Disclaimer : I do not own Digimon it belongs to Toei, I do not own the song "The Scientist" as it belongs to Coldplay
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There's an old Chinese curse, "May you live in interesting times," which until three years ago, Makoto had no idea why it was considered a curse at all.
The tall 5'8", thin, thirteen-year-old was dressed casually in at white t-shirt and grey shorts, his brown hair was kept up by a pair of blue-lensed goggles on his forehead. Standing in the middle of a cemetary he was lost in thought, during his moment of silence, looking onto the tombstone of his deceased sister.
He relived the moment in his mind everday, and visited the graveyard every morning, all out of fear. Fear of forgetting - forgetting her existence, and forgetting a very important part of his life. For every other part of the day, he had developed the so called 'Idiot's Disorder', as named by his sister, trying to hide loneliness by acting idiotic, self-centered and attention-seeking.
"You think we should get going now?" Mako looked to his left and smiled at the impish demon-digimon standing next to him.
"Do you really care whether we're late or not, Impmon?" Mako asked, raising an eyebrow at his digimon.
"Not really, its just... her. She's as scary as ever - I think its that time of the month." Impmon replied, it was normal for Impmon to be afraid of something, but to actually admit it was something else, and Mako understood why. He had never met anyone as scary as her, and was determined not to get on her bad side, but with his luck, he always was.
"Just give it a few more minutes, I'm pretty sure Suzie won't mind." Mako tried to reassure himself, still looking at the tombstone. "I just need a few more minutes with her Impmon, that's all."
"We all need a few minutes with her Mako." Impmon said, in a moment of sadness, both were not proud of their failure to save her, and the consequences suffered from the loss were great. It had been ten years since the attack of D-Reaper, and three years since her death. Ai was truly missed.
Glutton For Punishment
Chapter One : Science
"Nobody said it was easy, No one ever said it would be this hard"
She was psychotic. She was a bitch. She was definetly not their mother. She just baby sat them. And yet, she felt it was her job to punish them.
"You're late!" A fist burst through the entrance of the door, as soon as it was opened. Makoto had barely enough time to dodge it before he recieved a beating.
"Fine you win," Makoto sighed, handing over money to Impmon, who grinned as he placed it somewhere in his bandana.
"Told you it was that time of the month." Impmon grinned, much to the dismay of the 17-year-old Suzie (or Shuichon Lee) Wong. Despite the age difference, she was only a couple of inches than Mako, with brown hair tied up in two buns on her head.
"May I enquire what you two are talking about?" Suzie used her sweet tone of voice, but both males knew something was amiss, when Suzie was acting nice, she was at her true peak of evilness.
"Calm down kids, we're here for a meeting, not for another round of babysitting. You three can work it out when you get home." Henry Wong, or Jiangliang Lee by his Chinese name, had interrupted their conversation. Out of all the digidestined, Henry surprised himself by being the one to stay at Hypnos and replace Yamaki, who had been promoted to a position elsewhere. At twenty-three years of age, he looked youthful, but had maturity far beyond his years. He was a few inches above six feet, dressed in a black suit, with an orange tie. "C'mon Terriermon, stop playing and get over here, bring the new cards while you're at it."
"New cards?" Mako raised his eyebrow, smiling as Terriermon and Lopmon made their way over to him. Mako had been part of Hypnos for the past couple of years, not joining when the others did due to his young age, but he sure enjoyed being part of it now. The room they were in was situated somewhere inside the Headquarters, its walls and floors were a shiny, silver, reflective colour, with a table in the middle and a large TV on the front wall.
"Yeah, we've recently got a hold of these cards that would suit the two of you, just make sure nothing happens like the Allomon Incident again." Henry said, as Mako smiled to himself. The Allomon Incident wasn't well planned, all his cards ended up burnt after a inconviniently placed fireball came Mako's way.
"So that's what you called us for, new cards. We're gonna need them, with the amount of realisations that have been going on recently." Suzie shrugged, as Lopmon jumped on her shoulder.
"Who cares, we don't need those new cards anyway, right Mako?" Impmon grinned, lighting a fireball in his hand. "All I need are some of these."
"That didn't help when you were defeated by that Allomon!" Lopmon sneered, as Impmon pulled a tongue at the brown bunny digimon.
"I would've been able to handle it if you didn't get in my way!" Impmon shot back, lighting another fireball in his other hand.
"Your way? If it wasn't for me you'd be a goner!" The arguement got heated - literally, as Impmon prepared to hurl a fireball right at Lopmons face.
"Hey, Impmon, Lopmon, cool it!" Terriermon said, stepping between the two digimon.
"Terriermon's right guys, you two should know better than fight each other when we have our own problems." Henry sighed, before getting back on topic. "Ryo has been warning us, some of the digimon are planning a break out -"
"That's what they've been doing for the past few months, even years!" Mako said, even after D-Reaper was gone, the gate between the Digital World and the Real World had become easier to access, and Ryo had elected himself and Cyberdramon to monitor the digital world, but were not able to monitor every digimon. Mako thought about Ryo, he, unlike Mako didn't mind the lonliness, and found comfort in the company of digimon, and Mako, not even anyone from the old group of Tamers had seen him in a while. Except for Henry, the only person Ryo kept in contact with.
"Mako, this time it's serious. Their actually together on this one, instead of sending one random digimon at a time. Think about it, 21 realizations this past month!" Henry said. Turning to the large TV behind him, as a familiar face came up on the screen.
"Howdy!" Ryo, with his large spiky brown hair, and Cyberdramon, who was struggling to fit into the screen, smiled - speaking n a terrible Southern accident. "How've ya'll been going?!" Mako couldn't help but laugh, even though it was rare, whenever Mako saw Ryo, he was always able to make everyone laugh.
"Seriously Ryo, get to the point." Henry said, trying his best to hide his smile. "What do you want?"
"You ruined the moment, party-pooper. Hey is that Mako? Boy have you grown!" Ryo said, as Mako waved.
"C'mon, what's up Ryo? What's so special that you had to contact us, for this rare occasion? Actually, this would be a first. We've always had to contact you." Henry said, curious as to why Ryo was finally calling. Ryo put on what Henry thought didn't exist within him - a serious face.
"Henry, Cyberdramon has been injured." Ryo explained. "He was attacked by a group of Infermon, they managed to slash his leg, and I don't think we can get very far from here, the skies have become increasingly dangerous."
"Wait... Cyberdramon is actually injured?" Henry looked amazed, he never thought the powerful Digimon was capable of being hurt. "How?"
"As you can see behind us, the whole village, of what used to be inhabited by Digimon has been destroyed, me and Cyberdramon came to investigate, and when we found the Infermon, they attacked us."
"So what do you want to do?"
"Henry, we have to go to your world." Ryo said, Mako taking note of the fact he said 'your world'. But Mako could understand why, after all those years spent in the Digital World for most of his childhood and adult life, it was a home to him.
"Alright we'll set up an exit for you." Henry said, as an alarm went off in the Hypnos Headquarters, setting off the the D-Arks of the three aswell. "Another realization, Suzie, Mako, go!" The two nodded as they sprinted out of the room, leaving Henry to himself.
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The realization was close to the area, in Shinjuku Park, or as the Graffiti'd sign said - Shitjuku. Mako and Suzie had managed to reach it in time, as the two Monochromon had not caused much damage - yet.
"Lopmon, digivolve!" Suzie said, pointing her brown D-Ark towards Lopmon, as it shot out a beam of light at the brown bunny.
"Lopmon digivolve to..." It grew into a giant, resembling a large, brown, abdominable snowman, with bunny ears and a white hat. "Wendigomon!" Mako looked over to the large digimon, unlike Lopmon, Impmon had lost the ability to digivolve, but rather relied on his ability as a rookie, and Mako's ability as a Tamer.
"Let's test out this new card, shall we Impmon?" Mako smiled, taking out his D-Ark and one of the cards given to him by Henry. "Digi-Modify! Flame Sword Activate!" He swiped the card through the D-Ark.
A sword of fire materialized in Impmon's hand, as he charged at the Monochromon, slashing violently. The giant, armoured, triceratops-like digimon easily took the damage, leaving Impmon and Mako little chance to dodge his own attack.
"It's not working!" Impmon growled, as he barely escaped Monochromon's stampede through the park. Wendigomon on the other hand was easily winning, managing to toss the Monochromon aside, and brutally attack it with its large fists.
"Digi-Modify!" Mako called for the second time. "Hyper Wing Activate!" A pair of black wings appeared on Impmon's back, allowing him to soar through the air, hovering over the dinosaur. "Direct this next attack at his feet! Digi-Modify! Snow Crystal!" A crystal of ice formed in Impmon's hands, who threw it at Monochromon's feet, freezing it to the ground. The dinosaur digimon roared in anger at its capture.
"That was easy! Time to send you back to where you came from!" Impmon grinned, as it gracefully landed on the ground, its wings disappearing.
"Transfer Process, Activate!" Pointing his D-Ark at the Monochromon, with a beam of light Mako sent the dinosaur back to the Digital World. He looked over to Suzie, who had a 'I beat you' look on her face. Well it was more like a 'I totally smashed you, your pathetic attempt was the worst I had ever seen'.
"Took you long enough!" Suzie shook her head in sarcasm, as Wendigomon stood behind her.
"Behind you!" Mako yelled, as a black digimon flew through the air, heading for Wendigomon's back.
"Don't worry, it'll all be over soon!" The black, gargoyle-like digimon said, but it was too slow to attack, as Wendigomon's fist slammed into it.
"Evilmon." Mako quietly cursed under his breath, as he prepared to activate another card.
"Wait!" Suzie called, as Wendigomon pinned the gargoyle digimon to the ground. "It looks like it has some information for us!"
"Yes, I have a message!" The Evilmon choked and gasped for breath, under Wendigomon's strong grip. "IceDevimon would like to say, that he's already taken care of the rest."
"The rest?" Mako asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Yes... The others..." Evilmon grinned, even as it felt itself slipping away. The digimon was used for mainly delivering messages, not for fighting. "The new Tamers, are currently being taken care of..."
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"This disgusts me..." The white, devil-like monster, better know as IceDevimon, began to grow agitated. He watched the Evilmon taking its last breath as Wendigomon finished it off. He looked over to his master, the giant, purple and black digimon.
"It is time to fix the mistakes of the past digimon who have tried to conquer this world but failed." The large, purple and black digimon sat on his throne, Cherubimon was planning, the complex gears in that twisted mind of his were turning, as he revised his seemingly flawless plan to gain power. "How did the destruction of that annoying village go, IceDevimon?"
"Very well, we finished the job, but were interrupted by that annoying Tamer and his pet." Cherubimon rubbed his chin as he decided his next move, in his little "game".
"Have him taken care off. I trust that you have already sent your digimon to their world to get rid of those Tamers."
"It has been done, Master." The ice devil growled as it bowed, leaving its master in peace.
A/N : Well, there's another idea I'm glad I got out of my head. For those of you who haven't realised yet, this is set 10 years after D-Reaper, as all the original Tamers have taken their own paths, and the only ones operating are Suzie (Henry's Sister) and Mako (Impmon's Tamer). Ai, Mako's other half is dead, but she plays an important role in this fic. Also, I want OC's. This is the first time I'm requesting OC's, but I need some new Tamers, about 4 to 7 of them, good and evil, willing to die - Yes their will be deaths between main characters and OC's. For the next chapter I only need one or two, but if you want your character in this fic, review.
As for the title, Glutton for Punishment, Beelzebumon (who will appear in this fic) is the digimon representing the sin of Gluttony, just to clear up any confusion. Also, the title of the chapter "Science" is in reference to a song I am currently listening to while I write this fic - The Scientist, by Coldplay - which reflects Makoto's ideas about Ai's death and being a Tamer.