"Thank you for volunteering to babysit Ruka with Keenan tonight" Kevin Crier thanked, looking up at Kristy Damon.
Kristy was a young fifteen year old girl with long brown hair, tied in pigtails, and sea green eyes. She was wearing a pink vest top underneath a galactic sweater with yellow cat eyes, black whiskers and cat ears in the centre. She was also wearing light blue, ripped shorts with galaxy leggings and dark pink high tops with colourful laces. Around her neck, was a silver chain necklace that had an orange fireball hanging from it.
"It's no problem, Mr Crier" she smiled "Keenan's told me she can be difficult to deal with sometimes so I thought I'd help"
Kevin nodded before he walked over to his car, and with one final wave, got into the driver's seat with his wife sat beside him.
Kristy closed the door after the pair drove off, and walked into the Crier's living room to see Keenan playing with his sister, Ruka.
Keenan was the same age as Kristy with tan skin and yellow eyes, he had dark blue, shaggy hair and was wearing a black and white striped top underneath a cobalt blue pullover. He also wore white jeans, black combat boots and a thick black bracelet with a crystal feather in the centre of it.
Ruka was a five year old girl with short brown hair and dark yellow eyes. She wore a green, plaid shirt with a brown jacket over the top. She also had on dark purple shorts, black socks that went up to her knees and fluffy ankle boots.
Kristy sat beside Keenan and picked up one of Ruka's stuffed animals. It was a pink bird that reminded Kristy of Biyomon. It was strange, despite not being partners like Keenan and Falcomon, she felt as though she and the Digimon had a bond as good as her friend and his Digimon and she missed him more than anything. Like she missed her brother.
She never thought she'd get to her teenage years without the brother she loved dearly, she never thought she'd grow up without him. Yet it had been five years since she saw him last and the Digital Gate hadn't opened once in that time. Everyone had moved on, Thomas was a doctor, Yoshi became a police officer with Miki, Megumi and Sampson, her father and mother were used to being together again and acted as though her dad had never gone missing. Kristy felt like she was the only person to remember the whole Digimon incident at all!... She knew she'd be lying to herself if she said that though, her mother still sometimes went into Marcus' room to wake him up like she used to, she'd seen Thomas sometimes make an extra cup of tea for Gaomon before realising he wasn't there, Yoshi talked to herself like she was talking to Lalamon occasionally too.
Though, she felt like Keenan had been effected by the incident the worst. He had lived with Falcomon for ten years and to wake up every morning without him there was weird for the boy to get used to. Despite the smile he put on, Kristy knew he was hurting. Everyday. Every hour. Every second. And nobody but her noticed. Everyone thought that he had gotten used to living in the human world without his Digimon brethren, but Kristy still had to teach him so much.
She blinked as she heard someone snap their fingers in front of her face and looked to her left to see Keenan staring at her, worry present in his sunny eyes
"You okay, Kristy?" He asked "You zoned out"
"Why are you asking me if I'm okay, Keenan?" Kristy spoke so quickly, she didn't have time to register what she'd said
"Uh... You looked upset. I thought I'd said something before I saw you staring at Ruka's bird..."
"You know that's not what I mean"
Kristy immediately wished she could just take back her words after seeing her friend's face. He looked as sad as he had been when Falcomon first left...
"Keenan I'm sorry!"
"No... No, it's okay"
A knock at the door prevented Kristy from answering the boy. She stood up and jogged to the door, opening it to see Relena Norstein standing breathlessly in front of her.
Relena was Thomas Norstein's younger sister and the same age as both Kristy and Keenan. She had long, wavy blonde hair and bright blue eyes, she was wearing a black dress with long sleeves. Over the top was a tight brown shawl, she also wore knee high, black socks and knee high, brown boots.
"Woah Relena. You look like you just ran a marathon!" Kristy exclaimed, as the blonde panted heavily in front of her
Keenan came to stand in the doorway next to her, Ruka gripping his hand tightly
"I was... coming to visit... Digital Gate... big.. beetle thing!" Relena panted out
"Back up" Keenan said slowly "did you say... Digital Gate?!"
A loud thud made everyone look out at the field in front of the Crier's home. A huge red beetle stood dangerously close to the four of them
"AHHHHH" everyone screamed simultaneously (If you've ever seen Harry Potter, imagine it like when Ron, Harry and Hermione see Fluffy (The three headed dog) for the first time) drawing the- obvious -Digimon's attention towards them
"That's Kuwagamon!" Keenan stated, through the panic
"How did he get here!?" Kristy asked loudly
"The Digital Gate I saw open" Relena answered "it came though there so I started running over here"
"How do we deal with it!? Falcomon and Biyomon are all the way back in the Digital World"
Ruka had pulled Keenan out of the door and they began running through the open field; both as a distraction and Ruka just freaked out
"Keenan!" Kristy called
The boy replied with a thumbs up before darting behind a tree with his sister
"I think we should form a plan" Relena said "he's buying us some time"
"What do we do?"
"We can't attack with much. But the least we can do is throw a rock or two" the blonde smiled slightly, picking up a large rock from beside the stairs and chucked it, aiming for Kuwagamon's head and surprisingly hitting the mark despite how much the Digimon moved when looking for the Crier children. Kristy soon joined in and both girls were then Kuwagamon's main target, they moved away from the house to avoid getting it destroyed and saw Keenan forming a plan with Ruka as her eyes lit up and she nodded.
The Crier's bolted back into their home whilst Kuwagamon was distracted with Relena and Kristy, who both looked at each other curiously whilst continuing to throw rocks, sticks, and anything else they could throw to keep the Digimon's attention on them
Ruka and Keenan came running back out of the building with four Nerf guns. They ran over to the girls and handed them one each before sprinting in another direction and shooting at Kuwagamon with the foam darts. Soon the four had a small routine: shoot Kuwagamon, run out of ammo, sprint around the field to refill. Rinse and repeat. It was a useless plan and they knew it, but it kept the Digimon busy; stopping it from either going to the city or destroying anything nearby and anytime it attacked, the group were fast enough to dodge or at least escape with a minor scratch. They were silently hoping that something, anything would appear to save them; whether that be the Digital Gate to take the thing back where it came from, DATS coming to deal with the monster and the most hopeless wish ever: for Digimon to come and save them.
Unfortunately, their prayers were never answered in the ten minutes they spent sprinting around the gargantuan beast (okay, so that may be an overstatement, but compared to them, that thing was big). Ruka's luck was the first to run out. She ran to grab a dart for her gun but tripped and fell, giving Kuwagamon the perfect chance to attack. He charged at her as she slowly pushed herself up. Everyone was spread out so far that it would be too late if they ran, they were frozen in fear anyway
"Ruka!" Keenan cried in panic
"Pyro Sphere!"
"Spiral Twister!"
"Firecracker Smokescreen!"
"Retriever Bark!"
Several red fireballs, a green stream of fire, exploding smoke grenades, and a loud bark knocked Kuwagamon over, just inches away from the young girl. As the smoke cleared, a Digimon stood in front of each of the four.
"Biyomon!" Kristy grinned, seeing the large pink bird she loved so dearly
"Falcomon!" Keenan was practically crying when seeing his owl-like Digimon brother stood in front of him defensively
A white and red dog was growling at Kuwagamon from its position in front of Relena, and a tall red dinosaur stood tall above Ruka, its mouth flaming slightly
"Woah" both girls breathed
Kuwagamon slowly got back up, growling at the four Digimon that prevented him from attacking his prey
Keenan looked over at the dog-like Digimon and said- loud enough so everyone could hear -"that's Labramon, a Rookie level Digimon with more bite than she has bark" he then looked at the dinosaur currently protecting his sister "Guilmon, another Rookie despite his power"
"Keenan, do you still have your Digivice?" Falcomon asked, looking back at his partner
Keenan nodded and pulled it out of his back pocket "I don't know if I can activate my DNA anymore, Falcomon"
"Pyro Sphere!"
"Spiral Twister!"
Biyomon and Guilmon shot their fire at the bug
"It's gotta be just like riding a bike" Kristy said, reassuringly "I've taught you that"
Falcomon smiled "You can do it, even if it's just a small amount of energy"
Keenan nodded, closing his eyes and listening to the battle around him. He focused on every 'Spiral Twister', 'Pyro Sphere', 'Retriever Bark' and every 'Ninja Blade' that was thrown or dropped on the enemy. He felt a small tingle in his hand before a familiar warmth covered his skin; his Digivice's screen glowed with life after years of dormancy.
"DNA Charge!" he yelled, opening his eyes and slamming the familiar purple pixels onto the Digivice
"Falcomon Digivolve to... Peckmon!"
Keenan grinned to himself and hopped onto the back of his Digimon partner, now in Champion form. He noticed how much better he fit onto Peckmon's back than when he was ten which caused his grin to widen.
"Kunai Wing!"
Peckmon leaped into the air, Keenan holding onto his neck tightly, and launched sharp, explosive feathers at Kuwagamon
"Spiral Twister!"
Biyomon got closer to Kuwagamon, causing his flames to be hotter with closer contact
"Rock Breaker!"
Guilmon charged at Kuwagamon, and hit him with as much force as a boulder being dropped off a cliff
Labramon jumped behind the beetle and tripped him over. And with one final combined attack, Kuwagamon was finished, returning into his Digiegg form and lying in the grass.
Peckmon dedigivolved to Falcomon before the girls ran over to Keenan and the Digimon ran to Falcomon. Ruka hugged her brother's legs as Kristy jumped on his back with a grin, knowing he could take the weight without falling over, Relena had a soft smile on her face as she placed a hand on the boy's shoulder.
Guilmon waddled over and picked up Falcomon in a hug, whilst Labramon sat happily in front of the two with Biyomon flying above them
Keenan saw his Digivice's screen glow brighter than it had upon its reawakening, and the beam shot straight upwards before splitting into three separate coloured- gold, pale pink and baby blue -beams and swirling around the three girls that surrounded him. The lights then focused on one spot on each of their bodies; Ruka's gold light focused on her fringe, Kristy's pink light focused around her neck and Relena's blue light centring on her waist. As the lights dispersed, three Digivices were left in their places; a gold one positioned neatly in Ruka's hair, a pink one hanging alongside Kristy's necklace and a blue one resting on Relena's left hip.
"Woah" the four of them breathed, staring at the three new Digivices
The Digimon wandered over and stared at the devices as well
"Yay!" Guilmon cheered, picking up Ruka and placing her on his head, getting a giggle out of the girl
"Does that make us partners?" Labramon asked, looking up at Relena
The blonde looked back to Keenan who looked back at her with an uncertain nod
"I guess so" she replied, ruffling the Digimon's fur
"Kristy!" Biyomon cheered "we're finally a team!"
"Wow" the brunette grinned
"This is new" Falcomon smiled "looks like a new Data Squad has formed"
"Yeah" Keenan nodded, smiling up at his sister and Guilmon "no kidding"
That may be rushed and characters are probably OOC but I tried :) I enjoyed writing this chapter and I hope you enjoyed reading it, sorry for being pretty invisible recently (to all of the readers who've been waiting for me to post something) just been really busy and haven't had a chance to post this chapter that I wrote quite a while ago. I finally got a new laptop so I can write a lot more frequently- even if my update schedule is absolute rubbish. Anyway, I've been watching Data Squad and reading Data Squad stories recently and thought about writing one of my own. I feel like my Digimon partners for Relena and Ruka are unique but also quite fitting, though that's my opinion. Be sure to follow and favourite if you liked this and leave a review telling me what you thought if you want :) Bye!
