A/N: There, done. Finally. Enjoy guys!
Chapter Twelve: Little Bit of Free Time
My Digivice blurted out the name Lekismon before my partner stopped slamming Siesamon's head into a wall and the poor bastard exploded. I had never questioned Luna's utter devotion to killing things and keeping me alive, but spontaneous evolution was a wall I just figured she couldn't cross. Spontaneous evolution was rare for a partner, and rarely good either way. The evolution tended to wipe out the sanity in the head, leave completely insane.
So, yeah. You see why I decided to back away slowly. Solar was in front of me in seconds, face glowing. Gao watched the Christmas light because I'd be concerned if it didn't do something. Lekismon -Luna, my Luna- landed on the ground and regarded us, the blood slicking the gloves on her hands. She didn't even have paws anymore. But she had water, that was probably freezing, and she was now officially taller than me, not that that took much. So I was gonna have to duck. A lot.
She stared at me, then looked towards the fuck-me-light. "Do I go after him next, Sayo? I want to break his ugly face."
I stared and, I'll admit this only now, managed a dumbstruck nod. Lekismon whirled at my words, facing the purple light with almost hand-rubbing levels of evil glee. The light, however, was not intimidated. Course not. It had barely freaked out with a lance through the face. I think I just get the screwed up missions, I really do.
"I admire your prowess." Wasn't that something people said about sex? Ew. "Siesamon was no match for you."
"He was no match for me," Lekismon grumbled. Gao rolled his eyes at her.
A buzzing filled my ears and I whirled. SandYanmamon, three of them zipping around, swarming towards me. Solar blasted one in the face and another buzz of wings spun through the air. Stingmon flew back, Sukekiyo on his shoulder with his purple locks flapping in the rush of wind. "Hey, Sayo, these freaks slowing you down? Kakumi and I will take care of them. Be grateful!" Kakumi leaped from Stingmon's other shoulder, Garurumon landing paws first on one bug. They'd be fine. I hated their asses for deciding to let me spring the crap, but they weren't close to Silver Tamer level for nothing.
I shot them an obscene hand gesture and turned on the fuck-me-light. Damn it was still laughing.
"Well then," it said and it faded, morphing into a dragon. Really? Was it doing this just to tease me? Probably. It waved its scythe hand towards my head. I ducked, Solar intervened. The nasty clang was my only warning before the blast of a laser.
"Freaking-" Before he could fire again, Luna punched him in the face. Hard. Well, as hard as she could. It swung his face back and Luna flipped back in front of me. I heard the buzzing of insect wings and ignored it, focusing on the dragon. I ducked and rolled, letting Gao hit the blade away. At the smell of blood, I covered my nose. Digimon bleeding was not my favorite smell in the world, especially not mine.
I know, I know the myth. "Digimon don't bleed". We're on their turf. We play on their rules. Get over it.
"Gao, you weren't supposed to block that with your foot," I shouted at him, rolling behind a rock. He hopped to the side, wincing in pain.
What were you expecting me to do, avoid it? I like your head in one piece!" He cursed in pain (I knew I was a bad influence on him) and hopped to a fighting stance. He was damaged. Couldn't have him fight much longer.
I hated strategies that relied on one Digimon. They were just ineffective if you went on long enough. Still, I didn't have much of a choice.
"Luna, take point on attack! Solar, Gao, disable that bastard. I don't care how!" I leaned over my rock, clutching at my Digivice. No Data, it said in big, ugly letters. Well. That was just beautiful.
Solar soared over my head, yelping at the blast to her face. She dropped and floated again, low to the ground. Her spare gears spun in weary circles. Then her eyes narrowed and she picked me up with one. I cannot be that small. Damn.
It spun and I would have glared if I didn't want to puke. Stupid motion sickness. I watched the fight, knuckles white. I saw what Solarmon wanted me to do, but shit the idea of getting there sounded horrible.
But damn, did I want to punch that guy in the face.
Gao ducked and swiped and Luna blocked the scythe again. Gao aimed his fist for the laser and it went flying wide, nearly hitting me. It singed the right side of my face and I swore. It cackled.
Luna, however, did not. "Tear Arrow!" Water formed into arrows around her… what the heck are those, tendrils or something? As long as they weren't tentacles, whatever, I guess. They struck and I had to wonder if ice or water was like: a good idea. He had a laser. They could evaporate.
What couldn't evaporate was her punching the everloving crap out of him. Which she did. A lot.
Of course, not before he hit me.
I screamed and swore. Nothing had hurt me that bad since mom and the dry ice. Damn… I didn't even notice I was falling until I hit the ground and got hit right in the back. Ow… ow, ow… I spat and I'm so glad it wasn't red. Rolling over, I heard the creature laugh.
"You're not strong," it mocked. "You're stubborn."
"Same thing," I coughed, wheezing for air. Luna kicked and ended up thrown back. Gao lunged and sank teeth into armor. He went flying but burst into Gaogamon, larger wilder. He struck the chest, arms, tail. Solar was slow, too slow. She could keep up. I didn't call her back. No way I could. The tail lashed. Slam. Slam. And she didn't move. Kept covering me, so I could get up and raise my Digivice in a weak, bloody hand.
"If you can't fight, then what good are you to them, Sayo?"
Ignore it. Throw her out. Not important. Push out the Soul. Draw it out, draw it… The purple light covered me. It pushed ncad pushed until the scythe went flying towards my head. I ducked. Luna kicked it. It slithered back, fangs dripping with saliva.
"I see," it said with a croon. "I suppose we'll have to do better with you. Your blood…. It has an interesting smell."
That is fucking creepy.
"Take your creepy fucking senses and burn them alive," I panted out. "I'm sure there's a load of gasoline I can shove down your throat..."
"How droll."
He vanished. I swore.
"Well, you drove him back at least," Kakumi offered when she made her way over. She helped me off, grimacing at the burn on the side of my chest. "That's going to need a check."
"Don't remind me," I muttered. Luna and Gao shrank and went back into the Digivice. I glanced at Solar, who was trying to stay in the air. "Get back here, silly gear. There's a portal right there. And these two are, like it or not, covering me. I'll be good."
Solar stared for a couple minutes more. She wanted to yell at me. I know she did. But she went back and thank god. My Soul could not have supported that any longer.
"You really smelled holy dust."
"Oh for god's sake, Gao and I have better noses than Duke and you know it!"
Julia's lips twitched and I shoved my hands in my pockets. I knew she was doing this to piss me off. She always did it like this. "That doesn't mean you were thinking straight when you smelled it."
"It was talking about new orders and a dying Union. If that don' mean something's up on that side of the bridge, then what does?" I didn't shout. The burn had been healed but my lungs were yelling at me for the hit to the ribs.
Sukekiyo raised an eyebrow at me. "It could mean the Light Fang are being brainwashed." Then he frowned. "But don't they have training against that?"
"We still can't be sure ours aren't in trouble," Kakumi countered, rolling her eyes at her partner. "Even if they did, the normal rank doesn't have advanced techniques. Most Normals can't take down a Siesamon." She glanced at me and I shrugged.
"Luna is the Hulk. What can I say?" She was sleeping like the dead or she would have preened in there. I know her.
"At any rate," Duke interrupted. We all glowered at him and he snorted. "We have nothing solid aside from his desires and ideas. That doesn't mean the Light Fang have anything real to do with it at this point."
"Or at least they have nothing direct to do with it," Julia added. "We can't crush them until we know who to get rid of."
I grimaced. So close to knocking Koh out of the valley.
"Dismissed," Julia told us.
We left. I went back to my house. I could get my reward tomorrow. I was beat.
When I got to my room however, I was covered in bubbles.
"What the heck is this?" I tried to sound angry, but it didn't work. Only a certain creature could make these bubbles. Baby Digimon.
"Phascomon!" I called. He came waddling in, munching on something or other. As long as it wasn't pudding again, I could care less. "Why are the kids here?"
At the sound of my voice, they all popped up from where they lay on my bed. It was going to be a mess when they got off, but eh. They were babies. "Mama!" they all squealed.
Next thing I knew, I was covered in little Digimon.
And, I'll be honest. I'm okay with that.