The Dark Jester
Chapter Three
Need of Assistance
The sound of an alarm clock rang and woke up a dazed chocolate-color haired teen. Tai slammed the clock and covered himself with his blanket. It was a long night, Tai was lucky to actually have some sleep at this time. Tai closed his eyes again to drift off into dreamland, but it didn't last long. Izzy came into the room and slammed the door closed.
"Where have you been Tai?" Izzy asked.
"Here's the answer from the magic 8-ball." Tai muttered from under his blanket, "Ask Again Later."
"I'm not joking Tai." Izzy walked over to his bed and pulled the blanket off.
Tai instantly curled up. He was wearing a pair of black shorts with no shirt on. "Hey, what gives?" Tai asked.
"You were out all night." Izzy said, "What did you do? Did you ruin Matt's date with Sora?"
"No." Tai said. He got up and rubbed his eyes, "Something came up."
"What?"
Tai then remembered. "My sister was getting raped that night."
"What?" Izzy was in shock. Tai's little sister was attacked that night, "How'd you find out?"
"I was walking off, leaving Matt and Sora alone. On my way back, I walked by an alleyway and Kari was there, being attacked." Tai said, "TK was knocked out, so he couldn't help."
"So you did?" Izzy asked, "How did you do it? You've never fought in this situation before and you should have a few cuts from it."
"That's why I need to show you something." Tai took his bag and reached into grab a particular item.
Kari sat on a chair next to a hospital bed. TK was lying on the bed, with a bandaid wrapped around his head. A doctor came in and Kari instantly got up.
"How is he?" Kari asked, "Will he be alright?"
"He'll be fine." The doctor replied, "But we cannot let anyone else come in. Anything that could distrupt his rest could affect his recovery."
"What about me?" Kari asked.
"You've been coooperative for now, I can allow you." The doctor said, "But if he has any friends or family members, then they can't come in. Well, not yet."
"Alright." Kari sat back down on the chair, resting her arms on the side of the bed.
As Kari continued to watch TK in his sleep, she began to remember the night before. Who was that mysterious person? Where did he come from? These questions entered her mind, making her tired. She decided to rest her head on the bed for a few minutes.
"So you're saying that the clown in your nightmares is a Digimon, and Gennai helped you to face this fear?" Izzy asked.
"Pretty much." Tai answered, "And I gotta tell you, it felt good."
"What do you plan to do?" Izzy asked, "If Gennai is right and Apocalymon is out there, something has to be done. We have to do something."
"No, I have to do something." Tai corrected, "They're no match for him now."
"Neither are you." Izzy said, "We had trouble the first time we fought him."
"I can manage." Tai said, "Besides, I have Saji by my side."
"But you can't do this alone." Izzy said, "We need to tell the others."
"No, don't." Tai said, "I told you all this for a reason."
"What reason is that?" Izzy asked.
"I could use your help."
Kari left the hospital. The doctors had told her that TK should be back to normal by tomorrow night and that he should be alone for the rest of the day. As Kari exited to doors of the hospital, Matt and Sora were outside, waiting for her.
"How is he?" Matt asked.
"He'll be fine." Kari said, "But he doesn't look to good right now."
"I'm sure he'll manage." Sora said. She walked to Kari and hugged her tightly, "I'm also glad that you're alright too."
"So am I." Kari responded.
"You told us that someone saved you." Matt said, "Who?"
"I don't know." Kari replied, "I never saw his real face. He had a mask."
"A mask?" Sora asked, "What kind of person would wear a mask?"
"A crazy person." Matt answered, "For all we know, he'll attack Kari when she least expects it."
"But he saved me." Kari said, "That's enough for me to know that he's a good guy."
"We'll have to wait and see." Sora said, "If he shows up again, someone will find out what he's done."
"You must be joking right?" Izzy asked, "You want me to be your technical supplier?"
"Why not?" Tai asked, "Batman had one."
"But he's not real." Izzy said, "Neither is Superman or Wonder Woman."
"You're missing my point." Tai said, "I need your help. My alias is going to be a clown and as a clown, I need some tricks up my sleeves. I need you to give me those tricks."
"But what kind of tricks do you want?" Izzy asked.
"You mean you'll do it?"
"No, that's not what I meant..."
"Too late genious." Tai said, "You're hired."
"But what about school? We're college students." Izzy said, "And this is something I care about."
"We have a whole summer to do nothing." Tai said, "Now can you help me, or not?"
"...alright." Izzy muttered, "What do you need?"
Tai simply grinned from the question. He had many things on his mind.
Matt's car was parked on the curb of Kari's apartment. The three were inside, keeping Kari company. Matt and Sora chose to say with Kari for as long as she needed, since TK couldn't be with her for the night.
"Where's Tai?" Matt asked, "Why isn't he here for you?"
"I really don't know." Kari replied, "He hasn't told me anything new since last year."
"What kind of brother is he?" Matt asked, "His sister is in distress and he's not there for her."
"Watch your mouth, asswipe." A voice said from the entrance.
All three of them looked over and saw Tai standing there. "Sorry I'm late, but Izzy needed me for something."
"Hey Tai." Sora smiled.
"Hi." Tai smiled back, "How's TK?"
"He's doing fine." Kari answered, "He'll be better soon."
"I heard abut what happened this morning." Tai said, "Are you serious about what they told me? Did some dude in a mask actually save you?"
"Yes." Kari replied, "And I am grateful that he did, regardless of how odd the appearance was."
"I'm just glad your stillalive." Tai said, "The thought of losing my sister at this age...I don't even want to think about it anymore."
Tai gave Kari a hug and held her tightly.
"Ahhhh. Tai's sweet spot's back." Matt grinned.
"Fuck you." Tai smirked.
"Watch the language boys." Kari said, "And Tai, I can't breathe."
Tai released his grip and let ari sit back down on the sofa.
"Well, since Tai's here, I don't think you need us anymore." Sora said, "We'll see you tomorrow."
"Bye guys." Kari said.
Matt and Sora both left the room and left Tai with his sister. The room was pretty silent. The parents weren't in the house and their cat was sleeping.
"Aren't you gonna go back to school?" Kari asked.
"Nah. I'll stay here for the night." Tai said, "After what happened last night, you need all the company you can get."
"Thanks." Kari smiled.
Nighttime came. Many expect Odaiba to be completely populated, but they are very wrong. There's one place in the city where no one goes to, well, not anymore. Reason being; it was the site where one of the greatest battles ever occured. It was the location where MaloMyotismon first appeared. It was a sight of destruction and ruin. With the amount of damage, no contruction was considered. It would have taken years to clean up the mess and rebuild, and it wasn't worth the time. This was the perfect location for one being. The only building that was standing was the remains of a warehouse, it was perfect. The creature stood in the center of the abandoned building, looking at the ruins.
"This shall be my base of operation." He said, "Now all I need is time, time to prepare for my attack and to prepare my troops."
Through the darkness, the moonlight shined through the holes on the walls. The light hit the figure, revealing his form. It was him, Apocalymon. All the parts of his body that were destroyed were replaced with a skeleton limb. The legs were covered by a black robe, but the boney feet were seen.
"They will pay for what they did to me." He growled. His eyes became blood-red with anger and lust for revenge.
Tai took the time to stay with Kari for a good week. It felt great to be back home, but the fact that his room was now Gatomon's, Tai had to sleep on the couch. Things were feeling great, the old familiar events happening at home made Tai feel warm inside; his mother with the awkward cooking, his father always leaving early and coming home late, his sister flirting with TK on the phone, He missed it all. During one afternoon, the phone rang and the person calling was someone new.
"Tai, its for you." Kari called out from her room.
"Got it." Tai called back, "Hello?"
"Tai, its Izzy." He replied, "Its all ready."
"How's it look?" Tai asked.
"That's for you to decide." Izzy said, "Now hurry up. The janitor's gonna get suspicious as to who's in this place."
"What?"
"Just get to the garden shed outside the football field." Izzy said.
"Now tell me why you told me to come to this garden shed." Tai asked as he entered the room.
"Cause I totaled the other one." Izzy said as he locked the door.
"You did what?" Tai saked stunned.
"I'll explain later." Izzy said, "Now, here it is."
Izzy pulled away a cloth to reveal the contents of what was underneath.
(For the sake of typing, I'm going to desribe the costume as if it was on wikipedia.)
The costume had casual types of clothing for the appearance, but it was picked to match the scene of darkness. Since that was the case, the color of the clothes was black or a gray color close to black. Theshirt was a dress shirt in a solid gray-near-black color and the pants were solid black dress pants. The stetson was solid black and had a large dark purple feather on the right side of the hat.
The boots were also solid black and they reached up to about 4-to-5 inches below the knee. The sole of the boot sheathes a blade. The material is made of a strong unbreakable metal, possibly only diamonds and scratch it. The blades are strong enough to peirce a clean hole through thick concrete, which is good for scaling walls. The mechanism for sheathing and unsheathing the blades is on the sides of the heels. By clicking the heels twice, the blades and unsheathe, as well as retract, depending on where the blades are.
(I am unable to find the names for these gloves, but here is what they look like. Remember to remove the spaces in between.www . leatherglovesonline . com / pages2 / rcmp . jpg). The gloves were solid black and had a metal wristband. This was put on the gloves for the use of the grappling cable. The cable is made of a combination of titaium metal and an adhesive plasma. The cable is able to be shot out from the forearm. The tip of the cable is able to stick to any surface, due to its adhesive plasma. The tips of the fore fingers on the gloves have unlimited nano-acid, which reacts with the titanium plasma. This allows the Dark Jester to break off the cable. When that is done, the tip of that cable becomes very adhesive, until it's stuck to a surface The nano-acid only reacts with the titanium-plasma cable, which means it'll do no damage to anything else whatsoever.. The thumbs and middle finger of the gloves have unlimited flintstone dust injected into it. By snapping the fingers, the flintstone dust reacts and creates a giant cloud of smoke, a perfect tool for one of those 'disappear in a cloud of smoke' tricks.
The costume also comes withsix swords. They are strapped to the back, with the hilts being the only visible things. The cape covered the rest of the swords. There are holes on the cape, near the neck, so that the sword sheathes are concealed, but the hilts are still in sight for the user to grab hold of. These are ordinary ninja swords and have to special additions. Each sword was different, giving Tai the use of many different weapon styles. There was a ninja sword, a katana, a Kung-fu sword, a rapier, a Taichi sword, and a crusader sword. The arrangements were put so that the swords were equally balanced on Tai's shoulders.
Like all heros, they need something to contain their equipment, well, small equipment. That's what a utility belt is for. This one is a dark grey metal, which doesn't reflect light. The buckle has an image of two knives crossing blades engraved on it. There are compartments on the left side of the belt which house shuriken(ninja stars.) There's a panel on the right side, next to the buckle that contains detonators.A small cylindrical device that is placed next to the panel is the remote for the small bombs. These explosives are very small, half the size of a dime, but they have enough power to completely destroy one average sized room. Throughout the entire belt, there are knife handles attached. They are actually telescoping knives. The blades are inside the handle and can slide out by twisting the hilt/gaurd. The back of the belt has a device that allows the Dark Jester to be the only one to use this. The back of the belt has a finger/thumbprint scanner. By scanning the finger/thumb, the belt will lock or unlock, so that only Tai can put the belton or take it off.
And last, but not least, there's the mask. Unfortunately, not much is known about it. Izzy has done nothing to it. So far, Tai discovered that wearing it, it gives him an english accent.
"And as you can tell, that explains the destruction of the other garden shed." Izzy said.
"You blew it up?" Tai asked, somewhat amazed from all the gadgets on his costume.
"I needed to test the detonators out." Izzy said.
"Where did you even get all this stuff?" Tai asked, "How much did you spend? Like 10,000?"
"Well let's see." Izzy began to think back, "I had all the ingredients to make homemade detonators, I knew how to make remote controls for almost anything, I know how to make paintball guns, my mother once worked at a Salvation Army site, I happen to know how to weld. I have lots of metal. So if I guess this right, I spent around 1000 american dollars."
"Why american?" Tai asked.
"You realize how hard it was to get my hands on the utility belt that was used in the Batman Begins movie?" Izzy asked, "It took my days. I actually had to call people."
"You're saying that this belt is the exact same one used in the Batman movie?" Tai asekd shocked.
"You bet." Izzy said, "It would have been a simple $400 price, but since they needed it for their sequel, I needed to pay themdouble as a bribe. The extra 200 was needed for them to get materials to make another one for the movie sequel."
"A sequel?" Tai asked, "Holy shit. I can't wait for it to come out."
"Can we discuss about this right now?" Izzy asked pointing to the suit, "Unfortunatly, I wasn't able to make it bulletproof, that would have been more money. And I don't want to be broke at this age."
"So I guess everything's done?" Tai asked.
"You bet." Izzy said, "But do kinda suggest one thing."
"What?" Tai asked.
Izzy simply smiled as he took out a pair of scissors and a comb. Tai looked in confusion as to what Izzy was planning. The college students that were nearby could only remember hearing the sound of a teenage male screaming as they heard another one yelling 'Hold Still!'. They all simply thought that there was a gay rapist in there with his victim.
"What's the big idea?" Tai screamed, "You cut my hair!"
"I figured a new look might be nice." Izzy answered, "You could sure use one. I don't think a chick wants to date a guy with a raincloud as hair."
"Very funny." Tai said, "How does it look?"
"Check the mirror." Izzy gave Tai a small hand mirror for Tai to look at.
He brought the mirror to his face and examined the new look. The puffy look was now gone and left a completely new look. His hair was brought backand slicked down. The slick left several spiked ends which gave Tai a gangster look(picture Hwarange from Tekken 5. Not the one in the white uniform, but the one in the dark green clothing.)
"Oh my god!" Tai screamed. Izzy backed away slowly, he was afraid that he would end up meeting Tai's fist. "I am gorgeous!"
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