The Ninth Tenidestined
By FimbulvetrIce
Summary: A parody of…Digimon? Oh gawd, I must be going crazy. More specifically, a parody of the part in the first season of Digimon where they all go back to Earth and have to find the eighth digidestined (Kari) before Myotismon does… … no? *sigh* Okay. It's just me, then.
Warnings: I honestly can't think of anything that would be worth mentioning. Other than that you'll be very, very confused if you've never watched Digimon. Scratch that, you won't get this AT ALL if you've never watched the part mentioned above. And there's major OOC-ness. A bit of Fuji-worshipping too. Okay I lied, there are warnings worth mentioning. XD
Disclaimer: I don't own Prince of Tennis or Digimon, but I DO own quite a few nice tennis racquets and bucketful of tennis balls.
They all crowded around the LCD screen that was Inui's laptop. All eight of them. And stared.
"…Say again?"
"They" were known to some as the Tenidestined, to others, the Seigaku Regulars, and to everyone else, just a bunch of weird tennis-obsessed kids who carried around stuffed animals and tennis racquets. Their names were Tezuka, Fuji, Oishi, Eiji, Momo, Inui, Kaido, and Taka.
It all started during tennis practice a few hours ago. Well, to them it was a few months ago, but only a few hours had actually passed in the "real world". Suddenly, their tennis racquets had started glowing, and they'd all been sucked into Inui's laptop! Why it was open during practice, nobody knew and no one ever bothered to ask.
The tennis racquets had transported them to a really, really cool place called Tennis World, where everything was tennis-related. Racquets grew on trees, lakes were filled with not water but tennis balls, the clouds all looked like either tennis racquets or tennis balls, and even the buildings, when they did come across any, were made of racquets and balls. It was a tennis paradise. The best part about it was the cuddly little animals who made themselves partners to the kids. They called themselves tenimon, short for Tennis Monsters. All of them had the ability to "tenivolve", which made them into bigger, stronger, and less-cuddly tenimon.
Soon, they found out about the prophecy and the fact that there were, indeed good tenimon as well as bad tenimon. The good tenimon practically worshipped them, while the bad ones were always set on killing them all. Always. According to the prediction of greater forces as of yet unknown, these eight kids were destined to save Tennis World! So they fought many adversaries, risked their lives many, many times, and made lots of pretty stupid mistakes that got them where they were today. Their guide, Ryuzaki, told them that now, to correct this big mess that they'd gotten themselves into, they had to go back to their world and defeat the evil Akutsumon to keep him from taking over both Earth and Tennis World. But wait…there was more! Unfortunately, the eight had left in a great hurry before Ryuzaki could inform them of the very reason why they were all going back to Earth in the first place.
The Tenidestined, as we shall be calling them (for we, unlike many others, do know of their not-so-secret lives), were lead by their captain, Tezuka. Unfortunately, he hadn't made it back through the portal to the real world, and was now stuck in Tennis World. Not that he minded all that much.
So here they were. Ryuzaki'd gotten a hold of them through Inui's handy and ever-present laptop, still kind of irritated by their rashness. Which is a word, spell check says so.
"What do you MEAN, there's a ninth Tenidestined, nya?" Eiji said incredulously.
"This is illogical." Inui adjusted his square-shaped glasses. "According to my data, there were only eight digidestined in the original Digimon series. We already have eight people."
Well you know what, Inui? YOU CAN JUST—
Oishi contemplated. "Well, we're only off by one. That's good enough, right?"
"Only off by one?!" Inui narrowed his eyes at Oishi. "You be off by one today, you off by one tomorrow, the next thing you know you off by TWO!!!" (Imitation of AZN moms, sorry, I'm just that lame)
Oishi cowered.
Ryuzaki coughed. Once she effectively got everyone's attention, a cryptic, ancient-looking script popped up on the screen.
"Wuzzat?" Momo peered at it.
'Guys, I recently found this concerning your current situation. It's a prophecy—'
The laptop was abruptly slammed shut. "Nya, I'm sick and tired of prophecies!" Eiji stomped off in the direction of the burger place.
Oishi sighed. "Well, let's go then." And the rest of the team followed suit.
***
At their top-secret, recently-named headquarters, a.k.a. the Burger Place, the Tenidestined discussed their options. It was actually quite a difficult thing to do, because none of them knew where to start. Oh, if only Tezuka were here! But he wasn't.
"Well," Fuji said, smiling, "since we have no idea who this ninth Tenidestined could be, and none of us care enough to read the prophecy or ask Ryuzaki for help, I say we split into groups and search for clues, ne?"
Everyone immediately agreed and decided that this was the best plan, because Fuji said so and Fuji was a genius, and Fuji was Fuji. NO ONE contradicted The Fuji. Ever. Well, except for Tezuka. But he wasn't there.
The groups went something like…Oishi with Eiji, with their tenimon Mommymon and Nekomon respectively. Fuji went with Inui and Kaido, along with their tenimon Smileymon, Aozumon, and Vipermon. Lastly, Momo was with Taka and their tenimon, Peachmon and Leafmon.
Little did they know, another tenimon crouched in the shadows, watching their every move. "…Mada mada dane," it said darkly with a smirk.
HEARTHEARTHEARTCATSHEARTHEARTHEARTCATSHEARTHEARTHEARTCATSHEARTHEART
As soon as they'd all been dispersed, Eiji and Oishi made a beeline for Avenue Street. Eiji did, actually, Oishi just followed. Now, just what was so attractive about the very much originally named Avenue Street?
"Nya!" Eiji bounced up and down excitedly toward his destination. "Candy Mountain, Oishi, Candy Mountain!"
Oishi sighed. "Eiji-kun, Candy Mountain doesn't—oh."
(A/N: If you've never seen Charlie the Unicorn on YouTube, you have to. Go. NOW.)
Candy Mountain was the name of a huge candy shop situated nicely right on Avenue Street. It was painted bright pink, and the letters were all in RAINBOW COLORS! The sign above it had a really big picture of a cool figure made entirely of candy. You could almost TASTE the rainbow! Eiji could see rows and rows of brightly colored candy inside; this was the biggest candy shop in Tokyo. There was a HUGE variety of different sweets, though some of them looked suspiciously like Inui's experiments-gone-sugary, and he dared not try them.
Nekomon bounded after his partner, just as hyper and just as cat-like. Heck, he WAS basically a cat. Anyway, Oishi and Mommy followed at a slightly less enthusiastic pace, but eagerly nonetheless.
Suddenly, the figure above the shop came to life, and dropped down the ground in front of them! "I…am…CANDYMON!!!" it giggled manically with a laugh that really reminded Eiji of Fuji on those days when he thought of a new way to bug Tezuka. Except…higher-pitched. And more evilly, if that was possible. But enough about that, there was a bigger problem at hand.
"Oh no!" Eiji gasped. "Nekomon, tenivolve!"
"You too, Mommymon!" Oishi said to his tenimon.
Their racquets started glowing and bright light surrounded their tenimon. They were morphing shapes!
Nekomon got bigger, grew a mane and long fangs, and looked a lot more fierce. "Nekomon tenivolve to… GreatCatmon!"
"Mommymon tenivolve to… Lovemon!"
I'll, er, leave that to your imagination.
Both newly tenivolved tenimon charged toward their opponent. GreatCatmon leaped onto Candymon and yowled, "Cat Fang!" before sinking his teeth into the candy monster and taking a bite. "Mmm, lemon drop." Then he jumped off to clear the way for Lovemon's attack.
Lovemon had gathered a great ball of red, glowing energy around a tennis racquet. "Love Volley!" And he volleyed the ball of lights straight at Candymon, leaving a trail of hearts streaming out behind it. It hit its target which also started glowing with a pulsing red light, until the light exploded and Candymon slumped to the ground.
"Bin-GO!" Eiji grinned and high-fived Oishi.
Lovemon and GreatCatmon both shrunk back to normal size, and they moved on (into the store, that is). As for Candymon, it was so filled with the love from Lovemon's Love Volley that it stopped being evil and turned "good", even to the extent of giving out free candy to every little kid passing by that it saw. And they were all happy.
DATADATADATAFSHHHDATADATADATASMILEDATADATADATAFSHHHDATADATADATASMILE
"78 percent chance we know this person. 54 percent chance this person is close to one of us."
"Saa, Inui, why so high?"
"Well you see, according to my data…"
"Fshhh," Kaido hissed. Ha ha. Hissed. That still manages to make me giggle.
Though he would never have admitted it to anyone (and especially not Momo!), numbers had a way of confusing Kaido and making his head hurt, so he tuned out the sadist and the data master to keep an eye out for suspicious things. Not that he particularly expected there to be anything suspicious about a normal Tokyo summer day, but he'd rather look like he was doing something productive.
It turned out that his wariness paid off, because he was the first to sense a group of five (pretty conspicuous, actually) evil tenimon that were at least three times their size and looked really scary and strong.
"Vipermon!" he hissed, "tenivolve!"
Fuji and Inui had already noticed their attackers and had gotten their tenimon to tenivolve too.
"Vipermon tenivolve to… Fshhhmon!"
Don't ask. Oh, please don't ask.
"Smileymon tenivolve to… Tenshimon!" In the place of Fuji's formerly very cute and smiley tenimon was a shining, menacing-looking angel, with flowing golden-brown hair and piercing blue eyes much like Fuji's own. Scary.
"Aozumon tenivolve to… Akazumon!" Once a sparkly light blue in color, Aozumon, now Akazumon, became a deep red, a lot more sinister and almost…bubbly? But that was pretty much the only thing that changed.
"Wait," Fuji said, holding out a hand to stop them just before the three were about to launch their attacks. He walked straight up to their five enemies and snapped open his eyes to glare at them. Kaido could have sworn he saw lasers shooting from them, but the next thing anyone knew, there was a huge explosion and the evil tenimon had keeled over and dissipated. Fuji turned back to them, eyes closed again, with the brightest smile they'd ever seen him wear.
"Saa, that's taken care of."
Poor Kaido fainted.
BURNINGBURNINGBURNINGDUNKBURNINGBURNINGBURNINGDUNKBURNINGBURNING
Taka nodded while walking. "Inui would definitely be Izzy," he confirmed. Momo didn't see any reason to argue with that; it made the most sense.
"Oishi'd probably be Sora," Momo offered, "he's got that whole mother-complex."
Peachmon giggled. "Sh! Don't let him hear you say that!"
"What about Tai?" Leafmon piped up.
"Tezuka-buchou," Both Taka and Momo responded without hesitation. "Definitely."
"But he doesn't fit the personality mold," Peachmon argued.
"He's the leader." Momo said with finality. "Okay, so…wait. Does that mean Fuji-senpai is…Matt?!"
Taka thought. "Yeah, that makes the most sense. Why, is that odd?"
"It's just…y'know, Matt's all angsty and everything and Fuji-senpai…well, isn't."
The other shrugged. "Ah, well, we said the personality factors weren't important, right?"
"Good point." If Tezuka-buchou was Tai, then his best friend would be Matt. And of the people who were close to Tezuka, only Fuji even came close to the role. "So. I think Eiji would be T.K., don't you?"
Taka pondered that for a moment as they turned a curb. "But then wouldn't he be Fuji's little brother?"
"He does act like a little kid sometimes."
"Yeah, but, wouldn't Oishi be a better older-brother character to Eiji?"
"Can you imagine Oishi as Matt?"
"Good point. Alright, so there's still Mimi, Joe, and Kari. The new ninth Tenidestined would be Kari, right?"
"Yup," Momo agreed. "So that leaves Mimi and Joe between you, me, and Kaido."
"Ah!" Taka grinned in a way rather uncharacteristic to a racquet-less him. "You're Mimi, Kaido's Joe."
"What?!" Momo looked at his friend in disbelief. "Why am I Mimi?!"
"Well," he said in a voice more suited for explaining special relativity to a ten-year-old, "disjunctive reasoning. Because Kaido's more like Joe. He sort of gets scared easily," Momo nodded his head up and down at this, "and Joe wants to be a doctor, and Kaido likes animals."
"I'm not seeing your logic here, Taka-kun."
Wait.
"Kaido likes animals?!"
It leaves one wondering where Taka got his information from.
"Oh, Inui told me."
"Why did Inui tell you?! He never tells ME anything!"
Taka shrugged.
Oh man, there's something really, really wrong with the characters in this story.
In the shadows, yet another tenimon undetected by them was watching them. "Desu? What are they talking about, desu?"
***
Everyone's little adventures were abruptly cut short when Fuji summoned them all together again. He could do that because he was Fuji, and Fuji just had the ability to do that kind of stuff like that even though it was completely random and illogical (as Inui would have said, if Fuji were not Fuji). No one ever questioned The Fuji. Except Tezuka, but he wasn't there.
Anyway, the first thing he said while everyone was looking at him expectantly was…
"Why, hello everyone. It's nice out today, isn't it? What brings you all here?"
Eiji pounced onto him, making as if to strangle him. "Nya, Fujiko!"
Who just laughed, and untangled himself from the hyper boy's arms (hyper, because of the trip to the candy shop). "Saa, actually, I thought I'd let you all know that we've figured out who the ninth Tenidestined is!"
The whole team minus Inui, had discussed the matter with Fuji, and Kaido, who had been half-listening but knew anyway, gasped and looked at Fuji to implore him to go on.
"Do you guys remember that explosion when we were kids?" he continued.
"…Which one?" Momo asked.
Fuji looked at him questioningly. "What do you mean, which one?"
It was Eiji who answered, fiddling with his fingers while half-pouting. "Nya, Fujiko made a lot of explosions with his eyes when we were younger…"
"Oh." Fuji smiled. "No, I'm talking about the really big one, the one that the adults claimed was a terrorist attack." 'But I thought Fuji caused that explosion!' was whispered by someone, which he ignored. "But they never actually saw it. We did, though, and we're the ones that became the Tenidestined. So, it would make sense that this other Tenidestined also witnessed the explosion, am I right?"
No one dared to say otherwise.
So he smiled and continued. "Well I know someone else who saw it, but didn't make it to tennis practice on time the day that we all got sucked into Tennis World. The missing Tenidestined is Echizen Ryoma."
Everyone blinked.
"Fujiko, you're a genius!" Eiji pounced onto Fuji and hugged him again. Because no one contradicts The Fuji. Ever. Except for Tezuka, but Tezuka… Well, you know.
"So…" Oishi ventured a little nervously, "what about his tenimon?"
Fuji grinned. "Oh, we've already got him. He's the other reason I know that it's Ryoma-kun." He stepped aside and the rest of the team noticed for the first time a tenimon they'd never seen before standing among them. "Mada mada dane," Madamadadanemon said smugly.
They all understood at once. The ninth Tenidestined was, with no doubt, Echizen Ryoma.
***
The Tenidestined made a great journey two blocks from the burger shop to the Echizen household, where Echizen lived. Of course.
He listened to their story with an expression of indifference. When they were finished, he gave them a "Mada mada dane" and turned around to leave.
It took Momo to drag him out again. All of them tried to persuade Ryoma to join the team, but to no avail. He wasn't convinced until Fuji gave him The Fuji Eye, and suddenly he was all in. Because no one can resist The Fuji Eye. Not even Tezuka.
With their team complete at last, the Tenidestined did mini victory-dances in their minds. Then they realized that they hadn't won anything, and stopped. They made their way the burger place again.
"So Madamadadanemon," Inui interrogated their former enemy and now friend, "who was your old master?"
"Akutsumon," Madamadadanemon answered uninterestedly.
A glass shattered in the back of the room.
"Taka?"
"Taka-senpai, are you okay?"
Leafmon immediately went to clean the glass up, and Taka stood up slowly, apologizing. "Sorry, guys, it's just…Madamadadanemon, are you sure it's Akutsu?"
There was a collective gasp around the room. They'd just noticed the connection.
"No way…" Oishi said disbelievingly, "you think…"
"Akutsumon is Akutsu, nya?!"
Taka nodded. "I mean, it can't just be a coincidence."
Fuji smiled. "I agree," he decided, and that was that.
"Just one more thing," Inui said, not looking up from his laptop. "Why is your name so long? It's getting really annoying to type."
"Nya, not to mention say!" Eiji added.
Madamadadanemon pulled his hat down. "You can call me Pontamon instead."
Ryoma looked interested for the first time that day. "Ponta?"
Suddenly, a voice from the shadows started speaking. "Desu? Akutsumon, desu?" A tenimon wearing a green, lopsided headband flew out and flapped around repeating the same thing over and over and over again. Then they heard a rumbling outside, and Desumon shrieked out "Akutsumon!!!" and zoomed out the door. The Tenidestined glanced at one another, before going outside themselves. What greeted them was a scary, evil-looking tenimon whose shadow loomed over them darkly. The tenimon had pale skin, unruly, white hair and scary eyes…
"Akutsumon, nya!"
"Jin?" Taka said meekly. His tennis racquet started beeping and glowing, so he grabbed it. "BURNING!! LEAFMON, TENIVOLVE!!!"
The little plant tenimon burst into flames, growing bigger (HUGE), and the mild expression on his face was replaced by a crazed one. "Leafmon tenivolve to… BURNINGMON! COME ON, BURNING!!!"
The other tenimon did the same, except for Madamadadanemon, who was already in a tenivolved form.
"Mommymon tenivolve to… Lovemon!"
"Nekomon tenivolve to… GreatCatmon!"
"Aozumon tenivolve to… Akazumon!"
"Vipermon tenivolve to… Fshhhmon!"
"Smileymon tenivolve to… Tenshimon!"
"Peachmon tenivolve to… Dunkmon!"
They all attacked at once, but none of their attacks even fazed Akutsumon. Not about to give up, they tried again, with the same results. Akutsumon just laughed at their antics. Just when all hope seemed lost, Ryoma's racket started glowing so brightly that it almost blinded everyone (they were seeing color spots afterwards though). Suddenly, the same blinding light engulfed Pontamon.
The tenimon started to change into a human-like shape and sprouted pair of white wings. He looked almost exactly like Fuji's Tenshimon, except for the blackish greenish hair and golden brown eyes, and the tennis racquet that he held in his left hand. "Pontamon ultra super mega tenivolve to… TeniTenshimon!"
Everyone gazed in wonder at the tennis angel as sparkly stuff floated down around them, except for Fuji and Ryoma. Fuji because he's too good to "gaze in wonder", and Ryoma because the boy really couldn't care less.
TeniTenshimon hadn't stopped glowing, but the light was now concentrated above him. "Everyone, you need to lend me your powers!" he declared.
So they complied.
Burningmon created a ball of fire and launched it at the light, which absorbed it. Lovemon volleyed its Love Volley and GreatCatmon sent a shower of spiky beams, while Tenshimon shot a blue arrow of light. Following their example, Akazumon sent a wave of red water/poison, Fshhhmon released a bunch of mini snakes from its fangs, and Dunkmon dropped huge tennis ball into the light.
All of their attacks melded into TeniTenshimon's ball of light, giving it a rainbow-y effect. With a yell, TeniTenshimon drew back his racquet and shot it at top speed toward Akutsumon's heart. "Twist Serve!" he shouted (Ryoma in the background: He copied me!). The mystic ball bounced off of Akutsumon's chest and somehow slammed into his face.
"NOOOOOOO!!!!!" Akutsumon shrieked. "I HAVEN'T…FINISHED…TAKING OVER THE WORLD YET!!! CUUUUUURSE YOUUUU!!!!" And the evil tenimon fell. He started to shrink, and when he got up, it was Akutsu Jin, the normal teenager, instead. Well, just about as normal as Akutsu Jin can get.
"Jin!" Taka cried happily.
"Psh," Akutsu turned his head away and stuffed his hands into his pockets. Desumon turned into the human, Dan Taichi, and followed Akutsu as he walked away.
The rest of team was dancing real victory dances now in celebration.
"We did it!" Momo whooped.
"Fshhh. Stop being so loud and dramatic, you're annoying."
"You wanna mess, mamushi?!"
"Peach. Fshhh."
"Mada mada dane."
One of these days, they would go back to Tennis World and retrieve Tezuka. But for now, they all ran off blissfully into the setting sun, with the sweet taste of victory and glory still fresh on their tongues…
…Until the thunderous voice of their buchou jerked them all back into reality.
"Playing card games on the courts? TWENTY LAPS!"
All of the Seigaku regulars scrambled to gather their trading cards and action figures before hastily stuffing them into their bags and exiting the courts to sprint around them, in fear that their captain would confiscate them. Alas, perhaps they could continue their fantasy adventure some other day.
A certain blue-eyed brunette, however, sauntered over to his captain and offered a beaming smile that would have melted anyone on the spot, if it were not Tezuka. "Ne, Tezu-kun, even me?"
Tezuka looked at him sternly, trying to keep his right eye from twitching. "Especially you," he snapped. Because, somehow, he knew it was all Fuji's fault that any of this had even started in the first place.
That was probably the lamest…crappiest…stupidest non-cracky crack I've ever written. Is the ending too confusing? So, what did you think? Should I never consider doing stuff like this ever again??? I need some kind of feedback…I'M BEGGING YOU. I'LL WRITE ANYTHING!!! Almost.
On a side note, if you actually know about the whole Digimon thing, you can probably pick things out and know where I'm coming from. And, neko means "cat" in Japanese. Tenshi means "angel". Just in case you didn't know that.
Please review…I need to know what to do for the next chapter. XD