Chapter 10
Digital Déjà Vu
The Kitchen was a pretty good size.
It had several stoves, hundreds of platters, and plenty of cutlery.
I didn't even have to look in the cabinets to know that they were full of spices and other ingredients for any food ordered.
I could see that a walk-in freezer was in the back so they had other food there that needed to be kept cold.
Then I noticed that there were no other people back there but us.
"Where are the other employees?" I asked
"There aren't any," said Digitamamon, "I don't get many customers because of my no Digi-Dollars policy so I can't pay employees."
"But how do you cook without arms?" asked Brittni.
"That's simple Brittni," I said, "He de-digivolves into his Champion Level, Nanimon, and cooks that way. Then, most likely, he places the trays on his head and digivolves back to Ultimate."
Digitamamon nodded, then we heard the sound of the door opening.
"A customer," he said excitedly, "get to your stations."
He ran out of the kitchen and I walked over to see who it was.
It was a Guilmon, not like Jacob's just a normal one.
I stepped away from the door and walked up to the others.
"Brittni," I said, "could you find me the bread?"
"Sure, but…"
Just then, Digitamamon came in, "The customer wants a big bowl of spaghetti and four big pieces of garlic bread."
"Already on it sir." I said as I walked to the cabinet and pulled out several spices.
He left and I readied the water for noodles.
I had Brittni and Kitdramon preparing the bread and Squire was breaking the spaghetti.
Once the noodles were done, I seasoned them with spices, toasted the bread, and placed it all on a platter and handed it off to Digitamamon.
A few minutes later, Digitamamon came in with an astonished look on his face.
"Something wrong, Digitamamon?" I asked.
"No," said Digitamamon, "something's right. That Guilmon just left a 20 dollar tip."
Brittni gave me a confused look.
"There's not that much Earth money here, so that's a lot." I explain.
Digitamamon looked like he was about to fall over, so I decided to get his mind on something different.
"We have some spaghetti leftover," I said, "do you want me to throw it out?"
This got his attention, "No, I'll do it."
So I placed the pot on the tip of his eggshell and he walked out the backdoor.
Before he left he yelled, "Start washing the dishes!"
We sighed and Agumon and I walked over to the sink and started washing the dishes there.
"Hey Brittni," I said, "can you and Kitdramon get the rest of the dishes?"
"Sure," said Brittni.
She and her digimon went and looked for the dishes.
Then, Squire looked out the window in front of us and gave a confused look.
"Is that Digitamamon, talking to the forest." asked Squire.
I looked out the window, "It looks like he might be."
We watched as Digitamamon turned and walked back towards the door.
Just then, I saw Brittni walking towards me with a rather large stack of dishes in her hands.
The door opened just as she stepped in front of it, and the dishes were knocked out of her hands and shattered as they hit the floor.
When Digitamamon saw the mess he became furious.
"You stupid girl!" he shouted, "Look at the mess you made!"
"Mess she made!?" shouted Kitdramon, "You opened the door!"
"But she should've held on to the dishes!" shouted Digitamamon, "That's another 5 days working here! Now sweep the floor!"
Digitamamon stomped off and I could swear Brittni was about to start crying.
"Squire," I said, "you finish the dishes. I'm gonna help Brittni."
Squire nodded and I walked over to Brittni.
"I'm so sorry LaKota." said Brittni.
"What're you apologizing to me about?" I asked, "Digitamamon is the one who's upset. Plus, this floor needs a good cleaning anyway."
"It's weird," I said thinking out loud, "I've got the strangest feeling I've seen this somewhere before."
Brittni, Kitdramon, and I grabbed the brooms. We swept up the shattered dishes and the rest of the kitchen. It was pretty easy, even with Digitamamon coming in and out of the kitchen.
When Squire got done with the dishes he even started helping, and by the time we were done we had one huge dust pile near the door ready to be tossed out.
"That was easy." I said.
"Yeah," said Brittni, "but I need a drink. All this dust seems to have made my throat feel dry."
I nodded and she walked towards the sink, but she and I had failed to notice the rolling pin laying on the floor.
She tripped knocking a can of pepper into the air .
Luckily, Kitdramon caught her, but, unluckily, the pepper flew into mine and Squire faces.
It went up my nose and tickled.
I tried to turn away from the dust pile but I failed and so did Squire.
We both sneezed very loudly and scattered dust everywhere.
Digitamamon walked in and when he saw all the dust and he yelled at Brittni, again.
"You made a bigger mess, you stupid girl!" he shouted, "That's another month here!"
"A whole month," I said, "for some dust?"
"Yes," he said, "now clean it again!"
He stomped out once again.
"I'm so sorry, LaKota." said Brittni.
"Again," I said, "you've got nothing to be sorry to me about."
"But…"
"Brittni it's okay," I said, "now you go see what Digitamamon keeps in that walk-in freezer so I can get an idea of what all he has in this place and an idea of how I can cook it."
"But what about…"
"Let Squire, Kitdramon, and me worry about the dust." I said.
Brittni nodded, put the rolling pin on counter near the sink, and walked over to the walk-in freezer, while the rest of us turned our attention back to the dust.
"This still seems familiar to me somehow," I said thinking out loud again, "and it's gonna kill me till I remember."
It took 15 minutes to clean up the dust a second time and Brittni had gotten kind of quiet.
I turned to see if she was still in the walk-in freezer and I saw the door to the freezer was shut.
"Oh crap!" I shouted as I ran over to the freezer and opened it.
Brittni sat inside hugging herself to stay warm.
I walked in and helped her to her feet and walked her out of the freezer.
"Squire get over here and help Brittni get warm." I said.
The reptile did I as asked and stood next to me.
"Do something similar to GeninGabumon's Blue Blaze, but make it small enough and far away enough that it won't burn her." I said.
Squire made the fire and circled Brittni to warm her.
Then Digitamamon walked in, he was furious as usual.
"Now she's sitting down on job!" he said, "Stupid girl, that's another month."
"Will you lay off," I said, "she got stuck in the freezer."
He scoffed and stomped out.
When Brittni was warm enough to talk she said, "I so, so sorry, LaKota."
"Brittni," I said, "for the third time it's okay."
I helped her up again and smiled.
"Let's see if we can make it through the rest the day without any problems, because the next time Digitamamon calls you "stupid girl" I'm gonna crack that egg." I said, this made her smile a little, "Also this whole day reminds me of something, I just can't put my finger on what."
As we walked by the sink I failed to notice that the rolling pin had somehow gotten back on the floor again, and I stepped on it just right and caused it to fly up and knock down a frying pan that Squire had put up to dry.
It fell of course and landed on my head.
Everything went black.
I was once again seeing the black castle of the Dark Master, but this time it was like I was physically there.
Standing in front of me, hidden by the shadows, was the Dark Master himself. The only thing I could see was his bright red eyes.
"Hello Digi-Destined." he said
I was surprised that he could actually see me, wasn't this a dream.
"You should know that your knowledge will soon be in my hands." he said.
"I'm sorry," I said, "you must have me confused with someone else."
The Dark Master growled and stretched his arm towards me.
My eyes shot opened and I could see Squire, Brittni, and Kitdramon standing over me.
Brittni knelt down next to me and was nearly hysterical.
"I'm so sorry LaKota, I really am I didn't want you to get hurt." she said.
"Brittni." I said calmly.
"I could've sworn I picked that rolling pin up and set it next to the sink before I walked to the freezer." she said, not hearing me.
"Brittni." I said, less calmly.
"This is all my fault, I'm…" she started.
"Brittni!" I said louder than I meant to.
I sat up and looked at her, "Sometimes you care too much about the smallest things."
I stood up and dusted myself off then continued.
"I don't blame you for anything that's happened today, Brittni." I said, "Why you would think that I blame you is beyond me, but I don't."
Brittni looked like she might cry.
"Don't start crying Brittni," I said, "It'll just give Digitamamon another reason to make us stay here longer."
I extended a hand to help her up, just as Digitamamon walked in.
"Sitting down on the job again, you stupid girl!" he shouted, "That's another month."
"That does it, you overgrown hard boiled egg!" I shouted, "There've been four accidents since we got stuck here, and every single time you've blamed her! First off; the dishes were your fault, secondly; the dust going everywhere was mine and Squire's fault, third; the freezer door closed behind her and locked, and finally; this little incident was painfully my fault!"
Digitamamon was taken aback, but then he said, "For that little outburst, you get another month."
"Make it two," I said, "I don't care!"
"You and your digimon go get behind the counter!" shouted Digitamamon.
I walked towards the door and heard the egg yell at Brittni to pickup and clean the rolling pin and frying pan.
It had gotten dark outside and I suspected that the counter was some kind of punishment for yelling at Digitamamon, because it was boring maybe.
Then the door opened and I prepared to greet them.
"Welcome to Digimon Heaven," I said, "can I…"
When I looked up I saw that the party that had entered was Stephen, Keramon, and Lillymon.
Stephen raised an eyebrow and motioned towards the room.
Then it hit me.
"Oh," I said, "that's where I've seen this situation before. The episode of Digimon where Garurumon digivolved into Ultimate."
I slapped myself in the head for taking this long to remember.
"Let me guess," said Stephen, "a Digitamamon is keeping you here."
Just then Digitamamon walked out to yell at me.
He spotted Stephen and Keramon and looked like he was about to faint.
"Keep the Virus away from me!" he yelled.
Stephen then concentrated on his Digi-Symbol and it entered Keramon.
"Keramon digivolve to…Chrysalimon!"
Chrysalimon slowly floated towards Digitamamon, who fell to his knees crying.
"Please don't hurt me," he cried, "it wasn't even my idea! This isn't even my restaurant!"
"Then whose is it?" asked Stephen.
Suddenly, we heard the sound of big feet coming from the woods.
We all ran into the kitchen and then out the backdoor with Brittni and Kitdramon joining us.
Standing in front of us was an Endigomon.
Our digivices went off and I read, "Endigomon, Virus Type, Champion Level. This is the Dark Digivolution of Lopmon. He enjoys ripping his enemy to pieces and then feeding off their Data Cores."
"You failed, Digitamamon!" yelled Endigomon, "You were to turn LaKota against his friend and make him come over to the side of my master!"
"You overlooked one small thing," I said, "I don't turn my back on my friends."
I pulled out my digivice and concentrated on my Digi-Symbol. It floated into Squire Agumon, and an egg formed.
"SquireAgumon digivolve to…KnightGreymon!"
"Ha," said Endigomon, "you think you can take me?"
"You wanna go first or should I?" asked Chrysalimon to KnightGreymon.
"After you Chrysalimon." said Greymon.
Chrysalimon flew towards Endigomon and shouted, "Data Crusher!"
He stretched his tentacles out towards Endigomon, but the creature grabbed them and spun Chrysalimon around and threw him at a tree where he laid unconscious.
KnightGreymon growled and yelled, "Flame Jaws!"
The fireball came at Endigomon, but he raised his arms and yelled, "Cable Crusher!"
He hit the fire ball right back at Greymon, knocking him backwards towards the restaurant.
"Koko Crusher!" yelled Endigomon.
Endigomon fired bullets from his stomach and started bombarding KnightGreymon repeatedly, destroying the back half of the entire restaurant and knocking Greymon out.
I couldn't take watching my partner take such a beating from such an evil, so I did something stupid.
I ran out there and started throwing rocks at the towering creature.
He looked down and saw me.
"You know what," said Endigomon, "my master only said to bring you back alive he didn't say anything about unharmed."
Endigomon's hand came at me so fast, I didn't know what to do.
Then I felt a breeze go by and Kitdramon was suddenly standing in front of me holding Endigomon's hand up.
"LaKota," she said, "I can't hold him for long, run!"
I did, and as soon as I got out from under Endigomon's hand, it came down on Kitdramon.
"Kitdramon!" we all screamed.
Endigomon lifted his hand and looked down at the extremely injured fox.
"You monster!" I yelled, "Attacking a digimon who can't even digivolve yet!"
"You're right," said Endigomon, "I should be a gentleman…AND FINISH HER OFF!"
That's when Brittni pulled my stunt and ran and stood in front of her digimon.
Endigomon just laughed and raised his hand.
Suddenly, Brittni's digivice began to glow and the same symbol that was on the flower in her hair, except for being the color pink floated and it entered Kitdramon, the egg formed.
"Kitdramon digivolve to…CyberKitdramon!"
Before us stood Kitdramon with three fox tails and wearing samurai armor that covered the top part of her chest and skirt-like armor that was around her waist. She had metallic wings on her back and a sword in her hand.
My digivice went of and I looked at what it said, "CyberKitdramon, Data Type, Champion Level. Referred to, sometimes, as Kyubimon's more destructive relative. They are loyal and willing to risk their own safety to protect those they care about. Their most powerful attack is HyperTop."
"No one," said CyberKitdramon, "hurts my partner, Fox Slash!"
CyberKitdramon slashed Endigomon's, still oncoming, hand.
He screamed in pain and raised his hand to his face.
"Why you little…" started Endigomon as he raised his fists.
Just then, bladed tentacles wrapped around the beast's wrists.
"What do ya think you're doing?" asked Chrysalimon who'd just got up from his spot on the ground.
KnightGreymon also stood up and smiled, "It's time for you to meet your end."
"No!" shouted Endigomon, "I was suppose to bring back the one who is one with the core!"
"Better luck next time." I said.
"Tail Blade!" KnightGreymon slashed with his blade.
"Data Crusher!" Chrysalimon wrapped all of his tentacles around Endigomon and squeezed.
"Hyper Top!" CyberKitdramon held both her arms out, one holding her sword, and spun like a top. She jumped up into the air and slashed Endigomon's chest.
Endigomon shouted in pain as he turned into data, which then floated away on the wind.
Our digimon de-digivolved back to Rookie and we all looked at Digitamamon.
He was cowering behind a piece of rubble.
I looked at him and said, "I'm gonna say that this pays you back for the food."
He gave a shaky nod.
"And get rid of your no Digi-Dollars policy." I said.
He gave another nod.
I noticed that Stephen was giving me a strange look, then I realized why.
"Oh," I said, "I haven't told you that the entire knowledge of the Digital World was downloaded into my head during the transit here."
Stephen sighed, "Tell me on the way to the hotel."
Everyone but him laughed, and we made our way to the hotel.
I was once again watching the Dark Master's castle, and I could see him look at me as I sleep again.
"I don't understand how he can stay with people that are beneath him," said the Dark Master, "Endigomon's plan to turn him against them should've worked. No matter, I'll finish his job tomorrow with an even better way to get him on my side."
He laughed maniacally and everything went black
I woke up from the dream very quietly and looked around. Squire was also awake.
"Another one of our dreams?" he asked.
"Yeah," I said, "c'mon let's start packing for tomorrow."
He nodded and began to prepare for our trip towards the ultimate evil.
End of Episode 5
I did not invent CyberKitdramon, but I did add to her description and made up what I thought her attacks would do.