Chapter 11
Unusual Behavior
Beginning of Episode 6
In the morning we were off and on our way towards the mountains that hid the Dark Masters lair.
All of us were glad to be on the move, and now that all of us could digivolve our digimon we were sure that we could handle anything that the Dark Master and the Digital World could throw at us.
We came upon a cave sometime around what I assume to be before afternoon and decided to rest outside of it.
This was good news for Brittni because the look on her face told me her feet were killing her.
"You know Brittni," I said as I sat Indian style on a rock outside the cave, "I'm sure that Kitdramon would be willing to carry you the rest of the way."
Brittni gave me an irritated look.
"I'm perfectly capable of walking." she said.
"I know." I said with a smile, "I just don't want my best friend falling face first into the dirt because of exhaustion."
Kitdramon threw me a look like she thought I was up to something.
I averted my gaze and saw Keramon looking around for something.
"Hey Keramon," I said, "what are you looking for?"
"I can't find Stephen." he said a little worriedly.
"Oh he's probably in the bushes somewhere dipping." I said, "I told him it was okay if he did, but he has to do it away from the group."
"Why's that?" asked Keramon.
"Because some people don't like the sight of someone spitting every five minutes." I answered.
"Oh," said Keramon, "well, I'm gonna go look for him."
"That's fine by me." I said.
Keramon floated off to look for his partner and the most annoying person in our group decided throw his two cents worth in.
"Oh so, what if it wasn't fine by you?" asked Zac.
"Must you make a snide comment at everything he does?" asked Squire.
"Don't worry Squire," I said, "I'm use to Zac putting me down every chance he gets."
"Yeah, well I need a cigarette." said Zac.
I rolled my eyes, "People don't need cigarettes, they just get so addicted that they think they do."
I looked down at Zac from my rock. He had done well without the cigarettes for three days but even I knew that cigarette addicts could become desperate to smoke, so why not throw him a bone this time.
"Alright Zac," I said unzipping my backpack, "but only one and you have to smoke somewhere out in the woods so you don't get us sick, and when you're done you have to bring the butt back to me and I'll throw it away."
Zac nodded.
I pulled the "cancer stick" out and handed it to him.
Zac took the thing then walked into the woods.
"He didn't even thank you." said Squire.
"I'm use to him doing that as well." I said with a sigh.
"You kind of let him walk all over you." said Brittni.
"Zac and I have a small rivalry within our acquaintanceship and that's fine by me." I said, "My only problem is when he beats the crud out of me when we get into arguments."
Just then, Jacob spoke up, "I think we should go into the cave."
"Jacob," I said, "that would take us away from our destination. Plus there's no telling what digimon could be living in there."
"Yeah," said Jacob, "but we could take the digimon, and there might be a way home somewhere in that tunnel."
"Jacob," I said, "as a former fan of the show you should know that it's rarely ever that simple."
"Yeah well…" started Jacob.
Suddenly we heard two digimon yelling at each other.
We all turned to see GunmenGuilmon yelling at GeninGabumon.
I jumped down from my rock then Jacob and I walked over to see what the trouble was.
"What's going on?" I asked.
"This little pipsqueak said I use an excessive amount of force and I needed to be more like the mighty ninja and less like a psychopath."
"Then he said that the mighty ninja are a tribe of sissies and pansies that he could take them out single handedly with one gun tied behind his back."
"And I could, too," said Guilmon, "want me to demonstrate on that stupid horn you've got sticking out of your head."
"Why you…" said GeninGabumon.
"Both of you stop!" I shouted, "Jacob, please take your digimon into the woods so he can blow of some steam on a tree or something."
Jacob nodded and led his partner into the woods.
"GeninGabumon," I said, "cover your mouth and go look for Zac to see if he's okay."
The Gabumon nodded, placed his headband over his mouth, and walked into the woods to look for his partner.
I sighed, walked back over to my rock, and climbed back on top of it. When I got back into a comfortable position a thought hit me.
"Kitdramon." I said.
The winged kitesune turned and looked at me.
"I just realized," I said, "I never thanked you for saving me from Endigomon."
"No need to thank me," she said, "I didn't do it for you."
Squire looked at me, "What does that mean?"
"It means that she didn't help me to be helping me." I said.
"Then why did you help him?" asked Squire.
"Because LaKota is Brittni's friend, and, though I don't fully understand why, I knew that if he got hurt she would be incredibly upset."
"Well," I said, "whatever your reason was, thank you."
Kitdramon nodded and then looked around to see if any of the others had come back yet.
Just then, Jacob came back with GunmenGuilmon.
"LaKota," said Jacob, "I say we go into that cave as soon as Zac and Stephen get back."
"Jacob," I said from atop my rock, "we discussed this already. There's no portal home in there."
"Do you know that for sure?" asked Jacob, "Because I think you just don't want us to go home."
That comment made me feel like I was the lowest form of life on the planet.
"What did you just say?" I asked.
"I said you want us all to stay here because this place is just like the inside of your head, insane." said Jacob.
I balled up my fist as I jumped down from my rock and got ready to punch him in the face.
"No," I said putting my fist down, "I'm not gonna punch you for a comment like that. I know you have bad temper and all but in these circumstances I'm gonna give you a little advice."
"And what's that?" asked Jacob.
"SIT YOUR BUTT DOWN AND COOL YOUR DANG JETS!" I yelled.
Everyone jumped in surprise.
"You can't…" started Jacob.
"I SAID SIT DOWN!" I shouted.
Reluctantly Jacob went over and sat next to his digimon.
"I really think you could've handled that better." said Squire.
I took a couple of deep breathes and said, "You're right, but no one accuses me of trying to strand my friends in the Digital World."
"For the record," said Brittni, "I know you'd never do that."
"Thanks Brittni." I said her statement putting smile back on my face.
I decided to take a seat on the ground next to Squire.
A few minutes later Zac came walking out of the woods and handed me the cigarette butt with GeninGabumon on his heels.
"Thank you Zac." I said as I put it my backpack.
"Yeah whatever," said Zac, "can I just have one more?"
I gave Zac a look like he was insane.
"No way," I said, "you agreed to one and you'll stick with it."
"Come on," said Zac, "just one more and I'm done for the day."
"I said no Zac." I said.
Zac must've snapped because he tackled me and knocked me over, and then he started to kick me while I lay on the ground.
When he stopped, I stood up and looked him in the eye. He went to punch me in the face and I grabbed his fist.
"Now Zac," I said, "why would you want to go and do that?"
Zac was amazed, because usually I'd be trying to beat the crud out of him by now, and would usually be failing.
"Now," I said, "I want you to go sit next to your digimon and chill out before I ask Squire to burn you to a crisp."
I released Zac's fist and he did as I asked.
"You know I wouldn't do that, right?" asked Squire.
"Not true," I said, "if he'd punched he you would've beat the crud out of him."
Squire thought about it, "You're probably right."
Just then my brother walked up to me with Keramon at his side.
"Hey little brother," he said with a strange smile on his face, "I'd like to discuss the leadership of the group."
Keramon nodded.
"What about it?" I asked.
"I don't like it," he said, "I wanna take over."
I gave him a confused look.
"You see," he said, "you're too inexperienced as a leader and, after all, I'm the older brother and I have the Digi-Symbol for deep thought."
"That's no reason for you to take over." I said.
"Let's face it LaKota," said Stephen, "you haven't been that good of a leader."
"What are you talking about?" I asked.
"Let us recall our trip to the castle where I had to come up with the plan, the fact that your plan didn't work back at the factory and Brittni got poisoned, and most recently you got stuck working at a restaurant that was own by an evil digimon."
My eye started to twitch, but before I could say anything Brittni spoke.
"How can you say something like that about your own brother?"
"It's not that hard," said Stephen, "I just have to remember what a complete and total idiot he is."
"THAT DOES IT!" I yelled, so loud it echoed through the woods.
Everyone jumped.
"The three of you want to point out my flaws," I asked, "how about I point out yours?"
I turned and looked at Jacob, "First off is my friend Jacob, the kid who grew out of his oldest friend; me, the kid who rarely shows his emotions or how he feels, and the kid who kept messing up with the same girl!"
I looked at Zac, "Zac, you can't have a good day unless you're smoking or picking at another person's faults. And of course when those don't work you decide to either beat the crud out of someone or pull a prank on them!"
Finally I looked at my brother, "Big Bro, I would be willing to beat the crud out of someone if they insulted you, but you're a jerk! You made yourself the most feared kid in all of Addison until you got to High School and then you rubbed it in my face that you were more popular than me!"
They all stared at me, no one knew I kept all that bottled up for so long.
"If you want to find fault with someone look in a mirror sometime!" I said, "The only person here who has a right to pick at my faults and get away with it right now is Brittni and she has the decency not to."
After that everyone sat someplace away from me, but the only person who even looked worried about me was Brittni.
I sat back down with Squire when I suddenly realized that my backpack was gone. I looked around and saw that it wasn't only my backpack but all of them.
"Alright," I said, "who's the jerk who took the backpacks?"
Everyone shrugged, and then I noticed the trails that showed that three objects had been dragged into the cave.
"Oh that's just great," I said, "whatever lives in that cave decided to steal our stuff while I was busy yelling at you three."
None of them seemed worried.
"Fine," I said, "I'm going into the cave to find our stuff."
"Oh now you wanna go into the cave." said Jacob.
"Jacob don't start with me." I said, "Brittni, I'd like to have some back up in that cave."
Brittni nodded and said, "Come on Kitdramon."
Kitdramon stood up with her partner.
"As for the three of you," I said as Squire and I stood up, "stay here until we get back."
They just snickered at my order.
Brittni and I entered the cave.
We did our best to stay in the light but we were soon surrounded by the darkness of the cave.
"Brittni," I said as I move along the cave wall, "I want you to talk to me so I know you're still behind me."
"Yes," said Squire, "we wouldn't want to lose you in a place like this."
"Okay." she answered.
"I'm sorry for going off like that back outside." I said, "I just couldn't take one more insult from those guys."
"What was wrong with them?" asked Brittni, "I mean that was unusual behavior even for them."
"I don't know," I said, "It's like something just suddenly made them hate me."
"You mean like Kitdramon hates you?" asked Squire.
"Kitdramon doesn't hate him," said Brittni, "right Kitdramon."
"Of course I don't," said Kitdramon, "I just don't particularly like him."
We all laughed.
Just then, there was a squishing sound under my feet.
"Ah man," I said, "I really hope that's mud."
"I wish we could see something." said Brittni.
"Hold on," I said as I pick up a pretty good sized branch I found on the ground next to me, "Squire light this."
"Flame Breath!" shouted my partner.
The branch lit and we all gasped at what we saw, a colony of Numemon.
"Oh crap." I said.
The green blobs jumped at us, and Brittni screamed.
"Fox Fire!" shouted Kitdramon as her fire shot out at the annoying creatures.
Three of the green blobs were shot down as shattered into data bits.
The other Numemon continued to come at us.
"Brittni," I said, "there's enough room in here for us to digivolve our digimon. I suggest we do so."
Brittni nodded and we both pulled out our digivices. We concentrated and our symbols floated off the screens and into our digimon.
"SquireAgumon digivolve to…KnightGreymon!"
"Kitdramon digivolve to…CyberKitdramon!"
The two Champion Levels stood ready to fight.
All of the Numemon backed up at the sight of these obviously stronger digimon.
Then they did something weird, they actually fused together into a giant Numemon that was the color purple.
My digivice went off and I looked at it and read it, "Monstrositymon, Champion Level, Virus Type. Occasionally formed when groups of Numemon get together and get too close to each other. Their special attack is Venom Blob."
The creature gave a roar and then shouted, "Venom Blob!"
A purple glob of goo shot out of the digimon's mouth and came straight at Brittni and me.
KnightGreymon jumped in front of us just in time to block it but it got on his skin and he yelled in pain.
"That's not very nice," said CyberKitdramon, "Hyper Top!"
The kitesune digimon extended her sword and spun like a top at Monstrositymon. As soon as the sword touched the ugly thing it was sucked into it along with Kitdramon's hand.
"Hey," shouted KnightGreymon, "let her go, Flame Jaws!"
The fireball hit the creature and it screamed in pain, releasing Kitdramon as it did so.
It came at us in anger and it was looking right at Brittni, Kitdramon was just in time to grab her and I jumped out of the way.
Monstrositymon collided with the wall but quickly spun around, but its attention was back on our digimon.
Just then, I realized that I'd seen something out of the corner of my when Kitdramon pulled Brittni out of the way; it'd looked like a grey hand that had smoke rolling off of it.
I shook the thought off then spotted what we'd come in here for in the first place.
All three backpacks sat neatly against a wall in the cave. That only left the big purple blob to get rid of.
I turned back to the fight to see KnightGreymon slashing at the thing to no avail.
Then I remembered something, this thing had been really hurt by fire.
"Greymon!" I yelled, "put as much power as you can into your fire attack, it'll kick this thing's can."
KnightGreymon nodded then spun around.
"MEGA FLAME JAWS!" he shouted as the biggest fireball he'd ever made hit Monstrositymon at close range.
The purple creature fell backwards as it screamed in pain until it finally exploded into bits of data.
KnightGreymon and CyberKitdramon both de-digivolved.
"That was gross." said Kitdramon looking at her still slightly slime covered claw.
"Tell me about it." said Squire.
I got up and walked over to the three backpacks and picked them up.
"Well," I said, "let's get out of here before more show up."
We began walking back down the tunnel without the torch, since it was a straight shot to the exit.
Brittni remained very quiet as we walked out of the cave.
"Don't tell me," I said, "you're now extremely mad at me for dragging you into a cave and are now going to pick at one of my many mistakes and undermine my leadership."
"I'm not mad at you." she said.
"Really," I said, "because everyone else seems to be."
"LaKota," said Brittni, "if you hadn't realized that fire attacks are the only thing that hurt Monstrositymon we wouldn't be walking out the cave right now."
"Yeah," I said, "but it was me getting distracted by yelling at the guys that made me miss the backpacks getting stolen and brought us into the cave in the first place."
"You got mad," said Brittni, "everyone does."
"I guess you're right," I said, "I mean even if I do have all the information in the Digital World downloaded into my head I'm still only human."
"Yes," said Squire, "but you're a very strange human."
We all laughed at this remark.
We finally got back to the entrance of the cave, where we could see that the sun had gone down, and we exited.
We gasped at what we saw outside.
Monstrositymon is a digimon of my own invention that I'm completely okay with anyone using, just let me know beforehand. For a better description of it imagine a 9 to 10ft tall Numemon that's purple and slightly see through.