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I slowly woke up as sunlight began filtering into my room. Sunday, hopefully today would be a "normal" day. Well as normal as a day gets for a human-Digimon hybrid who can channel the power supernatural worlds. I sighed as I got up; Onee-chan and Kotemon were not there. I guess they were eating breakfast; I made my way to the bathroom and took a quick shower. I looked through the clothes that Michael had dropped off for me last night while I was out and picked out something to wear. I ended up pulling on some jean shorts and a Peachtree Road Race shirt. I searched for my jacket so I could better hide my right arm before remembering that it had been shredded when I slammed into the car upon arrival in Shinjuku.

I stepped out into the garden and shifted into Reppamon so I could burn off the excess energy and digivolve back into Kudamon. Before I could even begin I heard Sis and Renamon approaching from the front of the house. I quickly shifted back as they came around the corner but Sis had already seen me. I did not like that mischievous grin she had on her face. It didn't help that she was in her Alt-form, I knew what that grin was for.

"Sis, no." "Yes" "No, I don't want to spar with you!" "Well…you could always spar with mother." I sweatdropped "Fine, it's either get bruised or get pulverized. So I'll take bruised. But I want to slash two cards before we start." "Go right ahead, for me this is just more practice using Diamond Storm and Power Paw."

I quickly pulled out and slashed my Stamina and Hyperwing cards. Flight would make this interesting and Stamina…well I still felt a little tired so the extra endurance would be good. Sis took up her ready stance and I dropped into sprinter's stance. We were waiting for someone to make a move. It ended up being me, I shifted into Reppamon and Sis charged at me. I lifted off the ground quickly and into the air thanks to the six wings on my back. I have two words about that choice, bad idea.

"Diamond Storm!" I protected my body by hiding behind my tail and winced as the glittering gems shredded my wings and I started to fall. I managed to recover and rolled forward in midair. "Vacuum Razor Wind!" I launched a single air blade at Sis who dodged it easily. I landed and jumped backwards dodging a Power Paw enhanced punch. I jumped again, this time towards Sis and tucked into a roll "Whirling Blade!" Sis blocked my attack with a well timed side step and jab of a Power Paw. We carried on like this for about twenty minutes before I digivolved back into Kudamon. Renamon promptly took over from me at this point and I went back inside to get my breakfast.

In the kitchen I found Ms Seiko, Kotemon and Onee-chan planning a girl's day out for the three of them. It seems that someone had made bacon and eggs earlier so I helped myself to what was left and sat down at the table. I ate silently while they talked about going here or there, where they would get lunch, landmarks they'd see. The conversation held very little interest to me so I just continued to eat until I had cleaned my plate. I got up and put it in the dishwasher.

"Alex," Seiko said to me "I don't know what you said to Rumiko last night but it must have affected her pretty heavily. She's already left but wanted me to tell you she decided to take your advice and go to Hawaii for a week."

"Good for her." I shifted back into my human form "Since ya'll are having a girls day out I'm gonna go see if I can avoid running into anything strange and at least try to have a normal day."

"A 'normal' day would do you some good…whatever 'normal' is for you." Kotemon said

"What time is dinner?" "7 o'clock, but please try to be back before then." "We will." I said as I felt Kudamon form on my shoulders

I left the house shifting into my Alt-form and taking off, I could see Sis and Renamon still sparing in the garden being careful not to destroy it. I decided to go see Takato and his family at their bakery so I shifted my flight slightly. As I got closer I had to fly lower to the street and started attracting attention so I landed in an alleyway and shifted back. I walked the remaining five blocks to the bakery as Kudamon grumbled on about annoying rubber neckers. I giggled at this, he must have picked that up from me because I knew that when I was driving I hated rubber neckers, they slowed everything down. I entered the bakery and saw Takato manning the register with Jeri lending a hand in the back with Guilmon and Elecmon sitting in the front of the counter.

"Hello Alex." Jeri said

"Mornin Jeri, Takato, Guilmon, Elecmon, so how are ya'll doing today?"

"We're doing well; my parents are sleeping in today because I offered to open this morning. You just missed Riley and Yamaki getting breakfast for the early shift at Hypnos."

"Oh well since I'm already registered, so it's not too bad. But I suppose it would have been nice to see him again."

"So what made you decide to stop by?"

"I realized that in the four days I've been here not once have I come here. Plus I also heard that everything sold here is really good. I'm kinda trying to have a 'normal' day, not that I really know what 'normal' is, if I wanted to talk to other Digimon and Tamers is there like anywhere specific I can go to?"

"You've already been there twice, the place where you bioemerged is where a lot of Tamers and their Digimon hang out at. We had a hard time forcing them all back the second time you bioemerged so they wouldn't get hurt. So as you could start there, a lot of people also hang out around Shinjuku Central Park since the permanent portal to the Digital World is there."

I thanked Takato for the information and also bought a few loaves of bread for later. I shifted into my Alt-form and took off heading back to where I first entered the city. I flew slowly so it took me about twenty minutes to reach my destination I landed on a roof with an idea. If I reached my Alt-form when Kudamon reached his Ultimate form, then maybe it could work the other way. When he reappeared it wasn't on my shoulders but on the roof next to me as Chirinmon. We jumped down into the alley next to the building and walked out onto the sidewalk, well I walked on the sidewalk and he flew just above me. We talked to various people; a girl named Rosa and her Gotsumon, an older guy named Brick and his Ogremon, and a bunch more people.

I dug in my left pocket looking for my phone to check the time and found something else. I pulled out an iTouch, my iTouch that I thought I lost two months ago. It had a note from Michael attached to it. The note basically said I left in his room and to keep a better eye on it. I turned it on and was surprised to see it was fully charged, never being one to care if I disturbed people with my music, I began searching for a song. I finally found one that I felt like playing 99 Red Balloons by Goldfinger. It had barely started playing when a DemiDevimon swooped out of the air and grabbed it.

"Thanks for the pawn item chump!" "Clearly you have no idea just how much you JUST PISSED ME OFF!"

The poor concrete stood no chance and neither did that little excuse for a soccer ball as I took off. I caught up to him in a split second and grabbed it back with the song blaring at max. It drew the attention of people on the sidewalk and in their cars when I threw him into the middle of an empty intersection. As I landed a chubby kid, definitely the Tamer, ran into the intersection shouting obscenities at me as he slashed a card through his D-Power. Light engulfed his DemiDevimon as he digivolved into Devimon and proceed to try and attack me. I formed ice claws on right hand and slashed at him but he flew higher, bad idea since Chirinmon was flying above us and dropped straight down on him pinning him against the asphalt. I was very glad that I had pants and not fur in my Alt-form. It meant I still had access to my cell phone, wallet and cards, and D-Power. I pulled out my D-Power and the cards from my wallet as the kid slashed another that caused Devimon to radiate massive heat, forcing Chirinmon to get off him.

"Death Hand!" Devimon shouted as he reached for Chirinmon. I responded by slashing my Alias card so he wouldn't grab anything, I had to be careful not to destroy him and only incapacitate him. I slashed my Leomon card and waited for an opening to hit him. "Fist of the Beast King!" The flaming lion head hit its mark in Devimon's chest amplified by the fact I used my left hand and energy from Muspellheim. That took him out and he crashed to the road in a heap before digivolving back into DemiDevimon. I slashed my Training Grip card and used it to bind the little bat demon and his Tamer up tight while I called Yamaki, all of this and the last lines of the song were playing.

Less than five minutes later they were both in custody and I was recounting my version of events to one of the agents. Turns out this kid had a record of thefts going back several months; they thanked me for my help in finally capturing him before leaving. When they departed I noted the silence and lack of car movement, then I heard someone clapping in a very slow almost mocking manner. I turned around to face the clapper and saw Beelzemon, Ai, and Mako sitting on Behemoth looking rather amused. Of course Beelzemon was the one clapping and I couldn't contain myself I fell over laughing at his somewhat nonplused reaction to what I had done.

"I know we need to hold back so dat we don't kill no one but dat was ridiculous." Of all the people with New York accents he was one of the few I liked.

"I felt like playing a little bit to see if he actually might be dangerous."

"I know for a fact dat you coulda ended it with da first blow. Still, at least you gave dees peoples a show. 20 bucks says ya make da news tonight." "Do I look 18 to you?" He shrugged and revved Behemoth "We'll see."

They drove off and traffic resumed and people went back to whatever it was they were doing. I gently took off and set my iTouch to play Libera Me From Hell, my happy mood and mostly normal day had been ruined. Chirinmon reverted back to Kudamon and landed on my head we flew on till we got to an area of warehouses that looked like it had few people around and landed shutting off my iTouch as I did so. I shifted so only part left of my Alt-form was the fur on my chest and I fingered the WarGreymon's Brave Shield card in my pocket. Then suddenly everything went black.

I groaned as I came to feeling very dizzy and lighthead and realized I was tied up tightly and on top of that I was inside one of the warehouses. I looked up and saw Kudamon tied up opposite me still out cold but unharmed, I knew he wouldn't be able to disappear until he came to. I looked down and saw that my fur had shifted back into a shirt, probably happened automatically when I was knocked out. I heard distant voices from another room getting steadily closer and closer. I tried to shift into my Alt-form but couldn't, probably had something to do with being tightly bound meaning there was a lack of space. I heard a door open to my left and looked up to see a group of people enter. I groaned when I caught sight of them it was the same JAVA people that captured me last time Dimwit, Blondey, Brunette and Black-hair.

"Well it looks like the criminal has final woken up." Said Black-hair

"Davis this is the same Kudamon from last Friday which means this man is responsible for whatever has happened to this Kudamon." Brunette said to Dimwit, well Davis I guess.

"Nina, can you confirm what Catherine said?" Davis asked Blondey

"I can't tell but if he was awake and looked at me I could make a confirmation." Nina replied

"Jake wake him up so we can see." Davis said to Black-hair

I yanked on my connection to Kudamon so that if he was put into pain, of any sort, he wouldn't have to feel it. I felt wave of freezing cold water wash over me as the doused Kudamon in it. I let some of the sensation feed back to him so he would wake up. His reaction was much the same as mine when I woke, slow. Then he caught sight of Davis, Nina, Catherine and Jake and groaned as he recognized them. Through our link he instantly learned their names and what I was doing he looked pointedly at Nina.

"What did you do to Alex?"

"He's been given a mild sedative so he won't try and break free. This isn't the same Kudamon, his eyes don't have the same look but the scan said he has no type. Do you think it's possible that there are more people that can take away a Digimon's type?"

Davis turned to me and held out my D-Power and cards "We are going to hold onto these while we try and fix this Kudamon so he can be free again."

"You're wasting your time. All you're going to end up doing is hurting him."

"Nonsense, it's for his own good after all." With that said I felt excruciating pain in my side and yelled drawing their attention. Clearly they were trying to insert a program or something into Kudamon and since I was drawing all the pain away it really hurt. I steeled myself because I knew they wouldn't give up after the first attempt failed, if they gave up at all. They tried…and tried… and tried, I lost track of the number of times they tried. All I had to do was outlast the pain and sedative so I could draw on one of the Gates to free myself. It must have been about half an hour after they started and I was still conscious despite the pain, I had started to bleed from my sides after the repeated injections. Davis was getting frustrated and examined my sides with great interest.

"I've heard that the bond between a Tamer and their Digimon can be strong to the point where one shares the injures and pain of the other. But THIS!" he gestured at my sides "This is insane…"

I felt the prickling on my neck like it was in stereo. "This place is about to become very unsafe, I Digimon is about to bioemerged here."

"Yea right and I'm the President of the United States!" Jake said as fog began to filter in under the door. The sedative had worn off to the point where I could visual the Gates in my mind. I stepped towards the Gate of Muspellheim and kept going till I was close enough to touch it. If could smell the ropes starting to burn slowly so I reached forward and touched the gate. The ropes instantly turned to ash and I got to my feet and walked over and freed Kudamon. I took my hand from the Gate and stepped away from it. I snatched my cards and D-Power from a small table in the corner along with my wallet, phone, and iTouch. I kicked down the door and walked into the other room straight into the fog. Kudamon followed right behind me and the J.A.V.A members chasing after him. I held up my D-Power and read what the newly bioemerged Digimon was aloud.

"Aurumon, Armor, virus type, special attacks are Midnight Sniper and Infrared Eye." I pulled out my Hyperchip card "Digimodify…Hyperchip Activate." Kudamon and both felt a rush of energy as the card took effect. We didn't need to communicate verbally we shared thoughts instantly and Kudamon went into battle. The Hyperchip Card made him stronger and caused my sides to stop bleeding as they rapidly scabbed over and healed. Kudamon ducked and bobbed and weaved in and out of Aurumon's slashing talons I slapped the back of my neck in pain as he landed a slash on Kudamon's neck.

"Infrared Eye!" Its eyes glowed and I realized it was facing us. I quickly slashed WarGretmon's Brave Shield and heard the surprised gasps as I felt a weight appear on my back. I quickly swung the shield off my back and brought it forward blocking the laser beams that shot at us. This was starting to get out of hand, I imagined the Gates with Kudamon and I standing between them. I picked him up and he touched his paw to the Gate of Muspellheim. His fur became orange and his yellow markings became red and he charged forward then spun his tail around.

"Bullet Whirlwind!" He struck home right in between Aurumon's eyes and it dispersed into a cloud of data. I breathed a sigh of relief as I let go of the shield and it disappeared again the people behind me gasped. We imaged that the Gates were far away again and Kudamon's fur changed back to normal as he jumped onto my shoulder. He examined the cuts on my neck, cuts that he felt he should have. He grimaced; the Hyperchip card had worn off before they could fully heal.

"You didn't have to take the battle damage to you know."
"Yea but I didn't want you to get hurt; my body heals faster than yours."
"But mine can take more punishment."
"Monsters…you're both monsters." Catherine said

(A/N I suggest listening to Liberia Me From Hell starting here, youtube it)
I turned around to glare at them and Kudamon vanished into me making them panic. I waited for them to calm down and then decided that if I was going to scare them I might as well do it properly. I shifted into Kudamon and looked directly at Nina. Everyone else was confused except for her. She sank to her knees as realization set in her eyes became teary as she understood just what kind of bond Kudamon and I had. She started to cry I walked forward and put my paws on her shoulders.

"Hey… none of that now," I said softly "it's alright. If I tried to explain it to you last time then none of it would have made sense." I tilted her head up so I was looking into her eyes and at her tear stricken face. "You have a kind heart. All you want to do is make sure that Digimon aren't mistreated right." She nodded slowly between her sobs "There is a better way of doing this, a right way of doing this. Tamers are not evil, some of them are cruel and mean but they're dealt with as soon as they are caught. I can help you…would you like that?" again she nodded slowly.

Her crying had stopped and I reached forward and wiped away the last tear before it could roll down her face. I helped Nina to her feet and we started walking towards the door with me holding her hand, giving her the confidence to accept and walk away from her mistake. When we were about halfway there I shifted back to being human and she didn't even flinch. As we got closer to the door I shifted into my Alt-form, she seemed a bit stunned by this but quickly got over it. Suddenly I heard the sound of a gun being cocked; I didn't think I just reacted. I spun Nina around in front of me and gripped her in a tight hug as I took off from the warehouse floor sending concrete flying into the air. I flew us straight to Hypnos and we made our way directly to Yamaki's office where I explained everything.

"It doesn't surprise me that they tried to shoot you Ms?"

"Tepplin"

"Ms Tepplin, J.A.V.A is not kind to those that leave their cause, no matter the circumstances. We are always looking for people willing to work for the benefit of the Digimon and the Tamers. We also have a large number of Tamerless Digimon here that you will be working with. Who knows maybe you'll end up with a Digimon partner of your own one of these days. But for now we will place you in protective custody and I will personally push your paperwork through the system as quickly as possible."

I opened one of the office's large windows "Yamaki, thanks for doing this for her." I turned around to face them and received a tight hug from Nina who had started crying again. When she let go I wiped away a stray tear and looked her in eyes. "Remember, none of that anymore," I gave her a soft smile and stood there for a few seconds before letting go of her "Gotta go." I said calmly as I stepped backwards out of the window and flew back to Sis's house.

I would be just in time for dinner, my day ended up being more normal than I thought it would be…albeit not as normal as I had hoped it would be. When we sat down to eat I was the first one questioned about my day, not that they really needed me to tell them about part of it. Beelzemon had been right about my fight with Devimon and his Tamer winding up on the news, for some reason they were calling me a vigilante hero. I don't fight crime for a living.

"So Brother do you want to talk about it?"

"They stole something from so I stole it back. They didn't like that so push came to shove and…well I didn't so much shove as throw."

I did tell them about my encounter with J.A.V.A and Onee-chan noticeably stiffened when I told them what I endured. Her expression softened however when I told her of Nina Tepplin's decision to leave and work for Hypnos. Everyone seemed happy about her decision to put her kind heart to use by supporting a proper organization. When we all finished eating I did the dishes and headed back to my room. Tomorrow was a big day, the first day of school. Tomorrow Sis and I would tell the other Tamers about her new Gatekeeper status and explain what it meant and unveil her Alt-form to them. The only thing I wasn't looking forward to about tomorrow was the school uniform I had to wear. I shift into Kudamon and crawled under the covers were I was shortly joined by Kotemon and we both quickly fell asleep.

Hope ya'll liked the chapter

Later ^^;