Oh gosh. How was he going to get out of this one? All he wanted was to watch a movie. Now he was alone... but at the same time, together.
-breakline-
"Guilmon!" Takato called out. The park was beautiful this time of year. The trees were a light green rimmed with yellow suggesting that it was in that small time of the year in which it wasn't fall or summer. Just in between. Just right in Takato's opinion.
"Guilmon!" Takato called once more, scrambling his way up the cracked stone stairs.
"Gu—" Takato stopped mid yell before he ran into Guilmon's sleeping form.
Takato bit his lip. He didn't want to wake Guilmon up- he was so peaceful when he was sleeping- but he really wanted to show him something. He battled himself internally for 30 seconds, then stopped. Guilmon's eyes were open and staring at him.
"Why are you standing there Takato?" Guilmon asked. His question was asked in a quiet way that was rare for Guilmon to talk in, unless he was tired.
"I was- I was gonna-"
"Did you bring any bread?" Ah. Normal Guilmon was back.
"No, well, yes, but I brought something else too!" Takato said, bouncing around like a hyper four-year-old. Guilmon merely cocked his head to the side in mild curiousity.
Still grinning like the child he was, he pulled out a ticket to the movie theater. The ticket read: 'Digimon Quad; the Reckoning'.
Guilmon's eyes widened so large that he looked like he belonged in a Tim Burton movie. His reptilian mouth twirled upwards and his scaly red tail wagged.
"Is... that what I think it is, Takatomon?" He asked.
Takato was too excited to correct Guilmon's pet name for him. He nodded his head, a giant grin plastered onto his face.
"Takatomon..?"
"Yeah Guilmon?"
"Why is there only one ticket?"
-breakline-
Since 'Digimon Quad: the reckoning' was part of the new Digimon Quad series it was showing in theaters everywhere... even ones not in this dimension.
Digimon Adventure was mildly popular in the real world, but the Digital World loved the show. Though they were only able to get the first eight episodes of 02, and none of the movies.
Takato didn't really remember at what point Guilmon started watching the show, he only remembered his excitement towards Tri. And now... Quad.
Takato had to admit- the name was super lame. Not that he was about to complain though. He just wanted the movies quality to be good and for them to represent the new characters in a way that fit their old characters.
There was one... teensy... tiny... problem... the movie was rated R.
Yep. I know. Digimon? The kids show? An R? Takato wondered why it was an R. The commercial said 'adapted for adults'. Whatever that meant.
That is why he bought one ticket. For him and Guilmon. Going together. Together meaning biomerged together. As Gallantmon. That's right folks. Gallantmon was going to the movies.
-breakline-
"Ready boy?"
"Hmph." Guilmon answered in a determined grunt. Takato was actually quite impressed with his dedication to the movie.
"Biomerge activate!" He yelled. Flashy lights, golden energy ball, the feeling to wipe out evil and protect innocents... yep. Gallantmon.
Gallantmon approached the theater. No turning back now. He had gone all the way to the digital world to watch the movie after all.
He was just about to walk in to the building when he heard a high pitch scream coming from the desert. The town that Gallantmon was currently visiting was basically in the middle of nowhere. The movie theater was right on the edge of town, which opened up into the desert.
"Maybe they're just having a lot of fun?" One half of Gallantmon thought.
"When are they ever?" Another less positive half replied.
Another scream echoed through the desert.
"Let's go!" The same half thought.
Gallantmon raced to the edge of town, his shield materializing as he ran. He saw the mon under attack and jumped in front of them. It was only a rookie- a Tsunomon.
"Who attacks an innocent rookie?" A voice in Gallantmon's head said.
"Well if it isn't Righteous McJustice."
Ugh. Him. It was just Beelzemon torturing some innocent rookie.
"Go." Gallantmon said to the rookie, his voice calm. The rookie didn't waste a second standing.
"Why Beelzemon?" Was the only question Gallantmon could ask.
Beelzemon shifted as if he was discomforted by the question.
"I wonder if he has the actual decency to be ashamed?" A patronizing voice in Gallantmon's head said.
"I... well... ever since those Royal Knights formed, it's been hard... to just mess around, you know?" He paused. "Me and the gang had quite the brawl with them last night. I guess I was kinda taking it out on the little winged pig thing." Beelzemon finished.
"Wow... that was really... honest of you Beelzemon," Gallantmon's voice showed both sympathy for the demon biker and surprise at the amount of truth.
"Just because I'm bad doesn't mean I don't have feelings." Beelzemon winked at Gallantmon with his third eye, and flashed him a fanged smile.
Gallantmon was not sure what to do with this information.
He was about to say something to get rid of the long semi awkward silence and there was another scream.
Beelzemon jumped up from his relaxed position.
"That's my queue! See ya' round pineapple head!" Beelzemon mock saluted as he hopped on behemoth.
Gallantmon shook his head as Beelzemon rode his motorcycle into the distance which would have probably broken a speeding law, if the digital world had speeding laws- or police- or roads.
"Hey! Stay right there!" A voice called from behind the virus knight. Gallantmon turned towards the mysterious voice as fast as lightning.
"Woah there buddy," the golden armored digimon said "I mean no harm."
Gallantmon had a mini fangirl attack inside himself, though outside his face was calm and unreadable.
"AHAHSGJXJSJ! That's! It's!" The half of Gallantmon that was probably Takato thought loudly in the online chat room that was Gallantmon.
"I know, I know," The half of Gallantmon that was probably Guilmon mentally comforted his other half in the rare occasion that he was the calm one.
Still, here Gallantmon was, face to face with the royal knight Magnamon. He recalled his excitement watching 02 when Daisuke had Veemon golden armor digivolved. Of course, this wasn't the same digimon, and Gallantmon couldn't ask him about it- the digital world only had up to episode 8 of 02.
"Anyway," Magnamon taking Gallantmon's blank stare and emotionless look as a 'go on, I'm interested'. "I've been hunting this guy— his name's Beelzemon, and I followed his motorcycle tracks here, but as you can see, there is no more sand for him to put tracks on." Magnamon was right. The sandy grains had dissolved to make way for hardened clay- a desert like rock- that went into canyons and dunes with tons of miniature caves. The perfect hiding spot for the Demon Lord.
"So... do you know which way he went?" Magnamon asked. He was very animated, waving his hands around during his conversation.
Gallantmon simply nodded, contemplating whether to tell him the truth or not. I mean it was MAGNAMON the royal knight in fle–um... the royal knight in ones and zeros. Then again, Beelzemon was his friend. Didn't that mean more?
"Not much of a talker are you?" Magnamon laughed putting hands on his hips. "I- uh, So where- Uh, Which way did he go?" Magnamon asked once more. Kind of an awkward guy.
Gallantmon pointed in the direction opposite of which Beelzemon ran to.
"Thanks man!" Magnamon said gratefully. Gallantmon almost felt a bit guilty for leading him on a goose chase.
"Wait a second..." Gallantmon mentally froze.
Wait a second? What did that mean? Had he been found out? There goes life as a free digimon. Hello prison life.
A certain dinosaur half of Gallantmon whined inside of his head. Gallantmon on the outside, was wearing the mask of calm indifference.
"You are a knight too!" Magnamon said, becoming excited all over again. Both of Gallantmon's halves let out a cognitive breath of relief.
Gallantmon outwardly nodded, and inwardly wondered what Magnamon was up to.
"I have to take you to HQ!" What. No. He was going to miss the movie. He considered unfusing, but that might cause some trouble since Azulongmon had requested the human and digimon fusion to be kept on the down low.
"-That's why all of them have to be enlisted or checked." Shoot. Gallantmon had zoned out during the exclamation.
"You alright buddy? You haven't said a word." Magnamon asked. Gallantmon thought about talking but Takato and Guilmon both thought it was a bad idea to reveal their split voice to the golden knight.
"Ok..." Magnamon trailed off. "I was a bit scared too when I enlisted. The honor and glory is worth it though." Magnamon paused again. "Or are you... excited..?" Magnamon was obviously confused as of what Gallantmon was feeling.
"Anyway, moving on!" Magnamon desperately trying to move the conversation along. "Home base isn't much far from here. We can just walk!"
-breakline-
The walk was stretched out due to Gallantmon's fused awkwardness and Magnamon being himself. Magnamon kept trying to start conversations with him. Gallantmon actually tried to communicate back (Takato and Guilmon taking pity on the shiny ball of awkwardness) but it was difficult without speaking so he just kept nodding a lot. He was only afraid to speak to Magnamon because his split voice threw people and mons off. He might think Gallantmon was... something other than a knight.
When he finally reached the Royal Knights Head Quarters he could feel Takato and Guilmon's excitement inside his mind. The castle resembled something one of the legendary heroes, Masaru, was it? Had told Takato about. Just as he described, minus evil god bent on the destruction of the human race. Hopefully.
He walked towards the entrance, and would of continued if Magnamon didn't interject.
"Psst!" Magnamon whispered and hissed. "Over here!" He pointed to a hidden path Gallantmon would have missed if Magnamon hadn't pointed it out.
"A secret pathway..." Takato mused inside of his head.
"Wonder if they have any food there..." Guilmon said in the most Guilmon-ish of tones.
"Probably not... but we can have bread when we get home!" Takato comforted his partner with mental images.
"With peanut butter?"
A sigh. "Why not?"
Gallantmon felt better now, less panicked. He'd just watch the movie later. It was a movie. It wasn't going anywhere. His relaxing probably had something to do with his two halves slowly becoming more and more tired from being fused. But Gallantmon didn't really want to worry right now, so he ignored the tired feeling.
While he was zoning out, Magnamon had brought him to a door on the side of the castle. It looked like a service room but when the golden knight opened the door it seemed to open up into a lobby-like area.
"Wait out here for a second," Magnamon said in an unusually firm tone, putting up a paw to say 'wait'. Magnamon disappeared into the building, closing the door behind himself.
Maybe Gallantmon could leave now. He started walking away from the door. He really just wanted to find Beelzemon and smack him.
'This is kind of his fault.' Part of Gallantmon said internally.
'Yeah. Pretty much.' The other part agreed.
Gallantmon wasn't about to stick around near the door. Venturing off the secret pathway Magnamon had shown him, he let out a breath he didn't know he'd been holding. He could unfuse! As soon as he got out of this danger zone of course. He wasn't sure how safe this area was for humans, and he wasn't going to chance it.
He felt a little bad about leaving Magnamon behind, but was pretty certain it was unlikely they'd meet again. Most of the time Gallantmon didn't even exist. What could go wrong?
~A.N.~
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