His Master's Voice

[One school morning...]

PRINCIPAL: (intercom) Students who are late for first period will be responsible for cleaning the gum from the desks after school. Come on, kids. Chop, chop.
YOLEI: Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
CODY: No kidding.
KARI: (thinking) Get yourself together. It was just a dream.
TK: (thinking) There's Kari! I wonder what she got on question three.

[TK approaches Kari.]

KARI: Huh? Stay away! Oh, TK. Sorry...
DAVIS: Come one, guys, you heard the principal! You don't want to scrape gum, do you?
KARI: *gasp*
DAVIS: Last one in has to eat the old gum!

[As they head into school, Patamon and Gatomon watch from a tree.]

PATAMON: School! Wow, looks like fun!
GATOMON: I don't think Kari's having fun inside of school or out. She hasn't been sleeping because of her bad dreams.
PATAMON: Bad dreams?
GATOMON: Yeah. She won't tell me about them, but she wakes up every morning dripping in a cold sweat. Maybe I'm just imagining it. Come on, let's go raid the cafeteria!
PATAMON: Hey, wait for me!

[In the classroom, TK, Kari, Davis, and the other students listen to a teacher.]

TEACHER: As you can see, ladies and gentlemen, X equals Y, Y equals 14, and lickity split, Q equals 37. Now, isn't that interesting?
TK: (thinking) I don't know what's more boring: watching paint dry or math. I wonder why Kari's being so distant.
KARI: (thinking) What is wrong with me? Am I just over-tired from not sleeping?

[A fog starts to blanket Kari's vision.]

KARI: (thinking) I know my math scores have been a little foggy lately, but this is ridiculous! Huh? Did somebody flood the boys' bathroom again?

[Kari's feet are now submerged in water.]

KARI: (thinking) Where am I? TK? Gatomon? Yolei? Tai!!

[Kari is now alone at her desk on a dark ocean. TK notices her start to flicker.]

TK: Huh?
KARI: (thinking) Somebody help me!
TK: Kari?!
DAVIS: Huh? What's going on?!

[Kari starts to faint, but a girl student catches her before she hits the floor.]

GIRL: Kari!
TEACHER: Are you okay, Kari? Do you want to go to the nurse's office?
KARI: Yes, sir.

[Kari leaves the classroom.]

TK: (thinking) Something's definitely wrong with her.

[Kari walks down the deserted hallway.]

KARI: (thinking) It's no big deal. Blame it on the algebra. It was so boring, you fell asleep and dreamed you were in the ocean. That's it. I'm not going crazy.

[Kari stops and sees herself when she was little with her brother Tai.]

YOUNG KARI: I'm sorry I let you down, Tai.

[The vision fades.]

KARI: (thinking) Get a hold of yourself, Kari!

[Water starts to splash over the floor.]

KARI: Huh? Hello? Is anybody there? Davis, is that you? All right, you win, Davis. I'm scared now!

[Kari looks behind her and sees a dark creature.]

KARI: Ahh!
PRINCIPAL: (intercom) May I have your attention, please. Could the student who put the jelly donuts in the swimming pool, please report to the principal's office!
TK: Kari!
DAVIS: What?!

[TK runs out of the classroom to the nurse's office.]

TK: Excuse me, Nurse, may I see Kari?
NURSE: I'm so sorry, Kari's not here, sweetie. How about a lollipop? Do you want to lie down, TK?

[TK leaves the office.]

TK: Maybe she's in the girl's bathroom. I'll check there.

[TK check the washroom.]

TK: Kari?
GIRL: Ah!
TK: Sorry.

[He continues searching around.]

TK: She's not in the library. Kari, are you down there? It's like she just disappeared! She might be in trouble! She might be in danger! She might be... right there?!

[He looks out a window and sees Kari sitting alone on a bench outside.]

KARI: Boy, do I have a headache.
BOY: And then, I threw the jelly donuts in the pool...
TK: Kari! I've been looking all over for you! Are you okay?
KARI: It was weird. I was at the beach.
TK: You ditched school?
KARI: No, silly. The beach in another dimension. You saw me in class. I was just sitting there, and then, I was in the ocean.
TK: Now you've totally lost me.
KARI: And on the way to the nurse's office, it happened again. I was surrounded by water, then I saw one of them!
TK: What do you mean, 'one of them'?
KARI: Digimon. They keep trying to take me to their world. And I don't know if I can resist anymore.
TK: You've got to! Where are they, Kari? We'll fight them!
KARI: I can't, TK. I'm not strong like my brother, Tai.
TK: You're going to quit? Give up? Just like that? Look, I care too much about you to let anyone take you without a fight!
KARI: Huh?
TK: Uh... sorry. I better go now. I'll talk to you later?!

[TK leaves.]

KARI: Oh...

[Later that day, Kari stands outside of school with her backpack. Gatomon is sleeping in a tree.]

PRINCIPAL: (intercom) Will Mary Robinson please report to the office? Your locker is missing.
KARI: The beach.
GATOMON: Kari?
WOMAN IN CAR: You're speeding, Eril!
GATOMON: Kari? Kari, are you okay? What's happening to you?

[Kari flickers, then disappears. Her backpack falls to the ground.]

GATOMON: Oh! Where'd she go?

[Inside the Computer Room.]

YOLEI: By increasing the system's memory, I'm expanding the D-Terminal's capabilities.
DAVIS: Boy, do you know how to party.
YOLEI: I thought it would be better in the Digital World if we could communicate not only through e-mail, but in real time, too.
CODY: Great idea. It would be good for keeping tabs on the Digimon Emperor.
DAVIS: Boring! I'd rather go outside and play some soccer.
DEMIVEEMON: No kidding! Let's go outside and get some fresh air! This place smells like stale sweat socks!
PATAMON: TK, what's the matter? You look awful.
TK: It's nothing, really.

[Suddenly, Gatomon enters the room, breathing hard.]

GATOMON: Kari's disappeared!
ALL: Huh?

[In a dark dimension, Kari stands alone on a beach.]

KARI: Huh? It happened again. I'm back at the beach. But something's not right. What kind of lighthouse shines dark light?

[Back in the Computer Room.]

DAVIS: There is no way she could just vanish into thin air! She's in the Digital World and she probably needs us. She might be in a lot of danger!
TK: It's not that easy! She may not be in the Digital World!
DAVIS: Did you hit your head?
CODY: Uh...
YOLEI: It's no use! The system can't even pinpoint Kari's exact location.
DAVIS: We can't afford to waste anymore time. Let's just go and find her on our own!
CODY: Davis, I don't think...
DAVIS: Now's the time to take action! Yolei, open the gate!
CODY: Would you all stop talking?!
ALL: Huh?
CODY: It makes no sense to open the gate until we can target Kari's exact location. The DigiWorld is gigantic, and if we go there without any direction, we're bound to get lost, too!
TK: She's not in the DigiWorld.
ALL: Huh?
TK: The beach! That's where she is!

[TK runs our of the room.]

PATAMON: TK!

[Outside, on the beach...]

TK: Kari!

[Back in the dark dimension.]

KARI: This place is creepy, but at least the beach is nice... and deserted. Must not be the tourist season.

[TK runs down the beach, followed by Patamon and Gatomon.]

PATAMON: TK, wait for us!
GATOMON: Yeah, TK, let us be your advance-mon! You're a lover, not a fight!

[TK stops running.]

TK: This is all my fault!
PATAMON & GATOMON: Huh?
TK: I knew there was something wrong with her. She needed my help and I let her down! If I didn't leave her by herself, none of this would have happened.
PATAMON: Come on, TK, let's go to the Digital World.
TK: She's no there! I saw her disappearing in class. She's in a different dimension!

[He holds up his green D3.]

TK And this piece of junk is useless!

[In the dark dimension, Kari walks down the beach.]

KARI: There's not even a hot dog stand on this beach. Huh? It's doorway. Maybe that's the way out of this stupid world!
VOICES: Kari... Kari!

[On the beach, a helicopter flies by in the distance.]

PATAMON: Look, a new 'copter. Maybe another high-speed chase!
TK: I really wish we knew where she was!
PATAMON: What did she say?
TK: The beach. She kept saying something about the beach. Ah, we'll never find her!
GATOMON: Don't be such a scarredy-cat, TK.
TK: Huh?
GATOMON: Kari's one tough kid. We have to believe that she can take care of herself until we find her.
TK: You're right, Gatomon. Thanks. Come on, let's keep looking for her.

[Kari walks into a dark tunnel.]

KARI: Hello? Is anybody in here?! Echo! (thinking) Coming in here had got to be the worst idea I have ever had! I must be out of my mind.
VOICES: Kari... Kari!
KARI: *gasp*
VOICES: Help us!
KARI" Get back! I play a lot of soccer! So I know how to kick!
VOICES: Help us!
KARI: What do you want from me?

[In the Computer Room...]

DAVIS: I don't care what TK says. Kari's in the Digital World, and I'm going to save her... instead of digging up clams on that stupid sandy beach! DigiPort, open!

[Nothing happens.]

DAVIS: I just changed the batteries! DigiPort, open!

[Still nothing happens.]

[In the dark cave, Kari sees a group of dark blue Digimon with red eyes.]

KARI: You don't look so well.
CREATURE: Ugh...
KARI: So what are you? Are you Digimon?
CREATURE: Digimon... Well, I don't know if we're Digimon, but I know we're Scubamon. We have big flippers for swimming deep in the ocean. We have no idea how we got down here, and how long we've been in this awful tunnel.
KARI: You poor things. What happened to you?
SCUBAMON: We don't remember. On day, we were serving our undersea master, and the next minute we were here! We feel terrible!
KARI: This is awful. Who would do something like this? Why not go back to the ocean?
SCUBAMON: I wish we could. A dark man came into our master's kingdom and put these dark spirals on our arms. He took our strength and made us his slaves.
KARI: The Digimon Emperor.
SCUBAMON: That's why we summoned you. You are our only hope.
KARI: Huh?
SCUBAMON: You have to help us. You are very powerful. Free us from the dark spirals! We have used the last of our strength to get you here. Please, help us return to the ocean where we can serve our master.
KARI: I don't know what could possibly do to help.
SCUBAMON: Help us!
KARI: All right, I'll do me best, but I don't know if I'm strong enough. (thinking) Come on, Kari. Stop doubting yourself! You are not a quitter!

[Kari tries to remove the dark spirals. When she touches it, a light appears and the tunnel walls start to crumble.]

KARI: Come on, everybody. We've got to run, let's go. The tunnel is collapsing!
SCUBAMON: Get out of my way!

[Kari and the Scubamon make it outside as the tunnel crumbles.]

KARI: *cough* Huh?
DRAGON: Roar!
SCUBAMON: That creature is a servant of the dark one who put these rings on us.
KARI: The Digimon Emperor.
DRAGON: Spinning Needle!
ALL: Ah!
KARI: We're sitting ducks out here! And I can't fight without my friends!

[Back in the Real World, at the beach.]

TK: Kari! Kari!
GATOMON: I think he just went crazy.

[Patamon flies up and joins TK.]

TK & PATAMON: Kari!
PATAMON: Kari!
TK: Kari!
GATOMON: They both flipped!

[In the dark dimension...]

KARI: I feel so helpless. My brother, Tai, would know what to do. I need you, Tai! Gatomon! The National Guard!

[Back at the beach...]

TK, PATAMON, & GATOMON: Kari!
PATAMON: Kari!
TK: Huh?

[An image of Kari appears in the sky.]

KARI: TK!
TK: It's her!

[TK jumps up into the portal.]

PATAMON: TK, wait!

[Patamon follows TK.]

GATOMON: Ah, what the heck, I've got nine lives.

[Gatomon jumps in and the three of them are transported to the dark dimension. They are deposited on a cliff overlooking the beach.]

ALL: Woah! Ah!
GATOMON: TK, promise me we'll never do that ever again!
KARI: TK! Gatomon!
TK: There she is!
KARI: Hey, guys, I'm right down here!
TK: Stay there!
DRAGON: *roars*
TK: Time to rock, Patamon!
PATAMON: Right!
TK: DigiArmor Energize!
PATAMON: Patamon, armor digivolve to...
PEGASUSMON: Pegasusmon, Flying Hope!

[TK jumps on Pegasusmon's back and they fly towards the dragon. The dragon shoots and barely misses the two.]

TK: Pegasusmon! That was too close!
PEGASUSMON: Wind Mane!

[Gatomon runs up to Kari.]

GATOMON: Quick, Kari, I have to armor digivolve now!
KARI: But I don't have my Digivice!
GATOMON: We're toast. I don't know how much longer they can last.
TK: He's on our tail!
GATOMON: Pegasusmon!

[Gatomon jumps onto Pegasusmon's back, in front of TK.]

GATOMON: Pegasusmon, the Control Spire! You've got to take it out! Then I can digivolve!
PEGASUSMON: Here goes nothing.
TK: Full blast, Pegasusmon!
PEGASUSMON: Equis Beam!

[The Control Spire falls from the attack.]

TK: Nice shooting, Pegasusmon!
GATOMON: Gatomon, digivolve to...
ANGEWOMON: Angewomon!
KARI: Angewomon!
ANGEWOMON: Hmm.
DRAGON: Roar!
PEGASUSMON: Equis Beam!
ANGEWOMON: Heaven's Charm!

[The dragon is destroyed from the attacks of the two Digimon.]

TK: Nice job! This battle was just a day at the beach!
KARI: Angewomon, you've got to help them!

[Angewomon removes the dark spirals from the Scubamon. Instantly, then start to grow bigger.]

KARI: *laughs* Huh?
CREATURE 1: Much better.
CREATURE 2: Now that's what I'd call a red eye reduction.

[One of the creatures grabs Kari's arm.]

KARI: Wait a second, you guys asked for my help and I gave it to you! What do you want now? Let go of me!
TK: Let her go, you creeps!
CREATURE 2: Come with us, child. You'll be our new queen. We need you. KARI: I trusted you and you lied to me!

[Angewomon shoots at the creature holding Kari, causing him to release her.]

CREATURE 2: We thought you would love to be our queen. With you power, you could lead us in the battle against our undersea master! But, I guess we were wrong. Beware, child. Our master can sense your power, too. And he will come for you.

[The creatures disappear into the ocean.]

KARI: I'm ready to go home now.
TK: It could be worse. We could be scraping gum at school.
KARI: Hmm.
TK: Last one home is a rotten digiegg!
ANGEWOMON & PEGASUSMON: *laugh*
KARI: Thanks for coming after me, TK.
TK: It's okay, Kari. I know you'd do the same for me.
KARI: TK, remember this morning when you said you really cared for me? What did you mean by that?
TK: Huh? Well, you know... it was just... stuff.
KARI: Oh. Well, you know what? I care for you too.
TK & KARI: *smile* *laugh*