(A/N: Sweet, I got some fans. i wasn't sure if this story would attract much attention since not many people look at crossover fics. To the Guest that made the Danny Phantom request, I have seen the show, but couldn't get into it enough to come up with a story, sorry. Also, if possible, it would be better if Guest users that wish to contact me sign up for an account so I can respond outside Author Notes. It's free to register, and to don't have to write anything to have an account, not to mention it will give you a lot more privileges, such as messaging, favoriting, following, etc. Just a suggestion to make things easier for all of us.)
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Chapter 2: Love Machine
"You're telling me that this Love Machine thing did all this?" TK exclaimed.
"Troublemaker my foot," Yolei grumbled. "Elecmon was right, this guy is a total menace."
Having come to the Digital World, the DigiDestined now stood in Primary Village with their Digimon, now at the Rookie level with the exception of the Campion level Gatomon. The place looked as if a giant infant had come and turned the place into their own personal playpen.
"See, see!" Elecmon cried. "I was right, wasn't I? You've got to stop him before he causes anymore trouble!"
"Don't worry," said Ken, "we'll take care of it. But first we need to find this guy."
"Leave that to me. I've got eyes all over the village."
He placed two clawed fingers in his mouth and whistled loudly. About 30 seconds passed before a group of In-Training Digimon came hopping over to them.
"Elecmon, thank goodness you're back!"
"That thing is making a mess of the entire village!"
Elecmon's eyes narrowed. "Yeah, I've noticed. Where is he now?"
Davis felt the need to ask. "Ok, just checking to make sure, but we are considering this Love Machine thing to be a 'he', right?"
The others ignored him as one of the In-Training Digimon used their ears to point in the right direction. "He's over that way. He's terrorizing a bunch of Baby Digimon."
Davis' eyes narrowed, his earlier question forgotten. "All right, lets go. We'll teach this guy a lesson he won't forget."
Following the In-Training Digimon's lead, they were brought to a clearing where they stopped dead. A group of Baby Digimon were running back and forth as something chased them, arms out to grab the ones in the back.
"Hey, leave them alone!" Yolei shouted.
The creature stopped, allowing the Baby Digimon to get away, and turned to them. For the most part, it seemed to resemble a human child no older than Cody trying to cosplay as Mickey Mouse. It wore a blue cape with red stars, and ordinary clothes that consisted of a green and white striped shirt, tan pants, and brown shoes. Large black Mickey Mouse ears stuck out from the top of his head, surrounded by a crop of brown hair. Its face was completely gray aside from the red heart mark on its forehead, and it had a pair of oval shaped eyes and a large demented grin consisting of large, white, sharp teeth.
The creature surveyed them for a few moments before laughing wickedly. "Tee, hee, hee!"
TK blinked. "That's Love Machine?"
Elecmon's fur was standing on end as he glared at the creature. "That's him alright. His second form anyway. He's the one causing all the trouble."
The others stared at the creature for a few moments before Armadillomon said what was on everyone's mind. "I expected him to be a bit more… well, you know, more."
"Me too," Ken agreed. "He just looks like some punk kid. Aside from that creepy smile on his face, he doesn't seem too bad."
As if he overheard them, and was determine to prove otherwise, Love Machine walked forward a few steps and picked up a Digi-Egg. The DigiDestined were instantly at the ready.
"Put it down," Yolei demanded.
Love Machine didn't move for a few seconds before, quick as lightning, he opened his mouth and swallowed the egg whole. "Tee, hee, hee."
The DigiDestined gasped in shock, Kari's hand covered her mouth. "He actually ate it! He just swallowed it whole!"
"I told you!" Elecmon seethed. "And he's been doing the same to the Baby and In-Training Digimon that he catches. Look, he's doing it again!"
The very same Digi-Egg he had just eaten reappeared, and Love Machine ate it all over again.
"Hey, cut it out!" Gatomon shouted.
Veemon's hands clenched. "Right, that does it!" He charged at Love Machine. "Vee Punch!"
His fist slammed into the creature's face, sending him flying backwards. The Digimon he had been chasing cheered, but Love Machine kicked off the wall he was about to crash into, flying back towards Veemon and delivering his own punch, sending the blue Digimon crashing into Davis.
"Oww!" Davis cried as he was knocked off his feet. "You ok, Veemon?"
His partner sat up, his hand going to his swollen cheek. "Boy, that guy really packs a punch."
"Then lets teach him some manners," Hawkmon suggested. "Feather Strike!"
Patamon and Wormmon unleashed their own attacks. "Boom Bubble!"
"Sticky Net!"
Love Machine did a series of backflips to avoid the attacks, still wearing that eerie grin that seemed to be permanently plastered on his face.
Armadillomon and Gatomon attacked as well. "Diamond Shell!"
"Lightning Claw!"
As Armadillomon's curled up body flew at him, Love Machine jumped up and did a roundhouse kick, knocking him back to the others. And as Gatomon rushed towards him with her electrified claw, he reached out to grab her paw, spun her around, and threw her back to the others as well.
Kari winced for her Digimon. "You ok, Gatomon?"
Getting up, the cat Digimon dusted herself off and glared at the creature. "Careful, he's tougher than he looks."
"I'll show him tough!" Elecmon snapped. "Super Thunder Strike!"
Love Machine jumped up to avoid the attack. While he was in the air, he unleashed his own electric attack that looked remarkably similar to Elecmon's. The rabbit Digimon gasped in surprise as Love Machine's attack found its target, and Elecmon yelped as he was shocked.
"Hold up!" Yolei cried. "Did he just copy Elecmon's attack?"
Charbroiled, Elecmon breathed out a puff of smoke. "Yeah, I forgot to mention that he could do that."
Love Machine snickered at that, sounding very much like a sneaky weasel.
"Well, this changes things," said Cody. "Better not to take any chances."
"Yeah," Davis agreed, "better have our Digimon Digivolve."
"Well then in that case," said Veemon. "Veemon Digivolve to… ExVeemon!"
"Wormmon Digivolve to… Stingmon!"
"Armadillomon Digivolve to… Ankylomon!"
"Hawkmon Digivolve to… Aquilamon!"
"Patamon Digivolve to… Angemon!"
"Gatomon Digivolve to… Angewomon!"
"All right," said Davis, "now we'll get some results. You see this, Love Machine?" He motioned towards the five Champions and Ultimate level Digimon. "This is what you're dealing with. You sure you don't just want to surrender?"
Love Machine cocked his head to the side, then snickered again.
"Is laughing like that the only thing he can do?" Stingmon wondered out loud.
"He won't be laughing for long," ExVeemon assured him. "Vee-Laser!"
Love Machine did a cartwheel to the side to avoid the attack, then rushed at ExVeemon, doing a head-butt right into his gut, knocking the wind out of him, then charged at Stingmon.
"Spiking Strike!"
Love Machine maneuvered around the stabbing spike and jumped up, his fist colliding with Stingmon's chin.
"Fast little sucker, isn't he?" Angemon observed.
He brought his Angel Rod down to strike the creature, but Love Machine jumped up. Landing on Angemon's staff, he ran up the length of it. Holding his hand over his head, he created a staff of his own that resembled a fancy key, and used it to whack the angel Digimon on the side of the head, knocking him away.
Aquilamon came in from up above, snatching up Love Machine. "Got you now."
A distance away, Ankylomon waved his deadly tail. "Over here! Let me have him!"
As Aquilamon flew towards him, Love Machine used his hand like a spear. The illusion of Stingmon's Spiking Strike appeared around it as he copied the attack, stabbing Aquilamon's talon.
The hawk Digimon cried out and dropped him. Love Machine did a flip in the air until he faced Ankylomon, then fired a Vee-Laser at him. The dinosaur Digimon cried out in surprise as the attack blasted him backwards.
Love Machine landed on his feet and turned towards Angewomon, throwing his key-staff at her. It hit her in the stomach, knocking the wind out of her, before flying back towards its owner.
Love Machine caught it and glanced at the surprised looks on the DigiDestined's faces. Snickering, he took off, speeding away from Primary Village. Angewomon fired a Celestial Arrow after him, but missed.
"Hey, get back here!" Davis shouted.
"Come on, guys," Cody insisted, "we have to catch him!"
That was much easier said than done. Love Machine was very fast, much faster than they were, even when the Digimon picked up their human partners in order to pursue him. He even stopped to mockingly wait for them to catch up before taking off again.
"How can something so small be so fast?" TK wondered from on top of Angemon's shoulder.
"Ever try and catch a cockroach?" Davis asked. "Those things are small, but really fast. This little pest is just like them."
They continued their pursuit, eventually reaching the shoreline to the ocean. Love Machine was waiting for them by the water's edge. He placed his hand in front of his face, his thumb against his small black nose, and twiddled his fingers in a rude gesture, then sped off again. He ran right on top of the water in a very cartoon fashion, kicking up waves as he disappeared out into the ocean. The DigiDestined came to a stop by the water's edge, starring dumbly out at the sea.
"Um, did you just see that?" Yolei asked.
"Sure did," said Cody. "He must be going super fast to be able to run on water like that."
"So what now?" ExVeemon asked. "We chased him out of Primary Village. You want to just let him go?"
"I don't think that's good enough," Angewomon replied. "He could still cause trouble elsewhere. We can't have something going around eating Digimon simply for the heck of it."
"And he can even come back to the village whenever he wants with the way he can run across water like that," Ken pointed out. "We need to find out what he is and where he came from."
"Allow me to assist you."
They turned to see that Elecmon had caught up to them.
"You got a plan to get us across the ocean real fast?" Davis asked.
Elecmon smirked. "Sure do." He tapped the ground with his foot. "As you may or may not know, File Island is filled with black gears. There's a reason for that. File Island comes apart in order to take the reborn Digimon to other landmasses in the Digital World."
"Hey, I remember that!" TK exclaimed. "Devimon tried to separate us by splitting the island apart."
Elecmon nodded. "Yes, that's what the black gears are actually for. Devimon found a way to control them and was abusing their power. It put the island out of commission for some time, but it's been up and running again for a while now."
"That's cool," said Cody. "So portions of the island act as boats, that's why it's full of black gears. Once the piece drops the Digimon off somewhere else, it comes back here."
Elecmon nodded. "Yeah, pretty much."
"That's pretty cool," said Davis. "So how do we make it go?"
Smiling, Elecmon went over to a tree by the waterside and pulled down one of the branches as if it were a leaver. He quickly hurried away as the ground rumbled. The portion the DigiDestined were on separated from the rest of File Island and began drifting out into the ocean.
"Have a good trip!" Elecmon called to them, waving to them. "Good luck!"
"Thanks, Elecmon!" Kari shouted, waving back.
As File Island got smaller and smaller, there was nothing left for the DigiDestined to do but sit down and wait.
(A/N: So how'd you like that? I mentioned something about it last chapter. I always wondered why there were black gears inside File Island. When Devimon separated it, it made sense to me that the different pieces of the island act as a means to transport reborn Digimon to the rest of the World. After all, not all Digimon can swim or fly, and with Primary Village being the place where all Digimon start over when they die, they most would need a way to get off the island once they were strong enough to make it on their own. Anyway, how was the first encounter with Love Machine? I thought that since he didn't have any attacks himself, I'd give him the ability to copy the attacks of others. And now that he's off File Island, there's a whole new world for him to explore. You'll have to stay tuned to see what happens next. I promise the chapters will get better and longer, we're just starting off now. This chapter and the next one were originally going to be one single chapter, but, I felt it was becoming too long, so I found a good place to end it and split the chapter into two.)
