DIGIMON XROS WARS:
ALTERNATE UNIVERSE 02
-EXILED STORIES-
[THEN]
The Void between worlds glowed crimson as a red orb of energy shot from one world to another, carrying its two riders along on a joyride.
"HAHAHA! RYOUMA-KUUN! THIS IS SO MUCH FUUUUN!" The two blue eyes of Nui Harime stared on in glee as she laughed at all of space and time in an escape vector from her old world.
"It really is, Harime-chan!" The familiar silver haired mug of Ryouma Mogami smiled at her in a way that could only be described as the evil version of pure love. Yes, it has been finally said, Ryouma Mogami, A.K.A. Quartzmon, was in love. "And when we land at the next world, we're going to have even more fun!"
"YAAAAAY!" Nui cheered, throwing her arms wide as she fell backwards into the warm embrace of the Original Life Fiber-
[ORIGINAL LIFE FIBER]
-that was being propelled through time and space as part of the final stage of Ryouma's "Screw Ragyo Over Royally" plan.
"I WON'T ALLOW IT!"
Ryouma and Nui turned around, and looked backwards at the fading orb of their old world to see a familiar little black and red uniform shooting towards them- single eye blazing in determination.
[KAMUI SENKETSU!]
"I WON'T ALLOW YOU ANY PROGRESS!" The Kamui yelled yet again as he chased after them. "YOU WON'T COVER UP ANY MORE WORLDS WITH LIFE FIBERS!"
Nui pouted, "Boo! The Uniform must've got pulled in along with us."
"Well, we're about to hit the new world," Ryouma smirked, "let's let him watch without end as we do exactly what he doesn't want us to do." And with that, he threw an arm out and let loose a burst of energy that shot towards Senketsu...!
"LIKE HELL!" Senketsu shifted into an even more streamlined rocket form- and burst forwards at speeds that seemed impossible in the void of worlds...!
"PROTECTION BARRIER!" Ryouma intoned- and then suddenly that blast of energy spread out, forming a shield that Senketsu slammed into and bounced off of immediately.
"WAAAH!" the Kamui cried out in terror as he spiraled away.
Nui laughed, "Lookit, Ryou~me~! He's spiraling out of control!"
Ryouma laughed along side her, "Indeed! Hah! And without a Xros Loader, there's NO WAY he can follow us into our new world!"
Senketsu regained control and flew at the barrier once more- at a reduced speed, however. And his single eye narrowed at the world just out of his reach... a world that the Original Life Fiber was descending down towards. "Damn it!" Senketsu punched at the shield, then grumbled, "What the hell is a Cross Loader?"
[NOW]
"THE BAR"
Requested by: R3qu13m0f50ul5
Written by: Calum Traveler
WORLD ID: SPN4TR4-VR816
"HIGHWAY TO HELL" BAR.
9:42 P.M.
"Oh just pull that old record Off the shelf!" a man at the bar drunkenly sang. "I sit and listen to them byyy mah self!"
A scruffy looking man slammed an empty glass on the table, "Grahh... this world is pissin' me off."
The biker with a helmet that had a third eye painted on the forehead smirked, "You can thank my son for pointing it out to us."
"Quartzmon as he is normally is terrifying enough," The suave looking man with blue and red hair said as he quietly sipped at his glass- one of a lot smaller than those of his companions combined. "But him planning on willingly being possessed by an Angel just so he can eat the angel's mind alive and take their powers on is a scary thought beyond that..." He blinked. "I don't think that sentence came out right."
The three of them looked across the bar to the man singing horribly off key, his strange silver hair revealing him to be one of Quartzmon's many disguises.
"PFFFT!" all three of them barely contained their laughter.
"So how are we going to go about this?" Beelzebmon, in human form, asked.
"I say we take him outside and get him to a hospital," Torin recommended.
"I say we just shoot 'im," Dogold remarked.
"We'll get arrested," Beelzebmon countered, "then the kids have to break us out of jail."
"And the Bastardmon figures out we're here," Torin added.
"Hah, I like that one," Beelzebmon laughed, and then raised a hand to the bartender, "Good Sir! Another round of drinks please!"
The bartender raised an eyebrow at their drunken conversation, but simply passed it off as the usual drunken banter of Hunters.
And hunters they were, of a sort; just not the kind he was thinking of.
While Dogold and Torin started on the next round of their drinks, Beelzebmon took his, got up and said, "Watch this! Haha!"
In what seemed to be an impossible length of time, Beelzebmon crossed the bar to the karaoke machine where the man that was Quartzmon's human form was still singing.
"Oh just a good ol' Rock an' Roll!" Quartzmon finished before looking down at Beelzebmon in confusion. "Eh? Do I know you? You look...f'miliar somehow?"
"You could say that, Bastardmon," Beelzebmon gave a grin, and then threw his drink straight into Quartzmon's eyes.
"ARRGHH!? WHAT THE FU-!?" And then Beelzebmon kneed him between the legs and then grabbed the microphone stand and broke it over Quartzmon's back.
"And THAT-" Beelzebmon yelled loudly so the whole bar, confused and unsure of what to do at the moment, could hear. "THAT is for the headache you gave me and my wife fifteen years ago!"
Torin stared on for a moment before asking, "Did he really just do what I think he did?"
Dogold just finished off his drink and laughed, "I think he did."
Poor Quartzmon never knew what hit him as the whole bar descended into a brawl centered on him for some unknown offense fifteen years earlier.
And it was glorious.
The next morning, Fam, Caleb, and Mahiro stood outside the cell that our three drunken heroes had found themselves in.
"So what exactly," Mahiro asked as he looked his father straight in the eye, "was your plan?"
Beelzebmon blinked through the pain of a black eye and a hangover, and then said, "I really didn't have anything beyond calling him 'Bastardmon'."
Fam blinked, Caleb blinked, Mahiro blinked.
And then Caleb asked, "So how did that work out for you?"
Torin, nursing a hangover as well as an ice-pack to his head, just jabbed a thumb at the cell to his immediate left.
Fam leaned to her right, which was to Torin's left, and peered into the cell where Quartzmon was lying passed out on a stone bench, drooling from a lack of teeth. Then, she leaned back and said, "So you knocked his teeth out."
"Correction! We cleaned his clock! HAHAHA!" Dogold laughed, looking the best out of the three despite the bloody nose he proudly sported.
Beelzebmon and Torin groaned at the loud, boisterous laughter.
Mahiro sighed, "Well, I guess that's about the best we can do right now."
"Yup," Caleb nodded, "let's get you guys outta here."
And with that- Bragigas's head peered in through the wall- partially phasing through via teleport as his eyes flash white and teleported everyone out of the Jail Cell, leaving behind only some very confused guards with strange security camera footage.
"Ambiguous Overture"
Written By: Calum Traveler
Fam stormed down the hallway to the room where they stored all the large supplies that couldn't easily be shrunken down.
There, lying under a tarp, was the familiar form of her Vespa.
Fam stared at it for a few moments before walking over and tearing the tarp off.
Underneath was the still-unfamiliar black and red painted form of the once-Silver Vespa.
Except for the fact that it wasn't paint.
That much proved itself as the single, crimson eye on the front left side fluttered open and stared up at her, almost asking "What took you so long?" with its stare.
They stood in that frozen pattern for a few moments, their fragile alliance together just as strained as it ever was, just like when they met.
They both remembered, just as if it had been yesterday, despite it being well over two years ago for each of them.
[THEN]
Senketsu stared into the barrier that kept him from pursuing his prey.
The strangest thing about this void was that time held no meaning. In what seemed like months- Senketsu had only gone through the same portion of his blood reserves that he had under a minute of forced exertion- forced to watch as Ryouma and Nui corrupted the world below him.
Viewing it had been strange- he could watch the world's events down to the smallest Ant despite being suspended from who knows how far up.
*cue Ambiguous*
And then there was an explosion.
Dirt and rock and snow and ice and metal- all of it went flying up at him.
At first, he thought it was a trick of that same perspective, but then his eye widened as he saw that all of that explosion's energy and debris was actually heading straight towards him from the "surface" of the planet.
"Crap Crap Crap!" Senketsu tried to peel himself away- but it just came way too fast for him to evade.
And then all of it broke through the barrier that Ryouma had created- and Senketsu was hit by the blast wave.
Unmei no ito wo tachikitta sono saki ni...
And then his single eye met up with twin green orbs- belonging to a Vespa Pilot who was very much frightened and afraid as her vehicle was thrown through the dimensional barrier out of her own world.
There were two unconscious passengers- and Senketsu acted before he even realized it.
He flung himself at the Vespa as it twisted under the pilot's controls- and he latched onto anything that stuck out before the shockwave continued to push them forwards through time and space.
The girl had no safe control with everything flying this way and that- not without her passengers getting flung out into who knows where- and so Senketsu stretched and tied himself around them- forming a makeshift seat belt to keep them in place.
The girl glanced backwards, and gave a wary grin- then she flew.
Senobishiteitanda
Kutsuzure darake no semai sekai de
Left- right- she quickly pulled off stunts she knew could get her back in control now that she knew her passengers were safely attached.
RUNWAY wo aruku egao no uragawa
Kakushita tsumori de
There were all kinds of broken ships and pieces of metal that flew ahead faster infront of them- and Fam Fan Fan- [Sky Pirate]- began using them as stepping stones to get ahead of the larger pieces of debris chasing after them.
Dakedo itsumo kimi ni wa
For a moment- they seemed to get out ahead of everything for a few moments- and Fam got her first look at the Multiverse at large.
Minukareteshimatteite
The occasional glowing strand of Green, Red, Blue, or Yellow energy pulsed around her- along with the random cloud of static.
Konna no wa hajimete de tomadou kedo
There were swirling solar systems of worlds and universes and branching timelines...
And then the debris wave was pushed forwards by what seemed to be a second shock wave.
Hoka no darenimo kikonasenai
Fam and Senketsu both yelped as the larger chunks suddenly broke apart into smaller chunks being flung forwards at them.
The wave caught up with them and seemed to throw everything off balance- but Fam grit her teeth and forced her Vespa to stabilize even as everything came crashing towards them.
Nandaka wakannai atsusa ga mune wo kogasu kara
And then they seemed to shoot through what seemed to be a preexisting debris field even as a Sun BLIPed into existence in front of them.
Fam danced through the rocks even as the debris field continued to push forwards- and then she headed for the sun.
Unmei no ito taguriyoseta sono saki ni
With a slingshot of Gravity, they flung around the sun, leaving the debris field to crash into it and burn up in an instant.
Ima atarashii yoake ga kuru
It was too bad that that slingshot sent them hurtling straight for a planet that orbited that sun- and they flew straight into its atmosphere- something neither of them were sure the Vespa could withstand on its own.
Senketsu acted- flinging himself onto the front of the Vespa and putting himself onto it, which surprised the girl still piloting the machine as he desperately tried to seal everyone inside underneath him so as to spare them from the heat of re-entry.
Kajikanda yubi de zutto sagashiteta
That painful experience burned away a fair portion of Senketsu's body- and seemed to fuse what remained onto the Vespa's cloth-like metal-weave shell- all within a few seconds due to their increase of speed.
Kirameku sekai no
When the flames disappeared- Fam found that the top bubble of protection that Senketsu had formed had burned away, revealing that their vespa was hurtling uncontrolled straight for an ocean... That was, if they didn't crash into the green plains leading up to it first.
Kotae wa itsudatte TEACUP no naka
Utsutteitanda
With a yelp- Fam pulled up, trying to break as best as she could to slow them all down.
Yakedoshisou na ondo
Closer- closer everything was coming up too fast! Senketsu flinched as they barely cut across the top of a tree that flown up past them too fast to even see.
Amasugirushi nigasugiru
And then they saw a town of some kind- with a white flag with some red logo on it flying over one of the tallest buildings.
Senketsu and Fam both gasped and tried to pull up- and somehow, their combination of wills did just that-
Jibuntachi dake no FLAVOR nomihoshite
-The Vespa's engine pipes hit the tip of the flag-pole and set it vibrating from the high speed near impact.
Ano hi kimi ga oshiete kureta
Their speed was still too great- and their altitude was lowering even quicker now.
Fam narrowed her eyes, grit her teeth, and fired off both of the remaining harpoons on the Vespa's undercarriage in an attempt to slow themselves down.
Nandaka wakannai atsusa ga hoho wo tsutau kara
If it worked- neither of the two awake survivors of this sudden Exile could tell. All they could hope for was that they would hit the water instead of the dirt.
And quickly approaching that water was- the green plains that rapidly rose to meet them quickly gave way to sandy beaches and then-
Sorezore no omoi karamiatta sono saki ni
They were over the water, skimming along the sky blue surface trailing along a massive plume of water behind them-
Ima atarashii yoake ga kuru
And then friction and gravity finally won out- and the Vespa flipped head over tail and dropped all of its passengers into the water as its momentum finally crashed out.
[NOW]
THE SPIRIT BASE_ _ _|
Fam exhaled the deep breath she hadn't realized she'd been holding in as she walked into the main room of the Spirit Base, and looked around.
It had been little over a month now since they had left Earth-3 following the defeat of one particularly tough Quartzmon enhanced Deboss Legion. The Kyoryugers had grown tired of NERV's oversight, and left.
In the corner by the fountain, Eri Lukari- [Kyoryu Navy originally and now sometimes Kyoryu Silver]- was playing her Violin; sitting next to her was Yui Kirigaya- [Kyoryu Violet]- sang along to the tune.
At the table was Inaba Strider- [Kyoryu Black]- currently chatting with his [Best-Friend-Who-Was-Practically-his-Sister], Shiro Stonesfield, who had hitched a ride off of Earth-3 on SpaceTrailmon, and transfered to Plezuon via a gift from Fam's old world.
Fam frowned at the thought of her Vespa once more.
Also at the table was Caleb's sister, Callie Grey- [Kyoryu Cyan]-, working on some project while she listened to them talk.
Nowhere in sight were their other current companions, nor the rest of the Kyoryugers.
Wait- there was a faint breeze just then-
ZAP!
With a flash of Blue Light, John Egbert [Kyoryu Grey] Appeared in his usual teleport.
"Woah, okay, this is different," he mused, "time line check? I'm hunting Lost Stones."
"You're a few months too late," Caleb said, walking in. This time the subtitle properly appeared, listing him as [Kyoryu Red]. "Like...Really a few months too late for that. We beat Deboss for good about a month ago."
"Ah, right, gotcha," John nodded, then paused. "Right, um... So, do you guys remember me ever coming back from Fam's world on a check?"
"You brought us a lot of ice cream," Fam said, "other than that, no."
"...Damn it, guess that means I'm taking you guys with me back there then," John grimaced.
"What's up?" Inaba asked, breaking off of his conversation with Shiro.
"Not sure exactly, but the Queen of Turan asked me to fetch Fam and bring her back," John answered. "It sounded pretty serious."
That, Fam thought, did not sound good.
A.N.: I'm going to be doing something different here. AO3's version of this story is going to be merged with Adventures in Babysitting, while the Solo version of Fam's story will be on FFN, with Babysitting also separate from it. The reason for that is simply because FFN's cross-over tags are a bit too limited for this kind of anthology. The AO3 version will also contain snips that I won't be posting to FFN due to the nature of their content. (Mainly that I've got some song-segment-only sections planned that I think don't fly with FFN's rules.) That said, I hope you'll all enjoy what I've got set up for Fam's backstory. Hints have been placed in Vamola! Kyoryuger, but not the whole story. Fam's been a bit of an unreliable narrator as well, in some cases. Anyways, enough of my random ramblings. Time to Upload This! :D
