Author's Note
Guest:Wait…what exactly was Kumamon and Korikakumon and why is 'he' needed to be controlled…did 'he' do something real bad in the past
A: 'He is a digimon. 'He' is also a bit temperamental. 'He' is one of the good guys
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Baboongamon was swimming in a void. He could feel his grasp onto Shinya starting to fade. The storm of emotions that were in his partner's brain were just, gone . Baboongamon was no stranger to death, but Shinya couldn't have died, the mental scape would've disappeared.
Shinya must still be holding on!
Wait if Baboongamon is still here than that means so are the other Spirit of Earth. He thought about the self-isolating crystal. He wouldn't be happy, not one bit. Even though he felt that he was too shiny for the world to see, he still wanted to be seen.
Baboongamon arrived at a pedestal made of stone. There laid Shinya who appeared to be fading in and out with the rhythm of a heart beat. But he was starting to fade out more than in. Baboongamon started to reach for Shinya before a voice called out to him.
"Don't!" A high pitched voice cried.
Baboongamon whirled around to be faced with Gogmamon, the Earth Beast Spirit. He was made of both rocks and crystals, with crystals being the upper half and rocks the lower. Although his crystals were lacking luster as they are normally sparking brightly. He was also much smaller in size, seeing as he usually towered over Baboongamon.
"Gogmamon."
"The boy sucked all my energy when I touched him! How dare he, he isn't nearly sparkling enough to be using my power yet!" Gogmamon lifted his tiny nose in the air. Baboongamon simply picked up the now tiny Beast Spirit.
"Well Gogmamon if he's dead he'll never get a chance to sparkle like you want him too." Gogmamon climbed up onto Baboongamon's horn holding onto it.
"He was starting to pique my interest and then he goes and gets himself stabbed. The Warrior of Earth is known for having strong defenses. There should be no weapon that can penetrate our skin. He will be receiving harsh training when he wakes up."
Baboongamon didn't comment on the fact that Gogmamon said 'when' instead of 'if'. Baboongamon knew what he had to do. Shinya had so much more he had to do and as long as Baboongamon had a say in it Shinya wasn't going anywhere. He reached for Shinya slowly lowering his hand to his head.
Baboongamon blacked out instantly.
Shinya heard the noises of machines, the kind that you would find in the hospital. How did he get to a hospital? Wasn't he in the warehouse and….
Oh God.
Shinya jolted up in his hospital bed scaring the person laying their head on his bed. It was Takuya, who looked hollow. His eyes were sunken in with deep bags under his eyes. He had a bad case of bed head and he was wearing the same clothes that he was when they stormed the warehouse.
He looked like a sad, pitiful, imation of his big brother.
"Shinya!?" Takuya gained some light back in his eyes as he tackled his younger brother forgetting he was still injured. Shinya gave a sharp hiss at the action.
"Takuya calm down. I'm okay!"
Takuya let go quickly fearing he hurt his brother more than he already was. "I'm sorry it's just been…"
Shinya heard the reluctance to finish his sentence
"How long have I've been out? How did I get here? Does Mom and Dad know? And why can't I hear Baboongamon, where is he?" Shinya started to hyperventilate as he was stricken with worry.
"Shinya calm down, I'm here. Everything is ok." Takuya took his younger brother's hand and placed it on his chest. "You feel my heartbeat?"
Shinya nodded.
"Try to match your breathing with it. Steady breathes in and out."
Shinya did as he was told and he could feel himself calming down. He still had his questions but they weren't taking up that much of his mind. The pain in his abdomen pulsed again. He raised up his hospital gown to see that the stab wound was nearly the size of a golf ball.
"What…"
Takuya gave a small laugh. "Another perk of being a Warrior. We have accelerated healing but that only applies to minor wounds and anything non lethal. We guessed that you had major help from your spirits since a wound that larger would take a lot of energy. That's probably why you can't hear Baboongamon he might be exhausted from giving you energy."
Shiny nodded his head. "What about everyone else? Where's Tommy?"
Takuya gained a steely look. "He's gone. When we brought him back to the hospital…"
Shinya covered his mouth. He didn't want to even consider the possibility. "No..."
Takuya continued. "He got up and left."
Shinya paused. At least he wasn't dead. "He got up and left ?"
"He said he had business to take care of and left . I don't know what he's doing, we've been trying to track him down, but I know it has to do with his guilt."
Shinya just stared openly at his brother. Guilt. Why did Tommy feel guilty? He didn't do anything wrong, at least of his own volition. And Shinya sure as hell didn't blame him, he had a bone to pick with Lilithmon. He just hoped wherever he was , Tommy was ok.
"He shouldn't feel guilty." Shinya meant the words but they come out soft and quiet. Takuya wasn't convinced.
"He swore that he would protect you. You were his responsibility , did you forget about that!? Because I sure as hell didn't, this ,"
Takuya waved his arm behind him in an arch motioning to the hospital they were currently residing in.
"Was exactly what I didn't want to happen, what I feared would happen. I know this might be fun for you, you get to meet my friends and grow your inner circle, but this kinda thing happens a lot in our line of work. Tommy knows this and yet he thought he could keep you safe. It was my fault for trusting him, I never wanted you to find out."
Shinya jerked back a bit by the confession, he didn't know his brother felt that way about the situation. "Takuya you can't mean that. You were just going to hide this part of you away forever?"
"Shinya, death was so frequent that it was just another daily occurrence. There is no avoiding it, everytime we step foot onto the battlefield there is a chance we die. This isn't a game. There are no do overs, no save files, so retries, just death . Hell when we finally beat Lucemon, Koichi was dead, medically dead. If not for the literal miracle that came out of nowhere he would be dead. I will always protect the Digital World, it was what we were chosen for, you weren't. And you shouldn't have been."
Shinya was clenching his fists. He was chosen, Ophanimon said so. Even if his brother didn't like that, what was he gonna do? Take his spirits away?
"Takuya-"
The door opened with a creak, the brothers turned to meet the visitor. A head with bi-colored head peeked into the room.
"Rai?" Takuya asked as the boy stepped fully into the room.
Rai raised a hand in an attempt to say hello, but it was quickly pinned to the wall. Rai let out a grunt in surprise. Takuya snapped back at his younger brother who was seething.
"What's wrong Shin-Shin, why am I being pinned down by a piece of the floor." Rai was surprisingly calm about the situation.
Sure enough Takuya looked down and a piece of the room's floor was missing. Luckily, no pipes or anything important was damaged. Takuya was sure that the amount of damage would cost a lot of money.
"What are you doing here!?" Shinya all but screamed at Rai.
"I came to see my frien-."
The restraint tightened, but again Rai made no motion of pain or even discomfort. He let out a sigh.
"Shinya I know that it might be shocking seeing me-" Rai tried to reach out his other hand to bring down the hostility but again another piece of the floor flew violently toward Rai pinning his other arm.
"Shocking to see you!? I spent hours looking at your face, and quite frankly I've had enough of it. I had to look at someone I thought of as my friend while being tortured for hours. Do you know what it feels like to have your body being a play thing for a sadistic bastard who had all intentions to kill you? Always bringing me to the point of passing out then stopping as he got off on my screams?" At this point Shinya knew he had tears running down his eyes, and he didn't care. He stopped his rant as he couldn't continue without his mind trying to relive the experience even with his body healed.
Shinya could see his brother fuming once again. A small part of him wondered if his brother was right. Was he cut out for this? Is he supposed to be a warrior? He didn't get to explore those thoughts as he was suddenly hit with a wave of overwhelming calm that made his eyelids droop.
"What?" He could only make out a lightning bolt as a few words were uttered.
"It's ok, Anubimon will make sure his data never forms and I'll ask Meikai to give him the same treatment he gave you."
Then he fell asleep.
Rai walked down the halls of the hospital. He's never really spent time in one since his incident with BeelStarmon and QueenChesesmon. Oh wait, Rai Kami isn't supposed to know about the existence of digimon. It's getting pretty hard to keep up this appearance. It already was a hard landing when Vulcanus plopped him down in the Human World. His canno-, no, his hands were messed up in the fall and he had to wear bandages for a long while. But it still was enough to gain his following and stardom in the boxing world.
It was only recently when Mari and Yuno made it over that he could fully heal his hands. He turned another corner where he bumped into a white haired boy.
"Oh back again are we?" Rai has seen this face many times over the past two days. "I don't understand why you won't let him see Shinya."
The boy let out a grunt. "He's still not strong enough, he would only be putting him and the Warrior of Earth in danger."
Rai let out a laugh. "He seems to be strong enough to make his way here in between your rigours training."
The boy rolled his eyes, which were a crystal blue. "Having a strong resolve means nothing if you have no power to back it up. He thinks he has control over the element of ice, but every mon knows that it is in reality high level programming. He's skills aren't up to par for him to claim his protection over another."
Rai gave a sigh. "I'll never understand you Witchenly folks."
With that the boy walked away leaving Rai to continue his journey through the hospital. He passes the room where J.P, Izzy, and Joe are recovering from Shoku's 'Polyphony'. Rai had to give them props, not many digimon and much less humans came out the same after that attack. He peeked his head in and saw that J.P was the only one awake with Izzy and Joe resting on their own hospital beds.
"Hey J.P. How are you feeling?" Rai took a seat at J.P's bedside.
"Oh hey Rai. I'm honestly not sure. My mind is very hazy but I think I'm starting to feel better." J.P answered with a small smile. "Hey Rai, do you want to see a magic trick? Since I've been spending my time on bed rest I've been practicing my sleight of hand."
Rai wasn't in a rush, but he did want to check up on Shinya before he left the hospital. So he gave a shrug and pulled his chair closer to J.P.
"Sure why not."
J.P gave a bright smile and pulled out a coin. He began to flip the coin through his fingers moving from his left to right quickly. The coin disappeared after two more rotations and J.P showed the back and front of his hands for Rai to marvel at the trick.
Rai gave J.P an applause for the small trick that didn't seem too hard, but he didn't want to dash J.P's efforts.
"Where did the coin go?"
J.P gave another smile and reached behind Rai's ear and pulled out the coin. Rai gave him the expected shocked expression.
"Wo-" Rai suddenly felt the cold metal of the coin pressed against his forehead. The force of the throw made his head fly back cause him to turn down his eyes to see J.P. He saw that J.P's bright and friendly smile was gone, replaced with a serious expression.
Shock.
Rai was sure the amount of electricity running through him should be enough to kill a regular human. Luckily he sorta, kinda is a master at the element. He didn't feel any different but he was sure he was supposed to when he saw the shocked look J.P on his face.
Now in a reverse of their earlier situation J.P is the one shocked and Rai is the one giving the bright and friendly smile.
"Sorry, but those kinds of attacks don't work on me. Sorry about what my brother did, but the family is working on that situation. But I hope you get better soon so we can have that boxing match." Rai picked the coin from his forehead and lightly tossed it to J.P's open palm. Rai got up leaving the room as he closed the door slightly and he let out a heavy sigh.
"These new Warriors are something else." He thought to himself.
He continued to make his way toward Shinya's room. Once he reached the room he knocked on the door and opened it with a loud creak.
"Rai?"
Oh looks like Shinya's brother is with him today as well. Everytime Rai came to visit his brother was there watching over his little brother. It was clearly weighing down on the young man and it was clearly showing. Baggy eyes and messy hair were prominent on the boy's face. Shinya was awake for the first time since he was brought to the hospital. Rai raised his hand to say hello, but he quickly flew back against the wall.
'Not again.'
"What's wrong Shin-Shin, why am I being pinned down by a piece of the floor." This wasn't the craziest thing to happen to him in his lifetime.
"What are you doing here!?" Shinya all but screamed at Rai.
'Someone is a little cranky'
"I came to see my frien-."
The restraint tightened but he didn't really feel any pain. It would take a lot more than that.
"Shinya I know that it might be shocking seeing me-" Rai knew that the Mummymon that Lilithmon hired took on his face. He tried to reach out his other hand trying to placate but it too was pinned against the wall. It was a bit uncomfortable but again it didn't hurt.
"Shocking to see you!? I spent hours looking at your face, and quite frankly I've had enough of it. I had to look at someone I thought of as my friend while being tortured for hours. Do you know what it feels like to have your body being a play thing for a sadistic bastard who had all intentions to kill you? Always bringing me to the point of passing out then stopping as he got off on my screams?"
Rai saw the tears falling down his new found friends face and he didn't like the sight. He could tell Takuya was beginning to become agitated at the retelling of his younger brother's experiences. So he made an executive decision to put a stop to their conversation. He easily broke free from the restraints and let the disguise drop just a little like he did when he first met Shinya. His aura quickly filled the room taking over the senses of both brothers.
The effect was immediate on Shinya seeing as he was still a bit weak.
"What?" Rai walked over to Shinya planting a hand on his head.
"It's ok, Anubimon will make sure his data never forms and I'll ask Meikai to give him the same treatment he gave you."
Then Shinya fell asleep. Rai put back up the 'disguise' and the aura no longer filled the room returning it to its previous state.
"What the hell are you?" Rai locked eyes with a fiery gaze. It reminded him of Vulcanus when he got the idea for a new invention. Rai debated on keeping his cover for a second, before he remembered Yuno would literally kill him and have Meikai bring him back to life.
"Would you believe me if I said I was just a foreign boxer?"
He gave an awkward laugh.