DISCLAIMER- Lasagna2000: "We do not own digimon--" DC: "Yes we do."
Lasagna2000: "No, we don't..." DC: "Whatever. I do, at least." Lasagna2000:
"Sure. Anyways, we don't own 'The Wizard of Oz' either." DC: YOU don't own
'The Wizard of Oz. I do, though." Lasagna2000: "Oy vey." DC: "Oy yourself."
NOTE- Please keep in mind that this story is set when Ken was still a bad
dude, and no one had digivolved to Champion or DNA digivolved yet.
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"Gold Rush!"
"Tempest Wing!"
"Fire Rocket!"
Digmon, Halsemon and Flamedramon attacked Mesdyonemon, the massive digimon
they were up against, all aiming for the dark ring on Mesdyonemon's leg.
Mesdyonemon was a champion digimon, and so was stronger than the armor-
digimon. He was huge, a white bird-like digimon with straight blood red
stripes, and was five times the size of a Halsemon and could squish any of
the digimon in a foot step. He had large owl-like wings, also red and white
in colour, protruding from his shoulder blades instead of forearms, which
spanned twice the armlength of another digimon his size. He stood on two
taloned feet, and had a wolf head with straight-back ears. His teeth were
yellow and dripping with saliva.
"Talon strike!" The thing hissed out, sending a rush of energy towards
Flamedramon. He leaped out of the way and the three armor-'volved 'mons
rushed at Mesdyonemon.
The evil digimon threw them aside with one arm, knocking them to the ground.
As they de-digivolved back into Armadillomon, Hawkmon, and Veemon, Kari and
TK turned towards their 'mons.
"Patamon!"
"Gatomon!"
Gatomon and Patamon jumped forward. "Mm hm." They nodded at their people.
Kari and TK then yelled simultaneously, "Digi-armour energize!"
Then Gatomon and Patamon armor-digivolved to Nefertimon and Pegasusmon.
They decided that it was too hard to fight Mesdyonemon himself, so they flew
up towards the dark spire nearby.
"Golden Noose!"
They aimed for the dark spire. Then, from behind them, they heard
Mesdyonemon's attack: "BLUE TORNADO!"
Nefertimon and Pegasusmon turned to see Mesdyonemon reach his wings to the
sky, where a strange blue cyclone, small at first, formed between their tips
"Run!" Davis screamed.
The Tornado grew bigger and bigger.
"Pegasusmon!" TK called after his digimon.
"Come back! Retreat!"
"You too, Nefertimon!" Kari yelled.
Cody, Davis, and Yolei gathered up their digimon, who were still sprawled on
the ground. They started running for the TV behind them.
The Tornado came towards Pegasusmon and Nefertimon. They separated, letting
the tornado pass between them. But Nefertimon got too close to the tornado
and was sucked in. She slowly de-digivolved back to Gatomon.
"Gatomon!"
As Pegasusmon de-digivolved back to Patamon and landed in TK's arms, TK
turned and started running after the others.
"Come on, Kari!"
"No!" Kari screamed as she started running for the tornado. Gatomon dropped
out of the tornado and into Kari's arms. The tornado started in the
direction of the dark spire, and towards Kari and Gatomon again. It swept
them up, both screaming. It kept going towards the dark spire. It knocked it
over and swept it up, also. Kari, still holding on to Gato, grabbed onto the
dark spire as an anchor.
Kari was spinning around and around on the dark spire, screaming her head
off, with one hand holding on to the dark spire, and the other holding on
to Gatomon. Then, the twister slowed down and Kari and Gatomon on the spire
went into the eye of the twister. Kari had stopped screaming by now, and she
and Gatomon watched as the twister formed into the shape of a dark spiral,
rotating around them. Suddenly, the spiral disintegrated into digidust. Kari
and Gatomon hung in midair for a second, then were plunged down through the
clouds to the ground. Kari was screaming again, so was Gatomon. Kari pressed
herself against the dark spire as the ground rushed up towards them.
As they got closer and closer to the ground, going faster and faster, Kari
silently said her prayers. "Goodbye Gatomon"
She grabbed Gatomon and hugged her to her. She no longer needed to hold on
to the spire; the force of gravity pressed her to it.
"Goodbye Kari."
Gatomon hugged Kari back and they both squeezed their eyes shut. Oddly
though, instead of speeding up, the spire seemed to be slowing down. Then,
with a sickening crunch, the descent stopped. Kari lifted her head and
peered around.
They were on the edge of a village with little buildings that seemed way too
small to fit any human. "Gatomon?"
"Yes?"
"I don't think we're in the Digi-world anymore."
"Ya think?"
Kari silently slipped off the spire, sliding down the smooth side to the
ground. Feet firmly on the ground, she held her hands out and Gatomon leapt
into them. Kari looked down at the digimon in her arms.
"I guess we should see if we can find the others."
Gatomon nodded in agreement and added, "We should check out the village."
"Davis! TK!" Kari called.
"Hey, Hawkmon, Veemon ya out there?"
"Anybody?"
Kari sighed. "I think they went through the TV when that Twister came for
us. I think the best thing to do is find a TV and go home."
"Right." The cat-like Digimon agreed.
They headed down the path leading to the center of the town, both figuring
they might find a TV there.
They had made it into the center of town. Behind them was a fountain, the
water a bright blue. In the center of the fountain a pink rose bud began to
appear out of nothing, growing until it was huge, and seeming to let off a
glow. Kari and Gatomon stepped closer, then stepped back, gasping. The bud's
petals were starting to wiggle and the whole flower seemed to be blooming.
The whole process took only a few seconds and then from the middle of the
giant rose a figure stepped out into the promenade. Kari looked at the figure
in shock. "Mimi!?"
It was Mimi or, at least, looked like Mimi. Her hair, still pink, had a number
of flowers poking out here and there. She wore a long and fluffy ball gown
that shone a metallic pink. She wore long pink gloves that matched her dress,
and transparent green shoes, resembling high heels, and her skin was a pale
shade of emerald green.
"Who's Mimi? I'm Diginda, the Good Digimon Emperor of the South. What kind
of Digimon Emperor are you?" The Mimi-look alike said.
Kari was surprised at the question. "What kind of Digimon emperor am I?"
Diginda nodded.
"Well," Kari started, "I'm not a Digimon emperor at all. I'm
a digidestined. Where am I?"
Now it was Diginda's turn to be puzzled. She put a finger to her face and
cocked her head to the side. "Well, I don't know what a digidestined is, but
you must be a Digimon Emperor, for you have killed Sam, the Wicked Digimon
Emperor of the East, by squashing him with your magical dark spire. The
Numemon are so happy that you have destroyed him. You are in Nume-land, in
the land of Od."
While she said this, she led Kari and Gatomon back to where they had landed,
and pointed out the feet and hands sticking out from underneath the fallen
spire. Kari was horrified. "What? Who is Sam? Anyways, I didn't mean to kill
him! I'm so sorry! Where are the Numemon?"
"Oh, no, no, no, it is good that you have killed Sam. He was enslaving the
Numemon, and when you fell from the sky with your magical dark spire and
squashed him, you freed them. The Numemon are here. They have been watching
us since you got here. They have been hiding."
At that point, Kari and Gatomon heard giggles coming from the bushes and
other places nearby.
Diginda spoke again, but not to Kari or Gatomon. "Come out, Numemon!"
Kari looked around and saw millions of Numemon slowly coming out of hiding
and towards her, Gatomon and Diginda. Kari thought to herself and remembered
that time about four years ago when she had freed the Numemon from
Warmonzaemon, while she and the other digidestined were fighting the Dark
Masters.
The Numemon had been silent, but now they all spoke simultaneously,
surrounding Kari, Gatomon, and Diginda. "Queen Kari. Queen Kari."
They repeated this many times, and then backed up to let a small group of
Numemon wearing Tutus (We're hoping that they were girl Numemon, but you
never know with Numemon.) come through and stand in front of Kari. They tried
to dance best they could, but it's sort of hard when you don't have feet, so
they just sort of bounced around, and sang a song; "We re-pre-sent the slimy
-girl guild, the slimy-girl guild, the slimy-girl guild. And on behalf of
the slimy-girl gu-ild, we'd like to welcome you to Nume-land."
The largest Numemon in a tutu stepped forward and presented Kari with a
bouquet of flowers. Gatomon looked on with jealousy at all the attention
Kari was getting, but said nothing.
The Numemon in tutus stepped back and three in suspenders stepped forward.
They started singing in horrible nasal voices. So, basically, they sounded like
Tai when he sang. "Ohh we re-pre-sent the sewer guild," the little 'mons
wailed, "The sew-er guild, the sewer guild. And on behalf of the se-wer
gu-ild, we'd like to welcome you to Nume-laaand."
Two of the Numemon leapt forward and thrust giant lollypops into Kari and
Gatomon's hands. Gatomon looked down at the sucker in her hands. It was
covered in a light layer of dripping sludge.
"Lovely." She grunted disgustedly, and tossed it aside.
Kari on the other hand, not wanting to be rude, tucked the lolly in with her
flowers, which, by the way, were also covered in sludge.
Kari acted flattered and began, "We thank you for your kindness and are
flattered by your gifts..."
"Yeah, right." Gatomon added under her breath.
Kari whacked Gatomon on the head with her flowers and continued. Gatomon
wiped the sludge from the flowers off of her ears where Kari had hit her.
"But I want to get back to my home, and for the moment, I have no idea where
I am and where to go from here to get home. Can you help me get home?"
The Numemon were clearly disappointed that Kari didn't want to stay, but
didn't say anything.
Diginda began, "Well, w-" But was interrupted by a plume of smoke rising up
in the center of the crowd and the screams of the Numemon as they all fell
to the ground and appeared to play dead. From the plume of smoke stepped
another familiar face, but not necessarily as welcome a face as Mimi's.
"Ken!"
He looked exactly as he did back in the Digi-world. He had his dark blue
spiky hair, his trademark sunglasses, and his dark cape as before.
"How do you know my name, and who are you?"
Diginda answered for Kari. "I do not know how she knows your name, but she
is Kari, and she is no concern of yours."
Ken replied, "I'll be the judge of that. Now - AAUUGGHH!"
He looked down at his feet at the fallen spire. But that wasn't what made
him scream. It was what was under the dark spire. "NOOOOO! Sam! My brother
is dead!"
Ken was horrified. He turned in anger to Diginda and Kari. "Who did this?"
Kari stepped forward. "I'm sorry. I did. But I didn't mean to."
Ken raged at her. "How could you? Now you shall die! But first I must take
Sam's charcoal digivice, his main source of power."
Kari looked down at the hands and feet of Ken's brother sticking out from
the spire and noticed for the first time a black digivice in one of Sam's
hands. Ken bent down and was about to take it, when it disappeared from
Sam's deathly grasp. "What? Where did it go?"
He whirled on Diginda. "What did you do with it?"
Diginda replied, "It's too late! It's already gone. I moved it to where you
couldn't get it."
She gestured at Kari, and she looked down at her belt, where the black
digivice was now attached.
"Why you little...."
Diginda interrupted him. "If you're thinking of trying to hurt Kari, you're
wasting your time. As long as Kari has the digivice, you can't harm her."
Diginda turned to Kari. "Remember, whatever you do, don't let go of the
digivice."
Kari nodded. Ken spoke again. "I am-"
Diginda cut in, clearly knowing that it pissed him off. "A retarded pea
brain who can't dress himself?"
Ken looked agitated underneath his sunglasses, but continued. "I am-"
Diginda, smiling, cut in again. "Very funny looking in that cape and
sunglasses?"
Ken started frowning and tried once again to talk. "I am-"
Diginda cut in for the third time. "Wearing women's panties?"
Kari was clearly amused at this, so was Gatomon, and they both started
laughing away.
Ken turned bright red and yelled at Diginda "STOP THAT!"
She started laughing too and she, Kari and Gatomon all laughed their heads
off at Ken.
"AAAAUUUGGHHH!" Ken screamed.
He reached into his cape, pulled out a dark ring, and flung it at Diginda's
head. Diginda, still laughing, stuck out her hand in the direction of the
ring, blocking it, and turning it into flowers on impact. Diginda stopped
laughing but was still smiling. She turned towards Ken and wagged her finger
at him. "Uh uh uh, Kenny boy. We must control our tempers, okay?"
Ken was exasperated. "That is it! I am out of here! But," he said to Kari,
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little 'mon too."
With that, he wrapped his cape around him and disappeared into thin air.
The Numemon slowly got up and gathered around Kari, Gatomon and Diginda.
Diginda reminded Kari, "Remember what I told you. Never let go of the
digivice or you will experience the wrath of Ken. Um, no pun intended."
Kari asked Diginda once again, "So, can you help me get home?"
Diginda shook her head. "I'm sorry. I cannot help you, but I can direct you
to someone who can. His name is the 'Izard of Od. He can help you get home,
for his powers are far greater than mine."
"Sheez, she can turn powerful dark rings into flowers, she can make
appearances by stepping through flowers, but she can't help us get home."
Gatomon muttered, continuing. "If you ask me, I think that - Mmmmph"
Kari had stuffed her lollipop into Gatomon's mouth, thwarting her attempts
to further badmouth the good digimon emperor that, despite her lack of
powers to get them home, was still more powerful than Kari or Gatomon. Kari
explained this to her later, but Gatomon simply said that Angewomon could
kick Diginda's butt.
Gatomon pulled the slimy lolly out of her mouth with a grimace of disgust,
but didn't continue. She only threw aside the lollipop, crossed her arms,
and sat down sulkily. Kari asked Diginda, "Where do I go to find this 'Izard
of Od?"
Diginda replied, "Why, in Turquoise City, of course!"
"And how do I find that?" Kari asked.
One of the Numemon closest to Kari replied in a high-pitched, nasal voice,
"Follow the digital road!"
Another squeaky Numemon voice chimed in, "Follow the digital road!"
All the Numemon started singing, "Follow the digital road, follow the
digital road, follow -follow -follow -follow -follow the digital
road!"
At this they led Kari and Gatomon (Actually, they dragged Gatomon. She was
still cranky.) out of the village to a black, shiny road that looked like
millions of computer screens all linked together to form a road. The road
went around and around in circles, and then went straight far off into the
distance. The Numemon, still singing their annoying little nasal song, took
Kari and Gatomon to the very center of the circular road, where it began,
and two Numemon gave Kari and Gatomon each a small push, to get them to
start on the road. Gatomon glared at the Numemon, but followed Kari as she
started walking down the road.
Diginda had followed them up to that point, and now waved goodbye as a
gigantic rose bud formed beside her, then closed around her and
disappeared when she stepped into it.
Kari and Gatomon had walked down the road until they were far from the
village of Numemon, when Gatomon flopped down on the grass beside the
digital road. "Oh, come on Gatomon!" Kari said. "We haven't even been
walking for an hour!"
Gatomon replied, "Well, first of all, I feel particularly awful, because
today I have been in a tornado, I've fallen how many thousand feet to the
ground, and somehow survived it, and I've been forced to eat a sludge-
covered lollipop. DO YOU KNOW HOW THAT MAKES ME FEEL?!?!?"
"Well, if we're going to talk about how awful we feel, I do know what it
feels like to be in a tornado and drop how many thousands of feet to the
ground, because need I remind you that I WAS THE ONE WHO MADE SURE YOU
DIDN'T FALL OFF? Second of all, I have been going through a lot of STRESS
today, getting threatened by an evil digimon emperor, finding out I'm in a
place that I've never heard of before, making sure that YOU didn't get us
zapped by the Digimon Emperor on OUR side, and making sure that the Numemon
DON'T hate us! How is that? You don't see ME complaining! Oh, poor Gatomon!
She had to eat a LOLLIPOP! NOW....GET UP! WE'RE CONTINUING ON!"
Gatomon stared at Kari with wide eyes. Gatomon tried to defend herself. "Uh,
well, well I need to save my strength to....."
"OH, COME ON!"
Gatomon slowly got up and followed Kari. Neither of them said anything more.
Finally, after about ten minutes of silence, Gatomon sighed, "Kari, I'm
sorry."
Kari looked down at the 'mon by her feet and smiled. She crouched down and
patted Gatomon on the head. "That's ok, Gato. I know we're just a little
stressed cause its been so weird."
As they walked, Kari watched as the grass beside the 'Digital road' slowly
changed into long fields of corn.
Another sigh came, this time from Kari. Gatomon looked up at her partner
and asked, "What's wrong?"
Kari looked down, worried. "It's just I'd really like to know where we are."
"We do know where we are Kari."
"Where?"
"On the Digital road!!"
Kari glared down at Gatomon, who was snickering at her own joke. "Oh, very
funny, Gatomon."
The Digimon grinned up at Kari. "I thought so."
"What I mean," Kari continued, silencing her 'mon with a glare, "...is where
is the Digital road?"
Gatomon opened her mouth but Kari stopped her from speaking by raising her
hand. "And don't say it's in Numeland cause I already know that."
"So, why did you ask?"
"Ughhh!"
Kari threw her hands up in annoyance. After a few seconds, Kari tried again.
"Do you think we're in the Digiworld, Gatomon?"
The cat shook her head, puzzled. "Seriously?" The 'mon asked.
Kari nodded.
Gatomon said, "I don't know. It doesn't seem like the Digital
World but Ken, Mimi and the Numemon are here. They are all acting really
weird except, maybe, for Ken but he doesn't recognize us."
Kari nodded, agreeing with Gatomon.
Encouraged, Gatomon continued, "And Numemon are always weird."
"Have you ever heard of Numeland?" Kari asked.
The 'mon shook her head.
"How 'bout the Turquoise city?"
Again Gatomon shook her head.
"Well, I guess, the best thing we can do is keep going till we get to this
Turquoise city or meet the others"
This time Gatomon nodded and they both smiled. They continued trudging down
the road, happy that they had a plan.
They continued down the road silently for the next ten-minute 'til Kari said,
"Oh no."
"What?" Gatomon asked, then realizing what Kari was upset about.
"Oh no, that's not good."
The Digi road split in three, all three paths disappearing into the
distance.
"Oh, that's just great," Gatomon snarled in disgust, "That stupid
Diginda didn't say anything about a fork in the road."
"Oh, be quiet, Gato. Diginda probably didn't even know about it."
"Exactly. That's why she's stupid."
Kari wanted to defend the flowery Mimi look-alike but she did agree that it
was pretty stupid to send them off down a road to get lost. This situation
was getting worse every minute.
"Maybe there's someone we can ask for help." Gatomon suggested.
Kari looked around, doubting it. All you could see for miles was corn and a
scarecrow that was hanging a few feet away with his head flopped down and a
few crows.
Gatomon sighed, thinking the same thing. "Hmm, which way to go?"
Then they both heard a voice that sounded familiar in its soft but raspy
tone. "Well, some folks go that way."
Kari and Gatomon looked up and noticed the scarecrow. Kari could have sworn
that its arms had been limp at its sides, but now one arm was up and pointed
in the direction of one of the possible paths.
"That's funny. I could have sworn - Gatomon, was that scarecrow always like
that?"
"No, I don't think so, but I wasn't really paying attention." Gato replied.
They heard the voice again. "But other folks go that way."
They looked up again and noticed that one of the scare-crow's arms now
pointed in the direction of one of the other paths. Then, while they were
looking at him, the scarecrow lifted its head (Gatomon shrieked.) so Kari and
Gato could see its face.
"Cody!"
And it was Cody. Or at least a very good look-alike. His face was mostly
covered by a large pointy hat that slanted to one side. It's brim was blue
and the rest was yellow. The whole hat was faded and covered with patches.
In fact, his whole outfit was faded and covered in patches. He wore a yellow
shirt that was overly too large for the boy-er-scarecrow and hung well below
his knees. The arms of the shirt had been rolled up many times and stuck
out, making his arms look... well, odd. On the right side of the shirt a
purple symbol had been carelessly sewn on. Kari recognized the symbol, too.
It was....um knowledge, wasn't it? Well, that did make sense. Cody, after
all, holds the digiegg of knowledge. Odd, she couldn't see reliability anywhere.
His pants were a faded sky blue and hung below his feet preventing Kari
from seeing his footwear.
The scarecrow looked puzzled for a minute, but otherwise ignored Kari's
outcry and continued. "But..."
His arms moved again, right before their eyes and crossed his arms over each
other to point at both paths. "Some people go both ways."
Kari asked Cody look-alike, "Can't you make up your mind?"
Scarecrow appeared sad for a moment. "Nope. I don't have one."
Gato bounded up to Cody the scarecrow and asked, "Have you lost your mind?
Everyone has a brain."
"Well, I suppose I have lost my mind, in one sense, cause I don't have a
brain."
"Well, we don't have much time to lose, so we can't stay very long. We're
going to see the 'Izard of Od, whoever he is." Gatomon said.
The scarecrow's face fell again. "Oh. Ok."
"Don't be ridiculous, Gato. We have all the time in the world. Sort of."
Kari told her 'mon.
"Sshh... we don't want him to know that."
"You're mean today, Gatomon. Besides, it's only Cody, and he's one of the
digidestined. I think he should come with us, whether you like it or not."
Now she spoke to the scarecrow-Cody again, who had started staring off into
space after Gatomon had said they couldn't stay. "Hey, Scarecrow, why don't
you come with us? Maybe the 'Izard can help you too, and give you a brain."
The scarecrow's face lit up again and answered, "Oh, yes! That's a great
idea! I wish I thought of that, but then, if I did, then I wouldn't need
help, would I?"
Gatomon interrupted. "Time out. Let me talk to Kari for a moment."
She pulled Kari aside. "Are you nuts?" She whispered. "First of all, he'll
just slow us down, and, second of all, I just think he's slow, not mindless.
He has a brain. How else does he move and talk? He's a nut, and I think it's
wearing off on you for that stupid suggestion."
"Well, he'll make good company, nonetheless. Besides, I already invited
him."
Gatomon gave up and frowned. "Ah, well. Ok."
"Lighten up."
Gatomon smiled, obviously a fake one, but Kari thought it was funny, and
started smiling, a real smile.
They both looked up at Cody again. "Ok, we're done. So, are you coming?"
Cody-scarecrow nodded and smiled. "Let's go!"
He wiggled about, probably an attempt to get loose from his post, but to no
avail. "Uh, a little help would be nice."
Kari walked over to the post that scarecrow was hanging from, and started
tugging on his legs. His pants slipped down a couple of inches to reveal
lots of hay stuffing, but he was still hanging from the post. "Gato, can you
give me a hand here?" Kari called back to Gatomon.
"Sure."
Gatomon ran over beside Kari and then (not very gracefully) climbed up the
pole until she was perched on top of Cody's head. He seemed amused to have a
cat on his head, but then Gato stepped off of his head onto the pole when
she determined that he had dandruff. "Ok, Kari," she called down, "When I
say so, push him upwards the best you can."
"Ok."
Gatomon grabbed the back of the scarecrow's shirt with her teeth, and
grasped him underneath his straw armpits. "GOMPH!"
"You meant 'Go!', right?" a puzzled Kari called up.
"Yesh!" The 'mon replied best she could with her mouth full.
So, Kari pushed Cody's feet up while Gato pulled him up off the hook he was
on. Then, with a big thump, he fell to the ground, pulling Gatomon with him
and landing on Kari. Gatomon stood up, dusting herself off. "You know, for a
person made entirely out of straw, you are very heavy." She observed.
"HELP ME UP!"
Kari was stuck underneath Cody, and apparently, she agreed with Gato's
statement. Cody rolled over as Kari pushed him away. Kari stood up also,
dusting herself off too. Cody, still on the ground, spoke. "By the way,
thank-you."
"You're welcome." Kari replied. "But I strongly recommend that you cut down
on the chocolate bars."
Gatomon smiled as she helped Cody up. "GAAHH!" THUMP!
"Sorry, I thought I'd be able to stand." Scarecrow apologized to the
squished 'mon.
"It'sh Ok, jusht GET OFF!"
Kari pulled Cody up off of Gatomon. "Let's try this again. Don't you know
how to walk?"
"Well, sure, but I've been stuck on that pole for a few years now, and I
don't think I've been getting enough exercise."
"Good point."
Kari pulled Scarecrow up to a standing position, where he stood for a
moment, then fell onto Kari. He promptly got up again, only to fall down
again. "Maybe we should just leave you behind." Gato smirked.
"NO!"
Cody sprang to his feet, wobbled a bit, then pointed to one of the roads.
"You want to go to Turquoise City, right?"
"Yep."
"OK then! And we're off!"
Kari was happy to be on the way, and, in a moment of insanity, she started
singing, and Scarecrow joined in. "We're off to see the 'Izard, the wonderful 'Izard of Od! La la la......."
The two started skipping down the road arm in arm. Gato shook her head and
rolled her eyes, then muttered "When in Rome..." and ran after the two,
linking arms with Kari, and starting to sing too.
To Be Continued...
Lasagna2000: "No, we don't..." DC: "Whatever. I do, at least." Lasagna2000:
"Sure. Anyways, we don't own 'The Wizard of Oz' either." DC: YOU don't own
'The Wizard of Oz. I do, though." Lasagna2000: "Oy vey." DC: "Oy yourself."
NOTE- Please keep in mind that this story is set when Ken was still a bad
dude, and no one had digivolved to Champion or DNA digivolved yet.
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"Gold Rush!"
"Tempest Wing!"
"Fire Rocket!"
Digmon, Halsemon and Flamedramon attacked Mesdyonemon, the massive digimon
they were up against, all aiming for the dark ring on Mesdyonemon's leg.
Mesdyonemon was a champion digimon, and so was stronger than the armor-
digimon. He was huge, a white bird-like digimon with straight blood red
stripes, and was five times the size of a Halsemon and could squish any of
the digimon in a foot step. He had large owl-like wings, also red and white
in colour, protruding from his shoulder blades instead of forearms, which
spanned twice the armlength of another digimon his size. He stood on two
taloned feet, and had a wolf head with straight-back ears. His teeth were
yellow and dripping with saliva.
"Talon strike!" The thing hissed out, sending a rush of energy towards
Flamedramon. He leaped out of the way and the three armor-'volved 'mons
rushed at Mesdyonemon.
The evil digimon threw them aside with one arm, knocking them to the ground.
As they de-digivolved back into Armadillomon, Hawkmon, and Veemon, Kari and
TK turned towards their 'mons.
"Patamon!"
"Gatomon!"
Gatomon and Patamon jumped forward. "Mm hm." They nodded at their people.
Kari and TK then yelled simultaneously, "Digi-armour energize!"
Then Gatomon and Patamon armor-digivolved to Nefertimon and Pegasusmon.
They decided that it was too hard to fight Mesdyonemon himself, so they flew
up towards the dark spire nearby.
"Golden Noose!"
They aimed for the dark spire. Then, from behind them, they heard
Mesdyonemon's attack: "BLUE TORNADO!"
Nefertimon and Pegasusmon turned to see Mesdyonemon reach his wings to the
sky, where a strange blue cyclone, small at first, formed between their tips
"Run!" Davis screamed.
The Tornado grew bigger and bigger.
"Pegasusmon!" TK called after his digimon.
"Come back! Retreat!"
"You too, Nefertimon!" Kari yelled.
Cody, Davis, and Yolei gathered up their digimon, who were still sprawled on
the ground. They started running for the TV behind them.
The Tornado came towards Pegasusmon and Nefertimon. They separated, letting
the tornado pass between them. But Nefertimon got too close to the tornado
and was sucked in. She slowly de-digivolved back to Gatomon.
"Gatomon!"
As Pegasusmon de-digivolved back to Patamon and landed in TK's arms, TK
turned and started running after the others.
"Come on, Kari!"
"No!" Kari screamed as she started running for the tornado. Gatomon dropped
out of the tornado and into Kari's arms. The tornado started in the
direction of the dark spire, and towards Kari and Gatomon again. It swept
them up, both screaming. It kept going towards the dark spire. It knocked it
over and swept it up, also. Kari, still holding on to Gato, grabbed onto the
dark spire as an anchor.
Kari was spinning around and around on the dark spire, screaming her head
off, with one hand holding on to the dark spire, and the other holding on
to Gatomon. Then, the twister slowed down and Kari and Gatomon on the spire
went into the eye of the twister. Kari had stopped screaming by now, and she
and Gatomon watched as the twister formed into the shape of a dark spiral,
rotating around them. Suddenly, the spiral disintegrated into digidust. Kari
and Gatomon hung in midair for a second, then were plunged down through the
clouds to the ground. Kari was screaming again, so was Gatomon. Kari pressed
herself against the dark spire as the ground rushed up towards them.
As they got closer and closer to the ground, going faster and faster, Kari
silently said her prayers. "Goodbye Gatomon"
She grabbed Gatomon and hugged her to her. She no longer needed to hold on
to the spire; the force of gravity pressed her to it.
"Goodbye Kari."
Gatomon hugged Kari back and they both squeezed their eyes shut. Oddly
though, instead of speeding up, the spire seemed to be slowing down. Then,
with a sickening crunch, the descent stopped. Kari lifted her head and
peered around.
They were on the edge of a village with little buildings that seemed way too
small to fit any human. "Gatomon?"
"Yes?"
"I don't think we're in the Digi-world anymore."
"Ya think?"
Kari silently slipped off the spire, sliding down the smooth side to the
ground. Feet firmly on the ground, she held her hands out and Gatomon leapt
into them. Kari looked down at the digimon in her arms.
"I guess we should see if we can find the others."
Gatomon nodded in agreement and added, "We should check out the village."
"Davis! TK!" Kari called.
"Hey, Hawkmon, Veemon ya out there?"
"Anybody?"
Kari sighed. "I think they went through the TV when that Twister came for
us. I think the best thing to do is find a TV and go home."
"Right." The cat-like Digimon agreed.
They headed down the path leading to the center of the town, both figuring
they might find a TV there.
They had made it into the center of town. Behind them was a fountain, the
water a bright blue. In the center of the fountain a pink rose bud began to
appear out of nothing, growing until it was huge, and seeming to let off a
glow. Kari and Gatomon stepped closer, then stepped back, gasping. The bud's
petals were starting to wiggle and the whole flower seemed to be blooming.
The whole process took only a few seconds and then from the middle of the
giant rose a figure stepped out into the promenade. Kari looked at the figure
in shock. "Mimi!?"
It was Mimi or, at least, looked like Mimi. Her hair, still pink, had a number
of flowers poking out here and there. She wore a long and fluffy ball gown
that shone a metallic pink. She wore long pink gloves that matched her dress,
and transparent green shoes, resembling high heels, and her skin was a pale
shade of emerald green.
"Who's Mimi? I'm Diginda, the Good Digimon Emperor of the South. What kind
of Digimon Emperor are you?" The Mimi-look alike said.
Kari was surprised at the question. "What kind of Digimon emperor am I?"
Diginda nodded.
"Well," Kari started, "I'm not a Digimon emperor at all. I'm
a digidestined. Where am I?"
Now it was Diginda's turn to be puzzled. She put a finger to her face and
cocked her head to the side. "Well, I don't know what a digidestined is, but
you must be a Digimon Emperor, for you have killed Sam, the Wicked Digimon
Emperor of the East, by squashing him with your magical dark spire. The
Numemon are so happy that you have destroyed him. You are in Nume-land, in
the land of Od."
While she said this, she led Kari and Gatomon back to where they had landed,
and pointed out the feet and hands sticking out from underneath the fallen
spire. Kari was horrified. "What? Who is Sam? Anyways, I didn't mean to kill
him! I'm so sorry! Where are the Numemon?"
"Oh, no, no, no, it is good that you have killed Sam. He was enslaving the
Numemon, and when you fell from the sky with your magical dark spire and
squashed him, you freed them. The Numemon are here. They have been watching
us since you got here. They have been hiding."
At that point, Kari and Gatomon heard giggles coming from the bushes and
other places nearby.
Diginda spoke again, but not to Kari or Gatomon. "Come out, Numemon!"
Kari looked around and saw millions of Numemon slowly coming out of hiding
and towards her, Gatomon and Diginda. Kari thought to herself and remembered
that time about four years ago when she had freed the Numemon from
Warmonzaemon, while she and the other digidestined were fighting the Dark
Masters.
The Numemon had been silent, but now they all spoke simultaneously,
surrounding Kari, Gatomon, and Diginda. "Queen Kari. Queen Kari."
They repeated this many times, and then backed up to let a small group of
Numemon wearing Tutus (We're hoping that they were girl Numemon, but you
never know with Numemon.) come through and stand in front of Kari. They tried
to dance best they could, but it's sort of hard when you don't have feet, so
they just sort of bounced around, and sang a song; "We re-pre-sent the slimy
-girl guild, the slimy-girl guild, the slimy-girl guild. And on behalf of
the slimy-girl gu-ild, we'd like to welcome you to Nume-land."
The largest Numemon in a tutu stepped forward and presented Kari with a
bouquet of flowers. Gatomon looked on with jealousy at all the attention
Kari was getting, but said nothing.
The Numemon in tutus stepped back and three in suspenders stepped forward.
They started singing in horrible nasal voices. So, basically, they sounded like
Tai when he sang. "Ohh we re-pre-sent the sewer guild," the little 'mons
wailed, "The sew-er guild, the sewer guild. And on behalf of the se-wer
gu-ild, we'd like to welcome you to Nume-laaand."
Two of the Numemon leapt forward and thrust giant lollypops into Kari and
Gatomon's hands. Gatomon looked down at the sucker in her hands. It was
covered in a light layer of dripping sludge.
"Lovely." She grunted disgustedly, and tossed it aside.
Kari on the other hand, not wanting to be rude, tucked the lolly in with her
flowers, which, by the way, were also covered in sludge.
Kari acted flattered and began, "We thank you for your kindness and are
flattered by your gifts..."
"Yeah, right." Gatomon added under her breath.
Kari whacked Gatomon on the head with her flowers and continued. Gatomon
wiped the sludge from the flowers off of her ears where Kari had hit her.
"But I want to get back to my home, and for the moment, I have no idea where
I am and where to go from here to get home. Can you help me get home?"
The Numemon were clearly disappointed that Kari didn't want to stay, but
didn't say anything.
Diginda began, "Well, w-" But was interrupted by a plume of smoke rising up
in the center of the crowd and the screams of the Numemon as they all fell
to the ground and appeared to play dead. From the plume of smoke stepped
another familiar face, but not necessarily as welcome a face as Mimi's.
"Ken!"
He looked exactly as he did back in the Digi-world. He had his dark blue
spiky hair, his trademark sunglasses, and his dark cape as before.
"How do you know my name, and who are you?"
Diginda answered for Kari. "I do not know how she knows your name, but she
is Kari, and she is no concern of yours."
Ken replied, "I'll be the judge of that. Now - AAUUGGHH!"
He looked down at his feet at the fallen spire. But that wasn't what made
him scream. It was what was under the dark spire. "NOOOOO! Sam! My brother
is dead!"
Ken was horrified. He turned in anger to Diginda and Kari. "Who did this?"
Kari stepped forward. "I'm sorry. I did. But I didn't mean to."
Ken raged at her. "How could you? Now you shall die! But first I must take
Sam's charcoal digivice, his main source of power."
Kari looked down at the hands and feet of Ken's brother sticking out from
the spire and noticed for the first time a black digivice in one of Sam's
hands. Ken bent down and was about to take it, when it disappeared from
Sam's deathly grasp. "What? Where did it go?"
He whirled on Diginda. "What did you do with it?"
Diginda replied, "It's too late! It's already gone. I moved it to where you
couldn't get it."
She gestured at Kari, and she looked down at her belt, where the black
digivice was now attached.
"Why you little...."
Diginda interrupted him. "If you're thinking of trying to hurt Kari, you're
wasting your time. As long as Kari has the digivice, you can't harm her."
Diginda turned to Kari. "Remember, whatever you do, don't let go of the
digivice."
Kari nodded. Ken spoke again. "I am-"
Diginda cut in, clearly knowing that it pissed him off. "A retarded pea
brain who can't dress himself?"
Ken looked agitated underneath his sunglasses, but continued. "I am-"
Diginda, smiling, cut in again. "Very funny looking in that cape and
sunglasses?"
Ken started frowning and tried once again to talk. "I am-"
Diginda cut in for the third time. "Wearing women's panties?"
Kari was clearly amused at this, so was Gatomon, and they both started
laughing away.
Ken turned bright red and yelled at Diginda "STOP THAT!"
She started laughing too and she, Kari and Gatomon all laughed their heads
off at Ken.
"AAAAUUUGGHHH!" Ken screamed.
He reached into his cape, pulled out a dark ring, and flung it at Diginda's
head. Diginda, still laughing, stuck out her hand in the direction of the
ring, blocking it, and turning it into flowers on impact. Diginda stopped
laughing but was still smiling. She turned towards Ken and wagged her finger
at him. "Uh uh uh, Kenny boy. We must control our tempers, okay?"
Ken was exasperated. "That is it! I am out of here! But," he said to Kari,
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little 'mon too."
With that, he wrapped his cape around him and disappeared into thin air.
The Numemon slowly got up and gathered around Kari, Gatomon and Diginda.
Diginda reminded Kari, "Remember what I told you. Never let go of the
digivice or you will experience the wrath of Ken. Um, no pun intended."
Kari asked Diginda once again, "So, can you help me get home?"
Diginda shook her head. "I'm sorry. I cannot help you, but I can direct you
to someone who can. His name is the 'Izard of Od. He can help you get home,
for his powers are far greater than mine."
"Sheez, she can turn powerful dark rings into flowers, she can make
appearances by stepping through flowers, but she can't help us get home."
Gatomon muttered, continuing. "If you ask me, I think that - Mmmmph"
Kari had stuffed her lollipop into Gatomon's mouth, thwarting her attempts
to further badmouth the good digimon emperor that, despite her lack of
powers to get them home, was still more powerful than Kari or Gatomon. Kari
explained this to her later, but Gatomon simply said that Angewomon could
kick Diginda's butt.
Gatomon pulled the slimy lolly out of her mouth with a grimace of disgust,
but didn't continue. She only threw aside the lollipop, crossed her arms,
and sat down sulkily. Kari asked Diginda, "Where do I go to find this 'Izard
of Od?"
Diginda replied, "Why, in Turquoise City, of course!"
"And how do I find that?" Kari asked.
One of the Numemon closest to Kari replied in a high-pitched, nasal voice,
"Follow the digital road!"
Another squeaky Numemon voice chimed in, "Follow the digital road!"
All the Numemon started singing, "Follow the digital road, follow the
digital road, follow -follow -follow -follow -follow the digital
road!"
At this they led Kari and Gatomon (Actually, they dragged Gatomon. She was
still cranky.) out of the village to a black, shiny road that looked like
millions of computer screens all linked together to form a road. The road
went around and around in circles, and then went straight far off into the
distance. The Numemon, still singing their annoying little nasal song, took
Kari and Gatomon to the very center of the circular road, where it began,
and two Numemon gave Kari and Gatomon each a small push, to get them to
start on the road. Gatomon glared at the Numemon, but followed Kari as she
started walking down the road.
Diginda had followed them up to that point, and now waved goodbye as a
gigantic rose bud formed beside her, then closed around her and
disappeared when she stepped into it.
Kari and Gatomon had walked down the road until they were far from the
village of Numemon, when Gatomon flopped down on the grass beside the
digital road. "Oh, come on Gatomon!" Kari said. "We haven't even been
walking for an hour!"
Gatomon replied, "Well, first of all, I feel particularly awful, because
today I have been in a tornado, I've fallen how many thousand feet to the
ground, and somehow survived it, and I've been forced to eat a sludge-
covered lollipop. DO YOU KNOW HOW THAT MAKES ME FEEL?!?!?"
"Well, if we're going to talk about how awful we feel, I do know what it
feels like to be in a tornado and drop how many thousands of feet to the
ground, because need I remind you that I WAS THE ONE WHO MADE SURE YOU
DIDN'T FALL OFF? Second of all, I have been going through a lot of STRESS
today, getting threatened by an evil digimon emperor, finding out I'm in a
place that I've never heard of before, making sure that YOU didn't get us
zapped by the Digimon Emperor on OUR side, and making sure that the Numemon
DON'T hate us! How is that? You don't see ME complaining! Oh, poor Gatomon!
She had to eat a LOLLIPOP! NOW....GET UP! WE'RE CONTINUING ON!"
Gatomon stared at Kari with wide eyes. Gatomon tried to defend herself. "Uh,
well, well I need to save my strength to....."
"OH, COME ON!"
Gatomon slowly got up and followed Kari. Neither of them said anything more.
Finally, after about ten minutes of silence, Gatomon sighed, "Kari, I'm
sorry."
Kari looked down at the 'mon by her feet and smiled. She crouched down and
patted Gatomon on the head. "That's ok, Gato. I know we're just a little
stressed cause its been so weird."
As they walked, Kari watched as the grass beside the 'Digital road' slowly
changed into long fields of corn.
Another sigh came, this time from Kari. Gatomon looked up at her partner
and asked, "What's wrong?"
Kari looked down, worried. "It's just I'd really like to know where we are."
"We do know where we are Kari."
"Where?"
"On the Digital road!!"
Kari glared down at Gatomon, who was snickering at her own joke. "Oh, very
funny, Gatomon."
The Digimon grinned up at Kari. "I thought so."
"What I mean," Kari continued, silencing her 'mon with a glare, "...is where
is the Digital road?"
Gatomon opened her mouth but Kari stopped her from speaking by raising her
hand. "And don't say it's in Numeland cause I already know that."
"So, why did you ask?"
"Ughhh!"
Kari threw her hands up in annoyance. After a few seconds, Kari tried again.
"Do you think we're in the Digiworld, Gatomon?"
The cat shook her head, puzzled. "Seriously?" The 'mon asked.
Kari nodded.
Gatomon said, "I don't know. It doesn't seem like the Digital
World but Ken, Mimi and the Numemon are here. They are all acting really
weird except, maybe, for Ken but he doesn't recognize us."
Kari nodded, agreeing with Gatomon.
Encouraged, Gatomon continued, "And Numemon are always weird."
"Have you ever heard of Numeland?" Kari asked.
The 'mon shook her head.
"How 'bout the Turquoise city?"
Again Gatomon shook her head.
"Well, I guess, the best thing we can do is keep going till we get to this
Turquoise city or meet the others"
This time Gatomon nodded and they both smiled. They continued trudging down
the road, happy that they had a plan.
They continued down the road silently for the next ten-minute 'til Kari said,
"Oh no."
"What?" Gatomon asked, then realizing what Kari was upset about.
"Oh no, that's not good."
The Digi road split in three, all three paths disappearing into the
distance.
"Oh, that's just great," Gatomon snarled in disgust, "That stupid
Diginda didn't say anything about a fork in the road."
"Oh, be quiet, Gato. Diginda probably didn't even know about it."
"Exactly. That's why she's stupid."
Kari wanted to defend the flowery Mimi look-alike but she did agree that it
was pretty stupid to send them off down a road to get lost. This situation
was getting worse every minute.
"Maybe there's someone we can ask for help." Gatomon suggested.
Kari looked around, doubting it. All you could see for miles was corn and a
scarecrow that was hanging a few feet away with his head flopped down and a
few crows.
Gatomon sighed, thinking the same thing. "Hmm, which way to go?"
Then they both heard a voice that sounded familiar in its soft but raspy
tone. "Well, some folks go that way."
Kari and Gatomon looked up and noticed the scarecrow. Kari could have sworn
that its arms had been limp at its sides, but now one arm was up and pointed
in the direction of one of the possible paths.
"That's funny. I could have sworn - Gatomon, was that scarecrow always like
that?"
"No, I don't think so, but I wasn't really paying attention." Gato replied.
They heard the voice again. "But other folks go that way."
They looked up again and noticed that one of the scare-crow's arms now
pointed in the direction of one of the other paths. Then, while they were
looking at him, the scarecrow lifted its head (Gatomon shrieked.) so Kari and
Gato could see its face.
"Cody!"
And it was Cody. Or at least a very good look-alike. His face was mostly
covered by a large pointy hat that slanted to one side. It's brim was blue
and the rest was yellow. The whole hat was faded and covered with patches.
In fact, his whole outfit was faded and covered in patches. He wore a yellow
shirt that was overly too large for the boy-er-scarecrow and hung well below
his knees. The arms of the shirt had been rolled up many times and stuck
out, making his arms look... well, odd. On the right side of the shirt a
purple symbol had been carelessly sewn on. Kari recognized the symbol, too.
It was....um knowledge, wasn't it? Well, that did make sense. Cody, after
all, holds the digiegg of knowledge. Odd, she couldn't see reliability anywhere.
His pants were a faded sky blue and hung below his feet preventing Kari
from seeing his footwear.
The scarecrow looked puzzled for a minute, but otherwise ignored Kari's
outcry and continued. "But..."
His arms moved again, right before their eyes and crossed his arms over each
other to point at both paths. "Some people go both ways."
Kari asked Cody look-alike, "Can't you make up your mind?"
Scarecrow appeared sad for a moment. "Nope. I don't have one."
Gato bounded up to Cody the scarecrow and asked, "Have you lost your mind?
Everyone has a brain."
"Well, I suppose I have lost my mind, in one sense, cause I don't have a
brain."
"Well, we don't have much time to lose, so we can't stay very long. We're
going to see the 'Izard of Od, whoever he is." Gatomon said.
The scarecrow's face fell again. "Oh. Ok."
"Don't be ridiculous, Gato. We have all the time in the world. Sort of."
Kari told her 'mon.
"Sshh... we don't want him to know that."
"You're mean today, Gatomon. Besides, it's only Cody, and he's one of the
digidestined. I think he should come with us, whether you like it or not."
Now she spoke to the scarecrow-Cody again, who had started staring off into
space after Gatomon had said they couldn't stay. "Hey, Scarecrow, why don't
you come with us? Maybe the 'Izard can help you too, and give you a brain."
The scarecrow's face lit up again and answered, "Oh, yes! That's a great
idea! I wish I thought of that, but then, if I did, then I wouldn't need
help, would I?"
Gatomon interrupted. "Time out. Let me talk to Kari for a moment."
She pulled Kari aside. "Are you nuts?" She whispered. "First of all, he'll
just slow us down, and, second of all, I just think he's slow, not mindless.
He has a brain. How else does he move and talk? He's a nut, and I think it's
wearing off on you for that stupid suggestion."
"Well, he'll make good company, nonetheless. Besides, I already invited
him."
Gatomon gave up and frowned. "Ah, well. Ok."
"Lighten up."
Gatomon smiled, obviously a fake one, but Kari thought it was funny, and
started smiling, a real smile.
They both looked up at Cody again. "Ok, we're done. So, are you coming?"
Cody-scarecrow nodded and smiled. "Let's go!"
He wiggled about, probably an attempt to get loose from his post, but to no
avail. "Uh, a little help would be nice."
Kari walked over to the post that scarecrow was hanging from, and started
tugging on his legs. His pants slipped down a couple of inches to reveal
lots of hay stuffing, but he was still hanging from the post. "Gato, can you
give me a hand here?" Kari called back to Gatomon.
"Sure."
Gatomon ran over beside Kari and then (not very gracefully) climbed up the
pole until she was perched on top of Cody's head. He seemed amused to have a
cat on his head, but then Gato stepped off of his head onto the pole when
she determined that he had dandruff. "Ok, Kari," she called down, "When I
say so, push him upwards the best you can."
"Ok."
Gatomon grabbed the back of the scarecrow's shirt with her teeth, and
grasped him underneath his straw armpits. "GOMPH!"
"You meant 'Go!', right?" a puzzled Kari called up.
"Yesh!" The 'mon replied best she could with her mouth full.
So, Kari pushed Cody's feet up while Gato pulled him up off the hook he was
on. Then, with a big thump, he fell to the ground, pulling Gatomon with him
and landing on Kari. Gatomon stood up, dusting herself off. "You know, for a
person made entirely out of straw, you are very heavy." She observed.
"HELP ME UP!"
Kari was stuck underneath Cody, and apparently, she agreed with Gato's
statement. Cody rolled over as Kari pushed him away. Kari stood up also,
dusting herself off too. Cody, still on the ground, spoke. "By the way,
thank-you."
"You're welcome." Kari replied. "But I strongly recommend that you cut down
on the chocolate bars."
Gatomon smiled as she helped Cody up. "GAAHH!" THUMP!
"Sorry, I thought I'd be able to stand." Scarecrow apologized to the
squished 'mon.
"It'sh Ok, jusht GET OFF!"
Kari pulled Cody up off of Gatomon. "Let's try this again. Don't you know
how to walk?"
"Well, sure, but I've been stuck on that pole for a few years now, and I
don't think I've been getting enough exercise."
"Good point."
Kari pulled Scarecrow up to a standing position, where he stood for a
moment, then fell onto Kari. He promptly got up again, only to fall down
again. "Maybe we should just leave you behind." Gato smirked.
"NO!"
Cody sprang to his feet, wobbled a bit, then pointed to one of the roads.
"You want to go to Turquoise City, right?"
"Yep."
"OK then! And we're off!"
Kari was happy to be on the way, and, in a moment of insanity, she started
singing, and Scarecrow joined in. "We're off to see the 'Izard, the wonderful 'Izard of Od! La la la......."
The two started skipping down the road arm in arm. Gato shook her head and
rolled her eyes, then muttered "When in Rome..." and ran after the two,
linking arms with Kari, and starting to sing too.
To Be Continued...