!" Kari shouted as she was flung backwards, smashing into TK. Clouds of dust flew everywhere. Kari choked on blood. TK picked her up and set her down by Leelou.

"Revitalize!" TK cried. Kari's burns began to disappear. Inch by inch, the charred skin began to close up. Although the cuts were still there the bleeding had stopped.

"Light Destoyer!" Myotis called. His hands pressed together. At first nothing happened, but then a dark light began to come out of the openings between his fingers. When he opened his hands up, there was a ball of something sitting there. It began to float toward TK like a balloon but much faster than a normal balloon would go.

"Vanish" TK said quickly. When he was viewed right then, there seemed to be tow or three of him fading in and out of sight. Then as quickly as they came, he vanished. The ball went right through the target it was intended to and instead smashed into the wall behind TK. The whole wall began twisting, turning, melting. Creaking sounds filled the air. The wall began to dissaparate and disappear. One by one the blocks in the wall totally disintegrated.

Myotis whirled around and around, looking for TK. He wasn't anywhere.

"Yo, ugly! Over here!" TK said. An egged shaped rock flew over and smacked Myotis straight on the nose. The creature whirled around and swiped a huge claw over to where TK was. TK smiled then turned and ran. Quite unexpectedly, TK came jumping out right behind Myotis as though he had run all the way around the world once and had come behind Myotis.

TK picked up another stone. It was sort of triangular in shape, with jagged edges sticking out of the top and left sides. White cracks were indicating that it had been sitting there long enough that it would break if thrown right. TK grinned, pulled his arm back, and let loose a spinning missile.

TK had not had much practice throwing things except when he was in his PE class at school, throwing discus or shot put. Every once in a while though, he had picked up stones and thrown them at certain objects. He had even taken an interest in throwing darts one time, but it was much more satisfying with stones.

The stone smashed straight into the back of its neck, making a small dent in its back. TK began to pick up more objects and throw them at the creature. With blazing eyes, the creature turned around and slammed both claws down on TK's position. For a moment, Kari was certain he had been crushed. But the she saw TK leaning over her.

"We're almost done" he whispered.

TK stood up. Red and blue beams radiated from his body in a wide circle. TK pressed his arms forward, throwing both fists.

"Terrestrial Rage" TK said. His voice echoed through the place. Small, multicolored lights flashed all around him in strange symbols. Then TK leaped into the air and vanished. He was replaced by some sort of weird looking unicorn. It had six legs, two pairs in the back, one in the front. There was a man riding it. He had a great, red beard and had a large sword in his hand.

Myotis growled.

The man took his sword and spread it outwards as though he was striking something. Wherever the sword went, it left a giant, white, beam in its wake. It then proceeded to throw his sword up, creating a kind of cross. The man and his animal disappeared. All of a sudden, the cross began to multiply and began to make dozens of itself, all lined up in a row. It made sort of a white net. The net stood in place for a moment, then leaped forward in front of Myotis, wrapping itself around him and totally encasing it. Myotis reared back his fists and smashed them into the barrier.

"C'mon, we don't have much time" TK said. He lifted Kari onto his back. Her grip went to his neck.

"Hold on tight" TK said. He picked up Leelou with his spare arms and began to run forward. It was quite a burden, carrying two humans. Kari on his back and clutching Leelou to his chest, he ran forward as fast as his legs could possibly carry him. feet padding against the ground, sweat running down his forehead, he flew out of the ruined ghost town and back to the ship. It was not long before Myotis burst through the bricks behind him, sending concrete and clouds of dust everywhere. TK turned around.

Blue and red waves expanded around him.

"Altima" he choked. TK's eyes closed and a blue mist formed around them, a small ball of material growing in the center. It looked as though it were a bouncy ball. A large sphere formed around Myotis. The ball headed straight for it and instantly turned into a ball of flame. As soon as it entered the sphere, it began bouncing all over inside the sphere, smashing against Myotis, then to the sides, the back to Myotis again.

TK turned around and headed towards the ship. He only had a few seconds left. Myotis, in its rage, tore the sphere to pieces after a couple hits and smashed the sphere apart. He ran forward at TK, making huge footprints in the ground from where he went.

TK immediately dove for the cockpit.

"Waaatch Ouuut! Kari yelled as a huge black ball came barreling past them and smashed into the ground and inch away from them. TK dove to the left, zigzagging left and right to try and avoid the shots coming out him. a huge geyser of sand went up from a shot in front of him but TK leaped over the whole and finally flew into the cockpit. He let Leelou onto a bunk and Kari onto a second one.

Pushing back the chair, he leaped headfirst over it and plopped into the middle of it. Flicking several switches here and there, he immediately turned the jets on. Blue flame went flying out the back. Myotis leaped forward.

TK jammed his hand on the throttle, and they went zooming forward so fast that Myotis only had enough time to see them go before his mouth went flying into the sand. A huge cloud of anger swept through Myotis and he bounced back up in an instant, running after the craft with tremendous speed. TK looked in his side view mirror. All he could see was a huge mouth full of teeth closing in.

Suddenly the ship rocked violently to the left everything was thrown to the floor, including TK and Leelou. TK looked back for a split second.

"TK!" Kari cried.

The huge creatures jaws snapped dangerously close to the back of the vehicle. The wave of force caused by it sent things thrown forward again. It was trying to smash them!

TK jumped into the pilots seat again. He reached down to the shifter, then did a very strange thing. He pushed it back into reverse, then stomped on the pedal as far as it would go. The car stopped in mid-air, making horrible screeching sounds. The car went flying through the monster's legs and the jaws went down to snap at them at the last minute.

The jaws opened up and the car went zooming into the middle of them.

With the last of his strength, TK shouted "Vanish!"

The car went straight through the creatures jaws and landed on the other side, it went zooming away at high speed. The creature was left flying way behind them as a tiny speck. TK practically collapsed with exhaustion.

"Now we must rest" TK said quietly.

"We'll try to talk to Leelou tomorrow morning" TK said, getting in his bunk and falling asleep right after he had said the word 'morning'.

Kari reached over and hit the security switch on full. Then she climbed over to her bunk under TK and fell right to sleep also.

Haven't you heard about it yet Kari?

She was having strange dreams about what might happen later. She had know idea what had inspired them, or why they always came to her, night after night. She had know idea who was behind it, or why they had picked her for the dreams. She would rather have more pleasant dreams than this.

"Who are you?" Kari said to the person in her dream.

"You do not recognize me?" the voice said.

"What are you tryin' to tell me?" she asked. Her eyes slowly closed.

"Thats not important, you must know who I am" the voice echoed through her head.

"...TK?" Kari murmured.

"Just rest for now"

Kari tried to stay in her dream but soon returned to her earlier dreamless sleep. Everything ceased to exist in her sleep. And that was the total benefit.

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"Kari, wake up" TK was waving his hands in her face. Kari remained asleep. She was so tired from earlier that TK thought she was in a coma. TK leaned over and shook her a couple times.

"Hmmm..." TK muttered. How was he supposed to wake her up?

TK walked over to their supply of water and grabbed a cup and filled it up about a quarter of the way. TK walked right above her, looked at the water in the glass for a second. Then he tilted the glass upside down and spilled all over Kari.

Kari shot up sputtering and spitting at drops of water. Part of her hair was soaked and was plastered against her forehead.

"Ugh" she groaned.

"That is correct, it is time to get up" TK commented.

"What?" Kari said, walking over to get a towel.

"We need to talk to Leelou" TK said.

"Oh, that girl?" Kari started to dry some water off her face.

"Yup" TK remarked.

TK walked very quietly over to the bunk where Leelou slept. She was curled up with her tail touching her nose just the way a cat would sleep.

"Hey, Leelou" TK whispered.

The quiet cat-girl sprang out of her bunk and smashed her head on the ceiling. She stumbled forward and went flying off the bed and onto the floor, creating loud thumping sounds. She immediately raced around to face her attackers.

"Yo! It's alright" TK said as quietly as he could. Leelou stood there like a cat, preparing to pounce or slap them across the face with her claws if they got close enough. She began backing up as quickly as her paws could carry her, preparing to leap out of the back of the ship. She turned around and launched herself towards the edge.

"Uh-oh" TK said, wincing at what was about to happen.

Leelou smacked against the glass, creating a large dent in the glass. She fell to the floor with a loud thump.

She immediately got back up and pounded her paws on the window as hard as she possibly could. When all failed, she slowly sat down and gave up.

"Roshniallu, chetrea" the girl said, throwing a hand forward and then dropping it, as to emphasize for them to come get her.

"Leelou" TK whispered. Her head looked up at TK.

"Kari help me out here" TK gestured. Kari sighed.

"Lets just try to show her that were not trying to kill her" Kari suggested.

"Wait, I've got an idea" TK said.

TK walked over to Leelou, put her paw in his hand, then shook it gently, to try to show that they were friends. Leelou looked up at him.

"Go bly flaw glakema" she said quietly and stood up.

"Kari, analyze that language" TK ordered.

"I'm on it" Kari replied, and hopped into the seat by the computer. The computer had a new software on it that allowed itself to totally rediscover any sound that it had heard. Kari's fingers began rapidly moving across the keyboard.

"Um..New Platenia?" Kari said in a confused tone. Reading a little bit off the screen, Kari turned around.

"Uhh...Somonanonocola New Platenia" Kari said in a low tone. Leelou stood up and walked over to the chair by the computer. Sitting in it and making herself comfortable, Leelou pressed a couple of keys on the keyboard. The screen began rapidly changing and thousands of words from the US dictionary poured through the screen. Her eyes began rapidly taking in the information.

"What's she doin'?" TK remarked.

"Shes missed a lot in the last 4000 years you know. Shes got to catch up about what has happened." Kari explained.

"Well lets wait for a little bit 'till she finishes" TK suggested. Walking over to the pilot seat, TK flicked several switches and the cart began moving forward slowly again.

"Radar online?" TK asked.

"Check!" Kari gave him a thumbs up.

"I'm goin' to rest for a lil' bit" TK said and lay down in his bunk. But as soon as TK closed his eyes, he was being shaken awake by Kari.

"Look" Kari gestured towards Leelou. Leelou was looking at all of the strange devices on the ship. Reaching up and touching the candle, only to jerk her hand back because of the heat. Leelou looked on to their firecracker contraption, which had sparks going off the top of it like a firework. Turning her attention to the other side of the ship, she went over and looked at a large block in the wall. Reaching over and pressing against it.

A huge balloon fell out very quickly and air and helium sprayed everywhere. Leelou's eyes went wide from the air filling them and she let out a big smile. TK rolled his eyes and shrugged. Walking over to his bunk, he lay himself down and finally got some rest.