Takeru "T.K." Takaishi

Takeru Takaishi is a character in the anime and manga Digimon. He is frequently referred to by his nickname, "T.K.", in the English anime. He's the partnered to Patamon & is the younger brother of Yamato Ishida, who he care for. Takeru was too young to remember his parents divorce clearly so he's not as effected by it as much as Yamato. He's glad when he gets to see his dad and doesn't mind living with his mom.

Prelude to Digimon Adventure
He witnessed the Greymon/Parrotmon fight.

Between Digimon Adventure & Digimon 02
At May 2000, Takeru arrived the the Digital World & gave up his Crest-power to free the Soverigns. As a result, Patamon lost the power become Magna Angemon.

Digimon 02: First half
Takeru grew alot during the last years after his first adventure. He was a star member of his basketball team. At the start of April 2002, he & his mom moved to Odaiba, with Takeru attending Odaiba Elementary in the same class as Daisuke Motomiya & his good friend Hikari Yagami. But because of he 7 Hikari are good friend, Takeru immediately became rival of a paranoid Daisuke{Think thought the two were steady}. Like Hikari, Takeru has a slight advantage compare to the new kids because he has the most Digimon experience.

Digimon 02: Hurricane Touchdown/Golden Armor Evolution
When he & Hikari visited Mimi at New York, they encountered Wallace, Terriermon, & Wendigomon. While on a train for Colorado, their train was hindered by Wendigomon so they had to continue on foot. He & Hikari managed to join up with the others during the fight with Cherubimon.

Digimon 02: Second Half
After Paildramon & Silphymon debuted, Iori Hida saw that he & Takeru would had to have their Digimon DNA Digivolve to. He soone learned that there are two sides to Takeru: The 'kind & cheery' Takeru usually & the fierce & serious Takeru that only surfaces in the matters of villians of pure evil like Devimon. His second side was mainly due to Angemon's previous death & how he doesn't want to see Patamon die again.

On Chirstmas day, Takeru, Taichi, & their Digimon went to Paris to help the DigiDestined of the Europe round up the wild Digimon who had appeared on Earth as a result of Arukenimon opening all the Digi-Ports. At the Other World, Takeru was sujected to MaloMyotismon's illusion. His desire for his family to be together again. But Patamon & Daisuke broke him free of the illusion, and he then joined with the other kids, who were in the process of breaking free of their illusions. Takeru used the power of the dream dimension against MaloMyotismon, his dream for not one to suffer as he had, with Angemon, Magna Angemon, Pegasusmon, Shakkoumon all appearing at once.

Digimon 02: Michi E No Armor Shinka
When Pukumon enter the scene with a Control Spire, Jou knocked into the 02 gang & Takeru entered up with Hikari's D-Terminal, allowing Patamon to armour digivolve to Mambomon.

Digimon 02: Diaboromon's Counterattack
Four years after the events of 'Our War Game', the evil Diaborromon resumed his reign of terror on the super information super highway. The Kuramon were bio-emerging via e-mail, so while Taichi, Yamato & their Digimon enter cyberspace to battle Diaboromon once more, the others had to track down the Kuramon. Takeru & Iori found one on a soccer & catched it for Koushirou to examined. When Omnimon were being over powered by Diaborromon, Takeru, Hikari, & their Digimon had gone to help their big brothers. But Takeru was soon forced to watch the battle between Imperial Dramon & Armagedemon.

Digimon 02: Series Finale epilogue
By the year 2027, Takeru became a author. He wrote various stories based on the adventures he and the other children had.

V-Tamer
During one of his battles as a kid, he & the other 02 DigiDestined encountered Parallelmon, who asorbed him, Miyako, Iori, & Hikari, as the inadvertly sends Daisuke into the V-Tamer continity where he meets it's Taichi. Takeru & others helped Daisuke from inside the monster by recreating the Digimental of Miracles. With the monster destoryed, Daisuke & his friends returned to their continity