Project Red Spin-Off Show! Chapter 11: Show 10, a red vs. blue fanfic

*The Opening Theme to the Blood Gulch Chronicles played as The Booth faded into view. *

"Greetings, Humans! I'm Chi 'The Sarcastic One' Church."

"And I'm Doc."

"And we're back with another Project Red Spin-Off Show!"

"That's right, Chi. And this time, Project Red goes digital!" Chi and Doc both jerked and turned to look at regenengel3. A beat passed before they both said,

"Wait... what?" Regenengel3 grinned widely and began to sing a song from her childhood.

"Digimon~! Digimon~! Digital monsters~! Digimon are the champions~! Digimon~! Digital monsters~! Digimon are the champions~! Change into digital monsters to~! Save the digital world~. Digimon~! Digital monsters~! Digimon are the champions~! Digimon~! Digital monsters~! Digimon are the champions~!"

"Wait... did you memorize the whole theme song?" Chi asked, his light form flickering. Regenengel3 chuckled sheepishly as a light blush colored her cheeks.

"Maybe? It was one of my favorite shows growing up! Don't judge," she said. Doc and Chi shared looks.

"Huh, so she is human after all," Doc said.

"Will wonders never cease," Chi remarked.

"Anyway... you're really sending the Project Red crew to the digital world?" Doc asked.

"Take me with you~!" Chi pleaded, reaching holographic hands toward the young woman. She laughed and nodded.

"Alright, Chi. I'll send you and Doc to the Digi-world as well," regenengel3 said with a smile. Chi cheered and did a little dance. "Also, I don't own RvB or Digimon."

{Digi-What Now?}

Dex blinked.

Gary blinked back.

"This is new," Dex remarked, taking in the changes to his ever present companion. The A.I. blinked again before the side of his mouth twitched. Dex's carefully neutral face cracked as he frowned at the 'young man.'

"Understatement. Just another service you offer," Eagle remarked, staring at Ita who continued to stare back. 'What's with the cyan hair?'

"I rather like this," Al said as he took off his helmet and shook out his short black hair. "Ah! Smells~! The feel of wind in my face! I love it." Tucker shook his head, walking away.

"Nope," he said firmly, popping the 'p,' and carefully not looking at Caboose and Freckles, who now appeared to be a bipedal, blue and white wolf-dog with a yellow horn on its head.

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"Uh... regenengel3... What is... ?" Doc began to ask hesitantly.

"Dear Freckles is now a gabumon," the author stated smugly, then gave the medic a curious look. "Shouldn't you be in there rather than up here?" she asked. Doc shrugged.

"I thought you were running the show," he said. "Besides, not like this is the first time this has happened." Regenengel3 frowned.

"While it will leave me without a commentator... Begone! And have some fun," she declared, waving her hand imperiously at him. Doc vanished in a cloud of purple sparkles. "Gah! The glitter! It's invading!" regenengel3 yelled, vanishing in a puff of smoke... and green sparkles.

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Doc stumbled slightly, blinking and shaking his head. "You okay?" asked Chi, brushing messy black hair from his face for the first time.

"Yeah, just... have you ever wondered what it would be like to host a spin-off show based off your life? Ya know, a multi-verse one-shot collection kind of thing," Doc said, attempting to put the odd feeling that had come over him into words. Chi shook his head, curious and confused.

"Nope. Why? Have you?" he asked.

"Sort of," Doc answered, still shaking his head. Chi shrugged, not seeing anything troubling about that. "And why is Freckles the only one of you turned into a digimon?" Everyone froze before turning to the medic. "What?"

"Do... you know something about... this?" Dex asked, waving a deceptively calm hand at their current surroundings.

"Maybe?" Doc whined, cringing away from the eerily calm man. Dex's eyebrow twitched.

"The Fragment of Deception has been living in my head for over three years now, Doc," the weapons expert stated. "I think I can tell when someone's being cagey."

"Ah, leave him be," Gary said, draping an arm over his partner's shoulders. "I honestly don't think he has any more information than we do."

"That would be logical," D began, stoic face morphing into one of consideration, "if... he didn't know what, exactly, Freckles had become. Seeing that he dose know what to call Freckles' current form it is more logical to consider that perhaps Doc has information on this strange world and its inhabitants. And why my brothers and I are currently human." Ed gave him a 'friendly' punch to the shoulder. The look of shock on D's face was priceless.

"Look at you! Showing emotion!" Ed teased. D's eyebrow twitched as he fought to remain stoic. He failed.

"Well... it's just this... feeling I have," Doc said, deciding to spare D Ed's undivided attention.

"Feeling?" Dex asked dully. Doc swallowed at the soulless sound.

"W-well... I feel like I should know where we are but... it's old. Like... really old," he stammered.

"Old?" Eagle asked.

"Yeah. Like I shouldn't know about this. Like..." Doc groaned and shook his head. "Chi, can you still access the net?" The young man beside him grinned.

"I can." A beat passed before Doc groaned.

"Would you please search for a reference to digimon or the digital world?" he asked.

"Already did." Dex was biting the inside of his cheek to keep from laughing.

"Then tell me if you found it in an old anime show," Doc ground out. His comrades looked at him in shock having been unaware that he could sound so... menacing. Without O'Malley that is but O'Malley was a cut-rage stage villain who tried to be menacing and usually failed. Even if he said some really creepy things from time to time.

"I did." Doc growled again.

"Can't you ever just give an answer?!" he asked, stomping his foot before sighing and slumping forward slightly. "Never mind. Just... why would we be in the digital world? It shouldn't exist! It was just a kid's show!"

"Doc... what is digimon?" Dex asked. Doc twitched and began to sing.

"Stop acting like regenegel3," he droned before both he and Doc froze. "Wait... what?"

"Seconded," the rest of the Reds, Blues, Ex Freelancers, and A.I. chorused.

"AH! That's right! That's where I got that weird feeling from! We were sent here to have fun while the rest of you traipsed around Chorus and didn't spare a single thought toward us!" Doc said. Chi shoved his head further into the tree.

"No you crazy idiot. She sent us here to have fun with them. And because I asked. So there," the A.I. stated. Doc pulled himself from the tree and leveled what might have been a glare at his A.I. companion.

"Did you have to shove me into a tree?" he asked as the aforementioned tree's trunk creaked alarmingly.

"Yes. You were being a crazy idiot," Chi stated, as though that explained everything. Doc groaned and turned away.

"The point remains; regenengel3 is responsible for us being in the digital world, giving the A.I. physical forms, and turning Freckles into a super-powered bipedal wolf-dog-unicorn," he said.

"That... sums everything up rather well actually," Dex said.

"Yes. Now, have fun walking around with your A.I. Oh, and I think all of us need food in this world," Doc added.

"SWEET! Where's a cow? Does anyone know how to barbecue around here?!" Al cheered. Theta stared at his oldest brother in shock while Jack chuckled. "I want barbecue and potato salad and baked beans and sweet tea and apple fritters! I want pork fingers smothered in sweet honey BBQ sauce with old-style mac-n-cheese! CAN I AT LEAST HAVE SMOKED FISH?!"

"Sure sure, keep your shirt on," Dex said, finally seeing the humor in their situation. Doc sighed and sat down on a handy rock.

"Well. This will be interesting," he remarked. A young woman with shoulder length brown hair, nondescript clothing, and blue-green eyes sat down beside him with a happy little smirk on her face.

"Enjoy the break from insanity, Doc," she said, "because I have a wicked idea."

"Whatever it is, please don't," Doc moaned. The woman hummed.

"You don't even know what I'm talking about, Doc."

"You're regenengel3, right?" he said. Again, she hummed. "Please, just let us have a normal day, let the A.I.s eat and savory their food. Please, don't make us fight for our lives," Doc begged. Regenegel3 sighed.

"As you wish," she said. "Fine. You guys will be here a week. Enjoy~!" Doc blinked and the woman was gone.

"Sweet aunt Jemima," Chi breathed, startling his former host, "was that regenegel3?"

"Yep," Doc said. "And I think I just convinced her not to send us on a quest." Chi stared at the man in awe.

"You... are amazing," he breathed, startling a broken laugh from the medic.

"Well thanks. Also, enjoy your week with a real body," Doc said. Chi's mouth dropped.

"A WEEK?!" he asked. Doc nodded and the A.I. ran off to tell his brothers.

"Well, he's happy," the medic muttered before he leaned back and closed his eyes, relishing in the quiet serenity. He knew it was only a matter of moments before it was shattered but hey, a man can dream can't he?

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A/N: In response to BraveSeeker3: The song in the last chapter was 'Before He Cheats' by Tailor Swift. It is one of the few country songs I like and fit quite well, as you said.

Yes, I put General Kimball in as Dr. Grey's aunt. And for spelling Emily's name 'Gray' rather than 'Grey' it was to play up the color angle. That's my excuse and I'm sticking with it!

Honestly, I'm just bad at spelling and my spellcheck says Kimball is wrong both ways so... yeah. My best friend's letting me down man! (Fun Fact: I only recently discovered that I'd been spelling Sergeant wrong. Darn you Sarge, you mislead me!)