Digi Court

"I would like to call A Miss Lopmon to the stand." Renamon searched the room. There was no sign of Lopmon. Terriermon looked around as well. The little rabbit had been like a statue up until now. He glanced around the room. He sort of looked scared. Like he was waiting for something to happen. Whatever it was it scared him pretty good because his head was darting from one side of the room to the other side. He continuously searched but he did not find what he was looking for. That is, until it jumped onto him.

"Terriermon!" Lopmon came bursting out of nowhere and landed on the rabbit. Terriermon fell backwards and tripped so that he and Lopmon went tumbling to the floor. The second rabbit digimon did not seem to care though. "Oh, I missed you so much honey!" Impmon giggled. "I was so bored over at the studio and I was just saying to myself 'where is my Terriermon?' Then I remembered that you were down here at the court so I decided to come by and be a witness so that I can be closer to you. Even if it is only for a while. I have a shooting pretty soon you know. Gekomon can be so demanding when it comes to being pretty." Impmon laughed again. Lopmon glared at him. She was almost exactly like Terriermon but she looked like a chocolate version of him. She had two extra horns and the pattern on her chest was not a normal green triangle but two yellowish triangles that sort of connected together. Strangely enough, Lopmon had on a white dress that completely clashed with her fur. She looked pretty ridiculous. The part of her that sent Impmon into a fit of laughter, however, was the fact that she was wearing a pair of high heels. She looked like she had just gotten the princess pretty pants treatment from Suzie. Impmon laughed. Lopmon turned to him, stumbling in her shoes. "Is something funny?" He hurriedly shook his head no and cupped his hands over his mouth to stifle his laughter. Lopmon sneered at him and then walked up to the podium, stumbling and tripping the whole way. If anyone else but Impmon noticed they were very good at not laughing. Lopmon got up and spoke into the mike. "Ok, now can we hurry this up? I have a shoot that I have to do really soon." Lopmon took one of her hands and pushed on of her long, rabbit ears up like it was hair. Impmon started to laugh again and so he stifled it as best as he could. He had never imagined that it was possible for Lopmon to look like such a complete idiot. But there it was right in front of him. And it was funny!

"We'll try to not keep you for very long Miss Lopmon. Now, if you will please tell the court what it was that you saw on May 15th in the year 1992."

Lopmon placed her three fingers on her chin and pretended to think hard. "Well… My memory is pretty fuzzy from that day. Perhaps if I had something to go on. Like a name. Or a face. Or a victim. Or… something… green…"

Renamon rolled her eyes. She pulled out a wad of bills from the purse on the table and Jeri didn't even seem to care that she was paying the witness right in the middle of court. She turned to Impmon and pointed. "The name is Impmon, there is his face and here…" she pulled out another picture of Calumon's mangled body and showed it to Lopmon, "is your victim. And there is your… green…"

Lopmon smiled. "Now! I think I remember now!" Impmon sighed and laid his head on the table. It would be a long day. "Well, on that day I had just left the studio and I was saying goodbye to Lilamon. I walked into the park with Terriermon here. He was dressed in his best baseball uniform and he looked really cute. All sweaty and ready for a fight after the game, like he always does. He even had his victory bat in his gloved hands and he was swinging it happily saying that his team had won the finals. I gave him a kiss for that an I promised him something great when we got home, if you catch my drift, and then we said hello to Calumon as he jumped around near Guilmon's old hide out. We saw Impmon a little while later and said hello. He looked to be in a very bad mood and so just waved and continued on his way.

"Later on Terriermon and I split up by the crossroads and I touched up my make-up. I heard a screech from behind me in the park and then I heard Terriermon call out to his little friend, Calumon. Of course I ran back into the park. But as you can tell that was quite hard seeing as I was in high heels. As I ran I came across Impmon. He was lying on the cement and he looked like he was in shock. I tried to shake him awake but he was scared and he didn't answer me. He wouldn't wake up. He just stared into space and looked scared and shocked and any other thing like that.

"When I caught up to Terriermon he was with a crowd all around Calumon. I have Impmon slung around my shoulder and I was dragging him along with me to the site. They were all scared and Terriermon pointed to Impmon. He said that he did it and that he saw the whole thing and that Impmon had gotten mad because Calumon had said 'hi' to him. Then he took the bat in his gloves and took Impmon's hand. Impmon was still in shock so he didn't do anything. Terriermon took off Impmon's gloves and then put his hands on the bat. He swung it around and said that, that was how Impmon had done it. He said that, that was how he swung the bat around just before he killed him. He said that Impmon had run off after he did it and he looked surprised but glad that he had done it. Terriermon said that Impmon was always planning to do that to Calumon because he thought that he was annoying and that this day was just the day the plot was put into action. He said that Impmon hadn't seen him hiding in the bushes." Lopmon took a breath and smiled as she sat forward and placed her hands on the front portion of the podium.

Renamon smiled and sat down. "Your witness." She gave Allan a glare before talking with Terriermon.

Allan stood up and walked over to the podium. He looked Lopmon up and down and then continued. "So… After you left the studio you said that Terriermon had a bat with him?" Lopmon nodded. "What happened to the bat after Calumon's dead body was found?"

"Well… Actually… I don't know. He had it a minute then we found that bloodied one and he showed what happened when Impmon used the bat by putting it in his bare hands and swinging it."

"When you found Impmon did he have blood on himself?"

"No."

"Shouldn't beating Calumon like that have had some blood splatter? There was some on the bat. Did you see anyone in the crowd with blood on them?"

"Terriermon had some blood on his shirt but he said that it was because he tried to give Calumon CPR."

Allan raised an eyebrow. "He tried to give CPR to someone that had, had the guts beaten out of them?" She nodded. "Can you tell me, why did Terriermon not stop Impmon if he saw him killing Calumon?" She shrugged. "Can you tell me what he had been doing in the bushes?" She shook her head and then shrugged like she had no idea. "Can you tell me why Terriermon did not go for help?" She shrugged. Allan smiled and returned to his seat. "No further questions your honor. The defense rests." Then he sat down.

Jeri turned to Renamon. "And you?"

Renamon stood up and said: "The complainant rests."

Impmon smiled. His luck was finally changing.