A/N: And now to continue! Enjoy~
Disclaimer: I own nothing but Shixona, Silvmon, and Silvmon's digivolutions.
Digimon Adventure 02, Shixona
Chapter 14
During our next venture into the Digital World, we had discovered a new Digi-Egg was nearby, so we decided to follow the signal and find it. As we walked, however, Veemon finally stopped and sat down, a hand on his stomach.
"I can't walk another step. I've gotta eat something now!" he complained.
"Yeah, I'm getting kinda hungry, too!" Davis agreed.
"But we're very close to finding the new Digi-Egg!" Yolei protested.
"When I find that Digi-Egg, I'm gonna eat it!" Armadillomon declared.
"You'll do no such thing," Hawkmon scolded. "Besides, your cholesterol's too high." The statement made Kari laugh, and Gatomon sigh.
"If we want to eat, we're going to have to turn back," I pointed out.
"Sounds good to me!" Davis grinned.
"So long, Digi-Egg," Cody sighed.
"Hey, look!" T.K. suddenly announced. "On the other side of the lake, I think it's a restaurant!"
"A restaurant?!" Veemon exclaimed, springing to his feet.
"Yeah!" we all cheered.
"Saved at last!" Armadillomon smiled. We got to the restaurant, and once we ordered, we all stuffed our faces. Silvmon happily ate his share of our pork fried dumplings and chicken fried rice, and I sighed once I was full, leaning back in the booth.
"That was delicious!" Davis and Veemon sighed happily once they had slurped down their broth from their noodles.
"I'm going to recommend this restaurant to all my friends who dine in the Digital World!" Yolei said.
"Yeah, me too!" Cody agreed.
"What's wrong, T.K.?" Kari asked the blonde, who was looking about.
"Something about this place is bothering me," he frowned. "I feel like I've been here before, and it wasn't good."
"Maybe you ordered the wrong thing?" the brunette suggested.
"Waiter, we're ready for our check please!" Yolei called, and the waiter, who appeared awfully familiar, appeared from the back.
"Okay, hold your horses! I've only got one shell," he said.
"What does our bill come to?" the violet-haired girl asked, holding her wallet when we were gathered at the register.
"87 digi-dollars, plus tip," the waiter replied.
"Huh?" Yolei uttered.
"What's the matter? Don't you have any money?" the waiter demanded.
"We don't have digi-dollars, but we have plenty of money!" she assured him.
"Forget it!" he snapped.
"Huh? But our money is just as good!" Yolei protested.
"Since the Dark Masters left, we only accept digi-dollars!" he barked.
"What's the problem?" I asked, getting closer.
"The lunk-headed waiter won't take our money!" Yolei spat.
"I see you're being your usual blunt self," Kari sighed.
"I'm just trying to be honest," she shrugged.
"I think you kid are trying to skip out on the bill!" the waiter butted in.
"But I TOLD you, we HAVE 87 dollars!" Yolei argued.
"Only digi-dollars! Or the digi-express card," the waiter yelled back.
"That's it! I'm not going to recommend this restaurant to anyone!" she shouted at him.
"Good!" the waiter nodded sharply. "I don't want any human world deadbeats in here! No wonder the French hate the tourists!" Yolei growled in frustration at him. "Now, are you going to pay the bill, or do I have to call a cop?"
"I've heard something like this before…" T.K. frowned.
"If we work here, we'll be late getting home!" Cody pointed out.
"Why don't we just pay next time?" Davis offered.
"There won't be a next time! You're not allowed in here again!" the waiter barked. "Now get in that kitchen and start washing dishes!"
"Fear not! I'll pay their bill!" a new voice declared, and we looked at the newcomer. Yolei instantly became attracted to the blonde teen.
"How sweet! Prince Charming!" she murmured in awe.
"Who are you?" I asked, quirking a brow.
"That's Michael. He's a friend of mine I brought with me from America!" Mimi piped up, appearing from behind him.
"It's Mimi!" we all exclaimed.
"Oh, Mimi, it's so good to see you again!" Yolei grinned.
"What are you doing here in the Digital World?" Cody inquired.
"Izzy sent me an e-mail saying there was a Digi-Port open in America. I thought it would be a great opportunity to come see everyone!" the strawberry blonde explained. "And since Michael's a good friend, I thought I'd bring him along!"
"And I'd like you all to meet a good friend of mine!" Palmon piped up from next to them, gesturing to a small, green, aquatic Digimon next to her.
"Nice to meet you! My name's Betamon!" the new Digimon smiled, bowing his head.
"Is it all right for you to be here Palmon?" Kari asked her.
"What about the area you were protecting?" T.K. added.
"Tentomon said he'd watch it for me if I brought him back a souvenir t-shirt!" she assured us with a smile.
"How were you able to bring Michael to the Digital World?" Yolei questioned Mimi.
"Oh, you see, I forgot to tell you. Michael has a digivice, just like us!" she replied simply.
"If he has a digivice, then he's a digidestined!" Davis realized.
"Right!" Mimi nodded. "And his digivice is the same as mine and the others'! Michael became a digidestined the same time original group did in Japan!"
"Tell us, Michael, are there more digidestined kids like you in America?" Davis asked.
"And tell us how you became a digidestined!" Cody added.
"And tell me you're single!" Yolei pleaded, practically drooling.
"All I know is it happened when I first saw Gorillamon in New York," Michael told us. "I thought it was simply another ape climbing the Empire State Building."
"That's the same time Myotismon was taking over Tokyo!" T.K. realized.
"T.K.'s right!" Kari nodded.
"My, that's strange," Michael said. "That means we all had an encounter with the Digimon at the same time!"
"It's possible. That's when I was on that airplane that had to make an emergency landing in the water," Cody murmured. "That's when I saw my first Digimon."
"I remember that summer. I was one of the people being held at the convention center by the Bakemon!" Davis agreed.
"I wish I could say my summer was as terrifying for me as it was for you guys, but it wasn't, 'cause nothing happened," Yolei sighed. "But I did send a bunch of e-mails during the fight with Diaboromon!"
"So, everyone was involved somehow!" Mimi smiled.
"It's like we're all connected!" Palmon chimed in.
"But there's still one question: who's going to pay the bill?!" the waiter demanded.
"Don't worry about it! The entire meal is on me!" Michael reminded him.
"Now I remember where T.K. and I saw him!" I remembered. "He used to be one of Myotismon's henchmen! He made Matt and Joe work in the kitchen, and he got mad when Matt asked if he could have half price on his meals!"
"So, you used to be one of the bad guys," Yolei frowned at Digitamamon.
"All right, I admit it, I was a rotten egg. But that was in the past," he defended himself. "When the Dark Masters were defeated, I knew I had to break out of my shell. I'm a whole new mon!"
"I'm glad to hear that you've changed your ways," Kari smiled at him.
"And don't you feel a lot better about yourself?" Mimi added.
"Well, now that you mention it, it is kind of nice making an honest living!" Digitamamon perked up.
"It seems to me that you're STILL one of the bad guys after the way you treated me!" Yolei huffed.
"Come on, Yolei, everyone gets a little cranky," Mimi urged her. "If he says he's changed, I believe him!"
"I guess you're right," Yolei sighed.
"Sometimes it's easy to get cranky around you," I muttered.
"I feel pretty bad for the way I treated you last time," Digitamamon admitted.
"It's okay, Digitamamon, I'm sure you're not a total loser anymore!" Yolei told him, and I groaned internally.
"Hmm? I don't want your pity, I want your money! Fork it over, now!" he snapped.
"Huh?" the violet-haired girl uttered.
"Relax, don't get upset! She's only trying to help! Right Yolei?" Mimi assured him, glancing at said teen.
"Um, yeah…" she mumbled.
"Besides, we always intended to pay the bill," T.K. added. "If you had been more patient, we probably could have avoided this whole thing."
"You're right," Digitamamon nodded. "My brains have been scrambled lately. I've got to look at the sunny side. I've got a good job, I've got my health, and some day I might even have friends! Tell you what, forget the bill, it's on me!"
"You know, Mimi, I admire you because no matter who you meet, you always bring out the best in everyone. You're really special!" Michael told Mimi.
"Plus I saved you some digi-dollars!" she giggled, and the pair laughed, but then the ground suddenly began to shake violently.
"Wah!" we all wailed.
"It must be an earthquake! Run!" Davis yelled. We ran outside to see the trees shaking almost as bad as the ground. "Look over there!"
"It's Gorillamon!" Michael gasped.
"He's got a Dark Spiral!" Yolei warned.
"But I thought the Dark Spirals only worked on Ultimate level Digimon!" I frowned.
"If they work on Champion level Digimon, too, then there must be different kinds!" Cody reasoned.
"Energy Cannon!" Gorillamon shouted, but without warning, Digitamamon leaped in front of us, protecting us from the blast as he was sent flying.
"Digitamamon!" Mimi gasped.
"Get him before he gets us!" Davis growled as Gorillamon roared. "Ready, Veemon?"
"Please, allow me to handle this! Okay, Betamon?" Michael said, stepping forward.
"Okay!" his partner nodded, and leaped into the water. "Betamon, digivolve to…Seadramon!" Seadramon soon pulled Gorillamon into the water.
"Now that they're in the water, Seadramon will win!" Michael grinned. "He's in trouble!" he suddenly realized after a couple of flashes from beneath the water's surface.
"Okay, Palmon, you'd better digivolve and help Seadramon!" Mimi told her partner.
"Ready when you are!" Palmon nodded. "Palmon, digivolve to…Togemon!"
"Light-Speed Jabbing!" Togemon shouted, and with her series of punches, she destroyed the Dark Spiral off of Gorillamon's arm.
"Togemon, you did it!" Mimi cheered.
"Victory, at last!" Michael grinned. Afterwards, Mimi and Palmon were standing in front of Gorillamon, who was sitting in a crouch.
"Sorry we were so rough, but we had to get the Dark Spiral off of you," Mimi apologized. "You should be safe now, but stay away from the Digimon Emperor!"
"Thanks…" Gorillamon mumbled, and then left.
"Without that Dark Spiral, he doesn't seem like such a bad little monkey, after all!" Palmon remarked.
"I don't think any Digimon is born evil, but when they get those Dark Spirals on them, they can't control their actions," her partner replied.
"How do you get them?" Michael asked.
"Remember how I told you about the Digimon Emperor?" Mimi inquired, and he nodded. "He captures Digimon and makes them his slaves!"
"I don't get it," Michael frowned. "Why would a young kid want to take over the Digital World when he could be playing polo or practicing the violin?"
"It's a hobby for him!" I shrugged, and Silvmon snickered.
"Do you want to know what my hobby is, Michael?" Yolei asked.
"Boys don't count, Yolei," Davis pointed out.
"Who asked you?" she snapped. "Huh? Where's Digitamamon?"
"He tried to protect us, and now he's gone!" Mimi exclaimed worriedly. "He could be alone somewhere, scared and hurt!"
"Don't worry. Kari and I will go look for him!" T.K. assured her, and Gatomon and Patamon nodded in agreement.
"I'm sure they'll be able to find him in no time!" Mimi smiled as the pair left on Pegasusmon and Nefertimon.
"I hope so!" Michael added, and then Digitamamon's egg rolled down the hill.
"Is this fast enough?" he demanded.
"Digitamamon, are you okay?" Mimi asked him.
"Yes, but no thanks to you!" he snapped.
"We're glad you came back!" she said.
"Yeah, well don't be, because now I'm going to make you pay!" he threatened.
"I knew he was a bad egg!" Yolei growled.
"Who wants to be destroyed first?" he taunted.
"But, Digitamamon, we're your friends! You tried to protect us!" Mimi reminded him.
"Mimi, careful, he's acting differently now!" I warned.
"You're exactly right! Before I was soft and runny, but now I'm hard-boiled!" Digitamamon barked.
"Well, Yolei?" Hawkmon looked at his partner, and she nodded.
"Digi-Armor Energize!" she shouted.
"Hawkmon, armor digivolve to…Halsemon, the Wings of Love!"
"We'd better help!" Veemon suggested, and Davis, Cody, and I nodded.
"Digi-Armor Energize!" we shouted.
"Veemon, armor digivolve to…Flamedramon, the Fire of Courage!"
"Armadillomon, armor digivolve to…Digmon, the Drill of Power!"
"Silvmon, armor digivolve to…Puredramon, the Lone Wolf of Purity!"
"Fire Rocket!"
"Rock Cracking!"
"Lunar Slash!" None of the attacks affected him.
"I need an egg cracking attack!" Digmon exclaimed.
"None of our attacks are working on him!" Flamedramon growled in frustration.
"Wait!" Mimi snapped, blocking our Digimon from Digitamamon. "You leave Digitamamon alone right now!"
"Why?" Puredramon frowned, puzzled.
"Digitamamon, listen," Mimi told him. "You're being controlled by something evil. Remember what you said to us in the restaurant? That you're not like that anymore!"
"I'm not being controlled by anything!" he yelled. "The one in the restaurant was a fake, this is the real me!"
"I refuse to believe that!" Mimi insisted stubbornly.
"That's your problem!"
"Mimi, stand back! Let us attack him!" Yolei tried to tell her.
"No! I'm sure if I just talk to him, he'll come around!" she argued.
"But Mimi, he's evil!" Yolei protested.
"Yeah, let's scramble that egg!" Davis added.
"I have to try!" the strawberry blonde stated. Turning back to Digitamamon, she said, "Think back to the restaurant. Remember when you said one day you hoped to have friends? Well, today is the day, because we're your friends!"
"Friends?" he murmured, and then shook his head. "No! That was just a trick so you'd let your guard down! Just like when I said forget the bill! Which reminds me, you still owe me 87 digi-dollars!"
"I don't care how rough and tough you try to act on the outside…deep down, I know you're not evil!" Mimi persisted.
"Quit trying to butter me up! What do I look like, a piece of toast?" he shouted.
"Stop acting like you don't want to be friends, otherwise you wouldn't have tried to protect us!" she snapped, starting to lose her patience.
"You think I'm pretending?" he demanded, and knocked her to the ground. We all gasped, and Yolei crouched down next to her.
"Are you okay?" she asked Mimi.
"I'm fine. He didn't mean it," she assured us, making Yolei blink in surprise. "Please, Yolei, don't hurt him. I know you can get through to him."
"But…he's a phony!" she argued.
"It doesn't matter. Talk to him," Mimi insisted.
"It won't be easy, but I'll try," she nodded, and stood.
"Oh, so you want a piece of me?" Digitamamon taunted her, drawing an angered growl from the teen. "You think you'll do better than her?"
"I don't want to hear another word from your mouth!" she shrieked at him.
"Huh?" he uttered.
"Digitamamon, you're the rudest Digimon I've ever met!" she started, and continued to yell at him. "At first, I thought you were just an obnoxious waiter looking for a tip. And when you told us you had a change of heart, I gave you the benefit of the doubt. But when you pushed Mimi to the ground, that was the last straw! All she was trying to do was make you her friend, and how do you repay her? By viciously attacking her without any cause! Mimi doesn't have a mean bone in her body, and you couldn't see that! Well, I want you to know I will not tolerate that kind of behavior any longer!"
"You're one to talk!" he barked at her with a glare. "You want to be friends, then call me a phony! You're the phony!"
"Okay, I admit it," she confessed. "I have a problem judging people by my first impressions of them. I see a cute guy, and I instantly fall in love! I never stop to see what kind of person he might be. He could be really cool, like T.K., or a real jerk, like Davis!" Davis grumbled at that remark. "From now on, I'm going to be as sincere with people as I possibly can!" Suddenly, a light shone from the ground, and a green object floated up from the light. "Was it something I said?"
"It's the new Digi-Egg!" Cody gasped.
"It has the Crest of Sincerity!" Mimi pointed out, and the Digi-Egg floated over to Yolei.
"Whoa…" she murmured.
"Careful!" Davis warned.
"It must have responded when Yolei started talking so sincerely about her feelings!" Cody realized.
"I guess she sincerely thinks I'm a jerk," Davis groaned.
"It's my second! I've got two Digi-Eggs!" Yolei exclaimed.
"Let's use it!" Halsemon nodded, and he de0digivolved back to Hawkmon.
"Digi-Armor Energize!" she shouted.
"Hawkmon, armor digivolve to…Shurimon, the Samurai of Sincerity!"
"Double Star!" Shurimon cried out, and threw a large shuriken at Digitamamon.
"Not even you can penetrate my shell!" he yelled. "Nightmare Syndromer!"
"Protect Yolei. I'll take care of Digitamamon!" Shurimon ordered our Digimon, and the attack headed for Yolei.
"Don't let it get through!" Digmon told Flamedramon and Puredramon, and Flamedramon and Digmon hooked their arms around the arms of the Nightmare Syndromer. Puredramon dispatched of it with a quick Purity Beam. Meanwhile, Shurimon hovered above Digitamamon while examining him for the dark ring or spiral.
"What is he looking at?" Digitamamon wondered aloud.
"I see the Dark Spiral! It's inside his shell! Double Star!" Shurimon shouted, and then threw a shuriken into his shell, preventing him from closing up again.
"Hey, careful, you almost hit me in here!" the egg Digimon snapped.
"Pegasusmon and Nefertimon, get him!" Shurimon yelled, and the pair flew over.
"Golden Noose!" they cried out, and flew over to capture him.
"He's trying to get away!" Kari warned.
"Not if we have anything to say about it!" T.K. told her. They snared Digitamamon around his ankles, bringing him to hang in the air.
"Now to take care of that Dark Spiral. Double Star!" Shurimon attacked, and then Digitamamon coughed up the pieces.
"He coughed up the Dark Spiral! That egg is over easy!" Yolei cheered. Later on, Digitamamon started to come to.
"He's waking up!" Mimi told us.
"What happened?" he wondered aloud.
"You had a Dark Spiral in you!" Mimi told him.
"You saved me!" he said happily.
"Actually, Yolei was the one!" the strawberry blonde corrected.
"What do you mean, it was me?" Yolei yelped.
"Thank you," Digitamamon told her gratefully, bowing slightly in thanks.
"Well, there's no need to thank me, but I do want to apologize for those things I said about you earlier," the violet-haired teen apologized.
"I'm the one who should be apologizing," he replied.
"From now on, I promise not to judge a book by its cover!" Yolei declared.
"And I promise not to put all my eggs in one basket!" Digitamamon added.
"Whatever," Yolei smiled slightly, rolling her eyes. She then turned to Mimi. "Anyway, thanks to you, Mimi, I'm going to be totally honest with people, especially boys, and I won't be friends with them just because they're cute!"
"Great! Then neither will I!" Mimi smiled brightly. That's when a Sukamon approached.
"Oh, Mimi! If you don't care about looks, how would you like to go on a date with me?" he asked, Mimi growled ferociously, and then punched Sukamon into flying over the forest. "I'll take that as a no!" he wailed.
"Ooh, now I know what to do if someone asks me out on a date!" Yolei grinned, clasping her hands together eagerly. We gathered together before we were to part ways, and Silvmon and I listened instead of saying anything.
"Well, Michael, it was cool meeting you, and I hope we'll get to hang out together real soon!" Davis told the American boy.
"I feel the same way. Mimi's always telling me stories of how great you all are, and now I know it, too, first hand!" he smiled. "Oh, before I go, there's one thing I've wanted to do since I got here. Yolei, I want to ask you something. Would you like to go out on a date with me sometime?" Yolei laughed a little, and then nodded eagerly. Now that we were going home, we would have to wait on our next adventure until the next day.
A/N: I know I didn't use Imagedramon here, but I will soon! I promise! R&R, peeps!