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Chapter 4: Déjà Vu

Veemon tied himself against the seat and readied himself for the coming "onslaught". He had quite a hard time convincing the man to let him onto the ride, as he was way below the minimum height. And if he digi-evolved to ExVeemon he would not fit in the seat, much to his despair. But in the end, he told the man that even if he fell, he would not be hurt. For the sake of him being a digimon, the man reluctantly let Veemon onto the ride.

Veemon looked around, he saw Gatomon with an evil grin on her face, along with Davis, Kari and a few of the others watching. There were also quite a few children watching him, and they are looked quite frightened, if anything.

The moment came, the machine started clanking. The steel bar connecting the two poles started spinning, which caused the next bar connecting the swing to go back and forth. It all sounded a bit strangely monstrous…

This is quite nice, actually, Veemonthought; as he flew back and forth through the air, it felt like just any other swing, well, bigger.

Then, with a sudden rise in the noise generated by the machine, the steel bar suddenly jerked, sending the unsuspecting Veemon flying up thirty metres in his seat. He was totally unprepared for the thrust and couldn't help but let out a scream. Then the swing dropped back down, the sense of zero-gravity took hold, and that really did make Veemon feel nauseous.

The swing suddenly swung back again, pushing Veemon's face against the on-rushing wind that battered into his unsuspecting body. He let out another embarrassing scream, but this time, the swing reached the top and did not drop back the way it came, instead, it went over the top and came back down in a full curve.

The adrenaline kicked in at that mind blowing moment, the nauseating feeling in Veemon's stomach turned into some kind of thrill; the overwhelming sense of helplessness became somewhat pleasurable. The swing went around once again, Veemon has totally lost the sense of direction and weight, he felt like being sucked into a vacuum again and shot out and being sucked back in again… well, that was a pretty bad description of it but um...

Air was baffled in and out of his lungs without him being able to control it. Surprisingly, Veemon enjoyed it; there is no point in opening his eyes, as everything just appears a blur. It was an indescribable feeling, an adrenaline fuelled euphoria that pitted himself against the crushing air resistance.

Veemon opened his eyes, and he froze. He was no longer in his seat, and around him was not a theme park, but a grey and barren wasteland, dying fires burnt in places… this has been a battle field, but what the heck?

Veemon smacked his head, just to make sure he weren't hallucinating, but no, he saw what he saw.

One thing that did not go away was the nauseous feeling of being repeatedly spun around; he looked down and gasped when he saw his body disintegrating into a whirlpool of data. Veemon panicked, he struggled and fumbled for anything to grab as he felt immobilized.

With a closer look, however, Veemon discovered that it was in fact the magical cistern of data forming his body, not destroying it. This is beginning to get weird… Veemon looked around desperately for any clues, anything to tell him what the heck was going on! But all he saw was him, the cloaked figure from the room.

"Familiar?" he asked.

"WHO ARE YOU?! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!"

"When you were born, you were a miracle… " He hesitated slightly when saying this, as if choking on his own words, a strange action, if anything. The figure lowered himself to Veemon's level and stared at him in the eye; Veemon could see the long dark patternless cloak the figure was wearing, it covered the entirety of his body, except for the eyes.

They were penetrating eyes, eyes filled energy and a burning sense of beastly fierceness in them, yet they were old eyes, wise and enigmatic, just by staring back at them Veemon felt like he knew so much about this person's character. There was something so awfully familiar about him...

"When you were born, you brought the hope that none had for so long." The figure continued speaking, "The data and wishes of so many, heart and soul combined. You were perfect!"

"WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!" Veemon snapped, he was rapidly losing patience with this person's strange ranting, "How do you expect me to understand what you are saying if you keep speaking in riddles. Let me go!" At that moment, Veemon swear he saw the hint of a tear in the figure's eyes.

He is crying? What? Why?

"The hope you brought soon gave many the bravery which they have lost it so long ago." The figure looked down and said, "But friendship does not exist without enmity, kindness cannot be recognized without cruelty. Hope... brought despair." Something about his tone was not right, it was as if he was trying to speak without any emotions, but somewhat failing at it, "You know, everything has a purpose. What was yours?"

"Why do you care?!" cried Veemon in anger and frustration, he just wanted to go, but that was clearly impossible, so he replied: "I deleted MaloMyotismon, THAT was my purpose!"

"Why you? Don't you ever wonder?" the figure spoke in the same tone still, "Was it redemption? A better purpose perhaps? Think about it; think about your real purpose, was it saving the world?"

"STOP IT! STOP IT!" cried Veemon as he pushed the cloaked figure over, this conversation was giving him a splitting headache, it hurt! It just somehow hurt so badly! "You are not even making any sense! Leave me alone! LET ME GO! LET ME GO!"

Veemon struggled against the current of data and tried to desperately break out of this prison of his consciousness. He tried to concentrate on something else, memories, any memory, just keep thinking! Keep thinking! Everybody's faces washed through his head, he just wanted to forget but it wasn't working! The pain was just getting worse, his whole world was beginning to buzz and ring!

Veemon kicked and grappled desperate for anything and he charged forward again and again as hard as he could.

He shouted desperately as he threw himself forward one last time: "LET ME GO!"

"FLASH"

Gatomon gasped in horror as she saw Veemon enter some kind of seizure and shivered violently in the seat, he burst out of the saddle while it was at the highest point and charged straight into midair. She ran towards him as fast as she could but not before he landed on the concrete floor on his front side… hard.

"VEEMON!" she cried out as she ran to his side, followed closely by Davis, Kari and several others. Davis picked Veemon up and said, "Veemon, are you OK? Say something, anything, please!"

Veemon opened his eyes slowly, he was not physically hurt all that badly though, but his head felt so dizzy, he could almost swear that someone mashed his brains up. "I'm fine." He said, "Just find me somewhere to rest. Seriously, I'm not hurt all that bad, please don't let me spoil your day."

"Don't be stupid, your safety is more important."

"Look, I can walk." Veemon hopped out of Davis's arms and ran around in a few circles and returned, "I just need somewhere to sit down for a second, honestly, I just need to clear my mind."

"But I want to know what happened to you! You suddenly passed out and the next minute you nearly committed suicide." Davis was not at all convinced, "If you insist, I will buy you an ice cream and get you somewhere to lie down."

"I like that idea." Veemon smile, he keeps seeing whirly patterns, the symptom was beyond dizziness.

A bit later:

Veemon lay on a bench snugly while holding a huge cone of ice cream, a smug smile on his face as he enjoyed his treat to no ends. Gatomon sat by his side, she stroked his arms gently, but in his trance like state, Veemon did not seem to notice. The pain in his head has subsided though; it seems that ice cream is a good digi-hallucination cure.

Kari smiled and whispered to Davis, "Come on, Davis. Veemon is in good hands." Davis looked at her and got her meaning, he walked away after waving a smile at Veemon.

"I'm sorry." Gatomon said with her head down, "My stupid bet got you hurt so badly."

"Don't worry, Gatomon." Veemon surprised her by replying, "It was actually quite fun."

"Stopping joking around when you are hurt like this!" Gatomon lightly smacked Veemon on the chest with her paw, it was quite gentle.

"Oww!" Veemon cried out in pain, he obviously faked it, but it fooled Gatomon…

"Sorry! I'm sorry; I didn't mean to hurt you!"

"He-he, I was just joking!"

"Why you little..." Gatomon raised a paw at Veemon.

"Don't hit me! I might die!" Veemon flinched slightly and closed his eyes, pretending to wince at the prospect of being hit. Gatomon sighed and put her paw down to stroke his face.

"Looks like I am going to have to guard over you for the rest of today." She said.

"Well, that's a shame. I was looking forward to going on more rides with you."

Gatomon shook her head, "You can be so dumb sometimes, you really need to care about yourself a bit more."

Veemon suddenly shot up straight and started hungrily munching down massive mouthfuls of ice cream. Then he paused and looked at Gatomon's surprised face, an evil thought ran through his head.

"Well, I ain't about to waste the rest of Davis's birth because of some silly ride accident, so... the fun begins now!" as he said that, Veemon smacked the rest of ice cream into Gatomon's face and began laughing like no tomorrow.

Gatomon wiped the gooey stuff away from her eyes and growled, "Oh! You will get that back!" She got up and tackled Veemon, who have already jumped out of the hut and taunted: "Catch me if you can!" before running off into the park and waited for her to chase him.

The two ran and ran, knocking several people over as they laughed as they went, it was the best fun they had in ages.

Thank you for reading!

I have tried to make the couple look cute and funny together, so if you don't like romance and find it boring, just move on to the adventure parts.

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