2.5: Alphamon doesn't care
My lazy smile was ever present as Contessa and I walked into the ballroom. There were multiple carriers of the Abomination, and unlike my date's presence, which was muted and distinctly different in how it felt, these carriers all had a distinctively alive feel. Still, for a first date it was very high class.
"Shall we?" I gestured to the dancefloor. From what I remembered from Kyoko's experience at formal parties it was customary for couples to be dancing, and there were five couples already on the floor.
"Not yet. I have to meet with an associate. He's becoming a bit of a problem to the company I work with," She said with a smile on her face.
"I'm hurt you got my hopes up, and now you're dumping me to deal with work. Why I thought we had something special." I jokingly gasped while clutching what would have been my heart.
"We do, and I promise we'll enjoy a nice slow dance... Maybe even after the party we'll get to know each other." She said before walking off a sway in her hips.
"Oh I'm sure we will," I muttered. Still, might as well make it easier for her. I made my way over to the bartender. "One glass of red wine, and one Gin and Tonic, please." I tipped the bartender as he made my drinks. I glanced around the room, the child Magnus often saw at work was arguing with her sister, who had her arm hooked around a boy in costume, Gallant if I recalled correctly. A man in a suit of armor with a beard being a distinguishing feature was talking with a few reporters, and a woman with an American Flag was by the entrance. I made note of the exits. 'Two, and it's not noticeable, but the Capes are stationed so they can easily block them off. Have I walked into a trap? Then again, there are few traps that can hold me.' Still, I found Contessa talking to a man in a rather expensive suit. He was pale might have been attractive if he wasn't sweating his body away. 'Somebody screwed up big time.'
"Your drinks, sir," My sweep of the room finished, I turned to the bartender.
"My thanks," I returned, handing him a hundred dollar bill. "If I come back with a woman please have two gin and tonics ready." I accepted my drinks before I downed the gin and tonic, my metabolism making quick work of the alcohol, although she shouldn't know that. It took a lot of alcohol to get us drunk, and unlike Gankoomon, who took it as a challenge to get in situations that made his student want to murder him, I could control myself, even if I did get drunk.
I made my way over to another table, and I watched her walk back to me. "I thought you might enjoy a glass of red wine," I mentioned as she came closer, making sure my own larger glass was in plain view, noting as her eyes taking flickered over the lime.
"Thank you," she said, accepting the glass, and sipping it.
"Now, I'm really curious as to what you do. Your company must be very powerful if you can cause a man to look like he's just been given a death sentence." 'Well this is the first time I've seen a human do it, Jesmon looks similar when Gankoomon ropes him into something.
"Hardly, he just needed a reminder not try to keep his personal assets hidden from the company, especially volatile ones that could damage the company's image," she said, dismissing the entire encounter and putting her glass on the table. "Now, I believe you promised me a dance."
"I did, now shall we." I mockingly bowed and then took her hand, and we joined a dance floor.
I situated my right hand on her back, and she put her hand on my left shoulder. From my review of Kyoko's memories, this was called a waltz.
"If you don't mind me asking? Where'd a starbucks worker like you learn how to dance?" She muttered, feet following my lead perfectly.
I pulled her closer. "Oh I had a female friend teach me. However, I'm really interested in why you asked me on a date, and don't dodge the question by saying my expresso is the best thing to grace this Earth, I doubt that's the only reason."
"Well, around three months ago, something really strange happened to me. I was just walking along when I fell unconscious, it turned out I had an aneurysm, and I would have died had my boss not been around. After I woke up I realized life is so fickle, and I realized I needed to experience it."
"So you decide to take the Starbucks worker you've only known in passing for three weeks to a high class event like this? "Careful, I may not be able to control myself until after the ball." Come now, why is this necessary at this point? I'd actually appreciate a gun being pulled on me.
"Well to add to that, you're British which I've always found quite attractive, you're polite to me, and not only do you make the best espresso I've ever had, you're quite the dancer. Why there aren't that many guys out there who I know. And now that I've stroked your ego, now why did you accept?"
'So I could get off my ass, and finally figure out what your organization has to offer my brothers.' "A high class woman comes into your life and asks you to sweep her off her feet? If I didn't accept my friends would ridicule me 'til our grandchildren were all gone. ...Or I could always just be using your company as an excuse to get into this party." I smirked at her, and applied pressure on the small of her back.
"Why aren't you the charmer? Now come on and tell me the real reason. I noticed you watching me walk away."
"Well honestly, you're one of my more attractive customers, you always tip well, you have a beautiful smile, and I've always had a thing for sharply dressed woman," at this I made sure to stumble a bit.
"Oh, somebody's had a bit too much to drink," She noted in measured giggles, and guided me off the dancefloor. "Here, I just need to check up on a few things, and then we'll have a really good time." I watched as she walked off with a goofy smile on my face. 'Finally, human mating rituals are strange.'
I opened my phone, and sent out a group text, "About to make contact with Group C or be kidnapped, if I make contact expect me back tonight, if I'm "Kidnapped" give me a day or two."
I snapped my phone shut, as she came back up to me. "Who were you texting?"
"I just needed to let my roommate know I wasn't going to be home tonight, and probably not for the rest of the morning." I sent her a roguish grin.
"I'll hold you to that, now come on let's go to my place." She took note of how I stumbled a bit more. "I'll be driving."
"Oh, today really is my lucky day." I made sure my grin was full blown.
Contessa's Room
Alphamon P.O.V
I looked around the room. We had entered a high rise, the bed was big, and the tv was massive. I made to take off my coat looking at her suggestively. 'For the love of Yggdrasil please stop the ruse, I really don't want to do this.
"Not yet," she said, "turn around. I need to get ready." As I did so, I heard some ruffling sounds. 'No, No, No, please let that be a gun.'
"Door him." I turned around ignoring the space opening up in front of me only to get caught by a blast by a weapon. It lifted my body up and sent me through the tear.
'Thank you, Drasil,' Kidnapping it was then. The travel was instantaneous, one moment I was in the room of a highrise, the next I was in a metal cell, and what was that! I could feel the Abomination around me. It was much fuller than Contessa's presence, different than feeling of the one who had attacked Yggdrasil, not to mention it was dormant, and it was all around me. I shifted into my digital form when I heard something coming towards me. my hand lashed out grabbing its neck in a vice, and lifted it to the side. It was some type of monster, still, I had more important things to do than analyze. I blasted it, blowing a hole through it's body before I threw its corpse to the side.
I heard alarms start blaring before a wall of energy slammed down on the opening of the cell, with a sheet of metal overlapping it. 'Oh, that is adorable.' I smashed through the energy and sent the door flying, sparks running across my armor. I stepped out and looked around, the cells across from me had their own walls of energy. So it looks like I hadn't gotten special treatment. And I had thought Contessa cared for me. Still... 'Now, if I was shadow organization with a secret base and prison where would I keep all my data?' I looked around ignoring the beasts snarling from their pens. There was a walkway above me, and connected to it, was an overhanging outlook.
'Let's start there.' I jumped onto the railing, and made my way to the door at the end, "Voice identification needed. Warning a subject has escaped. Master/Stranger Protocols engaged."
"From "Mr. Barista" to "Subject," wow I got dumped hard," I noted dryly as I shoved my fist through the door, and tore it open. "I do hope she returns Ulforce's car. He needs it to get to work tomorrow." Gem of insight delivered, I looked across the room, in it were monitors and a computer screen. 'This is far too easy, what's the catch?' I made my way over to the monitor, and put my hand on it only for the room to explode. "Oh Yggdrasil dammit." I looked across the room where a man in green robes was standing. "That was really rude, Eidolon... Or should I call you David instead? Now where's your friend Rebecca? Aren't you two a pair when you have get-togethers like this?"
He was silent, whether from shock or fury his hidden face made it difficult to tell. "Wow I'm getting the silent treatment from you? No questions as to why I'm here? No "how did you get out?" Your organization as whole needs to learn some manners."
"Maybe we do." I spun around only for a fist to impact my armor, sending me careening to where Eidolon was. When did she get behi...Crap, they have a teleporter.
I shoved my feet to the ground, and I skidded for a couple of meters, only for blasts of energy to impact my armor harmlessly.
"Okay, I may have deserved that… It's just I'm so agitated. I put on my best suit after this hot italian lady asked me on a date, and just when I'm about to score she shoots me and dumps my ass in a cell. So the way I see it, we have two options: you can either direct me to the nearest computer, or you can get in my way, and I'll get you out of my way."
I heard metal explode, as someone shot toward me. "Easy way it is then," I drawled. My form shifted into it's twelve foot version, and I spun around with my fist to send her flying through the complex.
I quickly shot towards Eidolon who had started shooting multicolored bolts at me. "Seiken Gradalpha" I formed Gradalpha to smash him to the ground. 'I'd rather not play with them. ...Now, there's an idea.' I threw Gradalpha only to halt in mid flight and under my control slash through the cells containing the other subjects. "Have fun, you two!" I called over my back as I left the room through the ceiling. I ascended quickly and shot through the roof.
I was in an even larger complex… What was that? It was mixture of flesh, and pulsating… I was standing in the presence of the corpse of the Abomination... or one of it's kind at least. It felt too different to be the one that had attacked my lord, and dead too long. Still, whatever had happened, it didn't matter if the humans had killed it or it had died from some other cause, I couldn't play around anymore. I shot through rooms, passing through other cell blocks only to stop as I came to a room filled with computers, and one man. He spun around in his chair, and started shooting at me. I moved forward, and backhanded him across the room. I put my hand on the computer, and I entered the dataspace… 'This raises even more questions, and Contessa, despite her ability, only trapped me in a cell. Still I know where I am, and I know how to get out.'
Turning to the side I looked to man. "Sorry Number Man, just you were in my way, and I think you work with a bunch of dicks… Good talk." I moved to exit the facility only for a portal to open up, and in the next moment I was in a forest.
"Really?" I looked around nothing had attacked me yet, "Is this your idea of a joke?" The sound of crickets answered me… Well, this reminded me of what I normally did anyway, shame you couldn't find coffee in the forest. "Deja vu is a thing it seems, and I now have no idea where I am… Duftmon's going to be pissed."
End 2.5 Alphamon doesn't care
