Session 42

Searching for an answer

Suiko opened her eyes.

Currently, she found herself sitting upon a large pile of rubble and school supplies. Two plain walls were sandwiched in between, with a few hints of some grey school carpet peeking through.

"Where am I?" she thought and made a quick glance down at her arm. Instead of finding herself in control of Alice's body, only to see the slightly transparent appendage known as her left arm. "And where's Alice?"

The schoolgirl continued her once-over, finding she did have the pocketwatch at least. It was her only clue, even if it seemed as vague and useless as ever. She took a deep breath. If felt quite odd to be like this. Of the few times she could remember being outside of 'Alice', most of them in weird dream sequences involving a ruined earth.

'Find the door.'

It was a familiar yet unfamiliar voice as if they knew her but Suiko didn't. She needed to get going, maybe find some legitimate hint to her other half.

Maybe then, she could remember the before, not the after.

When they had finally became one, she had thought it would finally come back to her. All the good times, back when Suiko was Suiko and Alice…

Alice didn't exist.

Things were much better back then. Or were they? It was kind of hard to decide when you had no recollections of it. Ever since that game, she lost control of where she was going and someone else took over from here. No that wasn't right. More of, a different part of herself took over for her. In retrospect, this was probably the stupidest choice one could ever make. But at the same time, it had been the best choice she could of made.

Suiko reluctantly turns the corner, finding herself within a long corridor of doors with the faint shadow of the turkey in the middle of it.

"Consligmon!" she shouted and floated over to him. "It's me, Suiko!"

Consligmon 'glanced' in her direction, unsure whether or not there was anything actually there.

"Hey, I'm talking to you!"

Consligmon then sighed and made his way over to the spirit.

"What do you want?" the turkey accused and Suiko sighed.

"Not much actually." Suiko answered as Consligmon rolled his eyes.

"Do you have any clue where the fuck we are?"

Suiko took a few steps back, trying not to be swept in by the unbottled rage of the turkey spy.

"No?"

Consligmon then slapped her, knocking Suiko to the ground.

"Of course not." Consligmon answered. "That's because you're nothing but a useless boring whore!"

"And alice would somehow know?!"

"No, but she would at least take a chance and make a guess."

Suiko pulled both of her guns out, aiming them towards her partner.

"I dare you."

Suiko pulled the trigger, only for no bullet to come out of either gun. No matter how hard she tried, no rounds would come out.

"What is the meaning of this?" Suiko shouted and reluctantly holstered her guns.

Consligmon only rolled his eyes and turned his attention to the many doors.

"You wanna know something, kid?" Consligmon answered as he finally returned his attention. "I prefer it when you're both in control."

Suiko then sat herself down, pulling out a deck of cards and played a hand of solitaire.

"Of course you do." she responded and glanced all around. "It's what everyone wants after all. Also, you still didn't tell me where we are."

Consligmon laughed and took a deep breath. That was the favorite part about them in the way. While they were both their own person.

"We're in St Velodias, Suiko."

The schoolgirl glanced towards him with a blank expression, confused by how this could totally be a bad thing. So, Consligmon did the most natural thing to come to him and slapped Suiko once more. He got no response from the schoolgirl, who was currently just staring off into place. "Suiko?"
His partner did not answer, continuing to stare off into space. Suiko possibly wanted to answer Consligmon, but was unsure of what would come from her response. In a way, she had come back to her original question from a few minutes ago. Were things before the accident really that better than they were now? If they were so great as she thought them to be, why could she remember it?

*Because one's memories are finite. Even if you tried, you wouldn't be able to remember it all.*

"Alice?" Suiko whispered as some light chuckling filled her mind. "Why aren't you in control?"

*I thought you finally wanted a chance to be in the driver seat?*

Consligmon made a quick glance towards the schoolgirl, whispering something under his breath.

"Yes, but this should be enough."

While neither one could see it, Alice was probably smiling.

*Are you sure?*

Suiko took a deep breath and nodded. While the short stint of control was nice, Consligmon was right. Things went a whole lot smoother went the two were together.

"Much better.* Alice remarked and returned her attention to Consligmon. "Where's Yokozamon?*

Consligmon shook his head and took a deep breath. With that problem fixed, he could now deal with much more pressing issues.

"He went through one of these doors." Consligmon explained as Alice sighed. "The stupid Yak claimed he had some sort of hunch."

The gambler made a quick glance down the hall. There had to be least to be at least ten doors a piece on each wall and considering how little they actually knew about this place, it probably was best to find the right one quick. She quickly made her way down the hall, scanning each door as she passed by them. They all looked the same to her, just brown slabs of wood with a piece of plexiglass shoved in for good measure. Through the glass, one could see the bloodthirsty faces of students staring back. None of them would ever move or say anything. They would just stare back, possibly attempting to do a vulcan mind meld upon Alice.

"Okay then." she thought and took a deep breath, moving onto the next set of doors.

Something seems odd about the door to her right. Maybe it was the lack of a plexiglass window or, the fact that this door was not from St Velodia's. No, it came from different academy, where things went different. The answer was probably out there, not that any of you people would even take the time to figure it out. You never really do, always grasping at straws and waiting for the answer to come to you.

"Okay then." Alice thought and motioned for Consligmon to come over to her. *I guess this would fit the puzzle.*

The gambler then grabbed hold of the knob, only to be unable to open the door.

*Maybe we need to push it up and then turn it?* Suiko suggested, only for Alice to pull her left pistol out.

Spiritflare!

The gun fired off, with Suiko getting pushed through the door via the magic of bullet-travel. On the other side, the schoolgirl pulled her shotgun out and blasted the door open. Alice and Consligmon then passed through as Suiko just floated there.

"Yay! Suiko and company are here!"

A voice announced as a familiar yak digimon got up and walked over to them.

"Good to see you're alive." Alice whispered as she and Suiko hugged their partner. The two then turned to face the source of the voice, who turned out to be Jestery.

"Please sit down." the jester explained, motioning the foursome to sit down on some pillows stationed around a table. "The main guests will be here soon enough."

Notes:

This chapter is a mess and I realize that. Kind of to be expected from me. Even then, this one has been done for a while.

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Next Time: We talk about Gobblemon and stuff.