MISFITS IN ACTION: Glitch Tekka (Part 2.)
Not an hour later near nightfall, we were kickin' it back at the Chateau, looking over the Digi-phone after I had told Phage Gennai's story. He said in no fanciness that he thought the guy was nuts.
"Old man fell for it like Nanimon for Soda." Phage laughed, leaning back in his chair. I snickered, looking over the Phone.
"You, my friend, are a genius Businessman."
"Of course. There's always the Desperation Angle, if the Customer is desperate enough, you can get anything from'em." Phage sighed, bragging.
"Hundred Digi-credits a pop, Two hella powerful Digimon…"
"How you figure that?" Phage asked.
"He sounded like de'se glitches might be trouble, so of course he's gonna send us some Real Fighters o' Digimon. PLUS, something to help'em digivolve? SCORE!" I laughed. Phage snickered, but was interrupted by a very loud screaming, followed by others. I shot up out of my chair with Phage, rushing out the door quickly. What greeted us was a horrible sight.
There was a huge Digimon, at least ten feet tall, with skin like slimy grey scales, spikes all over it's body like a pin cushion. It had thick, strong arms like a tree trunk with long black talons adorning It's freakishly huge and jointed hands. It sat upon four strong Legs ending with what looked like Metal Claws with wrists like wheels, it's legs covered in metal pipes, wires, and panels, Along it's slimy back was a row of grey panels also. A strange, long metallic tail ending with what looked like a nasty drill whipped around it like a snake, but all this wasn't the most horrifying part of it, it's head was much worse. A Long jaw, like an alligators, which was filled with hundreds of rows of jagged teeth stuck in it like glass shards, A Long, yellowish tongue snapped around inside it. It had a row of Red eyes along it's forehead, all like an insects, moving around to look at the victims below it. It's skin along it's head was like a mix of Metal and slime, almost looking like it was drooping and swinging around freely.
Needless to say…a scary creature.
It had grabbed two Sukamon and started Munching them down as Several other Digimon ran from it, screaming their heads off. All This Screaming seemed to gain its attention though, as it starts roaring loudly, pouncing towards a pair of Numemon. I stood there numbly, staring at it with my jaw practically touching the dirt, but Phage snapped into action, picking up an empty crate and flinging it into the Thing's head. All it Really did was get impaled on a spike, but it caught it's attention, since it roared and turned towards Phage and myself.
"….Is…Is it too late to re-negotiate our Contract with Gennai?" I gulped as Phage backed up, shaking a bit.
"I hope not…But for now..SHUT YER TRAP AND BEAT YER FEET!" He Cried, grabbing my arm and practically dragging me to the right as The Thing swiped at us, slicing the Door of the Chateau clean off. We faced the Monstrous Digimon as it focused all six of it's eyes on us, snarling. We both backed up slowly as it started advancing on us.
"Uhm….I think you pissed it off…" I cried. It swiveled it's eyes to me then, almost as if demonstrating it's power, removed the crate from it's spikes and crushed it with one enormous hand.
"Most…Definetly." Phage gulped. Suddenly I felt my back hit a wall and I turned my head to look. We were backed against one of the huts, the creature blocking our only avenues of escape.
"Well…Phage…It's been nice working with you…" I muttered as I closed my eye's tightly. I could smell it's putrid odor as it dipped it's head closer to Phage and I. Then, almost as if he was trying to decide if we were tasty, took a large sniff. I trembled, but stopped as I heard it start stomping backwards, so I opened one eye and saw it turning it's back to us, going after a Gotsumon.
"Phage…"
"Are we dead yet?"
"No…." He breathed a sigh of relief and opened his eyes.
"Didn't think so, Didn't think Hell was this cool…" He muttered. I was about to reply when I heard two loud groans. I turned and gasped. On the ground were what looked like two hazy outlines of Sukamon.
"Phage…Lookit this…" I breathed, kneeling down. He trotted over and kneeled next to me, eyes fixated on the Sukamon.
"Looks like…they were deflated like a balloon." He muttered. I Nodded and reached out, touching one of the Sukamons hands. It clung to my finger like glue, felt like it too. I pulled the Stuff back a bit before it snapped back to the sukamon with a sick Plurping sound. I heard Several more screams, and saw the monster Digimon attacking a group of Gotsumon.
"Emmy, We gotta help'em!" Phage growled, looking around.
"Yah and get munched like popcorn? I don't THINK so." I retorted, getting to my feet. I turned to Phage, only to find him dragging a hose from behind the hut, pointing it at the Monster. Before I could say anything, he had turned it on and a powerful jet of water slammed into the monster, barely fazing it. It turned once more towards us and started roaring, brushing the water off like you might a fly. Then it did the most horrifying thing yet, it talked.
"DATA SPIKE!" It roared in a guttural voice, it's spikes flying out of its body like missiles. That was the last thing I saw OR heard before I felt something akin to FIRE in my left eye and something graze across my head, knocking me out cold.
I woke up with a start, my eye feeling like it was made of lead. In fact, I couldn't really see out of that eye, nothing really at all. My Right eye was good though. I could see the top of a hut, and if I moved it right, I saw several Deflated Sukamon, Gotsumon, and Numemon laying on various beds. I slowly sat up, a small dull pain in my head as I did so. I saw Phage talking to a Pumpkinmon in a white labcoat, and then I figured it out. I was In Doc PD's medical hut. Doc PD decided to be the Doctor around these parts not because he was qualified, but because he was the only one who was crazy enough to TAKE the job. See, he's a bit touched in the head, I suppose I would be too if I had an axe embedded in my head. That, and he has this weird Jerseyish accent.
"What's with the Sukamon?" I stood up, trying to hear more of what Phage and Doc PD were talking about.
"Well, basically dey's got dere primary Data Drained from'em." He shrugged, Scribbling something on a clipboard.
"Data?"
"Yah, we're all made up o' data, 'Cept you'se Humans. Looks like dis T'ing is a Data Sucker."
"An apt name in my opinion." I interrupted. They both turned to me in a bit of surprise.
"Should he be walking?" Phage asked.
"Hey not my problem." PD Shrugged, going back to scribbling something down.
"You're a Doctor!! You gotta care for your patients!"
"Screw them, Screw you, and Screw Irene while yer at it." PD Shrugged.
"Okay, break it up. First question I got, What the HELL happened to my eye?" I said, exasperated.
"Just a bit o' damage ta tha Retina…."
"YOU SAID CORNEA EARLIER!!!" Phage cried. Doc PD just shrugged absently.
"Ehhhh, His Retina or Cornea got a bit bruised!"
"Well how can we tell which one, you overgrown JACKOLANTERN?!?!" I cried.
"Simple, if it's the Retina, you'se screwed right up da wazoo, If it's da Cornea he shoulds be'se able ta see inna few days." Real Professionalism there. Phage just groaned, a vein on his head starting to throb.
"Next question, what tha HELL was that thing?"
"Your Momma." PD sneered.
"Some sort of Data Sucker." Phage growled, glancing over at the Sukamon and Numemon. Suddenly we turned our heads at the sound of a ringing Telephone in another Room.
"Scuse me, Ah'll go take it." Pd Said, hopping off the table and running into the other room.
"Good Riddance To bad veggies." I muttered.
"Emitt, you think it'll come back?" Phage asked. I sighed and nodded.
"Looks like it feeds on Data, so it'll come back for feedin' time. Speaking of which, what happened after the Sucker Put out my eye?" Phage just scratched his head.
"That's the thing, it was going on a smorgasborg of Digimon, then when the sun set completely, it took off into the swamp. I'd say Judging by the timeframe of the attack, it only comes out near sunset."
"Well…Now we know WHEN it'll attack.."
"But that's all we know about it." Phage grumbled. Suddenly PD came back in, holding a Cellphone.
"Scuse me, some one named Gennay Is askin's fer ya…"
"it's GENNAI…AND WHY YOU STILL WAITIN' TO GIVE IT TO US?!?!" I cried, snatching it from the Measly Pumpkin pie.
"Hello? Emitt speaking…"
"Hello! This is Gennai. Andromon detected a Glitch in your area…have you confronted it yet?" Gee, how to the point can you get?
"…You could say It was an eye sore, very hard to miss." I said, a bit grumpy. But then, if you'd had your eye sliced open, you'd be a bit grumpy as well.
"Good, what did It look like?" I sat down for the next ten minutes describing the Stupid Data Sucker, then what it did when it attacked.
"Hmm…Sounds serious."
"Well no DUH!!! You never said ANYTHING about getting KILLED in our agreement!! I want to renegotiate our settlement!!" I practically screamed. I heard a chuckle on the other end, which further aggravated me.
"I specifically remember TELLING you that some of the Glitches were SEVERE…" Great, Semantics.
"YOU DIDN'T SAY LIFE THREATENING NOW DID YOU?!?!" I retorted angrily.
"You agreed to it nonetheless, So you will deliver or I'll sick Deputymon and Starmon on you. Now, In light of the Glitch, I'll make sure to send the Digimon Promised as soon as possible, but it'll be a few more days before I can cobble something together for the Digivolving aspect of our contract. The Digimon should arrive in about a day or so." Later, after the phone call, Phage told me my eye's had bugged out much like Roger Rabbit.
"A DAY?!?!? WE GOT TILL SUNSET UNTIL THIS THING COMES BACK!!!"
"Then you better figure out a plan. This Glitch is called Garukamon, by the sound of your description. He sucks the Data out of Digimon, then uses it to help him get stronger. After about Three Feedings, depending on the amount of data he ingests, He'll Digivolve into…Let me check….Oh dear…..By My calculatins, He'll digivolve into Gejomon." Huh, sounded like a Computer Company.
"Which would be what?" I heard a sound like tapping for a few seconds before Gennai answered.
"A Mega Digimon that irradiates a disruptive energy field around itself that also acts like a sort of Manipulative field, allowing it to control the data of the Digital world…" Okay….That made no sense to me really.
"Me no habla Espanol!"
"What?"
"Speak English."
"It could turn the entire digital world into whatever it wants."
"Ah crap."
"Basically."
"Next question; How do we stop it?" I heard more tapping now.
"Well, If it doesn't ingest any Data for a day or so, it will start to break down into raw data and eventually get Reformatted into a Digi-egg, maybe more depending on how much data it had ingested."
"Alright….last question..ANY IDEA HOW TO DO THAT?!?" More tapping. I swear, it sounded like he was on a TYPEWRITER.
"Well, During the Day and Night a Garukamon usually takes shelter somewhere damp, usually a cave. It ALSO is an aquatic type Digimon so possibly an underwater cave. The best thing to do might be to trap it in it's cave." Of course, how simple, but how did he know all this?
"How'd you know all this?"
"I'm sorry, that was your last question remember? The Digimon will arrive within a day, so until then try to stop the Garukamon on your own." With that, he hung up. I turned to Phage and basically retold what Gennai said to me.
"That old BASTARD!!" He growled. I, on the other hand, had a much more negative thought.
"You know what this means right?" I sighed.
"….No…not him….can't we just Swim it?!?!"
"Nope. Swamp's too thick and we don't even know where the cave is."
"Anyone but Him!" Phage begged.
"Only Choice."
"…Water Digimon?"
"None around."
"Boat?"
"Underwater."
"Send someone else?"
"Who?"
"Wait for the Digimon we we're promised?"
"Too Long."
"Ah Crap."
"Basically."
Not an hour later near nightfall, we were kickin' it back at the Chateau, looking over the Digi-phone after I had told Phage Gennai's story. He said in no fanciness that he thought the guy was nuts.
"Old man fell for it like Nanimon for Soda." Phage laughed, leaning back in his chair. I snickered, looking over the Phone.
"You, my friend, are a genius Businessman."
"Of course. There's always the Desperation Angle, if the Customer is desperate enough, you can get anything from'em." Phage sighed, bragging.
"Hundred Digi-credits a pop, Two hella powerful Digimon…"
"How you figure that?" Phage asked.
"He sounded like de'se glitches might be trouble, so of course he's gonna send us some Real Fighters o' Digimon. PLUS, something to help'em digivolve? SCORE!" I laughed. Phage snickered, but was interrupted by a very loud screaming, followed by others. I shot up out of my chair with Phage, rushing out the door quickly. What greeted us was a horrible sight.
There was a huge Digimon, at least ten feet tall, with skin like slimy grey scales, spikes all over it's body like a pin cushion. It had thick, strong arms like a tree trunk with long black talons adorning It's freakishly huge and jointed hands. It sat upon four strong Legs ending with what looked like Metal Claws with wrists like wheels, it's legs covered in metal pipes, wires, and panels, Along it's slimy back was a row of grey panels also. A strange, long metallic tail ending with what looked like a nasty drill whipped around it like a snake, but all this wasn't the most horrifying part of it, it's head was much worse. A Long jaw, like an alligators, which was filled with hundreds of rows of jagged teeth stuck in it like glass shards, A Long, yellowish tongue snapped around inside it. It had a row of Red eyes along it's forehead, all like an insects, moving around to look at the victims below it. It's skin along it's head was like a mix of Metal and slime, almost looking like it was drooping and swinging around freely.
Needless to say…a scary creature.
It had grabbed two Sukamon and started Munching them down as Several other Digimon ran from it, screaming their heads off. All This Screaming seemed to gain its attention though, as it starts roaring loudly, pouncing towards a pair of Numemon. I stood there numbly, staring at it with my jaw practically touching the dirt, but Phage snapped into action, picking up an empty crate and flinging it into the Thing's head. All it Really did was get impaled on a spike, but it caught it's attention, since it roared and turned towards Phage and myself.
"….Is…Is it too late to re-negotiate our Contract with Gennai?" I gulped as Phage backed up, shaking a bit.
"I hope not…But for now..SHUT YER TRAP AND BEAT YER FEET!" He Cried, grabbing my arm and practically dragging me to the right as The Thing swiped at us, slicing the Door of the Chateau clean off. We faced the Monstrous Digimon as it focused all six of it's eyes on us, snarling. We both backed up slowly as it started advancing on us.
"Uhm….I think you pissed it off…" I cried. It swiveled it's eyes to me then, almost as if demonstrating it's power, removed the crate from it's spikes and crushed it with one enormous hand.
"Most…Definetly." Phage gulped. Suddenly I felt my back hit a wall and I turned my head to look. We were backed against one of the huts, the creature blocking our only avenues of escape.
"Well…Phage…It's been nice working with you…" I muttered as I closed my eye's tightly. I could smell it's putrid odor as it dipped it's head closer to Phage and I. Then, almost as if he was trying to decide if we were tasty, took a large sniff. I trembled, but stopped as I heard it start stomping backwards, so I opened one eye and saw it turning it's back to us, going after a Gotsumon.
"Phage…"
"Are we dead yet?"
"No…." He breathed a sigh of relief and opened his eyes.
"Didn't think so, Didn't think Hell was this cool…" He muttered. I was about to reply when I heard two loud groans. I turned and gasped. On the ground were what looked like two hazy outlines of Sukamon.
"Phage…Lookit this…" I breathed, kneeling down. He trotted over and kneeled next to me, eyes fixated on the Sukamon.
"Looks like…they were deflated like a balloon." He muttered. I Nodded and reached out, touching one of the Sukamons hands. It clung to my finger like glue, felt like it too. I pulled the Stuff back a bit before it snapped back to the sukamon with a sick Plurping sound. I heard Several more screams, and saw the monster Digimon attacking a group of Gotsumon.
"Emmy, We gotta help'em!" Phage growled, looking around.
"Yah and get munched like popcorn? I don't THINK so." I retorted, getting to my feet. I turned to Phage, only to find him dragging a hose from behind the hut, pointing it at the Monster. Before I could say anything, he had turned it on and a powerful jet of water slammed into the monster, barely fazing it. It turned once more towards us and started roaring, brushing the water off like you might a fly. Then it did the most horrifying thing yet, it talked.
"DATA SPIKE!" It roared in a guttural voice, it's spikes flying out of its body like missiles. That was the last thing I saw OR heard before I felt something akin to FIRE in my left eye and something graze across my head, knocking me out cold.
I woke up with a start, my eye feeling like it was made of lead. In fact, I couldn't really see out of that eye, nothing really at all. My Right eye was good though. I could see the top of a hut, and if I moved it right, I saw several Deflated Sukamon, Gotsumon, and Numemon laying on various beds. I slowly sat up, a small dull pain in my head as I did so. I saw Phage talking to a Pumpkinmon in a white labcoat, and then I figured it out. I was In Doc PD's medical hut. Doc PD decided to be the Doctor around these parts not because he was qualified, but because he was the only one who was crazy enough to TAKE the job. See, he's a bit touched in the head, I suppose I would be too if I had an axe embedded in my head. That, and he has this weird Jerseyish accent.
"What's with the Sukamon?" I stood up, trying to hear more of what Phage and Doc PD were talking about.
"Well, basically dey's got dere primary Data Drained from'em." He shrugged, Scribbling something on a clipboard.
"Data?"
"Yah, we're all made up o' data, 'Cept you'se Humans. Looks like dis T'ing is a Data Sucker."
"An apt name in my opinion." I interrupted. They both turned to me in a bit of surprise.
"Should he be walking?" Phage asked.
"Hey not my problem." PD Shrugged, going back to scribbling something down.
"You're a Doctor!! You gotta care for your patients!"
"Screw them, Screw you, and Screw Irene while yer at it." PD Shrugged.
"Okay, break it up. First question I got, What the HELL happened to my eye?" I said, exasperated.
"Just a bit o' damage ta tha Retina…."
"YOU SAID CORNEA EARLIER!!!" Phage cried. Doc PD just shrugged absently.
"Ehhhh, His Retina or Cornea got a bit bruised!"
"Well how can we tell which one, you overgrown JACKOLANTERN?!?!" I cried.
"Simple, if it's the Retina, you'se screwed right up da wazoo, If it's da Cornea he shoulds be'se able ta see inna few days." Real Professionalism there. Phage just groaned, a vein on his head starting to throb.
"Next question, what tha HELL was that thing?"
"Your Momma." PD sneered.
"Some sort of Data Sucker." Phage growled, glancing over at the Sukamon and Numemon. Suddenly we turned our heads at the sound of a ringing Telephone in another Room.
"Scuse me, Ah'll go take it." Pd Said, hopping off the table and running into the other room.
"Good Riddance To bad veggies." I muttered.
"Emitt, you think it'll come back?" Phage asked. I sighed and nodded.
"Looks like it feeds on Data, so it'll come back for feedin' time. Speaking of which, what happened after the Sucker Put out my eye?" Phage just scratched his head.
"That's the thing, it was going on a smorgasborg of Digimon, then when the sun set completely, it took off into the swamp. I'd say Judging by the timeframe of the attack, it only comes out near sunset."
"Well…Now we know WHEN it'll attack.."
"But that's all we know about it." Phage grumbled. Suddenly PD came back in, holding a Cellphone.
"Scuse me, some one named Gennay Is askin's fer ya…"
"it's GENNAI…AND WHY YOU STILL WAITIN' TO GIVE IT TO US?!?!" I cried, snatching it from the Measly Pumpkin pie.
"Hello? Emitt speaking…"
"Hello! This is Gennai. Andromon detected a Glitch in your area…have you confronted it yet?" Gee, how to the point can you get?
"…You could say It was an eye sore, very hard to miss." I said, a bit grumpy. But then, if you'd had your eye sliced open, you'd be a bit grumpy as well.
"Good, what did It look like?" I sat down for the next ten minutes describing the Stupid Data Sucker, then what it did when it attacked.
"Hmm…Sounds serious."
"Well no DUH!!! You never said ANYTHING about getting KILLED in our agreement!! I want to renegotiate our settlement!!" I practically screamed. I heard a chuckle on the other end, which further aggravated me.
"I specifically remember TELLING you that some of the Glitches were SEVERE…" Great, Semantics.
"YOU DIDN'T SAY LIFE THREATENING NOW DID YOU?!?!" I retorted angrily.
"You agreed to it nonetheless, So you will deliver or I'll sick Deputymon and Starmon on you. Now, In light of the Glitch, I'll make sure to send the Digimon Promised as soon as possible, but it'll be a few more days before I can cobble something together for the Digivolving aspect of our contract. The Digimon should arrive in about a day or so." Later, after the phone call, Phage told me my eye's had bugged out much like Roger Rabbit.
"A DAY?!?!? WE GOT TILL SUNSET UNTIL THIS THING COMES BACK!!!"
"Then you better figure out a plan. This Glitch is called Garukamon, by the sound of your description. He sucks the Data out of Digimon, then uses it to help him get stronger. After about Three Feedings, depending on the amount of data he ingests, He'll Digivolve into…Let me check….Oh dear…..By My calculatins, He'll digivolve into Gejomon." Huh, sounded like a Computer Company.
"Which would be what?" I heard a sound like tapping for a few seconds before Gennai answered.
"A Mega Digimon that irradiates a disruptive energy field around itself that also acts like a sort of Manipulative field, allowing it to control the data of the Digital world…" Okay….That made no sense to me really.
"Me no habla Espanol!"
"What?"
"Speak English."
"It could turn the entire digital world into whatever it wants."
"Ah crap."
"Basically."
"Next question; How do we stop it?" I heard more tapping now.
"Well, If it doesn't ingest any Data for a day or so, it will start to break down into raw data and eventually get Reformatted into a Digi-egg, maybe more depending on how much data it had ingested."
"Alright….last question..ANY IDEA HOW TO DO THAT?!?" More tapping. I swear, it sounded like he was on a TYPEWRITER.
"Well, During the Day and Night a Garukamon usually takes shelter somewhere damp, usually a cave. It ALSO is an aquatic type Digimon so possibly an underwater cave. The best thing to do might be to trap it in it's cave." Of course, how simple, but how did he know all this?
"How'd you know all this?"
"I'm sorry, that was your last question remember? The Digimon will arrive within a day, so until then try to stop the Garukamon on your own." With that, he hung up. I turned to Phage and basically retold what Gennai said to me.
"That old BASTARD!!" He growled. I, on the other hand, had a much more negative thought.
"You know what this means right?" I sighed.
"….No…not him….can't we just Swim it?!?!"
"Nope. Swamp's too thick and we don't even know where the cave is."
"Anyone but Him!" Phage begged.
"Only Choice."
"…Water Digimon?"
"None around."
"Boat?"
"Underwater."
"Send someone else?"
"Who?"
"Wait for the Digimon we we're promised?"
"Too Long."
"Ah Crap."
"Basically."