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Session 68

Cell Conversations

They opened their eyes.

The outside of the plantation was long gone now, having been replaced with a dark and empty room. Three stone walls with iron bars making up the fourth surrounded them, limiting them to communication with their fellow cellmate.

"Ugh…" Joey whispered and took his meager surroundings in. He was still in his clothes from before, with his research scattered about the cell. Why their captor thought so little of it, was beyond him. Or would have, when the shadow scientist made a quick glance over it and sighed.

Even more notes had been scrawled in the margins, adding more 'clutter' to the mess of papers. Some of the 'suggestions' made sense, such as checking out stuff related to the shadows or alternate theories for things. Then there were the outdated internet memes dotted about, as if they got bored midway through it all and needed some way to keep themselves busy.

"Okay then." he thought and continued his examination of the notes. "I wonder how my partners are doing?"

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"I demand more tea!" Issacmon shouted and shook his teacup about the enclosure. Currently, he and Gentleman found themselves within a cell, with even less to do than Joey. Which wasn't a major problem for both of them. "What did you even do in that keiserine person's army?"

Gentleman only laughed, yet cleared his throat.

"We were trained in the art of combat, manners and cleaning. Once that was done, she would usually have us spar with us, until we were ready for our assignments. After that, she sent us off." Gentleman explained as Issacmon glanced towards him, giving the guardian swordsman a look of confusion yet satisfaction. "So, how about you?"

The 'angel' shifted his gaze away from Gentleman, focusing it now on the back wall of their enclosure.

"I was Joey's first 'experiment'." Issacmon whispered and took a deep breath after saying it. "By all accounts, it shouldn't have worked. Yet, someone in the Dark Ocean thought it would be funny to throw me in."
Gentleman stared towards the digimon and took a step forward. He then placed a hand on the 'angel' digimon's shoulder, only to get a cautious glance his direction.

"I shouldn't have done that. I'm sorry for overstepping my boundaries."

Issacmon only laughed.

"It's alright." he whispered. "I forgive you…"

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Lily took a deep breath.

As tempting as it was to use the digital tome to break free from this prison, she knew it wasn't worth the risk.

Especially since there was no guarantee of where she would go.

"Would you mind if I cuddle with you, Adarnamon?" Lily inquired and turned her attention to the bird digimon.

"No." Adarnamon answered and fluttered away from her partner. The succubus only watched on, debating whether or not she would go after this possible prey. "Were you even listening?"

"Of course." Lily remarked and took a step towards Adarnamon. "Why don't you want to cuddle?"

"Because you're a clingy succubus plush digimon thing."

Lily only frowned, yet took another step towards the bird.

Seven So-

Yumi Barrage!

Before Adarnamon could even get her attack out, Lily shot a couple arrows in her direction. Though, these ones seemed less deadly than her usual ones.

Toxic Claws!

"Crap." Lily whispered and dashed towards the front of their cell, only for her opponent to catch up to her and sink their talons in. "Stop!"

"But didn't you want to cuddle?" Adarnamon whispered and cracked a twisted smile. "Do you see why I don't want to cuddle with you?"

"Yes."

"Good, now find something else to do."

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"Idiot. Stupid."

"I fucked up, majorly."

"How could I've been so stupid?!"

Consligmon was afraid.

In all his time with Alice, for short as it was, he had never seen Yokozamon act like this.

"What's wrong?" the spy turkey whispered, watching the yak slam his head into the back wall.

"I forgot to remember what I was trying to forget." Yokozamon answered and stopped banging his head against the wall. "I had been forced to make a promise, but I made my choice."

"Okay…"

Consligmon took a deep breath, making sure to make a mental note about the rambling of his partner.

"To who exactly?" he asked and watched Yokozamon continue to bang his head against the wall. "If I know who, we can possibly res-

Charging Strike!

Yokozamon turned his attention away from the wall and charged towards Consligmon. The spy turkey sidestepped to the right, finding a newly formed indent in the iron bars.

"Are you alright?" he whispered, only for Yokozamon to shake his head. To some extent, it was stupid of him to even ask that. Of course the yak wasn't alright. When was the last time you saw someone banging their head against a wall thought: "I better they're doing fine.". I thought not, I hope. "I didn't mean to piss you off, author."

Offscreen, the author took a deep breath. In retrospect, he probably shouldn't have called attention to that comment. But, old habits die hard…

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"Ugh…"

Elena and Alice opened their eyes.

Currently, the duo found themselves bound to each other wrists, sitting on the floor. Strangely, their captors had attached a black circle around their neck.

"First things first, we need to get out of these bo-"

Before Alice could even finish her sentence, Elena had switched to her digimon form, shattering the quite weak bonds holding their hands together. Only to bite down into the gambler's neck and rip her circle off. Strangely, there was no blood or sign of a bite mark. Instead, a bit of white cat fur had formed.

"Alice, I'm sorry." Elena whispered and got no response, watching as her love's back fell to the floor. "I didn't intend for that happen."

"It's alright." Alice answered and watched as her body became covered in white cat fur. Her dress then disappeared, almost immediately getting replaced with her NekoGamblermon outfit. "We'll probably figure something out."

A few seconds later, any trace of the gambler being human was gone, having been replaced by her human form.

"Yay! Kitty is back!"

Almost on cue, Jestery appeared.

"Please go away." Elena whispered and pointed her tail hook towards the jester.

"How rude." Jestery remarked and placed a gloved hand on Alice's head. "I just wanted to pet kitty's head."

Spiritflare!

A shotgun blast rang off, knocking the jester back as Suiko poked her head out.

*I'm guessing something happened, since she was here.* the schoolgirl remarked and looked down at Alice's body. "Oh, I don't think that's supposed to happen."

"Yeah." Alice added and placed her upper paws around Elena's neck, carefully pulling the circle around the corsair's neck off. "So I just need to concentrate to switch back?"

"I think so…" Elena whispered as she and Suiko watched the gambler attempt to switch forms. After a few tense minutes of near successes and straight-up failures, Alice managed to switch back. "You did it!"

They then turned their attention to Jestery, who just stood there. Unlike usual, blood covered her clothes and a sense of uneasiness hung around her. Elena whispered something to Alice, who nodded in agreement.

"Good for you people." Jestery remarked and teleported away.

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Unexpected.

Of all the things Officer EMT expected to see at that moment, Chaos was at the bottom of the list.

"What do you want?" the troll mecha remarked, focusing his gaze on the white mage.

"I was just checking on someone." Chaos answered and made her way to the right edge of the bars. "Though, I didn't expect you of all people to be stuck in a cell."
Officer EMT groaned and took a deep breath. While his personal experiences with Chaos were limited to the tournaments, she was still a servant to the author. Which in his mind, made her just as responsible within all of this as 'they' were.

"Are you still stuck on that? That was over three years ago."

EMT slammed his foot into the ground and snarled.

"If weren't for them showing up, we wouldn't be in this fucking situation!"

Table Flip!

A metal table slammed into the wall of bars, followed up by a couple of rockets. While a hole was created, it wasn't quite big enough for the troll to squeeze through. Chaos took a deep breath and stepped closer to EMT.

"I'm sorry for whatever they may have possibly did to you." the white mage whispered. "I realize my apology might mean nothing to you, but that is the best I can on their behalf."

Officer EMT did not answer, choosing instead to spit at the floor.

"Say that to Blade, to Lily, to Olrumon. Shout it to the head honcho and his men. Scream it to all the innocents whose lives were snuffed because your idiot sisters attempted to prolong the loop!" he announced and slammed into his indent, breaking through. "Your apology means nothing in the face of what happened."

"You're right." Chaos remarked and gazed towards her potential opponent. "I overstepped my boundaries. I'm sorry for that."

With that, she headed onwards and left the troll mecha to his own devices.

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Olrumon sighed.

Whether by some paperwork error or just dumb luck, he had not been placed in a cell. Instead, he found himself in a large rectangular tent. Cots lined the walls, with people and digimon of all sorts moving about. Yet, it was one particular group that caught his attention. It was a large group, numbering at least fourteen or fifteen. They were an interesting mess of people, especially with the catgirl in the back seeming to bark orders to them.

"You there." the creature remarked and pointed towards Olrumon. "Do you think you could help our friend."

Olrumon took a deep breath and made his way over. There, he found who his patient would be…

Notes:

This is pretty much a mess, though it does set up a whole lot of stuff for later.

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Next Time: Broken toys and eyeless dolls, the remnants of the order...