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Session 69
Coaster of Life
They opened their eyes.
For the mahora trio, they currently found themselves tied to a chair. Said chair was surrounded by four cream colored walls and one of those weird grayish black carpet you find in most schools.
"Are you both alright?" Polly whispered and slipped out of her binds, giving Chacha and Fatemon a quick glance. While both appeared to be unharmed, someone had the nerve to draw a mustache on Fatemon's face.
"No." Fatemon answered and applied a short burst of terra archens to their bindings, watching it get reduced to ash and dust. "Something about this place doesn't sit right with me."
Chacha only snickered.
"I'm fairly certain every place we've gone does that." the robot remarked as some children nursery song began to play as their gaze suddenly focused on a doorway hanging on the far wall of the room. A large sign hung above it, like the sort you could find in amusement parks.
Our Story: The Coaster
"I'm guessing we're throwing subtleness out the window." Chacha remarked and floated towards the doorway. "Not that we really ever had it in the first place."
They headed off, but not before they had made sure they still had everything. Who knows if they would be able to even come back here. Though, I'm not really sure why they would even want to do just that.
Inside, the room had been set up like one of those queues to a coaster. Unlike most coasters, there was no such line a person had to wait around in. This would be perfect, it said coaster was located in a far nicer place and actually gave you an idea of what to expect.
"Wonderful." Polly thought and took a deep breath. While she wasn't afraid of the ride, something about this place seemed off to her. But for the moment, she pushed that thought to the back of her mind and approached the queue. A coaster had already pulled up, as if someone had knew they would be coming. Or it was just a convenient fluke from a possibly automated system. Either way, they had the ride to themselves.
"Are you both ready?" Fatemon answered and sat himself down in the front car. Polly sat to his right, while Chacha sat to his left.
With them now seated, the bars came down and the wonderful announcer person gave their spiel.
"The Dark Blades ask that you keep your weapons out, bodies in the cars and most of all…" the announcer explained. "We really hope you three die by the end of this."
"Wonderful." Chacha responded and pulled her parasol out, letting it hang by her side.
"Could be worse." Aegiochusmon added and took a deep breath. "You could be trapped in some abandoned castle and be forced to remember what had happened."
The revamon didn't answer, choosing instead to focus her gaze on the dark tunnel ahead. Her two companion did the same, not at all noticing that the coaster had started. Though, the very leisurely pace of the ride could be at fault for that, with it seeming to slowly speed up as they exited the tunnel. Here, it had been styled sort of like 123 Sesame Street from Sesame Street. Strangely, one could quite clearly make out the park right by 456 Sesame Street.
"Incredible." Polly whispered and focused her gaze towards the ground, making out the usual assortment of characters from around that time. You know, Elmo, Big Bird, Oscar, Gro-
Parasol Blade!
For some reason, Chacha flung her parasol at the Grover animatronic and watched it blow up.
"Chacha…" Fatemon whispered and stared towards the gyroid, giving her a cautious glare as the umbrella returned. "Why did you just do that?"
Chacha didn't answer, mumbling something about Grover being a sub-par version of Grorie.
"Who's Grorie?"
Offscreen, the author took a deep breath and flipped a coin. There wasn't a good way to explain it in-universe without an awkward author note either in the middle or the end of this particular chapter. So he decided on the former.
"I guess that's understandable… I think?" Polly remarked and focused her gaze on a small group of children. They seemed to determined to reach an object out in the distance, while a single boy watched on.
The object in question appeared to be a plate of generic candies. You know, the kind that they put in crane games because they won't melt under the heat or perhaps just have a long shelf life. Not that you really ever see anyone actually play those sort of games here in America.
But as they people reached these 'wonderful' treats and took their first 'wonderful' bites, they faded away as their friend just stood there. It was a cool scene, but seemed to be missing one or two fairly important details.
"So, why Sesame Street?" Polly whispered and looked towards her fiancee, who decided to just chuckle.
"If I had to hazard a guess," Fatemon answered. "Possibly nostalgia, heck they could still have all the VHS tapes from way back when."
"You guys used Sesame Street as part of these people training?"
"Indeed. Considering that you lit up when we entered this section, I suspect 'they' used the same methods on you."
With that, the ride headed onwards, passing through another dark tunnel.
They now found themselves in a pristine laboratory with four silvery white walls and a grayish white floor. The children from the previous section were standing here now, standing before nine figures dressed in cream-colored cloaks. For some reason, they had decided to leave their hoods down, so that the trio and the audience could see their faces for some reason. Though, such detail wouldn't really help you, since you don't really know what their head really look like.
"Okay then." Polly remarked as the cloaked figures motioned for the children to follow, which they did for some reason as the coaster headed on through a third dark tunnel.
On the other side of this one though, the trio was sprayed with some sort of mist within a still dark room. At first, everything seemed alright and normal, especially with the swirling color-changing 'aurora borealis' that the dark blades had set up. Though, Chacha had strangely decided to just stare all about, as if some figure kept darting just out of her view.
"I'm not sure what they expected to happen." she whispered and turned her attention to Polly and Fatemon. "Oh right, I'm a robot."
Vamptech.
Greenish yellow energy quickly made it's way out of the two's bodies, making their way to Chacha's book.
"So maybe we're someone else's creation." Fatemon started as Polly watched on. "And said person also has their own OC-based universe. Does that we're theoretically better off her than in that place?"
The monk magi didn't answer, a glazed expression having come over her. Not that Fatemon really noticed, deciding to grab of his fiancee and lean in for a kiss.
Parasol Blade!
Having found that her previous attack had no effect on the drugged lovebirds, Chacha went for the next best thing. Slamming her umbrella into them, taking great care to not knock either of them out in the process.
"Ow." the duo remarked and looked towards the gyroid. The pretty lights were gone now, with the ride making its way through another dark tunnel. One would think after spending hundreds of thousands of theoretical years stuck in the digital world they would have come up with a better way to sequence the transitions to this ride than just a bunch of dark tunnels.
They now found themselves in a makeshift 'infirmary', where the various children from the previous scenes were currently staying. They were currently being attended too by a group of hooded figures dressed in similar cloaks to those worn by the people shown earlier. That didn't explain why the woman at the front was dressed in some expensive pink suit made from the skin of some endangered and/or extinct species. A pair of matching heels hung on her feet, complimenting a matching picture-style hat and pair of gray-lensed sunglasses. Though, one could argue that the possibly sentient cloud of black smoke that seemed to swirl around her counterbalanced all that stuff.
Polly's gaze focused on the face of the statue, fear beginning to grip hold of her. Time seemed to freeze around her, with the animatronic seeming to now tower over her.
"Do you really think you're truly free of my control?" a voice announced as a pair of pale hands seemed to scooped her up and get lifted up into the air. "You are a fool. Maybe if you just get out of the car, maybe your parents will forgive you."
Something in the voice resonated within the monk magi, which resulted in her body thinning to an almost 2D state, just to get out of the car. Or would have, if not for a burst of Terra Archens to hit her. The voice seemed to fade away, leaving her facing Fatemon.
"It'll be alright, Polly." Fatemon whispered and wrapped his arms around her. "No matter what happens, no matter what dares to strike us down, even if we were somehow separated once more, I will be there for you. If nothing else, I can promise you that."
Polly didn't answer, choosing instead to embrace her fiancee.
Apókryfes Orgí (Arcane Wrath)!
With that, he let go of his partner and shot out a ball of energy, watching it slam into the animatronic. In a way, a sense of relief seemed to come over the two. Yet, they knew in the back of their minds that they would need a better solution to this problem. But for now, this would do.
Thankfully, they passed through a tunnel and found themselves in a large cave. Luminous crystals lined the walls, allowing one to make out a pair of digimon. The one on the right was Piedmon, seeming slightly more sane than what most people would expect a guy who throws swords around and turns people into keychains.
Of course, the one on the left was a very familiar LadyDevimon. Unlike similar specimens of this species, she wasn't wearing the belt around her waist or the large claw thing meant for the left arm. Though, that could be due to the large digi-egg beside her. Strangely, the youngest 'girl' had her gaze focused on her, as if they knew their paths would cross again.
"So that's what happened." Chacha remarked, only for Fatemon to sigh.
"I'll give them credit." Fatemon added as he stared towards the dark angel digimon. "They had been told to resolve this conflict between the Dark Masters and the Order however they saw fit."
One dark tunnel transition later, they found themselves in a field of flames. The 'children' were amid, having possibly gone mad. Though, the oldest one had seemed to gone her own way.
As quickly as they arrived, they were hurtled through another tunnel. And another. And another. And another. Two more tunnels later, they had finally reached the end of their ride. Of course, the dark blades were there to greet them. Strangely, they had brought a tied-up Aaron with them.
"So, what did you people think?" one of them announced as the trio walked towards them. "Do you understand now why things turned out the way that they did?"
They did not answer and chose instead to just grab Aaron. Once that was done, they returned their attention to the dark blades.
"If silence is your answer, then you've made your choice." a dark blades member explained and they pulled their weapons out. "We had hoped that you wouldn't have come to this conclusion. A sha-"
This particular member didn't get to finish their sentence, since Polly had delivered a right hook to the face. This caused a light blue outline to form around the monk magi and her companions.
"Sis mea pars!"
Unity: πολεμικός τάφος (Watery Grave Inferno)!
At first, the move started off in a similar fashion to seaside throw, with Polly flinging the entire group up into the air. While she did that, Fatemon engulfed her in a mix of arcane wrath and terra archens, watching as Polly's body seemed to expand at quite a rapid pace. Chacha finished the whole thing off, using astral perception to 'blow up' her partner's newfound growth. As an added bonus, there now was a large skylight for them to get out of this place.
"Come back here!" their former captors shouted and just watched on. "We'll get you for this!"
Yet, the trio did not answer, choosing to take Chacha back up. Right as a large 'bell' rang...
Notes:
Let's get the big one out of the way: Who is Grorie?
From 1974 - 2004, Sesame Street ran 'dubbed' on NHK in Japan. In October of that same year, the co-production Sesame Street (Japan) was rolled out, eventually ending its run at the end of September 2007. From what information I could gather, it wasn't that well received.
But back to the question at hand. Grorie is pretty much an orange version of Grover with eyelashes that got added in the show's second season. She would occasionally work at a restaurant, where she would wear a pink and white maid outfit.
456 Sesame Street and its surrounding buildings were part of 'Around the Corner' which was introduced in Season 25, only to be dropped in the 29th season of the show.
Finally, a lot of Sesame Street hasn't been released to be viewed after its initial run. Even then, it wasn't till the late eighties that they even started releasing episodes, staring off with the specials.
Other than that, this is not the chapter you would've originally gotten, believe it or not. Originally, it was going be a haunted house sort of place. Though, I really didn't like how it turned out. The only thing I kept from the original is the start and them walking to the doorway.
Overall, I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. If you did, could you leave a review? It really does help.
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Next time: A bell rings...